Ok, so I haven't gone to bed yet. I guess there's more money to be made, or work to be done, or something. Before bed, I want to make a quick (or not so quick) post about a website that you can use to schedule tweets on Twitter, automatically send direct messages to your new followers, and automatically follow anyone who follows you.
The website is TweetLater.com, and it has some very handy (and FREE) features that can be leveraged to manage, build, and interact with your followers on Twitter.
Why does all this matter? Because Twitter is a great way to market and brand yourself and having a large following there can prove to be profitable in more ways than one.
In future posts we will dig deeper into some of the ways Twitter is profitable, but for now I'd like to highlight a few nice features at TweetLater.
TweetLater's main draw for me is the ability to automatically send a direct message to all of my new followers. I simply entered my Twitter details at TweetLater, then created an intro phrase and now all my followers get a message "directly" from me once they've clicked to follow my tweets. It's a simple yet effective (FREE) method of interacting with like-minded peers with very little effort on your part. For those of you who asked how this was done, now you know.
And now for some juicy tidbits!
I noticed earlier today that TweetLater has extended their direct message system so you can now rotate the direct messages that are automatically sent to new followers. This means that we can now easily test different intro messages, as well as put an affiliate link or two into the rotation without spamming every new follower we get. Hopefully you're starting to get some ideas on how you can use this feature.
Another feature offered is the ability to automatically follow every new person who follows you. If you say "so what?", think about it from another angle... other people are using this feature to automatically follow their followers on Twitter. Lots of other people are using this. So... if you want a bunch of followers on Twitter, all you have to do is start following a bunch of people. Those using auto-follow will automatically follow you back! As a bonus you will get many more followers as well who aren't using auto-follow. You may not use the auto-follow feature yourself, but that doesn't mean you can't benefit from it!
So there we have it... a few simple ways to leverage online tools that save time while building your Twitter identity.
One final tip: No online brand building, promotion, or money making method will ever be 100% guaranteed or proven. Things can and will go wrong so all we can do is take methods that make money for others and tweak, tweak, tweak until we find what works for us.
(All this coming from a sleep-deprived, lazy online money maker who slipped into zombie mode three tacos ago. Imagine what a normal person could accomplish.)
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
No Earnings, Worn Out and Ready to Give Up on Everything? It Gets Better if You Stick with It
Today is one of those days, and it's been a long one. There is too much going on in my little online money making world and that doesn't sit well with the lazy man's approach.
The new website project to test a niche affiliate program is coming along, however slowly. Unfortunately, a large chunk of my time is still taken up with mundane projects just to pay the bills and make ends meet so the website affiliate project hasn't received the attention it deserves...yet. But it will and I will post an update to the MoreNiche Money Making Journal in the next day or two.
Right now I have been up for over 41 hours, spending most of the time working on one online project or another. I wrote some blog posts and a couple articles, researched new affiliate programs and methods, found another domain to purchase, setup revenue sharing on two more forums (post about free money through revenue sharing), set up some new internet marketing methods I'm playing with (more on those soon), and I also re-wrote around 5,000 words of content for a couple webmaster friends. And that's only the stuff I remember doing.
So as my eyelids get heavier, and the keystrokes take longer, I ask myself what the heck am I doing?! every bone in my body aches, my muscles feel like jell-o, little twinkly stars appear in my vision, and my revenue stats parade a big fat ZERO that laughs in my face.
Today I'm down and out. But it's not over as nothing I've created has gone away. You can be down and out one day, and still get back on track. The trick is making sure you can pick up where you left off once you're ready to get back to making money. It's a rotten path going down the road of internet wealth only to get sidetracked and later have to start from scratch.
In the online world we can build the pieces slowly and take our time with them. If things don't immediately go our way, or if complications arise that take our focus away from the online world, it's ok. Nobody's perfect and we can't all take the straight path to wealth. But if we start putting the right pieces in place, keep building on those pieces, adding to them and tweaking them to maximize earnings, we'll progress along that path to wealth until one day we wake up and realize the journey has been traveled and now a new one lies ahead.
It's ok to be down and out. And it's pretty much expected that everybody will hit brick walls at some point when making money online. But keep those money making pieces in place and keep putting more of them out there. Keep heading down the path to online wealth. Stay determined, and good things will happen.
Note: After a long, long day, this post may be full of errors and/or incoherent rambling. I appoelzzz.....
The new website project to test a niche affiliate program is coming along, however slowly. Unfortunately, a large chunk of my time is still taken up with mundane projects just to pay the bills and make ends meet so the website affiliate project hasn't received the attention it deserves...yet. But it will and I will post an update to the MoreNiche Money Making Journal in the next day or two.
Right now I have been up for over 41 hours, spending most of the time working on one online project or another. I wrote some blog posts and a couple articles, researched new affiliate programs and methods, found another domain to purchase, setup revenue sharing on two more forums (post about free money through revenue sharing), set up some new internet marketing methods I'm playing with (more on those soon), and I also re-wrote around 5,000 words of content for a couple webmaster friends. And that's only the stuff I remember doing.
