One of the questions I get from students and people just making enquiries, is “I Need Money Fast” will eBay etc give me monet at the end of week. Now while we know this is possible and can prove it time after time, there is no guarantee. How many times, have we listed something expecting it to sell like it always does and it just sits there doing nothing. So hand on heart I could not say yes to that question. But then they say so it does’t work then does it. You just need to smile and explain to them that it does and then show them it takes time to build your new business up.

But what about that question I Need Money Fast well in the past I have said give it time, but recently I have re-visted that question and asked myself is there another way I can tell them to help them out. Yes they could get a loan, but that is not a good idea or very fair to them. And then it struck me………………………………………………………..

If they need fast money and they were willing to work there was another way that would put money in their pockets the day they wanted it, and to be fair again this works for anyone. So what was this idea, well like I said it takes work, but at the end of the day, you will be rewarded with money in your pocket.

@ Washing Cars – I know not a posh job, but if you were prepared to work hard you could put some serious money in your pocket and at the end of the week be a happy person and with very little outlay

@ Baby sitting – Yes work, some late nights, but money in your pocket

@ Window cleaning – Again people want windows cleaned, with people eager to hand you money.

I know this is a far cry from Internet Marketing and eBay, but if you Need Fast Money there is no better way.

Welcome back to this mini series called “The Power Of Articles”. By now I hope you have written a few articles and feel happy with them. You are now ready to submit them, one of the best places to submit them to is ezinearticles.com. This is the leading article directory and contains thousands of articles on hundreds of niches.

Before you go ahead and submit you will need to sign up, this a free process and should not take you many minutes. Once you have joined can I suggest, that you go and take a look at some of the articles in the same niche as you are writing, this is to give you a feel for what other people are writing, and will show you if you are thinking along the same lines. But please never copy articles that others have written, but you can use them to give you ideas.

So when you are ready to see “The Power Of Articles” in action, follow the simple guide lines and submit that first article. Now a word of warning here, ezinearticles use real people to look at your rticles and it can take upto a week for them to go live, but as you submit more, and more the waiting time does get shorter. Now they do a paid service as well which offer faster submission times but to start with just stick with the free program.

Also I need to warn you, the first few articles may be rejected but the editor who rejected them will tell you why, follow what they say, and they will be accepted next time round, it is a learn process, one that is fun, for you will see, the power of articles in every day action as each one you write drives more traffic to your websites.

Once you have mastered ezinearticles there are many more directories you can submit to, but for now just stick with ezinearticles, and over the next week or so, I will put out a list of the top directories that do work and will produce “The Power Of Articles” in your business. Good Luck and have fun.

Over the years we all have heard the importance of setting goals, and I can tell you from my own personal experience that setting goals does work. Yes at times you may need to find tune them, but there is real Power in the setting of goals. And to try and show you why it is so important, I found this short video that I hope will show you, The Power Of Setting Goals

As we start to sell online we are all eager to learn more about selling and marketing. This is more import when we sell into niches which are very popular. Someone I have known for sometime has written a book all about selling books on eBay Now before you think yo your self   “Oh I have seen all there is to about selling books on eBay and online”, I want you to stop for a few minutes and re-think.

The author of this fantastic book (yes it is a real book) has been selling books on and off line for a good number of years. Henry Neff has written a very in depth book, there are 91 pages full of very useful content and takes both the newbie person, right through to someone who has been selling books on eBay for a number of years, no one is left out.

The book is broken down into easy practical sections, and covers everything from : How to grade your books, through to how to write good titles and discriptions, and how to keep track of your stock, plus loads in between. The big difference with this book is that it has been written by someone who is selling books daily on eBay, so he knows what works and does not work. So if you are serious about selling books on eBay you need to treat your self to this book, and I promise you will not de disappointed.

So you have read and seen the how the power of articles, can drive large amounts of traffic to your site, and you feel this is something that you want to have a go at for your yourself. Well using articles is one of the fastest and quickest ways of driving traffic to your website or choosen page. Now notice how I have said choosen page, with articles you can take people right to where you want them to go.

There are many article directories that are out there, but at the moment two of the best ones are ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com, both these sites work in the same way but they do have some differences to the links that you can put in your articles and where you can put them. To find out about these links you are far better to look on the site as they do change the rules from time to time.

Once you have decided to use the power of articles in your business, you need to start to come up with some headings, how I work and how others I know who use the power of articles in their marketing sit down for around 30 minustes each week and just write out a list of headings that they would like to write about. You need to start your clock and just write list after list for 30 minutes, do not stop……………. and when the 30 minutes is up, you should have a good list of subjects you would like to cover.

Next you need to start to write, how long you take is upto you, but once you have been doing this for a few weeks, you should be able to write a 300 word article in around twenty minutes or so. Again when you are writing these articles you need to just write for a solid time period that you have set. Do not stop, just write and write. Once you have compeleted your time frame, stop and go back and do edits and when you are happy you should be ready to subit to the ezine directories.

I shall be covering this last part in more detail in future postings as this is the most important part and if you get it wrong your articles will not produce the traffic and could get you banned and if this happens you will never see the power of articles in your marketing and business.

If you are an online seller or Internet Marketer, in the past one of the major draw backs is the fact that your life worked around computers and being connected to the internet. Over time we went from dial up modems, to cable and broadband, then there was WiFi so we could work around our homes or in the garden if the weather was nice enough, life was good.

