Make Money By Starting A Quality Link Building Service

The key word to success here is quality. You can make a lot of money with this kind of service but you need to be dedicated to providing what people are looking for.

The simple fact is that a website which has more links coming into it will rank more highly with the search engines and be regarded as a more popular site. Many webmasters don’t have the time to create those links themselves, but they are willing to pay someone else to do it for them.

Since these links can also bring in extra streams of traffic, a good link building service can mean a lot of extra business for the webmaster paying for the service – and that leaves an excellent opportunity for you to get in on the action.

Backlinks are highly important in order to be able to promote a website effectively – and the more you have the better.

Some people charge a huge amount for this service and don’t provide anything worth having. But even while these people have given a bad name to this service there is a need for it – and especially a need for people who know what they are doing and can be trusted to provide it. If you can be one of those people, you can be sure that webmasters will pay you a lot of money for your services.

The first step to success here is to decide how you will build links. There are a number of ways you can do this, which enables you to offer specific packages to webmasters if you want to. This could also make you stand out from the competition.

Some of the best ways to create links are to submit articles to article directories, create and distribute press releases, submit websites to website directories, and submit details of the sites to various social networking and bookmarking sites as well. You may decide to specialize in one or more of these, or simply provide all of them for your customers to choose from.

When you get started you could also offer a discount on your services in return for a testimonial from your customers. These can then be displayed on the home page of your website (and a few other pages as well) to encourage more business.

You may also start by offering vastly discounted fees to encourage your first few customers through the door, but make it clear that these are only for a limited time.

You can also practice your link building skills for free initially by using them to drum up more traffic for your own websites and perhaps those of friends and family as well. This will help you to build some confidence in your own skills and develop a blueprint for how you would engage in a link building campaign for a specific client.

Fees can be hard to decide on, but you can always email a few similar services online that have had a good response from other people and see how much they would charge you for a similar service. There’s nothing wrong with getting a few quotes to help you launch your own business!

So long as you really are dedicated to building up a quality business in this area, there is real money to be made – and once you can prove your services work you will start getting floods of customers wanting you to boost their businesses too.

Leave us a comment in the form below and then start thinking about how you could help yourself earn a great income by helping other people first.

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Make Money By Parking Expired Domains

So what do you do once you’ve bought a domain name? 

Build a website around it and hopefully make some money by providing quality content and Adsense ads, right?

Well you can do it that way but you can also buy domains to use for an entirely different reason – and it generally involves a lot less work.

Parking expired domains is a way that you can earn a nice stream of income from doing absolutely nothing. Read on to find out more.

Tons of domain names are expiring every single day, and each one represents an opportunity for you to make money. Provided you know which types of domain to buy in the first place you can soon start generating a significant income from this type of activity.

It stands to reason that the more popular the domain name is, the more traffic it will get. A domain name which contains a hugely popular keyword or words, such as ‘credit cards’ for example, will get loads of traffic – and it is these domains you want to get hold of when they expire.

Get yourself registered with a domain provider who doesn’t charge a fortune for selling domains and which also provides a domain parking service. You’ll need to find a company that also lets you park a large number of domains, because when you get started you’ll want to carry on!

The whole premise of domain name parking is that you don’t build a website around your domain. Parking basically refers to putting a single page up, which is supposed to stay there and earn some money for you while you are building the website that will replace it.

But we’re not interested in building a site. All we need to do is monetize that page and profit from the traffic it will receive. If you’ve chosen your domain name properly – according to the most popular keywords that are searched for every minute of every day online – you will immediately get traffic to your page. You can in essence start profiting from the traffic that the domain name was already pulling in.

So how do you monetize your page?

Most domain providers that have a domain parking service will provide you with the tools you need to monetize your page. Just as you would with Google Adsense, it is important that you closely target the people who are going to find your page through the search engines. So for example if your domain contains the words ‘top credit cards’, you would make your page as attractive as possible to people who are looking for the best credit cards.

By using the best keyword combinations you can find (try using a free keyword tool online – there are plenty of them available) you will be able to choose the best performing keywords for that particular subject. It may take a bit of trial and error to reach the optimum performance but you will learn from that experience and it’s a great feeling watching your earnings from every ad your visitors click on go up and up!

Once you have got one domain parked and bringing in money, you can start searching for others to buy. It’s a good idea to start slowly and buy one or two domains at a time; once you have parked a few and you’ve got the gist of how it works you can start thinking about buying more. Some people end up with hundreds and are raking in cash every day without lifting a finger to do it.

That’s the beauty of making money with this method – it’s totally automated once you’ve done the initial setting up of the domain and the advertising.

Sounds good? Before you rush off to get started, post your comments in the form below. Maybe you can come back and post again to let us know how well you’re doing once you’ve got your first couple of domains parked and earning money for you!

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Make Money By Building A Portfolio Of Established Websites

There are lots of ways to build an income from a website, but not all of them involve selling something direct to your customer. It’s also not necessary to build a significant income from one site alone – in fact, there are plenty of people who rake in a lot of money from having built up a range of websites on all kinds of different subjects.

The trick is to create a template that works, and then repeat, repeat, repeat… Read on to find out more about how to do just that.

The great thing about having your own website is that you can make money from it in lots of different ways – and most of that income can be made twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

So let’s start with your first website. You need to build it around a subject that will always be popular – subjects like earning more money, working from home, various financial products, credit cards, that kind of thing. There are also plenty of niche topics that will bring in a smaller but more focused audience that you can make a lot of money from, so it’s worth doing some research around your hobbies and interests to see how many people are interested in the same thing.

Use a keyword tool to work out what the best keywords are to use, and choose a domain name that uses some of these in a logical way. Once you’ve got your domain name registered and you’re ready to build your website, you need to monetize it to provide you with an income. Google Adsense is an obvious start, but you should also join sites such as Commission Junction and ClickBank so you can offer various relevant products to your visitors.

You can put display ads and banners on your site to link directly into certain products and services, but you can also make good use of text links. You should make the effort to write articles which are optimized to attract search engine traffic, and then insert relevant text links which lead from certain keywords to that specific product, which you will then earn a commission on whenever someone buys one.

While you will benefit from search engine traffic it will pay to promote your website as much as you can. When you are writing content to put on your site, write some similar pieces that you can submit to article directories with a link back to your website, to provide some free publicity.

Take the time to make sure your first site is established, but while you do that you should also spend some time looking for another subject area to build your next site around. Make sure you have a web host that allows you to host a lot of sites, since you will soon be building and promoting more than you might think!

So long as your income from each site exceeds your outgoings for web hosting and renewing your domain name when necessary, you’ll be in profit with each and every one. And the great thing is that the more you do, the more knowledge you will amass about what works and what doesn’t. A simple tweak to the layout of your website can result in increased profits, so make sure you use all the knowledge you have to boost your income.

Before you know it you’ll have a huge portfolio of established websites, each bringing in a stream of income for you every day that will keep going regardless of what else you might be doing. Building your next site perhaps?

Time to get started then! But before you do, feel free to post your comments below and share your experiences of this money making opportunity. Good luck!

