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Finally, An Easy Automatic Video Creation Tool

2009-06-29T23:00:00.001-07:00

With the Animoto video creation tool you can create unlimited customized videos in minutes. You're missing the boat if you aren't promoting your sites using videos. Videos are widely used on web sites and blogs to entertain, educate and to advertise ideas and products. Family members like to combine cherished photos as keepsakes and to share with others. Businesses use videos to market and promote products. Animoto makes it easy for anyone to make professional quality videos without the need for special equipment or high tech ability.

Three Easy Steps

Animoto Video Tool does all the work and all the thinking for you. Utilizing a unique technical process, Animoto is able to mimic the functions of a director and an editor. It does this with simplicity and within minutes. It will display and animate your photos on the video stage to the beat of the background music. You can recreate the video with 1-click for a completely unique video each and every time. Your role is uploading photos, picking out some music, and adding text if you wish. It's really that simple!

Video "Shorts" For Free

You can create unlimited "shorts" for free or create a full-length video for a nominal cost. You can pay as you go, or get a cost effective All-Access Pass good for one year of unlimited extended length videos for just $30. You can share your videos, and add them to blogs, Youtube and social networking sites like Facebook. You can download the full-length videos and upload them wherever you like. Short 30-second videos are also downloadable with an All-Access Pass.

Animoto For Businesses: Special Marketing Features

Special Animoto accounts are available for businesses and commercial usage. Business accounts provide unlimited video production and DVD quality downloads. Animoto's patent-pending motion design makes it easy for businesses to produce professional marketing, instructional and educational videos within minutes.

With the business account you can choose a song for your video from a library of hundreds of commercially licensed songs. Additionally, where supported, a call-to-action can be included at the end of your video linking to a URL of your choice. It has never been easier to market your business and control your message. Real estate companies, photographers and educators, all can benefit from Animoto's easy to use video promotion tool.

PPC 101

2009-05-26T09:44:00.000-07:00

Pay Per Click marketing or PPC, as it’s more commonly called, is now a vital part of advertising for many a business owner. An apparent statement but one worth mentioning: You can't make money if people don't visit your web site. With the goal og increasing sales and profits, PPC marketing drives targeted traffic to your websites. You pay a set amount per click; usually between 1 cent and up to a dollar or more.

Keyword Bidding

Most Pay Per Click marketing works by bidding on a selected keyword or keyword phrase. After selecting your targeted keyword, you enter an auction process, bidding against other advertisers for top placement in search engine results. After performing a search on a search engine, the sponsored ads are the ones that show up first. In most cases, to get to the top of the ladder, you bid the most money per click. The next highest bid garners you a second place spot, and so on.

Paying for the number one spot is not always worth the money. A lot of times you can be anywhere in the top 5 placements and still generate the targeted traffic that you are looking for. A lot of it depends on how much competition there is for the keyword that you are after. Take the time to do some testing with your ad placement so that you can find the best ratio of cost and results.

Obtaining Profitable Clicks

PPC marketing is a great advertising model to generate immediate and predictable traffic. However, like anything else: The devil is in the details. You can pay for clicks to your website all day long, but if that traffic doesn’t generate actual sales, you are wasting your precious advertising dollars.

A successful PPC marketing campaign should generate paying customers to your site. The way to accomplish this is by a 'benefit-rich', finely tuned, targeted description of your product. Your ultimate goal should be quality over quantity. Your ad description should focus less on hype and more on substance. You are paying money for those clicks remember so make them count.

Often people start out with 7Search PPC PPC where they are sometimes able to get targeted traffic for a penny a click.

Surveys For Extra Cash Online

2009-05-24T09:52:00.000-07:00

Practically everyone can benefit from pulling in some extra cash; be it to pay bills, help with groceries or just a little extra splurging money. You can find hundreds of marketing firms that are more than happy to pay people like you and me money for taking quick surveys. Your honest opinion about a company’s product is worth money. You decide when you want to put in the time for taking the surveys, the Internet doesn't sleep. You can take a couple before work, on your lunch break or after everyone else is fast asleep.

