Becoming an Affiliate

If you are interested in getting involved in affiliate programs, the first thing you have to do is decide whether you want to become an affiliate, want to acquire affiliates, or both. If you run an e-commerce site and would like to increase your sales, you might want to start your own affiliate program. If you run a small content site as a hobby and would simply like to bring in a little money to cover production costs, joining a few programs as an affiliate would be a good option. Your best option depends on what aspects of affiliate programs could best serve your site and how much you are willing to spend.

Becoming an affiliate is relatively easy. Go to an affiliate network site and fill out an online application to become a member. The application will ask for some personal information (name, address, payment method) and information on your site (URL, name, and description of content) and will have you agree to a service agreement. Most affiliate networks are completely free for affiliates.

If the affiliate network approves your application, you can begin picking affiliate programs that interest you. Because so many affiliate programs are free to the affiliate, it's probably in your best interest to steer clear of programs with a charge. Once you've chosen some affiliate programs, the online merchants running these programs will have the opportunity to review your site. If they approve you, the affiliate network will walk you through the process of posting the appropriate links, which come directly from the network's site. They will also establish payment arrangements with you. Because the amount of money you earn per action can be extremely small, most affiliate networks have a set minimum payout amount. This means you won't receive a check until the total money owed you reaches a certain amount. After you have set all this up and the affiliate network has explained its system to you, you can get back to work on your Web site's content and wait for your money to come in.



Successful Affiliate Programs
Amazon.com's affiliate program is so successful because it effectively links commerce and content and takes advantage of the respective strengths of Amazon.com and its affiliates. All kinds of people might buy books online, because there are books on a huge number of subjects. By itself, Amazon.com can attract a lot of these people, but there are many more readers who surf the Internet but wouldn't think to go shopping at Amazon.com. Either they haven't heard of it or the lure of books alone does not entice them. Some other subject, let's say car engine repair, does entice such a reader, however, and so he seeks out Web sites covering that subject. If his favorite engine repair Web site were to recommend and offer a good engine repair book, he would happily purchase it online. If that Web site sends him to Amazon.com to buy the book, Amazon.com gains a customer it may never have had without the referral. If the customer is happy with their purchase and the service they receive, he might also buy more books on the site.

So, is the engine repair Web site getting the short end of the stick here? Not at all. The engine repair Web site is a small operation and its creators' main interest is writing articles about engines. If you've read the HowStuffWorks article How E-commerce Works, then you know selling products online takes a lot of time and money. For a site that doesn't want to spend its resources selling books but knows its audience would be interested in them, Amazon.com's affiliate program offers an attractive arrangement. Effectively, the affiliate Web site gets to make money selling books but doesn't have to deal with any of the work involved in the process. All the webmaster has to do is pick a book she wants to sell and incorporate it into her Web site.

Affiliate programs work best when affiliates choose products, services and companies that match the content of their Web site and would interest their readers. If a content Web site chooses affiliate programs well, everybody involved in the process wins. The affiliate wins because it is able to sell products to its visitors without having to run an e-commerce business, the merchant site wins because the affiliate sends it customers it wouldn't get otherwise, the affiliate network wins because it gets a piece of the profit for setting everything up, and the Web surfer wins because the affiliate Web site directs her to products she would be interested in, which she can then purchase easily.

You probably won't make much money as an affiliate if you choose affiliate programs that don't have much to do with your site. Because it is usually free, a lot of Web sites join a whole bunch of affiliate programs and figure that enough of them will pay off that they'll make some money. Probably, they'll actually end up canceling each other out: the affiliate Web site will just look like a huge advertisement. Your main assets as a content Web site are your content, your traffic and your knowledge of that traffic, so it's a much better strategy to use the information you have and pick affiliate programs that would best serve your visitors and best supplement your content. If the programs you choose match the content of your site, it should be fairly easy to lead your visitors to participate in them. If you've reviewed a CD on your site, for example, you could simply link to the page selling that CD on an online music store's site. This is an excellent way both to serve your visitors and to make money off your Web site's traffic.

For more information about affiliate programs and related topics, check out the links on the next page.

What Are Affiliate Programs?

Simply put, affiliate programs, also called associate programs, are arrangements in which an online merchant Web site pays affiliate Web sites a commission to send them traffic. These affiliate Web sites post links to the merchant site and are paid according to a particular agreement. This agreement is usually based on the number of people the affiliate sends to the merchant's site, or the number of people they send who buy something or perform some other action. Some arrangements pay according to the number of people who visit the page containing their merchant site's banner advertisement. Basically, if a link on an affiliate site brings the merchant site traffic or money, the merchant site pays the affiliate site according to their agreement. Recruiting affiliates is an excellent way to sell products online, but it can also be a cheap and effective marketing strategy; it's a good way to get the word out about your site.

There are at least three parties in an affiliate program transaction:
The customer
The affiliate site
The merchant site
In 1996, Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, popularized this idea as an Internet marketing strategy. Amazon.com attracts affiliates to post links to individual books for sale on Amazon.com, or for Amazon.com in general, by promising them a percentage of the profits if someone clicks on the link and then purchases books or other items. The affiliate helps make the sale, but Amazon.com does everything else: They take the order, collect the money and ship the book to the customer. With over 500,000 affiliate Web sites now participating, Amazon.com's program is a resounding success.

