Sunday, December 03, 2006

Find The Perfect Home Based Affiliate Business Opportunity Today

Find The Perfect Home Based Affiliate Business Opportunity Today
By: Michael Laleye

Finding a home based affiliate business opportunity is not difficult. There are countless opportunities everywhere a person looks. The hard part is finding the right opportunity. With so many to choose from it is very hard to decide which is the best. The best one is not the same for everyone. Each person will find the opportunity that best suits them. However, there are some key things that any good opportunity should have in order to be anyone’s best.

The most important part of a search for a home based affiliate business opportunity is that a person looks for something that interests them. The biggest tool to success is that a person works for something they believe in. If a person chooses an affiliate program that they are not interested in then it will bevery hard to sell that opportunity to others. They should like the products, the structure of the program and overall just feel passionate that it is something great that everyone should be a part of. So the residual income opportunity must be interesting to the person.

The opportunity also needs to make it clear how the home based affiliate business will be made. It should be easy to figure out how a home based affiliate business can be built. Many opportunities spell this out and give step-by-step instructions for how to make it happen. While it is not necessary that every opportunity gives a step by step, it is important that a person can immediately see how this opportunity will make money as a home based affiliate business.

The opportunity also must be well constructed. When a person is gathering information about the program and deciding if it is for them, they should be able to understand what it is about. There should not be confusing information or anything that is unclear about it. If they cannot figure out everything by reading they should be able to speak with someone about it and get all the information they need. The opportunity should have good products that will sell. It should be organized from management down to the sellers. The opportunity should offer a well thought out structure. If the opportunity is well constructed then it will be easy to make money through it.

The opportunity should also give a person plenty of marketing tools. They should provide assistance with marketing either in the form of written materials or one on one help. Marketing is a key part of success in a home based affiliate business opportunity. That is why it is so important that a person makes sure whatever opportunity they chose is one that has a well built marketing system.

Any home based affiliate business opportunity can be a good choice if it has a good structure and marketing tools. Also if a person is passionate about it then with the tools and good structure then it should be a great choice.

The next step after evaluating and choosing the best home based affiliate business opportunity is to take the time to read through the marketing tools and the training that are provided to you. A little extra time spend here understanding how to market your business successfully is really the most important factor that will determine how much money you make with any opportunity. Follow through consistently on what is being taught, and if you need support then the program that you affiliate with should make it clear where they can be reached for assistance. Some affiliate programs even have online forums that members can use as a resource and can learn from each other.

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Monday, November 20, 2006

Home Based Business Opportunities – Let’s Make it a Long Weekend

Home Based Business Opportunities – Let’s Make it a Long Weekend

By Bill Schnarr

Ask anyone the best thing about a good home based business opportunity and they’ll tell you the same thing – the ability to make on-the-spot decisions about the little things that come up.

For example, your hard at work on your home based internet business and the phone rings. It’s your best friend, who lives out of town but is in the neighbourhood for a few hours on a stopover at the airport. Can you imagine the headaches it would cause if you tried to explain to your boss that you needed time off work because you wanted to go for a coffee with your friends? You’d be lucky if you had a job to come back to, if you even dared to step outside the building.

Working at home and making the most of your home based business opportunities would allow you the freedom to jump in your car and zip up to spend the afternoon with your friend. Time well spent, and surely something that would add to the rich fabric of your life.

What is your life worth to you? Sure, your Monday to Friday job may pay the bills, but we humans were not born tied to a clock. Living to work can lead to a miserable, lonely existence away from your friends and loved ones. That’s why so many people are turning away from traditional Monday to Friday jobs and looking to space for better business opportunities – in this case, cyberspace.

In fact, so many people, from professionals to college students, are deciding on home based business opportunities that they are changing the very face of the business world.

On top of traditional work at home jobs, such as writing and other artistic pursuits, there the internet has provided a springboard to launch hundreds of thousands of new careers around the world. These days, many home based opportunities are more than simply opening a little shoe repair store as a side gig. People are buying, selling, and marketing their way to successful, experience-rich lives and they’re doing it a few hours at a time.

