If you choose to do business with a network marketing company plan on promoting your opportunity with your own website. Otherwise you will be giving business away to the competition. Network marketing companies provide cookie cutter websites for their distributors and expect them to refer people to that. To make this successful you need to be have direct contact with a prospective customer or distributor in person or on the phone.

The problem with this is that you don’t have the freedom to make your website your own unique creation. One that shows your personality and human side. Its basically a landing page, sales page, or order page. You can still build a downline of distributors and possibly even build a large enough group to make average or above average money. Some will go on to make huge amounts of money and retire on the residual income they are earning for the rest of their lives.

The benefit of having your own website is that you can develop it around keywords that will get you high ranking with the search engines. By building a theme based niche website for promoting your opportunity you position yourself as an expert in your field and become a solutions provider. If for some reason 6 months or 1 year, or at some time in the future you drop out of the network marketing company you are with you will still have your website that you can continue to develop and monetize off it on your terms.

As long as you are providing fresh content to your website on a consistent basis this becomes an investment in your future. Your own website and learning how to build a web page gives you freedom in your business you would not otherwise have. Thanks to the evolution of the internet and web 2.0 building a website is not as difficult as it once was. This gives you the latitude to promote more than one product or service and you can do it on one website.

The trick is to build a niche website that you can develop into a business with many different programs and products. The internet is here to stay and it offers many marketing advantages that offline does not, eventually everyone is going to have to learn how to use it.

Having your own website for promoting your opportunity as a network marketer is a must. It is a very handy tool, and when you learn the skills, you will be glad that you have one. Maybe not to rely on 100% but to use as another way to help build your business.

The problem is most people do not know how to build websites. They do not know how to drive traffic to them. And for the most part they don’t want to learn.

The moral of the story……get yourself your own website for promoting your opportunity. How you apply it is up to you. Just be smart about it and don’t ignore offsite methods which would blend well with onsite dynamics.

How To Choose The Right Site Builder For Promoting Your Opportunity.

Web builders have been introduced primarily to service entrepreneurs who don’t know how to program in HTML or any other programming knowledge but still want control and flexibility that comes from creating and maintain their own website. Using a good web site builder can make your life much easier.

Before purchasing a site builder for promoting your opportunity you have to determine what your needs are. For those involved with a network marketing company that is fairly easy to narrow down. You need a site builder for building content, making sales, and attracting traffic. Building a website/business does take time so don’t expect your site to have staggering numbers overnight. Once you build keyword focused content pages and the search engine spiders find your site the numbers will improve. The key is to keep adding more content. Each content page is another door for your visitors to find you. So the more doors there are the more popular you become as long as you are using the keywords properly and providing value and being a solutions provider.

Free Trial Or Demo

Most site builders will offer a free trial but you will still need to make the purchase first. The 30 day money back free trial is common with site builders. The best site builders will pro rate their guarantee for up to a year. Usually they never have to return the money because they do as advertised. If you are new to building a website for promoting your opportunity this gives you a chance to take it for a test drive and try out the tools. Keep in mind there is a lot to learn even without the need to know HTML coding. It can get overwhelming so I suggest capitalizing on the full 30 days to be sure you are comfortable. You will not learn everything in 30 days but you will get a good feel for the software.

Does the site builder require you to use their templates or can you create your own?

A large number of site builders will force you to use their templates. There are reasons for this the main one being it enables the site builder to keep their rates down. Another is they want their templates branded so others recognize them as to belonging to their software package. If you have to use their templates you are pretty much stuck but if they offer a large selection you should find one that suits your needs. Some site builders will allow you to customize your template right down to graphics, headers, and footers. Remember a pretty site doesn’t drive traffic to your opportunity. Content and the tools do.

Do They Provide You With A Free Domain Name?

Most do but some don’t. Choosing the right domain name for your opportunity is much more important than your look and feel. Your domain name should be relevant to your sites theme and keyword focused. Choosing “your name”.com usually won’t drive traffic to your site. I like to use longtail words ( three-or-more-words) in my domain name and page titles and connect them with dashes as shown. That is a matter of choice. Some people prefer to use more generic words to be found. Longtail words are more targeted. A good site builder should explain what longtail words are and why they are so important.

