10 Methods To Generate An Online Income Via Blogging

Introduction:

Once you’ve got your blog in place and have added plenty of good-quality, search-engine optimized content, you may be wondering when the money will start rolling in.

If only it were that easy!

The thing about making money on your blog is that blogging is the vehicle for your actual business, not the business itself.

Let’s say you own a flower shop.

You have the physical location, you decorate it all cute, you install a cash register and take out ads in the local paper.

You even stand outside the door, handing out tiny blossoms and business cards to people who walk by.

That’s all well and good, but until you start actually providing value to your market, you’re not really in business.

The same is true for your blog.

Until you actually provide a product or service that people can pay money for, you’re not in business.

This article will give a brief overview of the top ten ways you can make money from your blog. Not every method may be right for you, right now – and that’s okay.

Read through all ten, make notes, and pick one or two to start with.

Then you can add on additional methods until you’re well on your way to making money from your very own online business – your blog.

Method #1: Sell Your Own Physical Products

Possibly the oldest business model of all-time is also the most familiar: Selling your own physical products.

It’s a concept we’re all familiar with, and we see it play out from the corner lemonade stand to Mrs. Fields Cookies.

I have something you want, so I sell it to you. Simple and straightforward.

When selling online, however, there are a few questions to answer:

1. What am I going to sell?
2. How am I going to accept payment?
3. How will I let people know about my products?
4. How will I handle fulfillment and customer service?

Let’s look at each of those questions in turn.

1. What am I going to sell?

Choose a product that is of interest to the majority of your readers. For instance, if you have a Hawaiian vacation blog, your readers won’t necessarily come to you for the brand-new flea collar you invented.

A few might be interested, but keeping synergy between your blog theme and your product is essential.

Any disconnect will lead to confusion on the part of your blog readers, and confusion leads to distrust.

Sell those Hawaiian vacation dreamers your own ukelele music CD, or your audio guide to the Big Island, or posters you’ve made from photographs you took on your last excursion to Maui.

2. How am I going to accept payment?

Ten years ago, would-be online entrepreneurs would have had to dream up some complicated work-around for customers to get them cash.

Now, we’ve got a number of options. The easiest is PayPal, which will allow your customers to pay using their credit card, debit card, or PayPal balance.

Go to www.paypal.com and click on “Business” for more information. PayPal can help you create “buy now” buttons for your site, issue invoices, and more, and it is easily integrated into your blog.

If you outgrow PayPal, there are a number of shopping cart services you can check out, including 1shoppingcart.com, Americart.com, vshoppingcart.com, and many more.

These services are more expensive than PayPal, but will add functionality you may eventually desire, such as affiliate management.

3. How will I let people know about my products?

Marketing your wares is an essential part of your business plan. No matter how good your mousetrap, ukelele CD, or homemade cookies are, if no one knows about them, no one can buy them.

You can spread the word through forums, search engine optimization (SEO), Google AdWords, Facebook advertisements, and a number of other methods. The key is to know beforehand how you’re going to tell people about your products.

4. How will I handle fulfillment and customer service?

Unless you enjoy making numerous trips to the post office and answering calls 24/7, as you grow you will need to have a scaleable plan for shipping out orders and handling customer questions and complaints.

You can outsource fulfillment to a local business or individual (try Craigslist.com), or through a service like Amazon’s amazonservices.com.

Likewise, you can outsource customer service to a virtual assistant, or to a company that specializes in customer service.

Selling your own goods online can be a profitable and satisfying way to make your mark on the online world – and to make money! Many businesses of all sizes incorporate a physical sales component to their offerings.

Method #2: Become an Affiliate

Affiliate marketing is a great complement to any other business model. Basically, you recommend products and services to your readers, and every time one of them makes a purchase through your referral link (a piece of code inserted in your blog), you receive a commission.

Commissions can range from a few percent of the purchase price, to upwards of 50%. Physical products usually have a lower commission rate, while digital downloads have higher commissions.

The upside of affiliate marketing is that it’s simple. If you’re established as an expert in your industry, you likely already tell people what products and services you use in the course of your business.

You’ll continue to do the same… only now you’ll get paid for it!

There are a number of widely-known programs online to find products and services to promote.

Some of the most popular are:

• Amazon
• Shareasale.com
• Clickbank.com
• CommissionJunction.com

You can also google the industry you’re in, along with “affiliate programs,” such as “scrapbooking affiliate programs” to see what other retailers and programs are available for you.

When promoting products through affiliate programs, there are a few things to keep in mind:

1. Only promote products you believe in.

If you start promoting any product under the sun, whether or not you’ve tried it yourself, you’re going to lose credibility and trust with your audience.

You want them to believe that you have their best interests in mind – and that means only recommending products you know and trust.

2. Give value.

To have a viable business, you must offer value.

How can you make it easier on your readers to buy the products they want and need?

Can you give more details so they can make informed buying decisions?

Can you offer coupons or tell them where to get the best deals?

Or maybe you can perform a full review so they can evaluate products before they buy. Figure out a way so you’re adding value to the purchasing process.

3. Promote the products.

You can’t just throw up a bunch of links or even review posts and expect to see massive traffic and sales. Instead, actively promote your affiliate links through social media, article marketing, and more.

For instance, if you write a blog post comparing two popular vacuum cleaners, link back to the post from other blog entries and promote it on Facebook, Twitter, and even YouTube.

Because of its versatility, affiliate marketing is the perfect addition to any blogger’s repertoire of money-making methods. You can spend as much time or as little as you like, but it’s a method worth considering.

Method #3: Promote Online Auctions

One of the very first ways for “ordinary” people to make money online was through eBay. Whether you were selling used maternity clothes, car parts, or collectibles, eBay promised millions of eyeballs, brought directly to your goods, allowing you to sell virtually anything with a minimum of hassle.

Adding auctions to your blog is a great way to make some extra cash, and eBay makes it easy with a plethora of simple tools.

The best part: You don’t even have to create your own auctions! You can pull in auctions for items related to your topic or subject matter with RSS feeds, product feeds, or directly from auction listings.

The first thing you have to do is to join the eBay affiliate program (go to www.ebaypartnernetwork.com for more info). Then you can use eBay’s tools to pull specific feeds into your blog.

You can include live eBay listing information, direct links to auctions that might be of interest to your market, and a host of other options.

Of course, if you have your own products to sell, all the better!

Sign up with eBay, and then you can list your products and show the auctions in real time on your site, letting your readers know that your wares are going, going… sold to the highest bidder!

When promoting auctions as an affiliate, the advice to know your products, provide value, and promote your affiliate links holds true.

And if you’re listing your own products and showing your auctions via your blog, it’s even more important to spread the word and drive traffic to your website and auction.

More traffic will result in more action on your auctions, which in turn leads to higher selling prices.

Method #4: Sell Information Products

Information products are digital, audio and video based products, typically delivered electronically via download.

Tens of thousands of people make their living online selling “virtual” products in industries as diverse as eldercare, test preparation, scrapbooking, and pet care.

If there’s a group of avid people online and you can identify their needs, you can create a product to meet those needs.

Selling information products is a natural extension of blogging. You’re already building your audience and creating information for them, so sometimes creating a product is just a matter of pulling together information you’ve already written or recorded and repackaging it.

Here are some of the most common information products:

a. Consolidate blog posts on a certain topic into an eBook.

For instance, Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Building a Better Blog.

This information was originally shared as a series of blog posts, and Darren repackaged them as a for-sale product.

b. Record a webinar or teleclass.

Hold a free call on your topic of choice, record the event, and then sell it as a digital download with a call guide or FAQ sheet.

c. Record an interview with an expert.

Take advantage of someone else’s expertise by interviewing them, recording the conversation, and then marketing the resulting audio to your readers.

Bonus: If your interviewee has a rabid fan base of their own, you may be able to capture some of their market’s ears – and wallets!

d. Record screencasts.

Are you a Photoshop whiz or video editing expert? Record yourself showing your stuff with Camtasia or Jing and sell the tutorials in a batch or individually. How-to sells!

When selling your information products online, you have a variety of delivery options, including:

a. Clickbank.com
b. E-Junkie.com
c. Directly through Paypal or another payment processor

Each of these has their advantages and drawbacks, so you may have to do a little bit of research to figure out which is best for you.

