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Thursday, May 05, 2022

5 Tips to Make Some Extra Money Online

A Fan-shape spread of $100 bills
Most digital marketers know and use many ways to make money online. That’s exactly what some odd millions of people do daily and consistently. No matter your level of experience in digital marketing, you too can make money online if you follow the rules and do the right things right. From online freelancers and marketers to rising entrepreneurs, when it comes to making money online, the rules are the same. However, depending on your experience and preferences, you can decide on which of the many different ways to make money online best suits you. These here 5 tips come in very handy to help you out with that vital decision.



Tip #1: Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the most stable and reliable ways to make money online. It is cost-effective and very easy to get involved in. All an affiliate really needs to do is to help promote any other company's products/services of his choice and he earns a commission for his efforts. It is thus one great way to earn money from other brands by promoting their products/services as widely as possible. You can earn these commissions from sales of other people's products if you include their affiliate product links on your blog posts and the content you market. Even if you don’t want to promote directly from your own website/blog, you can promote from popular e-commerce platforms like Amazon, eBay, ClickBank and Shopify. Your key to making money in affiliate marketing is by way of high quality content marketing. You can therefore directly increase your earning potential by consistently publishing high-quality blog posts over time. That helps to pull the much needed traffic to your affiliate links. The more this traffic, the better your affiliate marketing and the more money you make.

Tip #2: Become a Virtual Assistant

Business owners and Chief Executives are becoming increasingly busy these days hence the need for virtual assistants. Virtual Assistants are one of the fastest-growing online money-making careers and they handle lots of business tasks like routine writing/correspondences, attending to emails, social media posts, order processing, book keeping and customer support services for and on behalf of their employers. You can source Virtual Assistant jobs by posting on websites like Virtual Assistant Jobs, Indeed, or Upwork. If you want to make money fast through Virtual Assistant jobs, you can reach out to popular brands and freelancers, asking them if they’re interested in hiring the services of Virtual Assistants. Alternatively, you can create an active social media presence on popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to seek Virtual Assistant engagement.

Tip #3: Dropshipping

Dropshipping is one very effective way to make money online. What Dropshipping business entails is your ability to sell products without holding on to or managing inventory yourself. The dropshipper simply obtains the order and gets the supplier store to package and ship the product to the buyer without as much as seeing or even touching the product. By this arrangement, popular e-commerce websites like Shopify do have dropshipping apps which make it easy for dropshippers to develop their own business with more customized merchandise. You can make money from dropshipping by running social media ads on popular platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. You can also have influencers promote or endorse your products to their followers. You can even send Direct Messages to customers and potential customers on social media to stimulate dropshipping services. You earn commissions from all sales made from your dropshipping arrangements.



Tip #4: Twitch Streaming

Most people are used to making money online streaming on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram but you can make more money streaming on Twitch than you can on YouTube for instance. If you are streaming on Twitch, you can focus on tapping into all five monetization methods available to maximize your earnings. This is why in comparison to YouTube, Twitch is one of the best ways to make good money online. To make money streaming on Twitch, your first challenge is to grow your following. Consistent streaming is one great way to grow this following. Next is to choose a popular game that isn’t overly competitive. That’s about the most credible way people can easily find your content. You need to communicate with and engage these viewers real time. This you can easily do by engaging in popular chats as well as engaging the chatters on your stream. That’s where and how the traffic comes and through monetization, you earn good money streaming on Twitch.

Tip #5: Language Translation

The world is increasingly becoming a global village and the level of interaction is flourishing. The major key to this interaction is language. People need to communicate with friends and business partners around the globe 24/7. Language barrier is no longer an obstacle to this flow of communication because of language translators. If you want to earn money by way of language translation, you need basic and practical knowledge of at least two major languages to do this effectively. So, if you have bilingual skills, you can earn good money online by translating documents and reports from one language to another and you get paid for your services. Aside qualifications and experience, you need to show proof of fluency in the languages you aim to translate particularly on money-making translation websites like Pro Translating, Translators Base and Gengo.

