7. Subscription websites

7. Subscription websites
Finally we come to what I believe is an under-developed opportunity to make money online ... subscription websites!
Subscription websites, often referred to as membership sites, are becoming increasingly popular with people willing to pay a regular subscription to access information that is difficult to find elsewhere. Other types of site that often use the subscription model are sites that provide a specialised service, or make available a library of useful content. Internet dating sites and image libraries are two prime examples.
Anyone who can provide a unique service or specialised information in a niche market could set up a subscription website. By signing up new members on an annual or monthly payment plan, you could soon build up a sizeable income. For example, let’s say you’re a bit of an expert on how to make money from property development. You could set up a site that gives free information on this subject, but only allows paying members access to your private membership site. This would be a secure area which can only be entered using a username and a password. It would contain those ‘closely guarded secrets’ that only your expert knowledge and experience can reveal. Only subscribers would then have access to the most effective methods and shortcuts on how to succeed in the lucrative property development business.
This is just for illustrative purposes of course. But anyone who has a passion and expert knowledge of a hobby or business could set up their own subscription website, providing they know how to go about it. Fortunately there are some very good resources and examples of how to start and run a subscription site.
One of the best sources of information is Membership Site Advisor which offers membership site management tools. Subscribing to their service will give you access to the information and tools you need to set your site up.
Also take a look at Bill Myers Online. Bill has produced an all-in-one solution that enables a company or any individual to set up their own membership site online. It’s called ‘Membergate’ and is an excellent product.
Bill made a fortune from his skill as a product developer. His website is a superb resource for anyone interested in product development. Whether it’s a simple ebook or professional DVD production, there’s a ton of information here that can help you succeed with producing and marketing your own products.
The most important ingredient of course is to have a target market. If there isn’t enough people out there who will be interested in what you have to offer, then you’re unlikely to succeed in your venture. It’s important to do some research first to find out if there will be a demand. One way to do this is to use Overture’s search term tool. Overture provides information on how many searches were done on a specific keyword or phrase. For example, at the time of writing I did a search for ‘dog breeding’ and there were 16,943 related searches carried out during the previous month. However, ‘dog breeding’ is a fairly generic term, so if you specialised in breeding boxer dogs then the results would be much lower but highly targeted towards a niche market.
So let’s assume there’s enough demand and little competition in your chosen category, after setting up your site, the next step would be to attract subscribers. To do this you would need to generate a lot of good quality traffic to your site. By good quality I mean carefully targeted traffic which consists mainly of visitors who are definitely interested in what you have to offer. Not everyone will sign up of course, but the more focused your advertising campaign is, the more likely you are to receive good quality traffic.
Using some of the methods oulined above will produce good results. PPC (pay per click) advertising on Google and Overture for example.Viral marketing using free giveaway ebooks that offer useful information and a good introduction the benefits of subscribing to your site.E-zines and newsletters that promote your service. Either produce your own or choose existing publications that are suitable to advertise in. Affiliate programs. Find affiliates who are eager to promote your membership subscriptions on a commission basis. And of course, let’s not forget to mention search engine optimisation which is essential if you want your site to rank highly in the search engines.(See resources list below for more information)
Once set up and running, in order to maintain and increase subscriptions, it’s important to continue to provide a first class service. If you don’t give your members a good reason to return to your site regularly then your venture will fail. Always provide a high quality service and good content. Information and services that people can use to their benefit will ensure that they continue their membership, and hopefully recommend you to their friends. In conclusion
I have given you some insight into the methods which I consider to be the seven best ways to make money online. There are other ways of course, but these are the ones that I would recommend to anyone looking for new ways to boost their income with their online business, or for newbies just starting out.
Ok, I hear you say. It’s all very well having your own website and knowing which methods work best to make money online, but how do I get people to visit my site?
That’s a good point! If you can’t reach a big enough audience, or target the people who are actively seeking the products or service you’re trying to promote, then you’re hardly going to succeed. But the fact is there’s an endless source of free information online which explains how to get visitors to your website. From how to achieve a high search engine ranking to the simple technique of getting link exchanges, there are many ways to choose from.One way to get more visitors to your site if you’re starting out on a shoestring budget is to join some of the better startpage programs which send free hits to your website when you open your browser a set number of times (usually 1 hit for every 2 times you open your browser). By joining a select few of these programs and recommending others to do the same, you can soon begin generating extra hits to your site. One of the programs I can recommend is Trafficswarm.
If you’re serious about making money online then the methods outlined above are the ones that are most likely to succeed. And there’s nothing to stop you implementing all seven of these methods to create multiple streams of income. Forget about ‘paid to read emails’ and the like, either set up your own website or e-zine and promote it vigorously, applying the methods described above. Or put the same effort into promoting SFI or selling a niche market product on eBay
Then, if you try hard enough, you will succeed at making money online!

6 - Selling stuff on eBay

6 - Selling stuff on eBay
Selling stuff on eBay is easy. Most of us have heard reports about how some individuals and businesses are making massive incomes from selling on eBay. But like any other business there’s no magic formula to instant success. You need to learn the ropes first. Start small and work your way up.
Sole traders and big companies are using eBay as a way increase their sales. But it’s not a guaranteed way to make money online. There are charges to consider before calculating the profits you might expect from selling through their auction pages. If you’re new to the concept of selling on eBay I suggest you read their guidelines thoroughly. Make a note of their listing and selling fees and consider all other costs you might encounter regarding postage, packing and the use of payment processing services such as Pay Pal.
If you’re not registered with eBay you will need to register first before you can start to buy or sell. Click here to go and register now.
Try testing response rates by putting a small, select number of items up for auction first. Choose products that allow you to realise a good profit margin. After eBay’s listing and selling fees, plus delivery and payment processing charges are taken into consideration, there should still be room for making a profit. At the same time, choose products that you can afford to make a small loss on if necessary. After all, if they don’t sell you will still need to pay the listing fee. You could even lose money on the sale if you don’t follow some simple rules to minimise losses.
Whole books have been written about how to trade successfully on eBay. One of the most popular ebooks available online is written byJim Cockrum, the author of ‘The silent sales machine hiding on ebay’ His experience and techniques have helped many people to make money using the most popular auction site online. Another good source of advice is Ken Evoy’s Make Your Net Auction Sell. With the information provided by these two bestselling authors, and by getting some basic experience of trading on eBay, you will soon learn to see the possibilities of making money from online auctions.
Once you become proficient at selling on eBay you might consider approaching companies and manufacturers who are willing to provide you with supplies of their products for you to sell on their behalf. Providing you can negotiate a suitable selling fee with room for a good profit margin, then finding a niche product that proves to be popular can lead you to a goldmine.
Some ebayers are turning over tens of thousands of dollars in revenue every month! Some have even closed down their offline trading premises to trade solely on eBay. Such is the success of the eBay phenomenon.
The most successful merchants on eBay are known as ‘power sellers’ Next time you visit eBay look out for the power sellers and take notice of how they run their business. Take particular note of how they promote their products using powerful descriptive headlines and text, as well as high quality images that showcase their products to the best advantage. Their excellent after sales service and customer relations help them achieve a top feedback rating which builds trust among new and old customers alike, who are happy to deal with them again and again. Emulate their success by following the same techniques and principles they employ to make big sales!
For a more detailed article about selling stuff on eBay click here.

5 - E-commerce website

5 - E-commerce website
Many people assume that the best way to make money online is to set up a shop selling products direct from a website. While this is true for the majority of well established online businesses, it can be a costly and daunting proposition for newcomers who want to set up a business online for the very first time. If you have products you want to sell on the net but want to test the waters first before making a major commitment you should consider Pay Pal as your online payment payment processing system. It’s free to join, very simple to set up and you can use it to configure your own shopping cart to fit in with the design of your site. Whether you have a range of products or single items to sell, Pay Pal is a quick and easy way to start selling products online.
An alternative to using Pay Pal is to use an all-in-one solution such as Atomic Shops which allows any type of business to set up a fully functioning website in minutes, whether you simply want to promote your business or sell goods online.
If you already have your site built and are seeking a good web hosting service, consider using MidPhase Hosting who offer fast, reliable web hosting and for a small monthly fee can provide everything you need to set up your own e-commerce website. Alternatively, the host4profit web hosting service is well worth considering because host4profit also gives you access to a wealth of marketing information from some of the leading marketers on the internet.
If you don’t have products to sell but still like the idea of having your own e-commerce website you can sign up with SFI and promote your own online store complete with a whole range of items to sell in various categories. SFI is an easy solution to starting your own online business. But like all the other methods described here, it requires good marketing skills to get visitors flocking to your store. Without targeted visitors you won’t make a penny! SFI is free to join and is ideal for anyone wishing to start up an online business with a zero budget.

