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How To Make Money Online, Three Basic Ingredients Needed

January 22, 2010 Social Networking View Comments

Rome was not built in a day. It takes nine months after conception to be born. Learning how to make money online takes time but with the right attitude and all the free tools available to you, your online success can very well be at an arm’s length. You have to put the time to get the price. In this article I will try to put the pieces of the puzzle together by breaking it down in three basic steps, elaborating on each one of them.

Step 1 Finding A Hot Item To Sell

So finding a hot product to sell, picking a winner can be time consuming but well worth the effort. First you must decide if you are going to sell your own product or someone else’s product through affiliate marketing for a commission. The second option is a much better choice for most internet marketers and the one I will be discussing here. You can choose to sell a physical product from affiliate networks such as CJ (Commission Junction), Click Galore to name a few or a digital product from a company like Clickbank Marketplace, which is the most popular affiliate network with over 35,000 digital products to promote, offering up to 75% commission on each sales. The idea behind affiliate marketing is a simple one. All you have to do is create a great looking landing page, site or blog with a lot of original and interesting content to promote the product. A very popular method is to write a great honest review of the product you’re promoting to pre-sell your visitors. You can actually make the purchase yourself so you can accurately review the product first hand. You have to gain the trust of your customers by presenting them with the facts, the pros and cons, you need to stress the benefits and come across as an expert in the field. Once your landing page is ready all you need to do is strategically place the affiliate links on it to send the potential customers to the affiliate site with a buying frame of mind. You don’t need to worry about payments, shipping etc. all you do is refer the pre-sold visitor to the seller site and they take care of the rest.

But How do I know if a product is selling well before investing time and money for promotion you may ask, no body really knows for sure what is behind the curtain and if they did they wouldn’t tell you anyways. The best way to promote a Clickbank program is through trial and error, if you choose to promote a digital product, try picking a product with a high gravity. The higher the gravity means the more money affiliates are making from the product, it also means that the competition is stiff and this is where keywords strategy comes in. I won’t get into it in this article. You can also promote a low gravity product that may sell very well indeed even if the gravity is low and not to many affiliate marketers are promoting it. A good way to test the water is to track the hops count (the hits to the affiliate sales page coming from your site) by using ClickBank tracking system. A rule of thump is, never discard a product until you get at least 200 hops without a sale. You can find out more about Clickbank products trend at cbtrends.com.

Step 2 Tons Of Traffic, Promoting the day light out of it

The key to the kingdom is traffic, I cannot say it enough, I am sure you heard it before, targeted traffic is king. There are several ways to get paid and free traffic to your site or blog . You can purchase traffic by opening a PPC (pay per click) account with the big names such as Google AdWords ,Yahoo Search Marketing (Panama system) MSN Adcenter, Adbrite, Miva, Searchfeed etc. When setting up a campaign you need to do keyword research in order to find the best targeted keywords at the lowest possible price for your niche. Low site competition and high enough number of daily search is a big plus. Paid directories and articles submission are also popular, paid press releases, etc.

Free traffic generating methods or organic search are mainly accomplished by submitting articles to free articles directories such as EzineArticles, Go Articles, Article Base and many more in order to get free backlinks to your site. Directories submission is another popular method, traffic exchange is also a famous way to drive targeted free traffic to your site by exchanging a link with a similar site. Classified ads and social networks such as MySpace.com, Digg.com, Twitter.com, Squidoo.com are well known to drive extra traffic to your website. You can also try Kijiji.com and Craigslist.org but make sure your read their ad policies and follow their guidelines.

