Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Optimize your Website for Google

There are things that you can do to help your website get a better ranking with search engines like Google before you even begin to advertise. The following five steps are probably the most important to consider. Google is not very particular about fancy grapics and colors you use, or about the exact words used to describe your messages to your audience. However the bots do want you to show relevancy in topics through your website.

Step 1:
You should almost definitaly design your website in CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, which are basically just written instructions for how the site is presented to your visitors. Not only do Google, and other search bot style engines adore CSS, but once you are used to using it you will as well, since it allows you to update the text appearance of your entire site with very little effort.

Step 2:
Keep your site design pretty simple. You really will not impress most visitors with super fancy designs and flashy videos. On Google's side these are computerized visitors, not human traffic. Many people feel that audio or video that play' s when you open a page is annoying. Get their attention first, then show off the fun stuff.

Step 3:
Meta Tags should definitely be used, but don't rely on them to raise your page rank. Meta tags aren't used all that much anymore. Google mainly uses Meta Tags, such as your Title, Description, and Keyword tags to correctly index your site and put it in the right category.

Step 4:
Don't use giant files that take forever to load. Using big files on your site will slow it down and cause both the robots and your precious traffic to leave before ever seeing your product or message. There are many ways to optimize your images and compress all of your files, so make sure you give the visitor a quick and easily download able page.

Step 5:
Check your links often. The Google bots are advanced technology, but they won't know what to do if they find a broken link or can't find their way off of your home page. Their only option is to leave, and you want your entire site indexed not just your landing page. Use text links and avoid JavaScript when creating your navigation and make sure you provide the search spiders with a Site Map.

Tips & Warnings
Content is important add fresh content OFTEN.

Check your links often

Use smaller files & photo sizes

Use CSS

Keep your site clean and easy to navigate

Avoid putting valuable keywords in your meta tags

Avoid adding keywords to your content just to add them

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Make Money with Online Surveys for Free

All resources were gathered over many MANY hours of research. Information found here is from many sources. Every single company is 100% FREE to join AND is legitimate. I will not waste your time with a bunch of “get rich quick” nonsense, these are real paying sites. Plan to receive some extra cash and free stuff if you can take surveys casually. If you are serious and do all these surveys every day you could even make an income. It is all up to the individual person how much can be made, that is the true secret to wealth. The following is a list compiled of the best legitimate survey sites with information on how much they offer for payment. Some pay cash, others by prizes, and some by drawings.

Tip- Most of these are great for US and Canada. Check with each site before signing up to see if your country is eligible to participate!

Step 1:
Get a dedicated email for surveys. It is easier to keep track of them, and it will not cause your regular inbox to fill up to fast.

Step 2:
Do surveys daily. This is the best way to get an income from them.

Step 3:
Some companies will often want you to take a short "screener" survey when you first register with them. Unfortunately these are not usually paid surveys. You'll usually be entered into a drawing, but the purpose of the screener survey is much more important than that ... The real purpose behind screener surveys is that it's how some of the better market research companies get to know you. It's how they determine which surveys you're eligible for, and it's the "secret" to getting invited to take the really good surveys in the future! The funny thing is that because screener surveys don't pay cash, many people don't do them - so the odds of winning the prize being offered are a lot higher than you might think.

Step 4:
Fill out your interests and profile information for any survey sites that offer them. Filling out the profiles and/or interests increases your odds of being selected for a paid online survey.

Step 5:
Log-in on a daily basis to those sites that offer non-invitation surveys and/or other activities to accumulate more points/cash.

Step 6:
Tell your friends. Certain sites offer extra incentives for referring people to their site.

Step 7:
Take advantage of free software that can store personal information to automate filling out forms. This will speed up the process of filling out common information like name, address, etc. Most recommend RoboForm or the auto fill feature in the Google Toolbar.

Step 8:
Take all of the survey offers that are offered at first, even if they are only rewarded with sweepstakes entries. This will allow you to build up a strong track record with the individual survey sites. Soon you will start receiving more survey offers than you can handle. Once you are satisfied with the volume of survey invitations you are receiving, you can then focus on the more lucrative surveys that interest you.

