Making money on the internet - Make money online
There are lots of schemes and mailing list, and new technologies that people insist that will make money online, but when it comes to the crunch - there are really only a few fairly stable ways of earning online.
I wanted to make money online because I didn't want to be on benefits when I was off work with a back injury. I learned lots of techniques for making money by spending time around some of the top earners online.
- Working as a merchant or affiliate with PPC (Pay Per Click)
- Being a Merchant or Shop
- Building a Network (commissions for driving affiliate traffic to shops)
- E-marketing (sending emails - not span that generate income)
- Building websites with information, services
- Databases building
- Forums
- Forms - collecting details
- Opt in email marketing
- Newsletters
- Affiliate banners
- Text linking
- Search boxes
- Drop shipping
- Froogle feeds
- Email service
- Selling hosting
Here is some interesting reading about how to make money online for you.
Newsletters & Ebooks
Web Pro World
Affiliate Marketers Handbook
Forums
Webmaster World - All things Web
A4U - Affiliate Community
Domain Name Forum
Threadwatch - Marketing Technologies
Accessify Site - Accessibility for your site
If you are going to try to make money online, try not to invest too much money into it initially - you can easily test pages without spending a lot of money. Too many in their quest to make money online invest thousands in development and research - when really all you need to do is find a niche market - and write lots of genuine content about it. You can then make money by collecting a database, or by having related advertising or pay per click on the pages (this is the way that I work now). I only pay hosting fees per month, and renew my domains every 2 years and my broadband access - and that's all it should cost!! Paying lots out to make money online - can be a fatal error, as I learned myself back in 2005 - taking on a team of 5 people to develop my company on the web. I ended up over paying a group of people to do something that never really got finished because I ran out of money, and nothing was completed on time, I got scammed by an oscommerce developer who ran off with my backups and took 6 months to do something that took me only a few days to do all by myself a year later!
In the end - if you want to make money online - it can be hard if you don't know what you are doing, but the only way to learn is to talk to people, network and learn - read forums and network some more! I hope that you do make money online!
