Make Money By Parking Expired Domains

So what do you do once you’ve bought a domain name? Build a website around it and hopefully make some money by providing quality content and Adsense ads, right?

Well you can do it that way but you can also buy domains to use for an entirely different reason – and it generally involves a lot less work.

Parking expired domains is a way that you can earn a nice stream of income from doing absolutely nothing. Read on to find out more.

Tons of domain names are expiring every single day, and each one represents an opportunity for you to make money. Provided you know which types of domain to buy in the first place you can soon start generating a significant income from this type of activity.

It stands to reason that the more popular the domain name is, the more traffic it will get. A domain name which contains a hugely popular keyword or words, such as ‘credit cards’ for example, will get loads of traffic – and it is these domains you want to get hold of when they expire.

Get yourself registered with a domain provider who doesn’t charge a fortune for selling domains and which also provides a domain parking service. You’ll need to find a company that also lets you park a large number of domains, because when you get started you’ll want to carry on!

The whole premise of domain name parking is that you don’t build a website around your domain. Parking basically refers to putting a single page up, which is supposed to stay there and earn some money for you while you are building the website that will replace it.

But we’re not interested in building a site. All we need to do is monetize that page and profit from the traffic it will receive. If you’ve chosen your domain name properly – according to the most popular keywords that are searched for every minute of every day online – you will immediately get traffic to your page. You can in essence start profiting from the traffic that the domain name was already pulling in.

So how do you monetize your page?

Most domain providers that have a domain parking service will provide you with the tools you need to monetize your page. Just as you would with Google Adsense, it is important that you closely target the people who are going to find your page through the search engines. So for example if your domain contains the words ‘top credit cards’, you would make your page as attractive as possible to people who are looking for the best credit cards.

By using the best keyword combinations you can find (try using a free keyword tool online – there are plenty of them available) you will be able to choose the best performing keywords for that particular subject. It may take a bit of trial and error to reach the optimum performance but you will learn from that experience and it’s a great feeling watching your earnings from every ad your visitors click on go up and up!

Once you have got one domain parked and bringing in money, you can start searching for others to buy. It’s a good idea to start slowly and buy one or two domains at a time; once you have parked a few and you’ve got the gist of how it works you can start thinking about buying more. Some people end up with hundreds and are raking in cash every day without lifting a finger to do it.

That’s the beauty of making money with this method – it’s totally automated once you’ve done the initial setting up of the domain and the advertising.

Sounds good? Before you rush off to get started, post your comments in the form below. Maybe you can come back and post again to let us know how well you’re doing once you’ve got your first couple of domains parked and earning money for you!

Make Money By Building A Portfolio Of Established Websites

There are lots of ways to build an income from a website, but not all of them involve selling something direct to your customer. It’s also not necessary to build a significant income from one site alone – in fact, there are plenty of people who rake in a lot of money from having built up a range of websites on all kinds of different subjects.

The trick is to create a template that works, and then repeat, repeat, repeat… Read on to find out more about how to do just that.

The great thing about having your own website is that you can make money from it in lots of different ways – and most of that income can be made twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.

So let’s start with your first website. You need to build it around a subject that will always be popular – subjects like earning more money, working from home, various financial products, credit cards, that kind of thing. There are also plenty of niche topics that will bring in a smaller but more focused audience that you can make a lot of money from, so it’s worth doing some research around your hobbies and interests to see how many people are interested in the same thing.

Use a keyword tool to work out what the best keywords are to use, and choose a domain name that uses some of these in a logical way. Once you’ve got your domain name registered and you’re ready to build your website, you need to monetize it to provide you with an income. Google Adsense is an obvious start, but you should also join sites such as Commission Junction and ClickBank so you can offer various relevant products to your visitors.

You can put display ads and banners on your site to link directly into certain products and services, but you can also make good use of text links. You should make the effort to write articles which are optimized to attract search engine traffic, and then insert relevant text links which lead from certain keywords to that specific product, which you will then earn a commission on whenever someone buys one.

While you will benefit from search engine traffic it will pay to promote your website as much as you can. When you are writing content to put on your site, write some similar pieces that you can submit to article directories with a link back to your website, to provide some free publicity.

Take the time to make sure your first site is established, but while you do that you should also spend some time looking for another subject area to build your next site around. Make sure you have a web host that allows you to host a lot of sites, since you will soon be building and promoting more than you might think!