So as my eyelids get heavier, and the keystrokes take longer, I ask myself what the heck am I doing?! every bone in my body aches, my muscles feel like jell-o, little twinkly stars appear in my vision, and my revenue stats parade a big fat ZERO that laughs in my face.
Today I'm down and out. But it's not over as nothing I've created has gone away. You can be down and out one day, and still get back on track. The trick is making sure you can pick up where you left off once you're ready to get back to making money. It's a rotten path going down the road of internet wealth only to get sidetracked and later have to start from scratch.
In the online world we can build the pieces slowly and take our time with them. If things don't immediately go our way, or if complications arise that take our focus away from the online world, it's ok. Nobody's perfect and we can't all take the straight path to wealth. But if we start putting the right pieces in place, keep building on those pieces, adding to them and tweaking them to maximize earnings, we'll progress along that path to wealth until one day we wake up and realize the journey has been traveled and now a new one lies ahead.
It's ok to be down and out. And it's pretty much expected that everybody will hit brick walls at some point when making money online. But keep those money making pieces in place and keep putting more of them out there. Keep heading down the path to online wealth. Stay determined, and good things will happen.
Note: After a long, long day, this post may be full of errors and/or incoherent rambling. I appoelzzz.....
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Learn to Earn: The 11 Most Effective CashCrate Referral Methods that Will Get You Earning Money Now
Here are the most effective methods to quickly start referring people to CashCrate and make money doing it. Near the bottom I also included some extra methods that still work, but aren't as easy, cheap, or effective as the top ideas. If nothing else, I hope this list sparks some ideas for ways you can boost your referrals and make more money online.
While these referral methods are specific to CashCrate, they will work for most referral programs but be sure the methods are allowed by the program first (ex/ many programs don't allow you to offer incentives for people to sign up). So, without further word spewing from me, here are the most effective CashCrate referral methods in no particular order:
And a final tip: Make sure to cross-link your blog, website, articles, posts, and classifieds.
Here are the less effective methods that are still worth looking into and will hopefully generate some ideas of your own:
Enjoy!
While these referral methods are specific to CashCrate, they will work for most referral programs but be sure the methods are allowed by the program first (ex/ many programs don't allow you to offer incentives for people to sign up). So, without further word spewing from me, here are the most effective CashCrate referral methods in no particular order:
- Post on Money Making and GPT forums - include a signature link if allowed. (GPT is short for "Get Paid To")
- Tell your friends and family members
- Start a free blog at blogger.com or wordpress.com with posts about making money
- Make a website and promote your link on it
- Tell people through IM/PM
- Offer cash or other incentives for sign-ups
- Use Google Adwords or other pay per click advertising (PPC)
- Build a huge MySpace friends list or Twitter following and dedicate the profile to your blog or website
- Attach your referral link in the signature of your emails
- Advertise on Craigslist
- Write an article then submit it to free sites like ezinearticles.com. Include your ref link or website/blog link in the resource box.
And a final tip: Make sure to cross-link your blog, website, articles, posts, and classifieds.
Here are the less effective methods that are still worth looking into and will hopefully generate some ideas of your own:
- Write your link with bright markers on dollar bills then spend them at stores and as tips at restaurants.
- Put flyers on cars in busy parking lots.
- Put your referral link in your signature on all the forums you frequent with a catchy description.
- Visit groups and chat rooms that are focused on "Easy Money Making" and "Making Money Online".
- Post a flyer at work.
- Advertise on your car with window paint, magnetic signs, bumper stickers, etc.
- Post your referral link at the end of your YouTube videos.
- Send out flyers in a mailing list (ex.: http://www.usdatafax.com/)
- Link-Exchange
- Paid advertising on other people's websites
- Buy banner space. Impression in high PR forums/groups.
- Buy "paid to sign up" at other GPT sites
- Buy an expired domain with traffic and "redirect" to your referral link ex: www.realstat.info
- Buy text links on blogs/forums/groups
- Free traffic exchanges
- Paid traffic exchanges
- Add your site/blog to digg, stumble upon, Bumpzee, del.icio.us, etc
- Have a friend or network digg your site/blog to digg, stumble, etc
- Register at www.getref.com where you can earn referrals.
- Road-side signs & banners
- Use an online game, e-book, or other incentive - hand it out free after they sign up
- Optimize your website for better search engine ranking.
- Add regular content to your site or blog. Keep it updated with new info.
- Before shipping eBay items, put an ad with your ref. link in the box.
- Send email to all your contacts, and tell them to join with your referral link.
- Tell people at school/work/the store, where ever.
- Sign up for a virtual business card. www.entrecard.com and list your blog under the money making forum. Once you sign up, visit other money making blogs and drop your card on their site.
- Place business cards with your referral link in shopping carts.
- Print free business cards at Vistaprint.com.
- Get pencils, paper, pens, magnets, etc printed with your link on them and "leave" them lying around. (Free at VistaPrint.com).
- Start up a free online games website full of free flash and/or java games and embed your banner into the top of each game.
- Get a rubber stamp and stamp your ref. link or website on envelopes that you use to mail bills.
