A Legitimate Business Opportunity Selling Websites Offline
| Did you know that selling your website offline is a legitimate business opportunity and can make you a lot of extra cash? I know this is mostly unheard of, but why do what most web owners do and sell the websites that they’re tired of online at one of the auction houses? If your website is making you money, then it’s a legitimate business |
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that should be sold offline if you no longer want it or if you are in a desperate need for a pile of cash.
If you sell your website online at one of the auction houses, say Flippa, you are likely to sell it for 5-10 times what the average monthly income is for your site. That’s an industry standard. So, if you normally make about $200 per month from your website, you’ll probably be able to sell it for $1,000-$2,000 from these auction sites.
And, that’s not bad for websites that aren’t making a lot of money. You can sell your website quickly with almost no work and no hassles.
But, what if your website is making you $1,500 per month? Would you want to sell this legitimate business opportunity for $7,500-$15,000? Well, if you sold it from these auction houses, that’s probably all you would get.
Now, think outside of the box. Take that same website that’s making you $1,500 per month and sell it offline and now you can get between $36,000-$54,000. That’s an industry standard in the offline world.
That website that you own is your business. It’s a real business. Anything with an income is a business! So, sell it just like any other business such as a hardware store would sell their business – offline.
Businesses in the offline world normally sell for 2-3 times what their yearly income is. That’s 24-36 times their average monthly income!
Yes, it will be more work to sell it offline than online, but what would you rather have – $54,000 or $15,000? You may have to fly somewhere and have a face-to-face meeting with a prospective buyer. You may have to advertise in several newspapers or even a magazine. But, for a potential sales increase of $39,000, isn’t it worth it?
Certainly it is! It’s just that most website owners don’t think outside of the box.
Now, let’s go a bit further with this legitimate business opportunity.
What if you could buy a site online and sell it offline? BINGO!! A lot of potential money can be made (if you haven’t done so already, read my article An Income Opportunity Home Based Business Based On Flipping Websites for more details on this).
Some people will never think outside of the box or they need to sell quickly or they don’t want to do the extra work. For whatever reason, there will always be profitable websites on the internet auction blocks.
Keep your eye on these auction sites. Buy profitable websites online at the right price and sell them offline for big profits! This is a legitimate business opportunity made by thinking outside of the box.
Increase Your Internet Income Opportunity By Using Domain Samurai
| If you’re an internet marketing expert or a complete newbie, you can certainly increase your internet income opportunity by using a new software package |
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called Domain Samurai. And, the package is FREE!
If you’ve been reading my articles on this website, then you already know that one of my favorite software packages is Market Samurai. I’m not quite sure how anybody that wants to create their own websites can do without it (read Online Home Work Business Opportunities), but now they’ve developed Domain Samurai.
Domain Samurai enables you to determine exactly what is the best SEO optimized domain for the site that you are wanting to create based on specified keywords.
For somebody that may be new to all of this, a domain are the words that go in front of .com, .net, .org, and etc. It’s the websites address.
Picking the WRONG domain name is a BIG MISTAKE. A lot of people do this and it’s difficult for them to get ranked. Without rankings, there is no free traffic.
Pick the RIGHT domain name that is SEO optimized and rankings will come much faster, with fewer links, and a lot more traffic – a Huge Increase in Your Internet Income Opportunity!
What Exactly Does Domain Samurai Do?
In just a few minutes, Domain Samurai will help you find SEO optimized domain names for the keywords that you want to use.
- Rapidly find SEO Optimized Domain Names that you can immediately register. Send the findings from your keywords research into the Domain Module and quickly find out what the best SEO optimized domain names are available.
- Connect Domain Samurai to another powerful piece of FREE software called DomainFace. and you can find existing Aged Domains that are using your SEO Optimized keywords that are for sale and are at auctions. These sites already have age, rankings, backlinks, pagerank, and even traffic.
- In just moments, examine critical data about Aged Domains. See their domain age, pagerank, backlinks, indexed pages, keyword density, and profit potential.
