This is crucial stuff, everyone. I want all of you to take a good, hard look at your online or network marketing business. If you're not in one of these businesses, I want you to understand this concept before you ever think about starting one.

Before you sell anything whatsoever to anyone at all, I want you to do this one simple thing.

Go to your Paypal account and send me $20.

No? You don't want to do that? Well, what if I bedazzle you with 13 pages of 'work from home, residual income' hype first, then ask for $20. Can I have it then?

No?

You mean after bedazzling you with my hype I still need to offer you something else? Ok, how about an exact duplicate of my bedazzling web site for you to use as your own so you can ask others to give you $20 -- of which I get half. Is that better?

No?

What? You mean your own bedazzling web site where you can ask for money from others is not enough? What do you want from me?

Oh, right! I need to include subliminal messages in that bedazzling web site that induce people to buy. I need to include LARGER THAN LIFE words to lead people to belief that 'pure gold' is waiting for them after they enter their credit card information. I need to use 'secret terms', 'catch words', and 'hypnotic writing' to lead flocks of credit card toting morons toward 'BUY NOW!' button.

Is that enough now? Can I have my $20 yet?

No?!

Well, how about if I throw in some information on how to get INSANE traffic to make you OBSCENE profits?

Is deal good enough now?! Will you travel HYPNOTICALLY to my site in an INSANE fashion and send me some OBSCENE money?! Please?!!

Wait, I'll even make offer more appealing. If you order now, I'll dramatically reduce price. Ready, here it goes.

(insert drum roll, fireworks exploding in background, and sounds of 1000s of cheering fans borrowed from a live Bon Jovi CD)

To get best out of these methods, you need to: · Target your market – make sure you are "on target". Don't try to market to everyone. · Promote consistently – start a daily, weekly and monthly regimen or promotion. · Track your progress. Test out different ads. Keep a record of your marketing plans and which method is most effective.

1. An Effective Web Site – I put this first, because even if you get thousands of visitors to your site, if it is not easy to navigate, doesn't look attractive and is not clear in its purpose, you will not have any sales or repeat visitors. Here is what you need:

a. A heading that immediately catches visitors attention b. A description or sales letter that states (in easy to understand words), what your site is about. c. Easy navigation – your visitors must be able to tour your site with ease d. Ask for your order or what action you want visitor to take. e. Contact information – make it easy for people to contact you.

2. Search engines – If you wish to get listed, here are some very important things to do first: a. Have a title that states clearly benefits of your site containing some of your keywords. b. Meta Tag "description" should describe exactly what your site is about, using your main keywords. c. Meta tag "keywords" all keywords that someone may search on to find your site. d. First paragraph – should also contain a description leading into your site using more of your keywords in your sentences. Make sure you do not repeat same keywords in all of your descriptions more than 5 times. e. Submit to main search engines by hand (don't use automated software because all search engines have different requirements.)

3. Opt in Newsletter – capture names and email addresses on your web site for your newsletter to send out updates, tips, contests etc to your customers. Always offer something for free in return for their email address.