Do They Give You Enough Disk Space for images?

Is There A Limit To The Number Of Pages That You Can Build?

How many Sites Can You Build With The Site Builder?

The answer to the above questions comes down mostly to bandwidth. Unlimited bandwidth is what you want. Unless you plan on keeping your site small which is not recommended for promoting your opportunity. Also check into their security system and data storage.

Customer Service

Guides And Tutorials

If you find the answers to the above questions as favorable you very well may have found a site builder for promoting your opportunity that fits your needs. Do your research and you will be well on your way to a web site builder that meets your needs and gives you quality, professional results at a reasonable price.

Site Builder Reviews For Promoting Your Opportunity.

Go Daddy – Website Tonight

Go Daddy offers a web builder that is called Website Tonight which comes with three plans of varying sizes. Each plan has different pricing options based on how far in advance you want to pay. The purchase of any one of these plans comes with free hosting but you still need to purchase your domain name which you can get for a discount.

Website Tonight is an online software package that operates using JavaScript which is more than enough to get a nice website built for promoting your opportunity. Building a 50 to 75 page website using this software should cause few problems. The main problem that Go Daddy has is when the sites reach the 100 page mark. Things start to go slow and if you are building your pages on the software rather than in a text editor the system may lose your work. This can be very frustrating. I always write my content in a text editor and save them to a file on my computer. Not only for Website Tonight but also for other web builders that I use as well as Squidoo and Hub Pages. It is safest, it has spell checker, and I can always have access to the pages in the event of an emergency.

GoDaddy has a great selection of templates to choose from and a large quantity of templates. You also have the ability to customize your templates to suit your wants and needs. For more experienced users you can insert your own HTML script.

Go Daddy’s customer service is more than above average. They address the issue and help solve problems in a friendly manner. I have had several occurrences to talk with them and my experiences were pleasant and more importantly my query was answered.

All in all Go Daddy is a good choice for promoting your opportunity. I would rate it as average as for site builders and once you get used to it its fairly easy to use.

Site BuildIt Review

The Cream of The Crop

Site Build It also referred to as SBI is all that it is advertised to be. Dr. Ken Envoy its creator has put together a massive set of tools in a user friendly software package that “gets the click”. SBI is famous for C-T-P-M. Content-Traffic-Presell-Monetize. SBI comes with a 10 day action guide which leads you down a path to building a profitable web business. SBI is a network marketers dream because it was originally built with mlmers in mind. Promoting your opportunity with SBI and utilizing the tools, tutorials, and guide is a recipe for success.

There is no website builder in the marketplace that gives you more detailed information about search engine optimization , building keyword focused content pages, and marketing. Before you even get started building your site and choosing a domain name SBI is taking you through a process using its famous Brainstorm It tool to figure out your sites concept, feasibility, and monetization potential.

Brainstorm It allows you to enter keywords (seed words) and comes up with your master keyword list. When you enter a seed you then check it laterally and vertically in Brainstorm It to come up with profitable keywords which form your site blueprint. These keywords have been checked for supply and demand and then rechecked for the number of times searched which leaves you with keyword profitability.

Once you trim down your master keyword list to 200 or more profitable keywords you move on to the site building process. Your master keyword list is now your site blueprint each keyword being a topic for a new page. As you build each page in SBI’s block building module and before you upload it the analyze It tool checks your page for keyword density. It then reports back to you where you need to make changes so it is optimized properly for the search engines. When your page passes the analyze it test your page is ready to be uploaded and go live on the internet. Using Brainstorm It properly thanks to its connection with wordtracker is a foolproof way of creating keyword focused content pages for promoting your opportunity.

SBI is not perfect though. One of the biggest complaints is newbies getting overwhelmed with too much information. I remember feeling that way myself. Personally I don’t see how too much information is a setback but SBI leaves no rock unturned. That is why following the action guide and understanding the tools

is critical, working at your own pace essential, and learning the theory behind it vital. There is one or more video tutorials at each day of the action guide,  which isn’t a bad thing. I prefer video tutorials over straight text anyway. It keeps me focused and tutorials are easier to comprehend.

