Melanie Mendelson

Being an introvert in today’s business world is quite a challenge.  Networking, prospecting and selling are especially difficult. However, despite being an introvert, I was able to build a very successful business.  You too can succeed even if you are not a “people person” if you follow these strategies:

Don’t Fight Your Nature

Constantly forcing yourself to mingle, chit-chat and cold-call will take its toll.  Doing things that you hate on a regular basis is a surefire recipe for burnout.  All that stress can take years off your life!  Don’t try to be someone you are not.  Instead, try to develop the business model that fits the real you.

Focus On Your Strengths

Introverts typically have great analytical, problem-solving and listening skills.  Also, many introverts excel in writing.  What are your strengths?  How can you utilize them in your business?

Find The Right Business

Jumping from one business opportunity to another and quitting everything you start - does it sound familiar? People fall into this trap because they get excited about the profit potential but fail in doing the work involved. When evaluating potential businesses, ask yourself - will you really be able to do the work involved in the business?  If not, can you hire someone else who’ll do it for you?

Outsource Direct Selling

You can hire other people to do the selling.  Even if you are on a budget, you can still get “commissions-only” sales people who get paid a percentage of sales, which means no upfront cost to you.

Use Online Networking

The Internet allows people to find the right business contacts and skip the usual schmoozing.  You can network with people through discussion forums, social networking websites or simply by sending an e-mail to introduce yourself.  Using the electronic contact is easy, efficient and not intimidating. 

Market On The Internet

Even people who hate selling can succeed in Internet marketing.  Your website does all the selling so you don’t have to.  Orders are placed on the website without your intervention, and customer service is done via e-mail. The Internet is truly an introvert’s dream!

About The Author:

Melanie Mendelson is an introvert who makes 6 figures with her Internet-based business.  Get her FREE Internet Business Blueprint at her website http://www.goforyourdreams.com 

There are many different ways to make money on the Internet. Here is an overview of the five most popular online business models:

Sell Digital Products

The term “digital product” means that the product is delivered electronically. The customers will download the product to their computers. Some examples of digital products are downloadable e-books, audio/MP3, graphics (clipart and stock photography), video and software.

The digital product business model is very popular because there is no inventory, no shipping and no fulfillment cost. Since the product is an electronic file, it costs you nothing to make an extra copy - therefore, the profit margin is 100%!

Sell Physical Products

“Physical products” are the products that are shipped to customers through the mail. Customers place orders on your website and you ship the products to them.

There are several ways to get those products - you can make them yourself (for example, arts and crafts), buy them directly from a manufacturer or buy from a wholesaler (at quantity discounts).

If you dont want to deal with the inventory and shipping, another alternative is to use a dropshipping service. Dropshipping means that the inventory is stored at the wholesaler company. You collect the customer information and payment, give it to the dropshipping company and they ship the product to the customer. Your profit is the difference between what the customer paid you and what you paid to the dropshipper.

Become An Affiliate

Affiliates send visitors to other companies websites and get paid a percentage of all the sales they refer. You dont have to worry about creating websites, dealing with customers, shipping and payment processing. Your only job is to advertise those websites and send people there. People will buy products from those websites and you will be paid your commission.

When you become an affiliate, you will be given a unique link with a tracking code. In your advertising, you will send people to that link. This unique code will ensure that all the sales will be properly credited to you.

Sell Advertising

If you have a website that gets a lot of visitors, you can sell advertising on it. Other companies will pay you for advertising space on your site, just like they pay to advertise in magazines and newspapers.

Thats how all those “free websites” make money - they sell advertising. Free content attracts a lot of visitors. The higher is the number of people who visit the website, the more money you can make from advertising.

Provide Services

There are many types of services that can be done on the computer through the Internet. The most common examples of such services are website design, programming, graphic design, writing, data entry and transcription.

Many companies will gladly pay someone to do computer work for them on a project basis, so they dont have to hire full-time employees. As long as the work can be done without face-to-face interaction, you can do it from home on your computer and make money.

About The Author:

Melanie Mendelson has been making a living on the Internet since 2002. Get her FREE step-by-step Internet Business Blueprint at her website http://www.GoForYourDreams.com

by Melanie Mendelson
http://www.goforyourdreams.com 

If you write and submit articles on the Internet, you need to make sure you are getting the most money out of each article. Here are the 7 different ways to make money with articles:

1. Promote Your Website

Add your author bio at the end of each article with a short ad for your products or services and a link to your website. People who like your article and click on your link will be more ready to buy from you than a cold prospect.

2. Promote Affiliate Products

You can promote affiliate products in your author bio, and make commissions on all the sales you refer. Just register a domain name (so your link at the end of the article looks professional), and redirect it to your affiliate link.

3. Content Sites With Adsense

Use your articles to build content websites packed with useful information. Content websites are likely to get lots of free traffic from search engines. Place the Google Adsense advertisements on your pages, and get paid for each click.

4. Blogs

Start publishing a blog. Search engines love blogs because they are regularly updated with fresh content. Blogs tend to get a lot of traffic from search engines. Break-up your articles into smaller chunks and turn them into blog entries.

5. Mailing List

Collect your website visitors names and e-mail addresses and ask them to sign up for your newsletter. Regularly e-mail your articles to your newsletter subscribers, along with promotions for your website.

6. Information Products

When you accumulate enough articles, compile them into an e-book. Turn your articles into book chapters. Change a few things here and there, and you will have a new information product to sell.