- And, so much more…
So, don’t pass up on this opportunity to get Domain Samurai. It won’t cost you a penny. And, while you are at it, take another look at Market Samurai – it’s FREE, ALSO!
Use these FREE SOFTWARE PACKAGES to help you build an internet income opportunity.
Build Your Network Marketing Internet Business By Selling Physical Products – Part 1
| Most network marketing internet bussinesses sell only informational products – products similar to those that you would find on Clickbank. And, it’s such a competitive market! | 
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After all, almost every internet marketing course teaches their students to sell these type of products. In fact, I don’t know of one beginner’s course that doesn’t.
That’s why I’ve lately started to change my marketing efforts and I’m moving towards selling more physical products. It’s much larger and much less competitive.
Last year, physical products were a 210 billion dollar industry while informational products were only a 1 billion dollar industry. That means that the physical product industry is over 200 times larger than the informational product industry! Here are some other reasons why I like the physical product industry:
- Higher traffic to sales ratio
- Less refunds
- It’s “Evergreen” – you can sell it now and years from now
- Higher quality traffic and buyer frequency
People much prefer to buy a physical product versus an informational product. With informational products, people are always searching the internet to see if they can find their answers for “free”. With physical products, people have often made up their mind on exactly what they want and they are searching the internet only to find the best place to buy it.
Yes, commission percentages are usually much lower when you sell a physical product compared to an informational product, but you need to think in terms of dollars, not percentages. If you sell a $400 Nikon camera and receive an 8% commission, you would receive a $32 commission. That’s still more that if you sold a $50 informational product that was paying a 60% commission.
My network marketing internet business will always sell informational products, but my business is definitely branching out more into physical products – especially those physical products that have a higher price tag.
Where do I find physical products to sell? Well, there are many affiliate networks besides Clickbank that do have physical products that you as an affiliate can sell. Sites like Commission Junction and Linkshare have physical products. But, I usually use a different method to find businesses that are looking for affiliates.
Let’s say that you want to sell iPhones or iPhone related products. All you have to do is go to Google Search and enter iPhones +affilates and hit “enter” and you’ll get returned to you a listing of sites that are looking for affiliates to sell their iPhone products. See the image below:
Another method to use is to enter iPhone “affiliate program” into Google Search. You’ll get similar results.
Before you start promoting any product, informational or physical, you have to do your research. Research is so important to a network marketing internet business.
I don’t like to promote products unless they are growing in popularity. If the industry is dying, it will be difficult to sell products.
The tool that I use to check this with is called Google Trends. It will show the strength of the market for any particular product for the past 6 years.
For example, I was considering to start promoting camping equipment until I did some research on Google Trends. See the image below to see the results I got when I entered “camping equipment” into it’s search bar:
Camping equipment appears to be a slow dying industry – see the downward sloping line? I was shocked! Now, that doesn’t mean I couldn’t make money in that industry, but unless something turns that industry around, my income from the efforts that I put into it would probably keep going down. I decided to look elsewhere.
Next, I entered “buy iPhones” into Google Trends search bar and I got the following results:
Not only is buying iPhones a recent industry, but it’s booming and appears to be growing. These are all good signs!
Now, all I have to do is set up a very focused, but simple website dedicated to one, high priced iPhone product and promote it. Building that site and promoting it should not take but about 3 hours to do. After that, my network marketing internet business will be promoting another physical product online that has money making potential for years to come.
*Read PART 2 of Build Your Network Marketing Internet Business By Selling Physical Products*
(Note: For those of you who may be interested, much of what I’ve learned about promoting physical products I’ve learned from a new course called Consumer Wealth System – it’s all about promoting physical products. No, it’s not free, but it’s certainly helped my network marketing internet business and it should help you, too)
Rebranding An Internet Income Opportunity
I’ve found a terrific new website that can be of enormous help to affiliates, affiliate leaders, or to just about anyone trying to take advantage of an internet income opportunity.
Are you familiar with “rebrandable eBooks”? A rebrandable eBook is an eBook written on various topics of consumer interests that has links going to affiliate products. What makes these eBooks rebrandable, however, is that any affiliate can rebrand those links with his/her own affiliate ID’s. And, this is done automatically and almost instantly!
