The internet has made it possible for anyone, no matter what your educational background, to make a nice living from the comfort of your home. Mark Ostrofsky said, "the internet is today's gold rush, creating more millionaires and doing so faster than any other medium in history." The internet has created more opportunities for the little guys than ever before. And now is the perfect time to jump on board and start making money from home.

Here are the 3 best ways to make money online in 2012.

#1 " Affiliate Marketing

Clickbank, the largest digital marketplace, has paid out over $2 billion dollars in commissions as of December 2011. And according to Forrester research, the affiliate marketing industry will hit $4 billion annually by 2014. That's why now is the perfect time to get involved with affiliate marketing.

As a affiliate marketer your job is to promote someone else's. When a sale is made or a lead is generated, you get paid. Depending on which networks you are working with, you can either get paid weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. Some networks will even pay you via paypal. The key to being successful with affiliate marketing is to constantly put out good content. Content is what will drive visitors to your site. And the more visitors you have, the more money you will eventually make.
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#2 " Content Sites

When people get online they are looking for one thing and that is information. If you set up a simple site that provides a lot of valuable information you can make money. Actually you can make a lot of money. By putting adsense ads on your site you will make money anytime someone clicks on the ads. And depending on how the advertiser has it set up, you can also get paid based on number of impressions.

There are people who make millions a year with simple content sites. The key is to put as much valuable content on your site as you can. You should also update it on a regular basis so visitors will come back often. If don't right you could easily replace your 9 to 5 with a content site.

#3 " Ebay

Many people have forgotten about eBay when it comes to making money online. But truth be told, eBay is still a money making powerhouse. People are always looking for great deals and one of the first places they look is eBay. If you can position your products the right way on eBay you could make some nice money. Of course there is a lot you need to know about eBay if you truly want to be successful. I would suggest investing in a book that can teach you all of the ins and outs.

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To become a successful JV Giveaway marketer, you don't have to be a rocket scientist, but it does take some knowledge to do it right.

On Tuesday, July 5, 2011 (which is tomorrow), Giveaway hosts Paul Teague and David Walker are holding a webinar to discuss how to MASSIVELY improve your peformance in Giveaway events.

In this webinar you will learn how to MASSIVELY improve your peformance in Giveaway events from Giveaway hosts Paul Teague and David Walker.

4) The complete set of Giveaway Pro tips to make sure you get the best from these events.

Since registration is free, I suggest you sign up immediately…

You can also grab a free copy of the Giveaway Expert package, which contains both info-products and tools to make your giveaway experience a success.
Get it here

The WSO forum is massively popular… There's not another place on the internet where you get so many eager eyeballs in one place, ready to buy when an offer catches their attention.

Since Warrior+Plus went live a few months ago affiliates are now able to promote WSOs.

Many of the warrior+ affiliates are now making a killing promoting other people's WSOs… folks know the Warrior Forum is a great place to buy quality products at unbelievably low prices.
 
Isn't It About Time You Got Your Share?

Maybe you've heard you can promote WSOs but you don't know how or where to start? Maybe you've signed up to Warrior +Plus but you struggle to understand and interpret the stats, how to navigate around the site AND most importantly… select the right offers to promote.

Well there's no need to be left out in the cold any longer because now there's the "Warrior+Plus Affiliate Goldmine" Video Training Series, which you can download and watch for FREE here!

Facebook marketing can have a great effect on any business but there is a need to understand the pitfalls of Facebook marketing in order to know exactly what you have to avoid. If you know what can be done wrong you can easily learn what can be done correctly.

One of the most common pitfalls of Facebook marketing is not being able to differentiate between professional and personal approach. Through Facebook you can easily add personal touch and create a good link with a potential client. Unfortunately, when you are running a small business and you are the only person that deals with marketing aspects you can be faced with problems. You will need to find a mix between the professional part of your promotion and the personal approach that you use.

Another pitfall of Facebook marketing is building a profile page but not creating a fan page. Most people start with the profile page and simply forget or neglect the need of a fan page. The Fan page is highly important in Facebook Marketing. With a profile page you can only have 5000 people that are connected but with fan pages there are no limits. There are limits linked with marketing with the use of Profile pages.

