More than ever, the Internet is a revolutionary media and a powerful medium for earning money. It opens up so many opportunities as every day passes. Paid survey is one of the fastest growing income streams on the web, where you can definitely earn good amounts of money.
Different Websites offers various kinds of paid surveys. There are many survey companies available on the Internet where you can just enrol and start earning. It is basically about market research companies who need to gather various statistical data about different products or services from large groups of people. This is usually the basis for product and customer experience improvement. The survey company will compensate you for your feedback on their survey. What most web site owners don't want to tell you is you can spend weeks finding, researching, weeding out the scams and still be trying to figure out where and how to even begin properly. Or worse, find the good ones and then after long hours of trying, find that they only pay pennies. There are companies out there paying REAL money for internet surveys. A half day of good, hard, free research will definitely pay dividends. You need to give yourself the best chance for success. Surely weeks of your time are worth $50.00 or less, not to mention the frustration of spending all this time and feeling helpless, defeated, scammed and money less. There is plenty demand out there for this market place. You only need to look at the searches done on a daily basis for keywords. many people are looking and most get tired, frustrated and eventually quit. Many people have lost money on one program or the other and are afraid to throw good money after bad. Here is the thing, behind every successful person is a lot of failures. You can't go into an online endeavour uninformed. Can you make it without a Survey Directory? Yes with some help, much time, luck and a lot of patience. Why not spend a few dollars on a Paid Survey Directory Company that has done a lot of the work for you. Here are just a few things they offer. * Training * Customer Support so you have someone to help you * A large Database of Survey Companies * Database, whereby they have removed known Scam or non paying Companies * Step-by-Step instructions on how to be successful If you are online and reading this article you more than likely have most or all of the requirements necessary to work from home taking surveys. Now you will need to evaluate the Online Paid Survey Directory Companies and pick the best ones for you. After research and feedback from my customers you should be able to narrow down the list from hundreds to just six. Remember, in every internet niche there are the gurus and the also-rans. You need to do your research, join Facebook groups, and forums on surveys. These days there are forums on every topic, so a couple that you might like to look at would be: Wahm.com WhyDoWork.com Homeworking.com InternetBasedMoms.com ABestWeb WarriorForum.com AssociatePrograms.com WickedFire.com Im4newbies To get started go to the Survey Website and fill out the enrolment form online. Once a member, It is up to you to choose to participate or to ignore to join in survey. The survey company will also indicate how much you will earn and how much time it may take to finish the survey online. You do not have to pay for survey but you will be paid. Before you jump into such survey websites, here is a red alert for you. Only join reliable companies, and be aware some of the key points before joining such Paid Survey Websites
So, good luck, have fun with it and here’s to your success. Let us know of any experiences or other useful feedback, by leaving a comment, below Next Week: MLM (Multi Level Marketing) In advance, check out my e-Book "15 Secrets to Success in MLM" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- …but before we sign off, how would you like a nice little income stream that you can start earning straight away – not enough to make you an overnight success, but plenty to get your business started and put some useful sums of money into your Paypay or Payza account, and certainly enough to enable you to start investing in your business and maybe buying some paid traffic Curated Content, based on material originally written by Kevan Lee, from Buffer and with lots of new content added by me and my earlier posts on the subject Where do email subscribers fall on your list of priorities? While social media might be the hot place to push your marketing efforts, there are many who choose to rely instead on building a valuable email list. And they are correct. Most of the experts or "gurus" will tell you that around ninety percent of their income comes from it. If you build it up and do it properly, developing a strong following your list will be your biggest asset. Email is the most important channel for you to cultivate. Social Media is the way to get people there to see your brilliant content. Think of it like a fantastic store, brimming with beautiful, bright and shiny objects, that people will want to buy as soon as they see them, but the trouble is that the shop is in a remote and lonely backstreet, off the beaten track and nobody can find it. So you get some guys to stand on the street corners with sandwich boards, or you put up signs, or you take out advertising in glossy magazines, and then the people come. You see the analogies? The website is the shop with all the attractive products, the social media posts are your sandwich boards, or signposts or TV ads to get the people to do one thing - walk into your shop!, because they see you as interesting