Imagine that! Any affiliate can get hold of an eBook related to his/her own niche and give it away for FREE. Then, if someone clicks on any of those affiliate links that are in the eBook (and, sometimes there are a lot of links going to a lot of different products) they are taken to an affiliate product where a potential commission can be made if a purchase is completed.
In the past, the biggest problem with rebrandable eBooks was that you had to download the eBook and the rebranding software to your own computer. Affiliates were often afraid to do that because of their concern for computer virus’s.
Another problem in the past has been the rebranding software. This software was sometimes difficult and confusing to use.
Well, those concerns are now gone! There is a new site called Simply Rebranded where affiliates can secure a rebranded eBook without having to download anything to their site except for the finished product and the rebranding process is easy to do.
Let me show you how easy it is.
First, go to Simply Rebranded and sign up. All you have to do is supply a username and a password. Sign up and log in.
Next, at the top of the page, click on The Library:
Now, choose a category that you’re interested in (remember, I said this site was new so right now there are a limited number of eBooks – that will change with time):
You’ll see a selection of eBooks that you can choose from. In this case, I chose E-business and E-marketing. Look these over and see which one you’re most interested in. When you’ve made your choice, click it:
Now, you’ll get a page where you’ll enter your affiliate links (if you don’t have these, you’ll have to get these to complete rebranding – click here to get them – PayDotCom; Clickbank). Once completed, click Rebrand This E-book:
Lastly, you’ll get a page that tells you that they are rebranding the book for you and that they will email you the rebranded book when they are finished. This will take only a few minutes. Supply them your email address:
That’s it. You’re finished. Quick and simple.
With the rebranded book, you can email it to friends or your mailing list. You can Twitter it. You can Facebook it. You can offer it as a free book on your website or you can use it as an opt-in gift for those that will leave you their email address. Rebranded eBooks are a big internet income opportunity.
Up to this point, I’ve been talking about how eBooks can be used by affiliates to boost their sales. But, maybe you’re the owner of a product that you’re trying to sell on the internet. Rebrandable eBooks are an even bigger internet income opportunity for you.
Make a short report or eBook with rebrandable links to your product and submit it to Simply Rebranded. You’ll build an army of affiliates who will be trying to sell your product.
Or, if you already have an army of affiliates, provide them with a rebrandable eBook to help them make more sales. If I were one of your affiliates, I know I would greatly appreciate that.
To add an eBook to Simply Rebranded, just go to the Affiliates tab at the bottom of the home page. Join as an affiliate and you’ll be given the option to add a rebrandable eBook to your account. To do that, just click on the green Add Ebook tab:
Rebrandable eBooks are a great way for affiliates to make more sales. And, for the owner’s of products being sold online, it’s a great way to build a sales team that can sell more products. Rebrandable eBooks are a big internet income opportunity.
FREE Internet Income Opportunity Gifts
Yes, here are two FREE internet income opportunity gifts for you! Grab them, learn from them, and take them and your commissions to the bank.
Gift #1
Most of you have probably heard of Travis Sago. Travis is founder of the Bum Marketing Method, creator of the Magic of Making Up, and helps the Wealthy Affiliate with its marketing. I’ve been following Travis for almost two years now. He’s a down-to-earth country boy from Arkansas. I enjoy being on his email list because he often gives some helpful marketing tips. I’ve never met him, but I hope to one day!
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The first gift that I’m going to give you is actually being provided by Travis. Well, Travis and his wife Jeannie. That’s right, that’s a picture of them over to the left.
You see, Mother’s Day is coming up and Travis wants to do something special for his mom. |
Without her knowing it, he’s opened a Clickbank account in her name and now he’s going to start some online campaigns and make her some money without her knowing it. Boy, will she be surprised when she gets her first Clickbank check!
What’s exciting about this is that Travis is going to teach his wife how to do this. Jeannie’s been married to Travis for some time, but she has never tried affiliate marketing. So, Travis is going show her how to make her own 3-Hour Money Machines while he makes a couple in his mother’s name. And, they’re going to videotape all of this and share it with all of us! They’re calling this Project Mom.
