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How to Earn Money Online

Friday, November 13, 2009
posted by DTW Ray 7:09 AM

If you have a personal website or a company website that wanted to fully utilize web space or take advantage of your strong web presence, then this article is for you. In fact even if you do not have a website, you could actually earn while enjoying stuff you love doing.

Let’s start with what you could do with your free time without setting-up your own website:

  • Get Paid to Blog. HubPages has easy-to-use publishing tools, a vibrant author community and underlying revenue-maximizing infrastructure. Hubbers (HubPages authors) earn money by publishing their Hubs (content-rich Internet pages) on topics they know and love, and earn recognition among fellow Hubbers through the community-wide HubScore ranking system.
  • Get Paid to write. Earn extra income with your original content from contextual advertising. Meaning, the more people see your articles and more you can earn. For every visitor to your articles, you have the opportunity to earn revenue just for providing quality and interesting content for the readers.
  • Get Paid to Answer. Whether you would like to profit from your experience as an Advisor, get advice from some of the best, as a Client, or profit from your marketing skills as an Affiliate, the Live Advisors’ Network is the place for you. http://www.bitwine.com/
  • Sell your creativity – sell stock images.

Become a contributor to iStockphoto and earn with your  stock photos, vector illustrations, Flash or video footage.

We want your photos! Submit your photos to Shutterstock and get paid every time one of your photos is downloaded. Web designers, magazine editors, and other graphic artists purchase monthly subscriptions to Shutterstock to download photos from our site.

Now,  for those who already have a website, the common way to earn money with your website is through advertising program such as Cost-per-Click (CPC) – get paid only when someone clicks on your ads like Google Adsense. Affiliate Marketing is another avenue to earn online with your site. It’s simply is placing a banner/text of an affiliate partner to your site and get paid when someone buys / signs-up using using the links provided unique only to you. 

There are various ways to earn online, you can mix and match and see where you good at. Having a website though increases your chances of earning online. Optimizing your site will help promote blogs or earn through referral programs. You could even sell an Ad space once your site is fully optimized. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not for everybody but you could always try to learn the basic and see what you could do.

For company website there is always an option to outsource SEO to fully utilize website space – don’t leave it blank – transform it to income generating space.

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Importance of Internet Marketing Strategy

Thursday, November 12, 2009
posted by DTW Ray 8:11 AM

Internet marketing is synonymous to web marketing and online marketing. It means promoting business online. Having an Internet marketing strategy could go along way strengthening web presence with high conversion rate. Development of a website does not stop when the design is completed. The website is just an instrument or a medium to a higher goal. A measure of a websites’ success is no measured with the way it looks, no matter how beautifully done it is, in view of a business owner, it is still a numbers game – the end-result of the Internet marketing campaign.

Internet strategy is very important, like placing ads on a relevant magazine. A company will never place ads on car finder when it’s business is clothing line – website should target its market. Internet strategy is what fuels the a verhicle to drive the company to its destination – targeted market, higher conversion rates and global recognition (in terms of web presence).

Another thing is that, an in placed Internet Strategy  everything can be measured, as noted by famous Peter Drucker, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. Thereby, monitoring websites’ performance is vital to Internet marketing success. This is often neglected, leaving the part of Internet marketing with the Web Developer or Web Designer. Decision makers should give a clear goal as to where the company would want to be 5 years from now and Internet marketing is one the strategy incorporated in the long-term strategic plan. It’s a strategy by itself but inline with the company’s mission and vision.

What are the common Internet marketing strategies?

  • Searh Engine Optimization (SEO) – getting a website ranked on Search Engine such as Google, Yahoo and Bing unpaid listing or what is called “organic”.
  • Search Engine Marketing (SEM) – as opposed to SEO, SEM is deals with paid listing.
  • Article Marketing – writing articles relevant to their respective industry for publication and distribution.
  • E-mail Marketing – direct marketing that uses e-mail to communicate new products and service offerings.
  • Social Media Marketing – using Social Media such as Twitter and Facebook to promote a company.
  • Affiliate Marketing – is a practice where a company rewards an affiliate when visitors click on their ads.
  • Pay-per-Click – another model where advertisers only pay their ads based on clicks from a hosted site.

All above mentioned could be broken down into action plan. SEO could be done by utilizing link building strategy such as link exchange. A thorough understanding of the potential of what a website could do for the company and the potential of having a strong web presence is a step forward to towards creating an effective Internet marketing strategy.

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