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Make Money Building Websites For Cell Phones And Blackberries

Cell phones and Blackberries are big business. Most people have one or the other, and people are always looking to upgrade their cell phone, or maybe get a Blackberry instead.

That means there is a huge market available to you to tap into if you have the right website in place to do it with. While you will need a certain amount of knowledge to be able to do it right, you don’t need anything majorly impressive to stand a chance of making a decent amount of cash from this particular opportunity.

Just remember that above all, people need phones and Blackberries…

What do you do when you are thinking about changing your cell phone? The chances are you do what a lot of other people do: you hop online and surf round for a while to read some reviews of cell phones. After that you might even buy one online too.

This is where you can come in as a source of that information. If you can construct a website that reviews and compares cell phones as well as offering them for sale, you can make a lot of money without even handling the phones themselves.

This is basically a chance to make some money from affiliate marketing. The first step is to sign up with a site like Commission Junction. There are hundreds of companies on this site that sell cell phones, Blackberries and accessories, and they are only too willing to give you a share of the revenue generated by any customers you send them.

Once you are signed up with Commission Junction all you need to do is apply to several of these companies. Acceptance is usually straightforward and you can then use text links and banners and everything else they provide on your own website.

Speaking of which, you will need to either design it yourself or get a web designer to do it for you. Keep the design simple though – it’s the information here that matters. You do need to make sure your site looks professional though, since it will make a difference to your sales if it looks too basic.

Don’t launch the site until you have several phone reviews on it, and be sure to say others are being added all the time. Create some kind of template so all the reviews take on the same look and feel. This will make it easier for people to compare phones. You could also write an article comparing cell phones to Blackberries and giving the advantages of each.

The idea is that on every page you will have links to the websites that actually sell the phones and Blackberries. Ideally you should use text links within the writing, so for example the word ‘Blackberry’ would be a clickable link to the website that sells them.

You can also create pages which cover additional supplies for cell phones and Blackberries, such as cases and straps for example. Once you have searched around on Commission Junction for a while you will probably find a number of products that would fit well with your site as a whole.

The real key to success here is to make sure your own site has worthwhile content on it. You don’t want it to appear like a website which has simply been constructed to provide lots of affiliate links to the products themselves. While that is your underlying aim, you should make sure that you give real value on your site, otherwise you may find you don’t get very much traffic.

When you launch your site, promote it everywhere you can. Grab some free pages from sites like Squidoo and HubPages that you can write articles and content for to discuss all aspects of cell phones and Blackberries. Then link into your website and see how much traffic you can generate. Over time your traffic should build and you will start to see some revenue trickling into your Commission Junction account.

And that’s where the fun starts! One final point – make sure you keep your site updated with the latest cell phone and Blackberry releases. That way you will get even more traffic.

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Make Money Building Custom WordPress Themes

Blogging is still very popular online, and no matter what you use your own blogging skills for, there are plenty of other people out there who are either starting up their own or wanting to revamp the one they have.

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms there is, but for those people who want to personalize or monetize their blog by using the WordPress platform with their own domain name and hosting, they will be looking for a blog theme that is more in keeping with their topic of choice.

And that’s where you can start making some money.

If you look up ‘custom WordPress themes’ on the internet you will find several sites run by people who design themes and make a nice chunk of change from them too.

There are two ways you can profit from this, but both of them really need your own website set up and running to do it properly. The easiest way to get started is by offering a range of designs and styles that will appeal to different bloggers and charging a flat fee to everyone who wants to download and use it. Later on when you become more confident of your design skills you can offer to create custom designs – one offs – to people who require them for a higher fee.

So how do you design these themes in the first place?

Well it helps to have an eye for design, certainly – not to mention a familiarity with WordPress yourself. Knowledge of CSS and HTML will also help. If you have a WordPress blog then you are likely to be more familiar with how it all works, and that’s the best place to start. The WordPress site has plenty of information on how to build custom themes and there are also plenty of people online who have posted step by step tutorials covering all the design aspects you will need to know.

That’s all very well but how do you know which types of designs will sell? This is where some nifty research will set you apart from your competition and get you selling more themes in no time. Make sure you test each theme before you offer it for sale, to make sure that there are no bugs or errors in it.

By using keyword tools you will be able to find areas of interest that are likely to bring lots of positive results when you slant a WordPress theme or two towards them. Bear in mind the keywords themselves here too, since they will help you to pull in traffic once you are up and running.

It’s worth building at least eight or ten custom themes before you launch your site, and you should make sure they are slanted towards some diverse topics. As you add more and more themes you will bring in more traffic thanks to your keyworded descriptions of the themes themselves.

What about pricing? Many custom themes sell for around $30 to $40. Many sellers don’t advertize their rates for a one off theme, but if you are sneaky and request a quote from a few you can get an idea of a ballpark figure to charge.

The great thing about standard custom themes is that they can be paid for online and set up to be delivered automatically, so it truly is a business that can be run on autopilot if you desire. All of which leaves you a lot more time to keep designing new themes for sale.

Make sure you do some more basic themes as well, which you can always offer at a lower price. While custom themes angled towards a certain niche market will sell well, some people will want something a little less targeted.

Before you disappear to start doing your research online, leave us a comment in the box below. After that, it might just be time to see how good your design skills are…

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Make Money Becoming A Web Host Reseller

Web hosting is something we all need if we want to get our own website or blog online, but have you ever thought about selling web hosting to someone else?

The chances are that you haven’t ever considered it because you didn’t even know it was a possibility, but in actual fact it’s one of the easiest ways to make a significant monthly income that keeps on coming. After all, once people have their own web hosting they are unlikely to go elsewhere.

So if you know how to provide a good service at a good price, you could soon be racking up the customers – and the cash – every month.

So how on earth do you become a web host reseller anyway? And what exactly does it involve?

In simple terms, it is an easy way to get involved with selling web space without the hassle of having to have your own servers installed. What happens is that you buy web space from an established web host and then sell it in smaller portions to your customers.

You won’t necessarily be able to make the profits that the actual web hosts make, but having said that you won’t have the overheads they do so it’s a good deal if you are looking to set up an online business where the services or goods you provide are virtual and you don’t need any storage space to benefit from them! The web hosts also have thousands of customers, whereas you might start with just a few and build up. Once you know you enjoy it however – the sky is the limit.

So where do you start?

The first step is to hop online and search for web hosts that offer reseller hosting. You can easily find these on any major search engine once you type in that term. It’s worth spending a while comparing prices and services since you will need a fair amount of web space to be able to divide it up among your forthcoming clients.

There are two main things you need to be sure of before you sign up to any particular plan. Firstly make sure you can upgrade it at any point if you need to. This may well be necessary if you find you can get enough customers to use up all the space your original plan offers. Secondly you should also ensure the company you go with offers all the help and support you need, especially if your knowledge of web hosting is limited. You’ll learn a lot as you go along but a basic knowledge at the very least is necessary to start with.

