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Making Money Online - Sifting Through the Hype

When I began my internet marketing online experience, I made the big mistake of starting with affiliate marketing building someone else’s mailing list. The training material was fantastic, very detailed and comprehensive. After a couple of months working through the training and building up the business, I finally realized that I was primarily building a good business, for someone else. I can’t imagine how many subscribers’ I provided. I am quite sure I made a great positive impact on his affiliate marketing business. Wow, what a learning experience!

If you are like me, and have been trying to make money on the internet, you may have a dream of quitting your day job to give you the freedom and independence to spend more time with your family. Or maybe to just make money to have more security in these economic times. It may be likely that the majority of those reading this haven’t been successful making money on-line and/or actually building a business.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what content of a sales page is actually true, or could be true for the average person? What I’ve learned is that there is no quick fix or get-rich hype that is real. I bought all kinds of products, jumping from one hyped program to the next. I tried it all, but I lacked focus! The key is to focus in a particular area and stay with it. Whether PPC (pay per click) is your thing, selling you’re own products, selling affiliate products or whatever … it’s important to take action and stay the course. But whatever it is, building your own list is a top priority in determining your ultimate success.

Internet marketers are abundant and the “gurus” have made a ton of money, I guess! Much of it from people who lacked focus and hopped from one hot program to the next without having much follow through on any of them. It’s easy to get caught up in all the hype and find yourself consistently spending money. The one thing that I eventually did to help me focus and stop believing every hyped up sales page is to identify the few genuine successful internet marketers and become a student. I was cautious though, as there are many claiming to mentor, but offer nothing more First Alert notifications so they can keep you program jumping exclusively through them.

In my opinion, building a list and over-delivering value to that list is the path to success. By connecting with a mentor that does just that is what I have done. Alex Jeffreys is no guru, just someone that has been extremely successful, and his List Building With Alex product is what got me started on the right track to be successful online.

Internet marketers are everywhere and the “gurus” have made a ton of money, I guess! Much of it from people who lacked focus, like me, and have hopped from one supposedly hot program to the next without having much follow through on any of them. It’s easy to get caught up in all the hype and find yourself consistently spending money. The one thing that I eventually did to help me focus and stop believing every hyped up sales page is to identify the few genuine successful internet marketers and become a student. I was cautious though, as there are many claiming to mentor, but offer nothing more First Alert notifications so they can keep you program jumping exclusively through them.

Building a list and over-delivering value to that list is the path to success. By connecting with a mentor that does just that is what I have done. Alex Jeffreys is no guru, just someone that has been extremely successful, and his List Building With Alex product is what got me started on the right track to be successful online. His product was free and it provided value, not just another ebook to file away!

It is my experience that list building and helping your customer’s succeed is the key to succeeding and thriving online.

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Increase Web Site Traffic with SEO

Do you need to find a way to increase web site traffic? Have you used any search engine optimization on your website? Before you do any expensive web advertising or build an expensive new site try using some simple search engine optimization on your website to increase your web site traffic. Search engine optimization is the best way to increase web site traffic and increase your position on the search engine results pages. Getting into a higher place on the search engine results pages means more hits to your website and more customers.

In order to get your site high up on that search engine results page and increase web site traffic you need to use search engine optimization on your website. Search engine optimization can often be more effective than web advertising for increasing website traffic. Now you’re probably wondering how you can practically implement search engine optimization on your site to increase web site traffic. There are two ways that you increase the search engine optimization on your site.

In order to get your site high up on that search engine results page and increase web site traffic you need to use search engine optimization on your website. Search engine optimization can often be more effective than web advertising for increasing website traffic. Now you’re probably wondering how you can practically implement search engine optimization on your site to increase web site traffic. There are two ways that you increase the search engine optimization on your site.

You can write the search engine optimized content yourself or you can hire writers that are experienced in creating search engine marketing and search engine optimized content to increase web site traffic. Hiring a professional SEO copy writer is a good idea if you want to see an immediate increase in web site traffic because a professional copy writer will be able to create content for your site very quickly.

When you’re trying to build a website that is competitive in your market and will draw a lot of web traffic from the very beginning it’s a good idea to hire professional SEO writers who can make sure that the content on your site will get it listed on the high in search engine. If your site doesn’t make it on the first page of the SERP chances are good that you won’t see any increase in web traffic. Your site needs to be on the first page of the SERP in order to increase web site traffic.

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Jeff Paul You Decide !

Jeff Paul Revisited

I think it’s time to do an update on good old Jeff Paul and his “Short Cuts to Internet Millions”. Jeff Paul has had a little time, since the first review I wrote on him, to either improve the way he runs his online companies or continue to run scams.

Well after running a few searches on Mr. Jeff Paul it looks, to me as if John Paul has not changed at all.

Here are two complaints on Jeff Paul I have found on other sites.