Step 9:
Many of the sites have a login for members that allows you to change your profile information, review the surveys you have taken, etc. Be sure to bookmark these locations and organize them in you browser so that you have easy access to them.

Survey Networks - http://www.surveynetworks.com
American Consumer Opinion - http://www.acop.com/
Inbox Dollars - http://www.inboxdollars.com
ECN Research - http://www.ecnresearch.com/
Global Test Market - http://www.globaltestmarket.com
Ipsos i-Say - http://www.i-say.com/
Survey Spot - https://www.surveyspot.com/
Send Earnings - http://www.sendearnings.com/
Panda Research - http://www.pandaresearch.com/
Datatelligence - http://www.datatelligence.net/
Memolink - http://www.memolink.com/
NPD Online Research - http://www.npdor.com/
Survey Club - http://www.surveyclub.com/
Survey Savvy - https://www.surveysavvy.com/
Surveys.com - http://www.surveys.com/
Global Survey Group - http://www.globalsurveygroup.com
Synovate - https://www.globalopinionpanels.com
Lightspeed - http://us.lightspeedpanel.com/
TheNetPanel.com - http://www.thenetpanel.com
The African American Voice - http://www.theafricanamericanvoice.com/
MyPoints - http://www.mypoints.com
E-Poll Surveys - http://www.epollsurveys.com
Valued Opinions - http://www.valuedopinions.com
Zoom Panel - http://www.zoompanel.com/
Viva Research - http://www.vivaresearch.com/
Your 2 Cents - https://www.your2cents.com/
Vindale Research - http://www.vindale.com/
Esearch - http://www.esearch.com
Jewelry Consumer Opinion Panel - http://www.jcoc.net
M:Panel - https://www.mobilepanel.com
Choozz - http://www.choozz.com

Check out these sites for even more surveys! http://technicaljobsearch.com/paid_surveys.htm
http://www.zses.com/survey.html
http://www.internetpaidsurveys.com/
http://www.online-paid-surveys.net/

Remember - You do NOT need to pay a membership fee to be eligible to participate in online surveys. There are dozens of free survey companies on the Internet. If you are asked to pay a fee to access the surveys then forget it.

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Getting Google to Visit your Website

There are a few things that you can do to enhance Google’s interest your site so that they decide to index it faster and present you to the public whenever a search is conducted. You might be suprised to learn that not everyone is indexed after they submit their URL to the search engines and directories. All you have to do is follow these steps and you will be 99.99999% certain that your website will NOT be missed.

Step 1:
First of all, you have to submit your URL to Google itself. Remember the Google bots crawl the web on a constant basis, but don’t expect them to find your website without effort. You have to add lots of good articles and information if you have any hope of making it into the index.

Step 2:
Your second tip, start blogging. Blogging is VERY popular right now. Google owns blogger.com, so starting your blog out there is a very good idea. Then after each post simply link back to your website. This ensures the bots will pick up on you much faster.

Step 3:
Your third tip, Do NOT make the mistake of setting up a hundred sites all at once and then linking them to one another. Google knows all about this trick, and they will put every one of your 12 sites in the sandbox, this is BAD, until they return three months later to check and see if you were serious about launching all those relevant sites or if you were creating what they call 'mirror' sites just to make one of your websites seem important.

Step 4:
You can also write free well written articles that others will use on their own websites. When Google updates their sites, the bots will automatically follow the link from the article to your website. Plus, you will get a nod for having an incoming link.

Tips & Warnings
Update Content Often

Blog Blog Blog

Submit articles to free directorys

Find ways to get established websites to link to yours

Do Not spam your website

Do not create mirror websites

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How to earn money for searching the internet

My Search Funds is a great way for you to earn easy money from your own internet searching, and you do that already. You can earn even more if you tell your friends and they raise funds in the same way. Here is the math for you: If you do 20 searches a day... In one month your searches will earn $30.00 - Gas money! In one year your searches will earn $365.00 AND In one month if 50 of your friends also did 20 searches and in turn 50 of their friends did the same and in turn 50 of their friends did the same you will earn $97,680.00! In one year if 50 of your friends also did 20 searches and in turn 50 of their friends did the same and in turn 50 of their friends did the same you will earn $1,118.440.00! Here is how you do it..

