Point # 5 : Getting the Traffics to your site

Hi again,

Getting traffics to your site will enable you show or promote your product or services to potential buyers. To earn traffics, all you need to do is to sign-up for traffic provider such as link referral, hits2u, traffic swarm, traffic g, yuwie and so forth.

To get the traffic immediate, you can also sign-up for paid traffic provider. Chargers varies depending on how much traffics you want and for how long. Please read their terms and condition prior to sign-up.

In this blog, I have listed the link for some of these traffic providers. All you need to do is click on the link and you will be directed to the site.

Until then..

Happy surfing and earning.

Point # 4 : Tell the world

Hi again,

Last time, I talk about how you need to strategize your businesses, defining your niche market and have some strategies to attract customers, hence businesses to you. This time I like to talk about how can you tell the world of your product and/or services to the Internet users. Before you can tell to the Internet users of your products/services, you must have a web page. This is your own domain, your sovereign virtual land, which your are the king, the ruler, whom manages, removes, adds stuff to it.

I'm not going to talk about how to create a website or web page simply because there are plenty of software here, commercial or non-commercial software, that allow a non-IT illiterate users to create a good and professional website. If you still have no clue where to get one, here are some software that you can use to make home pages or a website.

To build a web page, you will need a HTML editor such as Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, NVU (if you are into Open Source thingy). If you had purchased Microsoft Office, most likely you already have Microsoft Frontpage installed onto your computer. If not, you will need to install the application through the Office installer program. It costs you nothing to create your own homepage or website.

Another option is to use free application such as Google blogger like this one here. It is so simple to create a simple blog or page and if you are not sure how to use it, you can purchase my e-book on "How to create a Blog A Step-By-Step Approach" by sending me an email. Payment can be made through PayPal. You can use the PayPal applet/widget that I have added here in this web page. Once you have done that, email me or post to this blog. Please include you email address for me to send your the document. How much? It is a donation box, so you put whatever price that you think is right for you. Alright. Let's continue.

There a few ways to tell your website the Internet community. Here I will explain three (3) simple ways to do it. It is absolutely free and highly effective.

1. Tell you friends/neighbors/relatives/

This is obvious right. Just email to them and tell them that you have a website that is promoting such and such and politely ask them to spread the words to their friends and relatives and so forth.

2. Use mailing list or join online community or groups.

Using a mailing list will allow to reach more audience. Start adding all your contacts and once done, email to them. Another option is to join an online community or groups. This will also enable to reach more audience. But please be careful not to abuse the group's posting facilities.

3. Submit your site to popular search engine.

Now, this is going a bit technical. But not too worry. Most submission of URL to search engine or web directory is very simple. All you need to is to add in your website URL.

To submit your URL into Yahoo, follow this link. It's free.

To submit your URL into Google, follow this link. Again, it is free.

However, please READ the Terms and Condition of this Service Providers before submitting your URL.

You also can submit your URL to other directories but I would not recommend it because according to survey, 68% of online users use Google search engine and the other 20-30% of users use Yahoo Search engine and/or MSN. So submitting to those two search engines are good enough.

If you still want to add your URL to other Internet directories, I would suggest you use the search engine (provided here in this page) and key in "submit URL" and you will have a list of links to submit your URL for you to choose from. Words of caution, some of the these Internet directories may require you to sign-up in order to use their services.

Well, there you have it. 3 simple yet effective techniques on how to promote of your product/services over the Internet. Hope that you have learned something new today.

Next time I shall talk about how to get visitors to your page or website.

Till then...Have a good day ahead

AY

Point # 3 : Attracting your customers - Tips to share

It's been two days since my last post. I have been quite busy lately trying to reorganize this blog and adding new features. What do you think? Too much or too little?

Anyway, last time we talk about planning and defining your niche for your products or services to be offered to the general public or to a specific target audience. Now, the question is, how do you make people to buy/get products or services from your site not from the other site.

We talk about product differentiation, creating unique services, market trend analysis but that do not necessarily bring customer to get the product or services from your site. Don't you agree?

Well, the key is here to make your presentation, I mean your offering look genuine, honest and have good credibility. Now how do you do that? Well there a couple of tips that I like to share with you here.

