Do Something You Love To Do

Instead of learning everything from scratch - do what you love to do and adapt this for online business. Why learn a mountainous amount of new things? It will take you forever to start earning online if you try to do that! Find some things that you already do well, find some things you like to do - then do them online for pay.

Almost everyone can write a little bit. If you can't, then this is probably a skill that you'll need to brush up on. Then put it to good use building up LENSES with a bunch of SQUIDS!

Squidoo Lenses, that is!

Write about something you LOVE and let the format and software of Squidoo Lenses make you money and build up your reputation and visibility online. Even if you've had to brush up your writing skills just a bit, you'll definitely have some favorite topics - everyone does, no exceptions!

Here's an example...

My favorite show on TV right now is Tim Kring and NBCs HEROES sci-fi/action drama. Even thought I'm not an expert on the show, I love to chat about it and other people do, to, so I made a Squidoo lens about the Heroes topic and combined it with something I do for business - build a referral base at Yuwie!

Here's the lens:

Discuss Heroes Episodes at Yuwie (opens in new window)

And then I also made a lens just about Yuwie on top of that:

I Yuwie Do U? (opens in new window)

Get In Touch at Yuwie

I'm aware that people are reading the blog, because I am gaining 'signups' and referrals to the programs I've promoted on this blog. I use trackers, too, so these tell me where referrals are coming from.

I just noticed that a couple of the programs I've promoted here do not allow for contact from inside certain members' areas. This means that certain people might not be able to contact me if they need help. I'm so sorry that I overlooked this detail about contact, especially to those of you who are having troubles implementing the tools and ideas from within certain programs.

Please use my Yuwie details to contact me if you need some help with these programs.

I am almost ready to officially launch my website. Once I get that up and running smoothly, you'll have a permanent location where you can reach me. Until then, the best alternative that I can think of is for you to contact me through Yuwie.



Just log in and (if you're already a member and didn't get there by following my link) then look for ' teeray ' and send me a message. I will reply as soon as possible.

Are You Missing The Point?

Are you signed in to half the 'paid for post' sites out there, posting like crazy and still freaking out because you're only making mere CENTS?

Well that doesn't make any SENSE!

Are you, perhaps, missing the point of Social Site networking?

Ever heard of the old adage 'give a man fish and you'll feed him for a day - teach a man to fish and he'll be able to eat every day thereafter' ?

Your main earnings won't come from the fact that you POST. Your main earnings come from the fact that you post QUALITY text and earn a good reputation within all of the social sites that you're involved with.

Referrals are part of the 'fish' part of the equation, too. They'll be around for a day, but may not sustain you through to large paycheques and payouts. Teach your 'fish' to fish - and then you will all be able to eat every day thereafter, and so will your downline! Basically, this means - STAY IN CONTACT with your referrals on sites that permit this. Teach them to fish.

This doesn't mean SPAM YOUR REFERRALS. This means - ASK your downline about real life stuff. Visit THEIR pages and interests, and see what they're involved in. If you can help them, then DO SO!

Some social sites don't have this built into the software well so that you can have decent contact with individual referrals and downline. In this case - USE YOUR BLOG provided with membership to update your referrals about what you're working on - and encourage them to contact you if they need assistance with anything.

BE HONEST - if you DO NOT KNOW something when someone from your downline asks, then SAY SO...but if you DO KNOW where to find information - lead your downline there.

For instance - I don't have my website completely functional yet, but my list is growing nonetheless, and my programs are gaining referrals, so if someone asks me about 'website tech' stuff, I have to honestly tell them that I DO NOT KNOW the answers they are seeking. I can, however, lead them to the place where I am training and finding the step-by-step answers that I need for the tech difficulties I ran into with my website. I simply say, "I honestly do not have that information for you, but I am learning from THIS site ---------- "

I can assist with questions about marketing, ad copy, lists, autoresponders, click-sites, autosurfs, domain name selection, hosting site recommendations, social sites, list-building sites, follow-up letters, splash pages, traffic exchanges, and many other things. I just don't want to answer questions about certain 'control panel' details and website tech stuff because I run into my own control panel battles from time to time, myself.

I WOULD NOT GIVE GOOD INFORMATION about web tech stuff and it would be a great mistake to try to 'bluff' about this information, so I don't try to bluff. You shouldn't either.

