Are You Ignoring Your Blog Readers?
Posted by Alan Mater on Sep 30, 2009
Every blog owner dreams of having thousands of readers. In fact, I’m one of them. As of right now I only have 27 subscribers to my RSS Feed. I would love to get that number up. But regardless, that tells me I have 27 people who are interested in my blog and what I have to say. Ignoring them would be a disservice to not only them but also myself.
I’ve ran across some popular blogs that have literally 1,000’s of readers. These types of blogs receive many comments to their posts, and some are specific questions regarding what the posts were about.
What I’ve noticed is that some of these blog owners are completely ignoring the readers by not answering the readers’ questions and responding to the comments. For the life of me I can’t understand why.
In my case, I blog because I want to help people and provide valuable information. If someone has a question, I would be doing a disservice by not acknowledging the reader and answering the question. It just wouldn’t make sense.
But this is what I’m seeing on other blogs. If these blog owners truly want to help people, then why are they completely ignoring their readers?
It’s one thing to have great content that brings in readers and lots of comments, but if you’re not paying attention to your readers then what’s the point? Your readers could just go elsewhere to find the information they’re looking for.
I’m saying this from experience. It takes a lot of guts to post a comment on a respected blog for the first time. If I’m going to take the time to comment and make it meaningful, the least the blog owner can do is acknowledge me.
I’m sure I’m not the only one that feels this way. Personally, I’ll probably leave the blog never to return.
I would much rather keep my blog readers coming back time and time again. And, I want my readers to feel comfortable and feel free to comment. If they have a question, I’m going to answer it. I won’t leave them hanging.
So if you’re reading this and have a habit of ignoring your blog readers, just remember, you could lose them and potentially lose some money in the long-run.
If you’re a reader of this blog and have yet to comment, now’s the time. I want to hear your thoughts on the issue.
Oh, and THANKS for being a valued reader of this blog! I truly appreciate it!
Improve Search Engine Rankings the Easy Way
Posted by Alan Mater on Sep 29, 2009
I’ve been using a backlink building service to improve search engine rankings for my main website and this blog. Over the course of my backlink building career, I’ve generated over 20,000 backlinks to my site. That’s taken a huge amount of time and effort.
The problem with building backlinks through article marketing, social bookmarking, blog commenting, etc. is that it just takes too much time. Plus, not all of those backlinks are going to carry much weight.
You see, backlinks are more about the quality than they are the quantity. A lot of low quality baclinks aren’t going to produce massive results. However, a small portion of high quality backlinks will.
I’ve just managed to get my website on the first page of Google for the keyword phrase “work from home opportunities” (without quotes). This blog is also on the first page for the phrase “work from home resources” (without quotes). Both of these terms are my main keywords that I’m targeting, and they both have a HUGE amount of competition. See screenshots below…
Before using this backlink building service, my website was jumping up and down on the second page of search results. I’ve manage to improve search engine rankings for my site and blog thanks to Angela Edwards’ Backlink Building Service.
Angela’s service provides 30 PR6-PR8 sites that allow do-follow backlinks. All you have to do is go through and sign up for the sites and place your links… that’s it. For only $5 a month, you get 30 high PR backlinks to your site.
This is the best $5 I ever spent. With only one month in, I’ve already improved my search engine rankings with great results. I can’t wait to see what the second month will result in.
If you’re struggling to improve search engine rankings for your website, sign up for Angela’s backlink building service. I promise you won’t be disappointed, and you’ll enjoy more traffic and sales from your website.
Review of SFI Marketing Group (SFIMG)
Posted by Alan Mater on Sep 22, 2009
SFI (Strong Future International) Marketing Group is a network marketing company founded by President and CEO Gery Carson. SFI was started in 1998, with only one product servicing the United States. Over 10 years later, SFI is now a completely global business opportunity providing millions of products and services to over 190 countries.
If you’re looking to join a company with a proven and successful track record, there’s none like SFI. Both and men and women all around the world are building profitable internet businesses thanks to SFI’s unique and lucrative business model. SFI’s biggest strength is that they’re constantly evolving and growing to meet the needs of affiliates. This shows they care about their affiliates and who they represent.
With the introduction of the VersaPoints system, affiliates can join for free and earn a substantial income without investing any of their own money. This is one of the biggest differences that set SFI apart from other business opportunities. Because of this, SFI is the fastest growing company of its kind, with over 8,000 new affiliates joining every week.