4 - Newsletters and e-zines

4 - Newsletters and e-zines
Newsletters and electronic magazines (e-zines) are a great way to build up a customer base and a trusting relationship with people prepared to deal with you on a regular basis. This is the cornerstone of most successful businesses whether established online or offline.
Having a list of subscribers that you can regularly mail to puts you in the perfect position to bring related products or services to your customers attention. Whether you provide your own saleable products, electronic information or otherwise, or join partners as an affiliate and promote other merchants goods, the process of churning out a regular newsletter can seem suddenly more inviting.
Starting a newsletter or e-zine is also a good way to learn and improve your marketing skills. Public relations, effective advertising, producing useful information that people are actively seeking out, and building a subscriber list through opt-in subscription methods, are all essential skills required for making money online. Some successful e-zines are even produced and distributed without the need for a website. Building up a strong subscriber list can be achieved simply by advertising in the right places. An effective advert and a simple link to your mailing list subscription manager may be all that you need. Check out the ‘ListApp’ service at Server.com for more details about how to start your and run your own mailing list.
If you need inspiration to think up ideas or learn how other e-zines are proving to be popular, take a look at the two e-zine directories Ezine-universe and Ezine Search where the choice of subject matter is huge. If you see an opening for an untapped market then you could be on to a winner. Start building your subscriber list now! If you can reach thousands of people interested in a topic of information or a service that you can provide, then you could turn this to your advantage and make sales. Not only that, once your subscriber list has reached 5,000 or more you could easily make more money by including paid for advertising.
Getting people to subscribe to your newsletter or e-zine isn’t that difficult. All you need to do to get people to sign up is to entice them with a free offer for something you know they can’t resist. For example, a free e-book, or free software. Providing they perceive the offer as being valuable and able to save them money, you can’t fail to get a steady stream of new subscribers.
Fact: It’s a lot easier to make follow-up sales to existing customers who you have a good relationship with, than trying to sell to someone who has never dealt with you before. So build up trust by providing new subscribers with a first class service and you are far more likely to succeed in your new venture.

3 - Info products
Digital products are ideal for selling on the net because they cost next to nothing to produce and are easily duplicated with no overheads such as printing and packaging costs. Some of the highest paying affiliate commissions are available from promoting ebooks, marketing courses and software products. This is because of the high mark-up profits which are possible, allowing resellers and promoters to make between 25% - 50% commission on each sale.
A whole range of downloadable products can be found at ClickBank including some of the best information products available online.If you want to seek out and promote products with exceptional profit margins, Clickbank is the place to visit.
Of course the big money is made by the originators of these products. Imagine creating an ebook and having hundreds, possibly even thousands of affiliates signing up to sell your book? It’s not so difficult as it sounds. If you sign up with ClickBank to sell your digital product through their marketing program, you also have the advantage of having thousands of potential affiliates ready to promote your product on their websites using simple tracking links that Clickbank provides. As long as your product is of a high standard and has little competition, you are likely to get plenty of interest. Affiliates are usually generously rewarded with high commissions ranging betwen 25% to 50% but because you’re selling a digital product your overheads are practically zero.
The article ’ebook writing’ by Miguel Alvarez will give you a brief introduction to writing your own ebook. For a more comprehensive writing guide I recommend you read Ken Evoy’s ’Make Your Knowledge Sell‘ Ken provides first class information on how to produce and sell your own information products as well as how to become proficient in pre-selling products you choose to promote.
Ebooks are not the only option though. Have you ever considered designing your own software?
Too complicated! I hear you say? Don’t know anything about programming?
Well actually you don’t need too. It’s now possible to create simple programs that you can sell, or use as a promotional giveaway.MYOS (Make Your Own Software) is a piece of software that allows you to use your creativity to develop simple, but exclusive digital products of your own. It’s the perfect tool to boost your sales or mailing list. Click here to find out more about it’s features and benefits.
Talking of mailing lists..... that brings us to our next money making method....

2 - Google Ads
An alternative to joining and promoting a merchant’s affiliate program is to incorporate Google AdSense advertising on your website.
Here is an example:
Consider this... Google is one of the most successful companies online, in a similar league to Yahoo! and MSN. Next time you use Google and type in a search term take a look at the column down the right side of the page when the search results show up.
What you'll see is a selection of small text ads which are related to your search query. These are what is known as PPC (pay per click) advertisements. In other words, whoever has placed the advertisement with Google has done so on the basis that every time their advert is clicked on, the advertiser pays a small sum to Google. So the advertiser gets good quality targeted traffic to their site, Google makes some extra cash, and everybody is happy. But it doesn’t stop there, because Google, in their almighty wisdom, allows you to put these ads on your website too, and they’re willing to pay you a percentage of their commission. It’s a win win situation. What makes this so brilliant is that the ads that you display on your website will be mostly related to the content you provide, and statistics show that visitors are much more likely to click on these ads than banners. All you need do to get started is apply to Google first, and once accepted they will provide the code which generates the ads to appear on your site.
Notice I said that your site needs to be accepted first. That’s because Google has a few rules that need to be adhered to in order for your site to be accepted. This is neccessary to keep their advertisers happy and raise the standards of good search results.
To read their guidelines to what is acceptable and what isn’t click hereThere are many individuals and companies who are also making very good money from actually paying for these ads to be shown. Affiliates for example. We’ve learnt how affiliate programs work and how displaying Google ads on your site can also make you extra money, but what if you don’t have a website? Is it possible to still be an affiliate and make money from an affiliate program?
Absolutely! By utilising the PPC (pay per click) opportunity that Google and similar PPC search engines provide, even someone without a website can join an affiliate program and promote a merchant’s products or service using their own affiliate links. Providing you follow Google’s editorial guidelines and any terms and conditions as stated by the merchant that relate to the use of PPC advertising to promote their products, there shouldn’t be any problems.
Unlike the time and effort involved in planning, designing, building and hosting a website, setting up an account with Google and making money from Google AdWords is quick and simple. Providing, of course, you research your market correctly and apply some easy to learn marketing knowledge first to ensure good results,
Chris Carpenter has made an excellent income using these techniques and has written a book entitled Google Cash which is recommended reading for any affiliates wishing to embark on this money making system.

