Thursday, February 28, 2008

Top Tips For Making Money Online

There are almost as many ways to make money on the Internet, as there are sites online. One of the best things about online businesses is that they can be extremely inexpensive to set up and run. You are able to avoid overheads such as premises, stock, staff and equipment.

The first thing to do when you are considering starting an online business is how are you going to make money from your site? There are several options and we will discuss a few of the most common here along with some of the pros and cons of each type.

Adsense – Adsense are the ads run by Google on your website, people pay to have there ads displayed on various sites and the site owner gets paid when the ads are clicked on.
Pros – Easy to set up and the payments are coming from a very well respected company so your payments should be safe and guaranteed.
Cons – Unless you are in a very competitive market such as legal services, loans or insurance the amounts earned per click can be quite small.

Affiliate marketing – This is where you promote someone else’s products or service and you then get a percentage of each sale.
Pros – You can send an unlimited number of potential clients to a site to make purchases and the percentages earned can be large, so the profit potential can be excellent.
Cons – You are sending people from your site to make a sale, there is often no follow up contact between you and the client so you can not build up a relationship with them and sell to them multiple times.

Drop shipping – This is where you sell goods from your site, but you pass the order to some other company to send out the goods.
Pros – You do not have to hold stock, so your cash flow is freed up for further promotions not in stock.
Cons – You are relying on another company to send the goods purchased to your customer, if they are not as professional as you the customer may not be happy with the service and it is you who will have to issue a refund.

One thing you will need is a website, although there are even some opportunities that do not require you to have one, but a good standard site can be produced using free or very inexpensive software, you can also find free templates on the internet that you can use to build your site around.

The one thing I would never save on is good SEO(Search engine optimisation). With good SEO work, you will benefit from having your site higher in the search engines whatever way you choose to make money from it. You can try and optimize your website yourself or you can hire an SEO company. Why not try typing in SEO followed by the area you live in into a search engine to try and find a company near you. For example "SEO Wiltshire" or "SEO Salisbury".

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Friday, January 18, 2008

Make Money with Affiliate Programs - ThinkHost Affiliate Program

How do you feel about making $100 everytime you send a new customer to a company that offers them a really good deal? Really good, right?

Well, I have one for you, it's called ThinkHost. This is an affiliate program for the ThinkHost hosting company that, as of this writing, promises to pay you $100 for every customer who buys hosting from them after clicking on your link!

Some preliminaries: Signing up to be a ThinkHost affiliate is super easy. You just fill in the application form, and then you get a confirmation email with your login and password. There is no long drawn out approval process or such. After that, you log in to your account and you have access to the banners and everything you need to start promoting the program.

They pay out via check, Paypal, Moneybookers, or Bank/Wire Transfer, so you have many options to get your payments. Also, you can set the minimum payout to what you want, unlike other affiliate programs that won't pay you unless you make large amounts of money. Finally, there banners are attractive and easy to integrate into your website. They even offer you an email template for email campaigns!! And the icing on the cake is that you also make money for every affiliate who joins in under you! Many reasons to run and join ThinkHost Affiliate Program!!
Now let's look at why you would want to promote ThinkHost. What are it's selling points, and what can you tell your readers or leads, that would make them want to go to ThinkHost and buy hosting so you can make that $100?

Well, here's what the plan offers:

» 100 gigabytes server space!
» 1000 gigabytes bandwidth!
» Unlimited MySQL databases included!
» Host unlimited domains/sites!
» FTP access
» Secure Telnet (SSH) access
» Microsoft FrontPage extensions
» Unlimited POP3 e-mail accounts
» Webmail interface with IMAP support
» Unlimited autoresponders
» Unlimited email forwarders
» PHP 4 + Perl 5
» FreeBSD Unix/Linux Apache server
» mod_rewrite and other modules
» Full cgi-bin capabilities w/ SSI support
» Free dedicated IP with SSL support*
» Raw logs and detailed traffic reports
» WAP/WML support
» Ruby on Rails support
» FastCGI support
» Python support
» Full .htaccess capabilities
» 28 day money back guarantee!