So long as your income from each site exceeds your outgoings for web hosting and renewing your domain name when necessary, you’ll be in profit with each and every one. And the great thing is that the more you do, the more knowledge you will amass about what works and what doesn’t. A simple tweak to the layout of your website can result in increased profits, so make sure you use all the knowledge you have to boost your income.

Before you know it you’ll have a huge portfolio of established websites, each bringing in a stream of income for you every day that will keep going regardless of what else you might be doing. Building your next site perhaps?

Time to get started then! But before you do, feel free to post your comments below and share your experiences of this money making opportunity. Good luck!

Make Money By Branding New Domains For Sale

Branding is an extremely important part of any business process, and this is where you come in with this particular money making idea.

Quite often people have great plans for a website on a certain theme, but making the journey from the idea to the reality is harder than they first think. If someone could only get them started they’d be willing to pay for the service… and that’s the service you are going to provide here.

Branding new domains gives people a firm base to build on, rather than simply buying a domain name and having to start from scratch themselves. If you are good at spotting profitable domains and you like building basic sites from the ground up, you can make a lot of money in this area. Read on to find out more.

This way of making money starts with a good domain name. Do some research to find out what areas are bringing in lots of traffic and generating a lot of interest, and then buy a domain name which is either catchy or has some relevant keywords in it.

Once you have the name you need to build a site around it, but we’re not talking about a big comprehensive site here. We’re talking about perhaps no more than a page or two.

What you are doing is creating a buzz around what other people could do with a domain name and a site like this. So in essence your website will be little more than an advert for the domain name.

When people go online, search for a related term and your website comes up, they will see a well constructed page which features the name of the site (ie. the domain name) and a good layout which could be put to good use by the person who eventually buys the site. You could also create the site as a blog, writing a single post for it outlining what is for sale.

In essence what you are doing here is more than just selling a domain name. You are selling a whole package – a package which will be more attractive than simply selling the name on its own, because you are giving people a head start on creating their own site through supplying an outline of how the website could look.

And because you are selling a package deal, you can sell it at a much higher price. Some people sell branded domains for several hundred dollars each, depending on how popular the subject is and how much work they have put into what they have created so far.

You can also design a logo to go along with the domain name, or get a professional to design one for you. You can then reclaim the price of the logo in the cost of the package.

Once you’ve successfully bought a few domains and sold them on as packages, you will have a better idea of any particular subject areas that you are good at branding. You could set up your own website promoting your services and either concentrate on a few hot topics or try promoting anything and everything to see what sells the best.

But before you race out and start looking for saleable domains, leave us a comment in the box below. And good luck!

Make Money By Being A Registrar Reseller

There are plenty of different ways to become an affiliate online, but the first thing that most people think of is e-books. Very few people would consider making a commission from selling domain names, and yet it is one of the quickest and easiest ways to make money.

What’s more it is also a great way to monetize a website or blog if you happen to be promoting items which are already related to domains. As such it’s a great way to bring in another revenue stream if you are already involved with or thinking about some other ways to make money online.

Read on to find out more.

Who do you go to when you need to buy a domain name? That’s obvious – you’d go to a domain registrar.

But if you have bought a domain name in the past, have you ever been aware of how you have found that domain registrar in the first place? Some people find them through search engines, some find them because they happen to have known about a specific one to begin with, and others find them via other websites and recommendations.

And it is this third aspect that we are interested in, because that is how you can get started as a registrar reseller.

Basically it works as a referral scheme. You refer people to buy domains from a particular registrar, and when they buy one or more you get a percentage of the proceeds. All you need to do is direct people to that site through your own unique referral link, which the registrar will give you once you sign up to be part of the service.

Every domain registrar works slightly differently, but you can get around 50% commission from many of them, and it’s often free to sign up for the service. They may also give you a number of banners and promotional links that you can use to drive traffic to their website.

This is an ideal money making opportunity to think about if you have a website that is dedicated to a subject relating to websites where people are likely to want to get their own domain names as well. The same goes for writing a blog.

Some domain registrars also have a wholesale service which is ideal if you are prepared to set up a whole business surrounding the supply of domain names and hosting as well, although this is much more involved and you will need to be able to provide phone support and other such services as well.

The best route for many people is to be an affiliate seller and let the main company do all the work for you. In this way becoming a registrar reseller enables you to make some easy money for doing very little work at all, once you have set up the links that will make you money.