The point about social marketing and social sites and list building is that you DO IT and GET OVER YOURSELF!!! Get over your need to make coin on CLICKS. The money won't all come from there.

THE MONEY COMES FROM DOING and from REPUTATION that you build and from having people be able to COUNT ON YOU for help.

If your referrals can REPLICATE what you are doing - then they will MAKE MONEY and stick with you. They will know that if they hit a 'glitch' that you can help them or that, at least, you will direct them and be as helpful as you can possibly be.

Referral members who are your downline at 'pay per post' sites, 'pay per click' sites and social marketing sites WILL NOT STAY WITH YOU if they think they are just a number and coin value to you. Typically, referrals who aren't making money (with your help) just QUIT after a short time.

Bye-bye to your growing referral base, your list, your prospects. Bye-bye also - to earnings, right?

BE REASONABLE in your expectations about earning sites and opportunities.

How do you want to earn?

By chance?

Or with certainty - and in a way that is REPLICABLE - that you can repeat, day in and day out?

ENSURE that your earning potential can be made CONSTANT by looking at your ACTIONS and reputation - not just your downline numbers.

No Fluff

Maybe I'm up way to early this morning, but I assure you I did sleep well and I am definitely in my right mind.

I haven't even put on my 'Internet Marketer' Hat yet this morning.

I think I'll just leave it OFF today - ALL DAY and send out a 'No Fluff' message.

The message:

These THREE new Social Sites ROCK. (I've already posted about two of them, so don't overlook the bottom link). Heck - if you don't think these sites are great, I will eat my Internet Marketing HAT once I get home tonight!

YUWIE
APSense
Friends Win - NEW

These THREE new sites put MySpace and Facebook to shame! I have had to change my interaction tactics completely on MySpace and Facebook over the summer months and I primarily spend time guarding myself against SPAM and DISTRACTIONS while I'm in those two monster sites. Now don't get me totally wrong here. These are still reasonable sites - I just don't get the kind of WORK done when I am logged in to them anymore - not like I used to. I still use them - but these are definitely 'break time' sites for me now - 'true social factor' going on, rather than a whole lot of learning and internet business.

Few people - or else the wrong kind of people (spammers and scammers) - have figured out the value of Social Sites for mass-contact list building, information-sharing, and money earning. THAT is what has made MySpace and Facebook lose their value as of late, in my opinion, as Social Marketing TOP Sites. Inexperienced users create 'fluff' groups like "Join my group so I can win an iPod" - or SPAMMERS just indiscriminately send reflinks around that they don't know anything about, trying to gain referrals. Man, that gets hard to steer around after a while, doesn't it? Especially when you're looking for quality information and people with 'Know How!'

Those problems are SOLVED now - with the appearance of the three latest Social Sites.

YUWIE
APSense
Friends Win - NEW

Created by people who got tired of the MySpace-Facebook scenario, the admins and crews at the three latest social sites are ready and armed against the spammers who will soon flock there. Plus - they set the sites up with UNBELIEVABLE and VALUABLE tools - whether you're just looking to gather information about hobbies or business. These sites even have MAILER programs! I mean - GOOD ONES. And the APSense site is very notably GEARED FOR BUSINESS interests, let me tell you!

Get into these member areas BEFORE the flock of spammers comes along. Check out the existing groups right away. These are filled with knowledgeable people who ARENT using 'Facebook' and 'MySpace' MASS-Friend-Show-Off tactics. Most of the people I've encountered at all three of these sites are CAREFULLY building contacts inside their members areas. They are actually keeping COMMUNICATION channels open, instead of just scoping out friends with same interests to add to their friend list.

Do you want to be on 92 Friend Lists with people who never get a chance to chat with you about anything? Do you want to be on 92 Friend Lists with people who constantly send you a barrage of Ref-Links to programs they don't even understand?

Or - do you want to interact with PEOPLE who care about who is on their Friends List, and once you get on THEIR LIST, they want to find out about YOU?

Make a choice:

YUWIE
APSense
Friends Win - NEW

Okay - so I'm up too early in the morning - this is true. I couldn't sleep any longer because I needed to get this information down on the blog before I start my 'real-life' day. It's a BIG DAY for me today. I start the first day of my semester classes at University. No anxiety about classes. That's not what helped me wake up so early - it was really EXCITEMENT about these sites!

