Details Below – Win $100 With One Comment
Mark Dulisse here, and welcome to my blog….
The Best Teacher Is You…My Readership
I am having a “best idea comment contest.”
What am I up to? Well, you see, I am not an expert in everything and I’m a big believer in “communal knowledge,” meaning that there are great ideas “amongst us.” So….
With this in mind, let me get into the details of this contest.
1. Three (3) $100 Cash Prize Winnings (cannot be the same person)
I am giving away $100 to three separate people who write the best comment idea. That is a total of $300 out of my pocket, paid via paypal or money order cheque.
2. Each Winners Will Be Announced, And Will Get an Introduction On My High Traffic Blog (if wanted)
3. The TOPIC and guidelines of the comment are as follows:
Topic: “For Beginners…The Best Method To Make $1,000+ Online In Under 45 Days Is….”
- All methods must be whitehat and respectful (no hardcore blackhat)
- Those who are specific with details will have a better chance in winning
- Only one comment per entry method, so make it count
- You can make two entries, but cannot use the same method
- No links and advertising in your comment. (example, this method has helped me, here is my affiliate link).
- Originality and uniqueness will certainly get my attention
- Seek simplicity in presentation. Point form or numbering works best
- I reserve the right to ask for proof and/or testing if your idea works
- Contest closes Monday, August 16th at 12 noon EST
I am so excited about this 
. Even if you are just reading this, post a “thank you comment please.”
Comment Below….Let the contest begin!
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Every business that has a phone number and a physical address can receive free extensive listings from major sites including Google Maps, Yahoo! Local, Bing, SuperPages, YellowPages, and 71+ other sites – but few are.
Even if they are smart enough to request their free listings, unless they understand keyword research and are at least half-way adept at effective copywriting, they can greatly benefit from engaging someone who knows what they’re doing to get all that free visibility.
A key selling point is that there is no charge for the listings and there are no recurring fees. On most of the sites once you get listed your information will stay up indefinitely (although it IS better to spend $30 a year to keep them updated centrally.
I recommend having a flier and/or business cards printed with a link to a Web page that explains this service you are offering and passing them out wherever you go and to everyone you know. Leave them on bulletin boards at your local convenience stores, feed store, hardware store, etc. in addition to advertising online.
There is a service that costs $30 that allows you to fill in their information once and have it distributed to 76+ local search directory listings. You can become an affiliate and part of that $30 is paid to you.
I already have a flier created, a questionaire that collects all the information you will need and explains the process, and blog posts that explain everything. I will provide everything needed free of charge to anyone who asks and give you permission to edit everything to show your contact information.
I suggest charging $200 for basic listings and $400 for upgraded listings (i.e., claiming their Google Maps account so it can not be hijacked and adding additional photos and information on the most important sites).
I can also provide supporting information and one-on-one training. Every person knows someone personally who could use this service whether that is their mechanic, their favorite restaurant(s), their drycleaner, their local grocery store – any business can benefit.
Although Local Search is most beneficial for businesses that serve a specific geographic area, the incoming links from major sites with high page rank can not hurt so I recommend doing this even if a business is totally online.
As I wrote in my post about Local Search Directory Listings, “Not having these listings is like having someone offer your business years of free advertising and saying “no thanks”.”
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Bloggers would do well to start thinking about serving specific geographic areas they know well either on their existing site(s) or on a site specifically for the geo-metro area(s) near them.
Major brands don’t need the exposure that but small local and online businesses do. By creating a blog that provides recommendations on high quality businesses you can develop a readership that will be of great interest to the businesses that only sell in your geographic area.
Most of their advertising opportunities do not result in a positive ROI for them because they can not hit their target audience. Your geo-local blog will be the exception.
Set up a Twitter account specific to your location. Use Twellow or one of the other methods of finding Twitter users to grow it quickly. Offer to answer questions and provide recommendations.
By targeting a specific geography you can become the go-to person in your community and those surrounding it. Offer Local Search Directory listings, to set up blogs, to teach businesses how to use Twitter or Facebook, to publish the grocery and auto parts weekly specials, or to share any other skills you already have.
Businesses needs blogs but many don’t have time to actually do it themselves. Set up categories in your blog and publish posts about their business for him.
The great thing about this idea is you choose what businesses, products and services you wish to recommend. The better your choices the stronger your reputation will be and the more money you will make in the long run.
If you’re really good at getting a blog up and running and join a collaboration that can get your Alexa ranking down and your organic listings up you could possibly make $1000 in 45 days but only if you already know businesses that trust your advice or are willing to really work at it.
There is NO SUCH THING as a get rich quick idea that works. Every business – online or off – is built over time. That said, the better your connections the faster you can grow a business. Relationships are key.
Gail from GrowMap´s last [type] ..Support Small Businesses
Here are those four steps to make $1000 using affiliate marketing…
1. Understand your market. You need to know what kinds of people are interested in the products you would like to link them to. Is there a particular age range? Are they generally male or female? Are there related products in which they would be interested?
Pretend like you are interested in the product. (Likely, you won’t have to pretend since you will probably promote products that grab your interest.) How would you search for the product? What would you type in the search engine?
2. Spread the word about your promotion. The more people who know about your product, the more there will be who are likely to buy. An affiliate marketing business is like any other business. You want people to come into your brick and mortar business.
In your online business, you want people to come by and look at your promotions there too.
3. Communicate with the people who are interested. One of the best ways to do that is to capture the names and email addresses of those who take a look at your website or blog. They are definitely interested in your topic.