If this idea appeals to you then you need to start by searching for a domain registrar that offers a good commission program. There are plenty of them about, so search for ones in your own country and see which one pays the best and offers the best service for your clients.

But before you do that, why not leave us a comment in the box below?

Make Money Building Custom WordPress Themes

Blogging is still very popular online, and no matter what you use your own blogging skills for, there are plenty of other people out there who are either starting up their own or wanting to revamp the one they have.

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms there is, but for those people who want to personalize or monetize their blog by using the WordPress platform with their own domain name and hosting, they will be looking for a blog theme that is more in keeping with their topic of choice.

And that’s where you can start making some money.

If you look up ‘custom WordPress themes’ on the internet you will find several sites run by people who design themes and make a nice chunk of change from them too.

There are two ways you can profit from this, but both of them really need your own website set up and running to do it properly. The easiest way to get started is by offering a range of designs and styles that will appeal to different bloggers and charging a flat fee to everyone who wants to download and use it. Later on when you become more confident of your design skills you can offer to create custom designs – one offs – to people who require them for a higher fee.

So how do you design these themes in the first place?

Well it helps to have an eye for design, certainly – not to mention a familiarity with WordPress yourself. Knowledge of CSS and HTML will also help. If you have a WordPress blog then you are likely to be more familiar with how it all works, and that’s the best place to start. The WordPress site has plenty of information on how to build custom themes and there are also plenty of people online who have posted step by step tutorials covering all the design aspects you will need to know.

That’s all very well but how do you know which types of designs will sell? This is where some nifty research will set you apart from your competition and get you selling more themes in no time. Make sure you test each theme before you offer it for sale, to make sure that there are no bugs or errors in it.

By using keyword tools you will be able to find areas of interest that are likely to bring lots of positive results when you slant a WordPress theme or two towards them. Bear in mind the keywords themselves here too, since they will help you to pull in traffic once you are up and running.

It’s worth building at least eight or ten custom themes before you launch your site, and you should make sure they are slanted towards some diverse topics. As you add more and more themes you will bring in more traffic thanks to your keyworded descriptions of the themes themselves.

What about pricing? Many custom themes sell for around $30 to $40. Many sellers don’t advertize their rates for a one off theme, but if you are sneaky and request a quote from a few you can get an idea of a ballpark figure to charge.

The great thing about standard custom themes is that they can be paid for online and set up to be delivered automatically, so it truly is a business that can be run on autopilot if you desire. All of which leaves you a lot more time to keep designing new themes for sale.

Make sure you do some more basic themes as well, which you can always offer at a lower price. While custom themes angled towards a certain niche market will sell well, some people will want something a little less targeted.

Before you disappear to start doing your research online, leave us a comment in the box below. After that, it might just be time to see how good your design skills are…

Make Money Becoming A Web Host Reseller

Web hosting is something we all need if we want to get our own website or blog online, but have you ever thought about selling web hosting to someone else?

The chances are that you haven’t ever considered it because you didn’t even know it was a possibility, but in actual fact it’s one of the easiest ways to make a significant monthly income that keeps on coming. After all, once people have their own web hosting they are unlikely to go elsewhere.

So if you know how to provide a good service at a good price, you could soon be racking up the customers – and the cash – every month.

So how on earth do you become a web host reseller anyway? And what exactly does it involve?

In simple terms, it is an easy way to get involved with selling web space without the hassle of having to have your own servers installed. What happens is that you buy web space from an established web host and then sell it in smaller portions to your customers.

You won’t necessarily be able to make the profits that the actual web hosts make, but having said that you won’t have the overheads they do so it’s a good deal if you are looking to set up an online business where the services or goods you provide are virtual and you don’t need any storage space to benefit from them! The web hosts also have thousands of customers, whereas you might start with just a few and build up. Once you know you enjoy it however – the sky is the limit.

So where do you start?

The first step is to hop online and search for web hosts that offer reseller hosting. You can easily find these on any major search engine once you type in that term. It’s worth spending a while comparing prices and services since you will need a fair amount of web space to be able to divide it up among your forthcoming clients.

There are two main things you need to be sure of before you sign up to any particular plan. Firstly make sure you can upgrade it at any point if you need to. This may well be necessary if you find you can get enough customers to use up all the space your original plan offers. Secondly you should also ensure the company you go with offers all the help and support you need, especially if your knowledge of web hosting is limited. You’ll learn a lot as you go along but a basic knowledge at the very least is necessary to start with.

