When I first started looking at how to make money through the internet I read what felt like thousands upon thousands of websites. I am sure that I have not been alone in doing that and to a great extent ending up feeling totally overwhelmed by the plethora of “opportunities” which appeared to exist. But how was I to distinguish the “bad” from the “good” when it was all so new to me. Like you I read those pages that promised me that I would be earning £’000′s by the time I came back to my computer from the bathroom!

Here is probably the most important lesson I learnt very early on and that was to heed those wise words “if it looks too good to be true, then it is!” Like so many people I have read so much but instead of remaining overwhelmed by it I decided to rely on my gut instincts and those experiences I have had both in the real world and in running a very successful Genealogy membership website. I started to filter what I was reading into something that resonated with me and made sense in the light of my experiences in other areas.

I have made some mistakes and I am sure that we will continue to make them. I am sure that there are things that we are doing wrong but we are trying to learn and put them right as we go.

So far I

would summarise what I have learnt as:

1. You are not going to get rich overnight or even in months – it is going to take time and dedication and hard work ( despite all those people who try and tell us you only have to work for 30 minutes a day!)

2. You need to want to succeed and you need to have a clear picture of what success will look like for you . Here I drew on the experiences I have had when working for hours with Senior Management Teams Vision Planning! You must be able to picture what success will look like for you. As someone once said if you cannot tell me the colour of the Front Door of the house you will own when you are successful then you have not yet truly refined your Vision!

3. You need to have a clear focus on your markets and know what you want to sell – hopping from one thing to the next in the hope that “it” will be the thing that works is not the way!

4. You need to be big enough to say “I got that wrong – help!” and wise enough to truly listen to the advise you get.

5. You need to be your own “Guru” and by that I mean that you need to do what you do because it is the right thing for you.

You can be successful online and make money. The power to do it lies in your hands and in your will to succeed!

Paul is Head of Training for a major UK Charitable Organisation. He owns one of the UK’s Leading Information Providers PK eBooks (http://www.pk-ebooks.co.uk) and also owns http://www.amateur-genealogist.com

Why? Because the would-be “netpreneur” has access to way more training than ever before. It’s possible to get up to speed very quickly on what is needed to get started online. This, in turn, means that people quickly recognize what offers true value and what does not. They see so many sales letters that they become, to a certain degree, immune to the typical hype. They’re willing to spend – but they want value for money. They want to be treated like intelligent and discerning adults.

So here’s a message to all ‘gurus’ (and aspiring gurus) who are keen to get their share of the dollars waiting to be sent flying their way via cyberspace.

1) What does it take to make people want to buy “you” rather than some other internet marketer?

2) What might make people want to unsubscribe from your list?

3) And what pushes them into asking for a refund?

What Makes People Want to Buy?

- They buy if they can see that a product will give them new knowledge and understanding.

- They buy if the purchase will speed up business growth.

- They buy if a product will automate a task that eats into their time. (People quickly learn to spend their time on marketing and product creation, rather than repetitive tasks.)

Tip: Once newbies have been exposed to a few sales pages, it’s not long before they learn to look beyond the sales hype. They study a sales letter carefully to work out what the product will”really” offer them. (Do they need this? Or will it duplicate something else they own?)

They also learn to look for value for money. Some higher-priced products are worth every cent. Some cheaper products add very little to what they already know.

(Note: Savvy internet marketers already realize that if they put together online interviews offering truly valuable information, they are far more likely to attract and keep new customers. A quick example: Jane Smith listens to a one-hour audio interview on search engine optimization and traffic. She finds out some really useful information she has not so far heard anywhere else. She decides that this guy knows what he’s talking about and shells out a couple of hundred dollars for his products.)

What Makes People Want to Unsubscribe from a List?

- Getting four identical emails trying to sell them the same product, because the sender hasn’t figured out how to move them from one list to another after they buy.

- Getting a ‘canned’ email sounding full of excitement about a new product or service – which turns out to be a duplicate of the email they get from six other marketers who are affiliates for the same product.

- Getting email from a product creator about anything under the

sun because you bought XXX product from them. If your customers sign up for a newsletter, they expect mailings.

What Makes People Want to Ask for a Refund?