Step 1:
Upgrade your search bar. By replacing your browser's search box with your own revenue generating search box you can earn money as you search. OR You can set it as your homepage. OR You can bookmark your search page and use it when you need to find something on the internet.

Step 2:
Search as normal. You are supposed to use this program for normal daily searching. You are not allowed to use robots to search for you, and you are not allowed to type in random keywords in your search box unless you are looking for that content.

Step 3:
Sign in and check your earnings. It's completely FREE and you can start earning right away. What's more, you can recommend a friend and earn 10% of their revenue. And 5% of their friends revenue too!

Tips & Warnings
Use your search page as your homepage.

Use it every time you use the internet

Get friends and family to join

DONT CHEAT or they will delete your account

Do not forget to use it every day!

http://searchearn.url-Go.com

Get Targeted Traffic to your Website

It is so clear the correlation between getting traffic and making money. Everyone knows that if you can get targeted traffic, You would make money too. So, If you’re only using one strategy (like SEO), or one program, you’re simply not tapping into the vast amount of traffic that flows freely all over the Internet. Let me tell you, in this game you need to focus on multiple streams of free traffic, otherwise you’re leaving money on the table. So the answer is finding the right automated or semi-automated software with which to promote your product. I have set up free, and free trials of fully functional powerful programs for you to use. This is the secret stuff most gurus will not tell you about.

Step 1:
First locate the software you want to use then download it to a folder on your computer. Unzip the file and double click the exe file to start the installation. For a list and descriptions visit: http://journeyforself.com/traffic.aspx

Step 2:
Read the tips file before using the software. It explains tricks on using it effectively, you will be glad you did.

Step 3:
Use the software that you are most comfortable with. Make sure to rotate the programs so that you do not over saturate your clients or they will ignore you! 3 days between each method is advised.

Tips & Warnings

Write Well Written Articles

Keep your advertising targeted

Dont spam!

Dont SPAM (Yes I said that twice.)

Dont mass create gmail accounts (by hand is better)

Rotate programs every 3 days

www.journeyforself.com/traffic.aspx

Building your Downlines

There are different ways to earn money using the internet. One of the most popular ways of doing it is through an affiliate program or multi-level marketing program. The program's work by recruiting other people to work under you. Whatever they earn from the system, you will recieve a certain percentage of it. They can earn the same way if they recruit others to join the network in the same way that you did. Some MLM companies are paying up to third and fourth or even further tiers of downlines. ((See http://mnaff.url-Go.com for an example.)) Affiliate based opportunitys seem are definatly a lucrative business. But a lot of people are hesitant to join because they are afraid they will never build their downlines. However, it is actually very very easy to recruit downlines, if you know how to do it. Building a downline can provide you with residual income. That means that long after all your hard work, you can retire knowing that your downline will always be around working for you.

Step 1:
First I reccomend using Social Networking sites. Social networking sites were hit this decade. For some reason, it has lured half of all the internet users in the world to create their profile, build their own web page, and invite other friends to join the network. See, that's exactly how MLM works. And so if social networking sites were so popular, you might as well use it to find members to become your downline. If you have been using the internet for so long, chances are, you are already a part of a social networking site like MySpace. If you are, then all you have to do is to send an invitation email to your friends. Just count how many would respond positively upon your invitation. Some even PAY you to use them! Places like ZenZuu are paying their members for just doing the normal things like blogging and uploading photos. (See - http://www.zenzuu.com/journeyforself/signup.htm )for more information. If you sign up with that link (Its free) I can personally help you build your downlines. :) Ok, on to the next step.

