Most people decide to start an online business the wrong way. They start with a product or an idea, slap up a website and sit back to wait for the hordes of traffic to come in.

They shortsightedly see their business in a one dimensional way and so the business flops.

A successful business is like a 3D puzzle that has all of the pieces put in place from every angle.

Level One: Research

There are several questions you must ask before building your business:

1. What niche are you going into?
2. Is there pain in that niche? Are people desperate for a solution and willing to pull out their wallets.
3. Who exactly is your target audience?
a) Male, Female or Both
b) Age group
c) Income Level
d) Education Level
e) Where do they hang out online
4. What are their main concerns? This can be determined by surveying them and getting the answers straight from them.
5. What products are already on the market to help them?
6. Can you create a better product that is better than what is out there or will you market someone else’s products with a great reputation?
7. How much competition is there in the market?

Level Two: Building the Foundation

1. Create a siloed site around the questions and keywords they use
2. Create a product that solves their problems or get permission to market someone else’s products.
3. Create a sales funnel, including sales letters, upsells and downsells
4. Create an autoresponder with follow up messages and a free report for list building
5. Create you social media accounts – Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, etc….
6. Link your social media accounts to your website
7. Create an IFTT account or syndwire account to syndicate content.
8. Join Forums, groups that these people congregate in and build a relationship before you market to them
9. Form JV alliances, if you are marketing your own product

Level Three: Launch and Market

1. Create Marketing materials for your affiliates and any JV partners
2. Announce your launch, if your own product, on sites like Muncheye
3. Launch
4. Promote on Facebook Twitter, Linked in, Youtube, Forums, etc..
5. Create PPC and Retargeting Campaigns
6. Continue to interact with your target audience, continue building relationships, along with selling your product
That is the basic framework of your 3 Dimensional Business Model. Go through these steps and you will be 90 percent ahead of your competition.

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This is a guest post written by Caterina Christakos.

We have all heard it…Content Is King! But I have seen so many people struggle to keep up with fresh valuable content. Are you on the same boat?

Today I want to share my content strategy with you. It’s all about working smart, NOT hard.

Ok, so here’s the thing…who says you have to keep coming up with fresh content to get new traffic. As long as you are creating valuable content the first time, then you can reuse your content multiple times to reach traffic from multiple sources. Sounds simple enough, right?

Let me introduce you to my content circle. The content circle is made up of:

• Forum Posts
• Blog Post
• Facebook Live
• YouTube Video
• Facebook Ads

You can start from any point of the circle, hence the circle, and you will see the same great results. But for the interest of this article, let’s start with forum posts.

Forum Posts

This is a perfect place to start if you don’t know what to write about. Head over to sites like Quora or Reddit and find questions to answer within your niche. Answer the question that is being asked and provide as much value as you can. This will help you later when you reuse the content plus it builds your credibility.

Here is a trick I use to drive traffic from these forums. At the end of my answer, I insert something like this:

“Did my answer help? You can let me know on my blog or reach out to me through Facebook. And let me know if this was helpful.”

I tailor it to fit the answer so it’s not the same every time but you get the idea. This helps me drive traffic to my blog and helps me connect with people on Facebook. You will be surprised to how many people have reached out to me from adding this part at the end of my answers.

Blog Posts

Ok, now that I have a well written full of value content in a form of a forum post, I simply modify it a bit to make it a blog post. For example, I take out the part about visiting my blog because people are already on my blog.

Just some very simple minor edits that takes me about 5 mins to do. Then, they get scheduled to my blog as a post.

Here is an example of the question I answered and the blog post that came out of it:

Quora Question Link

Blog Post Link

On this blog post, I simply told my readers that this was a forum post and pasted my answer. I just added an intro and an ending to the article.

This was me being lazy but you see that it doesn’t take that much work.

Facebook Live

You already have the content, you know that people are asking the question. Why not share the answer with your Facebook Friends that might have the same question?

As long has you know the content, Facebook Live is very easy to do. It really is as simple as pressing a button and talking about your topic.

I know I said that it is super simple but for some of you, it might not be. You might be camera shy or just not feel comfortable with talking to people. That’s ok…here are some tricks to help you overcome those fears.

