Home Business Steps

Online scams, there are everywhere. Actually, there is always the possibility of scams in almost any kind of job, yet, it seems that online jobs are easier to scam these days. If you are vulnerable, you will easily fall for their promises, rewards, and easy hiring procedure, which all turn out to be empty.

The presence of these online job scams, unfortunately, makes finding the real jobs rather hard. This is because scammers have defined more sophisticated schemes to make their phony online jobs appear legitimate. And usually, you only find that out come payment time. So how do you avoid such working online scams? How can you tell an online job is genuine or is a mere scam?

Here are some of the warning signs of online job scams. If you spot any of them in your potential job, trash it. You might be looking at a scam.

• 1. If they’re charging fees for more job and company information, start-up kit, training, software, or hiring you, it is probably a scam. They are not supposed to ask money from you; it should be the other way around.
• 2. If they keep saying they are legitimate yet you don’t get info on the job, be careful they may just be out to get your money.
• 3. If they promise quick cash, forget it, there is no such thing as get rich quick. The truth is that there is no job that can promise you fast financial success. It takes time and effort. Such claims are typical to scams.
• 4. If they say you don’t need any skill or experience at all, then move away because jobs need qualified people. If they promise that there is very little effort involved then it could be a scam. A legitimate employer wouldn’t entrust an important job to unreliable people. It would be a waste of their money.
• 5. If the job offer comes from an unsolicited email it is most often a scam. Coming from an unsolicited email message, in itself, is quite suspicious.
• 6. If the website is questionable, beware. A reputable company will provide contact details in their website. Its absence is suspicious. If it also tells less about the company history, nature, and what it stands for, be careful.

What Do You Have to Do?
The rule of thumb when looking for legitimate online jobs is to do a thorough research. If you find a company rather dubious, look it up in the web by typing the company name and the word “scam” in the search box. The search results can tell you whether a company is reputable.

You can also contact the employer. Ask for important details about the job such as the salary, mode of payment, and other job details not mentioned in the ad post. If the response is somewhat shady, you may want to skip that job out. An employer can tell all the job details upfront if it is legitimate.

To make sure the job is legitimate, ask for references. It should include the company’s employees and contractors. Inquire from them how it is working for the company. Their responses should help you determine whether a job is a scam. Remember, you need to be very careful and decisive when taking on a potential job, as working online scams are growing in number.

Earn money online_2 has for its Step 2 as loading permanently the email I gave you at the previous post to your auto responder sequences. I know what you’re saying. Why should I have an auto responder when I can’t even get started yet? Believe me that was one of the mistakes I made when I started my online business.

Remember what I told you before that to succeed online you have to have three things going: a domain name, a host provider for your website and an auto responder. I tried it the bum marketing way, but it did not really make me earn money online_2.

Let us take these three things one at a time. Doing so will make it easier to learn. For the domain name, you will have to search for what is in demand and where you have a passion for. You can do this by checking out what’s hot at Clickbank, Amazon like the display of games below and Google. You can also use this keyword tool.

For the domain name you will have to choose the keywords around which you will write your pages. Try not to choose keywords with supply of over 1000. The lower the supply, the better it is. And don’t choose keywords with a demand below 150. In this case the higher the demand the better it is. The larger the difference between supply and demand the better it is.

When you select your keywords see KeywordToolExternal how they are paying out If you see $2.00, it means that is what an advertiser is paying Google to be in one of the top 3 positions. You will get a portion of that. So if you see a word is showing .30, don’t even bother. I try to stay over $1.00….the more the better. This will help you earn money online_2

Write your pages with competitive keywords, but then link them to many other pages in your website that have almost zero competition. These are keywords containing 3-4 words. Write your pages with competitive keywords, but then link to many T3 that have almost zero competition.

