Online Income Possibilities

As the year draws to a close, it feels right to do a summation of how things have progressed. To be honest, starting this blog was done as a exercise in getting started (on the cheap) in the world of online business. Granted, it has been a heck of a learning curve (and still learning), but overall it's been fun and interesting.

New Products
In the upcoming year, I will try to make a point of at least trying out 1 new product per month that relates to running a online business. This will mean that I'll give the product a good test run, and then report back if it is worth spending your money on. The good thing about the majority of the products I'll be test driving is that they offer a money-back guarantee. I probably won't be asking for my money back on any of them as long as they can do one thing for me.

Teach me something new and of value. Regardless of the purchase price, if the material can show me something that is of value to me, then the price is worth it.

Comparison to Higher Level Education

I've used this analogy before, but consider the costs involved with going to college to be a lwayer. You will have your initial tuition fees, and then your book fees. What guarantee do you have that you will succeed as a lawyer?

None. They will tell you that if you work hard, and apply yourself, then you should do well enough to be able to enter the 2nd year. More tuition fees, book fees, apply yourself, work hard...and then on to your 3rd year. After you mamage to complet the course, you still have to pass the bar exam for your state.

After all of that, you still haven't landed your first client.

Running a online business isn't quite that complicated. You are still going to have start-up costs, and you should make a point of trying to stay current with any literature that can assist you in promoting and running your business. Just keep in mind that if you expect to be rich overnight, then you are in for disappointment.

I've done a previous post on the subject of article writing as a way of making money online. In that post, I provided a link to a product that I felt would help those (like myself) who wanted to be able to write better articles.

Write top quality articles for your website. Click here for more information

I'm not just recommending this product, I've actually bought it myself, and I do make regular use of it. I've mainly used it to help in creating articles I've used for this blog when it came to subjects that I had some knowledge in. Those of you who may have read that earlier post may think (and rightfully so) that it's a good idea, but why bother?

There are 2 sites online that will pay you for well written articles. I will provide the links to those and what is required. There are only 2 of many possible places that will pay you for your writings.

Yes, there is a catch. Mainly that they aren't going to buy just anything that you decide to toss out to them. It would be very nice if it worked that way, but life seldom goes the way we want. Before giving in to despair, both places will tell you upfront what is required in articles submitted.



Personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/pay-per-post-we-buy-articles

Now, the above link goes to a payday loan business. Here is a brief description from them about their article buying process:
"Normally we price articles at about $0.05 cents per word to a maximum of $25 per article. For those who submit articles and whose articles develop a readership or attract a significant amount of other sites linking to our own, we then may pay more to motivate that author to produce more content. Depending on your skill level, it may not be difficult to write one 525 word article."

So, you already know that they will mainly be interested in articles about the loan business. They even provide the keywords that they want in submitted articles, and where they should be placed. I submitted a article a few days ago (having made use of my copy of the article wizard) and received the following yesterday:
"Hi,

We have been reviewing your submitted article and are very interested in it. Can you resubmit it through a return email to this address? Thanks."

Thank goodness I'd saved a copy of the silly thing. I resubmitted it to the attached address, and I'm waiting for the reply now. I'll post again if I get the sale. If so, then I would have made back almost 40% of the purchase price of the software with 1 sale.

elance.com

With elance.com, this is more of a specific detail per article deal. Once you go to their site, you'll navigate thru the tabs for "Find Work", "writing and translation" and finally to "Article writing". Once you're there, you'll see numerous article writing jobs that are up for bid. The person wanting the articles will state what they want, and then prospective writers will respond with how much they want to be paid for the job. Obviously the person with the lowest bid will most likely get the job, but those with good rating can ask for more.

If you are knowledgeable in the subjects, or have a good skill for research, then these should be easy for you to do. Please feel free to go there now and see just what is available for you.

Once again, if you are interested in this area as a way of making money online, but feel your skills are lacking, I do recommend using the Article Wizard. Once again, here is the link:

Write top quality articles for your website. Click here for more information

In online advertising, one of the problems you’ve come across (aside from what to sell) is generating keywords (adwords) for your business’ advertising campaign. You obviously want these keywords to properly represent your business, but you also want to cover areas that don’t immediately spring to mind. You’ve probably already seen information that says to make a list of over 1,000 keywords, and others that say just a few keywords that really sell your idea.

Both of these areas are correct. You do want to have a few essential adwords. These will be at the heart of the business campaign. The additional adwords will help to draw attention to your business, and in a way that is really what advertising is about.

The amazing thing about the internet is that there are millions of people surfing the web at any given moment. This is the equivalent of millions of people walking by the door to a shop. If the shop doesn’t have a sign out front to catch the attention of the customer, that traffic will continue to just walk past.

The tools I will be discussing, when used separately, are excellent. But when they are used together as a system? The synergy is amazing! Your ability to sell should increase.

Bear in mind that when using Google (I say “Google” because they are rated as the #1 search engine), or any other search engine for your pay per click campaign, that you will be paying everytime someone clicks your ad. One of the tools I will be speaking about is avaialble, for free use, through Google. If you ever want to get a reference on how much you might have to pay per click of google ads for your business, this is the one to use.

https://adwords.google.com/select/TrafficEstimatorSandbox

This one is amazing. You enter, line by line, the main adwords you want to use. You can enter the amount to pay per click (or leave it blank if you want to know the amounts at max) and also the daily budget for your campaign. Another part that I find amazing is that it allows you to target the geographical areas for your ads. The results will show the potential amount of clicks, and the cost per day for those.

This next tool is also available online, and might fall into the category of secret information. I like to think (and maybe you do as well), that to be successful, you should try to copy success. If you’re in the business of making money online, then that means looking at the most successful online sellers, and then copying what they are doing. Here’s the tool to help you with that.

http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/index.php

Okay, what makes this one so amazing?
Simple, there are 2 ways it can be used to help you if you have advertising going to a web page or a landing/splash page. First, you can use it to analyze your own page and ensure that you have a good count of those words.

Now comes the secret part. Perform google searches (or whatever search engine you prefer) on some of your core adwords. Check for the top ads that seem to relate to your own business (or what you have to sell). Click those ads so that you end up at the advertisers page, and then copy the web address. Paste that address into the Keyword Density Analyzer Tool. Now you can get a fair indication of some of your competitor’s adwords.

Now, make a list of those, go back to the Traffic Estimator, and find out what it might cost you to use them.

At this point a magician might say “Ta-Dah”!