Generally speaking, I hate those "paid to click" sites that you see all over the net. Most of them either turn out to be a scam or you have to wait months to get paid. I don't know about you, but I'm here to earn money online, and when I've EARNED it through spending my valuable time working, then I expect to be paid within a reasonable amount of time.
Like many others, I've been burned by these sites as well, even recently (see the nomincashout scam), so now I'm down to a VERY short list of ones that I know will pay me and that I trust with my money and time. They are listed in my sidebar here, but the one I'm giving special mention to in this post is the Neobux PTC.
Why them? Because they've been around for a LONG time and have very active members who actually care about the site. You also get INSTANT payments when requesting a cashout, so no waiting! The forum has lots of payment proof and the admin even gives tips for maximizing your earnings there. The owner is not going to close up and run away next week, like so many of the "fly by night" websites.
Earning money with these types of sites has a strategy, and not everyone gets it. People often get discouraged and give up before reaching payout. UPDATE 2012: Since writing this post years ago Neobux has change their terms and structure so that you really can't earn what was possibly before and many of the senior members, including myself, have left. Therefore I can no longer endorse them and have removed my ref link from this post.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Yottacash Affiliate Program
The Yottacash Affiliate Program is one of those sponsor networks that work better on entertainment sites. They have several movie, music, tv, sports and game sites that you can promote on your own website and make up to $40 per sale. Sites with movies are especially hot right now, so it's an easy way to monetize that genre.
They have a member backend that features great stats reports and campaigns to keep track of all your ad placements. You can also use them with PPC, or simpy put their link or banner on your site to one of theirs and make money from your traffic whenever someone makes a purchase. It's the perfect alternative for people who were making good coin promoting those Clickbank download sites and are now looking for suitable replacement ads to put up instead.
If you sign up at Yottacash under my ref link, then just email me anytime you need help and I will give you all the free mentoring you need. That goes for ANY program I promote. I will help you to succeed as much as I can! All the best to your success!
They have a member backend that features great stats reports and campaigns to keep track of all your ad placements. You can also use them with PPC, or simpy put their link or banner on your site to one of theirs and make money from your traffic whenever someone makes a purchase. It's the perfect alternative for people who were making good coin promoting those Clickbank download sites and are now looking for suitable replacement ads to put up instead.
If you sign up at Yottacash under my ref link, then just email me anytime you need help and I will give you all the free mentoring you need. That goes for ANY program I promote. I will help you to succeed as much as I can! All the best to your success!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Schedule Twitter Tweets
I can't stress enough the importance of automation and using the tools available to you in order to ease the burden of the sometimes overwhelming amount of tasks that need to be done to succeed online. To make money online you need to work hard, and I've established that as a fact a long time ago, but you also need to work SMART as well! Take advantage of whatever software and programs you can find that will make your job that much easier.
I've already written a post about how to schedule a blogpost in advance, so now I'm going to tell you about using a Twitter scheduler to post ahead there as well. Many of you already know of the advantages to marketing to your followers, but I see a lot of people are still getting it WRONG!!
You do NOT want to come across as a spammer, or members will simply unfollow you, so don't make every status update just a link to some product you hope your followers will click and buy. Write most of your tweets about everyday, normal stuff that anyone else would write about and then just recommend a site or item for users to check out every few posts. Spamming does not work!!
To help you market to your fellow twits I suggest using this website where you can schedule Twitter Tweets ahead of time. This helps enormously when trying to market to a demographic from a different time zone, when you would normally be sleeping, or if you are away and want to still keep connected to your followers. You can also simply post tweets in advance to go on vacation or even if you don't own a computer, as I know many readers use a cyber cafe to connect to the internet.
Use these tools to your advantage! That's what they are there for...to help you!
I've already written a post about how to schedule a blogpost in advance, so now I'm going to tell you about using a Twitter scheduler to post ahead there as well. Many of you already know of the advantages to marketing to your followers, but I see a lot of people are still getting it WRONG!!
You do NOT want to come across as a spammer, or members will simply unfollow you, so don't make every status update just a link to some product you hope your followers will click and buy. Write most of your tweets about everyday, normal stuff that anyone else would write about and then just recommend a site or item for users to check out every few posts. Spamming does not work!!