For this project, Travis is going to use a lot of new information that’s in a new internet marketing training program called Bring The Fresh. Bring The Fresh is intended to bring a breath of fresh air to the internet marketing community. Now, Bring The Fresh does cost money, but the videos that Travis and Jeannie are making are absolutely free.
Go ahead and sign up. These videos are FREE and since they’re coming from Travis and Jeannie, I know they’ll be a big help in developing your internet income opportunity.
Gift #2
| The second FREE gift I want to give you is a special FireFox plugin called CB Notify. What’s neat about this is that |  |
once you have it installed on your computer, it’ll display your Clickbank earnings right at the bottom of your browser window. Imagine that! Now, you don’t have to go wondering off to your Clickbank account to find out how much money you’ve made.
You can track up to 10 Clickbank accounts.
Once you’ve got it installed on your computer, go to “Tools” at the top of your screen, click on “Add-ons”, and then click “options”. Enter your Clickbank ID and Password for any of the Clickbank accounts that you want to track.
That’s it! You can now easily track your earnings for all of your internet income opportunity work.
Unleash Floods Of Traffic To Your Internet Income Opportunity
Traffic is the biggest problem for anyone trying to take advantage of an internet income opportunity. Making a website is easy. Obtaining an affiliate product to sell is easy. But, neither one of these will make you a dime unless you can get traffic to them. And, that’s where most people fail.
Let me show you a way to unleash a flood of traffic to your internet income opportunity. This is a simple, but basically unknown technique. It involves four steps:
- Find the video (NO! Not make, FIND)
- Contact
- Negotiate
- Link
That’s it! Four easy steps to a flood of traffic. Now let me explain these four steps in a little more detail.
Step1
Find the video – Yes, find a video on YouTube that’s related to your website or product and one that gets lots of traffic.
Why YouTube? Because on some days, YouTube gets as many visitors as Google.
Why not make a video? Well, you can. But, who wants to do all that work? You would have to do good keyword/market research. You would have to make the video. You would have to promote the video and drive traffic to it…and that’s our problem to begin with.
So, go to YouTube and type in a keyword for your website/product in the search box and look for a video that has these three elements:
1. A minimum of 50,000 views to date.
2. Check the “Statistics & Data” info to insure that the video is still getting sufficient traffic. If you have not done this before, the picture below shows where to click to find this information.
Once clicked, you will get the statistical data delivered to you. It should appear similar to the picture below.
This particular example was a video about an owner playing with her dog. It might be useful to someone that had a website or product related to dogs or dog training. This video has been viewed 209,106 times since it was first viewed on March 29, 20010 and the bulk of those views have been made since April 5th. Traffic is still climbing.
3. Check to see if there is any affiliate link attached to the video. If an affiliate link is attached, pass on the video because the affiliate using it would know that he has a winner. The Affiliate would not likely sell it and if he would the price would be too high. If there’s not an affiliate link already attached, such as in the video above, you have found a video that holds potential for you.
Step 2
Contact the video’s owner – Send a private message on YouTube to the owner of the video and tell them that you enjoyed the video and would like to buy it. Don’t throw out a price, yet.
They will normally get back with you and ask, “How much?”
Step 3
Negotiate the price – Prices vary for these videos, but if there is less than a 1,000,000 views, I normally offer them $100-$300. If the videos are over 1,000,000 views, I will normally go up to $500-$800.
When you do this, you need to realize that you are not just buying the video – that’s not really what you are interested in. You are buying the traffic to that video – that’s where the potential for your internet income opportunity is at. And, to buy that traffic, you have to buy the seller’s entire YouTube account.
That’s usually not a big deal to the seller. The seller can always open another YouTube account and they can transfer any other videos they might have into that new account. But, you need the original account with this highly viewed video because that’s where all of the traffic is flowing to.
You’ll be surprised at how little you can buy these for. Most the time, these videos are just made for fun and they are flattered that someone would want to buy it. Nearly 80% of these viral videos are not related to affiliate marketers and they’re not aware of how much power their video could mean to an affiliate marketer.
