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Thanks to the Internet, almost anybody with a little drive and ambition is now able to start their own business. By starting an online business you can create a little financial freedom for you and your family, because you can create an income producing business that brings in the cash 24/7. This article will explore the easiest method you can use to start an online business.

To have a successful online business you are going to need a website. Unlike during the late 90s, today its no big thing to get a website. You simply need to find a suitable domain name, register the name with a reputable company, and then sign up for a hosting plan with the hosting company of your choice.

Next, youll want to design and create your website. This is a snap as well. Simply make a search of your favorite search engine for a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) web editor. There a ton of these available, even some high quality free ones. A wysiwyg web editor allows you to create a web site in the same way you use Microsoft Word. If you can use Word, you can definitely use one of these wysiwyg web editors no problem.

One of the easiest online businesses to get started in is affiliate marketing. In affiliate marketing you send people to an affiliate site and you get credit for the sale when the visitors you send buy something. By having your own website you get people to visit the affiliate site by clicking relevant links you place on your site.

For affiliate marketing to work, you need a steady stream of traffic to your site. One of the most effective, FREE methods for generating traffic to your site is by writing and submitting relevant articles to the top ranked article directories.

You need to do some intensive keyword research before writing your articles, so that you will know how best to optimize your articles for the keywords your prospects are searching for. There a many free tools available for keyword research, once again search your favorite search engine for a tool you can use.

Thats the basics of how to start an online business. It involves finding a domain name and registering it. Setting up a hosting account. Creating your website in a wysiwyg web editor. Doing the necessary keyword research for the affiliate program you will be promoting. And then writing and submitting relevant articles to the article directories.

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If you're wondering how to make money online, there is no shortage of viable options. From raking in money from ad revenue generated from a blog to selling various items on sites like Craigslist, the money is there to be made. The trick is knowing how to do it and knowing how to dodge the scams that seem to be luring around every corner.

For example, all one has to do is go to a search engine and type in "how to make money online" and millions of links will instantly come up. Everyone is out for easy money and there are a lot of scam artists out there waiting to prey on people who are just looking to make an honest buck from the comfort of their own home. Unfortunately, the only way to find out if the company is legitimate or not is to go through the process of trial and error. Online investigating will help, but it's by no means a fail proof safeguard.

One simple thing to do is to post items for sale on auction sites or online forums. With forum sites, specifically Craigslist, you don't have to worry about paying for a product posting fee. However, you do have to meet the person face to face. With sites like Ebay you do have to pay a small fee to get your product listed, but you don't have to meet the person face to face and usually you can factor in shipping costs into the selling price of the item.

As always, it's important to know that no matter how much money a person may be offering, it's important to place your personal safety first. Don't meet people online for product/cash exchanges if it all possible. The $4 spent in shipping is a small price to pay for peace of mind.

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Where did you hear about Entice Cash? Friends? Forums? Maybe even Craigslist? Now what exactly is Entice Cash? Is it a legitimate business? I am going to try my best to answer your questions about Entice Cash in this article.

Before you join Entice Cash please note that you are about to work in the adult industry. Entice Cash was launched February 2006 and it is affiliated with IMLive, a site that sells adult webcam shows. Basically the idea is to get people to sign up at IMLive, you'll get paid a fixed amount for every sale you generate.

Entice Cash is free to join but it does asks for your social security number, this raises some red flags for people who are unfamiliar with affiliate programs. Let me give you a run down, all legitimate businesses must report their earnings to the IRS every year, the SSN is needed in order to pay you. If you are still uncomfortable entering your SSN, there is an option to enter a bogus number at first just to test out the program. You MUST enter your real SSN in order to receive a paycheck.

Alright now to the responsibilities, once you signed up, you will be given an online training manual. You are basically asked to go into chat rooms pretending to be a webcam model, starting conversations with potential customers and 'enticing' them into joining IMLive. Other methods of promotion are also shown, this includes email advertising and Craigslist postings.

This pretty much sums up Entice Cash, I personally know a person who does this, and gets paid regularly. In no way is Entice Cash a scam, you just have to be comfortable with this kind of work. Entice Cash is not the most ethical work at home opportunity and I believe there are much better alternatives out there.

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Testing your website pages, especially landing pages, squeeze pages and sales pages is one of the most profitable things you can do to tweak your pages and gain higher conversions. On top of that, you can learn more about copywriting though split tests and other means of testing your web pages than any other way.

Back in the days of mail order marketing, testing sales letters and catalogs gathered more real information about new concepts and ideas than through most other methods of research at that time. In these days of the internet, the bell even rings louder.

You can test whole concepts of your pages to find out what emotional triggers and core desires your market truly respond to. Simply test two or three versions of your sales page that each focus on a separate theme or slant on the product or service. The page that pulls the most conversions will give you the answers you are looking for.

In this day of fierce online competition, testing is something you should, no MUST do to gain the highest conversions from your website and pages. If you're not actively testing your pages, your competition will soon pass you by.

What Exactly Should You Be Testing?

The simple answer is: Everything! Everything on your pages and in your sales message is a contributing factor to your conversion rate. This includes your headline, opening paragraphs, body copy, your offer, post scripts, background color, font, font colors, images and every imaginable component of your page in between.

Volumes of information have been written about what to test and how to test your web pages. This work is extensive, so when you begin to test, I suggest you concentrate your first efforts on the three areas that have been shown to have the most impact on your sales page, the headline, the first three (or four) opening paragraphs, and your offer.

In this article, I will focus on Headlines as they are the critical element of your page.

