Make Money Online

Guest post by Steve Blanchard

I was searching all over the internet for this because I wanted a way to figure out how to use my blog or other social sites for people to send text messages to me even if they didn't have a cell phone and then I could respond back to them so tcahhey can stay in touch with me all for a cheap price. That’s when I found Chat to Text. I just love the idea!

Chat to Text is a new service which allows anyone who visits any web site set up with Chat to Text the ability to chat by text messages to a designated cell phone, without giving out the cell phone number.


The company is based in Stuart, FL. Chat to Text has been launched successfully, targeted primarily at users of social networking sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, and Bebo but can also be added to virtually any web site using a simple script provided by the service.

Until now, texting has required both parties to have a cell phone, and to have each other’s cell phone number. The Chat to Text makes it possible for visitors to a web site to send a text through a window on the site and receive a response within moments, all without the need for a cell phone and without knowing the cell phone number they are sending the chat message to.

The launch of the service at the end of Feb. 2009 was met with great enthusiasm from the many users of social networking sites, as well as from people who want to receive instant chat from customers and prospective customers visiting a business website.

Teens and young people love to chat online, and love to send text messages. Now Chat to Text allows them to do both. The new service also enables customers to earn referral fees by telling others about Chat to Text. Each customer receives an affiliate website link that they can give to friends and family and get credit for each person who signs up using that link.

Some are content to earn enough referral fees to cover the $6 monthly cost, but many realize it is a quick, easy way to earn a substantial extra monthly income. Within days of the launch many have earned very large referral fees that are paid over and over again, month after month.

Features include the ability to turn the chat window on and off, set a schedule of chat availability, block certain people from the chat, save the chat history, and even customize the chat window with a photo and more. The biggest attraction may well be the affiliate referral commissions offered to everyone using the service.

The chat and text service costs about $6 a month for unlimited text chatting for residents of the United States and Canada. It is quick and easy to enroll and then set it up on virtually any web site.

I will cation that if you have limited text on your phone - then you need to be careful as you could end up getting more text messages then you want and go over your limit, but if you have unlimited then it’s fine.

Also remember that you can turn it off to stop the messages or block certain people if they are becoming abusive with the messaging.

Want to see how easy, exciting, and how to make money?

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Making money online through internet selling requires proper sifting of the kind of products you choose to sell. These tips on how to make money online will help you maximize earnings according to the type of product that you will sell.

Selling in the internet is made easier by online stores that offer free membership to any interested seller. Gain an edge by choosing a professional user name and ambiance for your collection.

To get a share of the wide market, choose products that are tangible and present them using substantial advertising tools such as clear photos showing multiple angles of the product. Selling of tangible products can be best supported by having a traditional, offline store or stand where your products can be displayed. Remember that selling concrete products will incur other necessary expenses for storage, inventory, packaging and delivery. Long distance deliveries entail shipping or airline expenses that you can put against your client’s payment.
You can make money online by selling intangible, digital materials. These include computer software, plug-ins, graphic designs, website layouts, electronic books and electronic magazines to name a few. Selling digital items online is convenient as these products are made and update at home. They are relatively easy and affordable to create, requiring primarily technical skills of the creator. Sellers can better earn money online since the purchase of digital goods does not require any delivery service. All transactions are made online such as digital downloading.

Whether you are selling tangible or digital goods, make sure to regularly update and support your online store with various advertorial campaigns to make your collection more visible over others selling the same line of products. Internet selling is a lucrative money-making venture if executed properly.

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A web portal basically is a website that presents all kinds of information. It also offers services like e-mail, search engine for users to find websites, entertainment, forums, chat, shopping and dozen of other services useful for the Internet users. One of the good examples of web portal is Yahoo.com which earns millions of dollars every year.

Web portal will make you money as long as it attracts traffic. It is an online business model that has a great profit potential. You might want to think about starting a web portal to make money online.

There is an e-book called Web Portal Profits that teaches people to start a web portal quickly and cheaply. You can download a copy of Web Portal free at http://www.webportalprofits.com to find out how you can start your own web portal. You don't have to worry about the complicated programming and site management knowledge that you need to know to run a web portal. This e-book will show you a way to easily managing and running your web portal.

Web Portal will guide you through all the steps you need to take create a successful web portals that will generate your traffic and income. If you are interested on this business model, this is a must read e-book.

