Why Webinars Are One of The Most Effective Tools for Making Money Online

Webinars are one of the most popular ways to market within the guru community, and with good reason; they work. Webinars are fast becoming a major part of product launches and marketing in general. Many marketers are reporting that webinars have some of the highest conversion rates of anything they do. So what makes webinars so effective and how can you use them to inject huge growth into your business?

The first aspect of webinars that make them so incredibly effective is the very nature of the format. Webinars use multi formats of engagement, including auditory, visual and kinesthetic (by allowing participants to ask questions and get responses real time) that all contribute to one of the highest levels of engagement by attendees. This 'immersive' format keeps people engaged and gives marketers a chance to convey their unique value proposition in detail, allowing them to make an air tight case as to why their product or service is of high value and worth of consideration by their prospects.

Another thing that makes webinars a 'must' for your marketing efforts is that marketers can carefully craft a storyline and 'flow' to their presentations that naturally lead attendees to a buying decision. By starting out with valuable information and content, asking permission to show their products and spurring people to action, the marketer has an elevated level of control of the presentation and thus, the prospects' very thought process about the product and whether or not they should consider purchasing from product or service.

More specifically, webinars offer an opportunity for detailed testing of when exactly a prospect best responds to a sales message. By segmenting your list, and trying out a lot of different timing on their specific call to action, marketers can very easily land on a perfect sales message by experimenting with a ton of variables, including how much free content to delivery, what features and benefits of their product to emphasize and what type of call to action best resonates with their audience.

So how can you use webinars to your advantage and to grow your business? First, make sure you prepare a ton of great content to justify your attendees time. Think about a problem that they need solved, or a 'problem' in your niche or marketplace that is a 'hotbutton' issue. Then cover this issue, demonstrate that you have a solution and allow them to see that they can purchase your product to easily solve this problem or get the benefits your product promises. All good webinars uncover a problem, demonstrate a solution and allow the purchase of that solution.

Another really valuable use of webinars is to not just pitch products or services you want your attendees to purchase, but to use high quality, content rich webinars as a list building technique. Approach Joint Venture partners in your niche, and offer to give their audience a high value webinar to help them solve a problem they might be having. This is a win for the Joint Venture partner as they continue to deliver great content to their audience, but you get the benefit of adding a ton of new leads to your email list as you can get the opt-in information for people registering to attend the webinar.

These are just a few aspects of webinars that make them one of the most compelling marketing tools in use right now. There are an infinite number of ways you can continue to test, tweak and promote your webinars that can literally revolutionize your business. There are numerous cases of marketers selling high priced programs or courses and literally pocketing six figure in sales over the course of a one hour webinar.

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Best Promotional Products - Printed Coffee Mugs, Promotional Jackets and Travel Mugs

Thousands of people travel everyday and hundreds of them prefer walking to work with a cup of coffee in hand. In spite of the fact that coffee has been the best booster, especially when you get up in the morning, people prefer sipping coffee at short intervals, even during work. This is the reason why coffee mugs and travel mugs have gained immense popularity. So why not try something different?

Everyone likes possessing things that personify the very existence of an individual. How about printed coffee mugs? Well, it is proved that promotional travel mugs and printed coffee mugs make excellent gifts to take logos and messages wherever they are carried. They act as portable, walking billboard for your brand. Promotional travel mugs become a unique addition to the list of promotional products as they would always stay in vogue.

The reason promotional travel mugs and printed coffee mugs have gained popularity in the field of advertising is very simple. They offer a wide space for the advertisers to print logos and details. When you advertise on these mugs, make sure you use the space appropriately so that the logo and the message are easily readable. Do not underestimate the power of these walking billboards, because if used properly, they work to their full potential.

One of the best things about travel mugs it's extensive variety. Two of the most popular varieties are stainless steel and plastic. Promotional plastic travel mugs come in different colours and sizes. Because plastic is a material which is durable, the mugs will not suffer from being tossed in the back seat, sitting in a hot car, or being left on the roof while its user drives off.

