Monday, June 30, 2008 

Bum Marketing Methods - How To Make Money By Doing Nothing

You are probably wondering what bum marketing is, and how you can make money from it yourself. It is quite simple really, all you need to do is find an affiliate program you like, and then promote it using free outlets such as Squidoo or Blogger. By creating a web of interconnected articles marketing your products as well as your other articles, you will gain organic traffic quickly and easily. By using article marketing you allow your articles to be picked up by giants such as Google and Yahoo without actually dedicated all that much time or resources to building backlinks as you would need to if you planned on starting your own website.

Bum marketing is based off keyword research, you need to find a niche and work from there. Gurus will pick the highly competitive niches as they will yield the highest results if they are done correctly but for new bum marketers it is a far better idea to start small. Find a niche that isn't overly competitive that has products to be sold. This can take time, you need to do research to determine what markets are flooded with affiliate marketers and which aren't, a good way to determine this is to do a Google search for keywords you would like your bum marketing articles to target. If there is a full page of Google AdWords results (11 sponsored links) then you most likely will not fair too well to begin with in this niche. Finding the right niche can be hard but once you do you should stick with it and watch the profits soar. Once you have a niche, all of your articles, webpages, sales pitches, etc. will become relevant to each other, and through this relevancy you can increase traffic and sales conversions across the board as you target new keywords. The key to bum marketing is getting organic traffic. While there are millions of marketers that manage to make money without organic traffic (traffic that comes naturally from search results as opposed to paying for advertising) you will need a solid base of organic traffic.

My personal steps for using bum marketing on various products:

  • Find a niche that isn't overly crowded that you can talk about.

  • Find products within the niche that are the right price and quality so that they will lead to sales and therefore commissions.

  • Research keywords that could be used to search for that specific product as well as general keywords that people would search for that may be willing to buy the product.

  • Build a Squidoo lens or a Blogspot blog for the product giving an unbiased review (I never sell products that don't work well, I refuse to scam people for money).

  • Build backlinks for the lens or blog, typically with a little bit of article marketing and purchasing a social bookmarking package from a SEO firm.

  • Promote products using social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, especially MySpace.

  • Watch the commissions roll in as I hit the front page of Google and Yahoo, and find ways to expand my product line using traffic from various sources.

Bum marketing or even affiliate marketing in general is not for everyone. In order for it to work, you must be patient, there is no other option. I started using bum marketing a few months back and now it is already paying large dividends for me. I'm currently a 19 year old freshman college student yet I am making enough money online to pay for my graduate school as well as a brand new car, hopefully this information will lead to your success as well. For additional resources on bum marketing I would highly suggest checking out some of the links below.

To increase the visibility of your own web enterprises, consider visiting the following Squidoo lenses:

Bum Marketing Your opportunity to steal some of my marketing tactics to be on the road to success yourself.

Social Bookmarking Services to gain backlinks, search engine placement, and traffic.

LazyURL to optimize your site for search engines and any other online marketing purpose.

 

Make Money Online Adwords Secret To Help You Prosper With Adwords

Did you know that making money online with AdWords is much easier than you think if you know how?

There a number of different methods you can use to make money online with AdWords and one of them is being relevant as much as possible.

Relevancy matters a lot if you want to make money online with AdWords. The thing is that what Google calls quality score is judging your AdWords ads. If your quality score is low, you will get to pay high advertising bills and your ad position on the search engine will be very low. That is why it makes so much sense to be as highly relevant as possible when dealing with Google AdWords.

What you must realize is that searchers want relevant information and if you can give this to your customers, your rewards are many. One of them is that you will get cheaper traffic. Cheaper traffic in the sense that your minimum bid for keywords will be low. This means you won't need to pay high advertising bills for the traffic you generate.

Remember, Google punishes AdWords advertisers who are irrelevant. Therefore, if you don't want to get punished, make sure that you are relevant.

To do this, you will need to make sure that the keywords you use are very much in line with the AdWords ads that you create and your landing page.

As from this moment, start to become relevant watch how you will begin to make constant flow of cash almost instantly.

