Start Your Own Informational Membership Site

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There is big money to be made from websites as we have seen, but there is one type of website in particular that is a bit different from the rest. What makes it so interesting is that it actually limits the number of people who can get into it and make use of what it has to offer.

This might sound like a strange way to earn money but in actual fact it is well worth doing if you have a good subject to start from.

Informational membership sites are websites which charge people to gain access to them. Everyone will be able to see the main home page (and sometimes certain other pages as well) but the bulk of the website cannot be seen until each person pays their money to gain access.

The key to designing a membership site that works is to pick your subject carefully. It should be something that you know a lot about, and which other people will also find interesting. More than that however, it should include information that people will be willing to pay for. If the information you include could be found by any other means then your site will not work. What’s more, it could damage your reputation too.

So this obviously calls for some research. You need a subject that will always be popular and has brought in a lot of money for other people already. One of the best examples will be working from home – there are always people wanting to know how they can do this and earn plenty of money without the drudge of going out to work every day.

Let’s that that as an example. The key here is to approach that broad subject from an angle which may not have been done before, and which will form the basis of a membership site which provides people with information they cannot get elsewhere. If you don’t have a specific focus and you don’t have some exclusive information to provide your members with every month, then you don’t have a site. It’s that simple.

As far as the website itself is concerned, you will need to make sure your web host can handle a site in which people can log in and log out of their own accounts as and when they wish. You can set up monthly payment schedules online with certain providers; once you have integrated the relevant payment buttons into your website it should automatically take the payment from the customer every month. To get an idea of how much to charge, the best thing to do is to research similar sites to see what they are offering and how much they are charging for it.

When it comes to designing your website, make sure your home page is welcoming for your members, but also make it enticing enough to encourage more people to join. By doing this – and by driving plenty of traffic to your site – you should soon build up a respectable membership base that will hopefully grow into a nice monthly income for you.

Got some ideas on how to make your own informational membership site work? Leave us a comment below and then start brainstorming! Good luck.

Become A Sales Agent For An Offline Product And Take It Online

Have you ever come across a product that really caught your eye that you have never seen online before?

If you have and you still know where to find it, why not consider trying to market it online? There are really countless ways of doing this, depending on the nature of the product and where you get hold of it from, but in general if you come across something that hasn’t really taken off online yet you have a great chance of beating everyone else to the punch.

Becoming a sales agent usually means you get a percentage from every sale you make, so the way to approach this opportunity depends on how many products you can get access to. Some businesses allow you to join as a sales agent and sell a range of products, in which case you could set up a website (with their agreement of course) promoting all of them in turn. You would then receive orders via your site and process them via your supplier directly.

It does depend a lot on how you get hold of the product or products in the first place though. Some businesses may agree to let you promote their product on a sale or return basis, or alternatively you may have to buy a quantity of the product first and take a chance on whether it would sell well online or not.

Whichever way you approach this opportunity, it’s clear that you should get stuck into some research before you agree to anything. Find out as much about the product as you can – who it would appeal to, what price it retails for, and how much your profit margin would be on each unit.

It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of finding a product that you love and you think you could make money with, but you need to be certain that a lot of other people will like it just as much as well! By finding out as much as you can in the first place you stand a better chance of making a good profit.

If you haven’t seen any particular product which grabs your interest the best place to start looking – ironically – is online. Search for companies that have offline sales agents already and think about approaching the best ones (the ones that appeal to you the most) with your proposition. As hard as it may be to believe there are still some businesses that don’t have any kind of online presence at all – and you could be just what they are looking for.

One final point – you should try looking in your local area to see what businesses are there, before you look any further afield. Quite often they will be the ones who haven’t got online yet.

It might take some work to find a product you like that has great potential for taking online, but the end result can be well worth it. Let us know your thoughts by leaving a message below before you start hunting.

Become A Virtual Assistant

If you have any administrative skills that you feel you could be putting to better use, why not find some work via your home computer?

The beauty of the internet is that you can actually work for people in lots of different countries without leaving your own home. Work is sent via email and so long as you are quick and efficient you will have a deluge of clients who are desperate to find someone who can do the job they need doing.

Why work in a stuffy office when you can work from home doing exactly the same kind of thing for a wide range of people, choosing when you want to work and taking control of your own life?

