Wow…I just found out our Family Business blog on Homeschool Blogger earned the 5 year HSB Blogaversary Award. What an honor from Kristen. You can see the original Blogaversary Awards here:

Family Business Blog about working at home

Our blog was started in the first month of Homeschool Blogger 5 years ago. We’ve had a fun time here getting to know other families who want a family business. Thanks for a great 5 years and here’s to 5 more!

Well, there are three ways.

What is one of the best ways to get more visitors to buy your ebook?

Articles, of course!  When you write articles around the key word phrases from your ebook research, you will increase the backward links to your ebook. This is done with a link at the bottom of each of those articles leading people back to your e-book page.  At the bottom of your article, you can write something about the author and what you will give them when they arrive at your website.  Some people call this your ethical bribe.

You can also attract visitors by paying for them.  The next time you search on Google, pay attention to the small ads on the right side of the page.  Those are Google AdWords. You can advertise your site on Google, selecting keywords based on your Internet niche. You only pay when someone clicks on that ad, which whisks them to your webpage.  It only costs pennies per click, and you can set your own budget and search terms.

The third, and most effective, way to get lots of traffic is through search engines. If you have good information on your particular topic, search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves will direct a flood of traffic to your site.  This “organic” search engine traffic is free.

Search engines help you find information.  You type in “keywords” based on your preferred topic.  Web spiders then seek out the information you request.  Of course, search engines often return thousands or even millions of potential websites.  Websites that rank most highly are at the top of the list. Customers are most likely to visit those popular websites, so it is important to rank your site as highly as possible.

When these articles become a part of other people’s web pages and blogs, they provide backward links to your site and they establish you an an authority in your market.  This really improves your ranking in search engines and drives visitors to your ebook sales page.

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Copyright Stephen Beck, 2010

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Stephen Beck can teach you how to start an internet business and how to make $1000 on the internet.  Pick up a FREE link to his webinar, where Stephen shows you everything you should do: http://www.youronlinebasics.com/go.html.

The selling and marketing of digital products can be a great real home business.  There are so many benefits that this type of business offers over traditional businesses or even other types of home based businesses that you can start. You can literally build your own ebook publishing business from the comfort of your home, and the steps to starting an internet business can be remarkably easy.

What are the benefits to operating a home-based business marketing digital products?

1.) The first benefit is low overhead. If you were to own your own physical bookstore, there would be a tremendous amount of overhead you would have to worry about.

With a traditional business there are significant costs and investments required to keep that business operating. You typically have to have a lot of customers just to cover your monthly expenses, much less make a significant profit. A PDF ebooks business can put you in profit mode with a relatively small amount of customers.

A digital products business doesn’t have anywhere near that type of overhead. You can operate the business out of your own house with no inventory and no employees. The reason why you don’t need any inventory is because your products are digital, and they are located on the Internet. Therefore, they don’t have to be stored in your house.

2.) Another benefit to operating a digital ebook publishing business is the high profit margins that are associated with that type of business. When you offer a product online, the large majority of your expense associated with that product is in the initial creation process. You may invest either time in producing the product yourself or money in hiring people to produce the product for you.

Once your final product is created your main investment required to get your business up and running is in how you market your products. However, even in the marketing of your products there are many ways you can do this for free. By doing this for free you literally have zero costs associated with selling the product.

How do these lack of expenses affect potential profits in this type of real home business? Assuming you made a $500 investment in product creation, this will give you enough money to hire someone to write an ebook for you in some markets. Once you made this investment, you now have a finished product that you can take to the market.

3.) The next step is to promote your business, which you can do by using free marketing strategies like article marketing, social network marketing and so on. You set a price point of $47 for your product. With this price point it only takes 11 sales to make your money back. Any other sale after that is full profit for your business since you have no other costs ongoing.

As the owner of your own ebook publishing business you have a business that is truly portable. You can operate your business anywhere in the world as long as you have access to a computer as well as Internet access

In fact you don’t even need to have a telephone anymore for your business. There are programs available that allow you to turn your computer with an internet connection into a telephone using Voice Over IP technology. You truly have a business that you can run from anywhere in the world.

Selling pdf ebooks online can literally be a dream business for you. You can follow these steps to start an internet business and begin seeing profits this week!!

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Copyright Stephen Beck, 2010

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Stephen Beck can show you online business set up steps and how to make your first $1000 on the internet.  Pick up a FREE link to his webinar replay, where Stephen shows you everything you should do: http://www.YourOnlineBasics.com/go.html.

