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Online Income Opportunity: The Shortcut
To Online Income Opportunity Riches
By I-key Benney
Do you have an internet income opportunity or program that you currently promote?
Are you doing any affiliate program?
Are you a shining success in the online income opportunity that you're doing?
Are you making enough money and are you financially secured?
Read on, to discover how to succeed in any internet income opportunity and create true wealth.
Most people are like the hound dog that lies on his back and howls all day because he is in pains and feels lazy to get up and do something about it.
They waste their time and lives in dead end jobs that they hate.
Some dabble in various internet income opportunities.
They seem to think that their lives are like a TV show which will have a happy ending.
So they stay in the same job for years, waste their lives and whine.
Like a hound dog.
Some of them will retire, but will walk around for the rest of their lives wounded and miserable because of the stress they accumulated from their jobs.
The others will get downsized, and end up in the skid row, where they will continue howling and whining for the rest of their lives, unable to figure out where their happy ending went.
You don't have to be a hound dog because you can do something about your current financial situation.
Most people rush into online income opportunity for various reasons.
Some people are tired of working hard at their jobs and desire an online income opportunity as away to escape from the 9-5 job rat race.
Some other people desire an internet income opportunity so as to earn extra incomes to supplement the money they make at their jobs.
Other people desire online income opportunity because of the comfort and freedom of working from their homes and the power it gives them to control their financial destinies.
There are some people who have bought an internet income opportunity because they are retired and need something to keep them busy.
When the internet gold rush happened about 6 years ago, millions of average people all over the world rushed into different types of internet income opportunities because they bought the internet hype of get rich fast.
Millions of companies were born overnight and they began to offer free affiliate programs.
Millions of people signed up with the mistaken notion that just by signing up and getting a free website to promote an internet income opportunity will make them rich over night.
This gave birth to various internet promotions and marketing.
One of the most annoying internet promotions was spa-mm-ing.
This in turn gave birth to anti-spam activism which has almost wiped out spamming.
After 1 or 2 years, most of these millions of people who rushed into internet income opportunities had to admit failure because they were not making any money.
Their dreams of fast internet wealth were shattered.
As a way to console themselves, they started labeling every online income opportunity as a scam.
Most of these people will buy an online income opportunity and after they download or receive it will claim that the internet income opportunity is a sc-am (even though they have not tried it yet and have no proof) and apply for a chargeback and a refund so as to eat their cake and have it also.
By so doing, they ripped off the sellers of these online income opportunities.
While some of the companies that promote internet income opportunities may engage in deceptive advertising, it is not true that all internet income opportunities are scams.
Most internet income opportunities are valid and can make the buyer a lot of money.
The problem is that most people who buy internet income opportunity are not capable of doing them because they are not business oriented.
Most of them don't have a clue about marketing and internet promotion.
Most of them buy the programs or sign up in free affiliate programs and after they get the websites they don't do any serious marketing.
A lot of these people don't even know the difference between selling and marketing.
I have known some of these people who don't even know how to write a simple business letter or e-mail.
They write an e-mail without beginning it with a salutation and at the end of the e-mail, they don't include their names or phone numbers or physical addresses.
When they phone you and leave a message on your answering machine, they don't even know that they have to state their names, the reason why they called and their own phone numbers and the best times you may call them back.
Most of them don't even know how to create a folder or save or upload a file or install a software and yet they had signed up in 100 different affiliate programs and internet income opportunities and had dreams of making a million bucks overnight!
Is it any surprise that these people fail miserably?
The least that any serious business person should know how to do should be how to write a business letter.
Most of the people who fail in online income opportunity have no discipline and are disorganized.
They have the mistaken notion that working from home and doing an internet income opportunity program means that they can wake up anytime they like and that they can choose whether to work or not and when to work or not.
They fail to realize that doing an online income opportunity can be more demanding than doing a regular job.
Doing an online income opportunity requires more discipline and competence than a regular job because you may have to do many different chores all by yourself because at the beginning, you probably will be working alone and may not be able to hire helpers.
This means that you may have to play many roles and do so many things all at the same time.
You may be forced to become a website designer, a copy editor, a sales person, a customer service person, a spokes person, an attorney, a book keeper, an accountant and a publisher all at the same time.
