Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Make Money By Writing Reviews

If you are good at writing and have keen interest about writing on different and new things then this is the best way you can make money online easily just by writing reviews on different products and services. You can even write reviews on different sites and for doing so you are paid a fair enough money per review.

The amount you can earn per review varies greatly it may be 50$per review or say 15$. It could be anything. If you enjoy writing reviews, you can turn this little passion into a money making hobby. There are multiple sites that use to pay out for writing reviews.

You need to register with them and have their membership. This membership is free. You can be a member with multiple sites simultaneously. Once you are a registered member you login in personnel member area and their you can scan through the categories and search the product on which you would like to write the review.

Always write review only on those products or services or sites which you know well and have good knowledge about it. Write what you feel about it. Your likes and dislikes both regarding the product. Clearly mention its pros and cons and make it well organized. Your review will contain your affiliate link to the page that you reviewed. So, that every time a user visits a site through your review and buys any product your clickbank account is automatically credited with your commission.

You should also promote your review link through forums or different sites so that more number of people get to know about the product you reviewed and more number of viewers your review have.

For payment process its necessary you should have a clickbank account, or PayPal account. If you don't have one register for it and get your user id and password. Following are few sites that use to pay for writing reviews:
  1. SoftwareJudge.com
    SoftwareJudge.Com as the name suggests, accepts only software related reviews for products listed at the site. I came to this site through a forum where url was mentioned. The site claims to pay as much as 50 dollars per review you write, however i have not tried yet.
  2. Epinions.Com
    In Epinions.com your pay is determined by the number of page views your review generates. Be aware of the fact that every review is read by a editor and then only is activated online. So, if you try to submit a review that is not yours, you could be banned for life.
  3. DigitalPoint.Com
    DigitalPoint works differently as compared to other review writing sites. It does not require writing any reviews for any product. DigitalPoint forums are based on a profit sharing principle. You need to create a topic and participate in discussion, and half the ad revenue is yours. You have to have your own AdSense account. Each time the ad is clicked, 50% of the ad revenue will go to DigitalPoint, the other half is yours.
  4. ReviewsArena.com
    Reviewsarena.com is also a site that pays you for writing reviews. You need to have membership of it and a clickbank account for payment process. Every time a user visits a site and buys a product with your own unique affiliate link given to you by reviewsarena.com you earn your commission and the money goes automatically to your clickbank account.
It is very easy and quick to start with. So, write reviews and make money.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Make Money With iPhone Apps

Anyone can easily make an iPhone application and make money through it. To be realistic everyone cannot be Ethan Nicholas, Steve Demeter or Joel Comm who made millions of dollars through their iPhone application but yes, you can surely make few hundreds or thousand's of dollars through your application depending how unique and new it is in the market.

Frankly speaking, to create an iPhone web application it is not necessary that you should be a computer genius or geek. Having basic knowledge about computer or internet can easily create an iPhone application. It is quite simple and straight forward.

As a first step you should visit Apple website and check Appstore. Take a look what type of applications are their and what else could benefit apple's users. You should get feedback from existing apple's iPhone users what do they like in their iPhone and what else enhancements they would love if it is there. The research process will help you in brainstorming and making a decision what type of application would be loved by everyone and thus could be a great hit.

Once you have an idea what you would like to make you can go online and search for the one who can help you in developing this application. There are sites like freelancer.com, Elance.com and many more where you can post your requirement. Just wait and watch how many people are bidding for your project. Notice you have to pay out for the work which you are outsourcing. Now it depends on you to whom you wish to give your project to develop.

There are several reasons why you should develop a iPhone apps. Among them 3main reasons are:
  • Your work is well compensated. I mean Apple pays off a very good amount on every sale of your application. Apple keeps just 30% of sale with itself and rest 75% is paid off to the iPhone application developer. Hence a very good return on every sale.
  • Market of iPhone is growing day by day. There is an enormous growth in the sale of iPhone's. Millions of iPhone's are sold yearly and this is what that leads a fertile ground for small developers to create fortune.
  • There is a great workspace flexibility as you don't have any boss whose orders you need to follow. No work or time boundation.
Just creating an application doesn't mean that you can place it in Appstore and start earning. Once you develop an iPhone it needs to be submitted to Apple for approval. It could be rejected as well as accepted. Once accepted it will be placed in Appstore by Apple.

Now the job that remains at your end is to promote your application very well so that it can reach out and is well known by everyone. You should promote it through multiple forums, social sites, your social network, your friends, through newspapers or any other public media etc.

Once your iPhone application gets popular then you have to simply sit and watch how much return it is giving you. It is as simple as that.

