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Quick and easy gluten free meals with Buckwheat

Are you suffering from gluten intolerance? Are you allergic to gluten? Or have you become gluten free because of the awesome health reasons, but struggling with the meal ideas? If YES, then please continue reading for a quick and easy gluten free meal ideas using the buckwheat.

Now the question is, what is buckwheat?

A lot of people think buckwheat is a grain. This is a very common mistake as it is not, because it is actually a Super-Seed and comes from the family of rhubarb and sorrel. Buckwheat is an excellent alternative to foods such as rice and wheat flour as well as oats.

Before I share my personal verdict with you 🙂 I would like to make a disclaimer that these meal ideas and recipes below are my own creation and I have tried and tested them for months and they have changed my life for the better.

Gluten-free and myself

I prefer being gluten free and I feel it suits my stomach better than the wheat. It instantly gives me energy and makes me feel lighter, unlike the wheat products, where I used to feel heavy and sleepy. So, I did some research for alternative options and came across this brilliant super-seed.

Being a research freak as usual 😉 I started searching for its benefits and came across many of them, but personally I’ve benefited the following:

  • Research claims that it improves heart health by lowering cholesterol and blood pressure levels BUT PERSONALLY I feel relaxed and focused as it also contains high level of magnesium.

 

  • Research claims that it contains disease fighting antioxidants BUT PERSONALLY it helped clear my skin tremendously and gave me a glow on my face.

 

  • Research claims that it helps you lose weight BUT PERSONALLY I feel I have lost weight especially around my stomach area, as buckwheat is an easy to digest seed, with its higher fiber content, which helps improve digestion.

 

  • Research claims that it helps prevent diabetes BUT PERSONALLY buckwheat helped me overcome my sugar level fluctuation, which used to result in extremely bad headaches, vomiting and dizziness especially if I was for even 5 minutes away from my meal.

 

  • Research claims that buckwheat has so much more vitamins and minerals than the wheat BUT PERSONALLY since I have been having buckwheat in my diet I feel more upbeat and don’t get tired. A very obvious example is that before buckwheat I used to get so tired and despite being active I could not walk up the stairs even up to 2 floors. But now I can walk up to 6 floors without stopping at every few steps and catching my breath!

How I enjoy buckwheat?

I tend to have buckwheat for my breakfast and my main meal. Below I have given you a simple and quick guide of what they are and how to make it.

Buckwheat Breakfast

I have buckwheat flakes for my breakfast. I simply add couple of handful of buckwheat flakes in a cereal bowl, add hot water and leave it for 10 minutes, then add a flavored yogurt, raisins, almonds, and a couple of chopped dates.

Buckwheat Meal

I make buckwheat chapattis using Buckwheat flour. In a bowl of buckwheat flour I gradually add cold water as I mix it with

a spoon (mixing with hands can be very messy!) I make sure the dough is hard otherwise its tricky to roll out, despite dusting with the dry flour it still sticks on the work top. I just make it as a normal chapatti. I tend to use some Khanum Ghee to make it extra tasty!

I enjoy the chapatis with various curries, including meat, chicken, lentils and vegetables. You can have them with whatever you fancy.

All the best to you for your gluten free future.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comments section below and we will be more than happy to help you out.

Your pals

Rani and Habib

 

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Is Affilorama a Scam or What? – Our personal experience

Affilorama Review – Let’s Dive into It!

There are many affiliate programs online that claim to make you “BIG BUCKS”, Affilorama is one of them!

We are a member of Affilorama and therefore we are in a position to give you an impartial review to help you make an informed decision, (don’t you think? :-))

Are you thinking of joining Affilorama, but not quite sure then keep reading as you may have all your questions answered.

Is Affilorama a Scam or what?

Before we continue, we would like to give you the good news that the Affilorama is not a scam! So relax and keep going.

What is Affilorama?

As you probably already know, Affilorama is an online educational marketing program, which gives you a lot of training and lessons in the form of videos and written text. It has hundreds of hours of video lessons to teach you all about affiliate marketing.

Founder of Affilorama

Affilorama was founded by a very successful affiliate marketer called Mark Ling in 2005. He is the owner of “Jamorama” and “Rocket Piano” too.

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More about Affilorama

The main focus of this program is to give you a step-by-step guide to learn and build an online affiliate marketing business successfully. It is targeted to complete beginners to all the way to advanced affiliate marketers, so it is an all in one package.

Let’s discuss the pros and cons

Pros:

  • You can join for free and get access to the basic material
  • you will be taught all you need to know about affiliate marketing and then convert the learning into making big dollars
  • You will have access to an enthusiastic community where you can get a lot of help and support to drive your success forward

Cons

  • Various memberships available and each one has an upsell
  • The Founder Mark Ling will not be answering all your questions by himself but rather other members within the team
  • response to your question/queries does tend to take time
  • some contents within their training lessons are outdated which is frustrating. For example backlinks and private label rights, which can be implemented on your website. Let’s discuss these below:

Backlinks – This is no longer valid when Google Panda and Penguin was launched and consequently will have a negative impact with Google rankings. Since Google is the biggest search engine and you will be relying on them to drive traffic to your website. Affilorama teaches a lot about backlinking, approximately 25% out of the learning material. THIS IS A BIG WASTE OF YOUR TIME!

Private Label Rights (PLR) – This is to do with the duplicate contents. Google used to allow PLR contents strategy. However, when Google Panda was introduced, all duplicate contents are seen as poor quality and as a result your rankings will drop drastically. SO AGAIN, this is big waste of your time!

