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Are Backlinks Bad? – This May Surprise You!

Are backlinks bad? Are backlinks vital for rankings? What should I do with the backlinks?

Those are the questions that many people are asking when they want to get ranked in the search engines and to drive traffic to their websites.

The founder of Wealthy Affiliate, online millionaire, Kyle wrote recently and article about the backlinks and what he thinks about using backlinks.

Massive Penguin Update in 2014

Kyle mentions the Google penguin that happened in 2014 in Google. Before that update, the backlinks used to be useful and many people tried to get ranks by using different tricks with the backlinks.

Penguin update in 2014 was devastating for those who were concentrating on the backlinks. In Kyle’s word the update literally WIPED many entire businesses.

But the update was great for some people who were not concentrating on the backlinks but providing the quality content. Kyle says that he, for example, experienced DOUBLE the traffic overnight because he wasn’t concentrating on the backlinks but on the more important things.

No Benefit from the Backlinks

Kyle states that the backlinks won’t help you to get rank any better. It would be the waste of time to use hours in building backlinks.

“Google has granted a close to ZERO NET VALUE (in terms of rankings) for backlinks.” -Kyle, The Founder of Wealthy Affiliate

Even though many “so-called authorities” are stating that backlinks are very important and you must concentrate on those link buildings they tend to forget the Google’s update that reduced the importance of the backlinks

Where Should You Concentrate Then to Getting Ranked?

The number one focus should always be to provide quality content for your visitors. Google wants to give the searchers the best resources where the people can benefit. If you are providing the best content out there you will very probably get ranked.

Concentrate on building your website and service better.

Keywords

We still shouldn’t forget the importance of the targeted keywords.

When You are using specific keywords people can more easily find your website and your quality content from the internet. Spend always some time on the keyword research to find the best keywords.

Engagement

As you are providing the best user experience for your readers and the customers the engagement is the vital part.

Engagement, comments, and conversations will also help you to rank better. Google sees that your website is active and people are interested in its content when it gets higher and higher in the rankings.

Conclusion

As Kyle stated, you shouldn’t be worrying about the backlinks. Instead, always think and reflect how to improve your website and take action.

In the course of time, your website will anyway get a lot of links from many different sites when people find your valuable content. They share your website in the social media circles and on their own websites.

Provide something useful and the people will come.

Are Backlinks Bad? Yes if you spend your time on them. If they come naturally just let them come but don’t waste your time building the backlinks.

I hope this text will save your time about the worrying of the backlinks and you find this information useful.

What are your experiences with the backlinks?

How have you got ranked in Google?

Leave the comments below.

Read Kyle’s article here

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“How to Find Keywords for My Website?” – 5 Easy Steps.

Finding proper keywords is vital part of the successful online business. That’s why many people are asking, “How to find keywords for my website?”

I am going to explain the simple and effective process what I use myself in order to find powerful keywords to get ranked.

You can use the same process in your keyword research or you can just take some ideas from my process and apply them in your own work.

Step 1 – Login to Wealthy Affiliate

First of all, I log in to my account. If you don’t have your own account, you can create it for free.

Once I have logged in I can go straight to the keyword tool.

Step 2 – Go to the Keyword Tool

Wealthy Affiliate provides a lot of useful tools including the keyword tool.

Their keyword tool shows the accurate traffic, competition and some other things related to the keywords. But I’m mostly interested in the traffic and the competition because they are two the most important factors in choosing the right keyword.

I click the keyword tool on the left menu and start searching.

Step 3 – Write the Possible Keywords

Then I usually have in mind what kind of subject you are going to write about. You can also use many kinds of techniques to get some inspiration for writing.

Write your possible keyword and BANG!

The keyword tool shows you if the keyword is good or not.

If the traffic is less than 50 searches per month, I recommend searching for the other keywords because most of the time you can find the better ones. If the traffic is too little you will hardly get any new visitors to your website.

I recommend you to find the keywords where the traffic is more than 50. But sometimes 30 or even 20 can be okay if the competition is very low.

Let’s take for example the keyword of this post. I planned to write something about the process how do I find keywords and teach you to do the same.