One mistake that few people realize is not changing status and not offering new information in profile pages. You have many options that you can use in order to contact fan base. For instance, you can post photographs, write notes or even upload articles. You have to be constant in posting new material. You can even ask for different opinions and start discussions. The bottom line is to encourage discussions and to interact with your Facebook network. Followers will thus be aware of what your company does and they are going to feel involved.

Out of all the pitfalls of Facebook marketing there is one that few understand. Never make the mistake of not inviting followers to pages that they should like and are interested in. This keeps people rooted to your business as you are offering them much more than something that you are promoting. You can even include an opt-in box on the fan page in order to gain email subscriptions.

Most of the pitfalls of Facebook Marketing are linked with not understanding what Facebook is all about. We are basically in front of a social network and you need to socialize in order to be successful. This is the most important thing that you need to consider at all times. All the mistakes that you can do are linked with your fans and followers. You want them to stay on board and you never want to harass them and ask too much.

For more Facebook tips, check out the Facebook Marketing Secrets eCourse.

A new website called "Instant List Empire" has just started in Prelaunch.

This new advertising site is both a Viral Mailer and JV Giveaway Event in one program.

You can use the internal mailer to send out emails to other members and you can add your gifts to build your own list just like in a Giveaway Event.

The only difference is, at Instant List Empire your gifts stay active for years to come so that you get an automated listbuilding tool.

The owner, Guido Nussbaum, is well known for starting huge Giveaway Events like the New Year Giveaway or the Easter JV and he owns several membershipsites like Traffic Witch or Viral Traffic Bar.

You can be sure that the Instant List Empire will become a huge free advertising website that you can use to promote your own products and offers or affiliate programs.

Use this new advertising website to build up your own list, to get new members for your membershipsites, to sell affiliate products, to build your MLM downline or to promote any website of your choice.

Join Instant List Empire, click here

Starting a membership site is a smart business move, but only if you do it right. Every month dozens of people start membership sites only to shut them down just a few months later. Often the failed site ruins their reputation because they didn’t deliver what they promised to members. In other cases, they didn’t pick the right topic to begin with. Here are the top seven mistakes that you can make with a membership site and how to avoid them.

1.    Picking the wrong topic

A membership site needs a wide customer base. Your topic should be specialized but not so narrow that you can’t attract new members on a consistent basis. Unlike a short report or niche site, your membership site topic has to be large enough that you can produce fresh content month after month. Pick a topic that a lot of people are interested in but that also has the potential for evergreen content.

2.    Not actively contributing content

Members of your site are looking for fresh content every month. You need to give this to them or they’ll unsubscribe in droves. You should develop an editorial schedule so you know exactly what you’ll deliver each month. This will help you stay on track. Base your editorial schedule on the benefits that you promised in your sales letter and you’ll have happy, satisfied customers that will stick around for month after month.

3.    Not taking the time to craft a good sales letter

Your sales letter is your 24/7 sales person. It doesn’t matter how much traffic you drive to your membership site if your sales letter isn’t doing its job. If you don’t trust your own copywriting skills, hire a professional writer. The investment will be well worth it as you see higher conversions and more members in your site.

4.    Not marketing for new customers

You should always have new members coming into your membership site, but the only way you can do that is to market your site continually. You should be conducting pay per click campaigns, distributing article marketing articles and doing social networking to drive more traffic to your site. Work this into your weekly plans so that you can keep the flow of new members consistent.

5.    Not being accessible

When you start a membership site, your members are looking for a lot of attention and care. Most of this will come in the form of an easy to use site with quality content. But you should also make it a point to be accessible through e-mail or a help desk function. There’s a high level of trust involved in a membership site, so make sure you’re there for your members.

6.    Not looking for opportunities for backend sales

Opportunities for backend sales exist in many different places in your membership site. You can sell advertising space within the site or create a platinum level of membership with special coaching. Just because the members are paying a monthly fee doesn’t mean they won’t be willing to pay for extra information on the site’s topic.

