You decided to try out making money online, you browsed the internet then BOOM! Suddendly a truckload of opportunities came banging in your door.

There are too many exciting opportunities online. With all of these stuffs, where do you actually start your money making online venture?

How does a person who just tried making money online decide what to do next? This is really difficult, most especially to newbies. More than a hundred opportunities will be presented to you, and all of these will promise you the same thing – you will make money online within the next few days, weeks, or months if you just give them $9.95, $17, $27, etc…

With these amount of opportunities, how can you make sure that you will get only the best ones? Several newbies never got their website and product up because they are stucked on this step. Some have been scammed, some have been intimidated. You just need to be careful in choosing the starting point of your online business.

Here are 10 steps you need to take in order to find that starting point or the opportunity that you’ve been searching for.

How do you find real “Making Money Online” Opportunities:

• Study and Learn – research and learn everything you can! You can start with the free 4-month subscription of my newsletter. I made it for the purpose of teaching you what works, what opportunities you should really try out and what opportunities to look out for in the future. The newsletter will save you hundred hours worth of research, filtering out all the crap and trash online.
• Invest – only put money on things that will really help you grow your online business. Those that are related and can help you achieve your goals. On my newsletter, I only put the best of the best online stuffs so you are guaranteed to receive the most value out of your investment.
• Learn the art of searching the internet – this doesn’t mean by just typing in the information you want to search on search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN). If you master the art of searching the internet, you will know its language and the exact keyword to search in order to find the precise information you want to appear on the list.
• Look for good, high quality information products – there are hundreds of these, and most of them are FREE! Start with my other website here – Internet Marketing Products. Again, only find those that are related to your goals. As always, be careful. Do not just buy into marketers selling huge internet marketing packages of ebooks for pennies. Most of these are just wasting your money and your time.
• Join in forums that are related to your business – as what I’ve talked about on one of my posts, Saving While Making Money Online, forums are a gold mine of information. Find ones that are active like Digital Point Forums and Warrior Forum.
• Know that not every opportunity is “your” opportunity – do not just jump into every opportunity presented to you. If you see that there are a lot of people being successful on it, it does’nt mean that the opportunity is also for you. Read the second bullet point, Invest, again!
• Find things that you really enjoy doing – what’s your passion? Find the things that you are really interested at and specialize in that area.

Knowing where to start and finding the right opportunity doesn’t mean that your success online is guaranteed. You have to dive in! Once you know your starting point, take action and aim, and jump to it.

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On my last post, Getting Ideas For Your First info Product, you learned where to look for ideas on your very first info product. This product will form your front-end promotion and is the one where you will focus your marketing efforts. As also mentioned on  Looking in an Internet Marketing Guru’s Mind post, you need a solid sales funnel to really bring in the dough.

Back-end offers are high quality, high priced products that are immediately offered (one-time-offer back-ends) or offered after some time to those who bought your front-end products.

Why Create Back-End Offers:

• This instantly doubles or even triples your income without additional traffic
• People will look at you as an expert – back-end offers will give you more credibility (this depends on how you choose your back-end offer, I’ll teach this later on)
• Back-end offers are easier to sell than your front-end products since the people seeing the back-end offer already bought from you

Before integrating your back-end offers with your front-end products, you need to make sure that everything is in place and that your front-end is really doing well in terms of sales and conversion. Here are some back-end product ideas to give you a head start.

Back-End Product Ideas:

• Seminars
  • This is a live event that is either hosted by you or other internet marketers (you being one of the guest speakers)
  • You can offer free tickets as your back-end or the recording of the event itself.
  • Will boost your credibility, include photos of you and with other well-known internet marketers
• Workshops
  • One of the highest priced back-end products
  • Very limited slots – workshops are in-depth, hands-on training, much like personal coaching but with limited time to each attendees
• Teleseminars
  • A live training event that can be accessed via the internet or telephone
  • Usually focused on one particular topic
• Personal Coachings
  • A personal or over-the-phone consultation
  • A one-on-one session with a buyer
• Continuity Programs
  • Those that have monthly recurring fees
  • This can be newsletters (physical or digital), membership sites, audios or videos of the month, monthly softwares, etc…
• Softwares
  • Tools that can complement your main offer
  • Can integrate with the membership site model – this is when you charge your customers a monthly fee for the use of the software
• Home Study Courses
  • Your all-in-one solution package with audios, videos, manuals, softwares, and so on that tackles your main offer’s content in great detail

