February 4th, 2010

4 Day Money Making Blueprint Review

DIRECTORY No Comments, Reviews, by Steve.
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When you surf the internet you will often see some sort of advertisement for a so called proven secret blueprint. Many are seduced by the prospect of making a lot of money without having to do much work. While this is possible, with all the options out there, how can you figure out who offers a good and realistic way to make money online? There are some good strategies that make choosing a good program far less of a gamble. With some research and by asking the right questions, the dream of internet wealth really can become a reality.

Careful where you tread It’s a minefield.

Sadly there is a lot of useless information available on the internet. Many of the so called secrets that are being offered are just the same old information re-packaged. A key factor to making money online is efficient use of  time, so it is important to try and find a system that shows how to employ just one single and simple technique.

Free methods are best for getting started.

One of the biggest reasons for failure is that internet marketing often involves a few ongoing costs. Often people become disheartened because they are spending money and not making any. If you want to get started making money online it is a good idea to start with a proven technique that has no such costs , the 4 Day Money Making Blueprint is one such program. This program teaches you everything you need to know to make money online with no running costs.  These are entirely free methods, and require only some of your time to put into practice. For that reason it is an excellent way for anyone to begin making money online and to earn while you learn.

4-Day Money Making Blueprint:

What makes this program different is the that the whole process is shown in great detail and information that you just would not get from many of the I.M guru’s is freely given. Although there is great detail the whole thing is broken down into steps in a number of easy to follow videos.. There are 25 videos (over 15 hours) walking you through the process from beginning to end. No other program covers the process of article marketing in such detail and it is very easy to follow. Even if you have limited skills, you can still make very good money using the methods shown. This program will also help you to improve your writing, as well as showing you how to do effective marketing.
The program was created by David Bocock, and I would challenge anyone to watch his introductory video and tell me that this guy is not genuine. David has refined the process of article marketing to almost an exact science and has a genuine desire to see his members succeed. The topics covered include finding a profitable niche, keyword research, writing articles, submitting to article directories, getting back links, and generating traffic. In short, it’s an excellent introduction to affiliate marketing using free methods to drive traffic and sales for any type of product that you are promoting. The course is also excellent value at just $29 (at the time of this writing), and in my opinion over-delivers for the price.
The 4 Day Money Making Blueprint also offers a members forum where people can post questions and answers about various topics and David takes a very active role in his forum. As well as the 15 hours of core videos there are new videos added regularly and many of these offer information that the guru’s just would not share with you. David freely admits that he is sometimes frowned upon by his peers for offering the kind of information that you would normaly only get from paying for personal coaching.

Risk Free.ecover5-322x437-190x265

As with many programs there is a 60 day money back guarantee, but Davids course has the lowest refund rate I have ever seen. This is a good indicator that his system is working for the vast majority of his subscribers. Davids is keen to get accross that it is better to do just one thing and focus on it untill it is working before getting involved in complex and often costly methods. I believe that this is why so many people are making money before the 60 day refund period is up. My only critisism of David would be that I cannot see how he is making any real money himself with a price tag of only $29 and no upsell whatsoever.

Sound information that will continue help you.

All of the techniques shown are essential to internet marketing and learning how to do this in such detail will help you in all other aspects of your online business. Getting a firm grounding and learning to drive free traffic and generate sales for the product you are promoting is turned into an exact science with this course. You will also learning how to write great sales copy, and get paid for it. By the time you’re ready to start creating your own products  you’ll know how to write a sales page that converts your potential buyers into actual buyers like crazy.
Once you are earning using the methods in the the 4 Day Money Making Blueprint you can use some of your profit to fund new ventures such as websites,  pay-per-click campaigns, product creation and more.
The 60 day money back guarantee and free methods offers complete security that you don’t stand to risk loosing a single penny.  Anyone who follows the course carefully will almost certainly start making money quickly and can build a substantial income over time.

Check it out.

Once again I would challenge anyone to watch Davids video and tell me that this guy does not have a genuine commitment to his members success.
To find out more, check out the 4 Day Money Making Blueprint video.

February 3rd, 2010

Make Money Online – A Beginners View

DIRECTORY No Comments, Advice For Newbies, by Steve.
Business

The Truth About Making Money Online.

Just stop here & take a moment to get some good advice from a fellow newbie THAT WILL save you time and money.

If you have been trying to make money online you will already know that there are literally thousands of people who claim to have that secret blueprint to riches beyond your wildest dreams. So first let me tell you straight that there is no secret blueprint.

