A Few Ways To Make Money Online

Internet has become a nice medium to communicate, share knowledge, be up to date on latest news and earn money online. Earning money online is not as easy as it seems to be. Earning money, online is as tough as earning money offline…the only difference lies in the ways and the comfort. Sitting comfortably in your house and spending time as per your wish on your money making websites is far more better than reaching work on time, sitting there till your boss leaves, asking for holidays/breaks etc. Do you think you can earn money online? If you think you cannot only if you are 1. Dumb 2. Lazy 3. Rich Enough (None of the smart rich people would ever say that though). This might sound “impossible” but with my experience on the Internet and the options available now, I think anyone and almost everyone can make money on the Internet without investing a single penny.

Here are some basic requirements you need before planning to make money online:

1. Your ability to use the computer. (This involves just moving the mouse properly and typing.)

2. Your ability to spend some time on the Internet. (This actually depends on how much money you want to make on the Internet)

3. SERIOUSNESS – You can make money online only if you are serious about it. Making money online has to be treated similar to making money offline which is your job or some business.

Alright, you think you have those basic requirements with you? Now lets start and make the first dollar.

Here are your options:

1. Making money online with Pay Per Click Advertising – Making money online with Pay Per Click means you need to have a blog or a website where you can share things that interest you. Depending on your interest and expertise, people will visit your site quite frequently and click on your ads. For every click you will be paid some amount by the advertiser. All you have to do is sign up with a Pay Per Click advertising program for free and start displaying their code on your webpage or blog. Getting your website ready can be done free of cost just by Googling like this. The best Pay Per Click program I would recommend is Google AdSense. There are a few other good programs as well but I would recommend you to use them only if Google does not like you. Other PPC (Pay Per Click) programs include YPN and Bidvertiser, More of such programs can also be found by searching Google on terms “Pay Per Click programs”. My ebook on How to start with a successful website will help people who are finding it tough to build websites.

2. Affiliates – Earning through affiliates means selling other’s products and getting paid for same. This might not be as easy as the first example of Pay Per Click websites but a lot profitable. There are only two most important and difficult tasks to perform for earning money through affiliate programs. Task 1 is to bring a potential buyer to your website/webpage and Task 2 is to make that per son actually buy the product. Achieving Task 1 really does the trick only if you try and pull right people to your website. For e.g. A person reaching your website who has already decided of buying a particular product. When this person reaches your website, you have half the battle won. Products you can advertise can be found at Commission Junction and Click Bank. Providing your visitor relevant products actually depends on what you are selling and how you are inviting him to your page. This means targeting your audience is also very important. You cannot target audience in the UK when you are selling a product that cannot be shipped out of the United States. Many people will not openly talk about the secrets they have implemented in getting good targeted traffic and converting them to buy products. I would recommend The Affiliate Toolbox for someone who would like to know the tips and tricks to earn money online this way.

3. Does this mean it is must to have a website in order to make money online? The answer is NO. If you are a professional in a particular skill, you can easily find people online who can hire you for your services. Many people on forums like digitalpoint and v7n are always searching for good designers, developers, search engine marketers etc. You can easily provide services to these people and get paid by online money transfers or something like PayPal. You may also sign up for Rent A Coder where you can get orders for design and development of web pages or softwares. Many people I know are earning full time by getting such online jobs.

4. Apart from the top 3 there are various other means to make money which includes paid for filling surveys, paid for reading emails etc. I haven’t tried these services yet but can be tried by any of you guys. This post is just a brief explanation on ways to make money online. There are several other ways to do it which I will be posting on this blog. Also there are various tricks and tips which I will share to help you make maximum money out of Affiliate marketing and Pay Per Click. Questions and comments are welcome in the comments section below.

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Making money with affiliate marketing

Experts and people who have been in this business of making money online know that maximum profits can be generated from affiliate marketing and not PPC ads. In the following two posts I will explain about affiliate marketing and share a few tips I am aware of to make the most from affiliate marketing.

The Concept – You have a website or a web page. A person visits your website and sees a nice banner or a link which talks about a product. The person clicks the banner or the link and lands to the advertisers website. The person purchases a product online on the advertisers website and you get some commission out of it.

Looking at the concept it looks very easy and I would say it is but it involves lot of research, time and patience to make money from affiliate sales.

Whats so tough about it? - The 3 toughest things to achieve in affiliate marketing are:

1. Letting the visitor to know about your website – How will a person know that you exist and are selling some product (This can be yours or your advertiser’s product)

2. Making the right buyers visit your site – The visitor might be looking to buy a Striped Shirt online and you are selling Striped Pants. We need to ensure that we target the right visitors so that they can come and get what they are looking for.

3. Knowing what people are looking for – Do you know what people are looking for? It might be cold winter in Australia and you assume that people all over the world would be planning to buy hot clothes. But is that correct?

If you feel that you can easily achieve these 3 things then you can easily be rich in few days. In my next post, I will talk about my ways of achieving these to make money online.

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How to select a Niche or Product

The first thing in selecting a Niche or a Product is to brainstorm. You can’t just make money off of affiliate network products just because you see all kinds of other people making money. It doesn’t work like that, yes it gets your hopes and and gives you some motivation but no. If you are new to Internet marketing and trying to make money, you need to learn some things.

First off let’s discuss content. Your content needs to be unique and you should never plagiarize. You can get banned from Google, a lawsuit filed against you and things that are worse. You need to always write about something that you know a lot about. Make sure you can write about it if you wanted a few years later. I write about web design, search engine optimization and things related because I have been doing so for years. I designed my first website about 10 years ago.. I feel old. Hehe. But make sure what you are write about is something that you love to do or something that interests you. Just make sure your content is unique and try to urge visitors to join the discussion and give their opinions.

The bottom line is to make sure that your are starting a blog or a website on something that you love and that interests you. Make sure it isn’t something that is just a phase because well, in the long run it will grow old and you will move onto something else, which most bloggers do and it will be a lost cause. Always remember that you have to STICK TO IT because in the long run you will be successful in achieving your goal. Your website will grow and you will end up making money.

How do I make money though?

There are many ways to do this with a popular blog or website. Apply for some Affiliate Networks like maxbounty.com , cxdigitalmedia.com, NeverBlue and the list goes on. You can also try Chitika and Google AdSense. You can promote products through writing articles about them, put up text ads or banners and etc.. Make sure you choose something that is either related or semi related to your blog or a certain category. Here are some methods.

• Affiliate Networks
• Google
• Giving out paid advertising space
• Starting a store for your website
• Starting a small Affiliate Network yourself where sites pay to join and you basically give them exposure across your network in which they join and it builds up. You can also have your ads even placed on their websites in exchange for the traffic that you are having sent their way.
• Offering free hosting and having your ads placed on their websites

And there are plenty more ways to do this.

Any questions?

Leave them here or come discuss them in the forum and I will be glad to give you help and tips. I also do one on one for free.

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