7.    Not taking steps to increase retention

If you’re concentrating on getting members but aren’t worried about keeping them, you have a recipe for disaster on your hands. It takes much more effort to get a new member than it does to keep one that you’ve already got. By posting consistent content, offering polls, running contests and getting involved the community in your membership site, you’ll be able to hold onto the members you’ve got.

For the full guide on setting up your own membership site, along with 27 profitable membership ideas, check out Drip Feed Cash.

Creating a brand identity is a way to build customer loyalty and to ensure that when customers are looking for a solution, they think of you first…

Think of someone like Cesar Milano, and you automatically think “The Dog Whisperer”. When you think of home decorating, what name pops into your head?  Chances are pretty good that it’s Martha Stewart.
Think of cooking, and you’ve got a lot of different options…Emeril Lagasse…Rachael Ray…and yet even there, people have found ways to distinguish themselves. Extreme eating, adventures in dining – Anthony Bourdain! Southern cooking – Paula Deen!

If you’re from the UK you might think of Jamie Oliver when you think about School Dinners or Barbara Woodhouse when you think of dog
training. If you think about money saving in the UK you think about Martin Lewis. When you arrive at his website the first thing you see is a picture of him. That tells you immediately you’ve come to the right place. Branding!

This branding allows them to build and build on their success.
Once you are known for producing an excellent product, people will come back to see what else you’ve got available, and when you create a list of satisfied customers and notify them that you’ve got something new, if you have established a brand for yourself, they are much more likely to want to purchase it.

You can, of course, choose to design a single product or a series of unrelated products, but you’re missing a great opportunity to build up buzz and repeatedly sell to the same customers when you do that.

To create a brand identity it helps to have a consistent visual theme for your web endeavors – a similar design and color scheme for your website, your ebooks, your short reports, etc.

If you don’t have any design skills, no problem. You can go somewhere like elance.com, guru.com, rentacoder.com, or any other freelance website, and find a graphics designer to create a logo and website header for you that will represent your business.

You don’t have to get any fancier than that. People aren’t looking for fancy website design when they land at your website. They want to know that they’ve arrived at the right place – and will be instantly reassured when they see your familiar looking banner.

 
Then, they want the information that they came here to find – how to save money with coupons while shopping at grocery stores, how to litter train their cat, how to flatten their abs, etc.

And they want the site to be easy to navigate – they don’t want to have to hunt around to find what they are looking for.

So all you need to help establish your brand identity is a custom designed banner and logo that visually tells the customer at a glance what you and your products are all about. You can adapt that logo and banner and use some version of it for all of your products.

Let’s take the coupon example, for instance.
You decide that you want to be the coupon queen. An obvious thing to do would be to get a crown logo designed; perhaps a crown sitting on top of a pile of coupons. From then one when anyone sees that logo and the phrase “The Coupon Queen” they know it’s one of your products.

You would want to include your brand name in your product title if possible. “The Coupon Queen’s tips for getting groceries FOR FREE!” or “The Coupon Queen’s 50 delicious low cost recipes!”

Or, to use a more masculine example, say you are an expert fisherman and hunter and you want to create a series of information products that will teach people to fish and hunt.

You could create a brand identity like “The Good Ole Boy’s guide to Bass Fishing.” This could spin off a whole series of ebooks, instructional videos, product endorsements and so on.

The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.
Some of it sounds clichéd, and perhaps even tacky. But it works beyond your wildest dreams!

Fact: preselling is one of the most effective forms of marketing. This is because almost all business transactions can now be conducted through the online marketing.

People look to the Internet for a lot of reasons. They use it to search for information, find entertainment and purchase products everyday. That is why virtually every business is taking the time to build their presence and advertise through online media outlets.

If you have an online business and want to increase your profits then learning how to presell products and services online is an important aspect of your marketing process. One way that this can be done is through your website. To be effective you want to make sure to make the site as organized and as informative as possible. Here are some of the most effective preselling and online marketing tips that can help you improve your website's performance and profits.

