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Any single woman living alone will tell you that to be safe it makes sense to have some protection, and you might be surprised just how many women take self-defense classes, own fire-arms or have tasers in their purses. It makes sense to protect your self. Perhaps this is why Taser Home Parties are becoming so popular. In fact, they are as popular or even more so than Tupperware Parties, but how can this be?

Its simple really, because nearly everyone who goes to a Taser Party buys one, and they are huge money makers. Perhaps you might have heard about these in your area. A small group comes to a home where lots of guests are invited and explains the basics of self-defense, the law and then puts on a really cool demo. Generally a retired police officer will be part of the group and they will have a mock demonstration where an attacker attacks a victim.

The victim using a couple of simple techniques defeats the predator with the taser. A Policing speech is given and then a personal safety instructor speaks and answers questions. Next, the taser sellers bring out the hardware for sale. This is a good opportunity for realtors who might come and explain the crime stats of the area and join the team of sellers, as a consultant. By giving free speeches to groups of ladies or concerned citizens, the Real Estate Agent will be doing a great service and meeting potential buyers and getting referrals as well.

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/ Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington

I have spent most of my 15 years online dedicating thousands of hours checking out certain trends and statements made by top income earners. The program that I took on was Abunza. I choose Abunza because of the fact it wasn't a 1 or 2 up compensation plan, so I could actually see the results immediately. Good or bad, it was an ideal program to test Web 2.0.

When I started studying web 2.0, it became very clear that Web 2.0 meant different things to different people. I found one so called "expert in Abunza," claiming that Web 2.0 was simply sticking 30 videos on You Tube. He called himself an expert in Web 2.0 and he was making rather good money. I found that web 2.0 can be as simple or complex as you wish to make it. You can use web 2.0 many ways. The more you spread it out, the more success you will have. It was such an interesting topic, I decided to spend some long days working with my web 2.0 techniques with Abunza. I spent days studying Web 2.0 and actually took bits and pieces from several "experts" in the field and applied them to my own case study.

Needless to say, this test wasn't about money, it was about traffic and how targeted the traffic actually was. With 15 years of experience in dealing with different traffic techniques and resources, I came into this project with a better understanding of traffic than most. To me, Web 2.0 is where users interact with others using different social media outlets. That is a simple version of what I was looking at. As I got involved in the more complicated aspect s of social marketing, it became clear that if certain techniques were used, Web 2.0 might be an awesome traffic generation tool (System). It just might be the answer to expensive leads.

It also came clear that if Web 2.0 was used effectively, this might be the perfect advantage that many home business owners could use. I say this because buying leads, calling them, following up with them, chasing them, might save people thousands of hours in lost time, and save them thousands of dollars in BAD lead sources. First, I built a web site, headed over to You Tube and submitted several videos. I joined several social marketing sites, such as Direct Matches, Facebook, Squidoo, and another 10 or so. I was very active in meeting and adding new contacts in all sites. Not only did I put my videos on You Tube, I added all my videos to another 15 media sites and played around with keywords.

The one thing I noticed almost instantly, was how big of an impact using the same keywords in the TITLE and adding those keywords in the description. That actually was something that surprised me. The awesome part of using videos was almost a given that I would end up on page 1-3 on Yahoo and Google with very little effort. I do agree that it took a good chunk of time setting up my Web 2.0 system. I had researched different tactics and applied most of them. At the 3 week mark, I was averaging about 40-60 leads daily. Doing a little math, I would have spent about $1,000 if I had bought leads. I found that maybe I had spent around $20.00 and the prospects were much, much better than buying leads. So far, I were impressed.

The next thing I did was build a better automated system. I found it was crucial as the leads started to grow. Adding a series of video auto responders was a big help and one more key to actually cementing a relationship with my prospects without even talking to anyone. Bingo ! I had people contacting me, signing up with no communication, and developing an excellent relationship with little or no effort on my part. Ok, so here is the bottom line. I'm convinced that Web 2.0 is a winner. In fact, people on a limited budget with a little coaching, can actually apply Web 2.0 without spending a dime. I did use a couple techniques that I don't have time to describe in this article. The outcome of my testing web 2.0 was just short of amazing and seems to be everything that I have read about. Web 2.0 simply works.