Can Taking Surveys Online Be Trusted?

There truly are hundreds of firms online legitimately paying people to take online surveys. But of course, like anything else, there are scams. If something sounds to good to be true, it usually is. If these survey firms are offering fame and mass fortune, walk away. It's likely not worth your time. Many surveys will spell out the compensation amount up front and arrange to pay by check or through Paypal. And check the privacy policy, the shadier amongst them will have no mention of privacy protection. You do not want your personal information sold to other firms.

What Are My Potential Earnings?

You will see offerings in the range of just a few bucks and up to $100 or more, it all depends on the type of survey. Online focus groups typically pay towards the higher end. You may find some quick surveys that enter you in a sweepstakes for a cash prize for payment. Some will ship out free products for you to test, which will be your reward for your opinion. Doing the math, say you take 5 surveys per day at the low end of $3.00, you would end up with over $400.00 per month extra income. The more surveys you take, the more money you make.

Increase Your Money Making Potential

By registering for multiple survey sites you will have more online surveys to potentially take. You will have more invitations to participate in surveys as you increase the number of survey networks or firms that you register with. Pay attention to your profile on these sites. After providing personal and demographic information you will be sought out specifically to take certain surveys matching your criteria. Spending a few minutes now, to register with online survey sites will pay huge dividends in the future for you and your family. Learn about how you can get started getting paid for online surveys from a mom actually doing it.

Make Money Online, Be An eBay Affiliate

2009-05-14T19:45:00.001-07:00

I remember my first income generated online roughly 10 years ago was with eBay. The last bit of money I've made online, roughly 5 minutes ago, was with eBay. The money earned 10 years ago was by listing products up for auction and all that goes with that. I've since changed my strategy significantly, do a lot less work and and make a lot more money with eBay. I make money online as an eBay affiliate by directing people to eBay's auctions and getting commissions on the transaction fees that eBay collects from the sellers. In addition to the commissions on transaction fees I also get paid up to $50 for new customer referrals.

Using Wordpress As A Platform To Display eBay Auctions

The simplest blogging platform and content management system that I've come across is Wordpress. I'm certain you have heard of it. It's a very flexible system that is constantly being updated and improved, and is available free of charge. It literally takes just a few minutes to get a Wordpress driven site showing eBay auctions up and running.

phpBay Pro Wordpress Plugin

Plugins have been being developed to extend the capabilities of Wordpress since it was first introduced. The best plugin available for showing eBay auctions in a Wordpress blog is the phpBay WP plugin. You upload it and activate it like you would any plugin in Wordpress. Then you simply add one of line of specially formatted text to your Wordpress post or page and you will be presented with a list of eBay auctions.

You can show a list auctions related to a specific keyword or keywords with phpBay. Lots of other options are available including the price range of the products, the category from eBay, etc. You can get very specific or broad on what you would like to display.

Each auction that shows up on your blog will have a link to the actual action on eBay's site. The link will be specifically coded with your affiliate ID and when a customer follows the link you will be credited with the referral by way of commissions paid monthly by eBay.

Is There Really Money In It?

A couple of questions that I often get asked after explaining how I earn most of my money online: Wouldn't people go directly to eBay rather that go through your site first? Everyone seems to have an eBay account, so would you ever really see a $50 referral fee for new customers?

As I was, I'm sure that you will be pleasantly surprised by the answers to those 2 questions. When someone searches for a product online, they don't always start with eBay but a lot of times they will end their search there. Also, some people, believe it or not, do not even know about eBay. Some people start at their favourite search engine when searching for a product, where a link to your site may ultimately show up. The listings in the search results are fair game after all. It happens all the time.

Also, there are 1,000's of new eBay accounts being created every single day. Get your Wordpress blog up and running with the phpBay plugin to see for yourself.

