You might already heard on the news, radio and most likely on the Internet, almost every activist on the planet are calling the heed to being green.
Being green is becoming earth friendly.  This means using things including gadgets, appliances, even hair sprays that are eco friendly.  More and more companies are already trying to make products that are earth riendly.  Solar panels for your home, rechargeable solar iPod, chargers for your Notebook computers, etc.  The treehugger.com reports that the solar power industry is growing amazingly.  Excerpt of the news:

“The salmon-pink Financial Times reports today that the solar equipment industry is on a path to grow amazingly fast: From 20 billion dollars last year to 90 billion dollars in 2010. “Profit growth is expected to accelerate even faster, as costs are contained, pushing margins up to nearly 60 percent.” These high profits hopefully will mean more capital investments into production facilities and R&D (which will help further decrease costs), and more companies entering that sector.”

This means that the demand for renewable sources of energy is increasing not
only for the businesses but also for home use.

Well, the bad news is that there is still not yet many affiliates program to join in this booming industry but some of the Internet Marketers are already positioning their domains to this industry.

Take a look at this  posting from digital-forums:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=137302
Should you invest now or wait?  Depends on you long term goals.  First mover have always the first hand.

more power.

James

If you are a newbie marketer like me, you easily get into the hype of the “get rich quick, retire early” tactics to buy their eBook.  The retiring early scheme is one of the best tactics to entice readership for those who want to earn a living online.  Average people would easily fall into this hype because everybody looks forward to a vacations galore, shopping spree, and other rich lifestyle.

Reflecting on this scheme made me realized as to too why rich people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and others didn’t retire early even though they have more than enough for a hundred years.

Bill Gates, becoming one of the richest man in the world did not retire early but instead he stayed with Microsoft and keep on developing their products.  Warren Buffet on the other hand continues to buy potential businesses increasing more value to Berkshire stockholders. 

Perhaps “retiring rich and early” should not be the main goal but doing the things that one is enjoy doing will be the basis of richness or fulfillment, of course monetizing the things that one is enjoy doing is another topic to blog about.

Cheers and more power to our success!

Why am I writing an article about outsourcing? Because presently outsourcing is one of the most important factors in any business. Not only in a large brick and mortar businesses but it can also be applied to small or starting internet marketers like us.

So what is outsourcing? Outsourcing is defined as a method of hiring an outside service provider to perform specific tasks for you. To put it simply is giving to another person the work that you should be doing.

For example you own a shoe factory in the United States ideally manufacturing the shoes should also be made within the office but you decided to outsource it to china. Why would a business give away their competency to another establishment? Here are some of the benefits:

1. Cost. Sometimes outsourcing a job to another business is much cheaper because the production and investment cost is much lesser than setting up a department. Outsource businesses have already invested in their competencies unlike setting up another department for the production. Secondly and obviously the labor cost of china is much cheaper than that of the US, at least in mass production.

2. The second advantage of outsourcing is that the main business can concentrate more on the marketing aspect of the service or product.

What does it got to do with with small or starting internet marketers like us? Well if your main specialization is copywriting, designing a website might slow down your business or if you are good in developing website scripts and templates, writing a sales letter might stuck you up staring at the computer (well, there are some individuals that have mastered both ways, selling and making products per se). That is where outsourcing comes in, you can outsource some of the job like web design, copywriting, search engine optimization…etc. Outsourcing some of these jobs will help you concentrate more on developing your product niches and earning money online.

Where to find outsourcing provider? Here are some of the websites that let’s you find freelance outsourcer.

www.elance.com
www.scriptlance.com
www.guru.com

Just a reminder, if you decide to outsource make sure you review the outsourcer’s profile and portfolio.

If you want a comprehensive reading on what is outsourcing you may download the free ebook below.

http://www.myworkathometips.com/free-stuff/myworkathometips-outsourcing.zip

Other recommeded reading:
10 Steps to being a successful copywriter.

Ghostwriters from the Inside-Out 

In my previous article I introduce how to earn without spending a dime, however if you prefer to have a much higher profit then you should invest (time and money) by having your own domain name and hosting account.

One advantage of having your own domain is that the search engine can indexed your site faster unlike when you are hosting on a free domain. Secondly, if you are paying for your hosting account you can have more control over the scripts that you will installing.

Here is the breakdown of your initial investment:

1. Domain - $10.00 per year

2. Web hosting - $3-5 dollars per month.

3. Wordpress Blog system - free

4. Wordpress Plug-ins - free

The prices shall vary since there are a million domain registrant on the Internet.

In getting your own domain and hosting account, you may want to consider the Top companies in the industry:

1. Hostgator.com
2. bluehost.com
3. www.GoDaddy.com

Remember to get a hosting plan that supports PHP scripting. Wordpress only runs on PHP environment.

How to choose a domain.
Register a domain that has word according to your niche or website. For example if you will be establishing a website for children’s wear you can choose the following domain that has your keyword in it.

www.childrens-wear.com | www.childwear.com

If you domain is no longer available you can add a filler in the domain eg:

www.mychildrenswear.com | www.yourchildrenswear.com

Why is the keyword important in your domain? For the reason that it will add more points in your search engine optimization.

