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A lot of people are seeking online work due to the economy and the shortage of traditional jobs. Working from home has become quite popular nowadays and for good reason. There are many more available jobs online, especially in the data entry field. Online typing jobs have become a great source of income for many, as this field has evolved quite a bit. Most of the jobs today don’t require experience and are offered globally, so just about anyone from anywhere around the world can do them. The most popular to date is ad submission jobs which are simply placing ads online for website businesses. These jobs are extremely lucrative and fairly easy to learn. Most programs like this offer training with step by step easy instructions so anyone can apply. These jobs are ideal for stay at home moms, housewives or students and offer a lot of flexibility. Whether one wants to work part time for extra cash or full time they can do this. The more ads they place, the more money they can make.

Data entry typing jobs have often been mistaken for get rich schemes, or an easy buck, but they do take work as with any job. The amount of money one can make highly depends on the amount of work they are willing to put in. The great thing is there is no limit to how much work one can do, like with some programs. It is not uncommon for one to make $200 in a day and sometimes more. Whether one only has a few hours a week to spare or has several hours a day, this is the job of choice.

Working form home is a great way to save on gas and child care costs, so just those two reasons alone are a great inspiration. Any job online, however, should be looked upon just as that, a job. These jobs take consistency to build up a decent income. Whether one wants to just supplement their existing income or make a full time income though, posting ads online is a great job to do.

Only a few years ago, it was commonplace to slap your e-mail address on your contact page (and anywhere else on your website). This was standard practice not just with personal websites, but also with business websites (at least the less professional ones).

Today things are different, and I cannot think of a single good reason to follow this practice, that would outweigh the cons.

Below I’ve listed just a few of the reasons why displaying your e-mail address on a webpage is a bad idea:

Reason 1: displaying your e-mail address on your website is bad because…

It doesn’t look professional, and doing so can cost you professional sales. The fact that many of your competitors are probably using contact FORMS on their websites.

A contact form allows you to collect some information from the visitor to your website (usually their contact details, so you can get back to them or answer their query) but shields your e-mail address from the visitor (and the rest of the web).

When the Send or Submit button is pressed, the information entered in sent to whatever e-mail address you specify within the contact form code. This is not something you need to worry about if you have your own web designer. Simply knowing that contact forms are the alternative to showing your e-mail address on your website is enough: the set up can be left to somebody with the technical knowledge to do so.

The added benefit of using a contact form is that the visitor doesn’t need to have e-mail software in their own computer (they simply use your contact form). If on the other hand you display your e-mail address, they need to have e-mail software in their computer to e-mail you in the first place (not practical if the person trying to get in touch with you is using a public computer in an Internet cafe).

Reason 2: displaying your e-mail address on your website is bad because…

Anybody and everybody now has access to you. And within those anybody’s and somebody’s lurk SPAMMERS.

Displaying your e-mail address on your website today is asking for trouble: you’re handing over direct access to YOU, to every spammer who comes across it. Get ready to receive more unsolicited e-mail than you know what to do with.

How Spammers harvest e-mail addresses: 1 method

Spammers don’t personally browse through every website and look for an e-mail address. Instead, they use software programs that ‘crawl’ the Internet and look for the @ symbol on a page. Each time the @ symbol is found, the software copies the words in front and behind the @ symbol and stores it. In other words, your e-mail address. Once enough e-mail addresses are harvested, the spammer has a list that he can send unsolicited e-mail to repeatedly, as many times as he or she wants, at the click of a button. And we’re talking lists of up to 10,000 addresses, all bombarded with unsolicited e-mails advertising anything from casinos to viagra to ‘marketing’ and worse.

So what are the alternatives to displaying your e-mail address on your webpage?

The alternatives right now are:

1 – using a contact form

Most professional business websites today use contact forms, so much so that they are now the standard. They are not beyond spamming, but they are certainly a step up in terms of security and privacy from displaying your e-mail address.

2 – using an image of your e-mail address

If you must display your e-mail address on your webpage, then consider using an image to do so. Unlike text, images cannot be ‘read’ by software programs that crawl the web. Using an image that shows your e-mail address enables you to interact with your visitors the way you had intended, and bypasses the e-mail harvesting problem. However, this is still not considered professional and – if your competitors are using contact forms – then they’re setting the standard that visitors to your website expect.