The 7 best ways to make money online

The following methods of making money online are not listed in order of preference or earning power. They are simply a brief introduction to the most popular and efficient ways to generate a part-time, or even a full-time income using your PC working at home, or anywhere else you may have access to the internet. For some a website is essential, for others you don’t need one.
I suggest you bookmark this page for future reference.
1 - Affiliate programs
If you have a website, and you want to make money from it you should consider joining an affiliate program. If you don’t have a website but are willing to learn how to build one be sure to read the simple guide to ‘Designing and Building a Website’
Becoming an affiliate means you can make money by advertising and promoting the products of other merchants from your website. This is generally done by placing banners and text links on your site. When a visitor clicks on a merchant’s banner or text link they arrive at the merchant’s website whereupon the visitor may make a purchase from which you will earn a commission. The results of promoting someone else’s products however, can vary enormously. Simply putting up a banner or a text link on your website is unlikely to generate much commission, unless you receive many thousands of daily visitors. But if you’re willing to learn a few simple marketing techniques, such as pre-selling through recommendations, even with a small website you could soon start building up a useful income.
You can apply what you learn from affiliate marketing to sell almost anything you can think of. But ideally your first priority should be to sign up with merchants that sell products your website visitors are interested in. For example, if you wanted to advertise pet food on a ‘Tips for breeding dogs’ website then you’re much more likely to generate a sale and earn a commission than you would if you placed the advert on a site for ‘How to build a PC’ because most of your visitors simply wouldn’t be interested in pet food. So always look for products and services that are compatible with the content of your site.
You may be surprised at the range of products and services available from merchants who require website publishers to promote their stuff. To get some idea I suggest you take a peek at one of the best affiliate network directories on the net Commission junction. It’s free to join and there is no charge to link up with any of the merchants listed. Everything is simple and straightforward. You get quick access to the html code for all the banners and text links you need as well as daily statistics of how many sales you make and which advertisements are working well and which ones aren’t. All you need to get started is some basic knowledge of how to cut and paste the linking code into your web pages. This is the code that has your affiliate identification embedded into it to accurately track all sales.
Promoting other peoples’ products through an affiliate program is a useful way to generate income using your website. You don’t need to hold any stock or have the responsibility to fulfill the order or take payment. You simply get paid for introducing the buyer to the seller and when a sale is made your obligation ends there.
There are a number of ebooks and articles available online that can help you learn more about affiliate marketing. My advice is to seek out the people who are already making substantial incomes from promoting affiliate programs and learn from them. People like Rosalind Gardner for example, whose monthly turnover is in excess of $20.000 per month, simply from promoting affiliate programs using simple methods that anyone can learn and put into practice. Rosalind has written an ebook entitled The Super Affiliate Handbook which reveals her successful techniques to creating a super affiliate income.
Another proponent of affiliate marketing is James Martell who makes tens of thousands of dollars a month promoting other peoples products and services. He also has a very good course in affiliate marketing which is packed with information and knowledge that have taken him years to aquire. You can read more about his affiliate marketing course by clicking here.
The Internet Marketing Center also has some excellent advice for everyone new to affiliate marketing. You can sign up for their excellent affiliate program and gain access to their affiliate training and resource center for free. As experts in the field of internet marketing their products are second to none. The brilliant internet marketing course which can be found at the Internet Marketing Center is packed with everything you need to know about internet marketing and is widely regarded as the best available.

5. Income from a Google Search Bar

5. Income from a Google Search Bar This feature will allow you to add a Google Search Box to your own website. So, this means that visitors to your web page can search for information contained within your website. Also, it will allow people to search across the world wide web, to look for information contained in other sites. And what's more, when your searchbar is used, the search engine returns Google AdSense Advertising in the results page. It's fully automatic and the advertisements are directly related to the search query. Now here's the good bit! When people click your Search Ads (these are the sponsored ads), you are paid money. It's a pay per click scheme, or PPC as it's known, so you can make money as people use your search bar. For example, if a search is performed for 'hotels on the moon', this means that the 'Ads by Goooooogle' in the search results will also be about hotels on the moon. Don't worry if you are not using search technology directly within your site. Once again, it's all taken care of. For example, it will work perfectly well on a simple HTML site. You can download the Google Search Bar (as illustrated below) through the Google AdSense programme. Search this Website:


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4. Generate Cash from Video Advertising Clicks

4. Generate Cash from Video Advertising Clicks What could be better than this? We are talking about an opportunity for you to spice-up your website with full-motion video and make money at the same time! The internet world is going absolutely crazy about online video and now you can be part of it. We have outlined 2 options here, namely YouTube and Revver.
YouTubeThe key idea here is very simple and effective. You choose the type of videos (video content) you would like to present on your website and then 'Ads by Google' will be played alongside your video clips, to monetize your web pages. It's very neat and just like all AdWords adverts, the theme and content of the advertising shown is directly related to the content of your web page. So, this is a fresh way of adding value to your site, making it more 'sticky' and generating some income at the very same time.
RevverWhen you add a Revver Video Gallery to your website (from Revver.com), you get paid when people click the on-screen advert which appears at the end of each film clip. In fact, with Revver Video, you can earn 20% of the ad revenue by 'Sharing' videos created by other people. In other words, you can think of your online web videos as a new form of advertising. At a glance, it might seem like a bit of fun, and indeed, it is. But there is a serious business dimension to this initiative, so take a look at the listed business videos to see how this idea might apply to your company website. Let's suppose you run a restaurant. So, using your own movie sequences, provide an online guided tour around your restaurant facilities and its private function rooms. We invite you to have a look at the sample below, which shows a restaurant and its outdoor terrace, with a Spanish waiter serving up fresh seafood paella.
Getting started with this idea could not be easier. We provide the online toolkit for you to embed video clips within your web pages and this means that you can easily integrate the playback capability from any of the world's leading free service providers, including:
YouTube (YouTube.com)
Revver (Revver.com)
GoogleVideo (Video.Google.com)
YahooVideo (Video.Search.Yahoo.com)
StupidVideos (StupidVideos.com)
Metacafe (Metacafe.com)
Vimeo (Vimeo.com)
iFilm (iFilm.com)
Break (Break.com)
ClipShack (ClipShack.com)
Sharkle (Sharkle.com)
Clip a Day (ClipaDay.com)
The list goes on and on... In fact, you can add the film clip sequences from any third-party playback provider which offers embed code (embeddable code). But right now, as far as we know, only YouTube and Revver are running money-making initiatives. Are you ready to make a million dollars? Revver has recently announced that it had paid $1 million to video creators and publishers (website owners) over the past year.

3. PayPal Sales Revenue

3. PayPal Sales Revenue
Sell something! Perhaps we're stating the obvious, but only a very small percentage of the world's websites are built to do e-commerce. In other words, most internet sites are not created for the purpose of collecting customer payments via debit cards or debit cards. Remember, we're talking about people making money payments to you, through secure credit card and/or debit card transactions, and we are not involved in the payment transfer. Here at QuickontheNet.com, we're independent, so the good news is that you can use any card payment service provider, including:
PayPal
Google Checkout
WorldPay
Nochex
Roman Cart
HSBC
Etc In summary, this is an opportunity for you to take online payments for products and services sold directly through your business website. OK, we've highlighted PayPal, but there are other options to consider. You will tend to find that there are certain advantages and disadvantages associated with each provider. But there is a common thread running through each service provider; and that is that they all take slice of the action. In other words, they all take a small percentage of the money you make online. In terms of percentages, there is very little to choose between each solution provider. As you compare, you will find that the cost difference in charges/fees is not that significant, however, the range of e-commerce features offered by each provider is significant, and that is probably going to be a key factor when you choose a payment page solution for your site. QuickontheNet.com already contains a wealth of information about each company, so click around to discover more about the pros and cons with each solution. At a glance, as you create your own comparison, you will want to consider the following key points:
PayPalIt's FREE to set up and integrate with your website, so that makes it particularly attractive for startup businesses, who wish to minimise their startup costs. PayPal offers a fully-featured shopping cart (shopping basket) solution. As a business owner, you will be interested to know that you can apply your own design and creative branding to the payment buttons and the payment page itself. So, you can make it all blend in with your logo design and corporate colours. If you are a charity organisation or a revenue-generating business, PayPal will allow you to create an e-business solution to take subscriptions, donations, and single or recurring payments. The choice is yours. This e-commerce payment service is available in the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and Singapore. In fact, with more than 100 million accounts in 190 countries and regions around the world, PayPal offers a fast, affordable and convenient online payment service for businesses of all sizes. Are you ready to get started and make money online from your customers? Sign-up and open your own PayPal account. During the registration process at PayPal, you will need to sign-up for a Business Account or Premier Account (not a Personal Account).
Google CheckoutAgain, it's FREE to set up and integrate with your website. If you simply want to add 'Buy Now' buttons to your website with the minimum amount of fuss, look no further than Google Checkout. When it comes to Check out versus PayPal, we particularly like the fact that Google offers different price options using a drop-down menu, within each individual button. That is pretty nifty and it means that you can have a single checkout button for different price selections and that is really handy for customer order tracking. It's simple for both you and your shoppers (customers/clients). What's more, Checkout offers a unique invoice payment service for business people. If you're trading, you can use the service to send an invoice to your clients to request online money payment. The invoices you email to your buyers will contain a personalised message from you regarding the requested payment. The invoices will also contain a 'Pay now through Google Checkout' button. When buyers click this button in the email, they'll be brought to Google Checkout, where they can complete the payment process.
WorldPayA truly global service, we like WorldPay for its handling of single payments and/or recurring payments e.g. weekly, monthly, or yearly. It is not free to set up, but it is particularly popular with very large corporations and Small and Medium Enterprises or SMEs. In other words, middle-sized businesses. WorldPay comes with a range of tools to help you fight fraud and manage fraudulent transactions and its Customer Management System, or CMS is second to none.

