Make Money Online: March 2008

In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.

Think about your weekly activities, you may have watched TV & movie, played games, traveled to somewhere else, seen some interested electronic products, read about the latest technologies, learned something new about computer & Internet and many other things you may have experienced. All these topics can be written down and published on your blogs. But make sure all the content you posted on your blog are legal, ethical and family friendly. Here is a real example of simple review blog that has made more than $1,800 this month (up to 30th March as recorded in Payperpost.com) just writing product reviews for the advertisers of Payperpost.com.

http://www.frenchvision.net

Take a look at the site and you will get the idea on how to start a review blog.

Your blog have to be updated with content on an on-going basis but don’t worry you don’t need to post too many blog entries. Just 2 to 4 blog posts every week will be enough.

Step 3 - Build Traffic for Your Blog
You don’t need a massive amount of traffic to make money with sponsor reviews, but you do need some consistent traffic (50 to 200 unique visitors daily) for getting paid reviews opportunities. So you are going to need to spend some time driving traffic to your blog daily. There are plenty of methods you can use to generate traffic to your blog, some of the common methods are social bookmarking, article marketing, forum posting and holding a contest. As these are common traffic-generating methods, you can use Google and search for these topics to learn everything about how to use these methods to get traffic. And probably you will find other methods of getting blog traffic that you can apply also to increase your blog traffic when searching on Google

Building traffic for your blog will help you get the most paid review opportunities from advertisers.

Step 4 - Join Payperpost.com
There are many websites offering paid review opportunities and the most popular and biggest one is Payperpost.com. So Payperpost.com is the first site you should join. Your blog have to be at least 30 days old and have at least 10 previous posts in order to participate in Payperpost program. So make sure you meet the requirements before applying for becoming a review blogger of Payperpost.com.

Opportunities are released almost every day in Payperpost.com. You need to login to your Payperpost account often to see the opportunities you are qualified to take. So if you have a list of topics or categories in your blog, you are likely to be qualified for more opportunities.

You will usually earn $5 to $15 for each review posted on your blog that get approved by Payperpost.

Another good site that offers similar opportunities is Sponsorreviews.com.

Conclusion
It will take some one to two months to build your blog with content and traffic to qualify for participation in Payperpost program and make money writing sponsor reviews. So at the beginning you wouldn’t see any money come in and you have to be willing to put some effort to build up your blog traffic.

Once you have qualified posting sponsor reviews, join Payperpost and be patient to wait for review opportunities to come. You will be getting more and more opportunities over time and make a nice income writing reviews.

The Complete E-Courses about Making Money Online through Internet Marketing

Posted by Alan Liew | 4:15 PM

Are you having trouble making money online? Your online business doesn't generate profit for you?

Jonny Andrews has put together a series of e-courses which include videos and reports about how to effectively using Internet marketing methods to profit online.

The e-courses will focus on topics like:

Using Web 2.0 to generate traffic and improve your online business revenue.

How to launch an online business with a product with minimum and investment.

Build a profitable list on Autopilot.

Have your competition pay for your product research.

If you are interested to get access to these Internet marketing materials, simply go to Theguruassassin.com, fill out your name and email address and John will send you the training courses.

The Pros and Cons of Making Money Online with Affiliate Marketing

Posted by Alan Liew | 4:12 PM

Affiliate marketing has become a very common way to make money online. Every day, a lot of people are using affiliate marketing to make some extra bucks from home and some of the lucky ones are even able to earn money to cover all their the monthly expenses.

But before you jump on the affiliate marketing bandwagon, you are advised to spend some time to examine the pros and cons of affiliate marketing.

The Pros
The first advantage of affiliate marketing is that it doesn't cost much to get started. Anyone can start an affiliate marketing business. All that you need for setting up an affiliate marketing business are a computer, a high speed Internet access and few hundred dollars.

You don't have to worry about how to run and profit from affiliate marketing. Internet is a good tool to help you find all the affiliate training, tips and information you need to turn your affiliate marketing business into a success.

When you are running an affiliate marketing business, you are marketing other people products or services to make money online. You job is only to send targeted visitors to the company's e-commerce website that you are affiliated with. Whenever a visitor referred by you made a purchase, you'll earn an amount of affiliate commission.

And since you are marketing other people products on the net, there is no stock you need to keep and your merchant or affiliated company will handle all the customer support and product shipping works.

Many affiliate programs will provide a lot of free promotion tools and attractive banner ads and text links to their affiliates. If you join one of these programs, you can use the quality banner ads or text links to match your website content. These ads will make your site look good and possibly generate instant affiliate commission for you.

The Cons
No matter what is being discussed, if there is an advantage, there is always a drawback as well. In the case of affiliate marketing, there are several downsides you have to keep in mind.

You have to do some researches and investigations on the affiliated company or merchant to find out whether it is a reliable company before really joining it. There are unscrupulous and dishonest companies sometimes just close down their affiliate programs without giving prior notice to affiliates. They leave without paying commissions which is even worse.

Affiliate marketing isn't a get rich fast program. You have to take the time to optimize your website and squeeze page so that they will generate good click-through rate consistently. And you need to put hard effort on testing which online marketing techniques are working well with your affiliate programs.

In some niches, you need to build an email list before you can earn affiliate commission. The process of affiliate marketing is you promote your website to get targeted visitors, from your website, you'll encourage your targeted visitors to click on your affiliate ads and links to your merchants sites so that they will make a purchase. But if you are marketing affiliate products related to Internet marketing, home business or online business niches, the visitors you refer to your merchants sites will not make a purchase on their first visit. You must collect their email address to send follow-up email to them to encourage them buy your affiliate products.

Conclusion
Affiliate marketing has pretty high profit potential. But, it is an online business that requires patient, hard work and the right knowledge to achieve success. You may be very interested to start earning money with affiliate marketing because of the advantages it offers but keep in mind that there are drawbacks and challenges you have to deal with.

With the right mindset, knowledge and marketing plan, you can make good profits online through promoting affiliate products or services.

Free Video Tutorial: How to Start a Site or Blog to Make Money with AdSense

Posted by Alan Liew | 1:23 PM

If you have been thinking about start making money online with Google AdSense but don't know how to begin, AdSense Profit eLetter is a resources site that can help you. When you subscribe to AdSense Profit eLetter, you will be given access to a video that will provide everything you need to know to get started with AdSense (from setting up a site to launching your AdSense campaign on your site).

Adsense Profit eLetter

And after that, the site will continue sending you video and tips about making money with AdSense.

AdSense Profit eLetter is a new AdSense resources site created by an experienced AdSense marketer named Codrut Turcanu. The site is especially useful for beginners who want to know about AdSense.

Boost Your Affiliate Income by Using Viral EBook Explosion

Posted by Alan Liew | 4:31 PM

Viral EBook Explosion is another useful tool for increasing affiliate revenue. It lets you create your own viral branded ebooks that contains your affiliate links with just few clicks of mouse and some copy and paste works.

