Thursday, April 12, 2007

The Truth Behind Making Fast Cash Now

There are a lot of offers to make some money on the internet, most of them being to make fast cash now, online, from your home. These programs come and go and we often find them, unwanted, in our email boxes and in our mailboxes. Perhaps you have wondered if there is any truth to these make money programs, and how you can separate the ones that really work from the ones that are just there to waste your time, or even worse steal your money. Now this isn't always the case, but it happens frequently enough that you should be careful before jumping into one of these offers and start giving out your email address and phone number. (you don't always need to give your phone number)

Most of the offers that you get to make fast cash now take you to pages where you will need to join this program or that program. These are known as incentives offers and the work like this… The person that sponsors you has access to several programs that are willing to pay for your information, usually your email address or perhaps other contact information. They will pay you a percentage of whatever they make from their clients. There isn't anything wrong with that and it is a great way to earn some extra money provided the company is on the up and up. This is the most important part, if you don't go with a company that is legitimate they will just take your money and run.

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Friday, April 06, 2007

The Blistering Truth About Get Rich Opportunity Offers

We are all aware that get-rich opportunities have been around in various forms for centuries. Today there are numerous get-rich-quick opportunities in the mail order, network marketing and internet industries. The reality is that these get-rich-quick opportunities are not going to go away, so it is left to those who feel compelled to fight the never ending battle against these schemes to let the unsuspecting new entrepreneur know one essential truth: there is NO FREE LUNCH!

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE GET RICH OPPORTUNITY

The get-rich opportunity works so well and has withstood the test of time because there are always people who need more money. And there are always those who think they can get something for nothing. Credit card debt and bankruptcy are at an all time high in our society. When people are facing a mountain of debt they become desperate for money. They become perfect targets for the get-rich-quick opportunity. The mind becomes fixed on finding quick and easy ways of getting money.

GAMBLING TO GET MORE MONEY

There was a time, not so long ago when Nevada was about the only state where gambling was legal. Now just about every state runs some kind of state lottery. WHY? Because there are tens of millions of people who are willing to put down their hard earned money to win the big jackpot.

People wouldn't be playing the lottery every day if they didn't think there was some chance (no matter how remote) of them winning the big jackpot. People gamble for the same reason that they join get-rich opportunity programs, THEY WANT MORE MONEY, NOW!

THE HOOK

When the mind becomes fixed on the need for money, the door is left wide open for the get-rich-quick promoter to enter. He paints a fantastic mental picture of you obtaining all of your heart's desires, the dream house, the dream car , the dream vacation. All you have to do is purchase "THE SECRET MILLION DOLLAR PLAN" that will put you on easy street for ever.

The people who promote get-rich-quick schemes know exactly what their target market is thinking. They know their target market wants to make all of the money that they can, as quickly as they can. They know that when people feel they are in urgent need of money, they don't think in a rational, common sense way.

This makes it easy for the get-rich-quick operator to tell their target market exactly what they want to hear. They want to hear that they can get a huge amount of money, in a very short time, and hardly have to lift a finger to get it.

The get-rich-quick promoter knows that they have to strike while the iron is hot. They will tell their target market that their million dollar secret is legal, honest and ethical and that it is 100% guaranteed to work.

The sad truth is that there are millions of people each year who will spend their last few dollars buying into a dream that is really a myth made of the fleeting winds. They spend their money. And quickly discover they've been taken advantage of by empty dream sellers.

If you are among the millions of people who have fallen prey to the get-rich-quick dream sellers, if you feel you've have been unfairly taken advantage of, you can file a complaint with the FTC (federal Trade Commission) by calling, 1-877 382-4357. The FTC also provides information on how to spot and avoid all types of consumer fraud.

If you have a sincere desire to improve your financial condition, here are some things that you might want to consider: to improve your life style, you need to do what most people are unwilling to do. You have to create your own opportunities. You can do this by taking advantage of the free information available through your local library and the small business administration. You knowledge you gain is what will enable you to provide something of value to your customers

Don't expect someone else to do for you what you can easily do for yourself. You must be willing to sacrifice the time and effort that it takes to build your own opportunities. Perhaps you've heard the saying... "EASY COME, EASY GO." When people acquire huge sums of money without having to do much of anything to get it, in most cases, they usually don't hold on to it very long.

