It’s true! I’ve “almost” wasted close to two thousand dollars on total crap, BS, Manure, BULLSHEET!!!!!!
OK, I’ve calmed down.
I say “almost “, because I take advantage of the product’s refund policy, if I feel like I made a bad purchase. For example, I bought the recently launched “Niche BluePrint” product. I decided I had too many projects going on at once so I asked for a refund of my $500 bucks and got it….. no questions asked…..even though the product is very good, I just didn’t think I’d have the time to use it in the foreseeable future.
It really comes down to 2 rules:
Rule #1
If they don’t have a refund policy, don’t spend more than $20 bucks. This way, if you don’t like the product or its total CRAP, you’ve wasted, at most, about the same you’d spend for a couple of glasses of good Scotch, Johnny walker is my personal choice, but I digress. Belive it or not, the sub $20 products usually offer the best value for your money anyway.
Rule #2
If they do have a refund policy, well then there really is NO RISK, go ahead and buy all you want, ….AS LONG AS YOU USE YOUR RIGHT TO GET A REFUND!!!!!, should you want it, DON’T BE LAZY!!!!
It amazes me how many people are just too lazy to send an email requesting a refund. It takes less than 2 minutes to do!
ClickBank’s policy, for example, is pretty cut and dry. You get a refund if you ask for it, for whatever reason (….”um my dog ate it”) as long as you request it within the first 60 Days after you purchase the product.
Now don’t try and be slick either. Most publishers are using technology now that will lock you out of the product, say an Ebook, after you’ve gotten your money back, but that’s only fair. Otherwise you could buy programs and Ebooks wait 59 days, get your money back and keep using the product,……… no no, you can’t do that anymore.
Almost every product I promote is a ClickBank Product, so in essence ,you’re renting it for 60 days. Yes you put a “deposit” down, but you get that back if you don’t like the product. Even the web hosting I recommend has a 45 day refund policy, USE IT!!, if you don’t like the product or service.
For example, every product under the “Essential Tools” section on the sidebar, just to your right, comes with a 100% refund policy.
You need tools to build a business, the same way you need tools to build a house, at least online you can get your money back. Home Depot, on the other hand, ain’t gonna give you back your money on a 60 day old electric saw that’s been used already and still works.
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I’ve been very busy the last couple of weeks. In my last post I talked about my plans to expand into other niches. Well, that’s what I’ve been working on.
As of right now I have projects in development for the following niches (businesses):
Dating:
Original Ebook 50-75 pages
Eventual ClickBank Product
WAH (Work at Home)
Original Ebook 50-75 pages
Eventual ClickBank Product
Blogging:
Two Ebooks, 80 pages and 100+ pages
Eventual ClickBank Product
Articles:
Membership site (no monthly fees) where you can buy Original Articles that are only downloaded once. You pick a niche and get a 5 pack of Original Articles that only you own, they are deleted from our database, after the download. You also have options for articles with 10,50,100, unlimited downloads, although we haven’t settled on the exact category download number. There will be plenty of categories as well as an “other” category which will be definable by the user. This option will require 24-48 hours delivery.
Also products in the
Forex Niche
Stock Trading Niche
……….and the CPA Niche, remember my post about the “Arbitrage Made Easy” product for under $90………
See you soon
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There are four BASIC ways to Make Money Online
Selling Ad Space
Owning websites and placing ads on them. When someone clicks on the ad or performs an action required by the advertiser, YOU GET PAID.
Selling Digital Products and Services
Selling ebooks, programs,software etc, almost all affiliate income, unless you develop your own product, providing leads to advertisers, CPA Marketing….when someone buys YOU GET PAID
Selling Hard Goods and Services
Ebay and dropshipping. When someone buys one of your products YOU GET PAID
Selling Your Time
Filling out forms, taking surveys, writing articles for others, etc. Do it and YOU GET PAID.
Now there are others, but these are the most basic you should start out with.
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Basic Tools Needed to Start Making Money Online
1. PayPal Account
If you don’t have a PayPal account its like walking out of the house with an empty wallet. You basically can’t do anything online today unless you are willing to spend at least a little money, and PayPal, for better or worse, is really the only game in town, in terms of paying for the products and services you’ll need, and hopefully, eventually, collecting your money you make online.