And you don't even have to own an e-book to use the tool because Viral EBook Explosion will provide a list of informative ebooks you can choose from and brand them as your own. So far the all the ebooks are for the Internet marketing or online business niche. But I think the owner may be adding ebooks for other niches as well in the near future.

Here are some of the things you will be able to do with your own viral ebooks:

- Generate affiliate commission from your ebooks readers who click your affiliate links and make a purchase.

- Offer your viral ebooks to your website visitors. Visitors who want to download your ebooks have to opt-in to your email list. Thus help grow your list from time to time.

- Offer the ebooks as a bonus for customers who buy your product if you run an online business.

You can join and try out this tool from the below link:

http://www.viralebookexplosion.com

There is not charge to use Viral Ebook Explosion.

5 Steps to Start Making Money Online with CPA Advertising Programs (Part 1)

Posted by Alan Liew | 4:27 PM

As you may have heard of cost-per-action (CPA) advertising, it is an online advertising model where the website publisher will be paid only when a visitor sent by the publisher to an advertiser’s website takes an action. The advertiser would have specified what action that the visitor has to take to qualify for earning. The action can be a sale, a lead, a sign up, etc.

To make money with CPA adverting program, you need a website or blog. You will use the website or blog to display CPA ads and make money for each qualified action your visitors take in your advertisers websites.

Below is a step-by-step plan to help you get started in making money with CPA ads.

Step 1: What is Your Topic or Theme?
For any money making method that needs a website, the first step will always be choosing a right topic or subject. Before you start building a website, you are going to need to decide a topic that your website will be focusing on. Some of the topics good for CPA ads are insurance, debt consolidation, mortgage loan, entrepreneur, Internet & home business and travel.

You don’t have to use any of the above topics if you don’t like any of them. You can pick a subject that you have a passion in. But make sure you are using a topic that is commonly known by the public.

Step 2: Create Articles and Content
Once you have decided your website topic, it is time to start writing content about the topic for publication on your website. You will want to publish articles and content that your targeted visitors interested to read. So be sure to do some online researches before start writing about your topic. Go to Google and type in several keywords related to your topic, you may find some writing ideas. Another site good for getting content idea is Ezinearticles.com. Just go to the deepest article sub-categories relevant to your topic, click any article link inside the sub-categories and you will be sent to an article page. At the bottom of the article page, you will see a list of most viewed article titles in Ezinearticles in the past 90 days. You can think about writing some of these most viewed titles as they can attract a lot visitors and readers.

If you aren’t able to write articles, you can pay others to create the content you need for your website by using the services of freelance writers through a freelance website like Elance.com or Guru.com.

Another option to get content is to buy private label rights articles and re-write them to best suit your website.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.

5 Steps to Start Making Money Online with CPA Advertising Programs (Part 2)

Posted by Alan Liew | 4:12 PM

In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.

Step 3: Create a Niche Website
There are a few of good web building software you can use to create a website. These web building software are designed to be very user-friendly. So you don’t have to worry if you don’t have the necessary web design knowledge and skills to create a site. These site building tools allow anyone to build a site without technical knowledge. Here are 2 good website building software available for you to build your own website:

Since you are building a niche content site, I would suggest you check out other sites that provide the similar topic and content to get some ideas on how you want your site layout, format and navigation sections look like.

You should also add a few pictures to make your site look attractive. If you can find some interesting instructional videos from YouTube and upload them to your site, that is even better because this will increase your website ‘general interest’ value.

Step 4: Drive Traffic to Your Website
Once you have purchased a domain name and web hosting package to launch your website on the Internet, you need to start generating traffic for the website as quick as possible. Those big CPA advertisers will surely interested to advertise on websites that can get a consistent amount of traffic.

To do this, you would use exactly the same techniques that most web publishers apply to generate traffic for their sites such as social bookmarking, article marketing, commenting on other blogs, forum positing and PPC advertising.

If you do want to use PPC advertising to get traffic, Bidvertiser.com may be a good choice to you. With Bidvertiser, you can get target visitors for as low as $0.08 per visitor.

Step 5: Join a CPA Advertising Network
A CPA network will typically contains few hundreds to thousands of CPA advertising programs divided into different categories where you can choose the most suitable CPA programs for your website topic.

Here are a few of the leading networks you can join in order to gain access to the CPA advertising programs available:

When choosing CPA programs in a network, try to register with those programs that offer pay per lead or per sign up instead of pay per sale because sale involves money being spent by visitors. It is much harder to generate income by creating sales for the CPA advertisers as compared with creating free lead or sign up.

If you are approved from applying a CPA program in a network, you can start placing contextual or other forms of ads of the program on your website instantly, and then of course you should increase your traffic-generating efforts to maximize the amount of visitors who come to your site in order to make the most from CPA advertising.

You CPA ads locations on your website are important to your success. You should place your CPA ads in different locations of your site to see which location gives you the most visitor clicks. Placing your ads within your content area is one the best ways to maximum your visitor clicks.

The more people clicking your CPA ads would mean the more visitors you have sent to your advertisers, and probably the more leads you will generate for your advertisers which mean greater ad revenue you’ll earn.

Money Making Opportunities (26th Update)

Posted by Alan Liew | 2:19 PM

This week I have spent a great deal of time on the Internet and found these two websites that offer a way to earn money online.

Bitwine.com
Bitwine believes every person has his/her own talent and experience that can be shared with others. They offer a chance to anyone to become an online advisors. As an advisor of Bitwine, you can offer your knowledge, experience, and guidance to people who need help. There is no charge to become an advisor and you will earn money for each person you help in Bitwine.

Snapbomb.com
Pay per post websites are getting more and more. This probably is a good news to new bloggers as these sites allow them to make some extra money easily and get motivated to grow their blog. Snapbomb is the newest pay per post site I came across recently. And I don't find any specific rule in Snapbomb that states what type of blog can participate in Snapbomb pay per post program, so I guess may be a new blog lesser than 3 months old can be used for signing up with Snapbomb and make money writing sponsor posts.

How to Make Money Selling Antiques on eBay

Posted by Alan Liew | 2:17 PM

Many people have said that antiques and collectibles are some of the most difficult items to start selling on eBay. However, people also said that these items have good potential on becoming the biggest sales on eBay.

So just what are the things a new eBay seller must know before setting up an auction to list their first antique or collectible for sale on eBay?

First of all, the markets of both the antiques and collectibles are moving slow. Antiques and collectibles trading aren't active like most other markets where huge qualities were transacted every day. So if you want to turn a fast profit with antiques and collectibles, you would do better with seasonal, general, or limited lifetime items.

eBay is a great marketplace to make money with antiques and collectibles selling, but these goods aren’t typically fast sellers. This is mainly due to the limited supply of antiques and collectibles. They are rare items and cannot easily be obtained in bulk, so the supply is very limited. On the other hand, the demand is also limited to people who both have the interest and can afford the items. As you can see, you have to be prepared for keeping certain antiques and collectibles with you for some time before the right customers come to you and buy your items.