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Make Money By Bringing Referrals

Today on this money making blog we are going to discuss how one can earn some money by just bringing referrals. There are companies that use to pay to its members on bringing each referral. You need to simply sign up with these companies and start earning right away. Usually these companies use to pay through PayPal or AlertPay. So, along with signing up with these companies you also need to have a PayPal or AlertPay account.

There are many few companies that actually pay out on bringing of referrals and many are frauds and scams who simply make people a fool. So, be alert while joining any such program. Make prior research about the company and then only join it as very few are legitimate once.

These are generally PTC sites that is Paid to Click sites who work like this. They are basically a mediator between the advertisers and its potential clients. A PTC (Paid To Click) is a website that pays its member for the ads they click and view, on a daily basis. The advertiser pays a fee to the ptc and then the ptc shares a part of that fee with its members, with the only condition that the members click and view the ads.

The members also gets paid when any new member joins them or say sign ups, using their referral link which each PTC gives you. More number of referrals you can make, the more money you will be able to earn through PTC sites say around 300-500$ per month.

Earning money with these PTC sites is very simple. When you sign up with these programs, you get paid to click of ads and visit of websites. They usually provide 4-10ads on daily basis and you have to visit and view the website for hardly 30-40secs to earn money. Usually they use to pay .005 to .01 cents per visit. There is NO limit how much you can make money through these sites.

Generally PTC sites use to pay through PayPal or AlertPay. So, you do need to have a account with any of these to receive your payments and earnings.

Now the question comes how do all this works:
  • You need to click, browse and view advertisements that are being send to you. Then click the button that appears to get the credit as indicated.
  • Never click on the cheat link or all your earning will be reset to Zero.
  • There is a countdown timer that appears on the top of the page. Wait until it says "Your account has Been Credited". Now you can click on next Ads and proceed.
  • Browse through ads and refresh page. You will notice your balance will increase.
Now coming to referrals. Till now it must be clear what is a referral? Referrals are those people who join or take membership with your referral link or whose account is attributed to your account by the PTC site administrator through the process of renting or buying.

There are 3types of PTC referrals:
  1. Direct Referrals:- It is a genuine referral who joins through your referral link, from another website, blog or forum.
  2. Rented Referrals:- The PTC sites also provides rented referrals for which they do charge some amount. This is possible because their are people who have joined the PTC without being referred by other members.
  3. Bought Referrals:- Some sites don't only rent referrals they sell also.
You can think it as a Multilevel Marketing technique to make money as in this each referral that join to your down-line you get your part of commission whether he joins directly through your referral link or through the one who has joined through yours. The one who is at end of the downline have to really work harder to earn money. The top level one's enjoy and make money very easily.

Since the viability of the PTC business model has been questioned, as fraudulent clicks have ramped up the expenses for advertisers. Hence, the burden has been placed on Google, Yahoo and others to determine valid clicks from fraudulent ones. You might also be interested in knowing Click Fraud.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Make Money By Selling Photographs

Everything that could be used for commercial purpose, is a form of marketing and marketing usually takes the form of photographs. Today selling photographs is becoming a very large business. Earlier there were certain companies that use to handle it offline but now everything has become online.

Take a look on anything around you everything has a photo, an image above it. May it be a cereal box, any accessory, or anything even each website uses some photographs to explain better what they are trying to say and to what things do they relate.

Each type of business needs photographs for specific purposes. Whether it is a book publisher, magazine publisher, advertising agencies, film makers, web designers, graphic artists, interior designer, corporate designer etc. everyone needs photographs for their business. There are two ways they can get photographs. One is to hire a photographer and organize photo shoots at specific location. But this is very time consuming and also an expensive way.

Another way is to simply buy photographs of your use from someone and use them. This business of buying and selling of photographs is well known as Stock Photography. Wikipedia's definition for Stock Photography is:- Stock Photography consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific purposes. Their are many people like books or magazines publishers, designers, writers etc. everyone needs photographs for their creative assignments.

If you are a good photographer then it is very easy for you to earn some extra money through this photography business. I don't say that it a way through which you can become rich but yes for sure you can earn some money apart from your daily earning and that too very easily.

Your photography hobby now can become a source of extra income for you. But remember you need to click some very unique and extraordinary photographs apart from your immediate surroundings. They should really be admirable then only they will be accepted for selling purpose.

Their are many online sites that are into this business of buying and selling of photographs. You simply need to register yourself with any of those and submit your clicked photographs for selling purpose. Their are no initial charges for uploading your photographs. Now each time your photo is downloaded you get your share of profit.