Once you have decided what service you want to use, you’ll need to create a website to attract the attention of potential customers. You should clearly display the benefits and pricing for your hosting packages and it can be a good idea to provide some useful articles as well on all aspects of web hosting. Not only will these be helpful to potential customers (and probably help to win more clients as well) they will also help to get your website ranked more highly in the search engines, as they will naturally contain all the keywords that a person looking for web hosting will type into a search engine to find your kind of service.

Do your research to find out what prices to charge for your services. It depends on what you are offering in each package and the kind of people you want to attract; you could set up different packages to appeal to individuals, small businesses and blog owners, for example.

While it might seem as if there is a lot to learn you’ll soon get the hang of it, as you’re basically just repackaging and reselling what your web host provider is giving to you. Once you’re all set up and ready to go, all you need to think about is getting more traffic.

Sounds appealing? Before you go and do some more research and think about what to call your brand new online business, why don’t you leave us a comment in the box below? Then you can go and join the many others who are making a monthly income from this idea!

Make Money And Win Prizes By Entering Online Competitions

Most people are focused on making money online, but what about winning it? This is an area where you can really capitalize on the idea of earning a lot of money in a very short amount of time.

And it’s not just cash you can win either. Luxury cars, vacations, computers, free groceries, a year off your mortgage… you name it, you can probably find it online and try and win it.

The secret is to know how to get started in the shortest amount of time possible – and to know where to look…

Have you ever come across anyone in your neighborhood that seems to be luckier than everyone else? They might appear to have a lot of disposable income to spend on cars and great vacations, especially since they haven’t got the kind of jobs that would bring in that much money.

There are two probable (legal) answers to this. They might have a second business they run from home, or they might just be entering a lot of online competitions.

There are of course plenty of offline competitions you can enter as well, but the big bonus of online competitions is that they are quick and easy to enter and you don’t generally have to muck around collecting vouchers or anything to enable you to enter either. Everything is done online and that means you can enter lots more competitions than you would if you tried to enter the offline versions.

The most common type of online competition is one where you answer a multiple choice question and then complete your details to be entered into the competition itself. Most of these questions are easy and even if you are stumped a few minutes of research on the internet will usually turn up the right answer.

The main rule to remember is that to stand the best chance of winning you will need to enter as many competitions as you can. The popularity of each competition will also vary, since most people will only tend to enter those competitions which have prizes they want to win. Some competitions don’t receive many entries at all, which means it’s in your best interests to enter everything in sight.

Don’t forget that if you end up winning something you don’t like or want, you can take the prize and either sell it on eBay, through the local paper or sell it to a friend or relative. That gives you another way to make money from online competitions!

Many companies set up online competitions to capture possible leads for promoting and selling their future products to, and you will be required to give them a valid email address (and sometimes a phone number as well) in order to enter the competition. You are then agreeing to receive promotional emails from them in the future.

To help prevent your inbox being swamped with such emails, make sure you set up another email address purely for your competition entries. Just remember to check it every now and again to see whether you have won anything!

You can easily find dozens of online competitions to enter by typing that exact phrase into the search engines. Many sites will let you join them for free, and they give you access to all the best competitions on the web at any one time. This is a great way to save time since everything is in one convenient to locate place.

Even if you are trying to make money online in other ways, entering competitions is so easy that you’d be crazy not to try it alongside your other efforts. You might soon have a brand new car parked outside as a reward for your efforts.

Make And Sell Hand Made Jewelry

If you enjoy crafts and you have an eye for detail then you could make a nice income for yourself selling hand made items of jewelry.

Most people who sell their jewelry have a style of some kind that they hone over time, and it’s that style that they become known for. This is certainly an area where you should take your time to develop a business, because you will learn more as a result and be rewarded with a better income too.

But if you get it right, this is one business that can make you money both online and off.

Hand made jewelry has a charm and attraction that most mass produced jewelry just doesn’t have. What’s more, people will pay a premium for something that is unique and not seen everywhere. Depending on the way you want to develop your business you can either design items and produce them in very small amounts (perhaps making each one just slightly different in the process), or specialize in making real ‘one offs’ that are commissioned by individual customers.

There are lots of ways you can sell your jewelry too, and the beauty of it is that it is easy to send through the mail, since it is small, light and cheap to mail to people.