Monday, December 03, 2018

How Affiliate Marketing Works


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It is simply amazing how really simple affiliate marketing is. Many do wonder how people who own and manage their own websites and blogs that don’t offer products make money. The simple answer is, most of these blogs and sites have page banners or links within blog posts, which are often features of affiliate marketing. This type of marketing typically involves a website or a blog author posting a link to another company’s website or product in order to earn a commission from a sale. This allows for potential readers to connect and for blog owners to make some extra money. The more these links are clicked by online surfers, the more the money the person who posted the link makes.

Every day, people go online searching for information and tips about businesses, life and health matters. For example, people may want information about a particular drug or supplement. Such people may then find online a blog post centered on their topic of interest. Because blog writers know that people who search for such niche topic are likely looking to buy a specific product, they insert links in their blogs linking to where that product is sold. The blog owner in this instance may provide a link to one or more companies selling the products to enable the buyers have a choice platform.  When readers click the links and purchase products, the poster gets a percentage of the sale as commission. In some instances, even if no sale is made at that moment, some affiliate structures allow for some form of payment to be made once the link is clicked. That is how it works.



 

How to Earn with Affiliate Marketing while you Sleep


Graphical arrangement of $100 Dollars notes.

“If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.” Warren Buffet
 
Online marketers have since discovered that one of the biggest benefits of affiliate marketing is that people can earn money while they sleep. Now, that’s really great particularly in this age and time when making money is one hectic business. In Affiliate marketing, it does not require for the blog poster to be present or working. It is a form of income that works when online visitors click on the link. The more they click, the more money the person who made the post makes and this can be in perpetuity 24/7.

Affiliate marketing not only allows for companies and professionals to benefit from exposure, but it also helps support bloggers and online influencers. Affiliate marketing allows for posters to get a percentage of revenue in exchange for sharing a link or post. One really good thing is that marketing professionals have been promoting this as a more financially smart way to make use of a smaller budget. That is, the whole idea revolves around cost-effectiveness. Every marketer cares about costs and affiliate marketing comes in really handy when it comes to doing business and earning money in a cost-effective way around the clock.


Tuesday, November 29, 2016

7 Timeless Lessons About Making Money

Stack of $50 dollars bills potruding from the hip pocket of blue jeans.
I always argue that money-making is not a modern science. The principles have been with us since ancient times, and they are as valid and reliable today as they have always been right from ancient times. Why then do many people find it difficult to make and grow money using ancient wisdom? Fact is, anyone can make money so long as they follow the rules. These here timeless lessons which our grandparents used can also be used by us for similar results.



01. Increase your ability to earn. No matter what business you are doing, it is within your power to increase your ability to earn. This is rather very obvious. The better your ability to earn, the more money you make. If you want to increase your income, you must increase your ability to earn. If you want to increase your ability to earn, you must increase your value to society. This you can do by improving yourself and learning more skills relevant for your increased productivity.

02. Control your expenditures. This you can do by striving to spend less than you earn. Somehow, earned money never seems to be enough for spending. It takes real discipline to keep expenses down while striving to increase your earnings. This is one very potent way to grow your money. If you are sincerely keen on making money/building wealth, it helps to get on a budget, and to start spending less than you make. The balance left can go into savings and or investments.

03. Guard your money from loss. Even if you are able to build up a lot of wealth through the careful investment of your money, you will discover that it is far easier to lose money than to gain it. What to do! Just explore ways to guard your money from loss through careful vetting of any investment. What that means is that you should not be reckless or stupid with your investments. The wisdom of the ancients says, "Guard thy treasure from loss by investing only where thy principal is safe, where it may be reclaimed if desirable, and where thou will not fail to collect a fair rental. Consult with wise men. Secure the advice of those experienced in the profitable handling of gold. Let their wisdom protect thy treasure from unsafe investments."

04. Insure a future income. You may be aware that your entire life is divided into three distinct segments namely, your learning years, your earning years and your yearning years. Naturally, as you age, your ability to earn income will drop. You won’t be as ambitious, your health will begin to fail and there is a very real possibility that you’ll someday die. That is inevitable anyway. Therefore, the smart thing to do is to plan ahead for the day that you will no longer be strong enough to be able to work. That is, during your yearning years, what can sustain your income will be returns from long term investments. Making profitable long term investments is a great way to “insure a future income.”

