If you are not using the Internet for more than email, you are missing out on a vast number of money-making opportunities for your business. A company website can be used for lead generation, posting your "brochures" and other useful information, customer service, reducing routine inquiries (FAQs) and more. Here's a growing collection of resources that can help you make more money from your website and the Internet.

Simple, Turn-Key, Step-by-Step Programs

Nick Usborne offers a step-by-step system for creating content-rich, money-making websites called, How to Write Your Own Money-Making Websites. It’s a way to make money in your spare time doing something you love that can bring you in a substantial income no matter where you are or what you’re doing.

With his system, you won’t have to buy expensive pay-per-click ads or other online advertisements to drive traffic to your website. The people interested in your website topic will find your site “naturally.”

By “naturally” he means they’ll find your site by simply typing in keywords relevant to your topic into the major search engines, and your website will rank consistently high on search engine results pages.

And he's not talking about hundreds of visitors, either; he's talking about thousands of people flowing into your website every month, eager to buy or to find out more information about your site topic. Best of all, you can make a substantial income doing this without even selling your own products! Which means no customer service issues to deal with or inventory to count. > more

Create Your Website – Web Hosting Providers

In the US:

GoDaddy.com. Search tool plus a low-cost registrar of domain names, web hosting, and a variety of other services to help you build your web presence. >more

Network Solutions. Well established domain name registrar and web hosting provider who also offer a range of other services to build and promote your website. >more

In Canada:

I currently recommend TELUS hosting. They have a variety of hosting options for small and medium-sized businesses, starting at a very reasonable rate. You can upgrade step by step as you need more web space or functions. >more

Domain Name Search and Registration

GoDaddy.com. Search tool plus a low-cost registrar of domain names, web hosting, and a variety of other services to help you build your web presence. >more

Checkdomain.com. Web tool to check on the availability of a domain name. It often gives you more information about who's registered a particular domain name and when. >more

Network Solutions. Well established domain name registrar and web hosting provider who also offer a range of other services to build and promote your website. >more

Web Authoring Tools

Mini Site Creator. Jim Edwards has created a “mini site creator” system for people who hate all this technical stuff and just want to build their site really fast. His philosophy that simple, and what he calls "ugly" sites can often outpull and outsell fancy ones is worth learning about. >more

xSite Pro. This is the software I used to create this site ... and probably the #1 software program used by entrepreneurs and Internet marketers around the world. Very easy to learn, simple, intuitive "what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG)" editor. Plus loads of extra features to make your site look terrific and get picked up quickly by the search engines. This one gets my highest recommendation! >more

Build Your Customer List – Autoresponders and Email Tools

An autoresponder lets you set up a series of email messages to follow up automatically with any customer or prospect inquiry. You can program your messages to go out instantly, or in any sequence of days afterward. Given that many customers need multiple contacts to finally decide to buy, having an autoresponder puts yours email marketing on autopilot, so you can focus on other things. You can also use this third-party application to manage your customer or prospect mailing list and send out email newsletters or the occasional "broadcast" email. Cost for the service is around the $20/month range.

Recommended autoresponder: GetResponse.com. They will let you set up a limited-feature autoresponder free, to check out how it works and actually use it for customers.>more

Another highly-recommended autoresponder service: Aweber.com. >more

Autoresponder Magic
Autoresponder Magic is a massive collection of winning autoresponder messages to model, copy and swipe from the top Internet marketers around. >more

Generate Traffic to Your Web Site

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

The Definitive Guide to Google AdWords. Perry Marshall's book can help you shave weeks off the learning curve and use this incredibly powerful internet marketing tool (Google AdWords) to generate leads and automate sales -- even in your local area. He's also written a very helpful e-course called "5 days to success with Google AdWords" and there's no charge for it. You can find out about it here: > more

The Overture Keyword Suggestion Page. This free resource available at Google AdWord's main competitor, Overture, gives you a count of the most commonly searched keywords and phrases in the past month. It's a great starting point for creating your own AdWord campaigns. >more

The Overture Bid Tool. This web resource lets you type in a keyword or phrase and see how much other marketers are bidding for it and their listings. >more

WordTracker. Another Internet tool to help you select the most effective keywords for your Google AdWords or Overture search engine marketing campaigns. WordTracker is fee-based but lets you test out the services for free. >more

Generate Traffic through Articles and eBooks

Jim Edwards offers a proven, step-by-step system for creating short (roughly 500 words) articles to targeted ezines that can generate tons of traffic for your website or web products. As he puts it, this simple "Traffic Machine" can create an instant avalanche of FREE Website Traffic. >learn more

Accept Credit Cards and Other Electronic Payments Online

ClickBank.com. Simple, easy way to automate the payment process and enable customers to use a variety of credit cards without a big upfront payment or complicated programming. Well established online company. Caveat: only applies to digital products (downloads, software, PDFs, ebooks, etc.) which can be delivered instantly via your website or email. >more