Unlike the old MLM methods of spending a fortune on useless leads, or technical know how, you just need a $50.00 Logitech Quick Cam, and a program that you can use to format your videos. I found Hello World ($10 per month) as a good resource. If I could come up with anything negative to say about this entire Web 2.0 experience, trust me, I would say it. I found it very lucrative, little money out of pocket, and a success rate I have not witnessed in my 15 years online. I also came up with a few tricks of my own just by playing around with videos and social networking sites. I actually found it fun. After doing the most common aspects of Web 2.0, there certainly are many methods that can be applied to web 2.0.

If you are not into Web 2.0, you will find out as I did, this method of marketing not only works, it doesn't take very long to create a nice income for yourself. I did some cross linking using our Video links. Since I was having some good success, I opened up and actively used 360Yahoo, Squidoo, Facebook, Wordpress, etc. Most of my video linking was pointed back to my main splash site. The traffic started to come. Some methods worked much better than others. I found myself being contacted by other marketers. I was in this project for 5 weeks now. I had several sign-ups, and a pipeline of leads that was growing daily. I found that I was getting good organic search engine position without all the complex submission stuff I had spent years perfecting. I found that the three items listed below became the mainstream when testing web 2.0.

(1) A couple things that really caught my attention was the simple fact that very little money, if any, produced several thousands dollars.

(2) If the methods I used are actually implemented, you are looking at only 1-2 working hours daily regardless of what business you were promoting.

(3) Anyone can become very efficient in web 2.0 with a little help and research.

David Lake has spent most of his 15 years studying free traffic techniques and the implication of automated systems for various companies. Most of what he teaches is produced in downloadable web formats. http://www.tamilake.com

Is it viable to make extra money online even where you have a pretty taxing 9 to 5 job that keeps you pretty busy? The answer is YES. In fact even as you read this there are many already achieved this enviable feat.

Still there is no denying the fact that there are numerous obstacles that stand in the way of many. Imagine working the whole day in some exhausting job and then at the end of the day when you should be going home to relax, you are in fact going home to start another more exhausting job working for yourself.

You Need Discipline To Make Extra Money Online

One of the secrets of success when it comes to making extra money online at your home business is discipline. Discipline means that once you have prepared your timetable and schedule for working you will stick to it, whether you feel like you are in the mood or not. What will usually happen is that the first few days will really be difficult. However after a short while you will become fully accustomed to your brand new schedule designed to make you extra money online even as you keep your precious nine to five job.

You Need To Create The Time To Make Your Extra Money Online

"I hardly have any time to myself, how am I ever going to find time for a home business?" You will have heard this common excuse that most people cling to as a way of justifying their not going into business for themselves.

Actually there are ways in which you can create plenty of time from your busy schedule.

For example you can wake up 2 hours earlier or go to bed 2 hours later. The trick is not to overdo things. Start with 2 hours and then you can increases them later when you have comfortably settled into your new schedule.

What about your lunch break? The advantage of an online home business is the fact that you can operate it anywhere where you can gain access to the Internet. Depending on the rules at your work place, you may not need to leave your work station during the lunch break. One measly hour a day may not seem to be much but in a month it accumulates to over 20 hours of quality time that you can put into your project to make extra money online from your home business.

There are many other ways to save and create time for your home based business enterprise, such as http://www.capitalistnow.com

You probably do this already - complete regular searches in Google for your key phrases and see how high you rank. It's well known that the first three results are far and away the sites that get the most clicks. If you can get one of the top three results in your key terms then you will have more targeted visitors coming to your site. If you can get the first result, well that is even better. Of course all your competitors want to do the same.