How could I run off to classes (In search of Abraham??) while my blog was deviod of links? How could I? Well - that just wasn't going to happen.

Enjoy your new members areas while I'm off at classes!
(I want to hear all about your experiences when I get back!)

Heck, I'm not even going to go fetch 'banners' this morning. You've seen the banners for two of these sites already - so here are the links, one more time, plain and simple:

YUWIE
APSense
Friends Win - NEW

Have a great day!

Don't Let The Size Fool You

This is going to be a short post, so don't let the size or length fool you!

No flashy banners, no fanfare. Just a link.

Today I'm keeping it simple because what I'm offering is all set up to speak for itself, and show you how to use 1-2-3 Simple steps about increasing your downline through a new social and marketing contact site that promises to help you make building your social network QUICK, EASY, and FREE.

New Site - APSense

4 minutes to watch a presentation
2 minutes to join

This can only HELP your listbuilding blossom and your social contact network bloom!

If you want to build a big list...

Let Someone Throw You a Pitch!

If you want to learn Listbuilding...

Let someone throw you a 'pitch'! A Marketing Pitch

That is - let someone 'pitch' their products to you, their information bytes and bits to you. Join a couple of other peoples' lists, then take a really, REALLY good look at how they present their eZine or Newsletter.

Though it is both unethical and ILLEGAL to copy another person's work, it is neither unethical nor illegal to pick up on good, solid information and style from other successful list-builders. If you refrain from exact copies of text, but take note of 'tactics' used in newsletters and eZines that keep YOU interested and reading along, you'll have a good idea about how to structure your own newsletter.

You won't be sued for, say, utilizing an interesting tactic of adding a joke at the bottom of your email newsletter - right before your website address signature, like 'So-and-so' Newsletter Editor/Writer did in the last newsletter you read.

You won't be sued for noticing that a certain writer has a method of grabbing reader attention by asking a question often, and you can start asking questions in your own Newsletter - every 250 or so words, if this has had an interesting effect on YOU as a reader. This may appeal to readers of YOUR Newsletter or eZine, as well. Use this 'tactic' if it SUITS YOU. Don't use it if something about this isn't 'you.'

You can use GOOD, GENERAL IDEAS from people without stealing their words.

Plagiarism is no joking matter.

Don't do it.

There is no need to STEAL OTHER PEOPLES' WORDS - especially when the best thing that you can do is promote YOU. Your very best bet is to develop your own, unique style of writing so that people on your list will begin to recognize each piece of text that you write personally - as YOURS. Within a short time, you want people to be saying 'Like so-and-so's style.'

You don't want people saying, "I read something that was like 'those marketing guys' whose Newsletters I signed up for."

Why be like everyone else?

Let someone 'PITCH' to you - read and absorb - then BE YOU by the end of it all.

Read Newsletters and eZines and see what stands out for you:

* What makes sense?
* What can you reasonably put into your own words?
* Can you explain an idea better than the idea you just read in the last Newsletter or eZine you read?
* Do you IDENTIFY with the 'style' and 'vocabulary' that someone else used in their writing?
* Did you find a bunch of plain and simple GARBAGE in the last eZine you read? If so, can you write down the correct information and educate readers of your own eZine?
* Did you learn anything from the last Newsletter you read - something that is a definite 'light bulb' or 'ah-hah' piece of information?
* Did you like the 'layout' of the Newsletter better than any other Newsletter you've seen before?
* What's the writer's 'pitch'? Can you find it? Can you find the EXACT SPOT where you started feeling like you MIGHT WANT TO BUY SOMETHING or follow a link or BELIEVE IN every word in the Newsletter?

These are all questions that you can likely satisfy by letting someone throw you a pitch!

These are all things that can also be REPLICATED successfully without plagiarizing.

Listbuilding Funnel

Are you leading people to quality resources, or just scrambling around forums, social sites, and chats, posting your various program links?

Are you spreading all your programs out, trying to make sure that you make posts about each and every program so that you get sign-ups and referrals?

Or - are you leading your prospects all to one quality place where they can enjoy benefits of funnelling their profits?

