Making money online

Money making online is getting more and more popular day-by-day. Doing online business "shrinks" the world as the geographical limitations are broken. And the best part is you can make money while cuddling up in the bed with your partner!

Ways to make money online

Set up a blog - Blogs can bring you easy money online. Google provides a service through Google Adsense where you can create an account to add Pay-Per-Click ads to your site. When visitors click on ads created by advertisers, you get the money.

Affiliate marketing - earn commission from every sale. Affiliate marketing is a huge market and can be really lucrative if you know how to sell things online. Check Amazon, Commission Junction and ClickBank - there are biggest affiliate programs out there. You don't have to own a product to do affliate marketing. You can sell other people's products and earn commision for it!! How good is that?

Start own online business - You may offer web design, copywriting, market research. Just find people who can work for you and promote your company. Doing your own market research is extremely crucial before starting your own online business. You would want to dominate your own niche and not create another service that already exists and has a proven track record.

Online real estate trade - This can be buying, selling, developing and making money from domains. You can sell domains to interested people. For example, I know of people who buy domains that will become popular in the future. For example, space traveling might become accessible to everyone out there in 30-40 years time. Thus, buying a domain like http://www.spacetravelmadeeasy.com/ (this is only an example) might interest you.

Get Paid to websites - Many sites offer cash for reading mails, clicking links, filling surveys etc. You don't need any specific skills to make money from such sites. But users beware! There are many scam sites circulating on the internet.

Virtual job - Doing a job for others in the internet and getting paid for it. Virtual assistance (or VA) is hot in the internet. Web publishers need content writers, typewriters, etc. You do the job for them and they pay your depending on your skills, marketability of product, etc.

Freelance - if you have any skills like web design, programming, copywriting you can offer your service online and make good money online. It's a great way because you are free, you can work whenever you want and there are many sites like http://www.elance.com/ or http://www.guru.com/ that are big online marketplaces. Webmasters are looking for these kind of people to help them as they can outsource their job for a lower price and better quality.

Create own product - It can be a bit advanced but if you have idea of making any product you can start developing it. Although there are many elements involved in creating own product. Market research is essential for this as well.

Online retail trade - check Craigslist or Ebay, the biggest online retail trade sites.


-Shud'n
The NG (Net Guru)