How to start a profitable internet business

Obviously there are a couple ways to start a profitable internet business. Most of the time people hit a brick wall in their efforts to build their business because they lack one or more key ingredients to create sustainable income from their website. If you have ever felt frustrated on the net your not alone, but unless you have a ton of money or time to select a niche and develop, test, monitor your own brands you may want to consider a couple of the following ways to build your new income stream.

Free methods can be found all over the internet from various marketers. Most of the time it's the one gold nugget that makes these books valuable, the rest of the time these ebooks, training courses are nothing more than regurgitated content and one guru trying to compete for the market share with new "Amazing Products or Software". Here's the best rule of thumb...

1) Review your needs and see if the product is really going to solve them or just dig you into debt?
2) Can you live without the book or tool?

3) Revisit rule number one!

Now that that internet spending spree is over we can start to narrow in on a few key subjects that will help get you off of the ground.

The fastest way to get started with a profitable business is affiliate marketing! No website design costs, no hosting fees, no auto responders and other tools that can render you broke in months from lack of traffic and lack of slack from these billing companies.

Nest free blog platforms can get you rolling quickly.

Need content hit the major article directories, new feeds, and blogs to find relevant intriguing content.

Find free traffic methods like the ones located on this blog or various others. If you choose to use any of these methods on this blog please review the FTC Guidelines located on the navigation on the home page.

Other types of traffic come from video, social networks, hub pages, or squidoo lenses and the list goes on and on. I have seen over 1000 ways to get free and paid traffic. You need to balance 3, 4, 5 or maybe more traffic sources to get balanced and quality back links and traffic.

Okay Free Traffic So What - It's Useless Unless

Hey time for another edition from your buddy #IMtheCashKing reflecting on the last post I wrote I talked about affiliate marketing, website traffic or web visitors. "EYEBALLS" to your webpage. I feel that before I go any further two very important issues we should discuss.

First "I am not some internet marketing guru"
Second "I am only know to select few" and we trust our alliances and we value each others opinion so don't just take my word for it look at and evaluate the information presented to you.

Now back to our topic at hand. Website traffic although sold as the be all end all" in most internet marketing programs; is useless unless you know exactly what to do with it. We will be adding a marketing blog soon after the holiday's are over.

I may even just stick it to this blog. Either way you need to know what your visitors are searching for, how they want to receive you and your information in a certain way. Not everyone wants to be sold, some just are looking for information. Some are just researching niches adn looking for content, some are looking for joint ventures and some are just looking out of board om.

In order to prepare what type of visitors you are attracting you need to decide on a niche and then you need to get into the business of finding out if it's even worth a business to begin with.

Again traffic is necessary for any website to produce results otherwise you are a blade of grass in the middle of 1,000,000 acres of lush green lawn. Good luck getting found unless you plan on paying your way. If that's the case you had better know your metrics. Here is a great way to start your keyword and competitive intelligence. For this I recommend one place to start.

I have looked at and researched many kw tools, This is the first one that actually makes sense and doesn't breat the bank. It's called Market Samurai Do the research yourself (BTW this is not an affiliate link so enjoy the tip.

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Changes to FTC Ruling for Affiliate Marketers

As you may have heard the FTC came out with new rulings about affiliate websites. In order to stay current with these compliance changes we have decided to post them right here in the clear.

w/o leaglease involved.

This blog contains information about methods of free and paid traffic generation, some marketing tips and reference to 3rd party materials including book, ebooks, cd's, dvd,s, software applications and other methods of legal traffic generation.

Here on this blog we do not create and sell our own products. We purely review, comment, journal our results or thoughts about them.

We do recommend products that may provide a commission, rewards, traffic points, or other means of consideration. In no way are you obligated to purchase any of these products...

Here is an excerpt from a blog with more information...

The FTC Ruling:

Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his or her experience with a product or service as typical when that is not the case will be required to clearly disclose the results that consumers can generally expect. In contrast to the 1980 version of the Guides – which allowed advertisers to describe unusual results in a testimonial as long as they included a disclaimer such as “results not typical” – the revised Guides no longer contain this safe harbor.

The revised Guides also add new examples to illustrate the long standing principle that “material connections” (sometimes payments or free products) between advertisers and endorsers – connections that consumers would not expect – must be disclosed. These examples address what constitutes an endorsement when the message is conveyed by bloggers or other “word-of-mouth” marketers. The revised Guides specify that while decisions will be reached on a case-by-case basis, the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service. Likewise, if a company refers in an advertisement to the findings of a research organization that conducted research sponsored by the company, the advertisement must disclose the connection between the advertiser and the research organization. And a paid endorsement – like any other advertisement – is deceptive if it makes false or misleading claims.

For the full text of the press release go to http://ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm

For the text of the Federal ruling (if you want to learn the specific ruling) click here for the pdf

http://ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005endorsementguidesfnnotice.pdf


My answers:


1) Should I be concerned?

