I have been around the internet marketing scene for awhile now and have spoken to a lot of people who are running an online business. Help is available from a number of online forums. In my experience, being a part of one of these forums is a major key to success. When there are people who are willing to help with no thought of gain for themselves, then I generally recommend that you pay close attention.

Some of the differences I have observed between successful and unsuccessful people are as follows:

People who are struggling to find success:

1. Buy every shiny new product that comes out believing that this time it will be the ‘Magic Button’.

2. Flit from one project to another without finishing anything.

3. Don’t have a business plan or any other plans about earning an income and have no idea where they are going.

4. Try to build their business alone.

People who are successful:

1. Test out new and creative ideas. When it works, rinse and repeat!

2. Continually learn about and apply their knowledge to their online business.

3. Help other people to succeed. The more you help others, the more it will benefit your own business.

4. Accept help from others. There’s simply too much information to be gained by letting others help to ignore the opportunities. If someone has already “been there, done that” then it’s a good idea to listen.

5. Are aware that the big launches by the so called ‘gurus’ are just distractions and will not help their business in the long run.

6. Consistently set goals, follow a plan and take action.

7. Stay focused on the project they are doing and finish it before starting the next.

If you want to run an internet business – help yourself out by matching your strategies with those of successful people. I know these strategies work and they work a whole lot better when you have the help and knowledge of people who have already been there.

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You have just finished brainstorming ideas and I can hear most of you saying, “But I could only think of a few.”

I compiled this list of PLR topics available for purchase from the internet. I thought that by looking over these subjects, it might spark some ideas that had not come to mind as possible niches.

Right now we are only looking at interests and trying to expand your mind as to popularity. Our next steps will include Market Research and Keyword Research. Please don’t assume that we are just going to pick a niche based on interest.

However, it is my belief (and others) that if you can find a niche that meets the other criteria and it is one in which you are interested, you will be ahead of the game. It is much easier to write about something that interests you than something that doesn’t.

Animals
Cat Breeds, Cat Care, Cat Pampering, Dogs, Horse Care, Mini Pets, Pet Care, Pets, Small Animals

Cooking & Food
Breakfast Foods, Coffee, Cooking, Lunch

Computers & Internet
Blogging, Computers, eBay, Internet Marketing, Internet Privacy, Internet Security, My Space, Networking, Online Degrees, Online Gaming, Online Shopping, Opt-In Email, PC Tune Up, Photoshop, Spyware, Video Conferences, Web Conferencing, Web Hosting

Environment & Gardening
Alternative Energy, Environment, Flowers, Gardening, Global Warming, Hydroponic Gardening, Going Green, Landscape for Wildlife, Lawn Care, Niche Gardening, Pest Control

Health
Acne, Alzheimers, Back Pain Relief, Bladder Control, Cancer, Contacts/Glasses, Cosmetic Surgery, Dieting, Generation/Health, Halitosis, Health Insurance, Liposuction, Menopause, Mental Illness, Sexual Health, Sleep Disorders, Snoring, Stress, Vitamins, Weight Loss

Hobbies & Pasttimes
Antique Collecting, Classic Movies, Crafts, Digital Photography, Fly Fishing, Geneology, Jewelry, Modeling, Music, Musical Instruments, NASCAR, Parties, Perfumes, Playstation, Poker, Powerball, Scrapbooking, Shoes, Shopping, Stamp Collecting, Travel, Vacation Holidays, X-Box

Miscellaneous
Airline, Aromatherapy, Audio, Barbie, Beauty, Bible, Bird Flu, Bluetooth, Borrowing Money, Bridal Showers, Building Relationships, Business Gifts, Business Leadership, Business Plans, CCTV, Christian Dating, Christmas, Classic Movies, Copyrights, Credit Repair, Curing Summertime Blues, Debt Consolidation, Discount Travel, Easter, Emergency Disaster Preparation, Finance, Forex Trading, Frugality, Goal Realization, Growning Beauty, Halloween, Harry Potter, Hedge Creation, Holidays, Home Theater, Honey Book, House Buying, Hurricanes, Hybrid Cars, ID Theft, Ipod, Las Vegas, Learning Disabilities, Lingerie, Motivational, Music, Pod Casting, Public Speaking, Pregnancy, Quit Smoking, Real Estate, Romance, Romantic Gifts, Secrets to a Better You, Self Confidence, Skin Care, Small Business, Stock Trading, Stress, Study Tips, Taxes, The SIMS, Time Management, Weddings, Wedding Situations, Wholesale, Work at Home

