Feedback on experiment and how *YOU* too can make extra money on the internet even in your spare time

Seoza News June 11 2004 Number 404.  About 49.3% of you will not know what I am talking about. So to get up to speed consider taking a look at the previous newsletter before going further

For the 50.7% who do know what I'm talking about I think you will find the following very interesting.

150 people were sent the newsletter last week with the "request to help message" in it.

Some 4 days after sending out the newsletter 41 people had opened the newsletter ... I cannot say read it ... I only know that it was opened by some 27% of recipients... In a later newsletter I will let you know how I can tell exactly how many people opened the email newsletter. I think you will agree that this is important marketing information.

4 of those people who opened the newsletter did read it because they clicked through to the form I mentioned and in fact completed the form. I do not know who they were and have no means of finding out. It is irrelevant to me.

Those 4 people definitely received an insurance quote from Dial Direct. I know this with certainty because Dial Direct paid SEOZA R200 for referring those 4 people to them via a simple form completed on the internet ... and they only pay if the form was completed. This is called a lead in internet parlance.

As of today (7 days after sending) 76 people have opened last week's newsletter (almost exactly 50%). I created other links on some other websites to Dial Direct after the first 4 days so I do not know how many other newsletter recipients completed the form.

Here is what I do know nevertheless ... and hopefully this will indicate to you in an initial but meaningful way that the internet does work and that it is possible to make money.

At this point in time, Friday June 11th, Dial Direct owe SEOZA R450 after 1 week of acting as a lead generator for them. This means 9 people in total have completed the form because every completed form or lead brings in R50 for Seoza. All we had to do was bring to the attention of people who see our web site or our newsletter the information about Dial Direct. We did not have to do any actual selling or quoting ourselves.

R450 exceeds a year's total hosting fees for the SEOZA domain (see below). Any money that this single income source brings in for next 11 months is pure 100% profit. Now just imagine if you had 2, 3, 20, or 100 and more such opportunities. In fact there are thousands of such opportunities on the internet.

This type of internet marketing is referred to as AFFILIATE MARKETING. Lots of the world's top websites earning vast sums of money in fact belong to affiliates.

Affiliate Marketing is only just starting in South Africa ... in fact I am only aware of about 6 schemes. Dial Direct is one ... Dial Direct by the way is an UK company now operating in South Africa and shaking up the "cosy" short term insurance industry through which we are all getting ripped off .... if you want to check and confirm how much you are being ripped off by then take a look at the link on the right hand side.

We share these opportunities with our customers .. in fact we do far more we show them how to make money from our knowledge. We help our customers to help themselves.

Take a look at becoming a Dial Direct affiliate ... it takes a minute or so to apply.

First FREE Seminar

Last night we held SEOZA's first free internet marketing seminar. Nine people who showed a keen interest in wanting to succeed on the internet braved the cold weather. If the finishing time is a measure of the usefulness to the participants  then the seminar was highly successful .... at the official finishing time of 19.30 nobody left and we carried on until 21.15.

Hopefully we over-delivered.

We will continue with these seminars so put your name forward to be kept informed. You have nothing to lose and just maybe a great deal to gain.

Are you overpaying for hosting and domain registration? ... Hosting, Website Ownership and Domain control are potential nightmares.

If you went to Ananzi today like I did to look for hosting and domain services and you clicked on the number 1 spot you would have discovered the following ...

This company offered 5 hosting packages to choose from called Micro, Basic, Standard, Elite and Corporate ... now the usefulness of Micro and Basic to any website owner is zero.  Even the Standard is very low on features that are essential to any web marketer.

Let's start with Standard anyway ... the cost is R120 per month (equivalent to US$18.46). This hosting excludes a number of desirable features (cost is extra) and provides data transfer capacity of 200MB per month (this is low and any overuse costs R1.00 per MB ... this is an extortionate rate. I did not look at the fine print which may limit a daily download capability).

The Corporate rate which is what you and I would want is R400 per month (equivalent to US$61.53 per month).

By the way the Elite was R220 per month or US$33.84 per month and would perhaps be a good compromise between cost and function.

The Interesting Money Saving Bit .....

How is it possible that I can buy a far better package from numerous companies that reside in the USA or for that matter many other countries for about 13% of the Corporate rate?...  And the package is better.

I cannot answer my own question but I do know that these South African rates are way over the top and are a deterrent to serious internet development in South Africa in which I have an interest, as you do too, and these hosting companies warrant the criticism I am leveling. I do believe they are preying on ignorance within our developing web world.

What I do know is we can show you where you can get top notch packages for less than $10.00 per month all backed by money back guarantees.

In SEOZA we are intent upon raising the level of debate so that we can all benefit.

In position number 2 on Ananzi was a company that offered hosting that I could just about use for R99 per month (US$15.23). Payment was by debit order... ever tried to stop a debit order? With all the different hosts I use I pay by credit card which means control of payment is in my hands not the host company's. This same company charged R300 for a domain registration (US$46.13). You should never be prepared to pay more than US$11.00 (about R72) for a domain registration and also one that gives you complete control over the DNS.

We will soon show you how to do this too.

In fact YOU NEVER SHOULD REGISTER YOUR DOMAIN WITH YOUR HOSTING COMPANY .... NEVER. AND YOU SHOULD NEVER HOST YOUR DOMAIN WITH YOUR REGISTRAR AND YOU SHOULD NEVER TAKE UP A FREE WEB SITE OFFER EITHER.

Do yourself a favour ... check what you are paying for your hosting and domain registrations and then consider the check list below. We will supply more information for your benefit next week.

Are you using a free domain registration? If so get confirmation from the registrar that YOUR name and email address is shown as the contact/administrator/owner.

Ever asked yourself what would happen to YOUR website if you decided to change hosting companies because they were overcharging you or giving bad service?

Ever asked yourself the question ... how do you change to a different domain registrar because it would save YOU money?

Ever asked how YOU get access to your free website you have spent 2 years working on if you decide you don't like the service any more or what would happen if the host went bang?

Ever thought why it may not be a good idea to host 2 web sites with the same host?

These are vitally important questions to resolve before developing your web site further or even starting a website.

Ever thought why it may not be a good idea to host 2 web sites with the same host?

These are vitally important questions to resolve before developing your web site further or even starting a website.

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