Wednesday, 13 November 2013
Pastor commits suicide after telling congregation that God was not hearing him
Pastor commits suicide after telling congregation that God was not hearing him
Rev. Teddy Parker, a Macon, Georgia pastor killed himself a few days after telling his congregation at his church that God was not hearing him and no longer felt a connection to God.
"I try to pray but I don’t feel like God is hearing me,” Parker said to his congregation “I try to serve but I don’t feel like God is using me. And there are times in your life when God purposely withdraws from you, he doesn’t withdraw for the sake of leaving you but he withdraws so you can grow and mature.”Rev. Parker, a father of two, shot himself in the head with his own gun following Sunday service at Bible Mount Zion Baptist Church while his family and congregation were still at his church waiting for him for the next service..
"When he didn’t show up they went looking for him,” a church member, Russell Rowland, told thePost.“I’m very surprised because he didn’t preach that. He preached totally against it. It’s something that the congregation don’t really understand.
24 Ways to Make Money Online for Free
Although there are about as many ways to make money online as there are people, I honestly believe that there are really only four: your own products, someone else's, MLM, and services. You combine these products with various marketing techniques, and you have a business. Below are some of the most effective ways to make money:
1. Free Reports
Free reports offers several ways to market. You may give them away to build a list, as well as selling various programs, yours or someone else's from inside the report.
2. Services
If you have some type of service you offer, you can expand your market by selling online. This includes writing, virtual assistants, and website design.
3. Email Marketing
Email marketing is one of the most automated ways to make money online. Build an effective list of loyal followers and then send out an email whenever you have a great offer. It's almost instant money.
4. Classifieds
You can use this technique to sell your products or someone else's. You don't need a list or website, and you can often do it for free.
5. Digital Products
Digital products are the most popular products online to sell, especially if you sell your own, because there's very little ovehead involved other than a website and domain name. You can also offer a high markup.
6. PLR
PLR, or private label rights, is where you purchase digital products that you are allowed to change and make your own. They're more effective than resale rights because you can use them to create higher priced products.
7. Public Domain
This technique is similar to PLR. Instead of taking generic products and changing them to create your own, you're changing a previously created product into one you own.
8. Bum Marketing
This is a relatively simple technique to use for those new to the internet. It involves affiliate marketing, writing articles, and using free classifieds.
9. Memberships
This is by far the best way to create a passive residual income. Memberships allow you to work once and get paid over and over.
10. PPC
Pay per click allows you to sell your products or someone else's. Another technique that doesn't require a website or list and is the fastest business to start. It can also be one of the most expensive.
11. Forum Marketing
This technique works with both your own products or someone else's. You can use it to build lists, which is the most effective, or sell low cost products from your resource box.
12. Free Classifieds
Making money with free classifieds is similar to pay per click. You can use someone else's offer or create your own. It's most effective though when used to build a list.
13. Surveys
This technique probably won't allow you to quit your job. However, if you're simply looking to make a little bill money, it can be effective.
14. Completing Offers
According to Project Payday, this technique can actually be used to make at least a couple of thousand dollars per month. Great technique for mom and those looking for extra income.
15. Brokering JVs
When you broker a joint venture, you are bringing together the product owner with your own list of joint venture partners. You make a percentage of the sales or a flat fee
16. Offline Businesses
Most businesses are still in the "real world." Many of these businesses can still use the internet to expand their customer base.
17. CPA
Cost per action is where you get paid every time your visitor takes action. This technique is very lucrative and requires a website.
18. J.O.B.
Many marketers, myself included, laughingly call this "Just Over Broke." You can, however, find employment online and work from home.
19. Teaching
Plenty of teaching opportunities abound. You can teach for for universities or sites that allow you to offer classes
20. Content Marketing
Content marketing is about building large websites. You offer your visitors plenty of content, as well as plenty of offers woven into your sites.
21. Selling From Non Auction Sites
There are a wide variety of sites online that allow you to sell your products. These include catalog sites, as well as other marketing sites. Many allow you to submit an RSS feed of your product line for quick inclusion.
22. Speed Sales (Fire Sales)
Firesales allow you to make a lot of money quickly by offering your products at a discount. With a time limit, it pressures your potential customers into buying now.
23. Upsells/Cross Sells
These two techniques are a more passive way of making money from your website. They allow you to integrate additional offerings into your mix. Set it up once and continue to make money.
24. Licensing
Licensing is where you pay to use someone's image or even his/her product. Then you are allowed to create products from that license or market that product under your own name.
