Monday, October 31, 2005

Thursday, October 27, 2005

The email Blues

I wonder how people cope on the net who are making a living from selling their services to others. Do they get up like me at 6 in the morning and start sorting through the 2000 or 3000 emails they have got after submitting their site to a search engine software program. Or they made the mistake of putting their company email address in an article they just wrote and now have to sort through 200 miles of spam.

Yes I've made this mistake a few times lately was tired and forgot my golden rule whenever I submit an article to be published or subscribe to a mailing list use my alternative addresses. Well its not all bad news a funny thing happened to me the other day I used my hotmail address in an article and got a message that so and so wanted authorization for me to add them so I did . Next thing I've got these two obviously drunk ladies on vid camera telling me that they wanted some of my products but didn't have any cash and would I be willing to trade . I asked her what goods she had and she then whipped out her breasts and said these . I said lovely product line you got there but I have to get my purchases approved by my wife as we are on a budget. Well anyway I wont go into details but lets just say I haven't laughed so hard for ages .

Anyway im getting off topic here I promised in a early post that id talk about my experiences in trading on the net i've just gotten my first pay check from an affiliate I signed up with nearly two months ago and I was pleasantly surprised usually takes a few months for them to be paying what I consider to be reasonable returns. I've put some details about some of the programs I've joined since being an online trader . I think at last count I had tried close to 700 different ones . I put a couple of my top performers on my main trader site and well as some that don't perform as well but they are worth having for the free exposure to a large audience. If you'd like to learn more then feel free to visit my site www.nzpcs.co.nz

MrMomoney

MrMomoney I've just started looking into drop shipping for my computer company found some amazing deals with suppliers who are overstocked including a number of companies that were prepared to do drop shipping to New Zealand on 90 days credit!!!. I have to admit the internet truly has made the commodities market a global one. I purchased a great tool from one of my affiliate companies a while back a broad band phone adapter that allowed me to program the area code and country code into it so my overseas callers could call me for the same charge as making a local call. I think this is going to turn out to be one of the best investments I've made to date. I mean the net is great for finding contacts / suppliers but you still can't beat the personal touch of a phone call, or the convenience of being able to phone as not everyone is on the net 24/7.

Anyway if you like some more details about this product or other great communication deals then feel free to visit my site http://www.nzpcs.co.nz

Thats all for now folks .

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Saved by the bell .

Trading www style. Some insight from those many hours of going down the seemly endless road to to prosperity on the net

Our company was primarly a supplier of computer hardware and telecommunications products. However through our online dealing with overseas and local companies we came across or were offered to participate in several e type business opportunities. We also tried a variety of sites including auctions and communities as well as notice boards and forums. Anywhere we could think of to get our name out there.In doing so we came across a number of sites where we could actually earn revenue while advertising our business and some of them were so automated it involved very little input from us.

So we decided to investigate this further and started taking part in online surveys ,research and focus groups and joining affiliate programs thats how this site www.nzpcs.co.nz came into existance .We ended up with a tangle of sites and links all going different places and decided to centralise the ones that were bringing in the best returns. Also some of them didn't fit in with our core business and made our main site look unprofessional .So we grouped what we considered the better ones not always by the dollar value they returned .As the points we earned in auctions were worth a lot more for advertising than the money we could convert them into and gave us access to large numbers of users that were looking for the same things we provided..

Our experiance showed us that in a lot of cases the more incentive that the sites offered to use their services the less we would get back in return traffic or gains. We made it a rule of thumb to check out any lead that showed itself on multiple search engines and also to make the sites to investigiate a higher priority if they didn't spam or send multiple emails basically just rewording the same offer based on the principle if their product was so good and the offer and returns true they wouldn't need to resort to these tactics to get more sign ups.

All in all its been an interesting venture to date sometimes frustrating, full of highs and lows when we felt we hit the jackpot only to find we were heading down scam city road. I personally avoid any sites that guarantee you set incomes of unrealistic returns or where you are getting in on the end of a trend. Money back warranties when they said they'd make you 1000s in a short period of time. (if they did, why would you want your money back is beyond me ). Anyway I hope our experiance is some value to you or helped to give you an insight to the many opportunities on the net I shy away from dodgy ventures as I believe Karma has a way of biting you back in the butt. Anyway good luck to all with your ventures with persistance and thought through research I feel there really can be a pot of gold at the end of the internet rainbow.