To help you market to your fellow twits I suggest using this website where you can schedule Twitter Tweets ahead of time. This helps enormously when trying to market to a demographic from a different time zone, when you would normally be sleeping, or if you are away and want to still keep connected to your followers. You can also simply post tweets in advance to go on vacation or even if you don't own a computer, as I know many readers use a cyber cafe to connect to the internet.
Use these tools to your advantage! That's what they are there for...to help you!
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Blog Warrior Freebie
I'm going to start offering freebies of software and ebooks to help people to earn online and put them all together in a section on my sidebar, so that you have access to them whenever you need it. I've wanted to do this for awhile, as I have many useful tools to giveaway, but the problem was a matter of how to offer these downloads. This site is not hosted on my server, so I have to link to the files on an uploading service.
Unfortunately, most of the remote file upload services are crap and full of pop ups and installers and I care about my readers enough to not want them to get bombarded with that when getting something free from me. I tried a test file and uploaded it to several of these remote hosts and then downloaded it as a user to see what I ran into and there was only one that was ok with me. So, I can now offer some cool freebies that should dramatically help you ease the work load of earning money online!
The first one is the Blog Warrior freebie to find blogs and comment on them. I've mentioned in several places how important it is for getting free backlinks that you comment on blogs within your niche, but it can be quite time consuming to find these sites. With this free program you simply start it up, input the keywords you are targeting and it will produce a list of urls where you can leave your comments, including the site's PR and Alexa rank! It's simple to use and quite helpful.
Other webmasters are offering this program in exchange for you joining their mailing list so they can spam you every day, but I'm not like that. I would like you to follow my blog, if you want to learn more about earning online, but there is never any obligation for you to do so. I never ask for anything in return...your success is my reward!!
Download Blog Warrior Here!
Unfortunately, most of the remote file upload services are crap and full of pop ups and installers and I care about my readers enough to not want them to get bombarded with that when getting something free from me. I tried a test file and uploaded it to several of these remote hosts and then downloaded it as a user to see what I ran into and there was only one that was ok with me. So, I can now offer some cool freebies that should dramatically help you ease the work load of earning money online!
The first one is the Blog Warrior freebie to find blogs and comment on them. I've mentioned in several places how important it is for getting free backlinks that you comment on blogs within your niche, but it can be quite time consuming to find these sites. With this free program you simply start it up, input the keywords you are targeting and it will produce a list of urls where you can leave your comments, including the site's PR and Alexa rank! It's simple to use and quite helpful.
Other webmasters are offering this program in exchange for you joining their mailing list so they can spam you every day, but I'm not like that. I would like you to follow my blog, if you want to learn more about earning online, but there is never any obligation for you to do so. I never ask for anything in return...your success is my reward!!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Think Like A Webmaster!
It has come to my attention that many of you struggling to make money online do not realize you must start to think like a webmaster, because that is what you are now! Anytime you start a new job, whether on the internet or offline, there is a learning process in which you are trained for that position. Doctor, lawyer, pilot, webmaster...these are all jobs that you can do for living, but you must study and learn to become one first!
Recently, I've noticed people making mistakes online simply because they aren't thinking like a webmaster. If you were surgeon about to perform surgery, would you think like a bartender??? NO!! Well, it's the same on the web...you must change your thought process!
I've used the term "thinking outside the box" often, but now I'd like you to think INSIDE the box, but in the CORRECT box...the "webmaster" box!
Being a webmaster involves knowing your audience and building your site accordingly. Don't put beer ads on a health site or don't buy PTC traffic to a website selling tractors! Look at more effective ways to utilize your resources.
Another thing is that you shouldn't become easily impressed by anything too flashy. Quite often on webmaster forums I read sales threads for really plain looking sites or ones using common templates that are earning for the owner, but potential buyers will pass because the website doesn't look "pretty" enough for them. A beginner webmaster will be easily impressed by flash intros and colorful graphics and will usually get caught up in that, even if the site for sale is making ZERO revenue.
You must realize that just because you've seen a template before doesn't mean that your visitor will have ever seen it. I have arcade sites using default skins that get FAR more traffic than anything with a custom look. That is because surfers care about website CONTENT, and not looks, and that should be your concern as well. An impressive looking site with no content is going to lose traffic quickly and gain no return visitors.