I remember being skeptical about purchasing SBI and feeling that the cost was a little steep. I know better now since I’ve had the opportunity to see and use the tools. Comparing the cost of SBI  to the cost of a yearly subscription to wordtracker makes it a bargain. Wordtracker costs 9.00/yr. And SBI is only 9.00/yr. Plus it comes with a 30 day money back guarantee and also pro rates the yearly fee if you choose not to use SBI past the 30 day deadline.

In a nut shell Site Build It is an excellent choice for promoting your opportunity, getting an education, and learning about search engine optimization.

One last tid bit. SBI owners are like one big fraternity. They are loyal to Site Built It, sensitive about Site Built It, and since 35% of SBI sites rank in the top 1% of all websites glad that they met Site Build It.

Blinkweb Review

Blinkweb is a new service that allows anyone to build a web site through point and click technology.

BlinkWeb is similar to Google Pages. You can create a multi-page site, choose a layout and template from their gallery, and drag and drop different components onto the pages. BlinkWeb has more features targeting Internet Marketers, though.

BlinkWeb right now consists of a contact form, a guest book, Google Maps integration for showing where an address is, Google Adsense integration, and a custom HTML widget. You can also include paragraphs, a paragraph with an attached title, images, and a paragraph with an image embedded in it, along with doing a two column layout for part of the page. You can also easily add in video and Flickr integration.

The templates available are limited right now. You might find something for promoting your opportunity, or you might not. The widgets available are also limited. They’re fine for basic sites, but you’ll have to use the custom HTML widget for anything more complicated.

One of the attractive points about BlinkWeb is that it offers a Sales Letter as a page type. These pages have a different templates, all modeled after typical Internet Marketing type sales pages. So putting up a simple sales page for promoting your opportunity with BlinkWeb is very easy.

Another type of page is a blog page. This provides the standard blog sorts of widgets and a sidebar. Of course, you can specify the typical SEO information, such as meta keywords and description, and the page title.

BlinkWeb is definitely targeted toward Internet Marketers. They offer a five day lesson in how to earn using BlinkWeb, which basically walks you through an overview of developing an information product and using BlinkWeb to create a sales site. They also provide a Facebook widget for promoting your opportunity on Facebook easily.

Promoting your opportunity can be done for free using BlinkWeb. So what does BlinkWeb get from it? In Day 5 of the lessons, they suggest you obtain a domain name instead of using a subdomain of BlinkWeb.com. The way you can use a domain of your own that’s built into BlinkWeb is to purchase web hosting from them. You get the domain itself for free, and web hosting at for the first month and .95 a month after that.

BlinkWeb does do what it says. Anyone can make a web site with it, although you might need to figure out what to put into the meta keywords, etc. And, you can do it for free, and get your web site up and running and perfected before you make a decision on whether you want to pay .95 a month basically to use your own domain name with the site.

Having your own website for promoting your opportunity makes it easier for you to create multiple streams of income. Your network marketing company may not be thrilled that you are promoting your opportunity this way but it sure beats pounding the pavement, making cold calls, and dealing with rejection.

Standard Bank, Gold Physical Flow Index, 8/3/10

“The pace and severity of financial crises has taken an ominous turn for the worse….

With one crisis seemingly begetting another, and the fuse between crises now getting shorter and shorter, the world economy is on a very treacherous course.”

Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley, May, 2010

“Washington is not helping.

The massive permanent expansion in federal spending and regulatory oversight built into President Obama’s budget is discouraging private hiring by raising fears of higher taxes and regulation. Simply, higher taxes discourage purchases of non-essentials and high-line durable goods…

All that spending will require higher taxes, and raising taxes on families earning 0,000 simply won’t be enough finance it…

Much of the 7 Billion stimulus money was squandered on pet projects that created few jobs…

The biggest banks received more than trillion in TARP and Federal Reserve assistance to clean up their balance sheets and recapitalize securities trading, while the 8000 regional banks got little assistance and remain burdened by toxic real estate loans. Consequently, more than 230 regional banks have failed, and small and medium sized businesses cannot get credit to expand.”

