Monthly Archives: October 2009

Proven Way To Make Some Extra Cash Really Fast

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Every day I am stumbling upon something new that I would have paid to know when I was just beginning.

digital-point-forumsI have been a member of the wonderful Digital Point Forum for a long time, yet I haven’t involved in there much like I have in the Warrior Forum. I was aware that there was a “Buy, Sell or Trade” subforum on the Digital Point Forum, however, I never got curious enough to look inside to see what was going on up to three days ago.

The ‘Buy, Sell or Trade’ forum is like a stand-alone forum itself, very active with about 500 members online on average and over 5 million of posts in different categories like advertising, design, services and so on.

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The forum serves as a platform for posting your  services, products and finding jobs or hiring people. It is full of people looking to hire someone to do some specific tasks for them and others looking to get hired. In short it is a great place to find both short term and long term jobs, partnerships.

You can find nice paid jobs/projects if you have some specific knowledge on things like SEO, link building, logo/banner design, video creation and the stuff like this. It is highly possible for you to find a well paid job if you have experience with some certain software like Photoshop, Fireworks, VBulletin, CS-Cart, and Magento. Fortunately, the forum is not just for the ones who are tech-savvy or highly skilled. There are also tons of small budgeted easy jobs and ongoing projects for the ones with minimal knowledge and technical skills. For example, real data entry jobs, internet research, article submissions, blog commenting, video uploading, craiglist ads, forum posting and many others.

If you need some fast cash to support your expenditures like web hosting, domain registration or PPC, you better keep an eye on that hot online business portal. You can even make a full time income by doing jobs offered there. Believe me, this forum is one of the few genuine make money online communities.

Let me mention one thing about the forum. There is a measure of trust system called itrader. It is given as a review to you or given by you to others whenever you buy or sell a product/service. The more itrader you have the more you will be respected. This certainly makes it difficult for beginners to kickstart. If you have a zero itrader, it will be a lot difficult to get a job and trust of the people. However do not let this discourage you as everyone started there with a zero itrader. Just be patient and honest about your offers/services and you will soon find a job for you and get some itraders eventually.

How do I know this? I know because just today I got paid for a job that I found on that forum two days ago although I had zero itrader. I am sure you are familiar with that smile on my face when I saw that payment.

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I recommend you check that forum whenever you are in need of some fast cash and in the mood of doing some work for others. In my opininon it is much better than Elance type of time limited auction based freelance sites. Because in Digital Point you can find a job really fast depending on your knowledge and skills with a correct timing and a well written PM.

Waiting for you success stories.

The First Article I Submitted to EzineArticles Got Approved

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Can you believe me that I resisted to post an article on EzineArticles.com for more than one year? I created Squidoo lenses, Blogger blogs, WordPress sites; promoted Clickbank products, Amazon stuff; tried PPC, Google Adsense, in-text ads, CPA, shortly, I conducted nearly all the things related to internet marketing. Yet, I hadn’t written one single ezine article till last week, when I forced myself to write an original article about building relationships. You can see it here: Build Trust and Credibility by Following One Simple Method.

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Now I have two live articles on EzineArticles and I can’t wait to write more. I have 100% approval rate so far -I know this is not something big for two trials. I am getting some views though not URL clicks yet. I need to work on writing articles that leads to URL clicks.

Honestly, I don’t know why I resisted to write articles on EZA to build authorithy and get traffic to my sites. I should have done that the first time I heard about them. Maybe I wasn’t experienced enough to write articles that I liked myself.

In summary, I am very happy that I jumped on the Ezine Articles train, even if it is a bit late. I believe that it will be good for my business as long as I provide quality content. I recommend anyone who wants to play in the garden of internet marketing, make use of Ezine Articles, if they haven’t already.

7 Things to Consider While Choosing a Profitable Niche

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Everything starts with a niche. A properly chosen niche can make you rich, on the other hand, a bad choice can suck all the money in your pocket. And the truth is that one of the biggest difficulties a newbie faces is to find a winner niche.

There is no way to tell if a niche will be profitable for you unless you take action on it. However, there are things to consider that will increase the chance, before even trying. This post will be about a list of 7 things that you should keep in mind while choosing a profitable niche.

Let’s begin with the first one.

