11/21/09

Ways to Make Money Online: A Guide

The idea of making money online is attractive to many, primarily because of the benefits it offers. Two main incentives are motivational factors here: The lucrative potential of the internet as well as the personal freedom that comes with working without a fixed schedule or geographic location.

One doesn’t need to suffer through monotonous day jobs which offer poor returns for the time invested.

Indeed, why make $7 an hour selling coffee behind a counter when you can easily earn the same amount by spending 10 minutes to write an article on your blog?

Even if you’re not looking to work full-time at home, the internet offers a viable source of money which can help to supplement your regular income.

A basic search on Google will reveal many ways to make money online and most of the websites listed in the search results pages all seem to focus on the same methods of making money.

I thought it’ll be a good idea to categorize and compile a list of the online money making methods available so that future visitors to Dosh Dosh will have a reference point which provides them with all information they need.

This list uses a rather broad categorization, which I believe covers most of the ways to make money online. More methods and examples of how to make money online will be added to this list, which can be considered a work in progress.

1. Set up a Blog or Website for Profit

types of money making blogs

paid blogging websites

make money blogging

2. Learn about Affiliate Marketing and The Art of Selling

earning commissions

Affiliate marketing

t-shirt companies with affiliate programs

Amazon

Commission Junction

ClickBank

3. Start an Online Business

Entrepreneur.com

4. Try Out Domaining and the Online Real Estate Trade

making money from domain names

site flipping

SitePoint Marketplace

5. Participate in Get-Paid-to Websites

pay you to complete offers

get paid to websites

Scam.com

Web 2.0

social media websites

revenue-sharing system

6. Find a Virtual Job or Make Use of Your Expertise

7. Freelance and Work on a Contract Basis Online

Guru.com

Elance

webmaster forums

websites which will pay for your content

8. Create Your Own Product and Sell it

9. Get Involved in the Online Retail Trade

Ebay

Craigslist

Ebay dropshipping and arbitrage

WAYS TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE - BEST 101+

There are many Ways To Make Money Online and in fact you can make quiet a lot of money online. The web is full of guys who are making considerable amount of money online (many of them are making millions per month online) with different ways. You or anybody else too can make money online if you(they) want to. This post is an attempt on my part to show you all the different ways to make money online so that you have all the choices before yourself and I hope this will help you in selecting the ways which will best suit you. I have tried to explain each money making way in the best way that I could so that it is easily comprehensible to you. I have listed most (if not all then at least 95%) of the available, viable, legitimate and practical options to make money online that you can find on the Internet today.

Some Candid Facts About This Post That You Must Read :-

1. You may find that you already know some of the online money making ways that I have listed here because that is quiet natural. But you will discover some new ways too. This post is just a list showing the money making opportunities present online.

2. You would find that some of the money making ways are interlinked (are overlapping) with others but this is quiet natural too as the Internet by nature provides for this.

3. You may like some of the money making ideas and dislike some too so choose the ones you like and discard the ones you don't - its your choice. My work was to give you the list of the "ways you can make money online" and so I have.

4. I am not claiming that I have personally used all of the ways to make money online neither do I intend to but I must also say that some of these are making money for me online and some for others and may be some of the ways will also make money for you too in the near future.

5. None of the ways is a get-rich-scheme or fraud ways but each of them are genuine and legal ways to making money online. Each one would require right knowledge, hard work and time to build up.

6. This will be a long post so I have broken it down into a series so that you can take breaks in between and get refreshed. But do read the full series of posts because who knows you may discover the best online money making way that suits you written at last. I assure you that you will get real value for your time spent in reading the series "Ways To Make Money Online".

Here are the Best 101+ Ways To Make Money Online :-

1. Affiliate Marketing (Get Paid Per Sale) - This is the one online money making way that has made and is still making many millionaires. In fact a very competitive field but is immensely rewarding as well. The concept is simple that is you need to promote somebody else's product as an affiliate online. You can promote both physical and digital products on any topic or field you want. There are affiliate networks like Clickbank, Paydotcom, Click2Sell, CJ and Amazon etc where you will get products of all types and of all categories to promote. Just sign up with any one of the affiliate networks (for free) and choose your products to promote. You only make money when the customer that you refer to the merchant site buys a product. Commissions generally vary from 5% to 80% depending on the type of product and the merchant. To know more details on this read my post on - Make money promoting affiliate products online.

2. Affiliate Marketing (Get Paid Per Lead) - This concept is also similar to that of the above way of making money on sale of affiliate products but here you are not required to make any sale to make money. Your work is to promote a link which would lead a prospect to a site where he will be asked to do an activity as desired by the programme and you get your commission when the activity is done. The activities that I have just mentioned are just simple tasks like filling up a form, entering their email address or address or zip code or phone number etc, sign up for a free service, download a pdf or software etc, sign up for a free trial and etc.

Commissions are generally low as compared to the get-paid-per-sale programmes . As the tasks are free to be done and no payments of any sort are required to be made so generally the conversion rate is high and this more then balances the low commission rates. Now many webmasters and affiliate marketers are seen to focus their attention more on get-paid-per-lead programmes to make money online due to their high conversion rates. You can join as an affiliate at CommissionJunction (cj.com), ebay.com and get paid for free sign-ups. There are many such programmes on net just do a Google or Yahoo and you will get plenty of pay-per-lead programmes to promote and make money online.

3. Content Website - Start a content website and put up useful content, resources and the like on a topic that is of much importance and general demand. Optimize your website for the search engines so that you can get free organic traffic. Promote your site online through various mediums like forums, classifieds, advertisements, PPC etc to drive traffic. Then when you start getting a good amount of traffic to your site you can monetize it through various means to earn a considerable income online. You can use contextual advertising like AdSense of Google, promote Affiliate Products (both pay per sale and lead), sell advertising space, sell links, use in-line text ad programmes like Kontera and etc to make money from your website. A very healthy and widely used way to make money online - you can find the web being full of websites which have taken up this approach to make money online.

