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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Online earning verses capitalism



Recently I had the opportunity to do some Marketing business with about 20 small businesses owned and operated by people who recently immigrated to the United States. These people were excited to talk to me, both about their own business and the emerging business coming to their neighborhood. They were more than willing to help in any way they could. They shared their own business practices and the possibilities for the new business coming in. There opinion was more business, more opportunity for everyone!
On the other hand there was six more business, owned and operated by citizens of the United States running a small business. These business owners were just as busy  yet in their minds they were too busy to hear anything more than “Hi!”. So were these people more successful? Were they more swamped with customers than the others? Maybe they were expecting lots of new business soon and preparing for it? The answer was no to all of the above.
So what was missing? Pure, down to earth, eye to eye Marketing. This has been the age old practice of good will that has been going strong since the beginning of time. It doesn’t mean you will make a sale but you look approachable, you look like the kind of person who would give you a fair shake should you need their business in the future. The business owner has spread the word about how they do business that will ripple on for months, even years into the future, and it was free!
Large business has begun the practices of good Marketing that is quite free to do as well. Surveys go out and show concern about how the customer felt about their recent experience at their business. How clean, well lit, stocked was their store? Did they receive good customer service? What kind of speed was the transaction handled at? This is all free marketing.Obviously the small business owner hasn’t learned this yet.
So why am I mentioning this here, where people are doing business online? Free marketing can be practiced online.  What is the response time for people who just have a question? Do you treat everyone as if they are a customer, whether they might buy something or not? Do you thank them for their question? Do you invite them back?
Some huge marketing tips however: Never set a program for automatic responses after a purchase! This is a major mistake some large business make. Unless you are watching where and to whom these auto responses are going and why you can very well accidently insult your customer, or future customer!
A marketing professional recently commented on his experience with Sears. The same thing happened to me at Macys. He had recently canceled his order with Sears because he found out the item he had ordered was mistakenly listed incorrectly. It wasn’t what he was looking for and it hadn’t shipped yet either. He’d been waiting for it much longer than he was told it would take so he went in online and canceled it.
Buy this time the automated process wheels started rolling and couldn’t be stopped, obviously. The “Thank you for your order” email went out, followed by the “How did you like the item, online ordering process, and the would you use this service again” survey went out. It was all automated, designed to operate without the thought of an exception to the rule!
Needless to say it is a poor attempt at feigning good customer service by reducing the expense of doing great customer service. How many times have we heard, “Oh that’s just an automated form”? That’s

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Neobux has changed

So all the "exciting" changes have been made. In the end the standard member makes less than before. Many very small ads have taken over. the 1 cent a click days are over. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be happy with 2 cents a day.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

earning money online, self employed, yeah!

One of the biggest reasons I am self employed is corporate stupidity, employment stupidity. whatever you want to call it. In plain fact it is the need for more money by the people above us. They need it more than you. The reason I'm ranting is I read today that they staffed one single traffic controller for an airport out east. When media got a hold of information that two planes had to land themselves without assistants they started asking questions. They heard the lone controller on duty, a supervisor, fell asleep and was suspended. I saw this story almost immediately after they posted it on comcast news. When I went back ten minutes later to check my facts, the story was gone! It's like it never happened!

Well of course, that makes sense to me. Answers lead to more questions, usually embarrassing questions. I started to wonder why they had a policy of having only one traffic controller on duty at all. The responsibility for safety is two important to left up to one person. Ask any doctor, ongoing or acute medical conditions can induce sudden sleep, medications can too. What if he had a heart attack or stroke all alone that the tower? How embarrassing would it be to his superiors if he had suffered a TIA or mild stroke? He's not the one that should have been suspended, his bosses are. But that's the way we should be thinking about our employees.

Employees didn't create the financial mess we're in, the bosses did. Meanwhile the top brass not only get to keep their jobs, they get their million dollar bonuses and get government money on top of that. Meanwhile the employee is lucky if they see a bone to chew. Whew, thanks, I feel better.

Would you like to see $1000 by this time tomorrow?


