Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Make Money Through YouTube

Today's most well known site for watching, uploading, sharing and downloading online videos is simply YouTube. YouTube came into existence in 2005, and in a very short period of time became most successful and revenue generating website over the web.

Today thousands of people upload their videos on YouTube and millions of people watch it. You can simply think of, how much viewership is there on YouTube of each video. Many people are their who have made it possible to earn some extra money through YouTube by simply uploading and sharing their video's.

YouTube can be used as a publishing platform for original videos that entertain all age group of people. Many Internet stars have turned their video views into pay cheques. I'm going to discuss with you few ways through which you can earn money using YouTube.

  1. Upload your videos
    Very well known way of making money with YouTube is making your own original videos and uploading them on YouTube. For uploading videos you should be a registered member of YouTube. If you have a Google account then you can login with the same. And if no you have to create one YouTube account or Google account in order to upload videos.

    While uploading videos be sure they are original one. YouTube doesn't accepts videos that are not your original one. If you are uploading a video of any song or a star and you don't have permissions for it then, YouTube doesn't allow you to upload that video.

    You can create your own video related to anything like cooking, cooking tips, health and fitness videos, presentation tips videos, any subject related videos like flash or Photoshop etc., your own online teaching videos etc. List is endless. This is also known as content creator that is who creates his own content.

    Now in order to monetize your uploads you need to apply for the partners on YouTube. It will take sometime to be get approved. Once it is approved you have to again add adsense programs to your account. This is the way how your videos are en-cashed.

    Once you apply for adsense different ads will appear on your video and as they are clicked you will get your share of profit. It is again the same Google adsense and Affiliate Program way to make money that i have discussed with you earlier.

    Note that YouTube doesn't approves everyone's request of partnership. It evaluates on number of factors such as size of your audience, quality of content, compliance with our YouTube Community Guidelines and Terms of Use, and your country of residence. Again you should be a frequent up-loader of videos.

    Your account may be disabled if you use any of the following without the persons permission who created or produce it:
    • Music (including cover songs, lyrics, and background music)
    • Graphics and pictures (including photographs and artwork)
    • Movie or TV visuals
    • Video game or software visuals.
    • Live performances
  2. Share YouTube videos on your blog
    If you are a blogger than also you can make use of YouTube to have some extra earning. In blogger.com there is a option to add its videos in your posts. You simply need to add small piece of code that is there and you are ready to share videos.

    Once you have added that code now you can use different affiliate programs as well as adsense program to monetize it.
  3. Advertise Your business
    Every business can be a big success if it is well promoted and well advertised. You can even advertise your business using this for free and that will bring business to you. There are millions of daily visitors to YouTube. If you use this as a platform to promote your business then your business will be known by every viewer and member of YouTube.

    You can even promote your blog and website using it and drive its traffic to your hard work.

Not only adsense and affiliate program contribute to your earning. Number of times your video is watched, number of likes and dislikes all these factors also contribute to your earning. As in blogging people do make money by number of page impression similarly number of times a video is watched also contributes in money making.

You should share your videos and its link on social networking sites to increase number of viewers of your video.

If you want to upload any video that is not yours then there is also a way out.
  • You simply download the video in FLV format.
  • Convert it into MPEG.
  • Now add watermarks to your video of your own website address or blog promoting your own affiliate program. You can add watermarks using Photoshop software.
  • Now cash the checks. It is as simple as that.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Make Money By Selling your Website

It has become somewhat harder to generate a stable income through affiliate programs since past two years. For thousands of affiliates it has been becoming a frustration point. Many successful affiliates and product owners are looking for some socially powered websites as a source of traffic, a source of sale and thus the source of stable income.

If you have a well established website that does have good traffic then there is a great scope of getting good returns if you are thinking to sell it. But most important question that hits mind is that how to evaluate the value of a website. There are few basic tips that can somehow help you to evaluate its actual price and its potential in the coming future.
  1. Know your audience and how to sell them
    As a first thing you should know your targeted audience whom do you want to sell your website. Just don't go for audience of buyers. Think and get few but quality good buyers that will pay some good amount for your website.

    Know your audience and understand how they will respond to your website auction. The best place to sell your website is Flippa.com. There you can place your website auction and can easily get your targeted audience. 
  2. Research on what price successful websites are sold
    Before listing your website for the auction make some little efforts to do market research. Get to know for how much other successful websites are sold that somehow relate to your website subject. Like each product has its own selling price similarly, each website has its own price.

    Do market research and get to know how much people are willing to pay for the website. Depending on your research decide your websites auction price and than only list it for sale on some good and well known website selling site.
    Some of the sites where you can try your site for the auction include Flippa, Sitepoint, WebsiteBroker etc.
  3. Evaluate your websites long-term value and understand it
    While evaluating your website you should always consider long term value of your website. The average sales price of a successful site is atleast 8 to 10 times of its profit on monthly basis. Factors that contribute while evaluating its value include current revenue generated by the website daily or on monthly basis, number of unique visitors to your site, traffic that it gets daily etc.

    Instead of thinking of short-term revenue of your website and monthly profit, think in terms of long term of your website’s potential revenue growth over time. If you want to sell a site that’s a big social media hit, use this potential as an indicator and price it accordingly.
  4. Take steps to optimize your profit before listing it for sale
    An online property is a big waste if it is not monetized. Anyone seeing your website for sale that is not been optimized is a worsen one. You should test different advertising networks, different affiliate programs before putting it for auction.

    A very simple reason for doing this is why should anyone show interest in your work which has not even mastered by you till the potential that it does carry. Test different ad placements, different monetization methods to monetize your site.

