Sunday, February 21, 2010

Make Money By The "Click"

Forget looking for your next job in a traditional office. Armies of recovering cubicle dwellers are making an honest-to-goodness living right here on the Web -- and we don't mean by selling diet pills or kitchen accessories to unsuspecting friends and relatives.

From writing and graphic design to software development and social media marketing, countless creative types are hanging their own virtual shingle, often with a minimum of overhead, sometimes even surpassing the salary they made as an employee.

Seven successful web workers share how they did it, how you can follow in their footsteps, and what pitfalls to watch out for:-

1. Blogger
According to the Wall Street Journal, 1.7 million Americans make money blogging and 452,000 of them derive a majority of their income from it. Ariel Meadow Stallings is one such blogger, dividing her time between the blog she writes for her part-time corporate job and her own blog, Offbeat Bride. "It took about a year to build traffic to the point where advertising and sponsorships made sense," says Stallings, who's been publishing OffbeatBride since January 2007 and now averages nearly a million page views a month. Her advice to would-be bloggers? "Just blog. And then blog more.

2. Web Designer
Bloggers often need help updating their site design and code, which is where freelance web designers like Liz Andrade of CMD+SHIFT Design come in. Like many Web jobs, once you have the skills in the bag, the office overhead is minimal. "If I have a laptop and an Internet connection, I'm in business," Andrade says. And while she studied design in college, she learned far more about Web design and business branding on the job. To follow in her footsteps, Andrade suggests first working in a junior position at a boutique design firm. She also suggests meeting other freelance designers on at popular online water coolers like FreelanceSwitch.com, FreelanceFolder.com, and WebWorkerDaily.com.

3. Social Media Marketer
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 1 in 10 U.S. adults now use microblogging sites like Twitter to update friends and colleagues on their status, mood, or latest personal news. Not surprisingly, publicists and marketing mavens like Lisa Hanock-Jasie have begun promoting their clients on these social media sites. "It's become more a virtual work existence these days, with the majority of client contact via the Web -- be it live Web chat, e-mail, or IM -- or phone conversation," the independent publicist says. The upside: finding work online is easier than ever. The downside: the isolation. To beat the solitude, Hanock-Jasie regularly schmoozes with several professional groups on LinkedIn.

4. Web Community Founder
With the Pew Internet and American Life Project reporting that a majority of U.S. adults under age 70 use the Internet, it's no surprise that Web communities have been sprouting up like weeds. But launching a successful online community is much more involved than starting a freelance business, says Lara Eve Feltin, who in 2005 co-founded Biznik, an award-winning web community for the self-employed, with husband Dan McComb.

"Dan built the first version of the site in his spare time," Feltin says. "And because our product helps small businesses, a lot of people offered to help us for free." Dan's Web development work alone saved them hundreds of thousands of dollars, Feltin says. In short, be prepared for lots of ramp-up time and -- if you have no volunteers -- lots of programming and legal expenses.

5. E-commerce Site Owner
Armies of savvy craftsters and artists sell their wares online. Take Maggie Kleinpeter and Michael Pittard, who in 2001 opened the online store Supermaggie, where they sell Kleinpeter's hand-made scarves and print T-shirts to retail and wholesale customers. "It took about three years for it to provide full-time income for both of us," says Pittard, who built and maintains the website. The pros of running an online boutique: "The world is your storefront, and we have practically no overhead," says Pittard. The cons: There are no dressing rooms online, and customer feedback isn't instantaneous. To learn more about starting your own e-commerce business, see the community pages on Etsy.com and sites like TheSwitchboards.com, SuperNaturale.com, and Craftster.org.

