Bernardus Diedericks asked: Let me start out with asking a question: “Would you be able to save a million dollars doing what you are doing?” The vast majority of people out there would not be able to do that, they are so deep in. Some people would like to say: “cr…. sh….” the word is “debt” that they will be in debt for their entire lifetime.
If you were to start a franchise of whatever or a new business you have to lay out a lot of capital to start that and it can run into thousand of dollar if not millions. In network marketing you benefit from a low start up cost with an already patented product with all the support systems in place and all you have to do is market.
Everything is in place for you to generate an residual income. Baring in mind that you do research and become part of the right company as I am placing emphasis on following the guidelines mentioned in my article: “Networking Career-How do You Choose The Right Networking Company”.
The income is generated from you creating turn over in the company. People refer people all the time and do not get paid for doing it. Have you ever told a friend about a great movie showing at the cinema or told a friend about a great CD? Well? Did you get paid for doing that? No!
Being part of a significant company in an Industry that is growing with an International market that has proprietary, unique, patented technology with no competitors places you in a very good position to put it mildly.
All one has to do if you are part of such a company is to market adequately and things just happen. What are the things you may ask? Your business grow and your income along the way. The great news is that if you can do this on auto pilot and duplicate that by showing your team to duplicate what you are doing. The result will be absolutely spectacular.
Getting back to the income part and saving a million dollars. In network marketing we work back to front. Our initial start up cost is low but as we create turn over in the company we earn residual income which you could compare with interest that you would have received had you invested capital in the bank. So what we are actually creating here is International equity in the turn over in the company.
The other great part is that your vacations are business expenses so your vacations are tax deductible. What interest would you be earning from a million dollars in the bank?
Lets work on 5 % interest rate per year. It comes to $4 166 per month. How long would it take you to achieve saving a million dollars in the bank that would pay you $4 166 per month? On the other hand, how long would it take you to create turn over of $4 166 per month in a significant company with the facts that I have mentioned above with regard to proprietary patented technology that there is a huge demand for?
So if you earn $4 166 per month from a network marketing company, it is the same as having saved a million dollars in the bank.
Which is more achievable: Saving a million dollars? or Creating turn over in a company paying you $4 166 per month part time?
Part time is a great thing because it means that you are making profit of $4 166 per month, it is extra income over and above your salary. That is why people are considering network marketing more and more because they cannot sustain themselves with their salary alone plus there is a low start up cost.
This is the reason why there are more and more network marketing companies emerging all the time. Just as you get different cars or lets say vehicles, you get different network marketing companies that are if we make comparison between a luxury car and a scruffy old chicken coop of a car. You need to become part of the luxury vehicle if you want to reach your dreams. A Network marketing company is a vehicle for you to become financially free. So choose the right one first time round. To your massive success!
Website content
The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks.
The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator. The Wall Street Journal has commented that the site inspired other websites that sell pixels.[1][2]
Launched on 26 August 2005, the website became an Internet phenomenon. The Alexa ranking of web traffic peaked at around 127; as of 18 December 2009 (2009 -12-18)[update], it is 35,983.[3] On 1 January 2006, the final 1,000 pixels were put up for auction on eBay. The auction closed on 11 January with a winning bid of $38,100 that brought the final tally to $1,037,100 in gross income.