1. Free Reports
Free reports offers several ways to market. You may give them away to build a list, as well as selling various programs, yours or someone else's from inside the report.
2. Services
If you have some type of service you offer, you can expand your market by selling online. This includes writing, virtual assistants, and website design.
3. Email Marketing
Email marketing is one of the most automated ways to make money online. Build an effective list of loyal followers and then send out an email whenever you have a great offer. It's almost instant money.
4. Classifieds
You can use this technique to sell your products or someone else's. You don't need a list or website, and you can often do it for free.
5. Digital Products
Digital products are the most popular products online to sell, especially if you sell your own, because there's very little ovehead involved other than a website and domain name. You can also offer a high markup.
6. PLR
PLR, or private label rights, is where you purchase digital products that you are allowed to change and make your own. They're more effective than resale rights because you can use them to create higher priced products.
7. Public Domain
This technique is similar to PLR. Instead of taking generic products and changing them to create your own, you're changing a previously created product into one you own.
8. Bum Marketing
This is a relatively simple technique to use for those new to the internet. It involves affiliate marketing, writing articles, and using free classifieds.
9. Memberships
This is by far the best way to create a passive residual income. Memberships allow you to work once and get paid over and over.
10. PPC
Pay per click allows you to sell your products or someone else's. Another technique that doesn't require a website or list and is the fastest business to start. It can also be one of the most expensive.
11. Forum Marketing
This technique works with both your own products or someone else's. You can use it to build lists, which is the most effective, or sell low cost products from your resource box.
12. Free Classifieds
Making money with free classifieds is similar to pay per click. You can use someone else's offer or create your own. It's most effective though when used to build a list.
13. Surveys
This technique probably won't allow you to quit your job. However, if you're simply looking to make a little bill money, it can be effective.
14. Completing Offers
According to Project Payday, this technique can actually be used to make at least a couple of thousand dollars per month. Great technique for mom and those looking for extra income.
15. Brokering JVs
When you broker a joint venture, you are bringing together the product owner with your own list of joint venture partners. You make a percentage of the sales or a flat fee
16. Offline Businesses
Most businesses are still in the "real world." Many of these businesses can still use the internet to expand their customer base.
17. CPA
Cost per action is where you get paid every time your visitor takes action. This technique is very lucrative and requires a website.
18. J.O.B.
Many marketers, myself included, laughingly call this "Just Over Broke." You can, however, find employment online and work from home.
19. Teaching
Plenty of teaching opportunities abound. You can teach for for universities or sites that allow you to offer classes
20. Content Marketing
Content marketing is about building large websites. You offer your visitors plenty of content, as well as plenty of offers woven into your sites.
21. Selling From Non Auction Sites
There are a wide variety of sites online that allow you to sell your products. These include catalog sites, as well as other marketing sites. Many allow you to submit an RSS feed of your product line for quick inclusion.
22. Speed Sales (Fire Sales)
Firesales allow you to make a lot of money quickly by offering your products at a discount. With a time limit, it pressures your potential customers into buying now.
23. Upsells/Cross Sells
These two techniques are a more passive way of making money from your website. They allow you to integrate additional offerings into your mix. Set it up once and continue to make money.
24. Licensing
Licensing is where you pay to use someone's image or even his/her product. Then you are allowed to create products from that license or market that product under your own name.
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Top Classic and Effective Ways to Make Money Online Now part 2
click here to read part 1
5. Ebooks
If you are a writer, or you at least have basic writing skills, then writing your own ebooks may be the way to go, especially if you are an expert in a particular topic or you have a hobby that you want to share with others. Selling your ebooks as a PDF allows you to promote to anyone on any computer platform as your document can be read on any computer. Sites like Amazon and Barnes and Noble, as well as other online bookstores help you distribute your ebooks in various formats for different readers like the Kindle and Nook. You have very little overhead here, and it allows you to deliver your content to the marketplace quickly once you learn how to format and submit your content.
6. Physical Products
If you want to distribute your content in different formats, then consider creating physical products. Sites like Kunaki allow you to publish your digital content, which includes video, ebooks and audio, onto a CD and then distribute your content as a physical product. Print on demand sites allow you to distribute your content as books. If you prefer speaking or creating videos to writing, then this as an excellent way to share content because it allows you to command a higher price for your products. You have the ability to automate the distribution process too once you set up your product. Sites like Etsy or Cafepress allow you to either sell your own creations or create new ones like t-shirts, journals and greeting cards. Since these sites rank well in the search engines, they also help with your marketing. You are only limited by your imagination here when creating physical products to sell.