12/5/2008 - Marty writes: I’ve done a bit more research. Jeff Paul runs this under variouse company names, and the BBB rates them an F. Multiple complaints like the ones listed on this site. Company never responds to these complaints as the BBB has no enforcement authority. The CA Attourny General needs to look at these clowns that have taken so much from so many. I’ve not found one positive revue of any of his products other than those he’s produced himself on his own sites. Testimonials to how great all this crap works. Cancell your credit card ASAP. Even if you try to cancell with these scam artists, they will charge you again!

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8/21/2008 - Ted writes: I should know better. Having owned, run, and sold other very sucessful companies, I felt a few thousand dollars was a small investment to help my small staff get a couple of good websites up and operational so we could improve our internet presence. Despite our 35 years of other business accolades we had little internet experience or presence. The materials were sophomoric at best and foreshadowed the competence of the coaches assigned to help us. Jeff Paul’s idea of canned websites turns out to be reselling junk literature from their portfolio. Not exactly as represented when we were solicited or promised over the phone. Of course they sell your name to web developers who try to get a second and third bite. Offers for dozens of valuable services come often. My staff, despite their competence, have gained little in training or competence, as the Jeff Paul system has proven virtually worthless in producing a true ecommerce website worthy of any companies reputation. The infomercial is appealing and obviously works for them. But if your goal is truly to create value for your company or self by selling on the internet. Save your few thousand (even it that is not a lot of money to you), and find a local web developer with great references and a few years of experience they are plentiful. Price paid, lesson learned. Avoid Jeff Paul.

Well people it looks to me like Mr. Jeff Paul hasn’t done a thing to improve his image. In fact it looks like Jeff Paul as continued to scam people right and left.

As I said in my first look at Jeff Paul, “The only thing I can say about Jeff Paul is it would be best, IMO, to stay away from him.”

Jeff Paul’s “Short Cuts to Internet Millions” does have a low cost startup, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg, as you will be solicited for various upgrades, paid training and expensive mentoring After researching Jeff Paul I found tens if not hundreds of complaints about the Jeff Paul system. Many people have paid $1950.00 for the revolutionary system, which claims to provide a 60-day unconditional money back guarantee. Of course the money was never returned. One person was taken for $8,500.00, which was never refunded! This person claims to have tried to contact Greg Wardin the so-called ‘confidence man’ many times requesting a refund. All attempts failed. In fact he has never even been able to reach Greg Wardin. This doesn’t sound much like an unconditional money back guarantee to me. The only thing I can say about Jeff Paul is it would be best, IMO, to stay away from him.

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Paid Surveys: Fraud Or Reality?

Is it really true that one can make money using a computer and an Internet connection? What about the aonline scamsa which we come across all the time? How can I be able to judge whether a money-making scheme is genuine or bogus?

To the person who is desperate to win the use of the Internet, to the above questions, never stop frightening. I do not disagree with the fact that people who lost money and bogus money-making Web sites on the Internet sometimes become pessimistic when talking about someone money using the Internet.

After all, no one would like to leave some waste of money ‘get-rich-quick’. However, there are a lot of people who fall victim to the false plans to make money available on the World Wide Web. What method is used to making use of the Internet?

‘Writing material’, ‘blogs’,’ the visitor to click on Web sites’ and ‘completion of the surveys on the Internet’ is some of the options that can help you make money using the Internet. In my opinion, and the continuation of surveys on the World Wide Web is one of the best ways to earn money.

Make money online is to pay surveys. Paid surveys by a number of companies. Why pay companies for consumers to complete surveys? Research is crucial to understand the market. Business organizations in the conduct extensive research to understand the psychological state of consumers.

Earn money paid to take online surveys. Already, numerous Web site survey and the survey, many of the online research panel to dole out every day here. Registration and some of his well-known research panel. Some Web sites of the area - there is no specific surveys.

Country-specific survey web sites can help you earn $5-25$ for every survey that you complete. Do not worry if you do not qualify for some of the surveys sent to you through e-mail. You can surely aEarn money taking online paid surveysa.

There are a number of forums on the Internet, which can be found to verify whether the paid survey sites. Keyword ‘business over the Internet money’ and ’surveys for the payment of return of a number of results. You can also interact with people who have been participating in the ‘Online Surveys’.

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Increase Web Site Traffic with Video Marketing

Have you thought about using internet video marketing to increase web site traffic? Internet video marketing is a very trendy form of web advertising right now and many companies are using a combination of search engine optimization and internet video marketing to increase traffic and increase their customer base. These days customers want more than just a slick ad.

If you want to draw customers to your website the best way is to combine some web advertising with a fun and informational internet video marketing campaign. You should still use search engine optimization on your site to makes sure that your site gets shown on the front page of the search engine results pages and you might want consider buying some paid search web advertising too but once you have lured customers onto your site pitch your product with some new internet video marketing.

