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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

How to Outsmart Scammers to Make Money Online

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Marketing and doing business online have become a game of smartness. You just have to be very smart to survive out there online. Here is a statement of fact which may interest anyone who wants to make money online. “Scammers abound online.” This may not be news to anyone who knows how the Internet works. If you want to make money online, read this very carefully. You are best advised to research every company before you sign up with them. You may want to ask, how? Just check out if a company is legit on the BBB website. That said, you can always stay a step ahead scammers if you know exactly what you are doing online. If you know exactly what you are doing, you will know that you do not have to pay money to anyone to obtain work online. If what you are doing online is legitimate work which benefits someone else, that person should pay you and not the other way around. You must be extremely cautious when a service is charging you to provide you with work opportunities. If you come across such offers, chances are, they are just playing middlemen selling opportunity links which you can get for free if you know where to look. Worse still, such persons could even be scammers.
 


Here is the good news!!! There is a lot of money to be made online from many activities and many people are really making good money right now. What is common to all these activities you can do to earn money online is that you just have to deal with persons you can neither see nor touch. You simply assume they are real people who may either be legit or dubious. There lies the danger. It takes experience to know what to do and what to run away from. That is where these here tips become very handy. No matter what you do online to earn money, always have at the back of your mind that scammers are out there doing their own “business” too. And, don’t ever forget this, “If it is too good to be true, it probably is.”

Many people are currently going online daily to make money. With the virtual world of the Internet yawning very widely out there, making money online is now a legitimate dream of many in this day and age. Among the many things you can do online to earn money are:

-you can do freelance writing.
-you can sell goods/services.
-you can take paid surveys.
-you can become a sales affiliate.
-you can do research and market intelligence services.
-you can be a publisher.
-you can teach seminars.
-you can do many other things online which are a combination of or variants of all or some of the above.

Emerging Smart Online Marketing Tools

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Are you an online marketer? Do you love to showcase your business online? Here is some good news for you. If you have been marketing online for some time, you must have come to the realization that about 84% of consumers do not trust traditional forms of advertising. Great! And that poses very many new advertising challenges for online marketers. With that, they inevitably turn to new and emerging online marketing tools. These tools enable marketers to transform marketing away from stagnant strategy to streamlined messaging across multiple platforms. This wealth of emerging tools is thus enabling marketers to take advantage of new and highly effective opportunities for communicating with audiences. The results are fantastic and marketers are really excited. If you have some experience in marketing, you must have noticed that as the role of content marketing changes, so do the relationships of brands with existing and new fans. That is largely the reason why marketers are now turning to data visualization tools, multi-channel marketing and social amplification tools to solidify relationships between brands and their audiences.
 


There are very glaring and highly innovative marketing techniques as discussed here. Smart marketers now prefer influencer marketing because of the quality of networks, content and measurable experiences that influencers deliver. You however need skills, real marketing skills to make the best out of influencer marketing techniques.

No doubt you are aware that there are literally hundreds of millions of marketing messages out there on the Internet. With so many messages out there, if you want very good results from your marketing efforts, it’s more necessary than ever to understand what your audience and its influencers really care about. With increased and more aggressive competition out there, smart marketers are increasingly relying on smart tools like, BuzzSumo, Netflix and Social media to boost their marketing efforts. Here is what they get.

01. BuzzSumo helps marketers to gain access to media consumption metrics.

02. Social media inspires consumer behavior two times more than paid ads.

03. BuzzSumo allows marketers to see top authors and influencers for nearly any search term. 

04.  BuzzSumo allows users some privileged view into who their consumers are and who is influencing them, making it possible for them to turn around and target from the source down.

05. Consumers are increasingly clicking out of ads and subscribing to services like Netflix. That negates the ad experience completely.