A One Day Internet Business

How You Can Start Making Money Online in Only Minutes…
Without Even Designing Your Own Web Site!

Back in the early days of Internet marketing, there wasn’t much you could do to get started with marketing your business online until you actually launched your own web site.

Before you could make money, you had to:

• Choose a domain
• Set up your hosting
• Design your web site
• Put it all online
• Optimize and test your web site

But maybe you want the chance to "get your feet wet" before you commit to building a web site and getting really serious about marketing your business online.

Or maybe you’re trying to discover your online business niche: the problem you want to solve, the people you want to sell to, and the best possible way to create a viable business. Maybe you don’t want to commit to a web site until you’ve had a better chance to experiment with different ideas.

Well, fortunately for Web newbies, there are more options for getting started with e-commerce than ever before! Now you can actually market and sell products without ever creating your own web site.

Today we’re going to take a look at some of the easiest ways to get started online today:

• Start selling on the world’s biggest e-commerce site: www.eBay.com

• Start a blog in under five minutes and reach a whole new market on the Internet!

… as well as the quickest way — once you’re ready — to start up a fully functioning web site of your very own.

So can you take advantage of these tools to make your first online profits today? Keep reading to find out!

Start selling on eBay and get access to millions of potential buyers!

eBay.com is the hottest e-commerce site on the Web today, and for good reason:

• More than two million people visit eBay.com every single day, spending an average of TWO HOURS navigating through eBay’s pages and listings

• More than $1,000 in sales happen on eBay every single second!

• 72% of eBay users have incomes in excess of $50,000 per year — so they come ready to spend!

And — most important to you — 95% of eBay users are individuals or small businesses. eBay is clearly a place where newbies can go to find instant profit and success.

Getting started on eBay will take you LESS than one hour in total.

Within minutes, you’ll be ready to set up your new auction listings. That means you can see your first online profits TODAY!

And while those listings will cost you only pennies to place on eBay’s pages, you gain immediate access to millions of buyers who are looking for items just like yours.

To get started selling on eBay today, go to: http://cgi5.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SellHub2.

But what items are you going to sell?

This is the real beauty of eBay: there is a market for practically everything on the giant online auction site!

The easiest way to get started is to sell off some old items you no longer need from your basement or storage space. This will allow you to get the hang of writing up a description and creating a listing without having to invest in a product to sell. After all, everything you make from these sales is pure profit — so you have nothing to lose!

If you have a product you are already interested in selling on eBay, check out how other sellers are marketing these products. How much are they going for? What makes their auctions appealing? How many bidders do they attract?

If you’re not sure what you want to sell, try checking out what products are popular at http://pulse.ebay.com.

While you might not want to sell the items that everyone is searching for — guaranteeing you some serious competition — you can sell items RELATED to those products and generate a ton of interest in your listings.

eBay offers free tools for setting up and promoting your listings. Your only expenses on eBay are are your listing fees, plus a small percentage of your selling price.

Getting started on eBay is easy — anyone can do it in less than an hour. But to build a hugely profitable eBay business takes some advanced strategies and techniques.

Once you’re ready to take your eBay business to the next level, I recommend you check out the "eBay Millionaire" secrets we reveal here:

http://www.AuctionTips.com/course.html.

Create your own web site in less than five minutes — and for free! — by starting a blog

Blogs (or weblogs) are frequently updated web sites that show the newest content at the top of the page. The other content usually follows in the order it was posted.

Business blogs have become one of the hottest tools for marketing on the Web today. And while some companies use them to promote their products in addition to their main web sites, you don’t need to have a web site — or even have a business yet — to start a blog.

Anyone can create a blog for free and have an active, functioning presence online in just minutes! Even complete Internet "newbies" find the set-up process simple and easy to understand. You don’t have to know anything about web design or pay a single cent for a domain name or web hosting.

And once you’ve got your blog online, you can start making money instantly! Here’s how…

• Start a Google AdSense campaign to generate advertising revenue from your blog. It’s easy to set up an AdSense account, and have targeted ads displayed to your online readers. This can be a great source of revenue, though of course the amount of income you can expect from your AdSense ads will depend on the amount of traffic to your blog. The more traffic you receive, the more people are likely to click through the ads displayed on your site — and the more revenue for you!