SFI is also home to the famous International Association for Home Business Entrepreneurs (IAHBE). The IAHBE is a one-of-a-kind resource for aspiring internet business entrepreneurs and is a perfect compliment to the SFI program.
SFI also has two sub-divisions: EyeEarn.com and TripleClicks.com.
EyeEarn.com is the world’s largest advertising network and co-op powered by affiliates. You get paid for going about your normal day and getting seen. You can also gain sponsorship over new affiliates through the EyeEarn network.
TripleClicks.com is home to SFI’s product database, housing thousands of products found nowhere else on the web. Earn commissions by referring people to over one million new and used products from all around the world. You can also sell your own unwanted items on the TripleClicks.com site.
TripleClicks, in addition to thousands of products of its own is also a portal to more than 170 major, name-brand online stores representing millions of additional products and services. These stores are known as MaxMalls Merchants.
Benefits of joining SFI:
- Free to join
- Extensive training materials
- Live Support
- SFI Discussion Board (Forum) – Get answers, tips and advice from other SFI affiliates.
- VersaPoints system to encourage affiliates to stay active.
- Complete Marketing Aides and Tools
- Gift Certificate Program – Motivate your affiliates by giving them gift certificates to help move their businesses forward.
- No purchase requirements. Can qualify for all ranks with just actions or combinations of actions and sales!
- Fast front-end commissions (earn up to 72% of total Commission Volume on every customer sale* you generate!) PLUS lucrative, multiple, ongoing, residual income streams of up to 40% CV!
- Unlimited earnings potential.
- Thousands of commissionable products, with new products being added daily.
- The MaxMalls Pool allows you to automatically share in the worldwide sales and purchases every month of every SFI affiliate…AND every TripleClicks customer!
- Splash pages designed to maximize your referral and affiliate sponsoring efforts.
- Prepaid MasterCard for direct payment of sales earnings, easy ordering at TripleClicks and other stores, and more.
- Much More!
How you earn money with SFI
SFI’s compensation plan has nine components:
- Customer commissions through sales generated at TripleClicks.com.
- Affiliate Overrides – When your personally sponsored affiliates purchase something from TripleClicks.com.
- Executive Overrides – When your personally sponsored affiliates generates a customer sale at TripleClicks.com.
- Co-Sponsorship Overrides – Earn on activities of the affiliates you’ve been assigned as the Co-Sponsor of.
- MaxMalls Pool – 100% of the revenues SFI receives from MaxMalls each month goes into a special pool for top affiliates. Every month that you achieve a minimum of 1500 points, you’ll automatically receive one equal share of the pool.
- Network Overrides – Create an income stream based on your Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSAs). Network Overrides now take your income to a whole new level by allowing you to earn handsome commissions on the purchases and sales generated by affiliates sponsored by your PSAs and other affiliates in your organization.
- LaunchPad Rewards – SFI sends you a special daily e-mail your first 30 days that contains a link to an exclusive, copyrighted LaunchPad™ getting-started training Website. Each of the 30 LaunchPad™ editions includes a simple, one-question quiz. Once you’ve completed all 30 quizzes, you’ll receive special LaunchPad™ Rewards.
- VersaPoints Rewards – Each month, SFI awards cash and other valuable rewards to the top 200 VersaPoints earners of the month. Just be in the top 200 at the end of the month and you’re in!
- Peak Performer Bonuses – Make the top 20 in any of SFI’s three Peak Performer Quarterly Contests (Top Sponsors, Top Sellers, or Top Builders) and you’ll receive one of many cash bonuses or prizes.
The drawbacks of SFI
No matter what program or opportunity you look at, there’s always going to be drawbacks. That’s just a fact, and SFI is no different. This doesn’t mean that SFI can’t help you earn a part or full-time living on the internet, but there are some things you should be aware of.
- Becoming an EA is much easier and quicker by earning the required amount of VersaPoints (1,500) each month via TripleClicks credits. Going this route would cost you 19.90 per month to stay an active EA. It’s entirely up to you if you want to spend any money initially. You can earn these points without investing any money, so I suggest doing the necessary tasks first before spending your hard-earned money. In the future, you may want to do so as things will be slow going at first. Once you’re bringing in a steady stream of affiliates and building your team, earning the necessary 1,500 VP will be much easier.
