Are You Earning What You're Worth?

How much time are you spending trying to earn online?

Are your online activities bringing in the MINIMUM that you have expected them to?

If you think you're spending too much time trying to earn online without seeing results or you've seen some results but these aren't what you expected - and your expectations were really reasonable...

Maybe it's time to review your Primary program.

Here's a major mistake that most beginners make online when they are first attempting to build up an online income. I'll use a true example that just happened recently with a friend of mine.

A peer of mine asked me out for coffee recently and wanted to know what I was doing successfully online to earn money. My peer noticed, from some forum posts that I was earning a little money - FINALLY - and wondered if I was 'telling tales.'

I told her the truth - that I am earning modest amounts - but it has only been happening in the past 6mo or so - since I evaluated and selected a better PRIMARY PROGRAM than I started out with almost 3 years ago. I mentioned that I have also DROPPED some 'tiny' programs that were TIME-WASTERS!

"What do you mean by Primary program?" I was asked, so I told her 'My basic money earning program.'

"Oh I have a bunch of those," my friend said, "I am earning little pennies from a bunch of primary programs and am finding that all this work is just NOT WORTH IT!"

Whoops!

My friend wasn't REALLY aware of what 'Primary Program' means. Her idea of 'primary' program was PLURAL and was just like some of the programs that I recently dropped like hot potatoes! She thought that 'Primary' had something to do with 'paying' programs - almost anything that isn't a 'scam.'

Anyhow - I am still in the process of explaining to her that a Primary program is a non-scam, legitimate money earning program that is of HIGH QUALITY and that can be promoted through other means.

GDI (Though I am not involved with this one) is a Primary program that TONS of people are successfully earning money with. It is a Primary program that people 'focus' on building up. The other 'programs' that people use to combine with GDI and make their GDI business successful are the 'tiny' programs like traffic exchanges, newsletters, autoresponder follow-ups, various emailing (non-spam!) avenues and click programs.

Watkins (not involved in this company either, but I wish I was) is a Primary program that many people are successfully earning money with - in much the same way as GDI members are earning money.

Shaklee, Amway, Pay It Forward For Profits, Success University, and many others are legitimate Primary Programs.

With Shaklee, vitamins and health products are the products of focus. With Amway, a great variety of foods, health items, vitamins, cleaning products and household items are the cold, hard products that are worth promoting. With Pay It Forward, the Marketing program and training items are the products of focus, same with Success University.

The other 'tiny' programs aren't the main focus that brings in the money, when you are involved in Internet Marketing. Getting all your customers to your Primary program or to use the goods available at your primary program - this is what business is all about. You can gain some earnings from the 'tiny' programs you use, too, but what you are really concerned with is allowing your clients to gain access to Shaklee vitamins, Amway dish soap, PIF4P's 'Internet Marketing' lessons, Success University's 'Internet Business' training.

You see - what my friend believed about earning money online is that being involved in a hundred 'tiny' programs would earn her a lot of money if she just kept clicking regularly - and that people would 'catch on' and start signing up as her referrals and start making her life and work easier somewhere down the line.

This doesn't work - rather - this CAN WORK, but it would involve a person designing their OWN Primary program (which many Primary programs are about) which acts as a super downline builder.

It is much easier to utilize a 'cold, hard product' program that is already in existence and bring your potential referrals, clients to that, as your Primary program.

Although the 'design your own Primary program' is not a bad idea, unless you're a very experienced marketer already, this will be somewhat complicated and time-consuming for you to accomplish.

The second idea is much more reliable for someone who has less experience, someone like my friend. Part of the reason is that certain programs already have an excellent REPUTATION, and 'product' that people can use right away. Whether products are in the form of 'software,' 'lessons,' 'eBooks,' 'electronic gadgets,' 'cell phone accessories,' 'downloadable music,' or whatever, they are already good quality and SET UP for access!

I'll just leave you to think about these things. Figure out whether you're spending too much time making program owners (PTR, PTC, TE owners, perhaps) too much money and mistaking their program for a PRIMARY program - when really - you should be utilizing the 'tiny' programs to lead people to other hardcopy items, solid goods, or reputable services.