4. Blog - You can start a blog and monetize it to earn money online. There are hundreds of blogs online which are making a fortune with this way - in fact this is the second most popular choice of persons who are interested or have already started to make money online. You can start a blog for free at Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, MovableType etc but Blogger is the best choice. You can also start self hosted blog if you have money. Whatever type of platform you choose you need to have the right start by choosing the right niche, optimizing your blog for search engines to get free organic traffic, promote your blog properly, write good and unique content and etc for making your blog a success. Lot of hard work goes behind the scene to make a successful money making blog. To know more in details about making money online you can go through my posts on How to start a blog? and How to make money from blogs?

My blog is an example through which I myself want to make some money online by helping you to make money online.

5. Freelancing - You can work as a freelancer online and make good money. Freelancing is just offering your service to persons or concerns who need it. For this way the basic requirements that you need to have is a computer, an Internet connection and some skills to offer. You can get freelancing work at GetAFreelancer.com, Elance.com, RentACoder.com, Guru.com and Scriptlance.com etc. These sites mainly work as a middleman between the employers and the freelancers. Registration is free and you need to pay a minor part of your earnings to the freelance sites for their service. Some examples of Freelance work that you can get are Copywriting, Proofreading, Translation, Data Entry, Data Processing, Website Design, Web Promotion, Graphic Design, Link Building, SEO, Telemarketing, Banner Design, Logo Design, C/C++, Photoshop, XML, PHP, Flash, Website Security, Java and etc. Get your self registered to these sites and choose some projects to bid upon to get one to do. Some sites have a premium membership to offer against a fee and generally the better projects are conserved for the premium members and no commission is charged from them. You can read my post on Freelancing to get more details on freelance jobs.

6. Surveys - Answering surveys is a great way to make fast and easy money online. It is also a legitimate and popular way to make money online which virtually requires no personal skill set. You only require a computer, an Internet connection, addresses of some survey providing sites to start with and of course some spare time to answer the surveys and you are ready to get paid for your opinion. Once you are registered with the sites they will send you surveys which you need to fill up to get paid. Pay rates vary but normally are around $5 per survey. To get more details on how to make money online with surveys read - Make Money with Paid Surveys, to get important tips read - Important tips on Paid Surveys and to get a list of money making surveys read - List of Paid Survey Sites.

7. Online Ebay Store - You can start a virtual store online selling out products on Ebay. The products can be your own inventory or somebody else's. You can sell virtually anything on Ebay.com - from pins to ships. In case of your own products you need to handle the packaging yourself but if you tie up with a drop shipping company and sell their products then you need not worry about anything other than promotion of your store. All the tools and help needed for promotion can be found on Ebay. They have a very detailed "Help" section to help you set your store.

You can even sell the junk in your house or office that are of no use to you on Ebay and make some money. You can also sell other people's junk through your store in return for a commission. You can bid for products and buy them at a lower cost and list them in your store to sell at a higher price thus earning good profit. In fact you can sell anything on Ebay to earn a healthy income.

8. Ebay Affiliate - You can register yourself for free as an Ebay affiliate and promote Ebay through promotional means like through your website or blog, through forums and groups etc. You will earn a commission of $3 for each person coming through to Ebay by clicking on your affiliate link and registering for free. Get 10 people to register a day and you can make $900 a month - a decent way of making money online just for motivating people to do something for free.

NOTE - You can surely expect a post - How to make money online with Ebay ? very soon which will explain every thing in much more detail.

9. Equity Trading - I hope we all have heard somebody or the other talking about equities, shares, share market and stock exchanges quiet often. Even you or anybody else can start share trading by getting ourselves registered with any share broker. Though a high risk medium to earn money but if done properly can earn you a real lot of money. You can trade on shares through the broker or sub-broker's terminal at their premises or can open an online account to start trading from your own computer having an Internet connection.

You can buy shares and keep them to be sold when their price rises or can even do Day Trading which means to buy and sell shares on a daily basis for small profits. Once again I must mention that this is particularly a very risky field and you can even lose your capital in just a matter of seconds if you are not careful enough. So it is advised that you educate yourself about the different aspects of share trading including its risks and gains before entering the market. Learn some technical analysis to be on the safer side and never ever believe any so called expert blindly because nobody can predict the movement of an equity. There are many resources available on Internet to learn the field so go ahead - learn - apply. Start with a very small investment and gradually increase later as you start learning the loop holes of this online money making way.

10. Futures and Options - Almost same as above but you got to buy shares in bulk and the game is played on future prices so large investment and more larger risk factors come into play. It is advisable to first enter the Equity trading field and then slowly gain knowledge on Futures and Options and then enter it gradually. This is a very high risk and high gain way of making money online.

11. Commodity Trading - Almost same as above in the concept except here you have to deal with commodities like metals, oil, grains etc. There are separate commodity stock exchanges that deals in commodity trading. The game is played on future prices so more risky. You would have to invest in bulk amounts. There are two options to go for - Future and Options. Again utmost caution is advised and learn before you jump in. Again a high risk way of earning money online but is quiet rewarding too.

12. Forex Trading - Foreign+Exchange=FOREX. This is also one more very enticing way of earning money online. This is also almost similar in concept to equity trading but here foreign currencies are traded through one large world over market - the Forex market. The Forex market is a non-stop cash market where currencies of various nations are traded, typically via brokers. You can open an account with any of these brokers and start trading currencies online from your home. Foreign currencies are constantly and simultaneously bought and sold across local and global markets and traders' investments increase or decrease in value based upon currency movements and their values at a particular moment. Foreign exchange market is very volatile so conditions can change at any time in response to real-time events the world over thus affecting the rates of currencies.

The best part is that the market is open 24hrs and never closes - so you can trade at any time. You can trade in any currency you want like Dollars, Euro or Yen etc. It is a volatile market offering many profit opportunities like you can gain both from gaining and falling markets. There are also many risk controlling instruments like arbitrage and hedging etc. You can trade in large amounts with a very small margin money kept as security with your broker. There is also the option of zero commission offered by many brokers. But as in the previous options educate yourself before you jump into the field. You can make money only with patience and a strategically planned approach.