- Offer to help find their first referrals after signing up under you.
Enjoy!
Don't Forget to Be Lazy if You Want to Make Money Online
This blog is only a few days old and already a theme involving laziness is emerging. This is great! Laziness is the mother of some of the greatest innovations known to man. Life gets better and easier because ingenious people think up ways for us to sit on our butts a little bit more.
And I for one think that's a good thing. To an extent anyway.
When it comes to work, I'm lazy. Sure, I enjoy learning and trying new things, but the monotonous grind of eeking out an existence is not for me. Don't get me wrong, I've got a good work ethic and I take pride in doing a quality job. But I'm not going to dig a hole just to fill it back in and if there's an easier way to do something (especially when it comes to making money online), I'm all over it.
You may have noticed another theme developing in the recent posts. That theme is the idea of doing a project once but getting paid for your labor many times over the long run. This is a prime example of being lazy and it is one of the most effective methods there is to becoming filthy stinkin' rich. I should know, I'm already filthy and stinkin'.
A popular example of this lazy wealth generation method is writing a book then collecting royalties. An example more pertinent to this site would be an affiliate program that offers recurring revenue. You spend the effort once to find a customer, then earn commissions over the life of that customer. Some websites are another example. They can be mostly (or fully) automated and continue to bring money in the door month after month. Do the work once, get paid again and again. Who says it doesn't pay to be lazy?
So start thinking about making money online a little bit differently and see what ideas pop up. You can work hard and be lazy at the same time while enjoying life more and keeping burnout further at bay.
And I for one think that's a good thing. To an extent anyway.
When it comes to work, I'm lazy. Sure, I enjoy learning and trying new things, but the monotonous grind of eeking out an existence is not for me. Don't get me wrong, I've got a good work ethic and I take pride in doing a quality job. But I'm not going to dig a hole just to fill it back in and if there's an easier way to do something (especially when it comes to making money online), I'm all over it.
You may have noticed another theme developing in the recent posts. That theme is the idea of doing a project once but getting paid for your labor many times over the long run. This is a prime example of being lazy and it is one of the most effective methods there is to becoming filthy stinkin' rich. I should know, I'm already filthy and stinkin'.
A popular example of this lazy wealth generation method is writing a book then collecting royalties. An example more pertinent to this site would be an affiliate program that offers recurring revenue. You spend the effort once to find a customer, then earn commissions over the life of that customer. Some websites are another example. They can be mostly (or fully) automated and continue to bring money in the door month after month. Do the work once, get paid again and again. Who says it doesn't pay to be lazy?
So start thinking about making money online a little bit differently and see what ideas pop up. You can work hard and be lazy at the same time while enjoying life more and keeping burnout further at bay.
Maximize Your Online Money Making Potential - Don't Forget About Forum Signatures
I recently mentioned how you can make passive AdSense income by taking advantage of revenue sharing websites. One thing mentioned in that post is that online forums are a big part of the revenue sharing world.
That thought prompted this post - Don't forget about forum signatures as a potential money making method. Almost all forums allow at least one link in your signature and many allow several. Don't let this use of Other People's Sites (OPS) go to waste! It's FREE MONEY.
First, make sure to familiarize yourself with the forum rules before getting spam happy with your signature. Some forum moderators are a bit communist in nature and will ban anyone, anywhere, for anything. These sites help make us money, the least we can do is play by their rules when we're on their websites.
Once familiar with the forum rules, pick a few links you think will work well on the site and give it a test run. Remember: In the online money making world, sometimes it takes some tweaking to find out what works (no, not that type of tweaking). If a link isn't converting, try linking somewhere else.
Here are some tips for choosing what type of links to use in your forum signatures:
We might not be able to get rich overnight, but we can take steps in the right direction every day. It'll add up and one day we'll wake up and be there.
So get to it already!
That thought prompted this post - Don't forget about forum signatures as a potential money making method. Almost all forums allow at least one link in your signature and many allow several. Don't let this use of Other People's Sites (OPS) go to waste! It's FREE MONEY.
First, make sure to familiarize yourself with the forum rules before getting spam happy with your signature. Some forum moderators are a bit communist in nature and will ban anyone, anywhere, for anything. These sites help make us money, the least we can do is play by their rules when we're on their websites.
Once familiar with the forum rules, pick a few links you think will work well on the site and give it a test run. Remember: In the online money making world, sometimes it takes some tweaking to find out what works (no, not that type of tweaking). If a link isn't converting, try linking somewhere else.
Here are some tips for choosing what type of links to use in your forum signatures:
- Make sure affiliate links are allowed before using them. Using affiliate links where they aren't welcome is a shortcut to getting kicked off the island.
- If affiliate links are not allowed, don't despair. If you have a personal website or small business, promote that. Use the signature space to build backlinks to your own sites. Don't have a site yet? Heck, you could even you signature space to sell the junk from around your house (bye bye ebay fees!)
- If affiliate links are allowed, only promote quality products and services and make sure they are targeted to people who frequent the forum. Links to Omaha Steaks probably don't work very well on a vegetarian forum (for some odd reason) so if your links aren't at least somewhat targeted, you're probably better off spending time doing something else.
