Hi everyone, I'm new here and after browsing around here and online it seems that the methods to making money online are either old or outdate. Does anyone know of any new trends. I know clickbank and afflliate marketing and things of that nature were popular before but are they still or is there another wave of opportunity others can look into? Thanks! P.S. I am a total noober so I don't know a huge amount but am willing to do the leg work and research to educate myself!
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Its a great idea if you can start your own online store or a products site. After a certain time after promoting and acquiring the top search engine rankings you can start a huge business.
Online business is still the same, the different things is how to be different. Unique and creativity can be the different. In my opinion, Facebook Marketing is still a good internet business and still trending nowadays. But make money through internet marketing niche is still good business too. Till now I have my own passive income from it.
I have worked online quite a lot and from what I know there really isn't that many new trends this year. Although I believe services are a big area to get into at the moment
If you're talking trends for 2012 I'm suggesting KDP, Apple iBooks, massive upsurges in video marketing
Of course. Kindle Direct Publishing - Publishing your ebooks on the Kindle patform. These books are now outselling regular books. Oh and Adwords ReMarketing I can see being massive since Google only launched it a few months ago it's been hugely beneficial to those who take the time to use it.
My suggestion would be to take everything that you have learned in how to make money online and use it to help offline business make money as a consultant.