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dusty road asked:


It was in 1998 that there was an amazing gold rush to the internet. A lot of companies were spending millions of dollars in online advertising and e-commerce campaigns without any concept of return on investment.

Cost per 1000 impressions or CPM became the standard term. Impressions were the number of times a banner, a button or a text link of a client’s advertisement was shown on a page. To give an example, when you’re on a page and you refreshed it then you will have 2 impressions.

Ad banners were the common way to advertise before drawing 1-2% click thru and proved to be a best tool for advertisers. Impressions in a way gave branding to a company while giving traffic through the use of banners and other interesting and often annoying ad products.

And then there was a turn around and industry click rates began to go down from 1% to ¼ of 1%. Yes that is 0.25%. This was when a new term called CPC emerged, meaning cost per click.

For a time, clients were beginning to get smarter and realized that spending money on inventory placement was useless unless users clicked. In 2000 when the internet bubble exploded, a new online model came into the limelight. The term is PPC which is pay per click. This type of online advertising was really embraced by most internet companies like yahoo and Google.

Pay per click campaigns was pretty much similar to the cost per click campaigns but PPC offered users a chance to earn the top sponsored listings on the Overture and Google network. Overture presented a chance for advertisers to get listed on different portals in its web. Google on the other hand offered its users the opportunity to get top sponsored listing on its search site. At this time PPC gained an enormous popularity among advertisers and online companies.

All along this time, SEO was born which means Search Engine Optimization and also known as SEP or Search Engine Positioning. The goal of SEO in a nutshell is to modify a website to get better natural listings on the search engines. This is very different with pay per click sponsorships in which cost is relatively related to the demand of particular queries.

To add up pay per click sponsorships are short term and your online existence ends as soon as your funding runs out however in Search Engine Optimization it will give you true and natural search result listings that search engines would think important and relevant. It’s very useful to have SEO around since it will get you to the top of the listing or at least in some few pages on major search engines and will eventually lead to a major impact on your online marketing campaign better than the pay per click. SEO is a trick for online marketers and advertisers to make money online for free and without any cost.



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M and J Pietras asked:


I know the most important of all is the TAX BREAKS with Internet Marketing. When you have a

Home Base Business you can make at least 3000.00 just in tax breaks. “ its not how much you make its how much you keep”. 45 minutes a day for 5 days is considered a home base business and you reap the benefits from the tax breaks you receive with your own business. You can deduct 20% of your mortgage, driving from you home to your day job, 5000.00 for a child living in your home, 5000.00 for your spouse living in your home and there are so much more.

Then there is the residual income coming in from your home base business. You are receiving income while you sleep, when you are on vacation, at the store , on the weekends when you are at the kids games or sleeping in. The internet business is where it all is and you life keeps going in the right direction. It is very interesting how the internet works while you are not even in the store. I am not saying you can just live your business alone and it will run on its own. What I am saying is if you have the right tools and start with one business, get it running at 95% auto pilot you only have a few things to do and the rest of the day is yours. That is where the 45 minutes comes in.

It took me along time to figure the internet out and I will be honest with you I lost thousands until I took the right approach and started one project at a time and found the right tools. I am no guru, I am the average citizen that needed to do something at home because I have a child that needs me.

The one thing you do not want to do is jump form business to business selling those crazy products that lay in your office and collects dust. Have a plan, start with people that have been their and done that. Once you have your ducks in a row, the rest is in your pocket.

You are probably thinking that oh you have to spend a lot of money, well no you do not if you start right. There are no get rich quick businesses out there so get that right out of your mind. The first business you set up you should make sure it is running at 95% then start your second venture.

To do this you need the right tools. Do not go out and buy every internet marketing book you can find because you will not make money from them. Find a mentor that has done it, duplicate their system first and then move on to your very own niche. The best way to start is an affiliate and learn the trick and trade like any other job you have done. Someone at the office taught you how to do the job.

THESE ARE THE 4 THINGS I STRESS THE MOST FOR INTERNET MARKETING!!!!!!!!!

1) START ONE PROJECT

2) BUILD A LIST

3) MAKE SURE YOUR FIRST BUSINESS IS RUNNING ON AUTO PILOT

4) THEN MOVE ON TO YOUR NEXT VENTURE AND GET THAT RUNNING ON AUTO

PILOT, THEN MOVE ON.

Before you know it you will be quitting your day job and working your own business and being your own boss. Heck if you want Monday off go ahead take it off J

“Remember if you look in the right direction all is good in the world” jp

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Garima Singh asked:


Without a clear Internet marketing strategy your home based business stands little chance of making money online. Despite that, an enormous number of people try to start a home based business online without giving any thought to the various Internet marketing strategies available to them.

Because it is so easy to set up an online business nowadays, many people take the first step without having a clue as to what to do next, and then adopt one of two misguided approaches.

1. The Squander-Bug

The Squander-Bug surfs the Internet in search of instant online marketing success solutions. The squander-bug swiftly falls prey to the sales patter of one or other of the lurking Spider-Gurus who offers hugely inflated packages with promises of large profits for little effort. For more details visit to www.paylock-generator.com .The Squander-Bug is lured into the Spider-Guru’s web, gets stung, hung out to dry and then eaten for breakfast.

2. The Tight-Wad

On the other hand there are those special products of human evolution who are nature’s Tight-Wads. Their approach to making money online is to spend nothing at all, and expect everybody else to buy their products or services…

In a way, the Tight-Wad approach to Internet marketing is an improvement on the Squander-Bug’s, although the Squander-Bug is a more attractive character.