Alex Tew, a student from Cricklade in Wiltshire, England, conceived The Million Dollar Homepage in August 2005 when he was 21 years old.[5] He was about to begin a three-year Business Management course at the University of Nottingham, and was concerned that he would be left with a student loan that could take years to repay.[5] As a money-raising idea, Tew decided to sell a million pixels on a website for $1 each; purchasers would add their own image, logo or advertisement, and have the option of including a hyperlink to their website. Pixels were sold for US dollars rather than UK pounds; the US has a larger online population than the UK, and Tew believed more people would relate to the concept if the pixels were sold in US currency.[6] In 2005, the pound was strong against the dollar: £1 was worth approximately $1.80,[7] and that cost per pixel may have been too expensive for many potential buyers.[6] Tew’s setup costs were €50, which paid for the registration of the domain name and a basic web-hosting package. The website went live on 26 August 2005.[8]
The homepage featured a Web banner with the site’s name and a pixel counter displaying the number of pixels sold, a navigation bar containing nine small links to the site’s internal web pages, and an empty square grid of 1,000,000 pixels divided into 10,000 100-pixel blocks.[9] Tew promised customers that the site would remain online for five years – that is, until at least 26 August 2010.[10][11]
[edit] Pixel sales
Because individual pixels are too small to be seen easily, Pixels were sold in 100-pixel “blocks” measuring 10 × 10 pixels; the minimum price was thus $100.[12][13] The first sale, three days after the site began operating, was to an online music website operated by a friend of Tew’s. He bought 400 pixels in a 20 × 20 block. After two weeks, Tew’s friends and family members had purchased a total of 4,700 pixels.[5][14] The site was initially marketed only through word of mouth;[2] however, after the site had made $1,000, a press release was sent out that was picked up by the BBC.[5][14] The technology news website The Register featured two articles on The Million Dollar Homepage in September.[15][16] By the end of the month, The Million Dollar Homepage had received $250,000 and was ranked Number 3 on Alexa Internet‘s list of “Movers and Shakers” behind the websites for Britney Spears and Photo District News.[17] On 6 October, Tew reported the site received 65,000 unique visitors; it received 1465 Diggs, becoming one of the most Dugg links that week.[18] Eleven days later, the number had increased to 100,000 unique visitors. On 26 October, two months after the Million Dollar Homepage was launched, more than 500,900 pixels had been sold to 1,400 customers.[19] By New Year’s Eve, Tew reported that the site was receiving hits from 25,000 unique visitors every hour and had an Alexa Rank of 127,[19] and that 999,000 of the 1,000,000 pixels had been sold.[2]
On 1 January 2006, Tew announced that because the demand was so great for the last 1,000 pixels, “the most fair and logical thing” to do was auction them on eBay rather than lose “the integrity and degree of exclusivity intrinsic to the million-pixel concept” by launching a second Million Dollar Homepage.[19] The auction lasted ten days and received 99 legitimate bids. Although bids were received for amounts as high as $160,109.99, many were either retracted by the bidders or cancelled as hoaxes.[20][21] “I actually contacted the people by phone and turns out they weren’t serious, which is fairly frustrating, so I removed those bidders at the last minute”, said Tew.[20] The winning bid was $38,100,[22][23] placed by MillionDollarWeightLoss.com, an online store selling diet-related products.[24] Tew remarked that he had expected the final bid amount to be higher due to the media attention.[20] The Million Dollar Homepage made a gross total of $1,037,100 in five months.[21][25] After costs, taxes and a donation to The Prince’s Trust, a charity for young people, Tew expected his net income to be $650,000–$700,000.[2]
Pixel purchasers included Bonanza Gift Shop, Panda Software, the producers of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, British Schools Karting Championship, Book of Cool, Orange, The Times, Cheapflights.com, Schiffer Publishing, Rhapsody, Tenacious D, GoldenPalace.com, 888.com and other online casinos, Independiente Records, Yahoo!, small privately owned businesses, and companies offering get-rich-quick schemes, online dating services, personal loans, free samples, website designs and holidays.[26]
[edit] Media attention
Following the September press release that first brought attention to the site, The Million Dollar Homepage was featured in articles on BBC Online,[5] The Register,[15] The Daily Telegraph,[27] and PC Pro.[28] Tew also appeared on the national breakfast television programmes Sky News Sunrise and BBC Breakfast to discuss the website.[29][30]
The crucial thing in creating the media interest was the idea itself: it was unique and quirky enough to stand out. I only had to push the idea a bit in the first few days by sending out a press release which essentially acted as a catalyst. This interest coupled with traditional word-of-mouth created a real buzz about the homepage, which in turn created more interest.