    Like while purchasing any real estate property you consider its location, its reachability from the nearest market place, similarly while buying any online property you consider its page rank, traffic and revenue factors. And all these are built up only when it is well optimized.
  5. Website traffic statistics
    Website traffic includes unique visitors, page views, growth rate over time, from which country you are getting traffic, how much from search engines and direct bookmarks, page rank and for which keywords your site is popular for. You should make available all these statistics online while listing your site for sale.
  6. Your financial figures
    You should also provide your financial figures if you are running your site as a business. You should show all your profits and loss statements in which a buyer always has a keen interest
Remember one thing that your site is worth how much someone is ready to pay you for it.

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Monday, November 28, 2011

How to Sell a Blog

To establish a good blog it takes months or say years and understandably a blogger also gets attached to its blog as he has invested his lots of energy, hard work, time and talent in building it. Be sure that you have built it up for the sole purpose of money making.

Any business that you set up has its value in the current time. The more successful the business is the more valuable it is for you and for everyone else who so ever are interested in it. Same is with blogs. As you spend your more time and energy in it, it becomes more successful and valuable.

There are times when people are interested in your work and want to get it. So, they do offer you some certain price for it. Now before accepting or denying that offer you need to analyze whether it is worth or not. You have to analyze your blog on several parameters to evaluate its price.

Many people asks how to value a blog? On what parameters deciding factor should be while evaluating the blogs price? Though there is no absolute way to calculate the value of a blog, but you should look at parameters like
  • How much do you earn daily from the blog and what is its future potential?
  • Since how long your blog is running?
  • How much traffic are you getting daily?
  • How many unique visitors are there to your blog?
  • List of archives and quality content.
  • Number of back links to your blog
  • Its overall place in the blogsphere
  • Domain name
There are people who are ready to pay you a good amount just because they want that domain name that your blog is holding. Just because of domain name also you can get good money in return. Infact selling domain names is a very big business is today's date on Internet.

People simply buy some hottest domain names that they think have good potential in future and when they get good buyer they simply sell it and earn great amount of money without any effort. See Domain Selling.

These are few things based on which you can evaluate your blog. Now its up to you how you weigh these things and in which order. Its once personnel opinion and way of thinking.

There are sites that you can use to sell your blog. Most well known among those is flippa.com. flippa can also help you to evaluate your blogs potential. Before selling it make sure you want to do it because once you sell it there is no chance of getting it back.

There are even bloggers who are trying to build up similar blogs and buying one existing content and subscriber's is much easier than starting from scratch. Someone like this in your network that already values your work, you may get more money than listing it for strangers.

This selling of blogs is a newer business on Internet to earn money but soon it will be well known and will have great potential. You can build up multiple small blogs and can put them on sale if you wish and thus can earn money online very easily.

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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Buy And sell on E-bay

EBay is one of the most well known sites for buying and selling purpose of different kind of products. It is one of the oldest site in this eCommerce business with most authentic security servers as everything on it deals directly with money and money is precious to everyone.

You can even buy and sell both on eBay and that too very easily. For both purposes you simply need an eBay account. You need to register yourself with eBay to do any of these things. If you want to join eBay to sell your own product stuff and have your own online eCommerce shop then you need to join it as Seller's Account.

When you register yourself with eBay there it asks you whether you want to join as a Seller's Account or just a normal account. There you need to fill your details as your Id, account password, your debit or credit card details etc.

Once you have registered yourself you need to verify your account either through email or SMS service. You simply need to follow the instructions they provide and your account will be verified. Now you can do what ever you want to do.

But in case you have joined as a seller account then you also need to offer PaisaPay as a payment method. PaisaPay is a eBay's payment service that will allow you to receive online payments from your buyers either through credit cards or online bank transfers. It is mandatory to register yourself with PaisaPay to sell on eBay and to be able to list items on eBay India.

Now you are all set to buy or sell on eBay. If you want to buy anything online from eBay it is very easy. You simply need to browse categories and search item which one you would like to buy. Once you have searched the item review it carefully as whether the item is available in auction or fixed price. Read the description thoroughly and most importantly check the payment method.

You should also go through to know your seller through feedback score and comments left by other buyers. If the item you selected is in auction then you need to bid for it. Place the highest price you are ready to pay for it.

At last make payment by PaisaPay. Seller will dispatch the item only after receiving the payment except in the case of cash on delivery.

Now if you are interested in selling your own products then first of all prepare your items to be listed. Select the category under which you want to place your item. Decide the selling price, shipping charges and other selling charges for your listing.

Prepare a good title and description related to your each product. You also need to add few pictures of your product. It is always good to add 2-3 photographs of each item from different angles. You can add up to 3phtographs of each product for free afterwards you will be charged for each photo.

Decide whether you want to place your item in an auction or you want to sell it at fixed price. Then select payment method like PaisaPay, cheque, Demand Draft, cash etc. specify shipping charges also. Once you are done with all these your listing is ready. You can track your listing and check your status in your My eBay.

This is all about how you can buy and sell on eBay and make quick money online just from home.

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Make Money From Home

Earning some extra cash directly from home is ambition of everyone. Today there are multiple ways to earn directly from home. Internet has changed the way people can earn their living and become rich easily. Yes, it is the Internet that makes all these things possible.

Here i will discuss with you few ways through which you can earn money just from home. Some of them are online ways and some are offline ways.

Online Ways Include
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is nothing by an Internet marketing technique. There are multiple sites online that runs multiple of affiliate marketing programs. In this people join an affiliate program which so ever they like to and are called as an affiliate.

