Archive for March, 2008

For some time now, I have been noticing a growing trend in business opportunity and internet marketing industry not only in this country but worldwide. Many people wants to make money online and they are not ready to do what is necessary to achieve their financial goal. They will build or have their site built for them and will never do anything on it.  They will attend seminar either free or paid, immediately they leave the venue of the seminar they forget about the main reason why they attend the seminar in the first place. Honestly, I don’t really know the main cause of this problem. Could it be laziness? Or Is it bad attitude? Well, I think it is more of attitude problem.

Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler

Two days ago I made a post requesting for those that are subscriber of superbusinessideas.com to help us by telling us what we can do to make ‘the new super business ideas website’ a success when we relaunch it.  This afternoon I got 3 different messages. I will reproduce copy of the messages here without the name of senders. Hope you don’t mind!

Letters -

Hi Lateef,
I cannot recollect being  subscribed to your super business ideas but as a subscriber to your mystrey offer 2 with a website already setup by you,i am yet to make any inroad in my internet business and i will use this medium to appeal for your support in this regard.
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Hi Rich Kid,
I subscribed and paid for the super business ideas as advertised then but was surprised that nothing was forthcoming.I even went ahead to further attend one of your seminar,bought a CD on Word Press Blog but hasn’t been able to do anything on that.Anyway,now that the site is back,congrats.
I expect better support this time around.On Word Press Blogging,can you assist me as your subscriber?
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my site was just there without knowing its function for the past five months. i think is a wasted effort and money. any help not so easy to throw money away.

Let me openly respond to this 3 messages.

Response to Letter 1 & 2:

We are very glad to have both of you as a paid subscriber. It is quite unfortunate that your sites are still the way we installed it for you.  I can remember that we’ve organized seminar twice for all website owners (FREE) where we share tips on how to maintain, get traffic and make money with your site. We even created a complete manual with a lot of screen captures showing you how to manage and profit from your site. Several weeks ago, we set up a member area where you can learn from us, and other members that we installed website for, both of you are yet to join us.

Their is this American proverb that I love it says that ‘Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets’.

Response to letter 3:

I am very sure the seminar you are talking about must be our free seminar. Even at that I don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t make use of what you learn there. It took us about N100,000 to put that seminar together.  You could have help us by telling us reason why you haven’t been able to do anything with the wordpress manual cd that you bought. I can guess your reason will just be another excuse because several other people have install their website on their own with what they learn from that manual.

 ”The footprint of sand of time is not laid sitting down”
Five months is more than enough to make your site a success. But its just unfortunate that you guys don’t do anything and you are expecting result. Imagine opening a shop sitting down and expecting people to come.  It is a bad attitude.

I think it is not your fault completely. Many people have been sold easy way of getting money online. Yes their is money tree on internet but before you can get money from it you will have to put effort.
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland

You may want to ask me why many find it difficult to do all that is necessary to make their internet business a success?

You see, just like Thomas edison said most of the action steps required looks like ‘hard work’ to some people. It is against their believe of put the money sit down and wait for result.

I can remember the ‘first and only’ internet seminar that I ever attend in this country over 9 years ago organized by SADC (publisher of Success Digest magazine). It was the first opportunity and only opportunity seminar that I ever attended as well.  If I can guess right, over 200 people attended that seminar.

At the end of the seminar I can still remember what the publisher of the magazine and the chief-host of the seminar Dr Sunny Ojeagbase (My Rich Dad) said. He said that as interesting as it is hosting all off us, sharing what they see as the latest opportunity and trend that can make us millionaire with us, only 1% will end up using the information. Though I don’t know how sure he was then and can’t even believe it but today it is obvious that less than 1% even use and had success with the information. I thank God ‘I was and I am’ part of those 1% because I will need my accountant to sit by my side to count millions that have been flowing into my account since then.

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.  ~Author Unknown 

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.  ~Garth Henrichs

Hello fellow IMNers,

If you have a wordpress site can you tell me how secure your site is? See, you if you don’t upgrade your wordpress site when necessary then I can confirm it to you that your site is not secure at all.

About 46days ago wordpress.com releases version 2.3.3 but its alarming to know that most of us are still on version 2.3.2. some are even on 2.2.2 this is bad. It is bad because wordpress is even about to release version 2.5.

You have probably been seeing the warning sign ‘Please update now’ and don’t know what to do with it. Some are afraid of what will happen to their site if they click on the update link.

You don’t have to worry.

Note: Make sure you don’t upgrade immediately their is a new version of wordpress installation because you will have to download the files yourself and upload it. You may make mistake doing that.