Step 3 Sticking To Your Plan

Sticking to your plan might be the most important step to your online success. No matter what direction you decide to take towards making your fortune online, you must give yourself enough time to test your chosen method before jumping on the next project. For example, if your plan is to get into affiliate marketing by promoting digital products from Clickbank, then find yourself three products to promote and concentrate on these chosen products for a good solid month depending on the amount of time you can spare everyday building your online business. If you decide to drive the majority of your traffic via the free traffic generating methods mentioned above, then stick to these methods even if they are extremely boring and monotonous. You need at least thirty good long tail keywords per product with low competition and high daily search in order to write thirty great content articles about these keywords per selected products to generate enough traffic to give you a pretty good idea if the products you chosen are worth promoting. How to make money online require a lot of persistence and perseverance to see your plan through in order to achieve success, others have done it, so can you.

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Make money on you iPhone and iPod Touch – tools to do it and ways to do it

January 21, 2010 Social Networking View Comments

Seeing is believing, and I have seen it. It has been around for some time now, and it has come to stay, the iPhone and iPod Touch. I have worked in this market for some time and seen how it has developed and how it has created millionaires in a short period of time. There is one common factor amongst all these success stories and that is that all have a passion for the iPhone and its capabilities. iPhone together with the iPod Touch has set a new era for the mobile application usage for both personal and corporate markets.

In this article I will show you some ways you can capitalize on the iPhone market and to be able to make money on this. However, there has to be given a fair caution as well. It will not work if you not put your soul and hard work into it. No matter what type of business model or sector within the iPhone and iPod Touch market you want to enter into, you need to put your energy into it. It is like any other business, you need a business model and plan to work from, and then take it out into the market and hopefully you have assessed the market correct and they will love what you do.

I can be reached at sak@ec-ba.com if you want me to tell you more about these opportunities and more.

IntroductionTo develop applications for iPhone OS, you need a Mac OS X computer running the Xcode tools and Visual Studio Developer. Xcode is Apple’s suite of development tools that provide support for project management, code editing, building executables, source-level debugging, source-code repository management, performance tuning, and much more.

Xcode : Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) that provides all of the tools you need to create and manage your iPhone projects and source files, build your code into an executable, and run and debug your code either in iPhone simulator or on a device.

Interface Builder : Interface Builder is the tool you use to assemble your application’s user interface visually. Using Interface Builder, you assemble your application’s window by dragging and dropping pre-configured components onto it.

Instruments : To ensure that you deliver the best user experience for your software, the Instruments environment lets you analyze the performance of your iPhone applications while running in the simulator or on a device. Instruments gather data from your running application and presents that data in a graphical display called the timeline.

Areas in which iPhone application can be developed using iPhone SDK» Calculate» Entertainment» Games» News» Productivity» Search Tools» Social Networking» Sports» Travel» Utilities» Weather

Business and iPhoneDue to its sleek design and user-friendly features, it appears that the iPhone is more set to appeal the young people on the go than the business people. Let’s not forget that the iPhone is basically a mobile phone and young people do a lot of talking. And when they are not talking, they might be text massaging or playing games. The question is, whether business people on the move would take fancy to the iPhone? So what the iPhone has in store for busy businesspersons? For one thing, those already hooked on their laptops and Blackberries would perhaps not convert immediately to the iPhone. But for those who want to try it, there are many applications.

Today, businesspersons need to carry their offices in person all the time. Apart from the ubiquitous phone, certain applications are very essential even when they are out of the offices. For instance, they frequently need to verify, reply to and manage their emails, see calendar for appointments, update the contacts, browse the Web, instruct the employees through SMS, and use the calculator.

And that’s not all. They might also need to know weather conditions for visits outside their city or the country, plan their itinerary, book and confirm travel tickets and hotels, rely on the GPS to guide them and reach the place of appointment, and remain in touch with the office through conference calls. In addition, enterprise applications allow them to keep abreast of business operations and activities such as manufacturing, supply chain management, financials and many others.

In short – email, calendar, contacts, web browsing, enterprise applications, visual voicemail, SMS, calculator, GPS, weather forecast – these are some of the essential business applications that a businessperson can’t do without.