Step 4 – Choose the Best One

I found the keyword “How Do I Find Keywords for My Website”. That sounds logical so then I started to analyze the competition and the traffic.

You can see in the picture that the keyword gets only 32 searches per month so I wasn’t very interested before I saw the competition.

Then I checked the competition and it showed the following:

When the traffic was 32 and the competition only 15 I decided to choose How Do I Find Keywords for My Website as a keyword of my post. It didn’t take a lot of time to find this one.

BUT

Then I decided to make the video of my keyword research and I found out the better keyword with 56 monthly searches and the competition only 10.

See the video below where I explain my keyword research and how I ended up changing the keyword of this post.

Here are 3 main principles to find the best keyword:

1.The keyword must make sense (=grammatically correct)
2.The competition must be less than 50. (Usually, I still prefer the keywords with the competition less than 30.)
3.The traffic must be more than 50 but sometimes any traffic is okay. (Don’t choose the keywords with the traffic less than 10.)

Step 5 – Use That Keyword in The Article

Then after choosing my keyword I use it in the title and in the first paragraph of my article. Then I write the rest of the text naturally. Usually, I happen to use the keyword in the text afterwards when I just write naturally but I don’t concentrate on it too much.

Placing your keyword in the title and in the first paragraph is enough.

The most important thing is not to put a lot of keywords in your text but to provide the best experience for the reader.

Remember that you are providing content for the real people who are searching something from the Internet. You are not writing for the bot, you are writing for the human.

Finding great keywords will become your second nature as you keep providing quality content and building your online business. In the beginning, it may take some time but when you get used to it, the process becomes faster and faster.

I hope this short tutorial helps you to find the best keywords for your website. Feel free to ask questions  and leave comments below!

Which keyword tools do you use? Jaaxy, Wealthy Affiliate’s keyword tool or something else?

(Sometimes I use also keyword tool Jaaxy  but today explained the process how I find keywords using Wealthy Affiliate’s keyword tool. One of the greatest benefits of Wealthy Affiliate’s keyword tool is that it’s included in the premium membership. In the other words, it’s free for the premium members.)

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How to Motivate to Work? Don’t do Anything!

Have you ever felt unmotivated to start your work and get it done? Have you ever thought how to motivate yourself to work? Don’t worry probably all of us feel it sometimes.

But the difference between the winners and the losers is how they react to that feeling. The losers will give the feeling win. The winners can change their feeling and after 5 minutes they will feel motivated to work again. How do they do it? I have a trick for you.

After reading this text you don’t need to wonder anymore how to motivate to work.

Analyze Yourself

When you feel the unwillingness to work what do you usually do?

Do you scroll Facebook’s news feed?
Do you play something TOTALLY USELESS with your phone?
Do you organize your papers?
Do you read blogs on the Internet?

Notice one thing: Usually, you are doing something. You are doing something that you shouldn’t.

You are doing something that seems useful but still it’s not the work that you should be doing.

Try my exercise!

About the Exercise

I want to mention that this exercise is highly effective if you do it well.

The point is that you don’t give yourself an alternative to doing something that would feel somehow useful. Don’t start to read the newspaper when you are doing the exercise. Don’t start to plan your weekend.

The idea is not to do anything.

You are giving yourself two alternatives:

1.Not doing anything

2.Working.

If you are a human being, homo sapiens, sooner or later you want to choose the alternative number 2, working.

How Do People Fail?

Some people fail because they give themselves more options. They give themselves the option number 3: do something useless that feels somehow useful.

STOP DOING IT NOW!

Try This!

Step 1 Set 5-minute timer and start

Step 2 Sit down on the floor

Step 3 Don’t to anything.

If you feel like taking your phone, don’t do it. Just sit. Do it for 5 minutes. I mean don’t do anything for 5 minutes. Just sit with your brain OFF-mode.

Let me repeat.

Don’t.
Do.
Anything.

Sooner or later you will feel so bored that working starts to feel very interesting option.

Before the exercise, you can put the 5-minute timer. Start working right away when you feel like it again. Most of the time you don’t want to sit there and wait for 5 minutes because it feels like a long time if you are not doing anything.

In my opinion, motivational techniques can be very useful if you are building your own online business and being your own boss.