However, when we talk about promotional stuffs for office, one thing that can't skip our minds is the promotional jackets. Although they are at the higher end of promotional clothing when comparing the cost with other promotional stuffs, they are often necessary and most of the times look great printed or embroidered. Because jackets are usually worn by almost everyone, it can be great using them for promotional campaigns.

Unlike other promotional products, promotional jackets can be used over and over again, thus helping you save costs for the business and assuring that the advertisement will be present for a long period -at least as long as the jacket is in use. And even if the jacket is not used every day, it can still be a nice gift. Some may even end up in some collector's cabinet, along with pens, mugs, towels, and similar other materials used in promotion or given as corporate gifts. Truly, there is no better way to effectively advertise than using promotional materials such as jackets, promotional travel mugs and printed coffee mugs.

Therefore, to fight some of the fiercest competition, companies should consider unique ways to promote their business name, by using printed coffee mugs, promotional travel mugs, promotional jackets, etc. for an effective promotional program.

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Push Button Cash Site Review

Just recently launched on January 25th 2011, Push Button Cash Site is the brainchild of Daniel Young, a very successful internet marketer. It is a piece of automated traffic driving software that is designed for internet marketers in order to drive masses of free organic traffic to their websites.

What it is in fact, is an automated blogging program designed for word press. The cost originally is $47, however after trying to escape from the sales page twice, I saw the offer come down in price to $37 and then eventually to $27. So what's all the hype?

When you click onto the Push Button Cash Site sales page you get the usual amount of sales banter combined with the normal multitude of ClickBank screen shots showing impressive daily sums of money. He also shows you a video whereby he logs into his ClickBank account in real time, which on the face of it seems pretty impressive, whether this is genuine or not I will leave that for you to decide.

For $27 you receive 4 short videos explaining how the program works and you also get a link to download the software. Young says that it takes just 3 minutes to set up and after this, you should be ready to rock and roll. Whether there are any more upsells after this, I'm not sure.

There are several automated traffic driving programs like this on the market and Push Button Cash Site is simply the latest. The reviews for this product have been mixed although the signs are that you do get a lot for your money. It is probably too early to tell as to whether you can make serious amounts of money like it says on the sales page, but always remember to do your due diligence and dig a little deeper before you put any of your money out there.

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World Prelaunch 2011 MLM - Should You Join?

JR Venture Invest LLC is a private venture capital company that has invested in World Prelaunch 2011. Two other businesses JR Venture has invested in the past few years are Payhumax.com and open--market.tv. The World Prelaunch 2011 website claims the business was created by some of the lead marketers; however, it does not provide any names for reference. The site also claims to have a great compensation plan, but, once again, does not provide any details. The business is scheduled to launch in April, 2011.

What are the products WP 2011 will provide? Good question. So far in my research, I have not been able to determine what products they will be selling. If you go to the WP 2011 website and view the video that is supposed to tell you what World Prelaunch 2011 is, you get a lesson on three types of ways to make money, one of them being network marketing. The only information specific to WP 2011 on the video is that it will be one of the next top leading network marketing companies in the world. If you go to JR Venture's website, no further information is provided on World Prelaunch and the link on the site just brings you back to the video on the WP 2011 website.

At this point, you can join for free. Unfortunately, no further information is available at this point even after you join. You'll receive an email with a referral link to send to all your friends and will be asked to open a Facebook account so you could broadcast the WP 2011 referral link. The email also asks you to join their free conference calls at least once a week to get more information, but there is no phone number, date or time provided.

There are many people blindly promoting this business online; however, further research and due diligence is highly recommended before jumping onto this opportunity.

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The Best Membership Site Software To Serve Up Your Digital Downloads

I honestly believe that the best software combination to take orders using a membership and to use that to serve up digital videos, audios and reports, is to use a combination of WordPress, WishList Member and WP Drip. Use WordPress to set up the content, WishList Member to take payments and WP Drip to drip that content.