and worth checking out! Once they arrive you take their name and find ways to invite them back - you might walk up to them and take their business card, or put their name on a list, or have them fill out a form or a survey - that is the equivalent of your list. It's great to have all those new customers walking in off the street, but your list is your means of staying in touch. Having done all the hard work of getting them there, you need to keep them interested and coming back. Repeat business is the real business. With an BIG email list of people who like you and your content (that comes from your highly interesting and informative blog), you can run multiple parallel income streams, because they like YOU and that means that they will probably like most of whatever you have on offer. How big is big? That may vary according to the quality of your list, and the people on it. It may vary with the quality and types of product you are selling. Big ticket, small ticket, physical goods, online, digital, e-books, drop-shipping, affiliate marketing. Probably the best rule of thumb is "get it as big as you can" How Big is Too Big? Good luck trying to find that out. The big guns of internet marketing have hundreds of thousands on their lists and that is because they know the meaning of the phrase: .."..the money is in the list .." How do the experts do it? If your take a close look at the heavyweights of email (plus several other amazing sites) to see what methods they use to gain new subscribers, here is what you will learn. The simple formula for growing a massive email list In analysing the websites and techniques of some of these awesome email list builders, a certain formula starts to emerge. If we could boil down the process of building a massive email list to just the most basic parts, it would probably look like this: Amazing blog content + crystal clear calls-to-action = massive email list Can it really be that simple? The experts (Kevan Lee, Michael Stelzner and many others) think so. Basically, everything begins with content. People will find your site because of your amazing content. They will keep coming back for amazing content. Your amazing content will be the foundation of what you email to them, which will be the reason they stay subscribed (or not.) It all starts with amazing content. I write a lot about great content and engagement and to re-cap here are a few of my most favourite articles:
Once you have the amazing content, the next step is to ask for emails. People who adore your content will be primed to receive that content as often as you can create it, delivered straight to their inbox. It’s up to you to make sure they find your call-to-action (or, in this case, a call-to-subscribe). Make it obvious. Make it crystal clear. With this in mind … 6 key strategies on how to grow your subscription list Examining these top blogs (plus some bonus research, too) shows that there are many different ways to go about growing your list and creating those crystal clear calls-to-action that drive subscribers. Here are a few of the best ideas. 1. Treat your blog home page like an email capture form For those who focus on building and growing an email subscriber list, their home pages reflect how vital email is to their content strategy. Big, bold signup forms dominate the home pages of many email-savvy blogs. 2. Include a can’t-miss call-to-action: Popups, slideups, menus, and popovers It’s rare to read an article on growing an email list without coming across a recommendation for installing a popup. The reason: It’s sound advice, backed by good numbers. Popups are a can’t-miss call-to-action. Literally. It doesn’t get more can’t-miss than a window appearing over the content you’re trying to read. Of course, this method of email capture can be hotly debated for just this reason. As Hunter Boyle of Aweber puts it: "...Every time I present, I ask who hates popovers, and 2/3 of the crowd nods and groans. The other 1/3? They’re usually okay with popovers because they’re getting good results from them! ... Fortunately, there are options for popups, as the strategy covers a wide variety of different implementations. I’m throwing all these under the umbrella of “popup.” Let me know in the comments if I’ve missed any favorites you’ve used or seen.
3. Multiple CTAs: Give readers infinity+1 opportunities to subscribe Seems like those who build lists best make email an unmistakeable part of their blog design and calls-to-action. You cannot escape the calls to signup. There might be a signup in a popover, a signup at the top of a blog post, another one at the bottom. Basically, the design assumes that people will view the site differently and that in order to maximize the chances that a potential subscriber sees a signup form you’d best put sign up forms everywhere. Think you’re going overboard with the email signup requests? Listen to your audience, who will likely let you know when you’ve crossed the line. You can also adhere to the old colloquialism, “You’ll know it when you see it.” Go with your gut. Here are some top places to try placing an email signup form (or two or three) on your blog:
Your potential subscribers—even if they differ across demographics and industries and target audience—are still human. They LOVE free stuff and particularly free stuff that makes them money! Attaching something valuable to your email signup form is a surefire way to pique interest. Basically, give something away for free, for the price of an email address (which we all know is worth way more than free to the site that gets it). Here are a few suggestions.