Using an autoresponder is one of the most important tools for anyone looking to earn money at home and start internet business. It is a required software application to simplify many tasks that people who promote home-based business opportunities need. Here are 7 ways to use an autoresponder to make money on the internet.

1. Product Reviews Review books, software, electronics, video games, home study courses and more and load them into your autoresponder. Write reviews on affiliate programs and promote your affiliate link for additional cash.

2. Create a mailing list A mailing list can be created to serve as a point of distribution for articles that you might create that you want to get published on websites throughout the internet.

3. Give away free reports An autoresponder can be set up to give website visitors an idea of the level of quality you offer through your products or services. This is vital if you want to earn money at home and you want to avoid creating reports that are basically glorified sales letters.

4. Trivia Quiz This use plays into the aspect of humans that do not like unanswered questions. You provide the questions to a quiz on your website and blog and require the visitors to opt into your autoresponder to get the answers. You can also have a contest where the participants send an email to your autoresponder with the answers to the questions. This way you can capture their email address and can follow up with them in the future.

5. Promote hiding web pages Web pages that you do not necessarily want on your main website, like for example, the page where you store your affiliate resources can be promoted with an autoresponder. What you do is let website visitors know that they can access your affiliate page for free by signing up on your autoresponder. As a result, you will be able to track all visitors to your website who have an interest in being an affiliate for you.

6. Special Offers Using an autoresponder gives you the ability to implement special offers. You can require everyone to sign up on your autoresponder to qualify for the offer, which will opt them into your email list where you can send them emails whenever you have a special offer so you can earn money at home.

7. Links distribution Autoresponders can also be used as a method of sharing links with your website visitors. You can email out a bunch of links to resources related to your website and promote some that make you money as well.

These 7 strategies are just a small portion of what you can do with an autoresponder. Using these strategies will help you to be able to maximize your results and earn money at home as well.

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Copyright Stephen Beck, 2010

You have permission to reprint this article as long as you don’t make any changes and include the bio below.

Stephen Beck can teach you to start internet business and to make $1000 on the internet.  Pick up a FREE link to his webinar, where Stephen shows you everything you should do: http://www.youronlinebasics.com/go.html.

There are four ways you can format any live webinars that you host.  Today I will focus on the first way, today’s starting internet business tip, which is the free webinar for prospects that you offer to sell your product offering.  The idea behind this format is to give the participants value in the first sixty minutes so that they will be willing to buy from you in the final ten to fifteen minutes when you tell them about your product offering.  You do this by explaining how to do whatever your topic is about and then selling them the step-by-step strategies and techniques behind how to do it.

Case in point, I may reveal what you should do to run a successful webinar in general, but then sell you the step-by-step system for running a webinar.  Do you see the difference?  I can tell you how to shed unwanted pounds.  I cover the general steps.  I can then sell you on the step-by-step program to shedding those pounds using a proven system that works.

The key is to be straight up with people.  You want to give them the formula for getting what they want, but sell them on the actual specifics of executing that formula.  This is a time-tested principle.  You show them each step that makes up the formula, but whatever you have to sell them is going to reveal exactly how you do step number one and so on.  You can tell them what to do, and then show them the best, fastest and most effective way to do it.  This method works for software as well as information products also.

On live webinars, during your promotion period, you can promote an information product, software, some type of physical product, or even an affiliate product.  This is a product someone else sells but they pay you a commission for each customer you refer.  One way to increase your affiliate sales is to include training on that program if they buy through your link.  Another way is to show the results you got with the product and then offer an affiliate link so you can get paid if they buy.

To elaborate on selling affiliate products, in my case, a product launch formula that someone else sold was one of the best things I have ever used. It really helped my business out tremendously. If I am promoting an affiliate product, I need to show results and demonstrate how it worked for me, and then I can put my affiliate link at the back end of a webinar and I can make some money that way. If you do this with a product that has worked well for you that you really believe in, it is easy to help others see how this product is of such great value and how it can benefit them. I have found this to be especially effective with software products.

I have found this model of selling by offering content for the majority of the webinar and selling briefly at the end to be very effective. In future articles, I will outline the other three methods for utilizing webinars.

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Copyright Stephen Beck, 2010

You have permission to reprint this article as long as you don’t make any changes and include the bio below.

Stephen Beck can teach you ”starting internet business tips” steps and how to make $1000 on the internet.  Pick up a FREE link to his webinar, where Stephen shows you everything you should do: http://www.youronlinebasics.com/go.html.

