Autoresponders

I'm convinced that the best way to make money online is to capture email addresses and every week or so, send targetted messages to your email list in the hope of turning them into active customers. So i'm in the market for an autoresponder. Over at the warrior forum, it was recommended that I use awebar. So i've signed up to their free trial....i'll let you know how it goes.

Mark.

Rich Jerk - Not a scam.

Hi again, it's a short one today, i'm really busy putting together some amends to http://www.millionpoundsavings.co.uk I figured why not show some proof...so I've taken a screenshot of the MSN page that shows thejobcard website's search engine ranking. I figure why not? I got it to number one on MSN and Yahoo in 3 weeks. If that doesn't show that IM techniques work then I don't know what does.

Everybody is frightened of the scam. Well, I can conclusively prove that the rich jerk programme isn't a scam. So i'm going to!

see you.

Mark.

Back to Basics.

I've discovered something over the last few days. In the world of Internet Marketing particuarly at the work from home sector. Design is not a source of competitive advantage. In fact hurts sales.

How do I know this? Through experience. My redesign of http://www.milliondollarsavings.com has bombed! Sales have been hit dramatically. I think it's essentially about knowing your target audience, it seems those looking to buy work from home programmes want simplicity, so whilst on paper, a site devoted to identifiying the best schemes through a chart might seem sensible and logical, it doesn't appeal to this that are looking to "get rich quick"those guys want to start making money now and they want you to tell them how.

So, it's back to the drawiing board, i'm going to purshue a different route. Principally, i'm going to capture names and addresses by offering free advice and then i'm going to try to sell products via the advice I give. Wish me luck!

Mark.

We beat Real Madrid.

Ok I don't usually let football take over this blog, but it is a bloody good day today. Last night Arsenal managed a 0-0 draw with Real Madrid which took us through to the qtr finals of the Champions League. Lehman, was superb, Torre inmense and Alex Hleb ran himself into the ground for the cause. Just superb, one of my best ever football nights.

Anyhow back to business. Some really good news, the SEO work i've been doing on a couple of my sites specifically http://www.jobcard.co.uk and http://www.tyrereview.co.uk really are starting to pay off, number one on msn, number 3 on yahoo. This is good stuff. Irony, the content itself isn't actually that good on either site yet, it's because what is there, is relevant to the keywords, i've organised a few backlinks although not thousands or anything like that, there aren't many high ranking sites linking to me, obviosuly this blog helps direct some traffic to them and creates one way back links (which are important). Now I just need the milliondollar savings site to really take off and we're laughing! Interesting MDS hasn't got many backlinks, maybe that is the issue there.

see you tommorow.

Mark.

Arsenal vs Real!

Can't talk tonight Arsenal are going to put Real out of the Champions League in about 30 mins (hopefully) c.mon Thierry hatrick please.

I put the new version of http://www.milliondollarsavings.com up online last night, let me know what you think!

Mark.

Naughty or Nice

Lots of things to talk about today, most of which I'm really excited about.

Firstly, i've got http://www.tyrereview.co.uk debuting at number 8 on Yahoo. It's been around for less than a month, so it's a real trimuph for me and does suggest that you can make this working from home a success. How have I done it? well initially I concentrated on on-page SEO getting my key words right etc. I checked out what the good performers on the search engines have done with meta tags and adapted that. Then I ran my copy through a free densisty checker tweaked it a little and then ftp'd that sucker!

Off page, I did some copy swapping over at link metro, i've been writing this blogg and I submitted an article on cheap tyres online and that honestly is all I've done. It's not receiving a lot of traffic yet, but it's a step in the right direction and feels like i've won a battle.

In terms of http://www.milliondollarsavings.com things aren't so good, sales have been really slow of both rich jerk and googlecash, not sure why, but I almost have an update ready to upload so i'll update you on that as and when.

Finally, just to let you know, that I shall have a new blog running tomorrow in addition to this one or maybe as part of this one, i haven't decided yet. Basically it's for my xmas site http://www.naughtyornice.co.uk and i'm going to tell you who's on the naughty list and who's on the nice list. I don't think i'm giving away any secrets when I suggest that Mr Jose Mourinho's chances of getting a lump of coal in his stocking were enhanced with his histrionics at West Brom Saturday!

Till tomorrow, have a nice night.

Mark.

Internet Scams

I wanted to touch upon one of the biggest problems with this whole working from home mularkey. Essentially the issue of Internet Scams.

I got my first real taste of it today when I was sent a very official document from a very famous high street bank instructing me to log onto my account immediately...only it wasn't really from them. To be honest it was pretty easy to tell, the english was so bad, it could only have been from a non-native or somebody living in Stoke on Trent! Naturally I forwarded it Barclays scams division at internetsecurity@barclays.co.uk and I would advise anyone in receipt of it to do the same.

But it got me thinking, those scams are so prevelant, that it's no wonder people are scared of or even turned off by the concept of working from home. I guess that a really useful resource would be one that cut through the clutter of "this is the greatest home working plan ever!" and maybe featured some no BS anaylsis. Sort of like the amazon book review section...in fact that could be the model...I give this scheme 5 out of 10 with a top ten list, so people looking for something genuine on http://www.milliondollarsavings.com could then look at it based on everybodies feedback not just my own.

let me know what you think.

have a nice weekend.

Mark.