If you are just trying to gain referrals - and we all are - to make yourself successful with the various money-earning programs you're involved in - KUDOs to you. You're (kind of) on the right track. It is true that you are going to earn more cash by gaining a lot of referrals.

Unfortunately, you're probably working WAY TOO HARD!

Let me direct you to something more efficient, 10 times easier than what you're probably doing to earn money with building lists and referrals - and likely, 95% less work!

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Mike Paetzold and Jon Olson's Affiliate Funnel Site

That link above will lead you to free training and tools.

Myself, I was willing to fork over a little cash (about $30 US), so I have a step up on the free resources. I also have a page to promote that Mike and Jon don't have much of a say in (providing that programs are legitimate), which allows me to promote MYSELF and my interests, my programs, instead of Mike and Jon's programs.

My Affiliate Funnel

This is great, because my promotion page is totally customized for ME.

This leads people to ME, not to Mike and Jon or any other program owners. AFFILIATE FUNNEL is a program like no other. It gives FULL TRAINING on how to STOP MAKING OTHER PEOPLE RICH and start earning money for your own interests, programs, and pocket!

Make AFFILIATE FUNNEL your main, PRIMARY PROGRAM, and find out right away how every bit of information in the program is geared to helping you BUILD YOUR LIST!

Mike Paetzold is the "Opt-In Masters" guy and Jon Olson is the "Traffic" guy. They combined knowledge and resources and came up with this incredible program. Cut out all the 'middleman' guys like Mike and Jon do. If anyone knows about 'Opt-in' listbuilding and directing web 'Traffic' and visitors over to your List-Building pages and Opt-In pages, it's Mike Paetzold and Jon Olson.

Free members will definitely benefit from the AFFILIATE FUNNEL program, as Mike and John will allow you to place your favorite program inside your basic free, FUNNEL, in order to get started. AFFILIATE FUNNEL is designed to give everyone a chance to make money online. You're not going to get stuck without training at a certain level. The training is all there, for everyone.

Make a good choice with the program you want to promote. You could put your myLot program on the top of your AFFILIATE FUNNEL and concentrate on referrals for myLot. You could place your YUWIE program at the entrance of your funnel. The rest of the tools in the program will be geared to funnelling traffic and money back to YOU - not outward to myLot, YUWIE, Mike and Jon, or other program owners.

AFFILIATE FUNNEL is designed not only for helping with referrals, but gaining people for your LIST while you're at it!

The motto over at AFFILIATE FUNNEL is, basically: "Stop Making Other People Rich!"

Give it a shot! You ought to Stop Making Other People Rich!

Missing Link Report From Denise Hall

Did You Get Your Missing Link Report From Denise Hall Yet?

If not, you'll have to find Denise over at Golden List Secrets.

Denise is someone you want on your side, by the way, and her program is set up to teach you how to build an excellent, responsive list. She keeps in touch with members and sends out some of the BEST, most HELPFUL, beneficial products! Yeah, okay, so if you sign up at Denise's Golden List Secrets, OF COURSE, you'll be on her mailing list and she's going to KEEP EMAILING YOU, trying to get you to buy stuff.

FINE

But here is one internet marketer who sends out awesome FREE STUFF in great amounts, too. No pressures to buy the paid products, I'm serious. And the things that Denise sends to her list are really and truly USEFUL! She must be some kind of freebie fanatic herself, I think, because she really sends out great stuff.

Not to mention the stuff that she already offers to members when they sign up at Golden List Secrets!

Here are a few of the things that you'll have free access to if you get involved with Denise and join
Golden List Secrets:

* The Missing Link Report
* Golden List Secrets
* Top 10 Little Known Secrets To EXPLODE Your Conversion Rates
* How To Cash In On Adio Blogs
* iCop Desktop Directory

Now - these are only a few things - about half of what new members (free members) get when they join Denise Hall's Golden List Secrets, but those are my favorites.

I don't like thinking that I'm getting scammed, so in particular, I love the fact that Denise gives me the iCop Desktop Directory - to everyone who joins her money making program.

Oh yeah - the OBVIOUS...not only can you build your list, but you can make money just from promoting Denise's Golden List Secrets program! 75% Commission. Just for giving her free package away!

How great is this?