It depends how much you earn per photograph. Each site have different share of profit for the owners of the photograph. Some of the sites where you can upload your photographs for selling purpose are:-
  1. ShutterStock
  2. Dreamstime
  3. Fotolia
  4. BigStockPhoto
  5. IStockPhoto
To make money through selling photographs you should:-
  • You need to have a very good digital camera with very high resolution and pixel quality.
  • You should have time to invest in this business as editing photographs does takes time. It is not a task of few minutes. You need to give full description and upload full sized image.
  • You should have talent of capturing very rare images apart from your surroundings.
  • You should know how to edit photographs like cropping, coloring, shadowing, sharpening etc. There are multiple tools available that you can use for editing photographs like Photoshop, corel, CS2 etc.
  • It will be very good if you can convince your family and friends to sign model release forms.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Start Your Own Online Business

There are many reasons why you should look at starting your own business. Most important of all is, everyone wants to be his own Boss. No one ever wants to work under anyone and follow anyone's instruction or any employer telling him when to start, when to finish, how much you can earn and not etc. This is a common human mentality. There are again other reasons too like improving your lifestyle. Apart from all this though, one can't ignore the importance of having a job as it provides a stable income for living.

With job you should look for several other side opportunities for building up your own business. It will always act as a residual income and will be highly beneficial during global economic conditions like recession. You can look for an alternative online business that can give you the lifestyle that you want.

Global Financial Crisis has been a reason for many of us of being in distress, due to losing job or watching investment portfolio being decimated. Again the other reason may be everyone wants entrepreneurial freedom which is not possible when one is working under some employer. He needs to obey someone's orders and instructions like when to come, when to go, where to go, at what time etc. You have to even listen to your employer for things that you have not done and you are not even responsible for those acts.

If you are thinking of starting your own web based online business and yet you are confused following are few points that may help you to make a final decision.
  1. Work For Yourself Not For Your Employer
    When you are working so hard day and night, giving your 100% dedication to your work think once for whom you are doing all this and by all this who is going to be benefited at the end in terms of wealth and money. When you are working as an employee of someone at the end of each month what you get is a predefined salary nothing else. I'm not telling that you should ignore the importance of a job but you should think what long term benefit you are getting through it.

    You should work for something that makes you feel happy and wealthy. You should look for an alternative source of residual income that will give your long tern benefit and safety. In case someday you leave or loose your job then also your earning is continued and you can live a better lifestyle.

    You should think as if today you are going to work for yourself and build your own fortune not of someone else.
  2. Have a Passive stream Of Income
    For a service class person it is very hard to live a luxurious life. Whatever they earn, generally everything goes in daily expenses and needs. They hardly get time to think of their dreams and fulfill them. But you will have an alternative source of income, any online business to make money, then you can even think of running after your dreams and fulfilling it.

    Otherwise their entire life simply goes in basic needs and they don't even get anything that they could save for their future or retirement. By having a passive stream of income you can make your retirement plans and can save accordingly, enjoying your life fully. 
  3. Consider economic downturn
    When you are in job, there is always a fear if someday your boss will fire you without any reason then what will happen. Or during market downturn, recession thousands of people are released just like this without any prior notice, think if someday it happens to you then what back up is there for you to survive and for your family.

    You should always be prepared for the worst conditions and work according to it. Simply having  good job and working for your employer is not a 100%safety for you neither your family. You need to have some other way of source of income to survive and fulfill all your needs and dreams.
     
  4. Lifestyle and Tax Benefits
    Lifestyle is obviously one of the most important and boosting factor to start and build up your own successful online home business. Yet another most advantageous part of it is Tax. Its not like you don't need to pay tax or any sort of redemption you will be getting. But once you have your own online business then your your travel expenses, lifestyle expenses and business expenses now become legitimate tax deductions.
  5. Be more flexible and have time for your family
    Once you set up your own online business, think what quality time you will be able to spend with your family. How flexible life will be? You don't need to rush to your office early in the morning, don't need to listen to anyone. You can work anywhere anytime, while watching TV with your family or even while you are on vacations with your family.

    Today everything is possible with the help of mobile, Internet, Laptop etc. All these things had made our life so simpler, so flexible that everyone can work while moving. Our mobility has increased with the help of modern technologies. Today even large organizations like Apple, Google are empowering their employees by providing more flexible employment arrangements.
  6. Great sense of Achievement
    Though to start a online business is not an easy task. It requires full dedication and hard work. You need to learn new skills and you have to face such obstacles whose solution is not mentioned anywhere. Every time you have to find your own way out. That may be right or might be wrong. It is everything about test and trial. No fixed rules no fixed path.