In the past, buyers tended to shrug and write off a bad purchase. But increasingly, people are prepared to stand up for their rights. If they feel they have not received value for money, they will ask for a refund.

So what makes them decide to ask for their money back?

- Software that doesn’t work as it is supposed to.

- Physical products (CDs, DVDs) that don’t work on their systems.

- An e-book that is full of content easily found in an hour’s net-surfing.

- An e-book that has skimped on content or that has been poorly written.

- An e-book that not only skimps on content but is full of links to up-sells to get the ‘really valuable’ information, or is full of affiliate links.

The last case, an e-book full of affiliate links or links to an up-sell…is something you should be giving away free as part of your viral marketing campaign. Charge for it and you risk your reputation for being a source of quality information.

Other things that bite into your customer’s valuable time.

- MP3′s that are streamed from a website rather than being downloadable.

- e-books that are in “.exe” format only, so the customer can’t print them out in one ‘hit’ (and can’t access them on a Mac computer).

Give your clients anything that they can listen to or read away from the computer. Most of them spend enough hours a day at the keyboard already. They’d rather load an audio interview into their MP3 players and listen while they go for a walk or relax in the sun. They’d prefer to print out an e-book and read it or mark it up while sitting in an easy chair.

Please, please don’t tether them to the computer!

And finally, about those “name squeeze” pages. People are very quickly getting tired of having to give up their email addresses just to get to a sales page. Do you want them to buy or not? These days, unless there’s a huge buzz around the Net and they want to see what it’s all about, prospective customers are just as likely to click the ‘back’ button on their browser, or close the window and leave.

After all, there’s always another internet marketer waiting to sell them a product. Probably one very similar to yours. Marketers who respect their client’s time and intelligence are the ones who will get their loyalty – and their cash.

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Excellent point, but this assumes that you actually have some traffic to begin with. Each step of the Internet Marketing Process is not just important – it’s required for success. So, let’s focus today on getting traffic to your site, and remember:

A. Getting traffic to your site is like putting gas in your car. You can have a great engine, but it won’t go anywhere without the gas. Likewise, you can have a perfect sales letter – but without traffic, it’s just pretty to look at.

B. The highest traffic sites of the world do not just get a little more traffic than the next guy – they get exponentially more traffic than the next guy. For example, according to Media Metrix, AOL’s network weighed in at #1, getting more traffic than any other site in the world in April of 2001. Amazon was ranked #10. Both are top ten sites… And the difference? AOL had 89,000,000 visitors that month and Amazon had 19,000,000. That’s a whopping difference of 70,000,000 visitors between the #1 site and the #10 site.

Interestingly, the higher up the ranks you go, the greater the gap between each site.

So, what’s the difference? Why is it that the better a site gets, the further behind it leaves its closest competitor? Here are their secrets:

1. They Set Up “Multiple Streams of Traffic”

Back in 1995 I observed an interesting phenomenon. I found that the likelihood of someone responding to your website was highly dependent on the path they took to get there.

People may ask you “what is the conversion rate of your website,” but that is really an irrelevant question. Conversion rates are meaningless unless they take into consideration how someone gets to your website. (Test this yourself and you’ll find it to be true.)

So, I coined the phrase “All Clicks are Not Created Equal.” For example, traffic from a site recommending your product is more likely to generate a sale than traffic from a site criticizing your product. That’s an extreme example, but you get the point, right?

When people discover this, their natural tendency is to start getting picky about how they get their traffic. Why waste your time on traffic that won’t generate a sale, right?

If you’re paying for advertising, this makes perfect sense. However, many people mistakenly throw away traffic from free sources as a result.

High traffic sites never throw away traffic and constantly endeavor to set up new traffic streams.

Let’s take the worst possible traffic source imaginable: FFA pages. Traffic from FFA ads is extremely sparse. To make matters worse, this traffic is rarely the source of an immediate sale. Very little amounts of the lowest quality traffic in the world – yep, I think that qualifies it as the worst possible traffic source.

If, however, you have an automated FFA promotion going that doesn’t take you any time to maintain and still brings in traffic, should you throw it away?

