Internet and Businesses Online

The Internet serves as an information center; it also allows us to stay in touch with our near and dear ones. In addition to all these, the Internet also allows us to grow rich. How? The following paragraphs would answer this question.

Affiliate Marketing, technical writing, 'blogging', reading e-mails and completing surveys are some of the popular ways of earning money using the Internet. However, thanks to those hundreds of fraudulent people who gave birth to 'online scams', millions continue to part with their hard earned money.

I would not say that I have never been 'scammed'. Perhaps, being a victim of 'online scams' has helped me in taking better decisions as far as choosing 'online platforms' to earn money is concerned. How should one deal with 'Online Scams'?

The best way to deal with them is not to be lured by the tall claims they make. For instance, if you come across a web site that claims of making you rich in a week (and asks for a membership fee for the same), then you can be sure you are being 'scammed'.

"Don't start work from home until you read others reviews..." If you read the reviews posted by Internet users from across the world, you would save yourself a lot of time as well as money. Online reviews disclose the authenticity of 'online scams'.

Most of the fraudulent web sites do not have a contact address; they ask you to contact them through e-mails. Never trust such web sites. Never disclose your credit card information to such web sites. "Don't start work from home until you read others reviews..."

Do you want to find out a genuine 'online home based business opportunity'? Search Engines can sometimes be quite useful. Search for a free to join 'home business opportunity' on the Internet. Sometimes, even Internet Marketers become victims of 'Online Scams'.

"Don't start work from home until you read others reviews..." The concept of 'earn without doing anything' is rubbish. You cannot make money without putting in your efforts. You can surely avoid being 'scammed' if you keep your eyes open. Never trust web sites which ask for a 'one time membership fee'.

There are many ways to make money online and some are better than others but by far the most satisfying thing is to be running your own profitable online business with good staff and large success. It is an amazing medium the internet. It is like the old wild west where anyone with an idea and a little perseverance can compete and even conquer the reining businesses.

Cast your mind back to the year 2000 when the word Google was merely a new novel small website nobody knew about. The titan of search engines was alta vista and they were not that big compared to the Google Goliath of today. Two kids formed Google in their garage. They saw a gap and understood the market and just did the required work.

Of course these guys had technical know how beyond the average person of that time period, but the point is they saw a gap. The world is full of people with technical know how working for $20 dollars an hour for some faceless company. What made these people different is that they engaged their minds and back their belief in their ideas with faith and conviction to accomplish what they did.

Online business ideas are in the air and ready to be snatched if you look for them. You have to do research and understand niches and develop strategies to serve those niches if you wish to start a business online but the ideas are there for the next Massive online success story if you really look for them...so what are you waiting for!

Writing articles online is one of those skills that a newbie entrepreneur can do almost from day one. Having said this it is still a skill that can be improved very easily. A mistake that many internet beginners make is that they just write and write quantity when they should be trying to produce quality articles that are search engine friendly and read well to the human visitor. So let me share with you three easy tips on article writing that should give you better results than rushing out loads of poor and off topic articles.

Write about something you know

When you are starting out on the internet you should stick with subjects you know about. It will save you researching the topic and allow you to refine your writing skills. You probably think you know how to write an online article but it is not the same as writing for an offline audience. You need to use certain specific keywords to get more visitors. Traffic is king online and if your articles do not attract enough goods traffic then you are wasting your effort. So how to write an online article needs a bit of work.

Find a good set of keywords to write about

The work you need to do is find a good set of closely related keywords that you can base your article on. Writing articles online needs to be done to a pattern that involves using good keywords in the right way. You need to find about 5 of these keywords that have good competition and not too many websites competing for these keywords. You will improve your online writing activities by forcing yourself to work this set of words and phrases into your articles.

Make sure that you article only says one thing.

You know how to write an article when you can summarise it in a few words. Look at an article you have written. Can you give a summary of its theme in just a few words? People who know how to write articles will be the ones who make the most money online. By writing them well you will get a high clickthrough rate to your website.

If you want to spice up your presentation, you can use advanced editing effects such as scene titles, bullet points, menus and elaborate backgrounds. They give your presentation an air of professionalism, and they can make your content stand out from that available from other direct sales sites. These types of advanced effects are also usually inexpensive to produce, depending on the editing software you are using. They don't take much time, either. In addition, your viewer will be grateful for this as well, since once you place an effect into a sequence of footage, it can stand screen throughout so that your viewer can look at it and study it as he or she wishes. It's the best way to get the best of both worlds, both the advantages of text that are time independent, and the impact and drama of video, too.

