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Making money with articles can be fairly easy for anyone. If you are a quick learner and great reader, then you can learn everything you need to know right from the Internet without any previous training needed. This is probably the best fact about niche website Internet marketing.

If you are new to the business, your best bet is to ease into it. If you jump in before you know what you are doing, you have a good chance of losing money and having nothing to show for it. There are several things that you need to make sure you know how to do before you begin creating your first site.

• Create your own great articles or hire someone to do it for you
There are many places online you can buy PLR packages. With these pre-written articles, the hard part is already done for you.They can be purchased for usually $1 an article and you are free to do what you want with them once they are yours.

You can hire someone to write them for you but this costs a lot more. While you may find someone on the freelance market sites for $2-$3 an article, these people who can afford to charge so little do not usually live in North America or Europe and are more often than not, Native English speakers. So you may find that you have way more editing than you planned on. At $10 or more for a quality article, it can get too expensive for most new beginners to internet marketing.

• Optimize your website for search engines
This means including meta tags and descriptions in your pages, writing a page with your keywords in mind so the search engines will be able to rank you for those keywords.

Many people find this part of internet marketing the hardest to grasp when just starting out and often ignore it, thinking that it won’t make a difference. It does. Look for books online that will show you step by step how and where to set everything up so you are optimized the best you can be.

• Find reliable web hosting
There is a ton of web hosting companies online today and many more being started every week. How do you choose which company to go with? Ask your friends, hang out in forums with other internet marketers and you will soon hear which ones are the best and most reliable. I have been using Hostgator for years. They have only been down once or twice in the 6 years I have used them. For less than $10 a month, you can get the Baby package and have unlimited domains and websites running. This is ideal for those who want to start setting up little micro niche sites for affiliate income and adsense earnings. Use my link above and you can get your first month for only $1 when you type in the coupon code : wordpress

• Pick a catchy URL
When you click on my link above for your hosting account, one of the things included in a domain name for your first and primary site. This will be your main one and you will want to make sure it is a good one. Use keywords in your url but try to keep it short and simple. As more and more domain names are bought, it will be harder to do that, but if you can, test it out. You may find that you have to come up with a few options you like as more than likely one, two, a few or even all of them could have been chosen by someone else already.

If you are part of a forum, start a thread and ask others what they think about your choices or if they can help your brainstorm something suitable. Take you time and pick something you will not regret later.

• Create a small site that is easy to navigate, have one created for you, or pay to use a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) website builder.
With Wordpress taking the world by storm, almost all other site building programs are left in the dust. Wordpress comes with every hosting account and can easily be installed in 3 mins by just filling out the information you will want for the site. You can then create pages, posts, install plugins that will add even more features like the ability to sell your own products, and much more.

If you are not really a techie or do not have the time and patience to learn a new program, you can go to those same freelancing sites I mentioned above(elance, scriptlance, odesk, and others), and see if you can hire someone to help you install your site and add some content. You should also be able to find someone on the forum that you can hire and may even get a deal.

In the beginning of every business, there is always a bunch of work to do where sometimes you can feel like you are working 60 or more hours a week. But one of the benefits of an online business, is that once you have set up these sites, all you mainly need to do after is concentrate on marketing them and driving as much traffic to them as you can. It takes time to build up any business, but with the affordability of an online business, it makes waiting it out so much easier. Where else can you get started with a business for $20 a month?

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I thought I would take a minute and write a little post that is more humorous than anything else. A little off topic than usual but hopefully still an enjoyable read for you.

I don’t know about how things go at your house, but at mine, if you don’t have coffee, you can go a little batty!

I wake up at the crack of dawn every morning with my one year old and 3 yr old. I am on the go until midnight every night and if I manage to see a night with more than 5 or 6 hours of sleep, I feel like I am in heaven!

There are several types of coffee that I have sampled over the years. There is instant coffee, Ground Coffee, flavored coffee, and decaf coffee. Years ago I used to work in a coffee shop and found the secret to taking out the bitterness for your brewed coffee is just a pinch of salt in your grinds before the water seeps on through it. Works like a charm.

I recently was diagnosed with diabetes and not being able to have sugar in my coffee, I definitely appreciate being able to take the bitterness out of my coffee so I can drink it. Ground coffee by far goes the longest way and if kept securely in a nice dark, dry area, it will last a long time.(I even keep mine in the freezer)

I strongly believe that one of the best kept secrets to running a successful business from home and raising some rowdy children, is a constant supply of freshly brewed coffee!

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It has been awhile since I talked about making money on eBay, so I thought I would bring the subject up
again. Let’s say you have your business set up now. You’ve picked out a good name and bought the domain.
You’ve signed up and registered all the info you needed for eBay. So, now what do you need to do next to
start making money on eBay?

