This is a guest post by John Chablo. See below for the author’s brief bio.

Consider these important principles of online marketing…

1) Belief

Can you succeed without belief? It’s all to do with your mindset, and as Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you will always be right.” So, if you go into your business venture thinking that it won’t work and will fail, it invariably will, as that is your expectation. Sometimes it may be hard to maintain your belief, particularly in the early stages of your business, as you don’t always see things happening as quickly as you might have expected, and then negative thoughts may start to creep in. This is entirely natural, and it is at this point in your journey, that you need ensure that persistence is on your side!

2) Persistence

Persistence is a great leveller, as it is an attribute that anyone can employ, whatever your intellect or capability. You really don’t need to have studied at the top universities to be able to make a great success of your business. In fact, many successful entrepreneurs and businessmen started with nothing, apart from a desire to succeed, and of course, persistence. When things get tough or you’ve been knocked back, you need persistence to pull you through. Many people may well give up at this point, but if you are truly serious about succeeding, persevere, try and try again, until you get what you want or where you want to be.

3) Right Business System

However, if you have chosen to follow a business system, you need to ensure that it is one that is not only proven to work, but that it will also give you what you need, in terms of backup and training. Remember, if you are new to internet marketing, you will need training and guidance, just like you would in any new job, so this should be one of the key elements when assessing your chosen system. If the system has already worked for lots of other people, then there should be no reason as to why it shouldn’t work for you as well.

4) The List

The List – this should be your mantra! Your list is your business, never forget this. All your marketing focus should be aimed towards building your list, as without this, the process of selling online becomes much, much harder, as you are then trying to sell to new, individual customers each time. And as all the marketing gurus will tell you, it’s much harder to find a customer than it is to retain them.

5) Relationships

But, to get a customer in the first place, they need to know and trust you. People buy from people! So, you need to be building relationships with your leads, and not bombarding them with the hard sell, to earn their trust, so that in time, they will listen to you and what you have to offer. The same rule apples for your customers, build the relationship, keep in contact, as you ideally want your customers to buy from you over and over again.

Keep these five principles close to you on your journey, and success and wealth will be virtually assured for your internet marketing business.

Author Bio:
John Chablo manages a website called Great Online Income

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Five Key Principles You Need To Make Money In Online Marketing

This is part of the A-Z of Making Money Online series. This series covers various ways of making money online, in alphabetical order.

Now here are some money-making ideas that start with the letter P…

• PayDotCom – An affiliate marketing tool.
• Paypal – One of the most online payment systems.
• PayPerPost – A system where bloggers can make money by writing paid posts. Advertisers can buy these ad placements.
• Pepperjam – Another popular affiliate marketing service.
• PicApp – Using free images on your site using PicApp service. Here was my take on it.
• Plugins - Some WordPress Plugins to help you to make money online.
• Photography – There are different ways you can make money online with your photography.
• Photoshop – Yes, you can find ways to make money using Photoshop.
• Project Wonderful – An advertising by auction system.
• PremiumThemes – Sell WordPress themes to make money online.
• Pubmatic – Advertising optimisation service.

Can you think of any other related sites and services that start with the letter P?

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P is for…

When we asked: What’s your biggest concern about making money online? a few months ago, JMMO readers and vistors shared their thoughts on the subject. And, it looks like the leading concern is: Too many scams, with 52% of all votes. It’s the single most alarming thing for many people who try to make money online.

Reader BigManta said: “It’s no surprising to see that “Too Many Scams” is toward the top of the list. The “Make Money Online” industry is pretty shady compared to most other topics – and so many people have been duped, swindled, or cheated. This is one of the reasons that I believe the good, honest, guys reap a lot of the benefits because they’re upfront and have a long-term outlook.”

Another reader, Gordon Wilson, said: “I’m not surprised to see “too many scams” leading in the polls. There are some bad apples in the barrel. However, I think a lot of LEGIT options get branded as scams because the people who try them just don’t do things right or follow through. When they don’t wake up the next morning in a mansion, they start griping all over the place about how “so and so” is a scammer. There are good ways to make serious money out there. So, if you’re one of the folks who ranked “scams” #1 on your list, don’t give up!”"

Good thoughts! Thanks, guys.

The next big concern, it seems, for JMMO readers is: Not sure what kind of online business to try, with 18% of voters who are unsure about the right path to take.

Then, there are those who think that not making enough money is a major issue (14%).

And, for some folks, they think that it’s too much hard work (6% of all votes). And, there are those who may have a few concerns – but they’re already making some money online (4% of all votes).

The other concerns have an equal amount of votes: Not enough time to start an online venture (3%) and Other (please leave a comment) (3%).

Those who might be interested with the total votes, this poll received 380 votes.