Buddy! its time for a break. Do catch up with my next post to get some more Ways to make money online.

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PPC – Drive Traffic With These PPC Networks

Google AdWords is a very popular PPC (pay per click) network. It’s no surprise that it is the most popular network, because they do have far more traffic available than any other PPC network out there.
But they do have some drawbacks that discourage many users. For one thing, they are also considered the most expensive PPC network. Since they have more traffic, they also have a lot more competition. This drives prices way up. AdWords also has more rules than most of the other networks.
Because of things like intense competition, high prices, and rules that many believe to be a bit excessive, more and more marketers are looking for other options.
One of the best alternatives is MSN AdCenter. MSN/Bing is one of the most popular search engines, and they do have a decent level of traffic. It’s obviously nowhere near the level of Google, but they do have enough traffic to make using them worthwhile. Their prices are generally cheaper than AdWords, making them an attractive option.
Yahoo Search Marketing is also popular. Yahoo has been a leader in the search engine marketplace for many years, and they provide a decent level of traffic. Their prices are reasonable, too.
Kanoodle has been popular for several years. They boast pretty good traffic and competitive prices. Although they don’t have the level of traffic that one of the big three could provide, they still have enough to provide a steady flow to some of the bigger search terms.
AdBrite is a network that pays webmasters to put their ads on their sites. Because they have a relatively large number of Non-AdWords Options for Pay Per Click Marketing advertisers, they can provide a fair number of visitors. Since they have to pay their advertisers, their prices aren’t quite as low as they could be, but they are still generally far less than AdWords. Personally I haven’t had much success with them.
One of the networks that many webmasters recommend staying away from is GoClick. This network is notorious for providing high volumes of very low-quality traffic. Their clicks are generally very inexpensive, and they can provide very high traffic volumes, but most webmasters claim the quality of the traffic is so poor that it’s practically impossible to even break even, much less make a profit.
There are several other networks that might have potential for some website owners. Some of them have decent traffic levels and good prices. It’s best to put a few dollars into several networks and test the traffic before you make a decision on which ones to use in a bigger way.
Some others you may want to try include: 7 Search, Miva, LookSmart, Ask.com, Search 123, Search Feed, ABC Search, Findology, Local.com, and Pulse 360.
Although Google Adwords should be your first choice do try several of these PPC networks to see which one works best for your niche.
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10 Ways To Make Money Online

There are many proven online opportunities to make real, long-term income. What you won’t find on this list are money making fads that come and go. If you’re looking to become rich overnight, keep searching. However, if you want a real online business then keep reading …

1. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is my favorite online business model because you’ve got an endless supply of different products to promote. An Affiliate Marketer is compensated based on referring either customers or potential leads. Many companies have set up what’s called an “affiliate program”. As an affiliate marketer all you do is connect Internet users to products or services they’re looking for online. And, when they buy something you get a cut of the sale!This business model has the potential to produce long-term and passive income. It can run 24/7, pulling in money even while you sleep.
Read this post and learn how to discover profitable niches.

2. Online Freelance Jobs

Are there certain things you are good at or know a lot about? Whether it’s computer programming, research, transcription, copywriting, business writing, graphic or website design, or editing, you might be able to make a living as a freelancer.You’ll be able to make your own hours and work for your own price. Perhaps your day job only pays you minimum wage, but you’re sure that you’re worth at least $30 if you found the right position. If this is the case, have a serious look at freelancing your skills to others.

3. Take Surveys / Data-entry

If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to make some extra cash online this is a good option. You don’t need any special skills to do this, you just complete the surveys and collect the money. If you have a lot of spare time and want to add a few hundred dollars to your monthly income this could be what you’re looking for. You can make $5 to $75 per survey. Most offers pay the lower end of that but if you complete enough surveys it adds up.

4. Auction Businesses

While most people tend to believe that running an online business is too complex to even approach, running an auction business often seems far less complicated, and many people can even earn an income this way without even owning their own website. You don’t even have to worry about drawing customers in through eBay. Therefore, your promotion budget is minimal, since so many people use eBay anyway. There are many ways in which you can start an eBay auction business. If you want to know how to properly get your auction business going, pick up my free eBook.

5. Creating and Selling Information Products

Selling information products is yet another potentially lucrative business model. Believe it or not, you know more than 95% of the population on at least two or three topics. Better yet, information products can be created with little or no money. People buy all kinds of information products. Sell it as a book, white paper, video, DVD or CD.

6. Blogging

If you’re good at writing, you might be able to make money from blogging. The secret to a profitable blog is to provide smart content, and at the same time, be able to monetize your blog. Blogs which are profitable typically use a mix of affiliate marketing, lead generation and AdSense advertising. You can write about almost any topic for your blog. Still, it’s wise to choose a specific topic that has a niche audience, and which can be supported by related affiliate programs. You have to make sure your content is original – blog readers are very discerning people, and won’t visit something that doesn’t entertain them immensely or that they’ve seen before.

More information and tips: What People Trying To Make Money Online Blogging Don’t Get;

7. Producing Online Video

Statistics indicate that a stunning 80% of Internet users have watched at least one video by choice. Studies have shown that six times as many people prefer a video over printed information. A staggering number of Internet users watch videos every day on sites like Youtube. Think there’s money to be made with videos? You bet! With the proper tools, anybody can create a video. Then, you upload your videos to video sharing sites that split revenue from advertising. For example, Revver splits the revenue with you 50/50.

8. Online Teaching

Online education is a booming industry and with that comes the demand for online teachers. Indeed, you can make a living teaching online. For example, you can do this on a part-time basis teaching night classes.
Even if you don’t have the qualifications or experience to work for an educational institution you can still make money by teaching online. In fact, there’s a lot of money to be made with this business model. Many people are an expert at something without realizing it. A business with exceptional potential is the online training business.

9. Sell Web Sites

You can either create new sites, or buy existing web sites and improve them. Then, you list the website on sites like Sitepoint. Frankly, I see a lot of future in this business model simply because there’s an increasing demand.

