The Basics to Make Money Online
Posted on January 20th, 2009 in Basics, MME 'How To' Essays
There are four BASIC ways to Make Money Online
Selling Ad Space
Owning websites and placing ads on them. When someone clicks on the ad or performs an action required by the advertiser, YOU GET PAID.
Selling Digital Products and Services
Selling ebooks, programs,software etc, almost all affiliate income, unless you develop your own product, providing leads to advertisers, CPA Marketing….when someone buys YOU GET PAID
Selling Hard Goods and Services
Ebay and dropshipping. When someone buys one of your products YOU GET PAID
Selling Your Time
Filling out forms, taking surveys, writing articles for others, etc. Do it and YOU GET PAID.
Now there are others, but these are the most basic you should start out with.
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Basic Tools Needed to Start Making Money Online
If you don’t have a PayPal account its like walking out of the house with an empty wallet. You basically can’t do anything online today unless you are willing to spend at least a little money, and PayPal, for better or worse, is really the only game in town, in terms of paying for the products and services you’ll need, and hopefully, eventually, collecting your money you make online.
2. You NEED at least 1 Domain Name and a Hosting Plan. I use HostGator personally, but there are many that can do the job, WebHostingPad,? BlueHost,? or? iPowerweb,? which also also sells domain names as cheap as Godaddy. The one thing that your host MUST give you, at a minimum, is auto installation of the WordPress Blogging Software. NOTE: I would definately avoid Godaddy for hosting, they don’t even give you a cPanel.
3. An Easy Website Builder Program, “WebSiteWizard” is what I use. Now you can also opt to go with the website building software you web host will provide, they all provide one or more.
WebsiteWizard Free trial available here
If your going to have a website or a blog, which if you want to make money online is a must, you are going to want to use Google Adsense. Google place ads on your website or blog and when some one clicks on one of those ads you make money. There are alternatives to Adsense but you should at least start with them
5. An Ebook Creator, EbookGold is probably the best for the money, unless you want to spend $500+ on Adobe acrobat. Free Trial of EbookGold available here
You can get a cheaper version that does most of what the one above does here
For ebook covers try DynamiteCovers, Free Trial available here
6. An Auto Responder, the most popular are:
7. **Sign up For Affiliate Accounts, ——-THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!!**
The most popular and the ones you really NEED, if you want to give yourself a fighting chance are:
8. An ad Tracker to maximize your sites ad and CPA campaign revenue Free Trail available here (optional if you are just starting out) Free trail available here
That’s pretty much it. Now if you can’t spend the money to obtain these tools, you might want to consider holding off until you can, because this really is the most basic stuff.
Cheers
PS:? A note on the Free Trials.
Many people think Free Trials are a scam because they usually ask for your credit card number upfront. Free trials are not scams. If you decide you don’t want to use the product and then don’t put the minimal effort in to cancel the Free Trial before it ends, it’s really your fault, not the company’s that is offerring the Free Trial. DON’T BE LAZY, if you want to cancel, just do it!.
January 21st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Nice post Frank with some great info provided .
However i would throw my ten penneth worth in by advising the following.
By all means sign up with as many of the Mainstay Sites like Clickbank,CJ etc.
However i would counsel anyone Not to sign up with to many Affiliate Sites immediately.
Reasons being.
Firstly it is better to settle on something you are comfortable promoting and ideally have some knowledge of.
Secondly it is very easy to become overwhelmed trying to promote to many programmes to quickly.
Therefore do your research on programmes based on your interests or Comfort Zone.
Then proceed to learn the basics of what being an affiliate marketer is all about.
As the saying goes “Learn to walk before you run “.
Best Wishes
Doug
January 21st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Great comment Doug. You are correct. One should focus on what they are comfortable with first.
Thanks again for the comment.
Frank Bowman