There are many online money making opportunities. Some are better than others, and some take a great deal of work to develop into something real. Here is a list of the main ones that come to mind. I am sure there are many more.
• Paid Surveys. If you “google” paid surveys, the top line will tell you that if you click there, you will find the top 50 surveys paying $25 to $75 per survey. I don’t know, but I have tried my hand at paid surveys, and was really disappointed. The survey’s that claimed to pay, didn’t really pay. They just put your name in a hat for a chance that you your name will get drawn. I never won anything except points for some later purchase of something that I didn’t want. I guess some people actually make money this way, but I am not sure how.
• Trading on eBay. This seems to attract a lot of people, and it probably works reasonably well for the diligent marketer. There are two versions. One is to buy and sell hard merchandise. The other is to sell things as an affiliate. This is also called “drop ship” since you don’t actually take possession of the merchandise. It is all handled by the seller.
• Article Marketing. Again there are a couple of versions. Articles are useful for drawing traffic to you web site for whatever you are marketing. You can also include affiliate links in your article (as long as you are not publishing on ezines.com) and so this becomes a type of affiliate marketing.
• Email marketing. The approach is to sell your product or products through email campaigns. To do this you must have a list of prospects. You can buy lists, but more effective is to develop a list from previous marketing efforts. Also, using a purchased list may be considered spam if you are using an auto responder since you really don’t know if your list has any interest in your products or not.
• Affiliate Marketing. Everyone knows what this is, but simply stated it is marketing some one else’s products through any of the means mentioned above. I have heard that this has been a very successful approach for many marketers. I think it is getting so competitive that it is much more difficult than it once was.
• Selling Digital Products. These products can either be purchased as resell rights products or produced by you. To market these products they can be sold by any of the means discussed above, but also through you own web site or blog. You can also use Hub Pages or Squidoo Lens’s in the same way.
So take your pick! Maybe even better is to gradually develop a number of these online money making opportunities. Certainly none of them is a magic bullet. If you find one an opportunity that works for you, go for it and get it up and running. Then you can expand to include other approaches and diversify until you have a well rounded internet marketing operation and solved the problem of which online money making opportunity you will go for.
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