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Make Money Buying and Selling at Flea Markets

Everyone at one time or another will probably visit a flea market. Flea markets can be a fun time for the whole family. I remember going to the flea market as a kid and going home with toys I had never seen before. Growing up I found my self visiting flea markets trying to find a deal or two. As time went by, I saw the money you could make at flea markets. The same people sell at flea markets each week religiously for a good reason. It can be a gold mine. Your average flea market on the weekend can see over 10,000 visitors. If you can't make money at a flea market there is something wrong.Check out your local flea market. You don't have to be special to reserve a spot to sell your goods there. You just have to make arrangements and pay for your spot/table. Then you can sell any goods you have. Some people will pay full price without trying to talk you down. Other customers will try and wheel and deal their way to a good bargain. Either way, you will make tons of money at a flea market because of the volume of customers you will get.

My niche at the flea market was jewelry and lingerie. Find your niche and go for it! You don't even have to sell name brand merchandise. People are at a flea market to find things for a good price. You won't make as much money if your product cost a hundred dollars or more. So as long as the price is right, you will make money. There are tons of wholesalers who offer some really great priced goods that are not name brands. Buy some no-name goods wholesale and resell them at the flea market. You can make some profit and sell an interesting product at a great price for the people at the flea market.

Flea markets are also known for having goods you can't find anywhere except a flea market. Who cares if you aren't offering anything you can buy in retail stores. People visit flea markets for the experience of finding something different than you can find in regular stores. You don't need name brand products to make money at a flea market. Weird and rare things sell remarkably well at flea markets(the same rule holds true for ebay). Take my word for it, find something good to sell that you can get for a great deal. Get enough stock to last you the whole flea market length. Buy a table/spot at your local flea market. Be prepared to make some serious money. Bringing home over five thousand dollars in a weekend is not out of the ordinary when you sell at a flea market.

At a flea market you probably won't find someone selling the same thing as you. No competition means more money! Maybe do a scan of the flea market the weekend before you plan to sell and scope things out. Find out who is selling what and where they are. Map out your plan of what to sell and where to sell it at the flea market. The key is finding a good spot to sell your goods. The good tables are worth paying the extra money if it means a location where more people will see you.

Buying from flea markets can be a great score also. When you are a seller at a flea market, you usually get there early in the day. Which means nobody is there shopping yet. The early bird gets the worm. Hit two birds with one stone. Scope the place out for the best deals of the day from the other sellers there. I have found tons of things I have made really good money from at flea markets. Buy it cheap at the flea market and resell it on ebay for tons more money.

That's right, just beware of counterfeit and fake goods: And you can make some great money from buying at flea markets and reselling on ebay. From simple things like snow globes, nick-nacks, to collectibles, and decorations. All kinds of things are at flea markets with lots of ebay potential. Heck, if you have your own website; list the goods you buy from the flea market there so you can make money without paying ebay fees. Either way, the rewards are very much worth it when you are a regular visitor to flea markets.

I look at flea markets, yard sales, and things like that as potential gold mines. You always hear stories of people finding really good things there. I have found some really good profit makers through the years just because of flea markets and yard sales. So, look in your local paper. Check out all the flea markets. Go take a leisure visit and see what you can find. Take the family if you can't leave the house without them. You will have fun and probably make some money. At the same time; see if there can be a future for you selling at the flea market. I bet you can, goodluck!

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Make Money Through Relationship Building: Grant Writing Basics

Grant writing is really a misnomer, because so much of getting a grant has nothing to do with writing, but with relationship building. Some foundations support your organization year after year, and yet have never actually met you! Why not take the first step in relationship building and invite them to come visit? In my first full-time grant writing job, I learned just how valuable this small step could be: to the tune of $60,000 of unexpected funding!

Like every other grant writer before me, I sent an application to a Family Foundation requesting $20,000. This Foundation had regularly funded our organization and their support was pretty much a sure thing; the type of grant that allows you to breathe easy for a change. I had the application ready to go, and gave it to my boss to proof before sending it out. She made one small, yet essential, change to the cover letter: she invited the Board to tour our facilities and see their money at work.

Sure enough, representatives from the Midwest-based family foundation flew out to the East Coast for a day. They were hosted by the Executive Director and the Development Director and were given a tour of our Community Center where they were introduced to the clients that it served. When clients found out that these folks were responsible for funding the programs that had changed their lives, they were not shy about sharing their triumphant stories of making a better life for themselves. We couldnt have scripted it better if we had tried. This truly put a face on the donors dollars!

