Should You Dump Affiliate Marketing For Online MLM?

April 11, 2008 – 10:01 pm
By Jason Paul I love affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing has made me hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years, but I recently gave that all up for online MLM. Why you might ask? In this brief article, I am going to give you some reasons for my shift in thinking and why I haven’t regretted my decision in the least. Hopefully by the time you have finished reading this, you’ll have learned a thing or two about online MLM and why I believe it surpasses the potential offered by traditional affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing, you’re basically building someone else’s business. Sure, there is something to be said for not having to deal with customer service issues, product fulfillment, etc., but what do you really have left at the end of the day? With online MLM, you’re building a business. Something that continues to pay you over and over, week ...

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How To Start A Small Business

April 11, 2008 – 9:57 pm
By Greg Heslin In today’s job market, more and more individuals are deciding to start their own small businesses. Small businesses account for forty-five percent of the U.S.’s private income and employ nearly half of all private sector employees. These businesses are also responsible for providing sixty to eighty percent of new jobs every year. According to the Office of Advocacy, there are currently 26.8 million businesses in the U.S. with small businesses representing 99.9 percent of these businesses. Small businesses produce thirteen times more patents than their larger competitors in terms of employees and are twice as likely to have their patents be in the small one percent cited each year. These businesses have a two-thirds survival rate of at least two years, with forty-four percent surviving of over four years. With these statistics, there is no wonder the number of small businesses is steadily on the rise. Due to the ...

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Are Traffic Exchanges Really Worth Your Time?

February 6, 2008 – 8:43 pm
You have decided to use one of the many traffic exchanges to get traffic to your site and still no sales.  A traffic exchange program simply is not the most effective way to get quality traffic to your website.  It's not my intention to knock the traffic exchange business but to point out to new web entrants that there should be other areas of concentration.    The basis of a traffic exchange program is simple:  your site is shown to someone else (another network member) each time you view another site or two other sites.  Some exchanges work on a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio that is for every three sites you view they will show your site once on their network.  All of this is free because you are participating in viewing other member's sites as part of the program.  The criteria for getting page views of your own site is ...

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When It Comes to Traffic, Are You Organic?

October 7, 2007 – 2:50 am
Establishing your own E-commerce site is not what it used to be. There are thousands of competitors that are competing for a bigger share of the market. Every method you can find to augment your sales will be beneficial.   Let's face facts we are in this for the money. Altruism is not the primary motivation to put a website on the Internet to provide information for the world.  Albeit there are some that provide information for the sake of providing free information to others.  I have just started to provide free information sites on a variety of topics that are near and dear to me, just for the sake of providing information to others.  There is no monetary gain.  For the most part though the majority of my websites are commercial in nature and are profitable. The majority of sites though are out there to turn a profit.  I don't think ...

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Blogging For Business

October 7, 2007 – 2:46 am
The whole concept of Blogging first appeared in the 1990’s when it emerged as a way to make a comment on a web page. Since that time blogs have evolved into a mass communication forum for ideas and commentary. Headline news can sometimes come from blogs rather than traditional channels as evidenced during our last national election. It has become a way to provide information quickly to a large targeted audience. Basically a blog is a website where a blogger enters "posts" in reverse chronological order (meaning that the newest "posts" are displayed first ) using some sort of blogging software that allows readers to comment on posts, effectively adding new content to the blog. How can a blog help you in business? A lot of entrepreneurs benefit from blogging by promoting their businesses on their blogs, with millions and millions of people logging onto the ...

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Welcome To Our New Blog

September 22, 2007 – 3:19 am
Thanks for stopping by our newest blog.  It's been some time since we have posted any new information or articles to our blog.   Part of the reason is we had some difficult technical issues at our old site host.  Since we have moved to a new host and new platform you can expect some tangy commentary on the state of the home based business on the Internet. We will try to keep up with the latest news and trends as we receive information.  One of my pet projects is keeping up with Google Adsense and trying to provide an honest and sincere view on changes to that program as they happen.  Yes there will be advertising on this blog, but the real and most important reason will be to communicate with other business owners and attempt to share information in an open forum. Sounds lofty, but it's my intention to always be ...

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