• Join an affiliate program — or a few affiliate programs! — and start promoting their products on your blog. You don’t even need your own product to get started! You can place ads for your affiliate products on your blog, or write articles or product reviews that contain your affiliate link. You receive a percentage of each sale made when readers click through your links and make a purchase.

• Sell products directly from your blog: If you do have a product that you’re ready to sell, you can write articles on your blog telling readers about the benefits of your widget. Once they get excited about what you have to offer and decide to take action, you can direct them with a sidebar button to your PayPal account (which is free and easy to set up.)

  With PayPal, they can order your product and pay for it in seconds — even with their credit cards! And it only takes you a few moments to get set up to take payments.

You can create a blog in five minutes, absolutely free, with a free blog hosting service. These are considered the top options for blogging beginners:

• Blogger (www.blogger.com)
• Yahoo! 360 (http://360.yahoo.com)
• MSN Spaces (http://spaces.msn.com)
• LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com)

If you’re looking for more tips for generating traffic and profits with your blog, check out www.MarketingTips.com/trafficsecrets.

Of course, if you’re getting serious about starting a business online, we always recommend that you create a web site of your own…

We’ll be launching an incredible web business creator this spring… so stay tuned.

 

Final thoughts

It’s never been easier to build an e-commerce presence online than it is now, with the rise in popularity of blogging, auction web sites like eBay, and quick web hosting solutions like Google Page Creator.

Each of these options offers you the opportunity to determine the viability of your business model, test your strategies and salescopy, establish a ranking in the search engines, and gain credibility and a reputation in your industry.

Best of all, you can get started making money online TODAY.

And once your business is underway and you’re ready to set up a web site of your own, you can also use all of quick start options we’ve talked about today to continue to market your products…

• Use a blog to grab a great position in search engine rankings, and then drive traffic to your sales web site!

• Use a Google Page to drive another stream of traffic to your site!

• Use eBay to test new products, sell off old or damaged inventory, or create a new revenue stream for your business!

It’s never been easier to get started on the Web than it is today — so let us know why you haven’t started yet…

One-third of all email marketers are clueless?!

I just came across a statistic that freaked the heck out of me…

Apparently, a whopping one-third of all inhouse email marketers don’t have a separate line item in their budget for email marketing.

In other words, when these marketers promote a product, they don’t bother to track whether it’s getting sold through their website… or through their email marketing campaigns — and so they have no idea how well each channel is performing.

Please, please don’t make this mistake yourself! If you run an email marketing campaign — and you don’t bother tracking the results — then how can you tell if the campaign is successful or not???

After all, there’s a HUGE difference between a campaign that results in hundreds of sales… and one that results in hundreds of people hitting the "unsubscribe" button!


Don’t you want you want to know which actions YOUR email readers are taking?

Of course, it’s difficult to track your campaign results if your email software or service provider doesn’t provide tracking features!

Fortunately, there are some excellent online service providers that make it easy for you to track the results of your email campaigns so you can see where they’re hitting the mark, and where they’re falling short.

After extensively researching all the email marketing service providers out there, we’ve discovered one that really stands out from the crowd — iContact.com. It provides extremely detailed tracking features that allow you to find out exactly how well your emails are performing — how many people are opening them, how many are clicking on the links in the message and visiting your sales page, how many visitors actually make a purchase, and a whole lot more.

Best of all, iContact is dead easy to use, so even a raw beginner can start sending emails to their list right away, without having to suffer through a painful learning process.

What really impressed us, however, were all the additional features iContact offers.

For example, they provide a built-in HTML WYSIWIG newsletter editor you can use to make extremely professional-looking newsletters — and there are 300 different templates to choose from, so you can guarantee the look of your newsletter is as fresh and original as the content it contains.

And — get this — you can even put a survey right in the body of your email! (If there’s one sure way to get your subscribers to interact with your email messages, it’s to ask them to fill out a survey.)

Plus, you can set up an unlimited number of merge fields within your emails — and send to as many list segments as you want — which means you can fully personalize your messages. (And when it comes to email success, personalization is the key!)

So if you’re currently using an email marketing tool that doesn’t offer detailed tracking features — or if you haven’t gotten your email marketing campaigns off the ground yet — then we highly recommend that you check out iContact.com before you consider going with any other email service provider. The prices are extremely reasonable, and for all the extra features you get, it’s pretty much the best deal out there. (They have set up a free trial for our readers at the link above.)

 

The Best Of Copyblogger

If you haven’t been following the Copyblogger blog, click here to catch up and get a lot of free advice on blogging.

