I really have to disappoint some of you guys who are actually reading and following my blog. I haven’t been really active here, because quite frankly I had a really passive period for about a month, and I haven’t been working much at anything. After that I started working again at my websites and then I took a weekend semi-business trip with my brother to look at other things I could start earning from. I would be great to have the possilbity of making only passive income, and it is possible and I am doing it, but I am also interested in real stuff and really providing good products and services to good people and making money as a byproduct. It is also possible to make passive offline income, but you need money to make in happen, and unlike with online business that usually make you money without investments, offline  business take a lot of money to get started.

It requires quite a lot of effort and money to get started, and planning is definitely important with it. Making the necessary calculations to be sure that you can manage a year or more without really making any money from your business is something that any starting offline business has to do. This means that you have to have a years rent, and running expenses like water, electricity and so on before you even start the damn thing. If you can manage for more than one or two years, it is likely that you are going to make it a good and profitable thing.

Depending on the type and size of business, initial investments usually range from $10 000 all to way to $1 000 000 – although small businesses aren’t usually started with the latter amount of money. If you start your own store you need to have it at a good location to get customers without investing too much money on advertising, if your store is located somewhere where it is hard to find, no-one will come by even if you spend a fortune on advertising. Good locations cost a lot of money, and if you want to have your own small store, you are going to spend about $2000 a month on rent alone at a decent spot. Multiply that by twelve and you have your first years rent. Feel free to overestimate your water bill, electricity, book keeping, advertising, to be sure that you make it. It is not going to be the best way to get money without doing shit, unless you have a revolutionnary business. If you are going to sell clothes in NYC, you are off for a rocky road, but if you are starting a dentists practise in Nashville you are most likely going to make a fortune without effort.

Making money online has the exact same problems that a real business has but if you haven’t been planning starting a real business you don’t even realize it. I started my online business about a year ago, and at first I was doing it by building websites on free blog hosts. These are like the shops at a crappy location and basically no-one will ever find them unless you do some serious advertising or kickass SEO – and some people won’t even come then. They see that you are hosted on blogspot, and they avoid it like the plague. So if you want to have your website looking like it’s the real thing you are most likely going to need to get your own domain for it. This is not necessary though since most internet marketers are actually looking to look a bit unreliable so that the customer will get the heck away from their “shop” – click out through an ad or just close the browser. If you are going to sell affiliate products you need to convince the visitor – customer – and for that you will most likely need something else than a garage sale. So for one online store you are going to need a hosting account and a domain name. The latter will cost you less than $10 per year, and the hosting will cost you just about at much as you are willing to pay for it. It is like investing in the foundation of your house – the more you are going to add floors to the building the better foundation you are going to need. Starting with a crappy shared hosting account will most likely get you started, but I can bet that once you have more than ten websites, you will find a reliable reseller hosting account like the one on the sidebar there, a lot more useful. Also since you aren’t working in someones basement they can’t kick you out if they don’t like the way you handle your business.

The difference with an online business is that you don’t have so much expenses especially if you know your game. Choosing the right domain name, doing some SEO will get you far, but with online stores the conversion rate is always going to be a lot worse than with offline ones. If you take time to go to a store in your town or nearby, you are most likely going to buy something anyways regardless of the price – unless you are a woman and you are going to shop for clothes. Online stores have a lot of visitors who don’t buy anything because they are just there to do a quick price comparison or see if you have the exact product that they are looking for. Offline stores sell a lot more per visitor but also have a lot more running expenses. Online affiliate product websites sell even less and the comission that you are going to get is marginal compared to the amount of money that the company paying you is going to make.

Making money without investments is possible if you do it online – well at least with minimal investments – but if you are going to start a real business then you are most likely going to have to take a loan and spend a lot of money to get started. This is by far the biggest reason for so many people trying to make money online, but also the fact that everyone seems to think that you can do what the fuck you want to make money online, or not do anyhing at all. If you are going to game the system – SEO – then you have to be quite certain that you aren’t making it too obvious. Building websites simply for the purpose of displaying Adsense – owned by Google btw – and gaming them on the top of Google – owned by Google btw – search results is like stealing a Police car.