Once you have chosen your topic, I can help you with keywords that are sorted by supply. Start writing articles on the keywords with the lowest supply and with demand of more than 500. Think of it this way. If you have 100 pages with almost zero competition and every page brings you one visitor per day. This is 100 visitors more. This approach could pull some people’s sites to more than 1000 visitors.

And now you are ready to pick your domain name at Domain Sale! $7.49 .com at GoDaddy, a host for your website, and an autoresponder at http://aweber.com/?315833

You can get the web form from your auto responder which in my case, I use the aforementioned aweber and. It costs $19 a month but I use it because they’re the best in the business. But you could get a free month of trial just to see if it is going to work out for you.

There is another alternative which is this: http://www.getresponse.com/index/randeg It is a bit cheaper but also works well. You may even get a free service although it will be limited. Anyway, you really need an auto responder and these two are both very good.

Now as we said before you can load the email I gave you to the auto responder. I have other emails that you can load as well. Just ask me for them and I will feature them here. Those will be permanently there. Each time someone signs up to your list, they will automatically receive these emails at intervals of your choice.

If they join up through these emails, you will earn commission and you don’t have to do anything more unless you want to add more things to your auto responder. Those who join will learn about PLRWholesaler. It is an easy way for you to make sales without doing extra work. This way you will earn money online_2.

Earn money online is another series that I am starting for the benefit of all newbies out there. I got this from a marketing guru but I have some questions regarding this. I have to say though that the content on his materials are really good.

The title of this is How To Make Money in 24 Hours. This is my first question because I do not know of anyone who has made money in 24 hours. Perhaps if you have a big list, you could do that. Or maybe you could just earn a little bit of pocket money. We shall see though; try it, for who knows? One of you may get lucky and earn money online.

His Step One goes like this. It says send a solo mailing to your list. Do you see what I mean? How can one send solo mailings to the list if there is no list? This just drives home the point to make sure that in everything you do, make it count and geared to creating a list. How do you do that? Well, let me count the ways.

One way is through getting a web form from your auto responder which in my case is aweber and if you like you can get it here: http://aweber.com/?315833 It costs $19 a month but I use it because they’re the best in the business. But you could get a free month of trial just to see if it is going to work out for you.

Here is another alternative which is this: http://www.getresponse.com/index/randeg It is a bit cheaper but also works well. You may even get a free service although it will be limited. Anyway, you really need an auto responder and these two are both very good.

Anyway, to get into business online successfully, there are three essential things one should have: a domain name, a host provider for your website and an auto responder. Believe me, I tried it the bum marketing way, but each time, you end up in a corner and not really earn money online.

You will still make pocket money without those three but not as much as if you had those three essentials. And certainly you will not have to work too hard. Unless you are like me who loves to teach and share with others what I learn. Then you will not mind working too hard.

Another way to build your list is through this site: http://www.listinferno.com (If not clickable, copy and paste onto your browser. I don’t know why it is not clickable here because it worked in my other site.) They will advertise your site and you will get names for your list that way. They say there will be thousands of 100% opt-in leads for your list from thousand of websites across the globe and all is 100% free.

This site has not been long in the business or may not be doing well so I did not try it http://www.optinboom.com/index.php?sponsor=6750 It claims it can give you thousands of opt ins a day and some top gurus have something good to say about it.

Here’s another way that a marketing guru used to build thousands of subscribers. He created a mini course and used five tips to send in simple emails which he loaded into his auto responder. It turned out to be the best thing he could do to build a list. Let us follow his journey to see how he did it. Oops, we are at the end of the line. Let’s continue on next time, shall we? Then we can try to earn money online.

Make money online_15 with twitter.com is possible for it is an amazing tool that can be used both for personal and business purposes. As for personal branding, should you use your real name or a personal brand name? It depends on what you are trying to do. In my case for the diabetics I want to help, my user name is diabeteshelp. For those I help with their debt, my user name is debtchallenger.

