Michelle Adams

How I Saved $2,000 Overnight

If you want to find out how being treated like dirt saved me $2,000 then just pop in your email below and I’ll send you the report. Included in this report is a no BS way of making money online that has no fluff, almost no cost except time and a domain name and is a proven method. You can’t lose. Enjoy!

Quick Ways To Make Money

It can be quite a rude awakening when you finally realise that your online million dollar bank account just isn’t materialising as fast as you’d like and is also taking much more effort than you’d imagined. The sooner you move past the shock of that realisation the better.

So whilst you’re working on building strong businesses that can lead to the ultimate ‘passive income lifestyle’ you might have a need to generate some quick cash. Well there are many quick ways to make money online: writing articles, designing graphics or even programing if you have the skills.

Another way is to flip websites which is something I like to do. What are the pros and cons of website flipping though and where do you begin? Well you need to begin by recognising that site flipping doesn’t hold any guarantees unlike writing articles, for example, where usually payment is up front from the buyer or on delivery of the order.

Site flipping is typically a case of you buying a site cheap that you can make-over or building one yourself and then flipping it quickly in an auction style marketplace. Site flipping can be quite profitable and isn’t hard to get started in especially if you’re willing to put in plenty of effort and quality workmanship.

Have you flipped sites before to generate fast cash? If not have you considered it? If you have considered it then what’s holding you back?

Leave a comment below or even email me if you like, with your thoughts and questions on site flipping, I’d be more than happy to help.

Flipping Out At Flippa.com

One of the ways I earn money working from home is by selling virtual real estate, better known as Site Flipping. Selling web property has been a very rewarding experience both financially and in terms of enjoying the actual work.

If you’re at all familiar with this market you probably know that the SitePoint Marketplace is the number one location when it comes to buying and selling websites, however there is change afoot and many sellers are flipping out over it.

SitePoint have announced that their marketplace has finally been moved to the new flippa.com domain as of today. Like many, you’ve probably just seen a picture of a dolphin in your mind’s eye, it’s hard not to. All jokes aside, many people simply hate the new name not to mention the new interface and increased fees.

So why did SitePoint move their marketplace? Well for the full story you can visit the flippa.com blog. For the ‘in a nutshell’ version, the SitePoint Marketplace has outgrown its home at the marketplace.sitepoint.com domain and warrants its own identity and dedicated service to its buyers and sellers.

SitePoint have received a tremendous amount of negative feedback during the beta phase of the flippa.com launch, mostly around the new fee structure but also about the name and the design. There was positive feedback given also although, as the SitePoint representatives pointed out, the positive feedback was delivered privately.

Going out on a limb and showing support for a decision that a large number of people are up in arms about is not easy to do. I have some very positive views on what SitePoint have done and those views come from a very business focused mindset, an appreciation if you like, for what it means to run a business profitably and taking the hard decisions to change even in the face of overwhelming negative feedback. Of course it’s very important to listen to your customers’ feedback and be not only willing to change but also have the business structure and know-how to be able to change as the business needs arise.

Those that are flipping out over the changes seem to be most concerned about the new fee structure having a greater negative impact on the profit on sites that sell for between $50 and $200. The listing fee is almost doubling from $10 to $19 and the newly added ’success fee’ is set at 5% of your final selling price capped at $499.

Flippa.com have defended the increases in all manner of ways, referring to improved security procedures, better service in resolving transactions that go awry and generally offering a better place to buy and sell; the response has been mostly one of distrust that flippa.com won’t deliver improvements to the tune of the sizable fee increases.

If you’ve used the previous marketplace before you would be very aware that it was far from perfect although not everyone sees it that way, many believe it was working perfectly just as it was. Many also believe that flippa.com is doomed and they could very well be right, only time will tell. I for one won’t be walking away from the new look SitePoint.

Michelle Adams

Carpe diem!

Make Money From Home Today

When you first started out looking for ways to make money from home do you remember how much you wanted to earn and why?

I do. I wanted to earn enough income from home so I didn’t have to return to work and leave my baby. Today my goal is on replacing my husband’s income so he doesn’t have to work outside of our home either, but why?

Well the why is what inspired this post actually. Almost every day my little boy cries as he watches his dad drive off to work. His tiny hand waves, and he murmurs a “Bye bye Daddy.”

Children are often the reason that people seek to work from home but it’s certainly not the only one. There are the typical things such as hating either the boss, the job, the traveling, the poor pay or all of the above. These are all good reasons to want to work from home, there really is nothing like working in your pajamas and being able to hug your children when ever you want to. And then there is the other reason; the desperate need for money to make the mortgage or rent repayment, credit card bills, to buy food, gas, electricity, to basically survive and once that’s achieved add on some little extras like a movie night or even a holiday if things go well.