Last week a famous MMO blog got deleted from blogger and deindexed from Google search results and the MMO crowd got wild with speculations. At the same time Ben reported losing a $100/day worth of thin adsense sites, and the soup was pretty much ready. Griz was the first to blog about this and I intended to write something about it then, but was pre-occupied with some “real” stuff.  What do I think that happened? It was a coincidence that Ben and Alan had simultaneous problems. I think that Ben got a visual review for his account for hitting a specific daily earnings limit, and since he wasn’t doing anything against Adsense TOS, he didn’t lose his account, but G thought that his sites weren’t valuable enough to be kept in the index, because quite frankly they were most likely a perfect example on how to game them. I just read about a finnish nutrition blog that got flagged as spam last thursday and the owner got a “your blog is spam” email. He complained about it and got it back and the e-mail in his gmail account disappeared. Maybe they did some updates on their spam monitoring at Google, and that blog got flagged because it was updated frequently, and got a lot of natural links – forums and other “spammy stuff”. Who knows!

The point of this is that you can make money online without investing a lot of money, but don’t be a cheap bastard and try to get everything for free. Get a hosting account, and a few domain names, and you are still spending a lot less than you would if you were running a real offline business.

For you guys who are asking me in the comments how my snipers are doing.. There are no problems with them – at least not yet. I always inteded to spread them out when I got them up and running, and I am slowly adding more posts and making them more and more unique. Also I am removing adsense from some of them that don’t make too much from it, and trying out other stuff to see what converts. I have a lot going on right now as I am negitiating deals offline, and trying to get some online work in there as well.

Ways To Make Money Working From Home

For the past year or so I have been seriously looking for ways to make money working from home, and I at first I really did not even consider using the internet to make it happen, but instead I was trying to figure out how I could run a home based business, and most of all I was trying to come up with a business idea. Everything from a mail order store was considered but in the end I did not see the potential in them in making money without the risk of investing a lot and losing it all. So I started to search for work at home opportunities and to be honest, there are not a lot of companies that are willing to hire people to work from their home – well at least I did not find them.

My criterias for a good way to make money working from home are the following:

  • You will have to have liberty about your working hours. No-one is going to give you anything more than a deadline for a project to be finished. After that it is you who decides how and when it is fulfilled – this is basically the definition of freelancing.
  • Choosing your timetable is one thing but also you should be able to do everything from your home. When a computer is involved it is usually typing or reading.
  • It can involve a lot more work than the payment includes, but the best part is to be able not to get up in the morning, dress and leave the house to sit in a train for a half an hour.

So basically in my opinion I could be working a lot harder than I would at a regular work, make a similar amount of money, but I would be working when I want, how I want and on what I want. Freedon might be the word that I am looking for.

What ways to make money working from home are there?

Today my knowledge on the ways that I can use to earn an income from home has changed quite a lot. Today the best option in my opinion is to work for yourself – become an entrepreneur. Freelance writing is a great way to make an additional income, and there are people who are doing it full time, but in my opinon there is one great big problem – you can run out of articles to write. Now I know that this could happen in every possible business, and not only if you are trying to make money working as a freelance writer but for some reason it feels a little risky to give up your job to wake up every morning hoping that someone is going to order something to write. You are going to have to do promotion like in any other line of work, but you can be sure that there are days when you just don’t have anything to do, and you can’t really do anything about it.

Doing paid surveys and mystery shopping is something that people are doing to earn money from home, but in the end these are only ways to earn a little pocket change – not a means to a full time income working from home. Usually people have a few good days a month when they score a lot of surveys, but in the end they run out of things to do, and end up waiting for new surveys to answer to. You can make a decent amount per survey when you compare the money earned to the time spent, but if this happens once or twice a month it is not secure, neither is it enough.

Today on the time of the internet, most of the ways to make money working from home, involve affiliate marketing online, or running a succesful website. These are ways that are highly praised by the a-list bloggers but not in the reach of normal people who are hoping to make an income on online using websites and blogs. If you are one of the people who want to make money online, and have been doing it for a while, you must have realized by now that it is not easy to make happen, but following the right people can make it a lot easier, and at the same time following the wrong people can take you further away from your goals.

Dreaming of becoming a social leader on the internet has never been a hobby of mine  – I am simply using the internet to make money from home, and to be honest, the best way to do this is not to socialize but instead work. It’s a nice idea to want to build a single website that is going to make you rich, but it is not going to happen in the real world. The money lies in building blogs, websites and other web properties in bulk and making a little money from each – when you combine this money you have a real residual income that you have created working from home. You are not getting paid to surf around other peoples blogs and making comments about their blog posts, but instead you are paid for the work you are wiling to put in to the process of making money.

To put things in to proportions and to give you real numbers on how much work it is going to involve I will compare it to a “regular day at the office”.