More ways to motivate yourself to work

This awesome tip was found on one great article where you will find 5 ways to motivate yourself to do work.

I’m willing to hear your experiences after doing the exercise. What did you think about the other 4 ways to motivate yourself to work?

Leave the comments below!

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5 Benefits of Social Media Marketing for Bloggers

Today I’m going to give 5 benefits of social media marketing for bloggers. Read these carefully if you are a blogger and especially if you want to earn income from your blog.

Social media is an awesome tool for all bloggers and online marketers. You can engage with people, find new customers, market your brand and the sky is the limit.

5 Benefits of Social Media Marketing for Bloggers

1.More Traffic. You can share the links to your blog posts and articles. People in social media click those links which will mean more traffic to your blog.

You can use several ways to encourage people in social media to come to your website. For example use images, use questions and encourage action.

When people see that your content is valuable they will start to share your website in their social circle’s which allows you to get even more and more traffic.

2.More Customers. More traffic to your website will lead to more customers which will very probably lead to more revenue. Let’s say, for example, that the traffic of your blog is 5,000 visitors/month and 1% of them end up buying something. That makes 50 customers per month.

Then after social media marketing the traffic in your blog increases to 10,000/month and still 1% of them end up buying your product. Now you have already 100 customers every month.

3.Increased Brand Awareness. You can build your own brand in social media. Put your blog’s logo everywhere on the social networks. Leave tracks of your blog. And don’t worry that people will not get bored with your logo.

Think about Coca-Cola, for example. Everyone knows the brand. Why are they still marketing their brand everywhere? Because if they wouldn’t market it people would forget it over the time in the long run. But now when they put their ads everywhere and people can see their logo it’s easy to remember.

You can use the same strategy in your own social media marketing. Leave the tracks.

4.More Authority. More traffic, more customers and increased brand awareness. All of this will together lead to more authority. You will become better known in your niche and probably you can become a famous blogger.

It’s always beneficial to have more authority in the online world. People will trust you more, they will engage with you more and they will buy from you.

Become the authority. Continue building your blog and marketing it in the social media.

5.More Revenue. This is one of the most interesting parts. All 4 benefits that I mentioned before will eventually lead to more revenue. Social media marketing will allow you to earn more from your blog.

Sometimes you can even use some money for to market your blog in social media in order to get profit. Invest $10 in social media marketing and get $20 profit. But be careful when investing in social media marketing. You can end up losing money if you don’t know what you are doing.

=> Become More Effective on Social Media with MassPlanner!

Conclusion

Social media marketing can be ultimately the powerful tool for bloggers. I would say that it’s the must. Here is the little recap of the benefits so you can remember them better.

1.More Traffic
2.More Customers
3.Increase Brand Awareness
4.More Authority
5.More Revenue

I still want to highlight that social media marketing will be a powerful tool only if you use it in a right way. Scrolling Facebook’s news feed and watching useless Youtube videos for many hours IS NOT SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING. It’s only the waste of time.

You can end up spending hundreds of hours on social media if you don’t know the right way to use it.

You need to learn how to do social media marketing effectively. My favorite place to learn social media marketing for bloggers is Wealthy Affiliate.

Here are two powerful lessons of social media marketing. I’m sure that you will like them!

TOP 12 Steps to Social Media Success

What 3 Social Media You Want and Why

I hope that you find this article useful. Please share it on your social networks. 😉

If you have any questions or comments I’m more than happy to help you out and discuss with you.

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How to Learn to Write a Blog? – 3 Steps to Become an Awesome Blogger

Nowadays more and more people are interested in blogging and for a good reason. Writing a blog can be fun and you can earn the full-time income by writing a blog. But If you don’t have former experience of blogging, you may ask, “How to Learn to Write a Blog?”

Writing a blog is a skill that anyone can learn. I want to highlight it, Anyone can learn to write well!

Today I’m going to give you 3 steps that you can become a wonderful blogger.

Step 1 – Learn from the Professional Bloggers

When you are learning a new skill there is a way to speed up the process. You don’t need to reinvent the bicycle.