Overall, it was only a days work from the two Directors, but paid off handsomely in the end. The Foundation awarded us THREE TIMES our request! They were so impressed with the changes that they saw in the people that their money was serving, that they couldnt help but to make their contribution even larger.

If we had never extended the simple invitation to the Foundation to come visit our facilities and see their money at work, we probably would have gotten the $20,000 that year and every year after, never knowing what we were missing.

Katie Krueger is the editor of Find Funding, a FREE Grant Writing Newsletter! Subscribe online today at http://www.FindFunding.net

 

Get Celebrity Addresses for Autographs and Make Money

If you want celebrity addresses for autographs there are lots of places you can find them on the internet, but there are things you have to take into account.

A lot of the celebrity addresses for autographs you will find on free websites are probably old and out of date. The problem with this is that most addresses are of agents that represent the celebrities and they tend to change agents quite often so you might be wasting your time and money writing to an agent that no longer represents them. A lot of agents won't forward the mail on but will just throw it away. It is therefore to your advantage to take time and trouble to check these agents (and thus the addresses supplied) are up to date before writing and sending any letter or photos for signing.

The best way to get up to date celebrity addresses for autographs is to go to paying sites. There are several around and they charge an average price of $50 per year. By paying this you get checked, verified, researched up to date addresses that you won't waste your time or money by using. If you are going to be selling autographs then to pay this small amount is definitely worth it and will save you a lot of time and effort. By using this you can be far more secure in the knowledge that at least what you send should reach the person you intend it to go to.

Some celebrity addresses for autographs are available by applying through the television companies. Details and addresses for these can be found off the web site for the particular programmes/companies. You need to follow the exact details given to receive replies.

If you want to make money selling autographs then a list of up to date celebrity addresses for autographs is a must have. Finding one that is updated, accurate and easy to use is your most important find and a very valuable asset. Read More

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Can You Make Money With USA Paid Surveys?

Anyone who is looking to make money from the comfort of there own home will be hard pushed to find a simpler method than USA paid surveys. Sure affiliate marketing and dropshipping may in the long run be more profitable but they both take far more time, effort, patience and capital than USA paid surveys.

The reason surveys are a great and easy way to make money is that you require nothing apart from a browser, an email address and an opinion. There are so many research companies in the USA that are willing to pay for opinions that it is hard not to make money from USA paid surveys.

The key to making money from USA paid surveys is to sign up with as many companies as possible and then just sit back and wait for the USA paid surveys to start rolling in.

The reason you need to sign up with as many companies as possible is because each individual company only offers one or two surveys a month to it's members, thus it isn't going to be that profitable. However if you sign up with 100 companies then obviously theres a very good chance of you making a lot of money from them.

Finding 100 market research companies to sign up with is quite difficult but there are numerous membership sites that offer a huge database of companies for you, just be careful and get a recommendation from somewhere as there are many scams around.

USA paid surveys are becoming more and more popular so the quicker you get involved the better as many companies list will be nearing full membership as you read this. Companies may be willing to spend money on market research but they will have a pre-set limit as to how many consumers they need and are willing to pay.

I'd highly recommend USA paid surveys to anyone as they are a quick, fun, easy and commitment free method of making money from the comfort of your own home, and you won't find many of those around.

Adam Bradley is a paid surveys expert currently runs Paid Surveys Scam, for details on numerous survey companies and there rankings then visit Current Rankings.

 

Five Killer Tips To Make Money Online With Zero Dollars Investment

Making money online. How difficult is it? Can it be done? Is it ethical? Is it a scam? Is it legal? Who should I trust? What are the pitfalls I should avoid? How much should I spend? These are just some of the many questions beginners have. Two biggest fears people have is the risk of losing money and thinking about failure even before making an attempt.

Here are a few killer tips to help you earn money online.

First, what you need is some cash right away to make you believe that making money online is very much possible.