There’s no denying it. This is a VERY hot topic right now. You want proof, just mosey on over to the Warrior Forum and look at all the posts, WSO’s, etc.

But you know what? There’s a good reason this is a hot topic right now…

Many off line businesses have been hit by “slow” times and are actively looking for ways to increase business. So opportunity knocks.

My partner Jim and I have been in this arena now for more than a year and we have been seeing first hand how much we have been able to help our own clients. And with our system, we launched Easy Local SEO to help OTHER people market similar services to businesses all over the U.S. and Canada.

I have discovered though, that many people who want to market in this arena have one fatal short coming. They really don’t have any idea how to approach potential clients and get them to listen to what they have to say. My partner and I had this same issue when starting out. Jim used to drive around visiting local businesses for a few hours every day – saying hello, dropping off fliers and business cards, etc. And the people he spoke to were always nice.

However, we made exactly ZERO sales doing this. I learned the hard way that they simply saw us as nothing more than another salesman hawking some product or service. Not what they wanted to deal with, and who can blame them? They have a business to run.

There are a lot of ways to properly approach prospects, get them to listen and perhaps hire your services, but I am going to talk about just 2 things here…there’s a lot more to this, but I don’t want this post to be too incredibly long:)

• “You’re an internet guy?”

The first thing you need to do is very simple. Don’t bill yourself as an “internet marketer”. For one thing you don’t do yourself any favors. If you talk to business owners in a casual environment and ask what they think about internet marketing, many won’t really even understand exactly what that is… and many others think “just some other fly-by-night company selling me a bill of goods about SEO or something.”

Bottom line is, you are looking to help a business increase their revenue. And you are educating them about the power of advertising on the internet. And giving them new ideas on how to get more people to look at their products and services.

In other words, you are a Business Consultant.

Say that to yourself until it is second nature. Because (if you are doing this right) that’s exactly what you are. You just happen to specialize in the many ways the internet can help.

• Show them how they can do it themselves!

Business owners like nothing better than to find other ways to increase their revenue while saving money at the same time. Well, who doesn’t?

So, why not show them how they can use the internet themselves? Show them the power of capturing emails, proper S.E.M., a well-optimized website, the power of social media…you get the idea.

What I am talking about are workshops. Very simple.

Hold a workshop in the area you market to. It’s easy to get the word out (how about the Chamber of Commerce, or local paper – even Craig’s List). And you can actually make money holding them. But there’s an even bigger benefit…

Structure a workshop environment, schedule it for 6 – 8 hours on a Saturday. Charge for attending (anywhere from $97 to $997 – or more if the market will bear it). You need to at LEAST cover the cost of the workshop – most likely for a room at a local hotel to hold the workshop in, perhaps coffee and doughnuts…that kind of thing.

Understand the power here…you will now have business owners coming to you. You are now NOT a sale person, but a potential solution to a problem. They will be MUCH more willing to listen.

The workshop itself MUST be good stuff. Real usable, actionable things these people can do. Focus on just a few things they can do. You want them to have their “light bulb moment”, seeing the potential of what you’re teaching them. But at the same time, you want them to understand just how much time and effort it will take if they take it on themselves.

That’s where the “selling without selling” takes place. They will start asking YOU if you can do this for them. Which of course, you can.

Once you break it down for them in terms they can understand (cost benefits, etc.) the will see that it is simply another advertising avenue. Something they already spend money on – and something they can also write off at the end of the year.

All of this can lead to new clients. Many of them. Hiring you to do everything from website design (or redesign) to SEO to reputation management to social media marketing, to customer database management – and much more.

So now I hear you saying – “A workshop? I never held one of those. I have no content, etc. for this. What do I do?”

Man I hear that. I said the same thing over a year ago when this idea was first presented to me. The answer can only be one of two things: 1) Create the content or 2) BUY the content.

I did number two. And I can tell you it’s the best thing I could have done. Who has the time to write up all this content for the business owners to learn from and keep after the workshop is over?

• The answer to my prayers…

I met Rachel Rofe a couple of years ago at a small marketing lunch. Very nice person and also very talented and a keen marketing mind. While doing some research on line for this niche, I came across a package she and her partner, Jaime Mintun, put out that is the answer to my prayers…

Their package is everything you need to hold a workshop for off line businesses. Everything from the marketing and sales materials to get the business owners to attend, to a slide presentation, a workbook for the attendees – and so much more.