Learn from others who are professional bloggers. They have great tips how to get started, how to become better and how to write well. If you don’t know any professional writers, don’t worry.

Wealthy Affiliate is an online university that teaches you everything about writing a blog (and how to earn money with your blog). Their comprehensive training teaches you

• How to build a blog
• How to add images
• How to write in an interesting way
• How to get traffic to a blog
• And much more.

You don’t need to become a professional but even if you are writing a blog for fun it makes it easier when you get some great tips from the experienced bloggers. And would it be fun to earn little extra income while blogging?

You can read my thorough review of WA here or you can claim your 10 free video lessons right here.

Step 2 – Write, Write, Write

If you want to become a better in writing blogs you need write a lot. There is no shortcut.

But the good news is:

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great” -Zig Ziglar

(See my text -> Perfection – Not Required in Online Business)

You will become better when you practice and I recommend to write daily.

As you write something daily, writing will become your second nature. Think for example about riding a bicycle or driving a car. You don’t need to think about the process anymore because you have done it so much. The same will happen with writing. Just keep on doing it and it will feel as natural as breathing.

(Writing a lot will also help you to get ranked in Google. When you publish something every day you have much more content to be ranked in the search engines. If you, for example, write one post a day that means 365 posts in one year. Compare if you write only 1 post a week which makes 52 posts/year. 365 > 52.)

Step 3 – Reflect and Improve

As Ziglar said, you don’t have to be great to start. But after starting it’s important to learn and become better. Never stop learning.

Learning makes writing a blog also more interesting and gives satisfaction when you can compare your texts now and after one year. You can see how much you have improved and it motivates you to learn more.

In order to become a better writer you can for example

• Ask feedback from the professional bloggers (in Wealthy Affiliate)
• Ask feedback from your friends (but keep in mind to take only what is constructive because some of your friends probably are not very professionals in blogging)
• Analyze your own texts. Read your texts with the “visitors eye’s” and think. What things keep your attention first? Are your texts easy to read? Are they convincing? What could you make better?

People who have written a blog for 5 years can still learn something new.

You can also start learning other things related to your blog. How to get ranked in Google, how to get more visitors to your website, how to do money with your blog using affiliate marketing and so on. The sky is the limit.

3 Steps to Become an Awesome Blogger

1.Learn from the Professional Bloggers
2.Write, Write, Write
3.Reflect and Improve

I really hope these 3 steps will help you to learn to write a blog and become an awesome blogger.

What do you think about these steps?

How do you learn to blog?

Leave the comments below.

 

3 Awesome texts to learn more and get inspiration!

“How to Write a Good Blog Post”

“Get good at writing content”

“4 Easy Article Writing Templates“

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How to Unfollow People on Twitter Fast! – A Quick Tip

If you feel that your Twitter feed is too full, you follow too many people or your following limits are full I wrote you this quick tutorial “How to Unfollow People on Twitter Fast!”

I want to introduce you a free Twitter tool called Manageflitter. There are many useful Twitter tools in Manageflitter but today I’m going to show you how to unfollow people.

Learning this process takes you 5-10 minutes but it can save a big amount of your time in the long run.

(If you are more interested in getting followers in Twitter check my recent posts How to Get More Twitter Followers Instantly? – 5 Ultimate Tips and Getting Twitter Followers Fast is Easier Than You Might Think!)

Let’s go to the step-by-step instructions

1.Register to Manageflitter.com

Click the link and the following page will appear.

You can automatically connect with you Twitter account so you don’t need to create a new account to Manageflitter. That option makes using many Twitter tools much easier because you don’t need to remember million different accounts but only your Twitter account.

Login with your twitter account and you are in!

It will probably take a little while until your data downloads to Manageflitter. Then you can continue.

2.Go to “Manage” -> “Unfollow”

As you have now logged in click menu on the top left, “Manage” and then “Unfollow” (see the image below).

3.Choose Who Do You Want to Unfollow

Then the unfollowing page appears to you.

On the left you can choose what kind of accounts you want to unfollow (See the image below).

You can for example choose Manageflitter show you the users

• Who are not following you back
• Don’t have a profile image
• Who are Inactive
• All of the users that you are following

Let’s take for example the people who are not following me back.