Maybe not…

I still have in place free automatic traffic building sources that I set up years ago. Much of the traffic that comes from these free sources is of low quality, but hey, I don’t lift a finger to get it any more.

Most super-high-traffic sites are constantly working on new ways to bring in traffic – many of which are not very sophisticated at all. Even Yahoo, for example, uses a low-budget “tell a friend” script on their site to encourage people to forward articles to their friends. Does Yahoo care that anyone can do this with a free CGI script? Of course not. It’s just one of thousands of traffic sources they’ve established.

When you read #3 below, you’ll realize why “low-quality” traffic may not be so bad after all…

Remember, though, if you’re paying for “cheeseburger” traffic, don’t pay a steak-and-lobster price. Better: get your cheeseburger traffic for free from as many automated sources as you can.

2. They Use Viral Marketing

“Viral Marketing” was the vogue buzz-phrase of 1999. Several books have been written on the subject in hopes of cracking the code, but still very few sites are taking advantage of this incredible concept.

Viral Marketing is any type

of marketing that encourages people to spread your marketing message around for you.

Think about this – it sure would be great if people advertised your product for you, wouldn’t it? It beats the heck out of paying for advertising.

Here’s a viral marketing story for you:

When I started the e-book marketing craze back in 1995 with the release of “Search Engine Tactics,” I promoted the book with a very simple viral marketing scheme.

Here’s what I did:

I put a note in the book itself that everyone was granted permission to give away or even sell the book on their sites. They would benefit by giving something of value to their visitors – I would benefit by advertising products in the book. The people that they gave it to saw the note in the book, and they gave it away on their sites – and so on…

So, did this work? You be the judge:

a. The e-book was downloaded over 1,000,000 times when we last counted in 1998.

b. The e-book was noted by ZDNet as one of the top downloads of 1999, and is the only e-book ever to be given 5 Stars by ZDNet.

c. Experts have since written entire books about my little ploy showing people how, they too, can unleash the viral power of free e-books as traffic builders.

The point? Well, one simple viral marketing tactic put my name on the map. Granted, it was an unusually successful virus, but this was just one simple tactic…

People are still giving this book away on their sites today, and I haven’t done anything to promote it in years.

High traffic sites are always looking for new ways to spread their message virally.

3. They Turn Traffic into More Traffic

This is where most people blow it. Allow me to explain…

Whenever I consult for businesses I always teach my “Internet Marketing Battle Plan” concept and use that as the basis for everything we do. This lays the groundwork for the best marketing possible. (Side Note: I very rarely do any consulting anymore – and usually only as a favor to close friends. I just don’t have time for it – I love it, but my own Internet business is too lucrative to spend time doing anything else.)

The Internet Marketing Battle Plan is a cohesive system consisting of 5 unique tactics that represent each step of the Internet Marketing Process. All successful Internet Marketing I have encountered follows one form or another of this plan.

Step 4 is: “A Tactic for Getting People to Come Back to Your Site.”

If you’re selling a product on your site, remember that most sales are not closed the first time someone hears about a product. Obviously, getting people to come back will greatly increase your chances of closing a sale.

If you’re selling advertising on your site, clearly getting initial traffic to come back over and over again will snowball your traffic.

There are thousands of ways to do this, but you always need to have:

a. An incentive for getting them to come back.

For example, at the killertacticsjournal.com site, we entice you to come back by offering free marketing advice each week from world-leading experts. This incentive needs to be truly valuable or it won’t work.

If we offered misguided advice from self-proclaimed experts, it would not be nearly the same incentive. Instead, we offer battle tested advice from undisputed world-leading experts like Jay Conrad Levinson, Brian Tracy, Joe Sugarman, Ted Nicholas… If we didn’t offer you value each time, you just wouldn’t come back, and you wouldn’t be reading this article right now!

b. A method of informing them of the incentive.

For example, you sign up for our newsletter and we inform you whenever this new information is available. You come back and this starts the cycle again.

Can you think of other ways to inform people about your incentives? Use your imagination.

High traffic websites always keep people coming back for more.

You now have the plan – it’s up to you to put it into action. Work on all three of these secrets every single day and I assure you that your traffic will increase dramatically.