It’s very easy to lose sight of what you’re really trying to achieve once you become submerged in the sea of ‘make money online’ marketing, which often sells the ‘Internet Marketer’s Lifestyle’. Fast cars, private jets, world wide travel and money raining miraculously from the sky all on autopilot or at worse working half an hour a day from your yacht or penthouse via your laptop.

This post is a reminder for you to not lose sight of your goals, the things you wanted to achieve when you first set out. (more…)

Do Follow Links - U Comment I Follow

Today I finalised my link love policy! The basics of the policy are that after five approved comments your links are followed, there should be no spamming and no affiliate links or links to offensive sites. Pretty easy. You can read the comment policy here.

Commenting on blogs is a great way to network. Not only are you interacting with the blog owner but you can connect with other people who comment too. I mentioned in my last post that networking is critical to your success and if you haven’t started then now is the perfect time. Go and find some blogs in your area of interest and then on  the ones that really impress you start networking! Other ways to network are via forums, memberships and courses.

If you really aren’t convinced that networking is worth your time and energy then I can only prompt you to read a recent post published by Yaro Starak. Yaro’s post covers off this subject in a lot of detail and some of his comments might surprise you. Areas covered are: You Are As Good As The People Around You, Your Peer Group Define Your Success, Role Models, Friends And Colleagues, Everywhere At Once, It’s Who You Know and Rising The Ladder Together. Out of all the amazing content in the post the part that really inspired me was on Rising The Ladder Together. Check it out: “You Are As Good As The People Around You.”

You might be aware that Yaro recently launched Membership Site Mastermind. I’d been on the lookout for a mentor to help me learn how to successfully launch and run a large membership site so am really thrilled to be working through the program now. When I invested in this course though I didn’t think of it solely as gaining a mentor on membership site mastery but also as another opportunity to network with other members in the course and especially with people in my own country.

Networking opportunities present themselves often and I know I’m always looking out for people to push forward with, people who are willing to work hard, support each other in our network and do everything we can to ethically help others and ourselves succeed.

If there is only one other thing you read today make it Yaro’s post, it really is full of gems when it comes to your success and the success of the people in your network.

I look forward to your future comments and hope you enjoy plenty of link love from my blog.

Michelle Adams

U Comment I Follow

Online Mentor - Do You Need One?

Today I want to talk about what I consider to be one of the most critical keys to online success, in fact it’s just as critical in the offline world too!

men·tor
n.
1. A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.

Do you need a mentor? Well the definition itself gives you the ultimate clue: ‘wise teacher‘ with an emphasis on wise. A wise teacher is one that has solid knowledge in particular areas of expertise.

Now here’s where this gets interesting in relation to making money online. How many times have you heard this? “The only people making money online are the ones selling information on how to make money online! You can get it all for free anyway!”

The problem with a great deal of the ‘free’ information is that you can never be certain whether you’ve received words of wisdom or a page full of bad advice. I’ve seen many times over people who try to genuinely help others in forums but all they’re doing is sharing the ‘free’ bad advice they’ve received but just don’t know it. —edit There is plenty of bad advice for sale too! Then that person runs to some one else’s aid in another forum or on Yahoo answers or Tweets it and the bad advice circulates virally, but it’s all for free right? Well no it’s not for free, it costs you dearly! You can be so far off track and not even know it thanks to the many well intentioned unwise teachers coming to everyone’s aid.

I have seen over and over and over again a constant stream of well intentioned but nonetheless error ridden advice being handed around helping people like you set your business foundations in quicksand. It is important that you do get out and learn plenty of things via your own investigation but having a point to come back to, that place you know as ‘true North’, well that is priceless. How do I know? Because mentors have helped me achieve every major goal I’ve ever wanted to achieve in my life to date.

I’m proud of the fact that I was one of the youngest ever female Store Managers for a giant Australian retailer. How did I do it? I found myself mentors in the areas of people management, public speaking, training and chairing meetings to name a few.

How did I progress from Store Manager to a National Manager responsible for a $33 million dollar a year business? Again, I watched others who were successful before me in those roles, I networked but most importantly found two mentors who helped me find ‘true North’ and keep me on track to succeed. There were plenty of well intentioned colleagues handing out advice on how best to manage 300 staff but having my own experience and that of my mentors to check back with, well they were the most critical keys of all.

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Niche Marketing Strategy - Part 2

The two other monetization methods I employ to make money from my niche blogs are email marketing to a list of subscribers and advertising products as an affiliate. For the two example pregnancy sites used in the domain name case study, the affiliate product component earns very little income which is certainly a reflection of the amount of effort I’ve put into it for these sites. Banner ads, reviews and links in posts are few and far between, there is certainly a lot more money to be earned there. Importantly though is the fact that I am building a sizable list of subscribers to whom I can promote to in a more personal manner.

