When all else fails, there is ONE ebook that will answer all your questions about online marketing!

You can read all about it (and be amazed at the awesome copywriting skills) here: Ebook

Be sure to bookmark it!

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What's in a name? Plenty, if it's the name of your website!

The first thing you need when planning to create your own website is a good domain name. A domain name is your site’s address on the web. It's what people type into their internet browser to find your site. It comes after the www (which you do not need to type). The domain name for this site is Best-Earning-Strategies.com.

There’s a bit of an art to choosing a good domain name.

First, do a little brainstorming and jot down potential names. Ideally, your domain name should have these characteristics:

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This is an excellent article contributed by guest author Josh Anderson. He wrote it mainly as a how-to guide for Internet "newbies," but YOU should read it regardless of your level of online experience!

“The Online Marketing Parachute. How to survive ‘making money’ on the internet.”

Disclaimer: Resemblances to your self or other characters in this story are merely coincidental. If this sounds like you don’t worry.

You are not unique.

Does this sound familiar?

Hi my name is Neophyte Newbie.

I have been trying to make money on the internet for 6 months now and my goal was to make 1 million dollars.

The problem I am having is that to date I have spent hundreds (really thousands but I am too embarrassed to say it) and am making no money. I quit my job so I could work full time on my "Internet Business" and I need $3000 in the next two weeks because the ponzi scheme I joined did not pay out what they claimed they would when I invested my last $12.

My wife and kids are getting tired of eating government issue peanut butter, raisins, cheese, and stale bread from the food bank and the prospect of living in a car for the rest of the winter is freaking me out. I am trying to start this fire sale but so far I have no jv partners and the ebook I wrote about "how to make money on the internet" is not selling.

I only have $500 left on my last credit card (the rest are maxed out and the bill collectors are calling every day) and was wondering if I should purchase the new Nuclear Portal Maker software because they say that if I don't they are locking the doors for ever and only those who purchase it will have the secret of push button money printing?

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In Part 1 of this series, I talked about Step 1 of the 3-Step process for successful online marketing. Step 1 is to find a hungry crowd. This time, I'll talk about the next step:

Step 2 – Feed the Hungry Crowd

Once you’ve found your hungry crowd, you need to determine exactly what they’re looking for so you can give (or sell) it to them.

After your Step 1 research, you should have a general idea of your target market and its interests. For example, let’s say the members of the hungry crowd you’re interested in are people who enjoy fishing for bass. Because that’s a somewhat broad area with lots of competition, you’ve chosen to narrow your niche to bass fishers who are looking for information about bass fishing boats.

To be as effective as possible in providing this crowd with exactly what it wants, you need to do a bit more research.

Here’s what you can do-–monitor their conversations! No wire tapping required. All you need to do is find online discussion forums, newsgroups or blogs related to this topic (bass fishing). Do a search to find them. For example, if you search Google for “bass fishing forum,” you’ll find several pages of results.

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This is Online Marketing in a nutshell:

Step 1 – Find a hungry crowd

Step 2 – Feed it

Step 3 – Repeat

Another way of saying this is: find out what the market wants, and then give it to them.

Many new online marketers do it backwards; they develop a product first, and then try to push people into buying it. That is much more difficult, and more often than not, results in failure. Your first priority in finding niche ideas is this:

Step 1 – Find a hungry crowd

A “hungry crowd” is a market that is:

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Here's a fairly easy way to make a few bucks online. Go to DayTipper.com, submit a tip, and earn $3 if it's published.

I submitted three tips the other day, just off the top of my head (one about dieting, one about cookie dough, and one about digital cameras). Each tip was less than 200 words. The process was quite simple.

Within two days, I received email messages saying all three of my tips had been accepted, and I'd be paid (through PayPal) as soon as they were published.

Hmmm… $9 for about 20 minutes work. I won't get rich doing this, but that's better than the daily Adsense income I'm getting on some of my websites!