Although there are a million different choices you can make when it comes to the membership software to use, your membership should be based around WordPress. The reason for this is that it has been around for years and is the best content management system. They make it easy for you to add articles and blog posts, to embed videos, there are forums for WordPress, it's easy for others to leave comments, interact and even to have many people on staff, and have multiple users login and post content of their own.

WordPress is also very simple, it's constantly updated and it's easy for anyone to use. You use WordPress to post your content but, you need to protect your content and you need the ability to allow people to pay you money to get access to that private members area. That's why I think you should use the WishList Member plug in on top of WordPress. This plug in isn't free but if you just make a few sales in your membership site, it has already paid for itself.

With WishList Member you create a membership level, you choose which posts and pages within your membership to protect from the outside world, and which of those posts and pages that new membership level has access to. Finally, you also set up a payment button so that someone can pay you money and then get access to a specific membership level, and in turn get access to your membership site.

If you have lots of monthly content or you simply want to drip out bonuses, even if someone only pays you once or a handful of times, you should use the WP Drip plug in which will drip out your content and your posts based on how far apart you've posted them. That means that if you add content to your site spaced a day, or a week, or a month apart, someone will join and they will see just the first day. The longer they are in your membership site the more content they see.

When you set up your membership site use WordPress to deliver the content, WishList Member to protect that content and WP Drip to gradually drip out that content.

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A 3 Step Guide To Launching A Product

Launching a product can be somewhat daunting, especially if you have never done it before. First, you have to create something of use, then you have to be able to process payments, third, you really are going to need to be able to find your audience. Its a long procedure, and can at times take many months, even years to get it perfect. Hopefully this three step process will make some kind of sense to you today, and help you off on your feet.

What Does Your Audience Want To Know?

Sure, you know lots of stuff, but it is not as simple as just documenting how to do something that you know how to do well. It is a matter of knowing what your market wants, then documenting how to do what they want to know.

This is where most products fall flat, but thankfully, there are a few simple ways that you can query your followers. If you have followers on Twitter or Facebook, you can simply ask them yourself. If you have a mailing list, then you can create a free survey with Survey Monkey, and simply ask them what their pains and desires are. You can even go so far as to research your markets forums, and note down the common questions. This will get you off on the right foot.

How To Deliver The Product

You are going to need three things. First, you are going to need a sales letter, so that you can convert people into buyers. Second, you will need a payment system, so that people can actually pay for the course. Third, you will need a membership backend so that you can deliver the content.

When launching a product, you will need a salesletter, which you can create manually using HTML, or you can order a template from a well known template directories such as Theme Forest. You can also use sales letter themes such as OptimizePress, which work with software such as WordPress.

Your Payment system will generally be taken care of by services such as PayPal, or even Google Checkout. For further flexibility, you can also use your own merchant account, so that you can process Credit Card payments, but that will need to be arranged by the bank, and by a third party integration service such as 1shopping cart, eJunkie, or Nanacast.

A membership backend can also be created using services such as Nanacast, Wishlist Member, or even OptimizePress in combination with the prior mentioned. Each can be integrated with PayPal and other merchant accounts.

Finding Your Audience

This is where things can get a little tricky. Everyone by now should have at least some followers on Twitter and Facebook, plus a few subscribers to your blog, but with this kind of exposure, you are only just starting to scrape the surface.

Consider other people within your niche who may be able to profit from promoting your product as an affiliate, and develop a relationship with these people well before the product has launched, or has even been made public. This is commonly referred to as being "A Joint Venture", and can result in a massive increase in sales, as long as you develop a solid relationship, and so long as the person is in a targeted niche relative to who you want to target your product to.