I hope you had a terrific weekend, especially if you are in the US and celebrating our Independence Day.  In case you missed it, we are having an Independence Day Freedom Sale and you can grab 2 of our courses for half-price.  Even if you don’t live in the USA, you can get in on the Freedom Sale.
Here’s what you can get:
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—>> 8 Weeks to Profits ($997 value) Grab your copy here at $497
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(save $500 – 50% off)
Read more about 8 Weeks to Profits at http://www.8WeeksToProfits.com/free.htm

—>> What’s Hot, What’s Not in 2010 ($197 value) Grab your copy here at $97
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(save $100 – 50% off)
Read more about What’s Hot, What’s Not in 2010 at http://www.familyebiz.com/whwn/freedom.html
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We are experiencing more freedom in our lives than ever before and we want you to have the same type of freedom…freedom to make choices that reflect your values and concerns, not your bosses values.  Our info product business is the reason we can take trips for volunteer work, family vacations overseas or watch our son’s basketball games in the middle of the day.  You deserve to experience the same thing with your own info product empire.

We have reduced the price lower than you’ve ever seen on our flagship product (8 Weeks to Profits).  If you are considering an info product business, now is the time to grab your step-by-step course because I doubt you’ll ever see this price again.

Remember 8 Weeks to Profits will give you a plan of  attack so you can be successful:

Week 1  Choose A Profitable Topic
Week 2  Assemble The Technical Pieces
Week 3  Create Your Web Pages
Week 4  Create Your Information Product
Week 5  Finish Your Information Product
Week 6  Get Others To Promote Your Info Product
Week 7  Put Everything On Auto-Pilot
Week 8  Launch Your Info Product
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Here’s what a college grad had to say …

As a recent college grad, I was skeptical about the course. After all, the phrase “poor college student” didn’t come out of nowhere. I like to be careful with my money, especially with what I buy online.

When 8 Weeks to Profits came out, I had been looking for a way to use my love of writing to minister to others and earn money from home at the same time. I didn’t know anything about creating an Ebook or Internet marketing, but the idea caught my interest.

Boy was I blown away by the results. Thanks to 8 Weeks to Profits, I made $981.62 in 8 days!! Amazing!! That amount more than covered the cost of the course. Steve Beck has really outdone himself. He’s created everything I needed to learn how to make and sell my own Ebook. The awesome thing is I’ll be able to use the steps over and over again to continue building a home business by selling information products. I’d highly recommend this course!

Amanda Suryan
Newark, CA
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Today’s the last day of our Freedom Sale.  If you want to take advantage of our sale and save $500, now’s the time to do it.  If you follow Amanda’s example, you’ll pay for the course with your first product launch.

Here’s the link to invest in 8 Weeks to Profits:
http://tinyurl.com/8w-free

I look forward to working with you in our CND Mastermind, as an 8 Weeks students.

Warmly,

Stephen & Kerry Beck

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ps.  This email wouldn’t be complete, if I didn’t include a note from Michelle, a stay-at-home mom whose business is exploding because of the info found in 8 Weeks to Profits…Read what she has to say:

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The booksale:  In the end, we made just over $3000 in 10 days.  People object that only selling internet info products makes money online but we applied the online business principles Steve taught us to our used book business and were astonished at the improvement.

The other small book was an idea I’d been thinking about for many years. I had no clue where to start with all the technical details but listening to Steve’s teachings gave me the answers I needed.

You need to understand that I am one of the world’s biggest procrastinators! If I can get a Christmas product actually finished and out in time for the holiday … anyone can do this!

I wanted to start small with something definite and doable. The book sold about $2000 in one month but I am more excited that I really saw a project through to completion.  It’s given me confidence to put our cherished *big* idea into action this year.

Also, because of the book I was interviewed by Cindy Rushton who then invited me to speak at her upcoming online homeschool convention. Our *big* idea is now taking on a life of its own as I get ready to talk and pull my new product together.

Watching Steve and Kerry has shown me that you can always keep learning and growing, trying new projects and pressing on. I can see our online business, Yes, You Can! Publications becoming the dream we’d hoped for.

Michelle Geffken
yesyoucanpublications.com
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The secrets of learning to start a web based business are pretty straightforward once you understand what they are. Where online entrepreneurs mess up is they make common mistakes and are not aware of some basic pitfalls. There are several common challenges that online business owners face when trying to make money online.

One of the most common challenges is they have no product or service. Making money online is a business and you need to have a product, preferably an information product to make money.

The second area that a lot of people struggle with when they attempt to make money on the internet is exposure. Marketing outside of where you are located can be challenging. This is especially true if you are marketing a service that does not work well for a national audience. As an example, there is not a huge demand for an attorney outside of the city he or she practices in. You need to have people you can market to in order to make money.