The articles cover a lot of territory… spend the time exploring the articles and gain the knowledge of what it takes to create content your bog needs to stand out. A blogging tutorial on one page.

How to do a trackback to get more links and traffic

Jack Humphrey at Friday Traffic report has an excellent video on exactly how to use trackback posts to get links from other bloggers and sites that use trackbacks.

You’ll be doing a trackback in a matter of minutes from watching.

Check out his blog for a lot of great ideas on blog SEO, article submission and social marketing.

Don’t Overlook One-Way Links

One of the most important aspects of search engine optimization is to build relevant one-way links.

The best way to describe one-way links are links to your site from sites which do not receive a link from your site.

The search engines love them.. it tells them that your website is so useful that other sites want to share it with their readers.

Search engines like Google place huge importance on link popularity when ranking your site.

Another benefit is that you can receive direct traffic to your site from people who click on the links.

Building one-way links takes time and nurturing. Your first goal should simply be to build up a strong website that people would naturally want to link to. Generate loads of valuable content and you will get inbound links all the time without even trying.

Next you need to analyze your own website and your top competitors’ websites to see how many links they have and who those links are from. One of my favorite tools for doing this is Yahoo Site Explorer. It gives you a relatively accurate reading of inbound links to your own and other sites. You can also get a good idea by using Google Webmaster Central and validating your site to get a sampling of who is linking to you.

The worst way to do a check is by going to Google and putting a command like: links: www.mysite.com as this will only give a small sampling of the number of links you really have. So don’t panic if you’ve been using this method.

Just because your competitor has a link pointing to their website does not mean it is a good link. Do your homework, make sure the site is relevant and complementary to yours and looks like a valuable resource. Check the page rank of the link and make sure it is not grayed — meaning it is a banned site.

Before you contact a website to get a link, have a plan. What can you offer them? Do they have a blog you can write articles for? This can be one of the best ways, as people are always looking for new fresh blog content!

Don’t be shy. Call them and explain the benefits of using your content.

Take advantage of relationships you already have with suppliers, friends and other people that are in your niche market to get build a strong roster of one way links!

Ways to get one-way links from Allan Gardyne

• Create a useful, interesting web site and other sites will naturally link to it. The vast majority of the thousands of links to THIS site were not requested.
• Submit your site to major directories, such as Yahoo! and DMOZ.org, in the appropriate category.
• Write articles and submit them to newsletters which are then archived online.
• Hunt for sites that complement yours and ask them to publish your articles.
• Submit brief, useful hints to newsletters for the same reason.
• Submit articles to article directories. You can speed up this tedious work by using ArticleAnnouncer, the tool professionals use.
• Publish articles on your site and invite other sites to publish them on their sites, with a link to you.
• Write testimonials for products you love. Companies often post testimonials on their site with a link to the submitting site. Joe Vitale has taken this tactic to extraordinary lengths. For examples, trying doing a search on Google for "joe vitale +testimonial".
• Participate helpfully in forums which allow a text link to your site in a signature.
• Read the forum instructions first, or you risk making an ass of yourself.
• Arrange for articles to be published on other sites with a link to your site in them. You may have to use some innovative thinking to achieve this. The results make the effort worth while.
• Buy ads in newsletters on your topic which are archived online.
• Locate industry-specific directories and submit your site to them. For example, if your site is on a health topic, look for health-related directories.
• Give away free ebooks and white papers that contain links to your site.
• Create simple web-based free software. Tell other sites, newsletters and forums about it and ask for a link to it.
• Create downloadable software which contains links to your site.
• Get listed in business directories.
• Create a blog and get it listed in blog directories.
• Join business associations which list their members’ sites online.
• Write regular news releases and submit them to topic-related web sites and Internet news wires such as PRWeb and Business Wire.
• Make arrangements for other sites to archive your newsletters on their sites.
• Get your white papers published on other web sites.
• Submit your free ebooks to ebook directories.
• Submit your downloadable software to software directories, such as Download.com
• Locate a popular site in your niche which would appreciate having you as a regular columnist. Write tips, lively commentary, product reviews, or whatever topics suit your niche.
• Syndicate your material to other sites. Create a content syndication feed (RSS feed) and include a link to your site. Use PHP rather than Javascript to ensure search engines parse your headings and links.
• Do something funny or outrageous or brilliant and people will link to your site without being asked.

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