Smart Contacts is an example of an iPhone application for easily access the iPhone contacts and reduce somewhat complexity of iPhone contact management.Hourdoc iPhone Application Development is an iPhone based application that remotely mange the employee’s attendance and other activity by interacting with Hourdoc.com.

Mobile gaming This is one of the fastest growing sectors when it comes to personal entertainment. While iPhone 3G is already gaining a huge success, porting games and development of games for iPnone is becoming actually bigger marketplace.

The 3G enabled iPhone has good capabilities and features like 3D touch screen processor, 3 dimensional accelerometer provides users an new experience and platform for gaming. Deliver innovative animated games for the iPhone 3G and Mac.

Next to the mobile phone and SMS, games are perhaps the most popular feature of the iPhone and all similar touch screen mobile devices. With the world becoming smaller and smaller because of the Internet and the Web, people are now able to indulge in leisure activities while on the move. For those already hooked on the iPhone and for those yet to acquire this gizmo, games is perhaps one of the irresistible features. With the largest LCD screen comparable to other devices in its class, iPhone games offer a matchless gaming experience.

The iPhone comes bundled with many interesting and intelligent games. These include combat, racing, strategy and puzzle games among many other types. Despite availability of vast number of games, there is always the demand for newer games. Game development for iPhone gets major impetus since majority of iPhone users are the young people. iPhone game application developers are further driven to create innovative and original games, as over the time users get weary of playing the same games again and again.

ThemesThe very first thing that gets your attention when you tap open the iPhone is the GUI or graphical user interface showing a variety of icons, images and graphics on it. This is the starting point of a journey into the wonderful world of various features of the iPhone. With so many applications running on the iPhone, it is sometimes confusing to follow and remember all the icons.

Customization is the answer where you create customized themes and icons to help personalize the iPhone. Users will always look for new themes, icons and wallpapers to fulfill the increasing demand for creative and user-friendly visual interface.

A final product would be the implementation of a iPhone theme for a specific iPhone Application.

Entertainment on the iPhoneApple’s iPhone is not just a phone. It is an all in one mobile device offering something for all types of users. In order to fulfill its fun quotient, the iPhone offers a variety of entertainment options like games, photos, songs, videos, music videos and music playing applications. Agreed that there are thousands of free and paid downloadable entertainment apps on the iPhone, still there is enough room and scope for further applications.

Local/regional-centric applications you will not find elsewhere. This includes rare local/regional/country wise vocal and instrumental music, jokes, breathtaking photos and videos, and puzzle and board games. If you are tired of playing the pocket piano and guitar, why not try playing the soul stirring sounds of exotic local ones? Also, find magic applications to entertain your guests and friends at a party.

Sports on iPhoneIf you are a keen sports enthusiast and the iPhone owner, then perhaps you cannot do without iPhone sports applications. Whatever be your kind of sport it is possible to create and develop the application for it.

One of the coolest features of the iPhone is that you can customize it with hundreds of web applications. With downloading the sports applications, you can keep track of your favorite sport, players, scores and the latest news.

If you are a supporter of a particular sport or a club, then the iPhone’s web based applications will allow you to remain in touch even when you are commuting.

Mobile Website DesignBusinesses all across the world are using innovative ways to market their products and services. Mobile compatible Website design is turning out to be a very cost effective way targeting mobile subscribers that are browsing the internet for your products or services. The development and launch of the latest phones like iPhone, blackberry, etc. increase the need for web site development for these gadgets. Mobile web browsing has increased multi folds. Typical mobile user will look for specific content or services while browsing your website with strong call to action.Mobile Website design and development must be developed with in mind to optimize the mobile compatible website to promotion of the mobile website in mobile search engines. Having a mobile version of a website and promoting it in local mobile specific directories will boost sales as mobile is such a medium where the chance to have direct reach to the target audience helping to improve the ROI.Seeing is believing and that’s where the mobile website has an edge to tap mobile subscribers.