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You can make all the modifications to the content that you wish. You can include as many links as you want, add graphics or new content. Even edit the existing content. And after all these changes you can place Your Name on it and market it as your own.

To prevent selling the same thing as everyone else customization is required. Most sites will have it as part of their terms of service that changes must be made before you can market the product as yours anyway.

What can you do with PLR products?

The first and most important thing to remember and I can’t state this enough, is always check the terms of service on the website where you get the products from. That will tell you exactly what you can and can’t do with the products.

Another thing you need to take into account is the type of PLR product you have to work with. Is it code for a website script? Source code for a program, an ebook or content?

And finally you need to know what you yourself can do. Do you have the knowledge or time to make the necessary changes to make the product yours or

will you need to hire someone to do that for you?

If you are dealing with programs or scripts you can make some changes and add some features and resell them as your own creation.

You can really do a lot of things though with PLR content. You can take a PLR ebook and add your favorite affiliate links to it, add your own content or edit the existing content and repackage it as your own product to sell or give away.

You can break up some ebooks and create niche minisites. If its articles you can create a website as well with those or combine a few to create your own niche autoresponder series.

Combine a few articles on a similar subject to create your own ebook then sell it or give it away. You can even use the content for you newsletters.

There are lots of possibilities to use PLR products. I justmentioned the most popular uses but I’m sure there are people using the content in ways that I haven’t even thought of.

That is the best thing about PLR products is you can do almost anything with them. They are a great resource to have as part of your marketing arsenal.

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If you just want to get your name out there and you have a clear exit strategy within the next one to three years, I would strongly recommend that you look into outsourcing your internet marketing – a full-service internet marketing company will focus on SEO (search engine optimization), PPC (Pay Per Click management), affiliate marketing, email marketing and link building. Depending on your budget you may want to consider which one or two of these services is most important to you – most full-service firms have a strength in one or two

areas.

When you hire a new employee, don’t forget to project the cost of training them and retaining them. After you have spent a considerable amount of money training a new employee, you have to take into account the fact that they are more valuable to other employers and there is a good chance that they are going to leave unless you are willing to pay them a premium.

All concerns aside, I personally recommend that any company interested in a long-term business that requires a significant amount of marketing hire an in-house team. Another alternative is to hire a coordinator in-house that can work with third party vendors and make sure they are doing their job. Remember that PPC is like a sprint (you can hit the ground running with a PPC campaign), but SEO is more like a marathon – it is good to have a loyal employee constantly working with the third-party to ensure that your brand’s “flavor” is consistent in all different mediums.

Preston Wily is an in-house marketing for a computer hardware company. He also does consulting for small business owners through Vizad, a full-service marketing company.

Anyone desiring to enter this perilous terrain should proceed withcaution. Wearing a full body hype-resistant armor is strongly recommended. If that’s not available, growing a secondlayer of thick skin is advisable.

For the beginning marketer, novice webmaster or the Internet hobbyistwho just wants to earn a little extra income, all the hype can bea little overwhelming. All the rhetoric may prove totally mind boggling. Deadly even.

Who to believe? What to believe?

It’s a virtual mine field and you only have your cursor for a guide. It can be down right scary if you’re not prudent with your checkbook or your morals you can be misled, swindled, and beguiled before you even turn on your computer.

Separating fact from fiction requires a considerable skill, usuallyreserved for the judgments of Solomon.

Where to begin? Where to start?

This is where most would-be Internet Marketers go wrong from the’get-go’. They start out with the wrong mind-set. They want a ‘product/software/guru/guardian angel’ to come and show them whatto do. They want everything to magically come to them. As if success in Internet Marketing, because it has to do with computers, can be magically produced or brought about with the right software program or the latest gizmo.

They want everything done for them.

Well, it doesn’t work that way. Sure you can buy the latest ‘info-product’ or the latest ‘software program’ and some of these will even work for awhile or produce income but you’re still not getting off on the right track. You’re not setting the right foundation.

First, you have to ‘Learn how to Learn’!

Learn how to teach yourself. Learn how you can use the vast resources of the Net to teach yourself all you need to know about Internet Marketing. Acquire the necessary skills to become self-taught.

