5 Motivational Tips To Make Money Online

Keep in mind that this was written to show you how you can make money “online” NOT “easy”,

“fast”, “quick”,  or “magically”.  There is no silver bullet, whatever method you choose will take

some effort, dedication, and discipline in order to see profit.  The good news is that you will

make money.

Don’t be lazy!

Setting up multiple streams of income only requires a few hours of your time each week, best of

all you can actually have fun doing it.  You owe it to yourself not to be dependent on the 9-to-5. 

So if you’re serious about your finances and getting ahead, I suggest you spend a few hours

every week trying to diversify your income

1. Sell Stuff on eBay.

The place to start is selling anything you deem as “extra” around your house.  Once you’ve done

this, you can start visiting the “nice” neighborhoods around your city to find potential customers.

The key here is getting to know what you can sell and what you can’t sell.  Many electronics,

such as computers, have the potential to bring in lots of revenue as long as you have the skills to

get rid of the data from its previous owner.  If you can, it is recommended that you sign a

contract that states that you will earn at least 25% of the earnings from selling the item.  This will

work well for both parties considering your customers will be delighted to get paid to get rid of

their old junk and clutter from their houses and you earn good income from the profits of selling

things for them.

2. Become a Freelance Article Writer.

You're probably not going to make all the money in the world doing this, but you will have a

relatively easy time finding work, writing mini articles and then submitting them to various

clients via article directories.  Clients can range from small business owners to bloggers, and you

have a choice of either sticking to a specific niche and then selling a whole bunch of your articles

to a set group of clients, or going with a per/instruction basis.  If you are planning on writing

your own articles and then selling, you need to learn about keyword research, but this really isn't

overly complicated.  You can look for work on eLance, WarriorForum, and WickedFire.

3. Help local Businesses Develop an Online Presence.

Local businesses are struggling. Many have websites, but aren’t getting any results from them. Others don’t have websites at all. You can help by learning search engine optimization, how to set up an email list, and more, and then implementing these for local businesses.  If you can deliver results, business owners will happily pay.  Find customers by going door-to-door, giving speeches at local chamber of

commerce, networking at business events, as well as joining local lead generation and

mastermind groups.  You should start with businesses you frequent and business owners you

already know.

4. Enter Logo and Design Competitions.

If you consider yourself to be someone who is creative and has the ability to create designs

appropriate for corporations, why not try creating company logos? The most popular place for

submitting ideas for logos is 99 Designs. While submissions are judged against those of other

artists and some designers are not satisfied with the results, it is a great way for new artists to see

what corporate clients are looking for while building a portfolio.

5. Be the one everyone goes to for software installation.

Even if the software company offers free installation, you can make hundreds or thousands of

dollars training business owners or their employees on its usage. Focus on one piece of software

and become the trusted expert. Create videos and tutorials using screencast software like

Camtasia to increase your profitability; this may also lead into a niche product that you can sell.

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46. Position yourself as a personality or expert.

Positioning yourself as a personality or expert in a particular field has all sorts of advantages, one of the most important being that it can help you get links to your site without having to ask for them. It also builds trust, helping encourage people to buy from your site. Positioning yourself as a personality or expert - or both – is much more challenging than building an anonymous mini-site, but the rewards can make it worth while. It's also a way of future-proofing your business because it makes your site stand out from all the hundreds or thousands of other sites in your niche. Once you start receiving a bit of publicity, people who are writing articles or books will want to interview you. The resulting publicity leads to more interviews... It has a nice snowballing effect.

47. Combine joint ventures AND email captures.

Ebook authors do joint ventures with website owners and newsletter publishers not just to sell products, but also to get a huge rush of website visitors and to collect email addresses. Consider how most ebook authors do joint ventures. They write a book or create a product, contact a few dozen newsletter publishers giving them a review copy and ask them to promote the book for a generous share of the revenue. Depending on the quality of the preselling and the quality of the sites salesletter, about 90 to 99% of the people who arrive at the site leave without buying anything. What a dreadful waste of hard-earned traffic! More cunning marketers create an email capture or NameSqueeze page. They give away a useful free report or mini-course. If visitors want it, the only way to get it is to hand over an email address. Their free report or mini-course then promotes the ebook. It's extra work, but this technique captures many more email addresses (for more repeat visits) and increases the number of sales.

48. Place a link in Yahoo! Answers "sources".

At Yahoo! Answers, the people who answer provide free answers. Answer some questions there. In your answers, you can list "sources" (links) for more details. The "asker" can vote a particular answer the "Best Answer" and that answer is given special prominence. Other users can vote, too. If you click on the "Report Abuse" link and check the available categories, you'll see that "advertisements" are banned. However, I've spotted some affiliate links posted as sources. Rather than posting an affiliate link, I think it would be more useful - and natural - to link to your own website, perhaps to a newsletter sign-up page or to a page offering a free report.