There are various categories catering to which, iPhone applications are developed. Many companies specialize in a particular category. For example, a company may specialize in the domain of iPhone website development. An iPhone mobile development domain includes useful web 2.0 applications designed exclusively for iPhone, like:

Outsource iPhone Application Development Outsource of iPhone application development has several advantages which mainly includes:

The rigmaroles of the iPhone applications- approval by Apple, guidelines etc are taken care by the right verified companies.

Creation of innovative, portable, secure and “affordable” iPhone is a key issue for any development for the iPhone.As there is a forever increasing demand from the users for more hip and more stimulating applications for iPhones, both iPhone application development and iPhone website development are witnessing their peak period. Driven by steady growth of wireless communication industry, there is a consistent demand for offshore iPhone application companies to develop personalized and tailored applications for iPhone, as these companies offer expertise in technologies and platforms like C/C++, Dot Net, J2EE, AJAX, Cocoa, MAC and of course iPhone’s SDK for cost effective price. There is a need to outsource iPhone application development, as the users of iPhone are always looking for more avant-garde iPhone solutions to enjoy their iPhone better. The market players, as a result, are faced with a dual challenge to both develop more advanced, secure and innovative iPhone applications on an ongoing basis, and market the end products too. Since iPhone application development requires expertise, which is definitely not in the realm of a lay user, both end users and market leaders are always looking for a qualified and skilled iPhone application developer who can utilize iPhone’s SDK to its optimum advantage and stays abreast with the dynamic and fast-paced iPhone application development technology.

Noteworthy is that SDK is an open resource and therefore requires no licensing. IPhone OS is the synchronization software that helps run iPhone. With the use of the iPhone SDK, iPhone application developers worldwide craft new and customized iPhone applications and generate web content for use on iPhone OS–based devices. The users can download these iPhone renderings and use them on their devices, on free or paid basis. In order to achieve expertise with economy, it is a common tendency observed across iPhone market to outsource iPhone application development to offshore destinations, to both freelancers and small mobile application development companies. This ensures extensive and simultaneous development of affordable, cutting edge web and native iPhone applications on subjects encompassing wireless internet security, content management, video and picture sharing, Interoperability, Instant messaging service, gaming, enterprise connectivity solutions, GPS mapping solutions and what not. The list is only expanding.The complete potential of iPhone, the multimedia gadget, can be utilized by developing ingenious applications for it. The launch of the SDK (software development kit) by Apple in 2008 boosted iPhone application developer worldwide to come up with unique and customized applications for iPhone users. The SDK, also known as the ‘tool chain’ includes:

Utilize already made Applications

ZippiCashZippi Networks Inc., a leading provider of mobile commerce applications that enable Americans to recycle their “Clutter into Cash,”. Zippi’s latest mobile application is now available for download in the app store, App Store and at www.zippicash.com. “Zippi Cash TM” has received the highest popularity rating available by the current rating system. The “Zippi Cash TM” application turns an iPhone into an opportunity to generate income and recycle those hidden gems in the garage, closet and storage locker. The application provides the information needed to discover an items value by producing a mini-appraisal and results table. Based on results an item owner can choose to sell the items themselves or connect directly to the Zippi Network, who will get it sold for you.

Gold Price Grabber GoldPawnShop.com is an online pawn shop, made an application called “Gold Price Grabber,” an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Gold Price Grabber is the first iPhone App giving users the ability to sell jewelry online and check the price of gold – all at the same time on a handheld device. Gold Price Grabber enables the consumers to track the price of gold daily. If gold happens to hit a certain level an ounce, they can sell gold jewelry right away, allowing them to capitalize on the high gold prices as they occur. Pawn Shops have seen a significant increase in business due to the economic conditions consumers are facing these days. The Gold Price Grabber application for the iPhone and iPod Touch was designed by Tommy Spero for Soul and developed by Blue Whale Web Solutions, Inc., an iPhone application developer based in South Florida. To download and preview Gold Price Grabber, follow the link below. http://www.goldpawnshop.com/gold-price-grabber-iphone-application.asp GoldPawnShop.com was created to help consumers generate cash from unwanted gold jewelry or broken jewelry. Our easy website takes the stress and aggravation out of finding a traditional pawn shop to sell jewelry and offers a 10 day money back guarantee.Blue Whale is a boutique web firm based in South Florida offering services such as iPhone application development, lead generation website design and search engine optimization.