The journey may take a little longer, but you will learn more alongthe way and you will develop a greater self-reliance. In the end,it’s you who will have to build that web site, provide the content, dothe SEO work, do the marketing…so get your Internet Business grounded with the right foundation. Place yourself as the cornerstone of anythingyou wish to build.

The Internet gladly gives up its secrets. Search them out. Find them.Study them. It’s the best training ground ever created. The wealth of information is truly astounding. The collective intelligence of a wholeworld…

Ok, so the hyperbole meter

is rising again, but you get the picture.

Next time you’re tempted, don’t drool over the latest Guru’s ‘How To’s'…’Kindergarten Dropout Makes a Bundle Working Only40 Seconds on the Internet Each Day’, ‘How I Turned Google Into My Own Personal Cash Slave’, ‘My Secrets Are Worth 20 Million a Month to Me, I Just Can’t Wait to Tell You Everything’!

Don’t be fooled by the slick copy writing, don’t be tempted toreach for that plastic wand.

Take a smarter approach. Use your brain. Use your God GivenIntelligence. Don’t buy the latest offerings from the next big hot ‘marketing guru’.

Instead, do this.

If a marketing expert is making $15,000 a month with Google Adsense, don’t automatically go out and buy his/her book of secrets. Use your head, ifyou have the time, seek out their sites and pick them apart. Study the lay-out, study the design, study the keywords. Learn everything you can,and apply it to your own web site or marketing. The Internet givesup its secrets, nature of the beast!

Next.

Don’t cultivate a need for the latest marketing ‘tell-all’ info-product,but rather cultivate a relationship with the source. Seek out the experts. Find one or two in the areas of Internet Marketing you need help with: SEO, Mini Sites, Affiliate Marketing, List Building, Google Adsense/Adwords, Copy Writing, etc.

Get to know the marketer who’s selling the product, join his/her affiliate program, sign up to their opt-in newsletter, ask them questions in the online forums. Be nice, be curious, be helpful to them — whether it’s selling their products, bringing in more affiliates or just being of assistance if asked for. Always remember it’s a two way street and must be beneficial to both parties, so give as well as receive.

Build relationships and you will build a foundation of knowledge thatyou can draw from again and again. Develop these relationships witha diverse group of marketing experts in the areas of interest that’svital to your Internet Marketing and you will be at the right startingpoint.

Nurture these relationships, grow them, watch them bloom and your ownmarketing results will harvest the rewards.

All you really have to do is Learn How To Learn. Teach yourself and you will never have to go back to Kindergarten again.

Or buy another marketing info-product!

The author runs a modest website selling the latest Internet Marketing

Tools/Software and yes, Marketing Info-Products!

Copyright © 2005 Titus Hoskins of Marketing Tools & Guides

This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

There are many ways for your web site to be promoted, but maybe you’re missing the “key” to the “best” promotion. Here are some things to consider:

- If you have started to promote your web site, keep it constant. If you promote your site with persistence, it will catch your audience’s attention.

- Be patient. Try each different promotion until you find the best.

- Free promotions such as search engines and directories would give your web site the deserved traffic you always wanted. Make sure to check your web site’s ranking to know whether or not this type of free promotion is right for you.

- Make a deal with other web sites on trading links which could help both web sites. Make sure to use words that could easily interest the audience.

- Find free classified ads web sites that could boost the promotion of your web site. Most of these classified ads web sites provide powerful marketing features and are an extremely fast way of getting your products or services on line.

- Free and low-cost internet banners are spread

all through out the World Wide Web. Banners that pop-up at the top of a page or in a separate window would automatically catch your target audience’s attention.

Free internet advertising is a perfect way to make your products or services known to millions of prospective Internet customers. The probability of someone needing your services or wanting to buy your products is very high. There are free services out there that may suit your services, products and web site…you just need to find them! Go to work – Browse the internet for the best free internet advertising and learn how to take advantage of what you are able to find.

If at first you don’t succeed…try, try again! Analyze your techniques, keep track of your customers and learn what works. Then be ready to try new methods and repeat those methods that are already working.

It has been said that the best things in life are free and this saying also applies to the many forms of free advertising that are available on the internet. Give this form of advertising a try and you also may become a true believer in the power of free internet advertising.

