How to Earn Extra Income & Spend More Time with Your Family

You hear people talking all the time about how nice it would be to work from home but how difficult it is to tap into the market of real work at home opportunities. This is not an uncommon quandary that plagues many mothers who must work and find that their only alternative is to place their children in daycare centers or the care of relatives. The reality of earning money is not a choice; it is the way we survive.

The good news is that you can earn extra income from home that will allow you to spend more time with your family. Whether you are a traditional family with children, a single mom or dad who has just one child or a family of a different type makes no difference at all. It is a proven fact that there are some great opportunities that help you walk away from the rat race of commuting to a 9 to 5 job every day and let’s face it, who wouldn’t want more time with their loved ones without sacrificing necessary money?

When you are looking for a way to earn extra income, it’s important that you don’t strike out unprepared. This means you need to do your home work and take the time to conduct due diligence on programs or ideas that you are considering. Nothing beats being prepared when the time and opportunity comes along. Persistence is a vital key when searching for work at home programs that not only meet your financial needs but give you the time you want to spend with your family.

One of the best ways to earn extra income is to look for something you love to do. Perhaps you have a hobby that you enjoy such as crocheting or knitting and you’re good at it. There are many ways to advertise your product to others without ever leaving your home. Working at home does not mean you won’t work hard sometimes. In fact, to get started with a valid way to earn extra income, you may work harder than your regular job to get things up and running. The time and effort you invest will pay awesome rewards when the money starts to come in and your family benefits from having you around and available more often.

Choosing a way to earn extra income at home is just as important as the process you would go through to decide on accepting a job offer. Make sure that the work you choose is something you want to do. Remember that just because you are trying to earn extra income at home does not mean that you’ll have all the free time in the world to do it. Your household routines will still exist.

Likewise, don’t overwhelm yourself in the search for ways to earn extra income and take the time to trust your instinct. If something seems too good to be true, chances are it’s a gimmick. There are great ways to earn extra income that have no out of pocket cost for you to start. Stay the course and you too can increase your money and have more time to spend with your family.

At Worldprofit we offer training, support, software and advertising for people working from home.  We can help you promote any business you are currently involved, or we can tap you into hundreds and hundreds of other products and services you can sell from home.  We started as a home based business ourselves back in 1994 and now help others profit from home as well.  Get a free Associate membership and see what we offer to help you build your home business by going to http://www.worldprofit.com/

   

25 SURE-FIRE Ways to Advertise your Business, Product or Service FREE!

Are you a little guy or gal,  business or non-profit organization with limited advertising dollars?

Here are 25 things you can do right now to promote your business and it won't cost you one cent!

Each of the 25 ways to get free advertising for your site will take you only about 5 minutes!

Dig in and get started to get free advertising for your site.

1. Join one or more Social Networking Sites. Essentially you put up a profile, a little about your business, products or interests and start posting.

Post your website address, the benefits of what you offer, why people need what you offer and so forth.
Start here at one of our favorite social networking sites devoted to home business.
http://community.worldprofit.com/

Don't stop there though you can use Google to find more, and of course you have heard of FaceBook.com one of the biggest social networking sites so get an account there too.

http://www.myspace.com
http://www.youtube.com/ (post your free video about your product or service)
http://www.MeetUp.com

2. Get a blog. Blogs are essentially a website that is all about YOU, and what YOU offer. What you are reading right now is my blog .You can chat, write, discuss, post and blog as much as you like and the price is the same - free!

Here is an example of one of our other blogs.

http://worldprofithomebiz.blogspot.com/

Get your blog and one or more of the following sites at no cost.

http://www.blogger.com/

or

http://www.wordpress.org/


These are just two sites we recommend there are lots of free blog sites.

3. Submit your URL to Google. Remember the magic word - FREE - well submit your website at the most popular search engine of all.

http://www.google.com/addurl/

4. SHOUT OUT about your business at this site and tell the world what you offer:

http://shoutmybusiness.com/

It's a kind of business story sharing site, but you can post as often as you like and the price is always zero to place your listing.

5. Classified Ad sites really do produce traffic and amount to more free advertising for your product or business.

Here are some that we like:

http://www.classifiedads.com/

http://www.craigslist.org/

http://www.snnap.com/ 

http://www.theadnet.com/


6. Text exchanges are new and a great way to get free advertising for your site. It is an exchange of ads and is hugely popular.

This is the one that we provide: http://freepromohere.com/

Here are some other popular sites you can also use:

http://www.txtswap.com/

http://www.elephantad.com/

7. If you can write then you can take advantage of Article Marketing!

Write articles and you have a huge vehicle for free promotion.

Here's our favorite recommendations:

http://ezinearticles.com/

http://articles.worldprofit.com/

http://www.svwsticker.com/

http://www.articlesbase.com/

http://www.findarticles.com/


8. Get a Lens at Squidoo.

Your Lens can be about anything you like, and you can create new ones or edit old ones as often as you like.
To get yours go to: http://www.squidoo.com/


9. Submit your site to Yahoo.

Here is the Submit URL link: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

Hint: You will need to sign up for a Yahoo account to submit your website.


10. Get a Twitter account and start Tweeting about your business, product, service or opportunity.

It will take you about 30 seconds to set up your account:

Go to http://www.twitter.com/
 
That's it for now, 25 great places to advertise your product, your service or your opportunity free. Don't you love the Internet.
 