This is one of the biggest reasons why most people fail in online income opportunity because they are unable to play all these roles at the same time.
Another reason why most people fail in online income opportunity is that they don't spend enough money to promote it.
To attain success in any internet income opportunity may require that you spend thousands of dollars.
But most people spend $25 a month to place an ad and if they don't make any sale, they conclude that the internet income opportunity doesn't work and give up.
To succeed in any online income opportunity may require that you do different types of marketing and internet promotions.
Your website must be optimized and competently submitted to both the major directories and the search engines on a regular basis.
You must have a link exchange program that is effective.
You may have to do both online and offline marketing.
You may have to do many press releases in order to get free publicity and generate free traffic to buy your online income opportunity.
You may even have to do direct marketing to drive traffic to your websites.
This depends on what type of product or service that you promote.
You may have to go offline to find the targeted customers who need what you promote.
To succeed in doing this, you must know how to locate a targeted mailing list and how to test it.
You may have to do magazine and newspapers advertising too.
Above all, depending on the type of product or service that you're promoting, it may take time for you to start seeing a return on your investment and to become profitable.
Unfortunately, most people that get into online income opportunity lack patience because they are looking for quick ways to make money.
For that reason, they don't do enough marketing and internet promotion and don't network and don't spend enough money to generate traffic and so consequently they fail.
But when they fail, they are unable to admit that they are at fault.
Instead they blame the internet income opportunity and the company who sold it to them and label all internet income opportunities as sc-ams.
May these internet income opportunity insights open your eyes to the possibility of infinite wealth and success that can be yours.
Please feel free to print or publish this article anywhere and read and also send to your friends and well wishers and please preserve the author's resource box below.
Warmly,
Ikey Benney
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Residual Income Opportunities And Formula To Build Your Financial Future
By Jason ONeil
Picture yourself finding the right residual income opportunities that paid you over $5000 per month. How would your life change if that were to happen for you?
Would you be:
Driving the same car
Living in the same house
Taking bigger and better vacations
Pay off your debt
Remember though, residual income is passive income that you earned from work you did in the past. That means you're no longer needing to trade your time for this money. So while $5,000 might not seem like enough to live the life of your dreams, if you understand the formula and can identify the right opportunities you can easily scale that up to 10k, 20k, or even more than 30k per month.
For many people that kind of money is simply not possible, but to you it is. Why do I know that? Because you're reading this article and searching out HOW to do this.
Plant your own money tree with the right residual income opportunities
You probably heard when you were growing up that money doesn't grow on trees? While that's true, in a figurative sense building a business that pays you residual income is basically the equivalent of planting a money tree in your back yard, watering it, and watching it grow.
As you know, most trees don't grow overnight, and neither will your residual income money tree. But with a little TLC and by taking massive action every single day, it will start growing.
What is residual income?
Wisegeek.com, a site that prides itself on providing clear answers to common questions has this to say:
"... residual income is any income generated through indirect involvement with something. This is more properly called passive income. Rental income, royalties, website revenues and portfolio dividends are all means of generating this kind of income."
Authors, song writers, patent and name/likeness licensors, landlords, investors, some attorneys, internet marketers and many type of business owners all earn residual income.
People from all walks of life earn residual income. It doesn't matter what kind of education you have, how tall or good looking your are, or what your faith is. There are many different models and ways to earn a residual or passive income.
The key to building a sustainable business is to identify the right opportunities that will allow you to do the work once, and earn forever on it. I'm going to focus though on using the internet as my favorite means of doing so.
So how do you identify the best residual income opportunities?
Since most of us are not going to be the next famous author, or song writer. And most of us don't have a bunch of properties that we own paying us a monthly income off the rent. I'm going to have to look at residual income opportunities that ANYONE can do, online, from the comfort of their own home.
The internet has created more millionaires than the rest of the business opportunities in the history of the world combined prior to it's inception.
Why is this though?
The answer is simple. Because when you do the work once on the internet it's there to stay. Here are the two very best residual income opportunities for people looking to work out of their home.
1. Affiliate Marketing - If you're not sure exactly what affiliate marketing is, let me share the thoughts of Darren Rowse?
