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With the current state of our economy more and more people are looking for an alternate source of income. I should know, I’m one of them. That’s right I lost my job of twelve years because of the current recession. Like so many other people I turned to the internet and searched Google.com for “Work at Home Businesses.”  I was amazed at all of the Make Money at Home Programs that I discovered. Next came the painful truth, yes there are a lot of money making opportunities that can be found on the internet but Buyer Beware!

90% of them are nothing but scams, … I learned this the hard way. After trying numerous work at home e-courses and losing most of my “emergency money” it became obvious to me that there is no such thing as a “Get Rich Overnight” internet business. If any of these internet guru’s are promising you thousands of dollars overnight  I would look else where. A person needs to be careful and research any online business that they may be considering. In my quest for a legitimate Work at Home business, I have researched and even tried quite a few different programs. Of these programs, some were better than others and some were just  plain scams.

One of the Work at Home programs that I see a lot of people asking about is My Online Income System (MOIS) by Kimberley Hoffman. People want to know if it is a scam or a legitimate way to make money at home. As it turns out, I am currently using MOIS to provide one of my income streams. Who better to review a product than someone using it right?  So, I will review my experience with MOIS and tell you what it is, how it makes money and what the “pros” and “cons” of the program are.

What is My Online Income System?

MOIS is a “Work at Home” program that was developed by Kimberley Hoffman. This E-course is based on the Affiliate Marketing business model and teaches the basics of how to make money online using affiliate marketing. Kimberley has designed her program for people who are totally new to the affiliate marketing concept. Her work at home program takes new members by the hand and shows them step-by-step how to develop their own internet based business. Her course uses a daily action plan that makes learning fast and easy.

The Birth of My Online Income System…

Like many other hard working Americans, Kimberley was living paycheck to paycheck, barely making enough money to live a decent life. After her husband left her, she was stuck paying all the rent, a car payment and would have to leave her son Ryan with a neighbor while she worked 50 hours a week as a waitress at Outback Steakhouse. It didn’t matter how many hours she worked, she was simply trading time for money.

That’s when she turned to Google and started looking for alternate ways to make more money…

Like thousands of other people, she went to Google.com and typed “work at home opportunity” into the search box and found hundreds of websites claiming she could easily make $500-$1000 a day from home. She started buying into those programs and within two months had spent over $4,000 on courses, ebooks, and seminars that got her no where! Kimberley was desperate but knew there were people making money on the internet, she just didn’t know how. She decided to go to one of the Work at Home Forums to share her story and warn other people about all of the scams that she got involved with and hopefully someone there could point her in the right direction. At the very least maybe she could help other people avoid the same scams she fell for.

After posting numerous comments on this forum, someone finally contacted her and offered to teach her how to make money online. This person took her by the hand and showed her step-by step how to make money online with affiliate marketing. By following the advise of her new friend she was able to quit her job as a waitress after one month. After only two months her new business was running itself, and she was able to spend all the time in the world with her son. Kimberley wanted to share this information and help others so she developed her My Online Income System.

How Does It Make Money?

My Online Income System, like a vast majority of Work at Home Businesses, uses the Affiliate Marketing business model to generate substantial income. Affiliate Marketing is where companies, or individuals, market another companies products or services for a commission fee per item sold. An Affiliate would be the company or individual in the above definition. In laymen terms an affiliate is essentially a hidden middle man that refers buyers to products on the internet that receives a commission on those sales.

As an affiliate you would select from thousands of products being sold on the internet and market that product to produce sells. The more traffic you send to the “Sellers” website, or your own website for that matter, the more money you can make. Don’t be mistaken, this can take a lot of work and devotion if you want it to succeed. Once your business has been setup it will generate cash on auto-mode 24/7 even while you sleep.

What are the “Pros”?

What I liked the most about Kimberley Hoffman’s My Online Income System is that she teaches and encourages members to use free advertising methods and tools. Most of the work at home programs that I have reviewed have lots of hidden costs. Here are some other features I like about MOIS…

• Step by Step Daily Action Plan that makes learning easy
• Teaches the basics of Affiliate Marketing for beginners
• Tons of resources
• 24/7 Support with forums
• Free website so you can start making money immediately
• Provides five custom designed websites for multiple income streams
• 60 day Money Back Guarantee

What are the “Cons”?

What I did not like the most about Kimberley Hoffman’s My Online Income System is that the free website that you get with the course is limited to selling only their product. My first impression was that this was just a pyramid advertising scheme but I later realized that was not the case. Here are some other things that I did not like about MOIS…

• There is no telephone support available
• The instructions for setting up your domain were vague
• There are some hidden costs
• You can not edit the descriptions on preselected products without recreating them

Naomi Lowe
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-business-articles/my-online-income-system-by-kimberley-hoffman-is-it-a-scam-1168155.html

The term viral marketing often evokes confusion and sometimes a little fear, but let me assure you it is harmless.  If anything, when applied correctly it can be one of the most powerful tools for your business.  Viral Marketing describes any strategy that encourages people to pass on a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth in the message’s exposure and influence. Similar to viruses multiplying, the message can reach a huge audience in very little time.  Unlike computer viruses, Internet viral marketing requires the message to be appealing in some way, in order for people to consciously and willingly pass it on.

Long before the Internet ever existed, viral marketing has been practised as “word-of-mouth” promotion, using the media (press/radio/TV), or network marketing. If you are going to implement an Internet viral marketing campaign, you will need to create what is called a ”viral agent”. This is the item that you will use to illicit a positive reaction from your recipients and makes them volunteer to pass it along to their contacts. The quality of your viral agent will decide whether people do so or not. It’s also important that the message can be passed on easily. This might mean including a ”please send to a friend” button, or at the very least making sure that it can be easily passed on by email. It is particularly effective to have your viral agent hosted at one particular location, as people will be able to send their friends a simple link to it. This will also benefit the viral agent’s exposure in the search engines, allowing even more people to see your message.