- Active niche forums will work the best. Let's face it, some forums just don't cut it. You want an active forum with plenty of member on a focused topic. Don't waste your time on the lame-duck forums unless the goal is to build backlinks.
- If you are using the forum signature to build backlinks to your own websites, start with forums that have a high Google Page Rank. Google's Page Rank still carries a lot of weight and having links from several PR sites will do nothing but help your search engine ranking position (SERP). Note: If you are in the process of building backlinks, check out my previous post about an extensive list of blogs that have a high Page Rank (so you can post your link in the comments).
- If you are using the forum signature for affiliate links, the forum's active user base is much more important than the Page Rank.
We might not be able to get rich overnight, but we can take steps in the right direction every day. It'll add up and one day we'll wake up and be there.
So get to it already!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Money Making Journal - MoreNiche Weight Loss Affiliate Program - Entry #2
The current money making test has been going on for almost 48 hours now and holy cow, there's a lot to do! Check out the first entry in this money making journal to get up to speed on the test and affiliate program being used. Basically, I am testing out a niche weight loss affiliate program to see if it lives up to the hype and if I can make any money promoting their products.
So far I don't feel like I've accomplished a whole lot. I did decide that Proactol, one of their two weight loss products, will be the first item I try to promote. With that decided, I poured over website templates in their research center to pick something suitable, then spent over an hour trying to find a domain name that'd work.
The domain name I came up with is HealthyWeightLossPill.com. I know, feel free to smirk - the name seems a bit lame but is the best I could come up with for now. It's tough finding good domains anymore.
I have a couple reasons for picking the name. First, it describes Proactol pretty dang well, so the visitors will know what to expect. Also, it starts with the term "Healthy Weight Loss", which is a highly searched term on Google. And finally, I got tired of searching for domains so I picked one in an attempt to move on to the next steps and keep forward momentum going.
While brainstorming domain names, the computer was busy downloading promotional materials for this weight loss pill I'm about to start selling. I was surprised to find some very helpful info in MoreNiche's resource center and a useful pdf guide geared specifically towards promoting Proactol. To anyone just starting out with affiliate programs and internet marketing, MoreNiche is proving to be a valuable resource of information and support towards making your first sales. Their site seems to have everything you need to start selling, from promotional materials to getting started guides, to nicely designed sights ready to be setup by you. I'm feeling a lot more confident about this program than I was before.
Now on to the next step, the website is currently just a template and needs to be customized to fit my specific ideas. If I leave it as-is and just plug in my affiliate links, not only will Google penalize me for having a crappy, duplicate template site, it's also highly doubtful the site will ever make any money. So I'll need to re-write the titles, articles, reviews, etc. as well as add more content that MoreNiche has provided. The process of making the site unique and custom will take many hours to do, but I think it is important as it will make the site stand out and increase chances of sales.
So that's what I will be doing next - customizing the new affiliate site and making it unique. Once it is ready to start testing, I'll dive into some link building, traffic building, and promotional methods.
Current Earnings: $7.00
($15.00 bonus for signing up to affiliate program minus $8.00 for a domain name)
Stay tuned for more about my attempts to make money online.
<< Read the First Entry in this Journal About Making Money
So far I don't feel like I've accomplished a whole lot. I did decide that Proactol, one of their two weight loss products, will be the first item I try to promote. With that decided, I poured over website templates in their research center to pick something suitable, then spent over an hour trying to find a domain name that'd work.
The domain name I came up with is HealthyWeightLossPill.com. I know, feel free to smirk - the name seems a bit lame but is the best I could come up with for now. It's tough finding good domains anymore.
I have a couple reasons for picking the name. First, it describes Proactol pretty dang well, so the visitors will know what to expect. Also, it starts with the term "Healthy Weight Loss", which is a highly searched term on Google. And finally, I got tired of searching for domains so I picked one in an attempt to move on to the next steps and keep forward momentum going.
While brainstorming domain names, the computer was busy downloading promotional materials for this weight loss pill I'm about to start selling. I was surprised to find some very helpful info in MoreNiche's resource center and a useful pdf guide geared specifically towards promoting Proactol. To anyone just starting out with affiliate programs and internet marketing, MoreNiche is proving to be a valuable resource of information and support towards making your first sales. Their site seems to have everything you need to start selling, from promotional materials to getting started guides, to nicely designed sights ready to be setup by you. I'm feeling a lot more confident about this program than I was before.
Now on to the next step, the website is currently just a template and needs to be customized to fit my specific ideas. If I leave it as-is and just plug in my affiliate links, not only will Google penalize me for having a crappy, duplicate template site, it's also highly doubtful the site will ever make any money. So I'll need to re-write the titles, articles, reviews, etc. as well as add more content that MoreNiche has provided. The process of making the site unique and custom will take many hours to do, but I think it is important as it will make the site stand out and increase chances of sales.
So that's what I will be doing next - customizing the new affiliate site and making it unique. Once it is ready to start testing, I'll dive into some link building, traffic building, and promotional methods.
