Once you have decided you are interested in making money online you face the challenge of knowing where to start, and even if you have been trying to make money on the internet for a while, it still isn’t easy to choose between the many opportunities available.
What follows are a few ideas about how to get started or clarify your thinking if you have already begun.
First off, identify the type of web work that is likely to appeal to you the most. Remember some people enjoy a lot of interaction with other people and actively driving their income, others prefer to work alone and develop a source of passive income. It will help if you know which category you fall into.
Ask yourself these questions: do you want to make money selling products (your own or someone elses) or make money providing online services of some kind. Look at the following list, see what appeals to you and note that these aren’t stand-alone methods – there’ll probably be some overlap.
Methods of Making Money Online:
1. Buying and selling domain names.
2. Building websites and selling them either immediately for a quick profit or holding for longer then selling.
3. Building your own websites and/or blogs, put ads on them either using Google adsense or amazon or other affiliate marketing programs, and earn commissions.
4. Set up and use free websites to sell from e.g. blogger.com, squidoo.com.
5. Capture people’s email addresses on your websites and build mailing lists to market your own or affiliate products.
6. Create and sell your own products: ebooks, kindle ebooks, plr articles, or software or apps.
7. Sell through the Warrior Forum, through free blogger blogs, Clickbank.com, JVZ00.com, fiverr.com, Squidoo lenses.
8. Can you do graphic design work: headers, ebook covers, logos, website design, wordpress themes?
9. Do you want to specialize in providing search optimization services?
10. Run a membership site?
11. Offer your services as a ghost writer for other’s article and ebooks, create facebook fan pages, create videos, record podcasts, provide backlinking services, do kindle ebook formatting, copywriting, provide an article distribution service etc. etc.
12. Selling on ebay.com, zazzle.com or cafepress.com.
There must be more but this should be enough for you to get a feel for where your interests/talents lie. Once you have decided which area you would like to be involved in then do all the online research you can about your chosen method.
As this blog develops you will find ideas, information and products that will help you to achieve your aim of making money online and moving towards the goal of financial independence.