If you’re new to information marketing, start small – don’t feel like you have to offer all the bells and whistles before you’re making the money to back it up!

Method #5: Join an Advertising Network

Back in “the day,” you couldn’t visit a website without being accosted with a number of blinkie, flashing, marching-across-the-screen pop-up ads.

Yuck! Thankfully, advertising has changed significantly since then. Now, the majority of online ads are text-based or include photos rather than home-drawn neon images.

By joining an advertising network, you can reserve space on your website and allow the networks you join to serve ads directly to your site.

Ad networks will then pay you per impression (how many people view your ad) or per click (how many people actually see and click on the ad).

Depending on the network, you can specify the size, shape, and types of ads you deliver. Some of the most common ad networks include:

-Google Adsense: Probably the most well-known and versatile network.

-Kontera: An in-text ad network that provides links directly in the text of your already-created content.

-Text Link Ads: Another in-text ad network.

The advantages of advertising networks:

• They’re easy to incorporate into your existing structure
• Advertisers are brought to you; you don’t have to find them on your own
• You are paid regularly for work you’ve already created, making it a passive income stream

The disadvantages:

• Pay can be extremely modest unless you have high volumes of targeted traffic (it’s not uncommon to make $.10 – or less! – per day).
• A chunk of the revenue is taken as a fee-for-service.
• You don’t have full control over what sites are advertised.
• You’re encouraging people to click away from your site.

Many people find ad networks an easy way to start including advertising on their blogs. As you grow your reader base and traffic, you may want to investigate approaching advertisers directly.

But in the meantime, picking up some spare change for doing nothing more than adding a little code to your site might be attractive.

Method #6: Accept Paid Advertising

While placing Adsense ads on your blog can bring you a few dollars, or even a few hundred dollars, a month, many people prefer to sell their blog real estate directly to advertisers.

By cutting out the middleman, you can keep more of the profits yourself and keep control over the types of products and services you advertise on your site

When considering opening space for advertising, here are some things to think about:

a. How much will you charge?

A good rule of thumb is to see what other blogs in your industry are asking, and price your spots accordingly. Keep in mind that in general, the more traffic (page views and unique visitors) you have, the more your ad space is worth.

b. What kinds of ads will you accept?

Will you take any ads, or do you want them to be directly related to your market?

If you offer reviews on your site, do you want to refuse to accept ads from sellers of products you might review?

What about adult sites or online gaming?

What about competitors?

Know beforehand what you will accept and what you won’t.

c. Will you create the graphics?

If you have to create graphics, then it’s going to take more of your time and energy. But if you don’t, you could end up with – to put it bluntly – lame graphics.

d. How will you charge and accept payment?

Paypal is usually sufficient. You can even create recurring payments if someone books for more than one time period at once.

e. Where will you place ads, and what size will they be?

Sidebar and leaderboard ads are common. You can google “blog ad sizes” to see what standard sizes you might offer.

Once you’ve made these decisions, create a section on your blog where potential advertisers can click and easily see your rates and requirements, and the next steps for advertising.

If the advertisers don’t come, you can approach them directly with your offer of advertising space.

Method #7: Provide Paid Sponsorships

Many bloggers offer product and service reviews as part of their regular content. As companies want to leverage the power of bloggers, there are more and more opportunities to receive cash or products in exchange for blog mentions or reviews.

Basically, you get paid to include a review or other information about the sponsoring company.

Sounds good, eh? Well, there are some guidelines to follow:

1. Disclose everything.

If you’ve been paid to review a product, mention a site, or otherwise plug or promote a company, tell your readers! The trust you create with them is hard to replace and easy to damage.

Many bloggers place disclosures in each sponsored post; others create a site-wide disclaimer. In either case, be transparent. (For more information on disclosure statements, go to http://disclosurepolicy.org/)

2. Have standards.

Bloggers of integrity will not promote or give a good review to sub-standard products. If you cannot be honest in your assessment or review, it is not worth the money.

Many sponsors will have guidelines regarding how you must talk about their product, site, or service. Pick sponsors who are a good match with your standards.

3. Don’t overdo it.

If every post you put up is a paid sponsorship, your readers may be wondering, “Where’s the beef?” Balance paid content with unpaid content. Also, make sure the sponsorship opportunities you accept are in line with your market.

You might get approached by a dating site or – the latest for me – an anti-meat movie. The money may be good, but will your audience resonate with the message?

4. Be of service.

Even in a paid post, you can provide value to your readers. Honest reviews, additional information, hints and tips, and case studies are all great ways to put your own spin and unique value on paid posts.

Treat paid opportunities as you would your unpaid content. Make sure it’s valuable to your audience and adds something to their experience. Then you’ll be creating great content AND getting paid for it.

Method #8: Offer Coaching

As a blogger, you are a position of authority. People come to your site to read about what you have to offer – whether it’s fly fishing, vegan cooking, making money online, or paper crafting.

A natural next step for making money is to offer your expertise in a “live” coaching format. Here are some questions you might have about coaching:

Do I have to have any specific certification or education? If you’re an accountant, lawyer, doctor, or even personal trainer, you need to be certified in your particular field. But to hang out your shingle as a coach, no certification is necessary.

Who would come to me? If people are reading your blog, people would pay you to coach them. Not every blog reader will become a coaching client, of course, but a percentage will.

That’s why it’s important to build up your readership before you launch your coaching program; the larger your list, the larger your potential coaching client base.

How much should I charge? It really depends on your field, what your competitors are charging, and the format of your coaching program.

Typically, the more value you bring to a client and the more pressing their pain points, the higher rates you can charge.

If you can help someone lose 20 lbs. in 30 days or make $5000 in a week, you’re going to be able to command more than you could for helping someone plan a beautiful garden.

What format should I use? Coaches have been early adopters of online technologies such as webcasting, teleseminars, and more.

With services like UStream, Freeconferencecall.com, and Skype, you can transport yourself virtually to anywhere in the world. Some coaches work strictly via email; it’s going to depend on your market.

For beginner coaches, one of the most effective first steps is to offer a low-price, fixed-term (4-6 week), group coaching environment for 6-10 people.

You could offer one structured call followed by a Q&A session each week, covering a certain segment of your topic, such as, “Planning your organic garden,” or “Financial planning for retirement.” Use the experience to test your materials and gauge interest and response.

At the end of the time period, evaluate your process and either change things up or offer the same coaching program again.

Over time, you’ll be able to better target your offerings and raise your rates as you know – and deliver – exactly what your audience wants.

Method #9: Restrict Access to Premium Content

We’ve gotten used to thinking that everything online is free. But businesses are learning that while “free” is a great way to drive traffic, it’s not so good for making money.

And consumers are learning that while “free” is great for the pocketbook, it’s not always so great in terms of quality. More and more online, people are being asked to pay for “the good stuff,” and you can do the same on your blog.

What can you ask people to pay for?

• Videos
• Deeper, more sophisticated content
• Replays of interviews or Q&A calls
• Step-by-step tutorials
• Access to training materials such as worksheets, planning guides, spreadsheets, etc.
• Audios

Here are some hints for offering premium content on your blog:

a. Give a taste.

If you’re offering recipes, show an image of the completed dish to encourage people to pay to access the full recipe.

If you are selling audios, list a few bullet pointed “takeaways,” or provide a sample of the audio, like iTunes does. Give people an idea of what to expect and they’ll be more likely to want to “pay to play.”

b. Keep it simple.

Too many options confuses people, and a confused mind does nothing. Don’t offer too many bells and whistles or packages; just keep it basic, especially at first.

c. Educate people.

Particularly if you are in a non-technical field, people may be hesitant to purchase something they think they can get for free.

Emphasize the benefits of your material – convenience, quality, exclusivity, etc. Point out how your product is superior to others, or how it will save them time or money.

d. Include testimonials.

Give people a reason to trust you, and to say “Yes.” By including testimonials of satisfied customers on your blog, you can help potential purchasers over the hurdle of making the decision to purchase. Video testimonials are especially effective.

There are a number of WordPress plug-ins to allow you to restrict access to certain areas of your WordPress blog – or you can keep things very simple and just password-protect specific posts or areas.

