Money Making Opportunities

How To Set Up A Web Page and Start Earning Money

By Steve Shaw

I deal with many complete novices and newcomers to the internet who just need someone to outline in straight- forward terms how they can start to make money online. This article will show you five easy steps anyone can take to set up a web page and start earning money.

Before you start though, just bear the following three essential points in mind:

It IS possible to make money online - this is not hype, I've done it, so have countless others with completely varying levels of ability and experience. You too can therefore make money online.

You won't become rich overnight (and don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise) - instead give yourself at least 12 months to start earning money and find your feet online. It may take a lot shorter, it may take longer - persistence is the key to business success.

To make money, you need to spend a little too, albeit wisely. If you're serious about developing a business online, then treat it like a proper business - an offline business would cost you much, much more.

So, with these points in mind, let's get on with setting up that web page...

1. Get a Product

Find a product that gives you resell rights, but isn't sold by absolutely everyone.

If possible, find one that gives you the web page and graphics so you can get up and running as soon as possible.

For starters, try going to Google.com or some other product-specific search engine such as http://cbgold.com and search for 'resell rights'.

Alternatively, a good site offering a wide selection of software and ebooks you can resell is at http://www.software-partnership.com. You just make one modest initial payment for a lifetime of free access to dozens of products you can resell.

2. Get a Web Site

Purchase a domain name and some web hosting - don't use a free host or you'll immediately discourage the potential purchaser.

One of the simplest places to 'go and get a web site' is at http://godaddy.com, where you can purchase both a domain name and web site hosting at the same time and for a good price.

3. Build Your Sales Page

If the product you want to sell did not come with the web site and graphics to help you sell it, then you're going to have to build the sales page yourself.

Now I'm not going to be able to teach you HTML in the space of a paragraph, but there are plenty of great resources online available so go learn! Either that or make use of a competent friend or relative, or if you can afford it, hire the services of a web designer.

The most important part of any sales page is of course the sales link, without which you won't sell a thing. The sales link should link to a secure server page where visitors can key in their credit card information and purchase from you.

The more complicated route is to apply for a merchant account. The simplest option, and the one I recommend, is to use ClickBank. You can find out more information and sign up at http://www.clickbanktoolkit.com/selling - there's just a small upfront fee and you can be up and running and accepting payments on your web site within a couple of days (compared to a few weeks if you go the merchant account route).

4. Build Your Thank You Page

All you need to include on your thank you page is the download link to enable customers to download what they have purchased, and an email address so they can contact you if they run into trouble.

If you're with ClickBank, you'll also need to include another piece of information - the full process is detailed at http://www.clickbanktoolkit.com/selling.

5. Get Traffic!

Once your web site is up and running, and you've tested it to your satisfaction, you're ready to roll. Now it's time to attract targeted traffic to your web site.

But first do a bit of extra testing.

Set up an account with Overture.com or Google Adwords, and pay for some targeted traffic to your web site using suitable keywords.

Measure your sales against the number of visitors you have received, and this will tell you your sales conversion ratio.

If 1% or more of your visitors are purchasing, you're doing okay - if it's any less, you need to re-examine your sales page (or the keywords you are targeting) and do some tweaking to improve this percentage. This is however a big topic, so do as much research as you can online.

Other effective traffic-pulling measures include writing and submitting articles to ezines and directories, ezine advertising, running your own ezine or newsletter, and so on.

However, attracting traffic is a skill and takes some time to develop, so just learn as much as you can, and be persistent.

Finally, once you've got traffic coming to your site, ask them to subscribe to a mailing list, and follow up with them - otherwise you're throwing good traffic away.

Steve Shaw is the author of the Click Bank Toolkit, which comes with at least two products you can immediately resell, together with the full web site and graphics. For more details about this instant internet business, and information on how the toolkit can double your profits from ClickBank, just go to http://clickbanktoolkit.com

Internet Marketing:

The Easiest Way to Become an Internet Articles Writer

All speakers and writers who become great speakers and writers have two needs.

To be a great speaker you need to have:

1) a real and valuable knowledge of the subject you are addressing, and

2) a burning desire to share what you have to offer with others.

To be a great writer you need to have:

1) a real and valuable knowledge about the topic you are writing about, and

2) a burning desire to share what you have to offer with others.

In other words, be a good storyteller so people will listen to or read your stories.

We all must begin where we are at, whether we think we can become an Internet articles writer or not.

So what exactly is good writing? The best writing glides along the ice like a speed skater in a 1,500-meter race. You ride on his effortless stride, you marvel at his form, you feel his intensity and sense of controlled urgency, you appreciate his sense of competitiveness, you find yourself with him, stride for stride, measuring his distance from the leader of the pack, wondering if he can actually win, suddenly you lose control and jump into the race, you lean as he leans going around the curve, you wonder if he has what it takes to close the gap, your attention becomes riveted as he begins to narrow the margin, your heartbeat increases as he gains ground, you are glued to the moment, and then he puts on a final sprint, finally draws even, and wins by the blink of an eyelash! My God, you were there. When he mounts the awards stand and the flag of his nation rises, you rise with it. He was your choice, and he won!

Is it any wonder that athletes have such a strong following among spectators? Athletes become our heroes in any vicarious way possible. We wear a jersey when we watch the game. After the game, we play a pick-up game with our kids in the back yard. We love the feel of being in the thick of the competition, and winning.

Switching back to our main topic, what exactly is good writing?

Some people think a good sentence should be short and simple.

To the point.

Obvious.

In the first example above, the sentence goes on and on and on (168 words!), and yet you kept reading.

Writing can be either way and be effective, and there are Pulitzer Prize winners to prove it. For simple writing with short sentences, read Ernest Hemingway’s "The Old Man and the Sea." Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. For sentences that go on and on and on forever, read William Faulkner’s "The Sound and the Fury," it is filled with long, convoluted sentences. Nonetheless, Faulkner, like Hemingway, also won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Both were legendary novelists with opposite writing styles, and therein lies the easiest way to become an articles writer.

What is important is developing a style of writing that you are comfortable with. Even more important is getting your thoughts, some thoughts, any thoughts, onto your monitor. Until you put the letters on your keyboard onto your monitor, you are not a writer. The moment you do you have the potential to become an articles writer.

Once you have a sentence, any sentence, in front of you, you can pick it apart and make it better, because you have taken the thought out of your head and put it into the workplace of improvement. Write something on your monitor and it becomes manageable; try to formulate the perfect sentence in your head before you put it on your monitor, and your article may never get written.

The frustration of trying to write the perfect sentence brings on writer’s block, the inability to put your thoughts into meaningful sentences. Forget about being an articles writer, just get started and you will become one.

Go ahead, start. Begin now. Write anything down, and then make it better.

You are now on your way to becoming an Internet articles writer.