Saturday 12 September 2009

The 6 Ways You Can Make Money Online

The idea of working from home, being your own boss, spending only a few hours and earning a decent income is something that appeals to most people. It's understandable due the huge amounts of money that can be made online and the fact that you get to work for yourself while doing it.

There are many ways to make money online, that's the beauty of the internet. Below is a list of six different but popular methods of making money online.

1. Set up a Blog or Website for profit
One of the best ways to earn money online is to create a blog or website and have (google adsense) advertisements on the blog or website which earns you money every time someone clicks on the google adds.

There are lots of different types of money making blogs and websites but you will need to direct traffic to your blogs/websites because without traffic you won't make any money.

2. Affiliate Marketing
As an affiliate marketer, you are a bit like a sales person for the site(s) you are directing traffic to. But because the selling is done pretty much by the merchant you don't need to do much selling. See the merchant has invested lots of money on their product and service, and on their marketing too. What you have to do is, deliver traffic to the merchants website who then takes care of everything from that point on.

3.Creating your own information production and selling it.
Creating your own information product(s) can be one of the easiest ways to make money online and earn a decent profit in short period of time. Information products come in many forms from short reports, e-books, video content etc. Information products can be sold by itself or in a series bundled together in a physical product or digital to be downloaded online.

4. Domaining
Although buying and selling domains is not a get-rich-quick enterprise, domains can be a good investment. As the need for a Web presence continues to grow, domain names should go up in value.
Buying domains to sell is a great investment: it has little risk and can have high profits, and its open to anyone with a bank/credit card to buy the domains and a bank account to deposit what profits you make from selling the domains.

5. Participate in Get Paid to Websites
Get Paid to Websites(GPT) are websites that pays their members to do works or tasks mainly online but can be offline. These types of websites are in business by receiving money from their advertisers, they then share a percentage of their earnings with their members who helped them generate more money into their networks. To participate with these get paid to websites you will have to sign up with them first.

6. Online Freelance Work
There are plenty of online freelance job opportunities and thanks to the internet, getting started with freelancing online can be a lot easier than searching for freelance work offline. Below is a list of a some of the most popular online freelance work.

*Freelance Writers
*Freelance Article Writers
*Freelance Copy Writers
*Freelance Graphic Designers
*Freelance Programmers

7. Find a Virtual Job or Make Use of Your Expertise/Coaching
Online jobs are vast and cover everything which can include virtual assistants, online life coaching and support for open source software. Mini consultation networks allow you to easily set up business and offer advice on specific topics online for a small sum of money.

These types of virtual jobs would involve direct communication through electronic mediums like internet calling, instant messengers and emails. Meaning all you would need to get started is a computer with a half decent internet connection.


John Lyon

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