Step 2:
Participate in Forums. Do you know that the very people you can recruit are chatting idly at forums? Select a forum that is very related to the product, the system, or the service that your MLM parent company is offering. If you actively participate in forums related to your business and build a good reputation, it will be easy for you recruit others to join you. Never spam a forum however, they will be all over you like piranas on dinner. Keep it under the radar. Cloak your affiliate ID's with shortened URL's or better yet, buy a domain to point to your URL. It is an affordable way to gain credibility.

Step 3:
Use member generator sites, tools, and software. Right now, a lot of internet and programming experts have seen the need of MLM marketers to build a strong downline for their business to flourish. For this purpose, several websites, tools, and programs were created to do exactly that. There are sites that offer referral exchanges and sites that allow the referral links and banners to be published. As for tools, there are downline software that can be used to manage, contact, and follow up prospects or members of your MLM business. For software of this nature check out: http://journeyforself.com/traffic.aspx

Step 4:
Submit to Search Engines. More often than not, online MLM businesses provide their members with their own splash page to gain more recruits. Use that link and advertise it on key places like Google, Overture, Yahoo, and others. You might need to create an entirely different landing page or generate a redirect URL for it, as some of these sites don't accept referral links. Also, there are some people who refrain from going to sites that are obviously a referral link because they do not want to be sold to. Again it is a small price to pay for a URL that points to your affiliate website, usually $6 to $20 a year.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Free Massive Traffic - Serious Stuff

Massive Free Traffic
You could download these.. or just keep struggling.

Are you ready to get real traffic for free? These programs are serious traffic tools for marketers who are ready to get aggressive and tell the search engines who's the boss.

It is so clear to me the correlation between getting traffic and making money. Everyone knows that if you can get targeted traffic, You would make money too.
I have an arsenal of 29 (and more coming) software programs that I have personally tested... each of which is designed for a specific purpose, and each of which has been proven to get serious results.

Why so many tools?

Let me tell you, in this game you need to focus on multiple streams of free traffic, otherwise you’re leaving money on the table.

If you’re only using one strategy (like SEO), or one software program, you’re simply not tapping into the vast amount of traffic that flows freely all over the Internet.
Yes I use each and every one of my traffic tools, and yes you too can benefit from each of them. But... I don’t want you to be intimidated by the sheer number of tools and tactics that I am placing at your finger tips! So...

Please keep in mind that using just a few of these tools can drastically boost free traffic to your site. In fact, I could live off of the traffic I receive from just one or two of them.

Furthermore, these tools are push-button simple.

Now I'm Ready To Reveal My Ultimate Collection

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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Search and Earn Cash for Free

My Search Funds is a great way for you to earn funds from your own internet searching. You can earn even more if you tell your friends and they raise funds in the same way.

Here is the math:

In one month your searches will earn $30.00 - Gas Money!
In one year your searches will earn $365.00

In one month if 50 of your friends also did 20 searches and in turn 50 of their friends did the same and in turn 50 of their friends did the same you will earn $97,680.00!
In one year if 50 of your friends also did 20 searches and in turn 50 of their friends did the same and in turn 50 of their friends did the same you will earn $1,118.440.00!

http://www.mysearchfunds.co.uk/apply...p?Friend=27317

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Forex Affiliate Program Review

What is the Forex Affiliate Program?
Forex-Affiliate is a world leading and highly paying Forex Affiliate Program. With the Affiliate Program you simply route your traffic to one or more of our partner Forex Trading Platforms (such as the Easy-Forex™ Trading Platform), and earn significant commissions for every new customer you refer.

Under thier commission programs you are paid flat fees for introducing referrals, and a share percentage of the revenue generated by your referrals. They call such program tracks CPA (commission per Active referral) and Rev-Share (Revenue Sharing). The commission per Forex revenues generated by the customers you send - will be paid continuously during the lifetime of the customer's account. It's a terrific way to monetize your existing customer base and traffic. In other words you make residual income with this program.

Moreover, with the Forex-Affiliate's 2-tier program, any time you refer webmasters and Forex affiliates to them, you will be paid a commission for that: here too, you'll get a combined commission of CPA (commission per Active affiliate you refer) and Comm-Share (a percentage of the commission earned by your 2nd-tier referral).