It’s called “Make 10k In A Weekend” and you really need to grab it if you want to hold workshops of your own. You can literally brand all of the material with YOUR business name and logo and be holding workshops next week. What a time saver!

As I said earlier – there are other ways to sell your services. But none will have the conversion rate that this one does. Think about it – all you need to market is a workshop teaching them how to help themselves. By the end, once they see the power of what you teach, many will seek YOU out asking how much you charge to do all this work for them.

To me, that beats cold-calling any day!

Have you ever been imprisoned?

The vast majority are fortunate enough to avoid the experience of having their liberty taken away from them, but lets imagine for a moment that you are in prison right now.

How are you feeling about yourself, your life? What about your future, what do you have to look forward to as an ex-convict?

Even in the safe confines of your imagination, those thoughts can conjure up some uncomfortable feelings, and with good reason. It takes somebody with a healthy dose of self belief to come out of an experience like that as a stronger, better person, determined to get their life back on track.

We have all heard of rags to riches stories. Well this one is a riches to rags, back to riches story, and the best part is, it is all true and unfolding as you read this.

The subject of our story is an Englishman named Mark, who, not so very long ago enjoyed a high standard of living as a very successful online affiliate marketer, earning around two million dollars a year, at a time when the internet was still in its infancy.

Everything was going well in Mark’s world, until he made a risky move in taking on the very people who were paying him affiliate commissions. He formed his own company to rival them, and was sued and lost the case.

Mark was now burdened with large legal fees, a loyal but expensive staff, no income and was understandably feeling just a little desperate about his situation.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Mark chose to pursue an alternative income through illegal means in order to keep his head above water.

Unfortunately for Mark and his staff, the law caught up with him, and he eventually found himself sentenced to four years imprisonment, of which he served two.

Having come out of jail a bankrupt, but owing his caring friends and family a huge amount of money, Mark estimated that his total debts were in the region of $450000.00, some of which had been raised by his parents against their house. Imagine being responsible for your parents losing the family home!

To many people, this might have been a breaking point, but it is at this most unlikely of times the Mark decided that he would set himself a goal, of not only repaying his considerable debts to his family and friends, but to become a millionaire once more. Maybe this was the point that he first conceived Millionaire Profit Secrets, his first major product in the internet marketing arena.

Create Your Own Reality

How many people dream of becoming a millionaire?

Do you?

How many of those people go on to achieve their dream?

We all know the answer to that one, but why do so many people fail, and what of the ones who succeed, what are they doing differently?

Set Your Mind to The Task

This is where the mental strength Mark displayed in serving a custodial sentence and emerging with the drive to re-establish himself as a law abiding and wealth creating member of society is best examined.

The word ‘mindset’ can be used to encapsulate a number of the qualities necessary to become successful in any field, let alone the highly competitive world of Internet Marketing.

These attributes are what separates Mark, who, on being freed, was handicapped by having to catch up on two years of technological advancement, over people who spent those same years at liberty to make fortunes online – and yet didn’t.

Those qualities are as follows:-

A Strong Work Ethic – Having the discipline to work at your online business, rather than merely calling all that time spent messing around on YouTube and Facebook ‘work’.

Ambition and Drive – What gets you up in the morning? Do you leap out of bed excited about your current project? Do you wish there were more hours in the day? Or are you going through the motions?

‘Bouncebackability’ – OK, that’s a made up word (I am not claiming to have invented it – see Tim Lovejoy on Wikipedia). It’s another word for resilience, being about to take the inevitable setbacks on the chin, dust yourself down, and carry on with renewed determination.

Passion It is important to be passionate about your business, otherwise it is just work, and therefore will not inspire you to greatness.

Sacrifice What are you willing to do in order to achieve your aims? Give up watching TV? Cut back on recreational activities? The extent to which you are willing to put pastimes on hold in pursuit of success is a good indicator of your likely success.

Persistence Many people find it easy enough to build up enough excitement about a project, only to see the enthusiasm evaporate days or weeks down the line. Any endeavour worth doing requires a high level of commitment. It that something you possess?

In the four months since being released from prison, Mark had achieved two of his five goals. The story goes on, and its going to be a thrilling ride, as Mark continues in his quest to go from ‘Despair to Internet Millionaire’.