One of the great things about Google is that is updates quite frequently. That little GoogleBot is busy 24/7 indexing the web to make sure everyone gets the best answers to their search questions. I've recently been playing with a technique that I thought might be worth testing and because Google has updated so quickly I've been able to get a result within a few weeks, and I got the perfect result - a number one ranking for one of the key phrases I was after. In fact this technique worked so well that I got the number one result for a related search phrase too!

A Quick and Easy Google SEO Trick

The technique I used was to place an ad in a particularly highly ranked classified site. In this case it was the famous site Craigslist.org for London (http://london.craigslist.org/). This site is the original free classifieds trading community that has become a world wide phenomenon driven by word of mouth. But that's not important. What is important is that Craigslist is very popular and has a high PageRank, and most importantly you can place a free ad on the site anytime you want to. There are restrictions and limitations but it is easy to do, there is no reason you shouldn't make an ad or two. It's free promotion for your business that may happen to also help with your placement in Google SERPs.

Key Term: SERP - Short for Search Engine Results Page, the Web page that a search engine returns with the results of its search. The major search engines typically display three kinds of listings on their SERPs. Listings that have been indexed by the search engine's spider, listings that have been indexed into the search engine's directory by a human, and listings that are paid to be listed by the search engine.

A Practical Test

For testing I was after the search phrase "Thesis Proofreader" for my business site's thesis proofreading service. I entered the term into Google and noticed that a Craigslist entry was receiving a high result, but the subject and keywords were not highly targeted. However they were good enough to get a third page result in Google for that term. I went in and created a very simple ad in Craigslist that directly targeted my keywords and a week or two later I had the number one result for that term in the Google global SERP. Also because I had used the term "Essay" in the subject of the ad I managed to secure the first page result for "Essay Proofreader" as well. Not bad :).

A Bit Hit and Miss

I was surprised that it worked as well as it did but I know better than to expect that good a result every time. One important consideration in my test is that there just isn't much competition for my search phrase; hence it was easy to get the top result. If your market is more competitive your result likely won't be as good. Craigslist deletes ads in 45 days so it's not a permanent result either, you will need to keep going back to recreate your ad if you want to keep the result.

You should be sure to check the current results in Google to see if any free listing sites like Craigslist are pulling up high results for your terms. If you have some advertising cash to spend, see if any pay-for-entry directories or classifieds are pulling high results too. If there are then there is a good chance that if you create a well targeted ad you will have positive results.

It's important to do search research first so you know which city listings in Craigslist are pulling the high results. Ideally for an online business that can service the world you would have a Craigslist listing for every city, but that just may not be feasible and may break the Craigslist rules anyway. With search research you determine which city is pulling the best results for your terms, which could be caused by a whole number of reasons - backlinks to that particular Craigslist city, key terms - the amount of variables to consider are beyond human comprehension, let Google handle that and just take the results on face value.

Take the time to locate the best city based on current search results and place your entry in that city at the very least. If your business is specifically targeted at a geographical area then it is a good idea to do a comprehensive ad in your Craigslist city (if available) as well, it certainly won't hurt.

It's also important to note that there is nothing stopping competitors doing the same thing as you. The SEO war may spread into Craigslist and muddy the site, which would no doubt prompt a clampdown on commercial listings in Craigslist. Perhaps this technique is best for those operating in small or unique industries since it is unlikely that competitive action will ruin it for everyone.

Also note that Google itself is a completely uncontrollable variable in this equation. Google may decide that it will no longer count Craigslist entries. Maybe it will decide to only index for certain terms. Just accept that you can't control what Google decides to do, but you can test to see what results you can get. Not trying guarantees no results.

It's Too Easy Not to Test

There is no good reason not to use this technique. Classified sites want listings, it's what they do. You may or may not achieve better search engine results but at the least there is a chance that a browser may stumble across your ad and come shopping at your business. It takes very little time and usually is free so get out there and start creating those free ads. Just remember to use the right keywords and don't go overboard, you don't want all your incoming links to come from free directories because in the long run Google may penalise your results.

By Yaro Starak
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com

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