10. Make Money Writing Articles

If you don’t like the idea of looking for writing gigs you can publish your articles on authority sites like Associated Content. They’ll pay you for your articles or share advertising revenue.
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Make Money Online Legitimately!

There are an estimated 1,355,110,631 Internet users as of May, 2008 and that number is growing by the second!

The Internet is quickly growing into a world-wide marketplace, which provides a unique opportunity for everyday people like you and me to cash in on it and start making money online!

There are 2 groups of people who search for ways to get paid online; serious entrepreneurs looking for a long-lasting business model and people just looking to make a little extra money on the side.

Both of these groups of people can reach their goals online, many do everyday, but you must first choose which group you fall into, as the beginning steps are much different for each "model."

There are 2 groups of people who search for ways to get paid online; serious entrepreneurs looking for a long-lasting business model and people just looking to make a little extra money on the side.

Both of these groups of people can reach their goals online, many do everyday, but you must first choose which group you fall into, as the beginning steps are much different for each "model."

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Make Money

The following is a list of all the ad networks and affiliate programs I use to make money online. They were chosen from this exhaustive list of 130 ad networks. I have used all the following networks at one time or another and can highly recommend them. They have proven to provide good service/support and most importantly, on time payments.

TTZ Media Network
This is my own ad network. It’s ideal for technology and shopping related sites. TTZ Media provides product based ads that are trigger by keywords. The ads show products that are based on the keywords entered and a list of online stores where the products can be purchased. A reader clicking on the product will be taken to the store offering the product for sale. Money is generated with a CPC model. A reader need only click on the banner and visit the advertiser in order for the site to make money. The reader does not have to purchase the product from the advertiser. CPC rates are based on product categories and number of clicks the affiliate can generate. Our tech/review site based affiliates realize eCPM as high as $12.
Sign up for TTZ Media
Kontera ContentLink
Kontera ContentLink allows you to make money from advertising without giving up any current advertising spots. Their technology reads your post and turns certain words into an ad. The highlighted words are double underline and an ad pops up when you hover over it. Normally Kontera requires a site have a minimum 500,000 page views per month before being accepted into the program. However, I have a partnership with Kontera that will allow smaller blogs to use their ContentLink service.
Fill out the application and enter “John Chow Kontera partnership” into the Comments field. The application is sent to my personal account representative. He will approve you based on your blog content and not your traffic level. This is a great way to use a service that is normally only available to high traffic sites.
Sign up for Kontera
Pepperjam Network
Founded by my friend Kris Jones, Pepperjam Network represents an evolution in affiliate marketing. The creation of Pepperjam Network represents eight years of research and development and the combined ideas, feedback, and intelligence of hundreds of affiliate marketers and advertisers. Pepperjam Network offers a quick and easy way to get started in affiliate marketing with the pepperjamADS.
Sign up for Pepperjam Network
Clickbooth
Rank by Inc. Magazine as the number 5 fastest growing company in America and number 1 fastest growing company for marketing and advertising, Clickbooth is a company you should sign up for. Their affiliate managers are friendly, knowledgeable and always just a phone or email away should require any help with your ads.
Sign up for Clickbooth
AzoogleAds
AzoogleAds is one of the largest performance-based online advertising networks in the world. They offers some of the best and highest paying affiliate deals in the industry. No matter what topic your blog covers, you can find a deal that matches your site. The payout range from $1 to over $100 per action. Affiliate marketing is one of this blog’s biggest moneymaker and AzoogleAds is one of the main networks we use.
Sign up for AzoogleAds
Market Leverage
Market Leverage is another large affiliate network with lots of exclusive offers. Every publisher is assigned his own affiliate manager that will work with him to get the most out of the program. From simple zip submit to high commission sales offer, Market Leverage has it all and they’re great people to work with.
Sign up for Market Leverage
OIOpublisher Direct
OIOpublisher Direct is a Wordpress Plugin that automates the ad buying process so you can concentrate on blogging instead of selling. With OIOpublisher direct, advertisers can order, pay for and upload their ads directly to your blog. The only thing you have to do is approve the ad. The script can be installed on an unlimited number of domains and also works with PayPal subscription.
You want to blog, you don’t want to sell ads. Let OIOpubliser Direct do the selling for you. The plugin cost $47 and it’s worth every penny. You should make it all back and more with your first sale.
Get OIOpublisher Direct
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How To Make Money In Affiliate Marketing

How would you like to earn a little extra cash each month? Or even replace your income, working less to make more money… Think its a pipe dream? well, think again.
Most people know that there are millions of dollars being spent every single day purchasing products and services online. But did you know that you could be earning a % on every sale made by simply referring and recommending the products that you like to people.
It’s one of the best ways to get started making money online – you don’t need a website, you don’t need a blog, you don’t even need any cash to get started, although these things can help, you can certainly start without them. By helping consumers research and choose products they already want to buy, which could be as simple as writing a 500 word article (just like this one) you could be earning a nice little second income.
Or if you want to take it a little more seriously, you can earn a full income, even more than most “real world” jobs pay.
Want to get started right away? Click Here to check out the best internet marketing courses I have come across!