Virtual assistants are everywhere nowadays. The combination of email, online messaging systems and telephones has made it easy to keep in touch with people from all over the world. You don’t need to be able to hand someone a solid document anymore – you simply attach it to an email and off it goes, arriving in the inbox of your recipient in just a few seconds.

Virtual assistants have a wide range of skills so it doesn’t matter if you don’t have all of them; in fact it can often work in your favor if you can demonstrate that you have extensive experience in one area. For example it may be that you are an exceedingly fast typist, or a good researcher, or you have passed all your bookkeeping exams and you are qualified to help people with keeping their own records.

But how do you find the work in the first place?

The best thing to do is to visit one of the many online job sites that invite freelancers to sign up and look for work. Employers (often self employed freelancers themselves) post the work they have available and if you like the look of the job and you want to bid on it you do so, making sure you post a realistic bid and you are happy to do the work for that amount should you win the job.

Be persistent to begin with, since it may take a short while to get that first contract, but once you are off and running you will soon start winning other assignments. Most sites offer a feedback rating tool and once your feedback starts going up more people will give you the chance to work for them.

It is a good idea to join more than one site since there are a number of them around and you may find you like one more than another, or you get more work from one as compared to another. Make sure you keep accurate records of everything you do and take the time to develop a good personal profile, listing your talents, achievements and skills so that other people can read them and make a decision on whether or not to hire you.

You will often find that once you get a few paying clients they will come back to you for more work in the future. While these websites take a small commission for essentially matching clients with freelancers, in the future you will be able to work for them directly, which will make a difference to your profits.

So think about all the skills you could offer to people from home. No matter what they are, you are certain to find someone somewhere who is in dire need of them.

Before you rush off in search of those freelance sites, leave a comment below to tell us what you think of this idea. It could change your life!

Build Your Own Custom Search Engine

It might seem hard to believe that anyone could rival Google with a new search engine. But it could happen if the idea for custom built search engines comes to fruition.

If the idea of building your own search engine appeals to you, remember that the trick is not to try and compete directly with Google itself. Instead of doing that you should take a difference stance altogether – and in fact it is this stance that many people think is going to become the new search engine for the future.

Sounds intriguing? To find out exactly what kind of search engine we’re talking about, click to read more.

The internet is a huge place, almost beyond comprehension, and it’s getting bigger every single day. That makes it incredibly hard to find anything. Unless you happen to know the URL of a site you want to visit, the chances of finding it in the search engines is getting more remote by the day.

While the whole process of search engine optimization allows every website to have a chance of getting onto page one of Google, where it stands the best chance of being discovered by the people who want to find it, there is one thing that it really doesn’t account for – and that’s accuracy.

The truth is that you could create a website that is factually inaccurate and it could still rank very highly in the search engines – so long as it was optimized to do so. Furthermore even the major search engines are becoming more and more unwieldy as time goes by and even more new websites are launched. It’s not uncommon to search for a particular type of website and get hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of results coming back at you.

This means that there is clearly a gap for a new type of search engine. Imagine a whole network of them, with each one concentrating on a different subject. So for example let’s say you wanted to find a website which contains medical information. Instead of going to Google or another large search engine, you would go to a medical search engine which only lists that type of website. Similarly if you wanted to find information on investments, you would go to a search engine that only contained websites which dealt with that subject.

This is an idea which is only just starting to be suggested, but many experts think that this could be a glimpse of what it will be like in the future. So why not be a trailblazer and pick a popular subject that gets a lot of searches every day to build a new search engine around?

When it comes to creating the actual engine there are a few tutorials online that reveal how to do it. Do a search (on a search engine!) to find them, and start to map out your ideas for your particular search engine. Don’t forget that this will be a more targeted engine than anything else that is out there at the moment, so bear that in mind when it comes to choosing a domain name for it. After all, you want your search engine to rank highly in the results in the general search engines, to ensure you get found and people start using you.

You will also need to be able to crawl the relevant websites that are out there on the web today, so you can include them in your own results. Of course it will take some time to build a well established custom search engine, but the fact that you are taking on this kind of focused project in the first place should earn you some free publicity. Make sure you write some press releases as well, to get the right people interested. It’s also worth getting in touch with websites that could be placed in the results, to help spread the word.

You could be the owner of a major targeted search engine in a few months time, so why not get started now? Be sure to leave us a comment below first though! And good luck.