Check out this post to see phpBay in action and to get a discount coupon: phpBay Pro Example Site And phpBay Pro Coupon

Selling Files Online

2009-05-13T20:45:00.001-07:00

Selling digital downloadable goods is still growing rapidly in e-commerce. Online business-people are selling everything from recipes to mp3s to eBooks from their personal or corporate web sites. The opportunities are virtually endless. Digital items are easy and cheap to store and the same file can be sold over and over again. Buyers benefit from purchasing digital items by the fact that the item is auto-delivered to them for instant gratification. This is a win-win situation for both buyer and seller.

What Types of Digital Products Can Be Sold?

Any item that can be stored digitally can be bought and sold. Some clever online entrepreneurs are even selling automated digital services.

A few of the hottest selling digital files are:

forms
recipes
music
eBooks
movies

Business owners are selling how-to guides, while digital artists are offering sale of their art work. Photographers can sell their photos, developers can offer their software for sale and the list goes on.

Is There Still Money To Be Made Selling Digital Goods?

There is a vast untapped market for selling digital goods online. The world has changed. Consumers are now accustomed to and trust, the concept of purchasing digital goods online. People are spending millions of dollars a year buying music files online. The market for digital media is rising at a phenomenal rate: as evidenced by Amazon’s popular Kindle eBooks. Print media is slowly dying. More people now read newspapers and books online than ever before.

How Do I Sell Digital Products?

The concept is rather simple. Sellers need a professional secure digital delivery system in place and a means to accept payments (PayPal is perfect). There are several companies online to handle payments. But not all payment processing companies have a system in place for selling downloads online. The popular PayLoadz company specializes in selling digital downloads. They made their start with Madonna as a client helping to sell her single in mp3 format and automating the payment and delivery. PayLoadz is easy to use and offers a free basic account and has no start-up fees, like you would see with companies such as ClickBank.

PayLoadz handles the complete transaction. Their system will auto-deliver the digital good to the buyer. Then, of course, the seller gets the payment immediately sent to their PayPal account. The whole transaction just takes a few seconds to complete. You can truly be earning money whilst you sleep. Your digital goods business never closes shop and doesn't need anyone to "man" the store. All you need to do is continue to offer quality digital products, sit back and watch your profits soar.

Do I Need a Website to Sell Digital Products?

You don’t need your own website to sell your digital products. You have the option of selling your digital goods through an auction site such as, eBay, through email campaigns or directly from an already established e-commerce marketplace.

You can start small or launch a huge digital download storefront. It all depends on the quantity of digital products you have available to sell. Whatever the scope of your digital download business: What are you waiting for? Easy profits, as well as clever promotion tools to grow your business are waiting for you from selling digital products.

See how you can start your digital goods business with payloadz for free today... and even how you can start without having your own product!

How You Can Easily Make More Money From Promoting An eBay Auction Than The Actual eBay Seller Herself

2009-05-10T07:36:00.000-07:00

There's a lot of buzz around the web these days about making money online with eBay. And when I refer to "making money online with eBay", I'm not talking about hawking old stuff from your basement. I'm referring to something a lot different, something offering a more hands off approach.

You can actually make money with eBay without handling any products. Although similar, I'm not talking about the Build A Niche Store (or BANS) method. You can make money promoting someone else's auctions using a Wordpress blog and phpbay pro. As a matter of fact, you could potentially make more money promoting an auction than the seller could make from it!

Here's an example of how this scenario is highly possible (and probable)...

First, someone lists an item on eBay. Say... an old Organized Rhyme Compact Disc they used to listen to as a kid.

A bit of trivia, Organized Rhyme was a rap group from back in the day with the lead rapper being Tom Green. Yeah, the same Tom Green that had the honour of dating Drew Barrymore.

Anyway, they are looking to get 10 bucks for the CD. They create the auction and punch in $10 for the BIN.