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I have noticed that people can be surprised when I tell them, that the first and most important step to take is to look inwards. This is also the first step in communication mastery. For you must first know yourself and know what it is you want to do before you can communicate that to others and and take the necessary steps to achieving your goals.

Some questions that you can ask yourself are:

1. What do I like to do,
2. What are my areas of interests
3. Where to my skills lie
4. How do I like to accomplish things
5. What is my passion
6. What would my ideal life look like

And more importantly…

7. What area would I enjoy spending many hours working on and learning more of?

This is important because if you hate what you are doing then you are not going to get very far.Once you are clear on your passion, you can then start to do some market research to find out is there is a market for your area. There are many resources and places that you can do this.

One of them is Overture.com. When you type in a word it will show you how many people have search for that word or description.If 5000 or more people did a search on that name or phrase, then your odds of doing well are looking up. However, if only a few people type it in, then you probably won’t do well in that area. That said, further investigation is required. First, try typing in different combination of words and different variations on a word. If you are not sure what to use, a thesaurus can help you. If you don’t have one handy, there are several on line

versions.

Next would be to look at other resources. There are several sites and software programs that can help you in your endeavours.

For example:

These can help you to define your area an help you focus on the most probalble area for success.

There are other things to consider to help you decide on the feasibility of your area.

They are:

Once that is complete, you can start looking at your benefits. Make sure that you are listing benefits and not features. It is the benefits that convince people.For example if you were selling books for people with poor eye sight.Large print is a feature, ease of reading is a benefit.

With that in mind, ask your self:

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Of course, at the start, I didn’t know the answer and I toddled off into the realms of get paid to auto surf, taking baby step investments and breathing sighs of relief every day when the get paid to auto surf sites appeared and I knew my tiny investments were still safe. Considering the idiotic abandon with which I embraced the dreadful money doubler phenomenon, it might seem strange that I was so wary when it came to the auto surf for cash experience. Maybe I learned my lesson from the amount of money I wasted on the money doublers. (By the way, if you happen to know my husband, there is absolutely no need for you to mention to him anything about me and money doubler programmes. Really, no need at all.)

Don’t get the wrong impression through me mentioning money doublers and get paid to auto surf programmes in the same article. The auto surf for cash sites are in no way related to the money doublers or run by the same people. The one thing the two types of programme have in common is that they are very easy to do but, whereas money doublers were pure scams, get paid to auto surf sites are real online businesses where you can make money at home. The webmasters and webmistresses who own get paid to auto surf sites are, in the main, honest hard-working people, who want to have a thriving business which will bring them an ongoing income for the future. I’m not saying all auto surf for cash sites are run by saints, the owners are just ordinary people who want to make a living on the Internet, and the industry (like any other) has its share of rogues and thieves who will take your money and run, plus a few inept webmasters who just have no idea how to run a business and lose everyone’s money.

So, you might ask, how do I take sensible precautions against getting stung? The answer, like most things, is simple! Investigation is the answer. If you like the look of a get

paid to auto surf site, join as a free member and check out the forum (if there is one). Surf to test the quality of surfing and don’t invest if the surfbar is unpredictable. Email the owner to ask about the site. If you get no reply, drop the site there and then: any website owner who takes a pride in his business will respond to a member’s enquiry. If you get a terse reply, pointing out that the answer to your dumb question is in the site faq’s, this is still good: an abrupt reply probably means the owner is busy or has got sick of answering the same stupid questions. The point is that he is human and bothered to respond. Don’t even think of giving your money to someone who ignores you from day one.

Do an Internet search for forums concerned with making money online, make money at home, auto surfing, get paid to programmes etc. Read what the members are saying about the sites you are thinking of joining as this is usually a good indicator of whether the site is growing or declining. Don’t, however, totally rely on the opinion of forum members because the posts often tend to be a bit hysterical and they are, of course, the voicing of personal opinions and not a handing down of the wisdom of gurus.

Check out get paid to auto surf review sites. I don’t mean the one page free websites that have been built simply to advertise one person’s choice of programmes and build a downline. Look for serious reviews which are regularly updated, these are more likely to be written by dedicated surfers. There are some very good ones around now: I came across one just this week, where you can sign up for a course of get paid to auto surf lessons and a weekly newsletter. This sort of service takes real energy and commitment. If you read a few of these get paid to auto surf review sites, you will get a feeling for which of them belong to dedicated surfers and which are the work of sloppy amateurs who half the time don’t even notice when their recommended programmes have closed down.

