How to Make Money The Honest Way

It’s not often that I make serious changes to the site’s homepage, but this evening I decided to do just that.

A couple of months ago, I put the site up for review in one of the more serious marketing forums and it got a bit of a slating from one of the senior and very experienced members. What it boiled down to was that the homepage was too busy. There was just too much there to detract from the task of getting a visitor to a) sign up to my free offer and b) navigate to one of my other pages, for instance the articles page.

He was right, of course. But I was hesitant to go so far as to remove all my nice ads and affiliate links that had accumulated in the sidebar. My logic was that those links were there to generate some income from the site. I was wrong about that too.

You see, the most important thing about your homepage should be its simplicity and its ability to create enough desire in your visitor to want to see more of the website. It should also make them want to sign up to your list.

So, after much consternation and debilitation, I took the plunge and with one fell swoop removed ALL of my ads from the homepage. Not even the Amazon search box escaped the cull!

And do you know what? I actually like it better now!

All the ads are there in the other pages and if a visitor is keen enough to want to navigate elsewhere in the site, then they’ll still get to see the ads and maybe even want to click on them. At least they will have seen enough of the site to hopefully convince them to return soon to see what has been updated or added.

So we live and learn!

Thanks for looking in – and while you’re here, go have a look at the homepage!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

          

Hi,

I just got wind of a new forum that has been created to address a big problem that occurs in many other forums. That of bad advice.

There are many good forums dedicated to the business of Internet Marketing and they have lots of good, active, knowledgeable members who are only too happy to help out the newer members and those needing advice and guidance. Unfortunately, there are some members of forums who, in their enthusiasm to impress their peers, or just plain want to be helpful, that mistakenly offer the wrong advice on some things. It’s not usually malicious or intended, but most often simply misguided or erroneous, but can end up with the recipient of that advice making a bad decision and compromising their fledgling online business.

So to address this problem, respected online marketer Robert Puddy has created a new Expert’s Forum. This has been set up with ten very well respected and knowledgeable people in different fields from the world of Internet Marketing as mentors and moderators. These people will monitor all posts to make sure any advice given is correct and honest. They will also give their own advice freely to members.

There is a price for this valuable membership. At present, the cost is $10 for the first 1000 members. After that it goes up (doesn’t it always!)

For that, you get expert mentoring, information and advice for a full year plus NO spammers will get in simply because you cannot bypass the registration system – to join and post you have to be a paid member and spammers won’t pay period.

So if you want to get the best in advice and give your own internet business the best possible start by rubbing shoulders with the top people in the business AND being able to network with the best (that includes the possibilities of top notch JVs etc), then sign up today!

Don’t wait for the price to go up (unless you want to)! Here’s the link:

Learn from the EXPERT’s Forum

I’ll see you there!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY