Whats up! after some time off I have to say its great to be back!
I had to deal with and handle a lot of problems the last months of 2007, most of them being economical problems, there was a lot of stress I had to let go and thats why I decided to stop everything for some time, so I decided to let the year go, and now that its gone, I have to stand back up, and it feels good!
I want to wish you the very best on this new year, 2008, may it be full of good things, happiness and health!
May the new year 2008 bring you a lot of wealth as well! May all your goals get accomplished accordingly, and let nothing set you back!
Best Wishes!!!
Till next time! Good Day!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Finding a niche
For most of the ways to make money online we have to find the niche that works for us, I found myself hating the word niche when I was starting but the thing is in the beggining you would think that like any regular job you could just start and get used to it as you work, while you can start like a regular job and perhaps you may adjust to it, it is a fact that finding and working with some products or services you understand and feel confortable with working will make the ride much smoother for you.
Something that most of us that are making money online have in common is that at some point we have to write about what we are working with, think about it, from the ways that you make the money from what you write such as freelance writing, blogging and building a website, to the ones that writing has to be done on the side for the profit to be made like affiliate marketing, eBay and filling out surveys
One of the reasons finding your niche is so important is just the writing you have to do, if you have a website or are promoting a product or service one of the things that can aid you the most in accomplishing your goal whether it be sales or plain traffic is to write articles, if you are a blogger you always have to write articles and the best way to make a profit from your blog is keeping it to one topic and not writing far from what it is.
Writing is what makes it so important to find out what works for us because sometimes even when we have to write about something we know and love it becomes hard, usually when you try to write about something you don't know anything about not much will come out.
Finding a niche is something simple, the best way to narrow it down to find yours is to think what it is you want to do, a website or blog? promote affiliate programs or go with paid ads such as AdSense?... If what you want to do is eBay then it all comes down to writing about what you are selling there and what you have to find is the type of products you want to promote.
Find products/items or services that are profitable, that you can earn good commission on, the fact that a product is cheap doesn't mean you are going to sell it easy much less does the fact that a program has low comission percentage guarantees you that you are going to sell it easy... when it comes down to the actual sales the big impact is in you and the way you present the product or service, how you write about it, and how good the product is.
Have a good day!
Something that most of us that are making money online have in common is that at some point we have to write about what we are working with, think about it, from the ways that you make the money from what you write such as freelance writing, blogging and building a website, to the ones that writing has to be done on the side for the profit to be made like affiliate marketing, eBay and filling out surveys
One of the reasons finding your niche is so important is just the writing you have to do, if you have a website or are promoting a product or service one of the things that can aid you the most in accomplishing your goal whether it be sales or plain traffic is to write articles, if you are a blogger you always have to write articles and the best way to make a profit from your blog is keeping it to one topic and not writing far from what it is.
Writing is what makes it so important to find out what works for us because sometimes even when we have to write about something we know and love it becomes hard, usually when you try to write about something you don't know anything about not much will come out.
Finding a niche is something simple, the best way to narrow it down to find yours is to think what it is you want to do, a website or blog? promote affiliate programs or go with paid ads such as AdSense?... If what you want to do is eBay then it all comes down to writing about what you are selling there and what you have to find is the type of products you want to promote.
Find products/items or services that are profitable, that you can earn good commission on, the fact that a product is cheap doesn't mean you are going to sell it easy much less does the fact that a program has low comission percentage guarantees you that you are going to sell it easy... when it comes down to the actual sales the big impact is in you and the way you present the product or service, how you write about it, and how good the product is.
Have a good day!
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Your eBay Business
eBay is one of the quickest ways to make money online, it does require investment, but it doesn't have to necessarily be a big one, as a matter of fact if you know what you are doing, with US $20 in a bank/paypal account you can work magic basically.
You can literally make the profit selling the products before you buy them with dropshipper companies, warehouses that store generally refurbished products(usually are just open box) at up to 85 and even 90% discounts.
Its really easy to start doing business in eBay and if you are thinking of doing it you have to start to train your skills, read about business, costumers, following up on costumers, and how to keep them happy... you see out of all the opportunities out there to make money online, eBay is probably the one that you have to be most careful and paying attention to all the time.
If you are an eBay seller or shopper you know eBay loves comments, they encourage you to comment every time you buy from someone, so you can share your experience with the seller the likes of delivery and communication, as well as every time you sell they encourage you to comment to share with other people how was your experience with the buyer, timely payment and communication as well.
This is actually a good thing because it allows us to know and trust the source we are going to use to obtain our item, the only down part to this would be if you are a newbie seller some people will hesitate to buy from you because you won't have comments, but then again not everybody is on top of this comments, and I just say this to let you know that it is possible regardless to go and do business in eBay
If you are a good business man/woman and you dedicate yourself to your eBay success you will be successful, just keep in mind that eBay is not the business to try to go on vacation and leave it on auto-pilot, you need to keep communication with your costumers, at first you wont have emails coming in regularly but one you start getting positive comments you will note the change and you will probably get emails daily which you will want to answer, or could cost you your business.
EBay is one of the most effective ways to make money online, it's very profitable, easy to build, easy to manage and easy to grow.
You can literally make the profit selling the products before you buy them with dropshipper companies, warehouses that store generally refurbished products(usually are just open box) at up to 85 and even 90% discounts.
Its really easy to start doing business in eBay and if you are thinking of doing it you have to start to train your skills, read about business, costumers, following up on costumers, and how to keep them happy... you see out of all the opportunities out there to make money online, eBay is probably the one that you have to be most careful and paying attention to all the time.
If you are an eBay seller or shopper you know eBay loves comments, they encourage you to comment every time you buy from someone, so you can share your experience with the seller the likes of delivery and communication, as well as every time you sell they encourage you to comment to share with other people how was your experience with the buyer, timely payment and communication as well.
This is actually a good thing because it allows us to know and trust the source we are going to use to obtain our item, the only down part to this would be if you are a newbie seller some people will hesitate to buy from you because you won't have comments, but then again not everybody is on top of this comments, and I just say this to let you know that it is possible regardless to go and do business in eBay
If you are a good business man/woman and you dedicate yourself to your eBay success you will be successful, just keep in mind that eBay is not the business to try to go on vacation and leave it on auto-pilot, you need to keep communication with your costumers, at first you wont have emails coming in regularly but one you start getting positive comments you will note the change and you will probably get emails daily which you will want to answer, or could cost you your business.
EBay is one of the most effective ways to make money online, it's very profitable, easy to build, easy to manage and easy to grow.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Keep your personal problems away from your job.
OK, I changed the title a bit so it can make a little bit more sense, the original title was, as the saying goes, "keep your problems at home" but then again anybody making money online is probably making it FROM home right?? yet again making money online is not limited to it being at home, that's why my blog is not about making money FROM HOME, even though it can relate almost completely.
Anyways you know that saying right?? and if you have worked at a regular job for more than 2 years, you sure have had to apply the lesson sometime, the truth is that personal problems prevent you from performing your duties when it comes to your job, and in fact having problems mess everything up for us, but we deal with them sooner or later we all deal with them.
But you have to know when you are going to deal with your problems, when you are working a regular JOB with a schedule and a boss, thinking about problems messes up your whole day not only because, well its a personal problem you have! but also because when you lose focus of what you are doing and you don't perform right, quickly it comes to the back of your mind that you are messing up and everything breaks loose and all you want to do is go home!
So with that thought I want to remind you that you need to know not to bring your problems into making money online :-) if you are serious that is, if you are not that serious in this business then by all means why would you make it another reason to stress?? after all if you are not serious either you won't make a dime in ages, or provided you keep doing stuff to make money even though you don't care you'll start seeing some money some time without expecting it(if you haven't moved to another address), not saying that its magically going to keep rolling in though.
It puts your money in jeopardy quickly specially if you are working at home to be thinking about your problems and I think it's even harder to let go of them when you are at home, because you have to commodity of letting everything go and just sitting in your couch if you get a little frustrated thinking about anything... for instance when bills start piling up, maintenance problems at the house, and the heavy weight champion crazy bill that the phone companies send to all of us at least once to see how many they can get to fall for it and actually pay, when you sit on that computer, with the objective "to make money" you need to let that go.
