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My Love Hate Relationship with Key Words for My Internet Home Business Continues

I am finding out, much to my horror that my Internet Home Business that deals with Time Management is virtually unmarketable , at least in this decade !! The more I delve into this mess, the more I see that I have dug myself a whole that there is almost no climbing out of. Let me explain, in the hope that some one out there may have a way of  me to  escape and if not that, at least some of you may escape my fate.

1. I have a Internet Home Business web site that is crammed full of really interesting, helpful and useful things, for any one who is interested in starting and building an Internet Home Business, that is not my problem, this is my problem, no one is ever going to see it!!. I started working on the site almost two years ago, and when I started to build the web site, I spent my time working on my content, I was lead to believe that was where I should spend my time.

That was a big mistake, and one that I am going to be paying for for some time to come. I have learned that it is not enough to have good original content, have something of value for people to buy, you have to be able to connect all of that to the search engines, through your key words. Maybe EVERYBODY who is reading this understands all there  is to know about keywords, if that is the case, then stop reading this and send me an email and tell me how to get out of this mess !!

2.  For those of you who are a little shaky on keywords, here is a heads up and my version of the importance of keywords and the connection between them and your chances of succeeding with your Internet Home Business. Simply put, pick your key words before you pick your business. If some one had told me that 2 years ago, I would be in an entirely different situation than I find myself in now, and that would not be in a huge pile of shit, which is what I am in now.

Perhaps a bit of self pity, brought on entirely by me listening to the wrong people at the wrong time, but ultimately, I am responsible for the mess I am in now. What I have is a massive site, with over 200 pages of original content,  with another 500 in the wings, all with the key word Time Management, a key word that is so heavily entrenched and competed for, that it will take me years and years to even get close to page one, let alone on page one. I know, suck it up, BUT it is two years of time and effort, and from what I can see, basically wasted.

I am desperately trying to find a way out of this mess, a way to salvage something from the time and effort, not having a lot of success up to this point. One plan of attack was to try and get some of the traffic from this  site and have it move over to the Time Management site, which is where I thought it  should of gone in the first place. Unfortunately, it is now dawning on me that all I will have is one landing page with a few new key words that I have some page rank, leading to hundreds of other pages, all with different keywords on them.Even I know that is not going to work long term.

Knowing what I know now, what would I have done differently?  The question is, what could I have done, my business was Time Management, what were my options, change the name of my business?  I am in the middle of this situation and looking for solutions, will keep you informed tomorrow of any break through’ s , feel free to jump in with any suggestions.  Hope you have a better evening than I am going to have : )

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business

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Integrating Niche Marketing with an Existing Internet Business

Niche Marketing is one of the biggest Internet Businesses out there, its a business that is very tricky to get involved in and one that is not a one size fits all as it its portrayed. I have to admit that I was not as familiar with the concept as I should be, and I was prepared to say that it was preying on the new people to the Internet. I recently spent some time getting a better look at NM and have a better understanding of the concept. Has my opinion of NM changed?

1. NM is  for people who do not have a business already in mind and still want to make money on the Internet. If you want to start a business on the Internet that deals with an existing skill set you have, you are already committed to that particular business. For example, you are a stamp collector, you want to open up an Internet Home Business that deals with stamp collecting, that’s your goal, that is where your skills lie and that is what you are interested in.

To take this further, you want to concentrate on stamps from Great Britain, this is an area of particular interest and one that you have the most experience in. You are committed, you are going into a business that you have spent the last 10, 15 years of your life building, and learning about. all of your expertise is in this field and your dream is to open up on the Internet. Sounds like a dream come true, unfortunately, you have a small problem, your market is saturated with well aged, high page rank sites that are well entrenched. What to do ?

2.  I find myself in this situation, I have an Internet Home Business that deals with Time Management, this is a very competitive market, with the top ranking sites very well aged, high page rank, lots of org and ed sites, this is not going to be an easy market to penetrate. If fact, this market is so entrenched, if I knew what I know now, when I started that site almost 2 years ago, I would of   done things much differently. How differently, I would probably of not gotten into that market, at the least, would of gotten in at a spot that I had a chance of getting some page rank, yes, a NM !

3. What do people like myself, and our stamp collector do when we find that the market we are looking at entering is already crowded, crowded to the point that penetrating that market is going to be unprofitable from a business point of view. You have to ask your self some very tough questions and the best time to do that is BEFORE you decide to enter a particular market. That was my mistake, do not make it yours. I clearly did not do my homework when it came to the Internet and doing business on it, a fatal mistake in my case.