Where you come in...you have a Wordpress blog about Tom Green. You decide to add a Tom Green eBay store, listing auctions with the keyword "Tom Green" in it. Since you are new at it, it takes a whopping 5 minutes to create the page and you are presented with a listing of Tom Green related products. Low and behold, in the auction list is the Organized Rhyme CD.

Someone Google's "Tom Green Organized Rhyme" and your blog shows up in the list. How's that? Because of the awesome Search Engine Optimization benefits of these eBay auction listings when using the phpbay pro wordpress plugin.

They click over to your blog and see the listing.

To see more details of the auction, they click the link that is secretly tagged with your affiliate ID and they are brought to a new window on eBay's site. They are happy to see that they could Buy It Now for just $10.00! But this person doesn't yet have an eBay account. There are literally millions of people that do not yet have an eBay account, believe it or not. Of course, they are able to quickly and easily create a free eBay account during checkout. They PayPal the $10 and wait for their CD to arrive.

The person selling the CD got $10.00 minus eBay and PayPal fees. What did you get?

I'll tell you...you made out like a bandit. You referred a new customer to eBay which is often valued at $50.00! And, new customer or not, you also get a percentage of the transaction fees that the seller paid to eBay. What's better than that? You chose to get paid your referral commissions by PayPal and no PayPal fees were taken from your payment! That's very cool if you ask me.

All Niches With Items New And Old Are Being Sold On eBay

It's not just items that you would find at a typical yard sale being sold on eBay, far from it. Manufacturers, distributors and retailers are also listing items for sale on eBay. And all the products they list... you can promote! Regardless of the niche of your blog and regardless of how broad or tight the niche is, you can likely find products on eBay that you can promote on your blogs.

Just an added item to your money making arsenal on your niche Wordpress blog. Or, you can even make a whole store, or mall with this approach.

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Sell Digital Products Online

2009-05-08T11:40:00.000-07:00

Becoming more and more popular all the time as a method to make money online is by selling digital downloads. A digital good is simply a non-physical product that a user can download from a web site or from an attachment in their email.

Instant Gratification

What makes selling digital goods very big business on the Internet is the fact that a person can often have their product within minutes or even seconds after purchase.

The ebook is probably considered to be the most popular of all digital products. In addition to eBooks, people are also buying and selling products such as music, art, audio courses and much more.

Selling Ebooks And Including Hyperlinks For Free

A lot of people like to start by creating ebooks when getting into the digital good business, being that they are a huge part of the digital good marketplace.

PDF or Portable Document Format is the standard when creating ebooks. Your authoring software must be capable of creating a PDF file. The good news is that most of the software that enhances your authoring tool, giving it the ability to export to PDF, is free.

In a lot of cases, when creating your ebook, you will want to add links to web sites within it. Most, if not all, of the free PDF creation software does not include the ability to export to PDF. But there is a free way to do this.

There is a free suite of office applications available at OpenOffice.org. It is similar to Microsoft's office suite, which includes Microsoft Word, Excel and so on, if that's what you are familiar with. This free software will also allow you to open and edit documents created with Microsoft's product. OpenOffice.org's office suite will allow you to export your documents into PDF format, including the hyperlinks, all for free.

You Can Sell Other People's Stuff

You can get started in this business easily by purchasing other people's digital products, along with re-sell rights and by selling them to others. And to resell the product, you don't even need a web site, you can offer your products up for sale on a digital marketplace for free, and have your products auto-delivered to the customer on your behalf. A perfect example of this is an audio course that I purchased for $5 and resold over and over again for $37 in the digital marketplace.

To learn more and see which web sites to leverage to make this happen for you, visit this post: PayLoadz: A Simple, No Cost Way to Sell Your Digital Products

It's Easier And Cheaper To Get Into PPC Marketing Than You Might Think

2009-05-05T12:32:00.000-07:00

A lot of people I speak with about Internet Marketing, Affiliate Marketing etc. cringe with the thought of ppc advertising. It's interesting, even people that have being trying to make a go of internet marketing for years and struggle to get natural search (or organic) traffic, still will not even consider giving PPC a go. Without natural or paid traffic, after all, you've got nothing, except perhaps friends and family visiting your sites giving pity clicks on your AdSense ads.

