November 10th, 2009 — make money online
As this blog keeps growing and so the amount of readers and new visitors come everyday many have expressed their appreciation for providing great information, many have contacted me personally not through comments asking me how they can create more streams of income that allow them to earn money from home, and some are very interested in learning the same thing but without investing, so they are interested mainly in free money. There is a lot to talk about making free money, it will take me hundreds of articles for the amount of variations and solutions that can be presented on the internet to achieve such goal, so today I want to focus in one method that I have used and has worked out very well for me, maybe you will be interested in trying.
I have been talking a lot about making free blogs to make money from home through blogspot blogs at blogger.com, but today I want to focus on another free platform that has great search engine ranking power which will help you bring in traffic from that source, although it does not allows you to run ads like adsense, you do have a big opportunity to monetize these sites through affiliate programs, especially through CPA offers. The free platform that i’m talking about is wordpress.com.
You can create beautiful great free wordpress sites to earn money from home very easily, all you have to do is follow the guidelines that have been pointed out on this blog in the past, you know all that stuff about picking a niche, picking keywords that have low competition so you can outrank any other website to bring in lots of free traffic, applying SEO techniques to get those rankings, etc.
Then you have to join a couple of affiliate programs that provide you with great CPA offers, you can also add some affiliate products to make money from sales, but as you know people have a problem trusting sites that are not self hosted to buy stuff, but they will be more open to filling out any simple form that involves the completion of a pay per lead offer, like entering their email, or their names, or maybe they will just have to type in the zip code, although there are some CPA offers that involve filling out a more complicated form that ends with the person having to buy a product, most of them are as simple as typing in stuff. So through most of the offers they don’t have to buy anything so people usually are more willing to perform this type of actions.
If you apply this method correctly you will be able to earn money from home for free, you won’t have to spend a dime, all you have to do is get the right information and apply the right techniques, then you will easily rank for those keywords that bring in traffic, and that traffic will bring in money when they fill out simple forms from various cpa offers that you will be able to incorporate in your free wordpress website or blog. If you want to get more detailed information on how to make money through CPA offers don’t hesitate to read my article on that subject, it will provide you with a list of affiliate networks and programs that will give you what you need, they are all free to sign up and you could get started immediatly.
If you have any other ideas or tips on how to earn money from home for free don’t forget to try this method, it is not a get rich quick lie it takes some time until you see results, but it really works you can earn a lot of money if done right, and it can be quick if you find those golden keywords that have zero competition and a lot of traffic and conversion potential. Remember every day new keywords are being generated so just do your research appropriately and you will succeed.
November 9th, 2009 — make money online
Free advertising online is one of the best ways to get your web business noticed, it will help you make money for several reasons. It will help you keep your costs lower, it will attract more visitors and this will help you generate more sales, clicks, more completed tasks, etc. There’s not even a need to repeat all the benefits of more traffic because we all know how important this factor is for a successful online business. Anyway the best way to make a lot of money is generating a lot of income without having to spend much money, so through free advertising you can maximize the potential of your business by keeping your costs low.
Free advertising online is a way to get potential customers or users for your site or web business without having to spend any money at all, some people don’t have much faith in these opportunities because they think that they are probably not as effective as paid advertisement is. Maybe they are right, but they may be wrong as well, it is true that through paid online advertising you may be able to attract way more customers immediatly, some people launch their business through a very well layed out adwords campaign. It will be good, they will get a lot of visitors immediatly, maybe they will get sales, or completed cpa offers, or clicks, or new users for their membership site, but the truth is that at the end of the month the amount of money you will have earned may not be as much due to the high expense of your adwords or whatever cpc campaign you choose, in fact you may be in for a loss if you manage your campaign the wrong way.
As you see an adwords campaign or any other ppc cpc campaign can be expensive, sometimes a lot of people that is getting started, beginners think that there aren’t any other ways to get exposure, so they lose hope and sometimes they even quit without trying hard enough, without looking for the right information. They also get scared when they see how much it costs, and that they have to supply credit card information so they can get charged all the time for the service. A lot of people don’t even have a credit card, so they see roadblocks right from the start, frustration sets in, and in a very short period of time they lose interest. But since I want to keep all new comers interested here is a tip that you can enjoy and think about, you can use free advertising online to make money as well, sometimes even more effectively than running expensive ppc campaigns.
There are some ways to use free advertising online, one of these ways is a very famous, a very well known technique to achieve this purpose, a lot of fuzz about craiglist’s, you can join any craiglist for local or global markets and just offer what you have, you can find many of craiglist’s through performing a search on for “craiglist” on google, yahoo, bing, ask, or any other search engine that you trust and like.
Another great way to use free advertisements on the internet is through free classified ads, this method is very effective and it will help you a lot to get your business started withouth having to spend money, one great site to use free classified ads is cnet.com, it has a lot of traffic. Through cnet you will get a lot of exposure and you will be able to harness a new great source of customers or visitors for your product or service, for your business.
Article marketing is one of the most common and most used methods to get free advertising online, it requires a little bit more work because you have create well written articles, with good information, in order to get good search engine rankings which will bring traffic for free, targeted traffic.
The best way to get free advertising online is through SEO for blogs and websites, this is the most effective and cheapest way to get traffic i.e potential customers. Through seo you get pure organic traffic from the search engines the key is to rank first for your chosen keywords. SEO is the best free web advertising method, because when done right the amount of targeted visitors will be insane, your conversion rates will be crazy, you will not have to spend a dime because it all comes from your work, from your ability to understand the search engines and get the best out of them. It is not about spamming and applying techniques to rank high that may be recognized by google which will get your site penalized, no it is about providing high quality information with the appropriate everyday SEO techniques.
The conclusion is that the best way to create free advertising online opportunities is through SEO, you have to learn how to SEO your blogs or websites, this is free and it is the way to make money online that works the best, check out any of the great earners on the internet they rank first for their keywords. Some of them use adwords sometimes, some people just know how to make money with adwords or any other company that provides these type of services, but the real money makers usually don’t, they keep all the money for themselves. You can even do free advertising online through the creation of free websites and blogs, make a lot get them indexed, promote your main site, product, service, etc. But I will explain how and through which free services you will be allowed to perform effectively this technique on my next article.
I hope you enjoyed this article if you think you have any other idea or you know some other way to perform free advertising online please share it with us, we need this information to keep moving forward on our online ventures which at sometimes prove to be very expensive and difficult.
November 5th, 2009 — make money online
If you want to make your own website for free and make money with it but you don’t have no money, then don’t worry money is not required anymore. In fact probably after trying out some of the services I will point out on this article you may probably never ever want to host your on sites again. No i’m just kidding free websites are great if you don’t have money but self hosted websites offer many more benefits, but if it’s about making money without money then they are probably a great option.
So you want to learn how to make your own website for free, do you already know how to make websites? or are you a complete beginner? If you do not know how then you don’t have to worry about anything at all, because website building is as easy as writing, in fact most of the times you just have to worry just about creating content, the rest is just drag and drop, adding images or video and stuff like that.Learning to build free websites is as easy or even easier than creating sites with great website hosting services. I have an article on this blog on how to make your own website and it is very complete and very detailed on the whole process of site building, but it is focused on the creation of websites through the services, support, and tools provided by great web hosting. The difference between self hosted websites and free websites is that usually the URL, web address or domain name is not personal, which means that you won’t have your own .com, .org , .net, etc sites. Instead you will be provided with a web address that looks something like this (yourname.webs.com) taking webs free site building as an example.
If you want to make your own website for free and make money then you should follow the same steps involved when creating a selfhosted site, all you have to do is find the right services with the right tools and information, which allow you to create professional sites without having to deal with much more technical details, of course if you want to make money from it then you will have to learn something about SEO, internet marketing and monetization methods. But the most important step to make money with a free website is creating one, so you have to do is build a site and then worry about how are you going to monetize it. Of course that you have to put some thought into the monetization before because if you know that right from the start you will be able to choose the right keywords, title tags, and content. But that can be worked out as we move on through the whole process, what you have to have clear right from the start is what topic would you be interested in, then as you get better you can optimize it through on page SEO and offpage SEO.
How to Make Your Own Website For Free and Make Money:
1. Choose a free website builder with free website hosting:
byethost.com
yola.com
webs.com
weebly.com
webstarts.com
wordpress.com
2. Choose your template.
3. Create content.
4. On site SEO
5. Off site SEO
6. Choose a monetization method: eStore, ppc, affiliate marketing, in text ads, cpa, etc.
That’s all you have to do to make your own website for free and make money off it, it’s really this simple, and as you are able to see you don’t have to invest any money at all. All you have to do is go and check out the sites I told you about and choose the one that you believe that will provide better results for you, just pick the one you like the most and that’s it start making sites, start making money online.
Monetizing this sites is very simple, after having your sites published up and running you will be able to apply to all the differnet money making opportunities provided by all the different networks that provide a whole bunch of different options, although wordpress.com free sites will not be able to be monetized with ppc programs like adsense you can monetize them with CPA offers and affiliate programs. All you have to do is paste the codes provided by them in your sites and wait for traffic to come and hope tahat it converts well. If you apply keyword marketing to these sites then you will surely have a great conversion rate, so go through the pages of this blog or other great blogs that will give you complete information on how to apply great keyword marketing strategies and tactics so that your site building efforts produce as much as they could.
If you wanted to learn how to make your own website for free and make money now you know, start applying and testing, soon you will get results that will encourage you to keep trying. If you have any advice or opinion on this article, if you think that you can provide us with more information that might help other people get started with building sites that make money without having to invest then please leave a comment.
November 5th, 2009 — make money online
I Know you all have been wondering which are the best ways to make money online, and by now you all must know how to make money on the internet through CPA offers, or CPA marketing per se. If you do not then read this article because this business model has been making money a lot of money for a lot of people in recent years. If you were looking for a way to lure people to do things that will actually help you get money, then this is probably it, why? because usually through CPA offers people don’t have to buy or pay for nothing, they just have to fill in some information in some form and that’s it, you get paid.
What is CPA Marketing?
CPA means cost per action, which means that the CPA model only pays when a specific action is taken on a specific website, a website which has CPA offers. The advertiser defines that action in advance and pays only when that specific action is taken. CPA offers can be as simple as filling out a form on the website, or it could be a little bit more difficult like a multi page sign up ending with the purchase of some product or service through the use of a credit card. Of course if it has more perks it usually means that you will get paid more for that action that is taken on your website. As you can see the CPA marketing business model is very different to the CPM marketing business model were the advertiser pays for surfers to view their ads, or for surfers clicking on ads which is the CPC cost per click marketing business model. If you wanted to learn how to make money on the internet then this is one of the opportunities that will help you get started on the right tracks. Because CPA as you see can help you make money from people that complete certain simple tasks on your sites without having to pay for anything, that is why the CPA model is so succesful, and that is why people that have more success in lead generation products usually achieve that success through placing CPA offers on their websites and blogs.
Now if you want to learn how to make money on the internet through CPA offers my advice is that if you have a website then join a couple of good CPA networks, if you don’t have a website then go and get one so you can start applying the information that you read here. It is very important choosing the right CPA networks because if you don’t you will probably pick the wrong ones that have the wrong offers, the kind of offers that will not convert because probably they won’t be as appealing as the ones provided by other networks which have great conversion rates, also by choosing the right network you will probably get more money for each action that is taken. So if you are a beginner you may be wondering what are CPA networks, so i’m going to quickly explain what they are and how do they work.
What are CPA networks?
CPA networks host the CPA offers, they work as the middlemen between advertisers and publishers, they manage the offers or host the offers from their advertisers and then the publishers or affiliates as you may call them concentrate on generating leads, that means sending traffic to those offers and getting a percentage of the lead value. So everything get managed through one place, if you manage a couple of advertisers o various advertisers offers in one website or various websites, you won’t have to wait for checks from all of them, instead you get on single check every month from the CPA network.
Which are the Best CPA networks?
There are many, no one single answer for this one, but there are some that are very well known, and highly recommended like maxbounty.com, azoogleads.com, offervault.com and affspy.com. They have thousands and thousands of offers that are very well paid and will fit into any type of website or blog, I mean they will provide you with a CPA offer that will fit right in your website’s or blog’s theme, niche, market, etc.
If you are still wondering how to make money on the internet from cpa offers because you thought that it was great but you don’t have any money to make a website or a blog, then you don’t have to worry much because as i’ve told you there are many ways to create free websites or blogs, I would recommend you to go to blogger.com or wordpress.com, or yola.com, or webs.com get yourself a free website or blog, optimize it for the search engines, so that you won’t have to pay for traffic either just some good ol’ search engine free traffic and start making money from great CPA offers that you place on those sites. You could even use hubpages.com and squidoo.com to promote CPA offers and make money with them. After knowing or having and idea where to create the site which you intend to monetize through CPA offers then you have to worry about choosing a good niche, market segment, choosing the keywords which will bring you high quality traffic and organic traffic from the search engines, you should apply also keyword marketing, and do research for great opportunities with tools like the adwords tool,
Now you know how to make money on the internet with a very succesful business model which is CPA marketing, I hope you enjoyed this article and if you think that you can contribute something to this article please share your opinions or knowledge with us by leaving a comment. Remember the most important thing to make money on the internet is traffic, so whatever business model you choose it will always be a good opportunity if you know how to generate traffic for your sites.
November 1st, 2009 — make money, make money online
Ways to Make Money
If you want to learn many different Ways to Make Money that actually work then I think you should probably read this article, start applying and testing. The important thing is that you try out things to see what can work for you and what not. You may have heard about some of these things in the past, or maybe not, it does not matter we will have outlined different strategies that will have results, even if you tried some of these in the past and failed it is because you were not doing things right. I will also talk to you about some unsual ways to make money that you might want to try out, because these are the type of things that show us how flexible, creative, profitable and fun the internet, and online businesses are, it will also make clear how conventional jobs and money making tasks which demand a lot of hard work, time, exposure, etc will soon be considered overrated and in a future not so far they will probably be forgotten as well.
Through the following list I will provide you with a lot of ideas on several ways to make money that actually work, I will give you a short explanation on each one, and I will probably provide you links to other articles which I previously wrote explaining that topic with more detail.
Ways to Make Money :
1. Ebay.com : Buy on ebay then sell on ebay as well, but apply a technique that is called dropshipping, this way you won’t have to worry about managing stock for your products and you will not need to worry about storage. It’s great to lower operational costs involved in the whole process to buy, receive, sell, ship, etc. A company that provides this service stays with the product, stores it , and then they will send it to the buyer. The best way to make money on ebay is by buying products on days and hours that are cheap, and sell on ebay when the auctions for products are higher. Buying cheap on ebay can be done on tuesday, wednesday, and thursday real late, if you are in America and that includes south america as well, from 2 to 6 in the morning. To sell on ebay the best day is friday after 6 p.m.
2. Amazon.com : to buy on amazon and then sell on amazon you must apply the same steps and techniques I mentioned for ebay, It works the same, although I would like to point out that you can also buy and sell things that are not runned through auctions. You can buy great offers that usually consist of high volumes of merchandise, but you won’t have to worry because of dropshipping services, or if the person that you bought from agrees to keep the products until you re-sell them, so he or she just have to ship the stuff as if they were shipping it to you in the first place. These high volume offers usually give you the potential to make thousands and thousands of dollars, all you have to do is choose the right products to sell.
3. Make an Amazon or an Ebay Online Store. You can do this very easily by choosing the right website hosting service, by creating a highly optimized website/blog in wordpress through their autoinstall service for wordpress. Then you will choose the design of your website, create content about the things you intend to sell, optimize your blog for the search engines and that’s it. One of the ways to make money that I enjoy the most is affiliate marketing, you can create your amazon and ebay online store by joining their affiliate programs which offer great tools, widgets, etc and sell products from other people and get a comission.
4. Metacafe : Buy a camera if you don’t have one, start making and uploading videos at metacafe.com. You will get paid for every view, go to the site and find out how much to see if you are still interested. All I can say is that there are some people that make a lot of money through metacafe and you can check it out by visiting their site and looking up for the highest earners list, there you will be able to get an idea. Make videos that are useful, interesting or fun, that way you will get a lot of traffic, and remember traffic will make you money because you are paid per view.
5. Associatedcontent.com : Join for free, write articles and get paid immediatly before being published something like $2 to $20 dollars per article, and you will keep making money through every view that it has, of course you will need a lot of views to make a decent amount of money. Anyway associatedcontent.com has a lot of power because it is trusted by google, articles are reviewed manually that is why they pay upfront for each article, so articles that are published here get ranked very high by google and other search engines, therefore providing you a lot of traffic if you apply keyword strategy right. This is one of my sister’s favorite ways to make money because she does live in the U.S, I live outside so I’m limited only to getting paid per view, so go and check if there is availability for your country first if you plan to get paid upfront for each article after revision before submission.
6. Make free blogs, free hubs and free lenses :
The following 100 web pages you choose to make, if you choose any will be one of the best ways to make money that you have applied especially if you follow the guidelines required to make money which consist of things like keyword strategy, SEO, keyword marketing, content creation, tools. You should also follow the same monetization methods that are usually applied to these sites, that is by monetizing with adsense, bidvertiser or adbrite for interest based ads or based on content ads, you could also use one of my favorite ways to make money which is in text ads through the service of companies such as infolinks, kontera, clicksor, vibrant media, etc. And with affiliate products by joining affiliate programs like cj (comission junction) and CB (clickbank).
- Make 30 blogs at blogspot or blogger.com : This blogs have to be the most methodical of the three options in this list, because you have to create a lot of content so it can be effective to get money, you must learn about keyword strategy and execute that strategy correctly. You will also need to make more pages for each one of these blogs, about thirty good articles for each one, a bit of hard work but they will make you a lot of money.
- Make 100 hubs at hubpages.com, same principles, it’s all bout the keywords. Make one hub per keyword.
- Make 100 lenses at squidoo.com, same strategy as well. Except you only make one lens per keyword.
7. Sell Affiliate products by uploading videos in youtube and metacafe. What you have to do is create a presentation for the product, appropriately tag the video to rank in the first result or in the first page of the results after performing a google search or a youtube search on the keyword of the market you want to target. Remember to create a good short presentation that says or shows you everything about that product, then place the url of your website, or your own personal affiliate link beneath the image or at the right side next to video within your profile information.
8. Make your own E-book and sell it online. Write a how to guide on anything and get paid, sell it through your own website or sell it through one of the many promotional eMarketing methods that can be found online.
9. Get Paid $1 dollar for every article you write and that’s accepted at today.com.
10. Take a part time job could be online or offline. Online you could be writing for other people or translating stuff if you know various languages. Offline you could work at a night club.
11. Start a home business that is not online, like a day care in your house for children that have working parents.
12. Create your own products, for example necklaces or cloth with your own design and ideas. Look what happened to Underarmour. Or just create crafty stuff very cool stuff and go to etsy.com and sell it.
13. Make websites and sell them, offer your services as a website builder, simply learn how to install wordpress sites and charge people some money for their new great website or blog, eventually you will get known for being the go to person in your town when a website is needed.
14. Craiglist : Sell anything you might want to very easily, the cool thing is that craiglist are usually localized so you can get customers on the same place you are, so you won’t have to bother with the shipping cost and the operation will probably be faster, one more thing probably the most important, craiglist is a free service!
15. Join Second Life , create a succesful business online in a virtual world and redeem your virtual money for real money. You have to be creative as well to make money in that virtual world or you can take jobs and get paid.
16. Join World of Warcraft, play the game make gold in the game, the number of users and addicts to this game is so high that you will be able to sell the gold you make in world of warcraft to other players or users for real cash.
17. Play Webkinz
18. Become a Video Game Tester.
19. Find an Online Job at amazon’s mechanical turk, where companies post job offers to complete tasks that are hard for a machine but easy for a person. All you have to do is look for the list of available offers , choose one that you like and that you can complete, then get paid. One of the great ways to make money provided by amazon which has a handful of those.
20. Buy cheap stuff at china through alibaba.com, find out about something that is highly demanded where you live and that it is very hard to get or very expensive, once you find out what that thing might be you go to alibaba.com search for the product, look for a supplier that sells that product for peanuts, make sure that the provider is a gold verified member, so you won’t get ripped off. Go to the possible customers make a business presentation through a decent business plan, get an order, begin your importation business. You could make a killing with the most simple things, this is one the ways to make money that I have applied the most because after you make one hit, it usually stays with you, because no one can make better offers than the chinese.
21. You can start Breeding Animals, depending on where you live and how much space you have. For example if you live in a small limited place, you could fill just one room of the place with lots of fish tanks very well organized so that you can fit in as many as you can. In these fish tanks you will start your own aquafarming project, but since your space is very limited you must focus on little exotic fishes that cost a lot of money, you can get them from asia, U.S.A, and many other places, you will have to do some research.
22. Royalty free Photos one of the many ways to make money that I frequently use, I would recommend to invest a little bit of money in a good camera so you can make much more money. All you have to do is take pictures of everything and go to places like istockphoto.com, shutterstock.com, break.com or bigphoto.com and sell them there, place them there and everytime someone purchases one you will take a high percentage of the deal, I make thousands of dollars a year from shutterstock which is the one I use the most.
23. Royalty free Video works the same as royalty photos except that you will need a good HD video camera which can be quite expensive if you don’t find any good bargains or something like that, but you would get that money back real fast because Royalty free videos sell like crazy for a lot of money, for very short clips with high definition you would make like $100 u.s dollars every time someone purchased the video. You can film anything even just people walking, many people need this type of videos for many different reasons, the important thing is that they sell for a great price. You could make a lot of money by selling your videos over and over on pond5.com, cutcaster.com and other royalty free stock sites that might promote your work.
24. Sell Royalty free images, you don’t need to be a creator of images to have success with them, you can outsource this work in other countries by hiring people that charge a very small amount of money and make hundreds of new original designs that can be sold easily over and over online. They can be sold through your own Royalty free stock website, or simply go to sites like fotolia.com, dreamstime.com or istockphoto.com and apply the same process which is applied to royalty free photos and videos.
25. Grow food on your backyard or in a small room depending on the available space you have. If the space you have is very small you could start growing medicinal or gourmet exotic asian mushrooms, which have a lot of demand and are very expensive. They can be produced easily if you apply the techniques of mushroom cultivation properly, and you can start your own small business operation with a small amount of money, you could produce shiitake mushrooms, maitake, lion’s mane, etc.
26. Buy antiques on your hometown that are being sold for very cheap prices, then sell the antiques on the internet for a higher price, because you will receive a lot of offers from a lot of interested people for products like these all over the world. You could sell them easily through ebay or amazon, even etsy.
27. Join local sports championships like marathons, triathlons, bowling tournaments, etc, that have cash prizes, Win and get paid. You do need to be in shape if you want to make money this way, because the competition is usually very well trained.
28. Become a fitness instructor all you need to do is learn the principles of weight training, a lot of weight training routines, learn how to use and teach how to use pulsometer technology like POLAR for better results, faster weight loss and faster results overall. You could charge between $150 and $300 u.s dollars an hour easily for every customer you had.
29. Find hobbies that you enjoy and give you the chance to create new ways to make money, like carving jewlery and accesories that are very cool.
30. Become a Loan Shark, lend money to people in your hometown and charge a weekly percentage on this amount, it could be something from $5 to $10 for the loaning fee, you should check the local laws to find out if you can perform this type of activity without doing something that can be considered illegal.
31. Buy and Sell estates, this means that you could buy any house, apartment, etc, full of stuff and sell everything inside through auctions and through flea markets, or through online services, then you could sell the house or apartment itself at the end to complete the process.
32. Buy and Sell stuff through local auction sites that are located near to where you live, you will find great offers if you have good judgement, and then you will make a killing reselling this stuff, antiques are a heavy favorite in this field. This is one of the many great ways to make money without getting things to complicated.
33. Become an Advisor to make money by giving out advice on your area of expertise, you could also create an online business were you offer your advice for money. For example if you are a lawyer you could set up a web site that offers consulting on law issues that are a lot cheaper, because you won’t have to get yourself an office, you can do it from home, and you can manage a higher a volume of clients. Of course this could be like a more basic consulting like a general consulting service that points out important things, and information on what the next steps should or could be. This is just one example it can be done in many ways, like for fitness coaching, health consulting, etc.
34. Buy and sell currencies to make a margin, it can be done through forex, or you can do it locally on your hometown’s exchange service, you could buy a few euros and wait for them to reach higher value that when you bought them, then sell them and keep the margin difference. Repeat all over again for as many currencies as you want, just do some research and find out about the historical behavior of that currency in the last couple of months.
35. You could start a painting course to learn how to make art, this usually does not take so much time to learn and you can start making money real fast, paintings have a lot of demand and they are very well paid.
36. You could take care of people’s animals in your neighborhood.
37. You could become a tour guide in your home town, you could start you own business intended to show people the historical value of your city, this is one of the ways to make money that could easily make you a steady income without having to invest a lot time and money, and it could be a business that could probably grow into something bigger. Of course your city must have a flow of tourism so it can be succesful.
38. You could collect stamps, then sell them, in fact you could get into all type of collectibles with the purpose of reselling once they have reached higher value.
39. One of my favorite ways to make money is by becoming a wine tester, you have to try out different wines and rate them, this is called enology.
40. Buy a dehydrator and a vacuum packaging machine, you know to shrink and wrap stuff. Go to the local markets buy fruits, vegetables, meats, etc. Dehydrate them, pack them, and sell them on local stores for a considerable amount of money, you won’t need to buy a big expensive dehydrator there are great cheap dehydrators that work just fine, you can even do the dehydration process with the sun, and vacuum packaging devices can be bought for a very low price.
41. Find out about things that are missing that have cash rewards, it can be jewelery, cell phones, pets, etc. Find the missing items and get paid.
42. Walk dogs to get paid by the hour.
43. Get into Rummage Sales to buy and sell things.
44. Be creative and make new crazy products that might make it big, like boots for cats or something like that.
45. You can perform internet researching for people that don’t have the time or skills to retrieve the needed information on the internet, you could to this kind of work for many different people in lots of different fields, you could make like $10 to $20 u.s dollars an hour.
46. You could start a professional blog with wordpress, not like the 100 hundred blogs that should be done through free services that I mentioned at the beginning of this article, you could make a real focused blog that has lots of entries, that targets great keywords and that has a lot of search engine traffic, so that you can make money through sales of affiliate products, leads from CPA offers and through adsense clicks. This is on of the best ways to make money and have fun doing something you like.
47. Become one of those persons that give out samples in stores or make demonstrations of the use of the products that they are being paid to promote, get paid $10 to $20 dollars an hour on average.
48. Mystery Shopping is something I have recommended over and over through many articles, it really works and you can make up to $100 dollars a day.
49. Create an eStore, to sell affiliate products, or even create your own products and designs through zazzle or cafepress, or sell your own products if you already have them or if you are able to make them. You will be able to make money easily through the promotion of a variety of creative and unique products. With cafepress or zazzle all you have to do is print on demand. Or you could join blogprofitz.com and have them run your online business, or you could join buildanichestore.com and get a niche site for an ecommerce or affiliate marketing site that is automatically made and very effective.
50. If you have decent writing skills then you could try writing on a column for a local newspaper, it is something very easy to do, it does not require much time, you can make quick money with this gig, what you have to do is send your local newspaper an article that you have made on any subject that they might be interested in, if they like it they’ll buy it and you will be able to sell more articles over and over again once you get your first one accepted, or you can be hired to make articles constantly on a daily basis.
51. Buy land in countries that are considered emerging economies, the price of the land will keep getting higher every day as these countries keep developing.
52. Create your own business in a third world country, make a company, your own brand, you can do this easily in these countries because the cost of labor is very cheap, also other costs like water and energy are very low as well as the cost of supplies, so you could ask for a credit or a loan and make an investment overseas.
53. One of the most popular ways to make money in the world is through buying and selling stock, now you don’t have to know how to do this, what you can do is invest a certain amount of money through a stock broker, he or she, or the compnay which handle your stock investment will take care of the whole process of buying and selling with your consent when the time is right, and they will advice you where and when to invest for maximum results. Or you can do this through great online services which provide great support and tools, like scottrade.com, through tdameritrade.com or tradeking.com.
54. I have a friend that uses one of the coolest ways to make money, he buys old cars that are rare models for a very cheap price, then he remodels those cars, makes them better, new engines, new painting, new furniture, he pimps cars that’s what he does, then he sells them for a lot more money than he bought them.
55. Introduce people that may need it each other for commercial lucrative purposes, and win a comission for being the middle man.
56. Write songs and sell them to independant musicians or to music companies, or through websites which are made for this purpose, you can find many through a google search.
57. Identify needs in local businesses and offer them to outsource that need through you , for example if you know about a terrific restaurant that has no delivery and you know that the restaurant could be making a lot more money through delivering orders at homes, then you could offer the restaurant to provide them with the motorcycle and the driver to deliver those orders, they should charge a little extra fee for the delivering service, then this fee could be divided between you and the restaurant. This would also help that business make more money for themselves.
58. Write a book and have it published, not an e-book a real book. I’m sure you’ve been able to see all the crappy books in bookstores all over the world, so it would be very possible to have one published even if it’s not that good.
59. Take Paid Surveys Online.
60. Wash your neighbor’s cars to make extra money real quick.
61. Create and publish your own magazine. It could be about anything, entertainment magazines, with reviews and unique photography, and stuff like that do very well when it comes to making money. This business can be done with a small amount of money, especially if you intend it to start out locally, then it can grow and even become a multimillion dollar business when it becomes global.
62. Create or hire someone to make softwares and apps for cellphones, then sell them. This is not a get rich quick scheme, it will take time and testing, but it is a method that can make you a rich person once you have a product that has success.
63. Get paid to read emails.
64. Join focus groups to make money.
65. Surf the web and get paid.
66. Get paid to read.
67. Get paid to click on ads.
68. Get paid to complete offers through the money making method provided by projectpayday.com, treasuretroopers.com and cashcrate.com.
Now you know 68 different ways to make money that work, some are easy ways to make money some are not, but you will be able to earn money as much money as you want if you develop a good business plan. You will be able to find more information on all of these business models by searching on google, yahoo, bing, and other search engines to get more specific technical details, a lot of the more specific information can be found on this site as well. If you think you can suggest other ways to make money that work then leave a comment and contribute to a list that will help anyone out there to find ways to make extra cash or sustainable long term businesses.
November 1st, 2009 — make money online
Why should you at least try to make money online? There are probably many answers for this question, because in reality there is more depth for the answer of this question than just saying that you want to make money in this way just to get money. Of course we all start out because we want to make money, but, why do you want to make money online? To be independant, to feel good about yourself, to show people of what you are capable,to make money from home so that you can be with your family more time, to buy anything you want, to be able to say that you made on your own and nothing was handed on silver platter, etc.