Here are other interesting comments from readers and visitors:

Leigh said: “I don’t really see any of those as a concern. Scams are easy to avoid with a little bit of research. The others are just the reality of the situation and you just need to pick something and get on with it.”

Denise said: “The time investment is one of the biggest concerns that I see with most people. But if they are willing to take the time and put in the effort, it really is as hard as working a regular job.”

Popintervention said: “My answer is other. It’s the technological learning curve that’s messing me up. Also the internet learning curve period. For example, I just spent a night trying to figure out what the heck twitter even is. Still don’t get it.”

Vern said:

“Personally I think that most people are going to answer – they don’t know what kind of online business to start. There are a lot of ‘gurus’ telling them what to do… and it’s all different. They’re swimming in ideas… but which one to choose? It’s a risk to choose one because there is probably a limited amount of time and $ to allocate toward whatever project one takes on.

For myself, my biggest concern about making money online is that states are trying to tax the income we make as affiliates. It happened in Hawaii (where my Aim for Awesome, Inc. business is based) and two other states already.

If that trend continues it’s going to be a sad state of affairs for affiliate programs nationwide (USA).

Other than that Shai, I’m concerned about finding good help. Experts that can help me on projects I’m doing – and that I can trust. Quite hard to find people I trust. I’m thinking that FaceBook is going to be the answer to this. I’m considering adding not just true friends to my group of FB contacts, but other contacts – visitors at my websites… etc. Thinking that – by growing my base of ‘friends’ I’m going to eventually find everyone I need for my online projects.”

And finally, Stefan said:

“I’m already making money so I’m not sure if this post affect me, but one of the most difficult thing was to get friends and relatives to understand that it actually was possible to make money online. It’s a difficult time where there’s few people having faith in your work. Thank to the internet it’s possible to come in contact with people who’ve got the same problem and together we pushed each other.”

Do share if you’ve got any other thoughts on the subject! Thanks again to everyone who voted and shared comments.

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Poll Results: Biggest Concerns About Making Money Online

This is a guest post submitted to JMMO by lisafolder from the site Little Money Maker. The author’s email address is: lisafolder@gmail.com .

Google AdSense program has made it easier for webmasters to make money through a website. Webmasters who run an AdSense campaign will display Google’s contextual Ads relevant to the content of their sites and thus encouraging visitors to click the ads and earn money for each ad click.

However, you will earn very little AdSense revenue if you don’t know how to optimize your AdSense ads on your website. Here are some tips to increase your AdSense earning:

1. Focus on one Adsense ad format. The Large Rectangle (336X280) ad format seems to work better than other ad formats because this format tends to result in higher click through rates (CTR). Another reason is that the ads will look like normal web links that visitors use to click on them. It doesn’t matter whether the visitors know that they are clicking AdSense ads or not, as long as there are clicking, you earn AdSense commission.

2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Select a color that matches your website’s background. If your site’s background is white both, the color of ad border and background should set to be white too. Also the color of the ad title should be similar to coloe of the links in your website. This is to make your AdSense ads look like it is part of the web pages. Again, this will boost AdSense CTR.

3. Don’t place your AdSense ads at the bottom of your webpages because it is proven to be less effective. Displaying your AdSense ads at the bottom is like hiding your AdSense and thus leads to low CTR and AdSense revenue. Try to put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between AdSense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Try to place your AdSense ads near rich content as visitors main focus usually are your content. There are several ways to insert AdSense ads into your content and one of the ways is place your AdSense just after the end of your content.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your AdSense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your AdSense code in a text file, name it as “AdSense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then use SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. There are other ways to optimize your AdSense that produce high CTR also. You can learn more tricks by reading in AdSense and webmaster forums.

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5 Tips to Boost Your Adsense Revenue

This is a guest post submitted to JMMO by lisafolder from the site Little Money Maker. The author’s email address is: lisafolder@gmail.com .

Although anyone can start an affiliate marketing business, not everyone can achieve success. Why? Well, here are 10 affiliate mistakes that deter people from succeeding in the business of affiliate marketing. To avoid all these mistakes, you first need to study them and to understand them thoroughly.

1. Believing that visitors would only click on their affiliate links. Although the task of an affiliate is only restricted to pre-selling, it isn’t just limited to displaying the affiliate links. It also entails enticing visitors to click on them by listing out the benefits of the affiliate products, giving positive recommendations by writing reviews to encourage readers to check out the products.

2. Promoting too many affiliate programs at the same time. If an affiliate markets 8 affiliate programs at the same time, he or she will have 8 affiliate marketing campaigns to handle. Most probably, the affiliate will find difficult to manage all his campaigns and unable to concentrate on each one of his or her affiliate programs in this situation and ends up losing money.