HubSpot is one of the industry leaders in giveaways (so it’s probably no surprise they’re industry leaders, period). In an article about email list growth, Ginny Soskey shared HubSpot’s two-part view of giving something of value to potential subscribers: "...We suggest starting with two types of free offers. One top-of-the-funnel, educational piece of content like an ebook, and one middle-of-the-funnel offer to let someone speak with your sales team to get a demo or a quote or a free consultation or whatever works for your specific business. By having these two types of offers on your website, you can capture potential leads and convert customers that are in different stages of the buying process...." 5. Keep the subscription link handy Place a lead capture form on every page. But also place it everywhere else that you can. Depending on your email software, there is likely a landing page devoted to acquiring email signups. You can get the link and share it in a huge number of different places like email signatures, social media messages, and guest blog bios. Once you have the link, keep it handy. You never know when you might have a chance to use it. Ryan Hoover has a neat trick for gaining more email signups - he replies to each and every mention on Twitter, often starting a conversation with folks who have shared his content. As part of this conversation, he’ll drop in an offer to sign up for his email list, sending over the direct link to do so. Just as in normal physical selling you CLOSE the sale when you ASK FOR the sale. Gaining optins should be no different. Ask for them. The results: 60 to 80 percent of people convert. 6. Test your messages: Start with social proof Would you be more apt to join an email list if you knew 8,000 other people were already signed up? The concept of social proof says yes, which is why you see many sites advertise the size of their email list on their signup form. Case studies: How the best sites gain signups Now that you’ve seen the many different ways to grow an email list, I’d love to show you how some of the top sites implement these ideas. Here is what I found when browsing around some of my favorite sources of email inspiration. James Clear – 70,000 subscribers Clearly, email is a priority for him!
Help Scout – 60,000 subscribers Help Scout is one of the best at putting focus on an email signup at the home page of their blog. The image above is from the blog landing page. When you navigate deeper into the blog, the subscribe form moves to the sidebar. Also on the main page (and subsequent pages) is an ebook giveaway. The ebook is web-based so you can view the full thing in one click. At the end of the ebook is a call to action to sign up for email updates. Andrew Chen Andrew Chen was one of leaders in implementing the homepage-as-signup-form. His main page has an additional little trick. When you first land on there, the email form is highlighted automatically, and you can start typing your email address without needing to even click. You may also notice that Chen takes a different approach to social proof. He does not advertise the number of subscribers to his list but rather mentions recommendations from Wired magazine and 500 Startups. Michael Hyatt – 115,000 subscribers One of Michael Hyatt‘s secrets to building an incredible list is with giveaways—and probably a good amount of A/B testing. His calls-to-action for downloading a free ebook are really excellent. Social Media Examiner – 250,000 subscribers Much like Hubspot, Social Media Examiner is really good at giving things away. Their homepage has a huge call-to-action to sign up for a free ebook. When you’re scrolling down an individual blog post, you see another CTA—a popup offering instant access to a free video. With events and webinars and many different forms of media, Social Media Examiner has lots of opportunity to appeal to subscribers in many different ways. Which email growth method do you find yourself using? Which methods do you find yourself using to sign up on blogs? What have you used for your own site to attract email subscribers? I’d love to hear from you. WE wish to acknowledge Buffer Blog newsletter. Receive each new post delivered right to your inbox, plus their can’t-miss weekly email of the Internet’s best reads. Sign up here. Want to save an hour a day on your social media management? Buffer can help! Schedule your first post now. Email Marketing Tips This blog post was based on material Written by Kevan Lee - content crafter at Buffer and on many of my own blogs on the subject. I hope that a fresh point of view was helpful and would love to hear what you think. In the meantime, if you are looking for another Giveaway to help build your list and put some nice tidy sums of money in the bank at the same time try these giveaways:- Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program.
