1.1 Blogging

1.1 Blogging 

The act of blogging in and of itself is often free, but that doesn’t mean that blogging can’t serve as a useful platform from which you can earn money online. Many people are earning over 5 figures a month “just blogging”, by combining it with things like affiliate sales, ad networks, and paid reviews. Go to the last chapter of this post to see all of the blogger income reports I have collected. There are thousands of blogs started everyday and most of them die off over the course of a few months/years. From personal experience I think it is best to start a blog with a purpose/passion – aside from making money. This will help you to be successful in the long run, as it is normal to spend many months blogging without earning anything. Here are some of the best blogging sites you can use to get started:

How To Start A Blog - a post I wrote that will get you up and blogging in a matter of minutes. Blog.com - Creates a free blog and hosts it for you for free. Your domain will look like yourdomain.blog.com. 

Blogger.com - Free weblog publishing tool from Google, for sharing text, photos and video. Quick and easy to setup and links with your Gmail account.

 Livejournal - A service for journals and blogs, that also offers privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates, and online communities for many interests.

Tumblr - Post anything (from anywhere!), customize everything, and find and follow what you love. 

WordPress.com - Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software. Includes custom design templates, integrated statistics, automatic spam protection . You domain will look like yourdomain.wordpress.com It’s different from Word Press.org. 

WordPress.org - A web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog, with your own domain name. 

1.2 Blog/Website Monetization

If you have a blog or a website with content and a following, I’m going to discuss a few ways you can monetize it through advertising and information products. Concerning the latter, you certainly don’t need a blog to pull it off. Anyone can sell an ebook, for example. But it is just so typical for bloggers to do these things, because they tend to be more successful when you have an audience, that I decided to include them in this section. Still, if you don’t have a blog, you just need to think of another way to reach your target audience (like a forum, or a simple landing page). 1.2.1 Contextual Links and Sponsored Posts If you have a blog there are many ways you can monetize the writing portion of it, such as reviews, sponsore

Do Affiliate Marketing

Do Affiliate Marketing

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is when you get paid a commission for promoting products / services for other companies.

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards a certain percentage of commission for each product bought by the customers who are brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.

Suitable For -

People who love to talk, write, explain and have the ability to persuade.

Skills Required -

Ability to promote a product online using social-media, videos, ads, etc.

Time Required For Starting Affiliate Marketing -

Virtually within an hour. You just need to select an online product that pays a commission when you

promote and sell it using your affiliate link.

Tips -

1. Select an online product from the domain in which you are well conversant with. For example, if

you are a dietician then select a product related to diet.

There are lots of products available in every domain you just need to focus on which domain is suitable for you.

2. Places to find products: Clickbank.com, Shareasale.com, Jvzoo.com. These websites have thousands of products listed from multiple domains.

3 Choose a product that pays you at least 50% commission on each sale

4. Most product websites handle affiliate link generation and payouts so you don't need to worry about how you'll get your commissions Just get your custom affiliate link created by the vendor and start promoting it

5. If you want to earn instant money from affiliate marketing try to promote your affiliate link on social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg StumbleUpon, and Reddit

How To Monetize-

Monetization is simple, just make more people buy the product through your affiliate link. Create a Facebook page or Banner ads about the product Tell people how the product will help them to solve their problems. Improve people's knowledge about the domain and help them to solve other related problems

Start A Blog

Start A Blog

Being a blogger is one of the easiest ways to earn money from home. Unlike any other job,

if you are blogging from home. You don't need to work 9-5.You can work at any time of the

day with ease. But beware blogging takes time before it starts making money for you.
So I suggest you jump into this field slowly. If you have a day job, don't quit it. Start part-time

with your blog.

Once it is on the stage where it is earning you more than your comfortable limits,

then it's the best time to turn into full-time blogging mode.

Suitable For -

People who love to write and would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the
world

Skills Required -

Ability to express knowledge in writing with simpler yet efficient way.

Time Required For Starting A Blog -

The time required depends upon your level of expertise if you are an expert you can easily

start a blog within few hours. For a complete beginner, a day or two would be sufficient.