Once you have decided what service you want to use, you’ll need to create a website to attract the attention of potential customers. You should clearly display the benefits and pricing for your hosting packages and it can be a good idea to provide some useful articles as well on all aspects of web hosting. Not only will these be helpful to potential customers (and probably help to win more clients as well) they will also help to get your website ranked more highly in the search engines, as they will naturally contain all the keywords that a person looking for web hosting will type into a search engine to find your kind of service.

Do your research to find out what prices to charge for your services. It depends on what you are offering in each package and the kind of people you want to attract; you could set up different packages to appeal to individuals, small businesses and blog owners, for example.

While it might seem as if there is a lot to learn you’ll soon get the hang of it, as you’re basically just repackaging and reselling what your web host provider is giving to you. Once you’re all set up and ready to go, all you need to think about is getting more traffic.

Sounds appealing? Before you go and do some more research and think about what to call your brand new online business, why don’t you leave us a comment in the box below? Then you can go and join the many others who are making a monthly income from this idea!

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Make Money And Win Prizes By Entering Online Competitions

Most people are focused on making money online, but what about winning it? This is an area where you can really capitalize on the idea of earning a lot of money in a very short amount of time.

And it’s not just cash you can win either. Luxury cars, vacations, computers, free groceries, a year off your mortgage… you name it, you can probably find it online and try and win it.

The secret is to know how to get started in the shortest amount of time possible – and to know where to look…

Have you ever come across anyone in your neighborhood that seems to be luckier than everyone else? They might appear to have a lot of disposable income to spend on cars and great vacations, especially since they haven’t got the kind of jobs that would bring in that much money.

There are two probable (legal) answers to this. They might have a second business they run from home, or they might just be entering a lot of online competitions.

There are of course plenty of offline competitions you can enter as well, but the big bonus of online competitions is that they are quick and easy to enter and you don’t generally have to muck around collecting vouchers or anything to enable you to enter either. Everything is done online and that means you can enter lots more competitions than you would if you tried to enter the offline versions.

The most common type of online competition is one where you answer a multiple choice question and then complete your details to be entered into the competition itself. Most of these questions are easy and even if you are stumped a few minutes of research on the internet will usually turn up the right answer.

The main rule to remember is that to stand the best chance of winning you will need to enter as many competitions as you can. The popularity of each competition will also vary, since most people will only tend to enter those competitions which have prizes they want to win. Some competitions don’t receive many entries at all, which means it’s in your best interests to enter everything in sight.

Don’t forget that if you end up winning something you don’t like or want, you can take the prize and either sell it on eBay, through the local paper or sell it to a friend or relative. That gives you another way to make money from online competitions!

Many companies set up online competitions to capture possible leads for promoting and selling their future products to, and you will be required to give them a valid email address (and sometimes a phone number as well) in order to enter the competition. You are then agreeing to receive promotional emails from them in the future.

To help prevent your inbox being swamped with such emails, make sure you set up another email address purely for your competition entries. Just remember to check it every now and again to see whether you have won anything!

You can easily find dozens of online competitions to enter by typing that exact phrase into the search engines. Many sites will let you join them for free, and they give you access to all the best competitions on the web at any one time. This is a great way to save time since everything is in one convenient to locate place.

Even if you are trying to make money online in other ways, entering competitions is so easy that you’d be crazy not to try it alongside your other efforts. You might soon have a brand new car parked outside as a reward for your efforts.

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How To Make Money Writing Poetry

There are plenty of ways to make money from writing, but poetry is certainly one of the more unlikely ones. After all, most poets struggle to make anything at all, let alone a significant amount of money from their efforts.

But if you think laterally you can actually do quite well from this branch of writing. It may never be a full time career but there are people making a nice second income from penning a few rhymes and poems every now and then.

The secret is to make sure you are writing for the right markets. Read on to find out what they are.

There is one very large market for poetry that you probably look at virtually every day, and yet most people simply don’t realize that it exists as an opportunity to make money.

The market we’re talking about is greetings cards manufacturers. After all, how many greetings cards do you see that have simple poems inside them, conveying a message to the recipient which could be funny, heart warming, emotional or joyful? If you can come up with this kind of poetry then you could be well rewarded for each one you write that ends up being accepted.

There are two ways to find the best markets to write for. Firstly you can visit your local card stores and see which manufacturers publish cards with these types of poems on them. You might know that you have more of a talent with some rather than others, so concentrate your search on the manufacturers and publishers that create the cards you feel you could write.

Make a note of the company name and then do a search on the internet to find them. This is also the best way to find other companies who you may not easily find in the stores.

Not all greetings card companies will be looking for freelance work, but those that are will often have guidelines on their websites, so print these off and read them carefully in order to stand a chance of succeeding. You might find it helpful to jot down some ideas while you are reading them, since they may be looking for specific ideas or themes that you could work on.

Companies such as these usually let you send in a batch of ideas at the same time because of the brevity of the work involved, so make sure you have several to send in and take your time over them to make sure they are the best you can do. Editing your work is very important – even on items as short as these will be – since there is a lot of competition on many occasions and even the odd change of a word here and there could make all the difference between acceptance and rejection.

Persevere with your efforts too, because it might take a few attempts before you get anything accepted. The great part of making money from your poetry in this way is that you will get to see your poems on the cards in your local store once they are published – and there is no greater reward than that!

You could also make your own cards and sell them if you have a lot of poems you would like to use that are turned down by the card companies. A lot of people will pay handsomely for hand made cards and if you feel confident enough you could even charge a premium for writing unique poems for specific people.

If this has got your creative juices running then why not start jotting your ideas down right now? You’ll find it useful to keep a notepad with you at all times for writing them down whenever they come to you – but the first thing you should write is a comment for us in the box below!

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How To Make Money With YouTube

YouTube is one of those websites that really has taken the internet by storm. So long as you have the right equipment to shoot a home movie (and it isn’t too hard to come by without shelling out loads of cash nowadays) you stand a chance of developing an existing business or starting a new one, purely by signing up to YouTube and putting those movies online.

But that doesn’t explain what kind of videos you should be making. Well relax, because that is what you are about to find out. There is one very good way to make money using this website, you are about to find out what it is.

Let’s start by looking at YouTube as a way to bring in more business for your existing venture. If you can shoot short videos related to your business (making sure you include the URL to your website on the video itself) you can expect to receive more traffic to your website and hopefully more customers as a result.

Let’s say for example you run a website which sells all kinds of craft items. So you might make a video showing people how to make their own home made cards. They would then check out your website to see what you sell. This process can be duplicated no matter what kind of business you have.

The key is to think visually. It’s no good simply sitting in front of a camera telling people about something – you need to show them as well. Always remember this when you are thinking of ideas for videos – you will get a better response to them if you do.

In this sense you aren’t making money directly from YouTube; rather, you are using it as a way to make money elsewhere. It is a great tool for attracting attention and funneling people off the site. You cannot actually tout for business directly on the site anyway, so you are better off focusing on how you can get the attention of people whom you could sell to. Once you figure out how to do that, they will be more than happy to check out your website to see what you offer.

But what if you don’t already have a business to promote? Well, there are a number of people who have been successful in promoting affiliate opportunities on the site – again by inserting the relevant web address on the video itself (if you go on YouTube you will see this appearing time and time again as a kind of watermark effect) and either posting a video that is free for anyone to use and post, or by making their own. Again, so long as you post something that is relevant to what you are selling you should get a decent amount of traffic flowing to your website.