Another thing you can do to make life as an auto surfer for cash safer is to tread the path which has already been smoothed out, tiptoe in the footsteps of the people who are already making money from auto surfing. If it is working for them, copy what they do and listen to their advice. The foremost piece of advice any decent auto surfer for cash will give you is “don’t ever use cash you could not afford to lose”, the second most valuable piece of advice is probably “spread your investments”. If you are prepared to be patient, you can build up a decent income from small investments spread over several get paid to auto surf programmes. This way you can enjoy the get paid to auto surf experience and make some money without living in fear of your life savings being carried out to sea on the virtual surf.

Copyright 2005 Elaine Currie

Elaine Currie has a Work From Home Directory and Auto Surf Review at her Plug In Profit Site:http://www.Huntingvenus.comfor people who want to make money at home.

But the internet is not one to be counted out. One great idea alone can turn into huge profits. And even if it’s not as what it was before, many people can still count on earning some extra money from the internet. All it takes is one good idea and a bit of diligence.

Google’s Adsense is such an idea. This is a great ad program that allows many webmasters and site owners to profit from their sites as an advertising partner of Google. Adsense allows sites to have access to Google’s advertisers and direct the certain market or product based on keywords and content to a site that has the same market or niche.

When a visitor of the site clicks on an adsense ad, the webmaster or adsense site owner gets a percentage of what the advertisers pay per each visitor from the linked site. This is what we call pay-per-click advertising. Many sites have caught on and have seen the growth and potential of Adsense, so many in fact that Google has rejected some of those who have tried to apply.

Having your own site doesn’t guarantee a sure spot in having Adsense in your site, or for that matter making it successful. You have to find a niche that can get you the traffic that can guarantee you a market. Finding a niche is not that easy, there are many competitions in the internet market, but to succeed in such endeavor, there are certain steps to go through to at least give you a fighting chance. Follow these easy steps on how to find a profitable niche for an Adsense site.

Decide which niche you can do based about your passions and interests.

If your niche Adsense site is based upon what interests you and is something your are all too willing to undergo, everything would seem easier since you would be enjoying working on your Adsense site as well. Hours would just seem minutes and before you know it, you have your Adsense site.

Spend a few minutes or a couple of hours deciding on the niches you like. List them in order of their priorities to you based on your passion for them. If you can’t think of one there are many sites

that can generate many niche website ideas that can help you. They are based on what is popular and rapidly growing in the internet based on their keyword searches in search engines.

Find out about all the other people who may share your passion for the niche you have chosen.

It is important that you find a niche market online that can act as your customers or clients in the future. If you plan on making money for your Adsense site (of course you do!) then you have to make sure that you find people who share your interest on the niche you have chosen.

This is one of the easiest procedures or steps you have to do before making your niche for your Adsense site, research. All you have to do is go to Google and type in the keyword of the niche you have selected and off you go.

Go to sites that have forums that are based upon your niche. Read and join in their discussions, learning more about your target market along the way. These people will become your market in the future. Find out about what they want and need so that you can get many ideas that can help make your site better.

Make sure that the niche you have chosen has a market that is willing to spend money.

Make sure of this point so that you are ensured that your site can make profits. This will also be relatively easy to find out. Check out all the pages that feature the niche you have chosen and see if there are many ads there. You may also check out the search results page of Google after searching the keyword if there are many sides on the ads side. If there are, then you can be pretty sure there is a market out there willing to spend some money.

Get your site running.

Armed with your research on what your niche market wants, get a product that can be sellable to your market. Find sub niches that can also provide other needs. These sub niches should fall into the main niche category. Find good keywords for your site so that you can generate traffic. With good traffic you can see the people just rushing in toy our site and clicking on the Adsense on your page. The more traffic and the more clicks could spell more income for you.

Kevin Anderson is the owner of http://www.onlinegoldfinder.com a program designed to help internet marketers find hidden profitable niches online.