When it comes to launching a product, I am only just scraping the surface with this one today, but I have provided some gold nuggets in there for you. The key point, above all else, is to make sure that your product is targeted to your audience. If it is not, then you can see a wide variety of repercussions. Refund rates, bad reputation, and more. So, before you go too far, consider whether or not your product solves a problem, makes light work of a hard task, and is just as high quality as possible. It will be a reflection on you, and you should treat it accordingly.

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So You Want to Launch a Product: Part 2

The Product Feasibility Assessment Many times products fail due to a poor initial research. You may think that you have a great product but you must determine if there is a viable market for your product and a need. More specifically, your product should provide a solution to a true need or problem for its target market. You really need to be certain that the problem exists and that there are currently few solutions out there.

There are 4 parts to a feasibility assessment:

1. Product Quality Is your product truly a quality product? Does it provide valuable information or solution to the problem that you are attempting to solve? This is when you need to be completely honest with yourself. Your product will undoubtedly fail if it is not of high quality and perceived value. It is best that you test the product thoroughly with a focus group. This is a great way to establish social proof that can be used latter in your marketing strategy. Another important aspect to consider is the price. What price point did you decide on and why? Be careful not to price too low as low quality is sometimes perceived along with a low price. Alternatively you don't want to price your product too high as you risk pricing yourself out of the market.

2. Market Demand You need to clearly define your target audience. A strong practice is to create an avatar for your ideal client. What does he/she look like, what do they do for a living, how old are they, where do they hang out, etc. How does your product solve their specific needs? Do you know what their buying habits are and what their preferred product types are whether it be video tutorials, eBooks, DVD's, or online memberships? How is your product or industry perceived by your target market and is there an effective way that you can reach them? You will want to determine that your product suits all of their needs.

3. Competition This step is really important. You definitely need to know who your competition is, what they are selling, and their strategy. Watch them closely! Who are they? How are they perceived in the market? What share of the market do they "own"? What is your unique selling point (USP) and how do you differentiate yourself from the competition? You will want to assess their marketing activities and identify what works well for them and what doesn't and how you can either mirror some of their activities or do better. Most importantly, how have they priced their product? What kind of testimonials and social proof do they provide? What kind, if any, bonuses are they offering? What would make your target market buy from them and not you and what can you do to solve that problem?

4. Leadership Are you currently perceived as a leader in your industry? Does your target market know who you are and trust you? This is probably the most important aspect of a successful product launch. People buy from who they know and trust, especially in this day and age when there is so much available and it seems like every neighbor and their dog has the same product to sell. If this is your first product, you want to position yourself as an expert in your industry. You need to build a following and develop a relationship with that following. This is about building trust. Can you pull this off? Are you truly an expert in your field? If not, what can you do to become one? Are you ready to position yourself as a leader?

Completing an exhaustive product feasibility assessment provides a solid foundation from which your product can build upon. It is wise to complete this stage before investing too much time and resources into developing your product.

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Empower Network for Doubling Your Cashed-In Commissions

You probably have heard about David Wood's Empower Network and you are seriously thinking to join it. However, what exactly is Empower Network? Could it be a new multilevel marketing generation system? Or, perhaps some online attraction marketing funnel to blow up your mind? Is this a new multilevel marketing strategy or an affiliate program designed to help you cash in as much money as possible? Is Empower Network going to be of any help with you internet business? Let's have a close look and answer to all these questions, shouldn't we? But be prepared, because the answer won't only surprise you, it will simply shock you!

David Wood and David Sharpe decided to create Empower Network a few years ago, and they have developed and updated it until the last Halloween, on 31st October of this year, when the product has been officially launched. In only 72 hours after its launching, more than $250,000 was being deposited in form of affiliate commissions, into the founding members' accounts. Even though a server crash happened, nothing stopped Empower Network to launch and starburst like the Enterprise into the galaxy of internet marketing!