It might take a short while to get used to how uploading videos to YouTube works (particularly if you haven’t done it before) but once you have done a couple you will get the hang of it. More importantly you will have found another stream of income to add to your internet marketing arsenal of ideas!

One final point – be original. You can choose copyright free videos, but if you can make a fairly decent one yourself, why not try and attract more attention with that?

Leave us a comment below to let us know how you intend to use YouTube to make money!

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How To Make Money With Website Directories

Of all the different ways there are to make money online, this is probably one of the more unusual. It’s certainly not the first one to come to mind… and yet when you think of where you could end up by giving it a go (does the name Yahoo sound familiar?) you can see why it’s worth at least considering the idea.

What’s more, you can choose your focus so that it appeals to everyone online or just a specific topic area. If you choose the second option you could end up building a whole empire of websites over time.

So what is a website directory anyway? Simply put it’s a website which lists other websites. But of course it’s a little more than that. By putting them into specific categories everyone visiting your site will be able to find what they need quickly and easily.

The first step is to decide what you want the focus of your directory to be. Do you want to list anything and everything, or do you want to concentrate on a particular topic? For example you could create a directory listing shops and stores in a particular country. You obviously need to pick a subject area where there is plenty of meat to include; a website which lists fake mustache sellers in a specific town probably isn’t going to be that big.

Once you have your topic you need to create your site, and it needs to be a good one. It’s worth getting it designed professionally because people simply won’t use it if it doesn’t look respectable. The cost will be worth it though because you will then be able to charge for your listings.

Adding a fee structure to your website is the way in which you will make money. Free listings will also generate valuable free advertising and promotion for you, since in return for a free listing you will ask for a backlink to your website. The free listings should also be basic so as to allow for paid listings to stand out more and be worth the money you will charge for them.

So what kind of paid listings should you offer? You can charge for two basic types; for example a normal paid listing would appear at the top of its relevant category, whereas a premium paid listing could involve the use of bold type as well, so it would stand out more from its rivals.

You can develop paid services as much or as little as you like; for example free listings may not include a clickable link to the website being advertised, whereas paid listings will. You could also add an optional extra fee to premium paid listings to allow the purchaser to add their business logo or a photo to their listing as well.

The fees you charge are up to you, but it’s important to remember that people won’t pay money if their websites aren’t going to be seen by lots of potential customers. That’s why you need to make sure your site has real value by generating streams of traffic towards it (a good reason for having free listings which require a link to your site).

The more traffic your website directory is capable of getting, the more traffic your customers are likely to get in return, and the more they will be prepared to pay for a premium listing. In this way building a successful directory has two main areas of interest – firstly you need to get plenty of listings on your site, and secondly you need to get plenty of traffic to those listings.

By doing this you will be adding real value to your website and word will start to get out that your website directory does indeed help to drive traffic to people’s websites. Once you can legitimately lay claim to this then the paid requests for inclusion will start pouring in.

Once you get to this stage you might also consider spreading the word about the efficiency and benefits your site offers by spending some of your profits on more advertising. Google AdWords could get you even more paid listings for very little outlay.

Leave us a comment below to let us know what you think, and then start making plans for your very own website directory. Good luck!

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How To Make Money With Squidoo

Setting up your own website costs money, even if you do it yourself. But free web pages provided by other sites or providers always come with provisos – such as the fact that you can’t sell on them.

Don’t they?

Not all of them – in fact, one of the best ones gives you all the tools you need to make a nice income every month. All you need to do is put in the work required.

The name of the site is Squidoo, and whether you use it to make money elsewhere or to make money through the site itself it holds a lot of promise if you learn how to tap into it correctly.

Once you have opened an account with Squidoo you will notice how easy it is to start setting up your own web pages. I say pages because there is no limit on how many you can have. Whether you go for dozens or hundreds, the only limits are those you put on yourself.

This is a great opportunity for affiliate marketers who want to have a strong web presence in order to be able to recommend and sell products that they will receive a commission on. And seeing as you can also earn purely from having a page or more on Squidoo (known as a lens) there are two great ways to earn money here.

When it comes to building your first lens you will see that there are a vast number of modules which you can select from in order to make your lens take on a unique appearance. Some of these are built to earn money – the Amazon and eBay modules, for example, and dozens more besides.

Others are designed to give you a lot of leeway to create your own layouts and add banners and other advertising material, so there is a lot you can do here to create something that is truly original. Every lens is ranked within the whole of Squidoo, and there is no doubt that the higher the LensRank the better your chances of getting more visitors and sales as a result.

New lenses can be found and indexed by Google fairly quickly if they are of good quality – and that is really the secret of making money with Squidoo. Don’t expect to create a lens in ten minutes and be making sales the following day. Make a good start, publish your lens and then start adding new material to it on a regular basis. You need to build something worthwhile so offer your visitors real value. If you can do that then they will come to trust you and be more likely to spend money with you as a result.

If you don’t yet have any products to promote, join ClickBank or Commission Junction (or both) and find a niche to start promoting. There are so many products to choose from on these two sites that you could create a new lens every day on a different subject and not run out for ages.

The trick to building a lens that is successful is to do so over time. Make sure you edit it and add to it regularly just as you would with any other website, as this will help your ranking within the search engines. Don’t be afraid to experiment, because your most successful lenses might not be ones you would expect!

You will receive a royalty payment per lens per month, which will vary depending on how well each one performs. Together with commissions from items sold through your lenses and through your affiliate links you can make a lot of money here once you have established yourself.

One tip for getting started – make sure you start with a subject you love and have a real passion for. The chances are good that there will be plenty of other people out there who feel the same, and your natural enthusiasm for it will help you to build a great lens to start with.

Make use of all the helpful tools Squidoo offers to help you in your lens building efforts too; you’ll soon notice the difference.

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How To Make Money With MySpace

If you are already a member of MySpace you will know that they don’t exactly take kindly to people promoting their wares on the website. But if that’s the case, how do you make money by using the site?

The answer is simple – you do it subtly and in a way that will naturally encourage people to follow what you are saying and go elsewhere to find out more.

The key to success is to build a profile that tells people who you are and what you are about – which will brand you as an expert in a particular area and get you remembered for all the right reasons when you want to promote your affiliate links online.

So what do you get when you join MySpace? 
First and foremost you get a space of your own to tell the world who you are. It’s a good idea to look up some other random pages by other people to see how they use theirs, particularly if they are internet marketers who have ulterior motives for joining this social networking site.

You will get your own MySpace URL that can be promoted elsewhere, but the most important section of your profile page is the About Me section, as this is your chance to tell people what your interests are. If you are promoting products in a particular niche topic, make sure your profile is relevant to that niche in order to be seen as something of an expert. If you do this people will remember you and be more interested in seeing what you have to say when they need information on that topic.

If you have a presence elsewhere online – a blog, a website, and any other social networking sites that maybe aren’t quite so strict about not promoting your business as MySpace is – make sure you include them in your links section. This will encourage more traffic to flow between all your web presences, and you’ll start to make more sales as a result.

