Everything I’m about to show you is based on the methods I use daily to make money. These methods can be applied to any online market.

Internet marketing is about targeting hungry buyers in places where the traffic is easy to find and will yield a return on our time and investment. Nothing I am about to show you is complex however, 90% of people marketing online fail to understand these concepts and therefore struggle to make money online.

The methods I am about to show you will work and I am not going to hold anything back however, you will need to take action to make it work.

Everything I am going to show you is based on real world experience. It’s been proven to make money for me over the years.

I am going to use an affiliate marketing site because it allows me to focus on the most important part of a successful online business, which is conversion and marketing.

I will use the website http://www.siliconewristband.org as an example site.

By targeting affiliate marketing, I do not have to worry about;

1. Having a product of the of my own
2. Customer support
3. Merchant accounts
4. Accepting payments online

Our goal is to convert as many visitors into buyers.

We will be doing this by focusing our attention on a very small percent of Google searches.

We need to understand how search engines work but even more importantly we need understand how the searchers search.

I would guess that about 80% of the searches that take place on the major search engines are for research. These are people who have no intention of purchasing anything online, they are looking for information. Therefore they will not be of any use to us and we will not target them in our search engine marketing.

I would also guess that about 30% are looking for information for a future purchase. These people who may or may not make a purchase in the future, we will not target them ether.

The smallest groups of searchers are the ones looking to purchase something right now. They understand what they are looking for, have the money and are ready to make a purchase.

These people will search by product names, model numbers, and will use terms like free shipping, discount, and bonus and so on and so on.

These are the people we want to target.

I did a post on making money online. I wanted to get a little more into some of the things you need to do but the post was getting so long I stoped before saying everything I wanted to say.

One of the things you need to understand is your competition and what your competition is doing.

There are all types of neat little tools you can use to do this, one of them is a plug-in for Firefox called SEO Quake and it is a pretty neat little plug-in.

As you search Google this tool can provide information such as:

• Age of a Domain
• Pages Indexed in Both Google & Yahoo
• Number of Other Sites Linking to a Domain

While understanding your competition is important something that is more important is having a good list of keywords.

Below is a list of a couple tools you can use to find keywords online for free.

WordTracker.com

http://freekeywords.WordTracker.com/

http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

https://www.PayPal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_shop-ext

http://buy.eBay.com/

http://www.shopping.com/top_searches

http://www.Google.com/sktool/#

http://www.Google.com/trends

Your website plays a major role in making a living online but it is a very simple process. All you have to do is build a website that will convert the traffic and then target keywords based on products and services.

There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t talk to at least one person that wants

• to make money quickly.
• the process to be simple.
• a method that they can use to build a business online.

It’s important to understand that if you are serious about making a living online, then you need to be equally serious about the time that will be needed to do so.

I will take you through the steps needed to make money online, than by repeating these steps over and over again you can make an unbelievable amount of money day by day online.

The things that hurt the most in life are self inflicted. We notice them at the end of our life when we look back at what we’ve done. We are our own enemy and there is a war inside each and every one of us.

When we are young, the little things we do wrong, bother us, as we do them over and over we begin to accept them. It’s no more correct than it was the first time we did it; however we’ve decided it’s just the way it is and no longer let it bother us.

At the end of every day I look back at the amount of work I got done and the amount of time I was able to spend with my husband and kids. No matter how much I get done or how much time I spent with my husband and kids I always feel guilty.

It is because I know that what I do today will affect what I’m able to do tomorrow.

I spend a lot of time talking with people on the phone, through emails and social media sites about the fact that they need more money.

Worrying about money isn’t fun, is it?

But if you didn’t have enough money in 2008, what makes you think 2009 will be any different?

Chances are 2009 will most likely bring you the same results as 2008 did – unless YOU get off your ass and do something about it.

Now, that’s really the heart of it, isn’t it?

There are no secrets, no secret recipes or get rich easy methods. It requires YOU cutting off the TV and managing your time better.

Online Marketing and Web Design

Believe it or not web design and marketing run hand in hand. It doesn’t matter how good looking your site is, if you don’t market it no one will find it and no matter how much marketing you do, if you have a crappy site you want make the sale.

I spend a good bit of time online and there are some really artistic people out there who lack the marketing side of the coin.

I’ve seen people point to and brag about web design companies like http://www.saizenmedia.com/nightwish/ where if you wait long enough for the website to load you’ll find that the site design tells you nothing about the topic of the site.

And if you use your computer to talk with clients, like I do, then you’ll find yourself shutting down browsers and telling clients to hold on as you try and find out where all the background noise is coming from.

I can only guess that this is the same web design company that built http://www.joinourclub.net/, where I spent 30 minutes just trying to figure out what the heck the site was suppose to be about.

In a world where people spend less and less time on a site and websites have to load faster and grab the visitor’s attention in a matter of seconds, I have a hard time believing these sites are doing any more than taking up bandwidth.

The graphical side of the websites get 10 from me but the marketing side would get a -10. If you’ve got a product to sale and want to make some money online, stay away from sites like these.