I personally make a full time living through affiliate marketing, and have been doing it now for about 5 years. Working from home, choosing the hours to suit my lifestyle, and making a lot more than I ever made working 60 hours a week in a job I hated.
But if you really want to achieve some success with affiliate marketing you need a plan that will get you the level of income you want. A lot of people I speak too love the “Idea” of making money online, they usually ask me a million questions, and tell me how serious they are, how they are going to go home and get stuck into it, read all the stuff I recommend and get started asap.
But then most of them never actually follow through on any of it. Then 6 months later I will see them again, some will avoid the topic completely, while others tell me again how serious they are, and they are really going to do it “this time”.
It’s pretty ammusing for me, watching people make up excuses as to why they havnt done anything.
Personally I don’t really care if they do it or not, it doesn’t effect me at all. Although it would be nice to have more friends who arent working all week to play golf with and take the boat out. But other than that, it makes no difference to me.
I don’t really understand it though, I believe its the perfect business, think about it, you can make as much money as you like, your income is a direct result of the amount of effort you put in. You can work whatever hours you like. (Which is very few when you have been doing it for a few years) Plus you can do it from anywhere you can plug in a laptop. So if you like to Holiday or travel around the world, its the perfect business.
But how do you get involved?
The best place to start is by going to a website that houses a wide range of affiliate products. This keeps everything together in one easy to access place and gives you plenty to explore. You can also get an idea of which particular areas you would like to concentrate on. The worst thing you can do in affiliate marketing is to use the scattergun approach.
This is when you try and promote a wide range of products that aren’t connected with each other, all from a single website. In essence it isn’t aimed at anyone – and you’ll make fewer sales as a result.
Instead, do some research and come up with a specific group of people that you can find a wide range of products for. Or find a particular problem that people are searching online for solutions too, and direct them to the solution. Not only do you stand a much better chance of making a sale, But people will actually thank you for helping them find a solution, and be more than happy that you got paid to help them.
But if you don’t have a website, how can you promote your products?
There are several ways of doing this. One of the best is to use article directories like EzineArticles.com or Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo.com, which allow you to build web pages for free on pretty much any subject you like. Once these get indexed by Google and you do a little promotion for them, then you’ll start getting a steady stream of traffic – if you’ve picked the right topics and search terms to target.
At the beginning I mentioned the need to have a plan to reach the level of income you want. Not many affiliates actually do this and it’s one of the main reasons why more people aren’t making a lot of money with affiliate marketing. It’s certainly not because the potential isn’t there – it’s because they don’t plan to take advantage of it in the right way.
You should always look at how much you will get by way of commission for each product. Obviously the less the commission, the more units you will need to sell to achieve your desired income. You’ll achieve this through a balance of products obviously, but it’s worth bearing in mind.
You also need to think about the type of people you are marketing to. What kind of income do they bring in? How much are they likely to want to spend on the products you’ll be offering? If you don’t match these two aspects up properly you will struggle to make any real sales.
It’s also helpful to set short, medium and long term goals to help keep things in perspective. A short term goal might be to sell five products a week continually, for example. A long term goal could be to make $100,000 a year from affiliate marketing. Goals will help you to decide where you want to go with your fledgling affiliate marketing business.
Another important point to be aware of is that it’s wise to protect your income wherever you can. What I mean by this is that affiliate links can be rather obvious at times, and some people will actually delete your link and go into the site and buy something while denying you the commission.
The easy way to prevent this is to simply buy a domain for each product you are going to promote, and redirect it to the affiliate offer. There are plenty of free tools that do this for you online, and it’s really the safest way to protect your interests. It also changes a long ugly link into a nice short one – much nicer for the article directories!
Affiliate marketing is like any other business, once you start generating some income, then you can start to invest some of that money back into your business to ensure you enjoy ongoing growth.
In short, start slowly and keep those visions of a huge income in perspective to begin with. You’ll soon get to know your way around the business and with each new experience you can build your knowledge and earn even more in the months and years to come.
When I was first starting out, I learnt the basics by purchasing a few books and e-books on the topic, but mostly it was left to trial and error. I had to make a lot of mistakes in order to find a few good ideas that worked and made money.
Fortunately these days there are some really good resources available for people looking to learn this business. So if you’re serious about becoming an affiliate marketer, and want to learn how to make an excellent living from the comfort of your own home, Click Here and take a look at the most comprehensive affiliate marketing education system I have seen.
The most important thing to do though, is to just get started, do something right now, then follow it up tomorrow with something else… Try and do something every day towards your goal, don’t put it off for a single day, and before you know it, you will have a nice steady stream of profits coming in.
Too many of the people I talk to, put things off until they have more time, but then they forget, and never end up getting started at all. So commit to yourself, take some action and get started today.
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How To Make Money Blogging

More and more people are realising that blogging is one of the best ways to start your own online business. It requires minimal start up costs, you can build an impressive and loyal readership over time and once you know how to monetize your blog it can also bring in a decent income that will keep on coming even on the days when you don’t update your blog.

Now you’re probably thinking that all you need to do is grab a free blog account from one of the biggest providers online and you’ll be off and away, but you’d be wrong. Read on to find out more…