Work of affiliates is to promote the products of another company or organization. They can promote these products with the help of their own site, blog, social networking sites like facebook, twitter, Digg etc or any other like amazon, eBay etc. To know more about this check Affiliate Marketing.

Selling your products
You can even start your own business over the Internet just from home that is of selling your own products. Like anyone opens his shop in the main market, similarly you can open your shop over the Internet just from home and which is reachable to everyone across the world.

There are sites like amazon, eBay who promote such activities. You simply need to register yourself as a seller with them and then there you are ready to open your shop just from home over world wide web. For having your own shop over the web through them they charge some amount to you.

You can even create your own site that enables this online shopping system with payment system then you don't need to register yourself with anyone. You can sell your stuff directly through your own site. In this case the entire profit is yours. You can even create your own products if any and can sell them online.

Writing articles
Today the world is so large and there are multiple ways to earn fast money. If some one has the talent of writing then he can also make money just from home. You simply need to write your articles related to your interested topic and can turn it into a pdf that portable document format.

It is very easy way to write a book and selling it. You don't need to go to any publishing house to get your book printed and published. There are multiple free software's available over the Internet that can easily turn your simple word document into a pdf. Check Selling EBook.

Once your articles or book is converted into pdf then can sell them online just as other products as i discussed with you in above point.

There is also a sites such as freelancer.com and many more where people post what kind of work is needed. There is also jobs related to writing articles. You can even try it also. There also people make good money by just writing articles for others. Read Freelancing.

Doing blogging
Blog is nothing but a web log. In recent few years blogging has emerged as a very growing field to make money just from home. You can easily develop your own blog on any topic in which you are interested and have knowledge.

There are multiple sites that help you to start blogging. They provide you free service to create your blog and maintain it and that too very easily. Sites that provide you this service for free are Blogger.com, WordPress.com. WordPress.org, Tumblr.com etc. Check How to do Blogging?

Filling online surveys
Online surveys are one of the most oldest way in the Internet history to make some extra money. Companies before launching there any new product conducts these surveys to know the people's reaction and get their feedback for the new product.

Earlier this work was done manually by the group of persons but it was too tedious, time taking and incurred lot of cost. So, in order to overcome all these things online surveys started. Read Online Surveys...

Online teaching
If you have good knowledge in some subjects and you have a keen interest in teaching then you can even take online classes just from home. You don't need to go anywhere for this. There are multiple organization's who are always in need of good teacher's who can teach online.

They even pay a good amount of money for doing so. Over Internet you can search out some of these organizations and can apply for the related post if interested.

Developing small applications and selling them online
If you are techie a person and can develop some good application's such as any game or iPod application then you have a great opportunity to earn money online. You can develop your own application and present it to any company like Apple or any other.

If they like it then, they can purchase it from you and on its each sale you will get your royalty.

Uploading videos
Today everyone is crazy about YouTube. YouTube is one of the most known site to watch online video's. There is no boundation or limit on the type of video's available there. You will get each type of video's such as movies, songs, tutorials, cooking recipes videos, PPT presentation, Daily soaps episodes etc.

People make money over YouTube by uploading videos. The one who uploads video is paid based on the number of views and downloads of his video. If you can also create and upload some videos that you think will attract mass then you can also earn money through YouTube easily.

Uploading cooking recipes
Like above I told you about uploading videos, similarly you can upload your cooking recipes and earn money. You can upload your new ideas and small tips related to cooking that you have learn from your experience and can make money just from home.

This is of the best and easiest way for housewives to make money simply from their hobby and passion.

Data Entry Jobs
Data entry jobs are also one of the very oldest ways to make money just as online surveys. Big companies have huge amount of data that is precious to them. Everyday they need hundred's of people for their data entry. For this they also use to pay some good amount.

If you are good at computers and have sound knowledge related to computer then you can even try for it also. You simply have to give hardly 2-3 hours daily based on your convenience and then you will be paid for that.

But now there are many companies who are making fraud. They make people work for them but at the time of payment they do not respond. Sometimes some companies charge some initial amount to join such data entry job and afterwards they move away with your money.

So, be aware of where and what you are doing. If any company is making some initial charge for such type of jobs then make sure that it could be a big fraud.

Investment in Stock Market
Stock means shares. Buying and selling of stocks at BSE or NSE is termed as stock market. Stocks are nothing but your ownership in that company. Buying stocks at low price and then selling them at high rates makes your profit. Stock market is considered as one of the most volatile market.
Read Stock Market Basics

 

Investment in Commodity Market
Like Stock market deals with buying and selling of stocks similarly commodity trading deals with buying and selling of commodities such as gold, silver, platinum, wheat, oil, mentha oil, Sugar etc. Before investing you hard earned money in any market you should do thorough study of the market. Read How to make money by Commodity Trading

Investment in Forex Market
Forex means foreign exchange. Trading currencies in foreign exchange market is termed as Forex trading. Forex market deals with buying and selling of currency pairs. Stock market and commodity markets are centralized market and work on their individual exchanges but Forex market is not centralized. It works Over the Counter. Read What is Forex Trading

Some Offline Ways include


Giving tutions at home
Giving tutions at home is one of the oldest way to earn money from home. Since years it is into existence. If you are good at teaching and can handle the students then you can open your own tuition classes at your home and can give tutions for the subject in which you are great.

This is actually the best way to earn money just from home and it does increases your own knowledge also along with the student. You can start your own classes, give ads online or in the newspaper to get good students.

Selling Products
If you want to start your own business then, you can simply open your own shop at home itself like any other shop in the market. You can simply purchase the stuff that you want to sell and then you can sell it directly from home.

