EMAIL MARKETING: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MAKING MONEY ONLINE WITHOUT A WEBSITE Part 2

How Do You Make Money from Your List

The best way to make money from your list is to have a product. By saying you must have a product, I  don’t mean a product you developed by yourself, you can get product from some websites through what is called affiliate programs, and make between 30%-75% from affiliate programs. One good place to find such product is www.clickbank.com . You can also get such goods at www.cj.com, www.paydotcom.com  etc. So, to make money through email marketing using your list you have to follow the following 5 easy steps.

(ii). Find a market using the method I explained in the one of the previous sections.

(ii) Find a matching product for the market.

(iii) Contact your prospects and inform them that you have what they are looking for.

(iv)Ask them to pay for what they want that you have sourced for them, through the details you’ve provided in the email.

 (v) Check your bank account to confirm their payment, and then send the goods/products that they bought to them.

Just before you ask me how you will find a market that will be profitable, here is four easy ways of coming up with a profitable market:

 (1) Evaluate yourself, most of the things you need, desire and want are most likely what other people need and want.

 (2) Evaluate your environment; both remote and immediate environment should be scanned and discover latent opportunities.

(3) Visit news stand: this is a good source of information. Most relevant and marketable information can be gotten from newsstand from newspapers.

(4) Visit online ideas hangout: the following sites can be of help when you are looking for current market trend. www.ehow.com, www.ebay.com, www.amazon.com.

(5) You can also visit forums to feel their pulse; I mean listing to their conversation and see if you can come up with new market ideas. You can visit forums like www.bigboards.com, www.googlegroup.com, www.nairaland.com.

Above all making money from internet is not the same thing as get rich quick scheme. You’ve got to put in a lot of time and effort. You’ve got to treat the business as if you are doing real business. Period

EMAIL MARKETING: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MAKING MONEY ONLINE WITHOUT A WEBSITE

There is a rising debate as to whether you can make money online without having a site, to the extent that some traditional belief on this is being challenged. The argument that you cannot make money on the internet without a site does not hold water anymore. Today with your e-mail which in most cases you can get free of charge, you can now make money online without a site. It is now possible for serious online marketers who are ready to put in the load of work required to make money online.

In this section, I am going to explain briefly how you can make money using your free email.



What are the things you need to make money through email marketing? You will need four essential things.



(i) An email Address.

(ii) Email List

(iii) A Product or Service

(iv) Internet ready computer or browse in a cybercafé.



How Do You Get Your Email?



If you’ve read my book from the beginning you will notice that this aspect has been covered. However, for reminder sake, you can sign up for free email at www.gmail.com, or www.yahoomail.com, or www.hotmail.com. The process is very simple, just click on “Sign up” link, feel the form, and submit the form. That is all; the next thing you shall see is a confirmation message telling you the status of your registration.



Having got the email address, the next thing you will need is email list or a list as it’s normally called on the internet. You must know that the secret of making money from your email is the list. And this is the reason that an average internet market will attest to the slogan; “money is in the list”. Here I will quickly tell you what is the list? How do you build your list? And how do you make money from your list?



A list is a data base of people you have built over the years, who have expressly agreed that you can contact them and share information with them anytime. To grow your list is not something you can do in a jiffy. You will have to take your time to build your list. This may take more time than you can imagine. But it is worth the salt at the end.



The next question, I will answer is how do you build your list. There are various ways through which you can build your list. The easiest one is the list you develop through classified Advert. You will offer prospects free valuable information in your Advert for you to be able to get their emails.



One good thing about using classified Advert is that it is one way of getting your prospect to raise up their hands amidst the crowd of people and tell you they are interested in what you have. Another easy way of building your list is to bring or rent a list from list brokers. This however, has a negative effect. The list may contain people who have no interest in what you are selling. Whatever way you follow, make sure you are very careful in sending your email so that you are not labeled spammer. If you are reader of Success Digest you will notice small, small adverts of 2” * 2” size that tell you to send your email or phone number or visit a site are typical examples of classified advert. I believe you understand it now. In the second part of this write up, I will show you how to make money with your emal.

Multiple Stream of Internet Income: How To Make fast Money Online with Affiliate Programs

You are welcome to the this series where I will be showing you how you can make fast more money online.  Most of the ideas that I have listed here are completely selected at random and just listed in order that I thought  will be useful to you. However, I intentionally made affiliate marketing number one of the list of money making ideas because it is by far the easiest way that I know you can make money online. 

 

Just in case you’ve never tried your hand at affiliate marketing before I’ m out here to give you  an easy guide for getting started and a few tips to help you avoid the mistakes that many “newbie” marketers often make.

 I’ve heard it said over and over again that in order to make money online you first need to give something freely. That’s very true when it comes to affiliate marketing.  You must equally be informed that you must also have give and take mindset before you can have serious breakthrough with this concept. Make sure you give your audience good quality and  original information and you will be rewarded  with great sales!

 

Before you select affiliate products to sell you need to focus your attention on a MARKETABLE NICHE. Notice, I didn’t just say a niche but a marketable niche. There’s a huge difference.  A marketable niche is not only about whether people like your product but also has to do with people who like your product and equally have disposable income to spend on your product.              