"Perhaps the simplest way to explain affiliate marketing is that it is a way of making money online whereby you as a publisher are rewarded for helping a business by promoting their product, service or site... in most cases this involves you as a publisher earning a commission when someone follows a link on your blog to another site where they then buy something."
What that means is you get paid a commission when you are able to help bring a buyer and seller together on a product you don't own.
The way you'll usually do this is by creating a blog, or even a video channel on YouTube, and start promoting various products and services. You can promote literally anything online and make a commission for it. As long as you have a passion for something, you can promote it to others who share the same passions.
Did you know many of the popular shopping sites are actually run by affiliate marketers selling other companies products? Pretty much any time you do a search for a product review online, you're going to be reading the review of an affiliate trying to make a commission by promoting that product. Usually if you're searching for something general like "treadmill reviews" the one with the highest rating is usually the one that pays the best commission.
Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to get starting in building a business that pays a residual income. Because the cost to get involved with this type of opportunity is usually very little. There is also no overhead or physical products that you need to ship yourself. You simply need a computer, a domain name, hosting and a few promotional tools. That's it. You are in business.
The only problem with residual income is sometimes products lose their popularity. So you might end up promoting something that you spend time working on, and the product is either discontinued or a brand new model comes out. The commissions on physical products can also be pretty small. For example the affiliate program for Amazon.com pays from 4-8% commissions.
2. Network Marketing - Network marketing or Multi Level Marketing, is basically like affiliate marketing, but with multiple levels. This means you not only are going to earn a commission when you make a sale, but also when your team is able to make sales. Typically the commissions by your down-line are going to be small, but they do add up as you're able to make your own sales as well as build a team of people who are able to duplicate your efforts.
Picture yourself earning a residual income on all sales produced by a team of 10,000. That's what you would be able to call a real passive income!
This is a great income source, but it's not something that will be built overnight. Typically it will take a few years to build up a substantial income in the multiple 6 figure range.
3. Internet Marketing - This really isn't any different than the two models above. It's actually the same, but for the purpose of this article I'm looking at it as selling your very own products online. With the possibility of even setting up an affiliate program of your own to get others to sell your products.
As I said above, the internet has made more millionaire than any other business model combined. You can literally sell your very own products in just about any type of niche you have a passion for. The internet creates a huge demand for information. What kind of information do you know that others will pay for?
What about taking some of those affiliate products you're selling and create your own version of them and make it just a little better? That can be the difference between making 10% vs. 100% commissions.
Lets put this into action...
I want you to imagine yourself having a business that shows up in the first spot on the search engines for the search term "blue widgets" and this search ended up getting 20,000 searches per month across the world. By doing some simple math you can estimate what kind of monthly residual income you can make off selling "blue widgets" to the masses.
Let me show you this math:
20,000 searches x 36% (studies show this figure) people click on your website = 7,200 monthly visitors
4% of those visitors end up buying your "blue widgets" product = 288 sales
Each sale is worth $15 per month = $4,320 month 1 income
Each subsequent month you will continue having people purchase these blue widgets from your site, with very little work needed to maintain your sites rankings at the top of the search engines. And the previous months clients will continue paying for this product, creating a strong residual income.
This is a very broad scope of how to build a residual income online, but the formula works for anything.
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TURN ANY HOBBY INTO A PART-TIME BUSINESS
If you are planning on beginning a business, your best bet is to start out part-time while you are still earning a full-time income at your present job. If you are like most people who are existing from payday to payday -- you don't have a lot of money to invest in a full-time business. No need to worry! Just use your favorite hobby as your business base and grow from there! There's no telling where you'll be at 2 or 3 years down the road. Perhaps you can even tell your present boss to "take that job and shove it." Wouldn't that be great?
Using your present hobby or favorite pastime as your business base has many benefits. Why? Because ANY business you decide to become involved in should be doing something you LOVE -- something you believe in -- something that you would work at NO MATTER what income it would generate. This will give you the stamina to see your business through the beginning hard times and times when there is more work to do than you can handle. We all know the feeling of doing a job that we hate to do. There is no way we can give it 110% of our abilities because we procrastinate getting through it and just want to get it over with. That's why it is vitally important to dearly love the product or service you have chosen to build your business around.
