Archive for August, 2008

Let’s Become Millionaires Together, OK?!

August 27, 2008 at 9:18 pm · Filed under Blog Class - Make Money Online, Blogging Wisdom, Search Marketing ·Tagged , ,

Hi everyone,

The Stompernet Live 6 event in Atlanta was amazing. I am so inspired. I am filled with the juice of action – I am willing and able to do what it takes to fly, and I want you all to fly with me. Because on the internet that is how it works – we help one another and it in turn helps ourself. It’s all about the CyberCommunity.

Just to keep you in the loop, here’s a chat transcript between myself and my coworker today…she wanted to know what I learned and how she can apply some of the stuff too.
Session Start (zhenyanhr:Alana 3722): Wed Aug 27 13:25:16 2008
[13:25] Alana 3722: when do you have time to talk story about your trip
[13:25] zhenyanhr: sigh…
[13:25] zhenyanhr: I wish sooner but I have to get several things off my desk…probably won’t be until next week
[13:25] zhenyanhr: but I do want to tell you about the twitter thing
[13:26] zhenyanhr: and the root idea here
[13:26] zhenyanhr: is that you need to develop your personality and your brand
[13:26] zhenyanhr: even when you are working for someone else
[13:26] zhenyanhr: so get concise about your passions in life
[13:26] zhenyanhr: and start to develop yourself online as an expert in that field
[13:26] zhenyanhr: keep the blogging thing up as I said
[13:27] zhenyanhr: and you can link twitter to your blog and have it update both places at once
[13:27] zhenyanhr: and you can also update twitter from your phone
[13:27] zhenyanhr: there is A LOT of info
[13:27] zhenyanhr: so I’ll give you a little at atime
[13:27] zhenyanhr: so you don’t get overwhelmed
[13:27] Alana 3722: =)
[13:27] zhenyanhr: did you link up twitter to your phone yet?
[13:27] Alana 3722: i didnt
[13:27] zhenyanhr: as you can see I am a spout of info ready to go off at any moment
[13:27] zhenyanhr: do that
[13:27] zhenyanhr: i have reasons for telling you these things you know!
[13:28] Alana 3722: does it charge as a text?
[13:28] Alana 3722: i know, im excited to hear about it
[13:28] Alana 3722: ill set it up
[14:03] zhenyanhr: yep you do get charged normal text rates – do you have a plan?
[14:03] zhenyanhr: I get 250 txts a month for $5.00
[14:03] zhenyanhr: that’s old so you can prob get an even better deal now
[14:03] zhenyanhr: worth it
[14:03] zhenyanhr: don’t worry though we aren’t going to utilize it until we need to

You heard me! Start writing on your blog every day. I don’t care what you write about. Write about how you love the blue sky. Write about the shoes you want to buy. Write about your headache, or if you actually have an article, post that. It doesn’t matter. Just keep your blog alive.

And sign up for a Twitter.com account and hook it up to your cell phone. And look for “skysurfergirl” and follow me and I will follwo you, OK? That’s a blog class lesson. Just do it!

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Two Common “Make Money Online” Pitfalls for You to Avoid

August 24, 2008 at 3:25 am · Filed under Blog Class - Make Money Online ·Tagged , , , ,

A lot of web sites, ads and businesses out there claim to make huge amounts of money online. In my research…and experience over the years my finding is that many of them are complete scams and others are complicated business ventures that try to come off as an easy or fast way to get rich or make money.

From this experience I came up with a few pitfalls as well as some tools that I used in sorting out these types of opportunities.

*Pitfalls*

Pitfall # 1. It is very easy to get caught up in spending money to obtain information. When looking into making money online do not pay for information about the opportunity. Period. Ever. There are plenty of free ebooks you can get out there by perfectly legitimate internet marketers that will give you excellent ground for making money online (I’ll offer a list of the good ones in another posting.

Case Study – Data Entry Opportunities
We have all come across the sites that claim that you can make thousands of dollars a week spending a few minutes a day whenever you want to. Most of these sites call themselves data entry opportunities. They tell you that if you can type an email you can do the job and make thousands of dollars a week. The information that is not shared prior to buying into the company is that you need to spend a great deal of money posting the advertisements that you type up.

I paid to learn more about the data entry positions. In the hype portion I was told that all I needed to do was to fill out forms and post them on the internet. I was not told that I first had to pay to get the forms and then had to pay to post them. I also had to research which company had the greatest potential of helping me recoup my money as well as make a profit. It was a very complicated and misleading experience.

Pitfall # 2. The next pitfall that I fell into in trying to make money online was the completion of surveys. This is the biggest rip off that there is on the internet. For one thing you can join companies to get mailed the surveys without going through a third party. The third party has you pay money then they simply give you the websites of the survey companies. I ended up spending money joining music and make up clubs as well as ordering magazines.

Case Study – Completion of Online Surveys~
There was one survey that I took that I was paid $1.50 for taking. The third party company stated that you could make hundreds of dollars a week spending fifteen to twenty hours. This was not a sure bet in making money online for me. The person that was making money online in this case was the one that found the survey takers for the companies, who in turn bought from the companies.

In Conclusion~
Making money online is possible, but it is not a get rich quick scheme and the old saying “if it sounds too good to be true it probably is” definitely applies.

So Save yo’ money and stick with me kid!  I am on the updraft now… :)

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“It’s Been Awhile” – And even though I got mad, News is Good

August 19, 2008 at 1:52 am · Filed under Blogging Wisdom, Dirty Internet Marketing, Entrepreneurial Spirit ·Tagged , ,

Take heart, dear readers.  I have not forgotten about you, nor is this blog dead…just in hibernation while I sorted out a few things in the online space.  Am I a slow learner?  Maybe.  Or maybe I’m the perfect case study for a certain population of single mothers with children working to survive and thrive.

In any case, I can wax philosophy on that some other time.  Right now I want to announce my very first one-time offer web site subscription page is now up and running!  Please check out Smart Easy Online Marketing ClickMail @ – you guessed it – http://www.smarteasyonlinemarketing.com/clickmail

I am going to write a book about my experience doing this – seriously.  I got mad and it inspired me to create a system that isn’t so tricky, conniving and greedy to actually help people make a real income online.  But that is in the future, after I have some success myself.  So this is a milestone – site # 1 is complete!

I’ll be back soon to finish up the blog course – don’t give up on me – or yourself.

Love.

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