Alex Tew, 22 February 2006.
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By November the website was becoming popular around the world, receiving attention from Financial Times Deutschland in Germany,[31] TVNZ in New Zealand,[32] Terra Networks in Latin America,[33] the China Daily,[34] and especially in the United States where it was covered in Adweek,[35] Florida Today,[36] and Wall Street Journal.[1] Tew hired a US-based publicist to help with the attention from the American media and made a week-long trip to the US, where he was interviewed on ABC News Radio,[37] the Fox News Channel,[38] Attack of the Show!,[39] and local news programmes.[40][41]
The concept was described as “simple and brilliant”,[36] “clever”,[42] “ingenious”,[14] and “a unique platform [for advertising] which is also a bit of fun”.[27] Professor Martin Binks, director of the Nottingham University Institute for Entrepreneurial Innovation, said, “It is brilliant in its simplicity … advertisers have been attracted to it by its novelty … the site has become a phenomenon.”[14] Popular Mechanics said, “There’s no content. No cool graphics, giveaways or steamy Paris Hilton videos for viewers to salivate over. Imagine a TV channel that shows nothing but commercials, a magazine with nothing but ads. That’s The Million Dollar Homepage. An astonishing example of the power of viral marketing“.[43] Don Oldenburg of the Washington Post was one of the few without praise for the site, calling it a “cheap, mind-bogglingly lucrative marketing monstrosity, an advertising badlands of spam, banner ads and pop-ups.”[13] Oldenburg continues, “it looks like a bulletin board on designer steroids, an advertising train wreck you can’t not look at. It’s like getting every pop-up ad you ever got in your life, at once. It’s the Internet equivalent of suddenly feeling like you want to take a shower.”[13]
As the final pixels were being auctioned, Tew was interviewed on Richard & Judy,[44] and profiled in the online BBC News Magazine.[8] The Wall Street Journal wrote about The Million Dollar Homepage and its impact on the Internet community. “Mr. Tew himself has taken on celebrity status in the Internet community … the creative juice … paints an interesting picture of online entrepreneurship”.[2]
Tew dropped out of the business degree the site was set-up to fund after 1 term.[45] He subsequently set up a follow-up site selling pixels for $2 each, with going $1 to Tew and $1 to the eventual winner, who would receive $1 million. He claimed “This idea has longevity” adding “I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to win $1m dollars, so I can keep doing it again and again.” The site, Pixelotto, was a relative failure and the eventual prize was only $153,000. In 2008, Tew founded Popjam, an Internet aggregation and social networking business.[46][47]
[edit] DDoS attack
On 7 January 2006, three days before the auction of the final 1,000 pixels was due to end, Tew received an e-mail from an organisation called The Dark Group, and was told The Million Dollar Homepage would become the victim of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) if a ransom of $5,000 was not paid by 10 January.[48][49] Believing the threat to be a hoax, he ignored it, but a week later received a second e-mail threat: “Hello u website is under us atack to stop the DDoS send us 50000$.”[48] Again, he ignored the threat, and the website was flooded with extra traffic and e-mails, causing it to crash. “I haven’t replied to any of them as I don’t want to give them the satisfaction and I certainly don’t intend to pay them any money. What is happening to my website is like terrorism. If you pay them, new attacks will start,” Tew said.[50]
The website was inaccessible to visitors for a week until the host server upgraded the security system, and filtered traffic through anti-DDoS software.[49][50] Wiltshire Constabulary‘s Hi-Tech Crime Unit and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were called to investigate the extortion and attack; they believed it originated in Russia.[50][51]
[edit] Similar websites
Many other sites sell advertising by pixels.[2][13] Tew said of the sites, “[they] popped up almost immediately; now there are hundreds of Web sites selling pixels. The copycats are all competing with each other.”[1] “They have very little ads, therefore I guess it’s not going too well for them. The idea only works once and relies on novelty. Any copy-cat sites will only have pure comedy value, whereas mine possibly has a bit of comedy plus. So I say good luck to the imitators.”[52]
Neil Ashworth asked: If only I had a dollar for every time someone asked me this question I guess I’d be rich too! The truthful answer is not easily. However, it is possible to learn how to get rich on twitter with a few simple steps and this article will give you five steps to follow if you really need to get rich using the internet’s fastest growing social networking site. Sit back and take notice;
1. Market research
For any successful sales and marketing campaign the first step should always be to look around and find out what people are searching for. What do people need right now and where are they looking for it? Don’t always rely on the internet for this information. Take a trip to Wall-mart and work your way around the aisles to see what the hot products are right now, read the news papers and watch shows like Oprah to see what kind of things are happening and what the general population is grabbing hold of right now. You should be able to identify a number of products that people are searching for.