You should begin with one affiliate program. So, choose a program that you are passionate about. Then, put your best effort to market the product. Test different marketing strategies to see which one works best. Once you are making a steady commission with the product, then maybe you can look for second affiliate product to sell.

3. Believing that using a single method of marketing technique is sufficient. There are people actually think that submitting a few articles to article websites will generate the amount of traffic they expected. But this is wrong. Focusing only one marketing technique will limit the number of potential buyers you can send to your affiliate merchant’s website

4. Failing to improve the performance of your marketing campaign. Many affiliates tend to concern on checking their daily commission only and have no interest on studying and analyzing their marketing campaigns performance. When their campaigns don’t work as expected or don’t generate sales, they will fail to make corresponding adjustments because they don’t know which aspects of their campaigns need to be improved. It is essential to learn every aspect of our marketing strategies. Which marketing techniques are attracted most visitors? How many unique and returning visitors generated? How long do they stay in our website? Where they come from? These are the questions that could help us enhance the performance of our affiliate marketing business.

5. Promoting affiliate products that are lacking of demand. Some affiliate programs offer extremely high sale commission to their affiliate. But, the products aren’t salable and thus earning nothing.

6. Failing to find an affiliate program with a proven record of consumer satisfaction. The trustworthiness of a company relies on how people view it. If the affiliate program has established good relationships with their customers, then it has established a brand which is recognizable for its excellent service. You will find easier to pre-selling such an affiliate product.

7. Failing to keep abreast with the latest developments in the industry. There will come a time when the marketing knowledge we know would become obsolete, more so in the field of internet marketing where everything transpires at a rapid pace. You have to constantly update yourself with the newest trends, techniques and news in this field to always keep your competitive edge.

8. Failing to invest on knowledge. Knowledge likewise evolves and you have to evolve with it. Buy noteworthy eBooks, special reports and the likes… those which would teach you the latest tactics to help you conquer your field.

9. Resting on your laurels once a semblance of success is achieved. Success is not eternal. You have to sustain it. If you leave your business alone once it shows the promise of success, you’re just setting it up for failure.

10. Thinking that affiliate marketing can help you to become rich fast. No, affiliate marketing isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme. You have to put in a lot of effort and time, and some capital before you can make money in affiliate marketing.

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10 Mistakes in Affiliate Marketing that Can Stop Your Success

This is a guest post submitted to JMMO by lisafolder from the site Little Money Maker. The author’s email address is: lisafolder@gmail.com .

Freelancing refers to the process of offering your services for someone else on a per project basis. The best way to explain this is through an example.

Supposing you possess excellent writing skills. There are tons of webmasters and internet marketers out there who are in need of fresh content and new products on a daily basis. Their demand for digitally written works is so great that even if they are blessed with just as much writing prowess, they won’t have the time to come up with everything that they need. Hence, they resort to outsourcing.

And this is where you enter the picture.

As a freelancer offering your writing services for a fee, you could take in some projects they will give you. You will be paid per delivery. Once that’s done, you could take in more clients for consistent earnings.

But freelancing is not only limited to writing or ghostwriting. There are other services that you could offer, depending on the area of proficiency you possess. Here are more examples:

• graphic creation and design
• web creation and design
• software development
• data encoding
• translation to specific languages
• marketing consultancy
• strategic placement consultancy
• admin and accounting

If you want to dabble in freelancing, here are some places where you could advertise your services and solicit some clients:

• www.elance.com
• www.scriptlance.com
• www.guru.com

Creating an account on the above sites are free. You will need to fill in your personal and working information in your profile. The employers will review your profile to decide whether you are right for their jobs. So, make sure you update your profile well.

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Freelancing For Cash

In 2007, I started The $100 Challenge (see documentation and participants’ list). Then, I revisited the challenge again in 2008. However, things got so hectic that I didn’t really manage to come up with a decent follow-up on it.

Well, now it’s 2009 and I thought I’d start it all over again. This time, I have more hopeful plans for this challenge. And, I already have a few ideas in mind. Including a similar documentation, participants’ list, etc. like that of the 2007 challenge.

So now, what do you do? If you want to take on this challenge, here are the instructions:

1) Name your $100 challenge. Will it be making you first $100 online, regardless of the time deadline? Will it be a target of $100 a year, $100 a month, $100 a week, or $100 a day?

2) How do you want to reach your $100 challenge target? Blogging? Writing? Sales? Affiliates? Of course, this is not set in stone. No matter what you plan to do, though, do share the relevant URLs (your blog, online shop, etc).

3) Say that you want to take on the challenge. You can do this by either commenting on this post and/or posting on your blog about it (and telling me that you did).