It is advisable that when you first start out selling on eBay that you need to pick just one product and
learn everything you can about it. You need to become an expert with it so you can effectively learn to
advertise and sell them to the best you can. Once you are on a roll and making consistent money with that
one, you can apply what you found works the best to more products. There are many advertising and selling
techniques to be used online today. Some you will find work better with certain products over other ones.

The next section has some mixed ideas on the best methods of selling and making the best money from each
product. Some people think it is better to have multiple auctions going at once, that way, if something
doesn’t sell, chances are, something else will. Other people think it is best just to have one auction
at a time and then you can concentrate solely on getting the highest bid for that one item. If you are selling
$5 cds, you may want to have several auctions going in order to make some decent income.

As eBay becomes more popular every year, it is going to become more difficult to find quality unique products
that you can make a decent profit from. You can try going to Estate sales, taking an ad out in the paper
offering to take on consignment items for others who do not know how to sell on eBay, By taking a percentage
of the sale, this enables others to make money and still get their stuff sold by someone who knows what
they are doing. You may want to find out if there are any city or state laws that require you to obtain
a license as an auctioneer in your town if you plan to do this on a large scale.

You could use a dropshipping company. This is a company that allows you to sell their products at a retail
price while you only have to pay them a wholesale price. You may find other sellers who have bulk orders
of something and are willing to sell the products to you at a wholesale price as well. You can go to fleamarkets
liquidation stores, bulk barns, and garage sales in your neighborhood. What you may find over in your country
readily may not be available in someone else’s, thus making it a popular sought after item.

A few quick tips for making the best of your selling experience on eBay:
1. NEVER sell counterfeit or fake items on eBay, not only can you risk losing your account, you could
be sued or blacklisted.
2. Do not let your friends or relatives bid against others bidders on your auctions in an attempt to drive
the price up. This is known as shilling and is illegal. Not only will you be shut down and banned from
eBay, you could also face criminal charges.

To get the most from your selling on eBay, you will want to promote your auctions. You can do this by
creating a personal web page to promote your eBay auctions, you could run an online store that links back
to your auctions, or any numerous ways you may find. This gives you a more professional appearance online
and helps your customers get a better feel for who you are.

Finally the number one way to build your eBay business bigger and start bringing in more money is by
building up a mailing list. If you send out emails to your subscribers on a regular basis, they will be
able to know right away when you have a deal or new auction going on.

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I know I write a lot about ways to make money with your writing but that is because that is what I do for a living and what I liked to think I know quite a bit about.

I would like to offer you a copy of my new 12 page report “Write for Pay” and you can download it here now. It comes with links for software that will help you cut your work in half and allow you to make twice as much money.
Grab it here:
http://makemoneywriting.melaniebremner.com

Today though, I would like to talk more about PLR and the use of it. I recently participated in a few giveaway events to see about building up my list some more. I don’t know how much longer though I am going to continue with those types of events though. It seems that there is no new products being put into them. I can sign up to 8 different giveaways and see the same products being given away in each of them.

If PLR can be used in so many different ways to make new products, why is no one using it to create these unique reports? Is it because no one knows how, or is because no one can be bothered?

Think about this. Say you wanted to create a new product. What would be more beneficial and time saving for you:
1. spend hours researching a niche topic and then taking notes, and creating an outline for a new report. Then either writing it up yourself or paying for a ghostwriter to do it. One way would take you about a week or more depending on how much time you had to put into it, and the other could cost you anywhere between $100-$600 depending on how many pages you wanted.
2. do a half an hour of keyword research to see what niche products and information people are looking for. Then go through your plr material and look for some articles on that topic, work through them, get them organized, edited and put together into a new report. This could take maybe a few days. Or if you don’t have anything already on that topic, you could go looking for some plr from a membership or web writer and get it. This would take you a little while longer and would cost a little more but it would be more specific than trying to re-work some related articles.

You can see the point I am driving at. There is no reason that with all of the PLR floating around for cheap or even free a lot of times, that serious marketers who want to get ahead and make a name for themselves, can’t go out and create something new.

I would really like to see more new reports and products coming out on the market instead of the same old things. How can anyone expect to build a list and get new people if the same marketers are telling their list about these same giveaways that have the same freebies available that they saw the last time they joined up. This will in turn make giveaways become extinct and completely useless for list building purposes.

Next time you want to think about writing a report, if you have any questions or concerns feel free to write a comment here or email me and I will help you out. I would be more than happy to help you get set up with a unique product of your own.

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