There are many more applications that enable you to make cash with your iPhone, however it falls outside the scope of this article to list all opportunities, and I will stop at these two at this moment. If you want to know more, please contact me and I will let you into other applications available.

Other business modelsThere are offers on the internet on how to make thousands of dollars on iPhone application market, and some of these schemes are working and others are not. Be careful out there, as the market floods with offers that might be real, and others might not give you anything at all but a dent in your wallet.

Please contact me on sak@ec-ba.com and I will give you details on one other way you can capitalize on the iPhone market, without even having your own iPhone at all.

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Utilizing Social Networking Sites to Make Money Online

January 21, 2010 Social Networking View Comments

Social networking sites are huge right now and ripe for you to make money online from. They are a part of what is being called web 2.0. Sites like Myspace, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and others have thousands even millions of members, members you can market to. Most of these sites have groups or clubs you can become a member of and sneak your sales pitch into.

YouTube is a great to make money online because people love to watch videos. Reading about something is little work, but having that same information given as a video makes it more appealing. You just set back and let the person who made the video feed you the information. I would say that if given the same information in two forms, one that has to be read and one that can be watched on a video, I would gamble that the majority of people would rather watch the video.

So knowing that you could use YouTube or some other video site to make a video telling about your product, service, newsletter or affiliate program and leave some way for the watchers to contact you at the end of the video.

Sites like Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Yuwie and others sites like these are great for networking with loads of people interested in certain niches making it easy to have highly targeted audiences for your niche items. These also have clubs and groups that are niche oriented making them a goldmine for the niche marketer.

If you are doing any kind of online marketing you are really missing out on a win fall if you’re not utilizing the power of social networking sites to make money online.

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Meet New Online Friends, Make Money on the Internet: Use Social Networking to Your Financial Advantage

January 20, 2010 Social Networking View Comments

With the boom of social networking sites, you can meet new friends from and make money on the Internet at the same time! Indeed, social networking can be turned into a gold mine spelled C.A.S.H. for you.
Here, then, is a short guide on the two more popular social networking sites and how you can make money on the Internet with them.C. is for Capazoo
Capazoo offers the obligatory social networking services like blogging, video and photo upload, and profile pages. However, the similarity with other sites ends there.
With Capazoo, you will be compensated for the time you spend on the site. You can make money on the Internet site via three methods:
- Earn Zoops, which you can use to either buy Privileged/VIP membership or convert to cash. To earn Zoops, you can acquire tips from other members for your videos, music, photos and profiles with limitless number of Zoops earned in a day and you can invite friends (4 generations). For the latter, you earn 100 Zoops for every referral who upgrades to Privileged Membership and 130 Zoops for VIP Membership upgrades. (Note: 1 Zoop is equal to US$0.01 and 1 tip=1 Zoop.)
- Share in monthly advertising revenues, which will depend on the membership category you belong to. For ordinary members, 1x share; for Privileged Members, 20x share; and for VIP Members, 40x share.
- Share in profits, with 7% of net profits divided among all members three times a year. Again, your membership category determines how much you will receive – Privileged Members get 20 times while VIP Members get 40 times the Basic Members’ shares.
Indeed, when you wish to join the zoo that social networking sites can be, why not join Capazoo instead and earn money in the process?A.S. is for APSense
APSense makes sense when you want to make money on the Internet, pick up more than a few business tips and tools in the process, and expand your business contacts. In short, you have a win-win situation at the tips of your fingers!
There are four basic ways when you can earn money with APSense:
- Contents – profile, blogs, groups, bulletins, discussions, etc – earn money through advertisements displayed alongside them. Since there is no limit to how much you can earn, you have to employ all the charm and cunning in your arsenal to make your contents as attractive and relevant to your target market as possible.
- Affiliate Rewards Program that you are automatically enrolled in upon sign-up. Not too much sweat there since you need not worry about anything else except attract readers to your contents.
- Commissions that you will obtain through direct referrals. When these direct referrals upgrade by paying, you have between 20% to 50% commission depending on the status of your membership.
- Rewards for accumulation of the cash accounts of the members in your private network (6 generations, this time), which can range from $1 to $5.
This makes sense especially when you want to be paid to refer people to the site!H. is for Hours Spent
You will notice that the two abovementioned business and entertainment social networking sites implicitly require that you spend time using, referring, browsing, commenting, uploading and performing other activities to earn money. Well, what did you expect? After all, you have to take an active part in acquiring wealth even when said wealth also comes from passive sources.
Indeed, to make money on the Internet, you must make friends! What a cool way to earn, don’t you think?

