3 Reasons Why Your Online Business is Struggling

1. Your business opportunity. No I'm not saying it's not a great business opportunity. What I'm saying is that most people promote their business opportunity which falls right into what their uplines have taught them to do and this is their first and biggest mistake when marketing online. Here's why. Once you get online, especially on the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and you start hammering away at promoting your business you're basically saying that you are a sales rep, I am a salesman. And nobody really likes a salesman. Nobody wants to go to a big party and listen to a sales pitch. If this is what you're doing on these sites then that's exactly the position you're putting yourself into. So if you're wondering why you're not getting any signups, why you're not getting any leads or any interest at all after spending hours of posting links on different websites and different social networks promoting your business opportunity this is why. You simply cannot go online and start promoting your business. It's the quickest way to go broke and waste a ton of time in the process. But there is some good news. There's a strategy to go about promoting your business opportunity and it's very backwards from what you're already know and are thinking but it's very important to be successful with this industry.
2. Ok, so you're online and you now understand some of the strategies so you start promoting your business, but unfortunately you are struggling with a lack of LEADS. For most business owners who try and bring their business online, this is the main problem. They may be generating may 1, 2, or even 5 leads a day but what's really needed to make 5 figures a month, 6 figures anually, marketing your business online you need to generate on average 25 leads/day. Most people won't tell you that. They just want to sign you up and get your money, but I'm going to tell you right now that if you're not generating 20-25 leads/day on average then you're not going to bring in any profit in your business. This needs to be your number one focus.
3. This leads us to our 3rd reason, a lack of marketing training. If you're not generating 25 leads/day then you simply haven't received the correct and proper marketing training. You don't know how to use the most effective marketing strategies.
Want a simple step by step blue print that addresses all of these major problems and can get you started marketing your business the right way to make you extremely profitable?

The Forgotten Art of I Don't Know

In this culture knowing things is an important character trait. Having information at our fingertips is important. Being able to say - this is the right way, and this is the wrong way - categorically, is important. But the fact is with our most major questions, the true answer is, I don't know.
Why are we here?
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Are we alone?
What is love?
Why does toast land butter side down?
Really the only answer, the only true answer is I don't know. We don't actually know. We can guess, we can have theories. The theory of evolution. The theory of relativity. The theory of Internet dating.But let's be honest if we didn't see it, its hard to know.
However in this day and age it is like having a disease to say about some piece of information - I don't know.
We can find out the answer to lots of facts- the wingspan of the (insert bird here), the speed of the (insert noun here). But if someones says - will this absolutely guaranteed work, make me rich, give em freedom, right all wrongs? The answer should be - I don't know. Lets find out.
If you ask John Reese will this email pull? Will this Header be noticed? Will this opt-in be the best possible? He will say "I don't know - lets try it, and learn."
When we ask "Should I do this or that (presuming neither are illegal or idiotic) - should I move here or stay there, should I commit or should I rest? The really smart answer is: - I don't know - take the best action thats seems appropriate at the time and learn from the outcome.
The best thing about I don't know is it enables progress. If the answer was always. Yes. I know. Then who would try new things. Who would take a risk, if supposedly it had already been tried? Why make the effort if the know-it-alls, know it all.
Scientists (except in the media)rarely say 'this is absolute' 'this is true"truths. Scientists like theories,because they know all they can say is: -it worked like this so far, or the facts seem to be justified so far, but who knows things could change,lets keep our opinions open.
So when you or I, we, ask the gurus of our industry or profession: - will this new idea work, will this untried scheme fly? The answer should always hopefully be, 'I don't know, try it, let it happen and learn from the outcome'.
Perhaps the best answer you could ever get is -"I don't know".
Try the most sensible action first, and learn from the outcome, keep your options and opinions and outlook -Open.

How to Find a Buyer to Sell Your Website?