I believe that all of us that try to make money this way is because we have a desire or an idea that’s bigger than what we are taught to believe, we want to get out of that box, we believe in change, and we believe in ourselves most of all. Because if we are in this whole make money online thing it’s because we are willing to try hard, to be creative and to be productive on our own. We all know how hard this is at least when we are getting started because as everything else, we get better with practice and dedication.
You should at least try to make money online because it will open your mind, it will help you see things in a very different way, you will find out about possibilities on making money that you would never imagine, and as you apply them and if you keep studying so that you can learn and figure out everything on your own your mind will get stronger. As your mind gets stronger so does your ability to think, so you can even get better at doing business in the real life because you will be able to learn about variation and flexibility. Making money online is all about the diversity of methods, models and techniques, and also about the flexibility involved in creating succesful online business ventures, anything is possible!
You should try to make money online because chances are that if you are constant and responsible you will succeed no matter what. You should try it because if you have a little of success then you will be able to do it again with even greater rewards.
The reason or reasons of why you should try to make money the internet aside from all the personal stuff , are because you can get started right now, you can begin to try things online for money at any moment, you can start out without money, you can make some money without having a lot of information. In fact the real methods to make money online are quite simple, the thing is that the people that know usually don’t want to share or give out their whole knowledge, and this is perfectly normal and understandable, it would be like going to the coca-cola company and asking them for the formula to make that delicious drink, not in a million years. But internet marketers and make money guru’s are kind enough to give us tips and very important information, all of this information you can get, all you have to do is go to the right places which are a lot and learn everything you need, test, then make your own conclusion.
I guess that what i’m trying to say is that you should try to make money online because it is fun, you can do it as an extra chore at work on free time, you can also make money from home, you can build huge streams of income, you can achieve any of the financial goals you had set for yourself ever since you were a kid, you can try to do all of this for free, although a little bit of investment would speed up things. You should try to make money online because after everything is done and set you will be able to make money fast and easy!
October 29th, 2009 — make money, make money online
I’m always trying to find out about things that might help me make fast cash, but it seems to get harder every day, I mean there are thousands and thousands of offers that promise you to get a certain amount of money instantly, but the truth is that it is a lie! Usually almost never are you allowed to cashout until you reach the minimum amount required to make payouts. Kind of unfair and also kind of scammy, I mean if you already earned it, why can’t you get it?
I’ve been always very interested on making some extra fast cash, it is my passion, that is why I got into the online business. When I got started with the internet and trying to get money through it I was hoping that I would find a way to make some extra money on the side while keeping my day job. Things turned out to be way much harder and I so my journey began, feeling very frustrated and angry at times because all I heard was how much people were making money really fast and easy online, but I still couldn’t. I joined many fast cash opportunities but none of them really worked, there was always a problem, there was always an excuse.
I always kept looking for new opportunities and I tried harder each time, so the result was that I was wasting a lot of time and I was not making any money at all, so it wasn’t really easy and there was no sight of fast cash. Why can’t people be really honest about things and share the information they know? why do they wanna keep it for themselves always? is it jealousy? Everyone that knows everything about how you can make money online should at least share a bit, the real sources of information are probably the ones that always make more money. When you see a headline about fast cash now or something like that, you should believe in it onlye if they are talking about fast cash loans and that might not work good for most people because it is a loan and it will get you in debt, so if you don’t pay up eventually you will have problems.
The idea to get fast cash is about not having problems so if you really want to get money fast then you should focus on ways that do not require fast cash loans that will get you even more broke at due time. You must be a smart person and recognize a legit opportunity when you see one, usually things that will get you money require a little bit more, but you could do a couple of things to make money very fast, like winning the lotto. I’m just playing, there are thing you could do that would get you paid every day without having to do practically anything, and you would also receive a generous amount of money.
This first part of the article i’m going to hit it off with a real opportunity to make fast cash that’s real easy to do and to get, this article focuses more online ways to make money fast but this first example is in the real world because I believe that some people might be really desperate and in need of money right now so I just want to guide them and advice them with things that are possible and that really work. Things that could be applied right now instead of sitting around waiting for some money to drop off the trees. So here we go:
You could get fast cash easily if you joined a casting agency or various casting agencies that hire extras for movies, music videos, tv series, etc. It is really easy anyone can do it with no problem, even if you think you couldn’t because you look bad or whatever the reason is it does not matter, because extras have to be varied in other to provide more realistic features. Through this type of job if you joined the right agencies you would be booked probably every day and you would earn something between $60 to $300 dollars probably even more depending on the gig, plus your expenses would be cut short to more than half, because filming usually takes a lot of hours so breakfast, lunch and dinner would be on them. That would be probably the easiest fast cash ever, all you have to do is stand there and mind your own business.
I know you have probably heard many times that you could get money by joining Get paid to sites (GPT’s), you know get paid to read emails and stuff like that, most of them at least the most known out there offer a $5 dollar sign up, now that would be and it is great, but the truth is that you can’t retrieve your many until you reach certain amount which is impossible to reach by the first day. But there are a couple of sites that will give a $1 dollar payout if you want, they will instantly send you the money through paypal or egold, and their emails sent most of them pay something between $0.50 and $0.75 dollars, and the send a lot of e-mails. If you signed up for the list I am about to give you then you would indeed make fast cash very easily from home, it would be fast because it would not take long and you would make money that would in fact help out for any of your expenses.
Fast Cash Online List:
- Gainpay.com : Has a very low payout $1 dollar and they have a lot of offers each day.
- Peoplestring.com : Used to be honest mails but they are really good, low $1 dollar payout, so you could get your money instantly, and they send about 14 paid emails on average.
Now with this two I just mentioned you could do some money instantly and have it delivered immediatly. If you are still interested in this type of opportunities and they you don’t mind reaching the payout threshold for a while and make some decent money with each one of these websites then join them, you would still make money fast with them so why not join them, you will get paid eventually in a short time.
Fast Cash Online with a Higher Payout Threshold:
- Hits4pay.com : You get paid $10 dollars instantly, and you have to reach a minimum amount of $25 dollars to get paid, which you will do very fast because they send a lot of emails. It even offers you the opportunity to get paid to read books and viewing advertisers websites.
- Mypoints.com : You get paid to read emails, to play free games and take paid surveys, the bad new is that you get paid with amazon gift card, minimum payout amount $20 dollars.
- Clixsense.com : You get paid for viewing ads, you will receive get paid $0.01 to $5 dollars for every view. and you will receive $0.10 for each referral, and if you send people through the affiliate program sometimes you will get paid up to $2 dollars per referral. So it is very easy if you click on ten ads daily you will make $0.10 cents, not much, but it will add up if you send a lot of referrals, so if you have a website that has a decent amount of traffic, you could send about 40 referrals daily, so you could get something like $4 dollars per day on referrals, which would add up to overy a hundred dollars a month with just one company. Imagine if you applied the same strategy for all of them.
- Inboxdollars.com : $5 dollar sign up a lot of offers, it works well.
There are many others that have already been posted on this site you would have to check in my archives because i’m not going to write them down all of them all over again, it would be duplicate content so it would not fit well here, it would hurt my search engine rankings, so please if you want to learn more, check out my article on paid surveys, and GPT sites.
Now you know how to get some Fast Cash very easily without knowing much about anyting, all you have to do is be dilligent and constant as with everything else in life if you want results. Now remember how I told you that the best way to make money fast with this offers were through referalls? and that the best way to do it was probably through a high traffic website? Ok, that is the real secret to get money on the internet, if you want to make money online you have to make a website or blog, it won’t be as fast but if you do it right eventually it will be a lot and I mean lot much more money, it will take a little bit more time, but after it takes of you will really know what fast cash is. I offered a couple of examaples on this article, one wasn’t even online, but it was to make people understand that there are many things that can be done online or offline that will help you make money fast if you really need it.
If you have more advices on how to make fast cash then please share them with us by leaving a comment, It would be interesting to have a broader list that would help everyone out there looking for opportunities to make money fast when they really need it.
October 27th, 2009 — blogging
If you want to start successful Blog Sites you must choose the right blogging platform or blogging software. As I told you in my article, how to make a blog site, you must have a clear idea of what blogging is, what your goals are, and how much money are you willing to invest.
If you are just getting started with blogging and you haven’t learned much about the techniques involved to create a blog site that has success, and you don’t want to take the risk of investing on your own self hosted blog, then you should choose from one of the many free blog sites that give you the opportunity to get started without having to take something out of your pocket. Some people may believe that these sites aren’t as effective as self hosted blogs might be, maybe they are right in some ways, but they may also be wrong about other things that might come as a benefit when choosing properly the right free blog site.
Benefits of Free Blog Sites:
Blog sites that are free and play a major role in the blogging world offer you benefits that in order to aquire them for your self hosted blog would require investingo much more time and money.
- Some established free blog sites have very high alexa rankings for each of your new pages.
- Each webpage or blog which you produce will get indexed faster, because they carry the weight of the big site to which they belong.
- Free blog sites are already listed in major directories that would require investing a generous amount of money to get listed. Example : Yahoo directory listing.
- Free blogging services give you the opportunity to make money even you have no money, some let you keep all the money, with others you must share some of your earnings. In either case most of the times it won’t matter because you do save a lot of time and effort by the tools they provide for free, in a self hosted blog you would have to incorporate most of these things by paying for them and for others you would have to take a long time of trial and error until you reached the point were your blog could be effective after a long learning and investing process.
- Domain age: Free blogging sites usually are old and very well known, and they have projected themselves their business for quite a long run, so their domain age is already old which is valued by the search engines, and the expiring dates of their domains are probably undefined, which means that they have paid to have that domain for a very long time which gives them even more extra value in the search engines.
The cons fo choosing one of these sites are that you don not have control over your hosting, if the hosting managers decide that your content is inappropriate or if they believe that you are not following the propre guidelines then they might close your account, therefore you wouldn’t be able to claim money if you had made any and you would have lost all of your invested time as well. But all and all if you do things right then you probably might never get shut down and you could make some serious money from taking advantages from services such as theirs.
I want to start the list of blog sites with the free blogging platforms which I believe that are always more appealing to beginners, through these sites you will be given a lot of benefits that allow you to rank high, get a lot of search engine traffic, learn a lot about the subject which in this case is blogging, and you can get started immediatly to start trying out and applying things that you learn through this process.
Free Blog Sites List:
- Blogger.com : Blogspot is probably the best free blogging platform overall, it is very flexible, you get to choose as many templates as you want online, so you can make it look how you want, you can also pick any of the default templates which allow you to make a professional blog without messing the original html configuration that blogspot blogs, the original templates are very well optimized for the search engines . It is also very easy to integrate monetization methods to your blogspot blog site, because it just about clicking and dragging and dropping, you can easily place adsense ads through their adsense widget, you can easily insert affiliate products through the html/java gadget which allow you to copy any code you want paste it anywhere you want. Inserting pictures and video is very easy as well, anything that you could think of doing to your blog to improve it can be done easily with any of their options or gadgets. Blogspot blog sites come right off the bat very well optimized as i’ve said before, most of the competitive keywords have blogspot blog on the first page result, although numbers are dropping it doesn’t matter because it may be because a lot of people are starting to host their own wp blog site.
- Squidoo : This is a blog site indeed, you have to choose a topic and write about it, and that is exactly what blogging is. Of course you are not allowed to make single blogs that are very big, you know blogs that have a lot pages and that are categorized and archived, etc. No, here you create single web pages that are called lenses, you can make as many lenses as you want, and you can string them all together through links if choose to make a whole lot of pages on one niche with different keywords. With lenses you should focus on one keyword per page. The cool thing about squidoo is that they provide you with a lot of easy to use modules, you only have to click on add and that’s it, they provide you with enough modules to create content easily, the hard part that is writing could be cut short vastly and still produce a lot of lenses that would make money. On squidoo adsense blocks are already integrated so the adsense earnings are shared with all users according to their lensrank, higher lensrank higher adsense earnings. But you can also monetize with affiliate products through the modules they offer which are perfect for people that really don’t know about anything, you will be able to insert amazon modules, ebay modules, cafe press modules and zazzle modules, of course by using their affiliate marketing modules you would have to share part of your comission with squidoo if you generated a sale. But you can promote your own affiliate products as well so you can keep all the earnings by placing your affiliate links within the content in the text modules, you can insert banners and anything else that can be done through html or css, the only thing that is not allowed is placing interest based ads such as adsense. Another great thing is that the alexa rank of each lens you make will be very high, you will get indexed very fast, and since you carry the weight of such a large site then you can probably or you will probably rank in the first page within the first results if you do a proper keyword research and apply a proper keyword strategy. Of course keyword strategy is what creates success for any blog site be it free or self hosted.
- Hubpages: The hubpages service is unbelievable, it is very similar to squidoo except that they call their pages “hubs”, creating a hub is very easy as well, but they require a little bit more of hardwork when creating one. Because they are more focused on quality, which have made them a very credible source of information which. They offer a very easy to use platform as well, the provide you with modules as well, but you have to focus a lot more on content creation, on unique content. This have made them gain a lot of trust in google’s eyes therefore they are being highly valued by the search engines oftenly reaching number one for any keyword, you must focus on one keyword per hub as well to get the most benefits. In hubpages you will be able to insert your own adsense code and your own kontera in text ads code, you do not get 100% of the earnings because visitors are split between you and them, givin you both the opportunity to make money off this blog site. They get 40% of the visitors which gives them a forty percent chance to make money from every visitor, and you get the other 60%.
- Wordpress.com : You may have heard about all the great things that wordpress has to offer, of course the real benefits of wordpress are not within their free blog site, the true power of a wordpress relies within a having your blog on a website hosting service. But wordpress.com is free, it can be monetized not as well as monetizing a blogspot free blog because you cannot place adsense on them. But they do work , they get very high rankings, so you can choose them to promote affiliate products or redirect traffic to other sites were you might get all the earnings if money is made.
- Blogsome.com : I forgot about this one, today I just wanted to let you all know that blogsome blogs are doing very good lately you can see a lot of them on the first page of search engine results, and they are quite easy to create and manage.
Here’s a list of the with more of the best Free Blog Sites to where you can get started today without investing, of course I will provide just the list or else this article will be too long and I still have to talk about blogs that must be hosted by yourself through good website hosting services.
- Greatestjournal.com
- Insanejournal.com
- Journalfen.net
- LiveJournal.com
- Blogabond.com
- Busythumbs.com
- blogrox.com
- Blogsome.com
- Blogladder.com
- Blogster.com
- Bravenet.com
- Bloki.com
- Soulcast.com
- Terapad.com
- Tumblr.com
- Zoomshare.com
List Of Blog Sites that must be Self Hosted :
- Wordpress.org : I’ve said a millions time before , probably you have heard a lot in other places as well. The best software to create an efficient, powerful, professional blog site. You can create niche sites and very big sites that will just make your blog or business potential go through the roof. If you create a wordpress with great content and great keyword strategy then sucess will be nothing but an option, I have nothing else to say if you are serious about making money online then you should focus on wordpress.
- Typepad.com : Also very effective, may be a little bit expensive, I haven’t tried it but some say that it is worth it.
- Movabletype.org: Has been growing steadily and hosts some of the greatest blogs on the internet next to wordpress.
- Blogsmith.com
The benefit of self hosted blog sites or websites is that you can do them about any topic that you want, it won’t be shut down, it might get dropped from the index lists of the search engines but since you are probably serious about this then you will be a legit blogger that does not apply any black hat techniques, so you won’t have any problem at all if it’s free or self hosted.