4. I know have to work my way out of my predicament, after spending almost 2 years working on a site that in its present form, is almost  unmarketable. With the set up of the Internet, unless you can get affordable traffic to your Internet Home  Business web site, whats the point, you know what you have but nobody else does. First, like to mention that the Internet DID NOT INVENT Niche Marketing, this idea and way of marketing has been  round ever since there were two Roman bakers selling buns outside of the Collision and one of them figured since they were both selling the same buns, he would see what happened if he put poppy seeds on his.

I am now working feverishly on a way to work myself out of my situation. I am doing what I call reverse NM, I am trying to find a NM within my existing heavily occupied and well entrenched market. I am looking for the thin edge of the wedge, sometime thing that will allow me to sneak into this market and slowly increase my share. I hope you see the mistakes that I have made and do what I should of done at the beginning, done my home work on the keywords and the market place for those words, and acted accordingly.  Much more on this in the next few days. Have a great day, see you tomorrow.

Here is an article on the importance of proper keyword research – Keyword Research Basics. <- Click (opens in a new window)

Here is an article from Steve which explains the methods I learned to properly find good keywords. This is the method for finding high traffic keywords that you can rank well for. – Keyword Research for Adsense Blogging. <- Click (opens in a new window)

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Business Training

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” Focus on learning now ” this is a direct quote from Steve, I am listening Steve, AND Learning!!

I started my career with one Internet Home Business almost 2 years ago, I have now too many and after working with Steve for the last few days, I have been on the wrong course all of that time. Even though I have been working with Steve for only a day or two and by his omission, he has only been able to give me a fraction of the info he knows, a light has finally come on. Despite the horrendous mistakes I have made, and the massive hole I have dug for myself, what Steve has been able to show me has finally given me some hope, which was missing for some time.

This next part gets a little tricky, so stay with me for a bit. I have had a major mistrust of the Niche Marketing Industry for some time, I think its scamming, misleading and it preys on new people into the Internet Home Business segment of the market. Even though  Steve is a supporter of the Industry as a whole, and is undoubtedly one of the most decent people I have ever met, I still hold true with my assertion about the scammyness of NM. Here is why.

The skills and expertise that you need to have at least some chance to succeed in NM is far and above the skills and expertise of the average person. The very strong survive, the majority who are weak and new, do not, the people who make out like bandits are the sellers of the NM systems and packages. That is the end of my  opinion on that subject, here is the real purpose of this post.

YES, Steve, I have learned. I may not have learned what Steve wanted me to learn, but the purpose of Steve, an absolute stranger to me til a few days ago, the purpose of Steve spending all day yesterday on helping me set up a NM Internet Home Business, was to in fact show me a way out of my abyss. Steve sees me getting out of my black hole one way, and because of Steve, I see me getting out a different way, BUT, BUT still using Steve’s help and guidance.

I can actually see me fighting  a way out of my mess, and I would never of been able to do it without Steve’s help. I am taking the leap of faith here and saying, despite the huge massive hole I have dug myself, I will be able to salvage something, right the ships a bit, and crawl out, thanks to Steve.

I don’t think Steve and I will probably ever agree on the best way to do this, BUT the purpose of Steve jumping in was to help, and that he did. I will try in a nut shell, to explain what Steve was suggesting, rightfully so, and what I took from that and will apply it to my situation. When you hear an anguished scream from California, that will be Steve reading this and gnashing his teeth together.

Steve’s approach is to find small markets  NM, find weaknesses in those markets, keywords that are not being held by top page ranked sites, and then move in on them, exploit their weakness, and before they know it, you have top ranking in the search engines and you are king of the hill. Steve spent his time and effort and found me a great NM, the problem was, it was not in my area of expertise, and would not of supported the work I have already done. that is Steve screaming again.

Here is where Steve will never speak to me again, I am going to use his skill and expertise, and do it in reverse with my current sites. My mistake has been to try to tackle a hugely popular market head on, has not worked for almost 2 years. I will now look for, and find, small NM within  my existing markets and start to attack those keywords and phrases, just like Steve has shown me.

If I had met Steve almost 2 years ago, I have no doubt, that both he and I would be doing very well right now, not that Steve is not doing very well now, but you see the point .  As Steve has told me, this is about learning, and I believe I have learned an incredible valuable lesson from him, one that I believe will be the key out of my abyss.    I hope you have learned as much out of this post as I have writing it, I am going to spend the rest of the day working on putting what Steve has taught me into practice.  Steve , are  you ever  going to speak to me again ?  Have a great day, see you tomorrow.

