A VERY SIMPLE HOME-BASED BUSINESS IDEA!

I have just put the finishing touches on my newest “Hotsheetz” guide titled “The Hot Money-Making Newsletter”. This is a project that I have been working on putting together for for almost a year now, and I have just released it. This is one of my favorite home-based business ideas that anyone can do!

I got the idea from a small network marketing business I had joined in 2003 called Golden Fairway. They had a really neat online golf game that you could play by yourself, against friends, and even in tournaments. As a business associate, I had the ability to sell the advertisement spaces on my replicated website, and it was a stupendously easy sell.  Why?

The main reason was that the people who played the game had to register. I had each person’s name and address, and even phone number. Having an exact list of the people who spend time on the site proved the fact that it was fertile ground for an advertise. The second reason was that the average player was spending at least 20 minutes per visit on the site. This was unheard of at the time for an internet site! Nobody in their right mind would pass up a chance to place an ad on a site that people spent that much time looking at.

The way it worked was that there were 2 “gold” ads that stayed on the right side of the game at all times. Then there were “silver” ads that came after the close of every hole played when the score card was shown. All I had to do was design the ad and upload it to my replicated site. In 5 days, I made over $800. I charged $300 each for the 2 gold ads, and sold several silver ads too. It never took more than a few minutes to sell my clients, and they would immediately pull out their checkbooks.

As luck would have it, the company changed the format of their main product to a CD-ROM based software game that had to be loaded on a computer instead of the simple internet site version. This ruined the “sellability”. I stopped developing my site after the change was finalized. But the experience was well worth the time that I spent.

Years later, I came up with a way to create a similar hot advertisement opportunity for local businesses. This time, it didn’t involve an internet site, a game, or anything that required special programming or technical skills. I took the basic concepts from the online golf game and applied what made it work to a newsletter, and the results were very surprising!

This led to the creation of a simple system of making hot attention-grabbing newsletters that practically anyone can duplicate. It’s so simple, yet so creative and crafty! All of my “test subjects” reacted the same way, and three have already decided to use my method to even promote a product that they have designed.

Whether it is used for promoting a good or service, or just for creating an extra income, this money-making guide is perfect for stay-at-home moms, budding entrepreneurs, experienced writers, or even novices that don’t have perfect writing skills.

Check out the details on my site under the tab labeled “Newsletter Cash”, and you may decide to embark upon your own money-making newsletter project yourself!

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If you haven’t heard, Twitter has hit the internet scene and in only one year, there are 1.7 million users. What is it? It’s what one would call a “micro-blogging” site. In a nutshell, you sign up for an account, and then make “tweets” about what you are doing or seeking in life. So what is the difference between Twitter and blogging? On Twitter, you can only post messages that are 140 characters or less.

It sounds pretty simple… so simple, in fact, that I thought it was absolutely a useless waste of time when I first saw it. I thought it was a stripped-down ameteur version of a Myspace or Facebook website. But months after dismissing Twitter, I discovered the fact that Twitter is one of the most powerful networking tools used throughout the world today by business owners, professionals, executives, politicians, and more.

I had no idea that there were so many creative ways to use this site to your benefit. The ways of using the site are endless. You might be a college graduate looking to find employment, and you make tweets about your background and experience. Or you might be a politician running for office, and you tweet about the ideas you would implement if elected. You may even be an active blogger that uses Twitter to drive more traffic to your blog through your tweets.

Whatever the case, you can keep followers updated on projects you are working on, share information that you are researching with others in your field, or even seek advice from others by posting questions. I could probably come up with hundreds of pages worth of creative ideas, but we’ll just keep this short!

Do you have any ideas you’d like to share about your own uses for Twitter? Or have you even signed up for an account? I’d love to hear your ideas, and I’d love to see you on Twitter for the first time if you aren’t already registered! Click the links below to see the two Twitter ID’s that I am currently using (yes, you can sign up for multiple ID’s). I’m using one as my general Twitter ID, and one for promoting cell phones. We’ll see how either of them do, and I will report the results on my blog!

Enjoy, and see ya on Twitter!

http://www.twitter.com/carltonf – my general twitter ID

http://www.twitter.com/getacellphone – my test project to determine whether or not Twitter is useful for promoting products (namely my cell phone deals)

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Well folks, I’m about to get my very first opt-in mailing list started! I haven’t quite decided what the subject will be on the first one, but it will probably be centered upon tips and tricks on the internet, great sites, computer information, technology, and the the likes. Ever since having my computer business, I’ve always had people ask me piles of questions about using the net, upgrading computers, informational sites, and more. So this first list will dedicated to helping everyone learn about all the great things that I have discovered over the past 14 years (that’s how long it’s been since I first logged into the sloooooooow first-generation internet at 14.4 baud!).  I’ll make another post when the signup is ready! Until then, cheers!

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I’m still working through the night researching this marketing scheme I discovered in the niche area of info product selling on eBay. I’ve got the basic version of my Plasma & LCD HDTV wholesale source list up on the site and on my eBay store site. Thus far, I have not had any sales. However, I still can’t understand why I am selling so many of my other product, “Wholesale Source List for In-Dash Car DVD Players”. To date, I’ve sold around 30 copies. That’s in just one month. I put that product together in one hour. Compare that to the 7 years that I spent on my first info product “Proven Business Plans and Money-Making Ideas”, which I sold one copy of. You just never know what is going to hit big. I think the lesson that I learned is that you have to write info products that center on what people want, and what they want now. Appealing to the human desire to have things which make us feel happy seems to be trumping an all-out campaign for something that generates income. With all that I am learning, I am seriously thinking about writing an info product on info products! This information is very valuable. I’ll keep you posted!

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I am in the middle of doing some serious research on something that I stumbled upon by mistake. There’s a hot category on eBay that many people have no idea exists. Plus, there’s a ton of scammers posting ads on this same category. However, I noticed one seller who was getting 30, 40, 50, even 60 bids per auction for a product that had barely no description at all, and each of his auctions were closing for several hundred dollars.

But it gets better… this guy was making huge money on his auctions while identical listings (with the same crappy, scant information) were only making a few bucks, with 1 to 2 bids at best. I could not figure out how he did this. It perplexed me. Well, after digging and reasearching, I figured it out. Funny thing about it, the method this person implemented can actually be used in an honest way to get mega exposure and results on auctions for any product.

I plan on finishing my study and publishing my findings very soon. Stay tuned!

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