4.Start Unfollowing!

Then you are on the page which allows you to unfollow people fast. You can see which accounts you are following but they are not following you back.

You can unfollow them simply by clicking “unfollow” -button (see the image below).

You don’t need to move your mouse after unfollowing because Manageflitter deletes automatically the accounts that you have already unfollowed. It makes the process much faster.

Then just “click, click, click and click.” So much as you want to unfollow.

In Manageflitter you have a daily unfollowing limit but you can get the limit bigger by following Manageflitter on Twitter, sending a tweet about Manageflitter or subscribing to their email list.

You can see the options in the center on top of the page.

With the premium account you would get unlimited daily follows and also many other tools. There are also many other tools in Manageflitter but today I only concentrated to unfollowing -option.

Video Tutorial

I made a quick video tutorial for you also to give you clear instructions how you can unfollow people on twitter

How to Unfollow People on Twitter Fast – Questions?

I hope you find this tutorial helpful. If you have any questions or comments don’t hesitate to leave them below.

Start unfollowing in Manageflitter here.

Manageflitter is very reliable application with more than 3.2 million users. They started already in 2010. But if for some reason you want to stop using Manageflitter with your Twitter account you can always unauthorize apps on Twitter. See for example this quick video tutorial.

Do you want to monetize your Twitter and other social media accounts?
Learn how in Wealthy Affiliate!

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How Do People Make Money with Affiliate Marketing? – And with ONLY ONE SALE!

People make tons of money online. Have you ever wondered, “How do people make money with affiliate marketing?” Keep on reading and you will find out something surprising!

Today we live the year 2016. Who knows what will happen in 2021 or who knows how your life would be if you have chosen differently 2011.

I can hear you asking, “What do you mean by choosing differently??

Let me explain. If you are working in a job where you get active income instead of passive income you will be paid for every hour you work. Right?

What if you would have started a work in 2011 that would generate your income even today? Even if you would be sleeping or in Zaku Zaku Island in the middle of nowhere. 😉

The Power of 1 Sale. $1,400!

Here -> $1,400 commission on 1 WA sale! an online businessman Alex Sol explains how he made $1,400 with one single sale. And he wasn’t even selling his own product but promoting the other person’s product.

Let’s imagine if you would have started affiliate marketing in Wealthy Affiliate in 2011. Then someone bought the yearly premium membership. You got a $175 commission.

Then he learned to do online business (thanks to Wealthy Affiliate) and he continued to the community. After 5 years he has paid 5 x $175 = $875 in your pocket. And you only made one referral.

One link in your social media, one email, one link in your website or one link in the forum or anywhere. ONE LINK! One referral. 875$! That’s powerful! And totally realistic.

Let’s imagine if there would have been 5 people in 2011 who got interested in the online business by your referral. All 5 became successful and continued in WA for 5 years with the yearly membership. How much commission that would have meant for you?

5 x 5 x $175 = $4,375!

Think about it. Only 5 persons.

The Another Fast Way to Big Money with Affiliate Marketing

In affiliate marketing, you are earning commissions from the sold products. The commissions can be 4% or 80%. The product you sell can be $5 or $5,000.

The great way to earn income as an affiliate is selling expensive products with the good commission. Most of the time it’s quite hard to find such products. But finding expensive products with the lower commissions is easier.

Let’s imagine that you have a website that promotes fitness products. You can link for example treadmills, gym machines, and other equipment.

For example the price of the treadmill $1,299.00. Let’s say 5% commission for you (can be 10% also if you are doing well on Amazon). You make $65 for every sale.

$999,99 gym machine with 10% commission means $100 for every sale.

A comprehensive set of high-quality dumbbells $5,322 with 10% commission means $532 for every sale!!

People buy also expensive products online. Would it be fun to get your own share of the market?

The Process of Affiliate Marketing – Simple!

1.The company sells a product
2.You promote their product (=Leave a link of their website somewhere.)
3.Someone buys the product
4.You earn the commission.

The process explained more in detail in my other article here -> What is Affiliate Marketing Online? – Explained Simply.

Do You Want to Earn with Affiliate Marketing? 