What really matters most is you use the same name where you want to build your brand. So when I post a comment on a news item about debt, I use debtchallenger in my signature. And I use diabeteshelp when I am posting on any diabetes news without thinking to make money online_15. Sorry I thought I was done with twitter.com but someone posted a comment that she wanted another article on it.

Another important thing to remember in dealing with twitter.com is to take action on a lot of things people want and respect. In my case, I write a lot of content to help the followers deal with whatever is troubling them. And I do this without expecting anything in return or to make money online_15. In other cases, they can work together to achieve a common goal like below.

Now how do we follow and get followers? To get followers, make your twitter profile really good and send traffic to that profile. It is not so important how much, what and when you tweet at twitter.com as that profile. Some ways to drive traffic to the profile and get followers are:

• Use a banner ad to link it to your profile.
• Have a contest via your twitter profile.
• Include links to your profile in your signature.
• Connect your websites and blogs to your twitter profile.
• Request another user to recommend your profile and do the same for him.

Sometimes it gets out of hand that so many people try to follow you. It used to be that I followed everyone who wanted to follow me. I was being naive I know. I thought people were all like me and I think I suffered from this as I lost a little bit of page rank. So now I am more careful as to who to follow. Here’s a video on how to manage request for you to follow some tweeters.

Twimailer demo from jon on Vimeo.

Don’t judge me if I don’t follow all below. I am not too active there for one thing. Besides, I don’t have an avatar as I don’t know how to upload one. And all my photos are taken with my husband and I do not really want to cut him out of the picture as you know what that means. Anyway, here are some reasons why one should not follow everyone:

• There is no website, bio or location.
• The twittering shows a tendency to argue a lot.
• There is no user avatar.
• The listed website is a MySpace profile.
• The tweeter is following a huge number of users but has no updates and only 20 followers.
• The profile says he is an expert at something and yet his updates do not show he is one.
• The updates are only about selling something.
• The updates show he wants to thank me for following him but immediately he wants to help me with something he’s selling.
• He is not interacting with his followers.
• His updates only want to get more twitter followers.

As for using Twitter for business, do it the right way. Here are some ways to do this:

• Help people in your niche. Tweeting only on your products will turn people off.
• Be sure you will show you are more interested in helping than to make money online_15.
• Stop repeating the same message over and over again or the updates could be considered spam.
• Develop a relationship first with your followers.
• Only after doing the first four items should you mention your company.

That is all for now my friends. I hope I have been of help somewhat. These things are not easy to do because there are people out there to use you but all in all, it is fun. And pretty soon if you do things right, you will start to make money online_15.

Make money online_14 through Digg is possible when you make it real. It has to be something that comes through with content that is useful. For here, you can submit stories that will be reviewed by the community by digging your story whether it is useful and helpful. They will digg it too if it is interesting and funny.

Of course you can’t digg until you sign up. You can only take part in making things happen after you join. So let’s see how to do it, shall we? First go to http://digg.com/ Start by clicking “Join Digg“. You have to choose a screen name, a password, email address and your birthday. No, they will not send you a gift on your birthday. They just require it for legal reasons. To see if you’re human, they will ask you to input a verification code.

At this point, you may be wondering why do you have to join Digg. Well the reasons are many. You can find the best of the web and other recommended stuff there. You will be heard and will be able to check on what your friends are digging. And best of all, you can promote your stuff.

Fair enough? So now click “Create an account“. They will tell you to check your email to finish the registration process. Click the link that is in the email and then log in. From now on, you can digg any of the stories that you see that you like.

After you see that they are clicking on your story, you will feel great. Imagine getting a pat on the back on the story that you told. For that is what digging means. They are really saying, “Hey, I like your story, that’s great. Allow me to share your story with the other people.”

How do you digg a story, you asked? It’s simple. Every story in the list that you find comes before it a number with the word digg below it. If you are logged in, just click that and magically, the number changes to the next higher one and the word “digg” is replaced with the word “dugg.”