Gathering a list of subscribers cannot be underestimated in terms of how much you can leverage that list to earn money. To build a list with any real seriousness you need an autoresponder account. I mentioned in my last post that I use AWeber and I highly recommend them. You can visit their site and learn more about what they offer but don’t waste time umming and ahing, if you understand the value in building a list of subscribers then get signed up now at AWeber and get your first form up. Of course you need something to give your site visitors in exchange for their email address too.

So I have my AWeber account all set up and I have a free report that I give my subscribers in exchange for their email address. Here are two examples of how I have that set up on these particular blogs; Get Pregnant Fast, and How To Get Pregnant Tips. Both of these opt-in forms lead into the same list I set up in my autoresponder account. I get free traffic to these blogs daily and as a result my subscriber list grows daily.

It can seem like you’ll never be able to build a list when you first start out but it is possible and you don’t need ten thousand subscribers to make it all worthwhile. I set up these blogs and only on the odd occasion now do I revisit them, that doesn’t mean I couldn’t improve them but they are not my core focus, they are niche blogs. Below is a screen shot of the number of subscribers my hands off approach has gathered in around ten months and remember, the second blog was only built in October 2008 and the opt-in form added in mid November that same year.

747 subscribers added with very little effort whatsoever and this is on just one list. I also give away a free chapter to my getting pregnant ebook from which I gather more subscribers onto a different list. I’ve found it surprisingly easy to build a list of subscribers using a simple but still thought-out niche marketing strategy. (more…)

Niche Marketing Strategy - Do You Have One?

It’s easy to throw a niche site together without much of a strategy; you simply whack up some AdSense and affiliate ads and wait for the money to roll in right? It’s usually pretty depressing though when you find your AdSense clicks coming in at .10 cents and affiliate sales sitting near to zero.

In my last two posts I discussed the use of keyword rich domain names and their effectiveness for helping rank niche sites. Of course a domain name, whether it be keyword rich or not, is not the only thing you need to power a niche marketing strategy.

I tend to think if you’re going to do something you might as well do it properly. I’m not talking about spending months on end on a niche site, I’m talking about setting things up in ways that act as a catalyst for your sites to make good money not just a few dollars here and there.

The two example niche blogs I focused on in my domain name case study are consistently earning money. The monetization methods employed on these sites, as pictured below, are; AdSense, affiliate products and email marketing to opt-in subscribers. The majority of income is generated via ebook sales and AdSense does a nice job of topping up the monthly earnings too.

The methods I’m using are hardly earth shattering however the thing that makes the most money is often the one that people avoid and or grossly underestimate in value; an opt-in form to build a list of subscribers. I know you’ve heard that before today but there’s a reason why it keeps getting air time; it works!

I’ve seen many niche blogs with AdSense and affiliate links plastered around but no opt-in form. Setting up an opt-in form can be done for free but if you’re serious about making money online then the one thing you should invest in besides domain names and web hosting is an autoresponder account. An autoresponder account helps manage the process of capturing email addresses of your site visitors and automating the sending of emails to your entire list of subscribers. I use AWeber and highly recommend it;  for true beginners there is an easy to follow wizard as well as loads of support on how to best utilise your AWeber account.

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Domain Name Case Study Results

In my last post I mentioned that I’d  conducted a case study on the use of keywords in domain names and today I’m publishing the results of that study for my blog readers.

This case study is focused on a niche I’m targeting in the TTC market. The majority of you probably don’t have a clue what the heck TTC stands for but it’s a market I highly recommend you get into! TTC stands for trying to conceive. This is a huge market that is so hungry, individuals will pay up to $100,000 to solve their problem! ($100,000 is what it can cost to go through numerous IVF cycles.) But I digress!

The niche keyword phrase I was, and still am targeting is: getting pregnant fast. This phrase doesn’t have a million searches a month, however it is a highly specific long tail phrase that drives targeted prospects to my sites.

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Domain Name Keywords - Do They Matter?

I’ve seen time and time again people question whether having their keywords in their domain name will really make any difference to their search engine ranking.

A fairly common response to this question is that if you’re building an authority site then it isn’t all that relevant and if you’re niche marketing then it ‘might’ help but it’s really not all that important.

Well with a case study under my belt I’m here to tell you that if you’re not trying to grab a domain name with your niche phrase in it then you could be missing out on organic traffic. (more…)

Work From Home Online

Well where have I been you might ask? I’ve been busy! What have I been busy doing? Well I work from home online and have started carving a nice amount of income from site flipping. Site flipping is one of several methods of online income I use and I hope you are working on several methods too!

This post has been sparked by two things, one from reflecting on my online money making journey over the past three years and the other from when I recently worked on bedding down some serious plans for my next online projects. One thing I recalled is this; I first got really excited about online money making when I had an idea about scaling up one method in a huge way that could make me a lot of money! Luckily I realised early on that putting all my eggs in one basket was a mighty risky investment no matter how golden those eggs appeared to be.