In any case, just as a velvet rope at the entrance to the hottest nightclub in town indicates that something good is going on inside, barring entrance to certain areas of your blog will make visitors very curious – maybe curious enough to pay!

Method #10: Sell Technology

Many of the technological advances in the blogging world have come about as a result of a blogger needing a way to do something more quickly, more easily, or more completely on their blog.

WordPress plug-ins, blog themes, graphics, apps, and the like are all examples of ways inventive bloggers have turned their need into a profitable revenue stream.

You may think that there’s no way you could sell technology because you’re not technologically minded yourself.

Not true! Not even Bill Gates does his own coding. Here’s how to identify and create technology tools your market will flip for:

a. Make a list of problems you have.

When his wife Jess needed a better way to keep track of her knitting patterns and yarn stash, Casey Forbes started what would soon become a knitting world phenomenon, Ravelry.com.

They didn’t intend to create a social site for over a million users; it happened as a byproduct of a problem. You can do the same thing in your own market. What tools do people need to help them accomplish their goals more easily?

Write them down.

b. Seek out competition.

A little competition is good – it lets you know that there is indeed a market need.

c. Improve on what is.

If there’s already a WordPress plug-in for pulling Flickr images into your blog, but it’s not working well for you, figure out what you’d do to make it better.

d. Find a tech hack.

Sites like Odesk.com, rentacoder.com, and even Craigslist are great places to find people with the skills you need to make your dream a reality. Read the requirements carefully, and get several bids – and several recommendations!

e. Test, test, test.

After you’ve got a solution, try it out on your own site, and ask anyone you can to test it for you as well. Maybe that new plug-in works great on IE but makes Firefox crash; you won’t know unless you test!

Once you have a workable “widget” in-hand, take it to the masses. Go to forums, write about it on your own blog, and strut your stuff.

The best advertisement is your own blog! You might also give away a copy of your app or plug-in to some other bloggers, asking them to provide you with a testimonial or review on their site.

You don’t have to be a tech whiz to sell your own great device. Instead, you can be the brains behind the operation and pay someone else to do the pixel-pushing and byte-budging.

Conclusion

The number of ways to make money through your blog is limited only by your imagination. This short list is just the tip of the iceberg.

I hope by reading through these descriptions, the floodgates have been opened and you have a better idea of how you can begin to monetize your own blog.

If you’ve got an idea that isn’t listed here, all the better! The online world is changing and morphing all the time. Put yourself at the front of the next wave, and you can reap the monetary benefits!

10 Ways To Generate A Steady Income Online Part Three

#4 – TAKE Advantage of eBay

There are plenty of people who make a good living on eBay… and you can too!

Just think about it for a moment –

eBay is one of the largest marketplaces in the world.

When you tap into the power of eBay, you don’t have to spend a moment thinking about where your target market congregates and how to reach them.

That’s because your target market comes looking for you on eBay, rather than you having to look for them!

And anyone who’s browsing eBay is likely planning on buying something, which means almost everyone who looks at your ad will be a person who already has their credit card out.

You’d be hard pressed to find “hotter” leads than the people browsing eBay!

So, how can you take advantage of this incredibly large pool of buyers? There are plenty of ways to do it. But in general, you’ll likely use one of two models:

a. Use eBay strictly as a lead generator.

If you browse the closed auctions, you’ll see certain sellers who consistently seem to be profiting very little on every product they sell. And indeed, they may even take a loss.

Why would someone choose to lose money on eBay?

Simple: Because they’re using eBay as a lead generator. That means they’re selling low-cost products to pull people into their sales funnel.

Once the buyers are in their sales funnel, then the marketer works to sell them more products and more expensive products via email or even postal mail (e.g., direct response postcards, letters or even catalogues).

b. Use eBay to directly pull in a handsome profit.

This model is really a combination of direct profits and backend selling. Here, the marketer not only offers low-cost products to pull people into his sales funnel, but he also offers high-ticket products directly to eBay buyers.

So while he may break even on his low-ticket products, his high-ticket products are paying his mortgage.

The model you choose depends on what you’re selling. In certain markets, you’ll find it difficult to sell high-ticket products directly on eBay, because people tend to look for bargains.

But if you’re selling something like antiques, you may find you get higher prices by putting them on the auction block rather than by offering them for a fixed price to your customer list.

Which brings up the next question: What should you sell?

In order to succeed on eBay, your best bet is to choose a hungry niche and focus almost entirely on that one niche.

In other words, specialize.

Once you find the hungry niche, find out what they’re buying… and start giving it to them.

This could be antiques, clothing, information products, collectibles, artwork, exercise equipment or anything else.

You can create your own products, sell products that you have the resell rights to, use a drop shipper to sell products, and so on.

Quick Tip: If you’re selling downloadable products like ebooks, eBay now requires you to mail the product, which means you’ll either need to make a print product, or you need to put the product on a flash drive, CD, DVD or other device.

#5 – TARGET Other Marketers

So far, we’ve talked about different ways to make $10,000 per month which mainly (although not exclusively) focused on selling directly to consumers.

But another way to make a lot of money fairly quickly is by focusing on other marketers.

That’s because people will pay handsomely if you can give them what they need to make even more money.

And one way to do that is by flipping websites (i.e., selling or reselling websites).

There are two ways you can build a business flipping websites. You may focus on either way exclusively, or you may combine them to grow your business.

Here are the two models:

a. You build niche websites and sell them directly to consumers.

Within this overall model, there are a few different ways you can build these sites:

• You can create exclusive websites and sell one site to one customer for a higher price.

• You can create a template site, load it with private label content, and sell it to multiple customers (provided these customers know it’s not an exclusive, unique site).

Some marketers who sell exclusive sites simply create the site, load it with content and sell it directly to other marketers based on the traffic and profit potential.

If you have a system for building sites very quickly, this can be lucrative.

Other marketers choose to spend a few months building the content, traffic and income – and then selling the site at a much higher price.

Since the site is pulling in traffic and a profit (even if it’s a small profit), it commands a higher price because there’s proof that it’s profitable. People are now buying into proven profits rather than profit potential.

b. You buy poor-performing niche websites, tweak them, and resell them for a higher price.

The second way to make money flipping websites is by scooping up cheap, under-performing websites, tweaking them, and reselling them for a tidy profit.

Here’s how:

• Search places like eBay, SitePoint.com, DNForum.com and similar marketplaces for low-priced, low-profit websites where you can clearly see how to boost profits. You can usually pick them up for a few hundred dollars.

• Tweak the sites. Improve the sales process, monetize the site better and start driving traffic.

• Once you have better conversion numbers and the site is making a proven profit, resell it for around 6-12 month’s worth of profits. For example, a site making just $100 per month could sell for $600 to $1200 (or even more, if you find the right buyer).

• Reinvest some of your profits into buying more sites. Rinse and repeat until you’re making at least $10,000 a month!

10 Ways To Generate A Steady Income Online Part Four

#6 – TAG and Ping Your Way to Riches

Can you turn mere words into a steady revenue stream online– without actually selling those words as an ebook or other information product? You bet you can!

Namely, by blogging!

Here’s the idea:

You set up a niche blog that’s of interest to a very specific audience. Then you monetize your blog in one or more of the following ways:

• By promoting your own products to the people who visit your blog weekly or even daily.

• By promoting affiliate products (i.e., other people’s products).

• By promoting CPA (cost per action) offers, where you get a commission every time your visitors perform a specific action such as filling out a form

• By using Google AdWords, where you make money every time someone merely clicks on an ad on your site.

• By asking for and accepting donations on your blog. (Don’t discount this tactic – there are several well-known bloggers who make over $100,000 per year almost entirely through donations.)

So, how do you go about starting a blog that can bring you $10,000 per month? Here’s an overview of the simple yet lucrative process:

1. First, choose a hungry niche.

They should not only be hungry for information (so that they’ll read your blog), but they should also be willing and eager to put money down to solve their problems or otherwise improve their lives.

Figure out what they’re already buying (which will help you decide how to monetize your blog).

2. Second, research the competition.

Visit the busy, popular and profitable blogs in your niche to find out what makes them so popular and busy. Then figure out how to set your blog apart and make it better.

