Ways to Make Money Online

Posted by MarkFrancis | 6:23 PM

Here's how you can make money online:

Make Money Online With A Free Blog
Blog or weblog is simply a website with continuous updates on a particular subject or topic and the latest post will stay on the top. For instance, If your blog is about motorcycle. You can post the latest news and announcements from motorcycle manufacturers, discuss about the latest models of motorcycles and the best components used for producing motorcycles. You can create a blog absolutely free by joing Blogger.com. Creating a blog with Blogger.com is easy as you don't need any technical knowledge and you can have your blog published within an hours.

There are several ways you can make money with a blog:

Place revenue generating Ads on your blog
You can join Google AdSense program and start earning advertising revenue from your blog.

Sell Other People's Stuff
You can promote your affiliate programs by placing the affiliate links and banners on your blog and earn commission whenever someone clicks through an affiliate link or banner to your merchant's website made a purchase.

Sell Your Own Product
Blog can be used to promote and sell your own products too. You can write about your products' features and benefits on the blog.

Sell Products or Services Online
You can set up an online store to sell a wide variety of products. However, it will cost you few thousands dollars to start an e-store. One way to start an online business with minimum capital is deal with drop ship wholesalers. So how drop shipping works?

- A drop ship distributor is a wholesale company that will ship one product directly to your customer.
- You don't need to pay for an item unless it is sold.
- You don't store any inventory.
- You don't package and ship merchandise.
- Your customer pays the retail price for the product to you and you pay the cost of the product to the drop ship distributor. The difference is your profit.

Drop shipping system makes it affordable for anyone to start an online business due to the benefits it offers. EBay is the best place for you to start selling your products with drop shipping system. One strategy you can try is sell the similar items to the one that have attracted several bids in eBay. For instance, say you have opened an account with a cell phone drop ship dealer and ready to sell cell phone on eBay. You found that a Nokia 8810 cell phone have attracted 7 bids, so what you can try to do is list the similar item immediately with lowest price possible. Of course, there is no guarantee that you will make any money with this strategy. There are many more auction selling ideas you can find from the Internet which can help you make a steady income on eBay.

Be a Freelancer
There are many freelance job sites consist of a long list of freelance job contracts. These freelance sites usually offer the following jobs:

1) IT jobs (web-design, Jawa, PHP, script-installation, programming, graphic design and so on)
2) Writing & Editing Jobs
3) Administrative support (Data entry) & accounting services.

You may join several freelance sites for free and start bidding for the projects and contracts that are right for you. You can also make extra money writing articles and essays. There are places and websites where you can sell your articles and essays for a price anywhere between $5 to 25 per article. Furthermore, there are forums and blogs offer to pay anyone who post message and article to their websites.

Be an Affiliate
Affiliate makes money online by selling other people's stuff. An affiliate earns commission whenever someone sent by him/her to his/her merchant's website makes a purchase. Clickbank is one of the best places you can find an affiliate program to join because it is the largest e-book store and contains a ton of merchants looking for people to sell their e-books. The main task of affiliates is promote and advertise their merchants' websites (affiliate links). One method to promote affiliate program is advertise on Google. To advertise on Google you'll first need to open a Google AdWords account. You can start advertise on Google immediately after paying $5 account activation fee. Your cost of advertising is calculated in pay-per-click (PPC) basis. This means that Google will only charge you whenever someone clicks your text ad.

Paid Survey
Taking online paid survey at home is an easy way to make money online as you don't need any special skills and knowledge to complete paid survey job. In order to increase the money you can earn, you need to join as many market research and survey companies as possible. However you can't expect how much money you will make monthly because you have no idea when a paid survey invitation will send to your mail box. Thus it is not an ideal way to make a wage but a great way to make some extra income for paying your monthly bills.

A net friend of mine, Calvyn, recently announce a sponsorship program which would benefit bloggers who're running on free bloghost, like the Blogspot I using now, free WordPress, or other bloghosts out there. This sponsorship deal is made to celebrate his blog's 1st anniversary.



The sponsorship deal with grant you a free domain and webhost. Pretty neat stuff there, a free domain name, a 1GB hosting space, and 10GB monthly bandwidth, it's a good deal considering you dont have to pay for it! :D

Some requirements mentioned in order to qualify for the sponsorship included as follows:


Active in blogging, at least 2 posts per week.
Build up visitors traffic at least 100 unique visitors/day at the 6th month of sponsorship, and 200 unique visitors/day after the 11th month of sponsorship.

Mandatory sponsor's link and banner in the sponsored web.
Personally, I've no problems to meet the requirements 1 to 3. My site traffic is been quite good lately.



I have a domain now, which I won last year, will be expiring soon Oct. I'm looking for a renewal soon, so I think this is just the service I need now.
Also, I plan to have a major overhaul in my blog later this year, when I'm done with my studies. It'll be a big leap forward from a puny nobody to a well-recognised blogsphere regular! ;)

This program is opened for everyone, and it is limited spaces for 200 people only, so if you're interested with it, take action as soon as possible. First come first serve.

Entry details can be referred at Calvyn's post.

click here to go : http://www.icalvyn.com/domain-hosting-sponsorship-program/

Anik Singal, founder of Affiliate Classroom did an interview with a guy who has earned more than one million in affiliate commission. This guy was $20,000 in debt for the last 3 years but now he is making $7,000 per day by marketing affiliate products only. He has come up a system which involves the use of pay per click (PPC) advertising to make money with affiliate marketing.