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas

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Niche Marketing for Starting a New Internet Home Business, Re Visited

I am in the process of starting a new Internet Home Business and I have a new and improved idea of what Niche Marketing is all about. Here are my thoughts.

1. Niche marketing is about manufacturing a web site, starting an Internet Home Business based on finding a niche, and then zeroing in on that niche to make money. I am fine with that concept but it only works if you do not already have an idea or business. In my case, I own a site that deals with Time Management, one of the problems with that site and that key word is that it is incredibly competitive and very well entrenched. It is going to take me years, to get any where close to the front page of any search engine.

With over a year and a half already invested in that site, what am I suppose to do with it now. Unfortunately for me, and many other people in my  situation, we ALREADY have a business to set up on the Internet, Niche Marketing from what I see, is not going to help us? If I had a better idea of the relationship between keywords, the competition for those keywords on the SE and page rank, I would of set up my web site differently, I think !!

Right now I am working with an expert  , an expert who actually for once knows what he is doing, he is showing me how to properly pick a NM. The goal is to find a key phrase that is in an NM that has a lot of searches AND the top 3 or 4 sites have relativity low page ranks, potentially easy pickings . Sounds good on paper, and I am sure Steve, THE expert is smack on with his pickings of his key words for me, but in my case there are circumstances that I have to work out.

2. Part of the NM concept is that you should, would like to find NM in areas that you have some expertise , like, have a hobby in, some connection with what you like and what your new Internet Home Business is all about. The new NM business that I  will be starting is in an area that I have experience in, but it is in a very narrow application, one that I have no idea what I can write about and expound upon. Steve said no problem, BUT ?. This is an area that if you decide to go the NM route, you have to be prepared to deal with.

This is the manufactured part of the NM concept that has to be addressed by everyone who thinks this is the route to go. From a technical point of view, why you pick a NM, how you address the key word connection with the page rank of the sites you are competing with, finding that soft spot in that niche, this part is 100 % on. Until Steve walked me through the process, we are not finished yet, until I actually saw how it worked, I was not a fan of the concept, but to see it in action, the right way, it has opened my eyes up a lot.

The issue for me is this, what do I do with the sites that I already have up, sites that I have spent literally years on, that because of the nature of the sites, are in highly competitive markets , are battling entrenched high ranking page ranked sites?  What do I do with them, throw them away?  This is also a question for you, the new person who wants to start a new Internet Home Business, a business that you have a skill set in, have experience in, and just happens to be in, lets say, INTERNET MARKETING, can we  find a more competitive key word !!!!!

I have to find a balance between what Steve is saying, and what I have on my hands right now. Is there a way to take what Steve is saying and doing, and marrying that with what I have on my hands right now?   How about it Steve        I will keep you posted on my progress.  Have a great day, see you tomorrow.

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas

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The Uneasy Relationship Between Internet Home Business Owners and the Search Engines

I am again starting yet another Internet Home Business web site , this time correctly, and in doing so, I am in conflict with who I am actually building the site for. I used the word correctly because, when I built my first 10 sites, I managed to make about every mistake manageable. I have since been told by many people that what  I experienced was pretty well the norm. Some of the mistakes I made were building the sites, according to what I wanted  them to be about, boy, was that a mistake, and I actually thought my sites should actually serve my future customers, wrong again.

I am being a bit caustic here, but I do feel that when ever I start to do work on any of my Internet Home Business web sites, I find myself in this conflict between what I want to have on the site, and what I think I should have on it. This may be because I am still new to the whole Internet way  of doing business and as I get a little more comfortable, this tension will ease. The tension comes from the fact that I started my first series of web sites and spent no time on figuring out the relationship between keywords and page rank, and ultimately traffic. Bad miscalculation on my part.

I was advised that  just having good original content about what my site was about was all that was required. About a year latter, guess what, that was not good enough,  not by a country mile. It’s important to point at this juncture that the purpose of your web site is an important consideration. If you want to make money, you need to pay attention to key words and all that implies, if your site is for your enjoyment, then you are in the drivers seat. Being in the drivers  seat means that you have the freedom to write what you want and how you want. That is a luxury the ones of us who need / and or want to make money do not have.