6. Social Media Application Developer
In March 2009, the blog TechCrunch.com ran the headline "Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling in over $700,000 a Month." While Web developer Jesse Stay has yet to hit that financial jackpot, he does credit SocialToo -- the online collection of social media tools and services he built -- with providing 80 percent of his income. (The rest comes from consulting work.)
His advice for hopeful social media developers? "Don't expect to get any investment." Most startups never see a venture-capital dime, even in good financial times. Instead, he says, you'll need to rely on your savings until you make enough cash to pay yourself a salary. To learn more, see the blogs All Facebook and Inside Facebook and the developer forums and wikis of your favorite social media platforms.

7. Infopreneur
You know that old saying about making money in your sleep? There's an entire population of Web entrepreneurs who aren't just waxing poetic about it -- they're doing it. Erin Blaskie, an Internet marketing specialist who was making six figures by age 23, is one of them. Though she got her entrepreneurial start in 2004 as a virtual assistant, she now creates and sells virtual training programs for entrepreneurs who want to promote themselves online.

Her advice to hopeful infopreneurs? "Check out what already exists in your market and see where there are gaps." Also, "Ditch the perfectionism! The cool thing with info-products is you can produce it, publish it, and edit it later if need be."

Monday, January 18, 2010

Make Money With A Blog

It is so easy to make money with a blog. Whether the purpose of your blog is to get traffic to your sales page or to sell affiliate products or to get Adsense clicks, getting your blog onto the first page of Google can be done quickly and easily.

Using the following quick tips you could get listed on the first page of Google for some keywords within a month or two, depending on how competitive your niche is. A video game site that followed these tips got on the first page of Google, in the fifth spot, for a popular search term when the site was less than one month old.

Here are the five quick tips for getting to the first page of Google:

1. Put some original content on your blog. Post at least once a day but not more than every two to three hours. It doesn't look good if you are posting every few minutes. Continue adding new content regularly. Some of the content can be duplicate content (from an article directory or private label rights articles) but the more original content the better.

2. When you have at least five posts with original content then submit your blog to Google's sitemap. It's not hard, and it only takes a few minutes. As long as you have a blog that looks authentic and is not filled with scraped content, this is a good start to getting noticed by Google.

3. Write some original articles and submit them to article directories such as EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com, ArticleAlley.com, and SearchWarp.com. Do not submit more than one a day since it is better to not inundate the article directories or they might think you are spamming them. It is very important to have a good resource box with links back to your site.

4. Submit your RSS feed to at least fifty sites. This can be done in less than a couple of minutes using RSS Submit (RSSFeedsSubmit.com), a great piece of software that automatically submits your feed to more than fifty sites. The price is very reasonable (less than $50) but if you don't want to spend any money and would rather do it by hand, Robin Good sells a list of 55 RSS submission sites for a very small fee.

5. Get your URL link listed in as many places as possible. Submit your site to directories like DMOZ. Answer questions at answers.yahoo.com and include your URL with your signature. Leave comments on blogs that are in a related niche to yours, again including your URL in the signature. Do a search with the phrase "keyword add url" and add your URL at sites that allow you to do it for free. "Keyword" would be replaced by one of your keywords for your niche. Submit your blog to Technorati. Submit your original posts to social bookmarking sites like Digg, Netscape, Redit, Plugim, and so on. Be sure to tell friends to vote for your submissions at the social bookmarking sites.

These five quick tips will give your blog a powerful boost and get your blog on the first page of Google in a very short time. Within days you should be getting traffic from Google as you rise in the search engines. And you did it with spending little or no money.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

3 Ways To Make Money Online With Web Hosting Affiliate Program

As we know, there are tons of web hosting companies on the internet, almost all of them provide affiliate programs and help publisher or web hosting user to earn some money online. Usually they pay various amount for a sale, it depends on your performance, if you make more sales in a month and they will pay more, the commission range from $50 to $125 per sale. In fact, I realize that it’s difficult to get even a sale if we just place a banner at the sidebar or anywhere in your blog, you won’t even get a sale no matter how big is your banner.

In order to make money online with web hosting affiliate program, you need to refer someone to sign up the web hosting under your affiliate link. You know there are many people give benefits to the people who signs up web hosting under their affiliate links, if you don’t do that and you’re out. This is fact and you have to accept.

