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The Holiday months can send any blogger scrambling to scrape a few extra dollars out of their blogs. Doing impulse buys and gift shopping sends even the most level headed book keeper into the red.

With most revenue making opportunities on the web, you can’t just make money over night. It takes years of building a system and then about the same time promoting it. There are short cuts but a sustained income source takes a while to build. Here is where Kontera text ads come into the picture though.

Like I was saying above, just like everyone else, I wanted to squeeze a few extra bucks out of my blog so I started searching. It’s been a while since I looked into anything new. For years it’s just been clickbank products, affiliate stuff and of course, bread and butter google adsense that I use. Then I started reading about Kontera in other people’s blogs like John Chow’s And Joel Comm’s at http://www.joelcomm.com/.

It looked promising so I signed up. The next day I was accepted and about 5 minutes after I copied the Kontera code, I had an extra source of passive income. Instead of spending a lot of time and maybe some money building a new source of income, I used one that already existed and was available that I simply wasn’t taking advantage of.

So how much money with you make off your blog with Kontera ads? From my own experience after four days, it looks like you will make about 25% of what you would from adsense. So if you are making 20 dollars a day from adsense you will make an extra 5 dollars a day from Kontera Text Ads.

Maybe not extreme get rich kind of money but it’s the difference between making 600 dollars a month and making 750 dollars a month. ON ONE SITE. How many of us have more than one site? Ya, that’s what I thought.

So in the end, if you have a couple of sights that are basically making most of their income off adsense and not direct sales, adding Kontera ads into the mix could easily make a car payment for you by the end of the month. Why not? Its five minutes to cut and paste!

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You can make 1 million dollars ($1,000,000.00) by selling a million copies of something electronically on the Internet for a net profit of $1 a piece. If the cost to produce, license, or reproduce that product is zero, such as an e-book or an affiliate commission, then all you have to do is focus on mass-marketing your product to a wide enough audience so that you can find a million people to sell your product or service to. If your conversion rate is 1%) that means that your website would need to receive one hundred million clicks (100,000,000), out of which if 1% of them were to result in sales, you would make 1 million dollars that way. But what if your click through ratio was itself 1%? That means that your website would need to receive ten billion page views, out of which 1% would have to result in clicks, which is 100 million clicks. Out of those 100 clicks, 1 million people will buy your product at $1 a piece.

Now that sounds all well and good on paper, but generating that type of traffic would be an immense effort. Even if you were to aim for ten billion pages views spread over ten years, that is still one billion page views per year, or 83 thousand page views per month, or over 2.7 million page views per day. Only the big guys, like Google or Yahoo could achieve, let alone sustain, that magnitude of traffic.

Perhaps you could then adjust the price of your product to $100 net profit per sale. With the same conversion ratios, it would look like this: To make 1 million dollars net profit at $100 per sale, you would have to make 10,000 sales. At a 1% conversion rate, that means that your site would need 1 million clicks, which would be 1% of 100 million page views. If you wanted to make your 1 million dollars over 10 years, then you could afford to have 10 million page views per year, or 833 thousand page views per month, which is about 27 thousand page views per day. That is a little bit more doable, but still requires a lot of heavily targeted traffic to get in front of that many viewers.

Those click-through rates and conversion rates of 1% each are extremely conservative. If you have a high-demand product that people are hungry for, and you are able to target your advertising effectively, perhaps you could get as high as a 20% click through rate and a 2% conversion rate. Let’s see how those numbers work, at a $100 per sale.

$100 per sale to make a $1 million dollars is 10,000 sales. At a 2% conversion rate, that means you would need to receive 500,000 clicks. At a 20% click through rate, you would only need 2.5 million page views. Spread out over 10 years, that is 250 thousand page views per year, or 20,833 page views per month, which comes out to about 694 (let’s say 700) views per day.

Phew! That sounds much easier! If you can find advertise a product such that you can get 20 out of every 100 people to view your advertisement to click through to view your product page, then 2 of those 2 people should end up buying it. If you can get 10,000 people to buy your product at this rate, you will surely make 1 million dollars.