Here is what I will advice you to do. Wait until fantastico update the wordpress installation to the latest version. You will know this when you login to your cpanel, click on fantastico and then click on wordpress you will see something like  this:

When fantastico have upgrade available this way it is a lot easier to upgrade. Just click on that link. It will take you to this page:

click on the link.

That is it. Simple.

You can do this now before wordpress finally release 2.5 to the public.

We sincerely apologize for shutting down (temporarily) super business ideas project. It is part of our plan to provide quality content for you. We made this decided few months ago after chats with super business ideas reseller. It took us some time to move the contents of the site to new web server. Now that superbusinessideas.com is on a new server, we need your help before we make it public again.

1. We have a new web project in plan that we are thinking of combining with superbusinessideas.com project. As you know the superbusinessideas.com project is not about internet business ideas alone. However, the new project is going to be about internet business alone. Did you did think we could combine this two projects together?
2. What will you like to see on our new superbusinessideas.com website if it’s going to stand alone?
3. Most of super business ideas subscribers joined through our resellers. Can you still remember the reseller your bought the service from? If you can’t don’t worry.
4. We have plan of organizing monthly live get-together event for our superbusinessideas.com members. What did you think about this?
5. If you haven’t put one of the ideas on superbusinessideas.com database to use before we shut it down, can you please tell us the reason why?
6. What else did you want to tell us on how we can make superbusinessideas.com the best service that delivers value to you?

Please kindly post your response to above questions in comment box bellow.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Lateef Olajide

Moderator - Superbusinessideas.com

Hello,

I came across the following make money online post during the week. You may want to check them out.

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Have a wonderful easter weekend.

Today is ‘Good Friday’, I have a present for you. Before I give you the present of the week let me tell you something that relates to the content of my present. It is about importance of ideas to business and life success. In his book ‘Idea rules the world’, Pastor Sam Adeyemi (senior pastor of Daystar church and president of success power) emphasize the importance of ideas and how you can get one. You can get the copy of the book.

As important as quality ‘idea’ is lots of people find it difficult to get. If you fall into these group of people and you need business ideas, worry no more. You will get access to a free copy of 999 great business ideas today.

I love compiling resources that has to do with any subject that I am working on or want to work on. Most of the time the main reason for doing this is to expand my horizon on the subject. However, I often discover that doing this helps in becoming a leader in any market or subject.

One of my millionaire mentor, Dr Sunny Obazu Ojeagbase once said that if you read books from 10 different authors or more on a subject you will have knowledge of 10 people which will probably make you a better expert on that topic.

Did you say that is obvious?

Yes it is obvious. The same way getting access to compiled list of ideas, tools or resources will make you a better person.

As a ‘compiller’ of such resources there are a lot of ways you can profit from your compillations. I have done it several times. It works.

Unfortunately, this article is not about how to become a success or expert in your niche by compiling useful resources. It may be topic of another day.

Alex Major, a professional marketer and owner of www.nicheempires.com compiled a long list of business ideas not long ago. The title of his compilation is “The Wizards’s Brainwaves - 999 Great Business Ideas”.

It is amazing report.

I have a copy for your weekend. You can download it here:

Click here to download 999 great business ideas free

Everyone, at some point of his or her life, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody big. Who hasn’t fantasized about being the one who hits the game-winning homer? Who hasn’t dreamed of being the homecoming queen? And how many times have we dreamed of being rich, or successful, or happy with our relationships?

Often, we dream big dreams and have great aspirations. Unfortunately, our dreams remain just that – dreams. And our aspirations easily collect dust in our attic.

This is a sad turn of events in our life. Instead of experiencing exciting adventures in self actualization, we get caught up in the humdrum of living from day-to-day just barely existing.

But you know what? Life could be so much better, if only we learned to aim higher.

The most common problem to setting goals is the word impossible. Most people get hung up thinking I can’t do this. It’s too hard. It’s too impossible. No one can do this.

However, if everyone thought that, there would be no inventions, no innovations, and no breakthroughs in human accomplishment.

Remember that scientists were baffled when they took a look at the humble bumblebee. Theoretically, they said, it was impossible for the bumblebee to fly. Unfortunately for the bumble, bee no one has told it so. So fly it does.

On the other hand, some people suffer from dreaming totally outrageous dreams and not acting on them. The result? Broken dreams, and tattered aspirations.

If you limit yourself with self-doubt, and self-limiting assumptions, you will never be able to break past what you deem impossible. If you reach too far out into the sky without working towards your goal, you will find yourself clinging on to the impossible dream.

