I work for myself in my own office but I do find I have quite a bit of free time which currently I spend dossing around on sites like this! (I was drawn to it because of it's revenue sharing angle). However I appreciate I'm never going to get rich simply by posting on here and hoping that someone clicks an ad when it's my 'turn' to get the revenue - so what other opportunities are there? I'm not after some 'get-rich-quick' scheme. A friend of mine signed up for something called (I think) 'Data entry marketing'. He was swayed by the fact that you COULD earn thousands a month for about an hour's work a day. Gleefully he fantasised about telling his boss to get stuffed and he made preparations for dumping his wife; all in the anticipation of raking in oodles of on-line dosh. I told him if it was that easy everybody would be doing it, but he was convinced he was going to be an Internet millionaire. I must admit I guffawed loudly when he eventually (after a few months of NOT raking in oddles of on-line dosh) told me what it was: running a blog. Apparently all he had to do was put in Google Adsense, register his blog with search engines and sign up with Clickbank and, bingo! Helloooooo life of leisure. Now I've got nothing against Adsense and Clickbank; I use them myself on my own site and, yes, they do bring in a the odd shilling - but not enough to retire on. So I'm asking you good people - are there any REAL on-line opportunities? I just need something I can do on-line in my flexible free time. Thanks in advance.
You can: 1) Freelance: Do something e.g. programming, marketing for other people. 2) Start your own blog and use affiliates etc. 3) Start selling your own product online etc.
Just avoid eBay businesses like the plague, and find yourself a product line or service that no one else is doing. Or take a product or service other people are offering and improve on it. Also, make sure you have a good understanding of SEO if you plan on running any web-based business. Personally, I prefer to blog only to promote my other businesses and to use only for adsense. I don't like to use them as a sole source of income but as a supplement to build up the traffic (links) to my other websites. If you look at any of the premium sites for sale on sitepoint.com that are making in excess of $5,000 profit a month you can see what it takes to make this kind of money and get an idea of how the owner(s) might have done it. You can also use yahoo to find the number of backlinks they had to build to get that traffic and income and determine how much work it would take to build a similar site.
Adsense and Clickbank can make your retire very early, if you use these both wisely. Think about it this way - you have a website that has adsense ads and clickbank products to sell. You get 100$ a month from this one website. Now think about 2 websites, with the same formula - just a different niche. That's 200$ a month. Think 50 sites. That's 5,000$ a month. 100 sites is 10,000$ a month. At this point, you can hire a couple of people to build your sites for you. So in a year you could possibly make 400 sites. Which is 40,000$ a month. There is really no limit to this. Work must be put in - but in the long run, IDLE revenue will flow into your accounts, while you sit on some beautiful beach drinking a nice cold cocktail. And that's only one way to make cash. There are hundreds of other ways to earn using programs such as Adsense, Clickbank, Commision Junction and others.
That's a great plan, but sooo much easier said than done. There are plenty of ways to make money online, but the best way to get started is to test some things out. You'll probably fail the first few times, but keeping working on it and learning from your mistakes. Eventually you'll start to succeed and if you continue to try new ideas and believe in yourself, the money will start coming in.
Adsense or afilliates is one o the way Selling products Freelancing But theres no easy money without hard work
Almost everything online can turn into cash. You just need to work hard for it and some skills for it. Like marketing skills when it come to selling product or writing skills when it come to blog review.. and etc..etc.. And to earn this skills, you need to work hard for it.. So for me, more money online is equal to more hard work first.. Cheers! Sha
Sell Online Products Start a blog Freelancing Jobs Forums Posting But you have to be carefult working with clients. Some people are spam as well they got their job done and flee away. Take care of that.
I don't agree with the 100 sites idea. Having so many sites makes it harder to promote and update. In my opinion you need just a few web sites, and be focused on what you do. There are hundrends of ways to promote a web site, and while you are persistent in what you do it is just a matter of time to get the traffic you need to make a leaving from the internet. Of course a huge factor is the type of site you have. If you find something unique that people will love, you can make real money without even promoting (as people promote theirselves things that they like)
Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated. I've got another question but I'll start another thread on it as it's a different topic.
Mostly newbies try to get there post level up... to sell there signature. Then they start investing in other projects. On the way you will learn alot also, this is how most people start. Also go the services area and you can find alot of things to do there.
Blog, start a forum, paid forum posting, etc... There are many ways to earn money. Here are few ideas of how you can earn money online without spending your own money.
The first money I every made online was playing the middle man and selling sites between people. Alot of people know about one forum and not the other, and you can sell betweent hem.