5 Ways to Make Money Online
By Derrick | May 31, 2009
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There are thousands of ways to make money on the Internet. Some of them work, and quite a few of them don’t. Some are even downright unethical (or illegal).
Here are a couple of the methods that actually do work:
1. Create and sell your own information products. This is one of the best ways to make money, because you have complete control over all aspects of the process. You can decide what product to create, how much to sell it for and how to market it.
2. Affiliate marketing. A tried-and-tested way to make money, affiliate marketing generates huge incomes for those who have the time and the resources to do it properly.
3. Building Adsense websites. Adsense is still one of the most reliable and efficient ways to generate an income online. The key is to build sites which provide useful information, and build a steady stream of traffic.
4. Generating and selling leads. In the current economic climate, many businesses are desperate for a constant source of qualified business leads. Internet marketing techniques provide an efficient and inexpensive way to generate these leads.
5. Membership sites. A well-designed membership site is an exceptionally effective way to share your expertise, and get paid for it.
You can read a good deal more about these methods, and 10 more, in my free report“15 Powerful Internet Business Models”.All I ask in exchange is your name and email address!
Topics: Online Business | 30 Comments »
Selling Services to Local Businesses
By Derrick | April 27, 2009
You can make a comfortable living selling Internet marketing services to local businesses. More and more people are using the Internet to search for local suppliers of items they want to buy, and business owners are becoming more aware of the importance of getting a high search engine ranking.
Some business owners are even starting to understand that it’s not [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Offline Business | 15 Comments »
Free Traffic
By Derrick | April 1, 2009
Free traffic? Anyone with a little bit of experience knows that, as with lunch, there’s really no such thing. You always pay for traffic - with money, time or effort (or some combination of the three).
With most paid advertising, once you stop paying, the traffic dries up.
On the other hand, with many of the ‘free’ traffic methods, the traffic [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Articles | 34 Comments »
Serious Income Secrets
By Derrick | February 28, 2009
How do you make an income on the Internet? There are thousands of ways that work, and hundreds of thousands of people whose income is directly derived from the net.
In the first six issues of my “Serious Income Secrets” newsletter, I’ll take you step-by-step through the process of building an online business - not a fly-by-night, “get rich [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Online Business | 34 Comments »
Does Outsourcing Work For You?
By Derrick | February 17, 2009
Small business owners often try to do everything themselves. This can work when a new business is just getting off the ground, as it keeps costs down. But as a business acquires more clients, it becomes more and more difficult for the business owner to do everything.
One way to solve this problem is for the business owner to identify [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Outsourcing | 27 Comments »
This should make you smile…
By Derrick | January 16, 2009
Thanks to Peter du Toit for finding this…
Winner - Best Narrative Short, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival,
Winner - Jury Award, Gen Art Chicago Film Festival,
Winner - Audience Award, Hawaii Int’l Film Festival,
Winner - Best Short Comedy, Breckenridge Festival of Film,
Winner - Crystal Heart Award, Best Short Film & Audience Award, Heartland Film Festival,
Winner - Christopher [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: General | 19 Comments »
Upgrading to WordPress 2.7
By Derrick | December 30, 2008
I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.7. I tried it out on a couple of my niche blogs first, and it was pretty straight forward. A couple of plugins had to be upgraded as well, but this is simple (if a little time consuming).
WP 2.7 has a number of changes which I really like. For [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: Blogs | 21 Comments »
13 Ways To Increase Your Profits
By Derrick | December 7, 2008
Lee McIntyre has just released a terrific free report called “Profit 13 Ways: 13 Ways To Increase Your Profits Fast”.
Lee is based in the UK, and until 18 months ago was a high school teacher. He now makes a full-time living online, mainly by teaching others how to do what he did.
His 32-page free report lists 13 ways [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: General | 22 Comments »
Matt Cutts Explains Google
By Derrick | November 15, 2008
In this short video, Matt Cutts from Google explains how Google’s search results work. He gives some tips on controlling what Google displays for your website.
Thanks to Garry Conn for finding this, and Google’s recently released Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. If you want to learn about SEO, you could do worse than reading what Google themselves have to [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: SEO | 16 Comments »
Invisible Websites
By Derrick | October 13, 2008
One of my current projects is a review site for a niche market - event companies in South Africa. It’s a tiny market in global terms, but there are a couple of hundred companies working in the industry. When business confidence starts to drop, the big corporates tend to spend more on advertising and events like product launches (at [...] Continue Reading…
Topics: General | 22 Comments »
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