If you are not working with a clear mind it's going to be much harder for you to come up with anything, you know you have to be creative in what you do, most of the more reliable ways to make money online require at least creativity and quality is a must have, without a stress free mind its hard to come up with creative ways of advertising products, editing websites, thinking keywords and you know the drill, and you don't have a boss to scream at you so you can at least forget about your other problems and get mad at him :-p
You see not having a boss is NOT a downside by any means that's self explanatory, the thing is you need to learn to control your emotions at least a little, if you find yourself kind of stuck, then let the keyboard go, relax for a half an hour and come back fresh, and consider coming back with a little plan, it can be as simple as thinking how long you are going to work this time, say 1 hour actually working it! or just grab a notebook and try writing your ideas away from the computer, I know that has worked for me, then come back and implement them.
But whatever you decide to do, keep you personal stuff away from your business stuff... and viceversa I would add :-)
'Till later!
Anyways you know that saying right?? and if you have worked at a regular job for more than 2 years, you sure have had to apply the lesson sometime, the truth is that personal problems prevent you from performing your duties when it comes to your job, and in fact having problems mess everything up for us, but we deal with them sooner or later we all deal with them.
But you have to know when you are going to deal with your problems, when you are working a regular JOB with a schedule and a boss, thinking about problems messes up your whole day not only because, well its a personal problem you have! but also because when you lose focus of what you are doing and you don't perform right, quickly it comes to the back of your mind that you are messing up and everything breaks loose and all you want to do is go home!
So with that thought I want to remind you that you need to know not to bring your problems into making money online :-) if you are serious that is, if you are not that serious in this business then by all means why would you make it another reason to stress?? after all if you are not serious either you won't make a dime in ages, or provided you keep doing stuff to make money even though you don't care you'll start seeing some money some time without expecting it(if you haven't moved to another address), not saying that its magically going to keep rolling in though.
It puts your money in jeopardy quickly specially if you are working at home to be thinking about your problems and I think it's even harder to let go of them when you are at home, because you have to commodity of letting everything go and just sitting in your couch if you get a little frustrated thinking about anything... for instance when bills start piling up, maintenance problems at the house, and the heavy weight champion crazy bill that the phone companies send to all of us at least once to see how many they can get to fall for it and actually pay, when you sit on that computer, with the objective "to make money" you need to let that go.
If you are not working with a clear mind it's going to be much harder for you to come up with anything, you know you have to be creative in what you do, most of the more reliable ways to make money online require at least creativity and quality is a must have, without a stress free mind its hard to come up with creative ways of advertising products, editing websites, thinking keywords and you know the drill, and you don't have a boss to scream at you so you can at least forget about your other problems and get mad at him :-p
You see not having a boss is NOT a downside by any means that's self explanatory, the thing is you need to learn to control your emotions at least a little, if you find yourself kind of stuck, then let the keyboard go, relax for a half an hour and come back fresh, and consider coming back with a little plan, it can be as simple as thinking how long you are going to work this time, say 1 hour actually working it! or just grab a notebook and try writing your ideas away from the computer, I know that has worked for me, then come back and implement them.
But whatever you decide to do, keep you personal stuff away from your business stuff... and viceversa I would add :-)
'Till later!
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Make Money Online: Get Paid Hourly
This is much more interesting than "working from home" for someone else, and much easier to do actually, since if you get a "job at home" you do have deadlines, a schedule and a boss, don't get it twisted, a work at home job is still a job, plus getting a work at home job is not really easy as they say, they usually require a lot of experience.
This is not a "work at home business opportunity" or a job. this is a legitimate way to make money online, which you can actually calculate your average earnings per hour "worked". It is easy to do, you don't need a website because you won't be promoting anything, and you can make good profits from the moment you start.
How does Project Payday work?
Everything works in a forum environment
An example of how it works.
1-"John" finds an offer for a free laptop computer and decides that he wants to get it, but he has to complete 5 offers or refer 5 people whichever comes first, he has completed 3 offers, but he didn't qualify in the other offers so now he has refer 2 people in order to complete his offer and receive his free laptop computer.