If you want to get more sales, then you need to provide something that people needs. Here are 3 ways which you can follow to boost your web hosting affiliate program’s commission.

1) Resolve Problem / Answer Inquiry
Before someone signs up the web hosting under your affiliate link, you need to answer all the queries that raised by him. From my experience, my client asked me about how to make money blogging, so I explained and covered as much blogging information as I can. Usually I’ll talk about keyword research, general SEO tips, blogging tips, traffic generation, blog monetization and the like, I’ll try to answer all the questions that asked by my client.

Of course, I’ll recommend him a web hosting which suits his needs in term of performance and budget. After that, I suggested him to sign up the web hosting under my affiliate link, I told him that I’ll provide some free services. You need to build up good relationship with your client, as well as the trust. When you gain the trust from your client, most probably you will get a sale.

2) Give Out Free Stuff / Discount
Giving out free stuff is a very common way for people to get a sale. I believe that most of the people (almost all) do want to get the best deal when they decide to purchase something else, don’t you? It goes same to me, before I decide to purchase something, I’ll first ask for discount, free stuff or free service, if I get any one of these for free, then I’ll go for it.

So be sure you give out some free stuffs such as e-book, discount, product, online tool, and the like, or you can ask your client what he wants and you purchase and give it to him, of course the price of the thing he wants will not more than your commission, otherwise you’re wasting your time and you’re losing money as well.

3) Provide Free Services
This way would be quite effective and useful. If your client doesn’t know anything and he wants to create a blog, then you can help him to setup a wordpress blog and teach him how to start posting, changing a new wordpress theme, doing some SEO works and etc, the only requirement your client needs to do is, signing up the web hosting under your affiliate link. You need to tell him you’ll provide free services for a period (says 30 days) after signing up the web hosting under your affiliate link, I’m sure he will like this offer.

Tips For Teenager To Make Money

The age of a teenager would be 13-19 years old, this age is good enough to do some part time job and earn some extra cash. I did do a few part time job when I was teenager, I made quite a lot extra pocket money to buy something I want.

As we know, nowadays many parents want their children to be independence and they want their children to learn something themselves instead of guiding them all the ways. So, if their children need money to buy something such as PSP, Play Station and the like, then they have to work and buy it themselves. This is to let them experience the working life and they should know money is not easy to earn, so they will know the value of money. But don’t be too serious about this, they’re still young though, they should have healthy life as a kid or teenager too.

There are many ways for teenagers to make money, it’s not regarding to make money online, perhaps it’s not a make money online related article that you’re looking for, but I hope teenagers who are looking for part time job to earn some extra cash would find this article useful.

5 Ways For Teenagers To Make Money
1) Filling Survey
It’s not another online survey filling program, it’s a real job. When I was a teenager, I used to make money by filling survey form. You can go to any survey firm or company in your area and ask for a job, they’re always looking for freelancers to complete the survey form.
There are 2 types of survey form filling, one you need to bring your survey forms and go to specified housing area and request for a 5 minutes interview house by house, says you have 30 forms and you need to go 30 houses and request for interview. It’s tiring but survey firm pays higher price for this type of survey form filling.

Another type will be doing interview via phone, you need to call to few numbers that have been prepared by the survey firm, and you request for a short interview and you fill up the survey form, that’s it.

I took the first option and I made $100 for filling up 20-30 survey forms in 2 weeks time, I’m not sure whether it’s a good offer for you right now, but $100 was a lot for me when I was teenager.

2) Home Tutor
Home tutor becomes very popular today, many parents don’t want to send their children to tuition centre but hiring a home tutor to lecture their children at home. If you’re good in simple maths, you should be able to look for someone who needs a home tutor for their 6-10 years old kid. My sister is a home tutor and she is making thousand per month, she has only 3-5 students.

