It has taken me a while to get the hang of the configuration and model but at long last, I have this site configured as a membership site. Postings here on the blog will continue. Most of the posts will point you to the content within the membership areas.

Basic membership is free and will give you access to files, articles etc to help you learn internet marketing. Once in the membership area, you will be given the opportunity to upgrade to a premium membership for even more advanced materials.

If you are looking for promises of vast riches to be made overnight. You wont find that here. If you are looking for material to help you understand online marketing and building your business, you’ll find that here.

I’ve added Facebook functionality to every post and page. I encourage you to post your comments and questions so all members can help and support each other. Let’s build our businesses.

I’m off to start adding content into the site for you.

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Membership Site Arrives

Welcome to It’s All About Money. This site is dedicated to helping you to learn how to make money online. This site will not claim to show you how to make millions overnight.

This site will not promise that you will make easy money while doing hardly any work. Making money online is about establishing an online business. A business doesn’t appear overnight and it doesn’t appear without you knowing at least some basics on what you are doing.

So, if you’re looking for get rich quick plans/schemes. Thanks for stopping by. If you are looking to figure out how to establish your online business, please explore

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Welcome

Okay I know, it has been over a month since I posted. I haven’t wandered off into cyberspace. I have been doing a lot of learning and planning. Sometime ago, I wrote about the need to keep it simple in internet marketing. The basic idea is to choose a method, a business model, and develop it.

I had recently decided on the first niches I wanted to do business in. But had not solidly laid out a plan on how I was going to do business. That’s creating a barrier for myself. Until there is a plan in place, there is no plan and no direction.

Over the last month I’ve been learning a lot about the value, power and diversity of creating membership sites. I’ve learned, like most models, there is a lot of misinformation out there. Learning how to go with a model means to learn how to apply the information and sift out the junk.

It has taken some exploring but I think I have managed to do that. So, I’m letting you know within a very short time this site will be a membership site.

Having said that, I know I am a virtual unknown in this market and even more so as a person running a successful membership site. Everyone has to start some where. So, while this site will become a membership site, the membership will be free.

I may later decide to add a paid membership here, but there will always be value delivered free. The members who join the free site will be the customers who had enough faith in me to sign up even though I was cutting my teeth on this model.

Now, I’m not committing to everything inside the membership area being free. I am committing to value. Stay tuned.

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Membership Site Coming Soon

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If you read my last post on Keywords, you’d have seen down near the end my statement:

Alas, one of the goals I laid out for myself was to not spend any more money on tools, books, software or even domains until I have used what I have to generate some actual income. I slowly put away my ‘buy’ urge and settled back to do the hard slugging until I can meet my goal.

Well, I broke that rule last week. I succumbed to a marketing offer claiming to show it’s customers how to get Facebook ads for nothing in order to promote on Facebook. I bought the offer and then quickly realised the promises were way bigger than the delivery.

The promised ‘free ads’ were nothing more than buying ads and then offsetting the cost of them by the income derived as the result of placing the ad. The fact is, unless you hit it lucky with a hot market, you would likely lose more than you’d make. I immediately went to Clickbank and requested a refund.

I then did what I should have done in the first place. I visited the review section of the Warrior Forum. (if you are not already a member, you should become one) Sure enough the product was being reviewed. Customers were not happy at the sense of being ripped off.

If you want a lesson in what not to do when it comes to producing and launching your own product. Read that thread. If you watch closely as you are reading, you’ll discover that the product owner JaniG only posted to belittle those who were unhappy. He also tried to thwart people wanting a refund by changing their refund requests at Clickbank to tech support.

Neither action did him any good. People became angrier not just at him but also at those who push products in the same manner. Clickbank made the refund promptly when I called them. Now, one marketer did suggest that he had some good ideas, but they were not what he promoted.

So the lessons learned:

1. check for reviews, real reviews, of a product before buying. The Warrior Forum is the best place I’ve found to get legitimate reviews. Not reviews produced as part of the marketing of a product launch.
2. When you launch your own product, make sure what you promote, is what you are delivering. Don’t promise free, unless it truly is going to be free. You might think it’s clever to play with the language. It just makes your customers angry.
3. If you are participating in promoting a product launch, make sure you have a look at the product before putting your name to the promotion. You’ll see in that thread that some marketers lost subscribers because of their promotion of the product. I’ll admit, I unsubscribed from several who promoted it to me.
4. When customers want a refund, give it to them. Don’t try to make them feel like they are caught in product hell. Sure, there is nothing wrong with trying to communicate with the customer and encouraging them to reconsider, once. JaniG kept sending the same canned ‘encouragement’ and then changing the refund request to ‘tech support’ which only served to make his customers angry.
5. If you make mistakes or handle something badly, don’t compound the problem by continuing to handle the situation badly. Own up to the problem, either resolve it or offer the refunds being sought without question.

So, back to my rule about not spending until I’ve made income.

What have your experiences been with products you’ve bought? Did you learn lessons from how the sale was handled?

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Broke My Rule; Learned A Valuable Lesson

If you are anything like me, you’ve spent time online trying to figure out how to make some money. Actually, how to make some serious money, not just pocket money, but a living which allows for the freedom and lifestyle you dream about.

I’ve downloaded files, paid and free, until the most I’ve got to show for them is gigs of space used up on my hard drive. Some I’ve read, some I started to read and then got distracted to the next ‘shiny coin’ and some never even got opened before I got distracted.

The problem was first off that I hadn’t yet developed the mindset which I needed. I needed to embrace a business model, plan and implement it, and then work on it until it either succeeded or showed me why I failed at it.

If it failed, then pick myself up and get on with refining what I was doing until I got it right. Instead, I kept looking for that one magic new bullet that was going to make it all work.

Doesn’t exist. There might be variations on techniques that will boost your results a bit. For the most part, none of them are new, they are variations on something that has already been done before.

So, I’ve finally reached a conclusion. I need three things to make my online business work: a blog, a list and traffic. Will that give me overnight success? No. Will that give me a base to build longterm success. Yes. So, as of this post, I have stopped chasing overnight success and embraced doing what will give me longterm success.

The content on this blog will share with you what I’m doing to establish the base I’m seeking. The techniques I’m going to use are not fancy, miraculous or ground breaking. They will provide me with the financial base I want and need.

So, if you want to settle down and establish that online business you’ve been racing around trying to find. Come on along for the ride. Subscribe to my newsletter so you never miss a post. I am planning on sending some material to my list that will not appear on the blog. There has to be a perk for joining, right?

How’s your business plan going?

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Keeping it Simple

This site is currently undergoing some revamping. I’ve finally reached a better sense of where I need to go with it and have some great content coming. Stay tuned!

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Site Changes Coming