2. Product research
Finding the right product to sell online is not as easy as it seems and finding a product or service to sell using social networking sites is even harder. The mistake a lot of people make is to go for cheap and cheerful, believing that a $7 product is much easier to sell than a $7,000 product. Wrong!
Selling anything online takes time and conversion rates are no different and your level of effort is no different whether you are trying to sell a cheap product to a low end market or a high ticket item. The numbers will add up just the same but the one big difference will be in your bottom line. It’s up to you but my approach has always been to find a high ticket item that will convert and will pay me the commission I’m looking for. Here’s three places to look;
Commission Junction
Commission River
ClickBank
3. Target your market
When you have your product and you are confident that it’s going to sell, because (and here’s the thing) it’s already selling online, the next step is to find the marketplace for it. Twitter is vast so finding people who may be interested in buying your product needs a little focus. Here is how to go about it;
Twellow – this free twitter directory will allow you to find people in your niche and will let you find them and their audience. Find, follow and get yourself followed to build up your own audience and ultimately marketplace.
Hashtags – twitter hashtags are a useful tool for tracking conversations but also for finding people talking about the product or service you have in mind when trying to make a few sales and get rich using twitter. That’s the bottom line after all isn’t it?
Twubs – twitter twubs are not that well known or used right now but they are a cool tool and simplify the process of using and tracking hashtags by keeping the conversation inside a single webpage a bit like a Squidoo lens. You can even start your own twub around the product you want to promote using the name of the product as a hashtag and use the twub to track conversations as well as customers or potential customers.
Twitter search – use the twitter search function to search for real time tweets about your product and interract with tweeters to build relationships.
4. Rapport building
If you don’t build relationships you don’t make sales. This is the key to successful marketing campaigns and the one single element that will mean you are either heard or ignored in the great twittersphere. Build rapport and start to realise how to get rich slowly on the internet.
5. Sales conversion
Marketing on the internet is as much about the system as it is about the individual behind it. People are quick to surf from one website to the next in the blink of an eye and will have no hesitation in bouncing straight off your web page if it doesn’t look right, feel right or sound right. So, be sure to work on these three areas to increase sales conversions;
Sub headline – make the sub-headline connect with your potential customers needs, perhaps asking a question to qualify your customers by saying something like “Are you looking for a way to…?”
Headline – make the headline stand out and offer a solution by saying something like “A simple way to…”
Information – provide information on your product either with a personal video or text outlining your solution.
Call to action – the final step is to make sure your potential customer knows what to do next, so say something like “Your next step is to enter your details into the form…”
Getting rich on the internet is not simple, despite what some people may tell you. However, it is possible and if you find yourself calling out in desperation “how do i get rich on twitter? ” at some point soon then before you throw in the towel and leave it all behind, take a little time to look closely at your actions, activities and approach to discover exactly how to get rich online using twitter.
May Happiness Itself would be better than millions