Can this be done. Absolutely. People are doing it all the time on the Internet. Is it easy? No. It requires a great deal of patience, perseverance, trial-and-error, and fine-tuning of your Internet advertising campaigns to make this happen. Will you make 1 million dollars instantly? Not likely, unless you are starting with a substantial amount of seed money. Can you make 1 million dollars starting with zero money, if you are flat broke?

Absolutely yes! You can spend a couple of hours a day at your local library using their Internet computers for free, and start making serious money. Once you start making some serious profit, you can reinvest those profits to accelerate your efforts to reach your goal of making 1 million dollars.

To get started on your action plan for making money, visit http://12-month-internet-millionaire.info

In fact, the technique works so well that many of them
don’t want you to discover how they get those thousands of
website visitors and make so many sales on virtual “auto-
pilot.”

Their method?

Creating tightly focused articles other people publish in
their ezines (online magazines and email newsletters) and
post on their websites. This method rates so powerful that
some even call it “the web’s best kept traffic secret.”
 
Now, you may ask, “Why would an ezine publisher or website
owner publish my articles for their subscribers?”

The answer: Content!

Over a 100,000 ezines and newsletters operate on the web
(along with millions of websites) covering everything from
pets and cooking to investments and real estate. Many of
them need tightly focused content and they simply can’t
produce all of it themselves.

Look at it this way… it’s the same reason newspapers use
the Associated Press. Individual newspapers often can’t
afford staff writers to cover every story, so they accept
articles from outside their organization.

You can do the exact same thing for various ezines and
websites catering to your niche audience!

You can get valuable publicity — exposure you often
couldn’t even pay for if you wanted to — by providing
valuable, content-rich articles in exchange for a byline
and a link to your website (called a “resource box”)!

The following represent only a few of the enormous benefits
of writing and distributing simple articles online:

** Attain “Expert” Status **

Let’s face it! In the eyes of virtually everyone who reads
your articles you rank as the “expert” on the subject.

Just look at people who write newspaper columns. You
may disagree with their viewpoints, but they still have an
elevated status in your mind compared to the “average Joe”
off the street.

** Pre-sell Website Visitors **

If your article appeals to a niche audience hungry for more
information on a very focused subject, you actually pre-
sell them better than any sales pitch. In their minds,
you’ve already delivered content they really want so when
they click over to your site you already have a
“reputation” in their minds.

** Traffic Lasts Longer **

Even though the Internet changes very quickly, webmasters
are usually very slow to remove content from their sites.
Once you get an article posted on another person’s website,
you have an excellent chance of that article staying there
for weeks, months, even years.

** Increase Links To Your Site **

In a recent search I found just a dozen of my articles
posted on over 813 different websites! Not only do those
postings bring me traffic, but they also help my search
engine positioning because of my increased “Link
Popularity.”

** Builds Your Affiliate Base **

Fact: Affiliates always take the path of least resistance.

If you provide excellent articles they can easily post on
their sites or copy and paste into their ezines, your
affiliates will promote you more often and more effectively
compared to those who don’t give them tools.

Plus, as you make more sales and publish articles, other
people will see you providing excellent tools and will want
to sign up as your affiliate so they can use them too!

** Build a Huge “Opt-In” Email List **

You can use articles to build up a huge list of subscribers
by simply compiling several articles into a series and
delivering them at preset intervals.

Often called a “mini-course,” this technique allows you not
only to prove to your subscribers that you deliver great
information, but enables you to capture their name and
email adress so you can send them articles and special
offers in the future (with their permission).

** Requires No Special Skills **

People often think they need to be a “writer” in order to
publish articles, but that’s not true!

FACT: If you have a passion for a subject and can talk and
explain things like you would to a friend over a cup of
coffee, you can write articles people will love to read.

So if you operate a website selling virtually any type of
product or service (whether your own or as an affiliate),
publishing and promoting with articles should rank high on
your list of traffic generation strategies.

No other method of generating targeted traffic to your
website provides the quality, quantity and steadiness of
traffic in such a simple, straightforward, and cost-
effective manner.

—-

Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-
author of an amazing new ebook, “Turn Words Into Traffic,”
that will teach you how to use free articles to quickly
drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or
affiliate link!
Click=> Read More 

1) Increase traffic
2) Increase the price of product and add upsells and backend product in books.
3) Increase the conversion rate so your get more money with the same costs.