The rest of the day, they’re busy making the most of their lives. They’re spending time with friends, their kids, or just taking the time to enjoy the things that they enjoy most. The ability to just drop everything at the drop of a hat and take off to do something fun in the middle of work is a great feeling. It gives you the feeling that you are in control of your life, and you are living it to the fullest potential.

On top of that, home based businesses are also lining their pockets. The earning potential of affiliate marketing as a home based business, for example, is virtually limitless. Successful affiliate marketers can make thousands of extra dollars a month in the time it takes to transfer the funds from their online payment accounts to their bank accounts.

Not only are they working from home and achieving these results, they are also travelling out of state to visit relatives and earning a bundle, or checking their accounts from their Hawaiian vacation hotel room and earning money…you get the point.

More freedom and more money. More importantly, a level of control in their lives that is unheard of in a regular Monday to Friday existence. It’s easy to see why these successful men and women have decided to make the most of their business opportunities.

The question is, why aren’t you?

Adsense Blindness - How To Beat It!

Adsense Blindness - How To Beat It!
By: BW Griggs

Adsense blindness is a topic that is becoming more relevant with each passing day based on the enormous success of Google’s Adsense program. The amazing success of the Adsense program has led to what seems like universal adoption of Google’s ad serving technology. The problem is that the ubiquity of Adsense is causing more and more people to unconciously filter Adsense ads as they view websites. The question that this article seeks to answer is what can be done to recapture the revenue that is being lost?

In a word - experiment. Gone are the days when you could throw up some great content and cash in by throwing some Adsense panels above the fold integrated into your text. The mantra of the past couple of years has been blend - blend your Adsense panels into your content. Common wisdom and experience dictated that the closer your Adsense panels resembled your content, the better your click-through ratio. Trick the user and all that…This strategy will suffer from lower and lower conversion rates on high-value content sites with a high returning visitor rate. You see, the more familiar a reader is with your site and its layout, the easier it is for her to identify your Adsense panels and filter them in favor of your content.

This is not a new trend; it is simply the culmination of several factors.

First, Adsense has achieved world domination or something close to it. Adsense is everywhere and its format is static and unchanging. There are only so many panel sizes and each of them is branded plainly with Google’s label. Sure, you can vary colors, borders, and link colors but that darn Google name is still tacked on to the corner of every panel.

Second, Internet adoption rates in the English speaking countries is slowing. With less new users coming online each day the pool of Adsense neophytes is shrinking. Every day a larger percentage of users become desensitized to the presence of Adsense and that Google tag on the corner of each panel.

Finally, as I previously mentioned, if you provide high-value content your readers will return and the more familiar a user is with your site, the easier it is for her to filter your Adsense ads.What can be done to turn the tide back in the favor of the humble website owner? Don’t be afraid to experiment with Adsense. While the panels remain relatively static you can vary colors and borders.

The key with experimentation is to make subtle changes. Your Adsense panels should continue to blend with your content overall. Well blended content captures new readers every time. What you want to do is create a situation where the user, especially returning readers, stop and process your changes. You want her mind to note that the Adsense panel is different but only slightly.

Those borders that everyone matches with the page’s background color can be made to be slightly darker or lighter than the page background color. Nothing too garish mind you - just a slight difference that makes the reader pause and consider what she is being presented with.The same approach can be applied to text color and link color. Subtle changes can work wonders for improving click-throughs. The idea here is that we have trained the reader’s mind to expect Adsense panels to be blended very deeply into our content.

Now, their mind is presented with panels that are standing out just a little more than usual and once they notice this, they will process the Adsense text and hopefully click-through.Varying the panel type and size you are using can also help to improve your click-through ratio. Every change you make to your site layout causes readers to work at processing the changes this requires attention. This simple act draws the reader’s attention to the panels and hopefully creates a click event.

The key to sucessful testing is to make only one change per day so that you can effectively assess what effect the change has. If you make two or more changes you will have no clue which change caused your reader’s behavior to differ from the past. My Adsense resources page listed below has some great pointers concerning how to effectively test changes to your Adsense panels.

