How to make money online, that’s the big question. The answer is there are many ways reaching your income goals online and it is less a matter of which business type you choose than a question of the methods used to achieve your goals.

Ecommerce and Affiliate Marketing.

Ecommerce rings a bell? Yes, the first association would be eBay, but then there are many others who offer great opportunities and market places and platforms, such as  DubLi.

Make money selling most anything on DubLi without any listing cost, your old appliances, stuff you have cumulated in your basement, digital products, e-books, CDs, DVDs, your car, your house….no limit, just set up an auction or fix price sales page in a few minutes.

Bring your offline business to the internet and go global by setting up your online shop, or resell from your shop other peoples’ products, or sell your services to any interested prospect anywhere in the world, using the most
global of all platforms.

Or how about just referring new customers to DubLi and participating in the Affiliate programs, under the customer incentive program or as a Business Associate?

Or how about bidding on expensive items such as new cars or iPhones with the inventive SmartWin system? A brand new Apple iPhone 8GB has just been sold for just $1.55!

Or how about becoming a shareholder in DubLi? This is the most incredible side of it. Did eBay ever offer you to participate in their share capital before going public in 1998? Dubli is now laying the legal groundwork to compete with eBay in the USA.

Depending on your ambition, there are many ways of working with DubLi and there are many ways to access the various income streams DubLi offers.

There is a lot of money in Ecommerce world wide and it’s just up to you to decide how you want to participate in the online riches.
 

Tags: Ecommerce, auction, Dubli, make money online, Affiliate Marketing

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Affiliate Marketing is an incredibly inexpensive and effective way to grow a business, and (depending on the type) has an incredibly low-risk factor for business.

In a nutshell, Affiliate Marketing is a way of promoting on-line and web business through affiliates (or publishers.) The affiliate is rewarded for every customer, visitor, subscriber, or sale that is the result of their efforts and advertising. It’s a way of empowering other websites to market your business through their own channels (internet, e-mail etc.)

Affiliate Marketing is often confused with Multi-Level-Marketing (MLM), so some companies prefer to use the term ‘performance marketing’ to limit this confusion. MLM and Affiliate Marketing are simply not the same thing, as MLM is based on an entirely different system. Affiliate Marketing is basically a form of advertising and commission, but the affiliate does not move or sell the product. They merely advertise and are rewarded according to their efforts based on the merchant’s parameters. While there are many multi-tier programs of Network Marketing that use Affiliate Marketing in their program, these are strictly not considered as Affiliate Marketing.

So, what are these types and their differences?

Simply put, in the early days of the internet, Cost-Per-Click (CPC) was the general program used. This is when the affiliate only needs to display banners on their website, or send out emails, advertising the product or merchant. Every time a click on a banner or link in the email happens, a redirect to the merchant’s website happens. The merchant then pays the affiliate a certain amount of money for every ‘click.’

Google’s AdSense program is an example of this kind of Affiliate Marketing, however it’s not entirely the same, as AdSense is more contextual advertising (only displays adverts that relate to the website they are displayed.)

Because CPC could so easily be manipulated, spam sites and emails became prevalent amongst many unethical affiliates, as well as click fraud and other issues. This has resulted in only 1% of the on-line market using CPC these days.

The other types of Affiliate Marketing are CPS (Cost-Per-Sale) and CPA (Cost-Per-Action.) Basically, the affiliate is only rewarded with a commission when the advert they have generated ends in a sale (CPS), or a subscription or lead (CPA.) This can be very rewarding for the affiliate, especially if the customer buys a fairly expensive product, or high quantities. 80% of the market currently uses the CPS system, whereas 19% use the CPA system.

The wonderful thing for merchants on CPS and CPA is that they actually take no risk. The risk now lies with the advertiser or affiliate. And, since this form of marketing is usually just in the form of displaying adverts on the affiliate’s website, there is very little (if at all) risk involved.

Because of the success of early companies like Amazon.com and CDNOW using Affiliate Marketing, proving its high efficiency, it has now become an integrated part of business plans – not just for e-commerce - but for all types of business.

Bruno Auger

Tags:   e-commerce, Cost Per Click, Affiliate Marketing, Adsense, Cost per Sale, MLM, Cost Per Action

Do you get Enough Visitors?