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Guest post by Simon Slade

The problem with starting an eBay business is that there are so many ways to do it. Should you join this drop shipping scheme? What about importing from China, seems like things are pretty cheap there? For the last 5 years, I've sold on a number of different auction sites, including the big one: eBay. I've tried drop shipping, I've done the importing things, I've haggled over liquidation auctions and I've used a lot of wholesalers. And let me tell you this: they're all great in their way. But, I've discovered that there is one particular route to eBay business success that works without fail. Everyone I've seen follow this method has become very successful on eBay. Why? Because this roadmap gets you living and breathing eBay and what sells there. More importantly, you live and breathe it before you actually spend any serious money. In fact, the idea is to start making money first - and then spend what you've earned to scale up fast.

If you want to start an eBay business, there are two big decisions you need to make upfront: what to sell and where to get it. Let's tackle what to sell first.

Strange as it seems, hundreds of eBay business newbies actually go and invest their life savings in product to sell before they have even tried selling anything on eBay at all! If you were just about to wire off some money to a wholesaler right now, then please stop! Take a deep breath, step back, and go back to the beginning. First, take a look around the house - is that an old microwave over there? What about those clothes in the box in the basement you haven't worn for years?


Second-hand items sell like crazy on eBay, so selling stuff from around the house not only helps you begin amassing immensely valuable business start-up cash, but it also helps you start to build up a picture of what works on eBay. For example, when I got started, I thought that mp3 players would be a good thing to sell on eBay. Boy was I wrong. The hassle of shipping them out, getting buyers to purchase insurance, accepting faulty returns (and dealing with cranky customers who couldn't find the on-button) was just plain annoying - although that could be just me. So I switched to selling t-shirts. Light-weight, practically indestructible and everyone knows their size - fantastic! I ended up saving hundreds of dollars in handling and support time. Point is: it's hard to predict these issues without any experience. A bit of informal selling would have saved me around $1,000 dollars in time and headaches.

Okay, so Step 1 of our fail-safe roadmap: sell some stuff from around the house on eBay, and note any possible niches. Step 2 is to follow up on those niches by checking out completed listings on eBay for similar items. It's possible that the niche you thought you had in a bag is just a fluke. So it's vital that you check Completed Listings to see how many similar items sold in the last two weeks, and how much they sold for. What you want to see is lots of green - ideally, about a 70% sell-through rate. You also want to see an average sale price of over $10, preferably over $30. This is because it's harder to make money on low dollar items when at least $5-$10 is automatically chewed up on listing costs and other expenses.

If all is still going well, then it's time to move on to finding a source for the item you have chosen to sell. For absolute beginners, the easiest and least risky way to start getting stuff to sell is to..buy it off eBay! Okay, that might sound a bit weird, so let me explain. The idea is that you'll just be buying small quantities of several things to continue to test the waters, and more crucially, to build up some capital. What many new sellers don't understand is that you need to be able to afford to invest at least $500, if not $5000, with a wholesaler if you are going to get a price low enough to compete on eBay. Wholesalers are all about quantity. You'll barely get much discount off the retail price if you can only afford to buy
20 units at a time. You need to be ordering hundreds to get yourself a margin. And let's face it, if you are starting an eBay business because of cash-flow problems, you probably can't afford to toss that much money around just yet.

eBay has a separate wholesale category (http://reseller.ebay.com/ns/wholesalelots.html) where wholesalers and individuals can sell in bulk. In fact, many wholesalers that you'll find elsewhere (such as in wholesale directories or via a Google search) sell wholesale product on eBay too, often for even better prices. So there's a good chance you'll get a decent wholesale price - and you may even develop a few useful contacts in the process. The other big advantage of sourcing off eBay is that there is a vast selection of smaller lots on offer. So even if you've only got $50 to invest, you should be able to get started with something. I did pretty well with a few small wedding cake topper lots from eBay just a couple of years ago.

Of course, before you spend a single penny, make sure you check how much the items are selling for individually on eBay. Obviously there needs to be a reasonable margin after you deduct your listing costs and handling expenses.

Sometimes, eBay just won't have what you are looking for. It's worth
checking back over a couple of weeks to find a wholesale lot that suits, but in the meantime, keep an eye on Craigslist and any local yard sales - both great places to pick up bulk bargains.