“Morici: Friday’s Jobs Report: Outlook Darkens for Economy, Obama”
Peter Morici, CNBC Guest Blog, 8/4/10

‘Black Swans’ are Phenomena which are Statistical Outliers – Phenomena ostensibly so improbable  that they are not typically be taken into account when determining probabilities, even though, if and when they do occur, their consequences typically have a very high, and often very negative, impact. [All Swans were thought to be White, until a 1697 Dutch Expedition to Australia found Black ones.]

The BP Oil Disaster is arguably such a Black Swan event, given the hundreds of Deep Water Wells which have been drilled safely (although an advance look at BP’s safety record might well have dramatically increased the forecast likelihood of a Disaster).

In the world of Finance and Investment, Black Swan Events are those surprise events which (defective) Analytical Models deem so unlikely that one may relatively “safely” risk their occurrence, until, of course they occur, with catastrophic results.

One such Congeries of Events is the Counterparty Failures which characterized the AIG, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns debacles. These debacles show that high leverage coupled with a Black Swan event/s often has lethal consequences.

Black Swan phenomena were noted by the Latin Poet Juvenal and John Stuart Mill, but, to his credit, were recently applied to finance and investing, by Nassim Taleb in his 2007 Book The Black Swan.

Our main point here is that what are apparently ‘White Swan’ Phenomena sometimes actually are, or will metamorphose into being, threatening Black Swan Phenomena. Indeed, some of these (ostensibly White) Swan Phenomena are threatening to reveal their inherent Blackness now, and that Investors need to be aware of these lest they be blindsided. As well, Investors need to acquire “Antidotes” in advance, several of which we identify here.

Thus, in what follows, we list some apparent White Swans that are really Black (and some that are immediately threatening), and suggest Antidotes.

One of the Most Visible White Swans which is really Black is the Recent Eurozone Non-Solution to the Euro-Sovereign-Debt Crisis. Mega-Bank Creditors of the PIIGS were bailed out, but the PIIGS Sovereign Debt problems were by no means solved, just extended. Investors world-wide were, and are, being “invited” by Mainstream Media spin to pretend that the Black Swan Sovereign Debt Threat is now solved, and thus is now transformed into a financial ‘White Swan’.

In fact the “Sovereign Debt Can” was just kicked down the Road a few months and will surely arise again in ever more threatening form as a Gigantic Black Swan.

Now we change our focus from that very public White/Black Swan issue of the PIIGS Bailout to one quite Hidden, but no less Threatening.

Consider the Black Swan (covered in opaque White) of ongoing Covert Fed Monetization (known euphemistically as QE, or Quantitative Easing), which is quite important because if it were Overt it would immediately create hyperinflationary pressures (which QE does create in the long run in any event).

Jim Willie cogently comments:

“…the USFed and USDept Treasury are using the United Kingdom as a ledger item for their mammoth USTreasury monetization, all barely hidden, with the TIC data used as a tiny fig leaf… At end 2009, as of the December tally, the UK owned 0.3B in USTBonds, yet somehow managed to accumulate in the new year, up to the current 0.0B. THE UK SUPPOSEDLY HAS ALMOST DOUBLED THEIR HOLDINGS IN A MERE FIVE MONTHS!!

Bear witness to the shadow USFed debt monetization operation, operating out of the United Kingdom, or at least its accounting…

Bear in mind that we are talking about crippled England here, or the United Kingdom more generally. The UKGovt just announced spending cuts to reach 40% of budget, not the previous 20%. Britain could not cope with an extended episode in the credit crisis, according to the Bank For Intl Settlements. Yet this nation gobbled up 0 billion in USTreasurys from ripe savings in five months?? Hardly… Newly ordained Prime Minister David Cameron ordered the officials to draw up 40% cuts, the biggest in history. He has ordered cabinet ministers to draw up a Doomsday budget whose essential service spending cuts could see tens of thousands given pink slips. Yet this nation gobbled up 0 billion in USTreasurys from ripe savings in five months?? Hardly. This is a smoking gun…”

“Smoking Guns of U.S. Treasury Monetization”
Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com, 7/22/10

And then there are the U.S. Treasury Reports themselves showing which Categories of ‘Investors’ bought U.S. Treasury Securities.

