My wife is an avid fan of American Idol and she watch the show relentless. Aside from that she spend countless hours reviewing the opinions from fans about the performance of each contestant.

In today’s show there are about 38 million votes that came in. And this just the flock from the United States. I wonder if they have statistics for international viewers. What’s my point? 38 million viewers and they are also potential customers. Selling only a dollar to this followers will give you 38 million dollars. Well, this is only a rough estimate.

Itunes is selling 0.99 per download, you multiply that by the number of viewers then you have your gross sales. Impressive.

Perhaps this might be the computation done by the “ebook gurus” low price + sell it to the masses and there you have it “millionaire”.

Well, but one need to solve how are we going to reach the “million flock”.

Hmmm. Now this is one strategy to consider.

more power reaching our “million flock”.

by the way bye Carly -

James

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

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 

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’.

So you wanna earn without spending a dime either you want to try testing the water first before swimming or simply you just do not have enough money to spend. You might have also heard a lot of people started on the Internet business without spending a dime and end up millionaires, yes most of them ended up that way but not all.

In this article I outline the step by step procedure in earning (with google) without spending a dime. Of course you have to give something before being successful: your sweat and effort; little creativeness, passion, and have the right mindset in being successful.

Being a Google Adsense Publisher

This is the best introduction of what is Google Adsense (as defined by Google):

“Google Adsense is the program that can give you advertising revenue from each page on your website—with a minimal investment in time and no additional resources.

AdSense delivers relevant text and image ads that are precisely targeted to your site and your site content. And when you add a Google search box to your site, AdSense delivers relevant text ads that are targeted to the Google search results pages generated by your visitors’ search request.”

You might be asking alright I want to be a google adsense publisher but I do not have a website, does this means that I still have to cash-out to maintain a website. This is the beauty of Google. They are giving away free blog hosting and google pages so that you can put your adsense code without spending a dime on web hosting services. Well, you have to pay for your Internet connection and the coffee while establishing the blog or site.

Here is the step by step::

1. Think of topic that you like or familiar with. Please note that when you are familiar with the Internet you can research for topics that has a paying keywords. I will be discussing this in another article.

2. Go to Blogger.com or Google pages and set up your own account.

3. Start putting in the contents or if you have chosen to blog, start blogging.

4. After you made your initial entries (maybe for starter 10 post will be suffice), start putting the google adsense codes by signing up to a google adsense account.

5. Start promoting your site. Participate in google groups, forums, yahoo groups, etc. By the way site promotion is one the essential components for your site to be successful.

6. Evaluate what you have done from Step 4 to 6. You may want to optimize your site (contents, promotion or SEO techniques,etc.)

7. If you are already earning a small amount in your first blog/site, create another one. Repeat step 2. The idea here is to be able to have a sustainable number of website. If your initial site is earning $10 per day, having 10 sites makes it $100 day. (of course sometimes, clicks only $.01, so you have to be patience).

Word of caution; do not click your own ads and do not make invalid impressions by refreshing your pages too much. In short do not try to cheat Google, they are smarter than you think. Always read the Terms of Agreement (TOS) or join Google Adsense Blog – in this way you can always be updated of new things about the system.

Will this article make you rich? Maybe or maybe not. Many who have come before us made spectacular income in Google Adsense, others have not. This article is just a tip of the iceberg and there is more a lot to learn like SEO techniques, getting quality content etc. You just have to do it one step at a time. Cheers to you! Happy earning!