Friday, March 09, 2012

How to Make Money Blogging

How to make money blogging Blogging is writing about “a product”, “expressing your thoughts in words” or could be even “describing a how to method”. The topics can range anything from your hobby to your profession or about a celebrity, a sport or just simply current news. It is a medium to express yourself on the internet and also a way to impart your knowledge to everyone around the world. It is a powerful, one of the most popular and easiest ways to make money online. When used the right way, it can turn into a powerful cash making machine for you. Here is an inspirational piece of information for you; John Chow who is a popular blogger makers about 40000 dollars every month with his blog (www.JohnChow.com). Blogging is also an entry point to the internet marketing world, teaching you the necessary technical skills required to create & maintain a blog and also helps you learn the basics of opt-in lists, getting traffic and monetizing. So what does a blogger do? At the very basic, he or she writes a few pages of information related to the blog topic, so that it is available for reading to everyone on the internet.

How to Make Money

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xMakeMoney provides ideas on how to make money online as well as offline, using informative guides & step by step methods to enable college students, working professionals, housewives, retired professionals and just about everyone including kids to earn. Whether you want to finish off that credit card debt, buy that luxury car, need cash urgently to pay the school fees of your children, or just want to quit your day job and get financial security in life, this website would be of help to you. In this site we will see how you can easily earn, whatever state of life you are in and whatever your skill sets are. This site also has guides exclusively for entrepreneurs and also those who are looking for good investment opportunities. Everyone in this world deserves to get wealth and happiness; one just needs to apply their mind and remain focused; hard-work coupled with honesty will surely help you achieve this goal. In this guide you will find many ways to get some cash in your wallet or bank account and get passive income.
Work From Home; Cottage Industry; You can manufacture, package and sell items right from your home without much investment. There is always a market for niche physical goods like designer candles, custom perfume soaps or even a uniquely designed cake. Try to make FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) products because they sell pretty much fast and expanding the business is also easier. SOHO; Nowadays the internet, mobile phones and other forms of communications has made it possible to sit at your house and run a virtual office. Some examples are running a virtual outsourcing center, data entry work, being a virtual assistant to someone and also stuff like phone/email based customer support.
Feelancing; This is one method that can fill your pockets instantly and is also easy to do because there are no long term commitments. Thanks to the internet, people from all over the world can do small tasks for others and make a decent income out of it by working just a couple of hours a day from home.
How to make money online; The internet also provides many different ways to earn a substantial income with lesser effort and funds than that is required in the offline physical world. Blogging and affiliate programs are two of the most popular ways to earn on the internet. Then there are also sites like fiverr which provides a kind of reverse auction to freelancing. If you are a software developer, you might want to consider selling custom developed software scripts or offer internet marketing services like SEO and back-linking.
Freelancing;
Internet Marketing;
ECommerce;
For Students & Working Professionals; Take Tuitions – become a tutor; If you are a college grad or if you are pursuing a post graduate degree, you can earn by teaching other students (juniors) or helping them do their homework. Look around your neighborhood for those who might be interested in your teaching services. Nowadays there are also websites through which you can teach a student over the internet and get paid on an hourly basis.
Earn by writing articles; If you good in English, content writing is once of the easiest way to earn. There are many websites like Freelancer, Warrior Forum from where you can get such orders. You can get paid anywhere from 3 to 10$ for 300 to 500 words of writing on a given topic.
If you have old text-books you can easily sell them on websites like eBay. You might also want to make yourself technically savvy on topics like software programming, design etc. which can help you start your own tech startup on the internet even when you are studying. There are many success stories of young people and teenagers who have made a fortune while working on their spare time after college or school. Even the small amount that you earn can be very useful for paying the education fees or even helping your parents financially.
Without Investment; Some amount of startup capital is usually required to start a business so that you earn even more than what you currently are getting. However do not worry if you are not in a position to get this seed capital. There are many ways to get funded or bootstrapped by starting with almost nothing. And also remember that this initial seed fund is required just when you are starting; you can use the profits or income from your new venture to invest even more in other businesses. Do some freelancing jobs, odd part time jobs or even make a garage sale of unwanted things in your house like old textbooks. If you are not in a day job, try getting a day job, because it is crucial for survival (especially if you are in a desparate situation). Nowadays the power of the internet has enabled everyone to earn sitting at home; some of the ready to go jobs that you can do if you have access to the internet are writing articles, being a virtual assistant or providing a variety of services, like in Fiverr. Use this cash to start a new venture on a shoe string budget and then gradually expand the offerings or service.
Offline; Open a niche local shop; There are many shops that can be opened with very little capital amount and can also turn profitable in very quick time. One idea will be to open a small shop (or even sell from your house) selling a product which is not readily available in your neighborhood. Think about when you had to go to some other locality to buy something because it wasn’t sold anywhere near your house. Why not open a shop which sells the same?
Start a consulting service; Not all professions require a formal education to be successful or to work in a legitimate way. Try learning a new method, way or skill and then use your knowledge to provide advice & consulting services to others for which you can charge a fee. Some of the examples of skills which you can learn and impart are: fitness, sports & games and even things like astrology. The list is endless, you just have to find one which you are interested in and whic you can learn in a short period of time.
Partner with someone to use your skills; More often than not partnerships & joint ventures are the keys to success. Even if you do not have enough funds to invest, you can provide your skills as an investment in a company while your partner can take care of the monetary part. An advertisement in a classified section of the local newspaper telling about your skills can also help in connecting you with someone who might be interested in such a partnership.
There is no dearth to the number of oppurtunities to make money online or offline in the World; for a moment push away all negative and pessimistic thoughts like ‘can i’, ‘oh I have already tried that’ from your mind. Think for a moment how it would feel if you were financially well settled with all your debts cleared and enough cash to buy anything you desire, six months to 12 months down the line. Now how about spending the next three days of your life researching on a good method to make your dream come true? It is well worth the time spent on this because the next three days will be the ones which is going to change your life. Allocate sometime this weekend to do this research and I am sure that you are already on your way to success if you do it. Thank you.