Also - there's a really cute little story eBook in the members area - for everyone who joins. It's called "Our Hero Dinglebert." It's really funny. Well, it's mostly really funny. Some of it might not be funny if you identify with "Our Hero Dinglebert" too closely. This is the story of Dinglebert who is trying to be an Internet Marketing Hero, make a lot of money online and quit his regular job. He keeps working SO HARD at Internet Marketing, but he keeps failing because he repeats the same mistakes again and again and again! The story is quite comical in some aspects, but when I first read it, I wasn't too far away from just having had some of the same experiences as Dinglebert does in the story. I remembered doing the same things that are outlined in the story. Though these things are funny now and I enjoy the eBook now, I remember being just like Dinglebert about a half year ago!

Anyhow - check out Denise's Golden List Secrets and start building your list the right way. Dinglebert's story will probably help you out quite a bit, too.





Feed Shark

Got The Balls To Play List Lotto?

WELL? Do you?

It's a List Building program that integrates some other great promo programs and if you're not in this one, you're not building your list FAST ENOUGH!

Seriously though. Okay I know the opening was harsh on this post - and the banner just repeats, "Do You Have The Balls TO Play List Lotto" but all shock-tactics aside, List Lotto is a really great program.

List Lotto will put you in touch with other successful and HUGE money making programs, list-builder programs and sites that all work together nicely.

For instance, you'll have access to Free Ad Depot. The name says it all doesn't it? Free ads are great - and the program at Free Ad Depot is one of the GOOD programs that I mentioned before...remember - not all free stuff is garbage. Certainly, Free Ad Depot isn't.

You'll also have access to James Grandstaff's "Downline Secrets!"

Jason Dinner's "404 Secrets"!

The Book "Big List Secrets Exposed."

Wait - I can't tell you about any more of the benefits within this program. Well, not the 'offers' that are within the members area once you join this List Lotto program. List Lotto puts you in touch with excellent list-building training material and programs that you can use all together to supplement your income and your list-growth in a number of ways.

Why does the name include 'Lotto'?

That's one great benefit that I CAN tell you yet before I go.

Every week at List Lotto every member has the same chance to win a special something at List Lotto. This really evens up the score for little guys who are just getting started. Every week, 1 member wins the chance to send a members email out to the entire list!

Most programs that utilize in-site mailings only let a certain amount of email to be sent out, according to different membership levels. Well - even the 'PRO' and 'Elite' or 'Gold' members in many programs never really get to send to the entire membership - they still get to send more mail - a lot more than lower level memberships, but not to EVERYONE.

Plus - if someone that you referred into the program WINS the Lotto - YOU ALSO WIN from this!

Anyhow - check this program out - build your list FAST!

Your Lucky List Benefits

Your Lucky List has great benefits.

Your Lucky List has a number of 'tools' to help you build a big list fast! Once you sign up with Your Lucky List - even as a free member - you will notice several things in your members area. If you're a total 'newbie,' then you're really going to appreciate the ready-made text tools in your members area.

Free members can email through the Your Lucky List system 1 time per week, while upgraded members can email more often, according to whichever upgrade option they have selected.

You'll find a page in your members area that provides the text for placing the Your Lucky List signature onto all of your outgoing emails, not just emails that you're going to mail through the Your Lucky List system to other members. The little 'slogans' are already written up - little phrases that have already been proven to be effective when you put these as signatures in all of your emails. Just copy and paste from the members area into your emails and then hit 'send.'

In your members area, Your Lucky List also equips you with a number of small newsletter ads that you can use if you gain, trade, or buy space in someone's online of offline newsletter. These are 4 or 5 line ready-to-go ads, so they're really easy to use. You can also make up your own short, 4-5 line ads yourself, if you're clever with things like this - make sure you remember your referral link within the 4-5 lines and away you go!

There are 'Top Sponsor' ads in your members' area, too. These are ads used successfully by top promoters at Your Lucky List. These, you are welcome to use, as whichever members wrote them, originally, have allowed them to be placed at the site for all members to use. It's definitely a good idea to use these "Tops Sponsor" ads once in a while - not everytime you're planning on promoting Your Lucky List - but some of the time.

You'll get 'solo mailing' emails, ready-to-go, in your members' area. These are a few well-written email letters that are reasonably short, to the point, and will be a great aid to the newbie until one is more comfortable with writing promotional emails. You shouldn't rely on only these, but they are really good examples of what you'll want to put in an email when you're promoting your list programs and other items related to your online business.