There are several ways to set up a blog online. You could use Wordpress, Blogger, or another free site that hosts your blog for you; or alternatively you can set up your own blog under your own domain name.
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But if you want to make money from blogging, you must have complete control over your blog – and that’s something the free blogging accounts won’t give you. You’ll be bound by their terms and conditions and that usually includes not being able to actively promote anything. There are plenty of people who have established a blog only to have it removed without notice some weeks or months later.
It will cost you a few dollars to buy your domain name and set up a web server that will host your blog, but the benefits will far outweigh the cost involved. It can literally be as little as $20 a year we’re talking about here – and that buys you total freedom.
Once you’re ready to set your blog up you’ll need to choose a good theme and layout for it. You might find one that relates to your choice of subject (more on that in a moment) or else there might be one you just like the look of. But there are thousands of templates available for you to use – a simple search on Google will reveal the ones that will be best suited to your topic.
But perhaps the most important question is what you are going to blog about. The whole world is your oyster here – some people blog about their lives in general; some blog about their jobs; some blog about their hobbies; some tell the world about their kids and what it’s like to be a parent, and still others blog about the weird world of celebrities. But whatever you choose to blog about it needs to be something you are passionate about. Don’t forget, you are going to be writing about this topic several times a week, and if you don’t have the enthusiasm for it, that will show in your posts – and no one else will have the enthusiasm to read them.
Okay – so you’ve got your subject. Now you have to start writing your blog posts. If you take a look at just a few of the blogs already online, you’ll notice that the length of the posts varies a lot. Some people only write a paragraph or two each time, but you’ll get better results if you go for something a little longer than this. Around 400 to 500 words makes for a good post with a lot of information in it; some people write hugely long posts that are thousands of words long and could be called an e-book by another name.
But you can also take the format of this blog, by posting a short blog entry which leads into a longer article. This has the benefit of highlighting a lot of blog posts on the home page of the site, and people can then click through and read the ones they like the most.
You should remember however that there are no real rules when it comes to blogging. Over time you will naturally find what works for you, and your blog will settle down into a nice pattern that both you and your readers will enjoy. You’ll find your character and personality will start to come through in your writing too; don’t fight against this as it is one of the hallmarks of blogging. It is, after all, a personal account of an individual’s life and experiences, so show people what you’re made of! You’ll get a more loyal – and bigger – audience like this.
So you’ve got your blog up and running and you’re posting to it on a regular basis. The next step is to get it in front of as many interested eyeballs as possible.
One great way to do this is to submit it to as many of the social bookmarking sites as possible. You can also join social networking sites and build a profile which contains a link to your blog. Other no cost ways to generate traffic include writing free articles for article directories with a link to your blog at the end, and creating signatures at the end of any posts you make to internet forums, and also in all the emails you send out. When you really start thinking about it, you don’t actually need to spend anything to generate plenty of traffic.
All we need to do now is monetize the blog itself. You’ll want to generate some money from all the visitors you’ll start getting, and there are plenty of ways to do this easily. Google Adsense is probably the most well known method – you can join the program for free and display contextual ads that your visitors will be interested in to maximise your click through rate.
There are also a handful of websites which give you the opportunity to get paid for each blog post you make on a specific subject. Pay Per Post and Review Me are two such examples, and they will pay you a certain amount of money to review a product or website for the owner. In a similar vein you can also review and recommend other people’s products through affiliate links inserted into your blog posts, and earn money on commissions earned through any purchases people make.
And once you’re more established you can offer ad space on your blog too, and charge a fee for both classified and display ads if you wish. What could be better than setting your own price?
But there is one final step you can take with your blog if you enjoy a change of scene every now and again. You can sell your blog! Once it is established and has plenty of revenue and traffic, you can usually sell it for ten times its monthly revenue.
And then, you can start all over again with a whole new subject!
So that’s it – profitable blogging in a nutshell. If you have any questions feel free to leave your comments in the form below. And once you’ve done that, get out there and get started building your first blog today.
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How To Make Money With Google Adsense

If you have a website or a blog, you should definitely sign up for Google Adsense. It’s one of the few programs you can truly ‘set and forget’ – once it’s there you don’t really need to do much else with it.
But there are ways and means to maximize your income from Google Adsense, and as you get to know more about it you can start to generate a decent income from it that will keep rolling in month after month. It’s a true passive income, which is why so many people are using it.
Most people have heard of Google Adsense, but not everyone understands exactly how to use it to its best advantage. So we’ll start with how to use it in its most basic sense and then progress to the more advanced benefits you can get from the program.
Basically if you have a website or blog you can sign up for a free account at Google Adsense and start putting contextual ads on your website. What do I mean by contextual? It means quite simply that the ads which appear on your site will be relevant to your content. So let’s say for example that your website is about tropical fish. The Google ads will then be related to tropical fish in some way. And because of the information that you give to Google, they will also display adverts that are relevant to your area. So if you are based in the UK the ads that appear will be relevant to UK buyers; if your site or business is based in Australia the ads will appeal to Australian buyers.
All of this is carefully worked out for you in order to attract the maximum click through possible for your website and your ads. Every time someone clicks on an ad you will get a few cents into your Adsense account, so it makes sense that the more attractive and relevant your ads are to your visitors, the more money you will make.
Let’s have a look at the appearance of your ads now, since this can affect the amount of click throughs you get. You can choose the color and borders of your ads to fit right in with the color scheme on your site if you wish, but it’s worth experimenting with having no borders at all around your adverts since this makes them blend in with your content more seamlessly and may encourage more click throughs in a subtle but effective manner.
However well you integrate Google Adsense into your current blog or website though, there is obviously a limit to the amount of money you can make from one site. If you get thousands of people visiting your site every day then you can expect to get a good income from it but many people don’t get this number of visitors and that’s where you need a separate strategy to try and up your numbers.
In this case you can go to the advanced level of Adsense income and think about starting several sites, all based around a different yet popular subject. You should think of these essentially as being content sites, since they are often chock full of articles and useful content which is carefully keyworded to attract plenty of search engine traffic on that particular subject. The Adsense ads are then placed in the optimum positions to achieve the best click through (the Adsense pages will give you ideas on where to position them but it’s worth experimenting to see what works best for you), and the site goes live for people to find and read through.
You can also insert affiliate links for products into these sites in order to gain even more income if you wish, but they are often known as Adsense sites simply because they are set up to attract visitors and click throughs on a specific subject.
Some people end up with dozens of sites like this, and the beauty of them is that once they are built and you have bought your domain name and hosting plan you don’t really need to do too much with them except for promote them. Updating them fairly regularly is good if you want to get to a higher position in the search engine results though, which will gain you more visitors as a result.
You can also keep your site updated more regularly (and encourage repeat visitors) by inserting RSS feeds of news stories related to the subject of your website. Anything that will get people returning to read more – and possibly click on more ads as a result – is worth a try.
One final note here – choose the subjects of your Adsense sites wisely. It’s tempting to go for whatever is in the news at the moment, but once the stories die down so will your traffic. You want something that people will always want to know about – saving money, getting a better job, earning more, and various other more personal subjects such as skin care and successful dating for example. There are plenty of options to choose from; you just need to get your thinking cap on to find them.
In short the best place to start making money from Google Adsense is to integrate it into your existing website or blog. As you gain experience and discover the best ways to use it you can start thinking about adding extra sites into the mix. You might end up being an Adsense guru and raking in plenty of money for very little work indeed. That’s the best thing about it – the ‘set and forget’ benefit that keeps on working even when you’re not.
If you enjoyed this article or have any questions or comments about it, please leave them by using the form below. Once you’ve done that it will be time to visit Google’s Adsense site to get started! Good luck.
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Make Money Online With Five Types Of Affiliate Marketing