Do a little research about the choices of program that you intend to join. Get some answers because they will be the deciding point of what you will be achieving later on. THE COST Will it cost you anything to join? Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. So why settle for those that charge you some dollars before joining. PAYMENT When do they issue the commission checks? Every program is different. Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Select the one that is suited to your payment time choice. Many affiliate programs are setting a minimum earned commission amount that an affiliate must meet or exceed in order for their checks to be issued. HIT PER SALE RATIO What is the hit per sale ratio? This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale. HOW DOES THE MERCHANT KEEP TRACK OF MY SALES? How are referrals from an affiliate’s site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system? You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day. MEASURING MY PERFORMANCE What are the kinds of affiliate stats available? Your choice of affiliate program should be capable of offering detailed stats. They should be available online anytime you decide to check them out. Constantly checking your individual stats is important to know how many impressions, hits and sales are already generated from your site. Impressions are the number of times the banner or text link was viewed by a visitor of your site. A hit is the one clicking on the banner or text links. DOES THE PROGRAM PAY FOR HITS, LEADS OR JUST SALES? Does the affiliate program also pay for the hits and impressions besides the commissions on sales? It is important that impressions and hits are also paid, as this will add to the earnings you get from the sales commission. This is especially important if the program you are in offers low sales to be able to hit ratio. WHO AM I DOING BUSINESS WITH? Who is the online retailer? Find out whom you are doing business with to know if it is really a solid company. Know the products they are selling and the average amount they are achieving. The more you know about the retailer offering you the affiliate program, the easier it will be for you to know if that program is really for you and your site. ONE OR TWO TIERS? Is the affiliate a one tier or two tier program? A single tier program pays you only for the business you yourself have generated. A two tier program pays you for the business, plus it also pays you a commission on the on the sales generated by any affiliate you sponsor in your program. Some two-tier programs are even paying small fees on each new affiliate you sponsor. More like a recruitment fee. HOW MUCH WILL I EARN? Lastly, what is the amount of commission paid? 5% - 20% is the commission paid by most programs. .01% - .05% is the amount paid for each hit. If you find a program that also pays for impressions, the amount paid is not much at all. As you can see from the figures, you will now understand why the average sales amount and hit to sale ratio is important. GO IN WITH EYES OPEN These are just some of the questions that needed answering first before you enter into an affiliate program. You should be familiar with the many important aspects that your chosen program should have before incorporating them into your website. Try to ask your affiliate program choices these questions. These can help you select the right program for your site from among the many available. Get started today and start making money online. ...and check our some of our favourite affiliate products ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE MEANTIME ..... Are you looking for a quick start program that can put nice little amounts of money in your Paypal account almost immediately? Something that will give your "business empire" the Kick Start that it needs? 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China’s 668 million internet users1 spent $589.61 billion (¥3.877 trillion) online in 20152 alone.What’s more, that figure – a 33.3% increase from 20142 – is one that can only go up, considering China’s massive internet user population underwent a growth surge of 40 million new netizens last year.1 Now those stats and numbers are impressive enough to make any marketer’s mouth water. However, for those looking to stake a claim in what the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) describes as a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ market4, knowing the figures just doesn’t cut it. If you’re planning to market to Chinese buyers online, understanding their expectations, consumption patterns, and cultural backgrounds before incorporating these insights to build your online presence makes all the difference. After all, capturing Chinese buyers online is a whole new ball game that would require an eminently different approach. Chinese websites vs. Western websitesThe first thing to understand is that Chinese websites and Western websites are polar opposites in many aspects. In fact, looking at Chinese e-commerce websites, one would think that most Chinese website designers suffer from horror vacui – a “fear of empty space” in Latin. The amount of information crammed into a single page could easily be described as cluttered, chaotic, and even claustrophobic to look at, much less navigate. It’s practically an information overload and a baffling disparity for non-Chinese netizens. This is even more apparent as minimalism is favoured in most advertisings and designs – especially for websites – in the West, and probably most parts of the world. After all, it’s commonly perceived that tasteful understatement appeals more to the taste of the affluent. Not so in China though, where apparently – or at least in terms of websites – less is not always more. Here, we take a look at Sina, one of China’s most popular sites that generated 82 million daily page views and 629 million unique visits in March 2016.5 In the Chinese version of Sina, there are more ads (highlighted in blue). Links dominate and pepper the site as well, while overflowing content is jam-packed into the site. Sina’s English site, however, is a stark contrast. The website looks comparatively cleaner, with more prominent emphasis on photo images. Content also looks less overloaded, with top stories and segments highlighted and better defined. 