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As a home business owner and Internet Marketer, to say I spend numerous hours reading online forums would be a gross understatement.

There is more value than you can imagine in online forums, whether it’s a forum on CNBC or a local forum created by weekend warriors in your home town.

While spending a little time on a new forum I’ve been reading, someone asked me…. What have I learned the most while on this forum…..

My answer was an immediate no-brainer.

Besides learning just how much coffee one needs to consume to stay awake at all hours of the night reading all the great posts from people all over the world, I would say the things I learn while reading forum posts are immeasurable.  They’re of infinite importance to my success in making money in my own Internet Home Business.

The diverse nature of most forums help broaden my own knowledge base and help elevate my skills to new levels.  In addition, I end up learning a great deal about myself. I learn what my strengths are and more importantly I learn what my weaknesses are.  If you own your own Internet Home Business, or just want to someday create your own Home Internet Business, knowing your weaknesses is of paramount importance.  By knowing my weaknesses, I can make an informed decision to either build those skills so I can do things for myself, or I can simply choose to outsource those tasks to someone who does possess the necessary skills.  And where do I typically find those people I outsource to? Well on forums about the same topics, of course.

Are you starting to see how much value you can start to pull from taking a little time to open your mind to a new set of stimuli?

In answer to the original question and per the subject line of this article, I would have to say the “SINGLE” most important thing in “Building a Can’t Lose Wall of Success Around You” is by surrounding yourself with like-minded, success-oriented, and genuine people who are willing to help and who are receptive to your own suggestions.

This is by far one of the most important aspects of achieving success there is. You want to surround yourself with people who are heading in the direction you want to go or who have already made it there.

It’s that simple. It really is.

Find a group of people who are already successful in doing what you want to do and simply learn from them and do what they do.  If that group doesn’t exist, then start your own and help others grow with you.

Just remember that nothing happens overnight. Real and honest success takes time but if there is another thing I’ve learned in my hours upon hours in forums, it’s the following;

You only fail once you give up.

If you’re interests lie in learning how to make extra money in your own business, then you may want to look at just the type of forum I’ve been talking about.

It’s called “IM Simple” – Internet Marketing Made Simple.

Take a few minutes now and read through some of the posts.

You just may find the perfect business model for you.

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=> Way #1 – OFFER A FREEBIE

You have to give in order to receive. If you want people to offer up their email address, you’re going to have to offer up an incentive. It’s a fair trade – just make sure you offer value.

=> Way #2 – USE POP-UPS

Pop-ups are one of the most common methods you can use to capture email addresses and build your email list quickly and with ease provided you use them responsibly. Simply construct a web page containing code for a form and set the page to open (pop up) when visitors ENTER OR EXIT your site.

- Word to the Wise: If you need a pop-up, you can pick one up F-R-E-E (there’s that word again) from Empowerism at: Empowerism

=> Way #3 – USE POSTCARDS

If you have a mailing list that contains snail mail (street) addresses, convert it into an email list by sending out a postcard and inviting people to VISIT YOUR WEBSITE to receive a gift of some kind — a report, a discount coupon, etc. Visitors don’t have to pay in order to receive their gifts; they simply need to enter an email address. Plus, you’ll save a ton in postage.

=> Way #4 – SUBSCRIBER BOX ON EVERY PAGE

This is a clever trick that so many people overlook. Put a RESPONSE FORM ON EVERY PAGE of your website offering a newsletter or other freebie. This will increase the number of email addresses you capture exponentially.

- A Word to the Wise: If you don’t know how to create an opt-in form, no worries. Empowerism has a foolproof build your own tool made just for you! Just click below and create an account: at: Empowerism

=> Way #5 – CONTESTS

Contests very often prove to be a good way to generate traffic and buzz for your business. Create a contest and put a form on your site or in a pop-up box. The entry “fee” is their email address.

=> Way #6 – DISPLAY YOUR AUTORESPONDER ADDRESS

Most people give their website link when they place solo ads, ezine ads, or other marketing messages. To be one step ahead of the game in collecting email addresses, LIST YOUR AUTORESPONDER ADDRESS instead of your URL. This way you can capture email addresses and funnel them into your follow-up sales letters.