Because these advantages exist, first-time editors tend to use too many effects in a single presentation. Avoid this temptation, because of the reasons discussed earlier. Too many effects can be confusing for your viewer and make your presentation either too complicated to understand, or cheap, hokey and incomprehensible.

When is the best time to use advanced effects? One rule of thumb is never to use advanced effects simply for their own sake.

In practice, this means several things. First of all, let's say that your product is a new piece of software that produces graphics with new innovations. In fact, your presentation shows a screenshot of this particular software in use. Because of this, it's easy for you to do overlay menus and effects, so you fill up the entire screen with them. You label every interesting new feature all at once. Then, let this complicated overlay play on in the background while your presenter is talking about great features of a new program.

The problem here is that advanced effects -- and especially overlay graphics -- give the viewer something very information-dense to look at and to read while the presenter is talking. That is well and good, but:

IF the viewer is spending too much time deciphering and reading your overlay graphics and not spending enough time paying attention to what the presenter or audio track is saying, your presentation is lost. That audio track is key to your presentation, and you want viewers to pay attention to it. Therefore, give your viewers one thing to focus on (your presentation) and leave out other things.

Instead, use overlay graphics in the following way. Take the same example, above. As your presenter talks about features of your program, you can add the overlay graphic for each feature (and just that feature) to the footage you produce.

With this, the viewer will look at that feature as the presenter is talking about it. He or she will read the information the graphic and then he will be paying attention to what the presenter is saying once again. This is not only an elegant and simple solution, but it actually helps clarify what the presenter is saying because it gives visual enhancement to what is being talked about. Once the information is on the screen, you can leave it there for the rest of the speech or take it down, depending on what you want to do.

These types of special overlay effects can be fun, but you should also use them prudently. If your presenter is talking about a new CD that you're trying to sell, for example, you can use your editing software to add animation as he makes a certain gesture. It is funny, somewhat cheesy, but certainly gets attention. It can also be distracting if you use it too much. So if you plan to do this kind of thing, do not do it more than once or twice during a video.

Chromakey effects are different, because you will need to be filming chromakey footage right from the concept stage onward. In other words, you can not use chromakey effects lightly, if you are going to film all of your footage against a blue or green screen.

However, you can make sure that your chromakey effects blend in as much as possible. If you can, use existing photographic backgrounds, such as large and clear images of your product. You can use anything thats not blurry, avant-garde, or visually distracting, though. Above all, make sure that your presenter or product is clearly displayed against a chromakey background. It looks hokey at best to have your presenters red top disappear against a sunset background or have similar color-related difficulties occur.

In this series on I'd like to talk about the dream of having an autopilot income.

A lot of people who claim to teach internet marketing methods will tell you that there really is no such thing as an autopilot income and that people who tell you there such a thing are trying to rip you off.

They are right in a sense and wrong in a sense.

Most courses out there that claim to teach you how to make autopilot income really just teach you how to make "delayed" income. By delayed income I mean that you'll invest a lot of work for months in something like search engine optimization and then three months later you'll make a lot of money back. This is income, and it's fun to see that money roll into your account when you weren't expecting it, but it wasn't really auto pilot income.

This doesn't mean that making autopilot profits is impossible. You just need to really know what you are doing and learn how to automate every aspect of your business.

1. Automate Your Product: Sell digital products such as ebooks or ecourses instead of real books or materials. Once these are set up they can be delivered automatically and immediately to the customer no matter how far away you are from your computer. Physical products will always need some sort of shipment and you'll at least need to supervise someone who does the job labor. You can actually charge more for digital products with the right marketing and it's completely hands free.

2. Automate Your Payment System: Paypal makes this possible by allowing you to place a a payment link on a website you create.

3. Automate Your Delivery: A simple redirect from your "Buy Now" button generated within your Paypal account takes care of this easily.

4. Automate Your Traffic: There is really only one truly automated form of traffic generation that I know of. That is Pay Per Click. The only catch is it takes some extra effort to master the Pay Per Click system but it's nothing you can't handle. An effective AdWords campaign will drive visitors to your website from all over the world while you are chilling on the beach or wherever you want to be.

You will need to check in on your Pay Per Click campaigns to optimize and see how they're doing, but the rest of the time you have what most people thought was impossible: truly automated income.