One question that comes up time and again is that of how to make money online fast. This is my answer…

First of all, you need to understand that making money is a skill. It isn’t reserved for the super intelligent or the wealthy. It’s something that everyone can do, but it requires you to invest both time and money.

The chances are that most people reading that have just left this page, looking for the quick fix. If you’re still reading, then congratulations, you’ve passed the first test!

The good news for you is that there are many ways to make money online quickly. Long term, I would suggest that you get a mentor who’s already done it and proved they’ve done it and follow their methods to the letter. But you’re looking for quicker ways than that.

By far the quickest is to sell services.

You might be thinking: ‘Well, that’s fine for you to say Matt, but I don’t have a service to sell.’

If you are thinking that then I have a question for you: How do you earn your money right now?

You see, there’s a good chance that as you read this, you already have a skill or an ability that you use every day that you can harness, and then use the power of the internet to deliver that skill to people who need it.

Let me give you a couple of examples, including how I’ve done this. Remember these are just examples of services you can sell. There are literally hundreds of services you can sell: Read the rest of this entry »

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In this episode of the Adventures in Internet Marketing pod’, I’m pleased to be joined by someone who I first heard about via his videos on YouTube.

One video in particular caught my eye, where he had woken up to his first day of ‘financial freedom’ – no longer needing to work for his money, but instead, creating his wealth through his own business. I know that many of my readers have this as a goal, so I decided to see if he was on Facebook so I could connect with him and invite him to be interviewed.

He graciously accepted and gave not just some great answers, but some great actionable tips and tools that you can use to move towards that same goal of earning your living online.

Amir Anzur is a really inspiring guy and he shares his knowledge very freely and openly. And boy, does he have a lot to give!

He mentions a couple of resources that you might want to check out, namely Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers and Kevin Kelly’s article, entitled 1000 Fans.

In the interview, Amir and I discuss a wide range of topics, including: Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to creating income streams for yourself online, bring the owner of a product is perhaps one of the very best means to make money.

In this article, I’m going to show you why PLR (private label rights) is a great way to create your own product, how we’re going to use it and finally, a completely FREE resource I’ve created to show you how to make money with PLR, by setting up your own product in just 7 days.

Why PLR?

Ok, first of all, let’s look at why PLR products can be so brilliant when it comes to making money online and creating your own product to do so.

PLR or Private Label Rights products enable you to take a ready-made product and sell it as your own. This means that you can leverage off the work someone else has already done for you on your topic to create wealth for yourself.

The benefits are many but include:

• The work is mostly done for you.
• You get a complete product for a relatively small one-time investment.
• You don’t have to research or write the product itself.
• You can often find PLR written by experts, giving you even more credibility as you know the work is of high quality.
• It’s much cheaper than creating your own product as you’re not paying a writer to create a new product from scratch.

There are of course some downsides (although to be honest, they’re fairly few in number). The main two are that:

• The product is out there for anyone to buy and use as their own (but I’ll show you how to get around this).
• The quality of PLR material varies widely. There are plenty of good packages out there but there’s also a lot of hastily-assembled rubbish. Generally speaking, you get what you pay for, so if you see a free or very low cost package, it’s probably priced that way for a reason. That said, I’ll also show you a way to get around this too and get quality without the chunky price tag!

How We’re Going To Profit From PLR

We’re going to be using PLR is a slightly different manner to the way ‘received wisdom’ would have us use it.

You see, most people who are thinking of using PLR or MRR products will be taking the product and any site it comes with, putting that site up and selling the product exactly as it is, only changing the name on it to be their own.

We’re going to be a little smarter than that… Read the rest of this entry »

When it comes to sitting down to write a blog, one issue crops up for bloggers time and again.

Even when we’re passionate about our subject, at one time or another we’ll draw a blank and wonder what to blog about. This article aims to show you a few sources you can use for inspiration as well as a few of my own ideas on how to find and/or create some good content that people will actually want to read.

OK, first things first: The idea that there’s nothing to write about is nonsense. Really, it is.

Think about it. There are hundreds, thousands maybe even millions of very specialist blogs out there (just search on Technorati) that all manage to produce information about their topic day in and day out. There are also thousands of news networks across the world who can produce enough news to fill their bulletins. If there’s that much information out there, surely you can find something to write or comment about in your own niche or area of interest.

What’s really required is a shift in the way you think about what to write in a blog. Rather than thinking about what you can tell people, look at what people want to read or consume. If you master that, you’ll never be without a topic again.

Here are some ways I use to discover what my potential readers want to read and therefore what to blog about:

• In the spirit of researching your readers, look at your own blog and see which of your posts got the most feedback. This can be in the form of sharing your posts on Facebook or other social sites, or simply the fact that the post got the most comments or views. Google Analytics will give you the information about the number of view you’re getting. If you blog using WordPress (as I do) then you can use a plugin like WordPress Popular Posts to get the lowdown on what’s popular on your site.

• If you’re looking to attract new readers (and who isn’t?) then go to the top blogs in your niche or market and see what they’re writing about that’s getting lots of comments. If they’ve started a discussion about a topic, see if you can start a similar discussion on your own site. It doesn’t have to be about the exact same topic, but perhaps you can take an aspect of it and expand upon that in a way that the top blogger didn’t. You could even link your post to theirs, saying that you were inspired to write your post after reading theirs. This gives them some love from your site (which they’ll appreciate) and also lists you in the pingback section of their blog post (usually close to the comments section) giving their readers a way to find your blog and expand on the discussion.

• You know how I mentioned the news channels earlier? Read the rest of this entry »

In this Facebook tutorial (which includes a video to help you), I want to share with you an aspect of fan pages that is often overlooked, but that can increase the exposure of your fan page if you do it correctly.

I’m talking about the facebook fan page url, also known as the facebook vanity url. This is the address of your fan page and the way in which people can find you on Facebook. Many people are unaware that you can optimise this in order to rank higher in the search engines using your page. Optimising the url also means that you can be found more easily and spread the word about your page more easily.

1. In order to set your fan page URL, you first need to log in to Facebook (like, duh?!)
2. Then, you need to type the following address into the the address bar of your browser: http://www.facebook.com/username. This will take you to the page that allows you to change your username on Facebook.
3. Once you’re there, select the page you want to change from the drop-down menu.
4. In the box on the right, type in the words that you want to appear after the facebook.com/ part of the address.
5. Once you’ve typed the words you want, click on ‘Check Availability’ and Facebook will see if that address is available. If it is, you can choose to permanently change the name of your page to your new URL.
6. Job done!

There are a few things to consider when it comes to changing the address of your fan page.

Here are some of the hints and tips Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a little while but have been struggling a little to phrase it correctly. Now, the time has come to share it as I’ve noticed an alarming trend in internet marketing which I first touched upon in my post on Internet Marketing Reviews.

The trend is one you’ve almost certainly noticed.

Tons of products and product launches for these courses and bits of software that will make you heaps of money on auto-pilot. You may well have seen the sales letters, telling you of all the thousands of dollars the marketer made in just 6 clicks, or the masses of targeted visitors he got in just 24 hours using his easy, push button system.

I’m here to tell you the truth.

It’s total nonsense.

The reason they are marketing products in this way is partly because it’s what the buying public say they want. An easy way of making money online fast. But the public are doing themselves a huge injustice.

Think of it this way…

If I was to sit you in front of a piano and ask you to play me a piece of classical music, without you ever having touched or learned to play a piano before, would you expect to be able to do it in a few hours?

What about if I told you that I could teach you how to play like Chopin or Debussy and that you could be a concert pianist in 24 hours from now?

Sounds like bullshit doesn’t it? Read the rest of this entry »