After they ask, how much, negotiate with them until you can achieve a purchase price that both you and the seller are satisfied with.
When you make the transaction, use PayPal for the transfer of funds. If you send them the money and they don’t send you their YouTube user name and password, PayPal will usually reimburse you. PayPal usually protects the interests of the purchaser.
Step 4
Add your links – Once you’ve purchased the seller’s YouTube account, you can now go to that video and add your affiliate links – links to either your website or direct links to your product. You can also go in and add on-screen prompts into the video so that your website’s URL or product links pop up once or twice while the movie is playing. Now, you are in business with loads of free traffic!
Take a look at the profit potential. In this particular example, the video has been viewed 209,106 times during the last 12 days. That’s an average of 17,425 times per day. Google’s records indicate that visitors will click on links attached to these videos at a rate of 7.5%. If you take 7.5% of 17,425, that would mean that your link would be visited 1,306 times per day. This is highly targeted free traffic. If you had a 2% conversion rate, you would make 26 sales per day. If your commission (for example, on a dog training product) was $35/sale, your total commission would be $910/day!
That’s a nice commission – more than enough to pay for your original investment with only one day of sales. Viewers will be watching this video for years to come and that’s only one video – think about how many more of these you could get! That’s how to get a flood of traffic to your internet income opportunity and turn a nice profit.
A Legitimate Business Opportunity Depends Upon List Building
Building a list of potential buyers is vital to any legitimate business opportunity that’s being done online. Last week, I wrote an article titled “Build Repeat Customers To Your Internet Income Opportunity” where I explained the importance of list building and I suggested a couple of email marketing sites that could be used to build and manage these lists. Today, I wanted to discuss a method to help you to grow your list so that you have hundreds of potential customers on that list.
Many websites will add an opt-in box to their home page and will either ask people to sign up to get future information when available or to get a weekly/monthly newsletter. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Well, of course not and that’s why these types of opt-in boxes don’t work! Very few visitors will ever sign up in this type of opt-in box. But, I’m surprised at how many times I see this.
The best opt-in boxes should offer something that is critical or compelling to your visitors. Or, it should be something that stirs their curiosity. For example, if someone had a website related to cooking, a good opt-in box might say, “Get my 5 Secret Gourmet Recipes for preparing Steak Tartare. Please enter your Name and Email Address”.
Visitors to your site will always be reluctant to leave their email address. This makes them feel vulnerable. But, if you can offer them something whereby they feel like they are making a gain, they are much more likely to do it.
At this point, you might be thinking, “Well, I don’t have anything free to give them, what do I do next?” Of course, you could make something such as a free report or article. Or, find it on the internet.
There are globs of free articles and PDF’s on the internet that are available for you to use to help you build a legitimate business opportunity – just check the copy write issues. You can find many of these by using Google Search. For example, if I go to Google Search and type in “steak tartare +free PDF”, the first listing returned to me is Steak Tartare.pdf (1 KB) – Free Ebook Download. It’s that simple.
Once you have made or found something of value, there are a couple of other things that you need to do to your opt-in box:
1. Change the “Subscribe” button to say “Free Ebook” or something along those lines, and
2. Put a message under the button that says something like, “Don’t worry, we hate SPAM, too! We’ll never share your address with anyone!” This will relax your visitors.
This concludes the information that I wanted to present to you today. Now, I know some of you would like to learn a lot more about list building and I will present a lot more in the weeks to come. However, if you want to study list building in-depth, you may want to check out the List Building Loophole. It’s a 100% total video training course that walks you through everything to do with list building. The course comes with all the files and templates to quickly get you started.
Good luck to all of you on building your lists as I know it will help you with your legitimate business opportunity! Until next time…
While You’re Unemployed, Find A Legitimate Business Opportunity On The Internet
If you’re unemployed, use a lot of that extra time that you have to find a legitimate business opportunity on the internet. There are not many regular jobs out there. With unemployment hovering around 10% (and much higher in many states), employers are reluctant to do much hiring. Many experts are forecasting that it will be 3-4 years before we see much of a drop in unemployment. So, don’t give up, use this time to create your own internet income opportunity. Make your own business. It’s not as hard as you may think.