Over the past few years, affiliate programs have grown enormously in popularity, taking many interesting forms. For many Web sites that don't deal much in e-commerce (selling products or services online) themselves, functioning as an affiliate is a good way to participate in e-commerce.

Affiliate Program Payment Arrangements
There are three basic types of affiliate program payment arrangements:

Pay-per-sale (also called cost-per-sale): Amazon.com's affiliate program is an example of a pay-per-sale arrangement. In this arrangement, the merchant site pays an affiliate when the affiliate sends them a customer who purchases something. Some merchant Web sites, like Amazon.com, pay the affiliate a percentage of the sale and others pay a fixed amount per sale.

Pay-per-click (cost-per-click): In these programs, the merchant site pays the affiliate based on the number of visitors who click on the link to come to the merchant's site. They don't have to buy anything, and it doesn't matter to the affiliate what a visitor does once he gets to the merchant's site.Example Adsense

Pay-per-lead (cost-per-lead): Companies with these programs pay their affiliates based on the number of visitors they refer who sign up as leads. This simply means the visitor fills out some requested information at the merchant site, which the merchant site may use as a sales lead or sell to another company as a sales lead.
There are a number of other arrangements as well. Basically, a company could set up an affiliate program based on any action that would benefit them, and then pay their affiliates based on the number of customers the affiliates send them who perform that action.

There are a couple of very popular variations on these basic payment plans:


Two-tier programs:These affiliate programs have a structure similar to multilevel marketing organizations (also known as "network marketing") such as Amway or Avon, which profit through commission sales and sales recruitment. In addition to receiving commissions based on sales, clicks or leads stemming from their own site, affiliates in these programs also receive a commission based on the activity of affiliate sites they refer to the merchant site.

Residual Programs: Affiliates in these programs can keep making money off a visitor they send to the site if the visitor continues to purchase goods or services from the merchant site. Many online merchants who receive regular payments from their customers (such as monthly service fees) run this sort of affiliate program.
Additionally, there are a few pay-per-impression affiliate programs. Companies running these programs, also called pay-per-view programs, pay affiliates based only on the number of visitors who see their banner ad. Usually, this sort of arrangement is not structured as an affiliate program, but simply as a traditional advertising program. The advantage affiliate programs have over traditional advertising is that in an affiliate program, an online merchant only pays its affiliates when it gets a desired result. Traditional advertising, such as the ads you see on TV and a lot of the banner ads on the Internet, is relatively risky for the advertiser. They spend money on advertising based on a guess of its effectiveness. When an ad brings the company more money than it spent on that ad, the ad is a success. If the company makes less money than it spent, it has to swallow that loss. With an affiliate program, an online merchant only pays its affiliates when things are working. Because there's much less risk to the merchant, it's a lot easier for Web sites to join affiliate programs than it is for them to attract advertisers.

INTRODUCTION TO HOW AFFILIATE PROGRAMS WORKS

These days, it's remarkably easy to set up your own Web site. If you have a computer connected to the Internet, you can simply go to a site such as GeoCities or AOL and use their ready-made Web design templates to construct a simple personal page. These sites will give you a URL, store the content of your page and slap on some advertisements. Just like that, in an hour or two, your page is on the Web! ­


­But what if you want to take your site to the next level? If you have a content-driven Web site, how can you make money off your traffic? If you are an online merchant, how can you get people to your site to buy your products? One popular option that serves both of these functions is an affiliate program. In this article, we'll examine affiliate programs to find out what they are, how they work, who they are for and how you can use them to benefit your Web site. ­


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7 Ways to Make More Money on eBay

Making money on eBay requires consistent effort and attention to detail. Here is a great article with tips to help eBay sellers make more money on eBay. The article is by Sean Eyring from HammerTap. HammerTap is our recommended eBay research solution. At the end of the article is some information about HammerTap and how it can help eBay sellers make more money on eBay. Karen and I have been using HammerTap for the past six years with good results.

Make Your eBay Listings Get the Attention they Deserve
We've all been there. You visit a Web site looking for information.. You're bowled over with bright "circus" colors, animations going everywhere, and text that's hard to read.

The site almost begs you to click your browser's "back" button. Many eBay listings look the same way. If you want to make more money on eBay follow these tips.

eBay's "Create Your Listing" page makes it easy to use backgrounds, change text colors, add graphics, and so on. But the question is, does the look of the listing increase your chance to sell your product? Read on to learn when using eBay designs makes sense... and "cents."

"Branding" Yourself Online

Is there a time when consistency of appearance counts? Here's a quick mental exercise. Think of the Coca-Cola logo. What colors are used? If you thought red and white, their multi-million dollar branding campaigns did their job.

Why not blue and white? It doesn't matter, really. What matters is that they use red and white over and over to "brand" themselves into your mind. Put a Coke, a Pepsi and a Dr. Pepper at the bottom of a cooler filled with ice water. Even without being able to read the labels, if I want a Dr. Pepper, I reach for the dark red can.