An experienced, REAL webmaster will see the potential in even the ugliest of sites and will be more interested in it's earning stats, regardless of what it looks like. One of my most ugly, plain and totally boring looking sites just made over $700 in sales last week. Why? Because it's full of CONTENT. No fluff, no filler, no blinking gifs or buttons...just information about an "in demand" product and where to purchase it. That's it!
Content should be your focus and not how cool your new website looks! Which brings me to this blog you are reading right now. It's jam packed with information on making money online with no filler or anything fancy. It gets right to the point. Some members of LR have left reviews saying the look is very boring. Yes, it is and yes, I could change it to something fancier, but I won't because that's not the focus of this blog.
The focus here is to provide info on how to earn online and, if you follow my posts, you WILL make money, so I don't feel I need to impress anyone with a video slideshow or lightning bolts flashing across the page. Read, learn and concentrate your efforts on your new job as a webmaster and you will eventually be earning a living from that career in the future! To your success!!
Recently, I've noticed people making mistakes online simply because they aren't thinking like a webmaster. If you were surgeon about to perform surgery, would you think like a bartender??? NO!! Well, it's the same on the web...you must change your thought process!
I've used the term "thinking outside the box" often, but now I'd like you to think INSIDE the box, but in the CORRECT box...the "webmaster" box!
Being a webmaster involves knowing your audience and building your site accordingly. Don't put beer ads on a health site or don't buy PTC traffic to a website selling tractors! Look at more effective ways to utilize your resources.
Another thing is that you shouldn't become easily impressed by anything too flashy. Quite often on webmaster forums I read sales threads for really plain looking sites or ones using common templates that are earning for the owner, but potential buyers will pass because the website doesn't look "pretty" enough for them. A beginner webmaster will be easily impressed by flash intros and colorful graphics and will usually get caught up in that, even if the site for sale is making ZERO revenue.
You must realize that just because you've seen a template before doesn't mean that your visitor will have ever seen it. I have arcade sites using default skins that get FAR more traffic than anything with a custom look. That is because surfers care about website CONTENT, and not looks, and that should be your concern as well. An impressive looking site with no content is going to lose traffic quickly and gain no return visitors.
An experienced, REAL webmaster will see the potential in even the ugliest of sites and will be more interested in it's earning stats, regardless of what it looks like. One of my most ugly, plain and totally boring looking sites just made over $700 in sales last week. Why? Because it's full of CONTENT. No fluff, no filler, no blinking gifs or buttons...just information about an "in demand" product and where to purchase it. That's it!
Content should be your focus and not how cool your new website looks! Which brings me to this blog you are reading right now. It's jam packed with information on making money online with no filler or anything fancy. It gets right to the point. Some members of LR have left reviews saying the look is very boring. Yes, it is and yes, I could change it to something fancier, but I won't because that's not the focus of this blog.
The focus here is to provide info on how to earn online and, if you follow my posts, you WILL make money, so I don't feel I need to impress anyone with a video slideshow or lightning bolts flashing across the page. Read, learn and concentrate your efforts on your new job as a webmaster and you will eventually be earning a living from that career in the future! To your success!!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Work At Home Freedom
I'm going to take a break from the usual "make money online" post and, instead of telling you HOW to earn, I'm going to tell you WHY you should be making money online working from home. It's quite simple: when you work at home you earn more than just money...you earn your FREEDOM.
I know that sounds rather dramatic, but it's very true, and it should be important to you. The economy is being flushed down the drain. Workers are being laid off everywhere. Even big car companies that have been around for more than a century, are now faced with financial disaster. There is no longer any such thing as job security. Your employment could be taken away tomorrow or next week...at ANY time!
When you work from home you are your own boss, so you can't get fired! Plus, you can take a break whenever you want to. No more early mornings scraping ice off the car in the middle of a storm to go to work. No more traffic jams when commuting back and forth. Never have to deal with an annoying co-worker or supervisor. You never have to eat a quick "bag lunch" in 15 minutes because of a limited breaktime, or rush to get errands done during your lunchbreak.
Perhaps most importantly is the fact that you never have to go to work again when you feel sick or have the flu and your whole body aches in pain. Yesterday I felt exactly like that. I had a headache and I was tired and I thought I was catching a cold, so what did I do? I dropped EVERYTHING I was doing and went to the beach...and slept. All afternoon just laying in the sand. Then in the evening I stopped at the canteen and had a nice plate of fish n' chips. It was good! By the time I got home again I felt much better.