Another challenge that new eBay sellers have to face is the high stock purchasing cost of an antique business. These goods don’t come cheap. In addition of that, finding a great deal on a rare item has a lot to do with luck and connections.

To achieve success in antique business, you need have a passion on antiques and collectibles and also have good knowledge on these items. One way to offset the high stock purchasing cost and the limited sales potential of antiques and collectibles is to use several sales channels. Listing your items on eBay is a good way to make lucrative profits, but you might not be able to clear out your stock with eBay alone. Search for other online and offline auctions dedicated to antiques. Contact your local dealers and get to know them. They are often a useful source of information.

If you do have expert knowledge on items that you are selling, make sure potential customers know. They will be more likely to purchase from someone who has good knowledge and experience in antiques or collectibles. They will expect that the item they are getting is valuable, not a cheap (or expensive) imitation. By telling them your knowledge of antiques and collectibles, you are reassuring your potential customers that they are paying for something really rare and wonderful. Customers may also recommend you to their friends and possibly bring repeat business to you if you provide good service to them. Your excellence customer service and high quality of your products will attract buyers keep on purchasing from you.

Lastly, focus on brands and trends that have persistent value. Some brands are popular for their rarity or their resilient craftsmanship and beauty. These brands will always have consistent demand. As for market trends, beware for hot fads that are here today and gone tomorrow.

eBay is well known for its antiques and collectibles, and for good reason. This Internet marketplace with its worldwide popularity is the perfect place to list hard to find items. Oftentimes, they are able to buy and sell items that they are interested, which makes their Internet auctioning look more like play than work. Each auction set up for reselling antiques and collectible does require some effort, but the payoffs are worth it.

Free Resources Helpful for Making Money Online - 21 Mar 2008

Posted by Alan Liew | 5:47 PM

It is free resources time, check out what useful materials I have found for you.

Bum Marketing E-Course
Bum marketing is a variation of article marketing. It is about writing and using articles to generate traffic for your niche website to generate affiliate commission, sales of your own products and AdSense revenue. Travis Sago has put together a series of video courses in Bummarketingmethod.com that you can sign up to learn everything about making money with bum marketing method.

List Building Audio Tutorials
Liz Tomey and Jeff Dedrick has recently discussed about list building topic in a tele-seminar. The whole session of the tele-seminar has been recorded down and broken into five part. using viral method. He may now go to their sites here to access and listen these audios. You will discover how they successful build a massive profitable list using only viral method.

Blog Monetization Strategies E-book
Matt Jones is has written an e-book to share with his blog monetization strategies to anyone want to make more money online with blogging. Matt Jones is an experienced bloggers and his favorite topic is blogging, I sure you will pick up some good ideas to monetize your blog effectively.

How to Make Money by Thrift Selling on Ebay

Posted by Alan Liew | 5:45 PM

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Thrift selling means selling lots of unique products on eBay that were bought at a cheap price, typically at thrift stores. These product or items are occasionally not in perfect condition. They were either worn or damaged, but buyers like them because they are unique and don't cost much money to purchase. Thrift selling might not sound very profitable, but it can be if you do things right.

How to Find Thrift Stores
You can visit thethriftshopper.com to find the thrift stores that near your area. Thethriftshopper.com directory contains over 7,000 thrift stores in the United States. You may search by zip or city/state.

For people outside US, you may use Google and Yahoo to find thrift stores on your areas. Alternatively you can post your question in Yahoo Answer or in forums. Those experienced thrift shoppers see your questions may post their answer to help you find thrift stores near your area.

Keep Record of Your Auction Listings
There are a lot of things thrift sellers need to do. Their inventory is in bulk; they will frequently obtain hundreds of different items in their inventory at a given time. So it will be necessary for them to start lots of auctions to list each of their unique items. Thrift sellers must keep track of their items and their listings, so excellent book keeping is needed to ensure everything run smoothly. If you decide to start a thrift selling on eBay, you should look for a book keeping program that you’re comfortable with. Microsoft Excel is a good low-frills spreadsheet program. You may use it to keep track of your goods, your eBay auctions, and your shipping.

Excel spreadsheets are also helpful tools for calculating your net profits over time. Use them to find out which items have sold well, and which doesn't perform well.

Keep Your Stock Orderly and Neat
While you’re monitoring your eBay auctions and stock with Excel, spend time to organize your physical inventory as well. You don’t want to need to dig through a messy heap of stocks to search for the one that needs to be delivered. Organize your spaces to store your goods orderly. Label each item with a post-it note consisting the listing number. That way, you can find the item needed to ship easier and faster.

Maintain Good Reputation in eBay
Seller’s reputation is very important when making money on eBay. Since thrift items are usually used items which might have some damages, so the item description has to clearly specify the condition of your item. Be honest to disclose any damage the item has sustained, and include a picture of the worn or damaged areas. Specify that buyers purchase the items “as is”, and emphasize that you don't know the items’ histories and are not responsible for item failure. This may sound harsh, but you need to include these descriptions to protect yourself.

Use Listing Tools to Help Manage Your Auctions
There are good tools that you can use to make your thrift selling process easier. Bulk listers are tools that designed to start many listings at a time. This is a real time saver for eBay sellers need to start hundreds of auctions at the same time. Turbo Lister is the most popular bulk listing tool you can use. There is no cost to download and use this tool. The tool can be downloaded at:

http://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/

Conclusion
You can get thrift items at low price usually, but they can be costly if you make mistakes in your inventory management. Keep everything orderly and easy-to-find. Use software tool to help manage your listings. And provide buyers an honest description of an item’s condition. Building a good reputation is important to the success of your eBay business. So whatever you sell on eBay, always be friendly and helpful to your buyers.

Video Training - Step-by-step Guide to start Making Money Online with Affiliate Program

Posted by Alan Liew | 11:29 AM

Derrick VanDyke from Affiliate Cash Secrets has published a new video yesterday that I think you may want to check out. The new video is an affiliate video showing you a 5-step system you can follow to start making money online. Here's are what exactly you will learn from the video:

1) Find Profitable Affiliate Products
2) Set Up a Squeeze Page
3) Load Your Autoresponder
4) Drive Targeted Traffic
5) Sell Back-End Products

The link to access this video is:

http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/videos/quickandeasy

The video is only 23 minute long. But, it covers enough content and information that you can put into action to get started in affiliate marketing.

Using Facebook Pay Per Click Ads to Increase Your Online Business Profit

Posted by Alan Liew | 11:27 AM

Pay per click ads have been widely used in the internet marketing world and they are probably the most used types of Internet advertising among online marketers. It is one of the effective methods for driving a lot of targeted traffic to websites and producing good return on investment (ROI) for many Internet businesses.