• Create a Script: Done! You already have your forum post; that is your script.
• Practice: Practice saying your script in front of the mirror. You have already used this content twice so you already know it. You just need to talk to it. Practice it a couple of times and you will be great at it.
• Practice Again: If you feel like you are ready after practising in front of a mirror, then go for it. If you still feel nervous, then practice on Facebook. When you click on Go Live on Facebook, you have the option of selecting who you go live to. Click on the Public drop-down menu and select ‘Only Me’. Then go for it because only you will be able to see it. After you are done, you don’t have to post it on your timeline. Once you start nailing it, then go live to the public.

YouTube Video

After you finish your Facebook Live, then you have the option of downloading your video before you post it on your timeline. Download the video!

Now you have a video to post on your YouTube channel. Wait…did we just upload a video to YouTube that is packed with valuable content in like less than 5 mins? Oh yes we did!

If you are not so happy about the Facebook Live video, then no problem. You already have the script ready, just create another video using the script without the pressure of being live.

And just like that, another free traffic source added to your funnel.

Facebook Ads

Have you ever browsed around on Amazon…then you logged off to go to Facebook and BOOM you just found an ad for the same thing you were looking at on Amazon.

What just happened?

You my friend, have just been targeted. Don’t worry though, it’s not the end of the world. The best part is that it is very easy for you to do that with your blog too. You don’t have to be big like Amazon.

So, how do you do it?

Facebook has an ads manger, where you can log in and handle all your ads that you run through them. In the ads manager, you can get a pixel to put on your blog or any other site you have. A pixel is just a fancy word for a short code that will track who visits your site.

So say you installed the pixel on your blog. Someone from your forum post visits your blog and then leaves. Chances are they are never going to come back again but you have the pixel installed. So you go into our Facebook ads manager and run a campaign that retargets everyone that has visited your site.

This is very targeted traffic and it allows you the opportunity to build trust with them. What could be better?

Oh yes, there is one thing. You already have content from your blog, your Facebook Live and your YouTube Video that you can use for your Facebook Ad. Yes, that is definitely better…no extra work creating the content and ton of targeted traffic.

There you have it, one jam packed with value content used 5 different ways to get you traffic from different sources. It doesn’t get any better than this.

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This post was written by Shreya Banerjee. She believes in making fairy dust through hard work because there is no magic wand for Internet Marketing. Want to know how? Connect with her on her blog and Facebook.

BEST OF FACEBOOK

According to recent studies, 47 percent of Facebook users say that Facebook has the greatest impact on the purchase behavior. That is compared to just about 34 percent in 2015. Now interestingly enough, Twitter actually ranks about 5% and lower. So, what does that mean? That means that, if you really want to drive person’s behavior within all the social networks, you have to use Facebook and you have to have a Facebook presence.

Now, what’s amazing is that Facebook has a large opportunity in communicating with consumers in a non-intrusive way. So, in other words if done correctly you can make sales
without having to directly sell. Right! Hence, if your business doesn’t have a Facebook presence that is optimized the right way, you actually missing out on a lot of potential leads, sales and relationships.

If you’re a local business owner thinking, well there’s no way in the world that this impacts me. Then let me show you some stats. Surprising stats from recent local search studies show people that use Facebook actually use Facebook for local business searches to find out what people are really saying about your business. In fact, Facebook is only outranked by Google Maps and that means if your business isn’t on Facebook, there’s no doubt in my mind that you’re missing out on attracting prospective customers and building brand recognition.

So, as you can see, whether you’re a local business owner or online business owner that sells a product or service, it doesn’t matter. You need to have an optimized Facebook presence or
else you’re leaving money on the table. Now Facebook is not just for teenagers or college students alone. In fact, just in the USA market alone, 55 percent of Americans about ages 45 to 54 have a profile on the social networking site.

Let’s Take a Look at Some Up to Date 2016 Facebook Stats: –

– Users to date – 1.65billion on a monthly basis
– Facebook Daily Users – 109 billion daily users
– Monthly percentage of Facebook users – 66.1 %
– Which country are Facebook users more active – Canada
– The average number of female friends – 166
– The average number of male friends – 145
– Average time spent per user per day on Facebook – 20 minutes
– Daily users in USA – 167 million
– Adult Women Users USA – 66%
– Adult Male Users USA – 77%
– Europe active users – 233 million
– Europe active users per month – 315 million
– UK daily users – 24 million
– Asia monthly users – 522 million
– Male users – 42%
– Age between 18 to 29 – 34%
– Over 65 years old – 45%
– Bachelors degree – 30%
– India active users – 142 million
– Users in India accessing via mobile phones – 90%
– Chinese male users – 34.9%
– Chinese female users – 65.1%
– Russia users – 6.04%
– Vietnam users – 30 million
– Thailand users – 28 million
– Millionaires users – 57%
– Australia users – 93%
– Japan users – 37.7%
– Facebook users shopping online – 69%
– Video views on Facebook daily – 8 billion

There you have it. Pretty amazing stats on Facebook. Don’t you agree?

