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Question:

What do you call a guy who spends years perfecting a system for making money online…

with NO products or mailing lists…
with NO JV’s or affiliates…
with NO customer service hassles…
with very little money…

and is willing to share this system with others?

I’m going with “looney”

JP Schoeffel has done it again.  He over delivers with every product I’ve seen.  Take a look at this latest, How To Turn Sites Into Money.  You’ll be glad you did!

There are times where you might be stuck on something with your business, and not be sure what to do next. This could be at the very beginning, where you are not sure how to start your business, or it could be later on where you are trying to figure out how to advertise, or earn more money from your business.  No matter when this happens, there are a lot of free resources that you can use in order to help you.  Here are some of them:

• Score - Score is great if you are looking for some free one-on-one mentoring.  They offer a list of possible mentors, and you can find someone who has the knowledge that you are looking for.  You can then talk to them and they can answer your questions, and help you with where you are stuck.  They also have articles to help you learn as well.
• Entrepreneur - While it is a magazine, their website has a lot of free information as well.  They have articles on how to choose your business, how to grow your business, advertise, etc.  You don’t need to be a subscriber to get access to the website, and you can really learn a lot about a many different topics.
• SBA - The Small Business Administration is a government run website, and offers articles, courses (both online and all over the country), and other free help.
• About.com Home Business - Just like every other section of About.com, the home business section has many articles about home businesses.  They have articles on starting a home business, financing your business, keeping your home and business separate, and a lot more.
• Forums - You can search and find business forums where you can read about people in the same situation as you, and see what kinds of answers they got.  You can also post your questions as well, and have many people answering you, trying to help.

As you can see, there are many ways to get free help for your business…so if you are stuck, don’t give up!  Many other people out there have been in similar situations, and will be more then happy to help.

We have gone over a few ways to get free and cheap traffic online…but how about advertising your business when you’re out in the real world?  There are many ways to advertise when you are going out, doing your regular business.  You can advertise while running errands or even shopping at the mall.  Here are just a few cheap and free ways you can advertise while out.

• Wear a T-Shirt.  Create a T-Shirt (or you can order one online) that has your website, phone number, or any other important information you want to get across on it.  When you go out and run errands, wear the shirt.  Think about a crowded mall.  If you have an interesting or cute shirt…imagine how many people will notice it?  Plus, it’s a one-time expense, but you can wear the shirt multiple times, and many will get to see the shirt and hopefully visit your site.
• Print out flyers.  If you print out a bunch of flyers with your website listed on the bottom (so someone can tear off the website address), you can put them up anywhere you find public messages.  This can be at the library, supermarket, laundromat, and other places.  This way, for just a few cents of printing out a flyer, many people can see your ad.
• Similarly, get business cards.  You can make them or get them printed very cheaply, and then give them out to everyone!  You can even leave them places so that others will find them.  If they like what your business card says, they might visit your web site.
• Put an ad in the local paper.  Usually a little ad in a local paper doesn’t cost too much, and you can get many people in your neighborhood to visit your website!
• Advertise with your car.  There are many signs you can get specifically for your car.  If you drive around a lot, think about how many will see your car, and therefore see your ad.  When you’re stuck in traffic, people have no choice but to notice your ad!
• Try welcoming committees.  Many towns have a welcoming committee, and will give a free gift basket to new neighbors.  These usually include free stuff, as well as coupons for local businesses.  If you can give away a free sample, or have a pen or something useful created with your website logo on it, you can get people to notice you that way as well.

As you can see, if you keep your eyes open, there are a lot of ways you can advertise when out in the “real world” doing your daily activities.  The more people who see your website address, the better!

If you are a looking for a way to make money on the Internet, you can create your own product.  If you have a lot of knowledge in a certain area, what better a way to earn an income than to share the information with others? 

There are three main ways you can create digital products to sell on the web:

• E-book:  You can create an electronic book that others can read on the Internet.
• Audio:  You can create an audio file - such as an interview between two people that others can listen to either at home, or on the go.
• Video:  You can create a video so that others can not only hear what you have to say, but see examples, or a step-by-step on how to do something.

The great thing about creating digital products is that you only have to create them once, and then you can sell them forever.  If you set it up right, it can all be done automatically.  This means that while you are sleeping, someone could buy your product and the product would be delivered right then to your customer.  When you wake up the next morning you will see the extra money in your account, and not have to do anything since everything was already done automatically!  By having your own product, you get all of the profits, instead of having to split them with someone else. 

If you are looking for an inexpensive way to earn money on the Internet, this is a great way.  You will need to pay for a domain name, and get hosting…but other then that, all the money you earn is pure profit.

Now that you have a website, you probably want to get as much traffic as possible to your site.  As you probably know, there are many ways to get traffic to your site.  Some are free, and some cost money.  Obviously, you would like to take advantage of as many of the free ways as possible.  Here is a list of some of the free ways you can get traffic to your site:

• Use a Signature.  Every time you send out an email or post on a forum, right underneath your name you should have your website.  This is because if people like what you have to say, they might check out your website.  If you are posting really helpful posts, this can be especially good.  This way, many people will get a chance to see your website.  Also, by posting your website as your signature in a forum, you will get links back to your site which helps with search engine rankings.
• Get Links to your Site.  Do a search on the web to find other websites that are similar, or complementary to your website.  Email the webmaster, and see if they will put a link to your site.  You can do the same with theirs.  This way someone who is already interested in the topic may come to your site.
• Classified Ads.  There are many online classifieds that will allow you to list your ad for free.  This will allow others to see it and visit your site, as well as give you more links back to your website.
• Write Articles.  When you write an article and post it on an article directory, you have a bio section at the bottom.  If someone enjoys your article, they may want to see what other information you have to share, and might visit your website.
• Have good quality content on your website.  When you have good content, the search engines will notice it.  Then, when someone does a search in Google, Yahoo, or another search engine, your website will come up as a good result for your topic, and you will get even more traffic.