So whenever you see a story that you like or dig, just digg it. When there are enough people digging the story, it will just become so popular that it will graduate to the main page. And guess what? This will bring a lot of traffic to the site.

So how do you find stories to digg? It should really be not on the front page because those stories have already been dugg, meaning they have been approved. They also have been promoted. Where you want to go is at http://digg.com/news/upcoming

Go ahead and click that link. Do you see all the news and stories there? Eyeball those stories and see which ones you digg. Some are not so good but others are, like mine. Heh, heh, heh. But seriously, I take care that I put forth good content. Life is too short to fool around with something like this even if your mission is not to make money online_14.

Oh, by the way, you can copy and paste the social bookmarking html version of the following at the bottom of every page of your post unless you belong to the group I am in that is so trustworthy and delivers everything you need, to the point they add this automatically without you having to do it manually:

If the actual bookmarking button shows above instead of the html, I will have to send it to you via email when you reply to this post asking for it.

Make money online_13 will make us learn to share with some other sites. It will make us realize all the more that no man is an island and in order to do well we have to communicate and rub elbows with the other internet marketers, figuratively speaking of course. How we arrived here will be shown by the following steps we took:

• Step 1: Select a profitable niche.
• Step 2: Find the questions and problems people have in the chosen niche.
• Step 3. Choose the affiliate products to promote.
• Step 4. Find the three key phrases that will help market the products.
• Step 5. Write articles on each of the key phrases.
• Step 6. Submit articles to Article Directories.
• Step 7. Create a Blog Rich in Keywords.
• Step 8. Create a Squidoo Lens.
• Step 9. Post articles in Squidoo Lens in Article Directories.
• Step 10. Social bookmark everything.

Since this is step 10, all we have to do now is rinse and repeat and of course drive traffic to your site which if you didn’t do my suggestion on getting your own website it will be your Squidoo Lens. It will make it easy for your readers to share and also save what you write. I will show you several ways as to how to social bookmark your website or if you don’t have this at least do it for your Squidoo Lens.

First let’s tackle Twitter. After all, I think Twitter helped President Obama get elected. I know he used it a lot in communicating with his followers and you can do the same. I just finished reading all about Twitter and found out no way in heaven’s name will I be able to explain this in one day. So we will devote a few days to Twitter and that would mean we will not be putting the ten steps again as everything on how to make money online_13 will be about social bookmarking.

I will be honest with you. At first I didn’t know what all this following and being followed are all about. Oh, I knew from President Obama’s use of it is that Twitter is something you can use online to let people know what you are up to in the form of sentences 140 characters long. I must admit I had a hard time writing just 140 characters long for I am the type to write a lot.

I typed some info a few times and acquired a few people following me. I checked them out and started following them. I ended up having a few Twitter friends. You don’t have to follow one at a time; you can even follow a group. Then each time you can see what these people are up to.

Okay, enough already, I am ready to sign up. You know I can almost hear you say that but don’t worry if you can’t follow the steps properly as we may continue doing this another day. Besides, I will try to put a Twitter video below to help you out. Here are the steps which hopefully will someday help makemoneyonline_13:

• 1. Create an account computer at http://twitter.com and click the green button that says get started.. Input your name, name, username, password, email address.
• 2. Decide on your message.
• 3. Start typing the message you decided to post in 140 characters. Anything at the start will be okay. Then hit update.
• 4 Choose updates and find people and follow group.
• 5. Click follow and start following people.
• 6. Adjust settings to help people find you .
• 7. Set up your cell so you can text which I do not recommend although your cell phone provider will love you because they may charge you for every texting you do.
• 8. Customize your profile upload
• 9. See what’s out there and what people say and do quick search.
• 10. Post update .

There you are. Start posting anything you want but don’t do blatant advertising as Twitter just like the rest of us frowns on that. Let me know in my contact page what else you want me to teach you or if you want me to stop twittering about Twitter. But eventually when you see some related post to what you are selling, then you can respond with your own affiliate link and start to make money online_13.