There are hundreds (or thousands) of affiliate programs on the Internet with the recurring passive income possibility.

Don’t be sad if you didn’t start affiliate marketing in 2011. You can still start it today and think about how happy you will be for your decision in 2021.

If you don’t start today you will never know what you missed by walking pass the opportunity.

Wealthy Affiliate is an online community and training that teaches everything you need to learn to become a successful affiliate marketer. But don’t be fooled, you need to do your own part also!

Read more what is Wealthy Affiliate here

OR Start Affiliate Marketing Right Away in Wealthy Affiliate FOR FREE.

If you have any questions, comments or own experiences about affiliate marketing feel free to share them below.

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Is Bring the Fresh a Scam? – 2017 Review

Bring the Fresh Review – Is Bring the Fresh a Scam?

Name: Bring the Fresh

Website: www.BringTheFresh.com

Price: ~$60 to start (+ upsells)

Owners: Kelly Felix

Overall Rank: 75 out of 100

 

 

Introduction

I found the program called Bring the Fresh and I head to their website. The page seems appealing with all of the fancy colors.

Then I click to watch the introduction video which shows more or less the same message as most of the make-money-online programs, “Are you tired of bad programs? Our program is the best!” Typical story.

I scroll down the page and see a lot of testimonials (see the example below)

Although I was quite skeptical about those numbers, the testimonials arouse my curiosity.

I see the button, “Let me join – RISK-FREE.” That sounds nice! I think that probably I can have a free trial account and try this program for a while.

WHAM! The next page opens where I’m asked to pay 55€ (=$62) in order to get in. I don’t feel like putting my money on the program that I don’t know.

The first impression with Bring the Fresh program wasn’t very nice. No trial account. Pay 55€ to try the program.

I decide to keep my money at least for a while and some thorough research about the program.

Today I will share my findings:

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Step-by-step training
• Owners update the training and the service to keep it up-to-date
• Easy to start
• The founder has a long experience of online marketing
• 60-days money back guarantee

Cons:

• No free trial. Costs 55€/$60 to start
• A lot of “hype” and enormous promises
• Gives the false impression that earning money online happens in a few weeks without a great effort
• Upsells

What Bring The Fresh Provides and Who Is It For?

Bring the Fresh is an affiliate marketing training course. The subject of the training is more or less the same as in Niche Blitzkrieg, Affilorama, and Wealthy Affiliate (my #1 recommendation).

So the training covers

• How to find the good niche
• How to create a website
• How to generate traffic
• How to get ranked in the search engines
• How to monetize your website
• And other important topics related to affiliate marketing

BTF provides a comprehensive video training. There are many successful people who have started earning money online after their course. The teaching style in BTF is entertaining and educative at the same time. It uses fancy colors and relevant examples which makes studying easier.

The training is designed for the beginners so you can start it even if you don’t previous experience from affiliate marketing.

BTF Community and Support

Bring the Fresh is a community-based program which makes it better and easier to learn. You can talk with the people who have already succeeded in the online business and learn from them.

You can ask questions in the forum and someone will always answer. The community consists of +20,000 people (although probably some of them have already quit).

The great thing in the support is that you can contact the owners directly. This feature is certainly valuable because not in every program the founders are active.

The founder Kelly Felix has a long experience of online marketing which is definitely a good thing. You don’t only need to trust in his words because you can find the on the Internet. So at least the founder seems quite reliable.

Anyway, he is a “hard-boiled” businessman who also wants to get profit from his customers.

BTF Price

The pricing in Bring the Fresh is quite shady. Right away when you want to register, you need to pay about $60.

They don’t explain will there be any upsells or not.

But I made a little research and many people who had more experience with BTF said that there are so many upsells!

I don’t like that fact because they don’t say it right from the start. For example in Wealthy Affiliate, there are only fixed prices that you know right from the start. No shady upsells like in BTF.

My Final Opinion of Bring the Fresh

In their front page, they market Bring the Fresh with the following phrase, “There are only TWO kinds of people who come to this website. People who make MONEY AND people who make EXCUSES.” (See the image below)

The description could be somehow through because many people are making excuses like, “I don’t have skills to earn money online.” “I’m too old (or too young).” and so on.

