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By James Carter - 2006 (c)
Sometimes I get tired of all the hype I see online. I mean it can really start to bug me. It's not that
I don't think some of the products are good, it's just that I can't stand being lied to about a certain
tool or course that is supposed to teach me everything I need to know on how to profit online.
So in this article I want to reveal to you some truths that I have learned this year that will help you
to get your focus in place if you really want to succeed at making a living from home.
1. No product will every have the total end all solution:
I don't care how much someone tells you that, it's not true. Most times people really don't understand
that the internet is ever changing and evolving. So when you buy an e-book or that teaches you how
to make a living from home most people won't do anything with the information. However most smart
marketers will get a programmer to develop tools that will help them take the information in that book
or course and help them to get it done faster.
Then they will sell the tool to the masses. Most times it will be a lite version of the tool that they have
and the one they sell to the masses won't have the full effect of the tool they use themselves.
2. No one is giving up 'every secret'
Unless this person is on their death bed there is really no reason for anyone who is making money online
to share every secret that they know. I heard it even said that you should make your money in the dark.
Why? Because depending on how you are trying to make money online will also determine market share.
And the more competitors in the market will mean less profits for you unless you learn how to dominate
that market.
My advice would be to watch and learn how the big boys do it, but not to follow everything they say.
3. You will have some bumps along the way
Let's face it. You are most likely not going to be an instant success. You will most likely hit some
speed bumps on your path to making money online. Don't let this stop you though. You will need
to start experimenting with new things and trying new stuff to see what works.
Start dusting off some of those digital e-books and try to mix up some strategies. You will be amazed
at what you find out. For example, one change I made in my site resulted in me getting a crazy click-
thru rate on my Google Adsense. Did someone tell me to do it? Nope. I just had and idea and thought
I would try it.
In conclusion I want to let you know that if you are going to succeed at making money online then you
will have to take the steering wheel and not let someone else dictate to you your level of success. If
you are willing to learn then you can make a living online. All it takes is some common sense and a little
bit of patience and you'll be on your way.
Whatever you do don't miss what I am about to say in this article. It's very important.
If you have been trying to make money online you've probably heard over and over that the money is in the list. Well I want to take it a bit further and say that the money is really in your RELATIONSHIP with the list.
See you could have a list that you bought off of the net and it be worthless even if it was 10,000 names. But you could also have a list of 1000 people that you have helped over the months and you could pull decent profits with that list.
If I had to sum it up on how to take advantage of the gold rush on the net I would say that you first need a blueprint or a plan. Right now the net is begging for someone who will deliver some decent content without all the fluff.
You seriously could take advantage of this , but you need a plan. It's true if you fail to plan then you'll plan to fail. You will definitely need a blueprint to get you going.
Most people who email me ask me how to get started making money online and what steps do they need to take to build a profitable business. Seeing that most of these people are kind of new I wouldn't dare start them at some of the tools I use because it could be frustrating.
Remember the goal is to become a shovel seller and in order to do that the best way is to find someone who is doing it and can teach it easily.
To finish this report let me say that I want to encourage you to start something. You don't have to get it perfect just get it going. Most people fail on the net because the fail to do something.
Don't let that be you. Get off the sidelines and start raking in the gold. Pick a niche, build a list, offer good content, and make products to help that niche.
And once you've done it in that niche then start with another, and another, and so on.
Keep doing this and you'll be sure to take advantage of the internet goldmine.
In part II of this series we established where the REAL gold is on the net or where the real money is made online.
I tried to give you an example of shovel sellers who would sell the tools needed to mine gold. It's no different on the net. However you need to find out if you are a shovel seller or a shovel buyer.
Now you might be both. I certainly am. However there are some people who never become shovel sellers. They are always buyers and that only means bad things for their bottom line if they want to make money online.