You can also make good use of the blog you get on MySpace; the great thing about this is that you can include hyperlinks (clickable links) to other websites. Again, you don’t want to be trying to sell directly off this but you could set up a page on Squidoo – a site that welcomes the idea of making money from a free web page, and you’ll find out more about it in a later post – or promote affiliate links or products on your own website that you can link into.

I’m sure you can see by now that the way to make money from having an account with MySpace is to do so indirectly. Before you post anything new to your MySpace page or blog, ask yourself if you are blatantly advertising or doing so in a more subtle way. There is no reason why you can’t recommend your own website that is packed full of information on your specialist subject and hopefully make some sales off there as a result.

Got some ideas for putting that MySpace account to good use already? Leave a comment below before you get started!

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How To Make Money With HubPages

Ever heard of HubPages? Not everyone has, and although it is often compared to Squidoo it doesn’t have quite the reach or the outlook that Squidoo has.

But it does still give you the chance to make some money online, and if you have some interests you’d like to share with other people then it’s worth taking a look and adding it to your overall online portfolio of money making websites.

So long as you use it right you can do quite well here, but as with Squidoo you should be prepared to work at it to get the best results. It can take time to really see the success you’re after.

Let’s find out more.

So what exactly is HubPages? Put simply it’s a site that allows you to build single web pages, or hubs, on whatever subject you like (within reason). You can build as many as you like and indeed some members have got dozens of them.

There are several ways you can make money here; firstly you can refer new users to their affiliate program. This doesn’t net you a one off payment either – it actually brings in revenue that keeps on generating income for you over time. Provided the new Hubbers (as they are known) are making money from the hubs they create, you will get a percentage of it.

You also get to make your hubs so that they point to external websites that you have an interest in. So you could use affiliate links, or promote your own website for example. Be careful though as unlike Squidoo there is a real limit on how much you can promote within a single hub. You can’t promote a single URL more than once within a single hub, although you could get round this by making more hubs overall, with each one pointing to a separate product.

You can also take advantage of earning money from the Google Adsense program included on the site, and there is an opportunity to build in eBay and Amazon sales as well, as you can pick and choose what you want to have on each hub.

In short, the best shot you have at making some real cash from HubPages is to make sure that you build plenty of worthwhile hubs over time. People will have more chance of finding you and exploring all your other hubs as well.

It’s also a good idea to promote them elsewhere. If you have social networking sites you are a member of, make sure you direct people to one or two of your hubs on relevant subjects. You can do the same at forums by putting the URL to a hub in your signature line.

You will also notice that you will quite naturally get traffic to your hubs from the search engines once they have been indexed, which doesn’t usually take very long. The traffic will obviously vary depending on how popular the subjects you select actually are, so you should experiment to see what works best for you.

Making money with HubPages isn’t an overnight thing – as is the case with so many internet ventures – but perseverance will get you there in the end. With a little research you can start picking profitable subjects to build hubs around right from the word go, which makes life a lot easier.

You could also try becoming an expert on a certain subject and writing hubs on different aspects of it. This can be a real money spinner if you pick a subject that plenty of people have an interest in.

So what are you waiting for? Go and open that HubPages account now and start building your first hub. It could be live in no time – and you could be earning your first slice of revenue very soon.

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How To Make Money With Amazon

You may not realize it but there are a number of ways you can cash in with Amazon.com. The way you choose as being the best one for you will largely depend on what you are already doing, and that’s where this particular blog comes in.

By doing this you will find that you can take advantage of the sheer amount of traffic and respectability that this website commands all over the world. It’s a lot like eBay in this respect – a lot of the hard work is done for you.

One of the best things about Amazon is that everyone can make some money with it if they want to, because it has a number of options to choose from. You will no doubt have heard about the Advantage program, which is ideal if you already have published books (no matter whether they are self published or through a conventional publisher) as you can get them listed on Amazon by following the instructions they give you in the Advantage program. This method also enables you to use On Demand publishing to minimize the risk of self publishing stacks of books that may not be sold.

But there is a lot more to Amazon than that. If affiliate marketing is more up your street, then take a look at their Associates program, which allows you to recommend customers to various products in order to make sales on them. The program is very well put together and as you would probably expect from such a major site there is a lot of information to read through as well.

Once you have signed up for free, you should make the effort to explore everything the site offers you. You will see that you can create banners, ads and much more to enhance your site – and this even extends to the colors you pick for your ads.

But one area you should definitely look at is the potential to create what they call an aStore. There are examples of these given on Amazon itself, and while they are quite basic in nature they do allow you to create web pages that are centered around a particular theme. So for example if your website is about golf, you can create an aStore which is stocked with the best books on golf and golfing.

This can be linked to from your main website or blog, giving an extra dimension to your site and giving you the opportunity to make more money from it as a result.

You can also select which colors you wish to use for these pages (you can build many more than just one!) so it will look exactly the same as your main website. You will need a website to join the program and they will vet it to make sure it is suitable for inclusion (but don’t worry, most are – it’s only the obvious types of exclusions that will apply) but this doesn’t even have to be one you pay for; people have got in by having a well constructed page or site from a free provider.

There is the potential to make a lot of money from the Associates program in particular, and it’s great to use if you have a whole range of websites since you can take advantage of the wide range of products they stock – it’s not just books and DVDs!

So if you are looking for a way to monetize the site or sites you have now, hotfoot it to Amazon and sign up for free. It is one of the best ways to start making some money by offering quality products at great prices.

Be sure to leave us a comment below before you start investigating everything that Amazon has to offer though!

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How to Make Money Becoming a Personal Concierge

If you have tons of time on your hands, are an organized person and enjoy helping others, you may just have found the career of a lifetime: a personal concierge. A personal concierge has the fun task of doing for others what they don’t have time to do for themselves. Sounds like a lot of fun, doesn’t it? Being a personal concierge can be a very rewarding job and one that pays good money as well.

Do You Have What it takes to be a Personal Concierge?
While becoming a personal concierge sounds like an exciting job and may put you among the lives of the rich and famous, there are certain qualifications you’ll need to be successful at the job. While it’s often the wealthy that hire a personal concierge, you may also find jobs as a personal concierge with elderly or disabled individuals that can’t do these, often, simple things for themselves.
Becoming a personal concierge requires making your clients feel like they’re the most important person in the universe and that you’re dedicated to providing them with the services they require. However, are you cut out for this type of work? Here is self-test you can take to determine if a personal concierge is the right choice for you before you run out and tackle this exciting new career.

• Do you make friends easily with everyone you meet? As a personal concierge, your client needs to feel comfortable with you.
• Are you good with challenges and meeting deadlines? As a personal concierge, you’ll be expected to provide a service for you client when it’s convenient to them. When they want something done, they may want it NOW.
• Are you good at juggling numerous tasks at one time and being successful at it?
• Are your creative enough to be able to fulfill the needs of all your clients?