    Always remember "It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."– Richard M. DeVos

    Once you get success in your new venture its sense of achievement is far far superior which can't be defined.
10 Legitimate Home Business Ideas
    1. Affiliate Marketing
      Affiliate marketing involves promoting products of other people and getting commission based on it. It is a hassle free way to start online business and requires no investment in terms of money, stocking products, process payment or shipping anything. If you feel like that it is a your type business then you can start it as your online business.

      Commission that you receive vary from products to products that you promote. Generally on digital products commission is very high say 50%. There are multiple affiliate networks running hundreds of affiliate programs. You can search one that suits you best and start earning right away. Check Affiliate Marketing
    2. Create Your Own Digital Product
      If you can create your own CD's, DVDs , any mobile application or anything then it is one of the most solid way to make money online. It is one time effort and through out your life you will make money out of it. People are sometimes very afraid of it but believe me its not as difficult as they think.
    3. Home Business Websites
      If you have your own home websites then you can make money directly from it. There are multiple ways of doing so. Most known one is affiliate marketing itself. If you have your own website then you can promote products directly on your site. You don't need to use any social networking site for doing so, or any other site that charges you for doing so.

      There are many other ways to earn from your own site like Adsense, Adwords, YouTube etc.
    4. My WorldPlus
      MyWorldPlus is both a business opportunity and way to save money on different things like Groceries, restaurants, shopping etc. Its joining fees is of 69.95$ and later $19.95 per month. With membership card you get discount card and access to their entire database that is full of discounts area wise.

      The Business opportunity pays instant commission whenever someone joins MyWorldPlus using your link and monthly commission based on all member that joined after you.
    5. Freelancing
      Freelancing means working for yourself. The topmost reasons to work as a freelancer are working according to your convenience, working from home and you don't need any boss. If you also feel same then freelancing could be the best business that you can start online. You can have it as full time as well as part time.

      If you have experience in particular area then you can start it as full time otherwise start as part time with your job and along with experience you can go for full time. Check How to start Freelancing.
    6. Google Adsense
      Adsense is a publishing program where Google allows each size website publishers to display targeted Google ads on their websites and earn money. Each time any user clicks on the ad displayed the website publisher earns his commission. Check Google Adsense
    7. Global Domains International(GDI)
      GDI is actually a company that provides and supplies a domain extension for business. The domains having extension of .WS is of GDI. It is a domain and hosting company with exclusive rights to market and sell the .WS domains. At the same time GDI provides customers with an opportunity to earn passive residual income using their recruiting or affiliate system.

      When you sign up with GDI you will get your own domain of extension .WS, hosting, website builder, professional website templates and recurring monthly commission. There is a free 7day trial and afterwards it charges around 10$ per month.
    8. Ebay Dropshipping
      In my earlier article of How to make money with Ebay i discussed about drop-shipping. What Dropshipping is? Ebay provides its sellers two ways to sell products. One is to stock products and then sell and the other way is to first dell and then get the products and ship it to the desired address. The second way is termed as Dropshipping. For more details check here...
    9. Paid Surveys
      Now days large companies use to conduct surveys to know the public's reaction related to their product. They use to conduct these surveys before the launch of new product so that they can improve their product and make it as desired by its end customers.

      For these they use to contract it with some company and they provide these surveys to people who are Internet users and for each survey filling they are given some commission. Surveys are free and paid both. Check Online Surveys
    10. Data Entry
      Data is crucial to any organization. In large organizations daily they have thousands of entry to make and without which there entire system could even fail. So, on daily basis they need hundred's of people for doing this data entry task. They even pay good money for this job. It requires hardly 1-2hours daily and you get your commission.

    Thursday, December 1, 2011

    Refinancing Home Loans

    Sometimes there comes time in your life when you really need to refinance your home loan and mortgage loan. But, before you refinance your loan you should make sure if the market is right to refinance your loan and you do have valid reasons to do so. For this you should locate a lender who will assist and help you to refinance your loan and will guide you when to say "Help me to refinance my loan".

    Refinancing your loan is a decision that should be taken only after you have thought well on this and is not taken lightly. When Adjustable Rate Mortgage(ARMs) go very bad and it becomes difficult for you to afford it then refinancing it, can be a way to get some relief.
    There are reasons why you should refinance your loan and there are also reasons why you should not. First of lets see why you should refinance, what benefits you can get through it, and how you can save your money that is earn some money.