Create A Local Wedding Services Guide And Website

One of the most complicated things in life has to be planning a wedding. There are dozens of things to think about and plenty of things you need to find. If someone could just point you in the right direction of all the services you needed then it would certainly take a lot of the hassle out of the whole planning process.

If you like a bit of research then you could be the owner of a great website giving everyone everything they need to know to plan the perfect wedding. And it’s an idea that you can use in other areas too.

Where is the first place you usually go to find information? For most people the answer is undoubtedly the internet. There is an almost insatiable market for information and if you can provide it you’ll start getting traffic from all directions.

Weddings are a good subject to cover as you can provide a website which is dedicated to services in your local area, and is split into sections according to the different sources of information someone would need. So for example you could have a section on florists, another one on hire cars for weddings, another one on venues, another one on clothing and wedding dresses, and so on.

But rather than just providing details of each supplier that you can find in your area, you need to make the website more valuable to everyone who finds it. You can do this quite easily by writing some unique content for each section and each page, in order to pique the interest of everyone who reads it. Try and think about what people want to know when they are online looking for information to help them plan their wedding, and provide as much of that knowledge as you can.

It would also help to provide more than just the contact details for each business you feature on your site. Write down some information about them as well – where they are, how long they have been in business, what they specialize in and so on. You could even write to businesses inviting them to appear on your site for a small fee – a great way for them to get publicity and a good way for you to earn some cash as well. You could renew the fee every twelve months, and they would no doubt provide you with all the information you need for an accurate listing as well.

You can also monetize your website by adding Google Adsense; it will display adverts that are relevant to your audience so you can be sure they will be interested in reading about other companies who provide wedding services, and you could achieve a reasonable click through rate as a result.

Another way to earn some cash through your site is to look for affiliate programs that are wedding related. Sites like Commission Junction allow you to promote a whole range of goods from different companies, so you might be able to find a lot of different products and companies that you could recommend to everyone, as well as providing information for a specific area.

This is obviously an idea that you could roll out to other areas and states as you go along; you might end up with a whole network of sites serving all kinds of different areas, and it doesn’t have to stop at weddings either. Any type of industry or service could be adapted to provide a useful website along the same lines.

How To Make Money With Website Directories

Of all the different ways there are to make money online, this is probably one of the more unusual. It’s certainly not the first one to come to mind… and yet when you think of where you could end up by giving it a go (does the name Yahoo sound familiar?) you can see why it’s worth at least considering the idea.

What’s more, you can choose your focus so that it appeals to everyone online or just a specific topic area. If you choose the second option you could end up building a whole empire of websites over time.

So what is a website directory anyway? Simply put it’s a website which lists other websites. But of course it’s a little more than that. By putting them into specific categories everyone visiting your site will be able to find what they need quickly and easily.

The first step is to decide what you want the focus of your directory to be. Do you want to list anything and everything, or do you want to concentrate on a particular topic? For example you could create a directory listing shops and stores in a particular country. You obviously need to pick a subject area where there is plenty of meat to include; a website which lists fake mustache sellers in a specific town probably isn’t going to be that big.

Once you have your topic you need to create your site, and it needs to be a good one. It’s worth getting it designed professionally because people simply won’t use it if it doesn’t look respectable. The cost will be worth it though because you will then be able to charge for your listings.

Adding a fee structure to your website is the way in which you will make money. Free listings will also generate valuable free advertising and promotion for you, since in return for a free listing you will ask for a backlink to your website. The free listings should also be basic so as to allow for paid listings to stand out more and be worth the money you will charge for them.

So what kind of paid listings should you offer? You can charge for two basic types; for example a normal paid listing would appear at the top of its relevant category, whereas a premium paid listing could involve the use of bold type as well, so it would stand out more from its rivals.

You can develop paid services as much or as little as you like; for example free listings may not include a clickable link to the website being advertised, whereas paid listings will. You could also add an optional extra fee to premium paid listings to allow the purchaser to add their business logo or a photo to their listing as well.

The fees you charge are up to you, but it’s important to remember that people won’t pay money if their websites aren’t going to be seen by lots of potential customers. That’s why you need to make sure your site has real value by generating streams of traffic towards it (a good reason for having free listings which require a link to your site).