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Why Is My Website Not Making Any Money?

January 19, 2010 Social Networking View Comments

Do you have a website with excellent resources but making little or no money? This is one of the biggest challenges that most websites owners have, especially those who are still new to internet marketing. If you have a website that has great content and resources that can help others, I will show you how to increase your sales in a very short time. So keep on reading…

As a website owner, there are several components that can turn your website into a money making machine. I will list the most popular ones. If you follow all the ways I mentioned below, you can expect to see tremendous results in a very short period of time.

1. SEO – If you have a website, you’ve definitely heard the term SEO, right? But what exactly is SEO? In a nutshell, SEO which stands for Search Engine Optimization is the process used to attain and maintain a high ranking website. When your website is well optimized, you can save thousands of dollars. However, if your website is not well optimized, you can get spammed by search engines. Why? Because since search engines have so many websites to craw (over 13 billion and counting), when they come to your website, certain key things need to be order or else they will take a longer time to come back, or if your website doesn’t meet certain criteria, you may get spammed. The last thing you want from a search engine is to get spammed.

2. Affiliate Program – Affiliate programs are the single fastest way to generate instant cash on the internet. By having an affiliate program, you will be able to recruit thousands of people to promote and advertise your products or services for FREE. The only time they get paid is when you get paid.

Easily Enlist An Army of Motivated Affiliates! They’ll work day and night to promote your product or service — with no risk to you — because it’s a true “win-win” partnership! When they send you a paying customer, you pay them a commission. If they don’t make any sales, it doesn’t matter because it didn’t cost either of you a dime!Advertise Your Business On Every Corner Of The Web — For FREE! It’s easy to get your name, your products, and your URL on sites big and small all across the Internet — at absolutely no cost! — with hundreds, even thousands, of affiliates personally recommending your products and services to their subscriber!Never Lose Money On Ineffective Advertising — Ever Again! You ONLY pay when a sale is made — not merely for impressions or click-throughs. If an affiliate drives visitors to your site, but produces no sales, you owe them nothing. You only ever pay for real sales! Boost Your Sales With Third-Party Recommendations that are far more powerful than you advertising yourself! Just like recommending a movie to a friend, when your affiliates recommend your products to their customers and subscribers, you’ll look that much more credible… and you’ll be as much as 400% more likely to close those sales!Instantly Capitalize On Other People’s High Search Engine Rankings — Get all of the exposure of the top ranking web sites — without all of the work or expense! All you need to do is go to sites that have already secured a top listing in the search engines and get them to become your affiliates. Then your banner and text link gets all of the visibility they do! money from the Internet. Obviously, affiliate programs have the potential to dramatically increase your sales and Internet income. Yet, despite this, only a TINY fraction of Web businesses ever bother to start an affiliate program of their own.Two BIG myths continues to hold back “regular” people with small and home-based businesses…Myth #1: Starting an affiliate program is HARD! (Maybe you’ve talked to someone who tried to build their own affiliate program using clunky, mismatched software… Or maybe you’ve heard stories about how it takes forever to get an affiliate program working with your site.)Myth #2: Starting an affiliate program is EXPENSIVE! (You may have looked around already atsome of the more popular affiliate management solutions out there only to discover that they charge thousands –and up to more than $11,500! — just to get started.) Yes! … Starting an affiliate program can be hard if you choose the WRONG solution. Because these companies want you to spend 1,000’s of extra dollars on their “extra” management features! (That’s on top of the $1,000’s they charge you for their “not-so-complete” solution up front.) And yes! … Starting an affiliate program can be expensive if you choose the WRONG solution… I’ve done the math and seen programs that would cost you over $11,500 in your first year alone! But it doesn’t NEED to be this way!