Sandi Hunter
E-Businesss Consultant

Grade Your Website for Search Engine Effectiveness, here's how.

For those of you who want a quick analysis of how well your site is optimized, I suggest a website called Website Grader. They offer a free tool and according to their website, this SEO tool measures the marketing effectiveness of a website.  It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

To check the Grade of your site in terms of Search Engine Optimization you just enter your website address (or that of your competitor's) and within a few minutes an easy to read report is generated.

This tool generates data on the most important facotrs related to optimizing your site for search engine indexing, specifically:

metatags
image labels
heading tags
inbound or backlinks (these are extremely important, watch for my blog on this topic)
age of domain
page rank in Google
findability
popularity

A score out of 100 is generated based on the anaylsis of the website and suggestions are made on how you can improve your grade. You can make the changes then check back to see if your Search Engine Optimization grade has improved.

Get this free Search Engine Optimizaton tool at http://www.websitegrader.com/

There are far more comprehensive SEO tools available but for those of you who like quick and easy, this is a nice tool. The report is generated quickly, and the suggestions easy to implement and are proven effective strategies for improving your search engine ranking.

How to Get Data on Who is Visiting Your Website: Making use of Website Traffic Analysis Tools

If you have a website chances are you want to know some details about your traffic.

You may wonder how may hits am I getting each day? Each month? In the last year? Is my traffic going up or down, when and why?

How are my visitors finding my site?

Where in the world are my visitors from?

Did my visitors find my site through a link, if so what link and where?

Did they find my site through a search engine and if so with what key word(s)?

Search engine optimization and marketing can be a tricky and complex process for website owners.

Fortunately for both newcomers to the web and long time site owners, you can get all of this information and much more with a free tool from Google.  It's called Google Analytics.

Once you have the kind of detailed traffic data that Google Analytics provides, you will be able to write better-targetted ads, power up your marketing campaigns and set realistic goals with strategies to get more traffic and more sales.

Business owners, webmasters and web marketers love this tool. It's easy to use, you get lots of charts and time analysis tools that are extremely useful when creating intelligent marketing campaigns.
As nice as it is that Google offers you and I this free tool, they are also interested in you understanding more about search engine marketing so that you will purchase AdWords or participate in AdSense.  Either way the Google Analytics tool is worth a look for anyone doing business online.

Get Google Analytics free here:   http://www.google.com/analytics

Building Landing Pages (Splash Pages): 5 Keys to Getting a Better Response

Landing Pages are also called Capture Pages and sometimes Splash Pages. The purpose is always the same, to convert a reader into a lead. Landing pages are usually a few lines of copy or a pitch and a contact information form. If people are interested they fill out the form to get more details on what you have to offer. Landing pages are usually a short page that people land on when they respond to a post or advertising link you have placed online.


Put simply, people read your Landing page and are either not interested and click away or, are interested, respond and provide you with their contact information. They do this in exchange for receiving information on your offer, product or services.

We have built Landing Pages for our own purposes to promote our offers but we have also built Landing Pages for our customers. When building a Landing Page never forget your #1 purpose - to get a lead! It doesn't matter what kind of business you are in, you need a steady supply of leads. Landing Pages are an effective way to do this and in some cases produce better results than a website. Landing Pages allow you to target a specific niche with a very specific offer while most websites are usually more generic in focus and broad reaching. Both a website AND Landing pages should be part of your marketing strategy

These are the 5 Critical Points you MUST include in your Landing Page if you are going to see results.

Critical Point # 1 when building a Landing Page

State your offer with short punchy copy that is heaping with benefits for the reader. Tell people what they are going to get in simple easy to understand terms, make an offer, put value on the offer, limit the offer. Talk directly to the reader with the wording you use.

Example of good copy: "Our 32 Page Report Tells YOU in Step-By-Step Detail exactly how to get 50,000 Visitors to your website! $29.95 Value! FREE but you MUST act now to get this limited offer!"

Example of poor copy: "Fill out this form and we will send you a report with information on getting traffic. "

Critical Point # 2 when building a Landing Page

Limit use of graphics. If you do use graphics make sure they are fast loading and only used to emphasize your message. Graphics should be colorful, theme related, and direct the eye to your copy. Graphics and copy should work together to motivate a response.

Critical Point # 3 when building a Landing Page

Include a contact form. Some people don't include a form on their Landing Page, you MUST have a form.

Building an online business means building a mailing list of interested people. If you don't collect the contact details of your prospects you are wasting your time and throwing away a valuable marketing advantage.

Critical Point # 4 when building a Landing Page

Include an Offer. Don't TELL on your landing page, SELL on your landing page. Sell the fact that you have something that the buyer wants, something they must have and must get today! Give them the benefits of what the product or service is to motivate action, do this with an offer. Buy this and get that. Buy now, save $ etc. Make your offer interesting, something they simply can't refuse.

Critical Point # 5 when building a Landing Page

If you are going to make your Landing Page longer than one screen, make sure all your critical information and attention getting copy is on the top of the page so it doesn't get missed. Remember when your English teacher said leave your most powerful points till the end of your essay? Not true, when creating marketing copy. Put your most powerful words and pitch at the very top of the page, drive home the points later on, then yes close with power but make sure the top of your page, the part that loads first is going to draw people in to actually get them to read to the bottom of your page.

There you have it, take these key marketing points down, and make sure to include them when creating your Landing pages.