Sure, ass an eBay seller you don't have the advertising budget of Coke or Pepsi. But you have one advantage. If you sell products on eBay, especially in any kind of specialty "niche" market, it's likely that many of the same people will see several of your listings. Here's where branding comes in.

Create a consistent and unique look for your eBay listings. Use the same background image if you choose to use one. Use the same text color and font. Create a unique "theme" and use it for all your listings.

Consistency Pays

What's the value of consistency? On eBay, people may fear buying from those they don't know. That's why eBay has their feedback system. It gives you some confidence in the person you're buying from.

If a person recognizes the "look" of your eBay listings, you increase your chances to sell to them. If an eBay buyer purchases from you and has a good experience, the next time they recognize one of your listings, you further increase your odds of selling to them. The more sales you make the more money you make on eBay.

Designing Your Unique "Look"

So now that you know the value of a consistent design, how do you create your own look? I'm an online marketing consultant. When I work with a client, the first question I ask is "Who is your audience?"

If you're mostly selling electronics, you probably don't want to go with a border with flowers and dolls. On the other hand, if you specialize in selling teddy bears and plush toys, this may fit your audience perfectly.

Think of your audience. Are they predominantly male or female? Is your product high-tech or high-touch in nature? Take a moment to write down what you know about potential buyers of your products. Keep this in mind when designing the look to use with your listings. But there are a few absolute do's and don'ts.

Absolute Design No-No's

Make your eBay listings easy to read. First of all, let's choose the text color and background. Use black on white or on another VERY light color. Never use light text on a dark background. Especially on older monitors, it can be too difficult to read.

Use a font size that's large enough to read easily. Stay away from small print that many readers will have to strain their eyes to read.

Use a "sans-serif" font like Arial or Verdanna. "Serif" fonts like Times New Roman are easy to read in print, which is why they're used in newspapers and novels. Studies have shown however, they are much harder to read on a monitor.

Composing Your eBay Listings for Maximum Effect

Studies have shown that any Web page (such as your eBay listing) has between 3 and 10 seconds to grab the interest of your reader. If you haven't made at least one "benefit" statement they connect to, chances are they're gone with a quick click of their browser's "back" button. And they're gone for good.

So how do you catch the attention of your audience in seconds? Simple. Put your best benefits at the top, and make them easy to read. Bullet points are great for that. Give short, to-the-point descriptions of why the reader should by your product.

Benefits vs. Features

I've read dozens of books on marketing. I'll save you a lot of reading. Here's the thing I've learned that's more important than any other. It's the value of clearly stating your product's benefits.

Let me illustrate the difference between two ads for computers, one based on features, the next based on benefits:

Features-based

3.0 Gigahertz Processor
256 Megabyte Video Card
350 Gigabyte Hard Drive
Benefits-based

Fast processor lets you get more done quicker
Powerful graphics card lets you play all the latest games
Roomy hard drive, so you can install all your programs and still have room for music and video
A feature describes an attribute of a product. A benefit tells why you should care. For example, stating a computer has 256 Megabytes of video RAM says nothing to the average computer user. It's a feature. But they may be purchasing the computer for someone who's really into the latest computer games. Many of these require a lot of video RAM.

Now we've turned the feature into a benefit by telling how that feature makes the product more valuable. Make sense? But one of the strangest things I see as a marketer is how even professionally produced advertisements costing thousands of dollars to create and sent out break this one simple rule.

Well there you have it. A quick Marketing 101 course as it applies to creating a winning "brand" for your auctions. We also described how to sell more often by focusing on benefits, rather than features.

Make the most of your auctions with research!

If you want to make more money on eBay, determining what works and what doesn't when it comes to your listings requires research. Anything less puts you at risk of not making the sale or not making as much as you could be on each sale. A research tool like HammerTap helps eBay sellers bypass the costly trial and error process by quickly giving them the key information they need for profitable online auctions.

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eBay Secrets: Tips to Make Higher Profits on eBay

One of the secrets to making money on eBay is to reduce your costs, fees and expenses. Here are ten eBay secrets to help you make more profits on eBay. Many of these are very simple and easy to implement. If you do all of them your savings can really add up and your eBay profits will increase.

1. Save eBay Photo Hosting and Scheduling Fees
There are two fees paid by almost every eBay seller that you can reduce or avoid altogether. The first is the photo hosting fee. eBay gives you the first picture free. After that they charge 15-cents per photo. Since I always use at least 3 or 4 photos in a listing, this can add up. The other is the scheduling fee. eBay charges 10-cents when you schedule an auction to list at a specific time. Unless you can create and launch your auctions at exactly the right time of day, almost every seller uses this service. You can avoid or reduce these by using an auction management service to launch your auctions and host your photos. A free program is Auctiva at Auctiva.com. A low cost program -and the one I prefer is InkFrog at InkFrog.com. Although Auctiva is free, I prefer InkFrog at $9.95 a month as you get a lot more services and features that easily make the extra little expense worth the while.

2. Pay your eBay fees using a credit card with a cash back program.
This is not exactly an eBay secret, but it is amazing how many people pass up this free source of money. Check your credit cards to see which ones offer a cash back program. Using these types of programs can result in between 1.5% and 3% credits back to your card. Some sellers prefer to get airline points, but personally I always go for the cash. I have a card that pays a 2.5% cash-back credit. Last year it saved me $726 in fees.