Special Bonuses:
» Bonus software/tools - value $400!
» Free shopping cart, mail list manager
» Free forum software , photo gallery
» Free blog software
» Free site builder
» Anti-spam &-virus filtering systems
» Free web design templates

Account Management:
» Easy setup
» Account management panel

Support, security & reliability:
» Dedicated, caring support team
» Comprehensive knowledge base
» PCI compliant servers
» Multi-stage backups & generator
» 24/7 WatchMouse server monitoring

Green features
» Powered by wind & solar energy!
» A tree planted on your behalf!

Now don't you think that's worth promoting? There buyer gets an amazing discount if they pay for a longer time in advance, and there is a 28-day money back guarantee.

So if you're in the market for an affiliate program to join, sign up for ThinkHost, it might prove to be very profitable for you.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Make some easy money with your websites and The AdNetwork

After Bucks4Banners closed it's doors, I promised you that I would find you another program similar to it, and I did, it's called The AdNetwork!

The way this program works is simple. You apply for an account with The AdNetwork using an existing website that you own. It doesn't matter how old the website is or how much traffic it has or does not have. They do have a few rules about what the site can and cannot have in terms of content, just the usual stuff... no adult content, no illegal stuff, no get-rich-quick websites, etc.

In your application, you have to provide The AdNetwork with three urls, all from the same domain, where you intend to place their banners. Then wait the two or three days for them to manually review your site. Once you're approved, you're provided with specific code that you paste into the three pages that you specified. Remember that it doesn't matter whether or not you have traffic, all that matters is that the website meets their content specs, which is not hard to do.

You will get paid as long as the three ads remain on your website, regardless of whether someone clicks on them, or whether no one ever visits your website. Isn't that easy?

You can add as many domains as you want, and once they're approved you can put the banners on the pages. Now that's an easy way to make some money every month. They pay using Amazon vouchers or PayPal. And guess what, they have an affiliate program too!

So what are you waiting for, go ahead and apply for The AdNetwork and Earn Credit for your Website!

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Make Money with AuctionAds

In a previous post I discussed making money on your website by using Google Adsense. Today I want to discuss another advertising service that also yields good results - AuctionAds .

I am assuming that by now you have a website up and running using the tips I gave you in previous posts, and you have been driving traffic to it. I hope you have also joined some PTP forums like Code4Gold that pay you for making posts, and affiliate programs such as LinkShare Referral Program, and are starting to make some money from these different venues.

AuctionAds is a service that allows you to post eBay ads on your website. Signing up is easy and fast, and once you're a publisher, you can create and customize the ads that you want to appear on your page. One of the differences between adsense and AuctionAds is that you can specify the keywords for the ads that you want on your pages. So say you have a website about dogs, you can specify keywords such as dog, "dog leash", etc, to serve the ads you want to show. You can set colors and links so that your ads blend in well with your website, and the process is easy and painfree.

One nice thing about AuctionAds is that there is no restriction as to how many ads you can have on your page, unlike adsense which limits you.

AuctionAds has an affiliate program, so that if someone joins AuctionAds using a link you have posted on your site, you get some payment for that. So check out AuctionAds and see if you can add to your sources of income!

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Make Money with Affiliate Networks - Linkshare

Besides using advertising to monetize your website, you can also use affiliate programs. The way affiliate programs work is by giving you code to paste on your webpages, much like adsense and other advertising programs do. The difference with affiliate programs is that the person who clicks on the ad needs to performs some act for you to earn money.

For example, if you're an Amazon.com affiliate, then users would need to click on your links and buy something, for you to earn revenue. In some cases, all a user needs to do is click on the link and request information. This is called a "lead", and I find these to be the easiest ones to earn from since the user doesn't have to spend money.

There are many affiliate programs, and I will present them to you one or two at a time.

The first one that I will discuss is the LinkShare Referral Program.

This program makes you money every time someone clicks on one of your links and applies for an account with Linkshare. LinkShare offers affiliates the opportunity to earn money by referring other affiliates to the LinkShare Network. Earn $1.50 for every valid referral that registers as an affiliate with LinkShare and generates at least one click-through within 30 days of registering.

Because getting an account is free, you actually have better conversion rates with this kind of affiliate program because people will usually sign up for free stuff.

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As you can see, they have a variety of banners that you can try out, and text links too, and choose the best one for you. You can also rotate among several types of banners.

So try out Linkshare and start earning some money.

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Click here to become a LinkShare Affiliate!

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