30Mar
4 Online Business Ideas to Consider in 2010

Of course it’s hardly surprising that January is the most popular month for people starting new websites. After all, many of us make New Year resolutions which revolve around improving our lives. Fortunately for us, having the Internet at our fingertips has made such resolutions, a very real possibility.
So, here are four online money makers for 2010:
1. In the top spot we have affiliate marketing and it’s certainly easy to see why. There are literally millions of opportunities out there for affiliate marketing and what’s more, you can find these programs in practically any market. Essentially, affiliate marketing simply requires that you sell products or services on behalf of someone else, in exchange for commission, which nowadays can be as much as 50% of the sale price.
2. Another form of marketing, known as “niche marketing,” has experienced a tremendous surge in popularity recently and the trend looks set to continue throughout 2010.
As the name implies, niche marketing is when you concentrate on a niche from an overall broader market and so long as you can source a niche that you have a personal interest in, it can be great fun, in addition to making money.
3. For those who possess the necessary writing skills, blogging can be a wonderful choice. There are millions of bloggers out there who have monetized there blogs by selling advertising spaces.
One of the most popular starting points if you follow this route, is to sign up with . Because is a self-hosted blogging platform, integration with Google AdSense is seamless and it’s a great way to earn some extra income, each time anyone clicks on an ad.
4. PLR products, also known as Private Label Rights products, are yet another great way to kickstart a new online venture, as practically everything has already been take care of.
Of course, while you can sell PLR products just as they are, it certainly does improve your earning potential if you can come up with some customization. This is really in your best interest because with PLR sales, you get to keep all the profits.
12Mar
Internet Home Business Ideas – Why Not Sell Your Handmade Creations Online For Profit?

If you are looking for Internet home business ideas, why not start with your favorite hobbies and pastimes? Few things can compare to being able to make money being able to do something you actually love to do. And that is probably the biggest advantage of turning your passion for making handmade crafts into an online business.
And what’s even better is that starting an online business is fast, easy, and inexpensive.
Here are a few Internet home business ideas.
Sell Your Crafts Online
There was a time when selling handmade crafts could be a challenge. Unless they were lucky enough to have a craft show pass through your town, most crafters were limited to selling to their family, friends, and neighbors. But, thanks to the Internet, you can reach thousands of potential new buyers in a matter of minutes. And it’s both quick and easy.
eBay is the world’s largest online market place. Thousands of people visit the site every minute looking for something to buy. And you can list your handmade crafts at EBay in less than an hour.
If the sheer size of eBay leaves you feeling a little overwhelmed, you could try instead. Etsy is a site that specializes in handmade crafts, just like the ones you make.
Specialize In Special Occasions
People spend billions of dollars a year on special occasions. As any retail employee will tell you, they make more money around holidays and special occasions than at any other time of the year. And, at other times, they sell plenty of birthday balloons or anniversary cards. So consider building your handmade crafts business around special occasions.
For example, if you make handmade candles, why not create gifts baskets featuring a collection of your candles, and some related items. Or you can make candles shaped like snowmen, four leaf clovers, or even diplomas. (For those looking for graduation gifts.)
These are just a few of the internet home business ideas that could help you make money with your homemade crafts. When you start exploring the possibilities, you will become more and more convinced that it is possible to do something you love and make money at the same time.
10Mar
Have Your Online Business Ideas Failed Because You Aren’t Doing This?

If you’ve been hanging around the internet looking for ways to build a business for any amount of time, I’m 100% confident that you’ve seen the pictures of young guys next to a Ferrari talking about how easy it is to make huge amounts of money online.
You’ve also seen all the outrageous claims of making over $20,000 a day from all of these different “systems” for making money off the internet. Now the only reason you could be reading this article right now is because you have tried one or more of these online business ideas with little to no success.
Trust me, I know how excruciatingly frustrating it can wasn’t that long ago that I was in the same position! I spent over a year working online full time, racking up huge credit card bills before I even made my first measly sale online.
I spent thousands of dollars on all kinds of different products looking for that magic bullet that would make me quick cash like they all said I could.
It wasn’t until one of the worst days of my life, in which I nearly hit rock bottom, that I had an epiphany…I had been treating my time as an internet marketer as a short term job, not a business.
That was a key shift in my thinking that really started to propel change in what I was doing online. I realized that I had to find a real, sustainable business model that had been proven to produce a consistent reliable income. I needed to be doing what the “guru’s” were doing, NOT what they were telling me to do.
Here’s where I had a 2nd revelation!
I had been trying to promote products as an affiliate marketer for all these guru’s (and some !) and when I started to think about what these guys were doing and what they had in common, one major thing stood out to me.
They all had affiliate programs!
That got me thinking even further, as there was no way that these guys were doing all the work of managing an army of affiliates. So I searched around some internet marketing forums and found out that every single one of these product owners employs an affiliate manager to take care of this for them.
Now I was really onto something here. Just think about all the internet marketing products that are launched every single week, and then when you throw in products in other niches…there’s a never ending supply of product launches that need affiliate managers!
You can take it even one step further and look at any business with an affiliate program, which the vast majority of them have, and all of a sudden you have an enormous market – $3 billion dollar one at that.
So I set out and developed a business out of managing affiliate programs for different product owners and it took off like wildflower. I haven’t looked back since…