3. Next, buy a domain at NameCheap, GoDaddy or elsewhere that reflects the topic of your blog.

4. Fourth, go to WordPress.org and download the latest version of the blogging software. Install and customize it.

5. Next, start blogging! Populate your blog initially with about ten posts, just so your early visitors get the impression that you have a popular blog with good content.

Then commit to updating your blog at least two or three times per week. If suitable, you may even want to update it daily.

Quick Tip: You don’t have to sit by your blog every day and manually update it. You can pre-load content and “drip” it to your readers on a pre-set schedule.

You can do this by either loading up the content and setting it for a future posting date, or by purchasing autoblogging software that does all the work for you.

Here’s what else you need to know to start driving traffic and making money:

• Optimize your posts for the search engines by creating articles around specific keywords. You may use WordTracker or any keyword tool to find out what niche keywords your market is already searching for.

• “Tag” each of your posts using relevant keywords. WordPress allows you to add tags (keywords) automatically when you’re posting your articles. You can also use your keywords as your category titles.

• Ping the blog directories as necessary so that they crawl your site whenever you make a new post. If you’re using WordPress, it pings the directories automatically. Otherwise, you can use a service like pingoat.com.

• Finally, you need to create content that gets people coming back to your site again and again. You may create posts such as:

• “Top ten” lists. Create several useful top ten lists, and your blog will become the “go to” place for niche-specific information.

For example, a weight loss site might list the top ten diets, the top ten weight loss supplements, the top ten exercises, the top ten fat-burning foods and so on.

• Product reviews in your niche. Be sure to list the product flaws as well as the good points, as absolute honesty fosters trust… and sales! Be sure to use your affiliate link.

• Controversial articles that go viral. Don’t be afraid to polarize your audience. You may repel some people, but you’ll draw your target market closer to you.

• Highly useful content (the type of content that others are selling).

• Strong opinion articles (which can often create a buzz). Go ahead and get passionate while taking a strong stand.

• Articles that join conversations already going on in your niche. If you take a different viewpoint or form a strong opinion, people will migrate to your blog just because you’re offering something different.

• Answers to frequently asked questions. (Just visit blogs in your niche to see what sorts of questions people are regularly asking.)

• And anything that sets your blog posts apart and gets people talking and linking to your blog.

For more information about how to turn a simple blog into a thriving, profitable business, click here.

#7 – TRANSFORM Your Digital Products into Physical Products

If you’re already selling ebooks or other downloadable information products, then you know just how lucrative it can be to turn your words into cash. Indeed, selling ebooks is just one path to $10,000 per month. Here’s another:

Start selling your digital products as physical products… and pocket a hefty profit!

There are a few good reasons why you should do this:

a. Physical products carry a higher perceived value.

When someone can hold a product in his or her hands, it’s often viewed as having more value than a digital product. In other words, the exact same paper book is valued more than the digital version sitting on their hard drive.

You benefit from this perception because it generally allows you to charge more for the product.

Example: A small ebook package that you charge $100 for could easily become a $500 home study course. The actual printing cost ends up being just a few dollars per book… and you get to pocket the rest as pure profit!

b. Physical products incur fewer refunds.

When people have to actually “work” to get their refund, you’ll find fewer people casually asking for refunds as opposed to the “serial refunders” you’ve likely encountered when selling ebooks.

That’s why print products incur fewer refunds, because customers are required to ship the product back to you. End result: You get to keep more of your profits!

c. Physical products are sometimes viewed as more “respectable,” which elevates your status in your niche.

Finally, offering a physical product almost instantly positions you as an expert in your niche, which fosters trusts and spurs sales.

It doesn’t even matter if you’re self publishing a book – some people have a tendency to view authors of print books as more reputable than ebook authors.

By now it should be fairly clear why you should transform your digital products into physical products. Your next question is, “how?”

Fortunately, plenty of “print on demand” (POD) publishers and fulfillment companies have sprung up to make it easy for you to sell physical products.

Check out Lulu.com, CafePress.com and Disk.com for your printing and fulfillment needs.

Related posts:

10 Ways To Generate A Steady Income Online Part One10 Ways To Generate A Steady Income Online Part Two10 Ways To Generate A Steady Income Online Part ThreeHow To Do Niche Research The Proper Way To Generate A Steady Online IncomeHow To Develop Sniper Sites To Generate An Affiliate Income Online?

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10 Ways To Generate A Steady Income Online Part Two

In the previous article, we discussed writing your way to a steady online income. In this article, let’s explore two more strategies- Teaming Up With Other Marketers and Taping Into The Backend

#2 – TEAM Up With Other Marketers

If you like the idea of making a lot of money, but you do not like the idea of creating your own products, then –

You may want to consider affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is when two marketers come together – one with a product and one with an audience – and they split the profits on any sales they make together.

The affiliate sends traffic to the product creator’s sales page, and the product creator closes the sale and gives a commission to the affiliate for every paid referral.

You can become an affiliate for nearly anything – from Dell computers to beer-making machines to books and products on sites like Amazon.

However, when you’re an affiliate for physical products, you generally receive a small commission – perhaps only 5% or 10%. That means if you’re selling a $100 product, you’ll only get $5 or $10 for every paid referral you send to the merchant.

Important: Don’t discard affiliate marketing just yet.

You see, if you promote downloadable products like ebooks, you can get as much as 50%, 75% or even a full 100% commission for every product you sell!

Now imagine those sorts of commissions on a $100 product, and you can see how the money will pile up pretty quickly in your bank account!

Here’s an overview of how to make your fortune with affiliate marketing:

1. Find a hungry market.

Some people find a product and then go looking for a market. A better way to do it is to find a hungry market that’s flush with cash first (because finding a product is the easy part).

2. Find out what this market is already buying.

The easiest way to make money online is to sell what people are already buying.

3. Find suitable products.

Go to Clickbank.com to browse for affiliate products that are similar to what the market is already buying. Be sure to read the products and research the merchant to make sure you’re dealing with a good merchant.

4. Set up a lead-capture page.

NEVER send your leads straight to the merchant’s page. Instead, set up an autoresponder series and a related freebie (like a free ebook) to get all leads on your mailing list. THEN you can recommend that those on your mailing list purchase certain products.

5. Start sending traffic to your lead capture page.

You can generate traffic by using pay per click marketing, search engine optimization, article marketing, blogging, social media marketing, forum marketing, viral marketing and similar strategies.

That’s it! Just build a list of targeted buyers, find affiliate products that solve their problems, and recommend those products.

Just like that, you’re on a path to generating a steady online income.

#3 – TAP into the Backend Automatically

As you’ve already discovered from the previous two paths to riches, the money isn’t in your products… it’s in your list.

And the easiest money you’ll ever make is by selling more products and more expensive products to your existing customers (i.e., sell on the “backend” of your business).

Smart marketers spend considerable amounts of time building their sales funnels (backend sales systems).

They know the hard part is getting the prospect into the funnel – but once the prospect starts buying, they’ll continue to buy provided you’re solving their problems and giving them a good buying experience.

And so savvy marketers are constantly coming up with new ideas, creating new products, and figuring out ways to convert their existing customers into repeat buyers.

Now imagine if you could sell a product to your customer once… and then do so automatically every month after that, with no additional persuasion on your part.

Would that make it easier for you to run your business? And would you be able to make a whole lot more money? Yes and yes!

Fortunately, there already exists a way for you to tap into the backend income automatically and effortlessly.

Namely, by creating a monthly membership site.

Here’s the idea – instead of selling a new product to your customers every month, you set up a membership site with a monthly fee. Your customers are billed automatically.

And all you have to do is update the site once a month. You can even outsource this task, meaning you’re earning a residual income almost on autopilot!

Just imagine setting up a membership site with a $20 monthly fee and getting just 500 customers. Each and every month your payment processor rebills these customers, and you earn another fast $10,000!

Here are just a few ideas for membership sites you could set up:

a. A site that offers a service, like web hosting.

Or you could offer something like sales letter critiques or college essay critiques.

b. A site that offers lessons on a topic.

For example, you could have a six-month or twelve-month course on how to get an online business up and running. Or you could offer a course on something like how to do home repairs and maintenance.

c. A site that offers a new product each month.

Think of Time Life books here or the “Wine of the Month” club. Every month the customer receives a new product, and it doesn’t have to be a physical product. It could be a series of related ebooks – perhaps “how to” nonfiction books, or a “romance ebook of the month” club!