Setting up Your Personal Concierge Service
If you’ve passed the self-test, you’re ready to get started and embark on a new career of helping to bring happiness into the lives of others. Make sure you have plenty of time on your hands because the needs of your clients will take over and your time will become their time.
The first step in becoming a personal concierge is determining what your skills are as well as what services are required the most in your area. Obviously, if you live in a large city, you’ll find more opportunities but even small towns have people that are willing to pay for many services they cannot do on their own. Start by making up business cards offering your services. You may have numerous skills you can do. Some common services include the following:

• Child care (supervision, chauffeuring)
• Errand service (banking, dry cleaning, delivery, pharmacy pickup, etc)
• Dining and entertainment (private tours, reservations, buying tickets)
• House-sitting services (gardening, checking on teens, keeping refrigerator full0
• Pet Care Service (walking, feeding, grooming)
• Corporate and executive assistance (transporting clients, planning meetings and events)
• Office help (copying, faxing, filing)
• Shopping Services (returning items, groceries, gift-wrapping and purchasing)
• Maintenance & repair service (getting quotes, arranging service, providing access)

These are just a few of the many services that you can provide as a personal concierge. Start scouring your neighborhoods, including hotels, hospitals and businesses and you’ll be surprised at the many new clients you may pick up along the way. Always, remember to leave your business card. Advertising on the internet is also a great way to find new clients for your personal concierge business.

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How To Make Money At Your Local Flea Markets

Flea markets can hold the key to making a part or full time income if you have the determination to make the most of it. You can sell all kinds of things but most people tend to specialize in something in particular – either because they have a natural interest in that subject or because it holds the potential to make a lot of money.

The basic idea is to source your products elsewhere and then flip them for a profit at the local flea markets – but you can work it the other way as well, as the full article reveals.

Most people love flea markets because they are a huge hive of activity; you can buy practically anything you like at one of these events if the price is right.

The key to selling successfully is to find out what people want and then get it from somewhere else to sell at a profit. Check your local papers in the items for sale section; people are often so eager to get rid of stuff they don’t want you can pick up a lot of stuff at dirt cheap prices and then sell it on for a handsome profit.

Books are a great seller, and they are often something that people will clear out at very low prices just to get rid of the ones they no longer want. EBay is another possibility; job lots of books are usually too heavy to mail out so you’ll need to collect them, but this reduces your competition when it comes to other bids. Many people start the bidding at less than a dollar and you can often win the auction for dozens of books at this low price.

You can also buy stock from wholesalers. There are plenty of these that sell brand new goods that will sell well at flea markets, but order minimum quantities to begin with until you know a certain item sells well. Do your research by wandering round a flea market as a potential customer; this will help you to identify the busiest stalls and the expert sellers who are making the most money. Presentation counts for a lot as well. A messy stall won’t attract as much attention as one that is well ordered and laid out.

Alternatively you can search for products at the flea markets by getting them as cheaply as you can, and then turning round and selling them on a website such as eBay. This takes a lot of knowledge since not all products will fetch a profit. Look out for people selling job lots of items to get rid of them, which you could then break up to sell individually.

Most people are becoming aware of what their items are worth now though, so your best chance of getting the most out of a flea market will be as a seller, not a buyer.

If you like the idea of doing this, make sure you visit the very next flea market in your local area. It will give you a chance to take a look round in order to see what the busiest sellers are selling to their customers. Check out how they work and what kind of goods interest you. You can then start looking for your stock elsewhere – and who knows, you might even have a stall of your own at the next flea market to hit town.

Be sure to leave us a comment below before you start sourcing your stock though!

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How to Make Money as a Travel Writer

**Have you spent a lot of time traveling and would like to share your experiences with others? Do you feel you have a lot to offer other people wishing to travel but don’t know how to keep them informed? Consider a career as a travel writer! Not only will you be able to share your travel experiences with others buy you can make money while you’re doing it.

**There are several ways you can make money as a travel writer. Choose the one (or more than one) that appeals to you the most and get started making money doing something you love.
Posting on other people’s blogs. Blogging is HUGE today and it’s all over the internet. You’d be hard pressed to find a website that doesn’t have a blog site for visitors to leave a post. The neat thing about blogging is that for almost any subject you can think about, there’s going to be several blogging sites. Check out some traveling blog sites and offer them your articles. Although most sites require you to write at least a few hundred words, if you have a lot of travel experience, you’ll have no problem completing the assignment. Set a certain fee for your article and begin making money. Blogs are constantly in need of fresh new content, which you can provide for them.


**Start up your own blog post. While you may not get people that come to your blog site to instantly start buying your travel articles, they will come there to read them and will return for more. This makes your site the perfect place to put your ads in hopes of selling them. If you’ve ever thought of becoming an affiliate partner with some business, this is a great opportunity. While your travel articles will generate traffic to your site, the ads will bring in the revenue!


**Sell your travel articles to newspapers and travel magazines. You really don’t have to be a professional writer to sell your articles to these places. If you’re a relatively good writer and write content that other travelers like yourself would enjoy, many travel magazines would love to pay you money for your work. Check out the Writers Market at your local library and you’ll get a list of periodicals that will pay good money for your work.


**Consider writing your travel articles on project sites. The internet is a place filled with many project sites where people bid and sell their work. Guru, Elance and DoMyStuff are just a few project websites where you’ll find many people interested in buying your work. You can set up an account for free as a provider of written content. Check out advertisements for people looking for writing projects and you may just find someone looking for exactly what you have to offer. You do the writing assignment and you’ll be paid online, where the money will be deposited directly into your account. Check these sties out today. There just may be someone looking for travel information that only you can provide them with!

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How to Make Money as a Pet or House Sitter

Making money as a pet or house sitter is much easier than you may realize. Most families are two-income families that have their homes left alone and unattended much more than they’d like as well as their pets. Many of these people are more than willing to pay someone to sit in their house or with their pets.

House sitting for Safety Reasons

Many homeowners hire people to sit in their homes while they’re gone for a number of reasons but safety is often at the top of the list. If would-be burglars have been lurking around in the neighborhood, they always seem to know which homes are left unattended day after day. Hiring a person to sit in their home will not only ward off potential intruders but leaves the homeowner with a sense of security. In addition, you’re making money doing this!

Sitting with Pets

More families than ever today now have pets, some have more than one. While this is great for the pet industry, it’s bad for the pets that are left alone while their owners are working. If only they had someone they could trust to come and walk their dogs for a bit or just house sit with them. This is where you step in and save the day! You can make money sitting in homes and watching their pets or just keeping them company so they’re not left alone so much. Believe it or not, people are willing to pay for these services. If you put in enough hours or have enough regular clients, you can make some good money pet or house sitting.

Hotels Have Guests with Pets

You local hotels are great placing to find potential customers that will be willing to pay good money for you to sit with their pets or walk them. More travelers than ever are now taking pets, particularly dogs, with them on vacation. However, many times they want to do things that they can’t do with their pets and would be more than willing to pay someone to come and sit with them in their hotel room or take them out for awhile so they can get fresh air and exercise.

I have traveled many times with my two German shepherd dogs and have had to give up on my fun activities because my beloved friends could not join me. Being in a strange town and unfamiliar hotel, I had no idea of what to do with my dogs. I would have loved if the hotel offered brochures or business cards of individuals willing to come and sit with my dogs or take them out walking.

