How to make money online?

This is a question lot of people ask me!

Now, to give a bit of the background;

Many people sign up for many of the programs, buy e-books, join traffic exchanges, buy safelists, try article marketing, try PPC and finally come back and say it just does not work. They go to the extent that, all of that is sheer nonsense, no one can make money, it is all scam.

Wow, then, how come there are so many people who are making money online? Many of them are not even on a regular 9 to 5 job. They depend totally on the online income they earn.

Well, these people have put in lot of time, effort and energy into making it work!

Online business is like any other business. It takes time to grow! You just can't make $5000 in your first month.

Here is what the people who did not succed did.

They signed up for the programs/products. They tried it for a month or two. After that, they saw that they could just make may be some $50 or a $100 and thought, well with this kind of money what will I do. It is not even enough for out of pocket expenses! Then, they give up!

Here is what one should do to succeed!

You have to stick around with the program for at least 5-6 months to see some real results coming your way. Why is that? Let me explain.

When you start off as a newbie, this is what you typically do.

1. buy into an affiliate program or buy a e-book which teaches you how to make money.
2. Follow some of the methods and promote your referral links/programs.
3. Earn anywhere between $0 to $100 in a month or two.
4. Get disappointed that you did not make that promised $5000!
5. Finally quit!

What if you stayed around a bit longer?
This is what would happen!

1. You will have spent some time learning the major promotion methods.
2. Got to learn the trick of how to generate quality targeted traffic, generate leads and eventually sales!
3. You would have learnt about the best ways to do PPC with Google, Yahoo and MSN and maximized their potential.
4. You would have seen your $100 going upto $200 or a $300 or a $400 per month.
5. You would have invested the money that you earned into promoting your programs/referral links
6. Start seeing bigger revenues as your blogs/websites start ranking better in the search engines.

Unfortunately, you give up after trying it for a month or two. That is the time, you are learning all about it and building your base. Once you build your base, you are on a take off mode with your internet business.

No matter what, to really see the proof of the pudding and to succeed, you must spend at least 6-8 months with any program you join.

Of course, which program you join is again something which defines your success or failure. You have to research and find out about the popularity of the program, is it a scam? or is it a program that is tough to promote..... many of those parameters.

There are people who are just selling programs to you and leave you to fend for yourself. If you are an expert, you know what to do. But, those who are starting off as newbies will need all the guidance and help.

Here is one program which has great support and you can join here.

After you join the program, make sure you join the support forum for all the help you need here.

Oh, yes! If you are a newbie and want to learn all about internet marketing and making money online, here is my advise. Dont' go buying those $47, $97, $197 e-books.

Here is a free resource for you which will teach you all about internet marketing. Of course, they will want to upsell you/suggest you to upgrade at a cost. I leave it to you if you want to pay them or just use the free services which are good enough!

Sign up here to learn all about internet marketing and making money.

If you have any queries, you can always get in touch with me! I am here to help!

All the best.

Srinath

SEO Optimization for your site for free!

Oh, yes. You read it right. It costs a fair amount of money and also time if you are to do the SEO optimization. How about getting your site's SEO optimization done for free? Here is a site that will do that for you.

http://mastergoogle.com

Now, a little bit of what SEO is. SEO stands for search engine optimization. When you optimize your sites for SEO, you can get your sites ranked higher for the keywords that you choose and eventually end up getting free traffic to your site. Now, free traffic means more leads, more customers. Who does not want free traffic then?

Go ahead and get your site optimized for free while it lasts.

All the best.

Srinath

Google Adwords - Content Network

I know. a lot of people will tell you not to use content network. Well, at least if you are a beginner, you are suggested not to use content network.

But do you know that you can get quality clicks for much much lower costs, say 15%-20% lesser than the search network? Yes, you can.

Content network can be used effectively. You just have to follow a few guidelines. The guidelines that I have put here are from my experiences and feel free to share your views.