You don't have to live near the ocean like I do to take advantage of this work at home freedom. You can go anywhere you want to, whenever you want to. When you don't feel well, you can just stay in bed all day watching TV, if you want to.
But this freedom to be your own boss working from home does have a cost. No, it's not money. It's discipline. You have to know when NOT to be lazy, and to be willing to work like a driven donkey most of the time. It's ironic because most people drawn toward the lure of working online do it because they ARE lazy and have bought into the myth that it's easy money when, in actual fact, it's probably about the hardest way to earn a living there is. It's NOT suitable for lazy people at all!
That's why most people fail online. It's not because they CAN'T make money, or they think it's impossible, but because they aren't willing to work at it. I work my ass off online, sometimes 16 hour days, building sites, placing links, promoting for traffic, working on new ideas, etc, etc...and sometimes I'm exhausted, but I do it because it affords me the freedom NOT to do it on days when I just don't feel like it.
I earn a living doing this from home, and it's worth it to me to not have to be part of the daily grind that everyone else has to deal with at work. I choose to work hard now, so that I don't have to later. You can as well. You can do anything you set your mind to do, if you want it badly enough. Think about it, for your own freedom from the rat race....
I know that sounds rather dramatic, but it's very true, and it should be important to you. The economy is being flushed down the drain. Workers are being laid off everywhere. Even big car companies that have been around for more than a century, are now faced with financial disaster. There is no longer any such thing as job security. Your employment could be taken away tomorrow or next week...at ANY time!
When you work from home you are your own boss, so you can't get fired! Plus, you can take a break whenever you want to. No more early mornings scraping ice off the car in the middle of a storm to go to work. No more traffic jams when commuting back and forth. Never have to deal with an annoying co-worker or supervisor. You never have to eat a quick "bag lunch" in 15 minutes because of a limited breaktime, or rush to get errands done during your lunchbreak.
Perhaps most importantly is the fact that you never have to go to work again when you feel sick or have the flu and your whole body aches in pain. Yesterday I felt exactly like that. I had a headache and I was tired and I thought I was catching a cold, so what did I do? I dropped EVERYTHING I was doing and went to the beach...and slept. All afternoon just laying in the sand. Then in the evening I stopped at the canteen and had a nice plate of fish n' chips. It was good! By the time I got home again I felt much better.
You don't have to live near the ocean like I do to take advantage of this work at home freedom. You can go anywhere you want to, whenever you want to. When you don't feel well, you can just stay in bed all day watching TV, if you want to.
But this freedom to be your own boss working from home does have a cost. No, it's not money. It's discipline. You have to know when NOT to be lazy, and to be willing to work like a driven donkey most of the time. It's ironic because most people drawn toward the lure of working online do it because they ARE lazy and have bought into the myth that it's easy money when, in actual fact, it's probably about the hardest way to earn a living there is. It's NOT suitable for lazy people at all!
That's why most people fail online. It's not because they CAN'T make money, or they think it's impossible, but because they aren't willing to work at it. I work my ass off online, sometimes 16 hour days, building sites, placing links, promoting for traffic, working on new ideas, etc, etc...and sometimes I'm exhausted, but I do it because it affords me the freedom NOT to do it on days when I just don't feel like it.
I earn a living doing this from home, and it's worth it to me to not have to be part of the daily grind that everyone else has to deal with at work. I choose to work hard now, so that I don't have to later. You can as well. You can do anything you set your mind to do, if you want it badly enough. Think about it, for your own freedom from the rat race....
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Multiple Revenue Streams
The key to long term success online is to fully utilize multiple revenue streams. This is due to the fact that earning income on the internet is not consistant. Some days I make $100+, while on others I may only make $10 total. My goal is always to make at least $50 per day, and usually around $100, but there is no guarantee of earnings and you must be prepared for that.
When working at a regular 9-5 job offline you know exactly how much you will make. If your pay is $10 an hour, and you work an 8 hour day, then you have earned $80, minus any expenses related to that, such as dues, gas/travelling, etc. Working from home online for 8 hours, however, is different as you are not being paid hourly by someone else, so you can't expect that same consistency, but you CAN still average the same amount daily over time. You just have to be patient and persistant and combine all your mulitple revenue streams together.