Make money online_12 took a long time to reach, didn’t it? That is why some people give up. Because if you must do everything right, things slow down a bit. There’s no need rushing and then to find out later something is wrong with what you did. This strategy is only one of the many but let’s recap what got us here:

• Step 1: Select a profitable niche.
• Step 2: Find the questions and problems people have in the chosen niche.
• Step 3. Choose the affiliate products to promote.
• Step 4. Find the three key phrases that will help market the products.
• Step 5. Write articles on each of the key phrases.
• Step 6. Submit articles to Article Directories.
• Step 7. Create a Blog Rich in Keywords.
• Step 8. Create a Squidoo Lens.
• Step 9. Post articles in Squidoo Lens in Article Directories.

This step should not be difficult to do because if I remember right, we did the same thing several weeks ago on Step 6. Some people use an article submitter to make it easy for them but I have been stung before so I like doing my work myself even if it takes longer to make money online_12. Here the article directories to submit to:

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.americanchronicle.com
http://www.buzzle.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.amazines.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.article-idea.com
http://www.ideamarketers.com
http://www.articlecity.com

Because we already know how to do this, I will start presenting to you the last step on this continuing saga we went through which is Step 10 on social bookmarking everything. Wow! Could this be true? Are we really on the last step? You better believe it. I believe it because I am too poofed to puff now. Is that the correct expression?

Social bookmarking can help with getting links. This of course will help get the traffic your sites will need in order to make money online_12. Would you believe there are over 130 social bookmarking websites? And do you know the social bookmarking service that most people think is the leading one in the world? It’s Delicious! No, that’s not about eating. It’s just the leader among the social bookmarking website.

Adding social bookmark links to your website will make it easy for the surfers to share and save the content of your website. You don’t have to put them all in your website. You can choose what you want to put in. Here is an example:  I have the code for that when you’re ready. Just sign up for my list and then contact me.

As you can see, social bookmarking is a very effective tool to get traffic to your site. Here’s what you have to submit as an example when doing this task: URL: Just put down the address of your site like http://www.debtchallenges.com For the title, put down the title of the particular webpage you are trying to bookmark like this: Debt Credit Card Settlements, An Option Safe and Sound? Then they will ask for the tags where you will put the keywords you used for the page.

Here’s an automatic social bookmarking tool: !Delicioso! Social Bookmarking Power Submitter I am not too much of a fan of this as anyone can edit it, remove what you put in and so on. This next one is much better: Go to http://onlywire.com and automatically social bookmark your affiliate link on the most popular social bookmarking sites. That, folks, are some ways to contribute to your effort to make money online_12.

Make money online_11 by creating a squidoo lens is something we already did last time. But surprise! That was only an introduction. Now we have to do the actual writing of the lens but let’s recap what we have been doing before we got to this stage:

• Step 1: Select a profitable niche.
• Step 2: Find the questions and problems people have in the chosen niche.
• Step 3. Choose the affiliate products to promote.
• Step 4. Find the three key phrases that will help market the products.
• Step 5. Write articles on each of the key phrases.
• Step 6. Submit articles to Article Directories.
• Step 7. Create a Blog Rich in Keywords.
• Step 8. Create a Squidoo Lens.

Make money online_11 with squidoo lens is it such a good idea to be able to work from home and share one’s passions, hobbies, ideas or online business. You can start your own group (This has been suspended at the moment, so it is important to join existing groups, see the “Lensography” at the bottom for more information and select one or more of groups to join.) Like-minded people share a common area on the web. Squidoo Groups are the way to do it.