05. Make regular savings. This is what the ancients refer to as “make thy gold multiply.” In modern terms, you make real money through savings by way of “compounded interest.” That happens when you put your savings to work to earn more money. Habitually saving a percentage of your earnings, say about 10% over time accumulates somewhat and with compounded interest, your money grows exponentially.

06. Earn from investments. This is what the ancients refer to as “start thy purse to fattening.” It is one smart way to allow your money work for you. You can do a variety of investments, from stocks to real estate investing to gold. All of them yield money for you in a variety of ways even with a one-time investment. With good investments, you earn income around-the-clock 24/7 even if you do nothing else but watch.

07. Make where you live a profitable investment. In ancient times, this was the same thing as “make of thy dwelling a profitable investment.” In modern times, when it comes to matters relating to where you live, it is better to take a mortgage than to pay rents in perpetuity. Rents do increase over time, but mortgages remain relatively stable over a prolonged period of time. Therefore, with mortgages, you are making a profitable investment in the home you domicile. That is one great way to save money and to grow your wealth.



As you can see from the foregoing, making money/creating wealth is not rocket science. The principles may be very old and have been around since ancient times but they are just as important today as they were back in ancient times. Wealth creation and making money is not a mystery. It is not luck and it is not a secret. It is a repeatable process, something anyone can do if they are discerning enough. In fact, you can find all these principles in my favorite “little money book” published in 1926 by George Samuel Clason. It is named “The Richest Man in Babylon.” With it, Mr. Clason tells his wealth creation stories with a collection of parables which are as relevant today as they were in ancient Babylonian times. Get a copy of that little book for yourself today.

Saturday, October 08, 2016

Money-Making Does not Depend on Your Age

5 and 10 Dollar bills on display.
Here are real life examples. Colonel Sanders was about 65 years old when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC in the United States. He nurtured it to a multi-million dollar enterprise well into his old age. George Burns won an Oscar in his eighties and remained in active show-business until he died at 100. Conversely, some child-actors have been reported to be making millions in their teens. If you think you are too young to be making money, so it will be. If you think you are too old, so will it also be. It is all a mind thing. Age is a mind thing. If your physical inabilities are not major limiting factors, you can do anything to earn money and live a good life irrespective of your age. Age is therefore not a limiting factor to wealth.



 

Saturday, September 03, 2016

7 Smart Ways to Profit from Natural Disasters

Notepad, calculator, pen, glass of water in work table preparing for natural disasters.
The mind-set of any good entrepreneur is always on how to make a quick buck no matter the situation. Natural disasters as characterized by earthquakes, tornadoes, wild fires, flash floods, tsunamis et cetera always have in tow widespread destruction, misery, sorrow and even death. Since natural disasters these days occur with alarming regularity in many parts of the world, good entrepreneurs must think about how they can run a business and make some money even amidst disaster. It is prudent to run an emergency business if and when disasters strike. When many people are busy lamenting, any smart entrepreneur should always think some other ways different from everybody else. In times of disasters, these seven services are very smart ways to become relevant and in high demand. If you so wish, you could render some of these services gratis and at no cost to anyone. That way, you would become a very useful and important citizen as a result more so in times of gloom.



01. Insurance claims agent. With widespread destruction accompanying natural disasters, a good service to render is insurance claims agent. Many people will readily hire your services to help them make claims from their insurance companies.

02. Clean-up services. Disasters come with enormous debris which must be cleared away for normal life to resume. If you are able to quickly set up an emergency clean-up service outfit, you will be in very high demand.

03. Water/food vendor. In times of disasters, the things people need most are usually food, medication, water and shelter. From experience, governments are usually good at providing shelter and medication but not the others. Any private person who can quickly set up a food and water supply service will be in very high demand.

04. Nursing/comforter services. With injuries, deaths, sorrow and desperation very common in times of disaster, a good business to run is a nursing/comforter service.

05. Entertainer. In times of natural disasters, many people usually need things, anything which could take their minds off their losses even if temporarily. That is where entertainers become very useful. If you can lay your hands on a drum, a violin, a guitar, a banjo, a flute, a harmonica or any other musical instrument for that matter and you can play it well, you will be very useful to many people who are alive but in sorrow. 