They do not accept and publish all tips, but if you make them truly useful and on topics that are of general interest to a lot of people, I'd say your chances of getting paid are pretty good. Especially if you get in early!

Your tips need to be "original" — when submitting them you are stating that they are not copyright material or copied from other sources.

In addition to submitting tips, check out the ones already there. It's a helpful website!

Check it out here: DayTipper.com

Freedom to fail is a wonderful thing.

Yes, you read that right. This site is about creating online success, but I'm telling you it’s OK to fail.

That’s not the contradiction it seems. We all fail. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is this:

“What if my website or blog or business isn't perfect?”

News flash: it will never be perfect! And it doesn’t need to be.

"It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something."

(Franklin D. Roosevelt)

The great thing about the Internet is that you can fail quickly.

You can learn quickly.

You can adjust what you’re doing and improve your results—quickly.

But only if you are not afraid to fail.

There are more than 60 million people using the Internet today. More than 60% of them are consumers—people intending to buy a product or service. There are over 10,000 new online signups every day, which means the Internet consumer market is growing at an exponential rate.

What does that mean for you, an online marketer? It means customers—millions of them.

As an online marketer, you are engaged in the only form of business that can put products and services in front of millions of customers around the world, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

On the Internet, there’s virtually no limit to the number of people you can reach—if you know what you’re doing.

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John Chow Dot Com is one of my favorite blogs. Not just because he writes like a real person I’d love to meet one day, but because he shares such useful and valuable information.

Here are just five of his many posts (in no particular order) that I feel should be “required reading” for all online marketers:

1. Big Sites Rule Small Sites Drool. The question of which business model is best (most profitable) for online marketers–having a single “big” site or several “small” sites–is the topic of this excellent article. There will always be “yeah, but…” arguments on this topic, but I think you’ll agree John provides a very convincing case for his position… which I totally agree with!

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The following excellent article by Jim Rohn isn't specifically about online marketing, but the priceless advice it offers is certainly applicable.

Jim explains the elements that make the difference between success and failure; he tells you what you need to do. Are you up to the challenge?

It Is a Challenge to Succeed

It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I'm sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed.

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Whether you have (or plan to have) a paid-content site or not, check out the valable tips posted in this article at InternetMarketingMonitor.com.

The article is based on an interview done by MarketingSherpa.com. Here's the first tip:

Find a Focus: It's better to be a great source for a select target audience than to try to be a mediocre service to several audiences. When people are asked to pay for a service, they want it to be worth spending money. A focused, targeted body of content can help you create that stellar service that people don't mind forking over cash for.

I don't know about you, but I'm definitely noticing a theme along those lines… first the advice about focusing from John Reese, then Mark Cuban's post, then the 99 Tips, now this… I really AM seeing the writing on the wall!

Are you?

Anyway, go read the other 8 tips and apply the ones that will work for YOUR online business!

Here's the place to go: 9 Tips For Creating a Successful Paid-Content Site.

Here's one of the best resources I've found for online marketers… and it's totally free. An amazing article titled Little Known Ways to Brand on the Cheap: 99 Tips for Poor Web Startups is available at Directory Aviva.

The 99 tips are not all new to me, but this is a wonderful compilation and a very handy reference to bookmark.

I love every one of the 99 tips, but here's one of my favorites:

2. Go niche and dominate. If you’re going to try to leverage a company blog into traffic, links, and reputation development for your primary site, your efforts will be far more successful if you become the authority in a smaller niche, rather than one among many in a broader topic.

The list of tips covers branding, SEO, social bookmarking, link building, website usability and design, viral marketing and much, much more.

It's a blueprint to success. Go. Now. Read it. Then TAKE ACTION on the tips that are most appropriate for you and your online business!

