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By Nimit On April 2, 2010
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E-books sell very well on the internet and that is the reason you can find many e-books on any topic. As, I have already mentioned in my previous post that people come online in search of information and as we all know that books are the best source of information. E-books are a form of a paid content, people buy e-books since it saves them time finding the exact information they are looking on web. Also, e-books provide you a feeling that it has some exclusive content which is very difficult to find on the web.
According to me the need of paid content will increase among the people more in future since most of the people start sites just to make money from Google adsense. They don’t invest much time in preparing their content.
How to get started?
There are two ways you can choose from in order to start making money by selling e-books. You can sell e-books as an affiliate marketer and earn commission on it or you can also choose to write an e-book by yourself.
I would suggest you to start as an affiliate marketer before writing your own e-book, since it will give you the experience of selling e-books and as you know selling is the most difficult part.
You can join the clickbank affiliate network which is one of the biggest affiliate networks. You will able to find the e-books almost on any subject there. You just need to browse through there marketplace and choose the e-book that you want to promote.
You should also consider the fact that it would always be better to sell anything that is already selling very well. So to know which e-books are already selling very well on clickbank, you need to understand the working of clickbank. You can learn about how clickbank works and how you can find the top selling e-books on clickbank by clicking here.
Market the e-book and make money
Now, we are on to the most difficult part. Since I don’t want to fool you by saying that it’s very easy to sell e-books, so you need to understand that in order to sell e-books you really need to invest your time and work hard. But, once you make the first sale and understand the process, you will find that the opportunities are endless in affiliate marketing. So, in order to sell your first e-book you need to plan a way and start working according to that in order to market the e-book.
According to my experience e-books sell best on organic traffic, but it doesn’t mean that you cannot try marketing the e-books on social media or use any other form of paid marketing like Google Adwords, Facebook PPC etc.
The last thing I would suggest you that don’t invest any money on adwords or any other form of paid marketing if you have very less budget and don’t know much about it. Try, to get traffic from search engines in order to sell e-books.
By Nimit On April 2, 2010
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People come online in search of information and if you think you can provide good information about a specific topic then you can make money by writing quality articles. The best part about making money with content is that you don’t need to invest any thing in order to make money.
As, you know internet is very big and everyone is searching for information according to their specific needs. So, it creates a big opportunity for you to write about on any topic that interests you and in return you will get paid for it. The only condition in order to make money from writing articles is that you need to provide the good value in your articles.
How to get started?
Getting started is the probably the most difficult part, you need to build the contacts and ask for work. There are many places online from where you can visit to find the work. There are also many big sites that will pay you for writing articles on them.
Note: At the end of this post I will provide you the links of the places, which you can visit to find work.
Blogging for money
Since you can write the quality content, I would suggest you to start your own blog and start writing for it. You can also become a guest blogger on the other blogs, which will also pay you good amount for writing quality posts.
Freelancing Sites
If you can handle the orders in bulk and deliver the work on time then freelancing sites can provide you good amount of work. The only negative point is that you might don’t get the credit for your articles in the byline.
Forum and classified sites
You can also try online marketing forums to get some work but the amount you will get on the forums is very low. You can also search the work on classifieds sites. Classifieds sites are a good way to get work on a specific location.
Making a full-time income with writing articles will take time but if you are determined and regularly checks for new opportunities then you will certainly make money with this method. I also want to mention again that if you can produce quality content then you should start your own blog as well. Blogging will certainly increase the opportunities for you.
Resources
Problogger Jobs
Smashing Magazine Jobs
Associatedcontent
TextBroker
About.com
Digital point forum
Craigslist
elance
By Nimit On April 2, 2010
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If you are running a business and you have not started the blogging yet then you are really missing the new opportunities that blogging can provide you. Blogging is essential these days, almost every big or small company has their blog in order to reach and communicate with their customers. Blogging can help you to get more clients and increase your sales. There are many other benefits that you can get if you start blogging.
But, in order to get all the benefits that you expect from blogging, you need to know what to write into your blog posts. Since, your blog posts will directly going to communicate your consumers or potential clients. So check out the following things that you should write in your blog posts:
Note: Also, read the how to start a blog guide if you don’t know how you can setup a blog for your business.