What's interesting here is that for only $25 a month you can reach sales of more than $625 on the beginning, not to mention what cash commissions you could bring in afterwards. And there is more magic about this tool: all the payments are made instantly and directly into your bank account! This is a tool that surely will make many of those using paid advertising methods happy, since it offers enough profit limits to make paid advertising profitable.

In the other case, in which you are a beginner in the internet marketing system or you are just looking for a huge hit that brings you in commissions fast out of the blue, you have absolutely no plan, no Facebook, twitter or other promoting methods, than take your thoughts away from earning money on the long run.

Other beneficial feature of Empower Network is the one of not having to install nothing in your computer: no software, no plug-ins or add-ons to install. Just make a name, update your bio and upload your picture and that's all: you can start and fight for cashing in!

You will also notice that there are social media features such as "share this" or the RSS feed which are already coded. All you'll have to do is just to blog every day, spread the news and cash in the money. The rest will be on Empower Network's shoulders!

And this is not all! There is one more vital thing you need to do in order to make the best out of this program and cash in as much as it might offer. And this is to sort out a method of being paid. You have two alternatives: either you apply for a merchant account - which is also the most advisable but it takes 24 hours - or you tie up your PayPal account - which is easy an immediate.

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Product Launching Ideas - 5 Ideas To Make Your Product Launch A Roaring Success

There are many product launching ideas that can help increase your chances of making your product launch a raving success. This article will offer 5 proven product launch ideas that can help you jump start your launch and put you ahead of the pack. Some of the ideas you may have heard of before, others you may have not. Whatever the case, there are many variables involved with a launch, and you will want any advantage (legal and ethical) you can get.

Here are 5 ideas you can put into action for your launch:

Idea #1: Offer A High Commission Rate

Having a high commission rate is a must to attract joint venture partners to promote your product. Some of these super affiliate partners have massive lists of subscribers that you can tap into, but to entice them to promote your product, you need to offer a commission rate that will attract them. In the information products arena, 50% to 75% commissions is the norm. For physical products, they can be in the range of 4% to 20%. But bear in mind that information products are cheaper to produce, that's why high commission rates can be given.

Idea #2: Use A Proven Payment Processor

Using a proven payment processor gives your customers confidence in ordering your product. If you use a processor like ClickBank as well to process your payments and track your affiliate sales, more affiliates will also promote your product as ClickBank has been proven to pay out on time.

Idea #3: Split-Test Your Sales Copy

To maximize your sales conversions for your launch, you need to split-test your sales copy. Split-testing at its most basic means testing two sale pages by inserting a code on to your webpage. Split-testing can be done through a service like Google Website Optimizer or Hypertracker.

Idea #4: Create Swipe Files

To make it easy for joint venture partners and affiliates to promote your product, it is a good idea to provide swipe files for them that they can use to promote your product. These can include email ad copy, banner ads, sample blog posts, pay-per-click ads etc. The easier you make it for partners to promote your product, the more likely they are to push your product hard for you.

Idea #5: Have A Joint Venture Launch Contest

Having a contest for your launch spices things up and makes your launch exciting for joint venture partners. It gives them two incentives for promoting your product - the prizes or cash prizes available, and the bragging rights for securing the top spots in the contest. Joint venture partners can win cash prizes or hot products from your contest and gain recognition in the process. This is another product launching idea you can implement to really tip the scales in your favor.

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The Unrevealed Secrets Behind A Successful Product Launch

One of the things that has come to define the internet marketing space over the past couple of years is the use of product launches to promote the introduction of new products into the marketplace. Most of us have experienced the onslaught of emails, videos and non-stop internet buzz that accompanies one of the massive events promoted by a top internet marketing guru. The impact of a major product launch is almost impossible to ignore.

The success of these marketing events is legendary and many have generated millions of dollars in revenue in less than 24 hours. A number of high-end training courses have been devoted to showing others how to produce these internet events and thousands of eager students have lined up with their credit cards in hand ready to learn the secrets of how to build a successful product launch. The reason is that this strategy works.