2. Banner Ads and Click Advertising Sales

2. Banner Ads and Click Advertising Sales
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This is a very different proposition, but it is still based on online web advertising. We are talking about affiliate advertising. The key difference here is that we are primarily talking about commission-based sales advertising. Although, some advertisers pay you for clicks, leads, page impressions and (the provision of) unique visitors. But rest assured, your big money is to be found with straight sales commission. What is affiliate advertising? What is an affiliate advertising programme? An affiliate programme is a banner advertising service which links and transfers website visitors from your website to your advertiser's site. It can therefore increase sales through your site and boost your traffic and search engine performance by pulling in search engine traffic looking for your chosen advertiser's website.
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Commission is paid by the affiliate advertising site for each referred sale. And what's more, it's completely FREE to Join! How does it work? Imagine the following scenario: Company A = Advertiser (this would be you and your website) Company B = Merchant
Company A participates in an Affiliate Advertising Programme
Company B participates in an Affiliate Merchant Programme
Company A has a website
Company A places an affiliate banner advert on their website on behalf of Company B
Customer visits Company A’s website
Customer clicks on affiliate banner advert
Customer is redirected to Company B’s website
During the redirection, an affiliate cookie is placed on customer’s computer (customer is not aware or informed of this)
Customer makes a purchase on Company B’s website
The cookie records the sale and Company A is paid a commission on the sale Many organisations operate affiliate programmes for advertisers and merchants, but one of the best-known schemes in the UK is operated by TradeDoubler. Lots of high-profile businesses and retailers participate in affiliate programmes through TradeDoubler, including:
American Express
AOL
Apple
Avon
Boots
British Gas
Carphone Warehouse
Currys
Debenhams
Dell
Dixons
Domino's Pizza
easyCruise (from easyGroup: easyJet)
easyMoney (also from easyGroup: easyJet.com)
ebookers.com
Eurostar
Halifax
Hertz
HP
Hilton
iTunes
John Lewis
Lycos
Natwest
PC World
Sainsbury's
Skype
Tesco
TalkTalk
Toshiba
Virgin Mobile
Yahoo
...and many others

1. Google AdSense Income

1. Google AdSense Income You can think of 'AdSense' as a business opportunity. It's completely free. Yes, it's an opportunity for you to make money from Google Ads on your own website.
Google AdSense is a quick and easy way for website owners to display Google Advertising on their website. When people visit your website and click the Google Ads, you get paid money. Simple! The advertising served up by Google is related to what your visitors are looking for on your site. In other words, it's context sensitive. For example, if your website is about 'photography', then you can be pretty sure that the presentation of 'Ads by Google' on your site will also be about photography. Likewise, if your site is about recruitment, then expect to see adverts displayed about jobs, employment and careers. In fact, it's even better than that. Google AdSense looks at the content of each and every web page on your website. So, this means that the content of the Google Advertising will align with the information on each web page in your site. It's completely automatic and you don't need to worry about it. In other words, all you need to do is build a great website with engaging content and a wide range of interesting web pages, and AdSense will take care of the rest.

5 Ways to Make Money Online for FREE

5 Ways to Make Money Online for FREE

If you have a talent for making money and a creative mind for business, here are five things you can do for FREE, to generate an online income on the internet. You can work from home, do it in your spare time, or do it anywhere, provided you can get on the internet. You can get started today! We show you how to make money with: 1) Google 2) Online Advertising 3) PayPal 4) Video 5) Search Bar Technology To do this stuff, you're going to need a website. You can build a website online using your internet browser, here at QuickontheNet.com, or you can use another web hosting service provider. QuickontheNet.com is a site builder. It's a place where you can design and build your own website and web hosting is always included as part of the service. Our prices are very low, starting at just a few pounds/dollars/euros per month and we offer many different types of business websites. On a 1-year plan, for every year purchased (with a single payment), month 12 is provided free of charge. To put it another way, you get a free month when you sign-up for a year. Or, if you prefer, just pay monthly and spread your costs. Perhaps you already have a website and you simply want to generate some revenue from it. Either way, you're going to need your own site if you want to try the five ideas below, for FREE. The web is awash with ideas for you to Get Rich Quick on the Net. Some of them good; some of them absolute rubbish. But remember this simple principle. To make your first million, firstly you have to make your first pound, dollar or euro. Start small, and try building your revenue through steady growth. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"; wise words and a timeless philosophy from Confucius. We are pleased to inform you that the 5 ideas below are founded on solid foundations, through companies you already know. We are talking about leading corporations you trust, respect and admire. So, let's assume you have a website now and you're ready to make some online money on the web. Firstly, we need to start with the basics. With all of these ideas, you need to add some code to your web page. The good news is that it is extremely simple and we show you how to add code to your web pages. The technique is quick and easy, so now we're ready to go...

Do You Have an InfoProduct to Offer?

If you have been researching or involved in online business for very long, you have no doubt seen a multitude of offers for "eBooks", books, reports and training course on every subject imaginable.Why? Because information is the hottest product on the market! (At the foundational level, it's actually the Only product, but that's another article.) Information cuts straight to the root of all selling, which is answering the customer's question: "What will this product do for me?"There's another reason, though. Pure information is a product that doesn't require a huge financial overhead to produce(other than the hard knocks you got in gaining the experience and information), and is easy and relatively low cost to deliver to the customer. That is what makes it such a great product for us, as entrepreneurs, to offer.Everyone has life experience, training, and skills that others don't have. Everyone knows something that others want to know, or can do something that others want to learn. That's how I know you have an InfoProduct inside you, everyone does. Your first assignment is to decide which of your many gifts you are going to offer to the world!Does that mean you have to be able to write a book? No. Not necessarily. I'm talking about what is known as USP...Unique Selling Position. Your USP might be that you have detailed knowledge about someone else's product that you are selling as an affiliate. It could be that humorous way you present the information you have collected on some subject of interest, or the fact that you offer the best customer service available for the service you offer. You may offer the same products that others are also selling, but find your own unique market for them.But whatever you decide to use for your information product, your USP, you need to find one. If you were to research the online marketers who are honestly making the money they claim to be earning online, you would discover that they all have a USP. Your USP IS your product, however you package and deliver it.If you are working a Multi-level Marketing program or one of the BIBs (Business in a Box), you are not left out of this concept, but you may have to work harder to figure out how to be unique. You can still go for the niche marketing idea. Find a group of people who aren't usually reached by these kinds of businesses, or aim your advertising at people in the countries that are just now going online.You may, of course, actually write a book, eBook, or training course and sell it. Many are making good money doing just that. The list of helpful software and online publishers is growing every day. But even if you write your own product or design your own software, you will still need a well-thought-out USP to stand out in the crowd. It's like your business plan -- you need a firm foundation before you can build your future online success.

A Reality Check Before Starting an Internet Business

The siren call of starting a business on the Internet is hard to resist. Work when you want, do it from home, make lots of money (even when you're asleep) - what's not to like, right? You'd be a fool not to jump in and start building that website or writing a blog!Not so fast. There are more Internet millionaire "wanna-bes" than you might think. And many have spent more than a few years and more than a few thousand dollars in a vain effort to start a profitable Internet business. It may seem that "everybody" is making money online, but that's simply not the case. And not many people will admit their frustration, partly because no one hates admitting failure but also because perception is everything online. If you are perceived as a failure, no one will buy from you, which makes you fail even faster.So what are the disadvantages and roadblocks that potential Internet entrepreneurs encounter?The first is the learning curve - it's steeper than you might think, and there's no single "how-to" process to follow.Succeeding at an online business requires mastery of several key abilities, not all of which directly correlate to doing business offline. For example, you not only have to build a user-friendly and relevant website or blog, you have to drive traffic to it, all without making any mistakes that cause you to lose credibility in your prospect's mind and cause them to click away from your site.Not easy!And though there are countless experts, books, and how-to courses on how to start a business online, it's hard for a beginner to know who to believe, and there are multiple online business models to choose from as well.The second issue, which was mentioned above but which warrants more attention, is the problem of driving traffic to your website. Novice Internet marketers know they want their site to be found in the search engines, but often vastly underestimate the amount of competition they have for the keywords and search phrases they desire.The Internet reality is that top-ten rankings for most popular keywords is extraordinarily difficult to achieve - which means that the novice "Interpreneur" will need to master the art of advertising online, which can become quite costly.The third and final obstacle mentioned here is that it's very easy to become distracted when building an Internet business.If you subscribe to Internet ezines or visit Internet discussion forums, which are recommended methods to build knowledge and connect with potential customers or partners, you're bombarded almost daily with new ways to make money. New advertising strategies to try. New top-secret, never-before-revealed-to-the-public ways to get more targeted website visitors than you've ever imagined. And so on.And while some of these strategies may be an excellent fit for a particular online business, many will not. Since inexperienced Internet marketers find it difficult to make that distinction, they waste time and money delving into new income models before mastering the income method they're using now.Hopefully, if you're considering starting an Internet business, this article will serve as a "reality check" for you. It's certainly possible to make a substantial secondary or primary income online - but it's much more likely if you have a good grasp of the obstacles you'll probably encounter along the way.Good luck!