5 things to know about Chinese websites The side-by-side comparison above reveals the drastic differences to Western portals in terms of layout, content organisation, and functionality that reflect the nuances of the China market – but why? We break down China’s convoluted website user interface (UI) into 5 elements below: #1 Language differences Part of the cluttered feeling stems from the fact that the Chinese language doesn’t have italics or capital letters. This limits opportunities for adding the visual punch that you get with Latin alphabets, making it difficult to create the contrasts required to organise information with type alone. The complex typography of Chinese characters also adds to the chaos, as Latin characters looks comparitively simpler and cleaner. That said, logographic languages, such as Chinese, contain more meaning in fewer characters and less space, while English requires more space to communicate the same message. So, sites tailored to the China market can also take advantage of this difference between the Chinese and the English language. #2 Minimum time, maximum info dissemination Time is money, and this rings truer than ever in China. Thanks to the Great Firewall of China, most Chinese internet users are still plagued with slow loading times and limitations when it comes to international sites. Hence, displaying as much information as possible is vital to retain consumer interest in China, so what may seem to be clutter to you is in fact seen as “content-rich” by Chinese internet users. This is particularly crucial for retail portals, where every second counts when it comes to vying with competitors online to secure their next online customer. Chinese consumers prefer it too, as they want information as easily accessible as possible – this means providing more information or having information aggregated for easy consumption. A good example would be our Juwai.com Chinese Company Pages, where we aggregate all agent's listings together in one place. #3 Assurance and safety Chinese consumers require a high degree of assurance – likely fuelled by the amount of fake or low-quality products in China – before making a purchasing decision. So, while catchy headlines or pretty images are crucial in drawing interest and attention, but it won’t help seal the deal if there is insufficient information to convince Chinese buyers that they’re making a worthy purchase, especially as property is a major financial investment. This is doubly true when it comes to marketing international real estate online to Chinese buyers, most – if not all – who are unfamiliar with overseas markets in a foreign country, as well as its different language and systems, such as legal and banking. In fact, a recent Juwai survey revealed that one of the main reasons Chinese prefer investing in new projects over existing properties abroad is because they perceive newly-built properties to be safer and of higher-quality. To sum it up, this is why the general consensus in China's internet realm is to abide by “the more information, the better results” rule, which brings us back to why Chinese websites are usually information-saturated. Click here for 5 tips to gain trust from your Chinese buyer. #4 Online reflection of China Fact is, Chinese sites very much mirror China’s urban landscape. Walk around a major city in mainland China, and you may very well be overwhelmed by its bright advertisements, bustling boulevards, expansive choice of retail options, and Chinese shoppers swarming around you. Websites designers in China aim to recreate this on Chinese websites, ensuring that every spare inch of space gets used up to mimic a boisterous and frenetic bazaar atmosphere. Not only would it be familiar for Chinese online shoppers, it also helps drive the same buzz and excitement that comes with offline retail therapy experiences, yet with more convenience and discretion from the comfort of their own homes. #5 Digits sometimes play a role From domain names to emails to social media accounts, such as Tencent’s QQ – one of China’s largest instant messaging app – numerical digits are a nifty way to catch Chinese attention in China’s cyberspace. Beyond the fact that Chinese have a penchant for numerology, the numerical system is a universal standard long adopted – and adapted – in China. To Chinese, numbers are something familiar, as opposed to languages using foreign Latin alphabets. Not only are numbers easier for Chinese to remember, but numbers are also homophones or near homophones for certain Chinese words – turning them into quirky and creative wordplays when used alone or combined. The Chinese site URL for Alibaba – China's most prominent e-commerce goliath – is 1688.com, which is pronounced as “Yāo Liù Bā Bā” and is a pretty close match to “Alibaba”. So if you were thinking all those Chinese portals were simply using random numbers, think again. Boost your web appeal to ChineseConsidering 91% of China’s high net worth individuals (HNWIs) go online every day3 – 55% who procure investment information via the internet websites6 – reaching Chinese buyers online is vital. Yet, this is easier said than done when addressing a market that uses a different internet realm behind the Great Firewall of China. For example, while SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is just as important (if not more) in China as other countries, Baidu reigns as the dominating search engine in China, where it has more market share than Google has in the US. As such, SEO and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) rules in China can be very different. In fact, given the vast cultural and language differences between Western and Chinese websites, we're constantly working on Juwai.com's SEO appeal to Chinese consumers, and tailoring our site to meet the needs of this audience for our international real estate clients. That said, we hope what we've shared above has helped you better understand how to tailor your website to effectively capture Chinese buyer attention online, and in return aid you in marketing more successfully to Chinese. However, if you're seeking results but are not IT savvy, sign up now and let us help you on Juwai.com, which not only offers functionality catered to China's massive online population, but also tops Baidu as the leading Chinese-language global property portal with the highest page rank. Sources: 1. China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC); 2. China National Bureau of Statistics; 3. Hurun Report “The Chinese Luxury Consumer Survey 2015”; 4. 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