1. Surveys: Did you know that you can be paid for completing surveys? I know what your next question is, Is it a scam? The answer is a definite No. Will it make you a millionaire? The answer is a definite No as well. However if you are interested in making a couple of hundred bucks at the end of the month, then you should definitely think about joining these programs. Two popular survey programs are Cash Crate and Treasure Trooper.

2. PTR/ PTC: PTR/PTC are Pay to read and Pay to click programs where you can earn money by reading emails and clicking on ads. While there are many programs that are available claiming to pay money, I highly recommend Bux.to and there is a neat secret that can earn you around a thousand dollars at the end of the month. Bux.to offers a paid membership where you will automatically have members under you clicking ads and you get a portion of the revenue.

3. Making money from websites: There are two reasons, why people avoid building websites. One you require money and other you have to know HTML and programming to have them functioning. There are a couple of programs that pay you for displaying banners on their websites. Take a look at Money4Banners and Ad network to find out more details.

4. Get paid for blogging: If you still think that building websites is not for you, you can get paid for blogging. Pay per post is one such program that will pay you for blogging.

5. Have you heard of Bum marketing? You can make a lot of money online without spending a dime. Submitting articles to ezine, articlecity, goarticles and squidoo is one way. Promoting affiliate products in your blog or website is another way. Selling e-books is also a profitable way of making money.

Vijay Dandamudi is an expert in Affiliate Marketing and a co-creator of the Affiliate Marketingpedia blog with Srini. Learn more about Affiliate Marketing at Internet Money Marketing.

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AdSense: Make Money Online Without Selling

I think the title of this article gives the best definition that can be found for the AdSense program of Google.

Through its AdSense program Google let you earn without the need for you to sell anything at all to anyone anywhere.

Many persons, including who is writing this article right now, are making money and receiving checks from Google month after month.

And there are many internet entrepreneurs that are generating higher incomes from participating in the AdSense program than from the direct sales of their own products or services.

All right, you are thinking that I told you something that simply has no meaning as earning money without selling. How can it work?

The answer is simple, you are paid per click and not per sale.

The AdSense program of Google is a service that let you, and anyone else that provides some kind of content online, to become a publisher for the Pay Per Click advertising program they run.

You can see it as a triangle, where three different subjects are involved:

- Advertisers
- Google
- Publishers

The advertisers join Google PPC service (named AdWords) in order to promote their services or products to the huge audience that this giant search engine has each day.

They bid on specific keywords that are relevant to the services or products they sell and have their ads displayed on Google when searches are made for the chosen keywords. They pay to Google for every visit to their sites that comes from this promotion, so they pay for each click.

Google then opened another service called AdSense that is an addition to AdWords. It is a service for online publishers, and let you display on your web pages ads of the AdWords advertisers targeted to the keywords of your web pages. It is all done automatically when you add the simple code that AdSense gives you once you are approved for their service.

Once a visitor of your sites clicks on one link of the AdSense ads that your site displays the AdWords advertiser is charged by Google for the click, or visitor that is delivered to his site, and you are credited by Google a share of that money in your AdSense account.

So you are paid for selling nothing at all, but just for the click that the AdSense ad received in one of your web pages.

Of course the Google AdWords advertisers are very interested in selling the products and services they promote paying for every visitor sent to their site, and I sincerely hope that the clicks that increase my AdSense income benefit the advertisers that pay me through Google, but this anyway is not my concern or something I have to worry when I create my sites and add the AdSense code to them.

I am more interested in creating web pages that are interesting for my visitors and provide them useful content. I worry to provide them with explanations and links of good resources if I don't have directly the opportunity to offer them a product or a service, and the ads displayed by Google are an addition that can be interesting and useful for them and can increase my income.

I think it seems all very simple from the above explanations. One thing that is very important to know is that the Google AdWords program is extremely crowded and there are really a lot of keywords and key phrases with big competition and very high bids. This means that advertisers pay a lot of money for every single click for those keywords.

Of course also AdSense publishers can earn a lot of money if they have sites related to those keywords that receive many visitors and many clicks to the Google ads.

Gian L. Ruggeri and Michael Crownley teamed up to run a site dedicated to Earn With Google. You will find useful info and resources related to AdSense, AdWords and SEO. http://EarnWithGoogle.com

 

Easy Ways To Make Money Using Compounding As Your Compass

If you will find your calculator during your inspection of this article you will get more out of it. Numbers don't lie and you will take a glimpse into your future inside the little screen of your calculator. So, dig it up now.