Now you can get out there and start your own blog site, free or self hosted as you may like it, now all you have to do is choose one these blog sites and begin a new journey that might open the gates for a whole new world that will allow you to get money in any way you want it, providing you the freedom and economical independence you always dreamed of.
October 27th, 2009 — blogging
Have you ever wondered how people are making money online these days, If you are looking for the real answer then you have just probably found it. The way people are making money right now it trough the creation of blog sites. A Blog Site is a place where you write or read about anything that you want, anything at all, it could be about your passions, your dreams, your hopes, your desires, your hobbies, your area of expertise, any subject that you master, or that might get you interested enough to master at some point through the development process of your blog. Creating your own blog can be something very entertaining if you really enjoy what you are doing, and that is if you like what you are writing about, if you are just going to do it for the money then you probably won’t develop enough interest and it can get quite frustrating so you will probably just quit with the idea that making money online through a blog site is impossible.
Every day a new person tries to learn how to make a blog, so they just go and join free blogging platforms or better yet pay to host their new blog site and end up loosing more time and money than they expected, when really the whole idea was about to making money. Many people might say that they are not in it for the money, but the truth is that most are. Sure why not get money by working at home or wherever you want to talk about the things you love, sharing your opinion, your ideas, your own point of view, it’s fascinating.
To make a blog site that makes money requires a little bit of hard work and dedication, you have to get your facts straigth. You have to decide what the purpose of you blog is, you have to know if you want to create free blog sites through free blogging platforms, or if you want to host your own blogs through a good website hosting company. This decision also depends on how serious are you going to be about your blogging, are you going to do it on a regular basis, do you want to make money online? or are you just going to do it to see how it goes and see if maybe you have what it takes?, well if you are serious about making money blogging then you must have dedication, you have to constantly updating your blog site with a lot of unique content so that it is always fresh so it can be constantly crawled providing you a higher number of indexed pages in the search engines, which means that you will get more traffic and money. Great unique content is the most important thing to have success with blog sites, but there are also a lot more things that you can do or have to do to improve your rankings and your web presence. Of course there are other ways to make a blog site that will make money without focusing so much on content, but this techniques require even more knowledge, and this type of knowledge is mostly guarded by the people who constantly use it to make money.
How to Make a Blog Site to Make Money:
There are two ways that work great when creating blog sites with the intention of making money, they are probably the most effective internet marketing strategies and through them is that people become super affiliates or very high adsense earners, or whatever monetization method that they have chosen for their blog site. The most effective strategies to make money online with a blog are:
- Niche Blog Site : You do your work lay out a solid keyword strategy, focusing on one main keyword to create mini sites that rank number one at the search engine result for the searches made on the keyword that you choose. The technique Keyword Marketing.
- Super Blog Site : You create a very big blog with many subjects with the same strategy that you must apply to niche blog sites, the difference is that you pick a lot more keywords that meet the requirements that will allow you to get to first position in the search engine results for as many keywords as you can. Usually this has to be done under one niche and then you move on picking related keywords following the same principles, and then you go on and pick more related keywords to the other relate keywords and so on. But with some great blogging softwares you are allowed to make categories which allow your blog to be crawled for independant subjects, topics, niches, etc. This is also keyword marketing.
- Affiliate blog site: It is made by a person that does not posess so much knowledge or information but still wants to make money. So they create sites that can be done through free or paid website hosting, but their internet marketing effort is done through PPC targeted traffic, which means that they have to pay for services like google’s adwords or bidvertiser to display ads of their website on others peoples webpages through clickable ads, which direct possible buyer for their affiliate products to their site.
As you can see a blog site that makes money usually has success through Keyword Marketing, why? because keyword marketing is the highest level of SEO, you have to know about SEO and internet marketing vastly to apply keyword marketing. Well not that much to be honest, the hard part is learning how to get the information to make the right decisions when choosing the keywords, you also must have a solid internet marketing strategy plan, which involves article marketing, backlinking, blogrolling, new blogs and websites, press realeases, directory submissions, etc. If you want to blog for a living you must be willing to learn all of these things and you have to constantly apply them.
How to Make a Blog Site :
Creating blog sites is actually quite easy, as i’ve said before if you want you to make a blog just to test blogging out, then you must get started with free blog sites that allow you to create free web pages. There are a lot sites which you can choose from that even give you the opportunity to get money, in fact I think that all of them do if you decide to keep the earnings, some choose to donate their earnings for things like charity and other stuff, because as i’ve said a lot of people blog for the joy of writing and expressing themselves.
After choosing a blog site to create your blog, then you must know how to make a blog site properly, you have to pick a topic, subject, niche, market, etc. Then you have to do research about your keywords, which pay the most, which bring the most traffic, and which have very low competition and that meet the two previous requirements. Then you have to tweak your blog for the search engines by placing your keywords in the title, in the url and stuff like that. Creating a succesful blog site follows the same rules of creating a succesful website, you can learn how to make a website easily in a few minutes and make a lot of money with it.
So plain and simple. How do you create a blog site?
You choose blog host, if it’s free let’s say you picked blogger.com, if you host it let’s you picked SBI, and that’s it you start posting following the guidelines provided in this site or other sites that provide truthful information on how to make blogs that have sucess. You try to post every day to create as much content as you can, you SEO your blog sites to make google’s first result on google searches for the keywords in each post, get traffic, get money, that’s all. If you want to get more detailed information learn how to make a website, and you will be provided with all the necessary tools to create succesful websites/blogs. A solid blog site relies on unique internet marketing skills so go out there and learn as much as you can, but do it as you develop your first site , because information won’t do nothing without practice, and as you can see starting a blog site is very easy, and it can be done for free, even with wordpress.org’s software which you can integrate in a free website hosting service, or through very effective blogspot blogs which already perfectly SEO’d.
Now choose any of these blog sites to make a blog and make money!
October 24th, 2009 — make money online
Now this can be done fast, but don’t get your hopes too high because it might require a lot, and I mean a lot of hardwork and appropriate information. What you want to do is got to a little website called Squidoo at squidoo.com and register yourself as a new user if you haven’t registered yet. Signing up for their service is absolutely free, so you can start an online business venture to make money from home without investment.
Getting started with squidoo is actually quite easy and their platform itself will help you out to improve your SEO and internet marketing skills overall. If you don’t know a thing about blogging or building websites then squidoo might be the perfect way to start, because through their step by step guidance you will learn most of the stuff that is required to create a succesful online business that will indeed make money from home.
For those of you that don’t know what squidoo is then here I will make a short explanation. Squidoo is a website that allows you to make single web pages about anything you want, these pages are called “lenses”, through those lenses or pages you will be able to earn money from various sources. You will be able to profit from squidoo from adsense clicks, in text ads and affiliate marketing. You can promote affiliate products with your own affiliate links by inserting html codes from the affiliate programs to which you are associated, this would be called the hardest way to monetize squidoo because many people don’t know how to use html, alhtough it is very simple. So as you can see that would be the hardest part, so now you can imagine how easy it is to create sources of income to make money from home by using squidoo. The easy way of monetizing squidoo is through “modules” that they offer to add content to your squidoo pages, all you have to do is click on add the module you want, so you have the opportunity to add modules from amazon, ebay, zazzle and cafepress. Now about adsense and kontera in text ads you will not be able to use your own accounts, instead they use their own adsense and kontera accounts, so according to your lensrank you will move up to a higher earning tier which is divided between all of their users. PPC revenue from squidoo might no be the greatest source of income but it can add up.
I know that many people say a lot of bad things about squidoo when it comes to creating a succesful online venture that allows you to make money from home. As most of the people that talk trash about the real opportunities that make money online they do it because they don’t know how to succesfuly achieve this goals, so that means that they are WRONG!
To make an income from an online business requires a lot of hard work, so the rules about making money with squidoo are the same as blogging and website creation, is all about a lot of unique high quality content and a lot of SEO skills, as far as SEO goes squidoo is SEO’d to the limit. When you sign in to your squidoo account you will be already on your way to start a process that will lead you to make money from home, after entering the site you will see a tab or icon that says create lens, then you will be guided through some steps were they tell you to make a title and they give you advice on how your title should go, they tell you to create the url so they give you the advice to place your title keyword within the url, and so on. They will show you how to seo, they will tell you if your lens is appropriately tagged, if the content is in great shape and if its relevant to the titles, sub-titles, they will point out a whole different things that you must correct to enhance your lens for the benefit of high search engine rankings. Another important factor to highlight about the benefits of squidoo is that the lenses you create get indexed super fast and make first page results for google search, yahoo search, msn, etc. in no time.
What do you have to do to make money from home with squidoo?
Well as i’ve said is not as simple but it is very very possible, a lot of people have made or are making thousands of dollars a month from their lenses. There is one way to make money from home possible by using squidoo, and that is follow their seo rules they will get you better ranked therefore they will provide you a lot of traffic from the search engines. Do as they say after creating a lens go and check your lens health, after that make corrections or do whatever you have to do to put that green checkmark on their evaluation.
Before even creating a lens follow all the rules and advices I have given throughout this site, just read everything and learn everything, before even start making your first page, just think about something you would like to write about, go to the google adwords external tool, search for keywords according to your topic, pick out the ones that pay more and have more traffic, check your competition through searches on engines, and build your lens around that keyword, this is keyword marketing at its best. For squidoo you will have to focus on niche lenses or pages, because the more defined your lens is the more effective it will be, if your topic is very broad then make a lot of lenses with a whole set of different related keywords that meet the requirements, and link those lenses between each other, even in numerical order if you want to, like displaying a link list to all the related lenses that you have created.
As i’ve told you before a lot of hard work to make money from home with this opportunity, so this advice goes out for everyone even if they know about all the requirements, knowledge or skill that you must have to pick the right keywords to do appropriate seo through them. Because most of the people that come here are beginners, then I would give them the advice to just get started. Make your first lens and take from there, see what other people are doing see what’s working and you surely will come up with a lot of ideas for a lot of lenses or squidoo pages.
The way to make money from home by using squidoo is through a lot of lens building, set yourself the goal of making over 100 pages, now that may be intimidating but remember that through the modules they offer you can generate a lot of content with no problem, you would have to worry probably only about the introduction text, the rest is meatballs, easy! That is why I am telling you to not get scared or intimidated, is can be done easily and it can even be done fast, if you are really intense. You will have to work very hard to reach this goal but after that I promise that you will be able to lay back and relax, because the money will just keep rolling in, the only thing you will have to do is update your affiliate products and stuff like that.
When I got started with squidoo I did it because I was eager to make money from home by simply using my computer, but I did not have any of the knowledge I have now, so I started making lenses and learning a lot through the process, but my decisions on subjects, keywords, etc, were very bad because I did not posess the skills or information that were needed. Anyway I made about 8 lenses, very crappy lenses, with the wrong everything but they did provide me money, they even generated affiliate sales through my own affiliate links from allposters.com, and amazon. The 8 crappy lenses still make me about 10 dollars a month and the earnings have gotten higher because at the beginning they were averaging about 4 dollars a month, lenses that were made without any effort and without the proper guidelines when choosing a topic.
Now analyze that information and make a logical deduction from what I told you, if 8 lenses make me ten dollars a month imagine how much would you do if you had over 100 lenses that followed the guidelines of succesful blogging, lenses that are focused on keyword marketing, with the right keywords that bring enough traffic and that don’t have much competition so you get to google’s first page or the searches result. You could make money from home as you’ve always wanted without any doubt, I mean probably not a millionaire but you could easily make over a thousand dollars, i’ve read about people that make over $5000 u.s a month from their lenses, and it is all free money, their only investment has been time, of course these guys have over 300 lenses probably.
I hope that is article has helped you to create a succesful opportunity to make money from home, if you would like to comment about some other great opportunities and techniques to earn money from home then please do.
October 23rd, 2009 — make money online
Now I know you all have been hearing or reading about the necessity of creating websites or blogs for succesful internet marketing, and it is by far the best way to make money on the internet, so make your own website as fast as you can. Through appropriate e-marketing you will without any doubt develop or create a lot, or not a lot maybe just one very succesful online business that will provide the type of results that you would wish for.
When I was getting started I had a lot of doubts about creating a website, at the time I did not have any type of knowledge on internet marketing, blogging, ecommerce, SEO, etc. I just got interested about the subject and about the possibility of making money online, I mean I though there were thousands of ways to get money online that did not require or demanded me learning how to make a website, you know the whole make your own website thing sounded too hard. And the truth is that I did find many possibilities to earn extra money from simple tasks performed online, you may know a couple like GPT’s, paid surveys, and many other things like that. These opportunities that were presented to me by such companies did not satisfy my expectations in anyway, some migh have been very tempting and probably would have worked if was living in North America. But I don’t , so offers were very limited.
Now as the internet works in every part in the world it means that you can reach any person in any place, so I said to myself that there had to be opportunities for people like me that wanted to make money without having to learn the steps to make a website, things like creating, running, managing and updating a website just seemed like it was not something that a person like me could do.
I realized very soon after trying thousands and thousands of different options that making money on the internet was going to be an impossible task. Now my research and learning had not gone so far, I started getting involved with the easiest most tempting areas of online money making, so it made me quit real fast and I stopped trying what I thought to be stupid things that did not pay well at all, I never made enough money from GPT’s and IFW’s maybe it was just because my location did not provide me with a lot of offers or at least high paying offers, plus the good offers usually required using a credit card to complete offers that required purchasing free trials of some service or product.
Anyway I practically retired from trying to get money through the internet, I thought that I would definitely had to make a website to make real money, so I gave up. A couple of months after I got to read a few articles about how money was made online and I got really interested again. I started to read about people that were making over $5000 or $10000 thousand dollars a month with their websites or blogs, which meant of course that I had to learn how to build a website before achieving such great results, some even had such high earnings by creating free blogs. So all of this information that I was reading got me very excited again, throughout that time I learned about blogspot and how many people had reached the type of success I was looking for by creating free blogs.
I got into blogging and internet marketing deeply in that moment, and I learned about SEO and every other aspect of creating and running a succesful blog or website. A while after I had some success with blogger.com which made think that I could easily generate the kind of income I was looking for if learned how to make a website, a real professional website for a real online business. I had read about wordpress and I knew what could be done, everywhere I looked there were wordpress blogs and websites, and a lot of information about how easy it was to make your own website with this software. When I researched about how I could build a website everything got messy inside my head so I was not very positive about the idea of leaving blogspot which was free, to go off venturing with investments of which I had no Idea on how to develop. I mean building a website for me seemed impossible, specially after finding out what had to be done to make one, and what had to be done to run it succesfuly.
The truth was or is that I was wrong back then, I was intimidated for all technical information I was reading about. Reality is that if you want to make your own website you can do it with no problem in a few minutes after taking a few steps, simple steps. It is as easy as it gets right now, it can be even as easy as creating blogger blogs. All you have to do is find a good website hosting company that provides you with a complete top of the line service, the only thing that you have to do or think about are these couple of steps that I will point out right now.
Make your own Website:
- Get a domain: This is where you pick your website’s url or address, it usually has the name or the most important keyword of your blog, although it’s not necessary and a lot of webmasters don’t use it like that. This right now does not matter, what matters is that you understand that you must get a domain, that means www. name.com.
- Get a website hosting plan, through a good web hosting plan you will get started with your online business in a few minutes, because most of these hosting services provide a full guide to install and create a website, or they do it for you, some have great softwares to make a website that make it very easy and very efficient right from the start all you have to do is follow step by step some easy instructions.
- Publish, done!
