Sunday, May 22, 2011

Best Ways to Make Money Online From My Home

There is no shortage of people looking for best ways to make money online. Finding the best way to make money online can be challenging, but it's within everybody's reach. Little bit of effort, desire and determination can help one get started. However, a good start doesn't guarantee success. As you may expect, you will have to make some smart moves, adapt to changes and be persistent with your efforts to make it big in the online world. Fortunately, there are good numbers of ways to make money online.

One of the best ways to make money from home is to make use of your creative talents to sell products or services to the online audience. For instance, if you are a web designer by profession, you can choose to design logo, banner etc for webmasters. If you are teacher, you can take eLessons. If you are good at maintaining books of accounts, you can offer the same service to the web audience. As such, you can advertise your service on free classified websites so that interested clients can get in touch with you. More than often, they will conduct a chat interview before hiring you for their assignment.


Those who have confidence on their bargaining skills can easily make money online by reselling products bought at discounted rates. Good numbers of individuals out there purchase products from one auction site and resell it for a profit on another auction site. The online marketplace is flooded with lots of auction sites that generate tons of traffic on daily basis. So, your listing will automatically generate lots of traffic once you create your listing on a popular auction site. Chances are that you might end up with a sale within few hours itself. The good news is that one is allowed to sell used items as well as long as one clearly describes the condition of the item on the listing page. So, one can also make money on unwanted items by selling them online.

If you think that your opinions matter a lot, it does. There are good numbers of companies out there that pay individuals for their opinions. You will be paid to review a certain product or to complete an online survey form. Companies value feedbacks from users because it enables them to improve their products/services before launch. As a survey taker, you will be offered compensation for your time and efforts. The key over here is to join multiple survey sites so that you are able to make decent chunk of part time income at the end of the month. Needless to say, you will have to stay away from scammers to ensure that you get paid for your work.

Owning a website can also prove to be a goldmine source of income for you. A website can be monetized through many different ways. You can place revenue earning ads on your website or promote affiliate products. Money can also be made by selling banner ads or advertising links. One can choose to flip a revenue earning website for a good profit. Therefore, the possibilities of making money online are literally endless. You don't have to limit yourself to one strategy. You can start slowly and once you get into the groove, you can charge at your goals to make great amount of money online.

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Freelancing Business - Five Main Challenges To Expect

Freelancing is an ever growing industry attracting numerous global professionals and outsourcers. Each has something to give and take in this industry. While becoming a freelancer sounds so good and easy nowadays, in reality, it is not. There are challenges for choosing to freelance full time. Some of the challenges are beyond what you can do and others are not.

Despite the fact that this is tricky and challenging, you should aim at attaining success. As a beginner, you are probably looking through various websites in the hope of finding useful tips and hints. In this article, let us focus on a few types of freelancing challenges.


They include the following:

Maintaining discipline - As a freelance writer, graphic designer, web developer, and any other professional, you have full control of your time. While corporate workers have to wake up early and rush things to get at the workplace on time, you are free to keep on sleeping. The simple fact that you lack corporate rules to follow and comply with can make it hard for you to maintain discipline. Without discipline and focus, you would definitely fail.

Procrastination - Corporate employees perform a task when their bosses demand it to keep things flowing smoothly. Since they lack a quick alternative, the employees get into the habit of doing things in time. A freelancer, on the other hand, can quickly form a trend of postponing tasks. Most of us have been a victim, including myself, and the result is not that good. Since the virtual workplace is flexible, a freelance worker get to choose the duration he or she wants to complete projects. The longer the duration, the easier it becomes to procrastinate and loss business.

Time management - Most freelancing beginners are passionate about making money and snatching the best paying jobs. What they do not mostly focus on is how to manage the projects they would win and how to finish them on time. Whilst this business allows too much freedom, one has to realize that it involves real employers. They have deadlines to meet and expect their workers to separate time for work and leisure. Many of us have lost long term contracts because we sort of portrayed laziness or poor time management skills.

Project management - If you are good at what you choose to do online, buyers will never ever want to lose you. Some of you have faced a challenge where every buyer wants their task done in a short time. Most of us get confused, overwork ourselves everybody and still lag behind on the part of the task. Another person makes the most intelligent decision - outsourcing some of the projects. Many starters are afraid to lose clients and hence force themselves on tasks they cannot finish on time.

Setting the rate - Although people have different reasons for freelancing fulltime or part time, they all look for people that can value their hard work. Some clients have pleasant personalities and it is easy to overlook how much they pay for your services. While this sounds good, it is not a very prudent thing to do. Monthly bills will still come and you will need money to pay them. While a starter does not have much of a choice, he or she should learn to set comfortable rates as days come and go.

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Ways to Make Money Online Without Being the Best

The Internet is like an ocean filled with money making opportunities. Realistically speaking, there are hundreds and thousands of different methods to make money online. However, not everyone out there is able to master the art of making money online. More than often, individuals look to earn money fast. They generally hunt for the best ways to make money online. This approach works for some individuals, while others see their back against the wall.