You don't need any extra space for doing so neither you need to go anywhere else to sell your stock. This is actually a very nice way to start your own business.

Conducting cooking Classes

Generally housewives at home in free time make searches how they can earn money online at home. Here is the best way how they can. They can start their own cooking classes at home just as any other tuition classes.

You can teach your own traditional food along with other recipes and thus earn some extra cash for yourself and your family.

Selling unused home stuff

You can even sell your own unused stuff directly from home along with your new stock. Their are times we purchase somethings and that remains unused or are hardly used. You can sell them online or offline and can make money.

These stuff could be your kitchen accessories, some toys of your baby, computer, laptop, printer, Mobile phones, iPod, Books, novels etc.

Friday, November 25, 2011

MLM Multi Level Marketing

MLM is an acronym for Multi-Level Marketing. It is a very popular way to make money and in fact affect the distribution of money in the organization. It is a form of Pyramid Schemes discussed in my previous article.

In MLM, a pyramid like structure is created in the sales force of the organization. Usually in most of the organizations, a sales person gets a compensation for the sales he is able to generate. But in case of MLM, the sales person gets a compensation for the sales he generates plus a share from the sales generated by the salespersons which are recruited by him. So the overall structure is very similar to a Pyramid Scheme.

Though this structure is not considered very sane, but we have a large number of organizations which are actively involved in that. One of the most common example for the same is Amway.

There is always the lure of making large profits, if you are able to recruit large number of salespersons under you, thereby snatching a share from each sale generated by each salesperson.

I had myself been asked by many of my friends and even strangers to join as a sales group member under them. In fact one of the doctors we used to visit for my child's medicine told me that my son's growth would be much better, if I give him a product. I bought that medicinal product, and that costed me a whopping Rs.1100. The product turned out to be from the arsenal of Amway.

Though I believe that the product must be good, that's why the doctor referred it, but still the amount was very high. That time I realized that people are making serious money out of it, all you need is the marketing skill and ability to hit at the sweet spot of one's mind.

That's all for the day. See you later guys, till then happy money making.
Adios.

Make Money From Pyramid Schemes Model

Pyramid Model or say Pyramid scheme both are the same thing. In Pyramid model participants make money by recruiting other people in the network. Pyramid model is basically a network based business model in which end result is nothing means no real investment or sales of any products or services to the people.

Pyramid model typically work as a network, where individuals pay their “joining fee” or “donation” to people further up in the pyramid, in the expectation that they themselves will get paid by new recruits who join further “down” the pyramid.

Pyramid schemes are nothing but the fraud schemes, scams and illegal in mot of the countries including Albania, Australia, Switzerland, Nepal, Brazil, United States, France, China and many more countries. These types of schemes have existed for atleast a century, some with variations to hide its true form.

Many people believe that multilevel marketing is also a pyramid scheme.

Only very few people of top level in the pyramid scheme make money and rest participants generally loose their money in hope, that they will make good money in return of small investment. Money simply travels up the pyramid. It sounds like an easy way to get rich. One hardly realizes that the only way that anybody makes money in a pyramid scheme is by taking it directly from other participants mainly their friends, relatives and co-workers.

In Pyramid Scheme the essential idea is that suppose Mr.Y makes an initial payment and joins this scheme. Now he will earn money only when he will recruit others like him who will also make this one time payment. They then go to recruit others. Mr.Y gets cut of each participant who are involved below him. He is thus promised exponential benefit as the business expands.

Such business seldom involves sale of any real product or service. The flaw is that there is no end benefit. To know more about this scheme you can visit Wikipedia:Pyramid Scheme and learn about it. I found this link really useful for one's who are interested in this.

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Make Money By Creating Small Tools And Sell online


Internet is a place where anything is possible. There are multiple ways through which you can earn lot of money just from home. Making small tools and selling them online is just one of the ways among them. If you have time, talent and idea then you can make great things and sell them directly on Internet through your own website or others sites like eBay, Amazon etc.

By creating small tools I mean anything like any painting, accessories, small application, any audio or video, photographs etc. There could be multiple things that you can think of. If you have the talent of making good paintings then you can create some of those and sell them online just like other things.

Similarly, if you have sound knowledge of any programming language then, you can even make any small mobile application and can sell it online over Internet or even you can present your project to any mobile or iPhone company such as Apple or nokia and can sell it to them. If they will feel your project is a big hit then  they can pay you very good amount in return of it.
If you have keen interest in music then you can even create your own ringtones and sell them or can create CD's and DVDs of music, ringtones, movies etc. and sell them just as others do.

Now days even students doing computer courses are in need of small applications needed in their curriculum. You can even create such small applications also, like Student Information System, Reservation System, Library Management System etc. and can sell them online.

There are number of opportunities like this available online. You simply need to find one that suits best in your profile and talent and here you are way ahead to make money just from home and that too without any investment or risk.

For selling these things its not necessary that you should own your own website. Though if you have one is the best thing as by selling your products using others websites they charge you some minimum amount. This amount varies from site to site and sometimes the commission that they charge is bit high.

For selling online you simply need to create an attractive ad related to your product, having products photograph and an attractive title. Now place this ad on the site such as on amazon, eBay, or where ever you want to sell your product.

You need to sign up yourself with any of these sites then you can open your own e-store or if you want to promote your product through these sites then you can simply post your ad. For these services you are charged some minimum amount. For more please check Sell on Amazon, Make money through Ebay.

These are few some small tips that if you follow and take seriously then you can earn some extra cash and give your talent a meaningful direction.