While the concept of doing a coordinated launch to introduce a new product was initially made popular by Jeff Walker's course on the topic, many of the top internet marketers have gone on to expand and build on his ideas. It has since become standard procedure for online entrepreneurs who want to introduce a new information product.

Successful product launches are the epitome of creating a JV or joint venture with other marketers in a particular niche. The incentives for cross promotion can be huge and the typical result is a win-win scenario for everyone involved, including the customers who buy the products. The reason is that many of the JV partners throw in an array of bonuses for customers who buy the product through their affiliate link.

The strategy behind building a successful launch follows a relatively consistent sequence. One of the basic concepts is creating the perception of authority with an audience. You do this by providing a huge amount of great information that people can actually use. In fact, many product launch gurus have advocated giving your best stuff away for free.

The result of offering your visitor this type of information not only helps to establish your authority on the topic, it also creates a perception of extreme generosity which, in turn, builds trust and elicits an attitude of gratefulness. This also creates a subconscious sense of indebtedness which can result in the prospect being much more likely to buy the actual product when it is finally made available for purchase.

Another by-product of a successful launch sequence is creating an atmosphere of community and a sense of belonging. When people get involved in promoting or following a product launch sequence, they become a part of an event. There is often a communal sense of excitement and anticipation as the launch date approaches. This atmosphere is one of the driving forces that motivates both buyers and promoters.

When a product launch sequence is structured and implemented properly, the results can truly be amazing. The excitement and anticipation generated by the series of emails and online promotions crescendo on the launch date with an avalanche of sales and affiliate commissions. This is a skill that every online business entrepreneur should definitely learn and begin to use.

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Tips On How To Handle A Product Marketing Launch

Understanding how to handle a product marketing launch can go a long way in helping you get the most out of your product. A well planned strategy is more likely to see you succeed in a shorter time-frame. It is also likely to not only earn you more money but save you more money as an organized plan will help allocate the funds better.

First and foremost you want to be well organized before you begin. Start by creating a plan that you and your employees can look back on as you go through the process. You will want to make sure that you begin creating your plan early in the process so that if you see problems there is time to correct.

As with any marketing plan you must understand the wants and needs of your customers. While preparing your documents remember to consider your market and as much as possible little details that would be important to the target. For example, if you know that people will show more interest in your goods if they are packaged in a certain way this is a variable you must consider as it may be the difference between getting a sale or not.

Of course, you will need to understand your perspective clientele well. Take the time to understand why the goods you are launching is important to the consumer population and what will make it most attractive for purchase.

Advertising is going to be a crucial part of how to get the word out. While word-of-mouth is a wonderful starting point you will also want to consider advertising using other methods as well. Some businesses opt to use the media, while others opt to contact prospective but until directly through print.

Which type of advertising will work best for you and your company will greatly depend on demographics and your target audience. Considering things such as the age of your consumers will be very important. The different factors related to your consumers will directly affect how well your advertising works. For example, often the younger audience has a tendency to watch more television and therefore commercial would likely be a positive way to convey your message to them.

To prepare yourself and your company in the best way that you possibly can and it is crucial that you get a good working staff. It is important that everyone on your staff is able to work well, share ideas and resolve problems together. When choosing the members of your staff that will help you it is important to have someone from each aspect of the plan available while working out your strategy.

Probably one of the best decisions most companies can make is to look to the public themselves before finalizing a product marketing launch. Offering the public free samples and asking them to offer their opinions can give you an insight into what people like and dislike and how you can make improvements. Taking this step will give you the opportunity to make changes before the launch begins and thus give you a greater chance of success.

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New Kickstarter Guidelines Address Crowdfunding Credibility Issues

In the wake of Pebble, Ministry of Supply, Zion Eyez, and other Kickstarter projects running months behind their projected schedules for initial product deliveries to backers, Kickstarter announced on September 20, 2012 that they are implementing new Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines.