How to measure and calculate your conversion rate for your website or product.

Your conversion rate = total actions to sale  / unique visitors x 100

Pretty simple stuff. How long or how many actions to sale should you go for before you start running your calculations? Its totally up to you but I like to do it at 100 actions to sale. Keep in mind though that you want to only use unique visitors in your calculations of your conversion rate because hits can come from and and everywhere.

What should you use to gather your information and then figure it out? Well there are lots of ways but awstats comes with most hosting packages and will get you started off quick and easy. If you run an adwords campaign then Google analytics works great but has some lag time.

For instance, I looked at my stats for one of my products that was bringing in most of my website revenue (it hurt). I obviously wanted to increase my revenue so I started crunching the numbers.

10 sales for August and 2600 unique visitors. At this point things are not looking so good.
16 sales for June and 4905 unique visitors. Making up a total of 26 sales / 7505 unique visitors = .34% conversion rate. OUCH! The product sells for $35.95 x 26 sales = $934.7 in website revenue from that product.

I knew that a products sales page should be bringing in a 2-4% conversion rate and my conversion rate was looking REAL BAD. I wouldn’t have known this if I hadn’t run the numbers.

A conversion rate of a measly 1% would net me 75 sales with the same visitors, times the product cost of  $35.95 would give me $2696.25. A small increase in conversion rates would bring a big increase in website revenue.

If I could spend $1000 plus to get a great copywriter to get me to a 1% conversion rate it would be worth it in the increased revenue that would happen month after month for this one time cost.

That covers the conversion rate for increasing your website revenue but what about traffic? Well the only way to get more traffic is to buy it or spend time creating it. Everyone knows how to buy it; its adwords, text links, ezine ads and so on.

Creating it is SEO, article submissions and Joint Ventures. It’s a simple action plan but hardly anyone takes the time to put it into action. Soooo, very few people make a lot of money.
Increasing your website revenue by adding upsells and backend products is something very few people do until they get farther into the game. At that point, they slap themselves in the head because of all the money they lost.

If someone has bought something from you, they will probably buy something else if your original product lived up to its promise. The least you can do is link to your other products in the original and make sure you have a follow up responder that will stay in contact after the original sale.

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The internet is all about content which is a slightly
fancy term for information.  Articles, and anything
else in written form can be found online.  Every site
must have content to make money and most sites and
programs will pay you a good sum for the original and
unique content that you create.

You have probably seen ads everywhere on how to make
money from your content and even tried a few, most of
which fall short of your dreams of overnight success.
Here is the reason why.

Everyone is out to make money for themselves.  Unless
you operate solely for yourself, you will always get
the short end of the stick, or dollar in this case.
This can not be changed unless you have your own site,
content and product. If you already have those things
then this article is not for you. This article is for
those who do not have those things or do not wish to
have them but still want to make money online with
their writing.

The best way to make money with your content with no
site and no product is to use affiliate programs.  I
know you have heard this a million times but it really
does work.  The reason most people do not succeed is
because of greediness and lack of patience.

In order to succeed with affiliate marketing you MUST
confine yourself to a few programs that are related
and you MUST give your article marketing time to work.
How much time depends on how well you write your
content and how good the product you are promoting is
perceived to be.

Here is a simple step by step outline of how it works:

Pick a niche (mine is writing). Join an affiliate
program that has at least 3 products in your niche ( I
use clickbank). Write articles related to your niche
and the products you will promote. Insert you
affiliate links in your articles, preferably at the
end. Publish your articles everywhere you can publish
it. Sit back and watch. Rewrite the articles if they
do not seem to be working after about 2 weeks. Once an
article is working, leave it alone and look for more
places to publish. Write more articles to promote your
affiliate products. After a few months, choose another
related product. Repeat, wash and rinse.

Once you make a few dollars, you may want to get a
site and an auto responder.

Your own site will help you promote your content as
well as cut down on affiliate link theft with redirect
urls.  A personal site will also open up the doors to
more ways for you to monetize your content, such as
contextual and image link advertising.  An auto
responder will make you more money on your articles by
referring people to pre made messages that promote
your affiliate links 24/7 when they sign up for your
information series or whatever you may decide to offer.