Current Earnings: $7.00
($15.00 bonus for signing up to affiliate program minus $8.00 for a domain name)
Stay tuned for more about my attempts to make money online.
<< Read the First Entry in this Journal About Making Money
Make Passive Money with Revenue Sharing Websites - How I Did It
Ok, this idea isn't very original but it is one more income stream and another trickle of money you can add to your online empire. The beauty of it is, once you've put in the effort, the money will come in with little or no upkeep on your part.
The idea is to sign up for a bunch of revenue sharing websites and meet their requirements to get your AdSense ads displaying on their websites. Then sit back and forget about it, maybe re-visiting the sites occasionally to maintain your share of the ads displayed.
The point of this money maker is to do something once and then keep earning money from it long after the work is finished. This is one of the most powerful ways to make money since it doesn't involve trading your time directly for cash. Time is limited, which makes it even more important for financial savvy entrepreneurs to focus on ideas that will continue to make them money
whether or not they "show up on time" (or "at all", for that matter).
Once again, this isn't an idea where you'll get rich instantly. It's not even going to make you rich in a month or a year. But it is another proven method that will add cash to your bottom line and there's no reason to argue about that. The more income streams that are adding cash to your bottom line, the more money you will have and the quicker it'll come in. It doesn't matter how small these income streams are, if the money flow is positive, you can keep adding more and believe me, they add up.
So to get started with revenue sharing websites, I'd suggest searching Google for some revenue sharing forums. Forums are the most common type of site to offer revenue sharing and one of the easiest to get your AdSense ads making money on Other People's Sites (OPS) quickly.
If you visit the link above, you will notice that the second result is a very handy list of AdSense revenue sharing websites. Jackpot! The list is a little old and I noticed a few sites are no longer operating so be sure to check them out and find what works for you.
That should be enough to get you started making passive income with revenue sharing websites. Now the hard part is taking the time to actually do it. So, one more tip to get you motivated...
Old Toys Forum is a new revenue sharing forum that is currently only a couple months old. It seems they are trying to attract members by letting people participate in the revenue sharing instantly, which means YOUR AdSense ads could be generating more impressions and clicks right now. This one will only take you a minute to set up so there's really no reason not to.
Happy money making and good luck!
The idea is to sign up for a bunch of revenue sharing websites and meet their requirements to get your AdSense ads displaying on their websites. Then sit back and forget about it, maybe re-visiting the sites occasionally to maintain your share of the ads displayed.
The point of this money maker is to do something once and then keep earning money from it long after the work is finished. This is one of the most powerful ways to make money since it doesn't involve trading your time directly for cash. Time is limited, which makes it even more important for financial savvy entrepreneurs to focus on ideas that will continue to make them money
whether or not they "show up on time" (or "at all", for that matter).
Once again, this isn't an idea where you'll get rich instantly. It's not even going to make you rich in a month or a year. But it is another proven method that will add cash to your bottom line and there's no reason to argue about that. The more income streams that are adding cash to your bottom line, the more money you will have and the quicker it'll come in. It doesn't matter how small these income streams are, if the money flow is positive, you can keep adding more and believe me, they add up.
So to get started with revenue sharing websites, I'd suggest searching Google for some revenue sharing forums. Forums are the most common type of site to offer revenue sharing and one of the easiest to get your AdSense ads making money on Other People's Sites (OPS) quickly.
If you visit the link above, you will notice that the second result is a very handy list of AdSense revenue sharing websites. Jackpot! The list is a little old and I noticed a few sites are no longer operating so be sure to check them out and find what works for you.
That should be enough to get you started making passive income with revenue sharing websites. Now the hard part is taking the time to actually do it. So, one more tip to get you motivated...
Old Toys Forum is a new revenue sharing forum that is currently only a couple months old. It seems they are trying to attract members by letting people participate in the revenue sharing instantly, which means YOUR AdSense ads could be generating more impressions and clicks right now. This one will only take you a minute to set up so there's really no reason not to.
Happy money making and good luck!
Generate Monthly Income with Cash Crate - Update #1 I'm Making Money
This might be old news to a lot of you but hopefully some of you can still benefit and make some money from this information.
CashCrate is a company that gives you money just for filling out little surveys and trial offers. You can choose to only fill out free surveys and can easily get a free email address and whatnot online to start filling in forms.
Most offers are pretty straightforward and easy, and the bottom line is you can make money doing this.
Another advantage: Refer your friends to the program and earn 20% of everything they make. Yup, that's like free money that you can keep earning over and over again!
Now, making money at CashCrate won't get you rich, but it is another way to earn extra money, it can be done in your spare time, and it doesn't require very much effort at all. I sat here last night watching cartoons and filling out easy little surveys (click a bunch of radio buttons) and before I knew it I had made an extra five bucks watching Simpsons. Doesn't sound like much but I don't even feel like I was doing anything except laughing at cartoons. Imagine getting paid five bucks every night you're watching TV, filling out forms and surveys. Five dollars every day for thirty days is $150 a month for sitting on your butt watching TV! It can add up quick. Now imagine you actually put some effort into it!
