For internet marketers who are serious about making money, a paid autoresponder service is the way to go. Although there are many free autoresponders available, only paid autoresponder services can offer you the deliverability rate and functions to ensure a successful email marketing campaign.

While there are many paid autorepsonder services to choose from, from my research only 3 autoresponder services Aweber, GetResponse and iContact are deemed money for value. I’m not doing a in depth review of their features here but this is more of a price comparison so that you can see at a glance which one will fit into your budget.

Now, let’s take a look at the price plans.

Aweber

• Monthly $19.95
• Quarterly $53.85 $6.00
• 6 Months $101.70 $18.00
• Yearly $179.40 $60.00

Aweber offers flexible pricing plans ranging from monthly, quarterly, half yearly to yearly plans. As with Getresponse and iContact, you save the most by signing up for the longest payment term. In terms of cost, Aweber is the most expensive out of the 3 autoresponder services here, but many top notch marketers swear by Aweber and you should take that into consideration too.

Sign up for Aweber here.

GetResponse

• Monthly $17.95
• Quarterly $47.85
• 6 Months $87.70
• Yearly $145.40

GetResponse offers similar pricing plans as Aweber but in terms of pricing, they are a bit less costly. This is ideal for marketers just starting out and money is tight. Though GetResponse is less costly, they are by no means offering less. In fact just as many top notch marketers are vouching for GetResponse. Personally, I have been using GetResponse ever since I started on money making opportunities online and I find GetResponse easy to use and full of useful features. I would say go for it.

Sign up for GetResponse here.

iContact

iContact have a different pricing system as compared to Aweber and GetResponse. While Aweber and GetResponse go by term pricing, iContact pricing plan is definitely something that is ideal for new marketers starting out and trying out email marketing. There’s a base fee of $9.95 per month for up to 500 subscribers in your account. When your account exceeds 500 subscribers, you will move on to the next payment plan where you will pay $14.00 per month for up to 1000 subscribers.

Sign up for iContact here.

As I mentioned before, I have been using GetResponse and I have no complains but praise for GetResponse. Although GetResponse is the only autoresponder service that I have tried out so far and I highly recommend GetResponse, the other 2 autoresponder services are just as good. If you have tried the other 2 autoresponder services before, maybe you can share with us your views.

For a list of good and reliable autoresponder services, check out my “Recommended Resources” section.

One of the reasons that people failed to make money online is because they failed to identify the correct niche to target. While some people have no problems with these, I believe a lot of beginners like me when I first started out would appreciate getting some tips to help them select a niche in the early stages. I have identified some tips which you can used to identify a suitable niche to start off with and hopefully in the process save you loads of time and headaches.

1) A niche that you have a interest in
There are actually two schools of thoughts on this point. Many people have repeatedly pointed out that you must select a niche that you have a genuine interest in; otherwise you may have a hard time sustaining the efforts and time you are going to put into the business. While I tend to agree with this point of view, especially for those of you who are new to online business, I have no doubt once you have pass through the initial or beginner phase, any market as long as they are lucrative will be a viable option even though that particular niche may not be to your liking or personal interest. At the end of the day, the important thing is to have money lining up your pocket.

2) A niche that lead on to a bigger niche or niches
This is a point that you have to take into serious consideration when selecting your niche. As a marketer, make sure that you enter into a niche knowing that you can expand out to other related niches in the near future. Otherwise, you may find your constraint by what you can offer to your customers in the future. Take note of point 4 below as it is somehow similar in nature although this point generally refers to the niche as a whole.

3) A niche that is used to spending money
Now, this is a point that you have to be really careful of. Imagine having conquered your niche in terms of market share of in traffic volume and search engine positioning. But you find yourself unable to sell and present much offers to your visitors or list because the niche you are targeting are generally freebie seekers or not used to buying and spending. This is definitely some scenario that you may not want even though there are many other methods of monetizing your website if you have a large traffic volume.

4) A niche that you can offer a variety of offers to
If you select a niche that you can only present a couple of offers and that’s it, you are limiting your income potential. Always look for a niche that you can offer multiple offers. However if you niche is part of a bigger niche or niches, you can always choose to start off and dominate your niche first before moving off to related niches.