When you get up and go to work, you are still a bit off, and when you sit in your office chair you are still sleeping and most likely you will spend a half an hour jacking around and after that you start reading e-mails. Being unefficent is pretty much that most people do at offices, and hardly anyone is working eight hours a day – actually you have a lunch break, a few coffee breaks and also some time in between when you possibly go an smoke a cig and drink a few coffees. Based on my experiences, people who have spent more than five years that the same job, are working at most 50% of the time they spend there. They are making money working half of the amount that new people work. Is it fair? People who are new to an office are working their asses off, and at the same time they are paid half of what the people who have spent there ten years are earning, by working every other hour of the day.

When you try to make money at home and you have decided to do it by building websites, it is going to be about building websites, and lots of them. The best thing about it is that you are not making anyone else rich, and if you really want to earn money, the best way is to spend eight hours a day working – not thinking about working and not definitely drinking coffee and having lunch. Since it is your own business, it is your money that you are spending when you are not working, and if you have to build four websites a day, then it is taking pretty much all that eight hours to do so.

What I am doing right now to make money working from home?

Many people are aware of the technique of “keyword snipering” with websites, and that is exactly what I am doing at the moment. The key is to find a keyword that is low in competition and and has some search traffic and build a niche website around that keyword. This means building 3-4 posts of high quality content that is informative and rich, put it up on an ugly HTML based site with your choice for monetization. I am doing a mixture right now and I am using the advertisers that have the most appropriate ads for my sites.

My goal is to make a 100 sites a month, and I started approximately this time last week, and right now I am staring at 23 websites up and running. I am not at the pace that I set for a goal in the beginning, but I have had some issues when it comes to time, because this weekend my goddaughter was babtized and I spent a whole day celebrating that on sunday. The key is to build a lot of websites that each bring a little income, and when I combine this it is going to be a decent amount of money. If each of these sites make me .30 per day, I am already looking at $900/mo only from these sites – it might sound like not much when you think that it takes eight hours a day to make it happen, but if you realize the fact that this income is most likely going to stick the next month when I do the exact same thing. After two months I am looking at $1800/mo, and after three months it is $2700/mo. That is the exact beauty of internet marketing and actually making money working from home building websites.

This is all that I can get in to today, because I have to get back building those sites!

Real Ways To Make Money From Home

I used to be like most of the people who ever find these kinds of blogs and most part of me still is – sick with working a regular job and tired of living a frugal life, even if I am making a little money. Sometimes that just is not enough, and I wanted to be able to travel more and enjoy my life a little before I have anything that really ties me to one place for a long time. When that thing comes along I want to be freely able to choose the place where I can settle down and live the way that I want. Since the day I started looking for real ways to make money from home I have not been able to quit it – it has become a passion for me.

I am not your traditional stay at home mom who has all that spare time in her hands and has nothing more to do exept start to make money from home. First of all I am not a mom since I am a man and we don’t have kids :) . For someone who is tied to spend all that time with the kids, it is impossible to leave the house in the morning to go to work to earn a living. Sometimes you can do with the money of  your partner but the thing is that it is never enough, especially with kids. You want to be able to spend more time with your family and for that reason alone it is wise to try to earn something extra on the side, so you won’t have to work that much.

The very first thing that I did when I got fed up with the situation where my life was, was search the internet for some real ways to make money from home. I found a lot of websites telling me a lot of things, and to be honest I was still confused and had no idea what I should do to make it possible. I did realise that making money online was going to be something that I woud give a try – even though I had no idea about, and no idea what I should be doing.

Finding a lot of blogs talking about making money on the web is quite easy, but most of them don’t really teach you a single thing, and even more of them are going to sell you something that is useless, and you will end up spending your money and not learning a thing. I spent a few weeks in my beginning reading some of these blogs that talked about blogging for money, and I nearly bought in to them. Subscribing to their feeds and having constant e-mails from them that are eventually building up to the one thing – sell you their product – is something that I am not going to do ever again. Most of these products are focused around either converting something that you are already using to earn extra cash, to something that you can use on the internet to get that income that you want. I wanted to start from scratch and I had no profession and no education to start with. I could not even afford the $500 that it would have cost me to get access to their materials.

After continuing my search for a while I found that people were making real money from home with things like online surveys. These are paid surveys that companies offer to you based on your age, gender and social class, and they do this to get detailed information about your spending habits so that they can improve their services. You are not going to be identified in these surveys, and some of them pay even good money. You can earn a little extra with them, but you are most likely not going to make a full time income with – since I was after that I kept moving.

I’ll remind you that I was after legit ways to make money and not after some of those scams that are promising you to get rich quick by taking advantage of some glitch on the web – I don’t believe in them the first place, and since I want a residual income, it is not going to hold if it is based on an loophole.