3. Control Your Insertion Fees
Pay attention to the tiered pricing in your eBay Insertion Fees. Pricing an item between $10 and $24.99 will cost 55 cents. Pricing an item between $25 and $49 will cost $1.00. Analyze your costs here and determine if it is more cost effective to set your starting price in the lower tier to save money on your insertion fees. Assuming your item sells, pricing the item lower will cost less in fees than pricing it in the higher tier. Here is a link to the eBay fee schedule: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

4. Use listing Upgrades Selectively
Listing upgrades can get expensive. A major eBay secret is to experiment with anything that costs money to make sure it works. eBay charges hefty fees for bold, highlight, enlarged photos, and other upgrades. Run listings with upgrades and without and determine if the upgrades have any effect on your sales. The Bold listing upgrade tends to work the best for me, whereas I rarely use the other ones. On the other hand, when I tested my bold feature on my auctions, I found there were two categories of product where it didn't matter. Cancelling the bold listing on those categories saved me over $600 a year in listing fees.

5. Use the new eBay Fixed Price Listing Feature
You can now list an unlimited number of items at a fixed price for 30 days for 15¢ in books, movies and music and 35¢ in other categories. The final value fees are higher in some categories and cheaper in others but items in fixed price listings come up in search whereas eBay store listings do not.

6. Open an eBay Store
Running all auctions gets expensive. You can add items to store inventory for 5 cents per item for a 30 day listing. Basic store subscriptions start at $9.99. Although there is a monthly fee for an eBay store, in the long run the lower listing fees can easily offset this. Be sure and use your auctions to cross sell to your store by placing links in your auctions to your store listings.

7. Save non-paying bidder fees with mutual cancellations
If you've sold an item but can't go through with the sale, or the buyer refused to complete the sale, you can cancel the transaction in the eBay Dispute Resolution Center and you may receive a credit on your Final Value Fee.

8. Always file Unpaid Item Disputes
You will see these on your eBay Selling Manager if a buyer has not paid for an item within 7 days. After filing the Unpaid Item Dispute, the buyer might pay. If buyers don't pay within another 7 days, eBay will refund your Final Value Fees. However, you want to be a little careful doing this when your feedback score is low as these buyers often leave you a negative feedback anyway. I think its better to use number 7 above as once a transaction is cancelled, the buyer can no longer leave feedback.

9. Use Free Relist Credits
On average, about one-half of all auction listings result in a sale. eBay will give you one free relisting credit on auction listings that do not sell. You can relist unsold items by selecting the "relist your item" drop down on the unsold items module on you're My eBay Page. If the relisted item sells, eBay will credit the Insertion Fees back to your account.

10. Major eBay Secret, Watch your packaging costs
A key eBay secret of professional sellers is Don't over-package your items. The more packing material you use, the more your item will weigh. More weight = more postage. In some cases, reducing your packaging by just one ounce can mean the difference in a few dollars per package.

Packaging materials can get expensive. Check with your local gift shop, kitchen shop or Radio Shack. These stores will often give you boxes and packing material for free so they don't have to recycle it.

When shipping items USPS Priority Mail, we use the paper Tyvek envelopes instead of a box if a product in not highly breakable. Boxes weigh more than the envelopes, and cost more to ship.

If an item weighs less than 14 ounces, then use First Class instead of priority or parcel. You can purchase your own poly mailers and use First Class for these lighter items. Poly mailing bags cost a few cents when ordered in quantity. You won't have to spend the minimum $4.90 to ship an 8 oz item just to get the free Priority Mail supplies.

Ways to Make Money on the Internet

Unless you're a freegan and have found a way to live entirely off the grid, you probably need some sort of steady income in order to survive. The traditional way to earn money, of course, is by having a job. You work for a company or start your own, and the work you do earns you money, which you spend on things like a mortgage, rent, food, clothing, utilities and entertainment.
Most people typically work from their company's central location, a physical space where everyone from that organization gathers to exchange ideas and organize their efforts. But a few lucky souls have found ways to make money within the comfort of their own home. With the Internet, an ever-changing arena for businesses, some looking to earn money are finding ways to do so. Some forms are best for part-time endeavors for those looking to make a little extra money on the side, while others can lead to full-time jobs and Internet success stories.
We've put together a list of our top 5 ways to make money on the Internet, in no particular order. On the next page, we'll start with an old favorite

Make money Selling Stuff on eBay

By ohagwu henry
­It's a fairly straightforward concept that most people are familiar with by now -- if you have a bunch of stuff that you don't necessarily need but others want and are willing to pay extremely inflated prices for, you can auction off the items on eBay or other online auction sites. Simply gather your goods, create a seller's profile and start selling.


It sounds simple, but takes some practice to sell successfully. Creating persuasive and legitimate product pages for the goods you're selling will help get buyers interested. It's also important to set reasonable minimum bids to ensure that people will buy. And remember to deliver the kind of customer service that will garner positive feedback ratings and to communicate with buyers to let them know you're reliable. The more positive feedback you receive, the more people will be willing to do business with you. And that, of course, means more money.


