9/17/2008

Creating a product, pt.3

Alright, I hope you made your decision what kind of product you want to create. If not then go back to Creating a product, pt.2.
Let´s have an example... We say your hobby is printing t-shirts yourself in your basement.
Now you could write an ebook on how everybody could print his own t-shirts at home. You could explain it step by step in your ebook so that everybody would just have to follow your explanations and could start printing t-shirts at home. You might think "Well, who wants to know that and everybody could find explanations online for free" but you need to know two things.

First thing is, there are millions and millions of people worldwide using the internet every day. If only a fraction of these millions are interested in your product and actually buy it it is still enough to earn you a ridiculously huge income. The more specific and the less general your product is, the better.

And second, yes you can get almost any information on the internet for free these days. But it takes a lot of time and endurance to search the web for solutions and a lot of people are more than willing to pay money if you deliver the info they are looking for so they don´t have to search the web themselves.

With those two things in mind you can start.
Start writing your ebook. Everybody can write. An ebook does not need to be hundreds and hundreds of pages. If you deliver the information you promise then an ebook can be a couple of pages, maybe a dozen. Just open Windows Word and start writing. You can start somewhere in the middle if that helps you. I always do. That way I create the beginning and ending of an ebook around my main part which for me personally is way easier to do. It does not have to look fancy, it does not have to be written in an academic way. Just write the way you talk, keep it easy to follow, use common speech.
Once you finished it you download a PDF-Creator on your computer and convert your Word-File
into a PDF-File. That simple!

In the next part of Creating a product we will explain you how to create an ebook without actually writing it...

Tom

9/16/2008

Don´t get lost...

You need to be organized in what you do. If you don´t keep a journal where you write down all the important information about your internet business for yourself you can get lost.

It is really simple to keep track of all your actions. Just write down all the passwords and accountnames you have. Sounds stupid but you will get confused with all those different websites like blogger, Adsense, YouTube, Twitter, Elance, Clickbank, MySpace, facebook, etc...
So just write down those passwords. It´s really no work - just use Excel or a sheet of paper. It only becomes work if you forget one and DID NOT write it down.

Another thing you should do is to analyze your efforts and their outcome. With Adsense it is easy, cause they do it all for you. But still play around with different block sizes, different colors and keep track of it. See how much the click rates change if you use a different block size and learn from your analysis to improve your ads.

Also write down your YouTube efforts. Keep a journal of how many channel views you had, how many comments and friend invitations you sent out, how many video views you had. Write it down everyday and you will see the correlation between comments and channel views and between channel views and blog/website visits.

KEEP A JOURNAL

Creating a product, pt.2

The last time we talked about what kind of downloadable products you could create: ebooks, audio- or videocourses. You create it once and it can be downloaded unlimited times.

First of all you have to have an idea of what your product is about. Now you have to make up your mind. Don´t block your ideas by thinking the wrong way around. Don´t ask yourself "how can I make money", "what will make me money", "where do I get money".
Instead ask yourself "what do people want?", "what do people need?","what are people looking for?", "how can I solve people´s problems?", "what could I create that brings value to the people?".

Ask yourself those questions and really force your brain to come up with some ideas. Take the time to sit down and write all your ideas down and don´t stop before you have at least 50 ideas. The first 10 ideas are easy but then you have to be creative and you will be astonished what kind of ideas you will have. It doesn´t matter whether they are good or realistic. Not yet. Don´t judge your ideas, just keep thinking and writing.
Once you have 50 ideas go through that list and cancel half of those which you think are really really silly. You will have 25 ideas left and now you pick your favorite five and start to think how you can turn those into downloadable products.

After that you pick your top favorite and you make a decision whether you want to realize that idea. Once you made a decision you will go on with Creating a product pt. 3 (I´ll post it as soon as possible).

But for now you should sit down and start brainstorming!













Enjoy,
Tom

Are you afraid of dying on a treadmill?

