It's been sometime since I posted here, I've been busy working on Tshirt Scene and Succeed Online. Both sites are fairing well, traffic is still a little slow to pick up with Succeed Online, but its gradually growing every day.

Another new place that has so much potential to help with promoting your online business is the new (8 months or so) social network Hub Pages. HubPages have helped generate traffic to both of my sites, I've written about recipes, my affiliate prgrams, one of them ranks in the first page of google, we all know important this can be. I've learned a few other tricks as well, which is old to some, but a new ground for others, especially if you are starting out. I post everything I learn all on the SO site.

BAOW Moving

After alot of thought and careful consideration I have decided to move BAOW to my main site so it sits in a subdomain. I needed more flexibility with design and blogger, although it has many advantages and uses did not have what I needed.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank people who have supported my venture.

You can the new site here.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions [tshirtscene (at) gmail (dot) com. In the mean time I will leave BAOW just as it is. Part two of modifying a wordpress theme is also finished, tahnks for the many inquiries, it encouraged me to get part two out :).

Merchants and Affiliates - Drive Traffic, Generate Sale's And Earn Cash

If you are a merchant or a web site owner shareasale.com can help you generate sale's and drive potential traffic to your site and earn CASH.

Merchant's sign up to shareasale.com and let affiliate partners find you, promote and sell Your product's on their site for a percentage of the sale. Below is what shareasale.com has to offer merchant's.

"Increase Your Sales - Develop A Trusted Sales Force"

Performance Marketing is one of the most powerful and effective customer acquisition tools available to an online merchant. You decide the commission structure to pay - and only pay when results come in. With a program managed by Shareasale.com, you enable our network of highly motivated sales experts to promote your products to all of their visitors - through websites, email newsletters, and loyal customer bases. You can choose to setup your program to pay on a percentage of a sale (pay-per-sale), a pay-per-lead basis (PPL or CPA), or a pay-per-click.

Drive more traffic to your online store using performance based marketing.

Affiliate's sign up free, find merchants who you want to partner with and promote and sell product's to earn cash. Below is what shareasale.com has to offer affiliate member's.

"Real Time Reporting And On Time Payments"

There are currently over 2,000 Merchants plugged in to the Shareasale.com network. Each of these merchants has a different type of product that they are selling - and each is ready to give you a commission on that sale if you bring a customer to them. The idea - and the implementation - are simple. You decide which merchants to promote - your information is hidden to Merchants before you apply for any program - so no SPAM for you. You decide how to promote that Merchant - using your web traffic, email newsletters and other tools that you have. When commissions are generated, you can see your stats in real-time. All payments are consolidated from the programs you participate in, and are paid with one check by Shareasale.com. All payments from Merchants are taken up-front, to ensure that your commissions will always be paid to you.

Let shareasale.com find sales leads for you. Only pay when it works!

I'm using shareasale.com at Tshirt Scene.com. The two affiliate partners I found are top class. Join shareasale.com today and start promoting!

Agloco - View Bar

You must have heard about Agloco by now, I wrote an article about them earlier explaining how they work. Here's a little reminder. Agloco is one of the fastest money making programs on the net, you get paid to surf the web this is one opportunity you do not want to miss.

The release of their viewbar is only days away. Agloco are in the final stages of testing getting their ad servers to "talk" properly to each other. Previously they had stated the window for the viewbar to be released was April 2nd-16th, that time has passed, but the good news is the bar is still on target to be released this month (April). I'll post here again when I get my email to download and tell you how I find the bar.

To join Agloco follow this link.

SFI

SFI is another referral type site with a little more know how than the rest. In my opinion they are slightly ahead of most in that they have a complete resource list and learning materials for you to look through and learn from, for free, there is also no cost to join and nor will you be asked as a member to pay later for joining them.

Here is what I think makes them different. One, they have products for you to promote (and no they aren't ebooks) you can include these products with your already exisiting webiste/store that you sell or from your brick and mortar business. Two, they encourage you to get to know the person you signed up under so they can mentor you, no other program that I have joined works like this, of course you don't have to do this but as we are all starting to find out social communites are playing a huge part in how we market our e-business modules.