So what's the difference between a shovel seller and a shovel buyer online? Simple. Let me show you:
Shovel Buyers:
These people are those who always hear about opportunities and hop from this one to that one without any real commitment. They always have their credit cards in hand ready to buy the latest 'magic pill', but never follow through or apply what they have learned.
Most times you can see them constantly hanging out in forums and not getting any work done, but shooting the breeze with everyone.
They will be quick to try and down a product without even putting forth an effort for at least 30 days.
These people are shovel buyers.
Shovel Sellers:
Like the shovel buyers they hang out in forums, but for good reason. They spy on hot topics and see where people are frustrated.Then they begin to look for ways to monetize that frustration.
They look at how they can make life easier for those who try and make money online. They envision the tools a nd then they creatple are frustrated.
Finally they set up shop and make a killing month after month because of the mentality of the shovel buyer. Shovel sellers know that they have to go a little bit further than the shovel buyer if they want to make profits.
So they will work a few extra hours putting together packages that seem irresistible. They basically study the herd mentality of the shovel buyer and look to see how they can market to them.
While I could go on and on about the difference between the two, I'll stop right here.
In all sincerity, if you are going to make money online then you will have to become a shovel seller. You have to take it up a notch and learn to develop tools and products that solve the needs of the masses.
And then once you get in the arena where you become a shovel seller don't stop there. Start learning how to sell to the shovel sellers.
Be the first to come up with 'the drill' and then sell the rights to the shovel sellers who will in turn sell it to the masses.
Up Next: So What Are You Going To Do Now?
However in Part II of this lesson I want to tell you where the gold really is on the net. If you take a step back you could probably see for yourself.
Okay here we go.
In the older days of the real gold rush people were ecstatic about the possibility of mining gold and it's no different on the net. However because of where and how the gold was hidden no person could just access it easily with their hands.
It took special tools to get to the gold. So there were persons who set up shops to sell picks and shovels so people could mine the gold.
Did you get that or did you miss it? If you missed it read the previous paragraph again.
See there was no guarantee that the prospect would find gold. But there was a huge possibility of people looking for gold and guess what these people would need? That's right. Picks and Shovels.
So the real and consistent money was made in selling the picks and shovels. And it's no different on the net. That is where the real money is made.
Let me give you an example:
Let's say Sally has found a way to crank out sites that make her $200.00 a month each. However it takes Sally 3 days to build each site and get traffic to each of those sites. In one month Sally can have a profitable website network of about 10 sites which is about $2000.00.
Not bad you say :)
Now let's say that Sally shares her blueprint with me and I am a programmer. After looking at her blueprint I design a program that does everything Sally did by hand, but instead of it taking 3 days to build one site and get traffic now it only take 3 hours.
And not to mention the software does most of the work.
Do you think Sally will want this tool? You bet she will and so will thousands of other people who are looking for 'gold' on the net.
So what did I just become now in that example?
You got it. A pick and shovel seller and people will be beating my door down to get my picks and shovels if they hear it will help them find gold on the net.
So in closing I'll ask you, "Are you shovel seller or a shovel buyer?
Fout in the next part tomorrow.
ind James Carter
Article by James Carter
One thing I ask myself now is "Where have all the real newsletters gone?" What I mean by that is why does it seem that everyone and their mother is trying to emulate the latest trend offered by guru 'X'?
Now I am in no way stating that you shouldn't try to learn from the gurus, but I'll be the first to tell you that they are not giving up all their secrets or their tools.
If you got a tool from them it's most likely they have a tool similar to it, but that is more robust. If there's one thing I recommend it's that you WATCH what the guru's do to make money and NOT WHAT THEY SAY.
Think about that for a minute...
Okay, let's move on. :)
In this series I want to let you know that the Internet really is a goldmine and there's gold for the takin', but you have to know where to mine.
If most people online would learn that they have a brain they could create opportunities for themselves out of air. My problem often is that I see too many opportunities and don't know where to start sometimes.
