Friday, January 02, 2009

How to Make Money Online in 09


The growth of the Internet is phenomenal and its propensity to create moneymaking ventures at home, shop, or office is equally staggering.

There is a ton of advice around on how to get started and here are some of the core questions newcomers invariably ask:

· How does one go about launching such a business?
· Where do you begin?
· What about start up costs?
· What about operating expenses?
· How do you research the cyberspace marketplace?
· Where do you find saleable produce?
· Is it better to stick with one offer or hedge your bets with several?
· What are the available options for promotion?
· How do you create an internet marketing strategy?
· Can you harness the power of social media to foster online sales?
· Can you expand an offline business online?
· Do you need to be experienced to succeed or can anyone participate?
· Which levels of internet expertise are required?

Can you really make money online in 09 from home, shop or office?

Yes, you can, but how much will be governed by how well you apply yourself to preparation and how seriously you take your enterprise once you are up and running.

Making money online is a whole new way of life that can be as exciting as it is rewarding.


Sunday, November 02, 2008

Money Tree Challenge Video


I have created a little video outlining my new iniative.

Please spare 90 seconds to watch it on this page...

Friday, October 31, 2008

My Money Tree Challenge


I’m setting myself a challenge to grow my own virtual money tree and in the process attempt to amass $30,000 in 30 days.

Will I make it?

I don’t know for sure…

But I shall be giving it the full welly!

Here is where you can see what I'm up to...

Jim Green

Friday, October 10, 2008

How to Write a Book, Get it Published, and Turn it Into a Bestseller

This 90-second video will give you a glimpse of what it takes to write a book, get it published, and turn it into a bestseller.

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Saturday, October 04, 2008

How’s this for inspiration?


One of my Facebook friends, 81 year-young Barbie Smith, self-published her first book some months ago and wrote to me expressing her determination to see it successfully promoted.

Following self generated book signings in Newbury and Southampton she has just received news from major UK book chain Waterstones that they have authorised all of their stores to retail her book.

What Barbie has accomplished is nothing short of stupendous.

She is a shining example to all embryo authors that neither the advancing years nor any other perceived obstacle present a barrier to success.

Incidentally, in her most recent communication, Barbie advised me that she has started work on her next book – and that’s before she heard the good news from Waterstones…

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Now Live - Paperback Writer - 7 Days Only


I am releasing PDF versions of 10 of my top-selling novels/novellas at a fraction of the paperback price - but for 7 days only…

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Jim Green’s 77th Birthday Bonanza Blitz!


August 11 - 18

It’s all the 7s for 7 days; my 77th birthday, and because 7 has always been my lucky number, I am blitzing the prices of 7 of my top-selling products – but for 7 days only...August 11-18.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Join Me at Facebook’s Watercolor Workout


So encouraging was the uptake on my previous invitation I am asking you to come join me and another ever-increasing group of enthusiasts…

Watercolor Workout is your gateway to a massive resource center focusing on all matters relating to watercolor painting.

Could you really paint your first watercolor this coming weekend?

Yes, you could, and my unique digital instruction kit will show you how!

You will rapidly discover that watercolor painting is not only enjoyable but highly addictive.

When you’ve completed the first picture to your own personal satisfaction, you will want to crack on and paint several more…

First though, let me tell you a little about why I developed this kit.

By profession I am an established author with a string of bestselling traditionally published books to my bow, and when I’m not writing...

I produce watercolor sketches by the score for pure pleasure – and I would like to assist you to do the same.

My kit will empower you to paint watercolors even if you are a complete beginner; even if you cannot draw a straight line without recourse to a ruler.

Watercolor sketches (or doodles as I call them) are my favorite because they take less time to produce but I even so I still manage to knock out full scale paintings when the mood is on me.

* Watercolor painting is therapeutic
* Watercolor painting is relaxing
* Watercolor painting is fulfilling
* Watercolor painting is fun
* Watercolor painting is inexpensive

And drawing on my own experience, I shall be releasing at regular intervals informative snippets on the disparate aspects of painting in watercolors.

Please do accept my invitation to join this group…

Have a look, and if you like what you see, join in at no charge (ever).