Membership Types = free membership and premium membership

These are the differences in price and what you will get:

Free membership

We must say you will get quite a lot of learning from Affilorama, ALL FOR FREE. They give you around 20 hours of video tutorials and other forms of education. So we are quite impressed by this as it’s not going to cost you anything!

Don’t think because it’s free it’s not going to be quality learning as the free material is valuable enough to help you set the foundation for your business. You will learn the basics of affiliate marketing, for example, how to build your website, create contents for Pay Per Click (PPC), and also Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Premium Membership

If you are serious about your business and want to take it to the next level, then we recommend going premium as its See the source imagecontents are good enough for the money. With $67 dollars per month, you will be learning far and beyond skills and tactics to earn more than a good living. But again, it all depends on how much effort you put in the learning and apply effectively to your business.

We have good news for you – you can trial their premium membership for the first month FOR ONLY $1. After that it will resume to their normal monthly fee of $67 per month. However, you can also cancel you premium membership anytime you want.

What’s included in the premium membership?

You get to scratch the surface with the free membership in comparison to the premium membership. Here, you will get hundreds of hours of complete in-depth training of all aspects of affiliate marketing. You will learn about product creation, affiliate blogging and so much more. You will also get a free hosting for 15 domains. So we think you will agree with us that it’s a pretty good deal.

Be warned, that Affilorama will be convincing you to join their premium membership during the period of your free membership. It is a business at the end of the day so you should expect this. The only question you should ask yourself, “is it worth it, me going premium?” We think it is – however, there is a better program and for cheaper. Click here to read our review.

Upsells to AffiloTheme, Affiloblueprint, AffiloJetpack

Affilorama membership Products

AffiloTheme

AffiloTheme allows you to build your website with extra features within WordPress such as Affiliate Link Cloaking, squeeze page, header creator, pop over generator and opt-in form templates. This will cost you $97.

Is it worth it? Is it required? Short answer is NO! It’s definitely not worth it and all this can be learnt from our NUMBER ONE recommended program.

AffiloBlueprint

This is where you will get Mark Ling’s very own methods and step-by-step blueprint of creating a website, contents and See the source imagegetting them to get ranked. The difference between this and the premium membership is the involvement of Mark Ling (the owner of Affilorama), and how he started his business from scratch and made it a great success.

There are hundreds of videos to cover from building your website to contents creations to get ranked on Google, Yahoo and Bing. You will also have home-work to complete at the end of each video lesson. The videos are great and can be understood and followed by someone new to the online business world.

Do you know how much this is going to cost you? It’s a big $197 payment as a one-off.

Is it worth it? Is it required? We don’t think so! Here is an alternative program where the owner shows and teaches exactly how he made millions, which is part of their premium membership, and without any additional costs or upsells.

AffiloJetpack

This product is for you if you don’t have enough time to invest in your business. It will do around 80% of your business work for you, but the other 20% will have to come from you. But we must say and advice against AffiloJetpack because you won’t be learning much to understand your business, creating your website and placing contents yourself and getting them ranked. REMEMBER KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

Guess how much this product is going to cost you? $497, yes you read it correctly, a whopping $497 plus you have to buy your own domain costing around $10 per year. You will also need to spend a further $20 per month to sign up for an auto-responder service.

Is it worth it? Is it required? Most definitely NOT! Our humble advice is for you to learn as much as you can right from the beginning. This way you will have knowledge and control over your business.

How much help will you really get from Mark Ling?

Being an owner of a very big business, the answer is pretty obvious. He does and will help you but not to the level you would need and want, as he is managing many projects. So the reality is, you will get very little communication from him. But the good news is Affilorama has an amazing community to look after you.

Is Affilorama a good learning platform for you?

If you have got a lot of money put aside then it is for you as the program is going to cost you quite a bit. We think it’s value for money, but there are better programs for a lot less membership fees and you will also get better learning.

The downside with Affilorama is that it takes a long while to set up your website and get the rankings as the learning tutorials they have in place takes a lot of time and effort to go through them. To make any money, you will probably be looking at a quite a few months.

If you can’t afford the premium membership then you have access to their free membership to learn the basics at least. Or you can join another program as a starter member which includes two free websites including hosting, ALL FOR FREE for life!

How much will Affilorama cost you?

  • Free membership – $0 per month (join here)
  • Premium membership – $67 per month (we recommend another platform)
  • AffiloTheme – $97 one-off (we don’t recommend this)
  • AffiloBlueprint – $197 one-off (we don’t recommend this)
  • AffiloJetpack – $497 one-off (we don’t recommend this)

Our final word to you

If you have some capital and you are looking into starting an online business, then Affilorama is a good place to start. But just keep an eye on your finances and be cautious about their upsells. You will learn some valuable information about affiliate marketing to make your business a success. So we do recommend it but at the same time we recommend a better program that will cost you peanuts! So go and check it out.

All the best to you for your bright and successful future.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comments section below and we will be more than happy to help you out.

Your pals

Habib and Rani

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Is The Six Figure Mentors (SFM) a Scam or What? – Our personal experience

Six Figure Mentors (SFM) Review – Lets Dive Into it!

There are many affiliate marketing programs online that claim to make you “BIG BUCKS!” Six Figure Mentors (SFM) is one of them!

We have been a member of SFM therefore, we can give a review that is honest and impartial that we (myself and my wife) experienced. If you are thinking of joining SFM but not quite sure then keep reading as you might come to a shocking discovery!

Is SFM a scam?