You can choose one from the list above or create your own if you already have one in my mind. Your back-end offer can also be a combination of these. After knowing what type of back-end product to create, the next question would be how to create it? The list below will show you how (don’t worry if you’re just a beginner, you can easily create your back-end product – see option 3)

Instant Back-End Product Creation:

• Option 1 – Teleseminar -> Home Study Course Package
  • When you host a teleseminar, record everything on it
  • Have the audio and video recordings transcribed
  • Gather all the recordings and transcriptions and package it to create a Home Study Course
• Option 2 – Workshop -> Membership Site
  • Launch a monthly workshop and record everything as well
  • Transcribe the recordings and add content, if needed, and upload it all to a secured member’s area
• Option 3 – Interview Experts In Your Field -> Membership Site or Home Study Course
  • This is for those who are only starting out
  • Find experts in your field and interview them
  • Make sure you mention your intention of doing the interview
  • Record the interview, have it transcribed and put it on a membership site (if you’re planning to do an interview every month) or packaged it with a home study course

There are no limit on the types of back-end products you can offer. Creating back-end products should not be hard at all, just extract that creative juices of yours and start brainstorming on ideas that you think will fit and boost the overall value of your front-end offers.

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• October 3, 2009 -- Article Marketing 101 (0)
• September 9, 2009 -- Split Testing Basics (2)

Most internet marketing products focus on how to make money online. If you bought an ebook or any internet marketing product, then you know already that inside each product, there’s another recommendation you need to buy in order to reach a specified income level.

Although there are some exceptions, finding the right product for someone who just learned internet marketing is not that easy. I don’t mean that you can be rich with no money invested, there’s some who made it…but its a really rare case. What I can teach you is how to cut the cost and save while making money at the same time.

How to Save and Make Money Online At The Same Time:

• Don’t buy a product impulsively! This might be common sense, but internet marketing newbies fall easy to this trap. A crappy product can sell like hotcakes if it has a killer sales copy. I know…I’ve fallen to a dozen of these craps. Ask yourself first if the product is in line with your goals and would really help in your business.
• Stay Focused! Before starting your online business, you should have created a plan and commit yourself to act on it. Don’t be diverted away from it. Don’t jump from one idea to the other!
• Check offers at http://www.warriorforum.com. If you don’t know warrior forum yet, this is one of the most active forums that are for internet marketers. This is where the gurus meet. And this is where the best and cheapest offers can be found!
• Find a bonus first before purchasing a product! Almost all internet marketing products or services have a bonus package set up by affiliate marketers. If the product or service is a high quality product, there’s a lot of bonus packages to choose from. Just Google search = “<product name> bonus”
• Subscribe to top internet marketers or the “gurus” list. I know, it really is a hassle to be in an internet marketer’s list. Being bombarded with a lot of emails a day is really irritating but some of the best bonus packages are given by them! Here are some top guys I know that really gives the best bonus packages:
  • Howie Schwartz – Google SEO and black hat traffic products
  • Eric Rockefeller – Affiliate marketing Products
  • Matt Callen – Bundled bonuses (usually softwares and membership)
  • Ian Del Carmen – Bundled bonuses (usually internet marketing related products, sometimes with rebates)
  • Anik Singal – Bundles bonuses that complements the product being sold
  • Simon Hodgkinson – Bundled bonuses (softwares, ebooks, memberships)
  • Calvin Wong – Internet marketing softwares and rebates
  • Adeel Chowdhry -Rebates, internet marketing softwares and products
  • Dave Guindon – Softwares, scripts, memberships
  • Ewen Chia – Bundled bonus, ebooks, videos
  • Mark Ling – Audios, interviews, teleseminar recordings
• Try to buy the product with your affiliate link. This is a technique that I learned from Derrick, a top internet marketer. Some affiliate programs and networks allow this. Some don’t. Read the merchant’s rules, terms and conditions if this is allowed or applicable. Try to use a credit card that is different from what you put when you signed up.
• Save on monthly costs by looking for lifetime or one-time fee memberships. There are a lot of these out there. The best that I found (starts with the cheapest) are listed below:
  • Resell Rights Mastery (Free) – http://www.resellrightsmastery.com/
  • Resale Rights World ($27) – http://www.resalerightsworld.com
  • SureFireWealth – http://www.surefirewealth.com
• Before buying the product, try to close the page of the website. More often than not, it will have a pop-up offering you discounts, trials, or other free offers.

This might not help you from making money onine but this will surely cut your online business expenses and add a lot of value to a product that you’re interested to purchase. Save and make money online at the same time!

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• October 12, 2009 -- My Take On The New FTC Rule Concerning Online Marketers (1)
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