The work from home revolution on the Internet is in full swing. There has never been a better time or opportunity to make money online working at home in front of your computer. The number of money making opportunities is endless.
With today’s technology it is quite possible to run your entire business online from anywhere in the world using your laptop computer. You no longer need to leave your house to make a living for your family. It can be done from the comfort of your own home. No commute required. No travel time with reduced fuel consumption and maintenance on your vehicles. Best of all you are your own boss.
Are you a stay-at-home Mom? A college student? Looking for a part time business opportunity? Maybe you are saving up for something special or just need to pay some bills? The bottom line is that you could use an extra source of income. Well, the Internet offers some great ways to get paid without going out to get a job.
Maybe you have considered doing something like stuffing envelopes from home as a way to make money. If you’ve searched on the Internet, you may have noticed that there are a lot of outrageous claims being made about how much you can make doing something like stuffing envelopes. But think to yourself: What kind of idiot would pay someone $5 to stuff one envelope? So you investigate further. They want you to pay a $25.00 application fee even to be considered as such a high paid “envelope stuffer.” Look around the site and you’ll notice all sort of links that might appeal to the financially desperate. They are trying to take advantage of you!
Here’s a fact: everybody wants to earn extra money. We all
have bills to pay, families to feed, and the list goes on
and on…
Discover several legitimate ways to earn extra money
online for free using your computer at home.
You probably wonder how much extra income you can make?
Well, it depends on how much time and energy you are going
to put in.
Here are five legitimate online opportunities for
everybody to earn extra cash fast:
1. Get paid to read email
This is probably one of the oldest online income
opportunity. In order to get started all you need is your
own e-mail address. If you have an Internet access at home,
you probably already have an e-mail address too? Otherwise,
you can open your own email account and receive your
personal e-mail address for free at:
I’m coming to appreciate more and more all of the hard work software developers perform. I wouldn’t consider myself an open source elitist, but there’s something special about the associated ideologies. When a large community of people band together to work on a project, a lot of fantastic products can be created.
One such product is WebKit, the open source Web browser rendering engine used by Safari (as well as a number of other products). It’s very important to keep in mind that Safari and WebKit are two very different things. Safari is a Web browser that uses WebKit as it’s rendering engine.
Recently ,while visiting one of my favorite business forums,
I ran across some interesting comments concerning paid
surveys. The gyst of these comments was that taking online
surveys is a waste of time. Here is my answer to those
comments…
…. Just because you didn’t earn any money with surveys,
that doesn’t mean that they are a waste of time.
Like any other online opportunity, it takes time and effort
to build an income with surveys. Many people who have
failed, say the same thing about SFI, Goji, Empowerism, and
dozens of other online stay at home job opportunities. But,
thousands of members of these same companies are making good
money every month. Try to convince them that they are
wasting their time, and they will laugh at you. Meanwhile,
their bank accounts just keep filling up with cash!
A tell-a-friend (TAF) script is like online word-of-mouth advertising. It’s a free way to get other
people to tell their friends and family about your site. That’s why it’s important to make your website
as useful and unique as possible.
Setting Up a TAF Script
There are two ways to get a TAF script on your site:
1) Install it on your own server
2) Use a 3rd party
Installing a Script On Your Server
If you do this, you have to have your own domain name or at least a web host that allows you to
install scripts. Most free providers do not allow this because of security reasons.
Installing it yourself will require you to know a bit about uploading and configuring files on your web
server, but I’m sure your web host can help you.
The CGI Resource Index has a ton of different TAF scripts and many of them are free. Another
benefit of hosting the script yourself is that most of them offer an option to send a customized “thank
you” email to the referrer. This is yet another opportunity to promote your website.
Using a 3rd Party (Remotely Hosted TAF Scripts)
This is the easiest way to setup a TAF function, but the downside to this method is you don’t have
complete control over the look and feel.
Since you’re using a 3rd party site, the person using the script will be taken away from your site to fill
out the form. This is somewhat of a risk because the 3rd party site will have the opportunity to
advertise to your visitors.
Although if you do not want to bother with script installation, this is the best option to use.
People often estimate the power of message forums, and as a webmaster, you can benefit from them
in two different ways:
1) Posting to forums in your niche
2) Creating a forum for your site
Posting to Message Forums
One of the keys to having a successful site is to become the “expert” in your field or topic.  You gain
credibility by offering advice and finding solutions to problems people may have.
The great thing about posting on message forums is that most of them allow you to add a signature
file to your profile so every time you post, a link to your website appears.
Find a forum in your site’s niche and become a regular member. Visit frequently with sound advice
and helpful hints. Over time you build credibility and people are more likely to visit your website,
take your advice and buy products you recommend.
Another bonus about posting on message boards is that many of them are spidered by the search
engines. The more posts you have on a forum, the more places your link will appear. That’s another
reason why it’s so important to have a signature on every post.
Finding Forums
The best way to find forums in your niche is to simply use a search engine and type your keywords
followed by “forums” or “message boards.”
So if your site is about acne and you’re looking for forums on this topic, just type in “acne forums” or
“acne message boards”.
Create Your Own Message Forum
Having an active forum on a website provides so many benefits to a webmaster:
1) Another venue to post ads
2) Build credibility by posting helpful information
3) Creates more traffic because people will return to read and respond to posts
4) Many forums allow you to email your forum members (more promotion opportunities)
See my forum here.
A Bit of Advice…
DO NOT open a forum on your site until you’re getting good amounts of traffic. Often times people
start one without enough visitors, and it just sits there collecting dust. An empty forum makes your
site look uninhabited and unpopular.
RSS stands for “really simple syndication” and it’s a new way to allow people to access your site’s
content through other channels.
Here’s an example…
Let’s say you love reading the entertainment headlines from USAToday.com and CNN.com every
morning.
Instead of going to the individual sites, you can subscribe to these feeds with your own RSS reader
and receive this content all at once through your reader. You can subscribe to any site that offers
feeds and manage them all in one place.
Mozilla Firefox also has a built in RSS reader. So when you subscribe to a site that has feeds
available, the content appears in your Mozilla bookmarks.
As a webmaster, you can create your own content feeds so your visitors can subscribe to them.
Anytime someone opens up their reader, your updated content feeds will be listed.
Great For Blogs
If you have a blog with WordPress or Blogger then your RSS feed is automatically created for you.
Once your feed has been created, you can sign up with a service like Feedburner and they will help
promote your feed.
Blogs (short for web logs) are not only free and easy to create, but they can help you generate traffic
if you produce good content and actively promote them.
The key to building free search engine traffic is to get as many quality, related sites to link back to
yours. Google, Yahoo, Live and others take this into great consideration when ranking your website
for keywords you seem to be targeting.
Your blog can act as that high-quality, “related website” to point to your own, and in the long run it
can attract its own traffic.
I am sure you have seen the “Paid Survey” sites that claim
to pay you for your opinion. Question is: Will they really
pay you for just taking simple surveys online?
Well, I did a little experiment. Actually, it was a pretty
big experiment. I researched several hundred of these
companies.
What did I find? You guessed it:
Most were scams.
They want your email address so they can spam you. Or they
require you to accumulate 10 million zillion points before
they pay you. Or they say they pay but don’t.