7. Information Marketing
Information marketing takes both the ebook business writing model and the physical products model and combines it into a more complete business. You distribute your content as both physical and digital products in different formats including audio, video, books and ebooks. Getting started is as simple as creating a content site for your business using Wordpress or another content management system and then creating subdomains for all your products to build your brand. Offer a catalog of your products on your site as well as additional content like blog posts and content like blog posts and articles to add value to your product offerings. Affiliate marketing helps here too as it allows you to complete your offerings with additional products you may not create, like software or other tools, especially if you're marketing to other businesses. The key here in any of these strategies is to avoid only creating one product or choosing one product to sell. You want to create multiple streams of income and then automate or semi-automate as much of the marketing and business tasks, like building lists, as possible. A good autoresponder system helps you here. Regardless of which business model you choose, the best content management system for helping you build your website is Wordpress. Wordpress offers many free and paid plugins to help you with building your website, optimizing it for the search engines, creating squeeze pages and sales letters and even automating some of your marketing tasks.
5. Ebooks
If you are a writer, or you at least have basic writing skills, then writing your own ebooks may be the way to go, especially if you are an expert in a particular topic or you have a hobby that you want to share with others. Selling your ebooks as a PDF allows you to promote to anyone on any computer platform as your document can be read on any computer. Sites like Amazon and Barnes and Noble, as well as other online bookstores help you distribute your ebooks in various formats for different readers like the Kindle and Nook. You have very little overhead here, and it allows you to deliver your content to the marketplace quickly once you learn how to format and submit your content.
6. Physical Products
If you want to distribute your content in different formats, then consider creating physical products. Sites like Kunaki allow you to publish your digital content, which includes video, ebooks and audio, onto a CD and then distribute your content as a physical product. Print on demand sites allow you to distribute your content as books. If you prefer speaking or creating videos to writing, then this as an excellent way to share content because it allows you to command a higher price for your products. You have the ability to automate the distribution process too once you set up your product. Sites like Etsy or Cafepress allow you to either sell your own creations or create new ones like t-shirts, journals and greeting cards. Since these sites rank well in the search engines, they also help with your marketing. You are only limited by your imagination here when creating physical products to sell.
7. Information Marketing
Information marketing takes both the ebook business writing model and the physical products model and combines it into a more complete business. You distribute your content as both physical and digital products in different formats including audio, video, books and ebooks. Getting started is as simple as creating a content site for your business using Wordpress or another content management system and then creating subdomains for all your products to build your brand. Offer a catalog of your products on your site as well as additional content like blog posts and content like blog posts and articles to add value to your product offerings. Affiliate marketing helps here too as it allows you to complete your offerings with additional products you may not create, like software or other tools, especially if you're marketing to other businesses. The key here in any of these strategies is to avoid only creating one product or choosing one product to sell. You want to create multiple streams of income and then automate or semi-automate as much of the marketing and business tasks, like building lists, as possible. A good autoresponder system helps you here. Regardless of which business model you choose, the best content management system for helping you build your website is Wordpress. Wordpress offers many free and paid plugins to help you with building your website, optimizing it for the search engines, creating squeeze pages and sales letters and even automating some of your marketing tasks.
Top 4 Classic and Effective Ways to Make Money Online Now part 1
Although there are many ways to make money online, some techniques work better than others and are tried and true when it it comes to making money online. Most work better if you purchase an autoresponder, domain name and some web hosting to go with it. Building a list allows you to continue to market to those who didn't buy when they visited your site.
Depending on what you sell and the type of site you want to build, you can build anything from a simple squeeze page to a sales page or a content rich site using many of the platforms available like Wordpress or Joomla. Combine these types of sites for a greater impact by building a content rich site on the front end and then using subdomains for your sales letters. Wordpress plugins are available to help you with building squeeze pages and sales letters that convert, and you don't even need to know how to write HTML.
1. Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is probably the fastest way to get started because you don't need a product, you don't have to perform customer service, and you can start by choosing a product and sending traffic to the offer. You can also choose to send traffic to a squeeze page, build a list and then market to your list from there. Combining digital products with blogs is a popular way to do this because the right digital products have high conversions and high commissions. The key is to build your blog around a specific niche topic and choose the right keywords for your niche site. Building multiple blogs also helps you because you then create multiple streams of income. Once your blogs are getting traffic, you have multiple streams of income that allow you to create an income on autopilot.