Are there any costs to sign-up?
No. There are no initial costs to joining the Affiliate program, and no ongoing costs for participating in the Forex Affiliate Program.

What methods of payment do they use?
Forex will send the payment amounts, per all commissions earned in a specific month, in a form of WIRE TRANSFER or PAYPAL, according to your choice. Note: Wire Transfers can often be risky. We reccomend that you use paypal for payment.
How frequently do I get paid?
Forex processes all affiliate payments by the 10th business day of every month, for the preceding month's earnings. However, a delay of some days may occur. Furthermore, in several tailor-made programs (including, for example, extra incentives per referral's quality over time) part of the commission may be paid on a later basis, according to the agreement made with the affiliate.
What are the other features of this program?
Professional staff to assist you, including specifically designated account managers to each campaign, providing round-the-clock personal affiliate support.

You have full control, online, at all times: the most accurate and robust affiliate back-office system in the business, including 24x7 real-time stats and detailed reporting capabilities.

Ongoing dynamic promotional activity, including bonuses and rewards for excellence.

Campaign Optimization Process, which includes provision of FREE creative and marketing tools (banners, scripts, website design, text copyright, Forex tools and more). Get the creatives online, and get free assistance and online support.

Prompt commission payment, through wires, credit cards, Paypal.

Fully-automated support center, backed by the highly innovative, secure and sophisticated CRM system that provides immediate solutions to affiliate requests.

Win-win commission programs: Combined solution of CPA (flat fee per referral) and Rev-Share (percentage of revenue sharing); special incentives and tailor-made plans.

2nd-tier Affiliate program: refer Forex affiliates and get combined commission: CPA (per your referred affiliates, flat fee) and Comm-share (percentage of your referred affiliates' own commission)

Our combined approach to commission enables your enjoying both worlds: you receive a one-time CPA (commission per active referral), and you receive Rev-Share continuously, per your active referral's trading activity!

High payouts and best conversion rates. Forex paid over $1 million dollars commissions to affiliates in 2006!
You could join just any affiliate program but why not join the one that starts at $250 commissions, and is free to join, and has commissions up to $10,000 per customer, and offers residual income. Imagine what just a couple sales a month could mean to you.
Join my team today by clicking below:

Forex-Affiliate

Saturday, March 15, 2008

SFI Review

This is a review about one of the most successful online businesses of all time, Strong Future International, also known as SFI. It is a online business where you can build a full-time income within a couple of years, and the income potential is excellent.

Some SFI History...

SFI (previously Six Figure Income) Marketing Group is a brainchild of Gery Carson, established in 1985, headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, has a long and successful track record in network marketing, MLM, internet home based business industries.

Today, with hundreds of thousands of affiliates in over 200 countries, it is considered the 1 affiliate program/internet MLM home based business opportunity on the Internet today. It has just added 30 new countries to the total database. The original wealth creation course provider has expanded their product range significantly from business tools to nutritional supplements and telecommunication products.

SFI’s long-term success has been largely attributed to the unique makeup of its affiliate/internet MLM home based business program’s a hybrid combination of the best parts of traditional direct sales and network marketing, combined with the technological advantages of the Internet.

SFI has a wide variety of ways you can earn a very nice residual income, and it is suitable for everyone worldwide.All you need is a computer with internet access and a few hours per week when you can educate your self and market your new business with all the marketing tools and techniques that SFI provides you for free.

In a couple of years (there is no way to "get-rich-quick" online, sorry.) you can build a full-time income that exceeds your current job income.

What Is It All About?
How To Make Money With SFI?
There are several ways to earn an income with SFI.


As an SFI affiliate, you will earn commissions on any purchases made by people you have personally referred to SFI. This is a nice benefit and this is how most affiliate programs work.

As an Executive Affiliate (EA), you can earn commissions more than just one way and at multi-levels. You can earn from several ways including: commissions, bonuses and pools.This can add up quickly into a nice monthly residual income.

