My friend Bob finally did it, by chance, accident or pure luck; he finally made a sale online. He was so happy that he told all of his friends (including me) that he was so good on internet marketing that he made his first sale. Bragging around to everybody he found in the street "Hey did you know? I made a Sale online!" he said. Someone actually bought his "grasshoppers eye diseases" e-book.

But my "crazy naive" friend Bob with all his joy totally forgot to setup his thank you page on his auto responder, and with all the continuous changes he made to his website he put a broken link on the download page.

So when the unlucky fellow who tried to download the "grasshoppers" e-book only found a 404 page.

He created a mail account solely to answer the questions of the customers but he never took the time to check it, gosh… he even can’t remember the password!

This is how "Gosh I can’t do things right" Bob didn’t delivered what he promises on his sales page and had to refund due to a dispute with PayPal. Not so good for his first sale online.

At the end my "dumb chaotic" friend Bob ended with no sale and banned from PayPal.

There are three critical things to take on account when you build your site.

Always keep track of the changes you made on your pages. Sure you want to improve them, split and test the headlines, the colors, the position of your links, but you need to remember the changes you made in case you want to undo it. So write this down, keep track of your changes all the time.

Double and triple check your links, you don’t want broken links, misaddresses or 404 errors pages on your site. Also remember when you put outbound links in your page make sure they open in a new window, you don’t want that people leave your site. This is only for those authority sites with content. For a sales page never put an outbound link, the only link your sales page need is to the Order Page. That is how you made sales online.

And finally the most important thing to make successful sales online: always deliver what you promise. Ok, this is so important that I have to repeat it. ALWAYS DELIVER WHAT YOU PROMISE. Even more, if you can over deliver like an unadvertised bonus, people will simply love you.

Take a good note of this three advices and your first sale online will not be as traumatic as my friend Bob.

The other day I found my friend Bob crying like a baby girl, I asked him what was wrong with him, and he told me the saddest history ever.

He wanted to make a living from Internet and make a ton of money selling affiliate products.

He opened a ClickBank account and built a squeeze page to build a list of prospects. So far so good.

But he has to face the highest and thick wall that any newbie has to face when he start a IM page. The traffic wall. He has not the slightest idea of how to drive free traffic to his site.

So he decides to take the fast track, the highway, the PPC road. He opened an Adword account and here is where the things went nasty with pay per click advertising.

He enters on a highly competitive niche and search for the keywords with more searches per month and bid on them.

What is wrong with that? He bid on broad keywords on a generic niche, having a specific product for a specific segment of that niche. A sub niche if you want to call it that way.

He bid on keywords without taking any consideration if the keywords include the words "free" and "no cost". Even a kid knows that these words simply do not sell, period.

As he did not plan his pay per click advertising, he bid on one word keywords instead of long tail. One word keyword on adwords may have the highest volume of searches but also has the highest cost per click.

He put a higher budget and a higher bid on the keywords and let it ran. He never care about track which keywords did converts or which did not. He never group his keyword list, or use variation of the keywords like quotes or brackets. No, he let his pay per click advertising campaign ran until the credit card company called to tell him his credit was max out.

He did not split test his ads to track the conversion rate. He only put a catchy ad, or what he thought was catchy, without any research on the competition.

Did people click on his ads? Yes, thousands, but not the right kind of visitors, only the tire kickers looking for free stuffs.

You do not make the same mistakes that my friend Bob made. The smart marketer only seek for buyers and smartly avoid the non buyer keywords like a plague this has to be the fundamental of the pay per click advertising world.

In your adwords campaigns you must wisely find high profitable keywords, the "buyer kind" of keywords.

My friend Bob was deep into affiliate marketing and wanted to make a living of it. So he leaves his job and starts his affiliate business on his home. In theory work from home is easy and gives you plenty of time to do whatever you wanted to do. In Theory…

Let me tell you how my friend Bob failed working from home and perhaps you don’t repeat the same mistakes.

On a regular day, my friend Bob wake up close to midday and turn on the TV while he pour the first coffee on his mug, read the paper (the comic strips and the sport section) and then go to the gym (he doesn’t lift weight he just go to see the girls on tights).

After that hour he come back home and take a lunch, then he turn on his computer. He read his mail and click on every single offer he receive and subscribe in every single opt in he sees. Spending about two hours in the process.

Then he takes a nap from about one hour.

After that he grabs a snack and a cold beer, and enters in the forums and spends another two hours reading the latest post and make comments on it.

Then he visits his facebook account and spends another two hours playing mafia wars and Farmville. After that another hour is gone in his twitter incursion.