Now as you can see there is no science behind this, it’s just about making good choices that allow you to make your own website that meets the requirements needed to develop a succesful online business, some website creators provided through some of these website hosting companies will even provide you with a whole set of instructions and tools to create a great online money making business. They will even guide you through the whole process of content creation, advanced SEO, I mean all the information and all the steps that anyone serious about making money online would have to do.
- The best option probably for a beginner or someone that is really interested and wants to start having success instantly, I mean get on the right path, starting without the usual more common mistakes that mean suicide when you are starting to make a website designed to get money. This hosting service Is probably one of the best, and it is the one that will probably make more succesful online businesses due to the support and tools provided. This website hosting service is provided by sitesell.com, it’s not just a web host it is whole complete web 2.0 service that will design for you and guide you through the steps of building a website that has potential right from the start. I mean they will guide you through the SEO process, through keyword strategy, keyword marketing for niche sites and niche blogs, and any type of website at all even if its not for niche sites, you can do a lot of money as well from keyword marketing in larger sites. In fact keyword marketing probably is the best most effective way to make money online.
- Another great website hosting that allows you to make your own website within minutes is the very well known hostgator.com which is very much oftenly talked about everywhere or anywhere that has to do with websites and their creation, you can easily create a website with their tools and softwares within a few minutes, although the don’t provide as much support and guidance for online success as Site Build It, but that is why hostgator.com is very cheap and sitesell.com very expensive. Ideally you would already have to know all the things you have to know to manage and run you online business, with site build it you don’t. With hostgator you will have the ability to create wordpress sites as well in a few minutes through aut install features, which makes it even easier to build websites, even easier than using the softwares for website creation that they offer.
- You could also opt in for powweb.com, bluehost.com, hostmonster.com, etc. you can find a lot of great web hosting services to make a website within seconds with very similar tools as the ones provided by hostgator, also wordpress auto install features, and other things that would help the more experienced adavanced webmaster to develop a sustainable online business, so with all of these website hosting companies you will get started very quickly in your new internet business venture.
What you have to do to make your own website, a website that really makes it big and you don’t have the php knowledge or css, or even html, what you have to do is join one of this website hosting companies and use their programs, softwares, tools, etc. to create a decent or great website in just minutes, eventually through the process you will learn everything that you need to know, through a lot of testing and failing. It won’t matter if you fail because these companies i’ve just mentioned offer great prices ranging from $3 to $7 dollars a month for your web hosting service.
If you have made the decision and have the desire of wanting to make your own website that gets going smoothly right from the start, If you don’t want lose time and you really really want to learn how to create a succesful internet business then just pay the $300 dollars a year for the site build it (SBI) program/service and start your online business they way it has to be done to get money. I mean it will just save you a lot of time, and it will give you the right information so you don’t become a victim of what you would call an overload of information that will get you confused.
Now all you have to do is get out there and make your own website real fast!
October 23rd, 2009 — make money online
Up until this article we have discussed many ways on making money on the internet, and through a large set of great articles we have discussed the importance of making a website to create a succesful online business. Now I haven’t approached the wordpress subject because i’ve been focusing more on free services like blogger’s blogging platform, for wordpress you will need some type of Website Hosting service. The truth is that wordpress.org software is revolutionizing the way blogging and website creation is done.
Many people have probably been awfully excited about creating a wordpress blog or a wordpress website after reading all the wonders it does, and after reading how easy it is to create professional, highly optimized websites and blogs that get money. But after proceeding with the next step, which is begin the process of creating such a site, people will usually find out that it is not as simple, for most people it is not. To get started for wordpress.org blogging software you will need the best website hosting services available, although wordpress states that it is a 5 minute easy installment process, it requires some basic knowledge on php. and stuff like that, creating a database, using ftp managers like filezilla to upload and download files. Now that may take by surprise a lot of people that want to become and might become wordpress users.
Most people that blog or make websites hire a professional to do this job for them, you know creating the database uploading the files, creating their wordpress, etc. But isn’t that a hassle, everytime that you would like to upload a new template or do other type of things that require to manage your files through filezilla or some other ftp server like that, you would have to call up the expert that you hired and probably pay him an extra fee to perform your request, to fulfill your need. Plus they have to give access to their website hosting service to some stranger, that may be a little bit intrusive for your privacy, of course that most people change their hosting password after letting other people know their former passwords it is something that I still wouldn’t recommend.
If you know how to take these steps to create a wordpress blog and you know how to use ftp servers, then you are ok. You probably won’t need most of the information at the beginning of this article, but the information coming up will help any advanced website creator of any skill level, ranging from beginners, intermediates to advanced. why? because maybe you don’t know about some of this stuff, about some benefits and services that you may get if you choose well your website hosting plan.
There are some great hosting companies that allow to perform many tasks from within their panel control, or let’s say through your website hosting company dashboard. Some hosting companies display a lot of icons which make your service very easy to use, you can create wordpress blogs/websites in minutes, some even provide you with excellent software services that are integrated to your plan to make a website using their tools and their instructions, so you can also create any type of website very easily without using wordpress.
When choosing your website hosting make sure that it has everything you need, as a serious internet marketer you will probably want to try and test a lot of differnet things, this means that you want to have enough disk space to create as many websites as you want. For example my hosting service which runs with powweb has unlimited disk space capacity, so It provides and easy way to keep creating websites in various niches and markets. All I have to do is purchase domains.
Now the theme of this article is creating wordpress blogs or websites very easily through the services provided by great website hosting companies that allow you to skip all the steps I mentioned above at the beginning of this article. For example powweb has a program called Installcentral which creates and installs your wordpress sites instantly. This is what you have to look for as a beginner or as a person that doesn’t have the patience, knowledge, time, etc. to learn or do this things. Hostgator.com and other great hosting services provide something similar to powweb’s install central. You have to look for this type of web hosting companies which enhance the productivity of the more technically challenged website creator, or online entrepreneur.
As i’ve said before most of the great internet marketers, don’t posess this skills they use this type of services, or outsource that help which is the least convenient to make your online business as productive as it can be, by not outsourcing this type of help you will mantain your costs lower. And if you want to keep your costs even lower to create as many great websites as you can, then you must find yourself some high quality cheap hosting. This type of hosting is provided by the best website hosting services available, which in my opinion they are hostgator.com, powweb.com and godaddy.com. My web hosting plan with unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth had a total cost of $49.00 u.s dollars for the whole year of service, in this time I have made or added to my hosting plan at least nine to ten new domains, each domain for $15, although you could get much better prices for domain names at godaddy. But because I am just interested in creating websites and blogs, and I don’t have much technical skills I keep it simple by going through the whole process involved directly from my web hosting service which is pretty darn easy.
Now if you would really want to keep costs low, you could make a website by using free website hosting services but those are a bit more technical , they do not provide such great benefits, and their url’s are not as google friendly or search engine friendly in general as dot com, dot org, or dot net. websites.
Recommended website hosting companies:
- Godaddy.com
- powweb.com
- hostgator.com
- justhost.com
- yahoo’s hosting service is pretty cool
- bluehost.com
- hostclear.com
- ipage
- Lunarpages.com
- hostmonster.com
I will keep updating this list for new, improved better website hosting services, I hope you have found good information on how to get started developing wordpress sites very easily. If you feel that you can contribute to this article please leave a comment.
October 22nd, 2009 — make money online
If you got to this page it is because you were probably searching on google or any other search engine for information about creating business opportunities to earn money from home. If you are a beginner which you probably are you must be wondering how will you be able to do this, and right now you must be feeling overwhelmed for all the information that is being delivered through your computer, information which probably has you very confused.
If you are confused and you don’t know what you are doing I would like to suggest one thing before continuing with this articles main point. Don’t rush into things, even if you feel tempted don’t go buying any product that promises to make you rich in a week, or in a month, I mean don’t even think about spending your money for nothing. Most of the products that promise such results, not most I would say all of those products are scam. It’s actually quite funny because when a person really wants to earn money from home, and learns how to do it, they probably aquired that knowledge through free sources of information, like top notch informative blogs like this one, or through really cheap internet marketing and SEO courses online, cheap as in one dollar kind of cheap.
If you are getting started on learning about different ways to earn money from home then you might feel a little frustrated because everything you have heard of probably requires some type of investment, probably a lot of money has to be spent to get you started. And if you are looking for this type of information it is because you probably don’t have that kind of money yet, ok so no money, no problem. Now on this article I’m going to point out some ideas that might get you started with little to no investment if you wish. It will probably take a bit longer and you have to be in a state of constant learning, you know simply absorbing tons of information.
The most important part is that you get started don’t get caught up in just learning, start applying, start testing, and through this process you will develop the skills, the creativity and truly learn and understand the way money is made through the internet. I’m sure that if you are creative and constant you will quickly learn and develop your own ideas, probably after combining your improved knowledge with the tips i’m going to give you. These tips are just like eye openers they will let you understand how things work around the web and how many opportunities are out there for you to find so you can earn money from home.
In this article I want to focus on how you can get started making online money without investing money, you will probably have to invest time, surely. Now my first idea for you to earn money from home is by buidling your own online store, that good ol’ ecommerce. Now don’t think that this is impossible is actually very easy to do, even if you have no money. How could this be done? well here is one little site that might get you started, build an amazon store through a niche blog or niche website, if you really want to earn money from home as a beginner then you have to focus on niche sites to get things going and so that you can fully understand the process so you can later work on much larger sites.
Now before you go all crazy signing up for the amazon affiliate program, please stop! Before you continue with this article I hope you have done a little bit of research and I hope that you understand that if you don’t have the right information you will do this all wrong and you will not get money. Remember if you want to have an online business that has success you must get traffic, is that simple, traffic. The type of traffic you need comes from the search engines, organic traffic. I’ve talked about this many times in previous articles and that is why I always try to get this point across, organic traffic is targeted traffic and it is free traffic, which allows you to have more profit. The way to get this traffic is through highly advanced internet marketing done trough SEO.
Now if you want to keep reading to follow the process that I will recommend to start your own online business through a niche site to earn money from home using nothing but totally free resources, you must have learned the minimum SEO requirements, like choosing niche/market, picking your keywords, picking related keywords, title tag, article’s body, backlinks, exposure, ppc marketing if required (although this would take you out from the free border), etc.
Now this process is done through the creation of a free website or free blog, or similar services. Now I won’t stress with free websites because it is a very tedious long process to get done, If you want to create sites using free hosting and free domains then you would have to create databases, trouble with php, css, etc, and this is something that not a single beginner wants, this will only get you crazier and more confused, although there are some options that allow to create great free websites for fre as well but I will talk about them on other articles. So we are going to keep this simple by using free blogs, by promoting affiliate products in hot niches with low competition.
Of course you could always start a succesful affiliate free website with not so much hassle, all the instructions provided, great tools from a site called moreniche at moreniche.com, they provide great guidelines, great information and great affiliate niche products that have a lot of demand and a high conversion rate, this could be a free simple way to earn money from home with your own online business, but as i’ve said before setting up free hosting websites may be a little bit complicated for a beginner even for an adavanced blogger or internet marketer. Most of the people that really make money don’t know squat about really technical details, they usually get someone else to make the configurations to the whole thing, some hosting companies even have auto install options for softwares like wordpress.
So if that idea seems a bit too difficult, then lets continue with the first real idea to get you started, that is by creating your first niche blog on blogger.com. As i’ve said before blogger is incredibly flexible and lets you adapt any type of monetization method to your niche blog business. The first thing you have to do is find out what type of product would fit your blog theme, ok so first pick a blog theme, trim it down to something very specific. After finding what keyword brings in a lot of traffic and that pays well through adsense clicks, that’s just to make sure that is a keyword that means business, this will mean that there is a lot of business being made through that keyword which means that you will probably do even better with affiliate sales, you have to make sure that internet marketing competition is low, you can do find all of these answers and estimates using google’s free tools, with the same products only better and with the difference that other companies ask you for money to use them, tools like the adwords external tool, google search to see what your competitors are doing, see how strong their sites are, see if you can beat them for the first place, etc. Remember that the goal is to make it to google’s first result for that keyword when it’s being searched.
Ok, so now you have your niche picked out, your keywords, now you have to wait a bit for your site to be indexed, after your site is indexed and starts ranking well on the search engines for that keyword then you will probably start getting some traffic. Now you can monetize your site by creating eStores with affiliate programs like amazon which I mentioned above, remember this is to create a business to earn money from home without money, so we want to rank for in first place to get most of the search traffic which is the type of traffic that will click or buy. Through the amazon affiliate program you will be able to incorporate in your site cool links and banners to promote sales, you can place widgets to display products that can grab the attention of any customer easily, or you can create an amazon aStore which is a self contained online store provided by amazon which is embedded in your niche blog’s template.
Now not only through amazon you should do this, this is just an example maybe each page of your blog will do better with a different product, maybe you decide to go with a larger blog that covers more keywords that require a wide variety of products in order to convert well, so you can join many good affiliate programs with lots opportunities to create online businesses that give you the chance to make money from home.
You could also follow these same steps and open a zazzle store, or incorporate your own products from zazzle to the mix of products offered in your site. A nice thing about zazzle is that you can create lots of products quickly, up to 100 products at a time from your own templates or zazzle’s templates, zazzle is print on demand website company and it has proven to be a very effective business. Zazzle has a lot of options and a lot of tools that you can easily use for your advantage to create a succesful online business that allows you to earn money from home without investing a dime, because you print on demand, so only when you get an order the product is processed, and it is delivered very quickly which makes your customers very satisfied customers.
Now here are two more options that could be a variation to amazon and zazzle. You could include in your free niche blog, a cafe press store which is also a print on demand company, it’s zazzle’s competition actually, and they have over 55 million products to offer at least that’s what they say. These two sites allow you to reach millions of customers, and they provide you the ability to display products that blend in with your theme or topic, niche/market, etc. due to the fact that you can create what ever you want that mixes with your theme, for example if I had a bob marley accesories niche blog, I could create products like bob marley t-shirts, bob marley coffee mugs, etc. The same thing can be done with zazzle. The Cafepress affiliate program is now managed www.cj.com which means that you have to sign up for cj, which means that you will be able to promote an infinite amount of affiliate products or services, because cj.com is one of the best most complete affiliate programs on the internet, and has probably the largest database of suppliers.
Another cool service to monetize your highly targeted niche blog, would be the incorporation of chitika eMinimalls which displays relevant ads through a widget which also displays the products, pictures, descriptions, etc. You can get more detailed information by following the link. With chitika you can also display adsense ads which you have to integrate without any doubt to your niche site to earn money from home from various different sources through the same site!
Ok if you have read this blog before then you should know that another idea to monetize your niche site to earn money from home is the incorporation of in text ads, like vibrant media, infolinks, kontera, etc. This companies I just mentioned are the best. If you are new please follow the link to learn more about in text ads.
I had forgotten mentioning joining affiliate programs to promote CPA offers, which have incredible monetization results because you get paid on a cost per action basis which means that a person does not have to buy anything to make you money, they just have to fill in stuff usually. You can find great opportunities at maxbounty.com and other networks that manage large databases of advertisers that have CPA offers, and yes they are free to join as well.
Ok this article is getting kind of long so I think I might have explained thoroughly some ideas on how making money from home by starting a business that requires no money works. These methods work, you just have to work hard until you get your business going.
That’s all, if you feel like some information is lacking please ask anything, and if you feel that you can contribute to our readership with more ideas on how to earn money from home feel free to do so by leaving a comment.
October 21st, 2009 — make money online
The fastest way to get money online is through internet marketing, real hardcore aggresive internet marketing. If you don’t know about internet marketing then don’t worry, through this article I will point out some easy online marketing tips so you can get started today.