Those are just a few ideas. You’ve no doubt been apart of some of these sites, such as sites that deliver new software to its members every month, sites that offer large discounts on niche products, sites that offer private label rights (PLR) products to resell, and so on.

All you have to do to get started is:

1) Choose a hungry niche.

2) Find out what they’re already buying and what they want.

3) Set up a membership script and payment processor.

4) Set up a squeeze page and a sales page.

10 Ways To Generate A Steady Income Online Part One

I’m really excited about this series of articles.
And that’s because it seems everyone wants to know how to make $10,000 a month online so they can blow past the magical “six figures a year” milepost…
Just browse your favorite online marketing forum for a few minutes, and I’m guessing you’ll unearth dozens of similar requests.
That’s why I decided to create this special series of articles for you and everyone else who knows it’s possible to make $10K a month online, but haven’t yet broken through that barrier.
I’m not going to give you just one plan. No, instead –
I’m going to give you TEN proven ways to generate a steady income online!
Here’s just a taste of some of the ways you can get on your path to $10K per month:
- Teaming Up With Other Marketers!
- Typing Your Way to $10K!
- Tapping Into the Backend… Automatically!
- Taking Advantage of eBay!
- Targeting Other Marketers
- …Plus five other proven plans you can use to hit that magical five-figures-per-month milestone!
Let’s get to it…
#1 – TYPE Your Way to a steady online income
Here’s a direct path to generate a steady online income
Create and sell your own information products.
Many people who are just starting out don’t even realize that they have knowledge that other people would be willing and even eager to pay for – and chances are, there’s a book in you that could make you rich! Maybe:
• You’ve lost a lot of weight and could teach others to do the same.
• You know how to stretch the family budget.
• You could teach others how to create and sell crafts.
• You know how to get into graduate school.
• You know how breed and raise poodles.
The above list includes just five ideas… but the sky is the limit!
Take time to brainstorm your interests and talents, and you’ll quickly discover that you know a lot about a particular topic.
So once you’ve figured out what to write about, what do you do next?
Below is a step-by-step overview of the entire process. Remember that most of what you see on the list below can be outsourced to competent freelancers:
1. Research the market to ensure your idea is profitable.
Your goal isn’t to find a market and give them a product that requires them to first be educated about why they need this product. That’s the long, hard and expensive way of making money.
Instead, your goal is to choose a hungry niche… and then give them a product that they’re ALREADY buying.
2. Research the competition so you can develop a better product.
Now, you don’t want to just give your market the exact same product as the competitors are delivering to the customers. You want to make your product unique – and you want to make it better.
So your next step is to research the competitors’ products to discover how you can improve upon the products the market is already buying.
3. Create the product.
Next, it’s time to take action. Shut the ringer off on your phones, lock the door, close your email… and start typing. Start with an outline and a goal to write XXXX of words per day.
Then keep typing until you finish your ebook – don’t worry about editing, because you can do that once the draft is finished.
Quick Tip: If you don’t like to type, then try a voice-to-text product like Dragon Naturally Speaking.
If creating the product doesn’t sound like something you want to do yourself, then outsource the task.
4. Set up your website, including a lead-capture system.
Next, you need to write a sales letter that sells your ebook and upload it to a web page. You’ll also want to set up a squeeze page with an autoresponder as a means to get your visitors to join your newsletter list.
This is important, because most people won’t buy your ebook the first time they visit your site – the money is in your list!
5. Set up your backend sales system.
Most people don’t get rich selling just one product. Instead, they find their wealth is hidden in the backend of their business – this is where existing customers buy more products and more expensive products from you.
As such, even as you create your first product, you need to also be developing your backend sales system.
You should set up various ways to contact and pitch additional products to your existing customers, such as by email, postal mail, membership site forums, blogs or even through links in the products they’ve already purchased.
And there you have it – the five-step path to riches.
It’s not a complicated process. Indeed, you can boil it down to a few words:
Find a hungry market and give them what they want.
Heeding the advice in the last line will put you on your path to steady online income.

10 Ways To Generate A Steady Income Online Part Five

TWEAK and Flip Information Products

Here’s another way to profit from information products without having to deal with the product creation yourself.

Namely, by buying, tweaking and then reselling products that come with product label rights (PLR).

PLR products are those products where you purchase the right to modify the product and, generally, do with it as you please (as long as you follow the terms of your PLR license).

That means you usually can modify the product, break it up, add it to another PLR product, change the format (e.g., create an audio product or a physical product), sell it, give it away, etc.

Now here’s why this can be so extraordinarily profitable…

Even though 20, 200 or even 500 people might have the rights to this same product, very few of them will actually take any action.

Of those that take action, most will simply use the PLR product as-is, without any modifications whatsoever.

However, all you have to do is invest an hour or so of your time to modify the product, thereby creating a new, unique product.

Then you can change the title, create new ecover graphics and tweak the sales letter.

The best part?

That one hour you invested eliminated all your direct competition, because you’re selling a unique product!

Quick Tip: You don’t even have to rework the product yourself. Visit elance.com or similar to find a competent freelancer willing to rewrite and tweak PLR content. Some will do it for just a few pennies per word.

Here’s how to make this profit plan work for you:

1. Start by finding a hungry niche market.

Once you do that, then find out what they’re already buying. As usual, there’s no reason to innovate when you can latch onto a profit from a “sure thing.”

2. Find PLR content similar to what your niche is already buying.

Search Google for your keywords alongside the word “PLR” or similar. So, for example, “weight loss PLR.”

3. Tweak the content.

Minimally, that means rewrite the introduction, rewrite the conclusion, rename the chapters and create a new title. Ideally, you should also add to or otherwise modify the content to make it your own.

Quick Tip: You may also “nichefy” the content, which means you tweak it to speak directly to a niche market. So a general weight loss book could become “safe weight loss for teenagers.”

To get the most benefit from your PLR investment, you can keep modifying the product to spawn dozens of new products aimed at different niches.

So your weight loss book might also be tweaked to target new moms, senior citizens, sedentary office workers, people in wheelchairs and so on!

4. Set up a lead capture system and sales funnel.

You may pull in a tidy up front profit from your PLR content, but the real money lays hidden in the backend. That means you should always be selling more products to your existing customers.

You can keep selling PLR content, of course. You can even set up a membership site to tap into the backend income effortlessly!

5. Create a sales letter – or tweak the sales letter includes in the package.

And then…

6. Drive traffic to your site

As you can see, this is an extremely fast and easy way to start making money.

Whereas it might take you weeks or even months to create your own product and start selling it, you can buy a PLR package in the morning and be making a profit in the afternoon.

#9 – TRADE Products Online

I call this little $10,000 a month strategy “trading,” since it not only utilizes common trading marketplaces, but also because the products will only be in your possession for a short amount of time.

You can also think of it as “flipping” products, since you’ll be buying products at a low price and selling for a tidy profit.

You’re probably wondering what types of products you can flip.

If you’ve read the rest of this report, then you already know the answer. Specifically, you need to find a hungry market first… and then give them what they’re already buying!

And as usual, be sure to specialize by focusing on one ravenous niche.

Tip: Not sure what to sell? If you have any interest in antiques and collectibles, then that’s one avenue you might want to pursue. Selling antiques and collectibles is virtually recession proof.

Even if the sales slow for a while, the price almost never goes down (as the general trend for the value of an antique is to rise year after year).

Now, what makes this $10K strategy different from some of the others we’ve talked about are the following two points:

• This strategy focuses solely on physical products.

• You’ll have your phone ringing off the hook with people who want to sell their products to you for dirt cheap!

So, how does it work? Like this:

1. Figure out what products you’re going to sell.

Maybe you’ll sell antique pocket watches, baseball cards, unusual artwork, jewelry or anything else. Find a hungry market who’s already buying these products, and you’re in business.

2. Learn everything you can about these products…

especially if they’re antiques or collectibles. Find out what markings make them extra-rare (and valuable), as well as what can detract from the price. Study eBay closed auctions to get a feel for the price ranges of these products.

3. Find cheap products.

Once you know the minimum these products generally sell for, then seek out products for less than that amount.

Example: If you have know that a certain type of pocket knife sells in a range of $50 to $125, with most selling for around $75, then your job is to buy these knives for LESS than $50.

