1. Affiliate Marketing. We list this first because it is possible for anyone to join an affiliate program and be set up and ready to go in a matter of minutes. Making money as an affiliate will require you to learn how to get traffic to either a replicated website or a website of your own.
2. Email Marketing. At one time this was a popular way to make money online, but over the years it has began to dwindle. Most successful Internet marketers use some form of e-mail marketing at one time or another. It is possible to do nothing but e-mail marketing and make money when you know what you're doing.
3. Network Marketing. This was an industry that had a black eye in the past, but is making a big-time comeback thanks to the Internet. Getting paid on the efforts of others is an excellent way to build residual income.
4. Private Label Rights. This is an excellent way to make money because most of the product development is already done for you. Many private label right companies offer memberships that teach you everything from the ground up to make money selling their products.
5. Resell Rights. With of this you buy the rights to a product and then are able to turn around and sell it to make money. There are different restrictions that come with this type of product, but it can be a great way create immediate cash.
6. Sell your services. If you have a skill that would help another internet marketer you can get paid to provide it for them. Some of these include setting up a blog, website design, customer service, ghost writing, sales, and more.
7. Blog for pay. There are companies all over the internet that will pay you to write for them. The same is true for small business owners and individuals. If you are a good writer you can earn good money doing it.
8. Create information products and sell them. People love to have their problems solved. If you will take the time to learn how to do this correctly you can set up a never ending stream of income for yourself.
9. Sell on eBay. One way to do that is find things of value you can buy at wholesale and turn around and sell at retail. This could be just about anything that you have an interest in.
10. Buying and selling domain names. Do you know there are people earning a six figure income buying expired domain names and turning around selling them. Like any business this requires some skill and hard work, but it is another example of how to use the internet to make money.
11. Teleseminars. If you have an area of expertise their are people who will pay to listen to you. By setting up your own business online you can use the internet to create sign ups for regularly scheduled training on the phone.
12. Google Adsense. Although this is an affiliate program we list it separately because their are so many people making money from it. They are strict, but if you learn the basics you can earn very easy money online when people click on Google Ads on your website or blog.
13. Start your own affiliate program. This is not something to jump into, but if you desire to work with affiliates rather than just being one this is the way to do it.
14. Start a virtual assitant business. Do you know how many businesses could use a person to do things for them they just do not have time to do on a daily basis.
15. Start a membership website and publish a daily, weekly, or monthly ezine in a targeted niche. You could even make money selling advertising in it. If you are an interesting person with knowledge to share this is a way to do it. As your subscriber totals increase you could even hirer writers to write for you.
This is 15 ways to make money online. There is no end to the number of ways to use the internet to make money. When you think about it you may be able to come up with more ideas of your own or try one of these.
Just imagine... an interested visitor who has been strolling through your site has finally come to just what she is looking for and is about to make a purchase.
It's a sunny afternoon, and her cat, who happens to be sitting on the moss under the visitor's large fifty-year-old snow-rose bonsai tree, suddenly jumps down, and the priceless tree topples over.
In the blink of an eye, your visitor exits your site, and your sale is dust - unless you have had the foresight to utilize an autoresponder that has captured her email address.
If you have installed an autoresponder, you can then follow-up with her, and in all probability, make the sale when the poor woman has finished repotting her precious bonsai.
Autoresponders are remarkable, versatile programs that do so much more than just automatically answer your email. Here are a few ideas that will help you to creatively and productively use your autoresponder to transform the casual visitor into a profitable customer.
Use your autoresponder to:
1. Publish a newsletter. Certain quality autoresponders will manage subscriptions and follow-up with interested prospects. Your newsletter can keep your visitors informed about your services or products, while building your reputation as a credible expert in your particular business.
2. Publish a newsletter only for your affiliates. Inform them of current sales you are running and of promotional material that your affiliates can use themselves to increase their commissions. Include tips, advice, and techniques that your affiliates can use to successfully go out and promote your business.
3. Write reviews. Cover books, software, music, e-books, movies, etc., and put each review in an autoresponder. Review your affiliate programs, using a link to your affiliate's page in your autoresponder.
4. Distribute your articles. Writing and distributing targeted articles is a powerful tool to build your business credibility, bring traffic to your site, and increase your sales potential. If your articles contain valuable information, many editors will print what is known as a resource box for you. A resource box contains your bio and a brief description of your service or product. It can also contain your autoresponder address.
Let's say you've written fifty articles. Put them on separate autoresponder accounts and create a master list that contains the titles of each article, the autoresponder address, and a brief abstract. Then promote your master list. Additionally, include your publishing guidelines so your affiliates can add their articles to your list, increasing the number of writers who are represented in your article list.
5. Create mailing lists. Inform subscribers to your articles when you've written new ones that they may want to publish in their own newsletter or website.
6. Automate your sales process. Use an ad to insure repeated exposure of your message, which has been proven to effectively increase sales. In your ad, put your autoresponder address where a visitor will be exposed to numerous marketing materials. This multiplies the chances of converting visitors into customers. For example, if you're selling a particular product, put testimonials about how spectacular it is on your autoresponder, and add a detailed, enticing description of your product.
7. Distribute advertising. Let's say you sell advertising on your website or in your newsletter or e-zine. Set your autoresponder to send the information about rates and how to place an ad automatically to all prospects' email addresses. Then have your autoresponder follow-up. It can also send notification of any special deals you are currently offering.
8. Distribute an email course. Each day, have your autoresponder send out another lesson. Just be sure that each lesson has quality content - not a sales pitch. Your content will do the selling for you, and will do it much more effectively. You can include tips centered on a different topic for each lesson, illustrating how your product will benefit the reader. Include the tangible benefits the visitor will reap by purchasing your product.
Make sure to include a paragraph or two at the end of each lesson enticing your prospect to consider making a purchase.
9. Automate a reminder about your service or product after a visitor has completed your course. This will increase the possibility of sales from visitors who have taken your course but are dragging their feet about actually making a purchase. You can also use these reminders to promote new products or services, and the products and services of your affiliate programs.
10. Distribute free reports. This gives your visitor an idea of the type of information you can provide and the quality of your product or service. Make sure these reports are not sales letters or you will more than likely lose a potential customer than gain a sale.
11. Create trivia quizzes on your site and place the answers in an autoresponder. Your visitor will then be motivated to request your autoresponder, and you will have a record of the visitors' email addresses who took your quiz. Or create a contest and have any visitors that enter send their responses to your autoresponder. Your autoresponder can be set-up to send them a confirmation of their entry.
12. Offer a trial version of your product. Give your prospects a sample of your ebook, course, software, membership, etc. People who are exposed to a little taste often end up wanting the whole pie. You can also capture their email addresses when you offer them a free trial from your website. Set up your autoresponder to give instructions on how to obtain their free trial, and then make sure to follow-up to try and close the sale.
13. Link to hidden pages on your autoresponder. For example, a hidden page could be your affiliate page that contains graphics, promotional articles, and text links that interested affiliates can make use of. Inform visitors that they may have free access to your affiliate page by simply requesting your autoresponder. You will then gather a list of visitors who may be interested in becoming your affiliates.
14. Use an autoresponder on your order page. Post a request form for visitors to be notified of special offers or discounts in the future. This creates a very effective mailing list that contains the names of people who are already your customers.
15. Put your links page on your autoresponder. It should contain up to fifty links that would be of particular interest to your visitors. Make sure to add your own promotional copy at the top or bottom of this page.
Now that you have proof that autoresponders can be used creatively, see if you can come up with even more than 15 ways to make money with an autoresponder.
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