How Apple Became the World’s Most Valuable Company

  Written by Nick Scheidies



Let me take you back for a moment to 1997. How Apple Became the World’s Most Valuable CompanyStock in Apple Inc. was trading at a ten-year low ($13 per share). The Macintosh was outdated, the Newton had flopped, and Apple’s board of directors had just ousted their second CEO in as many years.
It looked like Apple would be obsolete by the millennium.
But you know the rest of the story: Steve Jobs took the reins in 1998, unveiled the iMac, and proceeded to guide Apple through an unprecedented period of growth and profitability.
Last week, stock in Apple Inc. surpassed $500 per share for the first time – which makes it the world’s most valuable company. Below, I’ll explain four ways Apple climbed to the top of Wall Street and how you can apply the same strategies with your business.

Apple Targeted Emerging Markets

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Apple has been developing products for emerging markets since they first started in 1976. Of course, back then the personal computer was still in an emerging market.
A lot has changed in the last 35 years, but Apple continues to focus its efforts on markets that are new – and therefore less competitive. Their products aren’t usually the first of their kind, but they are almost always the first to get it right.
Take the iPod. It wasn’t the first portable mp3 player, but it was the first to be intuitively designed and well-marketed.
The same could be said of the iPhone for the smart phone market and the iPad for the tablet market. Apple has come to dominate these niches that are now well-developed and very lucrative.

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Make Money Blogging: Top Bloggers And How Much They Earn

Can you make money blogging? Apparently so, as these top bloggers can attest!
 
Top Earning Blogs – Make Money Online Blogging
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These days, when I bump into other mothers on play dates, or when I see people I haven’t seen for sometime, I get asked how and what I’ve been doing lately. I pause, then tell them that I “blog”. That of course, inspires a lengthy discussion about the subject of “blogging”; I tell them why I do it and why I’ve traded my almost 20 year old career in technology and software development for this new-fangled activity.
Blogging is one of those “cheap hobbies” that turned me into an accidental entrepreneur. It’s work that I find enjoyable, that is sufficiently challenging, that allows me to keep learning and expanding my knowledge in so many ways (and not just in the area of finance). It’s something that I can actually earn money from while affording me the ability to set my own hours and work on my own terms. What more can you ask for in a “job”?
Then again, it may not be for everyone: it can make you fat (I believe) and for some people, it’s even a health hazard! But if you’re interested in giving it a go, here are the basic steps to get started:

How To Start Blogging

1. Learn the basics using a free blogging platform such as WordPress.com or Blogger.com. Now there may be limitations with how you can monetize a site if you use these platforms. More serious bloggers actually decide to get their own domains and self-host their blogs to have full control of their web properties.
2. Register your own domain and sign up with a hosting plan. As I mentioned, serious bloggers who want to monetize their sites fully will benefit from hooking up with a solid and cheap hosting provider. I initially used Dreamhost and Web Hosting Pad but then they gave me too much downtime and poor service, so I switched to Hostmonster, which has been awesome! I have since moved my larger sites to SliceHost, but keep HostMonster for my other blogs and online projects. One other good choice that I’ve heard great feedback on is Bluehost. As for domain registration, I’ve been using GoDaddy.
Tip: For more choices, I’ve prepared a list of cheap web hosting services in case you’d like additional options.
3. Download and set up the WordPress application in your hosted environment. Your web host provider may be able to assist you with this.
4. Be patient as you learn the ropes. There’s a lot to learn, but the best way to get inspired is to see how others have done it!
Here are a few enthralling details about successful bloggers that I sourced from BusinessWeek. These profiles can inspire you to pursue your online aspirations:

Top Earning Blogs – Make Money Online Blogging

Written by Michael Dunlop
Top Earning Blogs – Make Money Online Blogging


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Superstar Bloggers Making Fortunes Online

Today I decided to research how much my favorite blog’s are earning every month and I wasn’t surprised to see some of them make over $100000 per month.
These are blogs and success stories that have inspired me to become a blogger. These Superstar bloggers continue to inspire me to this day – and they have kept me motivated to not give up whenever it got tough, especially in the early days.
If I have not already done so I hope that with this list you can see just how powerful and rewarding blogging can be and inspire you to FOLLOW THE DREAM and create a blog of your own.

Special Notes:
1) To give you some idea of the potential available – top blogging network, Weblogs, Inc. is believed to earn about $30 million a month revenue from 13 million unique visitors.
2) And it is not just about making money monthly it is also about building a BUSINESS that can be sold, such as 22 year old Johns Wu did when he sold his blog for $15 Million.

Check out the TOP EARNING BLOGS list below. I have already interviewed a number of these Superstar bloggers but hope to interview a lot more of them over the coming months – so watch out for that.
To Our Blogging Success
Michael

30 Blog’s That Make A Lot Of Money Online

Top Earning Websites

Written by Michael Dunlop

Today I created a list of the top 30 earning websites in the world, for some of these websites, $50 million in revenue a day is just a typical day, crazy isn’t it? And it was all created in the last 10 or so years! I usually would do a write up about how the list rocks and why you should do it to but I think the figures speak for themselves, enjoy!

30 Websites That Make A Lot Of Money Online

 Rank  Website  Found
Annual Revenue  Per Second
 1  Google  Larry Page and Sergey Brin
$21,800,000,000  $691.27
 2  Amazon  Jeff Bezos
$19,166,000,000  $607.75
 3  Yahoo  Jerry Yang and David Filo
$7,200,000,000  $228.31
 4  eBay  Pierre Omidyar
$6,290,000,000  $199.45
 5  MSN/Live  Nathan Myhrvold.
$3,214,000,000  $101.92
 6  PayPal  Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek
$2,250,000,000  $71.35
 7  iTunes  Jeff Robbin
$1,900,000,000  $60.25
 8  Reuters  Marshal Vace
$1,892,000,000  $59.99
 9  Priceline  Jesse Fink
$1,884,000,000  $59.74
 10  Expedia  Added Mark Schroeder
$1,447,000,000  $45.88
 11  NetFlix  Reed Hastings
$1,200,000,000  $38.05
 12  Travelocity  Terry Jones
$1,100,000,000  $38.05
 13  Zappos  Nick Swinmurn
$1,000,000,000  $31.71
 14  Hotels.com  David Litman
$1,000,000,000  $31.71
 15  AOL  Erik Prince
$968,000,000  $30.70
 16  Orbitz  Jeff Katz
$870,000,000  $27.59
 17  Overstock  Robert Brazell
$834,000,000  $26.45
 18  MySpace  Tom Anderson
$800,000,000  $25.37
 19  Skype  Niklas Zennstrom
$550,841,000  $17.47
 20  Sohu  Zhang Chaoyang
$429,000,000  $13.60
 21  Buy.com  Robb Brock
$400,000,000  $12.68
 22  StubHub  Eric Baker
$400,000,000  $12.68
 23  Alibaba  Jack Ma
$316,000,000  $10.02
 24  Facebook  Mark Zuckerberg
$300,000,000  $9.51
 25  YouTube  Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim
$300,000,000  $9.51
 26  Blue Nile  Mark Vadon
$295,000,000  $9.35
 27  Tripadvisor  Stephen Kaufer
$260,000,000  $8.24
 28  Getty Images  Mark Getty
$233,200,000  $7.39
 29  Bidz  Garry Itkin
$207,000,000  $6.56
 30  NYTimes  Henry Jarvis Raymond
$175,000,000  $5.55
To our success in 2009,Michael Dunlop

Monday, March 05, 2012

Evidence of iPad 3 and iOS 6? Server Logs Tell the Tale




Are some Apple employees already surfing the Web using new iPad 3 tablets? That would not be a surprise if the device, as rumored, is set for release