Website selling is an art. I have been a professional website flipper since 2002 and I can tell you what it takes to sell your website for a huge profit? Well, it takes a potential buyer to make a profitable website sell. In this article, I will teach you from my own experiences how you can buy a buyer for your website?
There are several ways to find a buyer for any website in any niche in this world. But I personally use the following 2 methods to find a buyer for my website. And I have find several potential buyers for my different websites and blogs by this method so these methods to find a buyer for your web property will be helpful to you to find a buyer for your web property.
The First method to find a buyer for your web property is, you search for a buyer in your niche. Say for Example, your web property is a Travel Blog about Asia-Pacific. So first of all you should search for the potential buyer in your niche. Just use your mind and think that who can be the potential buyer for a travel blog? Obviously the tours and travel companies. So search the internet and make a list of good travel companies which focus mainly in Asia-Pacific Travel.
Once you make a list of potential buyers, write down a brief and accurate sales letter for your web property. Write down that you want to sell your web property which receives so and so unique monthly visitors and page views. Also write down the revenue stats. Explain the potential buyer in your own language that why acquiring your web property will be helpful to expand his business by reaching the more targeted customers. Also write down the BIN (Buy Instantly Now) Price of your web property. Now, send this sales letter via e-mail to all of your potential buyers.
The interested buyers will contact you back and buy your website from you. This is perhaps the best method to sell a website. And I have personally sell lots of websites by this method only. Now, let's go to the second method. What if you can't find a potential buyer for your website? And there can be several reasons for this. The common reason is, your niche is so small that very few people are interested to buy your website. Say for example, your website is all about Classical Music. So obviously you will have a tough time to find a buyer by yourself.
In such cases, you need to find a website investor or a website flipper who is not in your niche but interested only in investing in profitable websites to build a portfolio of websites for himself. Now, how to find a website investor? Well, Visit Flippa.com - The Internet's largest marketplace to buy and sell a website and list your website for sell on Flippa.com. The potential buyers and investors will bid for your web property and the highest bidder will be the new owner of your web property.
This is how you can find a buyer for your website.

Start My Own Business Ideas

Well Begun Is Half Finished - but you have to begin!

Our doubts are traitors

and make us lose the good we oft might win,

by fearing to attempt

  Shakespeare

Contents at a Glance

Define and achieve your own business success. 

"Liberty consists in doing what one desires." - John Stuart Mill

I once heard a story about an independent businessman named Arturo.

Arturo came into the dock early one morning with his small boat full of lovely fish; one for his family, others to sell. Bill, an Ivy League MBA on vacation, saw Arturo return while all the other fishermen were still out with almost empty boats.

Bill asked about Arturo, everyone agreed that Arturo was the best fisherman on the coast.

Bill walked down to Arturo and asked how he spent his days. Arturo said he fished a bit in the morning, went home to spend some time with his wife and play with his kids, then in the evening Arturo met his friends at a local restaurant for songs and games.

Bill got excited and proposed a partnership. Together they would build a fleet of ships that would benefit from Arturo's knowledge. They would move to a big city, and later run offices and fleets around the world.

Arturo asked about the future beyond the world wide ventures. Bill expounded on the glories of the great cities and high society, finishing with the statement that when Arturo decided he was ready to retire he could go anywhere and do anything he wanted. Bill asked what Arturo would do with such a fine retirement.

Arturo replied, "I would fish a bit in the morning, go home to spend time with my wife and play with the kids, then in the evening I would meet my friends at a local restaurant for songs and games."

Fortitude - A New Online Money Making Opportunity for People Who like to Write

The Internet is going to have a new online magazine. Fortitude is set to be launched on 7th June. Fortitude is really a new concept. It is a magazine for the people, by the people. It means all the content and pieces published on Fortitude are sourced from the users or members of Fortitude.

The users of Fortitude can be you or me. Anyone can join the Fortitude content community. By becoming a member of Fortitude, you can contribute as many content and pieces in any topic as you want to Fortitude. Other members in the community Fortitude will review your content. If your content gets good reviews, then it will publish on the homepage of Fortitude. Also, as a member of the Fortitude, you too can review content and pieces of other members.

There is no editorial and publishing department in the Fortitude. All content of this online magazine are user-generated with a review system to make sure the best content are featuring on the front page of Fortitude.

If you have been writing on the Internet for a while or haven't contributing anything on the Internet but enjoying writing, then you can try writing for Fortitude. Fortitude is paying members for contributing content. They pay 10.00 ~ $100.00 for each piece or article published on their Front Page.

Any content can be submitted. It can be an article, a short story, an essay, or even a rant. Also any topic is acceptable as long as the content is family-friendly. Originality and unique are important. Make sure that you are submitting something that was really created by you and hasn't been published on anywhere.