Do you like cooking? Start a recipe newsletter for others who like the same thing and sell your recipes by publishing a simple booklet. Do you enjoy making crafts? Sell them through mail order (be sure and mark up the price for shipping and handling). Do you enjoy working on cars? Print and distribute flyers in your neighborhood listing your prices. Offer a coupon discount for the customer to use on their first auto repair job. Do you enjoy writing? Write a small booklet or how-to manual and sell it through mail order or to multi-level enthusiasts. Do you enjoy computer programming? Write a program and sell through shareware groups or even to mail order computer owners.
Yes -- just about anything you love doing can be magically transformed into a business opportunity for you. Some items may only sell well in your neighborhood, while some products and services do well in mail order. If you decide to sell through mail order, all you need to do is write a simple ad and have it typeset. Start out with a smaller 1-inch, 2-inch or 3-inch ad. Ask the customer to send a "first-class stamp" or "$1.00" for more information. When they write you, include a 8 1/2x11 sheet detailing your prices. Make sure you have a small order form to make it easy to order your product or service. And of course -- include a cover letter stating that you appreciate their inquiry and look forward to doing business with them in the near future. You'd be surprised how many sales have been lost because a business didn't take the time to write a cover letter and personalize the mailing.
Also, start educating yourself by reading and researching other home-based businesses. Before I opened up my business I read national publications like "Small Business Opportunities," "Entrepreneur," "Home Office Computing," and "Spare Time Magazine." Although there were some full page ads in there filled with hype (claiming to make me $1 million dollars with a sheet of paper) -- the articles are excellent. Don't spend more than $3 for information in the beginning of your business because if a company is legitimate you should be able to call them and discuss the opportunity over the phone with them. Businesses that claim to put you in business overnight should never demand a large amount of money from you. On the contrary -- legitimate businesses have nothing to hide and will not charge you more than a few dollars in postage to learn the "whole" story behind their claims. Instead -- use these publications, as well as books from the library on starting a business to further your knowledge of the world.
Another good move on your part is to invest a few hours by attending a meeting that is sponsored by SCORE from the Small Business Administration in your area. It's free -- and the valuable information you obtain from actual people who have been in business before is something that will be extremely valuable in the months ahead. Just call the SBA to find out more information.
Yes -- it's that easy! Of course, this is only the beginning. As with any hobby, it will take time (probably many months) to realize a profit but think of it this way: Most people that have a hobby know they have to spend money to take part in their hobby. It only makes sense to invest money in advertising your hobby to others so you can eventually make some of that money back in sales for your own business!
HOW TO START A DRIVING SERVICE
FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT
This is the business of driving other people's vehicles (cars, trucks, vans, RV's) for them.
Examples are: part-time chauffeuring, driving and delivery service of and with the customer's vehicles, transporting vehicles, taking people shopping or any combination of these and many other services.
It can be delivering people to the airport and picking them up when they return (in their car), running errands for them in their vehicle (with or without them along), delivering their car to another destination, and of course, driving your customers in their cars on trips, or to and from the hospital.
It can also be a service to drive senior citizens in their own or their children's automobiles to go shopping, visiting or to visit a relative. This kind of service can not only be handy for your customers, it can save time and/or money, speed up their activities, enable them to do things that would not otherwise be possible and improve their lifestyles.
A good example of how you can save them money is when they must be out of town for a few days.
They can, of course, drive themselves to the airport, but then they must walk from the parking lot to the terminal, which means they must go there early and carry their luggage a good distance.
Then they have to leave their car in the airport parking lot for the duration of their absence where they not only have to pay a pretty stiff parking fee but also take a chance of having someone break into it.
Your service would deliver them to the airport door, return their car (or your) garage, where it would be safe, the go back and pick them up AT THE DOOR when they return. You could even have it washed and serviced in the interim (at their request). That kind service is worth a few dollars to lots of people!
Other examples are taking people shopping, picking up the kids after the movies, going after packages, delivering their car to a relative's house, driving them on a tour or trip,, being available to drive elderly or disabled persons.