There are many ways you can get free traffic to your website.  You just have to get your (website) name out there, and before you know it, you will be getting tons of traffic!

If you are looking for a low cost way to get traffic, you should consider taking a look at Pay Per Click (PPC) opportunities.  Here are the 3 major ones, but many others.

• Google AdWords
• MSN AdCenter
• Yahoo! Sponsored Search (Sign up and get a $25 credit)

Even if you don’t know offhand what PPC is, you have come across it many times.  You know how when you search on Google there are some results on the right hand side?  Those are ads.  Also, many times ads appear on web pages. 

If you want to advertise to people who are interested in what you are talking about, this is a great way to do it.  What happens, is you create an ad (or multiple ads)  to promote your website.  Then, when someone either searches something similar to what you are promoting, or is on a site that is similar, they will see an ad about your site.  If they are not interested, nothing happens.  If on the other hand they are interested, they can click on the ad, and be brought to your site.  You will get charged only if the person clicks your ad and goes to your website.

The great thing about this is that you are only getting targeted traffic.  If they aren’t interested, they won’t click.  Another nice thing is you can set how much you want to spend per day, and per click…so you don’t have to worry about going broke because of advertising!  You can set it to only pay .05 cents per click (it will let you know if that will get you anywhere though), and up to $1.00 a day if you would like.  That way, the most clicks you will get in a day is 20, although many more people might have seen the ad.

It’s a great way to get some targeted traffic without spending a lot of money.  I really recommend it if you are trying to get people to your site, and don’t want to spend a lot.

Jean-Philippe Schoeffel (of Niches-In-A-Box and VisitorSense.com) has done it again.  This time, he is giving away a special report on Secrets to Niche Mastery.  He will be opening a new site “How to Turn Sites Into Money” on April 9th, and decided to give people some great free information in the meantime.  You don’t have to sign up for anything, you can just download the pdf for free at the link above.

A great way to make money on almost any website or blog you have is by using Google AdSense.

If you already have a blog or a website that gets traffic…but wish you could earn money with your website, Google AdSense is the perfect solution.  With Google AdSense, some ads that are related to your site will show up on any web pages you put them on.  Since the topics will be similar to your site, some of your visitors may be interested in the ads and click to visit the sites.  Whenever someone visits one of those sites, you will earn a little bit of money.  Over time, this can add up!

If you don’t have a website…it’s still not a problem.  Think of a topic that you are very passionate about, and create either a blog or content site.  If you give people good and helpful information, they will visit your site.  Once they are there and read what you have to say, they might be interested in visiting some of the sites on the ads.  Again, if they do, you will earn a little bit of money.

Another great thing is that you don’t even need to spend any money to create a site like this!  If you want to start a blog, you can go to blogger.com and create a blog for free.  You can then put AdSense on that, and then you are set.  You can have a blog that earns an income, and you didn’t even have to spend any money to do it!

Google AdSense is really a great way to monetize a site, especially when you don’t have anything to sell, but have some great information to share with the world.

I received my first issue of Revenue magazine, the how-to-guide on affiliate marketing this past week.  I should start by saying that ever since I have started my own business, I’ve been looking at different magazines, to see what kinds were helpful.  I now have a subscription to Entrepreneur, Inc, Fast Company and more..and while I enjoy reading them, none of them really deal too much with the completely online entrepreneur who does a lot of affiliate marketing.

I don’t have to look any further.  Revenue is great.  It’s completely targetted towards people who are affiliates, or run affiliate programs.  Even most of the ads were interesting to me.  So I am very excited, and already can’t wait until the next issue.

If you’re interested so far, I have something even better to tell you…they give away free subscriptions depending on what you do for a living.  Even if you can’t get a free subscription, it’s only $17.49 for the year, which isn’t too bad at all.  I have to tell you, just from reading this one issue I’ve already gotten a lot of ideas…so I am excited.

I figure if I feel this way, someone else might be interested as well.  Enjoy it, and let me know what you think.

Writing up that last post yesterday reminded me how much I now rely on one piece of free software - KeePass.  In KeePas, you enter all of your logins, passwords, and the URL’s that are associated with them.  It then makes it very easy when you come to a site you need to log into, you just double click on the login or password field, and it will copy the login or password to your clipboard for 10 seconds, giving you just enough time to paste it into your browser. 

Since almost everything has a login and website these days, there are a lot of passwords to remember!  Especially since you really shouldn’t re-use the same password over and over.  So it can be hard to remember 10 or more passwords.  With this program, you just have to remember the password to get into the program itself, and you’re set.  This is good though, because if someone uses your computer, they won’t be able to get into your password file. 

I really recommend this free software - especially if you belong to as many affiliate programs as I do!  It really makes things a lot easier.