One of the easiest ways to make money online is to fill out trial offers for various products and services. Incentivized Freebie websites abound online and offer you an opportunity to earn some money. These websites consist of various prizes and gifts – much of it in the form of cash.
Most of you have seen a site offering a free iPod or Plasma HD TV. These sites are not scams – they are IFW’s and they will give you the free iPod on condition that you fill out a trial offer for some product and the catch… you need to get 5 more friends to fill out the offer to qualify for the free gift. This is where most people quit and leave and where the rest of us make money. The short answer is that it is easy getting 5 more people to complete an offer using you as a referral. You simply pay them.
Everyday someone wants the free iPod and will pay others say $25 each to fill out an offer. They get six offers and get a $300 ipod for $150. Not bad. The trick here is to be the person being paid and there are lots of online forums set up to advertise buyers and sellers for IFW’s.
I’m recommending Project Payday as a good place to start, it’s free to join, they teach you several ways to make money by both buying and selling offers and they show you how to complete offers and use the forums. How much will you make? That will vary with how much work you put in but $50 to $200 a day is reasonable. This isn’t a get rich quick scheme – it’s a bit of work and you have to be organized.
Project Payday is a full blown system for making money using IFW’s and you can read more on it here. Project Payday. If you want to try out a real IFW site while following along with Project Payday then I recommend Cashcrate.com. It’s one of the biggest online and has been around a while now. I have never had an issue with being paid by either of these two companies which is important – make sure to do a little research on whatever IFW site you work with. The forums will tell you if getting paid has been a problem.
When you hear the term “internet marketing“, what do you think of?
For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers are somewhat correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.
At its core, internet marketing is about these 5 things:
* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal (Picking a niche)
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet (Are they buyers or readers?)
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market (SEO)
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as “leads”) for follow-up and conversion into sales (Lead generation)
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads (Like Project payday)
Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.
My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The “permission” aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.
My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers – as we do – and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.
However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.
Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.
While there are many more aspects to internet marketing than just permission-based email marketing, email has definitely been the cornerstone on which our business is built.
