How To Get Traffic To Your Site Online

Aloha to my readers,

I would like to talk about marketing online today. More and more, with living expenses high, unemployment high and job wages not keeping up with the cost of living, people are looking for ways to make more money. If you are married and have kids, there is a great possibility that both Mom and Dad work full time to meet the bills. Then what do you have left over, to put away for your children's education, or for your own retirement? Do you believe that Social Security will still be even here when you are ready to retire?

--> Multitudes of people have looked to working from home on their computers to make that extra amount of income that will allow them some breathing space. It is not fun to lie awake in bed at night wondering how are you going to make ends meet! All it takes is one thing to go wrong, an injury, a job loss, and the emergency fund you had that gave you a sense of security is gone.


Marketing online takes some know how! There are many ways to earn money from home. Affiliate Marketing is one of these. That is when you market somebody else's procuct and get a percentage (commission) from the sale. This can add up very quickly to a nice amount of income for you. There are several companies online that are looking for affiliates all the time. Here are a few: Clickbank, Commission Junction, Rakuten Link Share are just a few that are out there. You can choose from a variety of products for different niches. A niche is simply your field of expertise, such as Health and Beauty, Gardening, Golfing.....what are you an expert at? It is good to pick a niche for yourself and market in that area, because you already have the expert knowledge of that particular field.


If you already have an existing business or service, so much easier! The main thing you need, what ever it is you are marketing, is traffic. Traffic is visitors to your site. There are so many methods of doing this! There are plenty of sites online to advertise on. If you can afford to invest for traffic, you can buy visitors, or pay a company to mail out solo ad campaign for you, word of mouth, social site networking, traffic exchanges, even Safelists, though how effective all the free advertising is just depends on how consistent you are with doing it on a daily basis. What is your budget for your business?


What you want to do is when somebody does visit your site, ideally, is to get their name and email address so that you can let them know when you are giving a deal, adding a new product or giving a bonus item away. This is what marketers call "list building". When you have a large list of people, Internet marketing is a numbers game, the bigger the number of visitors, the greater your sales and commissions! The best way to grow your list is with an autoresponder, which is software that programs e-mails to go out to your list when you want them to. I use Aweber, and they have a special $1 for your first month, as well as great customer support and how to.

This is a very general overview of making money online. You can have this blog emailed to you by filling in the form below. Thank you for reading! See you soon!

Getting the Most From Advertising

Aloha and Happy New Year!

It has been a month since I have blogged. I am so sorry! My computer got sick and had to go home to get fixed under warranty and now it is back and I am back online.
--> Making money from home is so much better than punching a time clock! I miss my online time, because I truly love to write and my blog enables me to earn money from home doing something I love.

Make sure if you are starting out online that you educate yourself on advertising and how it works. There are so many ways that you can advertise online. If you are anything like me, I like to just jump in and start. I am not good at reading tutorials, blogs, start here. This puts me at a great disadvantage for advertising because I would be making much more income online if I took the time to actually read how each different type of advertising works!

One of the most common methods of advertising is PPC. PPC is paid per to click. Usually you pay from one cent to nine cents to encourage somebody to click on your ad and go to your website. That is very low end cost for advertising. You can of course, pay more out for pay per click. It really depends on your advertising budget.

If you are working a full time job and are working online part time, it is especially important that you maximize your online time with a plan. What is the first thing you do when you boot up your computer? Email right? Social networking? That does eat up a lot of time and before you know it you still need to place your advertising! How about using a service that submits to all your social sites for you, so you only have to place your link one time? This is a real time saver and actually populates the Internet with your links to your site and your products!
Check it out and let me know what you think. There are a lot of social networking sites now, but some people are offended if all you do is post your links, you want your online brand to be good, honest and trustworthy. You do not want to become known as a spammer! However, this is a great way to post your ad to many sites with a click of your mouse!

There are many free online advertising sites. Some you need to register an account with, really I have found with most. If you place 3-5 ads a day, every day at different sites your site will start to get seen. This is just repeating the same work on a daily basis, which is just a commitment on your part to be successful with your online product or your affiliate program.

Don't give up! Earning from home is possible and more and more people are turning to the Internet as a way to earn extra money or to obtain the lifestyle they dream of. Never lose site of your dreams! You CAN do it!

The Graveyard

Wow! Time flys when you are having fun.....I am working a 12 hour graveyard shift here at the E.R. and we had one blast of business and so far, and it is now 2:20 am, so good. Nothing too bad for any of our patients! It is just so weird because I am used to getting up at 4:30 am in the morning and now I will be going home to sleep at 6:00 am. I am grateful for the hours, the money is better at night and leaves me the days to work my home biz, Alohaladycards.

Last time I wrote alot about my animals and their care. This time I would like to talk about marketing. You would think after 8 years I would be rich already, right? Don't I get my downline built for free, get to join for free and do no work, no phone calls, no advertising? Aren't you going to do it for me?

Come on! Were we born with SUCKER tattooed on our fore heads? If it sounds too good to be true it is! Don't waste your time or your hard earned cash. YOU can succeed, no I am not rich yet, but I believe and envision myself at the end of this year, sitting in my hot tub on the back deck of our home. I have a plan to succeed and a vision of what that success will bring me! If you are new to marketing, please don't "program hop!" That's when if you don't make $5000 per week in your first month you move on to the next program. You also have to keep in mind, you need a product, something that people need and use. That product could be education. Many online opportunities offer education for newcomers. I personally like Empowerism where I have been a member since 2004. I still learn new things there. You can make some good money, but to be honest, it is hard to recruit for this program. That is because nobody wants to work, they want the quick fix, the instant money! But it is a good solid program that is celebrating 10 years last month! Congratulations to Janet Wilson and the Empowerism team, and us, the members!

It also doesn't take a rocket scientist to make money from cards. The greeting card industry is a billion dollar a year industry! Why go to the store look through tons of cards to find the right one, and you are probably, like me, looking for a belated card, having just remembered a special event or occassion for somebody you love! Now, quick, write that message, address it, hope you have stamps, put one on, and get it to the Post Office to mail. Usually this is done after work.

Or, you can receive an email notification 10 days prior to any special occassion or event, go to your site, choose from over 8000 online, high quality, real greeting cards, not e-cards, type out your message in your own handwriting, make your own card with your own pictures or pick one of the company's, you can just put a snapshot your loved one will enjoy on the inside of the card and click the SEND button. Done, pau, all over! Our company will cut the card, put it in an envelope, address it for you and put on the postage, then mail it! How cool is that? You can go to my site and just click on Send A Card button in the middle of my banner at the top of the page. Yes, I know, I have a wonderful tan from living here in paradise! There is an audio tape that will show you exactly how to use the system! I am going to receive a notification that you just opened a gift account, because I a going to pay for your first two cards, and I can then call you and answer your questions or do a gift account walk through, if you don't want to use the audio guide.

Three a.m. now and I need to get up and move around before my head hits the desk! One more thing about marketing, is, whatever opps you belong too, or traffic exchange or any site where you have built a downline, these people are your contacts, prospects and business partners! It is always a good idea to keep a word pad document with names and addresses all your contacts. Keep in touch and build a relationship with these people. You may leave the opportunity or business but you don't have to leave behind your contacts! Keep in touch, keep in touch, keep in touch!

Okay that's it, enough already.