Some say that they have heard some horror stories about getting slapped (The Proverbial Google Slap), about losing a ton of money, about click fraud and other such things. Granted, all the above can (and do) happen but there is a much simpler way to get your feet wet with PPC Marketing. Once you know the ropes and understand the process it will be less daunting of a task to jump in the water and pull in the rewards that the big boys (and girls) are pulling in, because we all know Google brings in the lion share of traffic. But you don't have to start there!

My first attempt with PPC was back when Yahoo was still outsourcing the paid search portion of their business to Overture. For not knowing what I was doing, I actually did quite well. I think anyone who started at that time would have done well. With less information overload and "scary" PPC stories as we have now, you could go at it with much more confidence. Not really knowing what a "landing page" or what "direct linking" was at the time, those are the 2 methods I used when advertising with Overture. I noticed that running my ad for a few weeks on Overture would shoot my site up in the natural search listings on other search engines. Things have changed drastically since then as some of you know.

Expecting to become a millionaire with very little work in the 3 short months I was "making money online", and failing, I decided to give up on Internet Marketing for awhile. Yeah, I had unrealistic expectations. Besides, I was making great money in a side home business selling and repairing computers, plus I had a tech job at the local hospital taking 40-50 hours a week of my time.

Well, after a long hiatus I jumped back in and attacked Google PPC immediately. I had a money yo-yo. I lost some, I made some. All I really lost was a bunch of time because I had pretty much broke even. I realized the landscape had officially changed. I decided to broaden my horizons a bit and look at other ways to make money online.

Fast forward to now. I have many eggs in many baskets. Pay Per Click Marketing brings in a large portion of my income. I've tried many different programs, many different PPC engines and by far, the easiest and cheapest way to get started and gain experience is using the 7 Search ppc network. You may see a lot of gurus say that 7Search delivers "fake" or "untargeted" traffic, but I'm certain they want to just keep it open for themselves. They are paying just a penny a click for targeted traffic after all! They're going to hate me for revealing the secret.

The campaign structure is simple (but flexible) with 7Search. I like it better than the way Google, MSN and Yahoo have theirs setup. You don't deal with ad groups with 7search. You simply have campaigns with keywords and ads in it. The cool thing is that when adding keywords you are given the ability to customize the keyword to the hilt. You can add a custom Ad Title, Ad Description, Bid and Destination URL in your keyword string. Or, of course, you can just drop in a keyword and use the default ad.

There is lots of untapped opportunity on 7Search. You will not be hard pressed to find high searched keywords with no competition! Paying a penny a click for targeted keywords in your niche is very achievable.

A really cool thing is that you can send the traffic to one page static sites. You don't need all of the extra pages (contact, about, etc) that is expected in Google in an effort to get a decent Quality Score.

One thing you'll like (or dislike, depends) is that you cannot bid on keywords that they don't have stats on. If you try to add a keyword and they have never seen traffic for that particular keyword, you can't add it, simple as that. You are given some great stats for the keywords while adding them. You can see estimated searches, estimated clicks and the bid amounts for the top 3 spots. Learn more 7Search PPC tricks and see how you can get started for just $25.

Money Making Tips For At Home Moms: Online Surveys

2009-05-03T16:52:00.000-07:00

Online research survey companies offer stay at home moms an easy and flexible method of making extra money. We all need additional ways to make extra money for our families, now more than ever. The current economy isn't in the greatest shape and some people are getting laid off while others are still thriving. Perhaps you have already looked into online money making opportunities and found them wanting. For one reason or another, blogging, affiliate marketing or internet marketing in general just wasn't for you.