There are many and varied ways to make easy money. There are less if your parameter is ethical activity. These ethical ways of generating easy money will be our focus as any other way is simply unnecessary.

Take your calculator and think for a moment how much money you could spare right this minute that could be put into a separate account that will never be touched for anything except seed capital for wealth accumulation. I am going to prove to you that even a nominal amount of under $1000 can be compounded into $1 million dollars within a specified number of months.

So why not start with that $1000

To compound money we need to re manufacture in the real world what our calculator tells us is possible. We could run silly numbers off in the calculator for hours, but you have to base your input on real world realities. The biggest being profit margins or what we teach, capital gains. This has the biggest bearing on likelihood of a plan succeeding, simply whether the numbers correspond in the real world.

In the real world there is a standard business mans 30% rule. It states that for a deal to have any real desirability, it must produce at least 30% after costs but before taxes. I don't know about you, but if I got 30% in a full year in the stock market or any other investment, I would consider myself very fortunate indeed.

Yet its easy to make 30% on many investment objects and they don't take that long to buy and sell. What if you could buy and sell at 30% twice per month?

Now lets turn to the calculator, as I can assure you, as an individual who realizes they can make a million dollars very quickly, you will find ways to keep to the schedule that the numbers on your calculator mapped out.

Now punch the keys, 100 then the times symbol, then type 1.3 We will compound our money at 30% twice per month for 14 months. 28 times. So with the first result I just had you type in, ignore it and press the times symbol again then hit the 1.3, then times again. 28 times.

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To your health and rapid success,
Martin Thomas(c)

Martin Thomas is a professional investor. 5 years ago he was a broke insurance salesman but then he was given a book that changed his perspective. The book was given to him without hype by a friend. The book was passed to him with a simple knowing nod. The book taught him how to make his first million in under 14 months. The book can be found here http://www.opportunity-investor.com

 

Can I Make Money on the Internet?

The traditional make money of yesterday have changed with the introduction of the huge spider web called the internet. You needed mountains of money to start a business you needed huge capital credit lines in place before you could make your first dime. Since the introduction of the internet you can now start a small home business with pocket change. And in less than 5 years make more money than the guy with the ulcers that owns 5 of the big burger joints with the big fancy signs.

With the invention of the Internet the numbers of good ways are so endless I could not begin to tell you just how many ways there are. It is a real blessing and it is also a plague. For every 10 good ideas for building income you will find a schemer going after your hard earned money.

By doing your homework first you can spot the schemer and with the help of the Internet to spread the word so fast. The schemer is given a bad report and is no longer able to do business. All you need to do is use the three biggest search engines and do some searches find some blogs and forums and start asking some questions. You would be surprised how fast you can start getting answers. Be sure to get more than one source for your information to verify what you are questioning.

The internet works so well for so many different things. You want to learn more about that Presidential candidate you are considering just go do a search on the internet. You will find your answers between the people who don't like them and the people who do. I know there is a small amount of learning curve here but it is worth the effort. You can find anything learn about anything buy everything sell anything you name it you can do it.

There are many ways of making good incomes. A prepackaged way is called affiliate programs which may be one of the easiest ways. It is kind of a complete business in a box system and you only real job is to find the customer and everything else is done for you. From collecting the money to shipping the product and you do not even have to do the book keeping and inventories.

For many of these affiliate programs the only overhead you really have is computer and your internet connection costs. And the time you spend on the internet getting the customers. Like a friend of mine says "how cool is that" for low overhead to start a business.

You can learn all you need to know without buying every e-book on the internet by reading the blogs and forums. And don't forget the library or your local book store you can get the answer or the idea you need for anything.

Would you like a real short cut that would save the time and effort? There is something that has started up one the Internet that so far seems like the best kept secret for the average person to make money effortlessly. If so take a short tour and see something new so new it has a patent pending on the way it pays you. Just go here: Business At Home.

David Nettles lives in South Florida and runs his home-based business part-time. He is also the publisher of http://www.businessathomeincome.com

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