Experts reckon that individuals should stick to one or two time tested methods and work upon them until they witness substantial results for their efforts. Switching from one method to another without allowing adequate time for a method to work is often termed as a recipe for failure. So, let's take a look at a couple of time tested money making strategies that you can consider to commence your online journey with success.


Today, newspapers, TV stations, magazines etc look incomplete without ads. After all, a major part of their revenue comes from the sale of advertisements. Now, the concept of ads selling is used in the web world as well. You can make healthy profits by selling advertisement spots on your website. Although this method takes time, it's bound to work by all means because loads of webmasters look for exposure. Your website will prove to be a reliable place to gain exposure for one's website, product or service. You will be compensated for the exposure.

For this method to work, you should have steady website traffic. Ideally, you can consider sale of ads once you receive least 100 to 150 visitors a day on your website. This might get lots of webmasters interested in the deal. You can either approach the advertisers directly, or you can advertise on forums that allow sale of advertisement spots. Rates can be negotiated with an individual advertiser. Usually, website owners charge a flat monthly fee to place ads on their websites. You can follow the same approach.

As mentioned earlier, there are innumerable ways to make money online. Today, scores of individuals out there make substantial amount of money selling Amazon products. Amazon is one of the largest online stores in the world. Almost anything can be brought through Amazon because all kinds of sellers exist on Amazon. Amazon runs a free affiliate program that enables one to earn money through sale of Amazon products. Upon free registration, you will be provided with a special code that you need to place on your website in order to display Amazon products on your web pages. If someone purchases any product through your website, you will receive a commission.

Commissions start at 4% and they can shoot up to 15%, depending upon several factors. The secret over here is to specialize in the sale of certain products. For instance, if you have a website related to supplements, you need to display relevant Amazon ads on your website. While Amazon can afford to sell everything, you need to specialize in one area. After all, targeted ads are the key to great conversion. One can also choose to display high value products to gain good commission on every sale.

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Ten Reasons Your Prospects Hate Your Website

My good friend Sharon Roberts has been teaching contractors how to sell to women for more than twenty years. This petite, outspoken Texan starts most presentations to a room full of men the same way. She says:
When you got out of bed this morning, I am pretty sure it wasn't your goal to piss off a women, but I am pretty sure by the end of the day you did.

While this always gets a laugh, it also makes everyone a little uncomfortable, as they realize it is probably true. All too often as we evaluate small business websites we know, it wasn't the intention of whomever designed the website to annoy visitors, but they accomplished that goal, none the less.


What have they done to turn site visitors off with your web design? Here is a list of the ten biggest mistakes we see.

1. Confusing Navigation - Do you make it difficult for people to find information? Often we see confusing site architecture, or clever page titles, which don't mean anything to the average visitor. I made that mistake on the first roundpeg website. The pages all rhymed: Create, Generate, Colloaborate.. etc. People left, never knowing that we did graphic design, brainstorm strategy sessions and team building.

2. Hard to find contact information - I read somewhere that the number one reason people come to your website is to find your contact information. Is your phone number visible on the home page? Is the Contact US button easy to find?

3. Copy that talks about You not Me. I know it is your website, but before I care about your years in business, mission statement, and return policy, I want to know - Can you solve my problem?

4. Too much technical jargon - If I knew what HSPF, SEER, AFUE, VSP, SEO... all stood for, would I really need you?

5. Irritating flash animations, auto play videos and audio tracks - They are cute, clever and you spent a fortune to create them. I get it. But the third or fourth time I come back, I want to skip past them. And if I am viewing it on an iPhone, I can't see them anyway. Also in this category: popups, pop under and pop overs, which block my view of the very information I came to find.

6. Slow loading pictures - Did you forget to convert those high res images to small, quick loading GIFs? By the time the image has loaded I have made a snack, gone for a walk or found someone else to do what you do.

7. Too much, too much, too much - Pages with too much text or too many graphics can be a bit overwhelming. Search engines may love the content, but people will be turned off and leave. Don't be afraid to break the content up with a link to another page. If people don't follow the link you have not made the compelling case for the follow.

8. Unreadable text on dark backgrounds - I know I am old and I can't read lots of things without my glasses, but even people much younger then me have a hard time with small white text on a black background. It may look cool and edgy, but if you want people to be able to read you site, pay attention to readability

9. Broken Links: Whether you mean to take the visitor to another page on your site, or elsewhere on the internet. Make sure the links work. There is nothing more frustrating to a visitor then a "page not found" error.

10. Ugly and outdated design - Like walking into a dirty restaurant, it is hard to have confidence that a company has kept their skills fresh when their site looks like it was designed more than five years ago. Also in this category, last update more than 30 days ago. If you are not updating regularly, don't admit it on the home page.

So that's some of the most common web design mistakes we see, what would you add?

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