2-Now "John" goes into the Project Payday forums and posts a thread giving you the details that you will need to know and how much he is willing to pay you to go in as his referral.
3-If you like what "John" is offering to pay you then you get in contact with him for needed details, after you get the details you go into the website with the offers as his referral.
4-In the website you will find many different offers for free items, software and even money,
you complete an offer of your own, and now you get in contact with "John" again to get paid.
Other ways to make money with Project Payday.
The concept will still be the same, but as I mentioned on step 4, you can complete offers for money, this offers range from US $100 to US $1000, and usually are from $200 - $500, this is another way to make money with Project Payday and they provide training on how to go about this the best way on the website.
Another way is to take the offers to get the Items, you are probably going to have to go the way my subject guy "John" did in the steps above, but after you do the math you will realize you would still come out "winning"...Next you go to eBay or your favorite auction site and sell the Item or Items you got... you can make a huge profit this way as well, and they also train you on how to go about this on the Project Payday website.
How much can you make??
Well I couldn't tell you for sure as I never really got into it that much, I completed an offer as a
referral for someone and got paid US $20 when shortly after I joined, but I didn't keep doing it because it's not quite my thing and I already had started other projects which I had to focus on.
The claim is you can make US $200 - US $2500 in your first 30 days...
After you get your feet wet and you know what you are doing you can make an average US $50 an hour actually "worked"... that's the claims and for the process seems very possible.
Go check Project Payday out and make some money! click here!
later ;-)
9 Reasons Why You Are Not Successful.
1. Your idea of success making money online is not realistic.
Your idea of being successful at making money online is being blurred by all the over hyped claims you have read, and is not a realistic one so you get tired and retire or don't work accordingly to get to profiting, magic and miracles wont happen, at the very least you have to put time to it.
2. You are setting your goals too high.
You want to make too much money in too little time, and when you see the money is not rolling in "like its supposed to" or "like it happened to john" you quit or start searching for other opportunities, like there has to be an easier way... the easier way is to stick to something and make it work for you, find what you are really comfortable with doing.
3. You are not willing to invest.
If you've read that when you want to make money online whatever you are doing you have to threat it like a real business, that claim is true as can be, if you have at least some money you can put into your online business, website or blog, of course first get informed on how to invest it the best way possible to take advantage from your investment, but investing truly WILL help you grow.
It is also true that you can make money without investing, opportunities like paid surveys, affiliate marketing, and freelance writing can all be done without investing money. Regardless, if you want to make money online, and you don't want to spend money you are going to have to invest a lot of time to do it, unless you have the skills to develop a great website(in a free hosting site) and how to drive tons of traffic to it in a short period of time.
4. You are still skeptical.
You need to get over it already, nowadays people is making money online all over the world, its no longer a secret neither is it only a small group in a certain region doing it, the opportunity has proven itself true, and if you want to make money online you have to stop thinking negatively and stop thinking everyone on here is trying to scam you. Once again of course do your research about what you are trying to do, go to forums and blogs and read, but don't do it negatively.
5.You are doing the wrong thing or working with the wrong programs or services.
Some things are more profitable then others, but whatever is more profitable to "John" may not make you a dime, you need to work with something you feel comfortable with, that way its going to be easier for you to put time into it an do what you have to do, therefore make more money. Are you promoting products you feel comfortable with and trust?
6. You think making money online wont last.
You are wrong, this opportunity is here to stay, nowadays companies out there cannot rely solely on physical stores any more, further more there are companies that only do business online, lots of them, many programmers making software, and writers writing ebooks that will only be available online as well... Everyday people are turning to buy stuff online rather than to go to a store.
7 .You don't have support from those around you.
Sadly a lot of people still don't realize that making money online has evolved so much and the huge benefits of it. Its still more common to believe in having a regular job as a "secure" source of income, and the idea of making money so easily and from home wont be supported by many. But wait! You have tons of support! There's many forums and blogs out there willing to help, don't get discouraged by the people who don't believe.
