Are you trying to grow your portfolio and generate monthly income from the stock market? Maybe your just trying to find a safe and profitable way to invest your money.

In today’s economy and investing environment it can be extremely hard to find the best places to invest your hard earned money.

If you’re like me, you spent long hard hours working to earn your money and you definitely don’t want to put it somewhere that you could easily lose it all or if you find a halfway decent investment, have your returns eaten away by high fees and investment costs.

If you’re looking for a better way to invest and have tried trading on your own then I’m sure you know what it feels like to lose sleep at night thinking about your trades. Wondering if your trade is going to be a winner or loser. Or maybe you had a great month of profits only to see the market take them back or have them wiped out by one bad trade.

Then after all of the hard work, time, research, and stress your account is left in the negative or barely break even. Doesn’t that really get under your skin? It’s ridiculous. There has to be a solution.

Here are some of the main traditional ways that you can invest in the market to make money. One, you can implement an asset diversification strategy. Two, you can buy and hold for the long term. Three, you can get a financial adviser and take his or her advice. Four, you could invest in CD’s at the bank. Five, you could control your risk and learn how to invest being delta neutral.

Let’s take a closer look at each one of these investing Strategies.

1. Asset Diversification: Look, I am sure that you heard this one a million times, don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Asset diversification is the idea that if you spread your money around to different asset classes you will limit your risk because if one asset class goes down another will go up and offset your loses. Well, it can work like this but if it does, you basically end up break even or with a small profit or loss because your gains are offset by your losses or vice versa. Then you all also have to think about what happens if all the asset classes drop in value? Well, I think you know the answer to that question and this does happen.

2. Buy and Hold: Buy and hold is probably another one that I am sure that you have heard before. You know the saying “buy and hold for the long term”. This is one really illustrates a complete lack of planning. I mean you only make money when you sell your investment to capture the gains. In investing you should always know your exit strategy and have specific rules that dictate exactly when you will exit a trade. Who wants to wait some vague amount of 5,10,or 30 years before they get their money back anyway. I know that I don’t have that kind of time.

3. Financial Advisor: Now, I don’t want to rag to much on advisers because I used to be one. But with that being said, I know exactly how they operate. To put it simple, they will most likely charge you big fees to implement one of the two investing strategies above. They know that there are better ways to make money in the market but the reality is that they just have to many clients to implement the really profitable strategies for you and will probably just throw your money into some mutual funds and retirement accounts.

4. Bank CD,s: CD’s are absolutely a horrible investment right now. Most people put their money in CD’s because they think that it is safe. Well in today’s economic environment this couldn’t be further from the truth. With interest rates near zero you will be lucky if you can earn a percent or two and with inflation on the rise you are guaranteed to lose money. Not to mention banks these days are dropping like flies.

5. Delta Neutral Investing: Ok, so now that you know what not to do, I have saved this best tip for last. Delta Neutral Investing is also known as having a non-directional bias. Meaning you don’t care if the market moves up or down, you can make money either way. You see most people think that there is only one way to make money from the market, that is, you buy, the market goes up in value, hence you make money. Or, you sell, the market goes down, you make money. This is known as directional trading and this is how the majority of people try to profit from the market. The other way to profit is not by using the direction of the market but by taking advantage of and profiting from Time and Volatility. By putting on delta neutral positions you can exploit time and volatility to your advantage and for quick and massive gains.

When you start article marketing or any internet marketing, for that matter, you will probably wonder what is the best way to convert traffic into money in your pocket. In this article, I am going to address this question from an article marketing point of view.

There are basically three or four ways to generate income online from an article marketing point of view. The first is to purchase a domain name and redirect it directly to an affiliate website. In some niches you can generate tons of traffic to a re-direct, but only convert at a half of one percent or less. This will generate some money but it is going to be hard to generate a full-time income with this method.

The second way is if you had sent those same people to a squeeze page. I’ve found it’s much easier to get a substantially higher return on the same traffic if you get them on your email list. The reason being is that you can cross sell, back-end sell, and continue building a relationship with these folks. This will build trust and eventually, they’ll buy one or even multiple things from you down the road. An example of this is the dating niche can be cross marketed with diet or the divorce niche can be cross marketed with dating AND diet. This can be taken one step further by generating your own products to sell to your list. This is where it can become very profitable.

