Monday, February 2, 2009

Make money online from home

By Croos Manwell

Despite the financial problems at the moment you can make money online from home with your own business. You can control your own financial destiny and you don't need to be a technical wizard. If you can use a mouse, you can make money.

Thanks to the advance of the Internet the cost of starting and running a business from home has plummeted compared to a few years ago. Together with a plan of action the money will come. The plan includes these points

1. A name for your website (domain name)

2. Somewhere to put your website (hosting)

3. Words, pictures, videos on your website (content)

4. Something to sell

5. Traffic to your webpage

6. Payment method

It sounds complicated but its not and you only have to do it once and the money keeps coming.

It used to be difficult and expensive to get a name for your site and hosting. Now it is very cheap. Names such as sunnyday.com. or .info or .co.uk cost around $10 a year and hosting is available for $9 a month.

It can be confusing getting your head around terms like domain and hosting. Do not worry. Your domain name is like a page in a magazine and the host is the magazine. You need both.

Most people worry about content because they cannot write. Well chill, you can get free content for your site at article directories or pay a few dollars to buy it as private label rights (PLR) articles.

To begin with do not worry too much about pictures or videos. If you want them they are easy to find for free on the web.

Start your site with well-spaced words and a picture or two. As you become technically adept add videos.

You probably think you need to buy things to sell and that's too expensive, right? Well the good news is you do not have to buy anything. You can sell other peoples things and get a commission. Its called affiliate marketing and is the fastest way to make money online from home.

People visit your pages and want to buy the goods you are selling. They are redirected to the goods sales page and after they buy you get a slice of the price.

The free method to attract visitors is article marketing. Write articles (usually no more than 5), send them to article directories and include a link back to your site. The search engines will find your site and include it in their listing. The result? You will make sales.

So can you make money online from home? Most definitely with a clear plan and consistent effort. It sure beats commuting into work everyday and is far more enjoyably.

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