Besides publishing pieces, you are also getting paid for reviewing other members' works and pieces. The review process is simple and straight-forward. You read the entire piece of the member and based on your own judgment, select a score of 1 - 10 and your review is completed. Each review you’ve done will earn you $0.02.

Fortitude is now opened for people to sign up. If you want to try this opportunity, visit http://fo.rtitu.de now to apply for an account. You can publishing and reviewing content starting 7th Jun then.

Is Fortitude free to join?

I believe the owner of Fortitude, Nick Oba wants to make his online magazine site complete free to the users and members. But as the site is new, Nick needs to charge a little membership fee to ensure the development and growth of the site. It's just $1.99 per month to become a member of Fortitude to contribute and review content.

The charge is also set to avoid spam issue like people try to create duplicate account and Fortitude is going to need some money to fund his affiliate program for expanding the member community of Fortitude quickly.

The Affiliate Program of Fortitude is Free

Signing up for a full account in Fortitude costs $1.99 per month but if you just want to take part in the affiliate program, you can just sign up for a Scout Account (affiliate account) completely free to promote Fortitude and earn commission.

Fortitude is offering quite a favorable commission to their affiliates. They are paying $20 for each new paid member that is referred by you. Paid member is the member who pays the $1.99 subscription fee to open a full account at Fortitude. The Fortitude affiliate program is new, but Nick is already added a bunch of appealing banner ads where you can use to promote Fortitude and earn affiliate commission.

How You can Make Money on the Internet Nowadays

The Internet provides hundreds of money making opportunities and can give you a secondary income. While some of the online business models require knowledge of websites, search engine optimization and blogs, there are actually other money making opportunities that require no computer programming or website design skills to begin. But for any type of online business model that you decide to begin, you need to be prepared to put in some monetary investment and hard work to achieve the result that you expect.

Here below are some of the common ways which you can use to make money online. Choose one which you can closely relate to at least in the initial stages and then gradually expand your knowledge.

Freelancing
Freelancing can say to be the easiest way to get started for people who want to have an extra income source on the Internet. You will just need to open a PayPal account and register in websites like Freelancer.com, oDesk.com or eLance.com and check out the many hundreds of free lancing jobs available. You can make money by writing articles, researching on something and even taking tuition to others in areas you are an expert in.

Blogs
The Blog platforms like Wordpress and Bloggers allow you to create blog easily without knowledge of HTML or programming languages like PHP. Register a domain name in a website like GoDaddy, host your blog and start writing about your favorite topic or hobby. Register in a program like Google AdSense and insert their Ads in your blog. When people read your blog and click on the Ads, you will get paid by Google. You can also set ad space on your blog for sale to the prospective advertisers directly.

Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is a lucrative way to earn money online. You sell other peoples products by writing articles and reviews about them. When people purchase the product after reading your article and clicking on the affiliate link, you will get a commission on the sale. List building works well in affiliate marketing. You should consider setting up a squeeze page to collect the email addresses of your potential buyers. This way you will follow-up with them from time to time to generate potential sales through email marketing.

Digital Product Sales
It’s easy nowadays to create a digital product which answers a desperate question (ex: How to lose weight) in the form of an eBook and sell your book through a website like ClickBank. Affiliate marketers will sell the book for you for a cut of the sales.

There are also numerous other ways like website flipping, selling physical products on Amazon and eBay using which you can make money online.

Online Jobs for Teen (13 Year Old or Above)

Nowadays thousand of teens are searching daily on internet for some online jobs to work at, may be you are the one who find this lens via searching on Google and finally land at safe place.

In this article (lens) I will teach you different LEGITIMATE ways of how to make money online. Also I will warn you about the scam online jobs. Since you are a newbie in this industry so I will try to explain as detailed as possible and will not provide any wrong information or false temptation which is useful to me only. So enjoy this lens and learn something new in life today. hope the best.

Jobs NOT to take: 

Beware you can fall in the pit.

Before learning the legitimate online jobs, have a look below:

There are many FAKE online earning schemes that are designed specially to attract teenagers like you. They make false temptation like "get rich soon scheme" etc. Most of them are ponzi schemes; where the investors will earn the percentage of money they invest plus some amount from the consequent investors whom they bring to the website. Ponzi schemes are not successful and they crash off of their own weight.

