It is now officially the year of this blog… the year 2010 I have waited nearly six years to say that, ever since I bought this domain name. So I guess I should make this year the best yet for this blog. Let’s start it off with 4 ways that you can make more money online in 2010.

I am often amazed at all of the money making opportunities around us online, there really is many more than any one person could implement. The problem comes when you are starting on a new project only to learn about an interesting new tactic that you want to try out. You have to be careful to plan out your attack and stay focused… or else you will never get anything done.

With that said,  the below money making ideas for 2010 should only be used when you are NOT working on another project. Take action… but be focused and complete a project before starting another one.

#1. Sell your services online.

This is probably the easiest way to make money online as it uses your existing talents and allows you to work only when you are sure you will get paid for it. You don’t have to write an ebook or spend time creating a web site… all you have to do is tell people about what you offer and complete the work once someone commits to hiring you.

Here are a few services which you might be able to provide;

• Writing articles or ebooks,
• Market research for niche keywords,
• Creating graphics for web sites,
• Link building,
• Social/Web2.0 marketing,
• Copywriting,
• Programming,
• Web site creation.

All of those (plus more) are a great way to get started making some money online.

#2. Create niche web sites.

This method to make money is also fairly easy to do and it can be done for very little money, just a few bucks.

Set up a web site which contains great content about a particular topic, something interesting and something which people are looking for information about. You will have to do some niche keyword research and write some articles, but for the most part once the initial work is done you don’t have to do too much with it any more. Place ads on your site for related products or services, or use Google AdSense to bring you in some extra money.

The real power in this method is to create multiple web sites which all do the same thing, all targeting different keywords and all receiving some traffic every day. Individually they probably won’t make you rich, but with 10, 20, 50, or 100 sites, that’s where the magic happens.

#3.Create your own product line.

If you really want to take your business to new heights in 2010, start creating your own products to sell online. By doing this you will be able to leverage so much more, it really does take you to a new level.

• Go into a popular market,
• Find a niche within that market that is looking for an answer to a question,
• Research the answer and create a product,
• Deliver that product to sell to make money!

There is so much more that I could write about this method, books have been written about the individual steps, but I will try to go into a bit more detail in the future.

#4. Build your list!

This is probably the single most important thing that you can do for your business in 2010. If you are not doing it yet… DON’T WAIT any longer!

Your email list allows you to do so much more and gives you so much more freedom, as you can be anywhere and still make money with it. In any market, the easier and faster you can communicate with your audience, the more chances you have to making more sales… and a list can do that.

**** Over the next little while I will go into more detail about these topics to help you get a better understanding about how to do each one. Bookmark or subscribe to the RSS feed to be updated when I post new content to this blog.

I wish you all the success in 2010… just don’t forget to take action and set out a plan to make 2010 the best year yet for you!

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It’s no secret that every internet marketer would love to be able to keep selling to their customers over and over again… and being able to repeatedly sell to buyers several times should be a goal of ours.

But how can we keep buyers coming back over and over again to purchase our products? Well there are many ways to do that, but I with this post I wanted to touch on one very important, but many times over-looked aspect to keeping happy customers.

The quality of customer service is very important in keeping happy and satisfied buyers. If we are continually thanking and giving back to our buyer, the more likely they will stick around and purchase more products from us in the future.

Like most, if not all of my blog posts, come out as a result of an experience I have had recently, and this post is no exception. Over the past month or so I have purchased several different internet marketing related products from marketers who I was not all that familiar with, although I was confident enough in them to purchase. (Note: the products themselves where good, and this post has nothing to do about the individual products).

However, I did have questions that I wanted to ask the marketer about, either to clarify an issue, to expand upon something, or just a general question about the topic. This brings me back to the customer service issue and keeping buyers coming back for more…

… not one of those marketers have responded to my initial (or repeat) contact to them, even though I contacted them in the way that they stated to do so (email, forum message, etc).

If a customer contacts you for almost whatever reason, it is always best to respond to them, either to answer their question or to at least state that you will get back to them by a certain date. None of which these marketers did for me, and it’s been 1-4 weeks since my initial contact.

So how can you keep buyers coming back to purchase from you instead of one of the other thousand marketers? Deliver quality products with quality support systems in place.

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With a new year and a new decade upon us it’s important to understand what we need to focus on and learn what we need to do in order to be successful next year.

“How do I do that when a lot of what I have done in the past hasn’t worked for me?”

Here’s the not so secret tactic that we all need to use this coming year in order to become more successful, and that “secret” is…

Learn from those that have been where you want to be in the coming year!

That is the single most important thing that you can do for your online business right NOW and in the New Year.

There are a few ways that you can learn from other marketers…

• Buy their products. When you purchase a product from them (like a home study course), you can learn A LOT, but you will also spend a lot of money, which is ok if you can afford it.

• Get a mentor/coach. This can be a great way to learn the insides of their business and it can really boost your own success… but again it can cost a lot to do it, but many times it will pay for itself.

• Get their products when they have a massive sale or decide to give it away. This is actually a very do-able tactic, as many big “guru” marketers are now heading towards selling their courses for very cheap, or even giving them away for free.

Hint: Grab Mike Filsaime’s amazing offer here before it’s gone.

But like the “hint” above stated, many times when marketers give away or greatly reduce the cost of their course, they often times will limit the availability…
… which means that if you want to learn from someone who has been where you want to be, you need to act quickly.

Don’t just let next year be the big year for you… why not START RIGHT NOW?!

P.S. If you have a few thousand dollars and can afford home study courses to learn from, by all means go and use it. But if you don’t and you still want to learn as much as you can, taking advantage of giveaway or free + shipping offers is the way to go.

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There’s one thing that I always find interesting to think about, and that’s comparing offline big business to the online small business (Internet marketing), and how we as Internet marketers can incorporate offline big business ideas online.

One important area that any business needs to focus on is promotion/advertising, how to get the word out about your product or service. There are countless ways to do this, but one method I have thought about in the past was about the professional singer/rock star music CD’s and world tour concerts aspect of offline business.

We all know that rock stars can make millions off of their music CDs and their concerts, so how can we use similar principals to get our message out there like they do? Sure, we can go out and purchase a lot of offline advertising and spend millions of dollars… but how can we do similar things and keep it all online?

What I wanted to touch on in this blog post was the idea of going out there online and doing a world tour to promote ourselves and our business, like a blog word tour.

• How much exposure do you think we could get if we started showing up on all kinds of different web sites within our niche, sites where we normally wouldn’t have been seen?
• What if we spent a few months going from one site to another doing “concerts” like the professional musicians do?

Offline concerts help to expand and grow the audience of musicians, to reach out to more people and spread their product. Why can’t we do that online?

We can, and my friend Nicole Dean has just done that this past summer. She visited several different blogs within her niche and provided quality content to them, and the result of that was even better than she had expected.

You can see for yourself what Nicole did on her blog world tour, it was great to watch and see the following of people she had.

Consider going on your own blog word tour and see how much success you can get from it! Go here to learn all about it.

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The contest is over and the blog is all ready to go… this means that it is now time to announce the winner of the Big Traffic Boost blog!

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Here is a video I just put together to pick the winner of the blog. Watch it all the way through to see if you are the winner…

Click Here to watch the video to see who the winner is of the blog contest

I want to thank everyone who participated in this contest, it allowed you to grab some amazing free content from Send Button Profits and at the same time allow one of you to win a new blog.

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