I spent all of 2009 hunting (researching) online for earning opportunities. I know at first glance what will be coming up by the first ten words of one of their sales pitches. I had to experience it for myself. These days they’re only a change to get a good snicker in.
The one in the title has to do with promising too much money for too little time spent doing it. These are usually the ones that tell you that what they have to tell you in the next 30 minutes will change your life and they will give you all the information for free! In reality what they give you for free is promises. They will end up telling you what they are going to tell you. All you have to do is buy their free how to guide for as little as $50, others would charge you much more, but we have this limited time offer for a few select customers only, no one else. And today we are cutting the price to $40.
You see where I’m going with this? Before you do anything, make a commitment, or (God forbid) send any money to anyone, look it up online. In your address or search bar type in “is stupidadd.com a scam”? Of course you would replace the words “stupidadd” with the real website. If lots of personal experience feedback is listed great. Just make sure it’s actual feed back because some of the owners of these “opportunities will load up the search engines with propaganda from the company itself in an attempt to bury the truth on you, so that you don’t see it. There are really good sharks out there!
So anyway, you will notice that these types of adds that want you to spend $40 bucks send you a book that “tells you” all the wonderful stuff they are going to tell you in the next one you buy for only $40! Then that one tells you all the wonderful stuff they are going to tell you next time for only $40.
Don’t laugh, there are people who’ve spent $120 and more doing exactly what the website got them started in, in the first place. They bravely share their story on exactly how they got fleeced and how much they spent doing so! Proceed with caution. Even friends can accidently mislead you. Tomorrow I’ll talk about forums within sites. They are a good thing but caution is still very necessasary.
I won’t be able to get you $1000 by tomorrow but hopefully I can help you keep your hard earned money in your pocket, not theirs!

Talk about free income! Your ancestor left you all of theirs?!


Did you ever wonder why there is so much spam email trying to sell you on single sites, credit scores, weight loss and money you supposedly inherited from some rich deceased relative in Zimbabwe?  You could be faithfully married, know credit score and never had to diet. So why do you keep getting them? After doing a lot of research on online income you’ll find the top 10 most profitable on line subjects list these as money makers.
The first three don’t bother me as far as trying to get your money and participation, at least not as much as the last. The last one shows us a lot about society in general. It shows us people are greedy, desperate for cash and willing to shut off common sense in pursuit of wealth. We would never get these emails if they didn’t make money for someone on the other end.
If I were to believe my email telling me I had an ancestor in some region of Africa that left me all their money I would be broke. First I have to send them some ridiculous sum of money for them to send ME my “inheritance”. And according to my email I have had a lot of ancestors in Africa. Considering my family has lived in the Midwestern United States for 4 generations, these tales are impossible to by into.
I used to get a lot of email from “people” who, through no fault of their own were bankrupt, ill and homeless. Believe it or not, this is a profitable “business” as well! Enough people out there have huge hearts and are willing to help those in need, but that’s the only positive news about it. They feel sorry enough about an individual’s problems to send them money only to soon go to their bank embarrassed because they got suckered. That last part isn’t what I’ve learned online, it’s from experience. I worked at a bank a couple of years ago and met two of these people.
So when people who are curious about what I do online the subject of spam comes up. I just tell them; “According to my email I need to dissolve my marriage and date again, I need to lose weight,  have my credit score checked three times a week and move to Zimbabwe to make money transfers easier from some ancestors at least 5 generations ago”. They get the point.
Someday I wish I could respond to one of these emails and tell them to give me their location because I’m moving there and would love to meet them!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Affiliate Marketing and free income opportunities are hard to come by

Lets face it, there's lots of web sites claiming online earning is easy and free but sometimes it feels more like watching cement dry, as I've said before. Sams club has turned me down and Target is not that excited to have me as an affiliate. All of them want me to run a web site geared toward just selling. So where's the personal experience? Where is the story and trials and tribulations from someone looking for something and finally finding it? I want my site to reflect me and to do that I would definitely have some impact on their sales just because I shop somewhere. In my retirement web page I have taught people how to shop a club store whether they're shopping for 2 or 20! It not beneath me to shop at Target. Their cleaning products and prices fit my life style. So who really looses in the end? Oh well, I march forward. 

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is not easy either! I found that depending on the retailer, it can be expensive to become their affiliate. Just to get commissions from one of them would cost me too much at this point. I've found that major retailers near me a much more friendly about it. I am seriously looking at Target because I do shop there a lot. Again, the retailer has to reflect who I am before I even think about making any money from talking about what they sell. For me it's not about volume, it's about value. You won't catch me talking about yacht ownership or how to wear expensive jewelery. True, I'm still in my jammies this morning while doing that research and it's raining outside. Wish me luck. I'll tell you later today how I did! Have a great day in the mean time.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Earning online easily


I was once again approached by a friend about online marketing/earning. I reminded her about this little place I developed just for people like her. That in itself turned her off! “Sounds like a lot of work!” If I had a nickel for every time I heard that! All they see is when I come out of my house. They see me have time to assist my autistic son. They know I take two major trips a year. They see me take time for my dogs. All they know is what they see. They don’t see that I work online about 50 hours a week. They don’t know I’m always thinking of key words to use when I blog or write anything during the week. Online earning is not easy. But once you learn keywords and write articles it comes pretty naturally. My only problem is I seem to be schizophrenic in a way. I’m supposed to niche market and stick to that one niche. My niche market is ME! So I will be interested in people who are thinking about retirement, who has a medical condition they have to manage (like diabetes) and curious about online earning! That’s a niche, isn’t it? It seems silly to not have several interests for anyone.  To accomplish all that it only made sense to start 5 blogs. I separated my interests, but many times they overlap. No, I don’t have time to quick run to your house to pick something up! No, I can’t go shopping with you tomorrow. I don’t have the day off just because I’m home! My husband has the same problem. His mom thinks when he isn’t out of town he has the day “off”. This seems to be a common affliction. But, oh well. The operative word is; no.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Everything is free, nothing to sell. Nothing to buy.