Once you’re a fully-fledged $100 challenge participant, you’ll be listed in our $100 Challenge Participants’ List (2009) in JMMO’s brand new Business Directory. If you have any questions, feedback, ideas, etc. on this project/challenge, feel free to share. I look forward to seeing how this year’s $100 challenge will work out.

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The $100 Challenge: Year 3

When someone approached me a year or two ago, asking if they can buy this blog – Just Make Money Online – I immediately said no. A few months later, I had another interested party offering to buy JMMO for 5 figures. Again, I said no. I even blogged about it here (see point #7).

But, situations change. And, various circumstances brought me to make a very tough decision on JMMO.

Yes, I’m finally opening up the possibility of selling this blog.

To be honest, I’m not sure yet how I’m going to go about doing this, as I’ve never sold a website or weblog before. Especially not one that I have cared for and nurtured for over 3.5 years. Usually, I just end up archiving websites or blogs that I don’t have the time to write for anymore. But, this time, I thought it might be best if I look for someone who can care for JMMO instead of just letting it go.

You see, during the years that I’ve developed this blog, it has become one of the top “make money online” blogs*. And, according to 45n5.com, this type of blogs are hot online commodity. There are over 250 blogs in this niche, and JMMO often appear in the first Top 50.

In fact, if you run the highly sought after term “make money online” on Google – JMMO often appears in the first 2 to 5 pages. There was even a time when JMMO was ranked #7 or #9 – yes, appearing on the first page. Certain blog posts also rank in the first few pages of some popular key searches on Google.

As you can see – JMMO is doing its best to thrive in this very competitive niche.

So, why am I selling it?

Mostly, it’s a personal decision. I feel as though I need to put my focus in other things right now. There are a lot of stuff going on at the moment in my life, so I figured something has to give. And, at this particular time, finding a new owner of JMMO seems to be the best thing to do.

Of course, I will have to carefully consider the options in terms of moving on from JMMO. And, like I said, I haven’t completely figured this out yet. So, my plan is to document this process. Perhaps, this way, we all might be able to learn from the process of selling a web property.

And yes, if you’re interested in buying JMMO (or you know someone who might be), you are invited to express your interest by emailing at shai[at]b5media[dot]com.

My initial idea is to open the sale of this blog privately to start with and work from there. Perhaps, I might also consider putting up for auction. But, it will depend on a few variables.

For now, I’m making the first step: announcing that this blog is for sale. Let’s see what happens from here.

* Just Make Money Online is currently included in the Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs, Top 100 Female Blogs List, and Top 100 Australian Blogs, among a few other lists.

Image source: Aaron Murphy, sxc.hu

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This Blog is For Sale

When I posted this call for Probloggers from Kontera last week, JMMO reader Lindsay said:

Do you have to use Kontera?

Blogging has changed my life and is how I make a living, but I don’t care much for those kind of links on other people’s sites, so I’ve never tried them.

Well, first of all: What is Kontera?

Kontera is a a Pay Per Click In-Text Advertising Platform. Basically, advertisers buy certain keywords from the service, and publishers who sign up with them allow Kontera to ad sponsored links within publisher’s blog entries/posts, based on keywords that were purchased.

So yes, all publishers need to do is sign-up at Kontera, add a code in their blog/site, and just blog/post content as usual. Kontera will then “crawl” the publisher’s blog/site for relevant keywords and add ad-links to those that meet the match.

The Issues

Some people are not really comfortable with in-text advertising. They feel that their content may be a bit compromised by having external links within their posts that they do not always personally endorse.

Of course, other people don’t see any problems with this type of advertising platform.

What I find interesting, however, is that while trying to share an example of a Kontera ad being run, I checked their official blog – thinking they might be running it there. And, I didn’t see it. So, I may just be missing it. Perhaps, you can share some Kontera-enabled blogs or sites here, as examples?

Your Turn

So, with these things in mind, do you think Kontera is something you’ll be interested in using on your blog or site? Why or why not?

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Kontera: In-Text Advertising

Entrepreneurial folks always find a way to make money off just about anything. Especially major events like the Olympics 2008.

So, how’re people making money online off the Beijing Olympics? Here are just some ideas:

Well, on Etsy, crafters and artists are selling Olympic-inspired creations – from soft toys to promotional materials.

Writers on Associated Content are writing about it. And. I’m sure many other content writers are making money off Olympic content as well. And yes, bloggers are blogging about it. And many photographers must be selling their Olympic-related photos too.

And, on eBay, people are selling and/or auctioning off anything from Olympic souvenirs to Olympic-related creations. Check out sample listings below:

Can you think of other ways to make money online off the Olympics 2008?

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Making Money Online with the Olympics 2008