There is good money to be made with affiliate
marketing if you put in the work and have the
patience.  You will not get rich overnight, but you can
make enough to afford a few luxuries and perhaps more.
Soon you will decide to get 100% of the profits and
create your own product, but that is another story or
article.

MY FINAL TIP

If you are unsure of your writing skills for right now
do not worry.  There are tons of resources, tools and
software at
http://www.componga.com/option/ctinfinity.html that
can help you to get started.

MY FINAL ADVICE

Do not get caught up in the rush for money.  Take your
time and eventually, everything that you are doing
will add up. Concentrate on one goal at a time and
once you are doing well with that, plan on moving
forward.  Not doing this will make you frustrated and
cause failure due to a lack of expected responses.  Do
not destroy your plans and dreams before they even
have a chance to become real.  Slow and steady wins
the race.

Andrew L. Witherspoon is a NON NICHE writer  For a free
report on HOW TO WRITE BETTER ARTICLES FOR ANYTHING, send a
blank email to freereport@affiliatedcommerce.com.  Visit
his blog for great entertaining and informational writing
at http://www.componga.com/

For their first product, they create a $7 ebook…or
maybe they go way out on a limb with a $10 product.
Their concept is that with such a low price, it should be
easy to sell.

The truth is that you may or may not increase sales with
a low price.  I’ve tested prices and seen $19.95 do better
than $9.95 at times.  I’ve sold other products better at
$197 than they did at $47.  The most important aspects
are the real value and the perceived value of the product.

Here’s the rule you have to remember:
Good marketing can never beat bad math!

If your goal is $1,000 a week, you have to sell 100 copies
of that $10 product.  If you want $10,000 this month,
that’s 1,000 sales.  That’s a ton of sales!

Do the math!  Your goal might be to earn a million dollars
online.  If you’re selling $10 items, that’s 100,000 sales.
Wow…that’s a lot of customers.  If you’re selling $1,000
items, you only need 1,000 customers.

What if you were selling a $10,000 product?  Now you only
need 100 sales to reach your goal.  Don’t believe anyone
would buy that price?  That definitely would…and do…if
you provide them with enough value.

What if you sell 10 of your $10 product this week, you make
$100.  On that $1,000 product, you made $10,000.  Can you
live on $100?  Not likely.  Can you live on $10,000 a week?
I surely hope so, or we need to take a serious look at
your lifestyle!

What about customer service?  Taking care of 100,000
customers takes a large staff.  You only need a fraction
of the customer service staff with 1,000 customers.  In
addition, I’ve found the higher ticket customers in
general are more polite and request less refunds.

No matter what you’re selling, you still have to produce
sales copy.  You still have to write Adwords ads. You
still have to create your email follow-ups.  You still
have to find your affiliate partners.  With the higher
ticket items, you make more money for the same effort.

Why should you even have a low ticket item?  It’s a
lead generator.  That’s all it is.  Whenever I see a
product under $50, I immediately think lead generator
and wonder where the real profits are in the business.

The only problem left is how do you move up to higher
ticket items.  The first key is to constantly look for
ways to add more value to what you’re currently offering.
In addition, look for ways to also add to perceived
value of the product (sometimes called the thud factor).

The second key is to target affluent customers instead of
those who have no money.  Pick up a copy of the Robb
Report and similar magazines.  Visit country clubs in
your area.  Go visit higher scale stores.

I found targeting people with money very difficult at
first, because I had nothing before I started in business.
It was hard to imagine people spent $5,000 on golf
clubs, went to $25,000 marketing conferences, and paid
$250,000 for a membership to a golf club.

Yet, that’s one of the biggest changes you can make…a
change in your mindset.  In most businesses, people are
willing to spend money to get what they want.  And these
are some of the best customers you can ever have…if you
focus on them and deliver exactly what they’re looking for.

Terry Dean has been helping entrepreneurs get started
online for 11 years.  Pick up his free report, “Instant
Profit Boosters: How to Add Real or Perceived Value to
Boost Profits and Repeat Sales” along 3 other special
reports at http://www.theterrydean.com

Many article marketers fall prey into believing that one
article published in many sites, ezines, and newsletters
will benefit them by bringing in lots of traffic.  Well,
basically this idea is really only partially correct.
Yes it does help to get your word out to many places, but
there is a big difference between getting the same content
out to many places and getting unique content to many
places.