The first place you should start is attracting traffic to your site. It is important that you consistently and regularly track the volume of visitors that go to your Web site. Make sure that the content you provide is very interesting and helpful to visitors. When visitors trust the information on your site, they will keep on coming back for more. This will also build your credibility so that visitors will trust your opinion and
recommendations.

This is an important factor when it comes to preselling!

Next you need to work on getting links to your website. There are many different ways that you can do this. You can do it by contacting the website owner directly, by hiring a firm or freelance expert to do it for you or by joining one of the many free or paid link building directories available.

You would be surprised that regardless of how competitive the online market is for both advertisers and businesses, Webmasters understand the importance of building links and are usually open to helping each other out by making good link exchanges. Exchanging links will help you establish a good network of links. In return, when other topic related sites ask links from you, return the favor. This can
also help you build a beneficial relationship with peers in the online industry.

You will also want to start an article marketing campaign. To do this all you have to do is write a few articles about your product or service and submit them to article directory websites and publishers. Did you know that it is estimated that almost half of the overall content that readers and online users consume is in the form of articles. A few well written promotional articles on a particular topic or problem related to your product or service can be an extremely effective preselling tool.

It is also important to make your website visually attractive. Design your Website in a way that the reader will be motivated to read the content,  for instance, avoid using small, hard to read fonts and bright colors that make the content hard to read. It doesn't matter how informative you content is, If it is hard to read you will lose more visitors than you keep.

Last but not least make sure that you include a good call to action. When it comes to preselling, it is important to be direct and to the point. You must directly state your call to action and tell your readers what step they need to take next in order to get the results they are looking for. If your goal is to convince readers to purchase your product, or sign up for your list then tell them exactly how to do it. Avoid using
misleading or confusing statements.

If you take your time to design and promote your website using these simple preselling techniques you will be sure to increase your business profits.

If you want to find out more 'preselling for profit' tips, check out the Presell To Profit PLR Crash Course

The fastest way to build your list is with a highly targeted squeeze page that highlights the benefits of joining and offers your visitors with a quality incentive to motivate them into subscribing to your mailing list.

You’ll want to take your time constructing a squeeze page, paying attention to the headline you use as well as implementing bulletpoints that showcase the benefits and rewards that your subscriber will receive.

Incentive offers can include special reports, ebooks, video tutorials or even coupons or discounts on products and services. Just make sure that’s it extremely relevant to your market, and that it’s unique whenever possible.

If you plan to use private label content as the incentive motivator, make sure that it’s of high quality and offers clear value.  You could also consider compiling multiple private label products into one package so that you can deliver a unique compilation to your audience.

Your squeeze page should also feature a privacy policy, outlining the information you collect as well as what you do with this information.

You want to reassure your visitors that you do not share, rent or sell their information and that you will only contact them with offers that are relevant to what they originally sign up for.

Minimize external links!  Your squeeze page should consist of the following components, ensuring that you retain your visitors attention and capture the lead:

• Strong Headline – focusing on the most compelling question or statement in your niche market.

• Opt-in Box – above the fold and repeated at the bottom of your page.

• Bulletpoints – highlighting the benefits of joining your list.

• Contact Information – a direct link to your email or support desk.

• Privacy Policy – just a few lines long, in smaller font but clearly visible below the opt-in box.

Make sure to subscribe to your own newsletter so that you can verify that is everything is working as it should, and that you receive the incentive offer directly after confirming.

To build professional squeeze pages, please consider using the free online squeeze page generator service (or get the script and run this service from your own server)

There are a bunch of ways to get traffic to your sites, blogs and links. Here are my top ones.

Status updates:

Update your status regularly, and posts some links to your new posts, web pages or new links occasionally.  Your niche posts should be in a 1:3 ratio to your “normal” status updates. Make sure there is a picture on the page you are linking to, because then you can select the picture to be shown in your status update as well.  People will see your status updates on their homepage of Facebook when they look through the news and you will generate some nice click to your links this way.  (TIP:  Don't spam them)

Post links in groups:

Join a lot of popular groups in your niche and make useful posts on the wall (with your links) and in the discussion boards (insert your links).  Posts will stay on some discussion boards for quite a while, and lots of people will see your posts with your links and this will generate good traffic to your sites.