Before we say anything, we would like to make it clear that SFM is not a scam so relax…but the real questions are:

  1. How much cash have you got to spare?
  2. How patient are you?
  3. How many up sells can you handle?

You will need to put aside $2,500 to $20,000 to learn any concrete knowledge of internet marketing.

You will have to be extremely patient as you will face many barriers frequently which we will tell you from our experience and break it down for you.

Break Down of Costs

  1. Joining fee – will cost you $29.95 and you will have to complete an application
  2. SFM Essential membership – will cost you $297 upfront, plus $97 a month
  3. Elite Membership – will cost you $2,500 per year
  4. Silver (Digital Experts Academy – DEA) – will cost you $2,500 (plus Elite Membership Fee $2,500 per year)
  5. Gold (Digital Experts Academy – DEA) – will cost you $8,000 (plus Elite Membership Fee $2,500 per year)
  6. Platinum (Digital Experts Academy – DEA) – will cost you $11,000 (plus Elite Membership Fee $2,500 per year)
  7. Black (Digital Experts Academy – DEA) – will cost you $20,000 (plus Elite Membership Fee $2,500 per year)

Trial Membership – $29.95

In order for you to be accepted as a member, you have to provide a lot of personal details such as your monthly income, your savings, your personal goals etc. However this is refundable within 30 days.

The 30-day trial will not give you anything that you cannot find and learn for free online. So the trial is nothing special. It simply gives you access to SFM’s introductory course that involves all around what you will be doing using their different programs and how you can be successful online, but doesn’t really teach you or show you how.

If you want to be taught actual affiliate marketing and get 2 free websites all for free, then join our number one recommended program.

The application fee of $29.95, will give you access to SFM’s module 1 – introduction course, where you will be introduced to the process of money making, why it’s important to have a website, the different forms of advertisement, list building requirements and giving value to your visitors/customers.

SFM will explain to you all the different systems they have and how much commission you could make by promoting them. In essence, they would love you to promote their products more than anything and that is what we experienced as a member.

SFM Essential membership – $297 upfront, plus $97 a month

For this significant amount of fee, you will get access to 5 modules. Module 1 is the introduction which we have already discussed above. Module 2 is about your blueprint. This is where they tell you the importance of having a blueprint and how similar it is to constructing a brick and mortar building.

As we said earlier you will need a lot of patience because when we were working through the modules we kept coming across many barriers that stopped us progressing further and learning at our own pace and time.

For example at the end of part 1 of module 2 we had to book for a live orientation workshop webinar where new members get together and share their reasons of joining SFM etc. We had to wait for our system consultant to book us in and email a link to us which took about a week. We had no choice but to wait and were not allowed to move forward without attending this orientation workshop. This was very frustrating for us and we felt like we wasted a whole week.

So far nothing was learnt and we found the orientation workshop a complete waste of time, which was 4 hours long (non-stop) by the way. It was just 2 SFM trainers whom had picked 2 new members and all they did is asked them why they joined, what they want to get out of SFM and nobody else was really included or communicated with.

We just sat there till 12am (BST time) and were waiting in anticipation when are they going to teach us something of true value. But guess what, we got no value. So we continued till the very end, for the sake of getting a code which will allow us to unlock the next module (talk about barriers!)

As part of module 2, you also have to complete trajectory worksheets where you have to show them your past 10 years of income, assets and any debt you may have. My life worksheets, my bucket list, productivity planner etc. This was not optional and if you are like us, we just wanted to get on with learning the business side of affiliate marketing and get our website up and running.

BUT IT NEVER HAPPENED WITH SFM! However, it did happen with this program right from day 1 of joining it.

Module 3 – system setup

Another application needs filling in because we had to tell SFM how do we plan to promote their products, how much can we afford to pay for their products, and what is our monthly budget for promoting their products. We started feeling trapped and it seemed all about SFM and less of actually learning and promoting products of our choice such as Amazon, eBay etc.

We started losing patience and felt a lot of frustration because it was just video after video of Sturat Ross (co-founder of SFM) going on and on about his stories, his struggles, his personal life, but NEVER taught us anything about real business, the REAL reason we signed up for. We wanted to somehow squeeze some lessons on affiliate marketing out of Stuart’s videos (but it wasn’t possible LOL). The guy can talk for the world but personally we didn’t learn anything new.

Elite membership – $2,500 per year, plus $97 a month

To move onto module 4, can you guess what we needed? we think you’ve guessed it, and yes we had to overcome another barrier! This time we were told to schedule a Skype call with a SFM business strategist. This person will interview us and then decide if we are credential candidates for an upgrade to their elite membership.

To overcome this barrier we were going to get the code after the Skype call, so we could move onto module 4.

With a great deal of frustration, we went ahead and booked this Skype call with a lot of hope. But the earliest date we were able to book was 10 days away. There was nothing we could do to bring this forward, so sat tight and waited for the day to come.

During this waiting period, we had a lot of time to think and reflect on why we joined SFM. All the reasons we joined for, never got fulfilled. This is where we started to lose hope and realized we won’t be getting anywhere with SFM and instead forking out thousands of dollars.

We started doing more research on SFM to know what others thought and we came across many shockingly negative reviews, and most were complaints of the hefty fees, constant barriers during the training and the so many up sells they have, up to an upgrade costing you $20,000 for SFMs DEA Black Membership.

There was one particular review where one person mortgaged their house to pay $20,000 to SFM for their Black Digital Expert Academy (DEA) Membership. This person was not successful and they did not make any money and ended up going into further debts. They wanted to get a refund, but was denied as per the T&Cs;!