If you don’t already have a Facebook account you will require to rectify that first - add me as a friend on Facebook; then join the group…

Jim Green

PS: As my thank-you gift, feel free to download your personal copy of “Watercolor Workbook” including exclusive painting assignments to get you started straightaway.

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Join Me at Creative Writers Hangout



Come join me and an ever-increasing group of enthusiasts…

The Creative Writers Hangout is your gateway to a massive resource center focusing on all matters relating to authorship, literature, theatre, poetry, film, television, competitions, etc.

Whatever your specific requirements you will find the answers secreted within this dazzling miscellany of creative riches.

Moreover (and in line with my own specific field of creative endeavor) I shall be releasing at regular intervals informative snippets on the disparate aspects of writing general fiction and niche non-fiction.

Please do accept my invitation to join this group…

You will find it useful whether you are an established writer or just starting out with aspirations to eventual authorship.

Have a look, and if you like what you see, join in at no charge (ever).


If you don’t already have a Facebook account you will require to rectify that first - then join the group…

Jim Green

PS: As my thank-you gift, feel free to download an intriguing new report “How to Release the Bestseller Trapped in Your Mind” .

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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It releases on Tuesday 27 May but as a valued subscriber you can obtain a sneak pre-launch live preview right now.
Revealed in the Elite Creative Writing Course is hitherto undisclosed material that has always remained steadfastly in my private domain - until now.
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To your success as a published author…

Saturday, May 03, 2008

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Thursday, April 24, 2008

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Using Social Networking to
Sell Creative Writing


Can you really do this; use social marketing to sell your creative writing output?

I don’t know for sure yet but I will have an answer in the coming months.

You see, I am about to embark on an exercise using social networking exclusively to supplement the publisher’s launch of the 5th edition of my first bestselling book.

“Starting Your Own Business” (ISBN 9781845283124) first hit the bookshelves way back in 1994. It has had four editions to date and countless reprints. On the age-old concept of, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, the content has remained unchanged over the intervening years save for updating in the shape of additional topical inclusions.

Here is the gist of my plan of implementation to boost sales through social networking:

SOCIAL MARKETING

I will use these core channels deploying events and promotions by way of articles and videos where appropriate.

Facebook
MySpace
Squidoo
Hub Pages
YouTube
Bebo
Daily Motion
Hi5
Gather
Yahoo 360

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

My social marketing activity will be bounced onto these equally core bookmarking channels.

Propeller
Slashdot
Digg
Technorati
Delicious
StumbleUpon
Twitter
Reddit
Fark
Newsvine
Furl
Swik
Connotea
Sphinn
Blinklist
Faves
Mister-Wong
Spurl
Diigo

This engagement with social networking might be paralleled to acquiring permission to advertise on the BBC - but here’s a better analogy; a strategic social networking campaign in full throttle resembles a motorised fountain whose powerful engine emits jets of cascading water spiralling in every direction.

The comparison ends there though.

The effect of the physical fountain is imprecise and scattergun in delivery; the effect of virtual social networking is precise and objective as its outpouring streams hit multiple pre-determined targets plumb centre; targets from which it enthusiastically bounces onto associated website(s).

How will I know if my engagement with social networking bears fruit?

Here’s how. Because the book has already been through four editions I know what to expect by way of initial uptake from the publisher’s own launch promotion. Anything extra on this occasion will be down to social networking.

I’ll let you know how I go in a subsequent post…

JIM GREEN is a bestselling author in the realms of fiction and non-fiction.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

How to Become a Star in
The Social Networking Game


Social networking is all about value and respect. If you provide good value, you will get respect … and traffic. If you provide questionable - or negative - value, then the members of social networking websites will conclude that you have a lack of respect for them. They’ll either ignore you or ride you out of town on a rail.

So what is “questionable or negative value”? Simple: affiliate links or any other kind of self-promotion. When you join a social networking group and start posting affiliate links, you have just shot yourself in the head. No one will trust you. No one will respect you. Your website will get no traffic. And nobody is going to buy from any of your affiliate links.