3. Website Maintenance – How often do you maintain your website. The more often you tend after your website, the more search engine friendly your website will be. If you have a website and you only maintain that site ones or twice a year, then you shouldn’t expect any productivity from that website. Having a website is like having a baby, if you want a baby to grow up and be a productive member of society, you need to spend time to nurture and train that child. The same principle applies to your website. If you don’t have time to maintain it, then you need to seriously consider hiring another company to do it for you…like Tamin Web Host. By having a company that will work on your website atleast 4 times a week, you are on your way to see your profits go off the roof.

4. Social Networking - Do you have an account with Facebook, Myspace, Inked, or any popular social networking website? If so, you can be generating new leads. It’s alway a good idea to create your own social network like we did TWH Business Networking. There, you will find professionals like yourself who are looking for effective ways to advertise their business online. Creating your own social network will put your business as the focal point of your visitor’s reach. In other words, your business will be in the middle of heavy traffic coming from all over the world.

5. FREE Giveaways – There is not a single person on this planet who doesn’t like FREE stuff. In fact, if you are having an event, regardless what it is, when people see these four words F.R.E.E. on a flier, they will come to find out what it is. The same principles apples to your website. Sit down and think about some FREE stuff that you can give away to bring more clientele to your business.

6. Special Offers – Now with special offers, you have to be careful because you don’t want to over do it or under do it. When you have special offers, you want to make sure that you too, will be gaining something from it. For example, when we ran a special offer to join our reseller program which normally cost $29.95/monthly for only $47.50 lifetime fee, we had a lot of orders that came. However, in order to so this, we had to make sure to do the math correctly so that our company wouldn’t take a huge loss.

7. Navigation – How easy it is for people to navigate your website? When someone comes to your website, do they find it extremely hard to get from point A-to-B? If so, then you need to seriously think about making it much easier to navigate. See the average visitors will only spend 15-30 seconds on your website. If you want to keep them longer, you need to give them a reason to stay.

8. Member Ranking – With the new movement of the Web 2.0 era, it is not become a must to have some type of member ranking system on your website. With a member ranking system, your site is sure to get more people to join or visit it. Also, with a member ranking system on your website, you can start a contest, giveaway, and all sorts of different fun stuff to keep your visitors coming back for more. Tamin Web Host have a great member ranking system for you Joomla website.

9. Ads Manager – Another great CMS (content management system) is Ads Manager. With this component, you can start your own ads network and have people pay to post their ads on your website. This can quickly turn in to a money making machine for your website.

10. Customer Services – Finally, we reach the end of our list and one of the most important part of having a successful business…customer services. When you take care of your customers, they will always take care of you. When you get inquiries sent to you email from any of your customers, make sure to respond to it with 24-48hrs. I am always checking my email for new emails. In fact, I check my email about 10+ a day, sometimes more. So if you were to send me an email right now, I normally respond back with 24 hrs or less. Always keep your customer’s needs on your priority list.