This is where we made our “U” turn and ran a mile away from SFM before anything crazy like this happened to us! We continued our search for a making money online program, and FINALLY we came across this BRILLIANT platform. Its cost was a tiny fraction compared to SFM with ALL the education and support needed to start and run a successful online business, without any barriers or blockages!

You go through the lessons at your own pace. Most importantly, they had a free starter membership (YES, ZERO cost), where you will be learning EVERYTHING to run a successful business. If you wanted to take your business to the highest point, then there is ONLY ONE optional up sell to their premium membership, which costs $49 per month or an annual cost of $359. Now compare that with $20,000 (Crazyyyy!)

Why SFM was not suitable for us?

Three main reasons:

  1. Shockingly expensive without the value for money
  2. Too many barriers – we could not at our own pace and felt very controlled by SFM
  3. Too many up sells costing an arm and leg, without a guarantee of earning any of it back

Is SFM for you?

YES, if you have tens of thousands of dollars, a lot of patience, love up sells and you intend to promote SFM products only, then go ahead and join SFM. Otherwise, stay clear of them and try this practical program which will enable to actually succeed in the online world.

Join here and we will see you on the other side where there is a wealth of knowledge, information and instant support from the like-minded community members, who will support you every step of the way to make your dreams come true.

We sincerely wish you all the best for future success.

Please feel free to write a comment, query or question you may have (that we didn’t cover) in the comments box below, and we’ll get back to you. Have a pleasant day 🙂

Habib and Rani

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What are Affiliate Programs – a guide for Affiliate Marketers

Affiliate Marketing

Are you looking into making money online? Have you had so many ideas but just not getting anywhere. Well, today we are going to show you a few ways of understanding and making BIG BUCKS online. Assuming you already have a website in place, if you haven’t then that’s the first thing you will need.

CLICK HERE TO READ OUR POST ON “how we created our website in 30 seconds.”

Affiliate marketing is the most popular and successful “MONEY MAKING” technique, and we will explain this to you because you must familiarize yourself with this technique. It is the most common method used online to make money by ordinary people like ourselves and yourself. We call ourselves ‘Affiliate Marketers’.

Do you want to be a successful and productive affiliate marketer online? If so, it is vital that you firstly understand what your role is. You will need to understand the entire process, all the way to you making BIG MONEY.

Understanding how Affiliate Marketing Works

The process of affiliate marketing is not complicated. It’s a nice & clean process that anyone can understand very quickly as the model is very simple. You as an AFFILIATE, promote products and services on your website for companies, which we call MERCHANTS.

Affiliate Marketing is done through affiliate programs. The amazing thing is there are tens of thousands of these programs out there that you can use for FREE to make a good/decent revenue. You might be thinking “I may not be able to do this”, but the truth is if you can buy something online then you can definitely promote a product or service as an affiliate marketer through many of these affiliate marketing programs. An example is the Amazon Affiliate Marketing Program.

When you sign up for an affiliate program, you are provided with an unique link which you will use on your website contents to promote the goods/services.

The Importance of Your Website

Your website is the core of your affiliate marketing and this is where all promotions begin and end. When you have Amazon products advertised on your website and your visitors come and click on your link, you will be rewarded for this sale in the form of a commission that could be anything up to 80% of the value of the product or service.

Amazon tends to have a starter commission of 6% and this does increase depending on the product or service. For example, you have a smart OLED TV advertised on your website costing $3,000 (yes you can be an affiliate for TVs or anything else you want to promote!) If we took this sale as Amazon’s base commission of 6%, then how much do you think you will make? Well, let us tell you, 6% of $3,000 is $180, and imagine if you had made just ONE sale per day! This is common practice amongst affiliate marketers online, and you could be one of them!

All you have to do is have a website in place with all the relevant product promotions with your affiliate links, then simply refer your visitors to the Amazon site where they make the purchase and Amazon will take care of the rest. Your job is to just refer, nothing else and in return you earn some serious MONEY.

You can apply this affiliate marketing to ANY niche you desire and there are many affiliate programs you can choose from. Are you seeing your potential here as an affiliate marketer?

How Much Can You Earn as an Affiliate?

The sky is the limit really! It all depends on you. You can earn as much as you want, and that’s NO exaggeration!

How much you earn depends on how much traffic or visitors you can get on your website. The contents and reviews you create for the products you are promoting needs to be good quality and honest reviews. Your first intention should always be is to help the visitors on your website. If you can genuinely help them then they will naturally click on your affiliate link and go buy the product you recommended. So, in reality earning the money is the easy part.

Also, the contents that you create must be very relevant to your niche and most importantly you must be targeting specific “low competition” keywords for every single review or post you write. We cannot stress how important this is for you get visitors to you website. You can learn all this (as we did) via an affiliate educational program, which we have recommended further down this post.

We will explain this further for your understanding and give you some examples to break it down for you.

The Example

For example if you got 2,000 clicks and visitors in a month on your website. This will mean in a day you are getting 66 clicks. By the way, these are realistic numbers once your website is established and you got good quality contents.

So, from the 2,000 clicks lets assume 10% of the visitors actually click on your affiliate links and buy the products. That would mean 200 possible purchases in a month.

Let’s say you were promoting a product and the commission for each referral is $20 (that’s a typical amount). How much do you think you will earn in a month? Well, it’s 200 (possible purchases) multiplied by $20 will give you a fantastic monthly income of $4,000.

These figures are very common and all in one month of income from your affiliate marketing website. Once everything is established, your website will be making you a passive income month in month out, all year round, 24 hours a day (even while you are sleeping!)

