Six Quick Easy Ways To Make Money Online

By: Steven Walters

Everyone seems to be talking about making money online these days and why not? Creating an online income now can protect you in the future if you get laid off. And it can even allow you to voluntary leave the ranks of corporate workers once you achieve a decent level of success.

There are many different ways to make money online. Here are 6 ideas to get you started thinking about ways you can start making money online today and protect yourself for the future.

1. Blog for Money
Blogging is a great way to make money. It's easy, fun and you can get started for free with a service like Blogger.com or Wordpress.org. Or if you're already a bit tech savvy go ahead and host your own domain. There are plusses and minuses to each way of blogging.

If you choose blogging as a route to making money online be warned that in addition to content creation you'll also need to learn at least the basics or marketing and search engine optimization. This may seem difficult, but it can be very rewarding and will be a definite asset to your knowledge. The more you learn the faster you'll be able to make more money.

If you prefer not to learn about the marketing of your own site you can still make money blogging for other sites. Services like Triond are a good place to start out and make a name for yourself. Later you can try to get full time work blogging for a network such as Weblogs Inc.

2. Affiliate Marketing
As an affiliate marketer you'll promote the products and/or services of other companies and they will pay you a commission for the sale or leads. Think of it like an online sales job.

Affiliate marketing is a huge arena and there are tens of thousands of products you can potentially promote. To get an idea check out two of the largest affiliate networks, Commission Junction or Clickbank. Both have huge numbers of products you can sell online.

You'll be amazed at the amount of money you can make through affiliate marketing, it is only limited by your own imagination and hard work. There are many successful online entrepreneurs making fortunes every month through affiliate marketing.

3. Starting An Online Business
Starting your own business online isn't as hard as you might think. If you've got in depth knowledge of an industry and some good contacts within that industry you can very likely start a business providing a product or service related to that industry.

Starting your own online business allows you to sell your own products or services. Successful online businesses include web design, software development, copywriting and digital products such as eBooks or video courses.

You'll want to make sure that you do some research before jumping in and make sure that your chosen business is viable and that you can handle the extra demands that business owners have. You can find a great deal of information at Entrepreneur.com on how to start an online business.

4. Domaining Your Way to Riches
Domaining is quite simply buying and then reselling websites and domains for profit. Domainers buy up web properties and then sell them immediately for a net gain or take the time to fix them up first and sell them for even larger profits. It is very similar to offline real estate investing without the huge capital requirements.

Often domaining is referred to as domain flipping and it can be very profitable for those that can identify good niches and develop attractive money making sites. To get some idea of how much websites can sell for take a look at the SitePoint Marketplace, you may be surprised.

5. Take Paid Surveys Online or Try Get Paid To Sites
Paid surveys and get paid to sites are two long standing and easy ways to make money online. You can find dozens of websites that are willing to pay you either for your opinion or to complete trial offers.

One of the great benefits of these types of sites is that you don't need any technical skills or even a website to participate. Paid surveys are fun, easy and they are fairly risk free.

If you want to participate with the get paid to websites you should investigate first to see if they are reliable in sending checks. Once you do find a reliable site you can easily makes hundreds of dollars a month signing up for trial offers.

Paid Survey Success has a large list of paying survey companies as well as get paid to companies that do pay.

6. Freelance and Make Money Online
There are thousands of freelancers making money online and you can be one of them. If you've got skills in web design, programming or writing you can easily join the ranks of the online freelancers. Other freelancing opportunities other than the ones listed above exist in proofreading, transcription and translation.

Don't expect to make thousands as soon as you start however. It will take you some time to build a client base and get to the point where you can command top dollar for your work. But it can be done with hard work and persistence.

When beginning your freelance career you'll likely be taking low paying jobs from places like Elance, however as you gain experience and gather a client list you'll slowly be able to move away from this and increase your rates.

I can tell you that writers especially have plenty of places to begin. In addition to the freelancing websites there are also web communities that will pay you to write for them. Associated Content is one such site. Another is Hub Pages where you get paid on a revenue sharing basis. This means you'll get a percentage of the money made from your articles on Hub Pages.

Honestly the important thing is just to get started. You can use any of the methods listed above and there are likely dozens more ways to make money online that I haven't covered. Don't make the mistake of waiting and over analyzing, pick something you think you'll like and get started today. That's the best way to make money online!

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Using Career Success Stories in Interviews and Networking

by Frank Traditi

Companies hire you based on your ability to demonstrate what you can do for them and how you can solve their problems. While a hiring manager expects you to have all of the functional skills necessary for the job, they are much more interested in how you can use your special abilities to handle the challenges given to you if you were in the job. The big question is how do you demonstrate this ability in an interview when they haven't seen you at work yet? The most effective method is to tell a story.

Often during interviews you'll get the opportunity to highlight your unique talents. A very effective way to do this is to introduce your career success stories about how you overcame significant challenges. You may have suggested a creative idea to handle an employee performance problem. Maybe you instituted a step-by-step process to reduce customer complaints. Perhaps your persistence paid off to close a multi-year contract with the largest customer the company has ever seen.

All of these actions resulted in great accomplishments throughout your career. Now you get the chance to tell the story of how you did it. To help you tell your story in the most convincing way, you need a simple format to work from. Here's an easy, three-step process to put the pieces together for your success stories when you get the opportunity to tell them.


1. Describe the problem or opportunity you faced.

Here you should describe the situation you were up against. It may have been a special project that you were assigned or a highly volatile customer issue. Perhaps it was an aggressive sales objective never attempted before. You're setting up the plot of your story here.


2. What did you do?

How did you deal with the challenge? Perhaps you devised plans, assigned tasks, coordinated meetings, created a system, or mobilized a team to tackle the problem. Describe the process, step-by-step, of how you attacked the problem through to resolution. Remember, you are explaining and marketing your ability to solve problems.


3. What was the positive result?

Describe, as specifically as you can, the positive outcome of your actions. How did you save or make money for the company or department? What changed for the better as a result of your initiative? Did a difficult communication problem disappear after you got involved? Did you repair a big customer problem? The more you can point to specific, bottom-line results, the more convinced a hiring manager is that you are person for the job.

Another great place to incorporate storytelling is with your network. When your contacts have an opportunity to refer you to their contacts or even a potential hiring manager, they can tell your story. A memorable story shared with a new contact creates a place mark in their mind about you. That simple connection can help create a new relationship with someone influential in your career. We've all heard stories about the service provider who showed up and solved a huge problem at our homes or offices. It works the same way for job seekers. Your network is out praising your abilities to their contacts, and the connection is made.

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