So what are you waiting for? CashCrate is a legitimate and reputable way to earn extra cash online, earn it quickly and easily, and get some extra money now. By the way, you can get $1 for FREE after signing up and their minimum payout is only twenty bucks! It's easy to hit the payout amount and I've never had a problem getting paid on time (knock on wood).
If earning some extra moolah online sounds good to you, take that first step and start making money at CashCrate.
CashCrate is a company that gives you money just for filling out little surveys and trial offers. You can choose to only fill out free surveys and can easily get a free email address and whatnot online to start filling in forms.
Most offers are pretty straightforward and easy, and the bottom line is you can make money doing this.
Another advantage: Refer your friends to the program and earn 20% of everything they make. Yup, that's like free money that you can keep earning over and over again!
Now, making money at CashCrate won't get you rich, but it is another way to earn extra money, it can be done in your spare time, and it doesn't require very much effort at all. I sat here last night watching cartoons and filling out easy little surveys (click a bunch of radio buttons) and before I knew it I had made an extra five bucks watching Simpsons. Doesn't sound like much but I don't even feel like I was doing anything except laughing at cartoons. Imagine getting paid five bucks every night you're watching TV, filling out forms and surveys. Five dollars every day for thirty days is $150 a month for sitting on your butt watching TV! It can add up quick. Now imagine you actually put some effort into it!
So what are you waiting for? CashCrate is a legitimate and reputable way to earn extra cash online, earn it quickly and easily, and get some extra money now. By the way, you can get $1 for FREE after signing up and their minimum payout is only twenty bucks! It's easy to hit the payout amount and I've never had a problem getting paid on time (knock on wood).
If earning some extra moolah online sounds good to you, take that first step and start making money at CashCrate.
Maximize Profitable Keywords with Google AdWord's Keyword Research Tool
If you don't know already, Google AdWord's Keyword Research Tool is a must when looking for new domain names, content ideas, SEO, and high paying keywords to target with PPC advertising programs. If you haven't seen or used this tool before, take a minute and check it out.
One of the great features of the keyword tool is giving you alternate keywords and suggestions, along with approximate monthly search volume for those keywords and advertising competition.
(A proven traffic generation method when registering a new domain name is to choose keywords with high search volumes and use those keywords in the domain name. Since these keywords are in the domain, there is a great chance the domain will rank high in the search engines for those terms and with a lot of people searching those terms, the traffic potential increases greatly.)
Additional columns can be added to the display output, including a very useful "Estimated Avg. CPC". This is the estimated average cost-per-click and will tell you approximately what you can expect to pay for a single click of this keyword in an AdWords advertising campaign. It also gives you an idea of what you can expect to earn should your site be advertising for that keyword through AdSense. You can see which keywords are the most lucrative and which have the least amount of competition. This information comes in very handy when it comes to optimizing your site and maximizing your money making potential.
So take a look at Google's keyword research tool, start using it, become familiar with the terms and meanings of the information, then start putting it to work making money for you!
Have at it!
One of the great features of the keyword tool is giving you alternate keywords and suggestions, along with approximate monthly search volume for those keywords and advertising competition.
(A proven traffic generation method when registering a new domain name is to choose keywords with high search volumes and use those keywords in the domain name. Since these keywords are in the domain, there is a great chance the domain will rank high in the search engines for those terms and with a lot of people searching those terms, the traffic potential increases greatly.)
Additional columns can be added to the display output, including a very useful "Estimated Avg. CPC". This is the estimated average cost-per-click and will tell you approximately what you can expect to pay for a single click of this keyword in an AdWords advertising campaign. It also gives you an idea of what you can expect to earn should your site be advertising for that keyword through AdSense. You can see which keywords are the most lucrative and which have the least amount of competition. This information comes in very handy when it comes to optimizing your site and maximizing your money making potential.
So take a look at Google's keyword research tool, start using it, become familiar with the terms and meanings of the information, then start putting it to work making money for you!
Have at it!
Good Money to be Made Promoting Niche Health and Beauty Products
My money making journal for the MoreNiche affiliate program is well under way and one of the first things to get me excited is finding out about a new affiliate program while browsing website templates that promote MoreNiche's offerings.
An update to that journal will come tomorrow. For now I want to talk about a niche health and beauty affiliate program that looks like it has exceptional earning potential.
The name of the program is MarketHealth, and there's so much good stuff I don't have time to write about it all - you'll have to check it out for yourself.
Basically, they are an affiliate network offering excellent affiliate commissions for promoting the world's leading health and beauty offers. Or so their site claims, we will find out soon enough.
I must say that so far I am impressed with this organization. It looks like they are on top of the game when it comes to quality products and giving affiliates the payouts, features, and resources they want.
Free hosting is included with your affiliate account, with no limit to the number of websites you can setup (100mb limit per site). So someone can get started promoting their products and making money online with little or no costs involved.
Another plus is their payout schedule and minimum payout limit. They pay out twice each month and the minimum amount is only $20. This is very generous compared to some programs. And believe me, when you're relying on online income to survive, this is a huge incentive to join.