Are Your Forgetting Something?

Do you use Hotmail? If so, have you clicked around INSIDE Hotmail but outside your email area?

Do you use Yahoo? If so, have you clicked around INSIDE Yahoo but outside your email area?

Do you use Opera? If so...

Did you know that these sites have SPACE for you to use?

See if you can figure out what I might be trying to tell you.....

*Hint* What are you doing with your free Space?

Due To Comments

Between posts, while I have allowed 'comments' to be posted on this blog, I have received notification that my blog is bordering on 'SPAM.'

Apparently, this isn't due to my content - it's due to the comments which are 'Spam.'

I have allowed these in the past because I know how hard it is to get a link out there for people to see. Even though I was displeased with some of the 'comments' people were leaving, I allowed them anyhow, hoping that the person who posted would come back and comment again, leaving REAL INFORMATION and not just a referral link.

If you leave a 'comment,' please leave a contact address, as well.

I have some other blogs, as well, and other viewers/readers who leave PROPER comments elsewhere have received more exposure from me when their comments were proper and valuable. I often bring the comment right to an official blog post and make sure that readers are going to see the commenter's links and words.

Basically, I will re-post the comment into a blog entry and credit the person who commented so that they receive traffic. In this way, I hope to help give some exposure to anyone who leaves decent information and decent program links in my 'comments' section.

Please don't just cruise on by, see that my blog is getting traffic, and then blab your links into my comments area.

Leave a contact address or YOUR blog address through 'Blogger' so that I have a reasonable way to contact you.

I will disable the 'comment' feature if things don't get better. Although this won't be a great situation for me - it will be an even more limiting situation for YOU as readers, if you lose the privilege of both posting comments on my blog AND having me highlight your interests by pushing your comments up to the top of the blog in a regular blog post.

A 'Proper' comment is one that involves information about your opinion on things you have seen on this blog - not simply a fly-by posting of your referral link

Sacrifice One Evening - Check This Out Instead

Are you willing to give up just 1 Evening of party-going, 1 Date night, or 1 Evening out for supper - in order to get started with an important Internet Marketing tool that is totally NECESSARY for earning money online?

Actually, if you 'Party' like most people, you'd spend way, WAY more than $20 in an evening, I'm sure. I would!

That's what this marketing tool costs. $20 and that's it. One payment - no worry about monthly membership fees or maintaining a monthly 'upgrade,' in order to use this:

Unlimited Autoresponders - One Time Payment - $20

Oh yeah - on top of Unlimited Autoresponders, you'll find an entire traffic generating and online money earning system. This is all available once you acquire your autoresponders.

If you need listbuilding tools...

Blog Value Went UP!

Awesome - I'm excited. I checked and my blog value went up - from $6774.48 to $7339 and two cents change! I updated on the right side-bar.

If you want to check your blog value, try this:

How Much Is Your Blog Worth?
(opens in new window)

Although the value that How Much Is Your Blog Worth assigns to your blog doesn't necessarily mean that you are being PAID from any one source the said amount of money, the code that How Much Is Your Blog Worth can provide you with can add a nice graphic to your blog.

It's easy to use the code - just copy and paste into your blog template.

Enjoy

:)

Feed Shark

Possibililties for EVERYTHING online

Don't buy in to all of the ads that say you can make money ONLY by clicking here, reading this or that and then you'll collect money. The ones that imply that 'All You Have To Do Is...'

Also - Don't buy all the crap that says you can NEVER earn REAL MONEY with clicks and read-for-pay programs.

Please beware of statements that are far off to one side of the Always-Never continuum. There are always possibilities in the middle!

Though there are even very LEGITIMATE read for pay sites out there, they usually don't provide each individual with enough reading material to make a really decent payout possible on a regular basis.