 Let me illustrate this for you…literally: Kids who love new clothes are a very large niche. But since children don’t usually have their own money to  spend they’re not the marketable niche that you want to go after.

 The real marketable niche for clothes  is the parents of the kids or in many cases even the grown ups themselves who also love new clothes  and don’t mind spending their money on various type of clothes that they can lay their hands on.

 Can you See the difference? You are to Focus on a niche where people have money that they don’t mind  spending on your products. 

 

The Next thing that I will address is how do you Choose Products that people will be eager to buy and ready to part with their hard earned Money.  Here a few companies or affiliate product directories where you can sign up for  affiliate programs and earn a commission on the referral sales that come from your links. There are many more…but these are just a few of the most popular ones to get you started:    http://www.Clickbank.com - The world’s largest marketplace for digital products, http://www.Paydotcom – Another are where  vendors can sell either digital or physical products,   http://www.LinkShare.com – A huge affiliate directory for major businesses  http://www.CommissionJunction.com – Affiliate manager for major companies http://www.Amazon.com – This is More than a bookselling website, Amazon is a huge affiliate marketplace  where you can promote and make money. 

 The list above is just a tip of the iceberg…you can find millions of products to offer to your niche audience just by searching for “affiliate programs” at your favorite search engine.

Once you get to this site take your time to work though the website and faimiliarise yourself with the do’s and don’ts of the affiliate programs. Register with them and start promoting your selected programs following different ways of affiliate programs promotion.

 

 

HOW TO BECOME A HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER AND HIGHLY PAID INFORMATION CONSULTANT?

If you want to succeed with internet, you must be familiar with information and information marketing. Why? Most of the digital products are information based. Our focus in this book is purely on how you can use the tool call the internet to source for the right information, package the information, design mini-site, publicize your site, and start making money.

 

So, who is an information Consultant? Let’s first look at the word ‘consultant.’  A consultant is a person who gives expert or professional advice; he or she is person who act as an advisor to individuals, technical or management staff or corporate bodies. He or She may be employed by corporate bodies to give expert or professional advice. The world ‘information’ on the other hand means knowledge, facts, data, and details of certain findings.

 

From these two worlds, information consultant can be defined as a person who makes a living by researching specific topics, knowledge, facts, data and details, and offers his or her findings for sale as an expert or professional advice. In other world, information consultant provides usable information to buyers at a profitable fee. When you become a consultant, you offer your skills, knowledge and expertise to other people and get paid for doing this. When you become a professional consultant, you will be offering, your information, idea, expertise, and researched data for other business people to use. In return, other people will pay you  huge money for providing them the information they need.

 

In the world of Efe-Imiren of www.seminarforts.com , she said that as an information consultant you give advice, solve problem, make recommendation, or provide special work, such as programming, editing, designing, writing, or business analysis. As a matter of fact, if you are an information consultant, you are independent contractor not an employee of the hiring organization.

 

Below is the 35 information consulting Business you can start today as highlighted by EFe Imiren and me.

 

1.             Skin care Consultant.

2.            Personal Wardrobe Consultant.

3.            Weight loss Consultant.

4.            Sales Consultant.

5.            Marketing consultant.

6.            Social Media Consultant.

7.            Wedding Consultant.

8.            Online Business back-up Consultant.

9.            Fitness Consultant.

10.          Information Technology Consultant.

11.            Copy Writing Consultant.

12.           Property Investment Consultant.

13.          Process Consultant.

14.          Human Resources Consultant.

15.          Business Proposal Consultant.

16.          Personal Education Consultant.

17.          Personal Chef.

18.          Personal Shopper.

19.          Events Planner.

20.         Internet Business Consultant.

21.           Business Development Consultant.

22.          Online Content Developer.

23.         Website Design Consultant.

24.         Hair Style Consultant.

25.         Personal Travel Consultant.

26.         Financial Consultant.

27.         Small Business Consultant.

28.         Resume or CV Consultant.

29.         Advertising Campaign Consultant.

30.         Travel Planning Consultant.

31.          Visa Application Consultant.

32.         Entertainment Consultant.

33.         Internet Marketing Consultant.

34.         Public Relations Consultant.

35.         Traffic Generation and list building Consultant.

 

Having discovered the above 35 consulting areas, the next question is how do you become an information consultant as well as how do you make money from information consulting business. The answers to these questions are very simple. First, you need to know that an expert is a person with extensive knowledge or ability in a particular area of study. He or she is an authority in his/her field and is well recognized as so by members of the community.

 

Therefore, to become an expert you have to do the following:

 

(1) Have experience in an area: For example if you have been working in a bank for some period of time and you have got an extensive experience. You can start a financial consulting business. You understand this; I believe.

 

(2)You must have the ability to do extensive research. Another thing that can help you is to have the ability to research into any area of interest. For instance, If you have prior knowledge about marketing, you can carry out more research and find out some other topics you don’t know or better still research on any new area you are being consulted on. I hope this is very simple.

 

(3)The third ways through which you can become an information consultant is to look at the above consulting areas and go arm yourself with effective training. You may attend seminars and workshops to know more about your area of interest.