Today, the very popular social networking site, Facebook.com also offers Facebook Ads. It is a pay per click advertisement that any Facebook users can try. If you want to use the Facebook Ads to increase your website traffic and revenue, the first thing you must know is how to create an appealing Facebook Ads that will attract people to click on it.

A good Facebook PPC advertisement is the one that will be able to grab people's attention and to achieve that you will have to create something catchy and flashy in your ad. You must remember that people will only click on Internet ads that truly catch their attention.

Also, you have to remember that when people login to their Facebook account, most of them will be interested just in checking out what's new in their account or what's happening with their network of friends. They will always want to socialize with other Facebook users who have the similar interest.

Now, let’s talk about creating a PPC advertisement in Facebook Ads, your main task is to take away people's fixed intention (as mentioned above) when they visit Facebook or login to their profile and make them take some time to take a look at your Facebook PPC ad and click on it.

Creating a good pay per click advertisement on Facebook Ads isn’t difficult. You just need some creativity. For instance: If you are trying to market your Nokia cell phones or any kind of electronic items that people would definitely love to have, you might want to try advertising "Want an Nokia Cell Phone at a Cheap Price?".

For this type of example, you may need to spend some time to identify your target customers. For electronic products, the target customers will be those people in college or people between the ages of 18 to 25. You must remember that youngsters today love to buy cheap and cool electronic products.

You can also add a picture of the cell phone to attract more potential customers to view your ad. Visual advertising (ads with photo and graphic) will definitely more effective in catching people's attention compared with the traditional Internet text advertising.

Besides, you should have a strong selling point. Don't just tell people to find out your offer, you should give them a good reason why they should check out what you have to offer. You need to study your target customers and do some researches find out what they need and what they really want.

These are just some of the things that you need to know about advertising in Facebook. By keeping these tips in mind and applying them when your are starting a Facebook Ads campaign, you will find that they will help you a lot in creating a successful Facebook marketing campaign that will increase your online business exposure and generate more sales for you.

Make Money Online by Giving Free Business Resources to Your Website Visitors

Posted by Alan Liew | 2:22 PM

I found an Interesting cost per action (CPA) advertising program network yesterday. The CPA advertising program name is RevRespond. Basically it allows web publishers to earn revenue by offering free B2B content to their targeted visitors.

When you join RevRespond, you will be provided banners and text links that you can place on your website and blog for promoting RevRespond's free content offers. Besides banners and text links, RevRespond also has many other promotional tools and ad units to fit your website format and need.

Types of business content you will be offering to your visitors include:

* White Papers	* Case Studies
* eBooks	* Survey Reports
* Webinars (Live or Archived)	* Podcasts
* Newsletters	* And More

For each visitor click through your banner ad or link to sign up for the free content, you will make at least $1.50. So each qualified lead you generate will earn you a minimum of $1.50. If you can generate just a few leads everyday, you will earn an extra nice income every month.

RevRespond is not like most other ad networks that have ads inventories for all kinds of website. RevRespond only focuses on the business niche. So it is only suitable to websites and blogs that cover topics having to do with business.

Find out more about RevRespond here.

Using AdSense to Make Money Online - Dos and Don'ts

Posted by Alan Liew | 2:19 PM

Most people want to use Google AdSense simply because it works. It is an effective Advertising network that can help you make a lot of money online because it delivers CPC ads that are highly targeted to the content of your website and blog.

Google AdSense is a quality contextual advertising network and they did have a set of rules and policies to help maintain the quality and integrity of their AdSense program. No following the rules and policies could result your AdSense account being suspended. Below are the dos and don’ts when using AdSense:

Dos
- Post a privacy policy on your sites. Few weeks ago Google updated their AdSense terms and conditions with one new requirement that all publishers must have a privacy policy posted on all their AdSense sites to advice visitors specifically about cookies and web beacons. Don't worry if you don't know how to create a privacy policy as Jensense.com has prepared a sample that anyone can use.

- Read the program policies and the terms and conditions completely. This is to make sure you don't against any of the AdSense rules.

- Read AdSense forums, blog and articles so that you can learn from others’ experiences and mistakes.

- Learn how to optimize your AdSense ads to achieve high CTR. Test and experiment different type of optimization methods to achieve the best AdSense performance. Realize it takes time and work to see result.

Don'ts
- Never, ever, ever click on your own ads. So be very careful when you are navigating your own site.

- Never ask your friends and family members to click on AdSense ads. Rather, make money by recommending them to join Google Adsense program.

- Don’t participate in Google Adsense program strictly for fast money. AdSense isn't a get-rich-quick program. Focus on building quality content site and blog to make AdSense works well for you.

- Don't particapte your AdSense site in traffic exchange and auto surf programs as these programs can get your AdSense closed by Google.

- Don’t worry if you don’t understand everything the first day. Google Adsense program is user-friendly, take some time to learn it and you will soon understand and be familiar on the different aspects of AdSense.

Hopefully, these tips will ease you when using AdSense and help you avoid mistakes that could possibly lead to you account being terminated.

Privacy Policy for MoneyMakerInfo.Blogspot.com

Posted by Alan Liew | 2:03 PM

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The privacy of our visitors to http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com is important to us.

At http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

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Google Ad Manager: A New Tool that will Improve Your Website Ads Revenue Opportunities

Posted by Alan Liew | 5:39 PM

Few days ago, Google launched a new tool called Google Ad Manager to help website publishers manage their direct ads selling more effective.

If you run a content based website or blog, probably your main source of online revenue will depend on selling ads directly to advertisers . Selling ads directly to advertisers does involve management work and sale process and when your ad space were fully sold out, some advertisers may request to reserve an ad space for them if there is an ad space becomes available in future. If you do all the things manually, it will be time consuming and can easily make a mistake. The Google Ad Manager is seem to be created specifically for helping you solve these problems.

It will help manage your direct ads selling more easier and effective; and most importantly provide fast service to your advertisers. The tool is right for you if you want to consistently make money online by selling ads.

Google Ad Manager

And the good news is, Google Ad Manager isn't just restricted to Google Adsense network only. You can choose to use any ad network you like.

How to Create a Free Report and Use It to Make Money Online - Part 1

Posted by Alan Liew | 5:35 PM

Free reports are getting more useful on the Internet nowadays. Many people who make money online started to use them simply because it works. Reports can be in any form but no matter what the form is, a report is simply a mini e-book usually 5 to 20 pages long that contains information about a specific topic. Visitors find free reports about topics that will help them solve a problem, learn to do something or become more knowledgeable. So if you have a useful report, there will be a group of people want to read it.

Creating a report is just like creating a lengthy e-book, it involves a few steps.