I haven't delved too deeply into this subject because I personally don't use very many testimonials in my products, nor do I participate in fake blogs, or fake "newspaper" sites. (I think these are the sites the FTC is really trying to target) The other day I was surfing the Boise Weekly (local independent paper in Boise) and saw an ad for Twitter jobs where people could earn $75 per hour. I assumed it was a Twitter advertisement as the banner was using Twitter's logo and color scheme. Instead, I landed on The San Diego Herald News. It took me a moment, but I finally realized it was a fake newspaper story regarding a couple who had used some such product to make $300 a day. It came with fake testimonials, etc. At first I had to chuckle because it had actually fooled me. At first glance I thought it was a real newspaper story. I'm willing to bet this landing page HAULS it in sales-wise. People still largely trust newspapers and if they're doing a story about a local internet marketing success, there must be something to it, right? Especially if the local newspaper has taken the time to report on it.

I'm all for creative landing pages, but I think fake newspapers and fake blogs cross the line and I won't feel bad when they're gone or at least properly labeled as to what they are.


2) What should I do?

Unless this directly affects you (i.e., you use fake newspaper and blog sites, or have specifically detailed results testimonials), I wouldn't sweat it. The key to internet marketing success is to find a good niche, create quality content and STICK WITH IT. The slow, hard way is the best way. If you use testimonials and you can't show what AVERAGE results are, then simply don't state specific details in testimonials. Keep it generalized: "This is a great product. I learned a lot!" This will keep you "safe harbor", as they say.

3) How is this going to affect ClickBank Affiliate Marketing program?

I think marketers will still be able to have specific details in testimonials, but they'll need to accompany those with AVERAGE RESULTS it looks like. Interesting enough, I tried to state average results with my VIRAL MEDIA CASH product when I launched it and ClickBank made me take it out. So, ClickBank will have to change that policy and let vendor’s state average results. You’ll probably see more generalized testimonials, none at all, or the sites will have to rely more on author results.


4) Is there additional information that you recommend that should be added to my disclaimer?

Read the FTC links and COMPLY would be my advice.

5) Is there any other questions that I should ask you that I did not ask about this issue?

Let me say one more thing. There are a lot of products on ClickBank making big claims. Do I think they're all lies? No. I can tell you there are people making huge sums of money on ClickBank and they're doing it honestly. There are people who follow programs and make big $$. There are also a "middle class" of CB marketers who are making comfortable, average livings following programs. Are there a lot B.S. sites? YES. It's often hard to weed them out. But the beauty of CB is that if you're not happy, you can get a refund. It's impossible to get FULLY scammed. The most you lose is the time it took you to purchase and review the product.

ClickBank represents the future of publishing. We're pioneers and this niche will only get better and better. I'm optimistic about ClickBank. FTC ruling or not, I see nothing but growth.

However, I see a lot of new CB marketers buy ONE or TWO information products and expect they can implement them, kick back and rake in tens of thousands of dollars. This is NOT the way to approach investing in any HOW TO information product. Instead, look at is as investing in information that you simply add to your hopefully ever-growing knowledge base. I never follow a program to the T... I simply purchase it, mine it for unique ideas and cobble that data to what's already in my head. I've been planning to do an article about creating an information budget which I think is just as important for us information economy marketers as having a marketing budget. I won't tell you how much, but I spend quite a bit of money buying info products. I maybe return one in ten because they’re poorly written, falsely packaged or it’s so basic that it’s useless to me. I don't implement every product I buy... instead, as said, I suck the information out of them. I better educate myself. I might take one idea from a system and combine it with another idea from another system. If I simply get one or two good ideas out of a book, learn something I didn't know, I find it worth the $30-100 I spent. I see information as a hard cost of being an affiliate marketer.

What I'm trying to say... is that I would IGNORE the wild claims many of these sites make... see them as BEST CASE SCENARIOS and instead, if they look interesting, you feel like you could learn something, purchase it with that mindset.

I hope that makes sense. If anybody knows more about this ruling, please add to my thoughts in the comments.

courtesy of http://www.cbengine.com/blog/post.cfm/questions-about-new-ftc-ruling

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Welcome to Traffic How To For Internet Marketing - Affiliate Marketing - Traffic Strategies

If you are like me and have been on the internet for more than five minutes I am certain you have seen the advertisements that claim you can create massive cash, money, website traffic all on autopilot. We know how these types of ads go, they write with compelling sales copy so your jaw and your wallet are open before you ever hit the "Buy Now Button."

It's lie they were speaking just to you, free traffic, massive explosions of cash in this tough economy is sure appealing. What they never mention is the ways to get your traffic without depending on your own efforts.

Sure there are literally thousands of ways to get traffic to your website, targeted and non targeted traffic. Let's talk a little about the real costs associated with getting traffic. There is the fast route PPC, JV, Mall and Auction sites, also many new popular sites like twitter and facebook. These sites can bring in all types of traffic quickly but the problem is if you do not spend a ton of time socializing your link authority drops within hours.

I am not trying to sell you anything here except on the idea that there are no, and I mean no short cuts if you want to build sustainable traffic to your website and earn ton's of cash.