2. Blogging
Blogging in and of itself is also a way to make money. If you have your own products, use a blog as a public relations tool to connect with your visitors and make them loyal subscribers. You may also seek out writing assignments as a blogger if you write really well, and some blogging jobs even pay into the six figures depending on how popular the blog is. 3. Resale Rights
Resale rights allow you to sell the products of others through licensing of their products. You get to keep 100 percent of the profits from your sales, unlike affiliate marketing, where you must split the commissions with the vendor. The advantage here is that this is probably the fastest way to get started in actually making a profit because you can set up your offer in just a couple of hours and then start marketing. What is key here is to make sure you create an offer that is unique. The easiest way to do this is to combine different resale rights products into a new offer.
4. Continuity Sites
Continuity sites, or membership sites, allow you to create a steady monthly income from one site. Set up correctly, and it also allows you to earn an income that is largely passive, like sites that offer online marketing tools. With those types of sites you can set up the system and allow it to run itself on its own. With other types of continuity sites, you need a lot of content. If the niche is evergreen, like health and fitness or relationships, you can set up the system once and allow it to run on its own. Other types of systems, like newsletters, work well too as long as you maintain a regular publishing schedule and have an effective way to gather or create your content. Tools that help you automate some of your processes, an example is autoresponders, will allow you to avoid the mundane tasks of subscribes and unsubscribes and help you concentrate on providing good content for members and readers.
1. Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is probably the fastest way to get started because you don't need a product, you don't have to perform customer service, and you can start by choosing a product and sending traffic to the offer. You can also choose to send traffic to a squeeze page, build a list and then market to your list from there. Combining digital products with blogs is a popular way to do this because the right digital products have high conversions and high commissions. The key is to build your blog around a specific niche topic and choose the right keywords for your niche site. Building multiple blogs also helps you because you then create multiple streams of income. Once your blogs are getting traffic, you have multiple streams of income that allow you to create an income on autopilot.
2. Blogging
Blogging in and of itself is also a way to make money. If you have your own products, use a blog as a public relations tool to connect with your visitors and make them loyal subscribers. You may also seek out writing assignments as a blogger if you write really well, and some blogging jobs even pay into the six figures depending on how popular the blog is. 3. Resale Rights
Resale rights allow you to sell the products of others through licensing of their products. You get to keep 100 percent of the profits from your sales, unlike affiliate marketing, where you must split the commissions with the vendor. The advantage here is that this is probably the fastest way to get started in actually making a profit because you can set up your offer in just a couple of hours and then start marketing. What is key here is to make sure you create an offer that is unique. The easiest way to do this is to combine different resale rights products into a new offer.
4. Continuity Sites
Continuity sites, or membership sites, allow you to create a steady monthly income from one site. Set up correctly, and it also allows you to earn an income that is largely passive, like sites that offer online marketing tools. With those types of sites you can set up the system and allow it to run itself on its own. With other types of continuity sites, you need a lot of content. If the niche is evergreen, like health and fitness or relationships, you can set up the system once and allow it to run on its own. Other types of systems, like newsletters, work well too as long as you maintain a regular publishing schedule and have an effective way to gather or create your content. Tools that help you automate some of your processes, an example is autoresponders, will allow you to avoid the mundane tasks of subscribes and unsubscribes and help you concentrate on providing good content for members and readers.
Sunday, 10 November 2013
5 Ways To Make Money Online That Work
Now that the internet has come of age, there are any number of ways to make money online. However, making a LOT of money online is not quite as simple as the so-called gurus would have you believe. It also depends on what you consider to be a lot of money. The majority of people would probably be content if they could replace their income from the day job and be able to stay at home earning the same amount of money in much less time, thus being able to have the time to do what they want to do, rather than doing what they have to do. If you are among those who think this way, then these 5 easy ways to make money online may interest you.
Be a Freelance Writer
If you can write reasonably well, one of the things that you can do is to become a freelance writer. On the internet there is a saying that "content is king". Everyone needs content to post on their blogs, websites, newsletters, ezines and so on, but many people do not have the skills or even the time to write it. This has led to a completely new industry with websites such as www.iWriters.com, www.hirewriters.com and others fulfilling the need by bringing together writers and people who need articles written.
Someone who needs an article written will post the job on the website for interested writers to pick up and begin writing. To do this, you first have to register as a writer with the site (which costs nothing) and then select articles to write. The subjects can be quite literally anything. If you are not familiar with the subject, you can simply Google it and do some research. It's not difficult. You get paid a few dollars and the website owners makes a living by taking a cut.
You are very unlikely to get rich doing this, but it you are good, you can probably make a couple of hundred dollars a week.
