3 Steps to Making Money Online with Your Skill

Your skill in a particular field can earn your cash from the Internet. The idea is to provide your skill to others who need it through the Internet for a price. There are numerous Internet marketers and entrepreneurs needing help, with the right skill you possess, you can help them solve their problems. There are also loads of Internet users interested to learn your skill. You can earn money by sharing your skill or guide them to do the thing they love.

Below is a 3-step process you can take to turn your skill into cash:

#1 Step - Find Your Skill
This obvious isn't difficult. You should already known what best skill you have. Skills that can earn you money those are that can help people save time, solve a problem, save money or save time. Some of the high demand skills now are:

• Writing - article writing, copywriting, blogging and ghostwriting.
  

• Web and graphics design - website building, blog theme design, e-cover design, graphic and images creation.

• Search engine optimization - Building inbound links, optimizing website and etcs.

• Technical - Programming, script installation, blog installation, tracking and testing.

As you can see, the above skills are directly related to Internet marketing and e-commerce. The e-entrepreneurs and webmasters often need them to get their problem solved fast.

For most other skills that has nothing to do with the Internet marketing, it is best to turn them into educational guide and offer it to a target group of Internet users who want to learn it.

#2 Step - Turn Your Skill into a Product or Service
If you do possess a skill related to Internet marketing, it will be profitable to start a freelance business specialized to provide your service to the e-entrepreneurs and web publishers. While doing your freelance business, you can also develop your paid coaching program or e-book product that will teach people to master a skill of Internet marketing niche. This can become an additional source of income to you.

For those of you who are good at office support (data entry, etc) or accounting, you may check out Guru.com, Elance.com and other freelance service sites for freelance works that suit you.

Even your skill has nothing to do with Internet marketing, it still can bring you online income. There are already a group of people searching on the Internet to learn the skill you have, you can just write a 'how to' e-book or guide and sell it to this target group of people.

#3 Step - Start Your Business
When you have your own products created or you are ready to provide your expertise or skill, it is time to plan and start your online business. A website is needed to launch your business.

Don't worry, it isn't difficult to get a professional website nowadays. Web designers are everywhere on the Internet. Just hire a good and experienced one through the freelance marketplace and your problem solved. Lets the web designer do all the work for you (from website building to setting up).

As you are selling a service or product, marketing will be vital to you. For a beginner who hasn't experienced much about web marketing and promotion, PPC advertising is a good choice. PPC advertising can give you instant potential customers at no effort. But, you will pay for each targeted visitor send to your website.

While your PPC ad campaign is running, you can spend more time to look into what other Internet marketing approaches to use for promoting your business. If you can come up with a marketing plan, that will be even better. The plan will clearly list out your goal, the exact marketing strategies to be used for achieving your goal with a budget of how much to invest in each marketing approach.

6 Tips of SMO for Internet Marketing

Written by Aleluia Sanjuan

Internet Marketing is the process of promoting products online. Thousands of companies and small business are making their way to success in selling services or products through their website online. One of the most helpful Internet Marketing Strategy they used is SMO. It stands for Social Media Socialization, which increases the traffic ability of your website from social networking sites and receive high search engine rankings.

If you want to increase your ability to receive thousands of sales each month, studying SMO strategy helps a lot. The most important techniques you should consider is to learn more about the process. Here are some tips to help you:

Good Content
Learn to write content to help increase the knowledge of the readers. The title should be catchy and write content daily to help readers get update. Remember that no one will love to read non-sense content.

Social Networking sites
Your target market is social networking sites so you need to look for those with high Ranking. They are already searchable and have thousands of users so you can have the assurance of many visitors.

Target Specific Audience
Every Social Networking sites have their specific target of audience. You need to submit your content according to information like this content 6 tips of SMO for Internet Marketing, which can be submit to the following Social Networking sites:

• PlugIM- is a Social Networking sites for internet Marketing topics. You can bookmark content, which you find very helpful for you.
  
• Sphinn - is a Social Networking sites for Internet Marketing Professionals. It helps you to share your content and receive vote from other users.

Summary of the Content
Online Readers read very fast. They do not stop to look each of the summaries submitted to Social Networking sites. The summary of your content should be interesting. Never write summary with confusing information like “Internet Marketing: SEO and SMO”. The main purpose here is to give idea of the whole content, not to confuse the readers.