Parenting & Children
Baby Food Basics, Baby Names, Baby Nursery, Baby Shower Ideas, Child Care, Christian Kids Activities, Dads: Parenting, Education – Back to School, Education – Home Schooling, Kids Activities, Kids Toys, Mom and Stress, Mom and Time Management, Toddler Issues

Sports & Pasttimes
Baseball, Bowling, Exercise, Extreme Sports, Golf, PGA, Soccer, Sports and Recreation

After reading all of the topics in the above, were you able to add anything to your list?

Add any of these topics to your list on the forum. You are keeping in touch on the forum, aren’t you? Remember, it is much easier to accomplish these things with a partner.

How many times have you been told the following?

You must create you own product and sell it or give it away to build your list.

This is great, but there is one big mistake many people make.
Has this happened to you?

You started off enthusiastically creating your guide and when you finally completed it have no idea where to sell it?

You struggled with different traffic generation techniques using blogs, squidoo, twitter, facebook, forums and still get no sales?

Why is that?

One answer is you went about it backwards. You create what you wanted to without
knowing that there was a market for it.

The key to success is Traffic. If you have no traffic you have no sales.
Instead of creating a website selling product and then trying to drive traffic try this:

1) Find A source Of Traffic.
2) Discover What They Want.
3) Create It And Give It To Them.

For example a busy forum could be your source of traffic. If you have already identified the niche you would like to be in you probably already know of forums that will work for you. If not then search for them and join them.
Other good sources of traffic are websites such as eBay or Amazon.

To discovering what they want you can ask them if it is a forum, or ready posts people make to see what common problems people have that require solutions.

You must test ideas out before you go ahead and do a lot of work for nothing.
If eBay is you traffic source then look at what other people are successfully selling, or carry out research using eBay pulse or terapeak.

You should still not go ahead with creating your product though.
First of all you need to make sure you can use the traffic that is there. If you’re using eBay then create a test classified advert or auction. Test out titles and measure the visits to your listing.
You will have to have something for sale, but you can easily use a PLR product to create an eBook (for classifed ads) or eBook on CD (for auctions and buy nows).
You don’t have to re-write it – just add your name and links to your site or blog.
It’s only a test to see if your main product is likely to sell.

The same kind of idea can be used for other traffic sources.
If you don’t get the traffic you want try something else.

This method will save you creating a product that doesn’t sell, and help you find a success faster, with less effort.

Carol Smith

If you visit web sites on the Internet, you have a temporary internet file on your computer. The browser uses that file to store every URL address that you visit. When you visit a web page the next time, the browser goes to the temporary internet file for the data needed to load the site. This process is called “caching” (storing something for use later).

The simple explanation of the reason why this is done is speed. Displaying from the temporary internet file is much faster than the same page being loaded directly from the web page’s server.

Another major advantage is that if your internet connection is down, you can still view these cached versions offline.

There are two major disadvantages of keeping temporary internet files on your computer.

If someone has access to your computer, it means that they can on to the file and see every web site that you have visited. This might not be something you want to happen.

A buildup of data on the temporary file can eventually increase in size enough to slow down your processor.

To delete the contents of the temporary file:

Internet Explorer 7

Go to Tools > click Internet Options > click General > click Browsing History > click Settings

This window will let your choose some options as to frequency and space for the Temporary Internet File.  To delete these files go back to Browsing History.

Click Delete and then select Delete Files in the Temporary Internet Files in the next window.

See you in New Orleans some time!

Firefox 2

Go to Tools > click Options > click Privacy > click Private Data > click Settings

In this window you can check the “cache” button and apply and save changes.

-Next time you can simply click “Clear Now” from the Private Data tab.

Be nice to your computer and maybe it will let you go to the Mardi Gras with it.

What are you going to promote? What is the niche you are going to enter? What is the focus of your business?  It is time to come up with the main idea for your business.

This step is all about finding a niche you’d Like to promote and that can be Profitable. To this end, you are going to: Brainstorm, Study the Market and Do Keyword Research.