I envy the people who have put themselves in a position that they do not have to construct their web site and tailor their content with one eye on the search engines and one eye on their customers. I am not a SEO expert, never have claimed to be one, what I can tell you from experience is this. I built a number of web sites, had what some people said was great original content, paid attention to the content and giving my customers  and the people visiting the site the best possible information, all without a care in the world for the search engines, keywords, and page rank.

The result of that was a great site, but zero traffic.  For an Internet Home Business web site that was suppose to generate some profit, no traffic was a slight draw back to that plan.  We have to find a happy balance between the content on our site and the impact that content has on our relationship with the SE’s. What I am finding is that there is a balance between pleasing the search engines and also pleasing our customers. I wish there was a book or a source that has the exact balance   that we need to reach, make our customers coming back to our sites, and giving enough to the SE’s to get us the traffic in the first place.   Have a great evening, see you tomorrow.

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas

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What Constitues A Scammer Site ?

I have been very vocal over the last several weeks about what constitutes a scammer site, my name for a site that does not deliver on its promises and is basically out ot scam you or rip you off. The You reffers to the people who own an Internet Home Business, people who are trying to make a few busks and get ahead, the people who can least afford to spend money and not get anything in return.

Part of this site is going to be dedicated to having reputable Internet  Business Opportunities that people can rely on to be legitimate. I spent part of today with one of my tech people and we pulled down 5 Affiliate links for businesses that in my opinion were not the kind of sites that I would feel comfortable recommending to people. It wasn’t 5 minutes after we s took down those 5 sites that I got a flaming  e-mail from one of the owners asking why I took down his link. I am sure it was just a coincidence that he noticed it but he was angry  when I said that some of the claims in his site were unrealistic.

In his case, it was the classic, sign up for his system, finding niche markets, then set up a web site, start a new Internet Home Business from scratch, and within 3o days, he guarantees that you will be making profits in the 5 figures. Sorry, that is a scam site. He sells his system with a 60 day refund policy, hard to know if he actually refunds the money to unhappy people or not. In this case there is no question that this link should not of been on my site and it came down. I am sure more will come down as I get time to research them in more detail.

Something that I am seeing that strikes me as a bit strange, maybe you can help me out on this one. I receive the odd post, or  e – mail from people and they say, so and  so link on your site is a scammer site, take it down. The strange part is, when ever I try to contact the people making the accusations, they either have given a phony e -mail, or never respond back.  This has happened enough to form a pattern, any one have any suggestions?

When its very clear that a site is just a scam or a site out to fleece people, it is pretty easy to spot those. it’s the sites that have a system or a program that some people will like and succeed at and others will not work at as hard and not succeed. I think that these are the people who simply say a site is a scam, take it down and then make them selves invisible. I will always respond to legitimate queries from people who come to this site, and when its warranted, will take action against sites that should not be here.  Thanks and have a great evening.

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Opportunities

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Bees and Mosquitos Both Buzz Around, One gets Swatted and One Gets Applauded, Why?

Trying to figure how I am going to get that title into a Blog about Time Management ? it’s easy, whats the difference between being busy and being productive? How many days have you worked your butt off, but ended up at the end of the day feeling frustrated and stressed out?. Join the club of people who are busy, but are not productive, people like us, you and me, we work hard, but we are not focused, ( all of the time )  do not  drive our own Agendas ( as often as we need to ) and end up letting other people, or other things, use  up our time for their benefit.

You may recognized this theme, its one that I trot out every so often, especially on the days that I get side tracked myself, which is more often than I would like to admit. I always like to refer to Time Management as a journey, not a destination, when it comes to the self management part of Time Management, that is when the journey part comes in.

Bees are applauded because they are always swarming around, but they have a purpose and they have a specific task, which they do with great focus and vigor, we all can appreciate that single mindedness.  Mosquitoes on the other hand, they are just buzzing around, mindlessly, no direction, no purpose, just a pain in the butt. I am not suggesting any of us are a pain in the butt, but on the days that I resemble a mosquito, those are the days that I work my butt off, but do not get that warm glow from putting in a good days work, where I actually  accomplished some or all of my goals.

It s funny how new thoughts come into your head while you are working through some thing that you have done before, take this post for example, one thing that came to me is this, are we suppose to be able to accomplish our goals, EVERY single day?, does that make sense, is it even possible ? The short answer is no, its not possible, that’s why we always have the control over what we do, and with that control, have to be sure we give ourselves what I call ” white space days “. Days when we have reduced  schedules, easier tasks, tasks and jobs that are not as demanding on us as others.