Another challenge to making money online is getting in front of the right people. Qualifying people over the phone can be challenging. When I used to do remodeling I know it was difficult to determine over the phone if a potential client was really looking to get a project done or if I was wasting my time. When you invest time with people who are not interested and will not buy from you, it limits your ability to make money.

Some people struggle to make money on the internet simply because they have not figured out the best way to capture the attention of their ideal prospect. This is not like television or a newspaper where you can expose your ad multiple times. On the internet you often only get one chance to make an impression. You also must recognize that the internet does not replace the need for in person appointments for complicated services like in the financial, real estate, medical or legal industries. You should use your internet marketing strategy to help you generate leads in which you can then book appointments.

The final limitation to income online is not giving the prospect a reason to buy now. People online have short attention spans and if you do not give them a reason to buy from you right this minute they will not buy from you and will most likely not buy from you in the future.

You can see there are many reasons that can limit your income online. The key is to identify which of these reasons might be holding you back so that you can make money on the internet.

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Copyright Stephen Beck, 2010

You have permission to reprint this article as long as you don’t make any changes and include the bio below.

Stephen Beck can teach you how to start a web based business and how to make $1000 on the internet.  Pick up a FREE link to his webinar, where Stephen shows you everything you should do: http://www.youronlinebasics.com/go.html.

Today is the day we (in the USA) celebrate independence … freedom unlike anywhere else in the world.  We are truly blessed to live in a country with as many freedoms as we have and we want to help you enjoy even more freedoms in your life.

Stephen & I are blessed to have true freedom in our own lives.  This summer, we are experiencing that freedom to the fullest.  We are taking 3 trips across the pond -  Scotland for romantic getaway, Turkey for volunteer work in English Club, London for family vacation with all 6 of us.

How can we take so many trips and still support ourselves?

- Our info business keeps rockin’ along even when we are gone.

- Our info business gives us the freedom to do volunteer work on the other side of the world.

- Our info business lets us spend a relaxing week in London with our kids.

We are enjoying the fruits of a business that gives us the freedom to plan our lives the way we believe God is directing.  We want you to enjoy the same freedom, so we are offering 2 of our products at 50% discount.  You deserve the same freedoms in your lives as we have, so build your on info product empire.  Here’s how:

8 Weeks to Profits ($997 value) Grab your copy here at $497
(save $500 – 50% off)
Read more about 8 Weeks to Profits

What’s Hot, What’s Not in 2010 ($197 value)   Grab your copy here at $97
(save $100 – 50% off)
Read more about What’s Hot, What’s Not in 2010.

The strategies & principles included in each of these course have significantly impacted our profit and our lifestyle.  Because of them, we are able to take trips together and do volunteer work around the world.  We’re also able to enjoy Independence Day with our family…Enjoy independence with your family and friends today!

Warmly,
Kerry Beck

ps.  We have never offered these products at such a low price.  It is highly unlikely you will ever see these prices again.  If you ever thought about investing in 8 Weeks to Profits, now is the time. Plus…If you invest before Monday at 2pm Eastern time, you can join our live Mastermind class.

Grab your copy here at $497

pps.  Our Independence Day Freedom Sale is the next 72 hours – through July 6.

note: You will only receive one trial CND Mastermind membership if you are not already a CND Mastermind member.  The trial offer is only available to new mastermind members.  Current CNDMM members will receive another bonus I have planned for you.

Kerry and I just came back from Istanbul with our son, Hunter. Turkey is an incredible place rich in history. We visited the seven ancient cities in the book of Revelation. Ephesus and Laodecia were incredible monuments to the early church and Roman times.

We also visited friends in Ankera and saw incredible historical sites in Istanbul. Istanbul was originally Constantinople during the days of Constantine, so there are too many things to see in the short time we are here. While in Istanbul, we gave a talk on making money on the Internet to a room full of Turkish people. Most knew a little English, but we had a translator for some of the more technical parts.

Again, this is why I have an Internet business. I’m able to travel the world and still run a business at the same time. And trips like this make learning all the technical stuff worth the effort!

Enjoy the rest of the photos…

Ephesus Theater

We could have taken a nap here…after touring Ephesus.

Oh no…

Blue Mosque, Istanbul

English Club picnic at Prince’s Island – off the coast of Istanbul.

We attended a Turkish wedding

Turan took us around Istanbul, showing us the sites and how to get around.  We hope to keep up with him.