8. You want to do too many things.
The key to making money online is not making 15 websites and 20 blogs while taking paid surveys at the same time, you want to have a life don't you??
Start by doing 1 thing and focusing it, make it grow, build it and follow it all the way so you know what's going on... After you already know the ropes and how what you chose works for you, you can move on and try doing that plus something else on the side to make more profits, I would say you need not more than 4 different websites or blogs or a combination of it to make big money... anyways I think 1 should be enough to quit your job provided you dedicate time to it and make it work.
9. Maybe you are thinking too big.
You have to stop thinking cars and house, you still aren't making cell phone bill money, relax, take your time, but take your time while working at it, stop looking at the ceiling thinking about the sporty or luxury car you are going to buy with all the money you are going to make online, because you are not going to make it just by thinking.
Good Day All!
Your idea of being successful at making money online is being blurred by all the over hyped claims you have read, and is not a realistic one so you get tired and retire or don't work accordingly to get to profiting, magic and miracles wont happen, at the very least you have to put time to it.
2. You are setting your goals too high.
You want to make too much money in too little time, and when you see the money is not rolling in "like its supposed to" or "like it happened to john" you quit or start searching for other opportunities, like there has to be an easier way... the easier way is to stick to something and make it work for you, find what you are really comfortable with doing.
3. You are not willing to invest.
If you've read that when you want to make money online whatever you are doing you have to threat it like a real business, that claim is true as can be, if you have at least some money you can put into your online business, website or blog, of course first get informed on how to invest it the best way possible to take advantage from your investment, but investing truly WILL help you grow.
It is also true that you can make money without investing, opportunities like paid surveys, affiliate marketing, and freelance writing can all be done without investing money. Regardless, if you want to make money online, and you don't want to spend money you are going to have to invest a lot of time to do it, unless you have the skills to develop a great website(in a free hosting site) and how to drive tons of traffic to it in a short period of time.
4. You are still skeptical.
You need to get over it already, nowadays people is making money online all over the world, its no longer a secret neither is it only a small group in a certain region doing it, the opportunity has proven itself true, and if you want to make money online you have to stop thinking negatively and stop thinking everyone on here is trying to scam you. Once again of course do your research about what you are trying to do, go to forums and blogs and read, but don't do it negatively.
5.You are doing the wrong thing or working with the wrong programs or services.
Some things are more profitable then others, but whatever is more profitable to "John" may not make you a dime, you need to work with something you feel comfortable with, that way its going to be easier for you to put time into it an do what you have to do, therefore make more money. Are you promoting products you feel comfortable with and trust?
6. You think making money online wont last.
You are wrong, this opportunity is here to stay, nowadays companies out there cannot rely solely on physical stores any more, further more there are companies that only do business online, lots of them, many programmers making software, and writers writing ebooks that will only be available online as well... Everyday people are turning to buy stuff online rather than to go to a store.
7 .You don't have support from those around you.
Sadly a lot of people still don't realize that making money online has evolved so much and the huge benefits of it. Its still more common to believe in having a regular job as a "secure" source of income, and the idea of making money so easily and from home wont be supported by many. But wait! You have tons of support! There's many forums and blogs out there willing to help, don't get discouraged by the people who don't believe.
8. You want to do too many things.
The key to making money online is not making 15 websites and 20 blogs while taking paid surveys at the same time, you want to have a life don't you??
Start by doing 1 thing and focusing it, make it grow, build it and follow it all the way so you know what's going on... After you already know the ropes and how what you chose works for you, you can move on and try doing that plus something else on the side to make more profits, I would say you need not more than 4 different websites or blogs or a combination of it to make big money... anyways I think 1 should be enough to quit your job provided you dedicate time to it and make it work.
9. Maybe you are thinking too big.
You have to stop thinking cars and house, you still aren't making cell phone bill money, relax, take your time, but take your time while working at it, stop looking at the ceiling thinking about the sporty or luxury car you are going to buy with all the money you are going to make online, because you are not going to make it just by thinking.
Good Day All!
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Making Money Online Evolves
How is it going?
