If you are looking for an easy way to start making money
online then affiliate marketing is by far the easiest.

Simply stated, affiliate marketing is where you earn
commissions on sales of other peoples products.

Although there is way more to making money with affiliate
marketing, it is a great way for you to learn the ropes
and make some money while doing so.

One important detail you want to do when offering other
products, is to make sure that you are sending the
traffic to your own opt in page first instead of sending
the visitors directly to the affiliate website.

Sending your traffic directly to the vendors site will
be a waste of your marketing efforts and will not produce
the type of income you are looking for.

Instead, send the visitors to a small web page where you
offer them a free report on the topic of your niche. Make
sure to have a strong headline and three or four bullet
points that outline what the freebie will give them.

You will also want to use a small opt in box to collect
the name and email addresses of your visitors. Once they
download your free report, you can direct them to the
affiliate website.

By using this technique along with affiliate marketing you
are building the all important opt in list and can follow
up with your prospects with other valuable information and
products.

Offer your new subscribers a variety of different affiliate
products and useful content to really make your affiliate
marketing efforts more lucrative.

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Scalping when used in reference to trading the forex market refers to a method of arbitrage of small price gaps created by the bid-ask-spread. It specializes in taking profits on small price changes, right after a trade has been entered and profited from. This scalping method requires a forex trader to have a very strict exit strategy, because if the trader incurs even just one big loss they loose all of their small gains. Having the right tools for scalping is a big part of the equation, a very fast internet connection is worth its weight in gold. A live feed or direct access to a broker and of course the will to place as many trades as possible to make the scalping work.

Scalpers play the spread, and that means to buy at the bid price and sell at the ask price, to gain a big/ask difference. Scalping, unlike some other techniques, can profit even when the big and ask don’t move at all, as long as there are forex traders who are willing to take market prices. Like stated before, it involves entering and exiting a position very fast, within minutes sometimes seconds.

Scalping is based on an assumption that stocks will complete the first stage of a movement (as in the stock will move in the direction you want for a small period of time but where it goes is uncertain); some stocks wont move at all and others will. The main point of scalping is Lessened exposure to limits risk (margin call) – a brief exposure to the market eliminates the probability of running into a forex margin call.

The ask prices are immediate enter prices, usually the prices of the market for the quick buyers. Bid prices are for quick sellers. If a trade is entered at market prices, exiting that trade immediately without queuing would not get you back the amount paid because of the bid-ask difference. The spread can be viewed as trading bonuses or costs according to different people and different techniques. One one hand, traders who don’t want to queue their order instead of paying the market price, pay the spreads. And traders who wish to queue and wait for execution receive the spreads.

A change in price is the result of imbalance of buying and selling orders. Most of the time, prices stay stable, moving within a small range. This means neither buying or selling power can control the situation. There are only a few times which price moves towards a certain direction…and thats when the selling or buying power controls the market. It requires bigger imbalances for bigger price changes. Scalpers like the smaller moves and avoid the bigger ones altogether.

The liquidity of the forex market affects the performance of scalping, each currency pair within the market receives a different spread. The more liquid the market and the pairs are, the higher the spreads are. Scalpers like to trade in a more liquid market since they can make thousands of trades a day to add up their small gains.

One of the biggest challenges facing the network marketer is the poor reputation the industry has earned over the years. Most of this reputation has been created by illegal and fly-by-night businesses that have been created with the express purpose of fleecing their distributors by running illegal pyramid schemes.

Most people, when approached about joining a network marketing business, do not know the questions to ask. They tend to apply what they know about conventional business to network marketing. Unfortunately things that make sense in conventional business are very often either unethical or illegal in network marketing. Many states have enacted law specifically designed control network marketing businesses. Typical examples are:

High entry cost. – Business cost money to start so a fee of hundreds or thousands of dollars does not seem unreasonable.
Large inventory purchase. – “You need something to sell don’t you.”
Making commissions for signing up new distributors or making profits from volume sale to new distributors.
“We will pay you $50 for each distributor you sign up in your front line” or “All you need to do is buy $3000 in inventory and sell the same to your new distributors.”
Over the years while contacting people about my network marketing business I have found people who had been recently approached about joining a network marketing business. I always suggest that they contact the Direct Selling Education Foundation for their publication “Pyramid Schemes: Not What They Seem!” to determine if the business they are considering is legitimate. Some of the suggestions are:

Start up costs should be reasonable. Entry costs for legitimate network marketing business should be relatively small. The fees may include the cost of a sales kit sold at or below company cost.
Companies that require inventory should have a “buy back” policy for distributors that wish to quit the business. Many states and the Direct Selling Association require buybacks of at least a 90% of the original cost.
Are profits made primarily on the sale of product to the end user. Pyramid schemes make their profits on volume sales to new recruits.
Take your time. Never be pressured to sign up right away. Ask to meet successful distributors.Find out about the company.
Find out where they are located. Who are the officers of company? What is their history?
Are they members of the Direct Selling Association and have subscribed to the Code of Ethics of the DSA.
Network Marketing is one of the most effective ways of starting and running your own business. With effort and the willingness to work hard you can develop a strong secondary or primary income. Just make sure that the opportunity you are investigating is a legal business.

You spend hours working on a piece of direct e-mail, sweating over the tiniest details, making sure it tells your customer or prospect exactly what they need to know in exactly the right way. When you’re finished your tenth or eleventh draft, you click the send button, sit back, and wait for business to start rolling in.

But nothing happens.

Studies show that more than fifteen-percent of permission-based e-mails don’t make it through the spam filters of major e-mail account providers like Yahoo!, Google, and Hotmail. And for query e-mails (non-permission-based e-mails) the rate is much, much higher. People just aren’t receiving these messages!

Composing your e-mails doesn’t end when you’ve perfected the body copy for sales effectiveness. You also have to take into consideration how your copy will be “read” by spam filters. Many filters use a points-based system to determine whether a piece of email is legitimate, awarding points for certain words and phrases and domain names, and even the colors you use in your design. The higher you score, the less likely it is that your e-mail will be delivered.

To avoid having your hard work intercepted and “absorbed” by spam filters, consider these important rules when editing the text of your e-mail.

Rule #1: Be Careful With Your Vocabulary

Spam filtering programs use an entire dictionary of common words and phrases that pop-up consistently in spam e-mails. Avoid words like “free,” “prize,” “offer,” the names of major pharmaceuticals, the names of celebrities, etc.

Rule #2: Be Professional

Writing in all-caps, increasing font-size, using lots of punctuation (such as multiple exclamation points) and highlighting words in rainbow colors are all tell-tale sign for spam-filters that your e-mail is suspicious. Keep it simple and clean. Let your words do the talking.

Rule #3: Don’t Send Attachments

With the prevalence of viruses and other corrupting software, very few attachments make it through spam filters. Today, with the ability to safely embed both images and web links in your e-mail, sending attachments is becoming increasingly unnecessary.

Rule #4: Become a “Student of Spam”

Study the spam messages that make it into your inbox. How do you think they got through? What elements turn you away from reading it? Does the subject line make you want to open the message, or delete it? Knowing what not to do is just as important as knowing the rules for success.

Rule #5: Use a Tool to Check Your E-Mail

There are countless e-mail analyzing services and software available on the web. Some of them are even free, like the cut and paste word-checker at SpamDance. By running your text through such a tool, it will help you optimize your language and ensure success of your direct e-mail campaign.

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