Anik has asked this guy to talk about how he did it in the interview and yes this guy is willing to share his business model and his PPC strategies. He gave some new and advanced PPC strategies that you may also apply them to your affiliate business for achieving better result.

The whole session of this interview was recorded. If you like to get access and listen to this interview series for interesting strategies and tips, you may sign up at:

http://www.ppcclassroom.com

There will be a series of interview and this is just the first one. Anik will send you more upcoming interview videos once you sign up.

6 Tips of SMO for Internet Marketing

Posted by MarkFrancis | 11:12 PM

Internet Marketing is the process of promoting products online. Thousands of companies and small business are making their way to success in selling services or products through their website online. One of the most helpful Internet Marketing Strategy they used is SMO. It stands for Social Media Socialization, which increases the traffic ability of your website from social networking sites and receive high search engine rankings.

If you want to increase your ability to receive thousands of sales each month, studying SMO strategy helps a lot. The most important techniques you should consider is to learn more about the process. Here are some tips to help you:

Good Content
Learn to write content to help increase the knowledge of the readers. The title should be catchy and write content daily to help readers get update. Remember that no one will love to read non-sense content.

Social Networking sites
Your target market is social networking sites so you need to look for those with high Ranking. They are already searchable and have thousands of users so you can have the assurance of many visitors.

Target Specific Audience
Every Social Networking sites have their specific target of audience. You need to submit your content according to information like this content 6 tips of SMO for Internet Marketing, which can be submit to the following Social Networking sites:

PlugIM- is a Social Networking sites for internet Marketing topics. You can bookmark content, which you find very helpful for you.

Sphinn - is a Social Networking sites for Internet Marketing Professionals. It helps you to share your content and receive vote from other users.
Summary of the Content
Online Readers read very fast. They do not stop to look each of the summaries submitted to Social Networking sites. The summary of your content should be interesting. Never write summary with confusing information like “Internet Marketing: SEO and SMO”. The main purpose here is to give idea of the whole content, not to confuse the readers.

Make bookmarking and voting easy
Social Networking sites offer free quick buttons. You can put it on your content for easy access of the readers to bookmark and to vote. It helps to increases the popularity of your content. Remember that many readers need to have reminder because most of them forget it.

Reward Readers
Many readers will continue to read your content, if they receive important information and reward. Letting them to link in your site or allow, “Do follow” for their website whenever they comment is a good strategy.

Social Media Socialization provides big impact because everyone is receiving benefits. As the process of SMO continues, the ability of internet marketing will continue to be successful. Right attitude, Right Knowledge and Right Strategy is necessary!

we have discussed about the first way which is by flipping domain names for quick profit. Now, this article will share with you the rest of the two methods you can use to profit with domain names.

Parking
Maybe, you don’t like domain flipping because it involves Internet selling. You are wondering if there is any other way to make money online with domain names. Yes, there is. You can park your domain names into the domain parking websites and earn a share of advertising revenue.

The parking service websites will generally set up a page on your domain name. You get the chance to select a template and the niche of your advertising. They will place relevant ads on your page and you will earn a share of the ads revenue generated through your page. The advertising models are either cost-per-click (CPC) or cost per thousand (CPM). If the ads appear on your page are CPC, then you will earn money for each ad click. If CPM, you will earn based on each thousand of page views.

Some well known parking services are Namedrive.Com, Parked.com and Whypark.com. Each of these parking websites has their own rules of website parking. Make sure you read and understand the rules before signing up for a parking service.

Developing
Now that you know both flipping and parking domain names can make you money. Let’s discuss the third choice of using domain names to make money online, which is site developing. Site development will require a lot more investment, effort and time; and of course the return will be high.

You will buy a domain name, keep the domain name and then build a website on it. You are going to grow the website and make your domain valuable so that you can sell it for a great price and reap in lucrative profit.

Here are the things that can increase the value of your site and domain:

Google PageRank – Most websites in the index of Google gained a Google PageRank (PR). It can be PR1 to PR10. The higher the PR, the better the value of your domain name.
Existing Traffic – If you have put hard effort in marketing your site and achieved some success, your site would have gained high amount of traffic / visitors constantly. People just like this kind of website because once they take over; they will immediately start enjoying traffic and earn revenue without put in effort. So, it is easy to sell a high traffic site for a good price.
Site Revenue – Another interesting factor that buyers want to look for. Buyers are eying on sites that generate consistent revenue every month.
Inbound Links – Inbound links also help. The more your site gaining inbound links, the more they will help in appraising the value.

For the site design and look, they don’t play a very important role. A website with standard design will do. If you are a web designer, you can build the site by yourself using software. For those who don’t know how to build website, don’t worry, there are good website builders like Xsitepro you can use to create website. There is no HTML code you need to add in, just be familiar with the software, follow instructions, click your mouse and you can put up a brand new website.

As you will need to make your site sellable, you will probably have to work a lot in marketing and promotion to build up your PR, traffic, site revenue and inbound links.

While marketing and promotion can build up your traffic and PR, content writing shouldn’t be ignored. The content must be unique and offer value to the visitors. This is to keep you visitors coming back to your site often.