How To Make Money At Home

Would you follow what I’m about to teach you if I guarantee you that you will get FREE targeted traffic? This is one of the most underrated and rarely used traffic generation methods.

You are probably wondering how much it would cost you to implement this method. $0. That’s right. It won’t cost you any money although it will cost you time.

If you have a lot of time and no money, this is surely the best method to get targeted traffic.

And the method is…… Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is the process of writing an article for a blog which will in return link back to your site.

How will this help you?

1. You will get free backlinks with anchor text of your choice. This means your page rank will increase and so will your site’s ranking for the keywords you choose.

2. Targeted traffic. You will get high conversions whether you are selling a product or getting them to subscribe to your list. (Side note: If you want to learn about getting the most out of your email list, read this post on “Do you make this mistake many email marketers make?“).

3. Expert status (More on this at the end of the article).

How is this different from article writing?

I know most of you are already confusing this with article writing. When you write for article directories, you get backlink and traffic but the traffic you get from guest blogging will be much more targeted.

You will also have access to a huge reader base by writing for another blog.

Here’s what you should do:

1. Find blogs in your niche (Go to google and search for “your niche blog” with/without quotes)

2. Comment on the blog a few times so that you get to know the author

3. Send them an email asking whether they accept guest articles or not

4. If they say yes, write an article and send it to them

Things to note before writing for the blog:

1. Always make sure the blog has good pagerank.

2. See how many readers the blog has. You check the blog feed subscribers count. If they don’t have one, see their alexa traffic (not accurate though).

3. Check if the blog posts receive comments. A good blog will receive at least a couple of comments.

How you can modify this method?

Find internet marketers who have huge lists and ask them if you can write a couple of informational emails to their list for a link back. There are many marketers who don’t have enough time to send useful emails to their subscribers. Even if they do have, they wouldn’t mind someone else writing for them which will give them a week’s rest.

So stop thinking whether this method would work or not and start writing articles to be submitted as guest posts or emails.

Once you do this for a few weeks, analyze which blogs are getting you the most traffic and concentrate on them. Write more and more articles for these blogs.

When you submit an article to an article directory, you will be just another person because most people who read your article will be search engine visitors. They won’t remember you. But if you are writing for a blog, you will be read by a targeted group of readers. When they see your articles often, they will start seeing you as an expert.

Have you tried guest blogging before? What results did you have? Will you be trying it now? Please share your views in the comments.

If you are making this mistake, you are leaving a lot of money on the table. Don’t build your optin list before giving a thought about this. You could be earning 2 to 3 times more money than what you are earning now with the same list.

So what is the mistake that I’m talking about?

Not caring.

That’s it. You should care for your subscribers. It is the best thing you can do.

Agree or not, that single word is the main reason why you are not earning the money you should be.

I know some people care for their subscribers but still don’t show it enough. If you are one among those, this post is for you.

You are a smart marketer and have very good products than most of the gurus, but you are not earning to your potential because you are not showing to your subscribers that you care for them.

Let me give you this simple formula:

Care = More Trust = More Sales

How do you show to your subscribers that you care? I’ll share a few tips here.

1. Connect With Them

How many times have you become a fan of a marketer only because they replied to your email? If replying to an email can have that much effect, how much will people like you if you start connecting with them in every way you can?

I know some of you are thinking “Oh well. I don’t have time for connecting.”

But hey you spend time tweeting everyday right? You use facebook too right?

Then you don’t need extra time. All you have to do is, reply to your subscribers in twitter and facebook.

Homework: Do this now. Send out an email asking your subscribers to follow you and you follow them in return. Reply to tweets they send to you and also answer their questions if they have any. Do the same in facebook also.

2. Send Out A Freebie

It might sound like a lot of hard work but let me tell you, this is one of the best ways to build trust.

Create a small report. It need not be 100 pages. Even 5 or 7 pages would do. If you don’t have time, combine two or three blog posts and create a report.

People love freebies. They will pass it on and you will get many new subscribers.

Don’t worry that your subscribers will become freebie seekers. If that was the case, no blogger would be earning money because they give away free content all the time.

It is often the other way round. Your subscribers will think that if a freebie itself has so much information, your paid products will have tons of useful information.

A Tip: For those who do not want to spend time creating a report, find free and useful tools and send it to your subscribers. I use stumbleupon a lot to find interesting websites. Once you find something very interesting, pass it on to your subscribers. They’ll love it.

3. Ask The Problems Your Subscribers Are Facing

You send out promotions all the time. Why not send an email asking your subscribers about the problems they are facing right now. Reply to every mail you get.

The specialty about this method is that even people who don’t share their problems with you know that you care for them.

The ones that shared their problems and got it solved will become your fan.

You can build a tribe by doing all these. There are many more ways to build a tribe. I recommend you to read this book called “Tribes” by Seth Godin.

Do you care for your subscribers? How do you show that you care for them? Please share your views in the comments.