Finding real ways to make money from home is actually not that eeasy since there are so many con artists playing this game – the want to sell you something that will barely make you any money, and they are basically making a living off selling these products – not doing what the ebooks that they sell are telling you to do. If they would write an ebook about how to write an ebook about writing an ebook about making money by writing an ebook about how to write an ebook about making money, they would most likely not make that much sales.

Most of the legitimate ways to make money from home are based on a a small number of things and this should be easy to understand. If you are building a traditional business you will have the very same things to consider before you start doing anything. There are no easy ways out.

You are going to need customers if you want to make money from home. If you want to be a freelance writer, then you are going to need someone you will write for; today there are a lot of internet marketers that are building a lot of websites at the same time, so they need someone else to do the writing for them. They are a great group of customers if you can provide good quality with low cost and fast return times. It means that if you are a good and a fast writer you will have a lot of jobs. All you need is a paypal account to get started. Find a “make money online forum” and look there if there are people looking for writers – then make it clear how much you will charge per word and how fast you can return the texts. It is also a good idea to ask them for specific instructions on how you are supposed to write the articles – most of them have strict quidelines about these kinds of things.

Writing for a living is definitely not something that I am hoping to do for the rest of my life, and I am also not a native english speaker, so at some point I would eventually face problems with this. Freelance writing is definitely one of the best real ways to make money from home, since you are going to have immediate money from it – you are normally paid in advance on your paypal account – and if you are good you won’t really have to promote yourself – the word spreads about good writers. You could easily be making $2,000-$4,000 after two three months, if you know what you are doing.

Like with real businesses, you will need to have a good idea about how you are going to make money. If you start a business without any idea of where you are going, you are most likely going to fail miserably. If you want to be a freelance writer, you will need to focus on that and make plans for a few months on how you are going to be successful.

If you don’t want to be a freelance writer then there are other ways you can make money online. Affiliate marketing works in many ways, and most people who are really making a living on the internet are the best marketers. Companies like eBay and Amazon allow you to sell their products through your different web properties, and they are going to give you a comission on all the sales that you make. For this you are going to need a blog, a hubpages or a squidoo account – these are few of the best places that you can practise this. What you are going to need is customers once again, and on the internet that spells traffic. If your blog or your hubs (articles on hubpages) don’t have visitors, you have no-one you could convice to buy the product. Like with real world businesses you are going to have to do promotion, and on the internet there are many ways you can do promotion, although two of them seem to produce best results.

When you wil start with internet marketing you are going to be eventually face the two groups of internet marketing – the social traffic chasers, and the organic traffic chasers.

Social traffic is supposed to be the newest thing there is to internet marketing, and it is mostly driven through large social websites like Facebook, Twitter and other similar. These are people who see an interesting website that is pasted there by someone else, and they go and check it out. They are not necessarily about to buy anything but instead they want to check it out – if they see something that they are interested in, and are on a buying mood they might convert in to sales. If not, then they will most likely hit the back button of their browser and not make you any money. These could be considered as window shoppers – they see something they like in the store and maybe go try it out but never buy anything.

Organic traffic is a term that is not understood by most, but it refers to the kind of traffic that finds your web properties naturally – because they are looking for it. The search engines are used by almost all people who use the internet. The largest one is Google, which is used by almost 80% of all people that search the internet, and it is going to be the biggest one in the future – Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com and others can’t do a thing about it. Since organic traffic is searching for the product, they are on a buying mood, and they might just buy what you are offering them, if you know how to present it correctly. Websites that attract a lot of organic traffic are the ones that convert well, and they don’t need so many visitors to produce sales. The top internet marketers are using search engine optimization to make their websites rank on the top of the search engine result pages for specific searches, and for this reason alone, they are able to make a lot of money sitting in their home.

Adsense is an advertisement program that is owned by Google. They display Text based ads that have a link pointing to the advertisers website and the publisher gets paid by the clicks. Websites that are driving targeted traffic, usually work very well with adsense, since the people who get in to these websites are looking to buy something – if there is nothing to buy they are going to click a link to get to a website that sells something. The publisher displays the ads on their website, or on their hub or infobarrel and gets paid a percentage of the amount that they arvertiser pays to Google for each visitor.

Usually earning money from home is going to take a lot of work, and there is no easy way out from it. Real ways to make money from home produce great results when executed correctly, but at the same time you are not risking anything else but your time. It is free to get started since all you need is a free web property. Unlike with normal businesses you are most likely going to have to make big initial investments to get started, and you are not going to have any guarantee about future income.

 

 

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