Joke for the day
This is truly a free venture. This brings up the very good question-How free is free? The answer: Completely, totally, void of any cost necessary to start up. It’s about traffic generation, writing articles, making your services available to the online community, in essence marketing you, nothing else!
While researching what you need to begin thoughts roll through your mind, or at least they do through mine. Why not develop a logo one day that people will recognize as me! It could be an avatar, it could be designed by someone, or it could be a picture. While researching this idea I signed up for some program to possibly consider in the future marketing me and my services. I always use our phone number for these kinds of requests. That way our business phone numbers aren’t called for some sales call that can easily be generated from these sites.
Sure enough, it went something like this: How are you doing today. We are offering this free program for you to try for 30 days. So what happens after 30 days? That’s a great question, we offer this, this, this, this, this, and this for much less than our competitors. What does it cost? You get all this, this, this, this-Cut off at the pass: how much? $90 is all. I am not prepared to pay that. Well what kind of product do you sell and how much do you sell it for? I do not sell anything. Thank you very much, have a great day!
Four minutes, no sale, no purchase.

Blogging principles done right from the beginning

This is the stuff I wish I had known months ago
When you set up your blog always but always label your url starting with www. If you don’t when people look for it by name and start the search with www they will not pull up your blog. If you do the search engine will pull up your blog whether they start the search with www or not! That’s just the way search engines are. It doesn’t have a big impact on your rank but better safe than sorry.
Labels are so important to a search engine they are a must have in every blog you start. Get the label gadget in there right away when you set your blog up. After writing your posts make sure to label them! This is where your knowledge of good key word use is of utmost importance! You have to make sure those labels are directly related to what your website is about as well as the preceding post. The more labels you have the better. For example: a blog about cooking would have labels referring to the cooking technique used, the food cooked, etc. My goal for my diabetic smoke house blog is to present recipes for the family with a diabetic in it without preaching about what is good or bad for us diabetics. There are few labels that direct to a post about diabetes. Cooking and eating should be fun and enjoyable and not centered around the fact that someone is diabetic.
I told you that story to tell you this story: Back links are essential to a high website ranking. Anytime you find a website that relates to yours in any way, refer to it! Refer to your other blogs if they relate to each other.  Redundancy is a positive term when writing your blog. Unlike general use of language, redundancy in a blog makes it rank higher!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Retire to online income

Meet Wendy; her web site gave me some great ideas for retirement. It covers the far reaches of every aspect of retirement. Advice about divorce, disability, Medicare, housing and hobbies are just to name a few. As I am in pursuit of online income I gave a suggestion of hers a try. Under the Work Online Tab she has three solid suggestions for us. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, or MTurk works for a lot of people I know. I’ve done some tasks for them and they do pay! They’ve paid me. I signed up for American Consumer Opinion a couple of days ago. I haven’t heard anything yet but just from what I know about them I think I will hear something soon. Fiverr.com is a site she introduced to me I am kind of excited about. For just $5 you can get someone to do almost anything for you, on line or on the phone or through the mail. If you can think of something you would like to do and would do for $5 you can list it as well. The first $5 I make from this site I am spending it on experienced SEO help through Fiverr.com.
It’s pretty much a one stop shop so to speak. She lists the top states to retire in and why. One of the first things she lists there is where you would avoid paying state taxes! That information is huge. An interesting fact is a state that gets its money from let’s say tourism won’t charge its citizens state taxes, the tourist has done that already, and gladly.
Sign up for the Newsletter if you really want the latest and greatest retirement news. After all it’s hard enough to save for retirement; we want to get the most for every dollar when the day comes. We all need news about taxes, volunteering, hobbies social groups and activities. Where we retire should never be dictated to us by the mere fact we are retired!

Retirement tools go far beyond just knowing how to save and where to invest for it.