7 Ways to Change Undesirable Spending Habits

Many people dream of retiring with a healthy bank account but few people actually achieve it. This is largely due to lack of discipline in building up their retirement fund and poor spending habits. While building a retirement fund requires time, you can accelerate the process by making incremental but positive changes in your spending habits. Here are seven ways that you can change your daily lifestyle for more positive results in your spending habits:1. Do more walking than driving. If you can reach your destination within ten minutes by car, consider leaving the car behind and walk instead. You will save money on gasoline and parking fees. This can easily add up to a few thousand dollars a year.2. Use a bicycle if the destination is within 30 minutes by car. This helps promote blood circulation in your body and also reduces environmental pollution. You can also save on gasoline and parking fees.3. Bring your own coffee to office. Many people like to drop by a Starbucks or similar coffee outlet and end up spending a few dollars or more on a cup of coffee. You can potentially save many dollars dollars each week just by making your own coffee at home and bringing it to your work place in a Thermos. Besides, who knows, it may taste better than the coffee from Starbucks! If you really cannot live without Starbucks coffee, consider getting a Starbucks rebate card. You can use the rebates to redeem free Starbucks coffee after you have accumulated enough points.4. Dine at home more frequently. You can experiment with different recipes and save some money at the same time. In addition, you are honing your cooking skills and this could be very useful for the home dining experience.5. If you are a smoker, start reducing the number of cigarettes you smoke each day. Over time, you may be able to quit smoking completely. Besides saving money by not buying any more cigarettes, your health will also improve and this means a huge saving in your medical bills.6. Have you ever noticed how much time you spend sitting in front of the television? The longer you sit, the worse it is for your blood circulation. Besides, the time you free up can be used for more useful tasks such as teaching your kids or learning a new skill.7. If you are an avid reader, use the public library whenever possible. There is no need to buy the latest books from bookstores like Borders unless it is in a category that does not fit into a public library. The public library will usually acquire popular titles after some times. Learn to be patient.These seven ways are a good start for changing unhealthy spending habits. However, you should continue to research and incorporate more healthy habits that contribute to the building of your retirement fund. By re-investing the money saved from using these tips, you will be many steps ahead of your peers and closer to your retirement goals.

Stop Procrastination and Start Living Your Dreams

Procrastination is almost a way of life for many people, but it's hard to know exactly why people procrastinate. When people procrastinate, they are usually putting off doing something that will be a benefit, but for some reason there is more energy put forth to put off the task than to do it. This is a very bad habit and is one reason many people do not achieve their dreams.Procrastination is an easy way of putting off goals and dreams for another time; goals and dreams that you want to come true, but something is holding you back. There may be a subconscious fear of failure, or a fear of change that is stronger than the goal of success. If you want success badly enough you will face your fears and decide to start immediately doing those things you have put off for so long.Here's the quickest way to get started:First, make a list of all the things you need to do that you have been putting off, you probably have this "to do" list already drafted in your office. Then, go to a quiet place where you will not be interrupted for about 20 minutes. Go through each item on the list and write down your excuse(s) for not having completed the task already. Maybe there is a money problem, or you do not think you have enough education or the proper qualifications. Whatever it is, just write it down and do not worry about how it will be resolved right now.Next, go through the list again and write down the benefits you currently enjoy because you are procrastinating on these tasks. Yes, you are receiving a benefit for not doing the task; otherwise you would have done it by now. For example, if you wrote down that you do not have enough education, then the benefit you are receiving right now by not getting an education is that you have more money than you would if you were spending it on school. Another benefit of this same item is that you have more time to do what you want, instead of spending it in school. Remember the old saying "time is money." Are you really making enough money in your current position to make it worth the time spent there?Finally, look at all the reasons you have listed as excuses for procrastinating, and the benefits you are receiving. Do these still make sense? This is the time to sit down again and make a plan - a plan that you will stick to and not put off for any longer. Now is the time to make a "to do" list that you will actually do! First, while they are still in your thoughts, quickly write down a list of things you will do to make your dreams a reality. Then, go through the list again and put them in the order you will do them (example: Do you need to get a loan before you can go to college?) Also, write down the date that you will complete each item.Now that you have your work cut out for you in a manageable way, go out and make your dreams come true!

3 Ways to get Bad Credit & 3 Steps to get it Corrected

Many times the most well meaning people seem to develop bad credit. Those who had perfect credit in the past seem to go through periods in their lives where debt piles up and paying bills on time becomes more and more difficult.Why does bad credit seem to occur so often to good people with good intentions? Here are three circumstances in life that regularly turn good financial situations into bad ones:1. Many people never really learn how to manage their money and build good credit. It might be because their parents themselves did not know enough to teach them, or that they just never were interested enough to pay attention and learn how money worked.2. When people start to make decent money for the first time in their lives, they start to become confident in their abilities to be independent. This ability to make money will always be with them. They start to feel like they can treat themselves to more and more of the finer things in life. To them, the money will continue to come in forever. They start to spend more and accumulate greater debt.3. It's a fact that bad things happen regularly in life. Whether it's job layoffs, serious illnesses in the family, divorce, or any number of unfortunate occurrences, these setbacks do occur in life. When they do pop up, either money quits coming in, or more money starts going out. Since spending habits and lifestyles have already been established, it is very difficult to overcome the financial difficulties. The inability to pay off debt leads to bad credit. Credit scores start to spiral down, and lifestyles are changed dramatically. Fortunately, there are some ways to improve credit scores and get financial situations back in order. Here is a three-step process that can quickly get back good credit standing and allow anyone to start enjoying a comfortable, secure lifestyle again:1. Get $500 from somewhere. Sell something or earn it somehow. Go to your bank and buy a $500 certificate of deposit with that money. A couple of days later go back to the bank and ask for a $500 loan, using the certificate of deposit as collateral. This "secured" loan will be granted because the bank knows it will get its money back. Your cd guarantees that.Pay off the loan, making regular payments on time. The payments will be made using the money from the loan. It will cost a small amount of interest, but that will be well worth the expense for the improvement in credit.2. Once that loan is paid off, go back to the same bank and now ask for a $500 "unsecured" loan. With this loan, no collateral will be asked for. You are now in good standing with the bank because of the previous loan, so this loan should also be approved. If not, go through the process of the secured loan again. If the unsecured loan is granted, pay off the loan on time using the loan money as before. 3. Once the unsecured loan is paid off, you now can apply for an unsecured credit card, either through your bank or through another company. The terms of the credit card should be very favorable, and it should have a fairly high limit attached to it. The main thing is to keep this credit card paid off and clean. From there, your credit score will show a vast improvement over where it was just a few months earlier.There are many ways to get into debt and develop bad credit. Unplanned financial problems and unfortunate occurrences happen to everyone. Fortunately, for good people, there are always ways to get back to a happy, financially secure lifestyle.