-Word to the Wise: Don’t have an autoresponder? GetResponse will give you one for free. Just click below and create a free account: at: GetResponse

=> Way #7 – JUST ASK

If you’re chatting with a prospect on the phone or a potential customer stops by your place of business, don’t be shy: ask for an email address or business card (which usually includes their email address).

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If you own your own website or are even thinking about starting your own website and want to know how to drive free, targeted traffic to it – well – you’re in for a real treat with today’s article.

Let’s get right to it…..

This will be a short one – after all, this is a “no-brainer” and I’ve been using this method for years to drive free traffic to my websites.

We’ve all heard of link-exchanges and all those sorts of things.

Well, there is one website in particular that I have been using for years and it has paid me 100X my investment (after all – it’s FREE).

Seriously, for anyone that has an internet business or any online home business that they need to promote and build traffic for, I HIGHLY recommend you take one simple step and sign up for free on the following URL:

Simple Traffic System.

The “Simple Traffic System” – as I like to call it – allows you to build constant residual traffic to your website.

All you have to do is sign up on their page, make their website your Internet Browser’s Start Page and voila – every time you open up your Internet Browser, you build continual “credits” that are used to display your website’s URL address all over their advertising network.

Nothing could be simpler….
• No link exchange – you don’t have to put any links on your valuable website real estate.
• You don’t have to display any ads in your browser
• You don’t have to surf any partner websites
• You don’t have to do ANYTHING - just open your web browser – and you build ad credits.

This is the one thing I do each day, every day… I just set my browser’s start page to their website and voila – I get targeted traffic to my own website.

Here’s that link again:

• Sign up and claim your Free Lifetime Membership today.

Simple Traffic System.

1. The Simple Traffic System is Targeted: You’ll only get live, real-time targeted traffic. Real people choose to click on your ad.
2. The Simple Traffic System is “Viral Marketing”: Traffic and visitors to your site will grow and spread exponentially the more you use the system.
3. The Simple Traffic System is “Proven”: Over 400,000 successful members use the Secret TS Traffic Technology to generate web traffic daily.
4. The Simple Traffic System is “Generous”: Highly incentivized referral program means even more traffic for your site. Earn on your referrals FIVE levels deep. No cap or limit on referral rewards!

There are people on The Simple Traffic System right now who could be visiting your site … for FREE

Like I said – this one is an absolute “no-brainer” and nothing could be easier to build traffic to your website starting right now!

I personally use this and I highly recommend it – and it’s FREE to join.

Simple Traffic System.

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OK, enough of the marketing business, lets get down to the details of the article, shall we.

Lets start with a fictitious person. Let’s call her Mary Smith (I know – no imagination). Mary Smith it is…

Mary owns her own small Internet Home Business selling all sorts of gaming consoles and widgets online.

Mary has a problem though; her business isn’t doing so well. She’s having one heck of a time getting ranked in the major search engines and her advertising budget is getting wiped out because her Pay-Per-Click ad programs aren’t generating the paying customers she had hoped for.

Just a quick caveat before I get started here…. It’s outside the scope of this article to go into any sort of detail on Pay-Per-Click advertising, “Adwords” type programs, etc. If you’d like to know more specifics about those types of programs and programs like them, simply subscribe to my newsletter or send me an email and I’d be happy to explain them….

OK – back to Mary and her problem…

Mary’s top selling item is a national brand gaming console.

If I presented a challenge to you to get Mary’s website in the top of the search engines for her particular key words without driving her into bankruptcy and while competing with a nationally known top branded website, do you think you could do it?

You’d probably think I was silly to even try. After all, how are you going to compete with companies with multi-million dollar advertising campaigns proven to drive thousands of paying customers to their websites every month?

Well, to be honest with you, I’m not only going to show you how to do it, I’m going to show you how to do it and effectively get paid to do it.

It’s all about reverse engineering your way to the top.

Full disclosure here….are we going to get the number 1 spot on Google for….say… “Sony Playstation”…. No, we’re not. Not unless you have a few hundred thousand $ to spare every month on CPA and other PPC programs.

But we are going to rank, and we are going to increase our business – maybe even ten-fold by using a few simple and proven techniques.

When we were kids and we wanted to know how a particular widget worked, what did we do?

