01.27.09

Things To Do To Make Extra Money

Posted in money, work at home at 8:42 pm

About a week ago I was visiting my mother who has been teaching middle school for almost 20 years. She was telling me how my step father lost his overtime pay, and had to take 1 day off per month without pay so there would be no layoffs in the company.

This just goes to show you how bad the economy is getting, and some experts believe it’s only going to get worse in the upcoming months.

My mother asked me what they could do to make extra money online. So this led me to create this blog post on what YOU can do to create extra money online from home in these rough times.

First you have to think of a skill you have. Almost everyone has some type of skill that can help other people. So you need to first find what you know or what you can do that will help others.

Here are 2 examples…

Example 1: My mother is a school teacher so I told her think of a problem most teaches have, and then think of away to solve this problem. If she can find a problem and find a solution to that problem she instantly has people ready to buy her solution to their problem.

Example 2: My step father is a plumber. I told him a lot of people don’t know how to do simple jobs around the house such as “how to fix a leaky toilet”, or “how to install a kitchen sink”. So I told him to write an e-book that teaches people how to do the little pluming jobs around the house such as the two I just talked about.

By him creating this e-book he will have found a solution that will not only help people, but it will also save them money since they will not have to hire someone to do the job.

As the saying goes there are a million ways to make a million dollars. Sometimes you just have to be a little creative and think outside the box. Not all the answers will just come to you. In fact I do my best thinking while I sleep. There have been hundreds of times where I wake up in the morning with new and crazy ideas.

If this happens to you wake up and write them down, and put your crazy ideas into action. Some will work and some will fail, but that is just part of business.

So remember, find a problem, and then create a solution for that problem. This will instantly get you people waiting to buy from you. Everyone has something they can take and turn into a product, and then sell that product online for extra money.

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01.13.09

Easy Money With Affiliate Marketing

Posted in affiliate marketing, clickbank, commission blueprint review, money, work at home at 8:48 pm

Over the past couple of months I’ve been working with some small affiliate programs at www.clickbank.com. I use to be big into affiliate marketing, but I was never a big fan of the low payout. I also always thought the only real people making out are the actual owners of the product.

Well over the last few months I’ve been pushing some affiliate products, and forgot just how easy it is to make some quick money. Sure the owner may still make most of the money, and do less work but if you need quick and easy money affiliate marketing is the place to go.

Before I share with you my data of my affiliate account you need to know that I’ve only been doing affiliate marketing part-time and only work at it 1 – 2 hours per day on it as I have a bigger project I’ve been working on.

• October 2008 – $1,485.68
• November 2008 – $1,241.41
• December 2008 – $749.98

As you can see for working only part-time and just a couple of hours each day it’s not bad for some extra income. Also as of today 1/13/09 I’m up to $757 for the month of January.

Now you can see each month dropped off a little bit, and that is normal since November and December are big holiday months and are the 2 slowest months for any home business.

So how can you do this?

Simple, first create an account at www.clickbank.com. Then choose which products you would like to promote. I usually pick the “making money” product since I know a lot about the topic. Then it’s just a matter of promoting your affiliate link or website.

If you need help starting out in affiliate marketing I highly recommend  Commission Blueprint. I bought this product about 3 months ago, and it offers great videos but also a great e-book that starts you out at the beginner level and slowly builds you up to the expert affiliate level.  

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01.06.09

Goals For Your Business In 2009

Posted in home business, work at home at 5:16 pm

The New Year is here, and with that its time to set some new goals for my business. I had to think long and hard about what I wanted to change as I thought 2008 was a good year, and I thought I did a good job. However any business can always be tweaked or changed for the better.

So my question is what are your goals going to be for your business in 2009?

Maybe your goal is to increase your leads or conversions. Whatever it might be I know for 2009 I want to make some small changes that I feel will pay off in a huge way.

Here is my list of goals for my business in 2009.

• Double my websites traffic.

I’ll be the first to admit it. I slacked off at promoting my so called “money makers”. These are the websites that make me most of my money. Why did I slack off? Well just pure laziness I guess really, but if I look into it more though I feel the real reason is I was satisfied with the amount of traffic my websites where getting. However this is a goal I must focus on if I wish to do more business.

• Increase leads and conversions.

Getting leads is the backbone of any business. Without leads you will never expand your business, and you will never increase your profits. So my goal is to increase not only my leads but my conversions (pay less and get more). I plan to do this by creating new and creative lead capture pages, and increase my over all marketing.

• Give better support

I feel I give some of the best support to my members right now. However I think I can still do a better job, and I believe by doing this it will keep paying members around a lot longer, and increase the amount of new ones that come aboard.

• Create more videos

At least once a week in 2008 I would say to myself “today I’m going to create a video”. Yet the day would go by and no video would be created. Video is a huge part of the Internet world, and I need to capitalize on this more. So my goal is to get off my butt and create at least one or two videos per week.

These are my new goals for my business in 2009. It’s important to set new goals as they will help your business expand and overall become better then it was the year before.

So what are some of your goals for your business in 2009?

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