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Do You Have Skills To Sell Online?
So, you always thought that it is only material products that could be sold online and for that you needed some capital investment? Right? Well not exactly. Selling services online is perhaps as popular and as paying as selling products and you don't have to invest anything in it. The only thing you need to invest is your skills and time. There are thousands upon thousands of people who make their living with the help of skills they have.
So, you have always been the code jock of your school or college and you are the first one to be called when someone faces any problem in his system. For geeks like you the opportunities online is unlimited. But if you think you are not exactly cut out for a nine to five jobs, there is one option very much open for you. It is the option of being a freelancer. Freelancing allows you to work as you like to work with your own flexible time tables and without your boss breathing down on you.
The online world is replete with platforms that act as a common ground for those who want to get some jobs done and the ones who want to do some work. They meet and negotiate the terms and conditions and that is it. And if you think that you need to be some kind of a super brain to get work that way, well there is nothing like that. You would be surprised with the variety of jobs that could be found out online. Even if you don't have any technical skills as such you can still make good bucks online.
The jobs vary from work related to cutting edge of technology to the most basic ones like data entry. It all depends on the skill sets you have and the work you could do. Depending on the type of work you could do your earnings could vary from a few hundred dollars to thousands of dollars. The number of people leaving their jobs to plunge full time in freelancing is increasing every day. And what is more, the number of jobs being posted for them is also increasing every day. Actually clients also want people who are easily available and could complete the tasks assigned without too much fuss.
There are many who have actually converted their freelancing jobs into an online business. You might find a lot of people actually turning out to be technopreneurs starting from just being a freelancing expert. It all depends on your own mind set, if you want to turn entrepreneur or not? But there are a few things that you should always keep in mind before taking the plunge in this field full time.
First thing first carry on with your regular office jobs and do this job in part time. Only when you find out that the money earned via this channel could be sufficient enough for you to leave your current job, you should flip over. But believe me you would have fun doing it.
Steve Seah
02 Apr 2007
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How To Go About Getting Internet Traffic?
As a business owner, it is impossible to ignore the power of the Internet . With a worldwide audience only a mouse click away, most business owners are jumping at the opportunity to create a website for their business. In addition, many businesses exist entirely online, which means an attractive and easy to use website is imperative for success. But, it doesn't matter how great a website looks if no one ever finds it. For these reasons, it is necessary to take steps to optimize your websites for search engines. This process is known as Search Engine Optimization, or SEO.
Taking Steps to Optimize Your Website
When it comes to optimizing your website, there are a number of steps you can take. Some business owners attempt to optimize their websites on their own, but this is usually a bad idea because it takes a high level of specialized knowledge in order to optimize a site effectively. In addition, search engine optimization is a timely endeavor. Since most business owners are already multi-tasking, they rarely have the time necessary to properly implement search engine optimization strategies. For these reasons, it is usually best to hire a professional that can optimize the site to its fullest potential or that can provide you with the proper training to guarantee you get the job done right.
Selecting an SEO Consultant
Since SEO is becoming an ever-increasingly popular form of marketing, more and more "SEO experts" are appearing on the Internet every day. So, how are you supposed to separate the quality consultants from those that cannot truly get the job done?
When searching for an SEO expert, there are a number of things to watch for:
" The SEO expert should offer link building campaigns as one of the many services provided. Link building campaigns are highly effective when it comes to getting high listings with search engines because they help add credibility to your website.
" The SEO expert should provide directory submission services that will ensure your website is frequently crawled by search engine spiders. The expert should also provide you with a spreadsheet that shows the directories your site has been submitted to. This way, you can stay fully aware of what is taking place with your site.
" A variety of different SEO packages should be offered, making it possible for you to find the one that is best for your business needs.
" The SEO expert should be willing to train you in search engine optimization if you do wish to do the work yourself. At the same time, he or she should be capable of doing the work for you if you don't have the time or interest in doing it yourself.
" All aspects of website design should be made available to you, ranging from creating the layout of your website to creating the content. All of these components play an important role in a website marketing campaign.
" The SEO Consultant expert should provide you with SEO tools to ensure you reach the broadest market possible and allow you to effectively monitor the success of your site.
Finding an SEO expert that offers all of these services is a rarity. One expert that does provide all of these services and more, however, is Tyler Dewitt. Learn more at SEO Tips and Tools
Tyler Dewitt
02 Apr 2007
Tyler Dewitt a Internet Entrepreneur , and SEO specialist, learn more about me at Dewitts SEO, and Website Design.
The Biggest Secret In Internet Marketing
In the Internet marketing world, there are many misconceptions and outright lies. But the biggest secret is one that is so obvious that nobody wants to talk about or is even aware of. In this article, I share what I (and many world class marketers) consider to be the biggest “secret” in Internet marketing.
At this point, you’re probably wondering? “What’s the BIGGEST secret?”
Before I share this secret with you, let me share a common mistake committed by 99% of Internet marketers. Almost all Internet marketers I know can quote you their opt-in rate and spend hours, days, weeks and even months tweaking their landing pages to get the highest opt-in rate. This is accomplished by asking for as little customer information as possible and casting as wide a net as possible. This usually requires asking for only the first name and the primary email address.
In many industries, this results in optimizing for the wrong results. What do I mean by that?
I spend a lot of time in multiple industries other than Internet marketing (including real estate, art, etc.) and for a long time, I was focusing on increasing my opt-in rate but rarely closed any sales (my sales for my products and my clients’ products range from $997 to $25,000 per sale). When I thought about it, I realized that in all of these industries and especially at these price points, the sale is accomplished via the phone, not via the Web.
Thus, without realizing it, I wasn’t collecting all the necessary information for me to complete a sale (that is, I wasn’t asking for a phone number because I knew this would reduce my opt-in rate). Most of the “gurus” who are teaching list building don’t take into account industries that conduct business primarily offline and/or the fact that high-end products are not closed via email alone. Heck, I am not sure that any of them has ever tested their methods in offline businesses!
Now, I do a 2-step opt-in rate that allows me to have the highest opt-in rate on the first page and then ask for additional info (including the phone number and mailing address) on the “thank you” screen. This enables me to follow up via offline methods including postcards, direct mail and even telemarketing.
What does this have to do with the biggest secret in Internet marketing? Simple…the most valuable leads often require you to follow up using offline methods. However, this contradicts almost all list building techniques being taught, which almost always teach how to get the highest opt-in rate. In this case, I made more money by having a lower opt-in rate…but I got higher quality leads, which enable me to follow up via offline methods. Again, in many, many industries, the sales happen via the phone and in some cases via the fax and direct mail.
So, before you spend too much time focusing on optimizing your opt-in rate alone, think through the sales process and figure out what is the best way to close the sale and collect information for that to happen, even if it means a lower opt-in rate.
Now that you know the biggest secret in Internet marketing and the next time somebody brags about their 50% opt-in rate, you will know that he/she is probably optimizing on the wrong thing and leaving WAY too much money on the table.
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