Meet Wendy; her web site gave me some great ideas for retirement. It covers the far reaches of every aspect of retirement. Advice about divorce, disability, Medicare, housing and hobbies are just to name a few. As I am in pursuit of online income I gave a suggestion of hers a try. Under the Work Online Tab she has three solid suggestions for us. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, or MTurk works for a lot of people I know. I’ve done some tasks for them and they do pay! They’ve paid me. I signed up for American Consumer Opinion a couple of days ago. I haven’t heard anything yet but just from what I know about them I think I will hear something soon. Fiverr.com is a site she introduced to me I am kind of excited about. For just $5 you can get someone to do almost anything for you, on line or on the phone or through the mail. If you can think of something you would like to do and would do for $5 you can list it as well. The first $5 I make from this site I am spending it on experienced SEO help through Fiverr.com.
It’s pretty much a one stop shop so to speak. She lists the top states to retire in and why. One of the first things she lists there is where you would avoid paying state taxes! That information is huge. An interesting fact is a state that gets its money from let’s say tourism won’t charge its citizens state taxes, the tourist has done that already, and gladly.
Sign up for the Newsletter if you really want the latest and greatest retirement news. After all it’s hard enough to save for retirement; we want to get the most for every dollar when the day comes. We all need news about taxes, volunteering, hobbies social groups and activities. Where we retire should never be dictated to us by the mere fact we are retired!So I started a blog about this fact Check it out here! Lets do something about this together!

Friday, March 4, 2011

Generate real traffic to your web site

www.fiverr.com for interesting income

Try this site out. It's not capable of being a scam because...........You actually have to do something to sell anything on it. Just like the name implys, you earn $5. You can sell or buy something. It's just $5. I could for instance send a post card from my neighboring city for $5. But then again, how many people want to brag they've been to the midwest? It's "fly over land". Anyway, think of something you can do for $5. Advertise on Fiverr. You can buy traffic to your website. You can twitter a bunch of people, anything! Give it a try, I did!

You can create back links, increase popularity, and increase your ranking, making your site more visible to more people. Keyword use is still critical but this will help immensely. True it costs $5. But a little investment in yourself makes a lot more sense than paying money to a fly by night company. I just moved some money from Neobux to paypal, I'm going to use it on this and report back to you on how it worked!
Have a great day everyone!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Manual Traffic Exchanges and email list builders

 Hi everyone! I'm planning to head out for the weekend but here's what I've been doing this week! Have a great weekend!
Consider this a huge “heads UP” It’s an example of the “free” products out there that end up costing you your credibility and your loyal repeat traffic. I akin it to a cattle stampede.  You get a lot of beef coming your way but they don’t stop to eat the grass. Ok, I love westerns, but you get the analogy.
So I joined a site called Hit 2 Hit 4 days ago. It is one of those manual traffic exchanges. It’s free and does send traffic all right. It’s much like a PTC site except that for every advertisement you view you earn a surf opportunity for your site.  Surf for as long as you want and then assign the number of clicks you want to your website. Then watch the traffic flow. I’ve received about 200 new visits a day doing this. But don’t get too excited.
By now you have a few web sites and some targeted traffic coming to it. You probably know what “bounce rate” is. For those who don’t, it is a reflection of how long each of those visits remains on your site. The higher the rate the less time they have spent there. A bounce rate over 80% means no matter how much traffic you have, anyone visiting your site had no intention of reading it or is even interested in what you have in it! They simply came with the intention to go somewhere else! I began testing the performance of this idea by applying their logic to one, brand new website I started, this one! Sorry, it doesn’t work.
Oh yes, here’s something else it comes with; A free auto responder system for email lists! You are now asking anyone joining your email list to receive an automated email every two days pestering them to join your program every other day. The premise being, you are “paying it forward”. It’s free to them because you are going to pay their membership fee for two months. Yours is being paid for two months; however they say if you are doing everything they tell you to do by that time you will be earning enough to pay for your own membership. But I think what they are doing is grabbing all the traffic they can from the well targeted visits you already get on your own. The beauty of it for them is you don’t get a chance to notice that because you now have a ton of “blind” traffic coming to your site. I could imagine what kind of nasty opinion I would have of anyone sending me those mindless emails.
I am still convinced that key word knowledge and good use of them is the most efficient, cheapest and smartest way to approach the audience you want. They will stay if you have information that is useful to them. I equate a 50 – 60% will get you professional respect. I thrive on respect from other intelligent professionals. You should too!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Please turn off your fire wall temporarily if you’re having problems loading this program!

Have you ever run into this suggestion? This is what gets my husband very worried about me as I break out in mumbled speech to no one in particular. “Sure and I’d like to let go of this stack of china temporarily to bring the silver to the table. I’d like to fall in a well just temporarily. Stop looking out the windshield just temporarily during rush hour traffic to look at my phone. I think I’ll just step off the bus temporarily while we’re on the freeway. OK, I’m back on earth and my husband thinks I’ve lost it. DO NOT; I repeat, DO NOT turn your fire wall off for any reason what so ever, not even temporarily! Just as your house is temperature controlled with your doors and windows shut, your computer is safer with the firewall always ON! I don’t care how much I love a program, I’ll drop It at the mere mention of removing my computer’s safety!