Most of us probably disassembled the widget and tried to put it back together again.

Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to do with our competitor’s web sites and their advertising programs.

After all, national brands have virtually unlimited advertising budgets relative to the small guys.

They can afford to be creative, try new things, tweak existing programs, run parallel programs, site test and split test numerous ad copy techniques.

Can we do all of this, well maybe, probably over time.

Buy why bother, why reinvent the wheel.

We don’t have to outsmart the big guns…we just have to capture a small sliver of their market share.

Capture a tiny sliver of a major brand’s market share and you just went from 123 Main Street to the top of Wall Street and onto 123 Easy Street. I’ll see you at the Club at the Marina. Just look for the 137 foot Burger Boat. You’ll find me up on the flybridge

Let’s start with our main competitor’s web site and start breaking it apart.

Go to Google.com and type in your particular keywords or phrase (any words someone would use if they were searching for the products you sell.).

Find the top 2 listings (non-paying spots) and click on their sites. Chances are they’re more similar than you think.

Look for the following things:

1. Look at how the sites are structured.
2. How is their web site laid out?
3. Is their website easy to read, is it cluttered with all kinds of items?
4. Are there several examples of those “key words” you just typed in?
5. Are those “key-words” actually in their domain name (e.g. – www.”keywords”-widgets.com). Just a note here… don’t think for a second you should include the “actual” national brand name in your own domain name. That’s a sure-fire route to disaster and the end of your hard work and website. Unless of course you can match that brand name’s legal budget. They don’t have to win the lawsuit; they just have to bankrupt you in the process. Think about that in all your legal affairs – it’s easier to play on the straight and narrow.
6. Are there lots of useful pages on their website with lots of links to additional information?
7. Does their website have lots of support pages?

I think you get the idea. Take the best examples above from their websites and incorporate them into your own. They’ve already spent the money on “Search Engine Optimization”-SEO, learn from their techniques for free and implement them on your own site.

That flashing smiley face on your home page…. You can remove that now.

Instead, put a link to your blog where you have support pages describing the benefits of your product.

OK, website redone…..

That will surely help our search engine rankings for our little Internet Home-Based Business.

Total cost – about 2 days of active research.

How much will it pay us – undoubtedly many times over in higher search engine rankings.

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Now onto PPC (Pay-Per-Click), CPA (Cost Per Action) and other pay-for-action type advertising.

This is where it gets interesting… in fact you may just have to stay tuned for my next article ‘cause I think we’re going to run out of time on this one….

Let’s go about the same exercise we did above.

Do a search for your product key words on a major search engine.

Let’s take a look at the “sponsored ads” this time.

These are the companies that are “paying” to be placed at or near the top or along the right hand column in your search results.

Same concept here only this time we’re going to tear apart their advertising.

What words do they use in their headline? They only have about 2-3 sentences to really grab your attention and get you to click on their link.

And for every person that clicks that link, they’re paying money – sometimes LOTS of money.

So the big companies know what works best. They know what taglines to use to get you to click that link.

They know exactly which buzz words and action verbs to use and when to use them.

Learn from them and use those same techniques and your PPC and CPA type ad results will skyrocket.

Here’s a little secret for you – think you have to compete with a major brand in a bidding war for their key words on the major search engines?

Well you don’t.

Do you think you need to be placed number 1 on the top of Google.com sponsored ads which probably sees 50 million unique eye balls every month?

That’s ludicrous because you don’t. We probably couldn’t afford to get that spot anyway.

Let’s start small here and work our way up… slowly.

Let’s take some of those “killer’ ad techniques we just learned from our competitors and bid for those key words on smaller search engines and websites.

Let’s start to dominate those smaller sites, and guess what – just by the nature of doing that, the big search engines WILL reward us with more traffic. Trust me.

Go to sites like www.goclick.com, www.pulse360.com, and www.lycos.com.

Bid for words on these sites and pay a fraction of the cost the majors would charge you.

Do you need 50,000 searches a day? No – get a few thousand targeted leads a day and you’re on your way to sure-fire success.

This could increase your click rates like crazy, in effect PAYING YOU to advertise.

After all, that’s the whole point right…

1. Increase click through rates.
2. Increase Conversion rates.
3. And run a profitable advertising campaign, thus paying you to advertise.