Here are the steps for creating a squidoo lens:

• 1. Click on “make a new lens”. This is on the right hand side. It will ask you what your lens is all about. This will be the title of your lens. Don’t worry if you are not 100% sure as you will be able to change this later.
• 2. For this step, squidoo basically wants to know what you want to do with your lens. I suggest that you leave the selected button for now.
• 3. You have to select a unique name for Squidoo. Why unique? Because there should not be two web page titles alike or the search engines will go crazy where to send anyone who searches for a particular topic. The title and URL of your lens will be the result of this step. It will be similar to this: http://www.squidoo.com/creating-lenses The last two words are the unique names of your lens that Squidoo approved. It will change each time you create a lens depending on the content of the article you want to post there.
• 4. After several tries, Squidoo will tell you if your title is accepted. Be patient for it will search its vault of millions and millions of titles to see if your choice has already been taken. It is after your page has been accepted that you will be asked to enter three keywords from your article. Write the best ones for which the web surfers will find you. Now it is time to wait for the squidoo lens to come alive.

You can now see the basic lens structure. At this point you can click to reorder the modules button. Erase all except those marked. But you know what? They want at least four modules to approve your lens. You can add more modules later. Click on save after deleting the modules you are not going to need for now.

The last thing to do is to copy and paste the information you have like the article you wrote in Step 5. Change the title of the module before you publish it as everyone has “NEW” . Otherwise you will not get approved. It is also good to divide your information into three or four modules as this will receive a better rating. And better rating could lead to make money online_11.

After you publish it, you can see the status of your lens by going to the dashboard. Once you see the green tick (when you have at least four modules), then it is approved and you can join the groups and vote for other lenses. The more groups you join the more the search engines will find you.

It also makes sense if you make a few lenses to write a Lensography or sitemap as it will hold together all the link details of your group. Link all your lenses to your articles at ezine directory. Thank goodness, that’s done. Next time we can go to step 9 at last. Don’t you worry. There are only two more steps left. Now hopefully, we can start to make money online_11.

Make money online_10 is all about creating a squidoo lens and posting your articles there. Don’t do this before your blog is set up either at Blogger.com or wordpress.com. Why? It is because we post our article there before we post in our squidoo lens. So now we are ready to deal with Step 8 but let‘s review the steps we are taking on this journey so far.

• Step 1: Select a profitable niche.
• Step 2: Find the questions and problems people have in the chosen niche.
• Step 3. Choose the affiliate products to promote.
• Step 4. Find the three key phrases that will help market the products.
• Step 5. Write articles on each of the key phrases.
• Step 6. Submit articles to Article Directories.
• Step 7. Create a Blog Rich in Keywords.
• Step 8. Create a Squidoo Lens.

Squidoo lens is our next step now that we have some knowledge of creating a word press blog. More work? Of course, but don’t you worry for you have me to guide you along step-by-step. Rome was not built in one day so why should we expect this to be finished in one day?

First of all, what in heaven’s name is squidoo lens? It’s just another name for a web page. And why should we do it? What does it have to do with how to make money online_10? It is free and fun to do, but it can also earn you money and increase your page rank with Google.

So how do we make a squidoo lens? Well the first thing to do is to read their terms of service. You will have to know the rules that Squidoo goes by. Reading the terms will also let you know if you can live with them. I find that they have fair terms because usually what you write is not yours when the vehicle is free, but in this case it is yours to keep. Here is where you will find the terms http://www.squidoo.com/pages/tos .

Have you read the Terms of Agreement? Are you in acceptance of the terms? Then now we have to register. This is the only way we will be able to create lens, that is if we have an account. Once you are also a member, you will be able to vote for the other lens. Click this to register: http://www.squidoo.com/wizard/start and hit get started. Do you think these two are reading the terms of Agreement?

You input the following information: your first name, last name, email address, password. You will be asked to input the email and password twice to make sure there is no typographical error. After that, they will welcome you as the newest member. I will have to wait till next week to show you the step-by-step way to create a squidoo lens.

Meantime, you will have four choices. You can either search for something you like to find, search for Squidoo Top 100 (my personal recommendation as this will give you an incentive to do something much better than the top 100), get help and the last one? Start creating your own lens so you can make money online_10.