I hope the tips above can get you started off on a good note. There are probably some other factors involved in selecting a niche to enter but for me these few points above are good enough indicators that a particular niche is lucrative.

Affiliate Marketing is an online business model in which online merchants offers commissions to website publishers to refer visitors to the merchants’ sites to purchase a product or service. It can also refer to the simple act of filling up an online form on the merchants’ sites. To put it simply, affiliate marketing is simply the act of referring customers or leads to an online merchant in exchange for a fee.

Amazon is the first big online merchant to popularize the affiliate marketing concept with its own “associates” program back in 1996. Since then, a lot of online merchants have followed and started to integrate affiliate marketing programs into their online business strategies. Recent data has shown that affiliate marketing plays a significant part for any online businesses’ strategies.

Affiliate marketing is a win-win concept for both the online merchant and its affiliates.

The online merchant has no overheads to pay other than the initial costs in setting up an affiliate program as the affiliates are all working under commissions basics. The online merchant only needs to render commissions to its affiliates when they refer a customer who either purchase something or fill up a form. The online merchant will also stand to gain in the form of free advertising and more exposure for it products and services through the offer of an affiliate program. With the bulk of marketing and advertising left to affiliates, the online merchant can focus on other core marketing and business strategies to grow and expand the business.

As for the affiliates, affiliate marketing remains one of the best ways monetize their websites. With no inventory and other overheads to worry about, an affiliate is leave with the task of just referring customers or leads to the online merchant for a commission.

As affiliate marketing starts to gain in popularity and acknowledgement as an essential online marketing strategy, a lot of companies started to develop their own affiliate programs. And as online merchants rush to develop their own affiliate programs, a new type of service websites sprung up that is devoted to managing these affiliate programs – Affiliate Networks. Most online merchants lack the necessary resources and knowledge to manage an affiliate program of their own and this creates a window of opportunity for “Affiliate Networks” to tap into.

Within the space of a few years, affiliate marketing has become the driving element of how commerce works on the internet. And it should stays that way until someone came up with a better method of conducting commerce on the internet.

While, affiliate marketing may seem easy at first glance, there are many factors involved. Nowadays, more and more offline businesses are turning to the internet to market their businesses and this in turn creates more opportunities affiliates to make serious money from affiliate programs.

I received a piece of good news from Google this morning regarding the reinstatement of my Google Adsense account. I have been waiting for an answer for the past one month counting from Day 1 of my account termination. Even though I am a very optimistic person by nature, I have already given up hopes of getting my account reinstated given the information and feedbacks I have garnered from forums and other blogs alike.

But the strange thing is I have gotten so used to making do without Adsense ads that the news did not really affect me that much. I thought I would be very delighted but I am just glad to have an extra revenue channel back. I have some good results in using CBpro Ads on some of my websites and this is where the dilemma starts, should I go back to using Google Adsense or other contextual ads.

Nah! As always, I would go for both. Initially, those first 2 weeks without Adsense is hell but the good thing to come out of this experience is that I am forced to look for alternatives and good things have come out of it. I’ve always believed “whenever there are obstacles, opportunities are always around the corner” and this certainly hold true for me each time I meet with an obstacle. So the next time any obstacle appears, take time to survey and look around for the hidden opportunities that are just round the corner. Good luck!

I have mentioned in my previous post “Good Quality PLR Articles Can Save You time” on why using PLR articles can save you much precious time. If you have missed the previous post, you can read it here. However, I also mentioned that you need to look for good quality PLR articles or content to begin with. Now this a problem that many people faced and that is where to look for good quality PLR articles given the high number of PLR membership sites.

Personally for me, the best PLR articles membership site that I have experienced so far is Niche-Content-Packages.com. The articles in this PLR articles membership site are high quality in nature and I also love the fact that only a limited number of a particular PLR article package will be sold. Once sold finished, these PLR packages will be taken off the shelf for good.

Although Niche-Content-Packages.com is by nature a membership site, you can either choose to join its monthly membership or you can opt to purchase credits to buy PLR articles instead. In this way, there is no pressure on you to join and then regret later, although this would be a highly unlikely scenario given the quality of the articles they have there. If you need a lot of quality PLR articles every month, Niche-Content-Packages.com is the place for you to get them.

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