Tuesday, 27 September 2011

How to make money online (internet) in Nigeria

Do you wish to make more money online in Nigeria? These and many more are the questions i'm kind of expecting from you as i begin to write this article online.
"What do i have to offer?", you may ask. Is this something new or the routine money making techniques that i've already heard of? Some pessimists in Nigeria need to have their minds dissuaded from not believing that Nigerians are actually making money through legitimate internet businesses, whether small scale or large scale. Listen, and let me tell you the plain truth; Nigerians are actually making money through legal online businesses, and that, my friend, is a fact.
There are millions of ways to make money on the internet, even in nigeria such as reseller marketing, web designing, web hosting, writing articles, exports and imports, taking surveys, graphic designing, advertising, search engine optimizing, selling domain names, selling ebooks, google adwords, google adsense, overture adverts, reading emails. e.t.c. Some of these businesses can be focused within Nigeria, while others can be international depending on your preference. You could equally append your present business activity to the internet by getting a corporate web site - this increases your profile and income.
However, in this context, i'd like to talk about Google adwords; one of the fastest and easiest ways of making money in Nigeria, even while you sleep and has been promoted by many advertisers in Nigeria.
What does this entail? It includes the defnition, description, rules, prooducts involved, how to get your money in nigeria, etc. These and many more are the likely questions that are expected to be answered in this topic.
Google adwords has its origin from Google, remember? The world's fastest web search engine. Google has been gaining the most patronage and popularity lately from users worldwide especially p.p.c.(pay per click) advertisers. This money making technique involves signing up as as a sales affiliate to a merchant company on the internet, paying for and placing p.p.c. adverts on the side of Google's search results and getting paid for making a sale. You'll need to be at least literate to be able to earn money from this sort of arrangement. All these are not that hard as even a secondary school leaver can do this. It is capable bringing you income even while you sleep because the adverts are always on. You could optimize your search keywords within your Google adwords account to increase traffic.
Affiliate Marketing with articles
Another method you can make money with Affiliate marketing is by making use of articles and including your affiliate links on them. You can submit articles on lot of websites for free and even make money from such websites even without making an affiliate sale. Sites like hubpages.com, ehow.com and articlebase.com allow this. The main focus here is to focus on a niche and write comprehensive articles on it. Just write about what you know or have researched and do it in a friendly way that will encourage people to buy. Having your own website can also help with affiliate marketing since the site belongs to you no matter what and you can keep publishing your thoughs and knowledge on an issue. Articles about web hosting, domain names, making money from the web, health and fitness are good niches to focus on. You may even write articles about Nigerian foods and local products. The more referrals you make, the more money you are also likely to make online.
Other ways to make money in Nigeria include: Blogging, forex trading, freelancing, email marketing, search engine optimization, selling online and so on. You just need to setup a good business model for your business and let the money keep rollin in, even when you are not there.
This write-up is practically a compressed technique for making money online in Nigeria using Google adwords,and so you may need to do more research.

Monday, 26 September 2011

Unveil The Truths About Starting An Online Business


Feeling glum because your internet market empire doesn’t take off that quickly or isn’t that profitable? Being a newbie in the Internet market world you might have to meet with miserable failure in your initial days.
The harder you try the more it seems you fail. In fact sometimes it feels like a hamster wheel in which you run and run and run but never get anywhere. However, it’s pretty common and happens to every single beginner. When I look back at my early days, and see how much I struggled the first few years, I really wish I’d known a few crucial things what I know now. Read on to know some significant tried and tested marketing techniques, which are simply indispensable to get succeed in online business.
Niche your way to riches
One of the primary keys to success in any business, especially when you’re trying your hands on online business, is finding the exact market that needs what you have to offer. Remember, taking a shotgun approach and foolishly believing that “everyone” needs your product or service is the quickest way to failure.
Your first and foremost duty should be identifying and describing your niche market. For this, you need to determine what problem the niche market is actively trying to solve and how much they will pay for to what publications they read, what groups/associations do they belong to, and where they hang out both on- and off-line.
The more narrowly focused your niche is, the better it is from business perspective. For example ‘owners of Golden Retriever’ are a better defined niche than ‘dog lovers’, and an ‘executive female golfer’ is better than ‘women athletes’.
Acknowledge your expertise
One of the great difficulties that an online business owners faces is their inability to acknowledge their expertise in an area. Sometimes, it took them years to realize that there was a very large group of people who knew less than them and they can deliver knowledge to them.
This entire process would be easier if you choose a field of your interest and keep gaining knowledge in your respective field as well as keep applying what you learn.
Create a content-packed web site
Make sure you put up contents relevant and useful to your target market, embedded with keywords that your target market might use to find you. Keywords are the magic wands that enable you to be found on search engines and tools to bring noticeable increase in both the amount of traffic to web site as well as in the number of newsletter subscribers.
Once you survey the market well, you will get a good idea of the problems that your customers face. Make sure your articles can serve as the solution to the common problems and questions of your target market. For this you must go through reputable sources of technical and Internet marketing.
Online technology and Internet marketing strategies changes frequently and therefore you must put forth sincere efforts to keep up with the latest and greatest innovations.
Create several “stay in touch” devices
Remember, an ezine (email newsletter), blog (web log), and autoresponders (a number of automated follow up emails) are the quickest and easiest tools to stay in touch with your current clients and to bring prospective clients into the fold.
As the most effective ezines are published weekly, it gives you an excuse every week to reach out to your contact database. In addition, Blogs tend to be attention hogs, so they are quite useful as a marketing strategy when you update them 3-4 times per week.
The content for a series of autoresponders can serve as a personal promotional arm for you, as they can be personalized and give prospective clients the impression that you’re writing a personal email just to them. The more “stay in touch” strategies you use, the quicker you can reach your prospective client base.
Last but not the least, no matter what the television ads might state or what the information products might claim, success in the online world doesn’t happen overnight. It is easier to make a decent living out of online sources, but to be successful you will need to work harder.
Make sure your research well, invest your time, and keep trying when the going gets tougher in order to achieve ultimate success in online business.

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