Consider again Jim Willie and Eric Sprott and Bill Gross:

“…Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Mgmt casts a suspicious eye at the USTreasurys for the so-called Household category in their accounting. It is a blatant ledger item for illicit monetization, a veritable crime scene without the cordoned zone and yellow tape. Sprott directs his accusations like a skilled prosecutor. He reinforces the claim of Ponzi Scheme cited by Bill Gross of PIMCO. Sprott calls the solution to finance the mammoth USGovt deficits to be the actual problem, namely hidden monetization…

… The remainder was purchased by a category called loosely “Other Investors” as a catch-all. This other group purchased billion in 2008, but then turned up into hyper-drive its purchases to 0.1 billion of freshly minted USTreasury securities so far in the first three quarters of fiscal 2009…

Go to the source. The USDept Treasury Bulletin identifies “Other Investors” as consisting of Individuals, Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE, as in Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac et al), Brokers & Dealers (who sell as intermediaries), Bank Personal Trusts & Estates, Corporate & Non-Corporate Businesses, Individuals, and Other Investors. It is far-fetched to believe parties in these groups had 0 spare billion to invest in the USTreasury market in fiscal 2009…

This category supposedly purchased billion worth of USTreasurys in 2008, then jumped with ink jet assist (printing press) in 3Q2009 to a staggering 8.7 billion in purchases, a 35-fold increase. The Household is on track to buy 4 billion worth in all fiscal 2009. The bottom line is a shocker! What is the Household Sector? It is a combination of miscellaneous, ledger adjustments, and blatant monetization. Sprott calls it a PHANTOM that does not exist, but serves the purpose to balance the ledger in the US Federal Reserve Flow of Funds report…

BY THE END OCTOBER 2009, THE “HOUSEHOLD” ACCOUNTING CATEGORY OWNED MORE USTREASURYS THAN THE US FEDERAL RESERVE ITSELF. THAT IS CORRECT. MONETIZED USTREASURY BONDS ACCOUNT FOR MORE THAN WHAT THE USFED HOLDS. THE USTBONDS ARE HIDING IN ENGLAND.”

“Smoking Guns of U.S. Treasury Monetization”
Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com, 7/22/10

Zhu Min, deputy governor of the Peoples Bank of China is understandably worried:

“The world does not have so much money to buy more USTreasurys. The United States cannot force foreign governments to increase their holdings of Treasuries… Double the holdings? It is definitely impossible.”

“Smoking Guns of U.S. Treasury Monetization”
Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com, 7/22/10

Unfortunately, the ostensible White Swan of Fed Policy is quite threateningly Black.

“…With foreign sources unwilling or unable to support USGovt debt, the monetization card will be used repeatedly and powerfully inside the desperate US-UK quarters. When the process is more widely recognized and publicized, the USDollar will be denigrated further, and rejected as quickly as any reasonable alternative can be produced by consensus. It is that simple…

No creditor nation whose leaders are in their right mind would continue to support the USDollar as the global reserve currency when its debt securities are the object of such open fraud and high volume monetization…”

“Smoking Guns of U.S. Treasury Monetization”
Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com, 7/22/10

This Covert Monetization, when widely understood, will likely have catastrophe consequences for the U.S. Dollar, and will launch hyperinflation. It could happen anytime.

A third ‘White Swan’ which is really Black is the effect of the Bailout and stimulus Bills on the U.S. Economy. The Obama administration says they have catalyzed a Recovery with their Stimulus Bill. The Realities as presented by Peter Morici above, by Deepcaster, and by many others, say otherwise. ‘Nuff said.