My next suggestion will shock and anger many - heresy some will claim but I stand by it nonetheless. There are other options! Adsense isn’t the only game in town. In fact, there are thousands of other fine affiliate programs that you can join and integrate into your content right along with Adsense. Granted, you will have to work a little harder and this is the true evil that Google has perpetrated upon us. Adsense is so easy that we have become lazy in matters of monetization.

Break the Google chains that bind you! Do some research. Yes, work and find an affiliate program that matches your niche and promote the hell out of it. I suppose if you are happy with your Adsense earnings you can stick with Google solely but consider the money you are leaving on the table.Almost any piece of great content can be matched with a suitable affiliate offering.

There are literally thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of affiliate programs available. Find one or two that match your niche and give them the same billing you give Adsense on your website. You might just be surprised. A quarter-per-click is nice when coupled with a conversion rate of 1.5% and some decent traffic but consider a $5 or $10 affiliate commission that only converts ten percent as often.

You will quickly discover that adding a program or two has no effect on your Adsense earnings but does provide a welcome new revenue stream!

About the Author:Bobby consults and develops but rarely sleeps. He covers several loan payments with his Adsense check each month and he is the author of Affiliate Success: eBay - PHP software for use with the eBay web service API.

Adsense blindness resources: http://www.shrubsoft.com/blog/affiliate/adsense-blindness-resources/

Read more articles by: BW Griggs

Don't Get Involved With Adsense Click Fraud- Google Will Ban You!

Don't Get Involved With Adsense Click Fraud- Google Will Ban You!
by: Sinta Makah
Imagine the next time you join a discussion about Adsense. When you start sharing the fascinating Adsense facts below, your friends will be absolutely amazed.

Is everything making sense so far? If not, I'm sure that with just a little more reading, all the facts will fall into place.

Many web site owners are getting their Google Adsense account terminated when they have done nothing wrong to deserve the punishment. Considering the money that they are getting from Adsense, they would certainly want to get back into it.

Considering the money to be made with Adsense, it is no wonder that they would want to get back into it.

It is that same consideration why the Google Adsense click fraud is thought of and why many people are getting into it.

Click fraud is the act of clicking on ads for the purpose of costing the advertiser money. It is simply the same as paying out cash for false leads. Many people website owners are aware of this fraud and are sharing the same sentiment that this is the one big problem that Adsense is facing.

How do you prevent being involved in this fraud?

Majority of web hosts are offering access logs. Once this is offered to you, it is necessary that you hand it over to Google as well. This allows them to look for any suspicious activity on your site. Problems like this are very serious and giving it to them is saying that you would want to help them in any way you can in solving the problem.

It can also help if you have a click monitoring software. If you do not have one yet, you should try and get one. There is absolutely no major factor preventing you from having one because most of this software is free.

As usual, all the information you have received should be turned over to Google. This is showing Google that you too are fighting against click frauds and is in no way a part of it.

Study your server logs and watch for any activity that seems suspicious. Report anything that you may find odd, may it big or small thing.

You may want to consider disabling ads for your own IP address and local geographic area. This will certainly prevent accidents and will not make Google mistake another user as you. You can do through a htaccess file. This will avoid Google mistaking as clicking on your own ads and be kicked out because of it.

Keep your Adsense off on pop ups and pop unders. Your ads should not be displayed on content sites that promote illegal activity or tampering of the legal rights of other people or business. Included in this are the content that is considered adult and gambling ones. If you think that you may be breaking this rule, immediately remove your content or Adsense from the web page.

Be truthful and confess up to Google about times when you might have clicked on your own as, whether accidentally or intentionally. Or the times when you have done something that is against the Terms of Service that they are implementing. Be honest about anything that you may have done that is wrong. Confessing is way better than Google learning about it eventually. It would mean eventual termination and no getting back what you have worked so hard for.

Do not tell your family or friends about Adsense on your website. Chances are they may start clicking on them to help you make money without you knowing it. They may be doing more harm to you than help by trying it in the first place.