Both the Squander-Bug and the Tight-Wad are equally assured of failure. Nevertheless, the Tight-Wad at least has the virtue of following an Internet marketing “strategy” of sorts, and when it fails it “fails better” (as Samuel Beckett would have put it) simply because although time has been wasted, money has not been squandered!

Successful Internet Marketing Strategies

Successful Internet marketing strategies account for the fact that no business can be run free of charge and they seek a happy medium between the financial incontinence of the Squander-Bug and the constipated approach of the Tight-Wad.

1. Set a budget: For the home based business on a limited budget, the first thing to do is actually to set a budget, taking into account both the regular expenses that will be incurred and the one off expenses that are likely to be necessary as the business develops. For more information logon to www.freeearningtips.com .Thus, simply by sitting down with a pen and paper to think about expenses, the Internet marketer is forced to devote some time to thinking about Internet marketing strategy, because different strategies require differing amounts of investment.

At the minimum your budget should account for web hosting expenses, the use of an autoresponder (a vital component of any serious Internet marketing business), and your marketing expenses.

2. Define Your Niche Market: A common mistake a lot of Internet marketing start-ups make is to give no deep thought to defining their market. If you aim for a broad segment of the market you will be up against a lot of big and experienced competition. Your business will be little more than road-kill if you do not sharply define your market. It is much easier to be a big fish in a small pond, than a minnow in the ocean.



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Jamie Clarkson asked:

What is “Click Flipping?” Click flipping is a term coined to describe taking website visits and turning them into serious money. Specifically, click flipping involves promoting services that use “cost per action” or “CPA” payment methods. “CPA networks” usually refer to services that broker sending leads to companies, which may pay $10, $20 or even much more per lead. Some click flippers use a lead capture page that asks the visitors to enter their names and email addresses, and sometimes their phone numbers and snailmail addresses as well. Once entered, the visitor goes to the company’s website, and the click flipper gets paid for the lead. Insurance companies, home lenders and mortgage companies, even online casinos, all pay for leads. CPA network companies will sometimes provide a website for the person promoting them, but other times they require the click flipper to already have a website.

A click flipper can earn very big money if he or she can get enough traffic to his or her site or sites. One of the main ways recommended for driving traffic to click flipping sites is “pay per click” or “PPC,” which refers to the ads you see all over websites. The major companies that offer PPC are Google, Yahoo and MSN, but there are others as well. Using PPC profitably can be tricky, so it’s best to start off slowly, learning as much as possible before throwing yourself into a big campaign, unless you already have a big advertising budget. But, most people trying to make money at click flipping probably aren’t going to have a budget like that, so, like any other business, they will need to go through a learning curve before making any real profit. There are certain experts and products that can really help a person learn how to use PPC advertising effectively.

The exciting thing about click flipping is that it combines the best features of the net, such as little overhead, no product to carry, no customer service and no selling. Since all you need to do with CPA companies based on pay per lead is to get people to fill out their names and other information, you don’t have to convince anyone to put out any money. It usually takes some time to discover your niche, something that makes you excited enough to go through the learning process in order to stick to it long enough to figure it all out, but it can be very rewarding. Click flipping is considered one of the true “autopilot” businesses online today.

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Jeff Spires asked:

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ICPA - Cost per Acquisition.

CPA is basically a way of making easy cash simply by getting users to fill out a form. The amount of money that you get depends on a few factors. One of the main factors involved is the amount of fields, the more details that you can get the user to fill out, the more cash the company will give you. Also, another factor is the industry that you are promoting,this can have an impact on the amount you get per lead. For example: I’ve made up to $50 per Lead by promoting Mortgages, and the diet industry.

CPA Offers can be quite hard to get into. One thing that you will need before you get started is a website. This is because you need to be approved by the company first. Unlike affiliate marketing, lead generation is more open to abuse. For example: no company wants to pay $50 per lead, when the lead is classed as a ‘dead lead’ (A dead lead is a lead that has no intention ever buying from you).

There are generally two ways that most people generate traffic for CPA.

- One of the most popular way of doing this is by arbitrage. This is where you pay for your ad (PPC), and send traffic to the form. If done right, this can normally be very beneficial & profitable.

- Another modal is to build a list in a chosen market, then sending your list a CPA offer. This is obviously the best way of doing this as you’ve have already paid for your list, which means that it’s 100% profit for you. Once you have a list, you can also send them multiple offers, multiple times.

In both of the example there are pluses and minuses. However, both of the modals work. so In my opinion you should test and try both of these methods. Each one will work different depending on your chosen niche.

One of the key areas that you need to be aware of, is that CPA offers can close down without your knowledge. What does this mean? Well, if your using the first technique (PPC) then you could end up sending traffic to a website, where the offer no longer exists. So be careful or you could end up wasting your money and your time.

Tips & Tricks:

- Pay attention to what people are searching on now. Hot topics, celeb’s, films, toys etc. If you can find a product that is related to what is knows as a hot subject, then that will be a great topic to jump on.

- If you find a hot product that could be limited, use the payed traffic, as this will get you traffic quicker than a lot of the free traffic techniques.

- Be sure to read the terms & conditions. Find out exactly what you are going to be getting paid for. Make sure that the work is worth your time. Check out the process yourself. Don’t just signup for anything, just because the CPA is high.

Good Luck

Jeff Spires

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