There are many lessons to be learned on the road to success. You will learn that true success in business comes only when you accept the responsibility of providing your customers with products or services that offer true value for the money that is given in exchange.

Always keep in mind that there is a price to be paid for anything of true value. If you want to build a successful business and make money, you are going to have to pay the price. That price is: MOTIVATION, PATIENCE, PERSISTENCE and SINCERITY!

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Adsense Basics

Instead of a simple answer, you are overwhelmed by all the information out there and everyone claiming to be a guru and each one selling you stuff that probably is not all that great. By the way, not that there's anything wrong with it, but if they are as successful as they claim to be, why are they selling their "widely popular advice" at $147 a piece?

So how exactly do you make money online? Well, one of the most safe and easier ways to make money online is to use the Google Adsense program. What is adsense? Okay let me get back to the basics. When you go to google and enter for example travel as your search keyword google returns a list of results and on the right hand side there's normally a column that reads 'Sponsored Links'. These are ads that belong to advertisers that have bid on the keyword Travel using the Google Adwords program. I'll get back to this in a minute. Let me explain briefly what a keyword is and why it is so important.

When you visit any search engine, the words you type in when you are looking for something are called keywords. Search engines work on keywords to bring you back results that would best fit the words you typed in and they invest a lot of time, resources and money to make sure you get the results you want otherwise they would not be in business. For example if you search for Hawaii Holidays you would not want results on the anatomy of a female mosquito. Get the picture? So what does all this mean?

Back to google advertisers. Google advertisers sign up for a program called Google Adwords in order to run their ads on google. These ads are based on keywords so if I am a real estate agent and I'm advertising on google, chances are I have bid on the word 'property' as one of my keywords. So if someone searches for beach property, my ad is bound to appear in first, second, third position depending on how much I bid for the keyword and if I bid higher than my competitors. So what you may ask? So my dear adsenser, you can benefit from the Google Adwords program by signing up for the Google Adsense program. The Adsense program allows webmasters like you and me to monetize our website or blog and make money while we present a topic of interest to the web community.

Whenever someone comes to your site and finds your site as a 'best fit' for what they are looking for, they may find the ads on your site informational and click on them. However, the ads are meant to be focused and match your topic area in order to attract clicks. What happens when someone clicks on the ad? You make money online from your webpages! In a nutshell, it's that simple. However, many new adsensers suffer from the illusion that if you slap a couple of ads on your webpages then you should make tons of cash. The answer is you might make $5.00 in a month. There are quite a lot of tips and techniques that you will need to action on your webpages in order to see a real return from using Google adsense.

But do not be discouraged, this is a good program and yes there are a number of webmasters and online marketers who have made hundreds of thousands of dollars from using the google adsense program.

Monday, April 02, 2007

PaidSurveyPro - Do They Have Any Dark Secrets?

PaidSurveyPro claims to be a legitimate paid surveys service, but is it?

At first glance the PaidSurveyPro web site may seem like most others-- big on promises of home income generation. I can't think of anything that annoys me more than this point. It would be nice, for all concerned, if paid survey sites were to cease the practice of indicating that it is possible to earn a fortune from paid surveys. It just isn't possible.

So, let's get something cleared up straight away... Whether it is PaidSurveyPro or any other survey site, you are not going to make a fortune.

Survey sites all generally offer the same services-- you pay a registration fee and are provided with a database of market research firms that will pay you for your opinion. All you need to do is register and go.

The complaint many users have with paid survey sites is that they do not update their databases regularly enough, so users waste time trying to register with market research firms that are no longer doing market research. PaidSurveyPro maintains an updated database so users do not have to waste time like this.

There is a part of the PaidSurveyPro website that states the facts about the potential of paid surveys to generate income-- the site manager notes that surveys did not make him rich and will not make others rich. He does note, however, that it is a great supplement to an existing income.

On the down side, however, they have an income indicator table on the site to show you income earning potential. This can be slightly misleading because this can generate all sorts of ridiculously high figures. Take this with a grain of salt and pay more attention to the comments from the site manager.

PaidSurveyPro separates itself from the pack by including a $20 survey on sign up. After signing up and completing this survey you will have earned most of your sign-up cost back.