Deciding a Topic
The first thing you need is of course a topic. The topic or theme you select to write for your report needed to be related to the topic of your website. You are going to offer your free report to you visitors, so the report topic have to be the same with your website in order to attract your visitors download your report.

You may choose a general topic first then narrow down the general topic to one or two specific topics.

One you know specifically what your topic is, the next move is to gather information and content about the topic you like to write. You can find information about your topic through search engines. The search engines will provide tons of information. You are going to have to do some filtering work and consolidate information that you actually want.

Starting You Report Writing Project
You need to first write an outline for your report. You need organization and form. An outline provides both.

After that, you can start writing content for your report. If you have knowledge in your topic, with the information you collected, writing a report shouldn't be a problem to you unless you don't like to write.

Alternative you may hire someone to produce content for your report. Guru.com and Elance.com are good places to find an expert writer. Just tell the writer what you want and the writer will write you a quality report.

If hiring professional writer is too expensive to you, then you have to look for third option which is using PLR content. There are PLR articles sites offer hundreds of PLR articles in different topics every month. You may join a PLR article site and merge the PLR articles of a topic into a report. You may need to re-write your PLR articles for better quality and a good outline is needed to make your information presented in a logical sequence.

Adding Income Streams to Your Report
If you report offer the content that your website visitors want to read, you visitors will want to download it to get the info and possible generate good income for you.

Build a Profitable List
Report is proven to be useful for building a list. So the most important thing you must to is to create a sign up form and place the form on your website so that your visitors can see your offer of free report and type in their name and email address to sign up and download your free report.

Every visitor who downloads your report will be opted-in to your list during the sign up process. This way you can grow your list and occasionally you can send your offers to your list. Those who trust you may purchase from you every time you send out a promotional email. This is a good and steady long term stream of online income to you.

To get even more list subscribers with your report, you can create a squeeze page specially for people to sign up and download your free report. By using different marketing methods to send visitors directly to your squeeze page, you can expect to see a great profitable list.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.

How to Create a Free Report and Use It to Make Money Online - Part 2

Posted by Alan Liew | 5:29 PM

In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.

2) Insert Affiliate Links into Your Report
Whenever possible, place a related affiliate links into a content page of your report to refer your readers a useful product or service. This is one of the ways that some Internet marketers applied to make lot of cash online.

But you don't want your readers feel like they are reading a sale letter, so don't place too many affiliate links into your report. Try to make it like 1 affiliate links in every 4 pages. Make sure the affiliate products that you are recommending are relevant to what the readers are reading on that page.

3) Selling Advertising Space in Your Report
You may search for advertisers who are selling products or services directly related to your report topic and contact them to offer your advertising space.

Marketing and Distributing Your Free Report
When everything is ready, it is time to market and advertise your reports to attract your target visitors to sign up and download your report. There are numerous methods to reach your free report offer to your target visitors of course:

Pay Per click Advertising
Advertise your offer on Google and Yahoo search engine is probably the fastest way to get people to download your report. But it pays to get result, make sure your set your budget not too high to keep your cost under control.

Use a Banner Ad
You can find someone to create a banner ad specifically to promote your free report. Those who click you banner ad should be send to your squeeze page instead of to your website for getting better result.

So where to place your banner ad on? I would suggest you to do some searches on Google to find sites and blogs that are related to your report and request to place your ads on these sites and blogs.

You may also search for other popular blogs that are related to your report. These popular blogs usually have large traffic, so they may send you some consistent daily traffic.

Article marketing
This is a very low cost traffic-generating method. You can hire someone to generate a few articles every day for you and submit them to big article directories like Ezinearticles, goarticles.com and ArticleDashboard for publication. Just make sure your writer is supplying articles that are relevant to your reports or website topic.

Your article pages in article directories will attract readers. Some readers will click your link inside your author bio to visit your squeeze page and get your report.

E-zines Advertising
Today, E-zines are everywhere on the Internet. Just type in the keyword 'Ezines Advertising' in Google and you will find a lot of e-zines offering advertising opportunities in different categories.

There are free and paid e-zines advertising opportunities, the free one wouldn't produce result usually, so you should directly look the paid one. Make sure you pick the categories that are related to your report when doing e-zines Advertising.

Placing paid e-zine ads can do some help in getting more people to download your report as some e-zine readers are actually reading your offer and signing up on your squeeze page for your report.

The methods to market a report aren't limited to the above methods only. There are many more other methods you can use for distributing your report. But most of these methods have one thing in common which is that they all require some time, effort and energy from you to see result and bring in money to you.

Derek Gehl Gives Away His DVD Money Making Course That Used To Sell $297

Posted by Alan Liew | 11:37 AM

This may sound a little crazy, but it is true. Derek Gehl from Internet Marketing Center is giving away his 7-hour "Internet Millionaire's Protégé Bootcamp" training DVDs (previously sell $297 per copy) to anyone interested to have it.

The DVD is actually an Internet business training that will walk you through every things you need to know to start and grow a money making online business. You will find an easy-to-implement 30 days step-by-step plan inside the DVD where you can follow exactly to set up your online business from scratch and market it online to generate traffic and make good profits from it.

If you are serious about starting a business on the Internet to make a life changing income, I suggest you grab a copy of the DVD training system now at:

http://www.marketingtips.com/free-dvds/t/846189

The DVD is free. All you have to pay is the cost of shipping to get the DVD delivered to you.

Make a Nice Extra Income by Becoming an About.com Guide

Posted by Alan Liew | 6:36 PM

About.com is probably the largest content network on the Internet. They offer a bunch of lucrative opportunities in the freelance writing world.

If you are an expert at a particular field or topic, there is a good change that you can become a guide of About.com and write about what you know to share with others. You will be paid at least $725 per month for writing 2 full-length articles every 2 weeks. If your GuideSite become successful and gain plenty of page views, you will be compensated much more than that.

About.com has a long list of specific topics where you can choose one from the list to get started in About.com. The topic you choose will have it own set of qualifications you have to meet. If you have what it takes to become a guide for a topic of About.com, then you can apply and go through their 17-day online training program. At the end of the program if you are accepted, you will start writing for a GuideSite and get paid every month.

Setting Up a Money Making Membership Website - Step by Step Guide (Part 1)

Posted by Alan Liew | 6:35 PM

In my previous post 'The Pros and Cons of Starting a Paid Membership site to Make Money Online', I have written a number of advantages and drawbacks of starting a membership business to help you decide whether membership business is right for you.

In this blog post, you will find details about the steps you need to take in order to get your membership website up and running. Setting up a membership website is much like setting up a general website with just a few of additions.

Step 1: Choose a Theme or Topic for Your Membership Site
You need to decide a specific topic or subject that your membership site will be focusing on. You should make sure that there will be a target group of people interested on the topic use started.

Step 2: Choose a Domain Name and Web Hosting Package for Your Website
Your domain name will be the name for your membership site. It is best to keep your domain name not more than 20 letters. It should be easy to remember and describe the objective of your site.