I never lack for opportunities. Never.
Now you might be saying, "James, if you really think there's gold to mine on the net then prove it! Give us some of your ideas!"
Gladly. Here's a couple:
Desktop Recording:
Most people don't know how to do this or they don't have the time to do so. If you have a product that you purchased you can offer to make videos for other marketers who don't know how or who just do not have the time.
This will increase the value of their products as well as earn you a nice income stream.
Camtasia Software is the lead in the industry and costs about $300.00. A small investment for what it will return.
Audio Recording:
Offer e-book authors the opportunity to put their e-books on .mp3. You can charge a small fee for this and eventually get free products. Once you have clients coming in you can write your own e-book on how to put this business together for even more profit.
Of course you can record it too. ;-)
With a lot of free tools on the net you shouldn't have a problem getting this one done.
Now those are just a couple of ideas. If you can help make problems easier for marketers alone you could create a nice income.
There's truly gold to be mined on the net, but it will require some effort. If you are willing to put forth the effort you can have a nice 'chunk' of gold in your possession.
Up Next: Where The Gold REALLY Is On The Net!
This is the most common question that I receive:
"How do you get a TON of traffic to your website?"
Most of the time this is added:
"WITHOUT spending a lot of money?"
Simple:
*Viral Marketing*
Very Simple.
So what is viral marketing and how do you use it to:
-get a ton of traffic to your site?
-build a huge list of subscribers?
-make a ton of money?
-continue growing your business without continued
effort on your part?
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One of the known resources for your research on HYIP
information are the so-called HYIP monitors. These websites
list as much programs as they can and give basic information
about it. This information includes: start date, how does it
make profits, what are the investment plans and what are the
additional costs involved.
But they also have a feature for their users to rate the
program and leave a comment. Visitors leave a message when
they got paid, or they’ll let you know when a program
stopped paying. Of course, based on human logic, these
systems won’t give 100% reliable results. The system can be
cheated and some voters can be made by guys who get paid by
the owner of the program.
The best programs only got good ratings, you won’t see a
“not paid” sign anywhere in their ratings. If there are just
a few, you can check at forums if the program is paying,
paying selectively or not paying.
However there’s a big downside on these monitors. Some are
corrupt, in other words, they’re taking money from program
admins to show a good rating and filter out the bad ratings.
Other monitors are semi-corrupted because it’s fairly easy
to vote (either positive or negative) on programs.
The better scammers know exactly how to get past the email
verification and the IP check. That’s the way they can break
programs down with negative votes, and gain more trust from
investors for their programs by adding positive votes for
their own.
While new monitors are in development, that also have added
security- and cheatmeasures, no single monitor will ever be
lose from corruption and scamming. That’s why you need to
look everywhere for information.
This is how I measure the monitor: if a program has less
then 100 votes and more then 1 of them is negative, I don’t
invest. And when a program has more then 100 votes the
negative ones have to be less then 4 or 5 in count, and some
may’ve been from the same range of IPs.
Look closely at the IP ranges and the email addresses,
sometimes a trace of scamming is clearly in sight. If you
happen to see a lot of the same IP ranges, or the most of
the votes from a single free email provider (like hotmail) –
you can be sure the votes are fake.
Please look back on what you’ve done before, when you lost
money. In almost every case people got filled with the
desire for money. They lost control of their emotions and
just reinvested. That’s what makes HYIPs so incredibly
attractive.
A good friend of mine once told me:
“Compounding is the driving factor behind investors, while
it’s the biggest cause of scams”.
And that’s completely true, compounding in HYIPs really is a
factor of loss. It’s very bad for the internal economy,
because if no new investments come – only reinvestments –
the percentage of real money drops enormously.
Therefor a program that doesn’t allow reinvesting from the
account balance, and doesn’t allow compounding, is the
easiest to predict. With the statistics most of the time
posted at the homepage, you can see when the total withdrawn
gets to close to the total deposited.