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Make Money By Buying And Selling Websites

One interesting way to make money on Internet that has newly emerged is buying and selling of websites. This is relatively a new field and has become a great online business just in few years.

When we talk about websites we think that the person should have good technical skills. But its not so. It is not necessary to be a techie person to do this business. Anyone who does have good business skills can do this buying and selling of websites.

As the talk comes to buying and selling websites there are many questions that flashes into mind such as, How much a website is worth? How to evaluate the value of a website? Where to buy or sell website? 

It is an easy online business to get into. It is possible to purchase a website for a relatively very small amount of money. Many websites point to advertising revenue that will pay back their entire investment within a year.

Evaluate how worth a website is?

There are three ways to find the value of an existing website.
  • You can use a computer program to find the value of a website. Beware of the seller who claims there sites value just based on computer programs evaluation.
  • Compare your site with other site those are similar to it. On what price those sites are being sold? Through this you will be able to get much more clear and exact value of your website. The same way is used to evaluate real estate property.
  • Use Intrinsic value i.e. broke your site into small components and than evaluate how worth they are.

If you are not interested in buying any website then you can even build up your own site by outsourcing or building up on your own and later on sell it if needed. In this case if you are techie person and have good knowledge of some script and programming language then you can make money easily and that too without any investment.

The only thing is that in this case you have to start right from the scratch of building website, having domain name registered and then finally hosting it. And in case you buy a site on low price and then later on sell it then there is no headache at your end on development. 

Here I have listed few advantages of buying a website rather than building it
  • Very less start up work.
  • You have to not work harder to bring search engine traffic and building ranking factors.
  • Make use of existing customers.
  • Need to less or no work out to monetize your website and its profit.

In case you want to purchase a website then there are multiple site over the Internet that can help you for this. Some of them include:-

Flippa.com 
It is the number 1 site for this buying and selling websites and domains.
Sitepoint 
On this you can buy and sell premium sites.

Website Broker 
On this also you can buy and sell websites and domain names too.

This buying and selling of website business is very similar to real estate property business.

As we use to bur some property at lower rates and wait until it price takes good hike and as soon as we get good profit, we sell it. Similarly, in website business we buy a website at lower rates and wait until we get good profit by selling it.

Another way what we do is buy some property, modernize it by doing some investment on it and give it on rent and keep it as an income stream. Same we can do with website. We can buy the website, monetize it and rebuild it and keep it as an income stream rather than selling. As we can sell the property also at much higher rate as it is more modernized same we can do with websites.

Before buying any website do prior research. Find a proven Business model that is actually a big hit in the market so that your investment doesn't go into vain. Small mistake of making a wrong decision can simply waste your money. This is everything about buying a business that is "undervalued".

Once you have found a business model now try to acquire a website that is similar to it or build up something similar to it. Now run your website atleast for a year and monetize it in every way you can. Now you can sell off your business or keep it the choice is yours.

Apart from this websites and real estate properties Domaining business is also there that also works in the same pattern. See Buy And Sell Domain.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Make Money Through Commodity Trading


Like Forex market deals with exchange of Currencies, Stock Market deals with buying and selling of shares of different companies, similarly Commodity Trading deals with trading of Commodities in future.

The one who want to diversify their portfolios beyond investing in shares, mutual funds, bonds, real estates etc. commodities is the best option. 

Commodities allow a portfolio to improve overall return at the same level of risk. It has been estimated that commodities increased returns around 130-180 basis points at same risk.

Retail and small investors should be careful while investing in commodities as the swings are very volatile in this market and lack of knowledge can easily loose one's money in this market. One who has good ideal asset than he can think of investing in this market.

Like stock market, commodity market is also driven by demand and supply cycle. Investors should understand the demand-supply cycle and should have a view on what factors affect them. You should always invest in commodities that you can analyze rather than speculate across products that you have no idea.

Commodities means all types of products. On a broader view commodity market is the market where raw or primary products are exchanged. Commodities means all types of products like gold, silver, crude, agri products such as pulses, grains, spices, oils, mentha oils, metals etc.

Commodity market have different exchange where trading is done. You have basically three options:-

  • The National Commodity and Derivative Exchange (NCDEX)
  • The Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) and 
  • The National Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (NMCE)

The exchanges are regulated by the Forward Markets Commission (FMC).

Unlike the equity markets, brokers don't need to register themselves with the regulatory body. Only in case of some foul practices are suspected than FMC deals with it.

Now the question arises how to start commodity trading? Like equity market you have to fulfill some customer norms before starting trading in commodities. You need to have a bank account and a separate commodity demat account from the National Securities Depository to trade on NCDEX just like in stocks.

After having demat account you will need to have a broker. Commodity brokers are separate from those of stock brokers. Though now many stock brokers have also sought membership with NCDEX and MCX hence now they can also help to trade in commodities. Besides you will need to give your details such as PAN no., bank account no, etc.

Some brokers who are both stock and commodity brokers include sharekhan, ICICIdirect, ISJ Securities, Sunidhi Consultancy etc. Commodity trading can also be done directly through Internet just as like equity trading. You can get a list of more members from the respective exchanges and decide upon the broker you want to choose from.

As I told you earlier also, that commodity trading is done in future just like future trading in equity market. The major difference in these two is that the information availability of supply and demand is not as robust and controlled as of equity market.

Like any market the demand-supply equation influences the price. Same applies to commodity market. It is also driven by the same supply and demand cycle.