Advertising

The first step towards making money pet or house sitting is to make yourself known in your community. Make up some business cards or brochures and get them to any public place that will distribute or hang them. Ask your family and friends to advertise for you as well. If you’re internet savvy, you can even set up a website for your new business, complete with all your information and contact information. This will work great for travelers planning on being in your area in the future.

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How to Make Money as a Dog Walker

Do you love dogs and love spending time with them? It’s a known fact that more people than ever are dog owners. Dogs are now taking a much larger role in the family and the household than in the past when they were kept outdoors or in a kennel. It’s also a known fact that more households are two-income families with both members working all day and not much spare time. Where does this leave the dog?

The dog is cooped up in the house all day, left in a kennel or tied to a cable for hours on end. This is unfortunate but, in many cases, this cannot be helped. If there were an alternative, most of these dog-lovers would take it. You can be their alternative and make money doing it! Imagine making money doing something you’d love doing for free! More people than ever today are willing to pay someone to walk their dog when they’re unable to do it for themselves. Dogs needs exercises and you can be the one to provide them and their owners with what you need.

Setting up Your Business

Setting up your dog-walking business is very easy. If you have access to a computer you can make up brochures or business cards. Make attractive ads advertising what you’ll do for their dog: walking, grooming or just spending time with them. Make sure you put all your contact information on the advertisements such as name, address, phone number and even your email address, since most people spend a lot of time online. You may even want to tell them you provide references.

Wondering where you’re going to get references? If you want to make money walking dogs, you probably love dogs and enjoy being around them. If this is so, there are plenty of people that are aware of this and may be more than willing to give you a referral as someone they’d trust with their dog. Check with your local veterinarian as he/she may be willing to give you a good referral or even write you a letter of recommendation. Your veterinarian may even be able to give you names of people that are in need of your services.

Check out the Competition

Ask around and see if there are others that are making money dog walking. If so, you can get an idea of what to charge for your services as different areas may require prices. If there are others doing this in your area, you may want to speak with them to get some tips on different potential customers. They may have more than they can handle and be willing to share the load or give you referrals.

Advertising

Advertising is a must when you’re starting off your dog-walking business. Give out your business cards to everyone you know and ask that they spread the word. Hang your brochures in any places that allow this so people can see that you are available and know how to contact you. You may want to go to hotels in the area (pet-friendly hotels) and let them know of your services or ask if you can leave your brochures with them for visitors that have dogs that may need your service.

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Freelance Your Article Talents, Graphic Design, Web And Brochure Design

If you are creative in some way then you have a talent that can be capitalized on. No matter whether it is writing or designing, there are plenty of people out there who need things written or designed and who can’t do it themselves.

This is where you come in. If you can promote your services to the people who need them, you can bring in a lot of work. You just need to know what you have to offer so you can target the right people.

Luckily there are plenty of ways to do that both on and offline.

Okay so first off, where do your talents lie? I don’t just mean what area they are in, I mean what aspects of your talent mark you out from your competition when it comes to showing off your skills to the people who might just want to pay you for them?

The answer to this question will help you decide how and where to promote yourself. Having your own website is almost essential if you are to look professional; if your talents lie in web design then you should have no problems doing this, and if you are a writer then you can create your own copy and seek the help of a designer to put them on a professionally created website for you.

But what is the easiest way to get your first job?

The best thing to do is to go looking for it. There are several reputable websites online which allow buyers to link up with service providers, and many of them are global in nature. This means you could be in the US and working for clients in Australia, the UK and many other countries besides.

If you sign up to one of these sites make sure you create an outstanding profile for yourself. Potential clients will read this to see what kind of person you are, so you should keep it professional and make it sound good even if you haven’t yet done any professional work for anyone. Everyone has to start somewhere.

Another good way of promoting your services offline is to get a stack of high quality business cards made up to hand out to people who ask about your services. You could do the same with tri-fold brochures and pamphlets too.

You might also find it easier to get those first few jobs if you find some other people who are freelancing their own talents online and see what they are doing to get work. Some people run their own blogs and often reveal something of what they do on there. You would be amazed at how sharing some people are, so make the most of what they have to say and learn from their experiences.

Incidentally, there are some bloggers who have a regular job feed for creative work linked in to their blog from another site, so keep your eyes peeled for these and bookmark them in your favorites when you find them. It’s worthwhile keeping a special folder with these kinds of websites in it, so you can check it each day to see if there are any jobs that appeal to your talents that you can apply for.

You will generally find that you will start getting a mixture of work from your own efforts to find it on job sites, and people finding you through your own website. What you really need to aim for in both cases is satisfying the client so they come back to you for all their creative needs in future. Regular clients mean regular paychecks, so keep plugging away at it!

No business is built overnight, but freelancing is one of those businesses that can really build into a huge income if you persevere and hone your talents. Keep that in mind during the early days, and you will soon be kissing your regular job goodbye!

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Form an At Home Inbound Call Center & Make Money

Are you a stay-at-home mom looking to make some spare money? 
Do you like talking on the telephone? Do you have tons of spare time at home with little to do? If you’ve answered “yes” to these questions, you are the perfect candidate for a at home inbound call center agent.

What is an “at home inbound call center” agent?
If you’ve ever contacted a business about some topic or another, chances are you were speaking to an at home inbound call center agent. Businesses take in many phone calls in a day’s time. While they value their customer’s feedback and concerns, they don’t always have the manpower or funds in their business to pay for a full-time staff of people to answer the phone so they outsource this work. Here’s where an “at home inbound call center agent” comes into the picture.

By hiring someone else outside of the company, they’re able to ensure that their customers’ calls are answered in a timely fashion without having to pay the same wage they would have to pay the employee if they worked within the company. By hiring an “outsider”, they don’t have to offer benefits such as holiday or vacation pay, insurance, pensions, etc. so they’re getting the job done while saving money at the same time.

Form an at home inbound call center & make money at home

Many companies today are hiring workers outside their office. If you’re interested in forming an inbound call center in your home, research different companies that are outsourcing their work as they may have opportunities for inbound call center agents.

There are many sites online where you can research pay rates and qualifications required to be a inbound call center agent. This will give you the “heads-up” as to what you need to know before applying for one of these positions. Once you know what your requirements will be and what to expect, you can make business cards and start making calls or paying visits to companies wishing to outsource their calls.

Many individuals find positions as in home inbound call center agents and work for more than one company if the work load allows it.

Requirements of an inbound call center agent

Being an at home inbound call center agent can be a rewarding experience and can make you some excellent money, both part-time and full-time. However, there are some requirements you’ll need to meet before you can form your inbound call center in your home.
You’ll need a computer with a Windows operating system and a processor of at least 300 MHz as well as an adequate amount of hard drive space.
You’ll need internet access. You’ll need to have an email address since most of the actual call center work and communication will be done on the computer. You may also be required to download an instant messenger or VoIP application so you can communicate with your company instantly if the need arises.
You have to have a telephone, obviously and most companies prefer it’s a corded telephone.
Good telephone etiquette is a necessity. Believe it or not, not everyone is cut out to be an inbound call center agent. You need to be courteous, friendly and have a good telephone attitude with all customers.