Maybe you’ve seen HYIPs played as games. The admins tell
upfront it’s ran as a ponzi, and most of the time they state
the ‘round’ will end when the total withdrawn has reached
80% of the total deposited. That’s what I like to call the
“critical internal economical state”.
When investing in programs that don’t tell this upfront,
it’s safe to invest untill it reaches 60to 70 percent of
total deposited. Because most programs, over 90% of them
all, close at 80 percent or higher – you’re still in time to
request a withdrawal and get it honored.
Do keep in mind to look at all the statistics available. You
can easily see if a program is paying when looking at the
Paid Out section. If you see all round amounts, like 100, 60
and 50 it’s fake. Investors never leave a few cents in. No,
they’re greedy and want every penny!
These are tips that I’ve developed
in the first year I’ve been in this business.
Although you already know this, I’m going to stress on this again:
1) Do not ever invest money you can’t afford to lose.
2)Do not borrow money from anywhere, not even your friends, to put in HYIPs.
The chance to lose your money is so big, you don’t want to have such a high risk.
3)Check the programe forums, The greater the members behind a program – the better!
4) You got to get in at the right time, and get out before the rest does.
Because when a big part of the members want to get their
money out, chance is that they can’t pay everyone and
collapse.
5)When you find a new and promising program, get in with a
testspend. That spend has to be greater then $10, because
every admin can pay a few cents or dollars. Make it a bit
‘heavier’ for him – to see if the program pays.
6) Always pick a program that has a life of atleast 4 or 5
days, make sure already some people got paid – above all
check if those are ‘respectable’ members at the forums. A
lot of admins fake those “I got paid!” posts, so make sure
well-known members tell you they got paid.
I always try to get my initial deposit out as soon as I can.
But in some shortterm programs it’s better to withdraw your
profits from time to time, and let your investment in there.
That way you constantly have a profit-generating investment,
while you get your initial back in a few steps. Quickly, but
still not all at a time – which is bad for the program.
To Your Success,
vince
It is not about putting your money in various
HYIP programs that pays 300% in a week.
Nor does it imply that you find
some that pay only 0-2% a day, and put half of your money
there.
If you think that’s diversification, your money will be
'sprout wings n fly away ' soon!
Next time you wish to build your money don’t
JUST waste time in forums. You have to dig much deeper then
those. You got to have inside information, recommendations
from professionals. What we need is the 'real deal'
These ‘real deal’ programs offer a profit that varies every
month. That’s because these companies really trade. They’re
the ones that offer only 5 to 15 % a month. Not much
if you compare it with other HYIPs, but the differnce is in
the longetivity.
It’s proven that companies that really trade with their
investments live up to a 1,000 times longer then ponzi-based
HYIPs. Potentially these programs can bring you profits for
years to come. Once you got money in them, you won’t need to
look out for them everyday.
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It doesn't matter whether you want to do Online Forex Trading or Make Money Online from Internet Marketing. There is one thing that is most important and most probably have lost sight of it.
Have you? Let's find out.
I have seen it all too often since I have been online. Most people become slaves to their home business opportunity. It's funny because we want time and freedom, but we work longer hours and harder than ever to attain it.
But sometimes we never clarify to ourselves why we want what we want. For me time and freedom equates to being free to do the things that are my passion without having to worry about financial issues.
As I dig deeper I find that the main reason is that I want to spend more time with my family as well. I want to make sure I am very influential in the life of my wife and my child.
I hope you understand that the most important thing is not the opportunity, but the reason behind why you're doing the opportunity.
If it's for family then make sure to take some time to let them know how much you appreciate them. If it's for other reasons then keep this in front of you as you pursue your goals.
This will help you to attain the real reason why you put up with so much nonsense online and off.
So whatever your reason for wanting to work from home or work for yourself, make sure to remember that reason because that's what most important.
Be great in all you do,
James Carter
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