Try this exercise. Take a piece of paper and write down some goals in your life. Under one header, list down things ‘you know you can do’. Under another header, write the things ‘you might be able to do.’ And under one more, list the things that that are ‘impossible for you to do.’

Now look at all the headers strive every day to accomplish the goals that are under things ‘you know you can do’. Check them when you are able to accomplish them. As you slowly are able to check all of your goals under that heading, try accomplishing the goals under the other header-the one that reads ‘you might be able to do.’

As of the items you wrote under things I could do are accomplished, you can move the goals that are under things that are ‘impossible for you to do’ to the list of things ‘you might be able to do.’

As you iterate through this process, you will find out that the goals you thought were impossible become easier to accomplish. And the impossible begin to seem possible after all.

You see, the technique here is not to limit your imagination. It is to aim high, and start working towards that goal little by little. However, it also is unwise to set a goal that is truly unrealistic.

Those who just dream towards a goal without working hard end up disappointed and disillusioned.

On the other hand, if you told someone a hundred years ago that it was possible for man to be on the moon, they would laugh at you. If you had told them that you could send mail from here to the other side of the world in a few seconds, they would say you were out of your mind. But, through sheer desire and perseverance, these impossible dreams are now realities.

Thomas Edison once said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Nothing could be truer. For one to accomplish his or her dreams, there has to be had work and discipline. But take note that that 1% has to be a think-big dream, and not some easily accomplished one.

Ask any gym rat and he or she will tell you that there can be no gains unless you are put out of your comfort zone. Remember the saying, “No pain, no gain”? That is as true as it can be.

So dream on, friend! Don’t get caught up with your perceived limitations. Think big and work hard to attain those dreams. As you step up the ladder of progress, you will just about find out that the impossible has just become a little bit more possible.

“There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.”

J. Paul Getty

A Quick-Start Guide for the Internet Entrepreneur

By Michael Masterson

I recently got an e-mail from a man I’ll call Jim, a longtime ETR reader. His question is probably the most common question I get. If you are interested in breaking into the Internet, pay attention. What I have to say to Jim might give you the information you need to get started.

Jim writes:

“I have been struggling with the idea of starting my own Internet-based business. The question is, how and with what product or service?

“I have been a loyal fan of ETR for many years now, and you guys throw so many sound ideas and businesses at me it gets a little confusing. I would like to start small with some proven methods and techniques and build from there. I do not have countless thousands of dollars to experiment with, nor do I have the luxury of being able so sit in front of my computer day in and day out. I need your help to get me started in the right direction with a system that will hopefully start generating some return fairly quickly.

“I believe in and trust your advice more so than anyone out there when it comes to building an Internet-based business - or any other type of business, for that matter. Please help me make this the year I finally took the plunge and started achieving success!”

Everybody knows what a great opportunity the Internet offers. It is the only medium where someone without a lot of money can start a multimillion-dollar company. There are lots of good programs available that teach the ins and outs of Internet marketing. But choosing the right product or service to market… there’s the rub!

I’m going to give Jim some general advice. And then MaryEllen Tribby (ETR’s publisher and CEO) and Patrick Coffey (ETR’s Director of Internet Marketing) will jump in with some specific suggestions.

Which product to choose is a big question. Not the kind that can be answered simply and quickly. It depends so much on you - who you are, who you want to be, what you know, what you don’t know, etc.

That said, a few general suggestions apply.

First, and most important, it is always best to start a business in or around an industry/area that you understand. So many of the most expensive mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make are “outsider” mistakes - errors that someone with experience in the field would not have made.

Lots of first-time health publishers, for example, spend too much time explaining the disease or health problem they hope to cure. They do so both in the publications they create and the promotions they use to sell those publications. What these novices don’t understand is that the most active health buyers don’t need to know more about their problems. They can find out all they want to know on the Internet - for free. What they need are solutions.

So the first thing you must do is make a list of all the things you know about. Start with the business you are in (or employed by). But don’t stop there. Include all your hobbies and interests too. You don’t have to have any professional experience to know enough about a subject to start a business based on it.

I have a friend who started a successful business providing advice about astrology. She’d never taken a course in it or received certification. But she’d read about it for 30 years, and her knowledge was deep and wide. Because of that, she began her enterprise with a good idea of what kind of astrology she would practice and what kind of products and pricing would work.

Another friend started a successful Internet business selling martial arts information. He was a world-class black belt who had been competing for 20 years. He knew the industry inside and out. So he had some good ideas about new and exciting instructional videos he could produce that really caught fire.