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Make Money Blogging - 3 Popular Blog Topics to Earn Money From Home

by Bobby williams

Blogs have proven to be a successful source of income for many people, making use of visitor numbers and advertising to provide a financial reward for their writing and musing. Many people make use of Google AdSense but there are advertisers willing to pay directly for space on a popular blog. Below are some of the more popular blog topics where popular and well written blogs can earn money.

• Health and Fitness - Society is now more aware than ever about healthy living, and many people are looking for quick solutions to daily fitness and health problems. Quality content regarding tips and products can see people visiting your site, and daily updates will see them return each and everyday.

• Celebrity Gossip - The rich and famous are more than ever in spotlight, and hundreds of thousands of people are looking to find out the smallest details about their favourite stars. It may be difficult to find out any new information but it is easy to bring all available information together to ensure that your blog is the central source of information from dedicated fans.

• Dog Training - Initially it may seem that pets and dog training is a niche market for a blog. But an increasing proportion of the population are now owning pets. These new owners are of course looking to find out all they can about the best way to care for and train their pets, informative and interesting articles again will draw people in, and the appropriate use of ads can see a lot of revenue being earned.

Many successful blogs though come not from writing about a popular topic, after all there is a lot of competition, but from finding a niche that is popular and where no one is writing about. Therefore write about something you know about and keep trying

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Home Work Ideas - Anyone Can Make Money at Home!

Whether you have a PhD or GED, creating home work ideas can help further career goals and help your family with additional income. From finding a telecommuting position to starting a home business, there are many work at home possibilities for both the experienced and non-experienced worker.

For workers with little to no relevant job experience; without education, chances of finding a long-lasting work at home career are slim. This is due to fierce competition from professionals with many years of experience. If a work at home job can be found, job burn-out from the types of available jobs offered at this skill level happens frequently. One of the best ways inexperienced job seekers can develop ideas is to start their own business. Starting a business can be anything as simple to selling homemade crafts online and at craft shows, to opening a home daycare. Depending on allocated budget and amount of time committed to the venture, these opportunities work can suit just about anyone. It is important to take note of your local municipality's regulations regarding a home business, as home daycare workers must attend classes and be licensed in most states.

Other home work ideas involving a business are those that are franchised. Whether selling cosmetics, vitamins, or health supplements, the ventures that use franchise agreements require upfront fees, but also offer the comfort and security of selling a well-known product line.

For highly experienced workers, ventures can involve starting a business or applying for a job using previous learned skills. While your last job may have involved upper-level management, due to heavy competition, be prepared to take a less qualifying positions; especially when desiring to work at home, as most executive-level positions are performed at a company's corporate headquarters. These jobs also involve having a fully-functional home office, as many meetings will be performed via telephone and Internet conference calls.

All of these ventures requires a commitment to planning available work times, developing a feasible plan and having capital to supply a home office or home business. Be sure to weigh the costs of working for a company versus the costs required to start-up your own venture. Investigate the question of short-term versus long term employment. If looking for short-term cash, a job where you can work out of your house may be best but if looking to one day to own your own company, it may be the perfect time to start working on some home business ideas.

Making Money With Online Data Entry Jobs

By Alan Lim
Online data entry jobs are becoming more and more popular especially with mothers who would like to stay home but still earn a living. These jobs allow you the flexibility of adjusting your work to your lifestyle and not vice - a versa. This is an excellent way to have the right work and life balance as well. There are various kinds of data entry jobs available online. Choose the one that suits you the best.

The bouquet

Online data entry jobs are of all kinds. There are the traditional as well as the non traditional ones. Jobs vary from the kinds that require the entry of addresses and names and compiling a database, to jobs that are more complex and challenging like transcription. There are also other jobs like editing of information that is already in existence, proofreading, legal or medical transcriptions, statistical tables and spread sheets.

Finding a traditional data entry job

Traditional and regular online data entry jobs generally involve the use of your typing skills. The working of this is very simple. You are employed by someone or a data entry company to enter certain information and perhaps format it and fit it into an existing database. You can also be employed to fill in forms etc. where you fill in information and get paid for it. If this is the kind of job you are looking for, then looking at the job ads in your local newspaper would be a good place to begin. This way you will start with clients that are closer to home and gain the required experience you need to expand. If you are a bit more experienced, then you can start by looking for bigger jobs and even those that are put up as job postings on various sites. Payments for these kinds of jobs usually come once or twice a month depending on who you are working with.

The nontraditional side

We've looked at traditional online data entry jobs and how they work. On the other side of the coin are the nontraditional jobs that you could explore. Basically you would be looking at jobs where you are your own boss and you earn as much as you work.


These kinds of jobs would be recommended for those who have some amount of data entry experience. This would not only help in finding legitimate jobs but also in getting paid the right amount for your work. An example of nontraditional data entry jobs is filling out of survey and marketing forms or even selling products that are digital from websites like Clickbank.com.

Training

While most online data entry jobs do not require you to take any kind of formal training, there might be jobs that are highly specialized that require you to undergo some amount of training.

if you are considering a job such as this, then you must be aware that there will be a training fee that you need to put in. Once you have completed this training, you will probably be put on a period of trial. If you clear this, only then do you get regular jobs. The training fee might also require renewing from time to time. However make sure the company is legitimate before you sign up for any kind of training.