    1. Save Money By Refinancing
      You can save your money by refinancing your mortgage. It can be an effective way to save money on monthly basis of loan payment. Suppose you have your loan at fixed interest rate of 30% and after 1 year it becomes 25%. So, you can refinance your loan at current rate and thus it will help you pay off high-interest rate debt at a lower cost.
    2. Changing ARM to Fixed Interest Rate
      There are times when you borrow loan at adjustable interest rate. May be later it becomes difficult for you to pay the monthly EMI's at those different interest rates. So, when ever you feel like that interest rates are quite low, you can go for refinancing your loan at change it into current fixed interest rate.

      It is possible to convert ARM into fixed rate by refinancing loan. It may help to reduce the stress and worry that comes with the uncertainty of an adjustable rate loan.
    3. Get Money Out of your Loan
      There are times when you may be in need of some urgently required hard cash in your hand. In such situation you can refinance your loan and get money which is known as cash-out-refinance. Now you can use this money in whatever way you want such as paying off other high-interest debts they may have been pending.

      You can go for improvements around the house that contribute to your assets. Whenever you cash your refinance make sure that you don't spend that money in your luxuries otherwise someday you may be in great trouble. Always spend that money where needed.
    4. With Refinance avoid foreclosure
      If at anytime you come to a situation when you feel like that your property can be taken away by the lender as there is a case that you could be declared as defaulter then you should immediately go for refinancing your loan.

      By refinancing first of all you will be able to save your property like your home etc and it can also help you in loan modification such as lowering interest rate, changing to fixed rate, change the length of the loan, lowering your monthly payment and making your mortgage more affordable.

    Following are the two reasons why you should not refinance your loan
    1. When refinance does not save money
      Before refinancing your loan make sure whether it is going to save your money or not. Many times people simply refinance there loan as they see difference in interest rate that they are paying and what is current one.

      But this is a very wrong way. Interest rate is just a very small part that you need to pay. Along with it several other charges are there that contribute to loans. You should always consider every aspect of it then only should go for refinancing. There are people i know who have refinanced there loan 7times in 8years and still there was no money saving instead they incurred extra charges that you to pay while refinancing. So, be clever while refinancing your mortgage.
    2. When you cash out for luxury purpose
      When you go for cash-out-refinance just to fulfill your personnel and luxury need then always it is a wrong decision that may put you in trouble in the near future. It may also cause foreclosure that I'm sure no one ever wants to happen.

    That's all on Refinancing your Home loan and making money tips. Keep Buzzing.

    Make Money from Wikipedia

    Wikipedia is one of the most authentic sites on the internet. Making money from a site that is by itself free of advertisements, sounds a bit strange, but believe me it's possible. Today's article focuses on the way by which you may make money from Wikipedia.

    These days almost all of us have at least a blog, some people have websites. Most of the user promote there blogs or websites to increase the traffic and thereby increasing there ad revenue.

    Follow the below steps, and see a difference in your earnings. The only prerequisite is that, you need to own a website or a blog.
    1. Make sure that your website or blog has a decent number of posts or content. I believe that a number of 30+ posts is sufficiently fine.
    2. Promote your blog or site, through as much resources that you can. This will help to make Google aware about your site.
    3. Make a few articles in your site, and provide links to Wikipedia in them for reference for the users. Since Wikipedia is the most authentic site for any content, so harm in linking to it. That in fact makes your site more authentic.
    Now here's the meat of the above pointers.
    All the search engines value highly authentic sites, and if you are linking to any one of them, then implicitly you are directing the user to a very authentic resource. This linking automatially improves your page rank and search query results for many keywords.

    The result could be realized via the difference in earnings and the increase in page views for your site. The search engine thinks that since you are directing the user to Wikipedia, therefore you must be proving some useful information to them.

    I had myself realized the difference in some of my blogs. Though the linking was not intentional, and I only referred to Wikipedia for authentic information, I realized an increase in my earnings.

    The aim is to help the viewer to help yourself. If the user finds the content and the links useful, he will definitely visit it again, or least bookmark it, thereby automatically improving your ranking of web pages.

    I hope I made my point clear. Keep buzzing Ways to make easy money for more information.

    Disclaimer

    This is a personal blog about money making ideas and related topics. There might be inaccuracies and the author takes no responsibility of any damage occurring due to the same. The articles posted are my personal opinions that I have gathered over the time span. My opinions are liable to change as I become more educated over the time period. No decision should be made on the basis of the articles of this blog. The author does not accept any responsibility for any damage or inconvenience caused due to the articles and opinions expressed in this blog. The readers are advised to make there research from proper sources before making any investment decision.