The first thing you have to get straight is knowing what your business is going to be about, this means that you have to know exactly what do you want to promote. If you don’t know because you are a total beginner then here are some ideas:
- You can get money promoting a blog or website.
- You can promote your own products. Like e-books and other type of digital information
- You can promote products that you buy and sell through sites like amazon and ebay, you can use a method called dropshipping so you don’t have to keep stock.
- You can promote products that you have manufactured yourself, that means that you can get your own brand out there very easily.
- You can get money promoting affiliate products from many different affiliate programs. This is what you call affiliate marketing, promoting other people’s products to earn a comission. Some affiliate programs give out up to 75% of every sale made.
- You can promote your art work.
- You can promote any type of service that you are able to provide. It can be online consulting services, online consutling medical services, writing and typing services, etc. Or you could promote more advanced internet services that are more technological and that probably run with a software that manages the whole thing, like dating services, online transactions, and other things like that.
- You can promote local businesses online to attract new customers.
- You can basically promote anything that you want, anything that will provide you a way to get money.
Now if you use good Internet marketing you can succesfully promote any business, product, service, website, blog, etc. You can take any online business to next level and get money through some simple techniques. Of course you have to remember, you must have something clear, anything that you intend to market online must meet the requirements that the visitors are hoping for, because it doesn’t matter how well you do your marketing, it’s probable that you don’t generate any sales, clicks, members, etc. If what you are promising doesn’t deliver. If everything is well layed out by the book then you will probably get money in large amounts.
From now on we will refer to whatever you are trying to promote as your “thing”, it will make the rest of the article a whole lot easier to understand, it will not matter because whatever your “thing” is it will be marketed the same way, now please follow the easy steps to get money through 5 simple internet marketing strategies, although most of the times things aren’t as simple as they sound or seem.
Let’s get started:
- The first internet marketing strategy to get money is probably one of the most heard about deals on the internet, and that is build a website, build your own website, or create a blog. Why? because the first step to succesful internet marketing starts here, the best internet marketing tool is website or a blog, so don’t doubt to get your own. Everything else follows from here. You could get this step done easily through a free blogger blog, or you can get your own hosting, you need website hosting so you can get your own domain and easily start a professional looking website or blog with the wordpress.org software.
- The second strategy to get money through professional internet marketing, is learning a lot of SEO, why? If you learn a lot about SEO you will be able to promote your website or blog without any investment at all (maybe a little bit of investing to buy backlinks). This step has a very big plus sign because it is not only free traffic what you get through SEO, it is targeted traffic that comes directly from the search engines. This traffic will probably convert more often because when people find whatever “thing” you are offering they will probably buy it, because when they got to your page they did it through typing exactly what you are offering, so probably it’s because the want it badly. Be it information, products, etc.
- The third strategy to get money through internet marketing, is paying for highly targeted traffic, there are many companies that offer you this type of service. I would highly recommend google adwords> because it is extremely effective, their ppc traffic delivery meets all expectations and beyond, but it can get expensive sometimes.
- The fourth Internet marketing strategy is keyword marketing, this is also very effective, works like a charm, but it requires a lot of knowledge and you have to have a website or a blog. The idea of this step is to find out the voids in the market, this means that you must identify keywords that have high advertiser competition but low internet marketing competition, this means that you must pick keywords for which you can get a lot of traffic by easily ranking in the google’s first result, which means that you must do the right keyword research. The right way to do keyword marketing is through niche blogs or niche websites.
- The fifth and last strategy to get money through internet marketing is done through article marketing, you could actually base your entire online promotion through the release of articles in article directories. Now you must be wondering how can this be possible. Well article directories, the good ones have very high PR, web presence and credibility, so very well written and SEO’d articles can quickly get to first page and first result of the google search engine index. This means that through this one last step you could avoid all the other 4, but the results wouldn’t be as effective, although they would give you results. Keyword marketing can and probably has to be applied in this last step as well. You can do this through Goarticles, ezinearticles, and other article marketing directories like articlebase, you can always search for more.
- Online Press Releases for your websites or blogs really delivers.
- Blog Carnivals.
- Posting on High PR Forums.
- Submitt your sites and posts to Digg, Reddit, Delicious, etc. This will get you High PR backlinks, some will be doffollow others will not, but it doesn’t matter, this issue may be a thing of the past. As a matter of fact Digg submissions made possible the indexing of my new sites way more faster! Plus some of your articles may hit on the spot and become famous which will auto generate thousands of backlinks, a lot of web presence and recognition.
- Create more sites, meaning that you should create more blogs, websites, single pages from squidoo or hubpages and stuff like that to create more backlinks, thus providing a source of more indexed pages which will reach a higher number of people that will be guided to your main sites by the links pointing to it. They will also provide you a source of nice relevant backlinks. They will be relevant if you decide to make those extra sites with the same topic as your main site, but it’s not super necessary you can also make hubs, lenses, blogs, about anything and they will still be able to provide links for your main site, even if they are not reciprocal if you have lot they will count and weight a lot as well.
- Website promotion through videos, you can upload cool videos with useful information and your links within that video or next to video image where you can place clickable links. You can do site promotion through video using the free services of companies like youtube, metacafe, viddler, etc.
Bonus Internet Marketing Strategies:
- Here you have another internet marketing get money strategy for your delight, this one I did not want to leave out, because I believe that it can work as a charm as well. You can release offers or market anything through online classified ads, it can be ebay’s classified ads, cnet’s classified ads, amazon’s classified ads, craiglists, etc. You can look for more by doing a search on google and other search engines.
- The last internet marketing to get money promoting whatever your “thing” is can be done through the very well known social media sites, like twitter, facebook, myspace, yuwie, digg, redd, stumbleupon, etc. These sites are very effective to get things going, they are excellente marketing tools. Twitter, facebook and msn have their own advertising system similar to adwords, except that they work only within each of their social networks, haven’t you ever seen on this sites advertisement on the sidebars? of course! well that’s the place where you “thing” would show up. You can pay to promote your business or whatever your “thing” is, or you can do heavy promotion by building large lists of friends, extremely large lists, and by joining groups and stuff like that. This method can be very efficient but it can be very demanding and boring. I’d personally go with SEO, free organic highly targeted traffic from the search engines.
If you follow all of these guidelines the way i’ve said it, then without any doubt you will have success, you won’t even have to doubt about it, you will get money, probably not immediatly but eventually, the good thing is that when you start getting that money you won’t be able to stop it, it will just keep growing and growing. If you do it right and you have unique businesses then you will probably get deals that you never expected to get, why? because if you promote well whatever you ”thing” is, it will get know by many people around the world, meaning that your marketing efforts will reach millions of investors, advertisers, etc. If you achieve success this way you will probably be contacted by other people, companies, websites, or things like that to offer you some type of business arrangement that will let you get money, probably more money than you ever thought when you got started with your first internet marketing efforts. So keep going, trying, testing, and as i never get tired of repeating it, elaborate a very well layed out action plan that contains all the guidelines in this article.
I hope that is article has been very helpful to you, I hope that I made it clear enough for you to understand, and you truly understood the power these internet marketing strategies have to get money online. If you feel that you can share with us more ways on promoting our online business then please do, leave a comment with your advice and I will make it live after reviewing it.
October 20th, 2009 — make money online
Have you ever felt like if you wanted or needed to be self employed?, but you always felt like it was impossible because you’ve always had the feeling of having your hands tied, because your ideas on how to become an independant entrepreneur always required investment, and unfortunately because of your bad paid job you always had No Money to invest.
Are you still in that same situation? Well I have some advice here that could get you started making some good money without investing a single dime, that means that you will be making some free money, well is actually not that free because with these websites i’ll point out in this article, you will have to share your earnings with them. It’s actually quite easy to get started, although is not that easy to achieve success.
Before reading this or trying to proceed with these methods that I will soon talk to you about, I recommend that you go back through some of the content provided on this blog to get the appropiate information on how to fully optimize your blogs, websites, pages, etc. for the search engines, that means that you have to get a lot of SEO information and skills, keyword research, choosing niches and keywords, content creation, backlinks, appropiate tagging for your free blogs or pages, etc. If you don’t find what you need within this blog, then please do some searches at google for the topics I just mentioned and hone your skills before proceeding with these sites offering online money making opportunities.
Remember this is a strictly legit blog that provides totally real information, no lies, no tricking, no thing, also we have the moto of No Money, No problem! but the thing is that we don’t tell you to go and do things if we clearly know that if you are a beginner and you are looking for this type of information you might find my blog, use my advice, proceed, invest time, maybe money if you don’t go with free opportunities,etc. and I don’t want to make my readers waste their time so I am very straight forward about things and I tell them to do things If they can and if it works, if they don’t work I mean if what I write about won’t help at least a bit to get money,even a little bit of online money then I won’t even write about it. If you have ever been following this blog before you can see that I don’t use affiliate links in the hyperlinks I use to recommend sites like affiliate programs or ppc programs and things like that, I just provide a hyperlink with the original url, or the original sign up url, no url’s with numbers that refer to which affiliate is sending a new referer or buyer.
Ok back on track, so no money, ok it doesn’t matter you can still perform some online money making, how? Well in many articles before this one I have already talked about the wonders of developing blogs and niche blogs as well in free blogspot blogs, but In this article I want to point out a few more sites that give you the chance of making some real online money.
To be more specific there is one site that I want to promote in this post, this site will let you get money with no money, why do I want to promote them? because they work, there is a lot of people out there making money online every minute, every second through every click or every sale that it is made through their free web page maker. If you have the knowledge and you haven’t heard about this website and want to check it out then just go directly to their homepage and start browsing around get a feel, see what other people are doing, sign in, get started and learn through the process, it’s very easy all you have to do is follow some steps provided by them.
This awesome site that makes you money with no money is hubpages, maybe some of you have heard about it but have never tried it, or maybe you have tried it but never made money by using this unique website, web service, whatever you want to call it. At hubpages you get to keep most of the earnings made with every hub, clicks made by the impressions of adsense ads and kontera in text ads within your hubs (pages) will be spread out more or less about 60% of the times with your adsense and kontera codes, and the other 40% is the opportunity for hubpages to get some money for themselves. To make it clearer, out of every 10 impressions you have 6 opportunities to make some type of revenue, and hubpages has the opportunity to make money with the other 4 remaining visitors or impressions.
Now you can make a lot of money out of hubpages and as i’ve been repeating in this post you can do it with no money! Because joining hubpages is absolutely free, and you get the benefit that it is a well stablished site, with a lot of recognition and a lot of credibility in google’s eyes, so that means that your hubpages will get indexed very very high at the first page or first result if done right of almost any keyword that you target. Of course you have to follow the guidelines I exposed at the beginning of this post, guidelines that require knowledge. And remeber that I recommended that if you don’t have this information go out there and get it before proceeding with the method of making money with no money that i’ m pointing out on this post. Things like SEO, keyword research and backlinking.
If you all of these things right in your hubpages, then no money will be no problem, because soon you’ll start seeing a lot of improvement in your bank accounts. I hope you enjoyed learning another cool way of making money, in future articles I will talk about similar sites and similar opportunities very well layed out, I will also talk about free hosting and free domains, their benefits and the downside on using such services.
If you feel like you have something to contribute on the no money no problem issue then please feel free to participate and point out other great free money making opportunities by dropping a comment.
October 19th, 2009 — make money online
Paid Surveys are a huge topic of discussion and attention, also one of the most performed activities online. I mean this issue or topic as you may call it, better yet, this business opportunity has been one of the pinnacles of online businesses, a whole lot of industries have used this approach to develop better products, services and improve customer relations, all about satisfaction and improving the way e-commerce or better yet the way commerce is handled and improved around the world, by commerce I’m refering to and including services, information, products, etc.
Many companies have seeked out companies that manage the distribution of paid surveys, most of the companies outsource this work probably because the have already their hands full with all the steps involved in their process of production, distribution and support. So most companies develop certain surveys and hand them out to survey managers at survey management websites. The companies pay a certain amount of money to the survey managing websites and they divide the sum payed between the registrars or users that decide to take these paid surveys to make money online.
Now Paid surveys have had a great deal of hype, but if you are starting out and you don’t have proper information you may sign up for sites that don’t deliver as well as you expected. Plus since most of us that want to get in to this type of opportunities we usually look for options at the search engines, like google. What you get most of the times are results of scamming websites that promise that you will make money easily, so they establish certain minimum amounts of earnings so you can get paid, but the offers you get are never enough to make payout, and soon you stop receiving any offers at all. These scammers are very good at SEO so they rank high for those keywords, and of course I do, probably you do to, we all trust google because most of the times google is extremely accurate to provide us with the exact information we are needing. So what they do is take advantage of all the new registrants coming in every day, and they spread out all the paid surveys across their users in a way that no single user or almost every user, there may be exceptions, anyway that almost any user ever reaches the minimum amount to collect payouts. Another downside comes for non U.S or Canada residents because most of the offers and legit paid survey programs are only available for north americans.
Now many people have the tendency to love free, so most people try to make online money by joining free paid survey websites, so that they can get money, free money. Many scammers schemes swear to teach you how to build a huge income working at home taking surveys and most of these survey management sites also offer the opportunity to join focus groups for even higher payouts. Anyway many people try to get into free paid surveys, but the truth is that these websites usually, almost never satisfy new users. This means that most of the new users quit before even getting started as they notice that they get paid very little and the amount of surveys offered aren’t enough.
If you want to get started into this work at home job then you must be very careful when choosing, because even if you want to do Paid Surveys,you may have to join websites which you have to pay a certain amount to become a member so that you can have access to a lot more offers, and some may not give you exactly what you are looking for in fact some will even make you feel like you got robbed, and guess what? you did get robbed. When I was getting started with online entrepreneurship this was one of the topics that I noticed very quickly and easily due to all the promotion that this industry has. So I thought to myself that I was such a dumb guy for not trying this easy online money making system which had turned so many people into work at home dads, moms, grannies, grandpa’s, teens, kids, out of job, etc. persons. So as many of the magical money making opportunities it grabbed my attention strongly since at the moment I was such a beginner and very naive.
I decided to join this paid survey program, I mean I had to pay to get in, so I went on with the deal by being told that after purchase i’d start making money immediatly, so of course this sounded to good and a $100 dollars ain’t nothing for what i’m going to make, so I couldn’t resist, how could I?, right? Wrong! The truth is that most legit paid surveys will not only ask for your name and email, the real legit companies ask for much more information, and the protocol to get started is a little bit more complicated, plus usually the real legit offerers don’t ask you to give them money to access their money making opportunities.
I was scammed! again! man these scammers are cold, so I paid them, now I had access to my brand new money making machine, but what did I get? I don’t want to be rude, but I truly got a whole big stinky pound of sh… It was awful, apparently it was ok when I entered the site there was like the most huge list with hundreds of pages with more listings. The result was that this endless listing was like a database you know a bunch of links of free paid survey sites that you could join, so it was just a bunch of url’s pasted with anchor text, these hyperlinks would take me to the official sites were surveys were being managed, so if I wanted to make money taking surveys I would have to register for every one of these free paid survey providers. What a robbery! it was a simple list with hyperlinks to a bunch of sites that you could easily find in google by searching the keyword paid surveys or free paid surveys.
Now please, if you are lucky enough of reading this before joining then follow the guidelines to choose the proper paid surveys manager, there is one dilemma though, should you choose free surveys for money or paid surveys for online money making?
