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Great Squidoo and EzineArticles (Primarily) Money-Making Technique

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This blog is obviously about my quest in finding the best methods of making money online, so I had to pass this along.

In a previous post I mentioned that I had just signed up with Wealthy Affiliate (which is great by the way). Well, I was skimming through the ‘recommended products’ area of the forum and ran across a thread that mentioned ‘Pot Pie Girl.’ I don’t know her personally, but I had been to her blog before and saw that she’s always got some good stuff there.

Anyway, to make a long story short, the guy that started the thread had just purchased her One Week Marketing Plan, which I didn’t even know about, and he couldn’t say enough good things about it. I had to read every post after that.

Every single post was singing the praises of her course, so I had to check it out. I ended up buying the course, and I have to say it’s most likely the best money that I’ve spent to date on anything associated with online marketing. I’ve still made more money with the phpBay Pro plugin, but to be fair, I just got the OWM Plan.

I usually never buy any of the ‘make $2,000 a day on autopilot’ type stuff. That doesn’t happen unless you’re Amazon or somebody. Well, for most people anyway.

Back to the One Week Marketing Plan. What I like about it is, it’s very easy to follow, everything in it is free, and it’s actually laid out step by step, day by day. HOWEVER, the absolute best thing about the course (I think) is that Pot Pie Girl (Jennifer Ledbetter) has published an IM chat that she had with a young guy named Nick. He had IM’d her asking for help, and she asked him to be her Guinea Pig…which he agreed to.

This is getting long so I won’t try and cover the whole thing, but in a nutshell, she tells him step by step what to do in order to get a campaign up and going using primarily Squidoo and EzineArticles. There are other sites and steps, but as I mentioned everything is free. Unless of course you register any domains, which would probably be a good idea, but at a couple of bucks for .info’s, that’s peanuts.

If you haven’t heard about the course you have to check it out. I bought it 2 days ago and pretty much have a campaign going, but I’m still waiting for some articles to be approved at EzineArticles.

I have to say there’s really nothing in the course that’s totally new to me, but I had never been able to get a good pan laid out. I’m always jumping from one thing to another. With her plan you know exactly where you are and where you need to go next. I know it will work because it’s all proven stuff. Keywords, backlinks, the stuff that generates traffic, that generates sales…in a nice easy to follow course by Jennifer…and Nick.

Oh, I almost forgot…Nick was very frustrated when he first IM’d Jennifer, he said he’d been trying to make money for, I think it was almost a year, but hadn’t made a dime. Just shortly after starting with Jennifer, he made his first sale…and his second, and then his third, all within 2 weeks!!

I know that’s not a lot of money, but if you haven’t made anything in about a year, and then you get 3 sales as soon as you start a new technique, I think that says a lot about what she’s offering. If you’re more advanced and maybe having some luck with PPC, then this course probably isn’t for you, but if you’re a beginner or even intermediate, then I HIGHLY SUGGEST it.

Anyway, I bought it…and I’m glad I did.

Wealthy Affiliate – Possibly the ONLY Help You’ll Ever Need to Make Money Online

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If you’ve read many of the post on this site, you’ll see that anything I recommend, I do so from experience. I actually use the product or service, that includes actually spending my money.

For affiliate marketing training, I recommended Affiliate Classroom here before. I’m not saying now that I don’t think that AC does have a lot to offer, but I have found something much, much better. However, if you’re a complete beginner, or still fairly new and unexperienced, I’m sure Affiliate Classroom can offer you very much in your affiliate learning. I just know that the Wealthy Affiliate site would be a site that you’d want to stay with as long as you’re an affiliate.

After a couple of months or so with Affiliate Classroom, I personally thought maybe my time and money could be better spent elsewhere. Although I’ve not fell for a lot of the scams, I have spent quite a bit I wish I hadn’t. Affiliate Classroom wasn’t a big regret.