Make bookmarking and voting easy
Social Networking sites offer free quick buttons. You can put it on your content for easy access of the readers to bookmark and to vote. It helps to increases the popularity of your content. Remember that many readers need to have reminder because most of them forget it.

Reward Readers
Many readers will continue to read your content, if they receive important information and reward. Letting them to link in your site or allow, “Do follow” for their website whenever they comment is a good strategy.

Social Media Socialization provides big impact because everyone is receiving benefits. As the process of SMO continues, the ability of internet marketing will continue to be successful. Right attitude, Right Knowledge and Right Strategy is necessary!

6 Squidoo Traffic Strategies You can Used to Make Money Online

Are you wondering why people keep on recommending Squidoo.com? Well, it is because Squidoo.com is one of the powerful and fast growing Web 2.0 sites available free for web publishers and marketers to make money online. Squidoo allows you to create web pages called lenses which can be posted with whatever content and information you want to share with the world.

By being part of Squidoo, you will be able to use Squidoo lens as the marketing tools for your online business. You don’t have to worry about the rules and regulations of Squidoo as it is perfectly OK to promote your affiliate products, business website or anything else you like to promote on your lenses.

To make your Squidoo lense work for you, the lense has to be attention-grabbing so that it can attract traffic constantly. Those visitors come to you lense not just will read your content but also will click on your affiliate links or business website to find out what you are offering. As a result, you may end up turning these lense visitors into paying customers.

Below are a few strategies you can use to attract attention and traffic:

Create an Impressive Profile
Building a Squidoo profile that appeals others isn’t very difficult. Squidoo lets you upload Youtube videos, Flickr images and much more. These features are great help for making your profile attractive. And the bio photo of your profile, make sure you upload a quality one.

Include Your Target Keywords
Your lense have the ability to attract search engine traffic. So, the content in your lense should contain your main keywords to let the search engines better understand what your lense is about and send you the most targeted traffic. But, don’t overuse keywords in your lense as this could cause your lense blocked by Squidoo staff.

Tag Your Lense
During the process of building a new lense, Squidoo lets you add a title and suggest some keywords. Those are actually your tags. For the entire lense to be effective, you need to tag your lense appropriately which means you should add tags (keywords) that are directly relevant to your topic.

Add in Interesting Images
If you browse on Squidoo lenses, you will find that most of the lenses have the similar format and look. This is a good chance for you to make your lense look unique and interesting. You can do this by placing images and photos to your lense. The images you use must be interesting and have a relation to your content. This way you will make your lense different from others, giving you advantage of drawing more attention.

Network in SquidU
SquidU is much like a bulletin board created for members (Lensemasters) of Squidoo to learn everything about Squidoo. SquidU can be very helpful to you as you can connect with people who know more than you. They can help you optimize your lenses, create attractive profile, and guide you on the effective way to use Squidoo to market your business.

Struggle to Become Lense of the Day
Every day the chief of Squidoo editor will pick a lense that stands out from the crowd and feature as Lense of the Day. The Lense of the day probably will experience a great increase in traffic and exposure. So, you may think about getting your lense to become Lense of the Day. I know this doesn’t sound easy, but you should set a goal to make it to Lense of the Day and struggle to achieve it. One marketer shares a method which is to target topics that are of current interest, such as Olympics. Big news items or clever lenses can end up featuring on the Lens of the Day in the Squidoo blog and gain a lot of traffic overnight!

4 Ways to Generate Income With Facebook

Facebook has over 124 millions of registered users. It is a great social networking platform that can help you make money on the Internet. In this blog post, I will discuss four different ways to earn income online using Facebook.

Promote Your Own Products
Through your Facebook profile, you can market your products to other Facebook users. Since Facebook is a social networking website, you should only market products that are resonate with your profile, otherwise people will quickly see you as a marketer which will make you difficult to make new friends in Facebook. You should promote something that your Facebook friends interested. The product can make a difference in their lives or help them solve a problem. Example of products that sell well on the Internet are digital products such as e-books, music downloads, photographic content and reports.