Note that there are many elderly people who have cars but are not really qualified to drive them on the highway or in big cities. Wouldn't it be nice for an elderly lady with poor eyesight to have a "younger" lady drive her on shopping trips --or to her doctor?
In most states you will need a chauffeur's license and insurance to cover any liability you might incur. It is very unlikely that you would drive a car with no liability insurance, but with your own, your insurer will "represent" you in case of any problems -- saving you worry and the cost of a lawyer.
While you are at it, check on bonding -- for yourself and any employees you might hire. This is not expensive and can be an excellent selling point: "our drivers are bonded!"
You will need your own transportation -- to get to and from the jobs, but probably not use your vehicle in the business (that requires additional insurance and gets into another, more complicated area like taxis and buses.
Once you have your business established, look around for several possible assistance or employees that you can hire by the hour or on a commission (sub-contract) basis.
Have them bonded and make sure they are good, safe drivers and that they have the proper credentials. Then, they can be on call for when people call in for drivers.
College students or retired seniors would be ideal for this kind of work. Make sure some of your standby drivers are able to make overnight (or longer) trips on short notice!
Advertise your service. Wear something that will identify you and your drivers as drivers (hat, monogrammed shirt unique colored windbreaker, etc.) because you are serving your customers, not accompanying them!
Place notices in airports and depots, hospitals, nursing homes, retirement centers, condos, or wherever there might be potential customers.
Always stress that your drivers are safe, trained and bonded -- and that your service is available on a 24 hour basis (if you want to thrive). Your ads should also suggest some of the benefits of using your service -- to get them thinking "right."
For example, you might compare the cost of renting a car to drive to a city a few hundred miles away. Compute the mileage, time, insurance and other charges and compare that to what it would cost to hire your service and use their own car. Your rates will look much better when compared to renting a large car from Hertz or Avis for a few days!
Set your rates by the hour or mile (with a minimum charge of course) and provisions for overnight travel and return trips (like if you deliver their car and return by bus).
For example, 25 per mile for local trips ($10 minimum); 8 for out of town trips the same day ($25 minimum), the same for longer trips, but with a $50 minimum plus expenses (return fare,meals, motel).
In your consideration of this type of business, you will surely have noticed where there is a need. This need should be investigated thoroughly, so you can plan just what type of service would be best, how it should be set up,, and how much you can expect to make from it.
If you live near a large airport, you might concentrate on that to begin with... Work out plans to offer pickup and delivery service to commuters. If there are a lot of retired people in your area you might want to figure how you could best serve their needs. In either case, talk to potential customers and ask them what they would like -- then plan accordingly.
When you and your assistants drive your customers, take extra pains to be careful drivers. Make up a set of rules for your drivers and make sure they understand and agree to abide by them. Always be neat appearing, courteous and helpful. Open the door for the customers, help ladies in and out; carry the baggage, etc.
You can use the exercise after driving a while and these little extras will make all the difference in the world to your customers -- and probably ensure your success.
Startup costs for this business are very low, just a chauffeur's and adequate insurance. Try it for a while by yourself, and when you have learned the ropes, hire (or sign up) and train (don't forget bonding) active and on-call employees,
The biggest advantage to commission drivers is that technically they pay you a fee to obtain a driving job for them. They are responsible for their own withholding and social security taxes.
Also you might check into driving cars for dealers, towing travel trailers on trips or for dealers, and chauffeuring the owner's or even rented motor homes on vacations (register with the RV rental places). These jobs would not pay as well as private parties, but might be great as well as private parties, but they might be great to fill in between private jobs.
Perhaps the biggest possible problem area is to get the reputation as a bad driver, although poor service would be a close second.
Make sure any contract drivers you hire know that they are not only expected not to cause accidents, they are expected to see that they don't happen!
This means they must be good defensive drivers. Several large corporations that employ drivers have a standing rule -- one accident and you are out!
Also, don't take it for granted that your drivers can handle the customer vehicles: be sure they are qualified to handle a manual transmission, pull a trailer or drive a 26 foot motor home BEFORE sending on these jobs.
Have them complete a course or at least demonstrate to you that they can safely and professionally operate vehicles they are to drive for YOUR CUSTOMERS!
Wouldn't this be a great business for a group of college students! They could even provide safe (sober) drivers for party goers.
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