7. Viral E-Books

Instead of selling the e-book that you made from your articles, you can also use a viral marketing approach. Add promotional copy to your e-book along with links to your website and affiliate links, and give it away. It will spread around the Internet like a virus, advertising your products and services and putting more money in your pocket.

About The Author:
Melanie Mendelson will show you how to write money-making articles in 30 minutes - even if you can’t write! Check out her 30 Minute Article Writing System http://www.30minutearticles.com and get her FREE Internet Business Blueprint at http://www.goforyourdreams.com

by Melanie Mendelson
http://www.goforyourdreams.com

1. Search Engines

Optimize your website to be search-engine friendly. Submit it to various search engines and directories.

In addition to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, it’s worth submitting to lesser known web directories. If your website is listed in as many places as possible, it can boost your rankings in major search engines as well.

2. Affiliate Program

Set up an affiliate program where you pay people a percentage of each sale for referring customers to you.

Spread the word about your affiliate program by submitting it to affiliate program directories and contacting the owners of related websites.

3. Link Exchanges

Create a links page that will contain the links to other non-competing websites in the same industry. 

Contact the owners of other websites with your proposal to exchange links.  You will add their link to your links page, and they will link to your website in return.

4. Post In Forums

Visit the online discussion forums where people in your target market like to gather.  Post useful responses to people’s questions, and include a link to your website at the end of your post next to your name.

5. Comment On Blogs

Visit other people’s blogs on the topic related to your website.  Most blogs allow you to add comments about the issues being discussed.

Add insightful comments about the blog topics, and leave your website link.  Your comment and your link will permanently remain on the blog website.

6. E-Mail Signatures

Create an e-mail “signature” - your name, your website address and a short tagline describing the main benefit of your site. Set your e-mail program to automatically add your signature to every e-mail that you send.

7. Traffic Exchanges

There are many times of traffic exchanges but the idea is the same - you team up with other webmasters, and they send you traffic in exchange for you sending them traffic. Search the web for “traffic exchange” to find those services.

8. “Viral” Strategy

Create something of value that people will pass around. It can be a report with useful information that you allow people to give away.  It can also be some kind of cool and unusual webpage that people will want to e-mail to all their friends. 

Of course, the pass-around item will include your advertisement and your link, spreading the word about your website.

9. Writing Articles

Write articles on the topic related to your website, and include a link to your site in your author bio.  Submit your articles to article directories, and allow people to publish your article in their newsletters and websites.

Your articles will spread around the web like wildfire. People will read them and visit your website.

The best part is that people who read your articles will regard you as an expert, and they will be much more likely to buy from you when they go to your website. How’s that for a free publicity?

You can learn how to write articles in just 30 minutes with the “30 Minute Article Writing System” at http://www.30minutearticles.com

About The Author:

Melanie Mendelson has been making a full-time living online from home since 2002.  Get her Internet Business Blueprint for free by visiting her website http://www.goforyourdreams.com

by Melanie Mendelson
http://www.30minutearticles.com

You don’t need to have a website to make money on the Internet.  Here is a proven strategy to make money online without a website:

Step 1: Find Affiliate Product

Find a product to promote where you make good commission on each sale.  Generally, you will get the biggest commissions on digital products.  Digital products are defined as something that is downloaded directly to a customer’s computer after purchasing, like electronic books or software. 

Since there is no extra cost per unit, no inventory and no shipping, the commissions are much greater than on regular “physical” goods.  The most common commission on digital products is 50%. The best place to find such products is Clickbank.com. 

Sign up as a reseller (also called affiliate) for a product that looks the most appealing to you.  After you sign up, you will get a unique affiliate link where you need to send people to purchase the product. 

Your affiliate link will have a special code that will tell the product owner that it’s you who referred the customer. The affiliate link code will allow your commissions to be tracked correctly and assigned to you.

Step 2: Get Domain Name

Get a domain name to redirect to your affiliate link. A domain name is a .COM name (like yourproduct.com).  You can get it for under $9 at GoDaddy.com.  GoDaddy.com will allow you to redirect your domain name to your affiliate link at no extra cost. 

So when someone types in your .COM domain in their browser, it will go to your affiliate link.  The visitor will see the website with the product you promote, and the commissions will be tracked correctly.

The reason why you need a domain name is that it’s memorable and it makes you look more trustworthy. Affiliate links tend to be too long and arouse suspicion. For example, most people would rather click on the link bestwidgets.com as opposed to abcwidgets.com?reseller=john

A domain name will make your affiliate link look like it’s your own website.  So basically, you will have a product to promote and a website to send people to and get commissions - without really having your own website.

Step 3: Get Traffic

In order to make sales, you need to get visitors to your domain name (which will forward them to the website of the product that you resell).  You can pay for advertising and hope that your profit will be greater than advertising cost, or you can use free ways to generate traffic.

The most effective way to get free targeted visitors to your domain name is by writing and submitting articles. You can write short articles on the topic related to the product that you promote.  At the end of the article, you include your author bio and your domain name link. 

You will then submit your articles to various websites, and allow them to publish your articles as long as your link is included.  Your articles will get published in many places on the Internet, and will be advertising your affiliate link at no cost to you whatsoever. People will read your articles, like what you have to say and click on your domain name link ready to buy.

Once you start getting regular sales from your articles, you can go back to step 1 and find another product to promote using this strategy.  After a while, you will build up a nice source of Internet income - without even having a website. 

About The Author: Melanie Mendelson shows how to write traffic-generating articles in only 30 minutes - even if you hate writing! Learn more about her “30 Minute Articles Writing System” at http://www.30minutearticles.com