You definitely want to promote Your Lucky List all on its own as part of your overall business plan. You get benefits from having people sign up to Your Lucky List from your suggestion. This doesn't limit the fact that you can sent information that is not related to Your Lucky List, too. As long as whatever you're promoting is within TOS, you can promote other products, services, traning services like CRAZY with Your Lucky List.

Wait - I'm not quite done explaining the tools and benefits...

You will also get awesome well-written 'Subject Lines' examples in your members area. These beneficial examples will help you come up with catchy one-liners, headings, subject lines that will spark reader interest when people are checking their emails. You need something short, sweet, catchy - or - well, there are many styles of 'grabber' lines designed to grab readers' attention. Your Lucky List has some good ones already in your members area for you to use - to go with the other ready-made items.

My favorite benefits at Your Lucky List are THE SPLASH PAGES!

Here are mine:

This is the 'By Next Monday' Splash Page
Yes I want a bigger opt-in list every Monday!

This is the 'RETRO' Splash Page
It's kind of 'groovy!'

This is the "Cash" Splash Page
I like the stack of cash!

So if you haven't started building your list with Your Lucky List, you are really missing out. You're losing valuable time - even if you don't have your primary business plans all worked out yet. You don't have to have everything set in stone to be able to start building your list.

This is one of the great mistakes that people make when they first get online to try and start up an online business. The first things you need to do is get your list started!

Even if you're uncertain as to exactly what products you'll be dealing with, get your list started so that once you know everything for certain - you'll have people from your list just waiting to see your products, services, information and merchandise!

One Of The Top Questions On The Net

How Do I Build A List?

How Do I Build A Big List? A really, really big list?

This is one of the top questions that people have online as they're starting to make money online and start their own online business.

So how DOES ONE build a list - a really, really big list?

Well - it won't be done fully overnight. Get excited about your new online business and about making money online, but please - PLEASE - be reasonable!

If you're new to internet earning methods, take some time to figure out what you really REALLY want out of your online business.

What are you willing to do - how much time are you willing to spend building your online business? How much money will you put forth to start your online business?

These questions need to be answered.

Meanwhile - luckily, you can begin building your list while you're fine-tuning your business plans and figuring out exactly where you want your business to go along online avenues.

I will put many free resources on this blog, but occasionally, I will definitely state where I think that money might need to be spent. There are slow ways and slower ways to earn money online. Doing everything with freebies is the slower way, but don't be discouraged because many people who do use free resources for many things are still making money online.

Not all free stuff is garbage...just be careful. Not all free stuff is what it's cranked out to be, either.

Well - just so you can get started, I'll post a link from one of the most popular and effective list-building sites out there - and then tell you a little about the program.

Your Lucky List

Now This program, Your Lucky List is free to join and has been around for several years. I don't think the program is going anywhere, either! There are hundreds of thousands of members using Your Lucky List and from working together, they help each other to build HUGE lists!

How do they help each other? Well - partly through the emails they send through the Your Lucky List system. Most people are using Your Lucky List to promote many other money making opportunities, so mailings alone through the Your Lucky List system can be very helpful for all members. Perhaps a netmarketer who is really successful will send you an email through the system once you're a member. This marketer's email may contain excellent information about some product, service, training or tool that you'll need in the near future (or, right away!) for promoting your online business.

Also - Your Lucky List has a built-in forum that you can access from your members area. Even free members can access this forum (warning, non-members simply CAN NOT get in, so don't try if you're not at least a free member!). Anyhow, within the forum, most people are willing to help 'newbies' in all sorts of ways with all kinds of business information and not just list-building. To be sure, as well - the creators of Your Lucky List will naturally be in the forum some of the time, so you might have a chance to ask the creators of Your Lucky List about certain things, too. How great is that?

I'll show you some examples of the special tools that Your Lucky List gives even for free members to use. I'll wait 'til the next post to do that, because I've already made this post long enough and I'm sure many readers are already checking out the site!

(*hint* The site has AWESOME Tools - Ready-made emails, banners, etc. - But enough of this for now).

For now - just check out the site and get to work on finishing up the 'thinking' part that I mentioned at the beginning of this post.

(You know - about - what do you really REALLY want out of your online business?)