The more traffic your website directory is capable of getting, the more traffic your customers are likely to get in return, and the more they will be prepared to pay for a premium listing. In this way building a successful directory has two main areas of interest – firstly you need to get plenty of listings on your site, and secondly you need to get plenty of traffic to those listings.

By doing this you will be adding real value to your website and word will start to get out that your website directory does indeed help to drive traffic to people’s websites. Once you can legitimately lay claim to this then the paid requests for inclusion will start pouring in.

Once you get to this stage you might also consider spreading the word about the efficiency and benefits your site offers by spending some of your profits on more advertising. Google AdWords could get you even more paid listings for very little outlay.

Make Money Becoming A Web Host Reseller

Web hosting is something we all need if we want to get our own website or blog online, but have you ever thought about selling web hosting to someone else?

The chances are that you haven’t ever considered it because you didn’t even know it was a possibility, but in actual fact it’s one of the easiest ways to make a significant monthly income that keeps on coming. After all, once people have their own web hosting they are unlikely to go elsewhere.

So if you know how to provide a good service at a good price, you could soon be racking up the customers – and the cash – every month.

So how on earth do you become a web host reseller anyway? And what exactly does it involve?

In simple terms, it is an easy way to get involved with selling web space without the hassle of having to have your own servers installed. What happens is that you buy web space from an established web host and then sell it in smaller portions to your customers.

You won’t necessarily be able to make the profits that the actual web hosts make, but having said that you won’t have the overheads they do so it’s a good deal if you are looking to set up an online business where the services or goods you provide are virtual and you don’t need any storage space to benefit from them! The web hosts also have thousands of customers, whereas you might start with just a few and build up. Once you know you enjoy it however – the sky is the limit.

So where do you start?

The first step is to hop online and search for web hosts that offer reseller hosting. You can easily find these on any major search engine once you type in that term. It’s worth spending a while comparing prices and services since you will need a fair amount of web space to be able to divide it up among your forthcoming clients.

There are two main things you need to be sure of before you sign up to any particular plan. Firstly make sure you can upgrade it at any point if you need to. This may well be necessary if you find you can get enough customers to use up all the space your original plan offers. Secondly you should also ensure the company you go with offers all the help and support you need, especially if your knowledge of web hosting is limited. You’ll learn a lot as you go along but a basic knowledge at the very least is necessary to start with.

Once you have decided what service you want to use, you’ll need to create a website to attract the attention of potential customers. You should clearly display the benefits and pricing for your hosting packages and it can be a good idea to provide some useful articles as well on all aspects of web hosting. Not only will these be helpful to potential customers (and probably help to win more clients as well) they will also help to get your website ranked more highly in the search engines, as they will naturally contain all the keywords that a person looking for web hosting will type into a search engine to find your kind of service.

Do your research to find out what prices to charge for your services. It depends on what you are offering in each package and the kind of people you want to attract; you could set up different packages to appeal to individuals, small businesses and blog owners, for example.

While it might seem as if there is a lot to learn you’ll soon get the hang of it, as you’re basically just repackaging and reselling what your web host provider is giving to you. Once you’re all set up and ready to go, all you need to think about is getting more traffic.

Make Money With Top Search Engine Rankings

When it comes to getting visitors to your website or sites, there is no doubt that the majority of them are likely to come from the various search engines that are in existence.

The problem is that you will be competing against a lot of other websites to get found. That’s why it is so important to get as close as you can to being on top of the rankings when it comes to searches related to your particular subject of interest.

Because the closer you are to the top, the more visits you will get as a result – and that translates into more money for you. But how do you do it?

No matter what other people may say, you cannot get to the top of the Google or Yahoo search results (or those of any other search engine, come to that) overnight. You can certainly do it pretty quickly, but the best technique is to build up the value of your website over time.

Why is this? Is it simply because the best things are worth waiting for, or is there more to it than that?

The thing is, if you try and trick the search engines into indexing you faster or ranking you higher, they will spot your underhand efforts and boot you off completely. The best tactic is to build a solid, worthwhile and informative website that will gradually rise in the rankings and stay near or at the top for much of its life.

You can do this – no matter what the subject of your site may be – by getting familiar with white hat search engine optimization. If you come across black hat techniques steer well clear, as these are the ones that will get you banned.