I would have to choose Paid Surveys websites that are very well known and that have an actual history and trayectory which has made them a credible source that provides real paying surveys, because these survey type of providers that are serious about it and really are legit, some companies may charge a little bit so they can also gain something because they don’t gain from the actual surveys but from the service provided, that is why when you have to pay a legit paid survey provider it is because this site will give you the opportunity to get the total amount paid by completing that survey, which means that they give you the real amount of money that the company that wanted to do this researche offered per survey, this is why some of these companies give you access to much more surveys plus they give you the opportunity to get much more high payments from every survey taken. These companies are really making some online money for many people. Why? because they do give out much higher payments for every survey taken, and if the don’t pay more the will definitely will give much more offers to take surveys that pay actually pay you. Another important factor about these type of providers of surveys are very serious about satisfying their users so they pay right on time, they are never late and if you join the real good survey sites then you can make some serious extra cash.
Now I don’t know if paid surveys could be taken as an online work at home full time job, well for my expenses they don’t, they could really help a lot, but i’m on more productive areas of the internet although these areas in which are perform the best are a lot more complicated, time consuming, technical, constant, etc. But if you are a beginner to online business and you just want to make money fast then surveys online might be a good option, just remember to really do a well job when picking your survey manager.
I will update this page tomorrow with the links to serious legit paid surveys, right now I can’t because i’m too tired and I’m about to go to sleep. If you feel that you can point some legit survey websites feel free to contribut to this post by leaving a comment, or if you liked this info you can also tell me about it.
Recommended Survey Managers:
- surveyspot.com
- pineconeresearch.com
- surveysavvy.com
- projectpayday.com
- palmresearch.com
- vivaresearch.com
- npdor.com
- surveyclub.com
- survey4profit.com
- joinsurveys.com
- americanconsumeropinion.com
- fusioncash.com
- memolink.com
- pandaresearch.com
- snapdollars.com
I hope you did find what you were looking for, I will be updating the list of links for more great paid surveys. If you think you can point out more great survey sites then please leave a comment with the name of the website and the url.
October 18th, 2009 — make money
As the constant search for money continues you have landed on this website’s page that teaches how to get paid to do many things that are very easy and that require very simple basic knowledge and skills. You will not only learn how to get paid to do things online, but I will also point out some great opportunities to get money with simple real life quick cash very easy to do tasks.
As I begin to write this article many many things come to my mind, but let’s start with the most basic online money making opportunities. I know that you have probably heard about these things about a hundred times, but they don’t have to be ruled out because some do work quite well. Many of you have probably taken on some of this opportunities and they may have possibly made you feel like as if you were wasting your time completely, sometimes because the payouts aren’t high enough, or because you may encounter difficulties to receive payments.
Ok let’s start with today’s lesson for beginners that want to learn how to earn their first dollars, euros, british pounds, whatever currency you prefer online. Sometimes I like to point out the different currencies so people from around the world feel identified, because as you know this site is about making money worldwide.
Have you ever heard that you can get paid to surf the web, yes tha’s right if you are online most of the time then you could at least be breaking even with internet connection services costs through this method. If you haven’t heard about this before and you feel kind of interested, then you can head yourself to Gomezpeer.com (PorivoPeer) a website that offers you money to analyze your surfing or better yet web browsing tendencies. All you have to do is register for the program which is free, download the software and install it. Then the gomezpeer.com service will start tracking your daily surfing activity, after that is just cashing in checks or. You will make free money by just browsing around the web, although many people think that this method is kind of invasive and that these companies may get a hold of your activities, preferences, etc. therefore some people think that a lot of your privacy may be lost.
A very popular way of making online money is by blogging, yes you get paid to blog, you can create multiple streams of income from blogging jobs, or from posting into different websites that offer you payouts either by every created post before even being published, for example at today.com you will get paid about a dollar for every post that is made and accepted. Other companies or websites pay you due to the activity that your post or articles get so they pay you according to the number of views, clicks, etc. that these posts make, a good example would be associatedcontent.com which offer you both method of payment one before publishing after being accepted, although getting paid before publishing after acception is only available for the U.S. After being published you will start to make money from the views, every thousand views will make you a certain established amount of money. Other get paid to blog opportunities may be found on sites like payperpost.com where you get hired to blog for a certain amount on any given specific topic, it is also a great place to market yourself as a freelance writer.
You could also get paid to type, as I’ve said there are many ways to offer your services online, and you can get hired by many people to perform typing jobs. If you didn’t know these job is very easy to get there are many places were you can offer your skills if you have any when it comes to typing. On good site is the one I mentioned before at payperpost.com, you could also perform a search engine query at google or yahoo and find some great sites to find typing jobs.
One of the most common and most marketed ways to make money online is by joining websites or companies that offer you to get paid to read email, now these sites may work but most of the may not. The payouts are usually not that high, but it can be done, what you have to do to make at least some money that makes the time invested worth it is by joining a few companies like inboxdollars.com which are very reliable and well known. I would recommend maybe more than five so when you read all your emails you will sum up a couple of dollars at the end of the day, which will lead to a decent extra income of free money by the end of the month. As i’ve said before, do some good research about companies similar to inbox dollars and join them, at night before going to sleep you open your email or login to the members area of these websites that you joined that pay you to read email and simply read all those emails, even if you pick ten it will probably take less than 15 minutes to get the job done, so its actually a very easy method but it may not live up to the expectations of people that want to make some real money online.
Get paid to click, again it’s something very easy to do, all you have to do is register for companies like bux.to, clixsense.com, etc. Many websites that offer to get paid to click, also offer you money for reading emails as well and sign up for offers, some that I can think of right now are websites like wordlinx.com, matrixmails.com, etc. Just do a google search and make sure that you are signing in for a program that has good reputation. So check out the reviews about these websites before joining, because many may be scams. All you have to do is sign up, get the offer through email or members area, click on an ad and view a website for less than a minute, you will instantly get accounted some cents to your accounts.
Get paid to sign up for offers, IFW sites, the most popular and probably the most talked about of these sites is Project Payday, at projectpayday.com. If you don’t know how this sites work then listen up, they are not sites to make free money, well registering is free, but making a margin takes a little bit of investment. Of course the ROI (return of investment) is worth it, what you have to do is sign up for free trial offers, you know like trials paid trials of the product or service, so for example if you had to join a free trial for an online service about health issues, the trial period would cost let’s say $6.00 dollars and in return you would be payed let’s say $15 just to make an example, meaning that you would have a $9.00 dollar profit instantly, sometimes you will have to wait until the free trial period is over so you can get paid, but it is a good opportunity and there are may persons on the web making a lot of online money through these method. Project payday is the most popular, you can also get good offers at cashcrate and treasuretroopers, although the last two I mentioned are oftenly reviewed as scams, anyway it’s your choice, they may work but only if you have a credit card and live in North America (U.S or Canada).
Here’s a fun option! You can get paid to play games, there many ways to approach this offer, you can make money playing games by becoming a video game tester, you can also earn money by joining paid championships on specific games that are held oftenly, you can get a hold of many opportunities like these through doing some research on the internet. One place could be gamertestingground.com or gamingjobsonline.com
If you like reading a lot then you can get paid to read books, that’s right you can land many proofreader jobs, proofreading is fun and easy plus you get to read future books that may have success, one place where you can find more information about this topic and how to get started is paidtoproofread.com, if you are wondering about how can you achieve this then enter that url in your browser and get all the information you need, that will be the starting point on getting paid to read books.
Now some real life outlines to give you some ideas to get some money, you can get paid to drive your car, or get paid to drive a car provided by the company that may offer you this type of job. How do you make money driving your car or other cars, it’s very easy, you have to place banners from companies that pay to promote their companies and products through ads placed in your car, you can promote sporting events, cosmethics, etc. You may have seen many cars from normal individuals with these type of ad banners in their cars, well these people already are making money for driving. How about that?
There are other things you may do to get paid, you can become mystery shopper, you can get paid to take surveys online, free paid survyes and paid surveys, get paid to join focus groups, you can get paid to eat by becoming a restaurant reviewer for local or global magazines, newspapers, radio stations, tv channels, etc.
Now here you have a great variety of opportunities to make money, I hope you have enjoyed this article if you feel like there are other great get paid to opportunities that are not outlined here don’t doubt to share them with us by leaving a comment. See you later!
October 18th, 2009 — make money online
Online money is the money made through entrepreneurial efforts on the internet. This means that any business idea, get paid to do any task, blog, website, e-commerce site, online service anything at all that might end up providing you a nice income is oftenly referred to as an online business.
Making online money has becomed the dream of many people, every day there are new prospects that may become succesful on the web. The truth is that most of them fail. Developing a successful online business is very catchy, there are too many factors that must be considered. And there is a lot of knowledge that has to be poured into our brains.
Starting up an online business is about planning,using the right information, using good resources and having great tools, with these things mixed up well you will develop a technique that is right for you, and that makes you feel comfortable and optimistic about your business projections. Before even starting to build a website or blog, or any online business, I just named those two because I believe that through a website or blog you can build up quickly a large five to six figure income if you plan out well your strategy.
I really like to make money blogging, maybe it’s because I like to write, that is why I always end up writing extremely long posts, many times I would like to keep them short, but it’s very difficult for me. If you execute a very well prepared plan, then you might create multiple streams of online money, this will make you feel free and complete, free from all the attachments you had in your previous life, like your job and punching that damn clock.
I started with online businesses because I was struggling a lot to pay for my stuff, you know getting the bills paid, buying my own personal stuff was becoming very hard, maybe the economy was not so bad at the time as it is now, but for me it was way harder a couple of years ago. With all these worries haunting me day and night, plus the stress of almost losing my car, because I was threatened a couple of times by the bank that provided me a loan to make an investment that failed badly, so as you can see I had a financial crisis. I was in debt and about to lose my car. That four wheeled accessory was the only thing that kept me positive, because no matter how hard things were, I could always relax a bit after taking a long drive!
At the time I had a friend that was into online businesses, well at least he was interested, he talked about it so much that he got me listening, unfortunately we were both complete ignorants about this so we were prey for scammers. We bought almost every single thing that promised to teach us how to get money online, if it promised that it was ultra mega fast, then better! At that time many stories about over night millionaires were coming out in the media, all the different newspapers, blogs, etc. And of course with all that hype bad products with false promises followed, you know the common online money making scams. I’m not sad that these things happened, not at all, these situations that we were living got us very interested, because as we continued making our greatest efforts, we kept failing even more. But at least we didn’t quit and kept going. This first contact with online entrepreneurship made us become more desperate and more interested.
Guess what happened next? We were out of money and out of ideas, I had heard about blogging as the true online money provider, that if I made a blog or built a website i’d become very rich, very fast. Most of the crap we bought stated shitty information of this type, but anyway at least it got us interested in creating blogs and building websites. So no money, absolutely broke, worries becoming huge problems, timelines closing up, etc. In such desperation one day I chose to type free blog platform to make money, at the google search engine. Imagine what showed up in first result, guessed it? I knew you’d probably guess, yes that’s right blogger.com. I found out in that moment that blogspot blogs existed, and as I digged in deeper and learned more about blogspot I started to fall in love with this platform, In that moment my research efforts totally shifted and I focused totally on blogging and SEO, supposedly easy online money could also be made quickly through blogging or website building, now this could be true if right from the beginning I had the knowledge I have now.
After making my first blogspot blog, this first blog I did it on a non competitive keyword, at that moment I thought that this keyword would probably be searched a lot and that it would make me a lot of easy online money with adsense, I forgot to tell you about it, that was also the moment when I experienced for the first time having adsense ads on a blog. It felt good. Blogger.com provided a very easy to use platform which easily integrated and still integrates adsense ads with no hassle, perfecto for the new amateur blogger. At that time I had no idea about niche or keyword researc, I had no idea about how to truly tweak the search engine optimization for blogspot blogs, I just did some minor simple changes that also worked.
After a few days of that blog being published it got indexed and it got to the first position of google for the title tag or label as blogger calls them, number one for that keyword and it’s variations. After seing that result, i felt like, yes i did it!! I was incredibly happy, I thought that now online money would just rush in to my pockets and bank accounts. Man was I funny or what, extremely non competitive keyword, a very low amount of visitors showed up, and not a single soul would click. I then tried to monetize with some affiliate links, but still it wouldn’t work.
Through that time frame I was sad! now I felt like more time was wasted, I thought to myself that more productive things could have been done. But I was already a knee deep in the game, so I couldn’t switch now to something else, even if my keywords and rankings at the were not bringing in a single cent, at least I got a google first page, number one spot position. I did something right. So my online business education effort was tripled at that moment, I just got geeky, and that geekiness took me to the next level.
So I began studying super hard with a new better direction and focus, now the puzzle of online money was almost resolved, in this time frame I learned a lot more about google itself, i learned about keyword research, and keyword potential, I learned about article marketing, about backlinks, keyword marketing, niche, niche sites creation, niche blogs, etc. I also discovered squidoo and hubpages. I tried a lot of things to get traffic so I could earn money online, traffic exchange services and things like that, I still had that online amateur within me, I still hoped for some miracle get rich fast super method, technique, model, etc. to make easy online money
The things I had to do to achieve success I already knew them but I didn’t apply them properly, I never planned out, I never elaborated a game plan. Either I still picked the wrong keywords or if I picked them right but I didn’t perform all the tasks that involved getting a high paying high traffic keyword ranked. After testing a lot and I mean a lot, and studying even more, I finally understood how to fully utilize all the available tools out there, I became a monster with the google adwords external keyword tool and every other google webmaster tools. One day it just clicked, I was ready.
In this process as I told you before because i had to go with free, I discovered blogspot and I discoverd blogpost’s effectiveness to make online money, free money. Blogger was and is a highly optimized blogging platform that allows you to rank very well for any keyword at all, I fully understood blogspot blogs potential and I just took advantage of it. I began to create free niche blogs with longtail keywords that got a lot of traffic and that had very low competition. I developed this ability by learning how to get free tools and using these free tools properly by making very good interpretations of the information provided. I discovered how to analyze the competition’s content, I learned how to identify easy online money targets/keywords/niches, and the best part is that I kept the whole process free of charge.
Now I was seeing online money rollin’ in, finally. I made a niche blogger blog on a particular long tail keyword which had no competition at all and that was highly searched, it had a great cpc value which made my clicks very well paid, and soon the long tail began to shorten and organic traffic, that is traffic from the search engines was tripling every day. I decided to throw in some affiliate products and they started to sell like candy. It was a very targeted keyword niche blog and the traffic that got to my blog usually converted, if it wasn’t by adsense clicks then it would probably convert through affiliate leads and sales. My first affliliate marketing efforts that paid off were from affiliate programs like clickbank, amazon, comission junction, pepperjam network, azoogle ads, and a few other affiliate programs out there that had products that would fit in some of my niches. This first online success I had after achieving first position in google rankings and getting all the organic traffic I needed for these keywords my income just totally boosted, and my stress was finally over. I was making about $2.500 dollars a month from a free blog, that was a lot of free money, how cool was that!
My goal was finally achieved and finally I got to relax a bit, money was coming in easily and I was feeling totally complete and satisfied, i’d walk around with a big smile on my face, I felt that I had finally made it, I was there, it was not a dream anymore, the dream had become real. I wasn’t a millionaire but I was very happy about making it on my own, and what made it so much sweeter was the fact that I had not invested a dime.
A while after that my hunger got bigger, and now I had money, so I started applying the same technique with wordpress.org blogging software, I also kept going with blogspot money making blogs, but now I was also creating sites with self hosting, I guess you’d say that I was diversifying. I created a lot of niche sites, niche blogs, also supersites that targeted large sets of keywords, I started implementing article marketing very well, my backlinking developed as perfectly as it could get, most of my incoming links were natural backlinks thanks to the good content I put out there, and thanks to that great content I got great search engine rankings which brought in visitors, and many of these visitors found my sites to be very complete or very informative so backlinks were being created all by themselves very naturally, just the way google loves it.
