Here are some online money-makers.

Hi there,
Now lets get down to real business. First and foremost, before deciding on what sort of business is right for you, there are certain questions you might need to ask yourself;

* Is it a legal and legitimate business, with a pure source of income?

* Are you actually filling a need or you are just joining the band wagon?

* Is it what you have a passion for and enjoy doing? So that when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

* Have you made enough research to give you a likelyhood of making good returns from your venture?

* Do you have the kind of focus, determination, hard work, diligence and all that it takes to make headway in your chosen market?

* Are you in a delusion of get-rich-quick kind of schemes?

* Do you have a fair idea of the kind of product(s) your target market would really be interested in buying?

* How do you get to people patronize you over and over again? Legally and legitimately.

* Can your customers trust you, how reliable are you?


These and a lot more, are what you should ask yourself before going into any form of business either in the virtual world(online) or the real world(offline). One very important point to ponder when getting started with a business idea is ... what is the NICHE of your business. Being able to target a specific market make a whole lotta difference, even with regards to your pay-per click campaign ads on seach engines, in order to get targeted visitors to your site thus improving your conversion rates(which we'll talk about later). Your NICHE could be .... Religion, Home improvement, Personal improvement, Home schooling, Parenting, Computing, Marriage counselling, Helping the disabled, Healthcare, Dieting and Nutrition and so on. Here are some examples of work from home businesses;

# Affiliate Marketing- which involves selling other peoples' products in order to earn commisions for refferals and or sale.

# Selling on Online stores and Auction sites- like Ebay, Tway, Ubid, Bidz, Amazon, 2checkout, Pricegrabber, Shopping, Shopzilla, Froogle and so on.

# Creating and selling your own product(s)- it could be physical or digital in nature. Softwares and E-books are good examples of digital products.

# Membership sites or Forums - a networking site for probably a particular group of individuals with the same goals, proffession, belief, or business.

# Ezine publishing could also be quite lucrative. Whether free or paid membership.

# Blogging could also make you some cash if you can monetise your blog.

# Data entry jobs being offered by some companies.

# Typing jobs are also available online.

# Getting Resale rights and or Master resale rights to other peoples' products to sell and keep all the profits.

# Buying Private label rights to other peoples' write ups or products and rebranding as your own.

After scaling the hurdles of setting up your business, you now need to get the life blood of your business in order to remain in business. That is where the issue of ADVERTISING comes in. Basically, Online or even offline advertising could be a free, paid, or a combination of both, which is more realistic. Driving targeted audience to your products or services could be through any or a combination of these;

* Pay-per-click

* Pay-per-lead

* Traffic exchanges

* Link exchange with related or partner sites.

* Blogging (Web blogs)

* Press releases about your products and or services

* Writing and submitting content-rich articles to article directories and including your resource box so that interested readers can locate your site.


We will be looking at some of these points as we move on. Bye for now.