Wish you a Happy New Year. Hope you achieve success and live a happy live.

This is a guest post by Frank Angelone.

I have been listening to a lot of keynotes lately by entrepreneurs, especially ones by Gary Vaynerchuk. He’s accomplished so much and his philosophy is to do what you love, work your tail off, care about your customers, and you will be able to monetize. Hearing this from someone who came from Russia with no money to build a 60 million dollar company in Wine Library is very inspirational advice. Its advice I myself have taken, but many people still question how they can do the same thing he did with their business? Like any business, becoming successful takes time and it’s not going to happen overnight unless you work for it. Granted, people here this all the time and it’s obvious, but does anyone truly understand where businesses are headed today?

Gary has stressed the starting an online business is so easy that anyone can do it. There’s no cost to start up like there used to be. So, what better way to get a company started? Free to start and you don’t need a facility. I think anyone can appreciate the simplicity in that. Businesses are headed in a direction where the old way we remember businesses being are becoming no more. Now you may be wondering, what does this mean?

Well, with everyone having the ability to start a business online, you take a business like newspapers. Most people are reading the news online and the need to buy a physical newspaper isn’t in demand like it was 10 years ago. When companies put coupons for discounts off their products in both the newspapers and online, where do you think most people are going to get that coupon off of? Quite simple, it’s the internet. The internet business is taking over physical businesses to be as straight forward as possible. This doesn’t go for all businesses, but with customers being able to purchase products online, they are less likely to go to the location of the business. Why would they? It’s easier to do things online.

Online businesses become more and more accessible as the internet grows by the years. I think businesses that aren’t making a presence online are seriously missing out. There’s so much potential revenue from companies online just as there is at their current location. Today, the money is predominantly coming from their online business. Having an online business is being served to practically the entire world as more people each day engage with each other online. Those companies that are hesitant to bring their company online aren’t only limiting themselves from making more money, but they are being ignorant! The internet is a space where we as people live. Your company will have more luck converting your customer to a sale online than doing it at a location. This isn’t to say that physical businesses can’t make money anymore because they definitely can, however they need to realize the direction businesses are heading. If they fail to acknowledge this, they will be eaten alive by the competition.

So the question is, where is your company positioned in the marketplace? Can you be found online as well as at current location? Please be aware that this is a fact with where companies are heading. It’s not a joke and it’s where many individuals are making their careers off of. My three takeaways that any new or current business should be aware of are as follows…

1. You are not a dominant company today if you don’t have a presence online. The world we live in is changing and growing. You must understand that even though your company may make millions of dollars at your facility, you have the potential to double that with an online presence.
2. Your cost to startup up your business online is NOTHING. For those that run their business through a facility, think how much you paid to start that and business and compare that to ZERO.
3. Listen to keynotes by Gary Vaynerchuk to get an even in depth description of why online businesses are the way to go and why anyone can do it!

Frank Angelone is the founder of Social Tech Zone. He provides individuals and businesses the news and tips they need to better interact with social networks and technology.

Do you know the exact methods many successful freelancers use to write articles on just about any niche? Do you have websites in many niches that need content but you can’t afford to pay?

You have come to the right place. I have been using these 3 simple ways to write articles on any topic I want.

Last week, I gave you tips on how to find article ideas. Maybe you read that article (if you didn’t, do check it out), spent some time brainstorming article ideas and sat in front of computer wondering what to write in the article.

That is exactly why I have written this article. You’ll be able to write content for all the article ideas you have created.

Without any further ado, let me show the 3 simple ways.

1. Videos

This is the best way and I simply can’t stress the importance of this method any better. As far as I know, very few internet marketers use videos to write content.

Here’s how you do it:

Go to Youtube. It has videos on every single topic. Search for the topic you want to write about.

Now go to the videos that appear in the results. Watch more than 3 videos.

Note down all the key points in each video in a paper.

That’s it. Filter the points to three or five best ones and write a post in your own words.

If you are not satisfied with the results you got for a particular search in youtube, search in Google Videos for your keyword. You’ll be amazed at the number of videos that are available for your topic.

2. Article Directories

There are hundreds of article directories out there. When you want to write an article, go to the top 5 directories. I normally go to Ezine Articles, Goarticles, article dashboard, buzzle and article base. Your top 5 may differ and it doesn’t matter as long as you have Ezine Articles in your top 5.

Go to the article directory and search for your keyword.

Note: Not all the articles your find in article directories are good. Some of them are crap. It is better to read many articles and note down the best points that you think your readers would love.

There are articles in these article directories on every niche and you can read them and write an article on your own words.

3. Books

Yes. Books are the best way to learn about anything. By books, I don’t mean e-books. I mean the traditional books.

You can find everything you want to know in these books.

Want to write an article in the health niche? Buy a book from Amazon and read it. Note down all the useful points in the book.