1. Are there any info products related to that niche?

Believe me, if there is at least one info product about that niche, the monetization of that niche will be easy. Let me explain what I mean by an info product. If for example a digital camera is a product for the digital photography niche, then, an ebook on “how to master your skills as a digital photographer” would be an info product. The idea is simple that, nobody would have written an info product on a non-profitable niche. The more info products, the better. You could check ebook directories or simply use search engines to find out if there is an info product on a niche.

2. Are there any advertisers?

Why do you never see any advertisements on some certain tought-to-be niches? Because the possibility to monetize that kind of niches are close to zero. An advertiser is a person who either sells or promotes something related to that niche and willing to pay money for that. If not earning money themselves, no advertiser would pay for advertising. So, the more advertisers on a niche, the better. Check Google, Yahoo! or Bing to find out if there is any ads.

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3. Are there any affiliate programs?

A niche with an affiliate program means one thing: There is money to be made on that niche. Some niches have dozens of affiliate programs, however, it is difficult to find even one for some niches. What you need to do is to search affiliate networks or affiliate program directories. The more affiliate programs, the better. You can read more on How to Determine if a Website has an Affiliate Program.

4. The amount of searches and competition.

There are literally tons of tools, free or paid, to check the amount of searches and level of competition for a niche, or keyword. Some of them are good, some of them are not. This is not the topic of this post though. What I want to mention here is, the more the search amount -the demand-, the better. When it comes to competition, it is all up to your knowledge and amount of effort you plan to invest, whether high competition is good or bad. Yet, it is certain that high competition will not be good for you if you can not be highly competitive. So, it would be wise for a newbie to go after low competition and high amount of search at the beginning, as much as possible.

5. Is the niche about solving a problem?

Think about the statements below for a moment.

“My boss sends me to Japan for a one year period, but I can not speak Japan, how will I communicate to people when I am off work?”

“No matter what I tried I can not get my ex boyfriend back.”

“I don’t know what to do about my acnes.”

“I would pay a fortune to a software that could bring my deleted files back.”

As you can notice, all the sentences above, state a problem. And there are lots of products, info products, advertisers and affiliate programs targeting those niches. What makes a problem-based niche more profitable is the fact that people do not hesitate spending money on the solution of their problems. The bigger the problem, the better.

6. Are there any blogs/forums about this specific niche?

Blogs and forums are the proof that there is a community established around that niche. It will be much easier to learn more about the niche and find followers and promote anything related to the niche, if there are a number of blogs and forums. The more the better.

7. Do you have any passion or knowledge on the niche?

Some say that it is crucial to have some passion or knowledge on the niche you will target. I agree on that to some extent. In fact, the whole process might be a lot easier, if you had knowledge on the niche. However, if you work smart, there is no niche that you can’t be an authority in time.

That’s all about choosing a profitable niche. See you next time.

Does Your Writing Suck? – Improve It by Applying This Simple Method

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So, you feel that your writing sucks and you want to improve it but you don’t know what you need to do.

Well, what you need to do is really simple.

Before going into that, let me ask you a question that will take your attention to one thing I want to emphasize. Think for a moment that you are a newbie artist and you want to improve the quality of your paintings. What would you do? That’s somewhat obvious, you would read books, take courses and attend seminars about painting, in short, you would master the theory. With that knowledge on your mind, you would take action on what you’ve learned and start to paint. The more you painted, the better you would become in time. However, you would know that wouldn’t be the case if you had given up when you saw that your first trial was not much better than the previous ones.

Like painting, as with all other skills you can think of, the only thing to get better on something is to do it again and again.

Now, you know what you need to do to improve your writing: To write more and more. This is what I tried to explain in my free ebook The Last Ebook You will Ever Need to Read.

If you haven’t written anything before, just go and push yourself to it. I know it will be really hard at first to compose even one short paragraph. Just don’t give up or delete it because it sounds bad. Believe me you will feel much more  comfortable when you start writing the second paragraph. and when you are done with your first article, you will feel much better.

One last thing to keep in mind is, as like the artist example, in order to improve your writing you still need to read books, and listen to others who write well. However, you can not just expect to writte better just because you’ve read a lot and know what it takes to write better. You actually have to write and practice more to improve yourself. For me, reading weighs 20% and practicing the writing weighs 80%.

Now, it is time to grab a pencil and a paper and start writing.