SFI has added the Powerline in the program since the January 1st 2007. As starters, you can earn a percentage of each and every sale generated by every SFI Affiliate below you (whether you recruit them or they are put there by those above you). In total there are over 7 million affiliates worldwide. It’s called Bonus Pools and you can earn this by becoming an Executive Affiliate (EA). A condition to become an EA is to subscribe to the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs (IAHBE).

Consistent effort and hard work is the key to success with any business, SFI is not any different in this case.

Two to three years of consistent effort can produce a sizeable ongoing residual and leveraged income for you. The simple rule is just focus on generating new referrals.

You can do this two ways:

1. Using your own promotional efforts (classified ads, offline ads, etc. that SFI provides, or promoting your SFI website through Pay Per Click Search Engines). You can also offer valuable FREE incentives that people can sign up for 24 hours a day.

2. If you don’t have the time, experience, or desire to generate your own leads, you can participate in the SFI "Eagle Co-op." Eagle Co-op pools together the advertising dollars of thousands of SFI affiliates. SFI then places advertising on your behalf. Leads generated from the Eagle Co-op Advertising Co-op are then rotated equally amongst all Co-op participants and automatically placed by the SFI computer system. As an SFI affiliate, you can participate in Eagle Co-op for as little as $1.50 a day.

The Veriuni Store - Consumer Goods

Another Way Of Earning Money With SFI...
You can earn a nice income by selling consumer goods:
Veriuni is a product line of nutritional, cleaning, personal care, pet care, telecommunication products, and Great Domainia for website domains.Earn a nice commission on every item sold.SFI takes care of all shipping and handling the products.

If you like you can also buy products at wholesale, and sell directly to your customers.

SFI also provides an array of marketing aids to support your promotions.

Leisure Audiobooks Affiliate Program

I recently became a member of Leisure Audiobooks Affiliate Program,
It is a very good program and easy to make money online with.This is like nothing I have ever experienced before,I was shocked to find that is totally unique, neverseen before, and I believe it to be an amazing internet opportunity,and I’ll explain why right now.In my past experience, you join a typical program,they give you some cheesy promo tools, and they never say a word to you, they just expect you to go out and recruit as best you can on your own...This is totally and utterly different.First of all, the products rock, there’s a huge selectionof topics on virtually any niche you can think of...all delivered in licenced .wma or Real format, so anyonewith a computer, an iPod, or mp3 player can instantlyenjoy these fine audio books, at their leisure...Second, you don’t have to recruit, to earn nice money, youcan simply sell these real products to real people, and theywill be glad to have them to listen to...Third, the commissions you can earn, are much higher than normal, and I really like that.Fourth, it’s so easy to set up a website and dominateany niche you choose, because the training is so good,it makes it easy to get started right away.Fifth, I don’t have any of the order filling problems,of offering a real product, Leisure Audiobooks, has it handled, for me.
With Leisure Audiobooks, I feel at completely at easeoffering anyone hi quality hi fidelity products andthe diversity is astounding! They have well over 6000 titles meticulously sorted into 160 categories in a feature- packed store.I had no idea know that there are at least 50,000 identifiable niche markets that can be independently addressed in the search engines for audio books! I do know now and I am out there selling...and for the first time it is working!!!Plus it’s a huge relief to have the experts, Rod and Kevinhelping me succeed, I almost feel like I have a huge"cheat" over everyone else, because I’m a part of a caringorganization, who really coach, and really train, and reallywant me, and you, to succeed, no matter what the skill level.So, I would have to sum it up like this, if you’re tired ofan endless line of hype, smoke and mirrors, and you’d liketo gain traction, start making a financial difference inyour family’s lifestyle, and have a legitimate, honest, realway to make money online...you owe it to yourself to checkout Leisure Audio Books.Don’t believe me, I’m a happy member, and of course I’m biased,so do a check on Rod and Kevin, and I’m sure you’ll find thetruth is that they are for real, and these are great productsthat virtually sell themselves.I recommend that you see for yourself - Go Now Before You Forget, and takein the information presented on the website. Its FREE to join.http://27269.leisureaudiosales.com/

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Announcing JourneyForSelf.com !!!