06. Transporter. With flash floods, you can quickly get a boat to ferry people around flooded streets for as long as the streets remain flooded. With earthquakes and impassable roads, Big Joe’s helicopter emergency service can not be a bad idea either.

07. Coffin/Casket maker. This may sound morbid but it is a service that is in high demand in times of natural disasters. The dead must be buried anyway and at times in very large numbers. That usually engenders a very high demand for coffins/caskets.



The essence of these services is to think like an entrepreneur even in times of natural disasters. When everybody else is lamenting, the smart entrepreneur should be busy rendering a service and making a quick buck. Rendering a service and making money as a result is what  good entrepreneurs know how best to do whether the times are normal or not. These seven business types are usually very relevant and in high demand in times of disaster. Since mankind is yet to find a credible way to avoid natural disasters completely, it is prudent to start thinking about how to live with them. What is certain is that disasters will always occur but no one knows for sure where and when the next big one will hit. Smart entrepreneurs should always stand ready to swing into action as soon as a disaster hits their neighborhood.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

Do You Know That Wealth is a Choice?

Make money from your wealth next and choices.

By the way, so is poverty. The choice of whether to be rich or poor is open to everyone no matter his race, sex or color. What you get is through deliberate efforts not by chance. Chance numbers only work in a casino. Anyone who gambles with his or her life must pay a stiff price at the end of the day. The person, who has the best idea, does the best business and consequently makes the most money. This has little or nothing to do with your physical strength and or composition. It is purely a mind and action thing. 

Psychologists generally agree that “there is a deep tendency in human nature to become precisely like that which you habitually imagine yourself to be.”  If you avoid thinking poor, you can avoid poverty. Anybody can therefore make money and be wealthy if they do the right things with the requisite passion. There are no obstacles to making money other than those in your mind. If the mind is subject to everyone’s control, why should some people be jobless and poor? People who choose to apply themselves positively make money while those who refuse or neglect to apply themselves usefully and adequately remain poor. This choice is open to everyone. It is a matter of choice not chance.



 

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Do You Know How to Make a Million Naira?

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Do you know that you can make as much money as you choose to make by merely reading this article? Warning! This article is not a magic wand for making millions. If you want instant millions, you should be reading something else not this article. What I think you should be reading are the lottery numbers and the game of chance. But let me caution you that the law of chance is a tricky law. “It permits you to win just often enough to lure you on to sure destruction.” Run as far away from gambling as you can for your own sake. All that gamblers do daily is to attempt to circumvent the natural law of reciprocity. They believe they can reap where they did not sow. Their nemesis is guaranteed by the law of chance even before the law of reciprocity takes its course in their affairs.



Know it today my friend if you do not already know that you must sow before you can ever reap. What you sow is in direct proportion to what you reap. This is in tune with the natural law of “Cause and Effect.” Be assured however, that this article can help you to make millions if you understand what it teaches. It may not show you what you can do to make a million instantly because it is not a gambling book. Do not be discouraged though. You can still make millions if you choose to. All you have to do is use the secrets herewith revealed. Many of the secrets are hinted in this discussion. Pay attention to them. What immediately follows is one of such secrets.

Do you know how to make a million Naira? Simple! All you have to do is to make a product or render a service that will earn you N1 in a million units or N10 in 100,000 units or N100 in 10,000 units or N1000 in 1000 units or N10,000 in 100 units or N100,000 in 10 units or N1 million in only one unit. Making a million Naira does not appear as difficult as it sounds. Does it?

This article reveals a few more money-making secrets many people choose to ignore. You can make a million in several ways and through various endeavors if you just follow the rules of wealth creation. “It is much easier to make a million doing something you enjoy and are excited about for its own sake than to make a million purely to make a million” says Dan Kennedy a foremost American business consultant. Getting yourself to be self-employed is the surest way to making real and legitimate money. It is clearer now that you too can make as much money as you are capable of making if you just follow the rules. What you choose by your actions and or inactions is what you get. This is one more secret you now know. Congratulations!