This brings us to my second-most-important suggestion: If you are not an expert at direct marketing, you should become one before you spend a nickel on your new business.

I cannot overstate the importance of understanding the techniques of direct-response marketing. Direct marketing is the primary method for generating profits on the Internet. Other forms of advertising - from public relations to event marketing to social media and branding - are usually not nearly as effective.

Luckily, there are plenty of good information products and educational programs available that teach direct marketing for the Internet. On top of the list, I’d put ETR’s own Internet Money Club, The Magic Button, and Instant Internet Income. But I’d also recommend Bob Bly’s Internet Marketing Retirement Plan.

My third and final suggestion is this: In addition to focusing on an industry you are already familiar with and becoming an expert at direct marketing, you must learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. Starting a business can be a daunting task for the beginner. Most of those who try fail. And with good reason: They make some very basic mistakes.

The biggest mistake first-time entrepreneurs make is spending too much of their time and money on all sorts of secondary business concerns (getting business cards, setting up a website, finding a business location). But when you’re starting any new business, your priority has to be on making sales. In fact, at this stage of the game, at least 80 percent of your time should be devoted to selling.

To bring yourself up to speed, I recommend that you read Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat. The book is based on my own experiences with building small businesses. It’s all about how to get your business off the ground and continue to grow it.

Okay. Those are my general suggestions. Now, here’s some specific advice from MaryEllen and Patrick:

* To develop your marketing materials, hire a copywriter who has in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of your niche. They should be on the cutting-edge of their specialty and always learning, whether it’s the financial markets or alternative health. “I never hire a copywriter who says they can write about anything,” says MaryEllen.

* Do some quick research, then TEST your idea. Says Patrick, “One of the biggest problems I see is that people will take too much time analyzing what market to get into. I’ll talk to people who have been studying one of our programs for months and they’ll say, ‘I’m still in the market research stage.’ In my opinion, market research for a new online business should take no more than a week.”

A week is plenty of time to decide what to sell. In fact, it’s a generous amount of time. At ETR’s annual 5 Days In July Internet Marketing Conference, attendees have to make this decision in a day.

To figure out what market to enter, you need to look for two things:

1. Are people looking for this information?
2. Are people buying this information?

“And,” says Patrick, “you can get the answers to these questions very quickly with a few key strokes.

“One of the best ways to find out who is looking for what is with a free tool like WordTracker. And to determine if people are buying, simply enter a few search phrases for your product in Google. Then check the Web pages of the advertisers that come up. The fact that they’re paying for advertising and selling stuff is a good indicator that the market they’re selling to is buying.

“Sign up for e-mail lists of potential competitors, study their marketing materials, and even purchase some of their products. After that, you immediately begin working on your own offer so you can start testing. That’s what students of our Internet marketing programs who become most successful do.”

Will all the ideas you’ll come up with work? No. But the only way you’ll find out is by trying to sell to the market. If an idea does not work, simply try to re-work the offer or explore a new idea.

* Remember that starting an Internet business - just like beginning any worthwhile venture - will take work. In his e-mail, Jim talked about wanting to generate some return “fairly quickly,” despite the fact that he does not “have the luxury of being able to sit in front of [his] computer day in and day out.” You need to have realistic expectations when you begin a new business. And one thing you must be prepared for is that it takes time and energy.

One last piece of advice from Charlie Byrne, ETR’s Editorial and Creative Director: Get started. Now. By no means is this all you need to know about starting an Internet business. But the best way to get it going is to begin. Ready, Fire, Aim. You can take time to adjust your product or marketing later. What’s most important is taking that initial leap.

Source: Early To Rise Newsletter

By Akin Alabi

About a year ago, I attended a 2 Day Marketing Seminar
called the Entrepreneur Boot Camp in the UK. I was
seated beside a fine gentleman and we discissed about
a lot of things related to business and success.

On the second day of the seminar, the gentleman beside
me was called onto the stage to speak. During his
presentation, I discovered that he is a billionaire.

That is Billionaire with a “B”.

He is worth Five Hundred Million Pounds (That is One
Billion Dollars!). He has built and sold over 20
successful companies. I didn’t know I was sitting
beside a billionaire.

After the seminar, I walked up to him to ask him a few
quiestions. I asked him why he was attending a seminar
when he was worth billions already.

His answer surprised me. He said he was looking for
new tips that will help him grow his businesses.

That got me thinking.