Roll up your sleeves. Let’s get started. Read the information below on “Brainstorming”.

Don’t forget. You can ask any questions you might have by posting on the forum.

Brainstorming — what does that mean? Wiki defines it as a “group creativity technique designed to generate a large number of ideas for the solution to a problem.”

My contention is that it is an effective tool for one person. Admittedly, it is much better with two even if the other person is only acting as a facilitator. The purpose of the activity as it relates to you here is to stretch your mind and produce creative ideas.

Before you begin, make a list similar to the following:

• What are your hobbies?

• What skills do you utilize at work?

• What are some of your special interests?

• What are some of your favorite places to visit?

• What are your favorite pastimes?

• What do you know well?

• What do others come to for advice about?

• What education or training do you have?

During your brainstorming, you should use this as a guide. Start down the list and name 2 or 3 of the first, then move to the next. Name 2 or 3 of it and so forth down the list. When you get to the end of the list, begin back at the start.

Decide on an amount of time to do the exercise. I recommend 15 or 20 minutes. Once you begin, continue without stopping until your time is up. Once you start, say what comes to your mind. No going backwards. No erasing. It doesn’t matter if it is silly, impossible or daft. This is just forcing your mind to spit out ideas. If other people are present or participating as a favor to you, there can be no ridiculing or criticism.

When your time is up, go back and examine your list. Hopefully you will have a minimum of 25 ideas. Go ahead and sort out the obvious rejections. Some will indeed be too silly to include. Next time we will take a look at some possibilities of expanding this list.

In this lesson, we have taken a general look at the direction this project is taking. We have looked at how to generate ideas.

Perhaps the most important thing you have done is to prepare that preliminary list. In the next lesson, we will take that list a step further.

Go to the forum and post at least 6 of your ideas.

Carol

So you want to start your own internet business?  In the previous post, I talked about some basic ways to run an offline business. The next thing we are going to do is brainstorm some ideas to come up with some broad  topics of interest to you

But first let me explain the process I will be using as we embark on this adventure into the world of online business. After I talk about a step, I will give you an action plan.

I will be completing the action plan along with you as I plan to develop a new leg of my internet business right along with you.

I will post my completed step in Website Wealth Wizard Forum and encourage you to do the same thing. You can ask questions here on the blog or in the classroom on the forum. All of my answers will be posted in the forum so that the blog does not get too long. I will, however, tell you in the blog that your question has been answered.

The classroom in the forum is designed for you:

• To answer your questions
• To compare your answers to others
• To provide support and encouragement for each other
• To allow you to develop the habit of focusing and meeting your deadlines

If you have not joined the forum, complete the box at the top right on this page. Don’t forget to introduce yourself in the “Getting To Know You” section.

Now for today.

You must be able to look at  yourself  and recognize your abilities and strengths. Everyone has them. If you had no abilities, you certainly wouldn’t be trying to start an internet business. Your call to action for today is to develop a list of these interests, strengths, and abilities.

Don’t panic. I am going to give you a list of questions to get your juices moving. Besides completing a list yourself, let someone else complete a list for you. Compare the two. Anything you left off?

These questions can be downloaded by clicking here Take A Look At Yourself so that you can print them out if you wish.

What type of things come to you naturally?  What things were you born with – have done since an early age. What are your natural talents?

Examples:  Musical ability, Strong Willed, Creative, Organized

What have you learned in school? Don’t just list the name of a school. List what you learned. Include schools, seminars, home study courses.

Examples:  Specific computer skills, History, Research, Writing, Drawing

What type of skills have you developed? List things that you feel you do at least a little better than the “average Joe”.

Examples: Golf, Cooking, Skate Boarding, Guitar

What experiences have you had in life that taught you something?

Examples: Any specific challenges you have or have not overcome, places you have visited, things you’ve seen.

What do you love to do? What could you talk about continuously? What is your passion?

Examples: Hobbies, Causes, Sports, Children

Don’t underestimate passion. It makes the work much easier to do if you love to do it.

OK now to the plan of action! Make a list that answers the questions. What are your interests and strengths? Make a list of at least 25. Either post 10 of these on the forum or list all of them and list as an attachment on the forum. If you do not know how to do that, let me know.

See you in a couple of days.
Carol