Now I know I know that brings you to the big question. How do you optimize
your presence on Facebook the right way? Which is what you want in the end. Which brings you results in terms of conversions, sales, profits and more.

There are 4 key focus areas to address in order to optimize your Facebook presence and to make sure that you succeed: –
1. You need to create a customized action plan
2. You’re going to need to brand your company
3. You need a Facebook Marketing Blueprint plan
4. You need rapid speed content creation so that you don’t have to worry about sitting there for hours and hours and hours creating content.

Let’s address their outlines so that you can see exactly what you’re getting into. Then I’m going to show you exact samples so you know what to expect and more.

Basically before we jump right in, I’m going to give you a quick overview of each area. You’re going to learn how the system works and what you need to get started. Then of course we going to go over the 4 key focus areas.

KEY FOCUS AREA 1

Action Plan
You need an Action Plan. What is important to learn is how to create an action plan. Before we look at these 4 key focus areas, you want to make sure that you understand your personalized customized action plan before you get started so that you can actually succeed.

KEY FOCUS AREA 2

Branding
This brings us to Key Focus Area 2 which is branding. Getting ready to get your brand onto Facebook. A lot of people make the mistake of just jumping onto Facebook and creating a Facebook fan page and assuming that it’s going to work. If you do not have your brand set up, then that is going to complicate things and make things harder for you in the long run.

Memorable Slogans
You want to make sure that you set yourself up for success. Therefore, on that point, you must create a memorable slogan for your Facebook presence.

Colors
You need to learn how to use colors to sell subconsciously so you can actually tap in the subconscious mind and create a specific environment.

Quality Logo
Learn how to create a high quality and low price logo. However, if you do have a logo, you might want to consider upgrading your existing logo. I can show you how to do that as well.

Use of Mascot
You also need to know how to use mascots to brand your company on Facebook.

KEY FOCUS AREA 3

Facebook Traffic
This brings us to Key Focus Area 3 which is the Facebook traffic section. Do you actually know how to drive traffic to your Facebook fan page and how to do it the correct way? Would you like to learn how to do it? Then keep on reading.

Right Mindset
How do you get into the right mindset to gain free traffic from Facebook? It all comes down to quality over quantity. Quality focused fans over Quantity of fans.

Demographics
How to find your demographics of your audience and find the framing of their mind so that you can understand how to read some more impact fully.

High Engagement Groups
This brings us to High Engagement Groups. Do you know how to find high engagement groups with a lot of active followers? This is key to learn how to do it in order to be successful on Facebook.

Seek and Find Fans
You will now need to search and find active fans so that you can build up your fan page. Building up your fan page is an important role in terms of sales, profit, products and services that you offer.

How to Find Engaging Fans
How to find engaging fans and how do you really engage with them. There is a right way and a wrong way. Which one are you following right now?

Outsource and Automate
Then of course from that point on you need to know how to outsource and automate this process if you don’t want to do this yourself. If you want to do it yourself that’s fine. You don’t have to automate or else outsource this process.

KEY FOCUS AREA 4

Content
Key Focus Area 4 is content. Created content is key, because that’s what keeps the community growing. People are interested in your videos, your post and everything like that. That keeps the conversation going, because you don’t want the conversation to stop.

Create Simple Video Intros
That brings us to creating simple video intros. If you want to make sure that you brand yourself every time you put out a new interesting video, you want to make sure that you have a good video intro that brands you and your company. So that when somebody leaves your site, that brand sticks in their minds.

Build Trust
Build trust with educational videos are also very important. In this case we’re going to use edutainment. Basically educational videos that are entertainment as well.

Branding Facebook Post
Let’s now look at branding with Facebook post. I will show you in a specific video a secret method that reveals to you how to create content at a rapid speed pace. So, don’t worry about having to sit there for hours and hours and hours creating content. I will show you how to create lots and lots of content within a few minutes.

Conclusion
You can make money on Facebook if you do it the right way and if you follow your action plan. You have to make sure that you put everything into action in order to succeed.