Once you have decided what domain name to use, you may go to a web hosting site to register a domain name and purchase a web hosting package to publish your membership site on the Internet. Godaddy.com and Bluehost.com are two of the reliable web host you can use.

Step 3: Get a Membership Management Script
You need to install a membership management script on your web server to get your membership site up. Here are two sites offer membership management script:

http://www.amember.com - The package is $179.95

http://www.launchformulamarketing.com - The package costs $297.00

There are cheaper membership scripts you can find on the Internet. Just go to Google and do some searches.

Step 4: Set up a Help Desk on Your Membership Site
This step is optional. You can choose not to include a helpdesk option but it will make your members more easier to communicate with you. If you do want a help desk, this site, http://www.perldesk.com will help you setting up one.

Step 5: Add Content to Your Site
Content is the key the success for all types of membership sites except those that are offering a service. There are several ways of getting content for your membership site. You can write them by yourself if you have good writing skill or you may hire some freelance writers to create content for you. You can also think about including audio and video content to make your site more interesting. But whatever content you are adding, make sure they are relevant to the topic of your site.

Step 6: Set Up a Payment Processor
If you are running a free membership site, you can skip this step. But if you plan to charge a fee to anyone want to become a member of your site, then you are going to need to set up a payment processor to accept payment. Two of the good payment services you can use are Paypal.com and Clickbank.com.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.

Setting Up a Money Making Membership Website - Step by Step Guide (Part 2)

Posted by Alan Liew | 6:27 PM

In case you haven't read part 1 of this article, please click here.

How to Make Money Online with Membership Site?

Idea #1: Charge a Subscription Fee
This will be the main and steady source of income to those who choose to run a paid membership website.

Charging a subscription on a monthly basis is a great idea, but you must be able to maintain your membership site well in order to encourage your members to renew their memberships.

Since membership renewals will be your first concern, you will need to keep on adding valuable content for your members to meet their expectation. Renewals will keep a site alive and generate ongoing income for the owner.

Idea #2: Sell Advertising Space
Whether your membership site is paid or free, you can sell advertising space on your site to companies or sellers that sell products relevant to the topic of your website. You may contact these companies directly to offer you ad space or through an advertising network.

Idea #3: Sell Your Own Product
Some people build a membership site specifically to sell their products or services. You too can use this method. The products you are offering to your members have to be related to the subject of your membership site. For example, if you site topic is about guitar, then you may offer products like guitar lesson, guitar equipments, etc.

Idea #4: Sell Affiliate Product
The idea is to insert your affiliate links and banner ads into your membership site so that every member can see them and click on them. Any sale results from your affiliate ID will earn you an affiliate commission. Like idea #3, the affiliate products you are promoting must be related to the theme of your site.

Promote Your Membership Site to Get Members
Like any other types of websites, you need to drive targeted visitors or traffic to your membership site. The number of members you can get and the amount of money you can make will depend on the amount of traffic you are getting. The more traffic you get the better the result.

There are plenty of Internet marketing techniques you can use to promote your site and generate traffic. Here a short list of them:

Pay per click (PPC) advertising
Article marketing
Blog and forum marketing
Press release
Viral marketing
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Social bookmarking and networking
Buy text link
Banner advertising
Ezine advertising

Free lessons on the above online marketing techniques are every where on the Internet. Just do some searches on Google or visit Internet marketing forums and you will find free tutorials, guide, courses and content about these topics.

Apply what you learn to market and promote your website. Work hard to use some of these techniques to generate traffic. Take time to test and experiment these techniques to see which one are effective and which one are not helpful. Choose those effective techniques and use them repeatedly to generate consistent traffic to build your membership site.

Free Resources Helpful to Make Money Online - 11 March 2008

Posted by Alan Liew | 7:19 PM

Here are the resources for this week, hope they can increase your knowledge.

Online Business Report
You probably need a step-by-step guide if you want to start an online business to make money on the net. Sean Mize, a successful info-product sellers has written a report showing step by step exactly how you can create your own product then market it effective to your target prospects and generate sales. The report is now available for download here.

Kelabvideo.com
I have talked about getting targeted traffic through video marketing in some of my previous blog posts but haven't yet cover the topic of how to start a video marketing campaign. If you interested to learn more about video marketing, you may check out this resource site, Kelabvideo.com. You will learn the entire process of getting a video created and published on Youtube to generate targeted traffic.

Listing Building Report
Whether you are selling your own products or promoting affiliate products on the Internet, building an email list will help you make a good income from your existing online business. The new report titled 'The Seven Secrets to Building a List' is one of the reports you may want to read as it has some good content about building a profitable list.

Make Money Online With Paid Surveys Sites: The Good And The Bad

Posted by Alan Liew | 7:11 PM

There are few hundreds of online market research and survey companies advertised their website on the Internet. It cost nothing to join these paid survey sites and once you became their member, you’ll receive emails inviting you to participate in an online survey that offers cash or gift as a thank for your participation.

Paid survey companies are just like everything else in life, there are the good and the bad.

The “good” survey companies and sites are those that actually pay you a small amount of money ($2-$5) or offer gifts every time you completed a paid survey, never sell your personal information to others, don't send you numerous sale e-mails that have nothing to do with paid survey, and let you know exactly how much you’ll earn for each survey you are participating. Joining the good survey companies and sites are a good way to bring in a few extra bucks from the comfort of your home. They are usually reliable and reputable marketing research and survey companies. Their website will provide detailed information about the company background and operations; and paid survey earning incentives.

The “bad” online survey companies are those that offer cash for taking survey, but send you so much marketing and spam e-mails to your inbox that you have to spending some time every day just to delete all of it. The "bad" survey companies can say to be legitimate as they do keep their promise of paying cash once your earning have reached minimum payout. But they will continuously trying to get you to visit the websites of their marketing partners, where you will be pressured into signing up to learn more about affordable health insurance. If they see that you show a little sign of interest, you might be getting at least three calls a week from various telephone representatives asking you to take their offers.

However, there is a good news about these "bad" survey companies. There usually have an affiliate program you can sign up so that you can make money online by referring others to become a member the site. But you may be under pressure to refer people to join these survey companies as they are bad. These companies may annoy those members referred by you because they will keep on sending sale offers to members.

You will need to join as many survey sites as possible in order to earn a nice extra money monthly. So if you have joined the “good” sites, you’ll have nothing to worry about but be careful with the “bad” sites if you are a member of them.

AdSense Tips from Google Helping You Improve Your AdSense Earning

Posted by Alan Liew | 4:00 PM

Google AdSense Optimization Team has written two blog posts last week about finding the reasons of your AdSense earning fluctuations and helping you respond to the changes effectively.

Both of the blog posts are informative and provide a number of useful tips.

The first blog post teaches you analyze your AdSense data by looking at the figures reported in your AdSense account so that you know what are the possible factors can affect your AdSense earning.