You may have heard stories about people earning a $1,000 a day, and this is actually a reality and very possible. We haven’t personally gone to that level yet but we are getting there, however we know many affiliates have achieved this and are achieving this on a daily basis.

Conclusion

We hope you have understood the process of affiliate programs and now can go and monetize your website and start earning the money. If you haven’t got a website and would like to create one and start doing affiliate marketing. Then you can do exactly what we did. We joined an affiliate program and learnt all there is to know about this business method and then going onto learning how to create websites (this very website you are on!)

We would recommend you join Wealthy Affiliate where they will teach you all you need to know including how to create your website to get you started. They have a FREE starter membership that you can sign up to. If you are ready for that, then CLICK HERE TO JOIN FOR FREE.

Also, you can click HERE and read our full review about Wealthy Affiliate and everything there is to know about them.

Please leave a comment or any questions in the comments section below that you may have for us. We would love to help you out if we haven’t done so already.

Your buddies

Habib and Rani

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Quick Guide to Online Success – the four processes

Steps to Successful Online Business

We all want to be successful with our online business whether it’s a website, selling products, services, or as an affiliate marketer. But do you know what makes a business successful or what steps to take to see success. Most likely not, that’s the reason you’ve found this post.

In this short but straight to the point guide, we will show you how online success can be earned very quickly ONLY if you have these 4 processes in place.

 

Process number 1 – choose your niche or interest

This is where you are going to decide what you want your website to be about and what audience you are targeting to serve them by helping with whatever solution they are looking for their problem. We recommend you choose a topic of your own personal interest. Choosing something of interest or a hobby of yours will help you drive forward passionately and earn revenue while you fulfill your passion. Don’t forget your passion and interest will equate to you making money successfully.

Process number 2 – building your website

You will need a website and this will serve as the foundation of your business. You will need to think of a relevant domain name for your website (domain means your website address) based on your niche. For example our niche is to help people get richer and healthier, and therefore our domain is lifestyletipsandhacks.com.

Your website is going to represent you and everything within your site so you must remember to make every single content of good quality. This will get you good rankings from Google, Bing and Yahoo, whom are the 3 biggest search engines. They will give you authority and put your site forward when a user is searching for a relevant term and the search engines think the contact of your website will be a solution.

Good quality posts and pages on your website will attract more visitors. This means the more visitors you get the more money you will be making.

Towards the end, we will recommend an educational platform where you can sign up to create your website for free. So keep reading….

Process number 3 – attracting your visitors

It is important to get traffic and visitors to your website as this will convert into revenue for you. The good news is there is FREE traffic available out there and there is a lot of it, it’s just knowing how to get it. We will recommend and tell you where you can learn all about this FREE traffic towards the end of this post.

Also remember to write frequently and good quality posts which are rich in keywords and publish them on your website. The keywords will enable you to get your website and blog/posts indexed in Google, Bing and Yahoo. Make your contents attractive by adding images and videos.

Process number 4 – earning your revenue

Once you have successfully managed to get traffic and visitors on your website, it’s all good news from there onward because it means you will start to earn money. The MORE visitors the MORE money!

It is not going to be easy to get to this point. There will be a lot of hard work, commitment and time required from yourself if you are serious about making your online business a success. There are many ways you can monetize your website and earn a revenue from the huge amount of traffic or visitors you will get to your site. We will recommend where you can learn this further below.

Our Recommendation

There is an amazing learning platform where you can sign up to and learn about absolutely EVERYTHING you need to know about how to set up a successful online business. This learning platform is called Wealthy Affiliate.

This amazing digital company has a very simple and easy to follow steps for you to follow and create a successful online business. They have all the tools as well as the expert advice & guidance available 24/7, 365 days a year. You just got to commit, learn and don’t be afraid to ask questions.

The good news is, they have a FREE service for you as a starter member

CLICK HERE TO READ OUR FULL REVIEW OF WEALTHY AFFILITE, then you can decide for yourself.

All the best to you and have a fantastic start to your journey of the online business world.

Please leave a comment or question you may have in the comments section below, that we have not covered already.

Have a great day 🙂

Habib and Rani

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What is The Meaning of a Niche? – Get your answer here

What is a Niche?

Gosh! This is where a lot of people stuck when they start off creating their website and online business, so please don’t worry you’re not ALONE. Keep reading because today we are going to help you out to fully to understand the meaning of “what is a Niche?”

Firstly, don’t be afraid of the word “Niche” because it is going to be your strength and the core of your business.

A NICHE IS AN UNIQUE SEGMENT OF A MARKET THAT YOU ARE GOING TO TARGET WITH YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS. In easier terms it is the audience or group of people that you intend to help out by giving value through your website and in return you will be rewarded with commissions through your recommended affiliate links.

How To Choose a Niche Easily?

It is very important that when you choose your niche it must be in an area that you have interest and passion for, otherwise you won’t get very far because the driving factor will fade out easily especially at the beginning of your journey.

However, you can also choose a niche for which you want to learn and develop through research because you don’t have to be an expert as you will BECOME an expert through research and learning.

We personally are passionate about many things. One particular area is “how to get richer and healthier”. This is what our website is all about. So our niche would be anyone looking for ways to get richer and healthier. It is a broad topic and therefore means our niche or targeted audience would be a very large one. However, you could narrow this down and select a smaller niche targeting a smaller audience.

We had the passion but didn’t have a lot of knowledge about getting richer online. But we became very successful in this area because we had the pleasure of educating ourselves through research by exploring the internet. One of the best research tools we came across was a digital company called Wealthy Affiliate.