You should have a website to promote your goods, and if you set it up so that you can accept secure payments over the internet you can sell directly from it as well. Always put your contact information on there in order to open up the possibility of someone getting in touch for a specialized order.

If you don’t want to launch into having your own website in the beginning, think about using eBay or Etsy to sell your jewelry on. Etsy in particular is known for hand made goods of all kinds, and jewelry does very well on here. You can also open a shop on the site completely free of charge.

But don’t just stick to online markets to find customers. Get some business cards made up with your website address or Etsy store name and URL on them, and take them (along with your jewelry!) to every local craft fair and gathering you can find. Not only will you sell some jewelry, you might also pick up some commissions – not to mention the fact that you’ll be able to promote your online store and your business as a whole during the event.

Make every effort to display your jewelry in the best way possible. Silver jewelry looks very effective against a black or blue velvet background, for example. Experiment at home and use stands of varying heights to display things so that they can be seen better from a distance as well.

You won’t make instant riches with a home made jewelry business, but over the long term you could develop a strong customer base that will reward you in more ways than one. It’s also a great way to start a business around your current job. You can take your time to hone your skills and build a business, all the while secure in the knowledge that you have a full time income to pay the bills.

So why not think about your first few designs right now? There’s no time like the present – or at least five minutes time, after you have left us a comment below!

How To Make Money With Website Directories

Of all the different ways there are to make money online, this is probably one of the more unusual. It’s certainly not the first one to come to mind… and yet when you think of where you could end up by giving it a go (does the name Yahoo sound familiar?) you can see why it’s worth at least considering the idea.

What’s more, you can choose your focus so that it appeals to everyone online or just a specific topic area. If you choose the second option you could end up building a whole empire of websites over time.

So what is a website directory anyway? Simply put it’s a website which lists other websites. But of course it’s a little more than that. By putting them into specific categories everyone visiting your site will be able to find what they need quickly and easily.

The first step is to decide what you want the focus of your directory to be. Do you want to list anything and everything, or do you want to concentrate on a particular topic? For example you could create a directory listing shops and stores in a particular country. You obviously need to pick a subject area where there is plenty of meat to include; a website which lists fake mustache sellers in a specific town probably isn’t going to be that big.

Once you have your topic you need to create your site, and it needs to be a good one. It’s worth getting it designed professionally because people simply won’t use it if it doesn’t look respectable. The cost will be worth it though because you will then be able to charge for your listings.

Adding a fee structure to your website is the way in which you will make money. Free listings will also generate valuable free advertising and promotion for you, since in return for a free listing you will ask for a backlink to your website. The free listings should also be basic so as to allow for paid listings to stand out more and be worth the money you will charge for them.

So what kind of paid listings should you offer? You can charge for two basic types; for example a normal paid listing would appear at the top of its relevant category, whereas a premium paid listing could involve the use of bold type as well, so it would stand out more from its rivals.

You can develop paid services as much or as little as you like; for example free listings may not include a clickable link to the website being advertised, whereas paid listings will. You could also add an optional extra fee to premium paid listings to allow the purchaser to add their business logo or a photo to their listing as well.

The fees you charge are up to you, but it’s important to remember that people won’t pay money if their websites aren’t going to be seen by lots of potential customers. That’s why you need to make sure your site has real value by generating streams of traffic towards it (a good reason for having free listings which require a link to your site).

The more traffic your website directory is capable of getting, the more traffic your customers are likely to get in return, and the more they will be prepared to pay for a premium listing. In this way building a successful directory has two main areas of interest – firstly you need to get plenty of listings on your site, and secondly you need to get plenty of traffic to those listings.

By doing this you will be adding real value to your website and word will start to get out that your website directory does indeed help to drive traffic to people’s websites. Once you can legitimately lay claim to this then the paid requests for inclusion will start pouring in.

Once you get to this stage you might also consider spreading the word about the efficiency and benefits your site offers by spending some of your profits on more advertising. Google AdWords could get you even more paid listings for very little outlay.

Leave us a comment below to let us know what you think, and then start making plans for your very own website directory. Good luck!

How To Make Money With Squidoo

The name of the site is Squidoo, and whether you use it to make money elsewhere or to make money through the site itself it holds a lot of promise if you learn how to tap into it correctly.