The main difference between the commodity market and the stock market is based on the type of product traded. Commodity trading is done in two ways:-
  • Directional Trading
  • Day Trading

Directional Trading
Agricultural production is highly unpredictable and seasonal. During harvesting season supply goes up hence prices of commodities comes down. There are traders who use to trade using these patterns in the commodity market. Such trading is termed as Directional trading.

Day Trading
It is as similar to the stock market day trading. Here the positions are bought in the morning and squared off at the end of the day.

You need to keep yourself update to earn good money. The easiest way for doing so is the daily financial newspaper. Daily prices of commodities and the news related to agricultural and perishable products is also there in detail. Brokers research and analysts report is also sometimes mentioned.

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Monday, November 14, 2011

How to Make Money in Share Market and Investment Tips

The first thing about investing in share market is that it is very easy to do and anyone can do it. When we talk about investing in stock market then, be clear that there is no fixed rule to invest. Also there is no particular stock or product on whose investment it is guaranteed that you will get 100% return.

Stock market can be considered as a refine form of Gambling. I termed it as Gambling because though we apply technical and fundamental analysis in this yet there is a great role of your luck too that favors you.

The best investment choice for everyone is different. It varies greatly depending on individuals. If one wants to invest a big amount then he could buy stocks that are high in rates and one who has small budget then he can have shares of small companies. 

Another thing is that you should always invest only in that stock in which you are comfortable and about whom you have good knowledge.

Never make an investment in stock market that is simply based on speculation. Always have thorough knowledge and do prior research of the company on whose share you have decided to invest your money.

As a beginner always have your limits regarding investment. Don't invest everything that you have saved at once at one place. This is a very wrong doing. Most of the time people go bankrupt due to this only.

Make small investments in the beginning. As the time passes by, you will have more knowledge regarding how to invest and when to invest. Then, at that time you can grow your investments. As you learn and save more, you can expand and diversify your investments.

There are multiple choices about how and where you can invest your money to get best returns. Slowly and gradually you will get detail knowledge about all these as you start dealing with this stock market.

You can invest your money as:-
  • Buying stocks of different companies for short term.
  • Buying stocks of different companies for Long Term.
  • Buying and Selling of stocks in Future and Options.

Buying and selling of stocks in F/O is entirely different and I will never recommend you as a beginner to deal in F/O. This is actually very risky. Though people earn a lot in this in very short span of time, but they do loose much more easily in it if the market trend is different as they expected to be.

When you buy a particular stock for less than a period of 6months then such investment is termed ad short term investment. While if you invest in a stock for more than 6months then such investment is termed as long term investment.

There are basically three ways based on which people invest their hard earned money in this market. They are:-
  • Speculation
  • Technical Analysis
  • Fundamental Analysis
Speculation
It is the most traditional way of investing. Traders who make investment purely based on speculation, they simply monitor the market for long period of time and try to guess out the markets trend and few stocks trend in which they want to invest.

Based on the monitoring study they make investment in the market. In this way of trading high volume of risk is involved. Investment based on pure speculation is never considered as safe investment.

Technical Analysis
Technical traders are those traders who trade in the market after having a deep study of charts and graphs, watching lines on stock or index graphs that might indicate buy or sell signals.

Fundamental Analysis
It uses stock valuation method that uses financial and economic analysis to predict the movement of stock prices. They examine things like corporate events such as actual or anticipated earnings reports, stock splits, reorganizations or acquisitions.

Stock market is the most volatile market. As it goes up, it comes down also and vice verse. But due to all this your investing decisions should not get affected. 

You should never invest at random in this market. 

Always before making any investment have thorough study about stocks and and the company in which you want to make an investment. Once you have completed your research about the company make your investment plan like how much you want to invest, for how long you would like to invest etc.

Majorly what happens people invest in stocks after making all types of study and after making an investment plan. But as soon as their are any unwanted fluctuations they start panicking. Never let your plan be affected due to the market moves Have faith in your investment.

There is small list of Do's and Don't s of the Stock Market that one should always remember while investing their hard earned money in the market.

Tips for Investment in Stock Market

What you Must NOT Do in Stock Market
  •     Don't Speculate to make Investment.
  •     Don't panic when market falls and don't be overjoyed when its zooming.
  •     Don't make huge investments.
  •     Don't chase performance
  •     Don't ignore expenses

What You Must Do in Stock Market
  •     Believe in your Investment
  •     Formulate your strategy and stick to it.
  •     Get Rid of the Junk
  •     Diversify your investment.

By saying diversify your investment i mean to say that don't invest all your money at one single place. Invest it at different places in different ways like making some investment in stock market, some in commodity trading, in Mutual Funds, Fixed Deposits (FD's) etc.

Few very Basic Rules of Stock Market
  •     Whenever Market is High It Will Fall
  •     Whenever Market is Low, without any external Factor, It Will rise
  •     Same thing Applies To Stocks Scripts Also
  •     Choose the right broker for your investment.
  •     Formulate your own strategy and follow a single format.
  •     Always select the stock that has got a perspective profit in the near future.
  •     Perform basic research on stock and investment.
  •     Once finalized on which stock to invest, analyze it technically, its movements in the market.
  •     Check out for the right price of stock to get the maximum return of investment.
  •     Distribute your investment in different segments so as to optimize your risk management.

There are few basic steps that needs to be followed to invest in Stock Market and earn good money. That are:-
  • Open a Demat Account
  • Fund your account with minimum amount required to invest in stocks
  • Create your Strategy
  • Select and purchase stocks
  • Save more money and invest in more stocks or Mutual Funds or FD's
  • Keep educating yourself with latest market news and trends
  • Occasionally have a look on your portfolio to make sure you have diversified your investment
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Sunday, November 13, 2011

What is Sensex And Nifty?