Here's the link again: Little Known Ways to Brand on the Cheap: 99 Tips for Poor Web Startups

'Twas the blog before Christmas, and here in my house,
I was tapping my keyboard, and clicking my mouse.
My ads were all placed on my pages with care,
In hopes that my visitors would click on them there.
My husband was pouting alone in our bed,
While visions of a blogless wife danced in his head.
But at my computer, with a cup of French Roast,
I'd just begun writing another blog post,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I hit "save" and went to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I strolled with my cup,
And opened the blinds to see what was up.
The motion-sensor light gave off a bright glow,
Illuminating for me the objects below,
When, what to my bloodshot eyes should appear,
But a fancy laptop and other high-tech gear,
With a guy at the keyboard, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be a trick.
More rapid than broadband his Wi-Fi kicked in,
As he typed and clicked with an odd, evil grin.
"Now Pop-Up! Now Phishin'! Now Splogger and Scammer!
On, Duplicate Content! On Virus and Spammer!
To the core of the hard drive! Right through the firewall!
Now infect the data, and erase it all!"
As I realized the danger I ran and clicked "enter"
To launch my McAfee Security Center.
The horror of it all made me drop my cup,
It'd been several months since I last backed up!
I saw, in a twinkling, all my hard work wiped out,
My computer began smoking, I let out a shout!
As I spun in my misery, and was turning around,
Down the chimney the culprit came with a bound.
He was dressed all in black, latex rubber I think,
And he farted and belched, a horrible stink!
A bundle of tools he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a psycho just opening his pack.
His eyes, how they twinkled! They were practically glowing,
His cheeks were all sunken, his insanity showing!
His droll little mouth was pulled down in a frown,
And the beard of his chin was tangled and brown.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
The smoke made me gag and wilted our wreath.
He had a mean face and a giant beer belly,
That shook when he moved like a bowlful of jelly.
He was smelly and plump, a frightening old elf,
And I screamed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A glint in his eye and a twist of his head,
Like a guy in a Stephen King novel I'd read.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And trashed my home office, the mean little jerk!
Then sticking his finger inside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
As I trembled with rage and continued screaming,
My husband shook me awake, "Hey Honey, you're dreaming!"
My relief was enormous, my smile bright an big,
"Happy blogging to all, and to all a good Digg!"

In an earlier post I mentioned how Internet marketing superstar John Reese had convinced me that my online earning strategies were headed in the wrong direction because I lack focus.

I just read a post on Mark Cuban's blog that backs up what John says.

Here's a portion of Mark's post that is especially relevant to me (and other online marketers, I'm sure):

Few businesses only have one opportunity. Every entrepreneur's mind goes crazy with the new and exciting things they can do beyond the new and exciting things they are already doing. The risk is that you can drown in all these opportunities. Far too often when an entreprenuer hits a rough patch or competitive challenge, the temptation is too "turn on the thinking cap" and find something new for the company to do. Don't fall to the temptation. As an entreprenuer you have to know what the core competencies of your business are and make sure that your company focuses on being the absolutely best it can be at executing them. Bottom line is this. If you are adding new things when your core businesses are struggling rather than facing the challenge, you are either running away or giving up. Rarely is either good for a business. In fact, by chasing these opportunities, you may be assuring that you drown in them.

I definitely identify with the "…mind goes crazy with the new and exciting things they can do beyond the new and exciting things they are already doing" part! But as I said in my previous post, that's going to change. If John Reese and Mark Cuban (and many other wise and successful people) say that focusing on your core business is important, I'm going to listen and heed their advice.

You should too.

Our online earning strategies (and our bank accounts) will definitely improve!

I just learned this cool keyboard trick from Rosalind Gardner of NetProfitsToday.com (who learned it from Jeff Mulligan of CBMall) that will save you a lot of typing when you surf the web.

Intead of typing in the http://www. before the domain name, and the .com after it, just type in the site’s domain name into the address bar.

Then hit CTRL and ENTER keys together.

This adds both the http://www. and the .com and works in both Internet Explorer and Firefox browser.

Pretty cool, eh?