First and foremost, make sure your campaign is running only on search network for couple of weeks and measure the performance of your campaign on the search network. The gurus say, any CTR% that is 3% or more is good. I have posted detailed notes on these in my earlier posts. By now, you have also enabled the conversion optimizer in your Adwords, I suppose.

Here is what you will need to do. When you opt for your ads to be shown on content network, don't let your ads get displayed on all the sites in the content network. Make sure you choose the sites that are close to the niche that you are promoting your ad. For example, if you are promoting some diet programs, there is no meaning in displaying your ads in sites related to stock markets. That is what gives you wasted impressions, clicks and of course money!

One more advantage with content networks is that you can display banner ads on the content network on many of the sites. Banner ads are still quite effective. Google comes with many ready to use templates in various sizes (to be precise, about 6 sizes). Create few ads using the banner templates and run your ads on select sites on the content network.

Lo, you will get quality clicks at a low cost!

Happy Promoting and Making Money Online!

All the best!

Srinath

Referral payments received from Tissa on Jan 14th 2010

Good beginning to the new year.

Just received a referral fee payment into my PayPal A/c.

Here it is.

You've got new funds

Hello Srinath Chintakunt,

Affiliatize.com (Tissa Godavitarne) just sent you money with PayPal.

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Payment details

Amount:		$62.50 USD
Transaction Date:		Jan 14, 2010
Transaction ID:		7V0814070J3542810
Subject:		APS Referral Fees from Tissa

Srinath

Payment Received From GDI (Global Domains International

Here are my commissions from GDI that I received into my PayPal account today :)

GDI Rocks!

Business Contact Information
Customer Service URL:		http://www.website.ws
Customer Service Email:		ws_affiliates@wsdomains.ws
Customer Service Phone:		760-602-3000
Amount received:		$80.00 USD
Fee amount:		$0.00 USD
Net amount:		$80.00 USD
Date:		13-Jan-2010
Time:		02:21:56 GMT+05:30
Status:		Completed
Subject:		Global Domains International has just sent you $80.00 USD with PayPal
Custom Note:		DEC 09 - Commissions (cvs61)
Payment Type:		Instant

My Earnings From Acme People Search Program

Like I had mentioned in one of the posts earlier, I had spent about $2000 by Mar 09 in buying some e-books, joining some programs which promised me to make money.

Well, money was made for sure, but not by me!
That was till I joined Acme People Search Program towards end of March 09.
This is where I learned how to make money online.
My first payment came in June 09 and then onwards there has been a regular stream of income!

Here is a screenshot of may paypal receipts as you proof that one can earn money with the program!

You can see that I have also earned from GDI and GVO.

I have also received 2 cheques so far from ClickBank for the sales that I have done to the tune of $320.

Here are the cheque details for you to see!

The second cheque dated 23 Dec 09!

So, that is the proof of the pudding!

Still have doubts on this great program?

You can always get in touch with me! I will be glad to help you out!

See you at the top!

Srinath

Some updates on Acme People Search Program

Last 2 months, we have had lots of frenzied activity on the affiliate program.
Many new interesting features were added to the program.
Here are some of the most important changes that were made!

1. Now, all your referrals details can be downloaded in the form of an excel spreadsheet which you can upload to your autoresponder in GVO. This is a great way to keep in constant touch with your referrals.
2. Whenever someone signsup under you, you get an e-mail notification, no need to get into the back office to check if you have new signups
3. Whenever someone sends you a personal message in the forum, you get an e-mail notification.
4. Recurring commissions for referrals maintaining step3. $4.5 a month, this is an additional income!
5. new splash pages to capture and build GVO business
6. In addition to promoting the referral program, you can promote the forum links. People see what is happening in the program, see that there are real people working on the program and get comfortable, makes for better retention.
7. Super sponsor guidelines have become a lot more stricter, no more wasting of resources in chit-chat as many a time happens in the forums, but quality content is the key!

With all these major changes, you will see a lot more earning potential in 2010 and beyond.

Yes, the program has been available to the public now close to 2 years, but last 2-3 months, there have been so many major improvements in the program, those who are joining now are going to make some real good money in the long run!

All the best!

Srinath