Once you have opened an account with Squidoo you will notice how easy it is to start setting up your own web pages. I say pages because there is no limit on how many you can have. Whether you go for dozens or hundreds, the only limits are those you put on yourself.

This is a great opportunity for affiliate marketers who want to have a strong web presence in order to be able to recommend and sell products that they will receive a commission on. And seeing as you can also earn purely from having a page or more on Squidoo (known as a lens) there are two great ways to earn money here.

When it comes to building your first lens you will see that there are a vast number of modules which you can select from in order to make your lens take on a unique appearance. Some of these are built to earn money – the Amazon and eBay modules, for example, and dozens more besides.

Others are designed to give you a lot of leeway to create your own layouts and add banners and other advertising material, so there is a lot you can do here to create something that is truly original. Every lens is ranked within the whole of Squidoo, and there is no doubt that the higher the LensRank the better your chances of getting more visitors and sales as a result.

New lenses can be found and indexed by Google fairly quickly if they are of good quality – and that is really the secret of making money with Squidoo. Don’t expect to create a lens in ten minutes and be making sales the following day. Make a good start, publish your lens and then start adding new material to it on a regular basis. You need to build something worthwhile so offer your visitors real value. If you can do that then they will come to trust you and be more likely to spend money with you as a result.

If you don’t yet have any products to promote, join ClickBank or Commission Junction (or both) and find a niche to start promoting. There are so many products to choose from on these two sites that you could create a new lens every day on a different subject and not run out for ages.

The trick to building a lens that is successful is to do so over time. Make sure you edit it and add to it regularly just as you would with any other website, as this will help your ranking within the search engines. Don’t be afraid to experiment, because your most successful lenses might not be ones you would expect!

You will receive a royalty payment per lens per month, which will vary depending on how well each one performs. Together with commissions from items sold through your lenses and through your affiliate links you can make a lot of money here once you have established yourself.

One tip for getting started – make sure you start with a subject you love and have a real passion for. The chances are good that there will be plenty of other people out there who feel the same, and your natural enthusiasm for it will help you to build a great lens to start with.

Make use of all the helpful tools Squidoo offers to help you in your lens building efforts too; you’ll soon notice the difference.

Leave a comment for us below before you go and build that first lens!

How To Make Money through YouTube

YouTube is one of those websites that really has taken the internet by storm. So long as you have the right equipment to shoot a home movie (and it isn’t too hard to come by without shelling out loads of cash nowadays) you stand a chance of developing an existing business or starting a new one, purely by signing up to YouTube and putting those movies online.

But that doesn’t explain what kind of videos you should be making. Well relax, because that is what you are about to find out. There is one very good way to make money using this website, you are about to find out what it is.

Let’s start by looking at YouTube as a way to bring in more business for your existing venture. If you can shoot short videos related to your business (making sure you include the URL to your website on the video itself) you can expect to receive more traffic to your website and hopefully more customers as a result.

Let’s say for example you run a website which sells all kinds of craft items. So you might make a video showing people how to make their own home made cards. They would then check out your website to see what you sell. This process can be duplicated no matter what kind of business you have.

The key is to think visually. It’s no good simply sitting in front of a camera telling people about something – you need to show them as well. Always remember this when you are thinking of ideas for videos – you will get a better response to them if you do.

In this sense you aren’t making money directly from YouTube; rather, you are using it as a way to make money elsewhere. It is a great tool for attracting attention and funneling people off the site. You cannot actually tout for business directly on the site anyway, so you are better off focusing on how you can get the attention of people whom you could sell to. Once you figure out how to do that, they will be more than happy to check out your website to see what you offer.

But what if you don’t already have a business to promote? Well, there are a number of people who have been successful in promoting affiliate opportunities on the site – again by inserting the relevant web address on the video itself (if you go on YouTube you will see this appearing time and time again as a kind of watermark effect) and either posting a video that is free for anyone to use and post, or by making their own. Again, so long as you post something that is relevant to what you are selling you should get a decent amount of traffic flowing to your website.

It might take a short while to get used to how uploading videos to YouTube works (particularly if you haven’t done it before) but once you have done a couple you will get the hang of it. More importantly you will have found another stream of income to add to your internet marketing arsenal of ideas!

One final point – be original. You can choose copyright free videos, but if you can make a fairly decent one yourself, why not try and attract more attention with that?

Leave us a comment below to let us know how you intend to use YouTube to make money!