Back to the bees and the mosquito’s, being busy is harder work than being productive for one simple reason, when you are productive, you feel better at the end of the day, regardless of how hard you worked. Nothing beats the feeling of accomplishing something of value to ourselves, we set a goal, and we accomplished that goal, it may of been easy, or hard, but in the end, we triumphed.  Proper Time Management gives you the tools to make succeeding much easier, not only easier, but it becomes the norm, instead of the exception.

Without trying to get too academic here, I need to point out that being busy does not preclude being productive, but simply being busy does mean your were also productive. In other words, just because you worked really hard, and were busy all day long, unfortunately does not necessarily reflect the quality of the work, nor even more unfortunately , the quantity of the work. In this case, we can not seem to catch a break, not only do we feel ripped off because we rushed around all day and did not manage to get much of anything of value done, we also suffered in the volume of work done, a double negative whammy.

What to take away from this post?  Some days you can have quality and quantity, some days one or the other, and some days, you get zero, you get shut out. I really think the key is this, if you know starting out each day what the options are, you have a great chance of getting more doubles  than splits, and then getting more singles than zeros, and at the end of all of that, you are significantly better off knowing this than the people who have no clue what the hell you and I are talking about   Have a great evening, see you tomorrow.

Bryan Beckstead, Time Management, Time Management System

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Internet Home Business Time Management Tip of the Week, April 11th – 17th

As most of you know, I  have a site that  is dedicated to Time Management, that is one of my passions and an area that I  feel I have the most to offer people. The majority of the people who come to this site come because they want to start their own Internet Home Business. I am in the process of re doing this  site, and getting most of the current links off the site because they are not ones that I would recommend to new, as well as experienced  people to have on their sites That is a discussion for a whole other day, today, is about Time Management, self management.

The Time Management Tip for this week is, Batch Your Interruptions.

This is a simple tool that you can use, starting today and its one that will start to save you time right off the bat. First, what is an interruption?  The definition we use in the Power Time Management System is this,  ” anything that interferes with you accomplishing your number one priority, is an interruption “  Think about that for a second, this definition is very narrow, it refers to everything that may detract from you accomplishing the specific task you are doing at the time.

Batching your interruptions means you want to time activate segments of your day when you  schedule the things and activities that will interrupt you when you are trying to get some key work accomplished, your priorities. What are the things that interrupt your day?,  telephone calls, drop in visitors, e mails, order desk,  co workers, self interruptions, research, link lounging, when your definition of an interruption is EVERYTHING but what you are working on now, this is just the tip of the ice berg.

Time Activating segments of your day means putting specific tasks into specific time slots, example, from 10:00 to 11: 00 I  want to clear all of my telephone messages, e mails, have the door of my office open to receive walk ins, etc. This time slot is not going to be  enough time to do all of those tasks, but it will enable you to address the most pressing and will allow you to satisfy the need we all have to see if we do have calls, emails, need to talk to people. By batching these  kinds of interruptions, we are accomplishing a number of key Time Management processes at once.

One of the worst destroyers of out productivity during the day is, the dreaded cell phone and its fellow time thieves. The second worst stealer of our time and productivity is checking our emails an insane amount of times per day. What batching your interruptions does, is allows some of us to satisfy our addictions to our  cell phones and our emails, and still manage to get some work done. If you own an Internet Home Business, you have to be able to separate what I call the housekeeping tasks, from the real work.

Real work are the jobs that move us forward, jobs that add value to what we are trying to do and when we add up the real work, we can point to the results and say, I am now more successful, happier and my Internet Home  Business has been moved forward. Start to look at the composition of your day, how much of your day do you allow housekeeping work to take up, and what is left over for you to accomplish real work in? While you  assess this, also pay attention to how often you allow an interruption to stop you from accomplishing an important task or key priority.   Have a great day, see you tomorrow.

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas

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There are Two Sides to Every Internet Home Business, the Heart Side and the Operational Side

If you are lucky, you will be able to handle both sides of your Internet Home Business in house, very lucky indeed. The more I delve into getting set up on the Internet, the more I realize I do not have a clue what the hell I am doing!! this may be a strange thing to say, since parts of this site, www.learn2earn2.com, are set up to help people set up their own Internet businesses, but none the less, I am saying that here. I just received a comment from someone who wanted to set up a link  between my site and his, similar sites, so it made sense.  Steve then started to explain ways to set up a 3 way link between his two sites and mine, etc etc, by the time he was finished, I had no ideas what he was talking about.