The TV is always on and his messenger always receiving messages from his friends (and of course he answered back). He eat dinner and then sit down in his favorite sofa with a beer and a big bowl filled to the top with pop corns, to watch a movie (or two) and "rest his eyes" from all the hard work he did in front of his computer.

After the movie he sits in front of the computer and notice that is really late for work. So he turns off his computer and goes to bed.

The Work from home system could be great and an ideal situation if you want to spend more time with your family. but you still must remember that is a work, and as such must be take it seriously.

If you want to work from home, do not be like my friend Bob. Be consistent in what you do. organize and optimize your time, this is important, distribute your work time around the day, work two hours and then stop for one, rest and do anything but work, and then continue for another two hours.

If you are consistent, then with the time you can spend less time working and more time doing what you like most to do.

Tips to Find a Good Market

Now that you have the right state of mind, you are ready to start your online adventure and find a good market.

Ok, where do you think is the starting point? where is your ground zero? anyone? who said with a great product? No your’e wrong! who said a cool domain? hell no! think again.

Ok, I’m gonna be easy on you guys, the first step is to find a good market, you must find the people and see what they want, and then you give it to them. If they are hungry then you feed them right? if they are bored then you provide entertainment, if they are tired you give them a place to rest, you got the idea?

Where do you find a good market?

The answer is simple… Everywhere! In every place you will find a need to be filled. People who is in pain want information and products to relief that pain. People looking for acceptance, people who want to look better, to feel better, people who want more money, a better lifestyle.

Two good places to start your search for a profitable market are EBay Pulse and Amazon Best Sellers. There you will find the trends of what people are interest on buying, especially on physical products.

Once you find a good market, you don’t want to be too broad, so is time to narrow a little bit, where there isn’t too much competition. For example if you think to target the Golf Market (yeah I know… not too original), you don’t focus on the whole Golf thing. You instead dig a little and target a smaller niche, like Golf Lessons (ebooks to improve your swing, Golf video lessons for beginners), Golf clubs (carb fiber clubs), Golf Balls (fluorescent orange golf balls for snow), Golf Clothes (Golf Shoes), Golf Memberships (California Golf Memberships), Now you have a proper niche.

Now that you Know how to Find a good market Next we will see how profitable a niche can be.

Chris

Make Money on Internet, a Myth?

making money on internet is possible with a little work

Hello my name is Chris and through this blog I’ll try to give you some tips to start your internet business, or if you already have one, how to increase your revenue significantly helping you make money on internet.

I know there are many people saying at every turn that he win thousands or millions of dollars on the Internet. Well, yes, it is possible but, unlikely, let’s face it, it takes a little more than a few hours a day and the minimum knowledge they claim.

The Key to Make Money on Internet

To obtain a financial success depending only on the Internet requires something that the 90% of people starting in this hasn’t: Constancy and focused action.

Yes, because perhaps you already bought the last course on how to get rich overnight with the Internet, and probably you haven’t finished reading when in your inbox you found a new release which is the latest buzz to make money on internet, and you buy it, and then buy one that ensures that it will make you a millionaire working from home in less than 24 hours without spending a cent or how about a coaching program who guides you step by step in the process for a monthly fee?. I know that because I used to be one of those people.

Here is the shocking truth, NONE of that works, and will never work unless you stick to a method and follow it until the end. Take a course, follow it and put it into practice, then if your are not satisfied, try with other method, otherwise it will be money wasted.

I have a friend who is a fan of exercise machines; he has purchased every single product that is announced on TV which promise flat abs in 30 days or less or an amazin wieght loss in a week machine. My friend has over 30 of these gadgets and still has the same big jelly belly, why? Is it that these wonderful devices do not work? Well, if he kept them in a closet gathering dust I doubt they do what they promise.

The same happens with the courses, seminars, books on internet marketing, affiliate marketing and the type work from home schemes, if you not read it, if you don’t put into practice what they teach, if you are not consistent and have not patient, you’ll spend the whole life looking for a magic formula for make money on internet and probably live with the hope that winning the lottery would be the only way out of your financial troubles.

The Right Mindset to Make Money on Internet

The first thing you do is convince yourself that this works, positive thinking, put on a short-term goal and continue to comply, then, set another and another medium term and a long term one. And focus on those goals and follow them.

When asked to millionaires “that would require to be diverted from its goal? The answer is unanimous. NOTHING.

So before continuing, I want you to take a sheet of paper and a pencil and do the following exercise:

• Write what you do not like about your current life, and four things you want to change.
• Write down four things you would do if money were not an issue.
• Write how you would like to win within the next four weeks
• Write how you would like to win within the next four months
• Write how you would like to win within the next four years

Save this sheet and keep them always close and read it whenever you can, because that is your mantra, this is your way to have the right mindset for your business and your life.

In the next chapter we will continue with the foundation for your business online.

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