Tips -

1. Start a blog about something in which you are really good at.

For example, if you love traveling and you have visited a lot of places then start a travel blog.

2. Always try to limit your blog to a particular domain. Don't put content on multiple domains

in one blog.

For example, writing about recipe tips on a fashion blog. Keep your blog specific to one
domain only.

3. Using your experience and expertise try to create a unique and phenomenal content.

Try to give a lot of value to your readers. Write about something that will make a

difference in your reader's' life.

4. Listen to the readers of your blog. Try to solve the problems they are facing. Always

reply to their comments. Make them feel better.

5. Be committed to your blog. A blog is like a relationship. Give it some love, and

it will flourish. Ignore it, and it will die a death. There's no point in being half-hearted in

your blogging efforts - if you don't care about it, why should anyone else?

6. Think about content, style, the tone of voice, audience, etc. Look at the people who are

already doing what you're planning to do.

Ask yourself the following questions:

• How will I stand out from the crowd?

• What can I say that hasn't already been said?

• What's my unique selling point?

• Why do I want to do this?

7. Be professional in the way you handle and grow your blog. Don't criticize other brands,

bloggers or people. Remember what goes around comes around. You don't want something

you've said to come back and bite you one day.

8. Be open-minded and willing to collaborate with other creatives. You'll meet some fantastic

and awe-inspiring people.

How To Monetize -

You can monetize your blog by recommending products or services related to your blog's

topic either by writing an informative article or placing banner ads on your blog's relevant

pages.

You can earn handsome commissions when a person buys a product recommended by you.

Another way is you can place Google Adsense ads on your blog. More people click on your

ads more money you will make.

Start a Youtube channel

Starting a Youtube channel is the simplest way of all and needs no investment.

YouTube gets almost 5 billion video views per day which proves its power on the internet.

Felix Kjellberg, the owner of PewDiePie (a YouTube account), has earned 12 million dollars in 2017 from running a single YouTube channel.

You too can see such success if you capitalize on the opportunity that YouTube provides us currently

Suitable For -People who love to create videos, like to talk about a video, shoot documentaries or

short films.

Skills Required - Ability to create a video using software tools or record a video using your mobile phone or camcorder.

Time Required For Starting A YouTube Channel -

Virtually you can start within minutes. You will just have to visit YouTube.com, create a channel and upload videos.

Tips -

1. Createa YouTube channel around a specific theme such as Humor, Tutorial, Recipe, etc.Don't just go out create any random unrelated videos channel.For example, if you love gadgets, you can create a gadget reviews channel where you review latest gadgets and help people to decide whether it's a right choice for them.

2. Select a theme in which you are really interested. Analyze other videos related to

your topic, see how many views those videos get.It willhelp you to get an overview of how many people are interested in your theme.

3.Generally, more the views more beneficial the theme is. As more people are searching for it.

4. Check out if there's any concept missing in the currently existing videos related to your theme.You can cover these concepts in your videos to fetch more views.

5. Give your best to engage with your audience. Study the comments you get on your videos, learn the hidden expectations that your audience has from you.

6. Try to find out what they like about your videos and what they don't. Study which videos get the highest retention rate and find the reasons behind them.

7. Spy on your competitors and try to model the things that are working for them. But never try to copy them, always maintain your uniqueness.

8. Always try to improvise each new video from the last one.

So when you look at your first videos after few years, you should think aww how bad I was earlier.

That's a good sign; it shows that you've improved.

9. Experiment, experiment, and experiment. Never fear to try something new and see how it works.

Experiments are the only way where you can find new and exciting stuff which can catapult you way ahead of your competitors.

10. Finally, try to collaborate with other YouTuber's who are doing similar work.

Learn their strategies and mindset. Working together can do wonders for your channel.

11. Have fun. Do the things that you love and enjoy your life.

How To Monetize 

The general rule for monetization in YouTube is straightforward. More views your videos get, more money you'll earn. You'll have to enable the monetize option in your YouTube channel settings. It's very simple.