This was just another example of the complexities of operating on the Internet, maybe what he was talking about is common place on the Internet, may be it was a complex new way of doing simple link building. Here it is, take a look:

“As for your questions about the links, it depends. Google expects a certain amount of reciprocal links as well as one way links.  I prefer to do 3-way link exchanges with people when I can because they have more example: mysite1 links to your site which links to mysite2.  One can even go so far as mysite1 links to yoursite1 which links to mysite2 which links to yoursite2, etc.  that makes all the links 1 way, so they carry more weight.”

This may be common place, everyone may do it, you may say that you do it, but I can not help but  notice that what this process does, is try to manipulate the results, trick the search engines in thinking one thing when in fact that is not the case. I am talking to Steve about linking to his site, as well as other sites that I own, I know that links are important and we all want them, but at what cost and in what fashion?

When ever you ask 10 Internet experts the same question, you usually get 5 people saying its black and the other 5 saying it’s white, both sides are always convinced that they are 100 % correct. In this case, my issue and concern  is this, the links that I  would be setting up  in this case would not be organic in the sense that these are separate independent sites, they are sites owned by the same people and are being linked up not for value, but to trick  the search engines into thinking they are more relevant because of the way they are set up, not because of any true value.

There are two issues here, one is the value of the links to real people out there, and then the value, or the perceived value to the search engines, two very  different things. Steve has significantly more Internet experience working with new Internet Home Business owners and his suggestion to me, which by the way was a very kind explanation to my question to him, could be the norm and everybody does it and everybody is happy with that. Unfortunately, as I have pointed out here many times before, what the search engines want and what we want, are usually two very different things.

My advice, and focus is to build our web sites the organic way, taking proven steps to build a site, and then taking the time and effort to build our sites that way. Links back to our sites, from sites with similar content are looked upon as a positive with the search engines, I get un easy when I start to play around with that concept and try to out fox the SE.

I fully admit that in this area, I am really way over my head, any input from people with more experience in this area is very much  appreciated.   Have a great day, more on this I am sure will follow in the next few days.

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Free Internet Business

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More On Seperating the Scams from the Real Deals for Internet Home Business Owners

My last post just touched the surface regarding separating scams from the real deal for new people starting an Internet Home Business. How about this one,

If someone is suggesting they have a fast way, a REALLY fast way to do something that you know takes a long time, you can be pretty sure its a scam.

Example, getting ranked on the first page of a search engine for a fairly competitive key work, phrase. That takes months, or years to get there, depending upon the key word and how competitive it is. When some one suggests they have a fast way, an instant way to get that done, you are 99.99999% sure it’s going to be a scam.

There are many different scams, but I will touch on two here, the ones that effect people who are trying to get their Internet Home business set up and want to do it as soon as possible.

Scam 1. The most common one, they offer a deal, a system, an ebook, that simply does not work. They promise to send you traffic, get you indexed over night, top rankings on the search engines, all of them are just not possible, using some sort of short cut. They are playing a numbers game, with thousands, millions of potential customers out there, with their  operating costs almost zero, they can afford to go through a lot of people, get a few sales, and they make out like bandits.

The tip off is always this, these people, who ever they may be, have just managed to stumble upon a great system that only they have figured out, keeping in mind, their system, ALWAYS means they have figured out how to outsmart, collectively, the largest  corporations in the world, the search engines. Unfortunately, you and me,  the little Internet Home Business owners, are in competition with the search engines, we want what they have, and they need what we have, how we go about doing  our business makes us competitors.

It’s important to remember that if some actually had the key to the vault, KNEW for sure how to manipulate the search engines  it is incalculable  how much that knowledge would be worth., it is safe  to say they would not be selling it to  you or I for  $ 17.00 a pop.

2. They want your e mail address and the offer is just a ploy to get it. Fresh new email addresses from people who respond to these kinds of deal adds, are valuable to marketers of other scams , just like the one you signed up for. These people really can not lose, they set up a web site, yes, a long scrolling sales site, they blast the heck out of it, every person who clicks on the add to cart button, they will at least get your email address, and may have a shot at your being the 1 or 2 % who even when they get ripped off, do  not ask for a refund.

I have not even touched on the ones that never have any intention of honoring their refund policy, these guys make a 100 % profit on these sites.

There is no short cut, there is no magic formula that is going to make you successful. It’s hard work and its dedication. The Internet is a tough place to do business in, it has that double whammy, not only do you have to have something of value for sale, something people want, but you then have to get what you have for sale in front of real people.    See you tomorrow, have a great evening.

Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Free Internet Business

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