Till now we have discussed what are stocks and why do companies issue stock. Another two most important terms related to stock market are "Sensex" and "Nifty". Without these two terms one can't even talk about Stock Market. Actually when one talks about Stock Market its somehow always related to Sensex and Nifty.

Sensex and Nifty basically both are "index" that is indicator. They majorly indicates whether the overall stocks have gone up or most of the stocks have gone down.

Sensex and Nifty are the two most important stock exchanges in India. Although there are many more like Calcutta Stock Exchange etc. but they are not as important as these two. Sensex means Bombay Stock Exchange that is BSE and Nifty means National Stock Exchange that is NSE.
 
Sensex is an indicator of all the major companies of the BSE and Nifty is the indicator of all the major companies of NSE
. When ever a company declares itself as "Pvt Ltd. " it is basically eligible to be mentioned in stock market. The owner of the company has to register it in either BSE or NSE. 

Once the company is registered in any of these two, it means anytime company can float its share in the market when needed.

If Sensex goes up it means most of the major companies of BSE have gone up and if it goes down it means most of the major companies of Sensex have gone down. Similarly it applies to Nifty also. Both Sensex and Nifty indicates whether there major stock rates have increased or decreased.

There is another index that is also very important to know while you talk about stock market and that is BSE mid-cap index. BSE mid-cap index was introduced by BSE to track the performance of the companies with relatively smaller market capitalization.

Over the years BSE midcap has proven a great utility from the point of investing community.

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

What is Click Fraud?

If you are interested in joining any Adwords program to increase your sites popularity and traffic to your site, then for sure you should also know about Click Fraud. What Click Fraud is? Click Fraud is basically a type of Internet crime that occurs in such online Pay per Click advertising program.

Also known as click spam, click fraud involves a false inflation of the number of clicks on an ad. Fraudulent click is a click in which the viewer doesn't have any interest in ads content, he is simply interested in causing a charge to the advertiser.

Often these frauds are automated by a pre-written script or a computer program. Sometimes they are made manually also. Click Fraud can be done in many ways. Sometimes the fraudulent is very innocent and he might be not knowing that he is committing a crime by doing so. 

In such case the prime intention is generally, to make an earning to his friend or colleague by simply clicking on ads that are displayed on their blogs or sites. These ads are a part of Adsense.

Other times, purpose can be far more malicious. In above case the intention is simple, to help one's friend to earn some money through Google Adsense. But when this crime happens in terms of Adwords then it is very dangerous. In this case, generally the Competitors do so. They do so in order to drain out the rival's budgets by continuously clicking their ads.

Till now we know that each advertiser have to pay some amount to Google when ever their ad is clicked on the search result page. So, what competitors does, without having any interest in ad they simply keep on clicking the ad so that the advertiser is charged again and again. 

Another damage that it does to advertiser is that, google displays a particular ad only till then, until some particular number of clicks are not made on that ad. When that threshold is met then that ad is not displayed on that day. In this way competitors make their ads to be get displayed for a longer period of time.

Another way could be that a competitor publisher may be doing these fraud clicks. His intention in this case could be to frame the webmaster publishing the pay per clicks ad so that the advertiser pull their ads and the related revenue from the site because they think that they have been defrauded by the webmaster.

Till now there is not any proper rule to stop these fraudulent clicks still Google Adwords has processes in place that weigh click activity with known fraudulent clicking behavior so as to minimize the risk of click fraud and to protect you to their best.

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Friday, November 11, 2011

How To Design Adwords

Once you have set up and activated your Adwords account and your billing information is entered, your ads will go on air within minutes and will be displayed in front of 1000's of potential customers. Unlike, other programs it takes just few minutes to activate your account and display ads on the search result page rather taking a day, a week, a month or something like that before your ads are displayed in front of your customers.

So, you should be very sure and targeted while designing your ads. While you are free to design and compose your ads though there are some editorial restrictions in this program. You should always take care of these restrictions while designing your ads, otherwise your Google Adwords account can even be disabled forever if you are found violating its rules (This thing applies for some rules not for all. It will be clear to you as you read this article). Some of its rules are:-

1) You should always use standard punctuation in your ads.
2) Not allowed to use exclamations in your title, nor allowed to repeat unnecessary punctuation's.
3) Can use just one single exclamation mark in your entire ad. So be sure which is the most attractive part of your ad that you would like to emphasize on.
4) Not allowed to use all capital letters in your words to emphasize on your ad such as EXCITING OFFER, FREE, BUY NOW etc. However, you can use all capital letters if your ad includes acronyms such as CPM, CPC etc.
5) You also need to use proper grammar, spelling and eliminate repetition.

These above guidelines basically emphasize on standard formatting of the ads. Now apart from formatting ads should be well concise also. For this its a rule that your title should not contain more than 25characters and you ad body should not exceed more than two lines and each line can contain at most 35characters and at last your URL. These restrictions are to maximize the effectiveness of the ad space used.


As Google always wants to maintain the quality of advertisements that it distributes, they do follow few restrictions on what type of ad they will display and also the wording used in ads. There are few features that Adwords do not accept:

1) Ads that promote some kind of weapons or drugs.
2) Ads that promote violence.
3) Ads that promote alcohol use.
4) Ads that promote illegal devices or any such substance.
5) Ads that promote fireworks or explosives.
6) Ads that promote non-family entertaining materials like adult sites or movies.
7) Ads that promote miracle cures.

Along with these restrictions you should also take care that re-routing links are not permitted nor any sort of pop ups are allowed to use. Adwords expects you to be able to support your claims about your service and products.