Another fantastic option is to simply take a stroll down to your local store at sale time and offer to buy up all items in stock, for a negotiated price of course. The great thing about striking a deal with a person you've actually met is that it makes it harder for them to say no! Chances are, you'll walk away with a bargain - and the prospect of a profitable future relationship.

Of course, these are only short-term sourcing options. The idea is to spend at least two or three months sourcing and selling in this way until you have established a good feel for your market and eBay, and made at least a couple of thousand dollars to invest into buying from a wholesaler and taking your business to the next level. As they say, you need money to make money - and now you're an eBay expert to boot! That's what I call a smart eBay business strategy.

Author Bio
Simon Slade is the co-founder of SaleHoo, a wholesale and dropshipping directory. Established in 2005, SaleHoo has a community of over 60,000 members and a growing database of over 8,000 product suppliers. You can find out more about SaleHoo at http://www.salehoo.com.
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Guest post by Harold Loyola

One of the most effective ways of making money online is article marketing. It is also a very effective means to promote your online business and other sites. The process involves submitting your articles to various web properties that publish them on their sites and this allows you to build links back to your own sites. This then increases your exposure to both internet surfers and search engines, and thus helps in driving traffic to your site which you use to convert into sales, leads, clicks, etc.

Article Directories are not the only way.

There was a time when article directories were the best way to do article marketing. Today it is no longer the case, and article directory submission has become only an arm of the article marketing engine, whereas it used to be the primary means to do it. Don't get me wrong, it is still an effective way on it's own but now there are other equally powerful means to do it.

The sheer quantity of article directories, however still make it a viable means to get good relevant one way backlinks. It is best to start off with the most popular ones such as EzineArticles and GoArticles among others, as they already have good foothold in this niche. You can then extend to the other smaller article directories to diversify your reach.

The Web 2.0 Revolution

Sites such as Squidoo, Hubpages, Wetpaint, and others have opened up many opportunities for article marketing. With some of these sites alone you can already make money online selling products, either of your own or as an affiliate without having your own website. All you need is good quality content, a good product to promote and a well structured page on these Web 2.0 sites. As far as article marketing is concerned, it is also a very powerful way to get links back to your online business or websites.

The popular Web 2.0 sites already generate a lot of traffic and building your own pages on them allows you leverage the popularity of these sites to promote your own sites, through backlinking and RSS feeds. If you create content on these sites that are relevant and compelling your page may become more popular and increases the possibilities of readers looking at the sites you are linking to for more information.

The Rise of the Blog Networks

How do you get other blogs on related topics to your site link back to you? First of all, you will need very good and unique content, with information that other site owners like and will gladly link back to. Easier said than done, as it is not always easy to come up with great content on a consistent basis. This limits the amount of link you may get. What if I told you that there are blog networks that exist where members are able to submit versions of their articles to certain blogs on specific niches within these networks thereby getting one-way, targeted, keyword backlinks to their own sites.

A number of networks such as these have existed for the past few years, however a majority of them are only accessible to members who pay a fixed monthly fee to access the blogs in each network. Each of these networks can have from as little as 100 blogs to as many as 10,000 or even more, with a wide variety of niche blogs in their networks. This is a very powerful article marketing strategy as it can target a specific niche with highly relevant keyword links, and when used over various networks increases it's effectiveness. An example of such membership based blog networks is the one from Portal Feeder.

Promoting your online business or website with the use of article marketing is not hard, however you need to keep a few things in mind when doing it.

The best results come with the use of all these methods of article marketing together as a cohesive article marketing strategy. Sticking to one method limits the potential the areas that a particular method can cover. If you believe that search engine rankings, Google in particular rely a lot on the number quality backlinks to a site in order to rank them on their indexes, then it would be foolish not to utilize every article marketing method available as it will increase the number on links you can potentially have.

The quality of your content plays as much a part of your success in article marketing as the number of links you get. Using any of the methods above still require you to create content that is worthy of being read. Your authority on a specific topic determines whether or not you will get the most out of your article marketing campaign. Remember, you are marketing articles to provide information, and the search for good information is what makes people read your articles. Make your articles good, compelling and unique, make them stand out and you will get both search engine and human interest traffic coming your way.

So now you know that these are methods exist for you to use in promoting your online business or websites. If you need more information on the Article marketing you can read more at http://www.services.ph.

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