Over time we had WiFi connections in hotels so if we had to be away from from home we could still work when in a hotel, then it hapened Costa Coffee, and other cafe’s offered us free WiFi, Macdonalds followed so whilst we were eating our food we could surf the Internet, then local pub’s got in on the act so whilst you had a pint you go go on the internet – this Wifi proved a big hit with the pub quiz fans !!!

But there was still a major problem for the people who were online sellers and internet marketers, yes we had all these WiFi places where we could surf the internet, our laptops had longer battery life thanks to modern day inventions, but……………………… our files and stuff were all stored on our main computer at home. Yes we had portable disk drives and flash drives, but these would not always have the files we needed then and there.

Then came Cloud Computing or as I like to call it Up In The Clouds. Companies such as Amazon, Google, and a range of other companies now offer free or cheap file storage up in the clouds (remote servers). These allow you to keep a back up away from where you work and off your computer. This Cloud Storage is good as you always have a back up in case the worst should happen, but it also allows you to access files anywhere in the world where you can access a computer and the Internet.

It will do automatic back up’s thus if you work from a main computer say at home and then a laptop when out of the office, you can update a file on your laptop and as long as you have internet connection, next time you access the file from your desktop computer the new updated file will be there.

So please take a go and get Up In The Clouds and will suddenly find a new freedom in your business.

If you have been around the world of Internet Marketing for sometime you will have heard people talk about articles and the power of articles, when used to promote their business. To start this kind of series off I just want to talk to you about the power of articles and how they can build your business.

Article Marketing has been around well before the internet was ever thought of, it is nothing new, and if you think back over the years, how often have you read in a magazine or newspaper and article about some product or subject and thought to yourself that is what I have been looking for, or that article has just helped me make my mind up about buying that product.

Articles are written by all types of people and from all walks of life, but there is one thing in common between all these article writers. They are writing out of an expierience they have had, or from knowedge they have gained. So does this mean you can only write in areas you know…………… ? Well the answer to that is yes and no. Yes you do need to know about the niche or subject you are writing about, but the other side of the coin is. You need to know how to write so people and can understand and then do some research, and soon you will be able to write articles on almost any subject.

Articles are not meant to be long, the ideal length is between 250 – 500 words, by sticking to this length you can give people the bare bones on the title and then if you know more you can write a series of articles. Also if you keep your articles to this length, other people can use them in their own publications for free……………. yes free.

Let me show you a quick example on how the The Power Of Articles can work – You come up with a title, then you write a 250 – 500 word article using the keyword you are writing about. The you submit them to sites such as ezinearticle or goarticles, these article directories will then publish them all for free. Now here is where the Power of articles comes in. On the bottom of all your articles is a bio box this tells people who you are and has a link to your website.

When people publish your article online or offline, they have to include your bio and link. So let us say that an article you wrote is chosen by several online publishers and they have a readership of 250,000 suddenly your article is appearing in front of all these people and if you wrote a good one, some will click on your link to your website and some will buy. Now just think if you wrote just one article a week, after a year that is 52 articles………………….. That is the Power Of Articles.

Other other posts I wll cover more helpful hints and tips on how to use articles in your marketing and I hope show you the Power Of Articles.

Let me ask you a question……………. A baby is born, now does the Mum expect her few hour baby to eat a full roast dinner and walk round the house and garden, hours after they wee born ? No

A puppy or kitten is born and they have their eyes closed tight fr around 10 days, again do they eat real food and runs around ?… No !!!

A child grows and learns and they move from milk, onto sieved food, then toto soft food then onto proper food. They learn to crawl, then take those small baby steps and then they learn to walk and run. The same goes for their learning they take small steps all the time.

So……………………………………….. Why do we expect our own business to go from a standing start to making millions in a few days. I am afraid it is going to take weeks and even years of hard work, some failures and some successes, but with each failure you will learn what not to do, and move one step ahead to having a successful business.

As in life, you might get some early successes but please do not expect these and if these happen in your early days of business it is like the icing on the cake. Building you online or offline business will take time, but that is part of the fun of having a business. Yes it takes time, but hey just think a few years down the road you can look back at those early days, and you will be able to say to yourself and others I have done it, I have built my own successful business, yes it took me time and energy, but I have won and now I am free. So it is worth it to take the time to build a successful business.

If you are semi serious or or full time seller on eBay there will come a time when you need to do eBay Research . Now there are several different ways in which this eBay research can be done.

The first way is the old fashioned way where you go through listings, see what is sold, then you get word on the street and from family and friends, and then you take a deep breath and buy your items. Now yes this has worked in the past and will still work in the years to come when you sell on sites such as eBay, but you are taking a great risk, and this risk could cost you everything.

The second and easier way of doing your eBay Research is by using research tools like the one from TeraPeak . This research tool gives you vast information – the best day and time to list your items, the best section to list the item in, and as well as all of this data it gives you what they call sell through information. Now this is worth your monthly fee on it’s own. This sell through data from eBay will tell you straight away if your item will sell or not. For instance if it has a sell through rate of 2% it has little chance of selling, but if it has a sell through rate of 95% then you stand a good chance of selling your stock.

But as with anything you do need to test this eBay Research Tool from Terapeak but over the years I have been using it, it has never let me down, or my clients down, go on and give it a go.

Well another Sunday is here and I have found this powerful video to help you end your weekend and set yourself up for the weekend.

At time we all feel defeated, but please do not give up on your dreams and goals. Watch this video and then take action and as it shows you in the video it will hurt, it will take all you have, but the results will be well worth it.