Choosing that perfect job amongst all the Online Data Entry Jobs that are available in the market can be quite a challenge. To help you decide, you will find plenty of resources at http://www.goodinternetmoney.com/four-online-data-entry-jobs-to-tickle-your-fancy.php.

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Pay Per Click Formula 2 Review - I Was a Beta Tester and Here's What I Think

By John Piteo
Pay Per Click Formula 2.0, created by Gauher Chaudhry, is an advanced course that teaches people to make money online by "traffic brokering" specifically with CPA (Cost Per Action) offers. This simply means that you buy traffic from the search engines and send that traffic to lead offers. The customer performs an action such as filling in their email address or maybe their name and home address and you are paid for each lead.
Gauher released the original PPC Formula Home Study Course around two years ago. Several millionaires were created by studying and practicing his methods. Things have really changed in CPA marketing since then. Many of the techniques in the original course have become obsolete, Google has tightened up on their rules, and it has become more difficult to be accepted by CPA networks; however, Gauher, a master at CPA marketing has stayed on the cutting edge of what's working in the industry.
Gauher has managed to stay one step ahead of the game and he is experienced in teaching others how to do the same. He has had a lot of practice helping members in his private forum become successful over the last two years. In his new course he shows you how to knock down the barriers of getting started and overcoming all of the hurdles along the way.
For the past several months he has been diligently working on Pay Per Click Formula 2. This is the long awaited update to the original version. Since I was one of the beta testers for this course I had the opportunity to see and use the strategies and techniques while the course was being produced. I have the inside scoop, so to speak.
Although I can't reveal too much about exactly what is in Pay Per Click Formula 2, I will say that it is much more comprehensive and powerful than the original. The first course helped many people leave their day jobs and helped a few become millionaires in a fairly short period of time. Version 2 has over three times as much content as the original. It also includes case studies and an action plan for each module that can be followed step by step.
Although, this is a step by step course it's not for everyone. It may not be well suited to beginners who do not know how to build a simple landing page or who have never tried PPC. If you have experience with these two things or your are willing to learn then this may be just what you've been looking for.
This article is an overview and there is only so much that I can say here. If you want to see my highly detailed review which reveals more of what's in the course and the type of money that some of the PPC Formula members are making visit my website here PPC Formula Review
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Make Money Posting Links For Google

By Court Tuttle
Pay Per Click Formula 2.0, created by Gauher Chaudhry, is an advanced course that teaches people to make money online by "traffic brokering" specifically with CPA (Cost Per Action) offers. This simply means that you buy traffic from the search engines and send that traffic to lead offers. The customer performs an action such as filling in their email address or maybe their name and home address and you are paid for each lead.
Gauher released the original PPC Formula Home Study Course around two years ago. Several millionaires were created by studying and practicing his methods. Things have really changed in CPA marketing since then. Many of the techniques in the original course have become obsolete, Google has tightened up on their rules, and it has become more difficult to be accepted by CPA networks; however, Gauher, a master at CPA marketing has stayed on the cutting edge of what's working in the industry.
Gauher has managed to stay one step ahead of the game and he is experienced in teaching others how to do the same. He has had a lot of practice helping members in his private forum become successful over the last two years. In his new course he shows you how to knock down the barriers of getting started and overcoming all of the hurdles along the way.
For the past several months he has been diligently working on Pay Per Click Formula 2. This is the long awaited update to the original version. Since I was one of the beta testers for this course I had the opportunity to see and use the strategies and techniques while the course was being produced. I have the inside scoop, so to speak.
Although I can't reveal too much about exactly what is in Pay Per Click Formula 2, I will say that it is much more comprehensive and powerful than the original. The first course helped many people leave their day jobs and helped a few become millionaires in a fairly short period of time. Version 2 has over three times as much content as the original. It also includes case studies and an action plan for each module that can be followed step by step.
Although, this is a step by step course it's not for everyone. It may not be well suited to beginners who do not know how to build a simple landing page or who have never tried PPC. If you have experience with these two things or your are willing to learn then this may be just what you've been looking for.
This article is an overview and there is only so much that I can say here. If you want to see my highly detailed review which reveals more of what's in the course and the type of money that some of the PPC Formula members are making visit my website here PPC Formula Review
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MAKING MONEY BUYING CHEAP AND SELLING HIGH ONLINE

PART 1
By Ohagwu Henry
Domain names are referred to as internet real estate. It is just like the address of a business. You can let it appreciate value. You can build it and sell it at a very high profit.
Sometimes you can decide to park and do nothing else and still make money. Atimes, you can buy domain names and sell it off at your own favourable price. Domain name registration starts from $3. A domain name with a very good traffic carries the cash. Also domain with a very high net worth value command attention. I will show you how to make any amount you want to make from this. I will teach you how to get the required traffic and where to sell and what to consider before putting your cash into it. Over 90% of domain name registrations are useless. I have got testimonies on all aspect of this business. As I write this, I have just completed the sales of my domain name, healthsuccesstip.blogspot.com for $1000. I bought this domain less than a month ago for just $8. That is a profit of over 1400% in 30 days! That is from a colleague to encourage you.