Well, we’ve created a 20-part video course and the purpose of it is to help you drive free traffic from Facebook and build a community of Facebook fans. Not just any type of fan, but the action taker type fan.

So, now what I want to do is to show you a simple video so you know exactly what to expect in the video course. In this particular video you get to see the overview of the whole course.

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This is a guest post written by Nadeem Bijley. If you would like to be considered for a guest post please contact me.

Many exciting and easy to start business ventures have emerged on the Internet in the past decades and more would emerge in the next few years with greater advancements in technologies. One of the sprouting online business ventures today is wikiHow.

This is an interesting web platform that offers a host of relevant guides on ‘How-to’ in a myriad of tasks and projects which consumers may be interested to know. This impressive online virtual ‘guidebook’ is extensive on its offering with a growing list of items as the days go by.

What wikiHow Offers

The primary objective of this online platform is to provide high quality e-manuals on tasks and projects. It reveals in simple steps how things could be handled, made and developed in easy approaches with the best of materials and skills using sufficient knowledge to guide the explorer.

This useful platform has attracted millions of readers and fans who are constantly seeking for ‘Know-how’ solutions on the various types of tasks at hand. A wide array of task categories is available with well developed online guides to assist users from start to finish with resounding success.

A special web-based community is formed with the flexibility of contributors of relevant guides on any category of task. Every interested individual is welcomed to submit their own guide on their preferred task or project as well as make edits to existing pages to enhance the quality of the guide posted. Edits to posted guides could include adding on pictures or correcting inaccurate instructions as well as correcting typo errors or grammatical mistakes in the article.

The platform boasts of thousands of ‘How-to’ guides from all walks of life across the globe with a high ranking by Google Analytics. It also boasts of being one of the most popular websites with millions of readers every month.

There are certain standards and formats which a wikiHow article or guide must comply with to be posted and viewed.

Money Spinning Opportunity

wikiHow is a special online site that is driven by writers and editors who are primarily volunteers. These individuals collaborate dynamically to generate high quality ‘How-to’ guide articles to benefit those seeking simple and free solutions to their daily needs that would enhance their living.

Contributors could come from any part of the earth with online submissions if they have a plausible solution to a problem or task that needs a simple solution. Contributors who have dynamic solutions in addressing certain problems or difficulties in life or work could submit their helpful information for sharing on this network to benefit others in that predicament.

One of the ways in which a wikiHow writer or editor could generate income from their article contribution is through paid advertising on the article pages. A lot of businesses are willing to pay the contributors for an ad space on their ‘How-to’ guide pages if these contributing writers or editors are notable on their writing skills in developing great guide articles on this platform.

Article contributors may choose their preferred paid ads to be displayed along their articles for a fee if they were offered by interested advertising merchants. Setting changes on these ads could be controlled by the article contributor to allow or disallow the ad to pop up when one logs in.

With the primary objective of wikiHow being the main focal point of article contributors, sharing ‘How-to’ information freely on this platform is essential. However, a personal blog could be developed to promote the wikiHow article with paid advertisements to generate the desired income. This may be an indirect money spinning opportunity which holds true to the basis of wikiHow.

Many online entrepreneurs expand their market reach and visibility for their personal Internet business ventures by participating in wikiHow with excellent ‘How-to’ guides that are posted on this platform for free. However, these enterprising entrepreneurs also have their own web business site where they post high quality related content that is interesting and captivating to drive massive traffic to boost their own online business ventures. Backlinks may be considered on wikiHow guide articles to direct traffic from this platform to the entrepreneur’s web business site for a greater exposure to the business.

wikiHow contributors could also be affiliate marketers who manipulate affiliate marketing to benefit themselves in earning more side income. This simple marketing option allows the affiliate marketer cum wikiHow contributor to enjoy more earnings with a simple integration of both platforms if executed professionally.

Promotional products and services could be readily introduced professionally through article marketing and blogs on behalf of selected merchants. This would open the floodgates to more traffic and sales for higher profits desired by the marketer. Every affiliate product or service could be generated as a ‘How-to’ guide on behalf of the advertising merchant who may offer excellent commissions for every high quality guide article published on wikiHow.

wikiHow contributors who are creative in their literary skills could seek out companies that have a variety of products and services to be promoted to generate appropriate ‘How-to’ guide articles on wikiHow for free but be paid by the company. That same company could also advertise its web business site on that article page if endorsed by the wikiHow contributor. High commissions could be secured for generating a well written wikiHow guide article, especially if the response to the article is encouraging. But more pay could be garnered with the permitted company ad on the guide page itself. Hence, the wikiHow contributor would be basically reaping a double income from the same source when the article is manipulated in different approaches.

