Finance Wanted.

By Chinemere Onuekwusi

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
U.S President.

Every person; black (Negro), white (Caucasian), occidental or oriental are born with a certain trait or innate capabilities that distinguishes him/her from the others. However discovering these potentials could be tasking and might take several years or even eternity to discover. Most people live their lives imitating others and as such find it relatively difficult to discover them selves and their innate abilities oblivious of the fact that "you can only be you" . It is never wrong to have a role model or an icon to emulate; but it is wrong to live your role model.

For example pop star Michael Jackson's role model was James Brown of blessed memory who was regarded as the 'god father of soul". Mike grew up not wanting to be like James Brown, but to greater than him and did he succeed? Sure he did and was crowned the "king of pop" today his antecedents speaks for him. I better be my self than imitate a hero and remain in his shadow for life. Like my friend will say 'it is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.

The main purpose for having this blog is basically to share my experiences with people of like minds (like you reading this article at the moment) on sundry issues; and from my previous blogs posted, I always try as hard as I can to be truthful to you on issues pertaining to the internet and online opportunities: it's uses (advantage as well as disadvantage), I share with you the facts, the myths and also the reality. Basically, our main purpose of using the internet is to surf for information that helps add more quality to our lives. But like every good thing is prone to bad use, we pervert the use of the internet. Therefore we risk loosing the innate qualities to come to fore as regards utilizing the web resources to our own benefits. Having said that, I think it is really expedient that we change our attitude (concerning things online) to get a better picture of life.

Presently do you know that while we (Nigerians) spend so much time on idle chat mostly on yahoo and msn messenger's respectively, that the rest of the world especially the west are busy using the same yahoo and msn messenger to their own benefit, smiling to the bank every day? Few people know this, but I want you to be aware of this. I want you to know that information on various chat rooms and news groups are intended for traffic, and more traffic means more money. While browsing do you wonder why a chat template pops up all the time, and you are been given a link redirecting to the person's site or blog.

While you hit the site you get to know more about the person and he then offers to render you a service for a pound of your flesh! Most times these are porn sites offering all sort of erotic clips to arouse you erotic desires. After whetting your appetite as a dog given a bone you are now asked to become a member of the site to view the videos uninhibited, so doing you have to part with some dollars: funny enough these sites take their payment through credit cards (visa and MasterCard).

How ever you don't need to be involved in porn to get you own fare share of this kind of dollars, as an African with moral values; all you need do is to post a good article on various issues online: just like I'm doing now. Then while in the chat room you send in your contact info redirecting the person to a site. Immediately the person hits the site you now offer him/her a service he could find rather interesting and from experience people tend to part money on things they want other than things they need. Now you don't need to own your product to do this, this is why I'll love to introduce you to the lucrative world of AFFILIATE MARKETING: I got introduced to this very lucrative online business a couple of months back and at the moment I'm still learning the ropes.

But I'll love to share with the little experience I've garnered while mastering this niche. First of all I'll explain to you what affiliate marketing is all about. Affiliate marketing is all about promoting a product or services of a company online to help increase sales, and when a sale is made through you as an affiliate of that company you earn a commission. Good enough you don't need to be in the United States or any other advanced country to be a good affiliate. How ever all you need is a good knowledge of how the affiliate program works, and access to an internationally recognized credit card (as the ones offered by most Nigerian banks are not accepted since it is customized with a Nigerian address) other than a US address, surprisingly there are many companies in Nigeria who help you get a credit card customized with a US address for a reasonable fee. I'll love to get permission from any of these companies before I list them on this blog.

More so while learning the basics of affiliate marketing I came across so many affiliate networks like click bank that offers digital products, Amazon that sales products like DVD's, Link Share etc, but to be frank with you before you can get this venture kick started you need your own professional web site, so that you can market your products as well, and to design a web site now is as easy as using MS word, you don't need a formal knowledge especially in writing java or html scripts, all that is required is to have a Microsoft FrontPage software installed in your system, and bingo! You are on. After designing the web pages of your site you need a server to host your site, and now there are so many companies here in Nigeria that host web pages depending on the size of the site for a token fee (in Naira), for example a web page of about 50 MB could cost you from N1500 to N2500 to host for about one year after which you renew your subscription, but before I mix things up you need to have a domain name for example www.yourname/nameof yourbusiness.com and to get a domain name you pay a little amount of money say N1000 first of all to the web hosting company Hit this blog from time to time for more updates on affiliate marketing strategies

Now as soon as you join any affiliate marketing network you need to know how to place ads for effective marketing of the products you are promoting. At this juncture I'll love to get you acquainted with google ad words. This is a program by google specially designed for advertisers or publishers, also known as pay-pay- click advertising. Well like I always do I'll tell you the truth as regards this program based on the little I know as I am still experimenting so as to master the ropes of this advertising tactics. However, from the little I know I'll assert here that this program has enriched millions of people around the world. Men like Perry Marshal, Mal Keenan etc have made fortunes on the internet as top affiliates from taking part in ad word campaign. Top search engines like yahoo AltaVista, msn etc have their pay-per-click ad programs, and from what I read from the experts; it'll be your greatest undoing if you don't advertise with a top site like yahoo, before google became a house hold name; yahoo was and is still the most visited site to this day. For more on yahoo pay-per-click program visit www.overture.com

But suffice it to say that I'm still trying things out for the pay-per-click advertising system. My assurance to you is to get to this site often so as to get updates on my online experiences, and you are very free to post your comments on any issue raised here. Either as suggestions, criticisms (constructive rather than destructive) or words of encouragement, all are welcome. The texts so posted must be short, concise and straight to the point. Use of abusive words should be greatly avoided. Once more I wish to thank you for taking out time to read this piece one after the other. As I look forward to a generation of young Nigerians that'll make the difference and earn the respect due us by the global community.

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