- Many people are looking for get-rich-quick schemes. Since joining SFI is free, it attracts the types of people that don’t want to invest any time or money and expect to make it big over night. Don’t be surprised if you get bombarded with emails from your affiliates asking you why they’re not making any money. Then after explaining to them what they need to do, you’ll almost never see a single one take action. This shouldn’t discourage you, however. There are plenty of serious people ready to do what it takes – Focus on and help these people as much as possible.
- The training material available is very good, and I recommend you go through it. However, I suggest you do some research of your own in order to become an effective marketer and take your internet business to the next level. There are many resources and tools out there that SFI doesn’t cover or provide.
- It’s a fact that every affiliate who earns a full-time income from SFI has their own website. As a beginner, this isn’t necessary. But, if you’re serious about making SFI a profitable internet business, you’re going to want to invest in a website of your own at some point. Only you will know when the time is right, and you’re under no obligation to do so to earn a substantial amount of money from SFI.
- Not everyone makes money from SFI. Some don’t make a single penny. SFI isn’t full-proof by any means, but there’s not a single business opportunity out there that is.
Is SFI right for you?
This is isn’t your ordinary review. If it was, I’d tell you that SFI is the greatest thing on Earth and that you need to sign up right away. However, I’d be flat out lying. Truth be told, SFI might not be right for you at all. Or rather, you may not be right for SFI. You see, SFI is designed in a manner that the system weeds out the slackers and freebie seekers. Rewards are given to those that take action.
If you’re passionate about building a long-lasting internet business from home, and you’re willing to put in the grunt work to see it through, then SFI is looking for somebody like you. And, SFI could just be the opportunity you’ve been looking for as well.
However, if you’re just another one of those freebie seeking, affiliate hopping, get-rich-quick, make money online wannabes, then I’m sorry to say that you’re in the wrong place.
Have you made a decision?
At this point you’re left with two decisions: dismiss the SFI opportunity and decide it’s not what you’re looking for, or realize that SFI has everything you need to start building a profitable business on the internet.
If you’re ready to give SFI a try, you can Sign Up Here.
SFI is what I devote a lot of my time in because it has proven to be reliable time and time again. That’s not to say I haven’t endured some hardships along the way, but patience and persistence pays off in the end.
I’m in the process of building a team of successful affiliates, and I’d love for you to join me. I offer my own personal free training in addition to SFI’s comprehensive training to assist affiliates in getting a quick head-start.
Do you want to start learning how to make money on the internet? Are you willing to take consistent action toward changing your life and creating a better financial future for yourself?
If you answered yes to either of those questions, then I would highly recommend SFI.
Work From Home Newsletter – Free Tips and Tricks
Posted by Alan Mater on Sep 17, 2009
When you’re looking to work from home, there’s so many different options available. Plus, there’s a TON of information to go through that can literally make your head spin.
I know… I’ve been there myself. It helps to find a mentor or someone who knows what he’s talking about that can help guide you in the right direction. Your success depends on getting the right information, and then applying what you learn.
My ultimate goal is to help as many people as possible. I’d love to be a mentor to as many people as possible. The best way for me to do this is to get as many people to visit this blog, and to get as many subscribers as possible to sign up for my work from home newsletter, where I share my untold internet marketing tips and tricks.
Take a look at what some of my subscribers are saying:
“Lessons are very nice and informative. I saved all your emails and probably going to study them over again to make some ideas and make some posts.
Thanks for that Alan, and also for the free stuff.” – JP Manching
JP is also a reader of the Work From Home Resources Blog and started his own blog after being inspired by my posts. This is what makes what I do so enjoyable; knowing that I’m helping others and making a difference. You can check out JP’s blog at http://blogmatters.net/.
“Thanks for the free info. I’ll add you as my source of reference on how to make money online. God bless!!” - Fernando
“Thanks Alan for the tips, they are really helpful.” – Henry
“Keep the emails coming, very informative.” – Timothy
If you haven’t yet subscribed to my newsletter, you’re really missing out on a lot of value. There’s literally hundreds of tips and tricks, plus a ton of other information to help you in your quest to earning money online.
Signing up is very easy and only takes a minute. Just fill out the form below using your name and active email address and click the “Sign Up” button…
Once you confirm your subscription, you’ll have instant access to my newsletter and free bonuses.
Hope to see you on the other side. 
And, if you haven’t subscribed to my blog feed yet, be sure to so you don’t miss any of my upcoming posts.
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The Brutal Truth About Internet Marketing
Posted by Alan Mater on Sep 9, 2009
An online friend of mine recently shared a report with me titled “The Brutal Truth About Internet Marketing.” Now, I already know most if not all the truths to be told about internet marketing and running an online business. But, I realize that there may be some of my readers that aren’t aware of the ugly tactics used in today’s world to scam honest hard-working people.