The Importance of Money

A great philosopher once said "Money is a barrier against all possible evils." Let's explore and expand on this thought.Money can prevent the sufferings that come with poverty like cold and hunger. While sickness can not be totally obliterated by money, it can be considerably relieved by it. Giving away money to charity can also provide us with the satisfaction of relieving others from suffering.With money, we can obtain an advanced education that may aid us in the development of genius and extraordinary achievements. It gives us the leisure to devote a part of our time to culture and art. Money can provide a powerful diversion for all or our troubles by permitting distraction from the anxieties that assail us.So we must try to get a thorough understanding of all that we may possibly do, in an honorable and legitimate way, to conserve wealth. Even to those who have inherited wealth, idleness can be a certain cause of ruin. A great fortune needs genuine labor for efficient administration. Those who leave this duty to strangers may pay a penalty for their negligence. This is why a rich man, who wants to preserve and increase his fortune, should be his own business manager.Even artists must know the price that their work is worth. It is necessary for the artist to be a businessman in order to have the right to be a genius. History is full of example of this. The great Shakespeare labored as a theatre manager to obtain the necessary leisure to produce his dramatic masterpieces. Edison worked as a telegraph operator to pay the bills while he "moonlighted" as an inventor.From the bottom to the top of the ladder, it is necessary to amass money in order to apply it to some great cause. Money is the means by which we may fulfill our purpose in a larger and better way. Everyone should, in his own way, make an effort to amass some money. Some will apply money to their daily wants. Others seek to swell the fortune that they desire to leave to their children. Some only desire money so they can devote it to some noble enterprise or charity. Finally, a large number see money chiefly as a means of immediate gratification.Whatever the reason, everyone capable of earning money should learn how to manage it properly in order to ensure that they will have enough of it to apply to the causes that they choose.

Running a Work at Home Business

For anyone who wants to earn more money than they'd ever get with a day job, then the only real answer (besides winning the lottery) is to start their own business. Of course, starting a business can be very costly, something that puts starting a traditional business out of the reach of many people.However, there is an alternative, and that's starting a business from home. There are several different alternatives a person can choose from, from coming up with a completely new idea and concept and creating their own products, to joining an existing MLM type business, to starting an online business. Lately, a huge number of people have been lured by the idea of making their millions on the Internet, but the sad fact is, few of them ever make a decent living, let alone a fortune, online. Why is that? Many online opportunities are promoted as being very simple, and easy enough for everyone to do. If that were truly the case, there would be a lot more online success stories today than there are!One problem people have is too much choice. There are so many different opportunities and ideas, that they try and run with the lot, and end up falling quite heavily, simply because without focus a business is doomed to failure. Another problem is that many people really don't have any idea about running a business, and don't think about their home business as they would a real, traditional business. If you really do want to start a work at home business, and aren't afraid to put in a lot of time and effort (especially in the beginning) there are a few important things you need to know to set you on the right path. Firstly, watch your expenditure. An online business can be one of the least expensive businesses to run. Most people already have the basics they need to get started (a computer with an Internet connection). However, the problem comes when they actually start looking at online businesses and means of making money. Suddenly they're confronted with a million and one different products ALL of which are supposed to guarantee success. Many people spend hundreds, or even thousands of dollars, very quickly when they're starting out in the world of Internet business, and soon find that most of it was money down the toilet. To avoid this, you need to work out what it is you're going to be doing online and create a plan. There are numerous ways of making money on the Internet, including: eBay and other auction sites, affiliate marketing, Adsense (and other contextual advertising), as well as marketing your own product. Once you know what it is you want to do, then find one very good resource, and stick to it, The hint here is to do a bit of research first, and get honest reviews of any product before you purchase, rather than letting a sales letter induce you to purchase another worthless product.The next thing you need to focus on is how you're going to build your business. Most online businesses start with a website (and although there are plenty of sites that promise you don't need a website of your own, anyone who wants to make a long term living online will need a website). You then need a step-by-step plan you can follow, and you need to be able to follow it! One of the best things about working from home is also one of the most problematic, and that's the fact that you can work your own hours. Unfortunately, if you're not able to discipline yourself you may find that the hours actually spent in front of your computer aren't enough. It helps if you can work out a day to day plan of exactly what you want to accomplish each day, so that you know you're on the right track. Finally, it's worth remembering that a work at home business, even an online one, will require a certain amount of dedication and effort before you'll be rewarded with results. It's not a matter of whipping up a quick website and waiting for the money to start flowing in, and if anyone tells you it is, odds are, they're lying! Be prepared for months (even years) of hard, consistent work, and you'll reap the rewards, but fall for too many get-rich-quick schemes and promises and you'll be back to your day job before you know it.

Home Business Scams

Everybody wants to work from home.We are all aware of the benefits of working from home. Work at your leisure, do what you enjoy and earn money in the bargain. Who would not like this luxury. But with the mad rush for people to work from home, scamsters seem to be making a quick buck and many people have fallen prey to them. The following are a few scams one needs to be careful about before engaging in work at home opportunities."Envelope Stuffing Scams"This is possibly the most infamous. You are required to stuff envelopes which the company sends you after you have paid a fee with a promise that you will be paid for every envelope you stuff. The problem is you never get paid and you lose the money you have invested in buying the envelopes."Data Entry Scams"You see many advertisements promising you instant wealth just typing from home. But what do most of them turn out to be? Well, typing Google adwords as prescribed by the company, pay for the keywords that are suggested by them and simply advertise for " Data Entry " jobs which leads the customer to their site. In other words all you are doing typing Google Adwords using your money for advertising their site and getting a small commission in the bargain. More often than not you end up burning a hole in your pocket with Google Adwords as we all know it does not come cheap. You could do this on your own with a Clickbank and Google Adwords account and don't need to pay money to do it."Call 1-900 Scam"You would have to call a 1-900 number to get more details on a home business opportunity or a work from home job. These numbers are not toll free. So you pay for the call and end up getting information which is of no use to you."Sending E-mail Scam"You are promised income by just sending e-mails. For this you have to pay the company for the necessary instructions. In return you get a list of e-mail id's to which you have to send e-mails. Here is the catch. You will probably end up spamming people and get penalized in the bargain.These are just a few scams. There are probably many more on the net. One needs to be careful before spending one's hard earned money. A simple search on Google for Home business scams can give you more information about the scams doing rounds on the net.

The Business of AdSense

Even though AdSense is a very popular income source for many online marketers, few will make enough money from it to make AdSense their primary business. If you are currently trying to increase your AdSense earnings there are some tried and tested rules that will help you achieve more clicks and make more money.As an online marketer, you realize that you must be consistent and persistent to achieve the goals that you set for yourself. The AdSense business is no different. Yet the people who make the most money with AdSense are the ones who work at it smarter rather than doing the same things over and over that do not produce good results.In fact, it is a popular myth among online marketers that you must only develop and promote websites that pertain to high paying keywords. As a rule the marketers that make the most money from AdSense are the ones who consistently keep building websites around medium priced keywords within a theme. Then as they go along, they build websites that are related to that common theme. For example, you might build your websites under the theme of 'computers'. The mistake some people make is to develop one site devoted to only computers. It is advantageous to the marketer to make many websites related to computers such as laptops, computer hard drives, computer keyboards, etc. It is the concept of more is better that will make you the most money.As you start building your AdSense publishing business, here are some major rules to consider that will maximize your profits:1. Track your successes and failures.2. Use the latest tools and software available.3. Keep your AdSense sites easy to navigate. Do not promote anything else on these websites.4. Treat your AdSense business as a real business. The marketers that make the most money with AdSense are the ones who treat it as a business and consistently continue to produce high quality websites around themes or 'niches' daily.If you are just starting out, you have to realize that there is a lot of work involved to set up your websites, do the seo optimization, track your results and then repeat the process.You can use the latest tools and software to automate the keyword selection process, create good websites and do most of the tedious seo optimization for your AdSense websites. In this regard investing some money in the right software will turn more profit in the long run because you will be able to make more sites faster. The name of the game in the world of AdSense is to make highly profitable websites and keep making more of them all the time.A large AdSense income does not happen overnight. The best way to make the most money with your AdSense business is to follow the rules outlined here and constantly build more websites. Like planting seeds in a garden, you will reap AdSense income according to what you sow.