As you can see from the list below, they've got an extensive line of niche products that should earn nice commissions for you:
Women's Health and Beauty
Cosmetics
Sports Nutrition
E-Books
Pet Health
Business Opportunities
Weight Loss Products
Men's Health
Colon Health
Sexual Health
Skin Care
Oral Care
Free Trial Offers
Health Insurance
Email Offers
I haven't checked out their resources yet, so I don't know what is provided for marketing or how easy it will be to setup effective referral campaigns but time will tell.
For now, I can say this looks like a great program and I definitely plan on focusing efforts on driving traffic their way.
If anyone has any positive or negative experience with MarketHealth, please share.
An update to that journal will come tomorrow. For now I want to talk about a niche health and beauty affiliate program that looks like it has exceptional earning potential.
The name of the program is MarketHealth, and there's so much good stuff I don't have time to write about it all - you'll have to check it out for yourself.
Basically, they are an affiliate network offering excellent affiliate commissions for promoting the world's leading health and beauty offers. Or so their site claims, we will find out soon enough.
I must say that so far I am impressed with this organization. It looks like they are on top of the game when it comes to quality products and giving affiliates the payouts, features, and resources they want.
Free hosting is included with your affiliate account, with no limit to the number of websites you can setup (100mb limit per site). So someone can get started promoting their products and making money online with little or no costs involved.
Another plus is their payout schedule and minimum payout limit. They pay out twice each month and the minimum amount is only $20. This is very generous compared to some programs. And believe me, when you're relying on online income to survive, this is a huge incentive to join.
As you can see from the list below, they've got an extensive line of niche products that should earn nice commissions for you:
Women's Health and Beauty
Cosmetics
Sports Nutrition
E-Books
Pet Health
Business Opportunities
Weight Loss Products
Men's Health
Colon Health
Sexual Health
Skin Care
Oral Care
Free Trial Offers
Health Insurance
Email Offers
I haven't checked out their resources yet, so I don't know what is provided for marketing or how easy it will be to setup effective referral campaigns but time will tell.
For now, I can say this looks like a great program and I definitely plan on focusing efforts on driving traffic their way.
If anyone has any positive or negative experience with MarketHealth, please share.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Extensive List of Blogs with High PR that DOFOLLOW Links
Sorry about the awkward title - I just ran across this big list of blogs with a high google page rank.
You can use these blogs to help build backlinks to your own website. Simply pick blogs that are related to your site then post related comments to some of their topics and make sure to include a link to your website.
You may or may not notice extra traffic from this method but webmasters generally look at blog commenting as a way to build links.
I hope everyone enjoys this list. If anyone has any related website promotion ideas, I'd love to hear them.
You can use these blogs to help build backlinks to your own website. Simply pick blogs that are related to your site then post related comments to some of their topics and make sure to include a link to your website.
You may or may not notice extra traffic from this method but webmasters generally look at blog commenting as a way to build links.
I hope everyone enjoys this list. If anyone has any related website promotion ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Money Making Journal - MoreNiche Casinos, Weightloss, and a Bigger Peepee - Entry #1
As promised, the first entry for the first online money making journal is here. In this journal I'll be testing out a niche affiliate program that I'm excited to try since people seem to make decent money with them and they supposedly have some good tips about online promotion.
The name of the company I am testing is called MoreNiche. They promote 15 different publishers with products ranging from online casinos to weight loss pills to male enhancement doohickys.
Here is the Affiliate Program info:
Program Name: MoreNiche
Program Type: Payout Per Action (Make money with each sale referred to them)
Payout Structure: Up to $175 per sale
Notes: Currently offers a FREE $45 bonus ($15 when you sign up, $10 for posting in their forum, $10 for uploading your referral links, and $10 for generating 100 visitors)
My first impressions give me mixed emotions but we'll see if this pans out as well as people say it does. The big payouts have dollar signs swimming in my eyes but the small amount of programs (15) leaves me feeling like something is lacking. Still, I signed up and browsed their website so the next step is to plan a form of attack and start promoting their products.
Here are the rules for this money making journal / program test:
I am still not positive where to start but right now I'm leaning towards setting up a review website that promotes one of their products and then I'll promote that site.
Current Earnings: $15.00
(bonus for signing up)
Stay tuned for more updates on this money making test.
The name of the company I am testing is called MoreNiche. They promote 15 different publishers with products ranging from online casinos to weight loss pills to male enhancement doohickys.
Here is the Affiliate Program info:
Program Name: MoreNiche
Program Type: Payout Per Action (Make money with each sale referred to them)
Payout Structure: Up to $175 per sale
Notes: Currently offers a FREE $45 bonus ($15 when you sign up, $10 for posting in their forum, $10 for uploading your referral links, and $10 for generating 100 visitors)
My first impressions give me mixed emotions but we'll see if this pans out as well as people say it does. The big payouts have dollar signs swimming in my eyes but the small amount of programs (15) leaves me feeling like something is lacking. Still, I signed up and browsed their website so the next step is to plan a form of attack and start promoting their products.