Affiliate Marketing
If you don’t own your product, you may market other people product for a share of sale commission using your Facebook profile. Here again, you should only choose those affiliate products that resonate with your profile in Facebook. The simplest way to market your affiliate products is by posting your affiliate links in your profile. But, you need to limit the number of affiliate links included into your profile because too many offer links could make your profile look like a sale page and this will turn off people who come to view your profile.

Furthermore, you can offer a free gift or free resource on your profile in exchange for your target prospects email address. This way, you will gather their contact information legally and ethically where you can later send them your affiliate offers.

Offer Your Services
Facebook not just a good place to market products, you can also use it to sell your professional service. There are many services you can sell through Facebook. But, whatever service you are offering, make sure it resonates with the persona that you have built on Facebook. Some of the services you can offer are web development, freelance writing, consulting, one-on-one mentoring service, Internet marketing and so on.

Create Your Own Application
You can develop your own application for Facebook users to download and use it for their benefits of social networking in Facebook. One existing good Facebook application is ‘Introduce Me’. This application let people you know to introduce you to people they know in Facebook. This application is placed in profile. So, you can also contribute your unique and useful application and let millions of Facebook users to use it.

There are a few ways you can make money with your application. You can sell it immediately for a one-time profit. Or market it to have as many people as possible, and then monetize it to earn income. What are your choices of monetizing your application? Well, you can sell ad space within your application to potential advertisers, use the application to help sell your virtual items like ring, tones and etc; or promote your affiliate program for commission.

Developing your own application can be very profitable to you. However, you will need a group of experts to help you and you must have enough financial resources to back your project.

A Free Package of Money Making Information

2 weeks ago, I told you about a guy named Glen Hopkins who is willing to give away his book titled 'Confessions Of An Online Marketer' that normally sells $19.95 on Amazon.com for free. The book reveals how the millionaire marketers make a lot of money on the Internet. If you have downloaded the book and read it, you should find something useful for your online money making venture.

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8 Ways You can Make Money from Affsphere.com

Recently, Anik Singal from Affiliate Classroom Inc has officially released a new and unique article directory. Anik named this article directory Affsphere.com.

Affsphere.com isn't another ordinary article directory. It is an article directory that pays people to submit content. When you sign up and start submitting articles in Affsphere, you will earn ad credits where you can exchange for AdSense ads and affiliate links place on your article pages. You can also choose to use your ad credits to buy banner advertising on Affsphere. So, all the articles you published on Affsphere can earn you AdSense revenue, Affiliate commission and free traffic.

Anik put together two short videos to help you get started in Affsphere. The first video is here. It introduces Affsphere and explains how it works.

The second video can be access here. It demonstrates 8 ways to make money with Affsphere.

8 Important Things You must Do When Listing Your Product On eBay

The way you list your product on eBay will have a direct impact on the success of your eBay business. Your product listing is pretty similar to your shop front, and your potential customers will decide whether to purchase your items based on the listing and description of your product.

To make your product listings effective so that you can sell your products smoothly on eBay, here are the things you must do:

1. Include the relevant keywords and search terms in your product description.

2. The titles of your product listings have to be attention-grabbing. You got to make the eBay viewers click your title link or your products will never sell. Thus, put in time and effort to learn about writing effective product listings titles. Take a look at your competitors successful auctions, see how their titles are written and take some of their good ideas.

3. The description of your product should be as detailed and accurate as possible. Let the potential buyers know precisely the condition of your product. Whether it is new or used, tell them honestly. Write about the benefits of your products; how they can help the potential buyers. Also list the features and functions of your products.

4. Never start a listing without adding photos or images of your products. If your potential buyers can’t see the items you are selling, they may leave your auction and go check out your competitors auctions which sell the similar items.

5. Make sure that you list your items in the most accurate category.

6. Give sufficient details about the shipping. Let the buyer know the cost of shipping and the estimated time needed to deliver the product. You should also provide a fast shipping option to meet the need of people who demand fast product delivery.

7. Some customers don’t want to pay with Paypal, so you should provide more payment options so that the customers can choose the payment option that best suits them

8. You definitely want as many people as possible to bid on your auctions. To do that, you’ll need to list your product at a low starting price.

Applying these tips to your eBay product listings, I’m sure they will help increase the amount of bids on your products and generate more eBay sales for you.