You will come across the term 'Sales Funnel' quite often in internet marketing guides and discussions. It describes the planned process of converting a visitor to a buyer by gently guiding them down a path from 'interested' to, 'I want this'

The idea is simple to understand but putting it into practice is a little trickier. It's as though you were to take the hand of a visitor to your website and take them around your site showing what it has to offer and slowly but surely persuading them that they need what you have to offer.

Sometimes it is done very blatently and you feel the salesman pushing you around and most of us object to that. Other times it is done more subtley and while we may be aware it is happening we don't mind because we are happy to be guided along the process.
The best sales funnel is one that convinces the customer. Not just pushing them to buy something but rather, converting them to become a believer in what you have to offer. If they give you good things you will feel that here is someone who has something valuable and if they are prepared to give you this for free, how much more would you get if you were to pay them money.

I came across what I think is one of the best sales funnels I have seen for a while, the other day. This is a site where if you sign up for their newsletter you get a report that is worth more than many paid courses, for free. I reccommend you go and sign up just to read the report as I am sure you will learn a lot about sales funnels and the selling process.

Yes, you will be offered one time offers and other things and they all seem to be offer great value and opportunities to make money in the future but, even if you don't want to spend a single penny, there is still a great deal of value here.
Yes, I may make a commission if you go there, sign up and eventually spend any money but regardless of that, you need to read this report. Seriously. I was blown away by the information contained in this free report and I have no doubt you will be too.
You don't have to spend any money at all and you will learn a lot about sales funnels and the art of persuasion so take a look and if you decide it is not for you it has cost you nothing. Click the image below to find out more.

Making money online is simple. All you need is an offer of some sort where people can click an advert or buy a product that makes you a commission and you have made some money but you do need to have your own website to publish these offers on. Actually no, you do not. You can have free web pages and never spend any money at all

If you do have your own website you will need to attract visitors to come to your website and getting that traffic is the main focus of this blog. You can kill two birds with the one stone by publishing a page on one of the many free websites available and get links back to your own website, if you have one, but you can also make some money from the advertising on the free webpage.

Today I want to talk about one of those free websites and it is one of my favorites. You may have heard of Hubpages.com but if not let me tell you it is huge and it is very successful. It is a website set up to enable people like you to publish your own webpages on just about any subject you care to name. You share any revenue with the site owners but the payouts can be pretty good.

You benefit from the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of pages on hubpages.com written by people like you and they are constantly being checked and indexed by the search engines. Any page you put online will probably be checked out by Google and other search engines within minutes of publication.

Good hubpages, known as hubs, are very successful in the search engine results and some people make very good money from the hubs they have written. Check this link (opens in new window) and see how this hubber made over $9,000 last year.. HOW DID I EARN 8000 US$ on HUBPAGES (Last Year)

One of the great benefits of hubs is that providing you stick to their rules and requirements, which are not at all unreasonable, i.e. no dodgy website links or over promotion of products, you can get proper Follow links back to your own websites elsewhere. So you can see that writing your own hubs makes a lot of sense if you have your own websites but it can also be an income source if you have no website and no wish to host your own websites. This makes it an ideal way for anyone to build a part-time income online.

The downside is of course that you don't have any control over the management of the hubpages website but they have been around a few years now and get bigger and better all the time.

Here is another great hub about how to build successful hubpages. Check it out and I suggest you sign up yourself and begin building hubs. Making Money Online - Three things that have worked for me at hubpages

Have you been tempted by the latest super-duper whizz bang marketing offer? Have you been spending money buying the latest internet marketing make money online course? Are you about to click a button that makes you a millionaire next week? Many buy but few succeed. You might though most don't but if you are looking for that magic make money online button to make you rich overnight, well, if it existed it wouldn't be for sale at $97.99 would it?

When you have a desire to achieve online success and make a lot of money online but you know very little about online internet marketing, you search the internet for answers. Slowly, you begin to have some understanding of how it all works. You buy a course that someone is promoting as being the solution to massive, make money online success. We have all done this and the experienced internet marketers know we do it so they constantly feed us with internet marketing courses, software programs, sales processes and website building courses with the promis that, Yes! You can make money online.

You could probably buy an internet marketing product every day for a year and never run out of yet more offers you haven't purchased. Do they work? Probably. Are they worth the cost? Maybe. Should you buy them? Hmmm. That depends.

Most internet marketing ebooks and courses are a structured way of developing your online business. They give them cool sounding names but they are usually tried and tested ways of going about developing your business. Most of the systems to make money online will have worked for their authors to some extent, perhaps very well, and most of them could work for you if you follow them diligently.

They say that around 80% of internet marketing and make money online products bought online are never put into practice. Many are never even opened or looked at, at all. We have all done it. You get tempted by a great offer and end up clicking the order button almost on auto pilot because your dreams have been encouraged by what the salespage says. You then go to the download page and set the downloads running. That can take quite some time in itself, with all the video courses now offered, but eventually you have everything downloaded and you may even open it to have a look but you are just as likely to think that maybe you are too tired to study right now so you will look at it tomorrow. Tomorrow arrives and so do a whole new load of offers and you may simply forget about the product you bought yesterday. We have probably all done it.

Even if you do open it up and look at the materials included, even if you print it all out and read it, the chances are high that you will think that it could work for you but somehow you never get around to putting it into practice. It may sound a bit complicated or hard to put into practice or you may feel there are other things you need to know before you can start doing what it says. It could even sound like a heck of a lot of work and that probably wasn't what you wanted.

Whatever the reason, most of us put it off and later when we still haven't achieved online success and we do not make money online we remember all the money we spent and wonder what it was all for. There will always be another offer that will sound like it is the answer but on their own they rarely seem to work out that way. Whatever it is that you bought. Whatever process or procedure it was suggesting you do. If you do it, if you get off your butt and actually put it in to practice you will almost certainly be more successful than if you do nothing.

I am not suggesting that you never buy any product or service to help your online business. You can do a lot of things for free and you can learn through experience but if you believe this is going to be a proper business then do what businesses do and invest in your business. If you are going to invest in your online business do as other businesses do and evaluate what you are going to spend and what it is expected to achieve. If you are serious about your make money online business you must treat it as a real business and make real business decisions. If you decide to buy a particular product you should have a purpose in mind and put it into practice. Take the time to do the job properly and don't allow yourself to be distracted.

There is no point in buying yet another guide or course that does not match your plans for your online business or give you a new plan you will follow. If you take no action on it you are almost certainly wasting your money.

There is no point in buying a course on using Adwords if you never plan to use Adwords to promote anything.

There is every point in buying a course that you know will match your business model and you will use it to build a business online. Investing in your online business means exactly that. INVEST with the expectation of generating a profit from the investment.

Don't throw your money away on an ebook you will never read or put into action. A cheap ebook you never read is a bigger waste of money than a $3,000 course you WILL use to develop your business. Whatever you buy to help you develop your online business and teach you how to make money online, be sure to make full use of the advice it offers to build your business online.

At the end of the day, it's your money to do with as you please. If you insist on throwing money away that is your right but if you are going to do that just let me know and I'll find a way for you to throw some money in my direction.