Research has shown that a person has to process information before making a buying decision. They may want to look at your website as many as seven times before they will be ready to purchase the product.
So, you want to communicate with your prospects.
4. Build relationships with your prospects. This goes hand in hand with the idea of communicating with your prospects.
As a person reads your material over and over, he or she begins to feel like he or she knows you. I constantly read emails from one marketer, whom I have never met personally, yet I almost feel like we have met.
That marketer also has developed a relationship in that I really feel like I can trust him. There is another marketer who writes in a very personal way, and I get the feeling that she really wants to help someone like me. Both of these have also been very helpful by giving a lot of free content to their readers.
So, if want to be successful with your affiliate marketing business, utilize these four keys and you will be on your way to success.
Hey Mark,
I just went to pixelpipe and my Norton software said there is Trojan threat on their site just to let you know.
JP
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So Mark, when are you going to announce the winners?
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@ Carl – very soon.
Every Newbie needs to learn the basics of Internet Marketing to set-up any promising business to earn the first dollar let alone the thousandth. So to capture and maintain interest in a blitz info format, the Newbie tracks seven content-rich webinars at only seven minute duration each. Headline-”7minutes x7blogs=$1000″. What equipment to buy and use, website design and hosting plus much more will lead the Newbie to launch their first venture. As the host, you can offer guidance and/or products and/or affiliate links. Motivational encouragement in the form of banner ads will help the Newbie savor the process. Opportunity is everywhere in IM if you want it.
Wow Mark! This is the single best resource I have ever seen on great realistic and working Internet marketing methods. It is like compilation of everything that will work. This is truly a need to know source for anybody in IM right now.
I also copied the entire page and hand wrote a few of the ideas in my business journal.
By the way, good idea Mark. This page was a good investment because it will drive tons and tons of traffic to your site when people get word of it.
Dear Mark
Thanks for a really informative blog, I look forward to you articles every week,
I’m new to blogging, but ideas such as yours Mr. Dulisse is what some of us college students search for during our free time. Think if there were ten more contest similiar to your idea blog contest, I could possibly earn one thousand dollars ciphering though the web looking for other contests.
1) To prove college paids off(it’s what some of us thrive for)
After this posting, I’m off to more blogs and hopefully earn some money to pay off a phone bill.
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What a great idea. This post with all the wonderful comment showing different ways to make money online is probably worth more than some of the expensive so called “e-books” . Thank you who contributed. I wish I could out line a method as well, but most of the things I know have been mentioned already.
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Hi Mark, I see that you have not picked the winner yet, is the competition still open? If so when is the deadline to submit ideas?
@ Renish – the competition is closed. I have picked 2 winners already, and soon to be the 3rd. I have not made the announcement yet.
Hey Mark, man I respect you a lot and really like the stuff you put out (even if I haven’t bought yet). I am easing into IM and am learning, but must admit I am pretty disappointed to not see your awarding of winners go faster, etc. I spent some time thinking and writing out what i felt were good ideas, but didn’t get the acknowledgement of either a win or seeing someone else beat me out so I could learn from the experience. Look, I get that you are super busy and are a really money maker… which is why we are here… but would love to see you own what you started a bit more and really allow us to learn from you. No harm, no foul, but I thought it would be fair to put it out here.
Hi Mark i hope all is well with you and you family.
It seems that I have been following you for about 2 years now and have learned a great deal from you fantastic learnings, so I thought that I would throw a little bit of useful content back, not for you because you taught me this stuff, however a good little read for your readers.
Using blogs and social networking to brand yourself.
This is the thing many people miss,the awesome power of branding through your own blog and blog social networks,this is just awesome for personal branding and free publicity,it doesn’t have to take too long,it’s easy to do and there is automation software to help you speed things up. Social networking reviews of you and your business improve search engine rankings.
Social network exposure seriously assists your blog rise up the search engine rankings and must never be neglected,I often get blog posts on the first page simply by choosing the right keywords but you must take it seriously and be disciplined,set up an excel workbook and keep track of your blog social networks submission process. Do not over do things,if you do too much it will become a chore,there are a great many sites that you can use for blog social networking,don’t push yourself but set out some time every week for web 2.0 social bookmarking.
Not all Social Networking Sites Are Equal.
Chose 10-15 of the best social networking sites and concentrate most of the time set aside on these sites only,if you finish before time then it’s a bonus,use some other blog social networking sites with the free time that you just uncovered because as you get better at this you will get faster.
Use Blogs and Social Networking Articles For Free Publicity.
These blog business strategies by their very nature need focus and discipline,you will see success quickly if you stick to a plan,and this will give your blog objectives strategy (making more money) greater success and exposure in a much shorter space of time. Don’t forget you have to get customers in and guide them to the product you want them to buy,so keeping that in mind this whole thing and what I have just taught you must be a regular disciplined action,publicising your blog posts with social networking (or blog pages for that matter) is one of the most successful tried and trusted methods there is,it works so make social networking one of your most important tasks.
and of course despite the Panda shuffles sites like Squidoo, Hub pages and Tumblr still work very well as a part of social bookmarking and building a powerful interlinked link wheel that appears natural to the search engines. however remember that to make it look natural vary the anchor keyword with LSI keywords ie (G suggests) these will give your link wheel far greater power. To sum up an SEO optimized blog post, sprinkled with LSI keywords as well as your main keyword, and then just go bookmark them and build a link wheel.
There you go SEO tips from John Robbins
Thanks for all of your help and guidance Mark, you are the Man
John Robbins
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