Yet a fourth apparent ‘White Swan’ is the somewhat rosy picture Official U.S. Statistics give us of the U.S. Economy.

Looking at these somewhat rosy recent Official Reports leads Observers to believe that there is virtually no Inflation, that GDP growth is slow but solid, and therefore, that a Recovery is underway.

The very real Positive Investor Sentiment generated by this somewhat positive picture has, along with Cartel Intervention, helped impel the markets into rally mode beginning Monday this week.

The only problem is that if the Official Numbers are Bogus, the Market Rally is built on sand and can be expected to collapse as easily as a sand castle, and sooner rather than later. (See Deepcaster’s latest Alert in the ‘Alerts Cache’ at Deepcaster’s website.)

In fact, the Official Numbers are Bogus and the Real Numbers paint a very different picture.

Our regular Readers are quite familiar with the work of Shadowstats.com, and several have asked that we continue to provide updated ones in our articles. (Shadowstats calculates statistics the way they were calculated in the 1980′s and 1990′s, before data manipulation began in earnest) So here they are:

Official Numbers vs.      Real Numbers (per Shadowstats.com)

Annual U.S. Consumer Price Inflation reported July 16, 2010
1.05%                  /                     8.37% (annualized June 2010 Rate)

U.S. Unemployment reported July 2, 2010
9.5%                /               21.6%

U.S. GDP Annual Growth/Decline reported July 30th, 2010
3.17%                    /                   -1.25%

U.S. M3 reported July 22, 2010 (Month of June, Y.O.Y.)
No Official Report      /       – 5.90%

Clearly the White Swan of an Apparent Economic Recovery is a Delusion. The Reality is a Black Swan of Negative Economic prospects, which will inevitably have negative consequences for the equities Markets.

So what are Antidotes to these “White Swan into Black” Realities and Threats?

Our immediate answer is the Precious Monetary Metals, Gold and Silver, plus the Category of High Yield Investments whose Yields exceed Real Inflation.

Gold is a hedge against the Current Realities of both the economic contraction/deflation pressures we see today, as well as the hyperinflationary pressures (which Jim Willie’s and other’s Revelations about Covert Monetization reveal) which are on the horizon.

Until recent months, our positive Recommendation regarding Gold and Silver acquisition, would have had to be severely qualified (as to timing) by the Reality of ongoing Cartel* Intervention to suppress Gold and Silver Prices.

In recent months, however, thanks to GATA and others, certain Revelations (as e.g. that not all Precious Metals repositories have all the actual metal they lead people to believe they have, including the Spectacular Allegation that the LBMA has sold some 45 ounces of Gold for every ounce they actually hold), have led to a weakening of Cartel* ability to cap prices. (See Deepcaster’s Alert for the week April 16, 2010: “Cartel Failing? Precious Metal Buy Reco! Forecasts: Gold, Silver, Equities, Crude Oil, U.S. Dollar & U.S. T-Notes & Bonds” in the ‘Alerts Cache’ at Deepcaster’s website)

*We encourage those who doubt the scope and power of Overt and Covert Interventions by a Fed-led Cartel of Key Central Bankers and Favored Financial Institutions to read Deepcaster’s December, 2009, Special Alert containing a summary overview of Intervention entitled “Forecasts and December, 2009 Special Alert: Profiting From The Cartel’s Dark Interventions – III” and Deepcaster’s July, 2010 Letter entitled “Profit from a Weakening Cartel; Buy Reco; Forecasts: Gold, Silver, Equities, Crude Oil, U.S. Dollar & U.S. T-Notes & T-Bonds” in the ‘Alerts Cache’ and ‘Latest Letter’ Cache at Deepcaster’s website. Also consider the substantial evidence collected by the Gold AntiTrust Action Committee at www.gata.org, including testimony before the CFTC, for information on precious metals price manipulation. Virtually all of the evidence for Intervention has been gleaned from publicly available records. Deepcaster’s profitable recommendations displayed at Deepcaster’s website have been facilitated by attention to these “Interventionals.” Attention to The Interventionals facilitated Deepcaster’s recommending five short positions prior to the Fall, 2008 Market Crash all of which were subsequently liquidated profitably.