Here are the best sources to find these products (or to have buyers contacting you):

a. Place an ad on CraigsList. If you’re dealing in small products that are easy to ship, then you can place ads in cities far away from you.

Don’t make the ad about you – make it about the benefits the reader will receive (e.g., “Get cash for your old pocket watches”).

b. Place want ads in your local paper.

c. Place want ad flyers in your neighborhood.

d. Ask for referrals from everyone you know, especially those who’ve sold something to you in the past.

e. Go to local rummage sales, flea markets and estate auctions.

f. Search online auctions (like eBay or even niche auctions) for mislabeled products, misspelled products, products with poor descriptions or pictures, etc. You can pick up bargain-priced products that you can quickly flip for a profit.

Once you have the products in hand, all you have to do is take good pictures of them, write compelling auction descriptions and immediately flip them on eBay, niche auction sites, Yahoo! Auctions, or even on CraigsList.org.

Once you’ve built up a buyer’s list, then you can start selling these products directly to your list.

#10 – TURN Cheap Products into Cash Cows

This strategy is similar to the former strategy in that your goal is to buy products for cheap and sell them for a tidy profit. The difference is –

You’re going to focus on regular products rather than antiques or collectibles, and you’ll be buying these products from different sources.

Here’s the key:

You’re going to buy liquidated merchandise, closeouts, overstocks or other heavily discounted merchandise. Then you’ll sell them individually to consumer or in bulk to another merchant.

The best part about this $10K per month strategy is that it’s recession proof.

Indeed, it actually works better in tough economic times, because there are always stores liquidating their stock and going out of business. You can turn their bankruptcies and misfortunes into your cash cows!

Here’s how to do it:

a. Search for sources online by using search terms like “liquidations” and “closeouts.”

One source is the “Closeout News,” which is a subscription based print publication. There are also ads on their websites.

b. Check eBay for merchants selling products in bulk.

You can usually get bulk products much cheaper per piece than if you bought them individually.

c. Keep an eye on your local region for companies going out of business.

But here’s the secret most people won’t tell you – don’t just look for retail stores with regular merchandise you can resell…

Remember, every type of business will have items they need to get rid of – from office furniture to office supplies. And even the retail stores will have fixtures and other items besides their inventory.

You can walk in, talk to the owner, and make a cash offer for everything.

Once you have your discounted products in hand, there are several ways you can make a profit (depending on the product and how many pieces you have):

a. Sell the products individually to consumers through your classified ads, CraigsList or eBay.

If you received a deep discount, you’ll likely be able to offer the product at a discount to your customers as well (while still making a nice profit for yourself).

b. Sell online in bulk to another merchant (again, through eBay or a classified site).

You won’t make as much money as when you sell them individually, but it also won’t be as much hassle (and you’ll recoup your investment and pocket a profit faster).

c. Sell the products at a wholesale price to your local merchants.

If you purchased the products below wholesale price, then you can sell them at wholesale price to local merchants. It’s a win-win situation – you make money flipping the products quickly, and the merchant ultimately makes more money too.

d. Arrange to sell the products on consignment with local merchants.

You may even make an arrangement to set up and maintain a display in one or more local stores, where you and the merchant share the profits.

e. Get a table at your local flea market and sell the products.

If you have any high-traffic flea markets in your area, you may find it highly lucrative to rent a regular table and sell your wares all summer long (or all year long, if it’s an indoor market).

These are just a few ideas to get you started buying cheap products and selling them for a profit.

But it’s actually just the tip of the iceberg.

Don’t let the simplicity fool you, because there are people doing this part time (just a few hours per week) and pulling in a six figure income.

Imagine how much money you could make if you did it full time!

Conclusion: Pick Your Cash Cow!

Ruling Increases Odds for Online Gambling Legalization

Online lotteries and poker may be poised to become legal thanks to a new decision by the Justice Department reinterpreting the Wire Act of 1961.

The decision, written in September but made public last Friday, found the Act’s prohibition of wagers via telecommunications crossing state lines or international borders refers only to bets on a “sporting event or contest” and not to lottery tickets sold online. The decision doesn’t mention online poker, but some reason that the ruling will pave the way for online poker.

“The United States Department of Justice has given the online gaming community a big, big present,” Prof. I. Nelson Rose wrote on his blog, Gambling and the Law.

“If the Wire Act is limited to bets on sports events and races, what other federal anti-gambling statutes are left?” wrote Rose. “There are prohibitions on interstate lotteries, but Powerball and the other multi-state lotteries show how easily these can be gotten around, even before Congress passed an express exemption for state lotteries. And poker is not a lottery under federal law.” Rose continued that since the Wire Act refers to bets on an event, poker would be except because poker is itself the event.

The DOJ has aggressively enforced the ban on online poker. In April, the agency shut down three foreign-based online poker firms — Absolute Poker, Poker Stars and Full Tilt Poker — charging that each of the companies had violated the law by serving U.S. residents.

What do you think? In April, we polled our readers and found most (54%) thought online gambling was a “victimless crime” and should be legal? Do you agree? Sound off in the comments.

Best to Opportunities to Get Paid To Listen to Music and Write Reviews Online

Internet work is both very exciting and tiring, especially if you are working online full time. In this blog I share my vision of the Internet and opportunities to make money online and work on the web.

Recently I decided to sum up my previous posts and started creating a list of best online earning opportunities managed by categories. My previous top-list was: best sites to make money by writing and today I would love to share some good websites, which give money for listening and rating music.

Millions of people listen to music every day, it is a great way to find consolation and relax. Personally, I love music that is why the opportunity to get paid for listening music is one of my favorite. In this short article I want to provide links to sites, which pay money for genuine music reviews.

Slicethepie.com – is one of the websites where you can get paid to listen to music and write reviews. This one is probably the most popular out there, so you should already know about it. On this site thousands of artists and listeners come together to popularize their music and to receive valuable feedback.

SliceThePie website works 24/7 and gives reviewers a chance to earn money and interesting prizes. As for now, members from the US are only accepted and they can get PayPal money for completing various tasks on this site. You can find out more about this site from my previous review of SliceThePie.

Another website of this kind is Radio Music Survey. Here you are to listen to the songs on your computer and provide your honest ratings. This data is used by radio-stations to figure out, which music people like more. By taking a music survey you are able to win prizes and enter free giveaways! The winners of the contests are picked randomly and are notified by email and by phone.

HitPredictor.com – lets you directly affect new music before it’s released to the public in order to give only the best music to the public. Membership here is totally free, which is great for Internet earners. All the points you earn on HitPredictor.com could be redeemed for cool prizes. With this website you will be heard because your comments and reviews go directly to music labels representatives and artists.

JamBuzzer.com is a rapidly-growing music portal, where by rating music tracks users earn special points and accumulate reward tokens. JamBuzzer pays music fans to listen to new music while artists build their fan-base and generate sales.

On the web there are thousands of opportunities to work online and receive valuable freebies. This blog will help you discover the best opportunities for earning. Please subscribe to IncomeBooster.org to receive more sites for earning money by listening to the music and even more.

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Top Get Paid to Upload Websites – Earn Money Online from Downloads

Lately file storage websites have become insanely popular. File sharing needs are growing with days passing, so becoming an affiliate of some “get paid to upload” website is a ticket to your financial independent. For me, sharing photos, videos, software and other files for money is one of the biggest sources of income. Thousands of online money-makers share files online and get paid for doing so.

This work at home opportunity is so popular because you simply get paid for what you do almost every day – for sharing files (software, photos, music, documents, essays, ect). The second reason is that you are paid pretty well (up to 45 dollars for every 1000 downloads) and the third reason people all over the Internet like freebies, so if you do everything right – you are sure to make money online by sharing files.

First of all, let’s learn some information about the process of making money with filesharing from this article. And now let’s process to the list of best sites for earning (this is only the first verion, new ones will be added).

Uploading.com is one of the best websites for me. The highest pay per download status there is ultra level where you are able to make up to $40 per 1000 downloads of your file. I have made the most of money by using Uploading.com (over 1000 dollars to date). They have awesome bonuses, contests and 20% referral bonus. User needs just 15 dollars in order to be paid by Uploading.com via PayPal, WebMoney or AlertPay.