Recently, I talked about using affiliate marketing to make money online. So, today I’m going to discuss five of the best types of affiliate marketing for making big money online.
Pay Per Click (PPC) – Google Adsense
With PPC marketing the merchant pays affiliates whenever a visitor clicks on a merchant’s banner or text ad. The affiliate gets paid for every click even if the visitor he referred does not purchase anything from the merchant’s site.
Pay per click marketing is most closely associated with Google Adsense. Google Adsense is THE biggest money makers on my pure content sites. Adsense is a truly great way to make money with content sites and blogs.
The advantages of PPC systems like Adsense are:
1. Very easy to add to your site.
2. You don’t have to sell anything to make money with PPC.
3. You don’t have to choose programs to promote, the PPC system does that for you.
These advantages make PPC systems like Adsense very appealing to small websites and beginners. I, and many others that I know, have made a lot of money with Adsense.
Pay Per Sale (PPS)
PPS affiliate marketing is the most popular type used by merchants. In this type of affiliate program, the merchant only pays the affiliate whenever his referral buys a product. Affiliates are often paid on a commission basis (percentage of the sale), although some merchants pay a fixed fee. Commissions in PPS affiliate marketing can range from 1% to 100% of the sales.
Pay Per Lead (PPL)
Pay-per-lead (sometimes called Pay Per Action) is a type of affiliate marketing that is often used by insurance companies and other companies who rely on leads for their profits. The Death of Adsense ebook was a good example of Pay Per Lead in the Internet marketing industry. In this type of affiliate marketing, the affiliate is paid whenever the visitor he/she referred to the merchant’s site fills in an application form or takes an action that the merchant wants them to take. For example, a car insurance affiliate program will often want a person’s zip code to help find the best car insurance for them. Compensation for this type of affiliate marketing is a fixed fee and is often very lucrative for affiliates. In fact, one of my friends and mentors makes a nice income from pay per lead affiliate marketing.
In addition to the above types of affiliate marketing, there are other affiliate marketing types that enhance the earnings an affiliate can make.
Multi-Tier Affiliate Marketing
Some affiliate programs offer multiple tiers or levels that the affiliate can make money from. Single-tier affiliate marketing is the much more common than multi-tier, but multi-tier affiliate programs can be much more profitable. In a single-tier affiliate marketing program, the affiliates are paid based on the direct sales or traffic referred to the merchant.
In two-tier affiliate marketing programs, the affiliate is paid for for both the direct traffic or sales that he refers to the merchant’s site, AND all the clicks (PPC) or sales (PPS) or leads (PPL) referred by various other affiliates who joined the affiliate program through his affiliate link. Multi-tier affiliate marketing (3-tier, 4-tier, 5 tier, etc.) creates additional commission for the affiliates from the different tiers in the affiliate network. A good example of a multi-tier affiliate program is SiteSell which has 5 tiers.
Residual Income Affiliate Marketing
In residual income affiliate marketing, the affiliate gets paid whenever the customer he/she has referred returns to the site and purchase another product or renews a membership, etc. Compensation for such type of affiliate marketing is usually based on a sales percentage or a fixed fee. Residual income affiliate marketing is most commonly used by membership sites. I personally love getting paid every month from affiliate programs that offer residual income and look for opportunities to join affiliate programs that offer residual income in the areas I promote.
This is a basic summary of these five types of affiliate marketing. The important thing, as with all other kinds of marketing, is to find what works for you and your business. Experiment with different programs and different types of affiliate marketing and find out what works best for you and your visitors. As with everything else in making money online, it’s all about the numbers. If a particular method isn’t making money for you, by all means try something else.
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How To Totally Fail At Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a powerful tool to make money online. I have been talking about it a lot (here and here) the last few weeks.
But what if success scares you and you want to fail miserably at affiliate marketing? How do you do that?

Here are some tips that will help you fail faster than the average joe

1. If Something Works Stop Doing It Immediately
If something works stop doing it immediately and try something else. This is one of the most obvious rules of bad affiliate marketing. Most people start out doing this, but if for some reason you are new to affiliate marketing and you find that you are making money with it, then STOP doing what is working. Otherwise you might have great success and ruin your chances of failing!
2. Only Promote Products You Hate
A product may be hot, but is it the right product for you? Contrary to popular belief, most affiliates have success when they are passionate about a product. The passion itself creates energy and drive, and these are the things that your potential customers will tune in to. So to ensure failure only pick products you either hate or at the very least ambivalent about promoting. Never promote products that you are passionate about if you want to fail!
3. Join Every Affiliate Program on The Face Of The Earth
Problems are bound to arise when you join too many affiliate programs at once. The more affiliate programs you join the easier it is for you to be pulled in multiple directions at once. Not being able to focus is an AWESOME way to fail at affiliate marketing or any business venture for that matter. No matter what you do, do NOT promote only one or two programs that pay large commissions. And absolutely don’t give those programs your undivided attention. If you can’t sign up for enough affiliate programs to keep you from focusing on promoting one or two programs, then your chances of making money with affiliate marketing actually might get too high and you (gasp) might not fail!
4. Don’t Do Your Research
Don’t research companies to see if they have good customer reviews and don’t find out if they pay affiliates. If you insist on researching affiliate programs be sure to search the internet for scams and affiliate programs that have lots of complaints from affiliates about not being paid for their efforts. That’s a great way to find a loser that will all but ensure failure!
5. Promote Products and Services You Know Nothing About
A common mistake that new affiliates often make is not being familiar with the product. This mistake almost guarantees your failure. So… NEVER BUY THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE YOU ARE GOING TO PROMOTE. If you do buy the product or service and you like it, then you CAN NOT promote it or you might make money! In order to be sure you are going to fail, only promote products you hate or that you have never used.
In summary, using these 5 methods should ensure you failure in affiliate marketing. What is your favorite method of failing? If you know of any other good methods for failing at affiliate marketing let me know in the comments below?
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Local Business Money Machine Review - Opening its Doors Again