Ask yourself this, if you had a secret blueprint that was earning you thousands of dollars would you sell it? Let’s assume that someone does have a secret and they sell it to 5 000 people, well it’s not a secret any more is it. The simple truth is that there are many ways to make money online, but they all share some similar characteristics.

I don’t want to put you off because it’s actually not that hard to make money online.

The truth is that for the vast majority getting started is the hard part and most fail at this very first hurdle.

So the purpose of this page is not to promise you riches beyond your wildest dreams, but simply to give you some good honest advice that will help you to get over the biggest hurdle of all, “getting started” and actually making money.

OK let me start by telling you who I am and why you should take my advice.

My real name is Steve Hippel I’m from the UK and I’m not a super affiliate, guru or webmaster. At the time of writing I am just beginning to make money online after 8 weeks of trying.  So in other words I am/was a newbie when this was written.

Q. With so many experts out there why should you listen to a newbie like me?

A. Because as I found out and you may well already know, most of the so called experts who claim they want to teach you, want nothing more than to take you for every penny that they can squeeze you for.

A LOT OF THE PROGRAMS OUT THERE ARE A WASTE OF TIME AND WILL LEAVE YOU OUT OF POCKET AND FRUSTRATED.

I have wasted a lot of my time and a little of my money trying to get started making money online.

Now I have started making money and it’s getting better with each passing week and I’m confident that it was all worth it.

I believe that the biggest reason for failure in I.M is that people come into this game with unrealistic expectations. I believe that the second biggest reason is that it’s costing them money instead of earning them money.

So what I want to do now is to show you how you can make money online without riskingecover12-328x461 loosing a single penny, with no list, no ongoing cost’s like website hosting and with a proven technique that is used by me and thousands of others.

Also I want to tell you about a genuine program that I use, that works, that has NO UPSELL and is far cheaper than the average pile of junk that you come across out there. Before I do that let me share with you some useful tips that will save you time and money.

Tips For a Successful Start.

Buy a Program.

I know I just told you that a lot of them are a waste of your time and money, but if you are new to Internet.Marketing then you do have a learning curve to get through. You could research online, but this will take you months and you will most likely end up with a lot of conflicting information.

When you buy a program make sure it has a 60 day money back guarantee. If your purchase is made through Clickbank (as many are ) you can rest assured that the guarantee will be honoured.

Don’t hesitate to throw a bad product back and get your money back. If you do this and your purchase was made through Clickbank, make sure that you let them know your feelings about the product.

Clickbank care very much about there reputation and if we all made it known that a particular vendor is peddling a poor product then they will act on that information.

When you buy a program it’s not uncommon to pay your money and before you even see the product the vendor is trying to sell you something else. This can be a premium membership or one of a number of other products, but this is a clear indication that your new mentor has a greater interest in taking your money, than showing you how to make money.

You can research a product before you buy simply by searching for it by it’s name, but this is not a five minute job. What tends to happen is that many of the results are pages that have been made by people who are promoting the product and this makes getting an honest view very difficult. I personally do not recommend this approach as it has always proven to be a waste of time for me.

MY NUMBER ONE TIP!

When you choose a product try to choose one with a very low refund rate. This is just common sense, if people are not returning the product it means that they were happy with it. A simple but very good indicator that the product has value to it’s users.

Lastly, I know you have heard it before but, if it sounds too good to be true it is. Sales pages are designed to sell, so read between the lines and think about the wording. Keep both feet on the ground and study the wording carefully, I do this now and I find many of the pitch pages laughable.

My Recommended Program For Beginners.

Now I realise that you don’t know me and have no reason to trust my judgment so let me just ask you one question.

Q. If my only intention was to just make a quick affiliate commission why did I not promote one of the many products at $75 or over?

A. Because this program is working for me, cost’s nothing to run and has a refund rate of less than 2%, so it must be working for many others too.

The 4 day Money Making Blueprint.ecover5-322x437-190x265

Pro’s

COST:- with a one off payment of only $29, this is the best value for money program that I have found to date.

GUARANTEE:- 60 day no quibble money back guarantee backed by Clickbank.

ADDITIONAL COST’S:- None whatsoever. The owner wants you to earn money not spend it and as soon as you watch the sales video it becomes apparent that this guy is genuine.

EASE OF USE:- There is a lot to learn but this is the case with any good program. The course is set out over 25 very detailed step by step videos. Each video covers one aspect and although in depth they make good sense and leave you with a clear path to follow.