OK. So what is “good value”? Simple: valuable information or tools that you give away free of charge. When you join a community and provide “good value”, you are seen as a person who gives good value. So you are respected. If you’re new at this, then your first task is to do a lot of Googling to find valuable information and tools that you can give away free to others in your community. Compile a large list … it’ll come in handy.

The best thing you can do is to actually ask people in the community what they really need. Or listen when they talk to others about it. Then figure out a way to give them what they want. You will gain their trust and respect, which is way more valuable long-term than any affiliate commission you might miss out on today.

Your heart must be pure. Your intention must be to help, to provide value (that word again!). People will trust you when they see that you are genuine, honest, & transparent. But they start out suspicious, because they’ve been burned before. If they think your intention is to do whatever you have to do in order to trick them into buying your stuff, they will know. And they won’t like it. They will beat on you, and they’ll tell anyone who’ll listen what a jerk you are.

On the other hand … if you care, if you bring value to your Facebook community, if you help people, then they will trust you. And they will follow you. You can build long-term relationships with people who will be happy to see you succeed … and may often help … because they like you and they trust you.

Social networking is not advertising. On these social websites, trust is supreme. Blatant advertising kills trust. Providing true value creates trust. And once you have made the connection that creates trust, it’s a natural move for them to go to your website, because they like you and want to know more about you.

That is how to become a star in the social networking game.

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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Are You Struggling to
Make Money Online?

Things are not as they were online; new entrants are coming aboard every day with doubtful sales pitches that are making regular buyers wary about parting with hard-earned cash.

Perhaps you sell your own personally developed produce or act as an affiliate for someone else’s - or perhaps you’re new to online marketing and looking for a route to legitimate earnings.

Either way it is becoming more and more difficult…

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Social Marketing Nutshell


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Devising a route that meets your specific needs
Why you must never treat social marketing as sales tool
How to make social media work for you spectacularly
Creating a compelling presence in MySpace, Facebook, Squidoo, etc
How to use bookmarking links to your ultimate advantage
How and why you must exploit RSS feeds
How to ensnare friends and colleagues to your social sites
Why adding a forum pays off big time
Why you don’t need a camera for how-to video production
Why sharing your photographs around captures visitors
How to use blogs to drive traffic to your core website
How to ensure that your blogs and websites zoom up the rankings
How social media enhances your reputation as an expert

Friday, March 21, 2008

Introducing the Social Marketing Nutshell


Social marketing is everywhere these days, spreading like a gargantuan virus that touches everyone online…small wonder...look at the facts:

Social media giant Facebook is currently adding 1,000,000 25+ (non-student) adults per week to their rosters - that's 52 million new users a year...

YouTube.com gets over 50 million unique visitors per month... over half a billion a year...

MySpace.com sees over 49 million unique visitors each month - over 1.6 million a day...

That’s a stack of traffic and the social websites (there are 1500 of them) are currently outstripping Google and Yahoo in visitor attraction.

You can tap into this swarm of ever-growing enthusiasm if you know how but you will flounder and sink if you don’t…

Perhaps you’ve already had a stab at social marketing but gave up because it looks too difficult; perhaps the outrageous price tags scared you off.

You are not alone. Some months ago I chanced upon a social media training site with a discounted price point of $1300 but I lost interest halfway down the page because the gobbledygook sales pitch made it seem like an impossible dream.

I decided there and then to do it the hard way; research social media marketing from A to Z, carve out my own succinct solution, and put it to the test - with spectacular success - as you can witness for yourself by clicking on this link...

Monday, March 17, 2008

How Meeting Betty Grable
Spawned a Book Idea


There’s a line in a famous 1970s pop song composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka that goes something like, ‘I never met you Betty Grable’

Well, unlike Neil Sedaka, I did, several times over, and on the first occasion I got to shake hands with the 1940s icon which was an enormous thrill for a long time fan.

So, what’s shaking hands with Betty Grable got to do with writing?
Just this: I got to thinking about that momentous first meeting the other evening and it galvanized my brain into sketching out an outline for a new book, something I should have done years ago; something that’s been languishing in my subconscious for eons.

