Is this a SCAM or what? - FREE iPod… FREE Plasma TV… FREE Laptop Computer… FREE Digital Camera?
I get junk email offering me this crap all the time. I immediately delete them because if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Right? That’s what I use to believe. Then one day my friend Gus, showed me his new computer system. A brand new Compaq computer, color monitor and color printer.
“Guess how much it cost?” he asks me. Since I use to sell computers for a living, I had a pretty good guesstimate of what it should cost. “It’s about $1,000 bucks for everything” I said.
“Nope, I got it FREE”. “Cut the bull. Do I look stupid?”. “Did you steal it or was it a gift?He said that he completed the requirements from an ad that advertised that they would send you a FREE Computer.
I said. “Those things are all scams. Nobody gives away FREE computers”. He tells me that some of those offers probably are scams but there are also some legitimate offers.
“No company can make money giving away FREE electronic equipment. Wouldn’t they would go broke giving away FREE stuff?” He says “Do you remember when Google first started?” “Sure” I said. “How much did they charge to use their service, when they started?” “They didn’t charge anything”. “How much do they charge now?” he asks. “They still don’t charge”.
“So it’s FREE” he says. Yet they have grown to be one of the most profitable companies in the entire world. “Yea, but they are not giving away FREE expensive electronic equipment” I countered.
Gus looks me straight in the eye and asks “How do they make their money?” “They sell advertising. Google Adsense and Adwords”.
“Ah, ADVERTISING” he says. “Advertising has made them one of the most profitable companies In history. While it may be contrary to what you’ve always been told - if it sounds too good to be true it probably is - there really are legitimate promotions that do offer consumers the opportunity to “earn” all types of expensive gifts for FREE”.
To get this FREE Stuff, you have to do something so that you are actually working and “earning” your Freebie - but you do get the item.
“There are things a person needs to do to get them, but when you do, you get the item. This type of advertising is known as incentive marketing and has spawned an entire cottage industry of people earning free products.
The way it works is that (unknown to you) the sites offering FREE Stuff make their money from Advertising.
As part of their promotions they introduce consumers to various advertisers’ products and services, and in return they are paid a commission for each new “lead” they generate.
For example, they might earn $50 each time they refer a new user to AOL even though the user only signed up for a free trial and didn’t pay anything at all.
You may have to sign up for a bunch of “Free Trial” memberships or refer a certain number of people who sign up for the “Free Trial” memberships. Oftentimes the user who is trying to earn a FREE gift gives up for one reason or another before getting the required number of referrals. In this case the company collects some commissions and doesn’t have to send the user anything, so it’s pure profit.
The company gets PAID by other compaines for generating leads. This is how they make their money. They can afford to give away Free products and still make a handsome profit for themselves. Some of them actually make quite a bit of profit. Just ask the guys from Google.
Carl Willoughby has worked as a Computer Programmer for the New England Telephone Company, and a Computer Sales Consultant for SEARS. To learn “How to get Free Stuff” go to his blog: http://www.StudentLoanDebtConsolidationSite.com
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When I first started using AdSense (remember I was pulling in a poxy $2 per day) I shunned the high paying keyword lists you see everywhere. I thought they were a scam. The thing is - although there are some low-quality ones out there, if you do the research (and BELIEVE me, I’ve done that alright) then you can find lists that are worth TEN TIMES more than people charge for them. So how does it all work? Download My free e-book to find out. http://adsense-video-download.thegadgitech.com/
Adsense video shows how…
Gone are the days of paid hostings, domain registrations, buying e-books, paying to learn internet marketing ’secrets’. For that matter, even there is no need at all to know the basics of HTML, CSS or JavaScript.
Now everybody can have a website or blog - free, of course! All this has been possible due to innovative minds. Hats off to them. All you have to do is to have a content - a unique one - and take up the only task of attracting traffic because your website is one of the millions floating around. You need not be an expert but it would be a pity if your command over the language is poor or you are not communicative. You can write your own story or autobiography. You can describe the struggles you went through all your life. In a nutshell, you can pour out.