A lot of planning should go into setting up an online viral marketing campaign. Not every campaign will work, or at its full potential so here are the main components that should be included in your viral message, in order to maximize its effectiveness.

1) Give away products or services for free (picture, audio, video, software, game, cartoon, poem, joke, survey, tip of the day etc.). “Free” is the most powerful word in a marketer’s vocabulary. Viral marketers may not profit from their efforts today, or tomorrow, but if they can generate a groundswell of interest from something that is totally free, they know they will have long lasting success.

2) Make it easy for people to share your message via email, website, software download, social networks, instant messages, forums, etc…Viral marketing works amazingly well online because instant communication has become so easy and inexpensive. From a marketing standpoint, you must simplify your marketing message so it can be transmitted with the click of a mouse and without any loss in quality or content. The shorter and more focused, the better.

3) Tap into people’s common motivations and behaviours (humour, greed, shock, inspiration, intrigue, urgency, compassion, desire to be popular, cool, or loved etc.) These fundamental human qualities and urges have resulted in millions of websites created and billions of e-mail messages sent. Design a marketing strategy that exploits them and you will have struck gold.

4) Use existing communication networks.  Each person has a close network of family, friends, co-workers, associates, and a reservoir of their referrals. A person’s broader network may therefore consist of scores, hundreds, or thousands of people, depending upon her position in society. Network marketers have long understood the power of these human networks.  People on the Internet can build huge networks too using e-mail, instant messaging, forums, social networks, torrents and other file sharing communities (MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, MSN, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Flickr, etc…)

5) Take advantage of others’ resources. Writing and giving away free articles, so they can get on others’ web sites is a great way to establish yourself as someone who is knowledgeable in your field and will attract viewers to your site.  Include your URL, brand name, and contact info within everything you post online and promote your business.  This can spread like wildfire. Press releases can be picked up by hundreds of news sites as well and popularise your name.  A video hosted on YouTube will not cost you any money in server bandwidth when more and more people access it. This way others’ resources are depleted rather than your own.

As you can see a well-crafted viral marketing campaign can explode your business online using a variety of outlets in very little time.

Gopal  (The Musical Mad Scientist and Entrepreneur)

http://www.boom.thevfusiongroup.biz

Gopal D
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-business-articles/viral-marketing-power-671578.html

Ever since the development of the internet, Internet marketing has continuously grown and it is today one of the most profitable businesses. It has many shapes and sizes, from people who make small revenue to real giants who make millions and billions of dollars. If you want to get your hands on a piece of the big pie, you have to know that competition is fierce, but with a little bit of luck and a lot of commitment, it can be done.

First of all, what is internet marketing? Moreover, what is marketing itself? Many people when they hear the term “marketing” they think of MLM, and many companies think that marketing means training a few persons and throwing them into the street to sell their products. These are common mistakes, for more details visit to www.tube-pros-espects.com and marketing is much more than that. For more help go to .In the decades before the internet, there was a product-oriented marketing strategy. Nowadays, the smart business persons have realized that an effective marketing strategy is a client-oriented one. Managing to satisfy your customers, that’s the key to success. If you do that, the word about your products’ high quality will spread around an entire network of potential customers, because of people’s talkative nature.

Virtually anything and everything is being marketed nowadays on the internet, and will be to an ever more extent in the future. If you hear people who say that making money online is not possible, ignore them, because the internet is the way of the future. Millions of people go shopping on the internet, and this market is continuously growing.

I believe that the key of successful online money making is specialization. Given the great number of marketers available out there, for more details visit to www.mrx-interview.com the way to go is originality. I mean, let’s say you want to open a bookstore. Now, if done in an offline conventional way, unless you have a very fat budget, you’re lucky if you manage to penetrate your city’s market.

Now, if you were to make an online bookstore, the possibilities are infinite. You have every internet surfer as a potential buyer and it’s your choice how you attract them. Still, if you are from England and the books are delivered from there, maybe a person from Japan feels more comfortable to go a few streets away than to buy from you. That’s where specialization comes in.

Let’s say you like playing the guitar. If you open a bookstore with guitar books, a Japanese person would really consider buying from you and going through all the payment and delivery procedures. Sure, your targeted market narrows a lot, because not every person wants to learn how to play guitar, but it’s still a very, very large one. Moreover, the guitar playing internet surfers will be delighted about having a site with guitar books.

In your internet marketing strategies, you can also sell other merchants’ products. If we were to go back to that guitar example, you could make a very cool website about guitars. Then, after you manage to get a big number of visitors to your website, you can make affiliate associations with partners who sell guitar-related products. In other words, if your visitors click on your website’s links to your partners and buy something from them, you get a commission.

There are actually countless internet marketing strategies and you can design some yourself. The truth is that making money online is possible. However, the most important aspect that I’d like to underline is what I told you earlier: THE CUSTOMER.

The customer is the one that is going to bring you money and he’s the one that’s going to recommend you to others. You should always communicate with your clients and try to look at them as different individuals. If you manage to do that, your success is guaranteed. How can you make them happy? It’s not easy, and it really puts your marketing abilities to the test. Try to answer each and every e-mail, try to identify with everyone’s needs. If you can’t do that on your own, hire someone to do it. I mean, if you have that many customers, you can afford hiring another person, right? And although this is a quite difficult task, it will bring you the desired results. With a client-oriented approach, your internet marketing will be a success!

Manish Gaur
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/in-the-decades-before-the-internet-there-was-a-productoriented-marketing-strategy-691023.html

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