Search engine optimization is all about designing your websites so that they appeal to the search engines, and so they can find them easily. Most of the good SEO techniques are actually very easy to implement. It’s all about getting the right keywords on your pages; and linking your pages together so that people can move easily between them – and so can the search engine spiders.

This is an ongoing process, and a lot of it comes from understanding your website and knowing who is going to be looking for it. What kind of search terms are they likely to type in when they want to find a website like yours? Make sure you build them into your site, and use longer key phrases as well. So for example, instead of putting ‘weddings’ as a keyword for a wedding related website, use a phrase like ‘how to plan a wedding’ instead, if that applies.

A good idea is to use different combinations of keywords for each and every page of your site, as this will attract more visitors overall. Just make sure every page has a clear link back to your site’s home page.

In the end, the more qualified traffic you can attract from the search engines, the more sales you are likely to make. If you have a good website that provides what people are looking for, and you have taken the time to find affiliate products and put Google Adsense and similar advertising modules on your site, then you can expect to start bringing in a good income from your website over time.

And once you have cracked the secret of getting to the top of the rankings, you can repeat the methods that worked in other sites as well, giving you a whole portfolio of successful websites that could replace your ‘normal’ job completely.

Make Money With Your Own Online Video Website

You only need to take a look at YouTube to see that videos are an extremely popular medium online. But you may never have thought about setting up your own site to rival it.

It might take some doing to reach that stage but you can make a decent amount of money from building up a video website of your own if you go about it in the right way.

But how do you make the money? After all you can’t really charge the users to post their videos on your site, since YouTube doesn’t and you will price yourself out of the market if you attempt to charge for the privilege.

So what options do you have?

The best way to get established in this arena is to think about how to get noticed. For example, are you going to accept any and all videos or are you going to create an online video website around one particular subject?

A targeted site may do better than simply trying to emulate YouTube’s success, as it will make you stand out from the crowd. What subjects are popular enough to build a site around, without breaking any copyright rules in the process? This is definitely an area where a lot of thinking is required before you dive in.

Unless you know a lot about web design and development make sure you get an expert to help you with designing the site so that it not only looks good but the videos themselves are easy for people to submit as well. While you won’t charge for membership you should still have a members’ only area in place where people can manage the videos they send in to the site.

Next you need to think about making money from your site. The easiest way to do that is to put Google Adsense ads on your website, in prominent places on every page. Make sure you tweak the colors and layout as much as Adsense allows you to though, so that they fit in with your layout. By doing this they will look a lot less like adverts and more like links to other areas of interest externally.

The idea is to get your own domain name and hosting before you set up your own site, but it could be that you don’t want to do this. Maybe you already have your own website? In that case, why not add a video section to the site you have now?

This can be a good way to boost your revenue since it adds more interest for people. Imagine you have a website about interesting and weird news stories from around the world. You could invite people to submit their own home movies of various events which happen, and put ads on those pages as and when you add them to your site. This is a great idea since it adds more depth to the site you already have, and encourages more click throughs for your adverts.

Regardless of whether you start from scratch or add a video section to what you already have, an online video website can tap into a big section of internet users who regularly flock to sites like this. And what better place to advertize than on YouTube itself? Don’t make it a blatant advert though – simply post some videos which have something to do with your website and watermark your website URL over the top of them. You might be surprised at how easily you can increase your visitor count like this!

If this idea appeals to you, leave a comment using the form below – and then start planning your online video empire!

Make Money Online with domains

A different way to make money online is in the stream of domains. There are different ways of doing it. The entry of dot com has turned many people into millionaires but there are still good chances to make plenty of money in the real estate and still there are some good combination available. A dot com domain has become a bit difficult nowadays. But there are good chances to get a lot from .info and .eu and they all present good opportunities. You can proceed to buy a famous word domain for some dollars and put that in the domain selling websites.

In order to make a living from the reselling of domains you can hang out to certain good technical forums and websites. You can learn there much about the market ad further recognize the bargains and thus make a good living from such online places where domains are being bought or sold.

People sometimes forget to renew their domains when they expire. Picking such crucial domains will give you some great traffic from the sites that link to those domains or from the people who have bookmarked those. In some of the cases the traffic is extremely high. In case you are very fast enough to get replace the copyrighted content placed there with something else then there are good chances to make a good profit from this activity itself. So domains are a good source to make online money.

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