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Domain names alone can fetch you above $1000 per sales, but if you take a little more Ftime to do some more things, developing it to website, you can sell that website for over $10,000 people will query to buy your website. At that point you can raise your price and maximize your profit. It will not take you more than a few weeks to do. The best advice I will give you is never leave your domain empty waiting for buyers. This can be used to increase your adsense profit. This is one of the secrets of online marketers, they will never tell you. This is especially good if you have enough time online. Domainers miss 98% of opportunities to sell. I was like that too when I started, not until recently I learnt how to turn $8 into $2000. I made those mistakes because I never had a serious guide beside me. Most of those e-books never told me what they did to succeed. It was just the same bunch of old stories that I already bought. But thank God I have come across series that worked from my searching and time consuming work. I pray it will not go that way for you.
SPECULATION: you can decide to let it wait and appreciate in value before selling. Of course you know this will take time but it sure pays overtime. If you hear like world cup international incidence coming up in 8 years time, you can decide to register it now, Hurricans new inventions and stuff like that. You have got to be current to do this but note that the money from this does not come so fast. A help on this email:
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Make Money with Google Ads

By Tiffany Provost
Extra income coming in is always helpful, but even more so when things are bad and money is tight. Many people are looking to online solutions like Google AdSense.
If you believe you have the right stuff, why not use the Google AdSense instruction guide to find out how to use online advertising programs for profit on your website.

1. First off, to start making money with Google AdSense, you have to get to the website. You need to have your own website, too. You'll receive an e-mail within a few days from Google to let you know whether or not you have been accepted following their evaluation. You can get started by login in to your account.

2. Post ads on your site. When you have read and agreed to Google's terms and conditions of use, you'll be welcome to utilize their ads on your website. Pick the size of the ad and whether you want just word or words and graphics. You can even decide on your own color scheme.

3. Get more hits on your site. You need to work on increasing passing traffic to your website so you can make more money. If you create pages that are focussed on keywords, then you will get more traffic. Pick out well known keywords to bring more people to your website. Online lessons will give you some ideas about this if you are at a loss.

4. It is important to make your website simple and user-friendly. An additional method to earn money from Google Adsense is to increase your click-through rate with an excellent design for your website. One successful design is the skyscraper. And be sure that you concentrate on just one subject for each page so that Google can have clearer ads. Your profits will increase with Google AdSense if you can make your click-through rate higher by following these ideas.

5. Increase profit per each click. Another way to increase your profit using Google AdSense is to use words that are 'more expensive' - you will then get more hits on your website and ultimately make more money. You may not get a high search engine ranking with these special keywords, but you will get an increase in traffic from other web pages. (You can find the estimated value of a keyword by searching for it on www. There you'll see a cost for each listing.)

6. Cash galore! Keep a check on your account balance and watch it grow day by day. Create a few changes and see if they improve your income. You will gain more income when you use more than one website to post your Google ads on. It might be slow at the beginning but with determination and some internet knowledge, you can make a profit using Google AdSense.
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How to Use PPC to Earn Easy Google Profits

By Jamie Marks
It seems that the allure of working from home and making a living from your computer has reached new heights. Everyone around the net seems to be talking about how they are earning easy Google profits and to no surprise everyone has their own version of how to do it best. Now in order to clear up any confusion about all the different Google cash kits out there I want to explain the real ways of making money from home.

Prior to getting started or purchasing any training kits you should understand the real ways to earn easy Google profits. The way that the search giant works is that it acts a intermediary between advertisers, customers, and webmasters. It allows for advertisers to pay for targeted traffic and split those profits with webmasters who allow the posting of those ads on their websites.

From the customers standpoint they have access to all sorts of research in Google's organic search in addition to instant deals and offers being displayed to match their search terms. Thus in this marriage of commerce and search Google stands in the middle, with tons of money changing hands leaving many entries for someone to come in and make easy Google profits.

I want to back up now and discuss the first way that you can make money from Google which is through AdSense. This is a program that many website owners take advantage of and some are even earning six figures from it. When you sign up for this program you are allowing Google to place relevant ads on to your website. Each time one of your visitors clicks on those ads you get paid a portion relative to what that keyword is worth to advertisers.

This can be anywhere from pennies to over ten dollars per click. This is the first method that you can use to earn easy Google profits. The main key here is to have a website that receives a lot of traffic, as the more people you have the more percentage of people you will have clicking on your ads. There are tons of Google cash kits devoted to showing people the best way to set up sites to get visitors to click on ads.

The other way to make an easy Google profit is to use the second advertising system that Google has to offer which is AdWords. This system allows you to cut through the difficult process of having to rank your sites in the organic search by allowing you to pay for instant exposure to searchers. With this method you can market an unlimited amount of products by paying for every click that Google sends your way.

This method is usually reserved for experienced marketers and no Google cash kit can really prepare for how quickly you can lose money if you do not have the right sales methods set up. However if you learn the right way to leverage both of these systems you truly will be on your way to an easy Google profit.