Create your own groups:

And this is where the POWER of Facebook marketing comes in.  Create your own groups in your niche and invite all your friends.  Post the link of your groups in all the other related groups on facebook regularly to get people to join your group.  Mail your facebook group link to your list, put it in your forum signatures, blog posts etc. to get a good following.  You could have hundreds of members in days, and thousands in a few weeks if you are lucky.

These groups will be like your own personal lists that you have and you should manage them just like you would your email autoresponder lists.  You can also mass message everyone in your group.  Send them useful information with lots of freebies to get them to trust you and open the messages every time.  Then slowly start messaging them with amazing offers which links to your sites or affiliate links.

Also remember to put in all your webpage links in your group description, because this will count as valuable back links.  Put up photos and videos with links and also post links to your offers in your group.  People who join your group for years to come, will see them and click on them.

You can build huge lists with groups like these and message them at will with your offers.  This will bring in a huge amount of free targeted traffic to your sites, if you do it right.

Facebook Fan pages

This is another method that is becoming more popular by the day.  It is very similar to Facebook groups and you can create a Facebook fan page just like you do a group, but it has some distinct differences.

Fan pages are used to promote people, celebrities, groups of people, businesses & more. They are created to increase promotion, attract supporters, and generally increase awareness & online presence and of course interaction with customers and potential customers. The 'Marketing' of the person or group being promoted through a Fan page happens in a variety of ways.

1. When a person 'likes' a fan page, that connection is posted on their wall and then shown in the Home Page feed for others to see. Then friends of that person click on the page just connected with…and so the number of followers grows.

2. You do not need to be a Facebook user to view a Fan Page. A person may follow a link from somewhere eg. a website and look you up on Facebook from anywhere in the world.

3. These pages are not private pages…so anyone can access the information on a particular page even if they haven't 'liked' it as such. (If you aren't sure what all this 'liking' is its Facebook's new way of 'becoming a fan' of a page. Where a person once became a 'fan' they now become a 'liker').

4. Its easy to post a link to a fan page across other Facebook pages…putting the pages name in front of different groups of people.
A page is easier to manage and has less limitations & more options to customise & increase functionality than a group. A page is run by 'admins' who can be changed when required, and allows those who've been added as an admin to make changes and post on the wall of the page & generally manage the page and its happenings.

The Facebook marketplace

Go to applications and search for Marketplace and join this application.  You can now post for free.  Give away free reports, and advertise your business opportunities or whatever you like.  These advertisements can be targeted to geo location and stay for a long time so it can generate incoming traffic for quite a while if you keep on posting ads every few days.  Focus on giving away branded eBooks, because this will generate viral traffic.

Facebook Videos and Photos

This is a very good way to get your name out there and to get opt ins to your list.  Posts loads of videos of yourself introducing your business and tag all your friends in them. Put a niche keyword rich description of your video or photo too.   Make sure to give a link to your opt in page.  People will see they are tagged in a video or photo and view it.  They will see your link and click on it, and will get sent right to your opt in page.  This is a very effective tactic that not many marketers are using.

Create events:

People love joining events and search events to see what is going on the Facebook world.  Create an event of a product or squeeze page launch or a webinar.  People will join and see your links.

If you use all these tactics you will get great traffic from Facebook and with groups etc. you can build quality targeted viral traffic for FREE this way.

Update:

Another way to drive free Facebook traffic to your blog or website is by adding a Facebook 'Like' button to it.

Facebook has released a tool that generates the iframe code you can use to add the button to your website(s).

If you are using WordPress you can simply install this plugin that will do all the work for you.

Find loads more facebook marketing tips in the Facebook Marketing Extreme package.

This complete course will show you step by step how you can harness the power of Facebook to market to it’s 450 million users and drive insane amounts of highly targeted traffic to your site.