WebContactPro has helped thousands of Net Entrepreneurs - just like YOU - eliminate the uncertainties and hassles of capturing online credit card orders quickly and easily. But unlike other shopping cart systems, WebContactPro does NOT require any additional software, order forms, or database programs. >more

Create Your Own Affiliate Program

An affilate program allows other people to product your website or products and services and earn a commission for referring people to you. It's a win-win arrangement for both of you. The key is to set up a turn-key system that tracks their leads, pays them automatically and gives them various tools, such as ready-made headlines, banner ads and graphic icons to promote your business in a professional way. Here are some tools that can help:

ClickBank
With ClickBank, your digitally-delivered products can have an instant Affiliate Network. Affiliate networks are used by many of the most successful sites on the web to drive paying customers to their online stores. >more

Enhance Your Site with these Graphic Tools

Ebook cover generator
Armand Morin's ebook cover and software box making software. >more


Productivity Boosters

Instant Sales Letters
Instant Sales Letter templates are a valuable (and effective) marketing tool for nearly any business owner who wants to increase their profits. You can create your own powerful sales letter in just minutes…without writing! >more

The Definitive Guide to Writing & Promoting White Papers
If you sell any kind of complex service, technology or sophisticated product, a White Paper is the best way to educate your customers about that technology. You can use a white paper to build your credibility, get free exposure in the press, attract new customers, and drive new technology into change-resistant, conservative markets. Most white papers are either too technical (boring) or too commercial (thin and cheesy) - but Perry Marshall has written a guide that shows you how to strike the perfect balance.  >more

Guerilla Marketing for Hi-Tech Sales People
Most sales people spend all day dialing for dollars, chasing prospects who are mentally if not physically backing away from them, and they waste most of their time chasing deals instead of closing them. At the same time, most companies spend all kinds of money on advertising and don't get nearly enough bang for their buck. Perry Marshall's "Guerilla Marketing for Hi-Tech Sales People" is an information-packed audio CD that discusses 21 principles that you can use to eliminate cold prospecting and wasted advertising dollars in today's fiercely competitive B2B marketplace.  You can get a FREE copy right now: >more

Magnetic Marketing
This is the famous marketing program from legendary marketing guru Dan Kennedy... a complete business building package that covers powerful advertising, marketing, direct marketing, customer attraction and persuasion strategies. >more

"Advanced Copywriting Seminar-in-a-box"
Only 115 people were permitted to attend Dan Kennedy's recent, closed door, 2-day Seminar where he revealed ALL of his most prized, most powerful and most profitable copywriting techniques. Everything else was just "elementary school" before this. >more

"Instant Marketing Toolbox"
Here's the first turn-key, monthly marketing system with over 90% of the hard work already done for you… If You're Too Busy Running Your Business To Even Think About Marketing -- This Is What You've Been Waiting For. >more

5-Minute PDF Creator
Perfect tutorial resource for anyone that wants to quickly and easily create great looking ebooks and any other digital content. Over 150 screen captures, diagrams and full color graphics, really gives you exact step-by-step details for publishing success. >more

Write an eBook in 7 Days
Expert Jim Edwards shows you how to write and publish your own outrageously profitable ebook... in as little as 7 days. eBooks are also tremendous promotional and traffic-generating tools. >more                                  

Public Domain Riches
Discover a fortune that lies hidden in the massive stockpile of public domain works -- which is yours FREE for the taking without permission or paying a dime in fees. >more

Other Useful Tools

Million Dollar Emails
Million Dollar Emails reveals the secrets of using email marketing and the power to create cash on demand. Imagine, anytime you need more money, you just hit SEND! Click…Send…Make Money! >more

Affiliate Link Cloaker. How do you keep your affiliate commissions safe from hijackers? Up to 30% of all affiliate commissions are "hijacked" or bypassed, often by customers who either put
their own affiliate IDs in where yours should be or who "chop off" affiliate links at the end of URLs. This simple product takes only a few minutes to set up and makes any product you sell as an affiliate look like it has its own page on your site. >more

Lyris.com's Free Content Checker
Depending on how your newsletter or email message is written, even your opt-in email may be inadvertently tagged as spam and prevented from being delivered. This free online content checker from Lyris can help you by checking your message before you send it. They have incorporated SpamAssassin's™ rules into their "ContentChecker" web form below. Run your message through their Content Checker and receive a detailed evaluation. >more

Jim Edward's 7-Day eBook program
Learn how to write and publish your own outrageously profitable ebook... in as little as 7 days. >more

Instant Internet Profits
This home study course that shows how a completely different approach to Internet marketing can take you from zero to making $51,351.94 in your first 6 ½ months online, working from home. >more

33 Days to Online Profits
This is one of the first step-by-step, day-by-day guides to making real money online in 33 days or less for almost any product or service you sell. >more

The Affiliate Business Blueprint
Discover how to create or supplement your own business by earning affiliate income from other companies' products. >more