There’s a simple 2 minute test you can do to determine if your web site is relevant.
That simple test – well, log into your cpanel on your web hosting account. Check your website stats and see how many visitors you have had on the site in the past month… and more importantly check out the unique visitors.

If you have very few visitors, or worse yet, none at all, then your web site… your product… well, they just don’t matter. You see, without traffic all else is irrelevant. Even if you are promoting a product or service that could TRULY change the world… It just wouldn’t matter if nobody knew your site existed.

Traffic is TRULY the cornerstone to online success. Without it, you simply cannot succeed. So if you want to create the kind of lifestyle for yourself, which would allow you to become completely financially free, then you need to start driving real traffic with real buyers, interested in what you have to offer.

The biggest question most markets ask is: How do I traffic to my website? With a little basic know how and determination, you can get that traffic. Taking your time to research where you traffic will come from is the biggest thing. Traffic isn’t always easy, especially free traffic but worth it in the long run.

Keep yourself informed on the latest traffic techniques. It will help you lay a solid foundation for you business and help increase you traffic to your site each month.

Tags: website traffic, unique visitors, visitors, free traffic, traffic

Bruno

Do you get Enough Visitors?

There’s a simple 2 minute test you can do to determine if your web site is relevant.
That simple test – well, log into your cpanel on your web hosting account. Check your website stats and see how many visitors you have had on the site in the past month… and more importantly check out the unique visitors.

If you have very few visitors, or worse yet, none at all, then your web site… your product… well, they just don’t matter. You see, without traffic all else is irrelevant. Even if you are promoting a product or service that could TRULY change the world… It just wouldn’t matter if nobody knew your site existed.

Traffic is TRULY the cornerstone to online success. Without it, you simply cannot succeed. So if you want to create the kind of lifestyle for yourself, which would allow you to become completely financially free, then you need to start driving real traffic with real buyers, interested in what you have to offer.

The biggest question most markets ask is: How do I traffic to my website? With a little basic know how and determination, you can get that traffic. Taking your time to research where you traffic will come from is the biggest thing. Traffic isn’t always easy, especially free traffic but worth it in the long run.

Keep yourself informed on the latest traffic techniques. It will help you lay a solid foundation for you business and help increase you traffic to your site each month.

Tags: website traffic, unique visitors, visitors, free traffic, traffic

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Customer care is essential for business growth

Hosting customer support has evolved to more than just providing the technical aspects of server maintenance.  Customer support is an essential part of any business, whether you are a small hosting company or a giant as Wal-Mart.  Customers will judge businesses on the degree of customer care and extended knowledge they have.

An example, I worked a support desk for a hosting company awhile back. People neglected to send their user name with the support ticket. This means, I now have to email them and ask for their user name before I can proceed.

This is a waste of both of our time. Instead of having a solution, the customer now needs to send the details of the problem, causing yet another delay. And, it increases the number of emails we need to wait for.

Another one is a customer sending a request for support that says only, "It doesn’t work".

If you send me an email saying "It doesn’t work", I have two options:

2. Ask you to describe the problem. Did you get an error? What did you encounter and what happened? Again, this causes a delay as I need to email the person back and ask this question.

1. List every possible problem that’s ever been encountered, as well as many hypothetical ones, which is time consuming and likely a total waste of my time and yours. I could be spending this time with other customers.

Another common problem is the customers that take a very long time to respond.

I’ve had people send me emails asking for help, replied within an hour or 2, then I’ve LITERALLY have to wait 6 to 12 days for them to respond.

Then, we started the whole process over…I respond relatively fast, only to wait another week or more again. Simple problems like this can be rectified fairly fast only if the customer cooperates.

It’s very hard to provide the necessary support when the customers don’t respond quickly.

One more: If a support suggestion fixes the problem, please reply that it works. One reason is just the curiosity of the support staff, I like the satisfaction that we solved the problem, but another is that I want to know if I should offer others the same bit of advice.

Bad support isn’t always the fault of the seller. Customers can also greatly help their own cause if they’d just spend an extra 60 seconds and include the basic and obvious info the first time them make contact.

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Tags: customer service, customer care, Wal-Mart, hosting customer care, Bad support