DOES IT WORK? :- The question that everyone wants an answer to, but no one can answer. It earned me my first income in within 72 hours, but I am me and you are you. Just like I said to you that you can’t trust my word because you don’t know me. Equally I can’t say that this will work for you because I don’t know you.


The fact is that many people expect to make money online with little or no effort. If that sounds like you then go away now because I didn’t waste my time writing this for you. I’m sorry but people like that make me more sick than the vermin that peddle rubbish and the forums are full of them.

All I can say is that if you follow this course carefully and do the work it will almost certainly make you money. More importantly this course offers you a real chance to test the water and make some money with zero risk of loosing a single penny.

Con’s

This is a great way to build a huge passive income, but it takes some work and commitment. This is not a get rich quick scheme. You will not make an instant fortune using this course, but you won’t using anyone else’s either.

I Saved The Best Till Last – 5 Tips For Success With the 4 Day Money Making Blueprint.

I’m glad you have read this far because it shows that you are serious about making money online and for that I am going to give you an advantage.

If you are going to take my advice here are some tips to help you get the very best chance of quick success.

Tip 1.

A large part of the 4 Day Money Making Blueprint concentrates on finding a profitable niche or product range to promote. It is very easy to get excited and rush to get online, but this is often a fatal mistake to make. Finding a profitable niche is the most important element of your success and is covered extensively so DO NOT RUSH IN.

Tip2.

Once you have found your product range stay focussed. It is so easy to bog yourself down with information overload and this will get you nowhere fast. Get your first venture up and running and focus on that and nothing else until you are earning some money. I cant stress this enough, getting side tracked will cost you time at best and money at worst. I know because it is a mistake I made and all the experts will tell you the same.

Tip 3.

Don’t start spending money until you have earned some. This program is free of upsell but does touch on pay per click. Follow the advice in the course and make money first before embarking on the complex and potentially costly area of researching and testing a pay per click campaign. When you are making money you can re invest some to make more, but make some money first.

It will be less painful if you loose some profit than if you loose money from your own pocket.

Tip 4.

Don’t rush. You have 60 days to give this your best shot and buy the end of that time you should be making money or at least able to see that you will. If this is new to you don’t worry if you mess it up first time. If you get it wrong you will have ample time to have another go and all you will have lost is some time. Don’t dwell on what you lost think of what you learned and remember the best lessons are often learned the hard way. You will gain more success through your failings than anyone can ever teach you from a book or video.

Whatever you choose to do now, let me take this opportunity to wish you the very best of luck and to thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.

FAST MONEY.

If however you have nerves of steel and want to get an insight into the insane world of the big money and fast returns that are possible, then I take my hat off to you and this is for you.

Fast Money

January 26th, 2010

Planning a Small Business Website

DIRECTORY 2 Comments, Small business websites, by Steve.
Business

New Small Business Website Guide

A Little Planning Goes A Long Way.

A common miss-conception among small business owners is that a website is some kind of company mascot. Often you will see small business websites that over concern themselves with the comany and not its products and services.

A small business website should be thought of firstly as a collection of adverts for the company’s products and service and then as a place where people can find information about the company itself.

Although the website is a collection of adverts, the way that people find those adverts is very different from that of traditional forms of advertising.

DIY Business Website

When you consider a newspaper advert, it is possible to estimate roughly how many people will see it. A newspaper would have a fairly specific circulation and will have sections that reflect various products and services. Given these facts it is possible to work out roughly how many people will visit each section. Each page will have a number of adverts on display and there is a good chance that yours will get seen.

The way people find a website is very different. It is necessary to construct your website to capture visitors who search for a term or terms that are specific to the company’s product or service. If you consider a kitchen company trying to get noticed online the most obvious search term or keyword would be kitchen. However if you consider just how many kitchen company’s there are on our planet it soon becomes apparent that you are going to be competing against millions of pages.

The vast majority of people searching on the internet will not move beyond the first page of the results. For this reason a website must be set up in such away that will allow you a very good chance of a front page position in the major search engine results. This sounds difficult, but is often a lot easier than you might imagine.

Using our kitchen company as an example, we need to think carefuly about what people would search for if they were looking for us. While many people might type kitchen, doing so will most likely return results that do not fit their needs at all. If a person is looking for a local kitchen supplier or fitter they are more likely to search for a less broad term. Many people would type a term and not a word. Let us assume our searcher lives in or near a town. They would most likely search for (kitchen MyTown or MyTown Kitchen). This would not only be a term that has less competition, but is highly specific to our company and customers needs.