Click here to Read our Full Review of Wealthy Affiliate

Through Wealthy Affiliate we learnt everything to do with the online business world. Such as:

  • understanding what a niche is
  • how to choose a niche
  • why choosing a niche is so important

Then went ahead and Wealthy Affiliate taught us how to create our website for free (this website you’re currently on!). We can go on and tell you so much more but we’re going to stop as you are here to understand what a niche is.

The good news is almost anything can be a niche. The only thing you have to do is think of it. Whatever pops in your head is basically your niche to put it simply. You should choose YOUR niche based on things you are passionate about to begin with. Once you are established you can choose any other niche and learn and educate yourself about it.

The beauty of the online world is you have a market of 3.75 billion people waiting for your help and you can easily earn more than a full time income by helping a tiny fraction of the 3.75 billion people. On a daily basis people are looking and searching for solutions to their problems, information on how to do things, and these people (3.75 billion) collectively are spending billions of dollars for products, services, information, tutorials etc. This is where you would come in and help them and earn a slice of the pie.

These are the people that are going to be YOUR niche audience (your customers)

How easy it is to choose your niche!

We just want to remind you that choosing a niche can be a little overwhelming and frustrating at first as you may have many ideas in your head that is your hobby or you are passionate about. Be clever and list them all down and then select one that comes on top of your list. Then go ahead and make a start (starting is always the hardest). Later on you can always include and start thinking about your other niches once you are established.

Online Business verses Traditional business

Once you are up and running, your online business shouldn’t give you the same feeling as your normal day job. We can definitely say earning money from your online business is very fun and exciting on a daily basis (unlike the traditional day job). This is because you will choose a niche that you will enjoy working with and is a passion of yours.

We don’t need to tell you this but it is a fact that the MORE you enjoy doing something the LESS it feels like a job. Consequently, you will be productive and successful and earn a lot of money while having fun.

We, myself and my wife are very passionate about helping people get richer and healthier as we believe these are the two main cores that goes hand in hand to get true happiness. That is the reason we chose lifestyle tips and hacks to help people like yourself to understand how to get richer and healthier.

Your Niche Can Be Anything

Remember your niche can be anything but we advise you to choose something that you are passionate about and have some knowledge of because you are the one that will be creating posts and pages in relation to this on your website. It must be something that you can talk about to others, just like you would do with your family and friends. So go ahead and choose a niche that excites you the most. Here is a few pointers to help you before you select your niche:

  • YOU will be writing content as posts and pages of your chosen niche – can you do that?
  • YOU will be communicating within your chosen niche – can you do that?
  • YOU will be selecting products to promote and help your chosen niche – can you do that?

If you answered YES to the above three questions, then you are ready to make a start on your online business and start serving your niche. So go ahead – and GOOD LUCK 🙂

Also remember, the niche that you choose initially will most definitely won’t be your last, so don’t worry about choosing a perfect niche – THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PERFECT NICHE! (there are only niches). So don’t waste time about getting it perfect as it will only lead to frustration. Any niche you choose for your business can and will become a full time income and more. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CHOOSING A WRONG NICHE.

Further support is available – you’re not alone

If you are still struggling to choose your niche then we can recommend making it around ‘making money and affiliate marketing’. We recommend you join Wealthy Affiliate as a starter member for free and learn further about setting up your online business. This is exactly how we started off and have come a VERY long way. You can join by clicking the link below and we will meet you on the other side to continue to helping you out.

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Our Final Take

A niche is a group of people that are looking for help and to buy products or services. This is where you come in with your website and offer contents and recommend products and services to help your niche. Just like we are helping you (you are our niche) by recommending Wealthy Affiliate (product and service) to tackle and help with the very reason you visiting our site which was to understand all about ‘what is a niche’.

All the best to you and have a fantastic start to your journey of the online business world.

Please leave a comment or question you may have in the comments section below, that we have not covered already.

Have a great day 🙂

Habib and Rani

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Easy Ways to Make Money Online For Free

How Can You Earn Money From Home?

There are tons of ways to make millions and billions of money online! People often get stuck on the idea of the “latest and trendiest” ways and they are never able to build a revenue generating, successful business.

Before you can actually make any money online, you need to understand the steps of building a successful business online. You need to research the proven methods, that are already working successfully, such as one that we know and use, which is Wealthy Affiliate and they are currently teaching hundreds of thousands of its members and many of these members are already making six and seven figure income online.

This method is the ultimate “money making” process that has worked in the past, is working now and it is going to work in the future too. It is the process that teaches to leverage as many opportunities in the massive online world as you are willing to work for!

Choose Your Niche

The first block of your own personal SKYSCRAPER is to before you earn money, you need to think about your niche (audience) website. Once you have a website, you will be offering value to your chosen audience through your contents, which will enable you to drive traffic to your website. Without a website, contents and traffic, there will be “NO MONEY!” Even if you continue to day dream or night dream of big money!

To re-enforce this, you must have a solid foundation of a website to build on. At Wealthy Affiliate, this will be the first thing you will be learning and implementing in terms of your business foundation.

Read our full Review on Wealthy Affiliate

The next block of your foundation is to understand the process to make money. As, there are many ways to build your entire business based on only one niche. Click here to understand what is a niche.

The diagram below explains the basic process of making money online:

Your potential Customers

There are 3.75 billion people online as of 2018, and these are your potential customers! These people are searching for millions of types of information, solutions to problems and to buy stuff (just like the way you have landed on our site). This is where you as an Affiliate Marketer come in:

  • You offer solutions to their searches
  • You recommend suitable products
  • You will be giving value and helping and in return earning money in the process

Next you need to have your own niche, which could be something you, yourself could be passionate about and therefore have lots of knowledge. Or it could be something completely new to you, for which you can learn and educate yourself.