You cannot write everything in the book as it is. You have to do some research on the points you have noted down and write articles based on that.

There are books in every niche you can think about.

The best thing about this method is that, by the time you read 10 or so books in a niche, you will know a lot about that niche. You can create an expert blog or even write ebooks in that niche. So don’t underestimate this method.

A piece of advice: Whatever method you use, don’t use the same content that you heard or read. It is not ethical. That’s the reason why I stressed under each method to write articles in your own words.

By following the above three methods, you can write articles on just about any niche. Have you used any of the above methods to write articles before? Did you find any of the methods useful? Please share your views in the comments.

This is a guest post by Allison Maslan.

Have you ever impulsively jumped on a great new idea to make money only to find that your enthusiasm dwindled after the first week or two? Have you started a hobby that a friend got you fired up about, dropping a big investment to get started, but soon after you completely lost interest?

In order for an activity or goal to sustain itself long enough to be successful through life’s ups and downs, there must be meaning or a passion behind it. This love of your work, relationship, hobby or practice is the glue that will keep you cherishing your wins and picking yourself up after your losses as you progress on your path toward success. When an activity or goal has meaning to you, you are more likely to give your heart and soul to this cause, making sure that you stay focused, labor over every detail, and absorb yourself in every moment. When you spend time on efforts that really matter to you, it’s much more probable that you’ll make the commitment that’s necessary to build a lasting entity.

Millions of people desire to leave the confines of the corporate world to start their own business. Even though they fantasize about the idea of freedom, they become paralyzed with fear at the thought of leaving a safe, secure job. I talk to people all day that tell me they are feeling empty as if something is missing in their daily lives. They spend three quarters of their lives at a job void of soul and passion. Their creativity and drive are buried so deep within them they feel numb and shut down. The status quo, title and a paycheck are not enough anymore. They have upped the ante. They now want to be inspired and fulfilled with purpose in their home and work life.

Then there are those who have taken the haphazard plunge into a business that they are not passionate about, and find themselves feeling like they have fallen into the drudge of yet another boring job. What was once their mission becomes their biggest nightmare. After a few years of being disillusioned they opt to throw in the towel. This does not need to happen!

When the purpose of your business matters to you on a deeper level, your efforts will endure. And when you reach your meaningful goals, success will feel like a shining glory. When you have built something you can be proud of, something you are completely passionate about, the satisfaction is not only in the outcome, it’s in the day-to-day process. If you’re only working toward the destination and not reveling in the journey, you miss out on the abundance of life. When you are only focused on the goal , you may find yourself thinking, “Is that all there is?” while feeling empty, sad and bored, and once again, unfulfilled.

What’s the difference between those entrepreneurs who are optimistic and moving forward and those who are just getting by? I believe that much of it has to do with how you view the glass – half full or half empty. George Sheehan (author, track star, cardiologist), once said, “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” People with a positive outlook and a life plan don’t get off the track when things change – they just change tracks.

As a life and business strategist, I spend a great deal of time helping clients tap into their passions, and then guiding them to create a business that reflects their inner purpose and dreams. Particularly in this economy, if you are a business owner that is having some slower weeks or months, it is crucial that you stay connected to your mission and why you started the business in the first place. If the business is only about making money, there is not much heart or soul to draw from to get you through.

Here are a few tips to feeding the soul in yourself and your business.

• Surround yourself with inspiring and motivating people. You may find that your usual crew begins to lean toward the negative side of life when times get tougher. Seek out those people who are supportive of your goals. Join groups or seek counseling to keep you motivated and accountable.
• Be Easy on yourself. Change and transformation can bring up all sorts of good, bad and ugly stuff. When you feel yourself struggling, take a break. When you have small successes, give yourself kudos for all your hard work and continue to move on toward your bigger visions and dreams.
• Start now. You don’t want to look back in ten years and realize that you’re still at the same place in your life then as now. Even if you love your life now, growth is a necessary part of your evolvement on this planet. Every single day of your life is precious. Embrace it, and those you love, to the fullest.

Once you finally connect with something that has meaning to you, and your internal passion regarding this is accessed and utilized, your once deadened perception and reality will be pumped with new and energized life blood. I call this your Secret Spark, a perfect mix of meaning and passion that enlivens your life purpose and gives you the drive and stick-to-it-ness to make things happen. When you discover the soul in your business, your work will become stimulating and fun, and you’ll be immersed in your satisfying activity and lose track of time.

Dreams are gifts of the soul.
We need to make every effort
to cherish them, to live them.
Otherwise they only surface in our sleep.
A soulful life is an awakening
and actualizing of our
deepest dreams within.

~Allison Maslan

Allison Maslan, HHP, CCH has been an entrepreneur for the past 25 years and has a vibrant array of nine successful businesses to her credit. She is an author, life and business strategist, homeopathic physician and international speaker. Her book, Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan To Launch Your Dreams Into Reality launches on January 19 2010.