You see, I met many famous people when I travelled the world as a publicist from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Apart from the delightful Betty G there were chance encounters with Rory Calhoun (Betty’s partner at the time), Frank Sinatra, George Raft, Stan Kenton, Dolores Del Rio, Fess Parker (Davy Crockett), Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Mike Sarne, and dozens more.

Oh yeah, (can I hear you say?) anyone could make a claim like that.

That’s true, anyone could, but could they also provide photographic evidence of each and every meeting; like pictures of the luminaries and me together?

That is the essential difference; I can…

So, considering that the majority of these famous people are now either dead or forgotten, will I get my book published by a traditional house?

Yes, I will.

No.

What it will do though is provide me with a sense of fulfilment and at the same time knock out sales of a few thousand copies in the nostalgia niche.

The secret lies in stringing together a chain of offbeat events with a similar pattern - and it occurs in everyone’s life.

Could you come up with such a pattern from your own lifetime experiences?

Think about it – there could be a book in it.

PS: The little girl in the picture sitting beside Betty back in April 1968 is my daughter Stacy (age 5)...

Friday, March 14, 2008

Ways To Earn Extra Income
Using the Internet

It's no secret that the quickest and by far most satisfying way to earn extra income is from where you are right now: online. And it isn't nearly as difficult as some people would have you believe.

For a start, you do not need to invest in the expensive paraphernalia touted mercilessly by so-called gurus: glitzy, high ticket, over-priced, all-singing, all-dancing concoctions of videos, audios, workshops, workbooks, phone-ins, talk-ins, mutual backslapping and suchlike theatricality.

All you really need to get started is a plan; a well constructed marketing plan such as you would use in any offline commercial scenario.

Rushing around willy-nilly to find success online will get you nowhere. No matter how hard you try you won’t find it that way, but do all the right things in the right order and success will find you.

QUESTIONS TO ASK IN THE FORMATION OF YOUR PLAN

1. What is my mission?
2. Will I stay local?
3. Will I go global?
4. Which type of website will I need?
5. What about a domain name?
6. What sort of offline activity will I engage in to promote my site?
7. How much should I set aside for start up costs?
8. How should I budget my time?
9. Is my core aim incremental income?
10. Do I want to expand in other areas?
11. Will I use the internet to establish an image?
12. How important to me is acquiring expert status in my niche?
13. Will I engage in marketing digital produce?
14. Will I be using electronically generated vouchers?
15. Will I use the internet to deliver superior customer service?
16. Will I use it to foster loyalty among my existing clientele?
17. Will I set in motion an online system for monitoring my competition?
18. Will I be sourcing new merchandise online?
19. Will I use online research to track market trends?
20. Will I use it to source new or additional suppliers?
21. Will I be offering an online ordering service?
22. Will I set up a free newsletter and solicit subscriptions?
23. Will I use video and if so, how will I use it?

There will be other questions you will want to add to this list and only you can come up with the answers; answers that will add flesh to the bones of your plan.

MOVING INTO OVERDRIVE

When the foundations of your marketing plan have been set in position you will be ready to move into overdrive in your endeavors to earn extra income online. You will be applying the nuts and bolts of your plan to evolve your own personal definitive marketing funnel.

LANDING PAGES – You will design landing (or squeeze) pages to collect reams of names and email addresses.

LIST BUILDING – You will build your own lists of responsive subscribers for catalytic fertility.

AUTORESPONDERS – You will have several of these to cope with your burgeoning promotional activities.

EMAIL – You will have several dedicated email addresses linked to your autoresponders.

DIGITAL PRODUCE – You will become expert at creating your own ever-growing stream of digital products and services.

SALES PAGES – You will learn how to compose sizzling sales letters to have prospects reaching for their credit cards.

PRODUCT LAUNCH – You will become adept at orchestrating perfect product launches.

MEMBERSHIP SITE – You will in time convert your existing website into a Membership Hub and attract ongoing online income.

UPGRADING – You will in tandem upgrade your initial produce to explode your sales.

FOLLOW UP – You will follow up forever on both your mushrooming prospects and confirmed buyers.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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