Have you ever been told?
“Make $5000 per day while you sleep.”
“You only need to spend 2-4 hrs a day to become an internet marketing success.”
If you’ve ever read something that truly made you think:
“I’m going to become rich overnight or in a short time doing almost nothing.”
I’m sure you’ve heard these phrases or have thought that getting rich was easy at some point. My inbox gets flooded with nonsense like that all the time.
This free report will debunk many of the common internet marketing myths and advise you on what to look out for if you’re serious about becoming an internet marketer or dreaming about making money online.
It’s a short 5 page report and can be read within 10 to 15 minutes. I highly recommend you grab your free copy before you fall victim to an internet marketing scam.
To get your copy just go to this page and fill in your first name and email address. You’ll have to confirm that you want to download the report, and then the download link will be emailed to you right away.
It’s refreshing to see stuff like this available because more and more people need to be aware of what’s going on. With the recession affecting so many people, there are many who are desperate to get money as quick as possible, and they’ll believe almost anything they hear to get it.
The sad part is that most of the time it’s just another trickster selling a bogus product that doesn’t help anyone to make any money online. They’re only making themselves money by taking your money.
A great example of what I mean can be found on JR’s Internet Marketing Strategies Blog, where he made the post Secret Shortcuts To Making Millions Online. Definitely worth the read so that you know what you should avoid.
This free report covers this topic as well as other pertinent information that is essential for anyone looking to get into internet marketing. Again, to download your free copy of “The Brutal Truth About Internet Marketing,” just click here.
Make Money with NameCheap.com’s New Affiliate Program
Posted by Alan Mater on Sep 8, 2009
NameCheap.com has become quite popular among internet marketers and online business owners. Their name alone is a good indication of why this is.
NameCheap offers cheap domain name registration. Nowadays it’s not uncommon to have more than one domain or website for your business or just personal interests. Having a place to manage and keep track of all of those domains in one place is absolutely critical.
With close to 50,000 new domains registered every single day (http://www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/), there’s a lot of money to be made. Joining an affiliate program for a well established domain registration company is a good idea.
I personally can’t think of a better company than NameCheap.com. Ever since I had my domains transferred to them I’ve been more than pleased. Read my post on HostGator web hosting to read about why I use NameCheap and why you should too.
NameCheap has just started an affiliate program that allows you to earn 15% on new purchases that you refer. I’m very excited that they’re offering such a program, and I imagine this will boost their presence on the web even more.
Here’s what NameCheap can do for you:
- Free URL Forwarding – Direct & Cloaked With No Ads
- Free Email Forwarding (No Ads) – you@yourdomain.com -> ISP
- Free Parking Page Included – Your Domain will not go unresolved
- Free Transfer of Ownership
- Free Dynamic DNS With Client
- Free Security Features – Registrar Lock etc…
- Full Control of Your Domain
- Advanced Control Panel – One of the best in the industry
- Custom DNS Settings – CNAME, A, MX, MXE Supported
- Custom Nameserver Registration
- Friendly Customer Support
- Optional Whois Protection – Using WhoisGuard Product
- Geotrust RapidSSL certificates for as low as $9.95 per year
If you’re not yet using NameCheap to take control of your domains, I highly recommend you do. Just go to NameCheap.com and get signed up. If you currently own a domain, or multiple domains, you can easily transfer them. They even offer coupon codes, so you can transfer or buy at a cheaper price.
I would also advise signing up for their affiliate program to start earning your share of new domain registrations that take place every day. It’s free to sign up and only takes a minute.
I would recommend that if you don’t use NameCheap to mange your domains, that you first transfer your domains over to them before signing up for their affiliate program. This way you can give a personal touch with your marketing efforts and have a better understanding of what they do and how they can help others.
People are more willing to sign up for something when they see a review from someone else who uses them. This applies to any affiliate program or product that you promote. It helps establish credibility and allows you to brand yourself in the process. That’s my marketing tip for the day. 
Let me know your thoughts on NameCheap’s new affiliate program by leaving a comment below…
August Blog Post Roundup
Posted by Alan Mater on Sep 2, 2009
August came and went so fast. The summer is almost gone, and Fall is right around the corner. I didn’t do too much posting the past month, but if you happened to miss anything, you’ll find the posts below.
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