Benefits
This is the most important thing right? You need to aware your consumers or your potential buyers about the benefits of getting your service or products. You also need to persuade them by telling all the benefits they would get if the buy your service or products. But, don’t over do it since it will create a bad impression among your consumers.
Note: Also, remember that you don’t need to brag about the benefits of your products or services in every blog post. You need to be smart and always point out benefits when it makes sense.
Make Announcements
You can also use your blog for making announcements. So, whenever you add a new feature starts any new service or may be offering any discounts to your clients then do write a blog post and explain everything clearly in that.
User Guides and Tips
You should also write blog posts that will help your customers in understanding the products or service and how they can use them properly. You can also write about tips and tricks that will help them in utilizing your services or products in more efficient manner. Tutorials are really going to help your customers and make them very happy with your service.
News
You should also provide the news about variety of industry topics. It will make your blog a good place to find the latest updates about the industry. It will also help you to connect with more and more people.
Testimonials
You should also place the testimonials of your happy clients in the sidebar of your blog. It will help you to gain the more trust from your customers and also help you to build a good relationship with them.
By Nimit On April 1, 2010
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In this post I am going to share a very cool plugin with you. Hide admin panels plugin allows you to hide the option panels from a specific user of your wordpress blog.
Note: This plugin will only compatible with the wordpress blogs which are using the wordpress version greater than 2.7.1.
You can hide all the options that wordpress shows you on the left sidebar. But, do remember that it’s only an aesthetic effect. So, if the user of your wordpress blog has installed any extension that allows him to change the CSS then he can able to view the options.
Download: Hide admin panels
By Nimit On April 1, 2010
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While browsing today for a wordpress theme, I have found a very nice wordpress theme and the best part about this theme is that, it is free.
Pork and beans is a 2 column wordpress theme which has a very beautiful design. It is ireally a very good theme especially if you want to use large photos. This wordpess theme is also using JavaScript /jquery and has a rounded corner.
Poker and Beans wordpress theme will also resize the images automatically and present them in a very elegant manner to your blog readers. Below is the downloading link of the theme.
Download: pork and Beans
By Nimit On April 1, 2010
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I have also mentioned in many of my previous posts that selling services is the best way to earn quick cash. Selling services are also good in order to generate the regular cash flow. I don’t remember exactly but I guess I have read in “Art of the start” a book written by guy Kawasaki (must read for entrepreneurs) maintaining a cash flow is very important because once you have the cash in hand you can scale up things and do many other things. So in this post I will tell how you can make money by selling your web design services.
How To Get Clients
I assume that you don’t have much money to invest or advertise your business so to that the clients you need to reach them and ask for work directly. So, in that case you can reach to potential buyers via online forums.
Almost, every forum has the buy, sell or trade section from where you can advertise you’re services (some may charge money) or whenever a person posts a job that you can do then just approach that person. You should also mention how much time and how much money you will charge for completing the work, it will increase your chances to get the work (also don’t ask for a price until or unless you understand the work completely).
Resources: Digital point fourm, warrior forum, Sitepoint and so on.
Business Is About Perception
I have recently read a book “The Dream” written by Gurbaksh Chahal, if you don’t know about him then you should read about him, and you will find his story very inspiring. He mentioned in his book that business is about creating the positive perception about you and your business.
I have told you this since it’s very important for you to create the right perception about your business among your potential buyers. You can do that by presenting yourself more professionally to them. Most of the people who are selling services on forums will just PM you and reply to your thread in order to get the work, so if you do the same thing there would be no difference between you and them.
So, I suggest you to invest little money and buy a domain name, hosting and create a website and setup your email address. You can also make few products like (5 page website for $100 etc) and list them on your site and at the end of that page place the PayPal button of your account. It will help your client to pay you easily and create a good impression about you and your business.
I am sure if you follow the above two steps you will start making money within a week, as I can say it from experience. Once you start getting few orders and starts building your clientele then do start outsourcing or hire any virtual assistant since it will help you to manage the work more easily and it’s also very necessary to scale up your business.