Im excited to announce journeyforself.com a 100% free work from home website with links to sites tha offer legitimate opportunity without any required fees.
Plus I added a forum to discuss business ideas and networking and marketing ideas. In addition to that I am working on free traffic generating ideas. As well as articles for smart marketing and website optimization.
Join me today and introduce yourself!

journeyforself.com

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

SFI

Just a quick note on a new free program I found called SFI.
Im trying it out because it claims big paycheck with residual (almost never ending) income and they did not ask for any money even after I signed up to it. :P

They seem to offer lots of information and products and help without a bunch of hype nonsense. I will keep you up to date!

Note: I made some commissions with Zlio! Nothing huge yet though.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Exploring Zlio

On my search for the holy grail of self generating income methods I stumbled across a unique service called Zlio.

Zlio boasts an easy 5 minute setup. They say all you have to to is set it up and they take care of the rest. The only work to do would be to promote it.

This is a pretty exciting find because it is a free service which can be customised to your own needs. I thought I would try it out and see how it does, the price is right. ;)

My First Try - http://alleycatelectronics.zlio.net/

It really is a fast sign up process with plenty of custom templates and the ability to run more than one store at once, perfect for themes you are intrested in.

They allow add ons like Google Adsense, which is a program that pays you commissions on click throughs from visitors to your site.

As for the five minute promise, its true for the sign up, but not the set-up. That can take a while to do. I spent about four hours before I had it just right, and there is still more to learn.

You can earn money several ways with this site:

- On items you purchase yourself.
- On items others purchase from you
- By setting up commision for click-throughs
- Through referrals
- Google Adsense

The good thing is the products are all name brands from known stores like Buy.com, Barnes & Noble, Adidas, Best Buy, Sony, Tiger Direct, and many more. Each store has a percentage based commission on sales up to 20%.

They have several tools to help you with promoting your store:

- Submit your store to thier directory
- Shoproll: which shares traffic between stores
- Sitemap tool
- Domain name option
- The ZlioZone widget: to add products to another site
- Meta Tags
- Statistics
- Community
- Tips on Promotion

Theres a lot to this and it is brand new, so I will keep you updated on my progress with it. Overall it is solid, and has potential to generate a nice amount of extra cash. If nothing else this is a great way to earn some money back on things you probably buy anyway!

Intrested? Sign up with me and let me know when you do. I will place you in my shop roll. Use this link:

SIGN UP HERE

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Greetings Fellow Entrepreneurs!

Welcome to The Journey: Working From Home blog. Im glad you made it! I want to tell you a little about what this blog is all about, and who I am.

First I want to mention that I am a normal, average american woman with a family to support. I am married to a wonderful man and we have three beautiful children together. Our lives changed drastically in one incredibly painful year. Yes painful, not amazing, wow now I work at home and have this giant house and a porsche. Do you think those people would take thier time to appear on a "work from home" commercial if they could be on the beach of some multi-million dollar resort? If it is true by some slim chance then more power to them, but I doubt it.

In one year we went from two steady decent paying jobs to disaster. It all started when my husbands medical condition worsened to the point where he had no control over it, and he was forced to quit his job of 6+ years, or be fired within the week for leaving work due to illness. Let me tell ya.. big buisiness does not give a damn about you, or your family, you are replaceable for less wages.

Then my job at a mortgage company I was working for the last 4 years went sour. If you know about the economy, you will know what I am talking about. Intrest rates went sky high, and people fooled into adjustable rates when they needed fixed, were now unable to pay thier high intrest.

We were in a financial and emotional fix. Luckily I had been working on some ideas for a while about how to make money from home. I have a few things going, and I do not like to pay for services to make money unless they are carefully researched first, and even then I am weary.

My goal with this blog is to share my experiences with you. I will share with you what is working for me and what has not worked. Plus I am always researching tips and tricks on how to be more sucessful at what I do. I hope that you will offer me feedback in return on things you have tried, and build up a reputable place for those serious about working from home for a living.

More to come soon!