These new guidelines forbid the use of product renderings and simulations of what the product might do in the future - "products can only be shown performing actions that they're able to perform in their current state of development." Multiple rewards are also now prohibited unless the item is designed as a "kit" or "pair".

Kickstarter has always urged creators to be transparent and have a goal and estimated delivery date planned before launching campaigns, but with more and more project creators overpromising and underdelivering, Kickstarter is receiving much of the backlash.

Current campaigns are grandfathered in under the old rules. Still one company, Martian Watches, used working prototypes in their original Kickstarter video, and has been diligently offering progress updates, production photographs, and videos that use engineering samples throughout their campaign.

Their company biography notes that they had previously developed and marketed an award-winning wireless product, which may be what is giving them an edge over some other creators. Their familiarity with lead times, production costs, component sourcing, and other development processes give them an edge over first-timers who may not fully understand the importance of these procedures, leading them to believe that they can begin their campaigns before they are certain their product can be produced within the time frame they provide to their backers. Martian Watches can be seen at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/martianwatches/martian-the-worlds-first-voice-command-watches.

Creating a balance between the encouragement of creativity and the need for realistic delivery goals is a difficult tightrope for Kickstarter to walk, so it will be interesting to see how these new guidelines play out over the coming months.

According to Wikipedia, the center of the Kickstarter business model revolves around gathering monetary resources from the general public, a model which circumvents many traditional avenues of investment. Projects must meet Kickstarter's guidelines to launch - charity, cause, "fund-my-life" projects and open-ended fundraising are not permitted. Project creators choose a deadline and a goal minimum of funds to raise. If the chosen goal is not gathered by the deadline, no funds are collected. Money pledged by donors is collected using Amazon Payments. The platform is open to backers from anywhere in the world and to creators who are permanent US residents of 18 years of age or older, with a US address, US bank account, a US state-issued driver's license, and a major US credit or debit card.

Kickstarter takes 5% of the funds raised. Amazon charges an additional 3-5%. Unlike many forums for fundraising or investment, Kickstarter claims no ownership over the projects and the work they produce. However, projects launched on the site are permanently archived and accessible to the public. After funding is completed, projects and uploaded media cannot be edited or removed from the site.

There is no guarantee that people that post projects on Kickstarter will deliver on their projects, use the money to implement their projects, or that the completed projects will meet backers expectations.

Kickstarter warns project leaders that they could be liable for legal damages from sponsors for failure to deliver on promises. Projects can also fail even after a successful campaign when creators underestimate the total costs required or technical difficulties to be overcome.

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Pinterest and the Rise of the Visual

Whether you are launching a product, promoting an existing business, or just need to be noticed, we all need content online. But not all of us are writers. Fortunately, we are witnessing a surge of visual expression: First it was Flickr, then Tumblr, and now, it's the explosive growth of Pinterest.

If those names mean something to you, you are probably nodding in agreement, because you know what they represent a means of spreading your influence online, whether you express yourself visually or not. If those names mean nothing, read on to discover their value.

Most of us who expect to get attention online know that we need to have an active website. Posting on Twitter and Facebook keep audiences interested. Blogs and Twitter posts keep search engines visiting our websites so that they are more highly-ranked in search results. Posting to Google+ will help your Google rankings. But something else is happening with visually-driven portals like Pinterest. With Pinterest you can leverage the social web by using visuals alone, and at the moment it is leaving Google+ in the dust. The social web is about words, but it's visual, too.

You don't have to be an image-making pro to know that if you post to Flickr, those images will show up when people search for you, and they can bring people to your website in just a few clicks.(Especially if you write a short caption for them.) If you post photo albums to Facebook, your audience is already in your space - connecting with you on Facebook. If you post images to Tumblr, a blog interface somewhat like WordPress, you also bring people into your world. Tumblr blogs are great visual vehicles.

Pinterest is the game changer in all this. Why?