Testing Headlines

Headline changes con have the most impact on your conversion rate and response of these three components. 75 - 80% of your visitors will never read past the headline. It doesn't matter how wonderful you have written your sales page, if the headline doesn't work correctly and do its job of getting people to read on, your page will be a failure.

In order for your headline to be effective, you have to discover the biggest core desires within your market to feed. The best headline test are based around the different core desires and motivating reasons why people would be interested in your product or service.

Testing different headlines around different concepts will tell you which one is more appealing to your market audience. Once you have the key concepts and desires tested and you have discovered which one works best, you then go to work tweaking your headline in more alluring and persuasive ways.

Split testing is generally used to test headlines. In the beginning, you will probably want to use simple A/B split testing but if you are dealing with high volume traffic and high price sales, you may want to consider speeding up the process with multi-variate testing.

What Type of Headline Format Do You Test?

There are some classic headline formats that have been shown to be effective over time that you can begin with. There's the "If/Then" headline, "Amazing Secrets of ..." headline, the "Who Else Wants to ..." headline, and of course the classic " How to ..." headline.

Test as many headlines as you can think up for your web page. In fact, you should never stop testing different headlines on your page. A simple 10% increase in your conversions could result in hundreds to tens of thousands of dollar or more. Testing your headlines could bring an increase of 50%, 100%, or even 200% or more in the response your web page brings.

The next time that you feel that your landing page, sales page or squeeze page should be converting better, think about testing the component of your page to increase the effectiveness and response that it should be eliciting.

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Jim Bruce is a SEO Web Consultant at Ristvin Marketing. You can find out more about SEO and Search Marketing by going to SEO Consulting and Search Marketing

Happy Halloween to Everyone!

Last night (after a VERY long day writing my "One Time Offers" in readiness for my "Internet Marketing Success Academy" launch) I decided to put my feet up with a nice-big glass of red wine in front of the TV.

Now don't get the wrong idea here - I'm not usually prone to watching much TV. Fact is I think so much TV these days is just not good for you. Especially the news, which seems to be nothing more than opportunity to watch the most depressing show in town. Seriously, in my opinion the "news" should could with a government health warning!

Anyway - here I was, TV remote in one hand and a glass of red in the other sat in "dad's chair in front of the 54″ TV and Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares come on. Rather apt given that it's Halloween.

The show is based on Gordon going in to "failing" restaurants and basically turning them around. Last night he was in a "Fish Restaurant" in Brighton UK. Without going in to too much detail here, lets just say this place was a disaster and was literally costing the owner his home. Their takings were sometimes as low as 3.38 ($6.76) for a FULL days work...The place was losing 1,000 ($2,000) every single week.

The over-whelming thing that came through (once again) as Gordon tried to help the owner was that the owner didn't want to take Gordon's advice...

Strange when you consider that Gordon is widely recognised as one of the best chefs in the world and has been INVITED in to give his advice!

One of the first things Gordon did (after he'd seen what they were serving) was to go out in to Brighton and ASK what people actually thought about the restaurant.

1. Why didn't they like it?
2. What would make them come and use it?

Armed with the "Prospects" answers he took his advice and laid out a plan for the owner to follow. Strangely enough, the biggest resistance to change the owner had, was to change the decor inside.

He actually loved the way he had "done his place out". I mean "what the 'f' does 'effin' Gordon Ramsey know..."

Well actually he knew that the prospects & customers "hated" the decor of the place. By the way it wasn't to my taste either BUT it wasn't that bad. However...

The point is WITHOUT asking the prospects he would have never have known that the dcor was putting people off. As were the prices...As was the menu....

This is exactly what we marketers mean when we say things like, "you must know/research your market..." - "find a hungry crowd..." (no pun intended!)

The restaurant is now a HUGE success. The amazing thing is, Gordon maybe one of the worlds top chefs but he didn't do anything special to the food. He didn't give the chefs a master class in cooking...

He simply put his "Business" head on and asked his prospects what they wanted and then gave it to them. Plain & Simple.

I have to tell you, it was some of the most compelling TV I've seen in a long time. Hats off to Mr Ramsey!

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Have A Great Halloween! James.

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Virginia Tech is getting the deal of a lifetime at 100K for each death caused by

A. their negligence in failing to remove Seung-Hui Cho from the campus,

B. their failure to warn the campus that a gunman was at large and could possibly be a danger to students and

C. the campus policy that doesn't allow properly permitted and legal gun owners to carry their lawful weapons on campus, ensuring a helpless, victim-rich environment.

Virginia Tech's negligence in allowing the massacre to take place is far more egregious than the pittance of the settlement per child would lead one to believe. Not only did they not warn the student body, but their rules about no LEGAL firearms on campus made sure that no one could defend themselves. They are incredibly lucky to get off so lightly in the civil settlement.

When one considers that a surrogate mother is $40,000 plus another 15-30K for the harvesting, fertilization and implantation, prenatal care, hospital delivery, diapers, food, clothes, insurance, education, braces, etc., etc. and VT got the deal of a lifetime! If I offered you a 100K for one of your children would you let me kill him or her? Of course not--but VT thinks it's a fair deal for the parents--and of course let's not forget that the lawyers are getting a cut too--33.3-40% of the 100K PLUS EXPENSES which means only 60-66% of the 100K of blood money offered. Can I buy your child for 100 thousand dollars? It's not enough--not by a long shot!

The author, Teri Davis (Limo Barbie) owns and operates Dependable Limos. She has been nationally recognized by Limo Digest magazine for excellence in the field. Dependable Limos was first runner-up for Small Limousine Company of the Year for the United States in 2003 and nominated for Mid-size Limousine Company of the Year in 2004.