The Perfect Online Product

The Perfect Online Product

 
Okay, so there’s no such thing as perfect online product. But considering what would be perfect might spark ideas of what products are close to perfect. Here, then, is the perfect online product:

■ It’s valuable, with high margins. You’re not making a dollar or two per sale; you’re making dozens, perhaps hundreds of dollars. 

■ It’s in demand. It’s a product people want and are willing to pay for.

■ It’s not widely available. Buying online may be the only way to find the product, or the particular variety of the product.

■ It’s a “research” product. People are looking online for this product right now. Mostproducts are not research products. At this very moment, out of hundreds of millions of Internet users, probably only one or two are trying to find out how to buy sugar online.

■ It’s light and non-fragile, so it’s cheap and easy to ship.

■ There’s little or no competition online.

■ People love the product so much they’re going to tell their friends about you.

■ There’s no smell or texture, or anything else that makes the product one that “just has to be seen.

■ You are intimately connected to the product in some way. The product is related to your hobby or passion.

■ Oh, and it’s legal! While a number of illegal substances match the perfect-product criteria, we’re assuming the risk outweighs the benefits.

What Makes a Good Online Product

What Makes a Good Online Product?

 
Just about any product can be sold online. But let’s be quite clear; some products sell much better than others. Let’s think about some product characteristics that both help and hurt products when selling online:

■ Price:weight ratio The price:weight ratio needs to be high; that is the price, incomparison to the weight, needs to be high. Books have a very high price:weight ratio—a book might be worth, say, $30/lb. Sugar might be around 35 cents/lb. The price:weight ratio issue is why it’s hard to sell sugar, cement, and charcoal online.

■ Availability Less available is good. Available everywhere is bad. That’s why it’s hard to sell candy bars online. 

■ Information products Products that are essentially information sell well online.Books, reports, reference materials . . . even music is an information product, really.Why do they do well online? Because online technology provides a very efficient way to deliver information. It’s fast and it’s cheap. It’s no wonder that books were the first major product category online and remain one of the primary categories.

■ Complicated products requiring research The Internet is the perfect research tool, of course. Products that require careful selection—products with many different features—often do well online.

■ Wide selection of specialty products An example is one of the earliest small-biz successes, HotHotHot.com, an online success for over a decade. Sure, you can find hot sauce in any grocery store. But can you find Jamaican Hell Fire, Rigor Mortis Hot Sauce, 99%, or 3:00 AM? (The company provides 100 different brands.) Have you even heard of these? Another example is RedWagons.com. Certainly you can find two or three different Radio Flyer wagons in most toy stores, but where else can you find every Radio Flyer product made—steel wagons, plastic wagons, trikes, scooters, retro rockets, roadsters, and everything else?

■ Deals There’s a class of goods that crosses all classes, and even covers products that you might think of as Not Good Internet Products. If you can sell a particular product at a very low price, you may have a good Internet product. Hey, if you can get the price of sugar down low enough, you might be able to sell that online.
■ “Cool” products that sell themselves through word of mouth There are some products that are just so cool, people tell their friends. One company that gets fantastic word of mouth is ThinkGeek.com, which sells tons of really cool stuff  Another example of a great word-of-mouth site is Despair.com. This company sells products that people put on their office walls and laugh about with their friends.

■ No need to touch, smell, or even see clearly. Products that really require a close view generally don’t sell well online. That’s why it’s hard to sell furniture online and difficult to sell unique works of art or perfume. And that’s why well-known brands can sell online . . . because people know what they’re getting. In other words, although it’s hard to sell perfume that your potential buyers have never smelled, it’s not hard to sell perfume from Christian Dior.

■ High value products are good. You may do better selling a $500 product than a $5 product. You’ll have less competition—making it easier to compete using Pay Per Click  and in natural search—and will make much higher “margins” (grossprofit). Low-price products can be very difficult to deal with online. Think very seriously before selling anything below, say, $50, unless you’re pretty sure you can really pump out high volumes.