The owner of AC has a couple of other sites, AffSphere.com and PPCclassroom.com, that I’m still a member of. AffSphere.com is an article directory and it’s totally free. It’s a very good site also. PPCclassroom.com is a paid site for PPC training, obviously. I’ve learned a massive amount at PPCclassroom.com, and I’m sure I haven’t touched the surface yet. There’s also a very good user forum.

After becoming a paid member at WealthyAffiliate.com a few short hours ago, and having a look around the site, including the forum, and reading the huge amount of testimonials, I think I can honestly say that WA will be my only paid training/support/mentoring type membership from here on out. That includes PPC (Pay Per Click training and support.

Does that mean that I’ll go to WA and keep a blind eye to everything else ? Of course not. My theory is still that there’s plenty of information available for free on the Internet to get started in Affiliate Marketing, BUT, if you want to cut down on the headaches and get to making money in the shortest time possible, go to where the most knowledge and experience is…in one place.

I’ve known of the Wealthy Affiliate site since probably shortly after they came online. I considered joining several times, but finally took the leap of faith today, and I’m already glad I did. I look at it this way; if you’re serious about making money online, you can get hundreds, if not thousands of dollars per month from WA in the form of training material, videos, tools, recommendations, mentoring, whatever you could possibly want or need. Their SIte Rubix Website building software alone is a huge value, especially if you know nothing about building a Website. Of course you don’t HAVE TO have a website to make money online, but any marketer worth their weight will tell you it’s just about necessary…at least it’s easier and opens up more possibilities.

Sorry for the long post, but I really feel good about WA. I guess I’m really excited because after nearly a year of marketing online, I’ve finally started making some steady money. I’m currently laid off from my regular ‘day job’, and my goal is to not have to go back when I’m called…usually around the first of April. :) I think with the resources available at the Wealthy Affiliate site I can push forward enough to start making a full-time living from the Internet.

If you want to give WA a try, you can sign up for a month, grap anything and everything you can in the form of information and software tools, and then cancel…no questions asked. I doubt you will though, from all the testimonials, even those from people making hundreds of dollars a day, talk about staying on to be Wealthy Affiliate members for life.

I think that’s the ultimate recommendation.

An Easy Way to Make Money Online – Completing Online Surveys

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Receive cash for participating in surveys and also gain access to a whole lot of freebies and sweepstakes.

If you’re looking for a way to generate some extra income, there’s obviously many different ways to do so on the Internet.  Unfortunately, most methods involve putting out some money in order to make money. I realize some people don’t really have the extra money needed to get web hosting, pay for advertising, or to buy any software, services, or products that may be needed to get started.

Most methods involve getting a Website up and going too, so if you don’t feel like building a site or customizing WordPress for your needs, the survey option might look even more attractive.

Also, even though it’s pretty much idiot proof just starting a blog (I even did it!), there’s still the issue of getting traffic and finding something to promote that will make you some money. Unless you’re using one of the free blogging sites/software, you’re back to the web hosting issue too. If you decide to set up a blog, I’d try and come up with the money for shared hosting instead of using any of the free blog software/hosting deals. They’re ok, but can shut you down if you do the wrong thing, plus there’s limititations to them when marketing.

Probably one of the easiest methods in generating an income from the Internet is doing online surveys. Everyone has an opinion, and that’s about all it takes for completing surveys.

This company, SurveyTeam, has one of the better offers going, and even gives you $3 just for signing up.

Just make sure that you read the Terms & Conditions through. Although there’s no scam type elements in there, they do say that you must use Internet Explorer as your browser when doing the surveys, or they don’t ‘guarantee’ that you will be paid. Just make sure you read the payout information, and understand it. I know you have to have $100 in your account before you get paid too. You also have to be a U.S. citizen to register.

I think most of the important items are covered in the FAQs on the SurveyTeam site.

Oh, and some of the more popular surveys might only be posted for 24 hours or less, so you probably need to stay on top of things if you want to get in on the better offers.

Good luck.