The other benefit to having more than one earning stream is that you are helping to stabilize factors and variables that are usually beyond your control. A good example of this is when a site gets banished to the Google sandbox, which happens quite often now. I've seen forum threads by panicked webmasters who had their traffic cut off overnight after their site gets dropped from the search results and their income from that website is suddenly GONE! They are now in financial trouble because they relied too heavily on one income source.
Then there are things like the "summer slowdown" period which makes work at home income almost a seasonal job. Plus affiliate products that are hot one month and not the next. You need to weigh all these variables into your overall strategy for success.
Even if you only have 10 revenue streams and each one averages only $5 a day, then that's $50 a day. Again, I must stress on AVERAGE, since some earners will make $0 some days and over $100 on others. I've reached over $700 in a day and mere pennies on others.
Here is a breakdown of my earnings from last month, so you can see the real results of how it works...
- $821.23 (combined affiliate sales from several networks)
- $143.46 (selling adspace, includes all PPC programs - slow month!)
- $187.99 (websites/script sales)
- $90.39 (referral sales)
- $104 (ptc earnings)
- $200 (working from home as a mystery shopper)
- $55 (odd small jobs that don't fit other categories)
- $1602.58 total (average was $51.69 daily earning)
This does NOT include my highest day of over $700 because that is not a typical day and, therefore, it would throw off the overall average. Plus, as the weather gets warmer, less people are online, so a few numbers, such as ad selling were lower than normal. These numbers include ALL my multiple online revenue streams and it is how I earn a living working from home.
Even though I just barely made my $50/day minimum goal last month, it is still a fairly decent wage, considering it happens EVERY day, including on weekends when most people aren't making any money. I also take days off when I go out of town frequently or just goof off at the beach...lol
There is no reason why you can't acheive this same goal. Just try several things, then drop what doesn't work and strengthen what does. Then try a few more things and repeat your success until you have several streams of earning programs that DO work and, if some things stop working later on, there is no need to panic because you now have multiple revenue streams at your command all working for YOU. To your success!!
When working at a regular 9-5 job offline you know exactly how much you will make. If your pay is $10 an hour, and you work an 8 hour day, then you have earned $80, minus any expenses related to that, such as dues, gas/travelling, etc. Working from home online for 8 hours, however, is different as you are not being paid hourly by someone else, so you can't expect that same consistency, but you CAN still average the same amount daily over time. You just have to be patient and persistant and combine all your mulitple revenue streams together.
The other benefit to having more than one earning stream is that you are helping to stabilize factors and variables that are usually beyond your control. A good example of this is when a site gets banished to the Google sandbox, which happens quite often now. I've seen forum threads by panicked webmasters who had their traffic cut off overnight after their site gets dropped from the search results and their income from that website is suddenly GONE! They are now in financial trouble because they relied too heavily on one income source.
Then there are things like the "summer slowdown" period which makes work at home income almost a seasonal job. Plus affiliate products that are hot one month and not the next. You need to weigh all these variables into your overall strategy for success.
Even if you only have 10 revenue streams and each one averages only $5 a day, then that's $50 a day. Again, I must stress on AVERAGE, since some earners will make $0 some days and over $100 on others. I've reached over $700 in a day and mere pennies on others.
Here is a breakdown of my earnings from last month, so you can see the real results of how it works...
- $821.23 (combined affiliate sales from several networks)
- $143.46 (selling adspace, includes all PPC programs - slow month!)
- $187.99 (websites/script sales)
- $90.39 (referral sales)
- $104 (ptc earnings)
- $200 (working from home as a mystery shopper)
- $55 (odd small jobs that don't fit other categories)
- $1602.58 total (average was $51.69 daily earning)
This does NOT include my highest day of over $700 because that is not a typical day and, therefore, it would throw off the overall average. Plus, as the weather gets warmer, less people are online, so a few numbers, such as ad selling were lower than normal. These numbers include ALL my multiple online revenue streams and it is how I earn a living working from home.
Even though I just barely made my $50/day minimum goal last month, it is still a fairly decent wage, considering it happens EVERY day, including on weekends when most people aren't making any money. I also take days off when I go out of town frequently or just goof off at the beach...lol
There is no reason why you can't acheive this same goal. Just try several things, then drop what doesn't work and strengthen what does. Then try a few more things and repeat your success until you have several streams of earning programs that DO work and, if some things stop working later on, there is no need to panic because you now have multiple revenue streams at your command all working for YOU. To your success!!
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