When you have completed your analysis and find out the cause of your AdSense earning fluctuation, especially if the fluctuation is negative, you will want to take the right action to improve your AdSense performance. The second blog post will give you the info you need to improve your AdSense performance.

How You can Use Facebook to Build Your Business and Make Money Online - Part 1

Posted by Alan Liew | 3:32 PM

Facebook is a great place to start an online business. There are millions of people using this site for networking. They use Facebook to build their profile and form group to share their lives, interest and experience.

The basic idea of using Facebook for business is to do whatever things you can but without violating the terms and policies of Facebook in order to build a community around your profile, product, service or website. If you just add your links and sales messages on your profile, most probably people won't respond to that. They want to get to know the brand, company or business and have a good time there.

For instance, if you run a NBA basketball site, you will want your profile concentrate on your interest on the game. You can also form a group with NBA basket ball as the subject. You may then insert your ads and the link to your NBA basket ball site and service in the group and other users who have an interest with click on your link.

When people begin to trust your voice and realize that you will be on the site to get to know them, they’ll respond to that and possibly purchase your product or service.

There are few things you can do to grow your group. You can create or add applications, start a poll, and arrange for meetings so that your group members can discuss and talk about the related things.

Build a Sense of Community
You basic goal to use Facebook is to attract your target website visitors or potential customers through your profile, group and the application you created.

To be successful on Facebook, you have to build a sense of community. People crave this sense of belonging – it’s a basic fact of human nature. You cannot sell directly to them, it won't work. You must make people know that you intend to belong to them, that you want to create a placed for people to go and participate in what you are providing and offering.

People love to be introduced to new ideas and new stuff. They will want to look for others that have the same interests and connect with them and form friendships on the site. These are the important things you must always keep in mind if you are using Facebook for business purpose.

How Exactly You can Use Facebook for Your E-business and Making Money Online
There are a number of things you can do with your Facebook account, and all of them will eventually help you achieve success. When you have decided to grow your online business through your Facebook account, you can choose the activities that make sense for your business goal.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.

How You can Use Facebook to Build Your Business and Make Money Online - Part 2

Posted by Alan Liew | 3:27 PM

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Below is a list things you can do with your account:

Build a user base and a customer base.

Research and test a niche to find out whether you can sell a product or service to the niche online.

Market a website, business or a service.

Get more clients by using your profile. (For example, if you’re a mentor.)

Use the groups, networks and applications trends to get more ideas.

Beta test a product or service to find out whether it can be sold. Use feedback from your friends to tweak the product and make changes to it.

Use the site for affiliate marketing purpose. Facebook can help you make more affiliate commission but make sure you read the terms and rules and don't break any of them.

The above are just a few ways of how Facebook can be used to build or start a business and make money online. You may explore more ideas when you have got into Facebook marketing.

Tips for Creating Your Facebook Profile
Your profile will be a powerful tool to help you achieve success. When growing a business using Facebook, it is important that you are able to position yourself as an expert. So when you create your profile, you must highlight your expertise in the topic. Why you are qualified to sell the particular product or service or if you are making money with content based website or blog, you should let people understand that why you are qualified to give advice and tips on the theme you are writing.

However, you need to make sure that the content and information in your profile don't read and feel like a sale copy when reading by your target audience as people will not respond to someone trying to sell something. Your voice should be friendly.

Tips for Promoting Affiliate Links
Yes, it is possible to use Facebook for marketing affiliate programs. According to the terms and conditions of Facebook, users are not allowed to insert affiliate links into their profile. So what you can do is place your affiliate links in your blog or website and adding the link to your website or blog in your profile section.

An Explanation about Facebook Applications
Facebook made their developer's platform available in year 2007. The named it Facebook Markup Language. It allows people around the world to build new applications for the site. There are several basic things you can do with these applications:

Search for the applications that interest you and add them to your profile.
Recommending them to your friends.
Making them yourself using the Facebook Developers API.

Since Facebook has made its Developers API available to other uses. This essentially allows people to build new applications that interact with the site and the user profile. Facebook applications can be used for various purposes. The main goal is to help further achieve a sense of community between users and encourage community to participate with one another.

Video Showing You How to Find a Right Affiliate Program to Promote and Make Money Online

Posted by Alan Liew | 10:15 AM

Derrick Vandyke posted a new affiliate marketing video in his blog yesterday about how to find a profitable affiliate program or product that is right for you. When you just begin in affiliate marketing, you will want to find a niche market that you have an interest in or at least have a desire to learn and then search for an affiliate product in the niche to sell online and earn affiliate commission.

This video will teach you exactly how to find and research a niche market or a topic you like using Clickbank.com and search for a profitable affiliate product in your niche from Google search engine.

Watch this video now at Affiliate Cash Secrets - Blog. These are the steps you have to take to start making money with affiliate marketing.

The Pros and Cons of Starting a Paid Membership Site to Make Money Online - Part 1

Posted by Alan Liew | 6:29 PM

Anyone can set up a membership business to profit online. All you need is a topic or subject, a membership website and the right tools to build and get your site up and running.

There are many paid membership sites on the Internet. Some of these membership sites provide a service such as mentoring, dating services, etc. Others offer helpful content or information in a specific field. All these membership sites make money the same way: they are charging a fee to anyone who wants to gain access.

Now you may have a question. Why would anyone pay to access a website?

Well, it is just too difficult and time consuming for people to find all the information and resources they need from search engines and resources sites. Paying a fee will grant them access to a membership site and immediately download the content and information they want. Also if a membership site offers some sort of valuable information that cannot be found elsewhere, then people will be more than likely willing to pay for accessing the valuable info.

Moreover, membership sites that provide a service that can solve a problem of a group of people or meet a need of a target group will also attract a lot of people paying for a sign up in order to use the service.

Membership business seems to be a very lucrative online business you can start to make money on the Internet. However it is always best to check out the pros and cons of membership business before getting into it.

The Pros
A successful membership site can bring in a steady and consistent flow of income from time to time. This is the biggest advantage of paid membership websites. It provides a recurring source of revenue month after month.

Other types of online businesses have to keep on selling their products to new customers or looking for new advertisers in order to maintain their sales revenue except membership business where you only need to sell once to your target prospects then they will pay you every month until they cancel their membership. If you can establish a good relationship with your members and service them well, your members will become loyal to you and stay as paid member status for a long time. This will mean a long-term steady and lucrative stream of revenue to you.

And you don’t have to increase your advertising budget in order to increase your income. If you maintain your membership site well with a lot of satisfied members, you will see your membership revenue grow from time to time as new members are getting in from your advertising effort continuously and most of the existing paid members choose to renew their memberships.

To continue reading part 2 of this article, please click here.