Now with respect to URL link Adwords require that your link is accurate and it works. Your site must have a working back button so that the viewer can easily reach back to the search result page or that network page from where he has arrived.

Make sure that you fulfill all of the above requirements as Adwords check out all these things before you are accepted in this program.

One very important tip to attract the viewer's towards your site is:

"Search for the best performing keyword in your ad group and try to include it in your ad text, especially in the title. When a user searches with that keyword your ad will appear and that keyword phrase will appear in bold font within your ad on Google."





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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Why do Companies Issue Stock And How?



We know that holding stock of any company means having an ownership in that company and its assets. The more stock you have, the more power, right of authority and ownership you will have in that company.

Now the biggest question arises why any one will give you the ownership within its company, share his assets and profit with you? The answer to this question is very simple. Any companies growth is directly related with its capital and the profit that it is making per year.

To increase profit everyone needs to expand his business. And to expand the business one needs more money. Companies can raise money in two ways:- one is taking loan from the bank or issue bonds and second is raise money from the public that is by issuing stocks.

The first method of raising money is known as "debt financing" where as second one is known as "equity financing". Issuing stock is the advantageous way to the companies to raise money as they don't need to pay back the money or interest payments to anyone.

This is the reason why the companies issue stocks and how does stocks come into the market. All that shareholder get in return is the hope that some day share rate will increase and they will be worth more of what they paid to buy them.

When first time any company issue stocks or float its stock in the market then it is known as Initial public offering(IPO).
The company can also raise funds through issuing bonds. Bonds are also there in the market that you can buy. But it comes under "debt financing". Companies rarely issue bonds as they cost more to the company. If you are holding the bond of a particular company then there is surity that you will get back your money with interest payments as promised.

But is case of stocks there is no surity that you will get your money back. I mean to say that, in case company goes bankrupt due to any reason then the value of its stock also goes to zero means the stock that you are holding also has no price.

But if you invest your money in some good stocks after through study then stocks can give better return as compared to bonds. Bonds give you fixed return that is the amount that you invested in buying it plus interest rate. But in case of stock returns are not fixed.

Suppose you have purchased 50 stocks of a certain company at 100rs each and after few days it becomes 200Rs each then you earn 100rs more per share. Means your profit is straight away around Rs. 5000 plus the amount you invested in it.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Make Money Through Share Market

What is Stock Market or Share Market? What are the things that constitutes Stock Market? Stock Market basically, deals with issuing and trading of shares. Stock Market is everything about shares. So, before getting into what is stock market and how to make money through it, one should know what are shares?

When we talk about shares we talk about a particular companies share. Share of a company means ownership of it. The total number of share we have of a particular company it represents the total number of ownership that one have in it. Shares are nothing but a part of ownership of its company. The more number of shares you have the greater ownership you have in the company.

Share are also referred as stocks or equity. Each stock has a unique symbol in share market. For example:- Reliance Communication is represented as R COM. This symbol is used in the stock market to refer it instead of using the company's full name. Whenever one wants to trade with any stock in the market it refers its symbol while buying or selling. This is known as its script name.

A stock is represented as a "Stock Certificate"
. This is a small piece of paper that is proof of your ownership. Now a days everyone has a demat account and now there are no certificates. Everything is done directly through computer electronically just by few clicks of a mouse.

Once you have decided you want to make some investment in this share market then its very easy to start. You simply need to open a demat account in any of the bank that enables online trading. You can also do the trading through some broker. There are many of them available in the market. Only thing is that before working with any broker be sure that it is authentic and provides best service among all.

There are number of brokers like Angel Broking, ICICIdirect.com, sharekhan, kotaksecurities, Aditya Birla Ltd., IndiaBulls, IndianStockmarket.net, IndiraSecurities, Motilal Oswal, UTI Securities etc.

There are two ways of trading either you trade directly through your demat account or you trade with one of the brokers above mentioned. If you trade through a broker then you simply need to tell him which stock you need to buy or sell and that he will do it on your behalf. It charges around 1% or 2% of your profit. If its lose then its entirely yours.

They do send alert regarding hot shares in the market to buy or sell.

Another way is you trade directly online through your computer. In this case you simply need to open your demat account in any one of the trading bank and now you can directly buy or sell shares online and make money. But play safe as you loose more early then you earn money.

Stock Market is considered to be the most volatile market in the world. The way it fluctuates or changes no other market does. So, there is the possibility to become a millionaire over a night as well as to become bankrupt within seconds. That's why i always say play safe in this market.

By saying play safe i mean, invest only that much amount in the market whose lose you can bear. Never invest your entire saving in your greediness. It is the most unpredictable thing. There is no fixed theory or rules based on which one can earn money.

It is purely the study of over the time of how market has been moving during the period of time and again your luck.

When one buys a particular share on lower price and sells it on higher price then, he earns his profit or when sells higher and buys on lower price. Both way its possible. You can buy also and then sell or sell first then buy at lower rate. Its purely your choice what you want to do.

As i said share is nothing but your ownership in the company's asset. So, you do have share in the companies assets. Sometimes company does distributes its share of profit among its share holders in the form dividends. But its not necessary. Company distributes dividends yearly or half yearly.

Owing a stock doesn't mean that you have the power of making decision in the company. It just mean that if a company earns profit and as a result its stock prices go high then your stock price will also raise and you will get your part of profit on selling that stock.

By having ownership it doesn't mean that in case company goes bankrupt you will loose your personnel asset. At most you can lose that much amount that you have invested in buying the stocks of that company that you are holding.


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