I know by experience that anyone can learn to earn money online. But Bring the Fresh is not the best resource for that. Their training can teach you several things but still there are better products out there with the better training and with the better price/quality rate.

If you are interested in earning money online I certainly prefer to start from Wealthy Affiliate rather than Bring the Fresh.

 

Bring the Fresh is definitely not a scam. It is a program worth trying and you can definitely benefit from their training. But I need to admit it’s not the best program out there.

-> Start learning and earning today in Wealthy Affiliate! (Better training and service than BTF.)

Bring the Fresh at a Glance…

Name: Bring the Fresh
Website: www.bringthefresh.com
Price: ~$60 to start + upsells
Owners: Kelly Felix
Overall Rank: 75 out of 100

VERDICT:

I hope you find this review useful. If you have any comments or questions, don’t hesitate to leave them below! 🙂

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Online Business vs Offline Business – Which one do you prefer?

Business is simple. Someone has a need and you will fill that need. Someone wants to buy something that you sell it. Today we are going to compare Online Business vs. Offline Business!

If we go back in time 30 years (or 20 years), there wasn’t such an opportunity like the online business. The business happened mainly in the physical world.

But the Internet has brought a lot of new possibilities.

What are the similarities and the differences between Online Business vs. Offline Business? Which one would be a better choice for you?

Let’s find out together!

Similarities – No Shortcuts

Some people think that online business is something like, ”Click, click, click, push enter and $10,000 will come to your bank account every month.”

The reality is that such “formula” just doesn’t work. Probably some people have such kind of image about online business because there are so many scams out there (Check 5 Incredible Tips to Avoid Online Scams).

In online and offline business you will need to work, work and work. There is no shortcut to success. You will need to get customers and (if you don’t luckily already have 10 million followers in social media) it will take some time to attract the customers. Then it’s really possible to make $10,000/month as these 5 guys.

You will need to do marketing and you need to have a good product to sell. One option also has to have a business by selling other people’s products.

In business, it’s always vital to think how to improve your service regardless your business happens in the offline and online world. At some point, you just need to start and take a leap of faith.

Differences – The Limits and the Freedom

Offline business happens in a physical world and online business happens on the internet. It means that both of them have certain advantages and disadvantages. The Internet makes a lot of things easier than in the physical world.

Still for example Massage, manicure or pedicure will hardly happen in the online world. But it doesn’t mean the internet would be useless in that kind of businesses. The proper use of the online world can dramatically boost any those offline businesses.

Or let’s imagine that you own the kindergarten. You can’t move it magically from the United States to Canada in one day. If you have the responsibilities there and you need to work in the kindergarten you can’t take a one-month trip to Asia.

On the other hand, if you have an online business promoting or selling children’s clothes you can do it in the United States, Canada, Asia, Africa or literally anywhere where you can find the Internet connection.

In the other words

Online business makes constant traveling anywhere you want possible.

But of course, it depends on a little bit what kind of online business you are doing. If you need a warehouse for your products it’s hard to take a whole warehouse with if you are traveling around.

But for example, affiliate marketing can be done without any kind of warehouse. Everything you need is the laptop and the Internet connection.

Risks – Financial Risks are Minimal in the Online Business!

Do you know how many times people fail on average before they quit? The average is less than one. Because most of the people don’t even start.

Probably those people are afraid of the risks. When we are talking about the business there is always some kind of risks.

But most of the time the financial risks are way smaller in the online world.

Most of the online businesses can be started with about $100 of money (or you can start for free in Wealthy Affiliate) but many times in the physical world you need to rent an office and buy a lot of stuff before the business hasn’t even started.

In the online business, you can start for free. Get a free domain and start affiliate marketing. The only risk is the loss of time. But the loss of time sounds very much smaller risk than using $3,000/month for the rent and the employee in your beauty salon.

Conclusion

There are advantages in both, online and offline business. But being online releases usually much higher potential with the lower risk.

Listen what the richest man in the world said,

”If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.” –Bill gates

Even if you would have an offline business, basic online skills can highly boost your profit.

I prefer the online business because of its flexibility, low risks, and huge potential.

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