■ Junk is hard to sell. This may sound obvious, but it’s amazing how many merchants just post any kind of junk online and hope to make a business out of it. Mass produced statuettes of kittens from China, junk jewelry, handicrafts from the wilds of Wisconsin . come on, you can do better!

■ Products you understand and love. These are easier to sell. If you have a passion for skydiving, there’s a natural business for you selling skydiving products. Having said all that, it’s important to realize that every rule can be broken. Groceries can be sold online, for instance. Diamonds, products that most jewelers would say need to be looked at carefully before purchase, are selling very well online. And though Furniture.com crashed and the big grocery-store sites (PeaPod.com and WebVan.com) went down with it, some companies are selling furniture online and some companies are selling groceries online. (PeaPod, for instance,
was bought up by a grocery chain.) So, you can break the rules. But you’d better have a good reason to believe that it will work.

Building an eBay Business

How Your Business Fits Online

Launching a business online can be exciting and profitable. It’s a great way to supplement an existing income stream or even to become one’s sole occupation. Many individuals and small businesses have met with tremendous success, some making literally millions of dollars a year, even after starting at ground zero, with no knowledge of the Internet beyond the very basics, if that. There are no guarantees, but it can be done. It does require patience and a willingness to go through the steps to get it right, though. That’s what we’re going to teach you here.

Why Three Services?

 
In this  explain how to use three different “channels” to build your business online:

■ Selling products through eBay auctions

■ Setting up an online store using Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

■ Promoting your business through Google, other search engines, and various other online marketing
mechanisms.

Why three channels? There are a number of reasons:

■ Few businesses are simple enough to survive with a single method for finding business.If you sell hot dogs to people who eat hot dogs, you may need only to place your hot-dog stand on a busy street. But if you sell hot dogs to businesses that sell hot dogs to people,you would use many different ways to reach those businesses.

■ What works well for one business may not work so well for another. Using multiple channels to sell and to reach people increases the likelihood that you find the best one. 

■ Multiple channels provide multiple opportunities. If you can find people to buy your products more than one way, why leave money on the table by only using one method?

■ You’ll find some of the things we suggest in this book can be implemented very quickly, in some cases in just a few hours. Having a range of different options helps you get your

toes wet and work your way in slowly. For instance, an already established business could begin selling online with eBay over a weekend, gradually build the online business, then investigate other sales channels later.While it’s true that some businesses have done very well by finding something simple that works and doing it over and over again for decades, most businesses are not so fortunate. Thanks to competitive pressures—other people want your customers too; remember—most businesses have to do many things in order to survive and thrive. What works today may not work tomorrow. Some method you try for finding more business may not work, or may not work well as something you haven’t yet tried. Business is an evolutionary process, with the notion of natural selection replaced by the degree of initiative of the business owners and managers. A business gradually evolves as the people running the business try new things, discard things that don’t work or that no longer work, and adopt techniques that show promise. The three-channel method outlined in this book provides a great way to get started with an online business, showing you a number of essential techniques for surviving—and thriving—online. In particular, companies succeeding online often use a number of strategies to do so. These are the sort of things you may one day find yourself doing:

■ Selling through online auctions

■ Selling through discount channels, such as Overstock.com

■ Selling through merchant sites such as Amazon.com

■ Selling through a web store

■ . . . or, in some cases, several web stores, for different audiences or perhaps different
pricing strategies

■ Buying Pay Per Click ads to bring buyers from the search engines to your store

■ Using Search Engine Optimization to bring buyers from the search engines without paying a click fee

■ If you own an offline business, using various techniques to integrate online and offline operations, pushing business from the offline business to the online, and vice versa

■ Using an affiliate program, paying other web sites commissions for purchases made by buyers arriving at your store through affiliate sites

■ Publishing an e-mail newsletter to keep in touch with customers and promote your products to their friends

■ Marketing through PR campaigns targeting e-mail newsletter editors

■ Promoting your products through discussion groups

■ And many other things 

One thing you can say about doing business online is that however successful you become, there’s always more to learn!