First thing you need to do before you decide which legitimate business opportunity it is that you want to tackle, is to determine how much money you need to make on a daily basis to sustain your way of living. If you’re working from home, it will be less than you think.
For example, if your rent or house payment is $900/month, that’s about $30/day (based on 30 days/month). Groceries about $10/day (if you spend about $70/week). Electricity $6/day, water and sewage $3/day, cable TV $2/day, telephone $2/day, high speed internet $1.50/day, automobile payment $8.50/day, auto insurance $3/day, and miscellaneous expenses $4/day. That’s a total of $70/day in total expenses. Now, you need to find a legitimate business opportunity on the internet that will provide you with an income of at least $70/day.
Keep in mind that making money on the internet is not a get rich quick scheme. Sure, there have been those that have immediately made thousands of dollars. But, that’s like winning the lottery. It can be done, but it’s not likely to happen.
The important thing about finding a legitimate business opportunity on the internet is to find an opportunity that is consistently and regularly providing you an income. You will likely have to take advantage of a number of different opportunities, with each one providing you a chunk of income that is covering different parts of your expenses.
For example, you may have a blog on weight loss that is linking to different weight loss programs that is providing you with an average income of $12/day. Well, that’s covering groceries and telephone expenses.
Start another blog, say on exercise equipment. Build it up and after a while the income from it may be covering your automobile payment and its insurance.
Cover all of your expenses by bits and pieces. Besides blogs, you may want to do some pay per click advertising (for tips, read my article PPC Is A Legitimate Business Opportunity). Perhaps this will provide you enough income to cover your house payments. And, try article marketing on Ezinearticles and Squidoo (see Bum Marketing Is A Legitimate Business Opportunity). Article marketing may provide you enough income to cover the balance of your expenses and start providing you enough cash to put in your savings account.
Providing yourself an income by bits and pieces is insurance for you. Now, I’m not saying that you don’t want to land on a big money maker – we all want that. I’m just saying that you want to diversify your income. You never know when one of your sources of income may dry up. If you have diversified your income, you may get a little “thirsty” when one of your sources dries up, but you can survive until you have found another legitimate business opportunity.
Find An Income Opportunity Home Based Business
You can find an income opportunity home based business by learning affiliate marketing. What is affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing is where you act as a middle man and you sell someone else’s product to someone who is interested in buying the product. You, as the middle man, don’t even have to see the product that is sold. As an affiliate marketer, all you have to do is find good products to sell and find hot markets to sell those products in. Affiliate marketing is a legitimate business opportunity for someone who wants to make a living from home. It is not a Get-Rich-Quick scheme.
Learning the ropes to affiliate marketing is the key to success. One place where you can learn those ropes is at a site called Affilorama. Joining this site is free. The site provides lessons, tools, and tips to teach beginners affiliate marketing. The information is provided in over 85 video lessons. The site also provides you with written notes for each lesson and gives you access to a massive toolkit of software and resources. For additional help, you can join the Affilorama Private Member’s Forum where you can get answers to any questions that you may have. These free lessons are worth more than $2900.00.
There is not a “catch” to Affilorama. The site believes in showing you that you can create an income opportunity home based business. It believes in giving you results. It believes in showing you that you can make money in affiliate marketing.
Now, with that said, Affilorama does have an upgrade to what they call their Premium Service. Once you have money coming in, the Premium Service teachs you how to build that income stream higher and how to make it consistent. There are a lot of tricks in affiliate marketing and there are a lot of different “ropes” that you can use. The Premium Service teachs you those tricks and shows you how to use those ropes to take advantage of an internet income opportunity.
If you are a beginner at affiliate marketing or even if you know a lttle about it, take a look at the free lessons provided by Affilorama. Once you have some income coming in, you can decide for yourself if their Premium Service is worth it. Either way you will learn more about affiliate marketing. And, with that knowledge, you can create an income opportunity home based business.