How To earn Money from MySpace

If you are already a member of MySpace you will know that they don’t exactly take kindly to people promoting their wares on the website. But if that’s the case, how do you make money by using the site?

The answer is simple – you do it subtly and in a way that will naturally encourage people to follow what you are saying and go elsewhere to find out more.

The key to success is to build a profile that tells people who you are and what you are about – which will brand you as an expert in a particular area and get you remembered for all the right reasons when you want to promote your affiliate links online.

So what do you get when you join MySpace? First and foremost you get a space of your own to tell the world who you are. It’s a good idea to look up some other random pages by other people to see how they use theirs, particularly if they are internet marketers who have ulterior motives for joining this social networking site.

You will get your own MySpace URL that can be promoted elsewhere, but the most important section of your profile page is the About Me section, as this is your chance to tell people what your interests are. If you are promoting products in a particular niche topic, make sure your profile is relevant to that niche in order to be seen as something of an expert. If you do this people will remember you and be more interested in seeing what you have to say when they need information on that topic.

If you have a presence elsewhere online – a blog, a website, and any other social networking sites that maybe aren’t quite so strict about not promoting your business as MySpace is – make sure you include them in your links section. This will encourage more traffic to flow between all your web presences, and you’ll start to make more sales as a result.

You can also make good use of the blog you get on MySpace; the great thing about this is that you can include hyperlinks (clickable links) to other websites. Again, you don’t want to be trying to sell directly off this but you could set up a page on Squidoo – a site that welcomes the idea of making money from a free web page, and you’ll find out more about it in a later post – or promote affiliate links or products on your own website that you can link into.

I’m sure you can see by now that the way to make money from having an account with MySpace is to do so indirectly. Before you post anything new to your MySpace page or blog, ask yourself if you are blatantly advertising or doing so in a more subtle way. There is no reason why you can’t recommend your own website that is packed full of information on your specialist subject and hopefully make some sales off there as a result.

Got some ideas for putting that MySpace account to good use already? Leave a comment below before you get started!

How To Make Money Writing Poetry

How to earn Money online without investment, There are plenty of ways to make money from writing, but poetry is certainly one of the more unlikely ones. After all, most poets struggle to make anything at all, let alone a significant amount of money from their efforts.

But if you think laterally you can actually do quite well from this branch of writing. It may never be a full time career but there are people making a nice second income from penning a few rhymes and poems every now and then.

The secret is to make sure you are writing for the right markets. Read on to find out what they are.

There is one very large market for poetry that you probably look at virtually every day, and yet most people simply don’t realize that it exists as an opportunity to make money.

The market we’re talking about is greetings cards manufacturers. After all, how many greetings cards do you see that have simple poems inside them, conveying a message to the recipient which could be funny, heart warming, emotional or joyful? If you can come up with this kind of poetry then you could be well rewarded for each one you write that ends up being accepted.

There are two ways to find the best markets to write for. Firstly you can visit your local card stores and see which manufacturers publish cards with these types of poems on them. You might know that you have more of a talent with some rather than others, so concentrate your search on the manufacturers and publishers that create the cards you feel you could write.

Make a note of the company name and then do a search on the internet to find them. This is also the best way to find other companies who you may not easily find in the stores.

Not all greetings card companies will be looking for freelance work, but those that are will often have guidelines on their websites, so print these off and read them carefully in order to stand a chance of succeeding. You might find it helpful to jot down some ideas while you are reading them, since they may be looking for specific ideas or themes that you could work on.

Companies such as these usually let you send in a batch of ideas at the same time because of the brevity of the work involved, so make sure you have several to send in and take your time over them to make sure they are the best you can do. Editing your work is very important – even on items as short as these will be – since there is a lot of competition on many occasions and even the odd change of a word here and there could make all the difference between acceptance and rejection.

Persevere with your efforts too, because it might take a few attempts before you get anything accepted. The great part of making money from your poetry in this way is that you will get to see your poems on the cards in your local store once they are published – and there is no greater reward than that!

You could also make your own cards and sell them if you have a lot of poems you would like to use that are turned down by the card companies. A lot of people will pay handsomely for hand made cards and if you feel confident enough you could even charge a premium for writing unique poems for specific people.

If this has got your creative juices running then why not start jotting your ideas down right now? You’ll find it useful to keep a notepad with you at all times for writing them down whenever they come to you – but the first thing you should write is a comment for us in the box below!