Nonetheless, The Cartel still remains Potent (if they were not, Precious Metals prices would doubtless be much higher than they are now).

Thus as practical Antidotes we strongly recommend acquisition of physical Gold and Silver with the Timing and in the Form of those Acquisition described in our latest Alert, as well as employing the Strategy laid out in “Defeating the Cartel… With Profit, Part 2″ (6/19/2009) and “Defeating the Cartel… With Profit, Part 1″ (3/28/2008) in the ‘Articles by Deepcaster’ Cache at Deepcaster’s website. We also recommend the acquisition of Securities whose yields are higher than Real Inflation. (See Deepcaster’s Alert for the week ending July 23, 2010: “NEW HIGH YIELD PORTFOLIO: 15.6%, 26%, 18.5% & 10.6% Recent Yields” for Specific Recommendations, located in the ‘Alerts Cache’ at Deepcaster’s website.)

In sum, to Identify Ostensible White Swans which are, or are likely to become, Black Swans. We recommend employing the following Guidelines.

-      Get the Real Data from sources such as Shadowstats.com and GATA.

-      Assume the Mainstream Media is not providing the Full Story on Key Issues, and Search for Alternative Sources, and/or Additional Facts

-      Consider whether a particular Mainstream Story is Reliable, or whether it is likely it is “Manufactured News”

-      Consider The Interventionals as well as the Fundamentals and Technicals.

Following these Guidelines can help ensure that one does not, in making Investing and Trading decisions, rely on a White Swan which later turns out to be a Black, much to Investors and Traders detriment.

This method involves writing sponsored blog posts, or maybe articles, on given topics after your join the site. If you take a good look around, you can see many variations of this model in effect. So then just imagine becoming a sponsored review site, but that can only happen after your traffic numbers are pretty good. Have you ever heard of Kontera? It’s an affiliate program whereby they allow you to place in-line text links on your site, and they basically serve as ads. No need to be concerned about causing any confusion with your other links because links, from Kontera for example, are underscored twice. When your visitor rolls the mouse over this link, they’ll see a small add pop up. You get paid when anyone clicks on this ad, where the amount isn’t fixed just like contextual advertising. Our last method is hugely popular and used in many applications; basically it is selling access to high quality, premium content. If you want something to jog your brain; structure your site so people can read a little bit of the content, and then you simply let them know the rest is available for some set fee. Not everyone will want to buy a subscription, although many will, and so in addition you can offer one-time purchases.

We have seen this exact monetization method used in many industries. This only lightly scratches the surface of all the monetization methods businesses use. You have to keep your eyes open to add new streams of income to your site from time to time, and in order to grow your chances of success, you’ll have to keep experimenting with different tactics. It’s important to test new waters so that you can increase your site’s income and at the same time grow your online business.

Whether you blog on a blogging network or you have an independently hosted blog, you need to make sure your blog is designed well. It is true that content is king and if a blog has great content is may receive lots of traffic even though it is ugly, having a well designed blog that is not ugly or annoying will help to drive repeat traffic. You want your blog to look unique, but not too unique. Keep with internet formalities such as blue links and use large font for headings.

You should break your post up into small paragraphs each with a headline if possible as internet readers tend to scan the screen looking for relevant information rather than reading everything word for word. Make sure your colors do not contrast too harshly and that the text is easy to read. Using good design will make your blog aesthetically pleasing and make readers more likely to come back and remain on your page.

No matter where your blog is hosted, you should try to get it indexed by all the major search engines. Some forms of blog monetization require that your blog be indexed by search engines before they will allow you to participate in your program. The higher ranked your blog is, the more visitors you will receive and the more popular your blog will become.

All forms of monetization for your blog require readers to work successfully. Before you try to implement your monetization strategies, make sure your blog has enough readers to make your efforts work. If there is no one to click your ads, visit your affiliate sites, or read your reviews, you do not stand much of a chance of making money.