Install Wordpress
The next thing to do is install Wordpress on your server. You can go to Wordpress.org and download the latest release. I will skip the installation of Wordpress into your web host, you can find a lot of reference at the Wordpress website. If you still need further help in installing you may visit their help section.

Once you have installed Wordpress, go to the admin area and log-in to your account. Then go to the option menu and changed the Title and Description of your blog.

Include your primary keyword in the Title Tag while write your secondary keyword in the description area. Note that blog directories will reference your blog according to your title and description.

Post Content
Start writing post in your blog. You should populate your blog with as many “quality” content as possible. Put contents according to your target market. For example if you will be targeting on computers do not include contents about medicines. You may get some of your content from article directories like www.ezinearticles.com

Just remember that majority of the contents that you have put into your blog is not duplicated. Search engine will rank your site lower than that of a site having an original content. Always create value for your readers.

Put in the plug-ins.
Download the following plug-ins to optimized your Wordpress system. The plug-ins listed are free or under the GNU License.

FireStats - Tracks your visitors.

Google Sitemap Generator - Create a sitemap of your website.

SEO Title Tag - optimizing your Title tags

Ultimate Warrior Tags - create additional tags from your content.

Sociable - easily create buttons for your social bookmarking sites like delicio.us and technorati.

Refer to the respective website for their installation instruction.

Apply for your Google Adsense account
Now you have set-up your blog you can now apply for your google adsense account. In applying just go to http://www.google.com/adsense.

The approval of your account varies, sometimes it may take from 2 days to 2 weeks. Or Google may even decline your application if the website does not conforms to their standards.

Put your Adsense code in your blog
There are two ways to put your adsense code to your account: using the Adsense Deluxe Plug-in and using the 3-column lay-out of http://www.sapiensbryan.com/

I used the 3-column lay-out. It is much easier to change the Adsense code than using the plug-in, besides the code blends more with site that can lead to higher CTR.

Know your stats and feel free to experiment on your ad placement.

This conclude the tutorial on how to earn with Google Adsense using Wordpress. But you should not stop here there is still a lot to learn: driving traffic to you website, tracking your performance, link building, etc. I will be posting articles on those areas soon.

I found an interesting article today from Arun that talks about pursuing money on the Internet. This is worth posting here on my blog since this will be very useful for readers that are just starting in affiliate marketing.

—> start of Arun’s article

Are You Wasting Your Time In Pursuit of Money?

There was a time when I had no idea how I could earn money on the net. I had just purchased my computer and got an internet connection. I knew nothing about internet beyond checking my mail and do search.I do not remember how I got started but after a while I started searching for money earning opportunities on the net. I would sit and search for long hours every day. I would search till my eyes get sore. I was wasting my time but I did not know. Everyday I would search and click new sites.

I laugh now at what I searched for! I would type ‘Earn without investment’, ‘Money on the net’ etc. etc. I did not want to invest. I wanted free money. Are you laughing with me!

Search for these terms and see. You get tons of results but nothing is actually what it promises.

Then I got something. I came to know about ‘Get paid programs’. Wow! Finally I would be paid for doing nothing (Are you sure you do nothing. Just calculate the amount of time you spend to earn a pittance. Even if you make few cents it is not guaranteed that you will ever lay your hands on that.)

Excited I joined many. Everyday I opened my mail box and clicked. Everyday before sleeping I checked my accounts and calculate how much I made.

A number of months passed before my slumber broke. I was getting sick of this clicking and checking the timers and not being paid that pittance I earned with so much labor. I was disappointed and disillusioned too. But I could not give up. Idea of making money from computer just did not leave me.

I needed to change my attitude.

Some more research took me to the level where I could start my home business with some investment. I did fumble in the beginning being new to internet marketing. But I worked and things became better. I am now where I had dreamed only?. ‘Earning money from my computer at my home’

I wasted quite a lot of time due to my ignorance and hunt for free money. I still remember that period when I would spend hours to earn few cents. Just because I did not want to take the risk of investing

There will be many a people who were more informed when they started their business. But there are lots of people who are still going round and round while making nothing out of their time consuming activity.

I wish I could speak to them and warn them.

Stop wasting your time on get paid programs and stuff like that. You will not make anything that can be called money. Are you satisfied with the pittance they offer?

Majority of them are scams. Genuine programs cannot afford to give you more than few cents per day. If you want to make good money you should start your own home based business. A business that would earn you actual money. A business that would earn what you work for.

I would recommend to start with affiliate programs as they provide you with readymade product and you have to deal with marketing part only. If you are new to the marketing like I was affiliate programs will give you good launch pad. When you advance you will get aware of your interests. You can work on your products while you learn about the basics.

Your time is a precious.

Are you wasting it on a worthless pursuit?

Please do not.

Arun Pal Singh, a successful marketer and writer offers a unique and duplicable business opportunity at http://www.homeforprofits.com To avail his free Income Course e-mail to homeforprofits@getresponse.com with subject ’subscribe’.