Not only you have to know about how you build a base for your online business, you also have to have a specific mindset to achieve your goals. You have to have a strong vision of what you want to achieve and of who you want to be. If you think of yourself being a loser you most likely will lose. But if you see yourself as the man you want to be and decide to be that man then you will find a way to make it all happen.
I know all of you guys want to learn how to make money and in order to reach that goal you have to work on your personality and your work ethics.
Watch this inspiring video and learn...

Do you really want success? I mean do you REALLY want to be successful?

Are you willing to sacrifice what it takes to be successful? Ask yourself right now. What is your answer? You want success, but how much do you want it? A little bit, a little more, badly? Motivational speaker Eric Thomas can help you to find out whether you really want to be successful.
Watch this video and find out yourself.

9/15/2008

Videos draw attention!

You can draw attention to your YouTubeChannel with a little video. A video video will increase your channel views and will help you to drive traffic to your website/blog. It only takes a couple of minutes once you are familiar with the program to create a video.

All we used for that video was freeware. You don´t even have to spend money on a cam.

For the video we used Free Screen Video Capture by Topviewsoft, a program you can download for free to make a video of your screen. We picked a video from YouTube, an short part of one of my favorite movies, and recorded it with the free software.

For editing the movie we used Windows Movie Maker, a free program to edit videos. It is selfexplaining and you can learn how to edit a video within minutes. Just go togoogle and search for Windows Movie Maker.

For the sound you can take songs from your computer or you record sound with audacity, a free audioprogram. It is easy to use. All you need is a microphone or even just a headset.

And now go and try it for yourself!

Affiliate Marketing


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Affiliate Marketing is an excellent way to make money online. You don´t have to create a product by yourself. You can promote a product on your website, in your blog, on youtube, in a forum, anywhere. As soon as somebody uses your link to go to the website of the product you promote and actually buys the product you get paid a commission. Commissions vary from a few dollars to more than a hundred dollars. Click here for more info!
Find a product you believe in and sign up to become an affiliate. They will provide you with ads, links and tips on how to promote their product the best way to see good results.
One product I totally recommend is the BRAND NEW YouTubeMarketing Course of Robert Bankston. It is packed with quality information that will give you all the details on how to make money with any product online without spending any money on advertising. Click here to read our testimonials!

The information Robert Bankston give is of highest value if you want to succeed with your online business. Don´t miss that opportunity.

The success SECRETS of Top Affiliates EXPOSED!



9/14/2008

Summary No.1

Let me sum up very briefly what we did so far...

- Decide whether you want to make money online or not
- Take action
- Start writing a blog
- Make writing a daily habit
- Get an AdSense account
- Customize the ads
- Don´t click your own ads!
- Create a YouTube Channel
- Write comments and send messages on YouTube, etc in order to get channel views

If you did all of this you built the base for making money online - a base you can build on.
A lot of people try to convince you that you can make thousands of dollars online with no work at all in no time.
Sorry to burst that bubble. We all wish that was true, but it isn`t.
It still is work and espacially in the beginning you have to invest time to get your online business going. The more solid your basework is the better your business will be.

YouTube Channel

We set up a YouTube Channel as explained in our last blog entry. Go have a look at it and see what your channel could look like. Subscribe to the channel and follow our success with getting channel views. We will do as we preach and we´ll see how good all the make-money-online-guru advice work.

www.youtube.com/user/TheMoneyQuest2

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Content is King

To remind you again, Content is King! So make writing your blog on a daily basis a habit. Write everyday. No matter what, you want and need content. Google analysis your content and will place ads on your site that fit to the content you offer.
Watch this video of Joel Comm talking about content being king and learn...


The next step...

Okay,
you got yourself a blog, you started blogging, you opened an adsense account, you customized the google ads so they don´t look like ads, you did all that, but what´s next?
Now you need traffic on your site. If nobody knows that you have a blog or website then you have no traffic and no traffic means nobody will click your ads. but how do you get traffic? You could promote your website with adwords but that would cost you money. One way to promote your website for free is YouTube.

With YouTube you can create a free channel where you can upload promo videos or where you can comment on other videos in order to get some recognition.
One video which we think you should definately watch is Robert Bankston´s video on YouTube marketing.
He explains in detail why YouTube is a great way to promote your website, blog or products.