They offer a whole range of different types and styles of promotional items that you can use with your brick and mortar business or for your web site. Easy to follow tutorial type lessons on everything from marketing to getting a website running.

The information value alone on this site is worth just signing up for even if you don't decide to promote any products. You can promote PSA's (Personaly Sponsored Affiliates) this means people who sign up under you.

To join follow this link.

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Tshirt Scene.com is going better than expected which I'm very pleased about. It fully validates with xhtml "This Page is Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!"

So far this week Amazon and Bantam Apparel are new affiliates which have been added to the already growing variety of Tshirts and products with another two more in the pipeline. All are excellent affiliate choices with an awesome range of Tshirts to suit everyone. One of the two affiliates that maybe added over the next week or two is an art/abstract style site and the Tshirts are exceptional, really looking forward to having those on offer at Tshirt Scene.

While I'm here I want to say thank you to the many people who have helped make Tshirt Scene get off the ground and those of you who took the time to look the site over and give me advice, this includes all the MyLot community as well, and a big thank you to those of who bought through the affiliates it means alot to me, so again thank you.

Home Based Business: ideas

The Internet is going through constant enhancement and development. It's user base are becoming "web savvy entrepreneurs" where working a 9-5 job is quickly becoming that thing of the past.

There are many successful home based business idea's that will succeed if you are willing to put effort into it. Your home based business will fail if all you do is throw up a website and add a bunch of links to it, you need to drive traffic to your business, traffic is equivalent to sales.

Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs can be an ideal way to make your website profitable. There is a huge range of affiliate programs out there to suit your needs as well as your website. Product is what people are looking for and content is what keeps customers coming back. Choose a product (s) that you are interested in, it is always best that you are passionate about your product, even if it is a services that you are selling. If you are excited about your product this will translate across to your customers through the content you offer on your website. Look for affiliate programs that you are interested in and sell it!

For me, tshirt's are something that I have collected for many years. I love design, colour, logo's, slogans and captions. Tshirt's can be abstract, wearable art, have family pictures on them and changed to suit moods, thoughts, religion just about any emotion you are feeling. Tshirt's set a scene, hence why I started tshirtscene.com. It's content driven and offers an array of tshirts for all tastes, and is growing everyday. To make any online business or affiliate program work for you, you must put in effort. That old saying is true, " you reap what you sow."

Tshirt Sites

• Tshirt Scene
• Tshirt Hell
• Split Reason
  
• Deezbrand Tshirts
• Ice Tshirt's
  

Affiliate

• Tshirt Hell

Click any of the sites above to become affiliated with them and list their products on your website or use email links, remember read each site's terms of service before signing up.


Freelance Jobs

Are you an expert in your field? Offer your services and make yourself stand out from the crowd, what is it that you do better than anyone else. Are you a musician, or architect? you can build your business around what you know. There are many online sites that let you advertise or list your resume for free. Try google the keywords "freelance jobs" without quotes, and see what results you get.

1. Results 1 - 10 of about 35,500,000 for freelance jobs. (0.08 seconds) - with keywords "freelance job"
2. Results 1 - 10 of about 1,860,000 for freelance jobs musician. (0.16 seconds) - more specific and narrowed search using keywords "freelance jobs musicians"
   

• Freelance Job Search
• All Freelance - directory
• Guru

Article Writing

Everyone is good at something, there are a number of people who are qualified to be article writers. Content is key to keeping your readers coming back time and time again. There are many companies who are willing to pay for quality content, this is key to having visitors return to your website. A popular way for article writers to make money is through blogs. blogs allow writers to add fresh content, optimize keywords and promote services or products.

If blogs aren't your style there are many other sites that will pay your for articles, some you can choose your own price to sell and others will pay you a flat rate.

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The above are some of the more popular home based business ideas for you to work with. There are many more opportunities available, all you need is to put in the effort and you will succeed. Find your passion and you will exceed even your own expectation.

Further Resources

Amazon have some amazing books on how to get your home based bussiness up and running.
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