Information videos are a big hit on the web, so post a short information video about your product or show someone using your product or you can even post someone giving a video review of your product. With sites out there like YouTube you don’t even have to host the video on your site. Using YouTube is a fabulous and free way to start an Internet video marketing campaign that can be more effective than any other type of web advertising to increase web site traffic because YouTube videos are so easy to share with people. If you post a funny or unique video related to your product the people who see that video and like it can instantly post it on their own websites or their profiles on sites like Facebook and MySpace that are seen by millions of people everyday. They can also email it to friends and family and submit it to sites like Digg or Current where thousands more people will see it.

Internet video marketing can increase your web site traffic almost instantly once you post the right video. The best part of video marketing is that except for the cost of producing the video it’s all free. You can increase your web site traffic by thousands all for the cost of the video. And some videos are so low tech they can be made with a small digital camera or even a camera phone. Using an Internet video marketing campaign along with search engine optimization and search engine marketing is the best way to advertise your website and increase your web site traffic. Forget about expensive web advertising that doesn’t work.

You can use the free social networking and marketing tools on the Internet to increase web site traffic and take your business to the next level and double or triple the number of hits that you get on your website everyday. A few words of caution though - when you’re producing internet videos don’t make them too high tech or over produced. Keep in mind that some people will be viewing the video on a slow internet connection. Make a video that will load quickly and play fast so that people can view it even if they don’t have a high speed Internet connection or offer two versions of the video with one optimized for high speed connections and one optimized for slower connections.

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How to Choose the Right Keywords for Your Website

Choosing the best keywords for your website has several advantages, the most important one being traffic (visitors). If you don’t target the right keywords, people won’t find the information on your site even if it’s the best information available.

Keywords play a part in the way your site is ranked on search engines so you’ll want to make sure you are using the right keywords to get those rankings up and bring those visitors in.

Here are a few tips to consider when trying to choose the right keywords for your website.

1. Using a tool such as WordTracker.com will help you to determine what keywords people are actually searching for, how stiff your competition might be for certain keyword phrases and can even reveal hidden gems that you may not have thought about originally.

2. Don’t only focus on keywords that get a lot of searches. These terms tend to be a lot more competitive, which makes it a lot more difficult to get high search rankings for them.

Look at your competition and find keywords with less searches that you’ll have an easier time ranking for. As your site grows and gets more well-known, you can start shooting for the higher competition keywords.

3. Vary your keyword throughout your website - don’t just stuff your keyword into all your content. While using the right keywords will help you in the search engines, using them too often will turn your visitors away. What’s the point of getting the traffic in the first place if they’re just going to leave your site when they see the poor information?

These are just some basic tips to help you get started on the right foot. You can find tons of information on choosing the right keywords as well as tips for using them correctly on your site by doing a simple search online.

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John Cummuta Scam? You Decide

John Cummuta offers a downloadable Transferring Debt into Wealth Book for $39.95 and if you aren’t satisfied for any reason within a year he will pay your $39.95 back plus another $39.95. John Cummuta Transferring Debt Into Wealth will however ask you to write a personal descriptive letter/email to explain why you were not satisfied with his product. Here is what one person has to say about John Cummuta’s money back guarantee;

January 18, 2008 Linda R from Virginia. “I ordered a John Cummuta Debt Into Wealth CD from the radio but I had to go out of town and got busy for the next few weeks. Needless to say the 30 days lapsed and when I called today I was told I could not cancel because I was beyond the 30 days. I told them I no longer wanted this service and I was informed that I could not return the product and that I would continue to be charged the monthly rate for 4 more months! I did not want the service, but no dice. The best they could do was to eliminate the last monthly charge-big deal. I have not even opened up any of the folders. I am tempted to call or notify Clark Howard. Has anyone else had this experience?”

Hey what happened to that 1-year money back guarantee? This kind of blows that out of the water. Lets see what else people have to say about him.

November 4, 2005 Frank A. from California. “After ordering John Cummutas program Debt Into Wealth in May, I never received the product. However his company continued to pull out 5 payments at a cost of $80 dollars per month. I call his company and they gave me a phone number to call. After calling the customer service department and speaking to the most rude survive rep. who stated to me that they were not going to give my money back and that the package was delivered to me by FedEx at a time that I am not home from work.”

John Cummuta calls this Transforming Debt into Wealth because it does just that, it transfers money from your account into John Cummuta’s account Presto, no more debt. For John Cummuta.

March 12, 2008 John P. from Providence, RI “I downloaded the Turning Debt Into Wealth program and listened to all the audio. The system makes complete sense and would probably set off a light bulb in your head. Although, I did get a call from Prosper Learning shortly after and they wanted me to purchase a mentoring program from them for $8,000 to $14,000 dollars. I could not believe it; what a scam! Legal I’m sure.

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