Resources – Dreamhost Hosting Discount and Free Domain Name
By Nimit On April 1, 2010
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If you are looking to make money online and really want to generate some quick cash then taking online surveys is the only and the best choice you have. Also, you don’t need to invest money to make money from online surveys.
Why you get paid for taking online Surveys?
There are many companies which pays you money for taking online surveys. The reason they pay you for taking the surveys are because they want to know more about your taste and preference so that they will able to improve their products and services.
Online surveys are the part of their market research and by taking information or review from their consumers about their products or services make them know about their consumer’s likes and dislikes. That’s why companies pay you for taking the online surveys.
By now I hope you understood clearly that why you will get paid for taking the online surveys. So, now its time to make some quick cash, you can join the panda research which is one of the biggest and reputed companies in this field and start taking surveys from now.
There are many other sites that you can join but I would recommend you to not join more than two sites as it will make you confuse. Also, you need to earn certain amount of money before a site will pay you (don’t worry this threshold is not very big and you can easily cross it within 2 days if you take only few surveys a each day).
How much I get paid?
Payout differs from country to country but if you live in USA you will get paid around $5 to $70 for completing a single survey and the best part about it that you can take as many surveys you want.
You will also get an email whenever a new survey gets live so that you can take that survey and make money. Questions in the surveys are not difficult, they are just general question with an aim to get your review on a particular service or product.
I hope you have understood the process of making money from online surveys. So join the panda research and start taking surveys to generate some quick cash.
By Nimit On April 1, 2010
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If you think that by just rewriting articles you will hit the front page or by building more links you will get the good rankings in SEO then you are still living in your dream world.
Google’s Personalized Results
If you are active online then you might know that Google has launched the personalized search results. It means that if you search for a keyword “best wordpress plugins” there are good chances that you will get different result from your friend who is just sitting next to you. If you want to know more about Google personalized search update then click here.
Social Media
Let’s talk about social media now, you know that hitting the front page is also getting tougher these days and until or unless you don’t have quality or interesting content that would grab the attention of social media users then it’s really hard to get traffic from social media.
I also want to tell you that Google also counts the site popularity in social media in order to rank it higher on their SERPs. As you know Google counts a link as a vote to the site and it’s their way to measure the popularity of a site, more links you have means more people voted you and like the content of your site.
This is the basic rule that Google still follows in order to rank a website and social media is the best place to know the popularity of a subject. For example, if I write a post that gets good Re Tweets, diggs, facebook shares etc then what it tells Google that my content is valuable and many people liked that content. So to get the higher rankings in search engines you also need to make a good presence in social media too.
Conclusion
So, moral of the story so far is that Google results are personalized now, Google counts sites popularity in social media in order to rank it and it’s very hard to hit the front page or get RT for a poor content. So, in order to get traffic and make money just focus on your content more than building links so that it will get viral and increase the authority of your site.
By Nimit On March 31, 2010
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Many of you didn’t know that I have started my online career with a social networking site named vonkerz.com with my dear friend shravan. But, we soon realized that making a popular social networking site does require a good capital and good marketing skills and we both were completely new at that time and didn’t know any thing about SEO, social media, affiliate marketing, online advertising etc.
I don’t want to bore you by telling you all the stupid mistakes we have made at that time so, to cut a long story short, I know how tempting it is to think big when you start something but if your new and don’t have much money to spend then I would recommend you to start your online career by making a micro niche site. There are many benefits for creating a micro niche site and I have mentioned some of them below:
Benefits of a Micro Niche site
- The number one benefit you will get by creating a micro niche site is that you will soon become the authority on that niche. But, for that you need to constantly produce the quality content and need to market that content as well.
- Micro niche sites will make you more money because the user that comes on your website would be much targeted.
- The best thing about micro niche sites is that you can easily maintain and mange them.
- If your are into affiliate marketing then micro niche sites works very well for you as conversion rates are very good with micro sites.
Above, are some of the benefits that you can get by making a micro niche site and always remember “one focus maximum success” :-)