You Can Make Money With A Home Based Business

Would you like to earn money by starting your own home-based business? People choose to work from home for several reasons including the desire to stay home with their children, the need for extra income, or simply being dissatisfied with their current job. A home-based business will provide you with an exciting way to earn money and be your own boss. Numerous opportunities are available to internet marketers.When starting your home-based business you should develop a business plan and research your options thoroughly. Making wise decisions and following your business plan each step of the way can help you in creating a steady stream of income. Operating a home-based business will require hard work and effort. You will not become wealthy over night. It will take determination to succeed as an internet marketer. The amount of money you make will be directly related to the amount of work you are willing to do.When making your business plan, include both short and long term goals. Determine how you will achieve those goals and put your plan into action. Affiliate programs are excellent home-based business programs and there are numerous other internet marketing offers that will create steady income if you are willing to make the effort. Some of these opportunities may require an initial investment from you and others are advertised as free. Research all internet marketing opportunities carefully to make sure you understand the terms and conditions.As an internet marketer, you will have to distinguish yourself from the competition if you want to succeed. You should know your target audience and know your competition even better. Do not let self-doubt stop you from accomplishing your goals. Every successful internet marketer gives their business the very best effort possible. Hard work and determination will make your home-based business a success and provide you with a steady stream of income.Starting a home-based business is one of the most exciting and challenging endeavors you will ever undertake. A sound business plan and the will to succeed will set you apart from the competition. Choose the products or services you provide carefully. Make certain your services will be needed over the long term and make customer service your top priority. A loyal customer base is the key to the success or failure of your home-based business. A home-based business is an excellent way to gain independence and financial freedom. A sound business plan and a strong work ethic are all it takes to succeed.

Making Some Extra Money With Paid Surveys

There are many opportunities to make money online. It can be a hard decision on which method to try. Paid Surveys are one of the easiest ways to make money online and they are worth giving a try. Everyone has an opinion and what better way to earn than to share ones opinion through online surveys. One can visit innumerable websites and fill out surveys for some cool cash. All you need to do is Google the words "paid surveys"Paid Survey is a form of market research and by giving your views you can assist in shaping and molding future products and services. To start with, paid surveys require no special knowledge or skills. You do not have to build a website or advertise anything. Paid surveys are completely free for the participant.It is also very easy to find paid surveys. However, there are some companies who will not actually pay money, but instead pay through prizes or awards. These paid survey opportunities can still be good because you can earn a lot of good merchandise and perks through them. Signing up with a paid survey opportunity is also quite simple. Usually they will ask for personal information like your name, address and email address. They will also usually have an introduction or screening survey.The introduction survey is basically where they gather information about you that they will use to match you with available surveys. Sometimes they may be looking for people who meet certain specifications to take a survey and that use your introduction survey to see if you meet their criteria.You are usually advised of surveys that are available for you through e-mail or sometimes by visiting the website. When a survey comes available, you simply go to the website and begin taking the survey.You should not expect to get rich through paid surveys, but it is possible to make a few hundred extra dollars each month if you are participating regularly in paid surveys. If you are looking to make the most money then you should sign up for a few different paid surveys.Paid surveys are quite easy and they don't generally take a lot of time. You can easily start doing paid surveys in your spare time and be able to make a little extra income each month.You can start taking paid surveys from these websites:http://www.surveyclub.comhttp://www.yellowsurveys.com

Avoiding MLM Scams

It's no secret that when multi level marketing (MLM) is mentioned, many people think of illegal pyramid schemes and other scams. Follow these tips to check out an MLM company and you will be able to avoid MLM scams.1) Contact the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org), the State Attorney General's office and the Federal Trade commission (www.ftc.gov or 1-877-FTC-HELP) and at no charge you will be able to check the records of the MLM companies and will get some great tips about how to safely evaluate them. 2) Check Google and other search engines for "company name + scam" and you will find out quickly if there are complaints.3) Check out home business message boards and scam.com for bad reviews. Obviously, there are always a couple of people that didn't make money and want to blame the company. Do proper research and you will quickly know which distributor had a legitimate complaint and who was just plain lazy.4) Go to www.mlmwatchdog.com and see if any problems are posted there.5) Ask your attorney to review any documents before you sign them.6) Present the entire program to a trusted friend and see what he or she thinks. Take their advice under consideration. You never know, if the company does turn out to be legit, then that friend is a great first recruit.7) You should be focusing on selling products or services and not recruiting more distributors. If this is the case, proceed with caution and at your own risk.8) Be leery of requests to make large purchases up front.9) All MLM's, just like any type of business, require work. Beware of false promises of easy money making schemes. Beware of guarantees such as "everyone is making money with this automatically."10) Do the math for yourself. Have a trusted advisor, friend, accountant or attorney check you and make sure that the payout plan is actually feasible.11) You don't want to sell products or services with false "miracle" claims to them. Actually try to promote the products and services yourself to make sure that you like them and WANT to promote them first and how they work.The MLM industry is one that holds great promise. Unfortunately, there are a few undesirable people and companies. By following your due diligence, asking questions and proceeding with caution you should be safe. Check these things out first!

So You Want to Earn Some Cash with Content Publishing

You have read all over the internet about how easy it is to make money with something called content publishing. Well, it's true; you can make some decent money online with content publishing. There are however, a couple of things you need to know before you'll be able to generate significant money from Google's Adsense or any of the lesser known context advertising systems.First on this list is "original content". Do not fall into the trap of obtaining private label content for use on your context advertising site and using it without truly making it yours. This cannot be stressed enough. In order to get the biggest benefit from your private label purchases, you must re-write the content to make it unique. The search engines love unique content and it makes absolutely no sense to purchase the right to re-write the content, making it your very own, and then not exercise that right. There are so many people who buy private label rights and then do nothing with them. One of your objectives must be to make your content stand out from the crowd. The search engines will reward you with a higher ranking. This will translate into more visitors and more clicks on your ad links.That brings us to another issue that you must not forget about: traffic generation. You could have the best looking site on the world wide web, but if you get zero traffic you will not make any money from it. Like it or not, traffic generation is something that you must work at to be successful in content publishing. Sure, at some point you should be able to count on getting regular traffic from the search engines, but how long will that take? In the beginning, you will need to drive any traffic that you get to your site. Traffic doesn't just magically appear. It takes some hard work, but in the end the payoff can be significant.Traffic generation can be accomplished in two ways, free traffic or paid traffic. Free traffic generation methods include link exchanges with similar sites, signature lines in emails or forum posts, free classified ad sites and many more. Paid traffic includes sites where a specific amount of website visitors can be purchased. Be very cautious about using paid traffic sites as these sites may send traffic that is untargeted and therefore potentially unresponsive. It's obvious that the kind of visitor you want is someone who is interested in the content on your site. Although this is obvious, it needs to be stressed. Random web surfers who land on your site are very unlikely to spend much time reading your content or clicking the ads. The kind of visitor you want is someone who is actively looking for the kind of content you have published. These visitors are very likely to click on relevant ads and that is one of your main objectives as a content publisher.

Network Marketing Do's and Don'ts

Why did you become a network marketer? Most people immediately respond, for the money! However, this is not the real reason.No one subjects them to the hard work of building a business just for little pieces of paper with the faces of dead presidents. The truth is you work in order to obtain what those little pieces of paper can bring you.The first thing you need to do is to find the reason WHY you are a network marketer. Is it the freedom to choose whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it? Maybe you are looking for a different lifestyle. If there is one thing that is critical to your network marketing success, this is it. If you dont have a reason, there is no motivation to succeed.A network marketing business is a teaching and coaching business. If you dont like interaction with other people, a network marketing business probably is not for you. Theres a concept that most network marketers just cant seem to get a handle on. You do not sponsor reps, you sponsor people! If you have to find a reason why you are building your business, then doesnt it stand to reason that other people will have to do the same thing? If thats the case, then why is it that network marketers continually focus on how much money your prospect can earn?Theres no way you are going to convince Joe Sixpack, to get out of his Lazyboy recliner unless you find out what his motivation is. Most network marketers literally pound in the amount of money Joe can earn. They bombard him with message after message about how Successful Sam has just purchased his 10th Porsche, refurnished his 25,000 square foot cottage and promise Joe that he can do the same!Just how realistic is this approach? Joe isnt stupid. He works long, hard hours at his job in order to provide for his family and truly believes that the best thing he can hope for is saving enough money by summer to pay for a camping trip. Then here you come, promising Joe that he can have everything that Sam has and he can have it if he will just sign that piece of paper making you his sponsor!You will probably sponsor a few people that way, but if you are in business for the long haul you need to change your approach and do it fast. The proper approach is so simple, but in your rush to sponsor another rep instead of helping another person, all too often you talk yourself into and straight out of sponsoring the Joes of the world.God gave you two ears and one mouth and he did it for a reason. We are supposed to listen twice as much as we speak.Instead of pouncing on Joe with the latest and greatest network marketing program of all time, find out what Joe wants and needs. Ask him questions, lots of questions. In fact, in your first meeting with Joe, dont even mention your business! Yes, thats what I said. Dont even bring it up. Remove yourself from the super duper network marketing persona and spend time making a new friend.Follow these recommendations and you are set to grow your business exponentially.