Some of the hosting sites started attracting people with free websites like Yahoo’s GeoCities, Tripod, BraveNet etc. But the problem with some of them is that not all allow you to monetize your site with Google AdSense or allow you to link to other domains. One of the best resources where you overcome all such problems and also do affiliate marketing is Squidoo.
In Squidoo, your page is called a ‘lens’. You can make a lens on any subject under any category. Go to Squidoo and register. Be ready with a title for your lens and a brief introduction and you are ready. Save and publish. You can edit and save various add-ons as per your choice. You have RSS feeds from your blogs, Amazon buys, eBay items, Music, You Tube, Google Feeds, Flickr and what not. You can develop your content on a regular basis by going to the edit mode and choosing text module. There is a lensrank on a daily basis. Your lens’ stats are shown in various graphs. You can go to any forum and seek help.
Of course, depending on your lens’ traffic, click outs, buying etc. you could be eligible for an earning! So what are you waiting for……………….
Earn Money From Internet
The author has researched a lot in Making Money Online businesses and gives free advice and suggestions for work at home solutions at: http://www.squidoo.com/makingmoneymadeeasy.
Making money from blogging is one easy method to earn a steady income online. As blogs are simple to create and maintain, and best of all, you do not need to know html language to create blogs, they are prefect for beginners who want to start their online business. Moreover, search engines, such as Google, love blogs as they are usually updated with fresh contents. Hence, Google and other search engines will tend to send their spiders to your blogs, rather than static webpages. In this way, your blogs will be indexed in the search engines faster than other websites. That is great as you will get more organic search traffic from the search engines and that is the first step to making money from blogging.
After you have created your own blogs and a steady stream of visitors coming to your blogs regularly, then it is time for you to monetize your blog. One way to do that is to use AdSense. AdSense allows you to put advertisements on your blogs. Whenever your visitors come to your blogs and clicks on the ads, then you will be paid. It is as simple as this. Hence, when your blogs are able to generate many clicks every day, then you can easily earn a steady stream of income.
Another method to make money from blogging is to promote your own products. Some of us may have some knowledge which is highly demand by others. Then you might want to create your own info product and sell it. For instance, you may really good at cooking some healthy, yet tasty, dishes. Then you can start writing your own ebook about healthy dishes and promote it on your blogs. When people start buying your products, then you will start earning money too.
For some of us who are really clueless on what to create, then promoting other’s products may be another method for you to make money online. On the internet, there are a variety of products and services which you can promote others to buy from. When these people whom you have recommended have bought some products, then you will be paid. Hence, you can simply write a simple blog post saying why you think the product which you recommend is good and worth buying. When you consistently able to make your visitors trust you and buy what you have recommended, then earning money from your blogging is not difficult at all.
Indeed, there are many ways to make money from blogging. I have just given you the some of easiest methods to do so. If you are interested in having the exact blueprint to make money from blogging, then you must take a look at Blogging to the Bank 2.0 website. It will show you the most recent and advance techniques on how you can make money from your blogs.
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Blogging is probably one of the fastest growing areas online with more and more bloggers wanting to make money blogging. Here’s 6 ideas you may not have even thought of.
Here’s 6 easy methods to start generating an income from a blog.
1. Sell advertising to different companies and brands who want to reach that blog’sreaders.
2. Sell advertising directly to companies who want to put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog. This can take a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative. If you have a lot of contacts in industries that are related to your blog, you may want to try to go this route.
3. Creating positive associations between the blog and an affiliate product in the mind of consumers. This kind of blogs can make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen mind for marketing.
4. Selling space through Google’s AdSense program. One big advantages of this idea is that it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger or webmaster to begin making profits. However, most people discover that they make less money through this method than they had hoped that their blog would earn.
5. Rent blog space to interested companies. The most serious problem with this model is that you often have to build quite a sizable readership before you can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to do several months of work before you start to make money blogging.
6. Approach traditional business to build a blog for them to create positive associations with the brand intheir consumers’ minds. As blogging becomes a more popular a lot of established companies are consideringhow they can get into the action. One way is by having a blog that provides a kind of friendly face fortheir corporation.
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Joseph Murray is a professional online retailer working full time since April 2006 and the founder of several successful websites including the ‘Newbie Warrior Forum’ and ‘$7 Dollar Books’ as well as numerous niche sites.
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