The Solution(s):

1. Basic email marketing tactics to gain referrals and build a mailing list
2. Forum promotion tactics (posting in forums and displaying the URL of your choice program in your forum signature) - combined with list-building, email follow-up
3. Traffic Exchanges, both manual and auto - combined with 'email capture' methods
4. Word of mouth, combined with email follow-up
5. Banner exchanges - combined with leading to a squeeze page for 'email capture'
(* Hint - all LIST-BUILDING TECHNIQUES, and all about EMAIL!!)

There are a lot of other methods for promotion, too, but I didn't intend this post to be about every method of promotion. I intended to make a post to alleviate some of the 'ABSOLUTE' statements that go around online all the time. Also, I thought it best to show how important EMAILING is for making money online.

Basically, you CAN TOO earn money online with ONLY "Paid To Perform" programs, however, you must still learn some of the same 'marketing tactics' that other kinds of businesses use online.

You will rarely see a windfall with just clicking, reading emails and signing up for trial programs. This is the 'scammy' part of program advertising (being told that small actions and minimal effort are all there is to making money online), however, if there wasn't a way to really earn online, all the PTC (Paid to Click), PTSU (Paid To Sign Up), PTR (Paid To Read) and PTP (Paid To Promote/Participate) programs online would just fall away completely.

The TRUTH:

These programs DO PROVIDE people with ways to earn good money.

The part of TRUTH that is missing from most promotions:

These programs require EXPERIENCE in the field of (email) marketing for individuals to actually make good money.
(*Another hint - think 'autoresponder').

Most programs only give out the 'possible' outcome of participating in the program but will not show you how to accomplish making money with the program.

In this - most PTC, PTSU, PTR, and PTP programs make a KILLING on user upgrades from NEWBIES who still don't know how to promote effectively, build a referral base and market themselves and their programs online. The sites will take the money and run. They're not breaking any rules - they're just putting out the 'opportunity.' It is up to clients, users, members to learn how the programs work.

Because of this, I am still involved in a few PTC, PTR and similar programs but I don't promote to full extent. I have other interests and am much more interested in Product Creation, Proof reading and Editing, Writing, Resales and Hard-Copy products.

The PTCs, etc., that I'm still involved with provide me with some affordable advertising opportunities, exposure for my other interests, and are beneficial to me in other ways - even if I don't upgrade and market an entirely PTC-based affiliate business.

I'm providing this information because I have had some emails recently from members I chat with in PTC/PTR forums who like my blogs and KNOW that I am present in PTC/PTR circles but they always wonder why I don't put PTC/PTR information on my blogs when I'm obviously having some success with the programs.

The truth is - because PTC/PTR isn't my main earning interest. I use these programs as part of my 'toolbox' for earning online, not as my main source of earning online.

I have made a choice not to participate fully in marketing these programs, simply because my interests and skills lie elsewhere. Frankly, I'm not very good at keeping organized with the number of PTC and PTR programs that I feel I would need to be involved with in order to earn a good living. That's my downfall - I don't organize my sets of programs well, so it would be a disaster for me to make these programs my main source of online income. I engage more with 'already organized' programs, downline builders, and affiliate centre programs instead. These programs keep everything organized FOR ME.

People who do well with PTR and PTC-ing seem to be very VERY good organizers! A few of my acquaintances are still baffled as to why I don't 'get on their boat' but the truth is - They are more organized and more creative with organizational methods than I am. They have organized their autoresponders, PTC/PTR Lessons for referral training, and are organized with providing help to the participant of the programs they promote.

I caved and looked for easier programs, plain and simple. I post on blogs and 'wing-it' with whoever comes by to read my material. My PTC/PTR Peers stay in better contact with their 'list' of readers and participants.

Which brings me around to the first points on this blog post. My acquaintances who are earning good money with programs that most people label as 'distasteful' and 'total scam programs,' are doing so in legal, organized ways. They are using the same kinds of tools and methods that many other fields of marketing and money earning use:

Autoresponders, email marketing, list-building.

I'll let readers think about this for a bit while I go check my email - I made sure to send out a few emails to 'friends' to let them know that I finally posted on my blog about the validity of PTC/PTR-ing. Hopefully when they visit the blog, they will feel supported now!

:)

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