3) House Painting
You might need to learn how to paint a house before you can start doing this job, it’s not complicated I guess as I’d tried to paint a house in the past. You can ask 2-3 friends to work together, once you have enough manpower and you can look for the project. Simply hanging around your housing area and see is there any house doing renovation and they need painter, you can earn quite a lot of money with only 1 project.

4) Home Typist
Are you familiar with the word “home typist“? Is it sound like a scam? No, it’s not scam because it’s not online home typist. In fact, there are many university students or lecturers are looking for home typist to help them type the short notes or assignments that they’ve been done in hand writing, they will need your help to type the short notes or assignments into computer. It’s fairly easy, you just need to have a computer and you know typing.

5) Mow Yards And Clean Houses
There are many teenagers doing this to earn pocket money. As you know, there are many working ladies and gentlemen out there, and they have no time to clean their houses or move the yards, or they’re just lazy to do that after the tiring working hours. So you can hang around your housing area again and see which household has long glass and not been mowed for quite some days, knock the door and ask about that.

Conclusion
There are many other ways for teenagers to make money out there, but I find this 5 ways are quite effectiveness. Since it’s not a make money online related article, so I try to make it as short as possible. This article shows that teenagers can actually make money in reality other than making money online.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Start A Home Based Business Online

If you are unwilling to invest money to start a home based business online, you don’t want a business, you need to get a job. You can invest on a budget, if you are willing certain sacrifices to make your business venture a success. Once you have your website set up, even if it is basic; you need to start focusing on traffic generation and finding ways to automate your business.

Internet marketing ethically for the benefit of your target market will ensure you higher natural search engine rankings if you are considering to start a home based business online. You should learn a little about search engine optimization; which will help bring your site closer to the top of the natural search engine results for your desired keyword(s). Remember, you are not simply looking for increased traffic, but also increased conversion rates.

Internet marketing is not just email marketing or search engine marketing, there are many facets to internet marketing. You must devote time, energy, and money to be successful with it. There is no magic formula that produces instant income. You can start marketing your business with only a few dollars a day to prove or disprove the benefits, and then allocate more funds from this point if necessary.

Internet marketing the correct way will ensure that you have greater return on investment than you would get with traditional offline marketing. Properly marketing your website online will pull relevant traffic to your site, increasing your conversion rate. Making sure your advertisement are targeting the group of people you are trying to reach will produce the actions you desire when you choose to start a home based business online.

If you are small business with limited contacts in your local area, internet marketing will certainly increase your business leads, as your name will be put in front of thousands of potential prospects. The more clients you obtain will result in more sales and ultimately increase your return on investment. Put simply, the most cost effective way to successfully market your business is through internet marketing.

The quickest way to earn money on the internet is via niche marketing. Why not start a blog about your passion and provide links to your site? If you truly are passionate about the business you choose, you should not have a problem writing quality content on a regular basis

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Fr3b ~ Singapore's 1st Online Sampling Hub!

Fr3b.com is Singapore's 1st Online Sampling Hub that actively promotes "a try before you buy concept", an online platform that allows you to choose the products you want to try with no pressure from any sales assistant or anyone. You can now try the products at your comfortable place without feeling pressurized at all. BEST of all, samples are FREE!

Just tell them what you want to TRY & stand to win the freebies you suggested! Cool rite?

Spa, facials, beauty products, food, snacks, beverages, electronics, gadgets, exercise equipment & others you can think of!
Send your email to iwant2try@fr3b.com and you will get it for FREE!

Making Money Online

A few people thanks me for being unselfish by introducing them the few methods that i came across. Frankly speaking, making money online is not any mythical concept. Many people really earn money and make a career out of it.

It may appears to be very frustrating for anyone in the beginning partially because you don't know where to start and how to go about it. Many people give up at this point of time which is the biggest mistake they made. Yes, no doubt it may take a very long time to generate and develop income but always remember, your effort will eventually pay off as long as you stay driven and be persistent, build your website slowly and steadily.

Before you promote your site, you need to create a website!