With the web internet being such a big community, there's enough for everyone to take a piece of the pie without having to prove a point of being the biggest and the best in order to be able to profit, all you really need to provide is quality.
I was watching an informational program about video games, how they actually originated and came to be, the informational only showed up until the 80's which is when video gaming actually started to settle down and started to become regular in more and more homes... Which in my opinion is where "making money online" is right now if we track it down, the mere beginning of something that is going to be in every house a couple of years down the line.
The part of this informational that made me think "making money online" was that before the Atari the idea of making a game was great because it would appear to be that if you made a game the money would just start coming in, but when the Atari came out at a point they had so many games that too many of them weren't even selling, the reason was too big of a variety of games that didn't provide the entertainment(Quality) expected and it was too much of the same stuff. Which is NOT where we are right now but it is where we were not so long ago.
If we look at the back in the middle and late 90's if you could make a website, it could be quite the mine gold provided you knew how to monetize it properly, yet you could just know how to build a website and slap banners like crazy in it and you would make money, at a time searching for making money online and other trends such as adult websites most of the results we got was portal pages full of banners, these pages yielded incredible amounts of money, and since it was OK to do it back then people where making money selling ebooks telling you to do just that same thing.
But portal pages became annoying and people got tired of it, so like Atari had to trash all those games, search engines changed the ways they took care of things, search engines before used to be used to find the information that was in the web, now search engines concentrate on delivering out of all the information on the web, the most relevant and the one that "provides more value" to the searcher.
Doing business online today and making money from the internet has to be handled with care, there is a lot of people already out there making money, and the ones that don't provide quality and try to go the scam way don't last, some don't even make it in, there's opportunity for everyone who brings something to the table, today its a competition about the best quality, and the beauty of it is you don't have to be in the competition to make money.
Making money online from home or the park or wherever you are is a reality that is here to stay, all you have to do is provide quality in what you do, bring your knowledge, bring your humor, bring your pictures or your videos... Like video games evolved once and from there it was an uprising, making money online has already evolved and will be in nearly every household a couple of years down the line.
Have a great day all!
With the web internet being such a big community, there's enough for everyone to take a piece of the pie without having to prove a point of being the biggest and the best in order to be able to profit, all you really need to provide is quality.
I was watching an informational program about video games, how they actually originated and came to be, the informational only showed up until the 80's which is when video gaming actually started to settle down and started to become regular in more and more homes... Which in my opinion is where "making money online" is right now if we track it down, the mere beginning of something that is going to be in every house a couple of years down the line.
The part of this informational that made me think "making money online" was that before the Atari the idea of making a game was great because it would appear to be that if you made a game the money would just start coming in, but when the Atari came out at a point they had so many games that too many of them weren't even selling, the reason was too big of a variety of games that didn't provide the entertainment(Quality) expected and it was too much of the same stuff. Which is NOT where we are right now but it is where we were not so long ago.
If we look at the back in the middle and late 90's if you could make a website, it could be quite the mine gold provided you knew how to monetize it properly, yet you could just know how to build a website and slap banners like crazy in it and you would make money, at a time searching for making money online and other trends such as adult websites most of the results we got was portal pages full of banners, these pages yielded incredible amounts of money, and since it was OK to do it back then people where making money selling ebooks telling you to do just that same thing.
But portal pages became annoying and people got tired of it, so like Atari had to trash all those games, search engines changed the ways they took care of things, search engines before used to be used to find the information that was in the web, now search engines concentrate on delivering out of all the information on the web, the most relevant and the one that "provides more value" to the searcher.
Doing business online today and making money from the internet has to be handled with care, there is a lot of people already out there making money, and the ones that don't provide quality and try to go the scam way don't last, some don't even make it in, there's opportunity for everyone who brings something to the table, today its a competition about the best quality, and the beauty of it is you don't have to be in the competition to make money.
Making money online from home or the park or wherever you are is a reality that is here to stay, all you have to do is provide quality in what you do, bring your knowledge, bring your humor, bring your pictures or your videos... Like video games evolved once and from there it was an uprising, making money online has already evolved and will be in nearly every household a couple of years down the line.
Have a great day all!
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