As most of us know Google is the king when it comes to
search engines.  Unfortunately sending the same article to
many Websites, ezines, and newsletters will not help you
with Google, but actually hurt you in the long run.  Why
you ask?  Becuase of Google’s “Duplicate Content Filter”.
Google’s duplicate content filter will screen out multiple
versions of your same article and will leave you with a
handful of inbound links to your site.  Inbound links to
your site are a key factor in search engine ranking.  The
more inbound links, the better your ranking.

Don’t be disappointed though. There are a couple of ways
you can beat this thing.  One way is to get enough sleep
for a week because your gonna need it when you have to sit
down and start writing hundreds, if not thousands, of
different article versions for you to submit.  Not too
practical is it?  I didn’t think so.  The other way is to
use a powerful, automated article submission software that
submits a unique article version to each publisher at the
click of a mouse. Say what?! Yes, that is correct. Article
Pro Software automatically submits a unique article to
hudreds of built in publishers at the click of a mouse.
I don’t know of any other article submission software that
provides such awesome features!

Yes there is one such article submission software that I
know of that is so powerful it can accomplish this daunting
task by filling out just one simple form.  Article Pro
Software creates a unique article every time.   By writing
only three different versions of your article, Article Pro
Software will randomly select paragraphs, keeping the same
format, and compile them into a unique article.  You can
produce literally hundreds of different article versions,
or thousands depending on the number of paragraphs.  The
“Duplicate Content Filter” is no longer a worry.

By submititng the same article to various publishers it
has been proven that the 300 inbound links generated
diminished to approximately 16 inbound links after several
weeks of review.  You basically loose 18.75 times or 1875%
effectiveness.  Article Pro software will increase your
profitabilty by that 1875% because of the unique articles
it submits.  If you have 300, 400, or 500 inbound links you
will retain those inbounds links.  Google sees each of your
articles as unique and will show them all in your search
results.  The more inbound links, the more traffic. The
more traffic the more sales.  Article Pro Software is a
powerful and awesome article marketing tool.  There is no
other article submission software available that packs
these features.

This is the most powerful article submission strategy
available to increase your overall efffectiveness of all
you article marketing campaigns.  Now that’s a benifit all
article marketer’s should take notice of.

- Craig S. Andrews
Do you want your articles to sell like crazy?  Check this
out!  This is an excellent article submission software
highly recommended by Craig Andrews. You will learn
in depth everything about creating the most effective
unique content articles.  Not convinced yet?  Check for
yourself, this is the link:
http://www.ArticleProSoftware.com

1) Entice visitors to join your side by giving something
away for free.

2) Initiate a direct marketing campaign with a highly
targeted email list. One on my favorite email list
vendors is:

http://www.americaint.com/

3) Post interesting, informative or helpful information, in
your niche market on the following websites. Remember to
include a link back to your website in the signature of your
post. This is a great way to increase your back links and
page rank in google. It does take work but your efforts will
be well rewarded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://groups.yahoo.com <— Large communities to email
your message to

http://www.blogspot.com

http://groups.google.com

http://www.youtube.com

http://www.metacafe.com

4) Submit interesting, informative or helpful articles, in
your niche market on the following websites. Remember to
include a link back to your website in the author section
of the article. This is a great way to leverage your work
and get quality back links.

http://www.articlesbase.com

http://www.webpronews.com

http://www.ezinearticles.com

http://www.submityourarticle.com/main.php

5) Link exchanges are extremely important. You must link
with as many high quality websites as possible. Make it
a weekly objective to link exchange with between 5 and 10
websites a week.

Now that is it. Five simple steps that you perform daily
and you will see your traffic and sales grow by leaps and
bounds.

Next week I will  be writing an article on great tools to
monitor your page rank, alexa ranking, back link quality
and more. So stay tuned and don’t miss my next issue.

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It’s all about doing away with time-intensive split
testing. Split testing, simply put, means running two
different versions of the same thing to see what pulls
better, just changing one thing at a time.  Maybe changing
headlines, for example. The better converter wins. Some of
the biggest names in marketing think this is the way to go.
I beg to differ.