You can learn about a niche in detail by clicking here

We all want to make big money, how big? That’s the real question, as sky is the limit, when we talk about the online business! It is important to specify your success goals by writing them down on paper. Research shows that, we as humans have 97% success rate of achieving it, if we have them written down, as there is a magical (like) effect between your brain and hand. Also, seeing your goals regularly you automatically hold yourself accountable.

We therefore recommend you writing down exactly how much money would you be happy earning, and how would you feel going far and beyond of your goals? Also think about how much time are you willing to invest in your online business?

We can absolutely assure you that you will achieve these and beyond if you work hard at this and become persistent towards these goals. You will achieve them, but ultimately it is UP TO YOU!

To get started on making money by learning and creating your own website, we recommend you sign up with:

Wealthy Affiliate for Free as a Starter Member

Good luck and go earn the money you’ve been dreaming to earn.

Please leave a comment or question you may have in the comments section below, that we have not covered already.

Have a great day 🙂

Habib and Rani

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Should I Join Wealthy Affiliate? Yes or No…

We Think You Should Join…

Welcome to Lifestyle Tips and Hacks, you have made the right choice by clicking on lifestyletipsandhacks.com. We can assure you that online business is not complex once you’ve joined Wealthy Affiliate. You’ll instantly realise that the whole of the Wealthy Affiliate community including the two big bosses Kyle and Carson care for your online success, so all you need to do is get involved in the community once you’ve signed up for your Starter Membership.

You may or may not be fully aware of the massive potential in the online world of making money. Kyle at Wealthy Affiliate will be walking you through the lessons and help you realise your own potential to earn revenue and leverage the Internet to help you grow a successful business.

It’ll be crazy not to join Wealthy Affiliate after reading this and you’re serious about making money online.

Making the right Choice

With the emphasis you making right decisions, we can confidently say that anyone can accomplish success in the online santa is shockedworld. Do you know there are currently 3.75 billion people active online, so whichever direction you head your business towards, there is a big number of people you can connect with. Wealthy affiliate members have the reputation of acceding the highest success rate compared to any other platforms online. So, what are you waiting for? Santa Claus and his great big sack! Even then we’re not sure anyone will be sending you a fantastic and free offer like Wealthy Affiliate!

Beginning of the Membership

Once you’ve started your free membership at Wealthy Affiliate, you may feel initially that there is a lot to learn and therefore you may feel a little bit overwhelmed! To tell you the fact, this is absolutely normal when you start learning something new. It’s like riding a bike, you may fall a few times at the beginning, but soon you’ll get the hang of it.

One thing we can advise you from our personal experience is that you stick with Wealthy Affiliate and you will achieve your goals and far beyond!

You have the passion for an online business but feeling “I’m not very technical etc”? Put your mind at ease, we can assure you that you don’t have to be! You will be learning everything at Wealthy Affiliate in the most simplest and easiest way in both written and video forms.

Your Profile is YOU

Once you’ve become a member of wealthy affiliate, your very first task will be is to complete your profile, by uploading a picture of yourself and writing some bio data of your intended goals and a little background about yourself. This will allow other members to know who you are and consequently help you anytime you need it. This will also help you with the internal wealthy affiliate ranking system (which has amazing benefits of its own) and it shows that you are serious about your success.

As you go through the lessons, it’s important to remember to continue moving forward with your learning and the success will increase, it has to! Which means everything you do now, and every step you take will contribute to your future success. The efforts you put in now will reap later and usually forever!

Action Leads to Success

As you learn at Wealthy Affiliate, make sure you remember to apply it to your website, as action leads to ‘success’. There is no point in being a walking, talking affiliate marketer and not taking any action! Remember you have a limitless potential, but if you don’t take action on your learning you won’t achieve any success.

LIVE Chat and Community

You can ask any questions through the LIVE chat section if you’re unsure about anything. Also, there is a video to watch at wealthy Affiliate to enable you to find your way around, how to get help and connect with other members. This will ultimately show you how Wealthy Affiliate will help you succeed within the online world.

There are a lot of opportunities to get involved within the wealthy affiliate community:

  1. One of them will be is to leave a comment or question after each video or a written lesson
  2. Making sure you always get involved in the tasks and activities of each lesson as this will guarantee a lot more experience and success
  3. It won’t be unusual at wealthy affiliate if you are communicating with one of many millionaire marketers who are hanging out within the community, and on hand to help you out.

Two types of Memberships

Once you sign up for your free starter membership, there will be a lot of training and lessons offered within the free membership. Once you’ve learnt all that there is to learn within the starter membership, then you can take the next big step of going premium and unlocking all the premium contents (you will love it, as we did), but the bottom line is you are in expert hands, whether you are a starter or premium member.

Our Final Piece of Advice

To conclude this, all you have to do is make yourself a promise that you will give wealthy affiliate a genuine chance, regardless of the bad experiences you may have had in the past with any other companies online, trust us we have been there. Therefore, we understand and care about you and your personal success. We want you to allow wealthy affiliate to prove that to you. If you are ready for this, then click the link below to join.

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All the best to you and have a fantastic start to your journey of the online business world.

Please leave a comment or question you may have in the comments section below, that we have not covered already.