For more info check out the full Easy Google Profit and Google Cash Kit reviews.

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HOW TO MAKE COOL MONEY WITH AFFILIATE MARKETING ONLINE

by fred ohagwu
DEFINITION: Affiliate means the process of linking of group of people to a company, an organization very closely with another larger. So, the name Affiliate marketing explains itself. do you know Affiliate programmes alone is capable of making you over $2000 monthly. Affiliate programme are programme that allow you to refer people to buy product and on every sale you earn your commission, which could be up to 75% of the deal saled. There are are many hundreds and above of Affiliate programme online are ready to part with 30% to 75% of their sales, which means if you promote a $200 of that, which is $150.
As a jobless or working person how will you fill having that amount 4 times in 2 days that is $5400 per month? I can assure you with full confidence that will you make more than that per month .All you need to do is to put your domain name to your affiliate link which will be given to you when you register with affiliate programmes.Your link will be used to track your sales for you to earn more.
Example of affiliate sites includes:
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BY SIMON UZOMA.
Online forums continue to increase in popularity with large once having many thousands of members.It,s a great way to meet people throughout the world.It,s also a great way to website indexed by a search engine spider like the Google bot as there are regular visitors thanks to the continous new content being generated on the forum. they become large stores of information and often by searching one you will find the answre to your question
Most forums require you to register with a USERNAME and PASS3WORD before you can start posting on the forum. most forum also have rules about posts contents, mainly on racism,abuse,and the like and rules about posting threads in the most appropriate topics.
Most forums focus on a particular subject range from entertainment fan club,sports of all kinds,automobile, Health topics,and problem support groups.Honda vehicle are good example of how specialized forum can be.There are 16 different forums focused entirely on Honda vehicle! Some focus on Honda accessories,while others focus on Honda vehice of different ages
To start to do well in forums and to start getting any benefit from it,you should follow a certain procedures.There procedures will make you more comfortable in the forums and will help you to get the maximium benefit out of any forum.
1)First find out in the forum you are interested to join.Read them and find out if there is anything that does not suit you.Abide by their policies too.
2)introduce yourself properly to the forums.The introduction should be in a professional way as you want something good from the forum.Do not be casual.Let the forum know about you,your qualifications,work,interest,skills e.t.c. so that they may be used when is need.
3)FEEL FORUM:feel about the forum where you want to get in and post something. Find out the old posts and find out about the language,tone,topic.maturity level of of the reader before posting.You can do better when you have a feel about the forum.
4)Help people to find out answers to their queries.Help them with their problems. If someone asks you a question,answre that.
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7 WAYS TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE WITH YOUR BLOG OR WEBSITE.

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HEY...think of making $150 online with your blog or website.
I happened to discoover a man,Name Rob Benwell,only 23years old but has made over a million dollars from blogging.His claims are verifiable,and it all goes to show just how much money is possible to be made from blogging.
Today, i will be sharing with you some ways by which you can make money from your blog or blogs as the case might be.And without wasting time,i will just making money on different ways. Here we are.....
1.MAKING MONEY WITH GOOGLE ADSENSE.
You may already be familiar with google adsense.However for those of that are not i quickly explain it.Google Adsense are contextual ADS that Google Display on blog or website. The ads that are relate to the content on your blog and when your visitos clicks on them to get further information about what interest them, you make money from it.
2.MAKING MONEY WITH CHITIKA.
Since january 2004 when chitika began offering its ads online services, more than 20,000 bloggers and publishers are already using chitika Ads to make money monthly with over 70+ power-packed revenue generating solution s catering to bloggres and website owners of all sizes and a lot of blogger testify of making more money with chitika than with other source.They pay through pay pal and check.they make payment each month,minimium of $10 for pay pal payment and $50 for check payment."To make money using chitika with google" 5 Tips from real publisher,"Deep scret of successful blogging" Learn from 30 Experts; visit:www.moneyway-online.com Ad suit handbook for your website,you can download this free.
3.MAKING MONEY WITH AMAZON.
you can make money with you blog or website by becoming AMazon's associate that means you wil be sendig your visitors to Amazon product links and banners from your blog. when visitors click on the link and banners from your blog you can earn up to 15% on all purchases made during their shopping session.Amazon pays their promoters through check.Log in www.amazon.com then click on the amazon associate link.
4.MAKING MONEY WITH PRIVATE AD DEAL.
you can make money with your blog by giving space to people who are interested to advertise their products or service using banners text links on your blog,depending on the topic your blog and the traffic you are generating,this can be a huge money making source form your blog.
5.MAKING MONEY WITH CLICK BANK MARKETPLACE.
Here you will have the opportunity to promote any of click bank more than 10,000 digital product and earn up to 70% pay sale.You select the products you wish to prmote and click bank handle all the tracking,accounting,payouts automatically.
However,click bank does not list some countries to participate in its program.
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(WWW.azoogleads.com)Azoogle Ads is a performance-based online advertising network that delivers result for its advertiser and easy to manage and profitable revenue stream for its publishers.
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(WWW.maxbounty.com) affiliates with max bounty earn revenue from advertising sponsors on a pay-for-performance basis.Internation affiliate can recieve their money through direct wire transfer and check.

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