If ever someone you know chanced upon your Adsense, make sure they understand that they cannot click on your ads under any circumstances. It would be wise to brief them on important things about Adsense and what not to do with them.

Most pay per click networks have different measures in hand to protect website owners against click frauds. Other search engines can track more than 50 data points, IP address, browser’s information, user’s session info and pattern recognition. They also have “systems” available that detects fraud. Not to mention the specialized teams monitoring how things are going and helping advertisers stop click frauds.

Google offers suggestion on how to avoid click fraud. Using “negative keywords” can be used to keep your Adsense showing on products and services that are in no way related to yours. Adding tracking URLs to your links so you can track the traffic coming from Google.

Do not be caught in the Google click fraud. Be aware and be wary.

Don't limit yourself by refusing to learn the details about Adsense. The more you know, the easier it will be to focus on what's important.

About The Author


Sinta Makah is a Full Time Adsense Publisher and She Makes her living from Adsense. She is passionate about sharing her Adsense Knowledge. Further information may be obtained from:

http://www.mydomainname101.com/adsense_technique.htm

http://www.mydomainname101.com/Adsense-Click-Fraud.htm

Working at Home – It’s Just Easier That Way

Working at Home – It’s Just Easier That Way
By Bill Schnarr

We’ve all been stretched to our limits at one time or another, whether our jobs take us to the factory, the office, and even those who work at home. Today’s working parents are under more pressure than ever to work longer, earn more money, and provide a stable environment for their children. At the same time, those same activities that are supposed to be enjoyable – spending time with family, taking the kids to soccer practice, and remembering to phone Aunt Martha on her birthday can easily become part of a hectic, stressful work week that leaves you exhausted and desperate for a break.

With all the stress and hassle of today’s modern life, it’s no wonder that more and more people are turning to alternative sources to generate income and ease the burden of day to day living. For many of those people, working at home on their computers for a few hours a week has become that stress relieving second income. And these people are beginning to see that a home based business can be an alternative to a soul-sucking job that leaves you exhausted and praying for the weekend.

There are a lot of good reasons why you should consider a home based business if you are searching for a way to improve the quality of your life. For example, working at home provides you with the ability to schedule your work around the important things that come up in everyday life, as opposed to waiting for a day off to take the kids to the dentist or missing a birthday dinner because you were stuck in traffic.

In fact, missing anything because of traffic would be a thing of the past, unless you count the line ups at the supermarket or the Doctor’s office. And here’s a little tip: there are no line ups at the supermarket when everyone is at work. It would just be you and a couple little old ladies in a foot race for the two bored cashiers waiting to serve you. Take my advice – a good hip check goes a long way to eliminating the competition, if you catch my drift.

But there are some really important things to consider if you are going to look for a way to work at home and make money on a home based business. For one thing, something like an internet based business can lead to all kinds of goodies. Things like residual incomes and streaming money. Royalties! Yes, your home based internet business will make money for you even while you’re sleeping in or spending the weekend on a romantic getaway with your significant other.
Does your job at the toothpaste factory pay you to sleep? (Don’t answer that!)

Working at home on computer can afford you other luxuries as well. You may not have realized this, but an internet based business can be accessed and maintained from anywhere in the world, as long as you have a reliable internet connection and access to your email accounts. That means that you can spend an hour or two on your computer in the morning taking care of loose ends while your family prepares for a day at the beach…in Mexico!

You can work from your time share condo in Florida, your parent’s house in Wisconsin, or even that little two bedroom tree house in the Amazon Rain Forest you’ve always dreamed about…providing you can convince the local monkeys to provide you with some form of internet service.
The opportunity for additional income and freedom from the grind of daily living is sitting in your living room. Working at home is a trend being picked up by men and women every day; professionals, college students, and retirees are all working from home on computers and making money to improve their lives.

If your still considering it, no worries. Hopefully this article will give you something to think about next time your stuck in traffic, sucking on petrol fumes and wishing that monkeys were serving you Pina Colada’s in your little grass hut out in the middle of nowhere.