If a billionaire could keep seeking ways to improve
himself and his business, why can’t I do the same as
well. Since then, I’ve spent millions of Niara
attending seminars all over the world.

And you know what? I’ve made more than 10 times my
investments back.

But what about you?

When was the last time you attended a seminar?

Successful people are permanent learners so if you
want to be successful, you need to keep learning.

I’m giving you the chance to learn from me, ALL the
secrets that I’ve used to pull in over N30,000,000
(Yes, that is Thirty Million Naira) on the Internet
working from my kitchen table, wearing my boxers
shorts.

It’s a 3 day seminar that will blow your mind. I’ve
tagged it “Operation Kidnap Akin Alabi”. It’s time to
quit your job to start earning a living online.

Rush to http://www.KidnapAkinAlabi.com for all the
details.

See you there.

Akin Alabi

One of us by the name Oluwatoyin suggested alertpay.com as alternative to paypal for receiving payment by nigerian internet marketer selling product on internet. It sounds interesting. So I decided update my knowledge of their service.

I first read about alertpay.com few years ago but because their service then wasn’t really encouraging compare to what I got from 2checkout I didn’t care to try them. When I visited the website early today it is obvious that they have improve their service alot.

It will be a bit difficult for me to just jump into conclusion now on whether you should use alert pay or not. Give me time to test their service or get more information from their clients. But meanwhile you can visit their website to read more about their service.

Check alertpay here - www.alertpay.com

Their is a link to new article on cnn website on alternative payment option to paypal. The news is quite interesting. The author of the article Emily Maltby suggested 5 companies namely;

Digital River
2Checkout
Alertpay
TrialPay
e-junkie

Of all 5 suggested alternative service to paypal only 2checkout and alertpay.com looks promising to me.

You can read the full article here:

5 paypal alternatives

Feel free to comment here………

It is no more news that number 1 hurdle (or assumed hurdle) most nigerian internet business opportunity seekers have to scale is how to receive payment online and cash their money here in nigeria. Some people have been trying to find a way to be able to use paypal despite the fact that it is obvious truth that Nigerians are not allow ‘legitimately’ to use paypal.

I know a very good fellow that open paypal account sometimes. How he did it, I don’t know but he was happy he did. I don’t envy him because I can imagine what will happen to such account. Not long ago the account was frozen and he lost few thousands of dollars. So my advice for you is to play wise.

It is not everybody that needs paypal account that wants to use it to receive affiliate commission or pay online. Some internet marketers wants to use it to receive payment for their personal product. If you are in the later group the rest of this article is for you. If you are not and you still want to make money online, then I will advice that you start thinking toward ‘product creation and selling’ internet business model.

Their is a payment service named ‘2checkout’. You can use their service to receive payment for following:

Your digital information product. e.g ebook, audio or video files and softwares.
Your physical products
Your services
Your membership site services (they offer recurring billing service)

Why 2checkout?

“* No waiting weeks (Get started immediately)
* No term contracts
* No equipment or software needed
* Easy to use plug-n-play code
* Simple commission fee structure
* International suppliers accepted
* List products & services just about anything
* Supports recurring billing
* Works with existing shopping carts
* Automatic purchase order notification
* State of the Art fraud detection
* Great for simple or complex needs
* Comprehensive account management tools
* Robust shipping options

low costs
* $49 one time signup fee
* $0.45 per Sale
* 5.5% of Sale Amount
* 30 Day money back guarantee
* No application fees
* No monthly fees
* No statement fees
* No leases
* No SSL certificate to buy
* No fees for ACH deposits to U.S. or participating Canadian bank accounts
* Check Payment or Low Cost Wire to Non U.S. Bank Accounts
* FREE shopping cart
* FREE code for your web site
* FREE on-line tech support”

Can you sign up as a nigeria - YES!

Read this from 2checkout website:

You can sign up here: https://www2.2checkout.com/2co/signup 

How will they send you your earnings?

As international client you have 3 payment options availble you.

1. 2checkout can air mail your check to you.
2. They can send it to you via international wire transfer.
3. They have a card system now card payoneer. It is 2checkout prepaid debit card that is mastercard. They send you the card. Every week they pay your earning directly into your account with them and you can access it with the card anywhere in the world on ATM machine that is mastercard enabled or any where mastercard is accepted.

You can read more from 2checkout website - http://www.2checkout.com

What you can’t do with 2checkout:

They don’t have affiliate system like that of clickbank that recruit and pay affiliate for you. With the rate at which they are improving their service they may include the system soon. Ha! that is my personal imagination.

Meanwhile you can still use their system to get your earning for your digital product.