Why MLM Companies Don't Want You to Succeed

MLMs are in the business of making money. They (with very few exceptions) could not care less if you succeed. In fact they want you to fail, it's good for present and future business.How can this be? Logic says that if they have more members, they make more money. Well, let's look at how they operate.The MLM makes money by keeping the difference between membership fees and the commissions paid out. The best member for the MLM is one that is signed up by the MLM itself. Because there are no commissions paid out. So the MLM does a lot of advertising for itself to get a huge top line where they don't pay out any commissions.The next thing they do is to make it difficult to qualify to earn commissions. Examples: your first two sales go to your sponsor (probably the MLM); you have to sponsor two new members every month to stay qualified; you have to sell a certain amount of product each month to stay qualified; you have to sponsor five members to start getting commissions.So you have to do a great selling job while competing, not only with other MLMs, but also with the MLM you joined!Let's look at the situation where you have to sponsor five members to receive commissions. Assume that the monthly membership is $50. You join and pay $50, and since you got in early, there is great enthusiasm for the MLM, so you sponsor 4 new members. That's great for the MLM because they now have 5 members paying in $50, and NO commissions going out. In the second month there is still great enthusiasm so your downline sponsors 4 each, but that 5th one is really hard to get because you are now competing with your MLM, your own downline, and all the other MLMs out there, for a new member.So, there's you and your downline, 17 people strong, sending $850 per month to the MLM and getting nothing in return.Now pretend that there are 100 like you that joined the MLM. Now the MLM is getting $85,000 per month and paying out $0 in commissions. It's a license to print money.Since you only need one more member to start earning commissions, you are likely to stay with it for another month, so the MLM makes more money. When you do quit, the MLMs make it your fault, which actually inspires you to try again with another MLM. After all, it's a piece of cake to find just 5 people; especially with all the help the MLM gave you.So you join another MLM, which is probably run by the same guy that ran the other one. So, you lose money again.How do you stop the slide?Find an MLM with a real product that is appealing to a lot of people.Find an MLM with a product that you like and can get excited about.Find an MLM that pays commission on EVERY sale that you make.Find an MLM that provides true assistance in sales.Find an MLM that pays out a large commission, 60-80%And the best way to avoid wasting all your money on MLMs is to become an affiliate for products that you like and use. That's right, the advice from this author is to avoid MLMs entirely.The only way to make big money in an MLM is by being able to bring in a large following from your own lists. How to build that list, and getting people to trust you are best left to another article.

Making a Living Online

Is it possible to make a part time or full time living on the Internet? Can you really make enough money to make your time worthwhile? According to all the "gurus" you can easily make a LOT of money by buying their program and doing EXACTLY what they tell you to do. Is all of this hype really true? The answer is yes and no. It really is true that a stay at home Mom or a student in need of extra income or a full time worker needing a part-time income can make money on the Internet. It is also true that a lot of people are making a full-time living and even becoming rich on the Internet. The question is, "Can you do it too"? Again the answer is maybe yes and maybe no. It all depends on how much time you are willing to invest in studying the techniques and learn the methods you need for Internet Marketing (IM) success. The fastest way to earn extra money online is to sell on Ebay. You can start right now, today, and in 3 days be paid online for items you sell. There are a lot of "get rich quick" tutorials for sale on how to make it on Ebay, but you don't need one. You can simply register at the Ebay site, read their tutorial and get started selling items you have around the house. A lot of people make a few extra dollars to a few hundred extra dollars a month on Ebay. Others make a lot more. Ebay or any business you get into online or in a physical business location has the potential to make money. Lots of people succeed in business and a lot fail. Your success or failure will partially depend on how well you prepare, how much you study and how much energy you put into the project. The great thing about online businesses compared to brick and mortar stores is it usually costs a lot less to get started. For instance, getting stared selling on Ebay doesn't cost anything. You only pay fees when you run an Ebay auction ad. Once you have some money rolling in on Ebay, you can invest in one of the guru courses that you can find in any search engine by doing a search for, "Internet marketing". Do you have to buy a course? No, you can find free information online to help you get started. The advantage of a course is that it is all in one place. A decent course starts at about $67 and runs up to about $197. There are other cheaper courses and more expensive ones. It is best to start learning with a moderately priced course. Every course you find will offer you good advice. Some are better than others. It is hard to say which is best. Just like some people love Fords and hate Chevy's, it is the same with IM guru courses. The secret is to do a little online research, pick one and then follow it. Internet Marketing can be as easy as creating a simple website and putting other company's ads on the site. You get paid when someone buys a product or even when someone clicks on an ad. You don't even need a product to sell; you only have other's ads on your web pages. Ebay is a make money today proposition. For most people, Internet Marketing is a get rich slow process. Yes, some people make money within days or weeks of starting on online business. Most take a little longer to get established. There are no hard and fast rules on how long it will take you to make money online or how much you can make. It all depends on how hard you are willing to work and how much time you are willing to devote to creating a new business.

How Small Businesses Waste Money

Most business owners subscribe to the thought that you "must spend money to make money". This can be true, but you also must know exactly where that money is going and the results it brings. A small business owner never has any money to waste.Some ways that your business might waste money includes the following:1. Manage your credit cards - If you have several cards, develop a computer program that will show you the exact balances, due dates, and the interest rate you are paying. Always be aware of other solicitations that save you money and possibly change your balances over to a new company. If you have any employee cards, see if you can set a limit on them. If not with the credit card company, make sure that the employees know their limits. Manage your credit cards wisely and never, ever miss a due date.2. Develop an annual plan so you know where you will spend money. This helps you in several ways. The business person will be aware of what portion of the profits are going to advertising, towards incentives, towards accounting and other internal expenses, etc. 3. Do not over-purchase any products or services for a business. If you buy in bulk, the money is tied up and a place must be provided to keep the extras. That might be an unnecessary expense.4. Developing an advertising budget and knowing just what resources to use is key to keeping money under control in a small business. You must advertise, but you also must get value for your money or you will soon be out of business. Keep a record of how much is spent, can you get payment terms, when is the most efficient time to advertise your particular product or service to get the most value for the dollar. Every dollar must be accounted for in advertising because the lifeline of your business depends on new and paying customers. Advertising is the way to get the word out to the community or the Internet. 5. A small business owner will sometimes be under self-induced stress to manage all aspects of the business. Sometimes, leaving the control and decisions to others that are qualified is the best way to manage the business. Releasing control may be hard to do sometimes, but in a lot of businesses, money can be wasted because the owner cannot possibly be as efficient as the person who has studied or is knowledgeable about a particular field. For instance, if a business owner does not know accounting, many mistakes in reporting income and taxes can be made. A qualified accountant can possibly save more than the cost of their services in reduced taxes.Take a hard look around your business and do not let anything be set in stone if saving money is the goal. Challenge everything that will cost money and see what can be done to change the situation. Any money that is saved is money that can be put back into the business either in profits or in growth.A business owner wants their business to be successful and will work hard to sustain growth. A business owner wants a way to continue making and growing money from a product or service that is interesting to them. After growing a business and being smart with cash flow, many business owners will sell their businesses only to start another business. The reason is that business owners are independent types and challenges are rewarding when met and faced. Saving money through every day operations will help the business owner to meet their financial and emotional goals.