2. You NEED at least 1 Domain Name and a Hosting Plan. I use HostGator personally, but there are many that can do the job, WebHostingPad,? BlueHost,? or? iPowerweb,? which also also sells domain names as cheap as Godaddy. The one thing that your host MUST give you, at a minimum, is auto installation of the WordPress Blogging Software. NOTE: I would definately avoid Godaddy for hosting, they don’t even give you a cPanel.
3. An Easy Website Builder Program, “WebSiteWizard” is what I use. Now you can also opt to go with the website building software you web host will provide, they all provide one or more.
WebsiteWizard Free trial available here
4. A Google Adsense Account
If your going to have a website or a blog, which if you want to make money online is a must, you are going to want to use Google Adsense. Google place ads on your website or blog and when some one clicks on one of those ads you make money. There are alternatives to Adsense but you should at least start with them
5. An Ebook Creator, EbookGold is probably the best for the money, unless you want to spend $500+ on Adobe acrobat. Free Trial of EbookGold available here
You can get a cheaper version that does most of what the one above does here
For ebook covers try DynamiteCovers, Free Trial available here
6. An Auto Responder, the most popular are:
GetResponse.com
Aweber.com
1stShoppingCart
7. **Sign up For Affiliate Accounts, ——-THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!**
The most popular and the ones you really NEED, if you want to give yourself a fighting chance are:
CLICKBANK
Amazon
Commission Junction (cj.com)
PayDotCom.com
8. An ad Tracker to maximize your sites ad and CPA campaign revenue Free Trail available here (optional if you are just starting out) Free trail available here
That’s pretty much it. Now if you can’t spend the money to obtain these tools, you might want to consider holding off until you can, because this really is the most basic stuff.
Cheers
PS:? A note on the Free Trials.
Many people think Free Trials are a scam because they usually ask for your credit card number upfront. Free trials are not scams. If you decide you don’t want to use the product and then don’t put the minimal effort in to cancel the Free Trial before it ends, it’s really your fault, not the company’s that is offerring the Free Trial. DON’T BE LAZY, if you want to cancel, just do it!.
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Many webmasters use Google Adsense to augment the revenue from their sites, in fact there are many sites that only use Adsense to generate revenue. I have Adsense an almost all my sites, but I am becoming increasingly dissatisfied with it.
In case you’re not aware of how Adsense works, when one of your site visitors clicks on an Adsense ad you get paid. How much you get paid depends on a few different things.
1. KeyWord/Topic of the ad. For example an Adsense ad about “knitting” won’t pay you that much, probably no more than 20 cents. But an ad for ”Debt Consolidation” or “Health Insurance” could pay you as much as $4 or more for one click. It depends on what is “hot” in the keyword market.
2. Your visitor, who clicked on the ad, needs to spend a certain amount of time “viewing” it. I have not seen Google admit this anywhere, and a lot of people don’t know about it, but I have been able to figure it out for myself. Usually the time period is at least 20 seconds. So if they click and take a peek ad the ad, you’ll get paid less than if they actually looked the ad over and clicked on something within the ad.
3. Google Banner ads usually pay more than text link ads no matter the KeyWord, also not well known, but I believe it to be true.
And this is my main problem with Adsense, the secrecy. I mean why can’t we, the Adsense Publisher, know what the split is? Does google take 50% of what the advertiser paid or 80%, Google refuses to say, very annoying and not fair in my opinion.
The alternatives to Adsense are many. There are CPA/CPL banner ads of course, which I also use, in context ads, those double underlined words you see on some sites.
I am begining to use something called “ClickBank Contextual Ads” by CBPro.com. These are basically text ads for various ClickBank Products related to your niche or what your site or blog is about.
What I like about these ads is that when someone buys a product after clicking the ad youget paid a very nice commission, depending on the product you could make any where from $20 to $100. But there is a “catch”. With Adsense, all you need is for someone to click on the ad and you get paid. Of course the downside is they HAVE to buy the product, while with Adsense all thy HAVE to do is click on the ad.
But the difference in potential income is huge, from pennies to over $100. CBProADs also offer ClickBank Stores. These aren’t like the regular “ClickBank Malls” you see offered, where all they do is connect you to ClickBank’s RSS Feed. These are a bit more sophisticated, with real reviews of every product and they are customizable. Here is my store.
I haven’t had time to customize yet but I will get around to it this week probably, URLinkd.com has been taking up alot of my time this past week.
You can find out more about CBProAds here, its free to join, although I did upgrade, its really cheap, $39 bucks if I remember correctly to upgrade.
Anyway, check them out……..
Peace
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