Letbit.com – great get paid to upload website, which has paid me over twenty times. They are good because they don’t have area restrictions and pay up to $15 for 1000 downloads. Users can earn additional money by referring new members (25% referral bonus) and enjoy low withdrawal limits of only 5 dollars.

Hotfile.com – one of the most popular sites of this kind is Hotfile.com. Here users can earn up to $15 for 1000 downloads (depending on your member status). Users can share documents up to 400Mb large (size per document) and receive their money via Paypal, AlertPay, Webmoney with a minimum of 15 dollars. Additional earning opportunities are available, eg. referral program and bonuses for site owners.

FileServe.com – yet another get paid to upload website, which deserves a spot in this top rating. FileServe.com guarantees great download speeds for users and superb pay per download rates for all affiliates. It’s cool to work with this service because you get up to $25 for 1000 downloads and there’s a 25% referral program. Affiliates can request money to their PayPal, WebMoney or AlertPay account, as soon as their account balance reaches $20.

FileSonic.com – earn money by sharing photos, videos and music tracks with an opportunity to receive up to $35 for thousand downloads (applies to files larger than 401 MB). This “get paid to upload” site has several revenue sharing modes – they give money pay per download basis or pay 60% of the premium sales you have made. Furthermore there is a 20% of the referral bonus program, which can help you make money by referring your friends. Payment systems supported – Paypal, Webmoney and AlertPay; minimum withdrawal limit – 15 dollars.

Depositfiles.com – one of the pioneers in get paid to upload business, which has been online for years. Here members can upload large files even with from free account and earn up to $30 per 1000 downloads. The minimum payout limit is rather low too – only $25. Depositfiles.com owners have various contests for their affiliates, so this way you can improve your earnings for free.

Extabit.com – free file storage website, with a very attractive affiliate program. Extabit.com, being a pretty new but promising website, gives us a chance to earn up to $20 for 1000 downloads with no country restrictions. Webmasters and affiliates get paid to WebMoney, PayPal or AlertPay accounts after reaching a minimum cash-out limit of 15 dollars.

Megaupload.com – media sharing portal, which is suitable both for uploading documents and media files like videos and music. After sharing your content you will be getting points for every download or file preview. Users get to exchange points for prizes (including money to PayPal).

This way of making money online is very interesting and simple. You can give it a try. I will be updating this post with new “get paid to upload” websites and tips to help you earn more money online with your files.

 

Proven Way to Make Money Online with Copywriting – eCopyWriters.com Review

Every day this blog is being visited by hundreds of visitors, who would like to make money online for free. Here I write reviews of sites, which offer various work at home and get paid to opportunities. I try to find the best sites and provide links to them for you.
Earning cash on the Internet by writing articles and review is one of my favorite ways to make money in my free time. Recently I found a good site for copywriters and would like to give you a short review of this site. It is called eCopyWriters.com and here you can earn money by completing copywriting tasks.
eCopyWriters.com is a website, which connects copywriters and people, who want to buy they content writing services. On this site you can both buy articles and make money online by writing various types of content.

This company offers similar services, as TextBroker.com (you can read my review of TextBroker here) and other ones offering upfront pay. On this website you can receive freelance writing assignments, complete them and make money for every word written.
The registration process can take some time, because you will have to fill out an application form and provide some samples of your work. Based on your copywriting expertise you will be assigned a certain user status. Depending on your status, you will be given a certain amount of assignments and certain price per word written (up to 2 cents per word).
Compared to other copywriting firms and sites, where writers can make money with their skills, eCopyWriters.com is a pretty new company and they don’t have that many writing assignments. But I do have high hopes about this one and hope that I will be able to make good money online with this site.
If you like to write to earn money, then I highly recommend checking out eCopyWriters.com. I would appreciate comments from people, who have already worked with this company and can provide some tips for us.
All in all, making money online for free is something I will be learning more and more about. If you want to get free work at home updates and my tips on certain ways to make working from home easier, please subscribe to one-stop4all.blogspot.com and don’t hesitate to leave your comments below.

Writing Online? Inspiration?

If you earn a living from writing online, you might find that it is hard to think of anything to write about. It’s all very well being able to have free reign over what you choose to write about, however it can often be harder than you might think to be able to think about something for you to write about.

There are a few things that you could do in order to try and grab some ideas about what you could write about. This article will help you with some of the things that you could do in order to find something that you can write about.

Read newspapers and magazines. If you do this, you’ll learn what’s hot and what’s not. You will learn what kind of things people are talking about, and what kind of things people will enjoy reading about. If you see that there is a particular story that is constantly being covered by a particular genre of media, you might want to try and get an article of your own on that subject, as you already know that there are people who would want to read about that particular topic.Have a look at hot topics on search engines. Most search engines have the facility for you to see what the most discussed posts are on any given day. If you choose topics from these, then you should find that you are able to get a fairly good audience for the things that you want to talk about. The most important thing when you write any article is to know that you’re going to get views on that article, so you would do well to write about things that you know people are talking about.Listen into conversations in public. Whether you’re in a shop or on a train, there are bound to be people there who are talking about things. You never know when you’re going to hear something that will give you instant inspiration, so listen carefully. If you normally listen to music when you’re out and about, I suggest that you stop, as you might be missing out on one of the most inspirational subjects that you have ever heard of.It’s always helpful to keep a note book with you when you’re out of the house. This means that you will be able to write down the titles of any articles that you wish to write, and also means that you won’t forget about it when you get home.  Flag It Spam Adult Content Plagiarism Insufficient Quality Wrong Category Select the Right Category About Writing Autos Books Business Computers Creative Writing Domestic Gaming General Health Internet Movies Music News Offbeat Pets Poetry Recipes Religion Science Short Stories Society Sports Television Travel Women

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Make Easy Money Online with Ghost Writing and Wikio-Experts.com

Are you looking forward to finding a free, sure-working way to make money online? Do you want to earn some money in your free time? In this blog you will be able to find hundreds of reviews of websites, which offer various work at home opportunities.

I published a lot of articles on the web and know how profitable copywriting could be. So, today I am writing about getting paid to write articles online. Sharing your experience and expertise on the web can generate several hundred dollars per month and Wikio-Experts.com can help you accomplish this mission.

First of all, let me tell you a bit about Wikio-Experts.com website. This is a free portal, where experienced copywriters and just people, who like sharing their thoughts, write articles about things they like and get paid for doing so.

In order to register and make money with ghost writing, you need to be at least 18 years old and have the ability to write articles with proper grammar. With Wikio-Experts.com you share your expertise, write articles on things, which interest you.

Registration on this website doesn’t take a lot of time, you just have to fill out a registration form, provide some information about yourself and wait until your application is approved. Before you start working on this site, please make sure to check out tutorials and a user guide. All articles written by you will be published on Wikio or their network of websites.

Wikio-Experts.com works on pay per post basis, this means that for every accepted article you will be paid up to 15 euro. Speaking of article length – you have to write articles between 200 and 400 words.

One of the main advantages of Wikio-Experts.com is that you receive money for every accepted article and receive your pay as soon as your account balance reaches 10 euro. All payments are handled by PayPal.

Wikio-Experts.com looks like a pretty nice way to make money online for free and if you like writing articles and sharing expertise on the web, then I highly recommend checking out this website. Also, everyone, who likes earning money by writing should check out revenue sharing websites, which work on different basis but provide a superb opportunity to make cash on the web.

All in all, I recommend checking out Wikio-Experts.com and learning more about other ways to generate profit on the web by visiting other categories of IncomeBooster.org or subscribing to my rss feed.
Thank you for your time and patience, have a good day and I wish you good luck in earning money with ghost writing.

Easy Way to Make Money Online with Blog Links at BacklinksGenius.com

Writing articles for money, getting paid to download and taking surveys for cash rewards are probably the most popular work at home opportunities but Internet is growing with days passing, so eventually we get new, awesome ways to make money online for free.

I spend a lot of time looking for awesome work at home opportunities and this blog is created for people, who would like to start an Internet based business or receive cash rewards for doing work online.

Earning money with blogging is a quickly growing trend, so I would like to show you one great way to generate revenue with your blog.

If classical blog monetization options don’t work out for you as well as you wish, I would like to recommend checking out BacklinksGenius.com. This is a blog advertising network, which specializes with selling links.