You’ve heard of high paying AdSense clicks right? Well that’s what my entire plan was, to build high paying AdSense sites numbering in the hundreds! Is it doable? Absolutely! Is it profitable? Yes! Is it risky? You bet it is! And here’s why. (more…)

Infomillionaire

As a follow up on my previous post regarding Frank Kern’s Infomillionaire, I thought I’d let you know what I’ve discovered although it’s probably not what you’re expecting to hear.

I guess overall the product itself is good value although it’s very basic. One good thing about basic though is that it strips away the illusion that there is mystery, tricks and complicated stuff you’ve got to do to make money online. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Frank Kern so far it’s that he’s up front and in fact jokes often about how ‘easy’ it is to make money online but ’shhhhh, don’t tell anyone’. So if you do get the chance to grab a copy of Infomillionaire I’d say go get it, it’s worth it. (more…)

Internet Business Success

Are you spinning your wheels when it comes to your online business? Internet business success won’t come easily especially if you don’t take action. You’re probably familiar with the report I give away here about how being treated like dirt saved me $2000 overnight. Well this blog, my All Hyped Up Video and the report were all created in less than 36 hours!

Yes that’s right, 36 hours! Surprised? I was too! But no longer do I hang around trying to make every last detail perfect or get into analysis paralysis over the best keyword tools. If you have unfinished projects, lots of ideas but none of them getting anywhere or you believe you just don’t have enough time to get an IM business started then be ready to stand corrected!

I’ve written a short report that gives you an overview of how I created an Internet business model in less than 36 hours! You’ll even be able to view video tutorials about the program I used to create my All Hyped Up video.

It’s time to stop spinning your wheels and getting no where fast! Internet business success can be yours but you need to take action first! Get your copy of ‘Less Than 36 Hours!’ here.

And when you’ve taken massive action as a result of reading my report then head on back here and leave a comment below about what you’ve done, I’d love to hear about it.:)

Keyword Tools - Analysis Paralysis

Where have I been? It’s been almost a month since I last posted! Well let me tell you a little bit about what I’ve been up to. This is a new blog and specifically built to help you navigate online money making so you don’t lose your shirt. I’ve been sitting back in a few forums and observing more than taking part. One thing I’ve noticed is there are a heck of a lot of people wanting to make money online but not many of them actually are. I have a theory why and some of it comes down to keyword tools. (more…)

Stompernet - Jerry West - AC

If you’ve been looking for ways to make money online and more specifically about SEO then there’s a chance you’ve heard of Stompernet. Andy Jenkins and the rest of the Stompernet team share valuable knowledge about SEO. But I digress from who this post is really about; Jerry West. Jerry West is a member of the Stompernet team and is another ethical marketer who’s won my heart and I’ll tell you why. (more…)

YouTube Marketing

Having pulled together my ‘All Hyped Up!’ video and placing it on YouTube I’ve realised the possibilities that YouTube offers in terms of reach. This video, which was only my second YouTube video ever, had over 120 views in its first day online. Now that might not sound like a lot to some but for me it was quite a surprise. I know I’m behind the curve on the value of video marketing, especially YouTube marketing but so are a lot  of other people. Here’s why I think YouTube will be a big part of my online money making opportunity and why you should make it part of yours too. (more…)

Frank Kern

If you’ve read my account about the day I was treated like dirt and how it saved me $2,000 then this post might have you thinking I’m a sucker for punishment! The very same friend who sent me the link to that over hyped launch sent me a link to a campaign that Frank Kern was running recently. She did acknowledge I’d been upset by internet marketing of late but insisted I check out the link. I did and boy am I glad! (more…)

All Hyped Up!

Hey, thanks for visiting my blog. You’ll notice from the title of this very first post that it’s either to do with a hyped up marketing campaign or something I’ve gotten hyped up over. Well it’s definitely both!

Recently I had the unfortunate pleasure of being treated like dirt. That’s how I feel about it, others might not, but my perception is my reality and no one can really change that. So I got all hyped up about all the BS online about making money and how hard it is to find out what can really work. So I’ve written an account of what happened to me recently and how being treated like dirt saved me $2,000 overnight. You can get the report here; you really should grab it, it could save you $2,000 too plus there’s a link in there to a free report offered by an ethical marketer on how you could be making $5 a day in less than two weeks without investing much more than time and a domain name registration!

So out of that one day of being treated like dirt was a saving of $2,000 plus the launch of this blog. So here I am ready to share with anyone who cares to listen some ways to make money online minus the BS.

I hope you find some great advice here and I welcome your comments. Let me know about how you were treated like dirt and also about the ‘good guys’; those that work from an ethical marketing mindset, we need to let the world know about them too.

Here’s to your success.