The Pros and Cons of Starting a Paid Membership Site to Make Money Online - Part 2

Posted by Alan Liew | 6:19 PM

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On the other hand, the cost of maintaining a membership business is minimal, especially those sites selling memberships to people for accessing information based products. Unlike physical products, information based products don’t need storage space; there are no shipping and handling charges your customers have to pay, and it costs you nothing to store such info products.

In addition to that, once the info products have been created, they can be sold again and again and sold to many different members. There is no product manufacturing process involved as info products are generally in digital format. The only thing the membership site owner needs to do focus is market those info products effectively on the Internet.

The Cons
Unfortunately, every business venture that has a number of advantages always has some drawbacks. Internet membership businesses are no exception to this rule; they do have a few disadvantages.

The biggest disadvantage of a paid membership site is that the site owner has to add in good content frequently for the members. When members join a website and pay a fee to get access to the information they interested, they will have the expectation that the information and content they are getting are valuable and even exclusive. It cannot be something that they could find easily by typing in a few words into their favorite search engine.

Writing original, relevant and helpful information pertaining to whatever the theme of your paid membership website can be time consuming and involve a lot work. Audio and video content are even more difficult to create and cost you more money.

You can hire professional freelance writers to write good content for you, but you have to be prepared to pay for their expensive writing service charges.

Content is the key to keep your members wanting to renew their membership. If you don’t invest the time or the money required to keep your content up-to-date and relevant, you will not be able to entice your members to continue paying for membership renewal.

Another drawback of this business is that the message boards, forums and blogs that are associated with a paid membership site have to be monitored closely and updated regularly.

People who pay money to join membership site expect to get what they are paying for. And many of them will even expect to get more than what they are paying for. It is necessary that the owner of a paid membership website schedule chats with experts in the field that is the subject of the website on an on-going basis and that the membership site owner answers the questions of the members on a daily basis.

Conclusion
Membership business is just like other business models. It takes effort, time and patience to achieve success. When you have started your membership business venture, you must be prepared to faced the challenges and overcome the obstacles to get your membership site to top level.

Make Money Online by Blogging - This Week Opportunities

Posted by Alan Liew | 12:40 PM

Here are the latest paid blogging opportunities I found this week:

Small Business Blogger
SmallFuel Marketing is seeking someone who can write quality and interesting articles related to small business marketing for their blog. Blogger who gets hired by SmallFuel will need to write two 400-800 word articles in a friendly-yet-professional style. The compensation will start at $200 per month.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about small business, good in writing, and have blogging experience. If you are interested, you may go to Copyblogger - Job Board to find out how to send your application.

Travel Bloggers
2 blogs in Creative Weblogging network are looking for people to write about traveling:

http://flyaway-weblog.com - Budget travel related
http://wandalust.com - About traveling within and from the UK

The monthly pay is $84 to $140 and 3 to 5 posts are required for each week. You must have previous blogging experience on the topic to apply for a position. More details can be found at:
http://www.creative-weblogging.com/..._to_blog.php

Consumer Electronics Blogger
New authors are needed in 3 consumer electronics blogs under Dabbledoo Media to write about topics like consumer electronics, cell phones, cameras, and Apple.:

Gadgetell Jobs
Appletell Jobs
Gamertell Jobs

To become a blogger of Dabbledoo Media, you must have knowledge on the topic you want to write, possess a unique writing style and be able to write at least 20 articles (200-400 words for each) every month. Full details about these paid blogging opportunities can be accessed here.

Money Making Post for Feb 2008

Posted by Alan Liew | 3:14 PM

I almost forgot to post a recap of the money making articles I have published on this blog on last month. These articles contain up-to-date information and tips for making money on the Internet. You may find the info you need for getting started online from reading these articles:

Set Up a Drop Shipping Business to Make Money Online

The Pros and Cons of Publishing an Ezine to Earn Money Online

How to Design Your Website for Marketing Affiliate Programs

Starting An Internet Business To Profit Online: 4 Common Mistakes To Avoid (Part 1 & 2)

4 Steps to Making Money with Clickbank Affiliate Products Using Bum Marketing Method (Part 1 & 2)

Last month has been busy, so I can only manage to write 6 articles related to make money online topic. But, do check back often as I'm going to write more in the coming months.

Video Marketing Tips: What Types of Videos that will Get Attention and Send Good Traffic to Your Website

Posted by Alan Liew | 3:09 PM

Web video marketing is a relatively new online marketing technique that can drive a steady stream of traffic to your website at low cost. Although it is currently a hot topic, but still not many people are using it for generating traffic and revenue. This will mean you are more than likely to be successful in video marketing because the competition is currently less as compared to the traditional website search engines rankings.

The process of video marketing is first you create an informative web video related to your website topic, then edit the video for better effect and finally upload it to Youtube and other large videos sharing sites. Your video will attract viewers and possibly send a percentage of the viewers from Youtube to your site.

However, before you really start your first video, you must find out what makes a video successful. There are certain characteristics that can help make a video successful. Here are them:

1. Funny – The word funny continuously shows as one of the most typed-in keywords in the Internet search engines like Google and Yahoo. People like to search for funny things on the Internet as they are entertaining. A funny video that published on Youtube has a good chance of getting a lot of views and probably has the highest probability of causing a viral marketing stir.

2. Weird – Besides funny, people also look for Weird stuff on the net. Weird theories, weird conspiracies, and weirdness prevails. Weirdness may help your video get exposure if you don’t mind being weird.

3. Inspiring – Inspiring stories and topics are always a good for video marketing they can become extremely popular, extremely fast.

4. Shocking – Anything genuinely shocking will get big a hit in the internet. Especially with video because people can watch how it happened. Video proves that the shocking thing is real. Shocking videos are more than likely getting a viral effect and even news coverage from both online and offline news medias.

5. Interesting – Curiosity can be a powerful sales tool in getting people from your video to your website. Anytime you can make your viewers become curious and make them want to get more info about you and the product or service your are offering. When you successfully generate curiosity in your video viewers, you give them an itch which must be scratched. Creating curiosity may be especially useful considering that users who find your video on YouTube will actually have to take the effort to type in the URL and visit the website you are marketing.

6. Personal – There are many Internet users have the curiosity and interest to see the personal things about other people or know the personal experience of other people. If you make a video about your personal life or how you have achieved something and publish on the net, then it may have great potential in creating a buzz and generating traffic for your site.

7. Demonstrates – Sometimes just a plain old, no frills demonstration of a product or service can help you generate a lot of traffic and sales. Some Internet marketers are uploading video demonstration for their product on Youtube and make a good income.

8. Instructional – If you are selling a "how to" information product or a product that will solve a problem of your customers, then creating an instructional video will be a good idea to market your product and boost your sales. Your video may be a simple step-by-step instruction on how to do something at basic level or just a free introduction to your product which makes the viewers want to get more information or more instruction. Instructional videos are useful and effective and can help gain the trust and interest of viewers.

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