49. Add sticky content.

Sticky content, says Wikipedia, is website content:
“which has the purpose of getting a user to return to that particular website. Webmasters use this method to build up a community of returning visitors to a website". Examples of sticky content include chat rooms, forums, web mail, Internet games, weather, news, horoscopes, and recipes. This is a HUGE topic. Try a Search in Google for "sticky content". This technique works brilliantly for many websites. Look for opportunities where you can encourage other people to add free content to your site. Also, remember that sticky content isn't just words. It can be photos, audio, and video.

50. Buy ads in newsletters.

People reading online newsletters are often skimming, not reading carefully, so you'll need a bold, eye-catching ad. Instead of merely advertising your website or an affiliate product, send people to a page where you offer a free report or mini-course in return for their email address. You'll get more bang for your buck by doing this. Instead of just building the affiliate vendor's business, you're building YOUR business.

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36. Chase new fads and hot topics.


Some affiliates monitor popular TV programs and news items. When a hot topic catches their eye, as fast as they can, they create a new web page, a new blog or new website discussing the new product or new fad. These fast-moving affiliates are the ones who get to capture the early rush of traffic.


37. Chase new affiliate programs.


Monitor new affiliate programs and quickly create a new page, new blog or new website to cover the new topic.


38. Find new topics in your logs - and where your traffic is coming from.


Study your referral logs to see what phrases people are typing into search engines. SEO specialist Brett Tabke says: "If your site is about 'oranges', but your referrals are all about 'orange citrus fruit', then you can get busy building  articles around 'citrus' and 'fruit' instead of the generic 'oranges'". Here's another reason you MUST have a decent tool to show you your traffic stats. You need to know where your traffic is coming from. You need to know which of your many traffic generating experiments are most effective. Then you'll know where to allocate your time and energy - on the winners. If your web host doesn't provide you with good stats, one option is to use AWStats. It's free. If you're comfortable with letting Google know just about everything about your site, you can also use Google Analytics


39. Join business associations which list members' sites online.


There may be business associations in your niche which publish members' websites online. It's worth checking. Try a Google search for "business associations".


40. Add a forum to your site.


A forum has big advantages and big disadvantages. A popular forum can attract a large number of repeat visitors to your site. It can enhance your credibility as an expert. A forum can also involve a great deal of work. Before you decide to launch one, carefully consider who will moderate it, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Who will remove the spam? Will you have three moderators working in different time zones around the planet? If you are going to moderate the forum yourself, who will take over when you want a few days off? The most effective way to launch a forum is to add one to a popular site. It takes a lot of time and energy - and usually money - to launch one from scratch. Also, if you do launch a forum, make sure you have a way of enticing forum members from your forum to your newsletter or to the rest of your site. If you don't, they'll just take part in discussions and leave, burning up bandwidth without generating any revenue for you.


41. Write free reports or white papers.


Write a free ebook or free report (you can use free Open Office software to create one in PDF format), and ask website owners and newsletter publishers to give it away.


42. Write brandable reports.


Write a report and allow other affiliates to put THEIR affiliate links in it and give it way. What you need is a nice win-win arrangement.


43. Do something funny.


Put zany, funny stuff on your site and ask a friend to submit a link to it to BoingBoing.net to get the publicity ball rolling. If possible, try to make sure the topic of the article is related to the topic of your niche. Remember that you want TARGETED traffic to your site. Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing.net blog says the blog gets 1.7 million visitors a day.
(Source: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/05/01/1146335641312.html Reporting a link to BoingBoing is very simple.


44. Be outrageous or controversial.


Here's a traffic tip from Russell Beattie of RussellBeattie.com:
"Take on Apple. Writing something bad about Steve Jobs or a new Apple product is the sure-fire way to get the zealots in a state of fury. Two days later and I've got 2000+ individual people visiting that post about the iPod photo, over 52 comments and lots of emails. This is to be expected of course, but of the two or three times that I've done it and gotten such a response, it still surprises me." Mark Daoust says: The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites, an article recently published on Site-Reference.com, single-handedly brought in over 200,000 unique visitors in less than 24 hours. Initially it was featured on Slashdot, and subsequently it was featured in hundreds of blogs and forums, and thousands of new websites added a link to the article.


45. Use gimmicks.


If people see something odd on a website, they'll often tell other people about it. You can also alert newsletter publishers and blog owners and suggest they mention your gimmick in their newsletter.