When you post an image on Pinterest you can make it link anywhere you want - to your site, to a 'buy' page, to any number of ways you'd like to connect. If you have a product or service that is visually appealing, you are golden, because on Pinterest people will share your image - along with your link - among their friends. If you include a short caption, so much the better. Even if your product is a newspaper, there's hope. The venerable Wall Street Journal has started posting quotes from the newspaper, which click through to online articles.

Here are a few tips to get you started.

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Increase Traffic And Sales With The New Mobile Monopoly 2.0

Are you looking for a great and easy way to increase traffic and sales this year? The Mobile Monopoly 2.0 will surely help you out with the dilemmas you have been trying to solve and figure out for years! This article will tell you where to get the latest Mobile Monopoly 2.0 and when you should be able to get it.

Why is the Mobile Monopoly 2.0 so famous?

With the fact that there are a lot of online businesses growing within the internet world each and every day, people are trying to look for that certain solution in which they will be able to enter the competition and grab the trophy.

It is true that not everyone are up for internet marketing since the results might take long and it may take weeks or months before you can reap the success of your efforts. But with a little of hard work and determination coupled with a dose of pure luck then you are on your way to become one successful online entrepreneur.

What does the Mobile Monopoly 2.0 do?

Since the competition is very huge in this kind of business, the Mobile Monopoly 2.0 was formulated to suit every online marketer's needs when it comes to advertising; thus increasing traffic and sale. As they say, the more traffic comes into your website, the more sales that you will get. But with today's latest technology, more and more people are no longer spending huge number of hours on their desktop computers as before! Portable gadgets that can surf the internet are what's in because people are always on the go. With Mobile Monopoly 2.0, you can now target those internet users using their mobile phones and lead them to your "special deal".

What's great about the Mobile Monopoly 2.0 is that like its precursor, the Mobile Monopoly, it has built-in software that allows individual internet marketers to lead mobile users into a squeeze page with no other competing advertisements. Meaning, it is only your sales page, opt-in page, or whatever you wish mobile users to see that is on a single squeeze page which gives those targeted mobile users the comfort of accepting or rejecting your offer.

The founder of this new and amazing system, Adam Horwitz, had figured it all out and this coming March he is giving other budding internet marketers out there the chance to be as successful as him, or even more! With his tried and tested methods, he discovered that people are no longer using their desktop computer as the number one means of accessing the World Wide Web and that this should be an opportunity of a lifetime to increase traffic and sales into your site. With more and more people trying this new system out, the Mobile Monopoly 2.0 is giving millions of people the chance to earn big and make it big in this growing online business world!

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Learn How to Sell Coaching Programs, Home-Study Courses and Seminars

Learning how to sell coaching products can provide a great way of getting regular income. Once you have everything in place then they should not take much time to maintain. The most obvious place to sell them is your website.

First of all they have to be able to find you so ensure that your site is very search engine friendly, is easy to navigate and quick to download. It needs to grab visitors' attention the minute they land on it, as there is only a very small window of opportunity before they choose to leave the page. If you do not know how to use traffic generating tools then ask an expert or get training.

You can use your website to freely promote your products and also take orders. To do this your website needs to offer a lot of information. It needs to reach out to your chosen audience and impress upon them your expertise, and then tell them that they too can be an expert by buying your programs and coaching tools.

You can do this by writing a lot of articles and also by hosting teleseminars. You may also want to think about writing articles for other article submission websites. All this helps to increase your profile and increases traffic on your site.

Try to increase your conversion rate, so think of how you can get people to purchase your programs, or at least get their email address. You could make a time limited offer of a discount if they buy right then and there. You could offer a free report in return for them subscribing to your website.

Once you have a subscribers list then make sure to get the best from it. Send out regular newsletters about your latest products. Offer discounts if they purchase more than one product and encourage them to attend any teleseminars. You can learn how to sell coaching programs and home study courses very easily.

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