To sum up the information he gives:

Your goal is to get as many channel views as possible.

Ways to raise your channel views are:

- video views
- comments
- sharing videos
- friend requests
- messages

You want to get subscribers because you can send them your promo videos, you can offer them your products and you can keep them updated with news. All of this with the goal to turn those subscribers into buyers in the long run.
People who go to your YouTube channel will in best case go to your website.
So YouTube can be a way to create traffic on your site.
The best thing about YouTube is that it is absolutely for free. You don´t have to spend any money to increase the traffic.

I used exactly those advice given in the video and created a YouTube channel.
I spent a lot of hours writing messages, writing comments, adding friends, etc. and within ten days I managed to get 7,000 channel views. That´s A LOT!

These tips work. Follow the advice and increase the traffic on your website.

Go to YouTube, create an account and start working on your channel views.

So long,
Tom

Google Adsense pt.3

Now that you have google adsense running on your site you have to work on the ads themselves. You don´t want the ads to look like ads. You want the ads to fit in your text, to fit in your content.
So your next step should be to change the ads in order to give visitor on your site the impression those ads are part of the text.

Only use text ads. Picture ads look 100% like ads and you don´t want that. No picture ads. Change the colors of the ads to the colors you use on your site.
As you can see our topics are orange and the text is black, so we changed the ads to look the same.

Have a look at the video.

Google Adsense pt.1&2

In the beginning google adsense is the easiest way to make money with your blog/website. According to the content you created in your blog or website google will post ads on your site and you get paid everytime somebody clicks on those ads.

With blogger you can just click on "customize", click "add a gadget". Then pick Adsense.
We found that the large rectangle block fits in the content the best. More on how to customize adsense for your site in part 3.

But now watch the video and activate adsense.

The most important rule you should NEVER break is: NEVER CLICK YOUR OWN ADS! NEVER!
You can get a lifetime ban from google adsense so stick to the rule and NEVER click your own ads.




Getting started

What if you are absolutely new to making money online? There is so much information that you can easily get confused and lose motivation because you just don´t know where to start.

The best way to get started is with a blog.

Go to www.blogger.com and create a blog. Sign in and start writing about something you personally are interested in. It doesn´t matter what it is you write about as long as you have a real interest in it. If you like traveling then write about your last holiday trip and add some photos for example.

So sign in, it is totally easy, pick a template (the way your blog should look like), and start posting and publishing. Do it every day even if you think you don´t have much to say. You want to create content.

Creating a blog is your first step to make money online. Go to blogger.com and open an account.

Online Money Gurus and Make-Money-Methods

When you search the web for ideas how to make money online you find lots of money gurus.
Joel Comm, Robert Bankston, The Rich Jerk, Mark Anastasi, Ben Lowrey....to name a few. Some of them you might know by now, some names you hear for the first time.
We will discuss their ideas and approaches here and test their advice to see whether they work or not.
Everybody is looking for a short cut to wealth and there are lots of methods promising insane income with no work...six figures yearly, affiliate payload, wealthcreator, monymaker, the rich jerk, commission blueprint, ytcashsystem, and many more...

After all - making money is still WORK!
You have to invest time and you have to take action. There is no button to push that will automatically increase your income.
There are several ways to earn money online e.g. affiliate marketing, adsense, creating and selling your own product.

At first we will start with google adsense...

The Money Quest?

What is this quest about?
There are so many money gurus out there in the world wide web who all promise to know how to make money online - not some money, but A LOT of money.
We test their methods and want to find out whether it is all just a huge scam or if it is possible to make that much money online.

This site will be like a journal where you can see whether we are just wasting our time with the methods of so called money gurus or whether we are able to fill our pockets. We´ll keep you informed about every single step we take and how much money we actually make.
That way you will see if we do have success or not and you will see what methods actually work and which are just a waste of time and money and you can easily copy the ones that work and make money for yourself. Yes, we´ll make mistakes but that way you learn the best.

The Money Quest starts with this first entry and right now we got zero $ in our bank account.

Let´s get started...