With the help of BacklinksGenius.com you can earn money with such ways:

1) Publish related articles on your blogs with relevant link to advertisers’ sites and get paid for doing so.
2) Write sponsored reviews of advertisers’ services.
3) Add text links to your blog posts and make money online by doing so.

BacklinksGenius.com offers a fully automatic blog monetization service, currently they support such blog platforms as Blogspot, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and other platforms, which could be connected with the help of special API.

The process of making money with BacklinksGenius.com is very simple – you register yourself an account, log in to your administration area, add your blog and wait until it is approved. BacklinksGenius.com could be activated with the use of special plug-ins, so you don’t need to possess any programming knowledge.

Then you would be able to start monetizing your blog with the help of BacklinksGenius. The minimum cashout limit is just 40 dollars and you can withdraw your money via PayPal (immediate payment) or Bank transfer.

According to my personal experience, making money by selling backlinks is a very simple monetization technique. Your earnings depend more on your blog ranking rather than on the number of visitors.

I hope that you will be able to make money online with your blog and BacklinksGenius.com. Please leave me your comments if you have experience with this site and subscribe to IncomeBooster.org for more free work at home opportunities.

Two Proven Ways to Make Money Online with Text Link Ads

Nowadays blogging is not just a form of self-expression and means of sharing your thoughts with people from all over the world but a great way to make money by doing something you like.

Journalism always had its fans and I think that with the development of the worldwide network more people started taking up journalism (that’s how I created my own blog). In order to write articles on the Internet, you don’t need to have a degree – you can start by sharing your expertise with your blog readers and even make money by going so.

In this blog I already featured several good ways to earn money with a blog, the most popular of them is earning money with Google Adsense and selling backlinks for money. If you have a blog with good rankings (Alexa, Google PR, Complete Rank, ect) then you can easily earn money by selling links on your blog. I think that the best ad companies, which provide this type of advertising are Text-Link-Ads.com and GetGoodLinks.net.

With the help of Text-Link-Ads.com you can sell text links in your blogroll or on selected pages. Right now the owners of this service are working on new advertising options, which include ads based on infographics and a way to make money by selling links in selected blog posts (this helps advertisers get relevant links). To find out more on how to make money with Text-Link-Ads visit my previous blog posts, which contains a review of this service and my payment proofs.

Speaking on relevant links in blog posts, GetGoodLinks.net is fully dedicated to this type of blog advertising. By using this service you can make money online by selling relevant links in your blog posts. All the links are placed on permanent basis, so there is almost no chance of getting penalized by search engines. My payment proof from GetGoodLinks.net and more information about earning money with this ad network could be found in the archives.

As you can see, bloggers with high search engine ratings could earn good money online by placing sponsored links in their blogrolls and blog posts. If you want to make money online with your blog, then try these earning opportunities, I am sure that they will work out for you as well as they did for me.

Make Money Online with WordPress Blogs by Selling Article Space at PostLinks.com

New ways of earning money online are being introduced almost every day and the main mission of this website is to feature the best earning opportunities on the web.

Here I have already listed such popular money-making possibilities as paid forum posting, writing articles for money, earning cash by taking surveys and generating revenue with the help of blogs.

Selling backlinks for money is one of the newest blog monetization strategies, so I would like show you a pretty new ad network, which is called PostLinks.com.

If you have a self-hosted wordpress blog with a PR of 1 or more, then you are eligible to start making cash online with the help of your website and PostLinks.com. This is the newest blog plug-in, which helps you sell article space on your blog and receive special credits for every article posted on your site.

Currently PostLinks.com offers three types of advertising:
- article post
- comment post
- contextual link
By posting articles on your website you can generate a residual income with the help of your site. In order to start making money online with the help of your WordPress blog you need to register on their website, install a plug-in and receive credits depending on the pagerank of your homepage.

For every link placed on your site you will be getting special credits (the higher your PR is, the more credits you get). These credits could be cashed out for real money or used to promote your website on other sites.

Visit their website to find out more about ways to generate residual income with the help of your WordPress blog. I don’t think that PostLinks.com is a scam because I have seen several positive reviews of this site and even a payment proof. I am not affiliated with PostLinks.com and I don’t encourage you to join, so it is purely up to you.

All I can tell is that earning money by selling backlinks is becoming more and more popular with days passing, so we should pay more attention to this blog monetization strategy.
Thanks for your attention, please leave your questions on the comment section below and subscribe to IncomeBooster.org if you want to receive updates about free ways to earn money online with no investment.

99designs.com Review – Make Money Online by Participating in Freelance Design Contests

Internet is a vital part of our life and nowadays thousands of users all over the word make money online by doing various tasks. In this blog I am trying to prove that everyone can work at home without any investments.

Today I would like to talk a bit about crowdsourcing and a free way to earn money with web design. Crowdsourcing is a type of Internet freelance work, where various designers work on one project. 99designs.com is a bit different from this concept because you get a chance to receive make money with web design without even having any experience or recommendations from previous buyers.

To start off, I would like to tell that I am not affiliated with 99designs.com and not trying to encourage you to register on this website or recruit you to be my referral. I just want to find out real thoughts from people who work on this site plus I would like to find out if 99designs.com is a scam or not, once and for all.

99designs.com is a freelance design job board with a twist, the creators of this website want to help skilled designers earn money online (even if they don’t have recommendations or previous work experience). Here is how 99designs.com works:

- Employers, who need some design work done, create a new design contest. They list all their needs and possible wishes about their project.
- Registered designers start working on the project, submit their work and wait until the employer picks the best one.
- Winners of the contest sell the rights for their work to the employer and receive a reward.

This way, if you are a good and creative designer, you will be able to make money online without preparing your CV or providing your portfolio. On 99designs.com only your skills matter, not your recommendations and previous works.

And now, let’s speak about rumors and negative thoughts about this website. There is a whole lot of freelance designers and design bloggers, who say that 99designs.com marketplace propagates low-rate design work, which causes a global decrease in design work rates.

As with any other problem, there are both positive and negative things about 99designs.com. I will list only one positive and one negative feature – the good thing is that 99designs website allows designers earn money online without having any previous work experience and the negative feature is that even if you get to win a design contest, you rarely receive high pay rates.

All in all, only you can choose whether to use 99designs.com for making money online but I am sure that it is useful to have yet another link to a website, where designers can earn money by doing web design work.

Thanks for reading my blog post, please leave me your thoughts about 99designs.com and subscribe to IncomeBooster.org if you would like to receive free work at home opportunity reviews to your inbox.

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Write Articles or Reviews and Earn Money Online with VideoJugPages.com

Everyone, who wants to make money online for free, can enjoy hundreds of earning opportunities on the web. Some of them have been around for years but most of them are pretty new in this niche due to large amount of users, who want to work at home and make good money with the help of a computer.

From my personal experience I can tell that doing freelance online writing jobs for money is one of the most popular opportunities and most users choose to work with such popular sites as Squidoo or HubPages. Today I would like to share an alternative “get paid to write” website, which is called VideoJugPages.com.

One of the main advantages of making money online by writing is that you don’t need any money to get started, you just share your experience/expertise, promote pages with your content and get paid on revenue sharing basis.

VideoJugPages.com is a free community for people, who like sharing tips and tricks about doing things they like. This website has been around for years but they launched their revenue sharing portal not very long ago.

Please visit their website and watch a video on how to start creating pages and get paid for writing. First of all, VideoJugPages.com is a community, where users get to share their expertise by creating articles about things they are knowledgeable about or even stand-alone sites consisting of a series of articles.

Speaking of rewards – for every published article you will be getting special credits. These credits could be exchanged for money later on. Additionally you can add your ads (e.g. Google Adsense) and keep 50% of money earned from your pages.

If you have your own website you can easily promote it with VideoJugPages.com. On your pages or website hosted on VideoJugPages.com you can add links, which have dofollow attribute. Well, Video JugPages looks like a great alternative to other popular “get paid to write” websites, such as Squidoo and HubPages.

I do hope that you liked this article. Thanks for reading my article on how to make money online with freelance writing. In my future posts I will consider adding more articles on this way of earning, so please subscribe and don’t forget to leave your comments about VideoJugPages.com.