Have a great day 🙂

Habib and Rani

 

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Learn What is Affiliate Marketing – A Beginners Guide

Affiliate Marketing, FREE for beginners

It is interesting to see how many of us have got no clue about what ‘affiliate marketing’ is. The most recent and interesting example happened to my very own self only a couple of days ago:

Interesting Visit

I went to see my General Practitioner (GP) for a routine check up. As recently being on a high dose of affiliate marketing, I was desperate to pour out my wisdom of affiliate marketing to anyone and everyone. I was even tempted to convert people I was meeting in the lifts, or colleagues at the reception of a health centre, with whom it would have been very strange to talk about this out of the blue, this was one of the reasons which refrained me from pouring out my excitement, as well as being labelled as ‘nerdy’ (which I think I am, but no one else needs to know that, apart from myself and yourself)!

Shocking Discovery

Anyway, I went to see my GP, who coincidentally happens to be an extremely friendly doctor, and him knowing that I also work in the same field as him, he sometimes even asks ‘ME’, what should he be recommending me in terms of medication! it was very nice and ‘friendly’ of him, but out of friendliness he, I think (in my opinion) forgets that he is the GP not me! Anyway on this occasion, you can imagine what might have happened? OK, I’ll let you visualize, while I explain….

To be honest I was more interested to share ‘our’ (he knows my hubby too) venture of online marketing than getting the routine check up done. As I was telling him, he got more and more excited (as if, it was his own business)! I told him what kind of stuff we were doing, e.g. building a website, writing contents, blogs, reviews etc. He continued listening to me, with full interest and after ten minutes of my ‘hyper active speech’ of affiliate marketing, he interrupted me with the following question…

“Is affiliate marketing something to do with mindset and motivation?” because he is very aware that I have personal interests in these areas. At this very moment I felt I must have been talking in a different language in excitement and I didn’t realise that he hasn’t understood me.

Anyway, after this experience with my GP, it helped me think and I put myself in the GPs shoes (only imagined) that how many other businesses terms out there do I really know about? If they don’t concern me, would I really be learning about them? My honest answer would be NO! The only time that I’ll actually be looking into something, is, if I have a personal interest or benefit.

I can honestly admit, that I never knew about affiliate marketing until my burning desire to change my lifestyle really encouraged me from within, and hit the Google search engine of “how to make money online”, the rest is history.

So Let’s get into the actual purpose of this article, which is ‘What is Affiliate Marketing’?

Affiliate Marketing is one of the major business idea of the Online World. Affiliate marketing is when you promote other peoples or companies products on your website by reviewing, testing, comparing or via personal recommendation.
Often you’ll need to write blog posts and reviews to discuss pros and cons before publishing them on your website.

“IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT ALL YOUR REVIEW POSTS ARE HONEST AND INTERESTING”

Then the next step will be to advertise your website on other social media platforms, such as Google+, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, Snapchat and even the old fashion way of word of mouth. Also, Via Google rankings to get the traffic flowing into your website.

Customer Trust

The key to building a customer trust is by giving value to the people who are looking for genuine reviews, recommendations of the products/services they are looking into buying. If you have been honest with your reviews/recommendations and people bought the product(s) via your affiliate link(s) within the review/blog, and they are happy with the product/service, they will come back again and again if they are looking for something else. This is because you have become an authority in the visitors eyes and have built a trust with them. “HONESTY PAYS ALWAYS!”

In the online affiliate marketing business you’ll be acting like a ‘middle person’ of the sale and be viewed as a store front of the company’s product you’re promoting.

As part of an affiliate marketers role you’ll be required to be interactive with your visitors and customers to help them with the buying cycle (researching, reading reviews and buying).

In order to generate revenue from the affiliate links, you’ll have various posts/blogs to help and support the people with the buying cycle. You can promote anything, but it’ll be an advantage to promote products and services that you use or have used in the past. This way you’ll have enough knowledge and confidence to support people in the decision-making.

Products can be from any niche, as there are tons people looking for whatever you’re promoting.

You’ll just need to make your contents around the products interesting and interactive in order to convert the searches into sales.

The only expense you’d need to consider is buying a domain (website address) and hosting your website. However, the good news is that if you join our personal tried, tested and recommended, which is wealthy affiliate, where you’ll be able to get not only 1 but two FREE domains (website address) and hosting is also included all for FREE.

Yes, I know it sounds too good to be true – read our full review of wealthy affiliate and you’ll understand further what I mean.

Opportunities in the online world are limitless, so think how much you can do with two free websites.

Generating an income via affiliate marketing would be a dream come true even while you’re sleeping! You can work from anywhere around the world so long you have an internet connection and a technology device (laptop/PC, tablet or even a mobile phone) and you’ll be up and running.

So just to sum up:

Affiliate marketing means you’ll be promoting others products online by writing contents around them. You’ll need a website to do so as this is where you’ll publish it. A business can be setup up for free (just need your time and commitment).

If you are still interested after reading my post 🙂 then give me the honor to help you succeed and make your dream come true. Try Wealthy Affiliate for FREE here.

Here at lifestyletipsandhacks.com we wish you all the best and sincerely want to support you fulfill your dreams of achieving wealth, time and freedom successfully – exactly what we have achieved.

Please leave a comment or any questions you may have for us. We would love to help you out.

Your buddies

Rani and Habib

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What is an Online Business? – The question asked by Millions

Go on, You can ask the question – What is an online business?

This question has been asked by millions, before starting an online business of some form. So you’re not alone, I’m going to guide you through this process, so that you will truly understand and get your answers to the question(s) that you’re searching for, ‘what is an online business?’. So lets, begin…

An online business is not that much different from the traditional business/company you see around you. Click here to continue reading about ‘What is an Online Business? – The question asked by Millions’