And the third way that you can make money with articles, and this goes back to not wanting to build a list again, you should send your traffic to a one page review site instead of a re-direct. The benefit of this is you will receive natural search engine traffic that’s not coming from the articles themselves but rather from the earned authority of the review page itself. If you are wondering about a one page review site, they are usually webpages such as a Squidoo lens or HubPage. Instead of redirecting traffic to an affiliate site, you send them to a Squidoo lens or HubPage that will help build trust by giving a review of the product you are promoting.

So which is the best way to make money with articles? The absolute best answer to that question is that you need to build a list in order to generate the maximum amount of income online.

This article is all about the basics of affiliate marketing and it covers what it is? And how it works? This article is aimed at beginners that want to find out a bit more about this type of business.

What is it?

The simplest way to explain affiliate marketing is that it is a way for an affiliate to promote a product, service or website for a business, which in return generates a sale for that business and which then in return earns the affiliate a fixed commission or a percentage of the sale that it help make. So basically affiliate marketing is a way of making money online.

A business is an organisation or a website that has a product or service to sell. An affiliate is a website owner that promotes a product, service or website for a business.

How does it work?

Basically an affiliate earns money every time it sends a potential customer from their own website to a businesses website which leads to an action. So what this means is that if you send someone from your own website via an affiliate link to a businesses website and they purchase a product or service you would receive money for it.

Three ways you can make money through affiliate marketing are pay per click, pay per sale and cost per action.

Pay per click is when a potential customer clicks on an affiliate link on your website and is directed to a businesses website you would receive money for that click.

Pay per sale is when a potential customer clicks on an affiliate link on your website and is directed to a businesses website but you would only receive money if the customer buys the product or service.

Cost per action is when a potential customer clicks on an affiliate link on your website and is directed to a businesses website, you earn money when a customer registers.

Affiliate marketing is a great way of making money online without having to hold any inventory or having to process payments. It is also very easy to get started and you can even work a couple of hours a day and still make a good living. Another major benefit of affiliate marketing is that its a business that you can run from your own home.

Have you ever spent money on advertising but then didn’t get the results you felt you should have? I know I have. Any of us who have ran a business has had this happen to us.

According to the ad rep, you just didn’t do it often enough, or for a long enough period of time. In other words, you didn’t spend enough money with him.

Well maybe you’ve heard this definition of insanity: Doing the same thing and expecting different results. So who’s insane, the rep, or the person who keeps giving him money for the same thing expecting different results?

You’re told that what you need is “exposure”, when you know what you need is sales.

Unless you have endless funding to create a brand name, you probably don’t have the budget to buy ‘impressions’ and hope for the numbers to eventually tilt in your favor.

You want return on investment NOW, you want RESULTS!. When you spend $1 in marketing you’d better get $2 back in sales – better yet, $3 or $4 or more, depending on the Life-Time Value of your clients.

Let me show you what I mean.

Recently, I decided to sell my pickup. Who was my target market? Someone looking for a pickup. Where would I find that market? Places where pickups are advertised – because that’s where someone looking for a pickup is likely to be looking.

I could have just put a sign on my truck and waited. Or put a sign in my yard. After all, thousands of people see my truck every day. And hundreds of people drive by my house every day. But what percentage of those people are looking to buy a pickup? One percent? Probably less.

But of the thousands of people looking at the truck ads in the paper, or on the internet, how many are interested in buying a truck? A lot more than one percent.

What’s the difference in these two approaches? The sign was way cheaper – or was it?

What was the ROI? Zero.

The internet ad I placed was $40.00. My truck sold for $20,000. What was the ROI? I got results because I employed the principles of Direct Response Marketing.

I wasn’t interested in building name awareness in the general public’s mind so that one day down the road, when someone out there became interested in buying a pickup truck, he’d call me. No, I needed results NOW.

I determined who my target market was, used the right medium, and delivered an effective, “matching”, message.

Now it’s true that if you offer a product or service that many will want eventually, such as window washing, but not all of them want it now (so we’re not talking groceries here), you should design an ongoing marketing strategy that will move the ‘not now’ folks to come to you first when they are ready.

But it’s wasteful to spend your marketing dollars on those that will never use your service or product. (e.g. Renters don’t usually pay to have their windows washed)

That’s where target marketing comes in. Unless you sell groceries, the general public is too big a target. Kinda like blowing up the whole barn to get rid of the hornets’ nest under one of the eaves.

Direct Response marketing is the answer for the small business owner with a limited advertising budget. And an essential strategy for a large business with a large advertising budget. In either case, an effective message to a targeted audience will get you the results you desire.