Most people are looking for a Complete Automated Home Business, and most so called Gurus want to promote it as a “Hands Free Income”. They claim they that while they are either unknown or known they are still tops at what they do, with an incredible track record. They make claims of being one of the top rated “Network Marketers in the World”, and a top producer in several MLM companies, with hundreds of thousands of people in their down lines. They want us to believe they are expert internet marketers and have created all kinds of online marketing systems for many companies. But the truth is most of these online marketing gurus are broke and about the only thing they’ve ever sold is a get rich quick scam of some sort or another.

Online marketing Gurus that want to sale us a seminar, e-book or anything else that does not require them to prove what they can or can’t do, plaque the internet like little viruses.

It’s one of the reasons that I enjoy websites like the Salty Droid so much. It’s rare to find someone that is actually trying to point out that these so called marketing gurus as what they actually are, snake oil salesman.

Website Designers & SEO

This year seems to be moving along at speeds faster than I can keep up with. It’s already the 3^rd month and I am still trying to make changes and get my business where I wanted it to be at the start of the year.

I’ve currently got 8 employees and I am working 15 hour days and I am still 3 months behind for where I want to be, come the first of the year. Running your own business is a lot of work and it’s not a part time job. I’ve been doing this for 10 years and the days seem to get longer and longer.

Don’t get me wrong…I love what I do and wouldn’t want to trade it for anything else. The web design business has been great to me but I’d like to expand into the web hosting, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media Marketing (SMO) and Internet marketing business by the first month of this year.   And that just isn’t going to happen.

I guess about all I can do is try to set new deadlines and work longer hours to try and meet the new deadlines. It’s disappointing and upsetting but each day we are getting closer to getting the business to where I want it to be.

“7 Ways to Convert Your Traffic into Cash”

Setting your website up correctly will allow you to profit from the site regardless of the amount of traffic you are getting.

The KEY is building a website that is simple and easy to navigate.

Here are 7 basic ways in which you can profit from your traffic today:

1. Sell a product/service

First you can sell a product or service to your visitors. This is the best way to cash in from your own product. Usually an e-book or software works the best – they can be downloaded right away without hassle and shipping charges.

2. Opt-In list

It is crucial you try to convert every visitor of yours to a subscriber of your mailing list. The most important asset that an Internet marketer has is his or her list of subscribers. They define whether you will go far in the online business venture.

With an opt-in list, there are tons of ways you can profit further into the future. You can build repeat customers and turn your list members into partners for your products.

3. Viral marketing

You can provide a free product or bonus on your site to be downloaded by your visitors. Usually it’ll be an e-book where people can read from and learn useful information. In this bonus, you include give away rights and urge readers to give it away to anyone they want to. This way, you increase your own traffic, publicity and branding without needing to spend a cent.

4. ‘Pay-per-click’

In this case, you get paid when your visitors click on ads you place on your site. There are many advertising programs that give you a percentage of the profits based on click through, including Google Adsense, Chitika, Yahoo Publisher Network and Kontera.

When people click on the ads shown from either of these advertising programs, you will earn money. And if your site receives good traffic, these programs alone can bring in huge paychecks to you.

5. Offer an advertising space

Targeted niche websites with high traffic can ‘rent’ a portion of space on their web page to advertisers. For example you can charge $300 per month in advertising fee if your web page is pulling more than 2000 visitors a day.

Other than that, you can also generate advertising revenue using exit pop-ups. By doing this, you won’t clutter your website with too many ads and spoil the visitor’s experience.

6. Affiliate marketing

If you don’t have your own products for sale yet, you can sell other people’s products instead and receive a commission on every sale. With affiliate marketing, you have an unlimited source of products to sell and you don’t need to go through any fulfillment issues after your sales.

7. Pay-per-lead

Instead of earning money from click through, you are paid if your visitors subscribe into other people’s mailing list. Alternatively there are a lot of big companies like Coca-Cola who need surveys to be done, and by referring your visitors to complete surveys, you can also earn good profits from your website.

WebProWorld (WPW)

Most online forums are looking for people that do more than just make the” me too” type post. Most forums are looking to provide value to its members. And that’s difficult to do when all you’re getting is the same crap over and over, from the same posters.

Creating an active community should be at the top of the list for most forums.

One of the biggest draws for someone looking to become a member of forums is its active community. You’re not just a member, but you belong to a much larger community, of business friends.

However, when moderators feel that anything that differs from their own beliefs is incorrect and/or a direct attack against them, it stifles the growth of the community.

WPW could be a lot more but as long as it’s got moderators who feel they are above the community and not part of it, it’ll always be just another forum.

And that’s why I am changing and reopening my forum.

You see…when I complained about the moderators on WPW I was told that the problem was not the moderators but rather the members.  So…I’m currently shifting the GOS forum to a new platform and we have lots of exciting plans for 2011. In fact, that’s my biggest goal for 2011, to make the GOS the premier destination as one of the best marketing communities online.

We have lots of exciting plans for 2011 – contests, bootcamps, more one-on-one Skype calls, monthly prizes, and more…

Online Marketing Gurus

Seems as if every time I turn around there is a new online marketing guru, wanting to sell me the next magic bullet.

My problem is that there is not a week that goes by that I don’t get an email from an online marketing Guru, needing a website. You know the kind…“How to Make a Million Bucks, With No Work, Secret Bullet” website. They all have two things in common.

1.       They just stumbled across the secret of how to make money online.

2. “None of Them Have Any Money”

Having dealt with 100’s of online marketing gurus over the years I’ve yet to meet one that had enough money to purchase a website at the quoted price.  You see the idea is to make money off you buying their crap that didn’t work for them. Or that they were unable to make work.

I know what you’re thinking…that might be true for the little guys but not the big guys like Frank Kern.

Watch this video for the truth about Mr. Frank Kern.

Now…here’s my problem with these online marketing gurus.

As they promote and sell crap into the market that’s all bark and no bite it makes it more difficult for honest online marketing guys and gals to convince clients that they aren’t full of the same crap as the online marketing guru crowd. These guys make millions taking advantage of honest hard-working people.

And they give everyone in the online marketing industry a bad name. Not to mention the fact that they’re stealing money. And now we have Frank Kern saying he’s getting out of the online marketing industry and is going to start doing SEO. Of course he’s finding his clients off-line because according to him that’s where the real money is.

How in the heck can someone sell a service to others that they can’t make work for themselves?

And REALLY, the real money is in offline marketing, cause I’ve got clients that do over $180,00.00 per month with their websites.

So…now we have Frank Kern, who has been selling get rich quick products online for years teaching people how to make money online, only to tell us that the real money is in off-line marketing.

WHAT???

Shouldn’t he refund all the people’s money he stole with crap products over the years?

NOTE to FRANK KERN:

Just because you can’t make money online doesn’t mean that others aren’t. And how can you feel good about yourself selling a product to hard working business owners that you can’t make work for yourself?

You and your buddies line up, group together and promote one another’s products regardless of how good it is or isn’t. And you work together to try and control the price in the market. Don’t believe me, another video of Frank teaching how to screw your customers.