Here are the rules for this money making journal / program test:
- I am testing the program for 30 days from today.
- The goals are first to make a sale, any sale, and then to find which promotional methods are most effective while deciding if this is a viable revenue stream.
- I will be posting here with updates on my progress. Look for several updates per week.
I am still not positive where to start but right now I'm leaning towards setting up a review website that promotes one of their products and then I'll promote that site.
Current Earnings: $15.00
(bonus for signing up)
Stay tuned for more updates on this money making test.
Money Making Journals Hit the Lazy Man's Blog
One of the fun things about money making blogs are the money making journals - when you can find an entertaining one that is updated and doesn't fizzle when the author doesn't earn windfall profits right away.
I've decided to start some money making journals here at the lazy man's online money blog since I think they serve several important purposes.
Stay tuned as the first money making journal will be posted shortly.
I've decided to start some money making journals here at the lazy man's online money blog since I think they serve several important purposes.
- First, this allows me to test a specific money making idea, method, or program with documented results. It will be pretty easy to tell whether or not my efforts are worthwhile or not.
- Second, everyone reading this will benefit in one way or another. We all learn from doing, but if we aren't doing, the next best thing is studying someone who is. One of the goals of these online money journals is to spark ideas in your head and get you thinking about ways you can make money as well.
- Also, one of the most important reasons for doing online money making journals is motivation, plain and simple. The truth is, we are more motivated to try our hand at making money online when we see someone else who's walking the same path and succeeding.
Stay tuned as the first money making journal will be posted shortly.
Follow Me and My Online Money Making Ideas on Twitter
Twitter is hands down the hottest social networking site of the moment. The "flavor of the month", so to speak. You know a website has reached critical mass in popularity when people who don't even know what it is are talking about it.
That being the case, there are millions of people on Twitter, and potentially thousands of like-minded individuals interested in making money online no doubt hang out there. What better chance to harness the power of these interwebs and put our collective brains together than to connect together, share our successes and failures, and in the process learn and grow.
So in an effort to reach more people that think like I do, I've signed up for Twitter and look forward to reading and sharing money making ideas there. You can view my Twitter profile here and follow my tweets which contain blog post updates and money making tips.
Anyone else on Twitter? Post your nick in the comments and we'll "meet up". Anyone not on Twitter, get on it, get on it now! You can't make money online if you don't have any exposure and social networking sites can give you and your website/blog/whatever excellent exposure. More on this in upcoming posts.
That being the case, there are millions of people on Twitter, and potentially thousands of like-minded individuals interested in making money online no doubt hang out there. What better chance to harness the power of these interwebs and put our collective brains together than to connect together, share our successes and failures, and in the process learn and grow.
So in an effort to reach more people that think like I do, I've signed up for Twitter and look forward to reading and sharing money making ideas there. You can view my Twitter profile here and follow my tweets which contain blog post updates and money making tips.
Anyone else on Twitter? Post your nick in the comments and we'll "meet up". Anyone not on Twitter, get on it, get on it now! You can't make money online if you don't have any exposure and social networking sites can give you and your website/blog/whatever excellent exposure. More on this in upcoming posts.
Get Off Your Lazy Butt and Make Money Online Already!
Now that I've got your attention, read the title again - Get off your butt and make some money. Perhaps "Get on your butt" would be more appropriate.
Whatever the terminology, it's time to take action and make some money online. Commit to making something, anything, online. Believe you can, put in the effort, and you will make your first dollars.
There are some tips and methods to speed up the process of making money online, but nothing beats good old fashioned grunt work. The truth is, anyone can make money online, but only if they're willing to put forth the effort. It takes time to make money online, but it's not necessarily difficult.
The pages of this blog were put together to offer insider tips, tricks, and money generating methods used by people who make a living online. These methods can be used to immediately start producing results and get you on track to an independent financial lifestyle.
The tricks and tips here can be implemented part-time for extra income or as a route to a full-time and profitable online career. The choice is yours and the rewards are only as much as the effort you put forth.
So take some time to browse around, learn some of the successful methods for making money online, choose some methods that are right for you, then dig in and keep at it until you taste the sweet fruit of success. It can be done and you can do it so let's get to it!
Whatever the terminology, it's time to take action and make some money online. Commit to making something, anything, online. Believe you can, put in the effort, and you will make your first dollars.
There are some tips and methods to speed up the process of making money online, but nothing beats good old fashioned grunt work. The truth is, anyone can make money online, but only if they're willing to put forth the effort. It takes time to make money online, but it's not necessarily difficult.
The pages of this blog were put together to offer insider tips, tricks, and money generating methods used by people who make a living online. These methods can be used to immediately start producing results and get you on track to an independent financial lifestyle.
The tricks and tips here can be implemented part-time for extra income or as a route to a full-time and profitable online career. The choice is yours and the rewards are only as much as the effort you put forth.
So take some time to browse around, learn some of the successful methods for making money online, choose some methods that are right for you, then dig in and keep at it until you taste the sweet fruit of success. It can be done and you can do it so let's get to it!
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