1. Build trust with your customer

OK. What do I by mean building trust with your customer or potential customers? Why do I say your customer and potential customer? You need to maintain your existing customers so that they DON'T go to other SELLER and at the same time attract new customer as well. Now do you understand...

Now, do you buy things from a stranger or from someone you trust? A high probability that you would go for someone you trust because you know he or she will not cheat you right (note, I mention a high probability). So, try to make you product or service offering looks believable. Some of the worst thing you might do that you want to avoid can be found here.

2. Show your credibility

Sounds simple enough. If you are selling vitamins or herbs, make sure you know something about it. Let me rephrase that. Make sure you know a lot, not something, about it. What are they made of, what it will do to you, any side effects and so on. Make sure your audience able to relate to you and come to a conclusion that you are expert or at least know what are you talking about.

If you are not selling products, you could also share your knowledge of certain areas. Providing useful information will also bring customer to your site.


3. Create a sense of need in your customer

It is very hard to sell something to someone who doesn't want it. The trick is, and this is most often used by car salesperson, is to create a sense of need. When you walk into a car showroom, you don't even have a feeling to buy a car. As you look around the car, the car salesperson began to pitch how good the car, how it is save on fuels and so forth and you began to feel doubt about your own car and start to feel that you might want to have a new car instead. By suggesting problems to you, you mind began to think how to solve the problem and that's how you felt that you should buy a new car. Well, this is an example of creating a sense of need by proposing a problem. Of course there are ways to do it.

Well, those are some of the tips I can share with you now.

If you have any comments, please feel free to post it here. I'm really interested to listen to your thought as well.

Till next time, happy surfing.

AY

Point # 2 : Getting Started - Defining your niche

Now that your have created your email id, you will have to decide what kind of services or products that you will be selling.

There are 1001 products and services being sold over the internet and with over than a billion websites to compete with. How do you make your products or services different that the other guy. If your competiting against the same market segment, how do you make your product or services better than other guy, what are the attractions or value-added services that you can offer better, faster and more reliable than the other guy.

To find out your niche market, you have to do some research.

1. Decide on products or services your are going to enter
2. Determine what is the marker segment. However, if this is not possible, try to gauge the competitiveness.
3. Do market segment analysis. Sound complicated. Well, Google has developed various tools to help you with this. Experiment with some of Google tools freely available. You wont regret it.
4. Know your competitors
5. See how they sell the products or services. How does their website looks like, how the market it so on and so forth.
6. Next, develop your plan of action.
7. Review your plan of action and execute them.

These are some techniques that can be adopted whether your are developing new businessess or expanding your businesses. Even if you are a beginner, you could also benefit from this exercise.

Now. Let put your plan into action.

AY

Point # 1 : 1000 Ways to Make Money Online - Planning Stage

The idea of making money online has been there since the Internet boom. It is reported that the internet businesses have grew tremendously since the late 90s. Now, almost everybody is on the net. Hence the oppurtunity to generate income using this new technology is becoming very possible.


There are many ways you could make money over the net. You could sell your items over the net using secure site such as eBay, lelong.com(Malaysian version of eBay) and so many more websites that offers such services.


If selling is not your style, then other means such as affiliate programs, pay-per-click, referrals and now advertising through social networking such as MySpace, Yuwie, Friendster and the latest craze like YouTube and Facebook are becoming increasing popular and inviting thousands of traffics to these sites. Talk about free advertising.


In this blog, I will try to explain methods of how you could make your income flowing to your pocket as soon as possible using very simple tools that are already freely available over the net. Remember there is no easy road here. Everything must be carefully plan, control, assess and make adjustment to make it work.


If you are reading this, it is most likely you already have created an email accounts with all the providers mentioned above and if not, this will be your first step.

Go and create your email account with Yahoo, Google, Hotmail now.


Now, the next step to think how are going to make the income comes to you. Follow this few basic rules.

1. What are going to sell product or services or both?
2. Who are your targeted audience or customer?
3. How fast can the product or services be marketed?
4. When to market the products or services?
5. Market your products or services.

Easy enough. Take few minutes understanding the need and demand of market.


AYY