Conclusion

A little creativity and initiative is all that is needed for a wikiHow contributor to make big bucks on this philanthropic platform. Such contributors would certainly feel good to share their knowledge and skills freely to assist those who are unable to afford professional assistance, but at the same time, these contributors are able to generate some income for themselves.

Nothing feels better than being able to contribute to society with a side income.

If you want to receive more tips on how you can make money online you can visit Dirk Wagner’s website at the link below. He will give away 90 How-To videos plus several other goodies which will help you a lot to start a successful online business.

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This is a guest post written by Dirk Wagner, if you’d like to be considered for a guest post contact me.

Can a newbie really sell an internet marketing product on the the Warrior Forum or in JV Zoo and earn money?

If you are a nobody (a.k.a. newbie) like me and you are selling “how to” information products, your chance of getting sales and building a buyers list is from zero to slim. You just cannot teach about getting traffic and coaching those marketing tactics because you have to establish first your credibility to a tightly knitted community which will take time to nurture. You can try PLR pdfs and videos, but it won’t cut it because the WF buyers will know you are not the author or an expert you claim to be at all.

The Warrior Forum, arguably the biggest internet marketers’ forum is populated by experienced marketers and newbies looking for gurus or mentors. So how did I do it and what you should do too?

What should you be selling first if you are a newbie and have no connections?

Marketing software is the best product to sell. First, it has a higher perceived value compared to training courses, pdfs and videos. Second, if the software is top-notch, the buyers won’t give a damn if you are a newbie or not. Remember the “what’s in it for me” is the mantra of most of the buyers. The demo of the how good the software and how it can help them in their marketing efforts are the ones doing the selling.

Look at the top 3 bestselling products to date in JV Zoo below are all software. Need I say any more? The figures speak for themselves. No contest really.

But software development is costly and I am not sure if the is what the marketers want ?

There is another easy way. Buy reseller or agency rights. I have bought agency rights for $10 as a bonus from a developer many times over and have sold it and I am still selling it on JV Zoo with my own affiliates to boot. I have bought 200 reseller rights for less than $200 which I already have earned 15 times the purchase price and I’m still halfway to finish selling all the rights. I just recently paid another $10 for a product for the bonus of having my product emailed to thousands of subscribers. And guess what product I promoted?  A reseller software product I have in JVZoo and it has done well for a $10 purchase.

Look at my sales in WSO forum below. While majority of the gurus and the veterans in the Warrior Forum are selling their wares from a ridiculously 5 dollars to 17 dollars and have to answer to so many doubters, I am selling my reseller software products for… wait for it… $47 a pop. A pricey one compared to the average sale price inside the forum. You can check my WSO sales page here to learn how I presented the product.

What are the guidelines I followed in choosing a good reseller software products ?

1. Only buy reseller rights from top-notch software developers with world class support. There are many of them but be careful of some the fly-by-night ones that disappears once the software has major problems.
2. Make sure that the software was a best seller when launched. The software I am selling had more than 3,000 plus happy buyers. Buy only software that has sold at least a thousand with no bad feedback.
3. Support should be handled directly by the developer himself so you will be hands off from any technical support. Your role is to make sure the buyer has no problem accessing the product. If the developer cannot do support for the life of the software, then it is a sign that it is not a good buy and may trigger refunds.

Where can I find a top-notch software I can use to build a buyers list ?

Most of these reseller softwares are on limited time only and comes as special from time to time only. However, you might qualify to receive free 4 top-notch softwares  available in Profit Canvas Pro if you are serious about list building using email autoresponders.

So where will I go from here after they bought the software ?

Every buyer will be a part of your buyers list as long as you have an autoresponder integrated into JVZoo. It is a must that you own a reseller software products in JVZoo to build a buyers list. How to develop and nurture your buyers list is another topic but in general, you should continue to give then valuable content as you go through. One example is this real experience post I shared to my buyers list which can be another stream of income for them.

Did you find this post helpful ?  You can visit my blog at eknowledgesite.com  for more e-learning  practical strategies.

This is a guest post written by Carlo Viana, if you want to be considered for a guest post contact me.