Hi, this is Jill, George’s wife. For a bit of a change of pace, I’m going to offer the update on our experience with Local Business Money Machine.
We started with the program in June. As you know, George has been involved with internet marketing for quite some time. In spite of his grasp on the subject and the success of this blog, we’ve never found that one thing that works best for us as far as actually making money. So, after George was laid off, we came across Local Business Money Machine and thought it seemed like an excellent opportunity. And it has been. The program has opened twice now— once when we joined and again about 6 weeks later. Now, they’re opening their doors once again.
Let me start by saying we have made back every penny we’ve put into the program. We haven’t yet replaced George’s full time salary, but I think it’s realistic to expect that we’ll be able to do that by early next year, if not earlier. The program does talk about making a full time salary in three months, but I think that’s pretty aggressive.
First, it depends on what you consider full time. After 20 years of George working as a software programmer and with six children, our idea of a “full time” salary is most likely a bit higher than someone in their twenties. Second, I think it does depend somewhat on your existing business network. To get those first clients, it’s nice if you already have some inroads. The program provides lots of information on finding your first clients, but our experience has been that some of those take a bit longer. We’ve got some seeds we’ve been watering since July that we expect to finally bloom in the next couple of weeks. We started with practically no useful local business contacts, so we had to start from ground zero in that regard. Even under those circumstances, we’re in a good place for a three month old business.
As George wrote in his first post on this topic, we’re not sure about how effective this program would be for the absolute novice. I think there’s enough information there for a complete newbie, but I think it might take a bit longer to implement. However, the information provided is very clear and comprehensive. My college degree is in theater and, other than being married to George and listening to him talk, I don’t really have a technical background. The material in Local Business Money Machine has been very accessible to me. I’ve had no problems following the content and even communicating it to others.
There is a LOT of material in the program. You’d probably need about two weeks of consistent time set aside listening to the trainings to get started (a couple of hours a day, I’d say). And then you’ll need weekly time set aside to listen to the ongoing trainings, visit the forums, etc. But there’s no program out there that is going to give you a full time income just for purchasing it (run away from any that promise that). Local Business Money Machine will train YOU to be a money making machine, but it’s not going to do the work for you. It provides solid principles for getting started in a real business offering traffic services to local businesses. But it’s up to you to implement the training.
So, in summary, if the recent economy has you thinking about starting a new business full time or adding to your income by working part-time, and you enjoy this blog and learning about internet marketing, I think the Local Business Money Machine is a great blueprint for getting started in a business that is interesting, absolutely needed by local businesses and only going to grow in the future. There is a money back guarantee, so if you get it and decide it’s just not for you, you’re not stuck. If you do decide to get it and then return it, email George and let him know why. We’d be interested in knowing who the program DOESN’T work for, as we already have a good idea who it DOES work for.
If you buy the program, we’d like to help you use the program successfully. We’re offering you a Quick Start Blueprint— the parts of the program that we felt were the most critical for getting started, including our most successful networking tips and the tools (both paid and free) that we’ve found the most useful. And when you finish those trainings and have had a chance to get your feet wet, we’ll give you a 60 minute phone consultation at the end of your first month where you can ask any questions you may have.
One last thing, when you sign up for the program you’ll have the opportunity to add on a 4-Pack. We highly recommend it. The Million Dollar Presentation, alone, is worth the cost. As the networking/sales member of our team, I have used it several times, and it always wows people. I used it to do a 20 minute presentation at our local Chamber of Commerce, and the next day at another networking event, I had people who weren’t even at the presentation tell me that they’d heard it was great from other people at the Chamber. It really set us apart as a business that knew what we were talking about.
Thanks for reading. We’re really excited about our future with the program, and we’re very thankful for the opportunity it has given us. Go watch the free videos about the program and decide if it’s the right opportunity for you.
To get our bonus for the Local Business Money Machine follow the steps below:
1. Click here on our affiliate link and sign up for the program (before it closes).
2. Email your receipt for the program to us at info @ mantywebdesigns.com with the subject line “Make Money Online Blueprint”.
3. After we have verified your sign up using our affiliate link then we will contact you about the blueprint.
4. After you have been in the program for 30 days and are ready to ask us questions, set up your free phone consultation.
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Make Money Online With Website Grader

How can you make money online using the Website Grader?
For those who haven’t used the website grader, here’s what you do…

Go to http://www.websitegrader.com
Fill out the form
Press Generate Report
Wait a few minutes

The site then creates a cool free Search Engine Optimization report for you and gives your website a grade. When I ran Can I Make Big Money Online through the website grader I got the following result:

... a website grade of 99.2/100 for www.canimakebigmoneyonline.com…
The website www.canimakebigmoneyonline.com ranks 12,076 of the 1,523,160 websites that have been ranked so far.

That means this website is very well optimized for the Search Engines.
How can this tool help you make money online?
If you get a low result you can find out why you have such a low result, and you can make changes to better optimize your site. This will help you get more traffic and, ultimately, help you make more money online.
If you would like personal help with Optimizing your site for the Search Engines then you can setup a phone consultation with me. My normal phone consulting rate is $250/hr (as seen on my Internet marketing consulting services page), but from now until October 31st, I will give Can I Make Big Money Online readers a special break on this price and I will do phone consulting with you for only $99/hr! That’s more than half off my normal price. All you need to do is send an email to info @ mantwebdesigns.com with the subject line “Make Money Online Phone Consultation”. Then we will schedule a time to talk. I am looking forward to helping you out.
PS. I am signing up for Stompernet today. While the information in the program is mostly information I know, the tools looks unbelievably useful.
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Another Business Oppportunity To Make Money Online With Local Businesses

As you know, Jill and I started a houston web marketing and design company that helps local businesses make money online. Well, Jeff Walker just released a cool video about a new training course he is going to launch that teaches local businesses how to make a ton of money with product launches. This sounds like a great business opportunity.
I am personally very interested in the course because I think it would be a great service to offer to local businesses. It fits really well with our current business. If the price is reasonable then it will be hard for us not to invest in the training.
Anyway, Jeff is giving away some good free information in his videos about the course, so I recommend you click here to check it out.
Note: All the links in this post are affiliate links and I will make money if you buy something after clicking on them.
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