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Earning Money With Scrap Metal

Sometimes you can walk right past a great way to make money without even realizing that it’s there. This is definitely the case with scrap metal, because you have probably walked or driven right past loads of stuff and not even given it a second thought – except perhaps to be mad at people for dumping it where they shouldn’t.

And that’s exactly how you can make some fast cash as well as tidying your neighborhood up a bit. All it takes is a bit of know how, a van or car to put the stuff into, and then you can enjoy the fruits of your labors by driving back home with some cash in your back pocket.

The first thing to find out when you start making money with scrap metal is where your nearest scrap metal yard is. You will probably find you have one quite nearby and it only takes a short amount of time to either give them a call or drive by to have a chat and find out what they take and how much they would pay you for it.

This is an important first step because you don’t want to be accumulating lots of what you think they will take only to arrive and find you have to take half of it away with you again!

So, once you’ve done your homework you can start thinking about finding the type of scrap metal they want. But where do you start looking?

The easiest place to start is at home, believe it or not. Have you got any old tire rims off your old car that are filling up the garage and not serving any real purpose? There’s your first item right there. How about old grill bits from that broken barbeque? Once you start thinking along the right lines and you know what they will accept, you will automatically know what direction to start looking in.

It helps to allocate some space in your garage or maybe your shed to store all the stuff in until you have enough to take to your local scrap metal yard, as you’ll want to wait until you have a fair amount before you part with it. Keep it tidy otherwise it could cause an accident.

You can also do some advertising and relieve local people of their own scrap metal. Have a leaflet made up which lists all the things you’re after, and ask them to call you if they have anything they want to get rid of. All you need to do then is call round and pick it up, and then convert it into cash yourself.

After a while you will become known as someone who provides this service and people will start calling you more often. When you think about it you’re making life easier for them, as you’re saving them a trip to get rid of it themselves, and many people don’t think of cashing in their old scrap metal in this way.

Are you starting to think about all the stuff you’ve already got lying around that could get you started? If you are, then now is the time to find that local yard! But before you go, leave a comment below to tell us your plans for cashing in on this idea.

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Create A Local Wedding Services Guide And Website For Earning Money

One of the most complicated things in life has to be planning a wedding. There are dozens of things to think about and plenty of things you need to find. If someone could just point you in the right direction of all the services you needed then it would certainly take a lot of the hassle out of the whole planning process.

If you like a bit of research then you could be the owner of a great website giving everyone everything they need to know to plan the perfect wedding. And it’s an idea that you can use in other areas too.

Where is the first place you usually go to find information? For most people the answer is undoubtedly the internet. There is an almost insatiable market for information and if you can provide it you’ll start getting traffic from all directions.

Weddings are a good subject to cover as you can provide a website which is dedicated to services in your local area, and is split into sections according to the different sources of information someone would need. So for example you could have a section on florists, another one on hire cars for weddings, another one on venues, another one on clothing and wedding dresses, and so on.

But rather than just providing details of each supplier that you can find in your area, you need to make the website more valuable to everyone who finds it. You can do this quite easily by writing some unique content for each section and each page, in order to pique the interest of everyone who reads it. Try and think about what people want to know when they are online looking for information to help them plan their wedding, and provide as much of that knowledge as you can.

It would also help to provide more than just the contact details for each business you feature on your site. Write down some information about them as well – where they are, how long they have been in business, what they specialize in and so on. You could even write to businesses inviting them to appear on your site for a small fee – a great way for them to get publicity and a good way for you to earn some cash as well. You could renew the fee every twelve months, and they would no doubt provide you with all the information you need for an accurate listing as well.

You can also monetize your website by adding Google Adsense; it will display adverts that are relevant to your audience so you can be sure they will be interested in reading about other companies who provide wedding services, and you could achieve a reasonable click through rate as a result.

Another way to earn some cash through your site is to look for affiliate programs that are wedding related. Sites like Commission Junction allow you to promote a whole range of goods from different companies, so you might be able to find a lot of different products and companies that you could recommend to everyone, as well as providing information for a specific area.

This is obviously an idea that you could roll out to other areas and states as you go along; you might end up with a whole network of sites serving all kinds of different areas, and it doesn’t have to stop at weddings either. Any type of industry or service could be adapted to provide a useful website along the same lines.

If you like the sound of this idea, leave a comment below to let us know! Then it could be time to start up your own empire of wedding related websites.

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Build Your Own Online Forum Community & Earn Money

This isn’t one of the most obvious ways to make money online, which is precisely why it is something of an untapped market for generating an income from.

There are plenty of subjects you could tap into for building a worthwhile forum – all you need to do is choose one that you already have a good deal of knowledge in. Alternatively you could add one to a site you have now, which can be an excellent way of monetizing your existing traffic.

A forum or community is also an excellent way of providing more value for your visitors. They have a reason to return to your website because they know there will be regular fresh content on there. That same fact will also mean the search engine spiders will tend to visit your site more often too, which can eventually result in a higher ranking.

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Building a forum or community can take a bit of effort initially, but there are a lot of rewards to be had. It might also be a lot cheaper than you think, since there are plenty of providers who will let you have the software and hosting you’ll need completely free of charge. Have a good look round the internet to see which ones appeal to you the most before deciding.

That’s all very well, but how do you actually make money from this?

Well it does depend on the subject of the forum, but you can charge a fee for people to gain access to it if you provide them with decent information and there is something worth gaining for the money. Some news related sites charge a fee for access which encourages people to visit the site on a daily basis, but obviously your site might be on a completely different subject altogether.

You could also think about building a community or forum where basic membership is free, but in order to get access to premium features you would need to pay a small monthly fee. This strategy often gets a better take up rate as people get the chance to sample what the site is like before deciding whether or not to pay the extra money. A good example of this (albeit one on a large scale) is the Second Life virtual reality site, where membership is free but in order to take part on a larger scale and gain access to better features you need to pay the monthly amount stipulated.

You can see that it’s a good idea to do your homework before getting involved with anything like this, because you want to make sure your paid membership options are desirable enough to bring in the customers. If you end up giving your subscribers something they can get elsewhere at no cost whatsoever, then there is no reason for them to carry on subscribing with you. That’s a good point to bear in mind when you get started; if your subscriber drop out rate seems rather high, you might need to reconsider what you are offering.

Some people also offer membership only websites which have a members’ only forum as part of the overall package. These are usually based around a popular subject but go into it in more depth and offer unique content that can’t be found anywhere else.

For example, there is plenty of content out there about writing and selling e-books, but there is at least one person offering a members’ only site that goes into the whole process step by step, sharing their own success of writing and selling e-books in an in-depth fashion. This is the kind of format you want to aim for.

So if you have some ideas on creating a forum, community or members’ only site of your own,
why not start making steps towards making them a reality? You might find those ideas hold a monthly income for you that you only need to start tapping into.

But leave us a comment before you go out and make a difference! Let us know your thoughts and how this idea might work for you.

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