Dominate slowly.

Slow and sure wins every time. You can trust me on that one.

Well, I think that’s all I have time for at the moment – definitely more to come in the following days.

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I’m going to be very blunt here – for two reasons;

• One – I want to convey a critical message to you as quickly and as concisely as possible so you can take IMMEDIATE action without delay.
• Two – it’s Saturday afternoon, a beautiful day and I’m sitting behind the computer – enough said J

Do you know why 99% of ALL affiliate and Internet marketers fail?

They fail for two reasons:

• One – The affiliate marketer FAILS TO TAKE ACTION, explained further below.
• Two – They think this is just a game of numbers and fail to consider their customers and build a “real” business.

More on point number one above.  It should be quite self explanatory, but for those who aren’t quite following me or perhaps are very new to affiliate marketing, I’ll delve a little deeper. Affiliate marketers fail in their Internet Home Business or Affiliate Marketing Business because they spend 99% of their time on unproductive and quite honestly, relatively useless tasks.

What do I mean by that?

Well, instead of doing the ONLY two things that matter when building an Internet Home-Based Affiliate Marketing Business; GENERATING TRAFFIC, and CONVERTING THAT TRAFFIC, they spend their time on useless tasks.

That’s it – nothing more. Generate online traffic and convert that traffic to sales.

How do we do that? – By offering “real” value to our customers.

So instead of focusing on those two items above, most affiliate marketers get sidetracked and distracted by the next “big thing” everyone else is promoting.

Focus on building your business and you WILL succeed.

On Point number Two above…. It’s not a numbers game. It’s a business about servicing customer needs.  More on this below.

The next big reason 99% of all affiliate marketers fail to generate the maximum income possible is because they think it’s a numbers game.

They think… “If I can only put up a few more products in my ‘huge, humongous, colossal, widget online mall’, THEN I’ll really make the money.”

It doesn’t work that way – although I must admit – several years ago I thought it did. I thought it was about building the biggest and most “widget-packed” site you could build.

Build it and they will come…. That’s what I thought….  And I thought wrong.

You have to offer your customers real value. You have to build a relationship.

Internet shoppers are browsing your site for one of two reasons (see a pattern here). They are researching looking to solve a problem they have, or they’re just casually browsing along – window shopping.

Lets say I just dropped my favorite Japanese WOK and I’m having a small dinner party next month with some of my best friends (and I’m cooking)….

Now let’s say I’m browsing the Net and I come across your site – “Huge, Humongous, Colossal WOK Store”.

Am I going to order a WOK from you…maybe….but probably not…I’ll probably just head down to my local Williams & Sonoma and pick one up.

So I leave your site and you’re none the wiser. You never knew I was there and you’ll probably never see me again. CUSTOMER LOST – or more accurately, you never really had me to begin with…

Now lets change this up a bit….

Now I’m on your site (still not going to buy that WOK) but you have a link to a free e-Book on Japanese WOK cooking recipes.

EXCELLENT – I could use that for some ideas for next month.

So I register on your site and I happily download my free e-Book.

And in return (you guessed it… you now have my email address and can easily follow up with me and start to build that customer relationship).

So next month you’re running a 40% off promotion on all stir fry skillets.

You shoot out a quick broadcast email message to your registers users and voila.. I get the email and click on the link…  I could use a new skillet.

I loved your free e-Book so what the heck – where’s my VISA – I’ll grab that skillet – after all it’s on sale for 40% off.

Are you starting to see the real message here?

Build real relationships with a real business and you’re destined to succeed even if the Internet Home Business arena is littered with people who never really take it to its full potential.

The above scenario is why I have written a step by step guide of “never before published” proven techniques to make your Internet Home Business and website explode.

My “Secret Formula To Massive Online Profits” e-Course has over 33 hours of instructional video built in and you can download this e-Course right now for – YOU GUESSED IT – FOR FREE.

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Learn how a ‘hideous’ little two page website can bring in $4272.33 in less than 18 hours without spending one dime on advertising.  Not One Dime! These are the types of techniques anyone with just a computer and a desire to succeed can duplicate as quickly as tomorrow — and see immediate results.

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