I made all of my sites count, from that point on I would never ever again waste time on chasing the wrong keywords, I mean by that keywords that had no traffic or keywords that had a lot of traffic but extremely high competition with virtually no chance of having success. After that first online business homerun, I said to myself “this is what works” so I just did the same thing over and over with wordpress and blogspot blogs, in no time my income skyrocketed and my online money was making me laugh, yes laughing all the way to the bank!
If you want to start a succesful online business and you are totally new to this I would recommend you to go with blogspot blogs as they are great for a beginner to learn everything that there is to it when it comes to creating high quality blogs, and if you are an advanced online entrpreneur then you can make the most out of blogger if you do your homework and discover how blogger.com blogs can be crafted in order to make the top of the rankings and get all the traffic you need directly from that source. If you do this right you’ll get hooked on blogspot blogs, I had a hard time starting my first wordpress because of how effective and easy to use blogger is, and not to mention free, therefore providing a source of free money.
After trying my first self hosted wordpress I got very interested with the wordpress software, I could put it to work finally after everything I had heard, and now I can say that it was incredible as well, it is better to create more professional looking sites, great ways to boost SEO power, as I read somewhere “wordpress blogs are search engine magnets”, I don’t remember who quoted that but it was real, wordpress.org is as effective as a blogging software might get.
If you want online money, a lot of online money then you can use both platforms, it all depends on your purpose and goals. It’s about what you are going after, you can probably get adsense clicks from blogspot, there are other options you could use to make money of pay per clicks if you want to try something different to adsense, you could for example try with companies like bidvertiser, adbrite, or one I recently learned of that caught my attention, I haven’t tried it but it would be interesting is a website/ad manager called clickhype. Now if your goal is to make affiliate sales then you could probably do better with wordpress. For me both work extremely well on both sides, so that is why I couldn’t recommend one over the other as an absolute favorite. Maybe blogger for beginners and wordpress for more advanced web tech savvy bloggers. But as an advanced techy blogger I’ve been able to get even high rewards from blosgspot’s online money manufacturing, as I like to call it, as well. The point is if you have no money go with blogspot, if you have some money get yourself a fabolous wordpress site that will truly sky rocket your online business through the roof.
There is one thing about blogger blogs that scare people and that is that at any time if google considers it appropiate, they will shut down your blog and remove it from the index, and even cancelling the account if they want. But that should not be a problem because if you are reading this then you belong to the community of honest online money making bloggers that do not use blackhat techniques, spam, and privacy violation methods to make money, that is why you will never have to worry about getting your site or blog off the index, or worrying about your account being terminated. The good thing is that google knows that blogger will be around for a very very long while so they give value to blogspot blogs because the bots knows that the blog will be there forever, because it’s free and you don’t have to keep buying or renewing your domains and your hosting plans.
Now you know how to make online money in various ways, all you have to do is practice, do some research, learn and apply, in future articles I will show how to properly use all the free tools available to make the most out of your sites. I will show how to use them right, like adwords external tool and other programs, and also tools from other websites or companies that are provided for free as well. Feel free to contribute, leave a comment if you want to learn more, or ask anything about any doubts that you may have. Bye i’m going to sleep now.
October 18th, 2009 — make money
Many people have asked me this question more than a million times, and the question is the following.
Question: how to make money fast and Easy?
Well there are ways to get money fast, a lot of them. The important question for me after they ask the one I just mentioned before, and it is the question that no one almost never asks or thinks about, which is the following. Question: How much money can I make? Now that is a very important question because without any doubt you can learn many ways on how to make money fast, but the difference is that some pay much more than others.
To start out if you want to make money immediatly, you can join many opportunities online to get paid to do easy things, you have to do very easy simple tasks. These tasks consist of things like clicking and viewing ads, you can make money online with surveys, you can take free paid surveys or regular surveys which you may have to pay for joining a couple of networks, but these paid surveys probably guarantee a higher income than free paid survey, you can get paid to complete offers like at cashcrate.com, treasure troopers, or project payday which has been a big subject lately. Project payday guarantees your money making as I said in a previous article about this website, it is free to join and if you are not satisfied they will giveo $100 dollars to leave at least with a smile.
Those ways I just mentioned before about get paid to sites may be generous, you can actually build very fast an extra income or a full time income working at home by doing very easy things without even knowing what a blog or website is or how they work to make money, but most of these offers perform really good on the U.S in other countries they might not be a good idea. If you are about making money online then you must know by now that if you want to learn how to make money fast you have to learn about blogging, building websites, wordpress, blogger, typepad, squidoo, hubpages, etc. Some of these examples may not be done totally free but they are the methods that done properly will guarantee a huge income monthly, especially if you adapt your sites with the offer to join your own newsletter, you know by building a list which you can work through to get a lot of affiliate sales, or keyword marketing niche sites which you can exploit for affiliate sales very quickly and making big money in the process, plus the adsense or other pay per click advantage that when done correctly, when blending and locating your ads well on your sites and if you have huge traffic they will convert like crazy. People that bash adsense and other ppc networks, these people that cry and whine about not making money with adsense, they have these attitude and fail simply because the don’t really know how to do it.
Ok that was fast money making for online businesses, if you really want to learn how to make money fast then you have to get out of the box and by that I mean get out of the computer and try things in the real world. Of course through online ventures you will achieve the success you hope and you can do it easily but as many other things it takes a lot of work and a lot of studying, once you learn that and you are set then you can probably make more money online if that is your thing, some people prefer and do better outside on the real world.
I prefer money online, especially free money online by creating free blogspot niche blogs for adsense and a little bit of affiliate marketing but I am an adsense lover. Anyway let me continue my story.
Now some examples about making money on the real world. I want to talk to you about a recent business opportunity I had which converted very well, this specific business deal I performed was a little bit of luck and opportunity because sometimes they don’t come around that often, at least for me because most of my time is spent on a computer. But remember having good relations in society may lead to some great opportunities to make money, all you have to do is keep your eyes and ears wide open to get a hold of every single movement. What I mean is that you have to look at life as a business man or business woman, and you have to see or analyze the way people move, buy, think , etc. by doing so you may understand human phsycology and the way commerce and businesses are done, you know the way money is made and the reasons why some things might work and others won’t. If you do this right you may see a lot of opportunities, you may find voids in local or world markets. You have to analyze trends, you have to see beyond what you are able to see right now, you now sometimes you may look into the future to make an investment now in order to enjoy the benefits later.
Sorry I got caught up with important factors that I think play a very important role in order to succeed in any type of business you choose, be it online or in the real world.
Ok so back to my story, as I’ve been a businessman or entrepreneur ever since I was a child, I was always looking for new ways to make money, especially on ways or methods that taught me how to make money fast. A couple of months ago I heard about a guy that was producing huge amounts of oil that come from palm trees, a very big farm overseas that grows palm for palm oil. Now because i am very business mind like I understand how many overseas business work, so I heard about these guy that was very close to one of my friends that had a need, my friend told me about it, so I immediatly saw an opportunity because I have relatives that work on a similar field on the country next to where the guy was producing the crude, he needed to sell and in the neighbor country I new there was a need to buy, because local production of crude in that country was to low.
I decided to proceed without saying nothing to do some research, and start making some contacts through my relatives in the neighbor country. Well an opportunity had risen and I had to travel, that’s righ I was going to probably make money and I was also having the chance to travel around the world. So through my family I met the guys that needed the crude, introduced them to supplier that produced the crude in the neighbor country, and voila! A business deal was made, since I was the link between seller and buyer, I got a 3% comission for every load of crude delivered and paid, almost like affiliate marketing but in real life. What I got in return for this 3% percent was a solid extra $20.000 u.s dollars a month until the contract is due. This deal will make me almost a million dollars in three years , because that is the term of the contract, it was scheduled to last three years minimum, if its renewed I may get lucky again, I hope so. Now that was a very solid way on how to make money fast.
Another great source of income which you can easily build is i’ve said before through commercial analysis and voids that might be in local or global markets. Since my major was internation business, I have good knowledge and experience on importation and exportation. So you could easily make thousands and thousands through importation of goods from China. Why China? obvious isnn’t it? Low Cost! Anything you need or anything you are already selling or trading or whatever, and if you are not buying it from China then you might want to check again for suppliers, since you can find even better suppliers with way much better offers, that will permit or will lead to a very big difference when you compare costs and return.
If you want to learn how to make money fast, then you have to pack you brain with a lot of information because you may have business opportunities every second that will make you money fast and not only will you make money but they can make you rich. And a lot of the times by not knowing things and not making these analysis which I talk about, you will miss big opportunities that pass by you right in front of your eyes.
Other ways that may qualify as ways on how to make money fast, can be things like going hard, you know what I mean getting a loan from the bank if you have good credit and you don’t have the money, and start your own business the business you always envisioned. Import and export is good, but sometimes you can create a top earning business when you fill a void in your local market, when you satisfy a need that still isn’t there.
I have another example on how I made money by doing a local business in my hometown. It’s pretty funny though, because I am not a party guy, but things were layed out like this. All the kids, teens, young people whatever you want to call young party people, in that city had been absorbed I mean totally drawn into reggaeton music and artists, and in the local bars and discos this music was not available. So my friend and I one day we were talking about it and made that analysis, and decided to open a small reggaeton disco bar. That was it, once we were open to the public, which was doner very fast ’cause we rented a very cheap house that was almost completely fit to make a small investment and open our disco bar, we had done and ready in no time, it took us a week.
People or customers which is a more specific term to the subject were flyin’ in, they highly demanded this kind of place that wasn’t there before. A lot of money was made super fast, and immediatly after a couple of months we had to aquire the house next to us to make our place bigger and better. That was a way on how to make money fast that i really enjoyed because I got to party for free and shake my boot..
Now those are just some basic examples on how making money fast is done, if you keep in mind what i told you, soon you will see new great opportunities that lead you to financial success, as stated before it can be done through millions of ways, through many channel. You can go online and work at home while making a full time income, or you can pursuit physical business, that are more tailored made for practical people, online business maybe intended for a little bit more technical individuals.
Anyway the secret is about creativity and about losing fear, you must not fear or doubt of what you can achieve, you must let go and jump into things, of course things that look promising after good analysis after studying the market, or the business opportunity possibilities. If you want to learn how to make money fast, then you have to start moving and trying things, some may work , some won’t, but the bottom line is that you will always learn a little bit more, and constant knowledge aquirement will lead you to a greater overall business mindset, and through this you will get your mind open, so your mind will become like some type of a sponge that will absorb all the information put out there. This information with constant practice will help your mind work better, as you know the mind is like a muscle the more you work it the bigger and better it gets. Don’t over do though!
I hope this article has helped you improve on your quest of developing successful businesses, and if you feel like you may contribute in any way then please leave a comment, or ask any question you might like. Remember to study well every business opportunity so you don’t get into some troubles, with taxing, with illegal businesses or things like that don’t get desperate and keep trying new business models and methods on how to make money fast.
October 16th, 2009 — affiliate marketing, make money online
There are two ways to earn money that really work , two methods which have been tested and proven over and over. If you want to learn how to make money online with youtube, or through youtube then you got to the right place, because no more lies will be fed to your brain, it’s over, this is what you get, so you either make the most out of it or opt in for the easiest way out, which in this case would be you not achieving any success through one the easiest channels of information to promote any single thing at all, the internet marketers dream when used right.
You may be wondering how to make money online with youtube by now, you must probably be very confused, and probably you haven’t still gotten the grasp of it. But i’m sure you have been many times in different youtube videos with some type of promise or information that get’s you interested enough that takes you to another page through the url which they have placed on the right side bar link next to the video image or perhaps you retyped the url they placed in the video itself.
Are you starting to understand? if not then keep reading! by now you may have noticed that google indexes videos from YouTube on top or at least in the first page of the results for almost any given keyword, any keyword at all it does not matter how competed the term is, right? Ok, now you understand? ok then keep reading, if you saw a video and typed the url or followed the link to the url, don’t you think many people would do same when watching your videos? of course they would, videos in youtube are used as viral videos to get traffic to your sites, it really works as a traffic driving machine. Maybe you have followed links that aren’t worth shit, but what if you applied the same tactic for your benefit what if you did the same thing to a really cool website, with a great affiliate product or service. Well what would probably happen would be that the people driven to your website by the youtube video would probably buy the affiliate product, then you would be making a real good percentage in affiliate comissions meaning that the goal of learning how to make money online using youtube was finally achieved. It does not stop here, keep reading..
This technique I just tould you about to get money from traffic sometimes is defined as viral video marketing, but it is a technique that actually works, or how many times haven’t you followed or retyped some link shown in the video? Sometimes you even type url’s from videos that contain nothing they just show you the image of the url for about a minute, until you end typing it down in your browser.
YouTube is a really great way of gaining web presence and credibility plus bringing in large checks from affiliate sales. Here’s the little secret, it works the same as in blogs and websites, great unique content through video, don’t trick people into videos with great headlines and super bad content because your credibility will start to fade. Even if you are promoting a very lousy website make sure that your video is at least entertaining for the viewer that you are making waste a little bit of time, so make your videos useful, informative, or funny, or whatever that makes the time wasted by typing that url or following that link worth it.
Now that was like the amateur lesson on learning how to make money online with youtube, if you really want to take total advantage from google to earn money then you have to make the most out of their site by making a channel and creating a great stream of viewers that represent to you about 1 million unique viewers a month or something like three to five thousand subscribers to your channel, I don’t remember how much right now but something like that. What happens when you meet these requirements? easy, you can aspire to get accepted as one of YouTube Partners. The google youtube partner network allows you to place adsense ads beneath your videos and on the right side next to the video image, above the place where you see the embed code and the url that you could follow.
Now you get it? if you want to make money online with youtube you have to integrate your videos with adsense unless you want to focus in affiliate sales, but anyway back to topic youtube is great to pull in adsense revenue because video drives a lot of traffic and if you treat that traffic the right way then you will get conversion, which will ultimately make you a work at home dad or mom, person whatever if you choose to do so. If you are even considering becoming a youtube partner it must be because you have that traffic already if not you won’t be accepted, so if already have that traffic it just become simple math and a percentage of that traffic will click on ads, therefore you will make money.
Now you really know how to make money online with youtube through Adsense, as you can see adsense plays a major role in making money to a whole lot of people online, but if you want to make money trough youtube by placing adsense ads on your videos then you must apply to become one of YouTube’s Partners. Remember the requirements to join become partner, you must upload great and new original content constantly, you must be the owner of the content or at least have express permission to use them, and you must have thousands of viewers, that’s it, that’s all you need to be accepted. After applying and being accepted you will also have access to various features to make the most out of you partner status, not only can you display adsense ads on your videos and next to the video image, you can also participate in co-marketing and branded entertainment opportunities with top brand advertisers, and would also be able to utilize your own sales to sell your own ads.
You are now very well prepared to take on google’s youtube and maximize it’s use for your own personal benefit, you can start making money right now through a viral video to market an affiliate product or through adsense if you meet the requirements. The bottom line is that these are the true methods that make money with youtube as partner or by using youtube as a marketing tool, anyone out there serious about making money online should consider youtube videos as a great option to rise above the great level of competition you have to face every day for your desired keywords or niche/market.
If you may know any other possible ways on how to make money online with youtube feel free to comment and contribute to this article, if you have doubts or question feel free to ask, if you want to comment then just comment