Internet Marketing Isn't For Everyone, Make Money Online Without The Major Time Sacrifice Or Learning Curve

Without sacrificing valuable time with your family, you can make money taking on line surveys. Many online entrepreneurs do in fact earn a significant income from affiliate marketing ventures. But, like any long term successful business, time and effort is necessary to develop a thriving affiliate business. Developing profitable business contacts and online marketing connections often takes a great deal of time and know-how. It takes additional time to develop customer good will and improve your learning curve in a new business.

After spending countless nights into the wee hours of the morning trying to make a go of an affiliate marketing venture, you may find yourself too sleep deprived to adequately care for your family the next day. And of course, PPC marketing requires constant testing, tweaking, tracking and cash flow. So, what is the answer for a stay at home mom with limited time?

Paid Online Marketing Surveys

The solution is online marketing surveys or even secret shoppers. The average consumers opinion is invaluable and right now there are 1000's of companies and brands looking for your opinions on their products and/or services. Before introducing new products, companies often spend millions of dollars on research and development. Without public opinion, companies can end up launching a failed product or not have the ability to improve existing products. Corporations will gladly pay you for your opinion to avoid launching a bad product.

How Do Online Surveys Work?

You simply need a basic Internet connection to get started. You don't need a top of the line computer system or high speed Internet connection. Short 15-20 minute surveys could get you anywhere from $5 to $75. You can take as many or as few surveys as you like and you can take them at any time of day that you feel like it. It is totally up to you and your family’s schedule, how much money you decide to earn each day.

How Do I Get Paid?

A drawback is, most of the companies will take a few days to process your surveys before releasing for payment. You are usually given the option of getting a check for your earnings or have the money deposited to your PayPal account. Some companies usually wait until you build up a minimum balance, usually $10-$20, before releasing your payment. Once you get more involved with taking surveys and you build a reputation of providing thorough and honest answers, you will be personally invited to take the higher paid surveys. What started out as an easy way to make a few extra dollars for your family can easily develop into a profitable business. Learn more about how you can get started with paid survey sites.

Free Automated, Unique Content For Your Niche Blog

2009-05-03T16:42:00.000-07:00

Making money by blogging is just one of the many ways to make money online. However, with the free automated content method, you can free up a bunch of time and money while you are earning cash.

There are several services on the Internet which are specifically setup to send content to your blog on an automated basis. I will be talking about two of my favourites in this article. These two services are free, are easy to setup, offer unique content and work seamlessly with blogs hosted on the Wordpress platform.

The Content Is Free? What's The Catch?

A lot of people are skeptical as to why these services would offer free content and more specifically, unique content. The reason the content is free is simple. The authors of the articles pay to submit to the network. Their articles contain valuable and hopefully search engine optimized links to their web sites in an effort to help them rank better for certain keywords in the search engines.

Now what about the unique content? An article must be 30% unique from the original in order to be considered unique in the eyes of search engines. The service will generate these unique spins of the article automatically and make them 30% or more unique.

Computer based thesaurus's or dictionaries are not used to auto-replace words to make the articles unique. The author who submits the article must provide alternate sentences and titles so that the article can be spun into it's unique cousins, generally resulting in 90+ unique versions. All it takes is one alternate for each sentence and heading to reach the 90 unique versions. Providing additional alternate sentences will of course generate more unique versions. These unique versions are then submitted to blogs across the Internet, slowly over time, and yours can be one of the blogs on the receiving end.

Syndicate Kahuna

One such network to get free content is The Syndicate Kahuna Network. SK allows you to pick up to 10 broad categories from around 20 that you would like to pull your content from. Then you provide keywords related to your niche and the system will pull articles containing those keywords from the categories you selected. You can pick from 1 to 10 articles that you would like sent to your blog.

Article Marketing Automation

Article Marketing Automation offers a similar system to Syndicate Kahuna for getting free content but it differs in one major way. With AMA you just pick the categories that you want to get content from. You do not enter any keywords at all. There are hundreds of categories and subcategories available chock full of content.

There are several ways to leverage these free services to make money online. Build a niche blog with related banners or build a feeder blog that feeds links to your money blog. The choice is yours.