Sell Things on eBay Another easy way to make money online is through eBay. You can start by simply auctioning off things you have around the house that you no longer have a use for. As long as it is not junk, there will usually be someone on eBay who will be prepared to buy it, albeit at a low price in some cases. On eBay you can also open an online store selling anything you wish (as long as it's legal and as long as eBay permits it). You can buy from wholesalers or from manufacturers abroad, often at extremely low prices and sell at a huge mark up. You do really need to put some time into research in order to see what is selling and what is not. If sourcing for goods is your cup of tea, this can be a viable option.
Blogging By that we mean start a blog. You can start one for nothing on Blogger or Wordpress.com and you can blog about anything you like. Here it would be advisable to pick a niche - and preferably one which interests you, since you are going to be writing about it a lot - which you can monetize. Once you get a blog established you can earn money from it by putting Google AdSense adverts, Addynamo ads on your blog. Every time one of your readers clicks on an advert on your site you get paid a fee by the mighty Google themselves. If your blog becomes really popular, companies may even approach you to negotiate advertising on it.
Domain Flipping Domain name flipping is another idea. There are a number of ways to go about this. At its most basic you can buy expired domain names that would very likely be wanted by other people for $10 or less from sites like GoDaddy auctions and then sell them on Flippa for maybe $200 or $300 within just a few days. You can also buy up high Page Rank expired domains with very little traffic, then boost the traffic to the site over a period of a month or two to make it an attractive proposition to a would-be purchaser and again you could sell it for a handsome profit.
A word of caution though; you need to investigate the market thoroughly here - you do not want to be in a position where you have hundreds of domain names (even if they did cost $10) that are difficult to sell. Affiliate Marketing Affiliate Marketing is another way to make money. You can create a blog or website dedicated to a particular niche and then simply promote products on Clickbank, Amazon and many other sites. You can also create product reviews and optimize them using SEO with the aim of getting the review to the top of Google and other search engines. Alternatively, you can search for upcoming products online and write a review of those before they are ready for sale. You will have to wait a bit for your rewards for this, but the advantage is that the competition will likely be lower than for established products and therefore your blog or website will stand an even better chance of making the top spot on the search engines. So there you have 5 easy ways to make money online. Certainly they all involve a bit of time and effort, but since there is no such thing as a push button income, one of these is probably the next best bet.
Sell Things on eBay Another easy way to make money online is through eBay. You can start by simply auctioning off things you have around the house that you no longer have a use for. As long as it is not junk, there will usually be someone on eBay who will be prepared to buy it, albeit at a low price in some cases. On eBay you can also open an online store selling anything you wish (as long as it's legal and as long as eBay permits it). You can buy from wholesalers or from manufacturers abroad, often at extremely low prices and sell at a huge mark up. You do really need to put some time into research in order to see what is selling and what is not. If sourcing for goods is your cup of tea, this can be a viable option.
Blogging By that we mean start a blog. You can start one for nothing on Blogger or Wordpress.com and you can blog about anything you like. Here it would be advisable to pick a niche - and preferably one which interests you, since you are going to be writing about it a lot - which you can monetize. Once you get a blog established you can earn money from it by putting Google AdSense adverts, Addynamo ads on your blog. Every time one of your readers clicks on an advert on your site you get paid a fee by the mighty Google themselves. If your blog becomes really popular, companies may even approach you to negotiate advertising on it.
Domain Flipping Domain name flipping is another idea. There are a number of ways to go about this. At its most basic you can buy expired domain names that would very likely be wanted by other people for $10 or less from sites like GoDaddy auctions and then sell them on Flippa for maybe $200 or $300 within just a few days. You can also buy up high Page Rank expired domains with very little traffic, then boost the traffic to the site over a period of a month or two to make it an attractive proposition to a would-be purchaser and again you could sell it for a handsome profit.
A word of caution though; you need to investigate the market thoroughly here - you do not want to be in a position where you have hundreds of domain names (even if they did cost $10) that are difficult to sell. Affiliate Marketing Affiliate Marketing is another way to make money. You can create a blog or website dedicated to a particular niche and then simply promote products on Clickbank, Amazon and many other sites. You can also create product reviews and optimize them using SEO with the aim of getting the review to the top of Google and other search engines. Alternatively, you can search for upcoming products online and write a review of those before they are ready for sale. You will have to wait a bit for your rewards for this, but the advantage is that the competition will likely be lower than for established products and therefore your blog or website will stand an even better chance of making the top spot on the search engines. So there you have 5 easy ways to make money online. Certainly they all involve a bit of time and effort, but since there is no such thing as a push button income, one of these is probably the next best bet.
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