Archive for March, 2009

Why I Sell Big Ticket Items As My Base Income

March 26th, 2009
Sell Big Ticket Items

Sell Big Ticket Items

On the internet there are many different ways to make a living…just do a quick Google search on “make money from home” and you will get over 254 million results. I’ve been making money, in many different ways, since I was young enough to think that thirty was ‘old.’  I’ve always believed  in multiple streams of income–in much the same way as many investors believe in diversifying their stock portfolios. My online revenue is certainly based on multiple streams, but I’ve found that if I don’t have some sort of base income or what some call “bread and butter”, then I end up chasing many income streams at the same time with limited success. Multiple streams of income only seem to work if you add income to your current base of operations.

I have been involved in my share of online businesses and have made a great living. I don’t have employees but work with many freelancers and other online entrepreneurs. What you will learn over time is the fact that it takes just as much time to work on a small sale as it does on a big one. I don’t know about you, but working on the internet for yourself is fun and I love spending time making money. If you are going to work hard anyway, why not sell a product that makes your time worthwhile, even if you only make one sale per month? It makes a lot a sense to me, and it also makes sense to a lot of smart internet marketers.

Affiliate programs all have great sales pitches about how much cash you can make each month by selling their products. They may even give you a bonus if you convert 25 or 50 items a month. Great! I’m marketing ‘my’ site and spending my time promoting their products so I can get the crumbs from their table. Thanks, but that is no way to build my internet marketing livelihood. It sounds more like a supplemental approach to income–not a primary base of income.

One night last year I came across a few of my old online friends that started selling products offered by Abunza. It turned out that not only could I sell retail products with my own online shopping center…I could sell to both English and Spanish speaking customers! I started using Abunza every month to keep the money coming in and more and more people started joining me in the effort. In a short amount of time it became clear that  Abunza would become my big ticket sales tool for the internet.

Abunza’s pay plan utilizes a two-tier payment system that sends payments from your new customers straight into your checking account. Your new members will first deliver $1,997.00 directly to you when they decide to invest in their own online business.  Now I know that $2,000 a month isn’t an amount that would prompt you to write to everyone you know and tell them that you are a big internet guru, but it is an amount that makes your online efforts worth while. With Abunza, you can get everything set up and running in a short time frame and start making money right away. It’s not hard to make 4 or 5 sales a month once you get on a roll.

My advice…get your base business going strong then supplement with other income streams if you feel motivated.

I can show anyone how to run the business successfully and with all the features the Abunza business has to offer…it’s a lot of fun too.

Contact me if you would like more info.

Easy HTML Training

March 16th, 2009
Learn Basic HTML!

Learn Basic HTML!

When I first started out marketing online there were tons of website builders that did not require any HTML programing knowledge and today they’re even more options to choose from. This type of website design is convenient and can more than take care of most of your website needs. However what I have been doing over the last couple of years is slowly learning the HTML and the newer XHTML programing language to supplement my classified ads and surprisingly many other places like blog post, forums submissions and company owned websites that I use. I’m not talking about getting to know HTML well enough to design websites here…for that job I still rely on my favorite website builder (bluevoda) which I use with VodaHost, I only need enough knowledge to find the different parts of the website inside the HTML code that makes up each page of my website and to make simple additions like placing the Google Analytics codes into my sites for my own site tracking and the Google Webmaster Center which helps Google and other search engines find my site and index it. With basic knowledge of HTML you can learn enough to make your new online ventures profitable.

I have taken and recommend the free HTML course offered by About.com. The 10 week course will give you the basic knowledge that you need and you will be surprised how much you will use your new online degree to improve your efforts. You can sign up at: About.com free HTML Course Trust me on this one… you will thank me later.