I learned how to split test from marketing expert John
Reese. He’s great, but I don’t use his method anymore. But
I did use his methods to find better ones, since his uses
pay per click and costs too much, especially for people
just starting out. What I found was not only less
expensive, it took less time from me.

Ever heard of multi-variate testing? Yeah, me neither until
I happend to stumble accross it on the web. It is to split
testing what the V-8 engine was to Henry Ford’s oringinal
single cylinder. It tests multiple parts of your copy at
once, not just the old split test one-at-a-time-and-we-grow
old-waiting-for-the-results. Better yet, it’s not on you to
determine the best substitutes; these have built-in
databases of thousands of proven winning elements that it
could substitute and test.  The proof would be higher
conversion rate with automatically optimized copy.

And what extensive part did I have to play in this? Ummm…
I installed it, and looked at my sales letter periodically,
just to see how it was changing. Too cool.

What I did was to test a “big name” automatic split-test
software against the two big selling multi-variate testing
packages out there. Both of the multi-variate ones smoked
the split tester. I actually like the less expensive one,
because it outperforms the more expensive one. You don’t
exactly get what you pay for. And I found that the numbers
don’t lie. You can check it yourself at MuVar.com … I
don’t want to tell you the other, because I’m not here to
make enemies.  You can find out by doing a web search, but
take my advice and save your money.

Bottom line is that you want to spend more time in the sun.
Do you want to instead spend time testing away with
detailied, intricate split testing, or optimized copy which
improves with each sale?  There should be no question here.

John Lovehaur recommends Hermusa link-building software
that flawlessly executes automatic link building,
supercharging site ranking, and boosting profitability.
http://www.Hermusa.com

I have been thinking about the best way to put this
withoutsounding like I’m preaching at you. That is not my
intention at all. You see I know that doing business
honestly and ethically will make you more money and make
you feel a whole lot better about yourself.

I know this from personal experience. True, I have never
done anything actually criminal in my internet business,
but I have followed the latest fads and shortcuts, and in
the process have added nothing of value to anyone. One
example would be using a hosted picture of a gorgeous
woman (fully clothed, but you get the point) to draw off
traffic to my website. I also redirected traffic from
unprofitable joke sites to affiliate offer sites for
mortgage loans, cell phones, MLMs, etc. I have even
invited my friends and family to a “party,” only to start
drawing Amway circles on a pad of paper to show them how
they could join up and trick their friends into coming to
Amway “parties” too.

Somehow I finally figured it out for myself. Dishonesty
does not pay… even a teensy amount. Not one of those
“opportunities” exists for me anymore. None of them
created sustained income for me, or any one of my friends.
Plainly speaking, dishonesty does not pay.

Look at the junk ad sites we see all over the internet.
Even with automated software some people are working eight
hour days to continue putting up junk. Why? The search
engines are getting better all the time at removing these
things, which add nothing of value to the universe. I
believe attracting people to your “Information on blue
widgets” site that only contains advertisements and no
content is dishonest. Sure; it’s not a lot of dishonesty.
It is your site and you can do whatever you want with it.
It’s not like you are breaking the law… but it’s not
going to work long-term either.  Dishonesty in any degree
just doesn’t pay in the long run.

Dishonesty is not good for business. You spend all this
time, sweat and sometimes money driving traffic to your
website and then pass them along to a business with a real
product to sell for a tiny 10 cent ad click? When you know
that sometime in the near future your bubble will burst,
what is the point?

Instead, take the same amount of time and create your own
product. Then promote it using the tools you will find
when you look down the right side of the
jamesbrausch(dot)com blog. You get to keep much more than
10 cents and you have a real asset in your business. Even
better… you can feel good about what you do at the end
of the day.

Here is a test for you. Look at your websites as if you
have never seen them before. Now put yourself in the place
of your friends and family. What would they think of those
sites? Are you proud of what you created? No? Now have a
look at the Information Product Creation course. Create
something you can show them all without embarrassment.
Have some pride in what you do. Take some honest action
today.

With her internet marketing background, the author of this
article, Michelle Branst, recommends the Information
Product Creation Online Home Study Course. Go from mere
idea to first sale in just 35 hours. http://www.InfoProdCreation.com