 

Other types of job are "get paid to" jobs. Almost 99% of them are scams. Earning is very low through them. Most of the teenagers get trapped in them because these jobs offer referral earning system. The work offered in such jobs is of zero skill and no experience is required in them. I strongly recommend not joining any "get paid to" websites. You will simply waste your time and finally will earn aggravation. Am telling this because they are not legitimates. You cannot earn big money from them until you have plenty of referrals or a big down line which is very tough to get (my experience). On the other hand, the legitimate ways which are explained below provides guaranteed and constant source of income.

Jobs for You: 

Legitimate jobs and no scams:

These are low skilled jobs which you can do by sitting at your home. They are legitimate and your earning through them is guaranteed. Some of them are below:

Search Engine Marketing: 

Very reliable and constant source of income:

It's a kind of internet marketing. Here you will target your website/blog on the top position for keywords on search engines. Keywords are the phrase which people search on search engines. And the techniques applied to make your website on the top result page are known as search engine optimization.

The first requirement is the knowledge of basic html coding; you can learn it online using www.w3schools.com/. Html is an easy language. Html stands for hyper text markup language. Via html coding you can create WebPages.

Next requirement is a website or a blog. There are many web hosting websites which offers a websites for free. Such websites are under sub-domains. Another way is to use free blogs; one that Google offers is blogspot.com.

 

Now the next requirement is search engine optimization, here before writing or designing structure of your website you will first research for a keyword. There are many keyword research tools available. By keyword research you will came to know the volume of the people searching for that keyword.

Then after that you will write the contents of your website or blog right optimized for that specific keyword which you choose; this is known as on-page optimization. After that the next step will be off-page optimization; here you will get many back links from other websites with proper anchor text. And in the anchor text you will include your keyword. For example if I want to optimize my website for the term make money online without investment, then the back link with optimized anchor text will be - Make Money Online Without Investment. Also I will try to vary it like make online money, earn money online, how to, etc.

 

Search engine optimization is a long process and cannot be learned from a single paragraph. So, research and gain knowledge of it. Many people have very good collection of articles about it. In this lens I only provide an overview of it.

Now another important thing is monetization. You can get traffic via search engines but how will you earn money? For that you need to monetize your website. There are many ways via which you can optimize your website. For example you can add paid per click advertisement on your website. Like Google adsense is the one. For live example you can login to orkut and see many adverts in a separate column are there, they are tagged as ads by Google adsense. So you can also make a website and earn money by showing Google ads (adsense).

 

You can also monetize your website by showing paid videos or by selling text links or banner ads spaces.

You can also become affiliate partners and can earn via affiliate commission. Paid per click programs like Google adsense is also a kind of affiliate program. Other types of it are Paid per sell and Paid per leads. In paid per sell you will sell some products online directly from your website or blog. And every time you sell something you will earn the affiliate commission.

Paid per lead is also similar thing but instead of selling products, you will sell services. On your website you will write something attractive about some services which other websites offers. And whenever someone registers then you will either earn onetime commission or will earn on the basis of their activeness.

Article Marketing: 

No website or blog is required:

If you are good in writing data on various topics then article marketing is the best option for you. In this way you will write article on any topic on which you can write or are interested in, you will be provided a platform to write means you don't need any website. You will earn more by generating more traffic to your lens. More over article marketing is also used for generating traffic to a blog or website, inbound links and also for search engine visibility and also to promote a product, write reviews etc. article writing webs like this one will give you the share of royalty of what they earned from your article. Hence it's another and also a great way to make money online. You must learn some techniques to generate traffic and also to write a useful article.

So in short you can earn royalty when you get traffic, you can sell or promote something using your article; affiliate marketing. You can increase the visibility of your website by article. You can use article marketing for Search engine optimization for your website or blog. Hence article marketing is a great and a multipurpose way to earn money directly or indirectly.

The Last Module: 

So in this article I covered all the basic knowledge about the famous legitimate online jobs which require no investment or spending. One important thing which you should always remember is "don't work in get paid to programs", they are for dumb people and they are not legitimate jobs. So kid, work hard if you want to earn money.