Not all people will search for the same term and a search for (kitchen MyTown) will return a different set of results than for (Kitchen Fitter MyTown). By analysing the business it is possible to identify a number of search terms that people might search for if they were looking for a company like yours. By narrowing these terms down to a locality you are identifying a number of niche terms within your field. These niche terms carry far less competition and because of a lack of understanding among small business owners the competition is often very poor.

Once you have identified a number of possible search terms/keywords it is time to DVDCoverresearch the competition. Researching the chosen keywords enables you to work out how easy or difficult it will be to gain a front page position in the search results. Having this information enables you to put in place a foundation on which you can build a framework over time.

If the main keyword phrase for our company was (kitchen MyTown) we would start with the foundation which would be the domain name. A common mistake among companies large and small is choice of domain name. Choosing a domain name with the phrase (kitchen MyTown) in it should be your first choice. Using the company name as a domain name is most likely going to attract visitors who are already aware of your existence. These people would have been likely to buy from you anyway. Because a company name is usually quite unique in itself, it should be possible to build a page that is optimised to that keyword anyway.

Using a locality as a niche can work very well if your company is localised. but if you want to sell your product or service to a larger audience the job becomes a bit harder. For a national company using (UK or USA……..) can be possible, but you are likely to be competing with large companies. An alternitive approach is to build a number of smaller websites to cover different regions. The possibility of finding niches within your products and services is also an option, but your final decision should be made as a result of your research.

Researching potential keywords is made simple thank’s to a number of tools and services that are avilable,  many of which are free. You should be prepared to invest several hours to keyword research even if you find several quite quickly. Finding a broad range of keywords will give you flexibility and you need to pull traffic from as many different avenues as you can.

Some examples for our kitchen company.

If we assume our kitchen website has the domain name MyTownKitchens.co.uk/, then each page would be an extension of that with the page name preceding the forward slash.

So we may add and optimise pages that reflect other things that people search for.

Search = MyTown Kitchen fitter.   example   www.MyTownKitchens.co.uk/kitchenfitter.

Search = MyTown Kitchen Worktops.  example   www.MyTownKitchens.co.uk/worktops.

Once this basic foundation is in place the page titles, descriptions, keywords and content can be built around each page. Good content on your website will influence how it is seen by the search engine spider software. When a search engine receives an instruction it has to work out the order of importance the pages and It does this surprisingly well.

Understanding how the search engines tick makes it possible to construct your pages to ensure that they are seen as highly relevant to a given term. This can be built on further by making your pages popular with other relevant websites, but this another subject and will be the subject of my next post.

Planning a small business website prior to even buying a domain is a crucial process if you want your small business website to be successful. The vast majority of small business websites fail to come close to realising their full potential. This is almost always due to lack of understanding and poor planning.

Having a website built by a professional is always a good idea, but for most smaller businesses it might not be cost effective. It is possible to get a website built cheaply, but as with everything else, you get what you pay for. Buying a cheap website will usually turn out to be a waste of money. Cheap websites tend to be made quickly from a template. Usually little if any research and SEO would be carried out and text content is often minimal.

The fact that modern software make it so easy to build a website presents another problem. There are a vast number of web site designers that know less about SEO than you will by the time you finish reading.

If you are going to have a site built make sure that you know the difference between a designer and a developer. A developer is the one who you will think is trying to rip you off when in actual fact he is giving you good advice. A good web presence involves  ongoing development and therefore ongoing costs. Ownership of the website and domain name is another issue that must be considered. If you get your website built make sure you own the website and domain name.

Another thing that is nearly always overlooked is that a website can bring additional revenue to a business on its own. Affiliate and pay per click advertising can be added to your website to make passive income.

There are many programs online that offer extensive training on affiliate marketing, but care should be taken when considering a program. Fortunately your needs are going to be simple because the main focus of your website will be your business. Having said that many people make substancial incomes from Affiliate marketing and it can be a profitable addition to your business.

When advertising other product care should be taken to ensure that anything advertised is complimentary and not competitive to your business. Care should also be taken where place adverts on your sales pages if at all. This may take the customers focus away from a sale that you were about to close.

A good way to get rich content into a business website is to have a section offering tips or advice. This is a good place for your affiliate advertising and also shows the image of your companyas helpful and knowledgable.

For more on building a small business website check out the other posts in the small business website category at the top right of this page or for my video course click here.