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Archive for July, 2009

by Adam Woods

As soon as the economic down turn took hold of the world the number of people looking for ways to earn extra income increased dramatically. With technology and connectivity in today’s world it is possible to earn substantial amounts of money from your very home. Listed below are ten ways to make easy money from your home.

Become a Paid Blogger

Blogs are becoming ever more popular and more and more people are starting to realize that they are an important business tool. Blog and website owners are always on the lookout for people that can write good material for their blogs to help drive traffic. You can make easy money online by freelancing, your service as a blog writer.

Sell Items on eBay

Many people make easy money online, at home, from buying and selling goods on eBay. You can find things to sell on eBay from just about anywhere, car boot sales, auction sites, craigslist.

Become a Freelance Writer

If you have a good writing skill you can make all sorts of easy money online from hiring out your services. There a lot of businesses that does not have the time and sometimes the skill to write good pieces for their websites. It is good practice to hire this work out.

Read Emails – Take Online Surveys

There are lots of companies that would like to know what their consumers think about their latest product or service. They would be glad to hear people’s opinions so they can adjust business according to their comments and it is a good source of promotion as well. This is how read emails and online surveys started. This is a very simple job because all you have to do is to read emails that will be sent right to your in-box or express your opinion on online surveys.

Etsy

Etsy, Just like eBay is a massive online market place, with a difference. Etsy is designed for people with any type of crafting talent to be able to auction their goods. There are two markets available here either selling crafting supplies to the artists or selling goods yourself. If you do not have a talent for crafting goods then you might be able to find somebody to make them for you.

Trade on Craigslist

If you are not aware, there’s a Free Section on Craigslist where people in your nearby areas are giving away stuffs just for the sense of disposing of them. All you have to do is drive around and pick up those freebies. After, you can turn back to Craigslist and sell those freebies below its market price.

Resell eBooks

Share your secret formulas in form of eBooks and make easy money online. You can hire a freelancer to write your ideas which you think that would sell. Even if you don’t have the idea but you have the extra money to invest, you can buy the Master Resell Rights to ebooks, software and other products and create a new brand for yourself and sell them and keep all the profits for yourself.

Work as a Virtual Assistant

Freelancers and small businesses desperately need help running their businesses, but they’re not about to hire a secretary to come sit in the family room and answer phone calls. As a virtual assistant, you might do anything from making travel reservations to handling expense reimbursements to paying bills to arranging for a dog sitter.

Turn a Photography Hobby Into Cash

If you have the passion for photography, you can turn this hobby into easy money online. Website owners and other online marketers need relevant photos for their website or work. They usually turn into stock photography sites to look for available photos. The advantage of taking stock photography is that your photos keep making you money over and over.

Project Payday

With project Payday you can expect to earn from $15 to $30. It is free to sign up and has full training and mentoring to get you started.

About the Author:

After spending thousands, Adam Woods, eventually came to the conclusion that there is no get rich quick ways to make easy money online. Then Adam was introduced to Eric Cole, one of onlines top marketers and earners in the U.K. and U.S.A. Eric showed Adam step by step how to successfully run and market his own business online with wealthy results. Come and join their team and see what they can do for you.

by Brian Konradt

Blogging (short for “web logging”), born from the Internet age, is one of the newer venues for freelance writing. The Internet has generated a lot of news about the financial possibilities open to bloggers: an audience of potentially millions — along with possible corporate sponsorship, a byline, and infinite creative control — captures the imagination of many prospective bloggers, and makes blogging seem like an infinitely desirable, lucrative field.

The truth is it is much more difficult to become a successful freelance blogger. A good knowledge of marketing, web design, and being consistent are skills you need to make a living (or a comfortable extra income) from this new form of media.

The reason for this is the low barrier of entry. Anyone with access to web space can start a blog. Sites like Blogger, Livejournal and even MySpace offer free web space to anyone willing to sign up. This has resulted in millions of blogs in existence today, many of them literate, many of them wildly popular, and nearly all of them free to read and browse.

That variety of free content makes it difficult to charge for access to your writing, no matter how good it is. You could be the greatest expert on foreign policy or nutrition known to man, and few people would be willing to pay $5 — or $1, or one cent — to read a blog post by you, the expert, when there are thousands of semi-qualified (but bright and engaging) writers giving away similar material.

So your main sources of revenue are going to come from advertising and from whatever paid content you can fit into the site. Luckily, web advertising is becoming less dicey than it was a year ago.

Google’s “AdSense” program is a good baseline for a page, providing targeted advertising based on your content and paying you, directly, per click-through (although the pay rate per click is low.) You can supplement that amount with other forms of web advertising, from the comparatively unobtrusive banner to pop-up animations that “float over” the text.

This brings us to the “double-edged sword” problem in web advertising. The most effective advertising is obtrusive advertising; that is, advertising that blocks valuable content until the user clicks on it either to make it disappear or to take you to a different website.

However, obtrusive advertising also irritates your readers, which can lead to a lower reputation for your blog overall. On the Internet, reputation is the single best determinant of your web traffic. Using obtrusive advertising can significantly lower your traffic and make your blog that much less attractive to potential advertisers.

So you’ll need to find a happy medium between heavy advertising (and light traffic) and little to no advertising (and high traffic, but little revenue.) Luckily, the instant responsiveness of the Internet, along with the commenting features available on nearly all blogging software, make it easy to ask your readers about exactly what level of advertising they’d be willing to accept. Reader connectivity is one of the most important features of any good blog: not only does it allow you to fine-tune your blog over time, eliminating features that readers find irritating or off-putting, but it also allows you to develop personal connections with your readers, the kind of connections that build loyal audiences.

There are other ways to make money by blogging, such as the following:

1) It’s possible to sidestep advertising altogether by making some of your content unavailable, except to subscribers. For example, you might only keep your most recent five or six blog entries unlocked, and require a monthly subscription fee to read the rest of the archives;

2) Or you might keep your current posts and your entire regular archives active, but produce some longer or specialized entries or other content and charge a set fee for these;

3) You could even compile some of your best entries into a physical book, along with some new content, and offer it for sale. Even if all the entries are available online, you’d be surprised how many people are willing to pay to have something they can hold in their hands;

4) Additionally, you could go the Salon.com route — make all of your archives available to anyone willing to watch a short full-screen advertisement — or you could rely on readers’ willingness to support content that they find worthwhile by asking for donations outright.

Many prominent blogs and online content providers have done this and found themselves able to make rent and pay all of their bills every month on donations alone.

No matter how much advertising or subscription services your blog has, it’s all worthless if people don’t want to read you in the first place. And there are three simple rules to make your blog popular:

1) Write on something you care about 2) Write consistently and thoughtfully on a regular schedule (daily is best) 3) Read and comment on other blogs

People read blogs because they provide a source of information and analysis on topics that traditional media sources only cover sketchily and hastily, or don’t cover at all. Don’t try to figure out an ideal money-making blog topic and proceed from there. People care about blogs because blogs are about personal, in-depth viewpoints and thoughts.

If you can provide those to your audience regularly, and you can set up a minimally-intrusive but still worthwhile revenue system through advertising or subscriptions, there’s no reason why you can’t become a successful blogger.

Brian Konradt is a dynamic and truthful writer on the topics of work at home and business building. If you would like to learn a secret step by step proven successful method for making money from home don’t hesitate to checkout The Niche Blogger Review.