Upload Media, Download Money

Ah, all blogs are supposed to have their share of quirky (read: weak) jokes in the headlines, right? I recently was speaking with one of my friends who told me how to make money online with another affiliate program. Since I’m a nice guy, I’ll share it with you. Uploading.com has an affiliate website where you can be paid for 1000 downloads of files you host. You will make even more money if users purchase an optional paid account. A good idea I thought of is to compile a collection of classical literature of which the copyright has expired (and is therefore free to distribute). You can find books like these at Project Gutenberg or Manybooks.net. Package them up in a nice .zip archive and do your best to promote downloads. This should be a great way to make money online as soon as I get the chance to devote some time to it. You can find the Uploading.com affiliate site here.

Easiest Way To Make Money Online

Recently, a friend of mine who I knew was an avid biologist showed me a few of his videos on Youtube. They were related to herpetology and grossing tens of thousands of views. His videos were entertaining and informative. That’s when I realized I had found myself a business partner. He decided pretty quickly that he wanted to make money online, and I recently have just started applying some search engine optimization techniques (mainly my writing) to increase traffic. It’s worked well, gaining him a further 2,000 views in a few days. It’s definitely a somewhat obscure niche, and I’ll be working hard to monetize the traffic. The reason I bring this up is thus: You can pay an owner of a popular Youtube video to add your affiliate link on the page with their video to both make money online.

Article Outsourcing

Another popular way to make money is to hire writers to write articles for you. It can be outsourced cheaply for bulk orders of articles in a topic of your choosing. The trick is then to sell them for a higher price to make money online. There are quite a few sites on the internet designed to advertise work to potential freelance writers and programmers. There are also forums, directories, mailing lists, and even articles writing teams that will work for cheap. Pick a niche, start making money online today.

How Affiliate Marketing Works

As the Internet plays a larger role in our everyday lives, the medium strives to find more efficient ways to connect more people. Communities evolve and mirror real world mechanics of social standards and customs. Just as advertisers harp their products by any means necessary in the real world, online businesses need to market their services and goods on the web.
The most common way to make money online is to advertise for existing businesses. You may have seen offers for replica watches, pharmaceuticals, clothing, electronics, and all types of accessories. Online stores often pay commission on sales if you can refer enough traffic to generate interest. Sites such as Ebay.com offer affiliate programs where a webmaster can host and promote their own small partner site selling products available on Ebay.
Once you have an affiliate website alive and running you need the eyes of prospective customers. Using basic programming skills, you can make money online by automating your advertising on social networking sites, newsgroups, via email, and all over the web. This is to gain more customers. This basic skeleton of a plan is the basis for one way spammers make money online.

Social Networking for Fun and Profit

Social networking sites contain some of the largest online communities worldwide. There is almost no more convenient place to meet your target audience and make money online than on popular social networking sites. These sites are obviously designed to encourage communication, so why not send some affiliate links? One strategy that seems to be saturating the market is e-whoring. A spammer posts pretty pictures on myspace, posing as an attractive male/female – and then convinces other users to sign up for other deals. Well, why not? It can be done efficiently and effectively (but not ethically? :p). You can register for an affiliate site such as    Social networking sites contain some of the largest online communities worldwide. There is almost no more convenient place to meet you audience than on popular social networking sites. These sites are obviously designed to encourage communication, so why not send some affiliate links? One strategy that seems to be saturating the market is e-whoring. A spammer posts pretty pictures on myspace, posing as an attractive male/female – and then convinces other users to sign up for other deals. Well, why not? It can be done efficiently and effectively (but not ethically? :p) to make money online. You can register for an affiliate site such as Dating Gold and get paid per free signup to dating sites.

Make Money Online Playing Blackjack

In every casino game in existence the player is at a general disadvantage. Because they have a smaller bankroll than the casino, and because the odds favor the house, it is hard to make a living professionally gambling. Luckily for us, there are we can think of new ideas to make money online with casinos. Online casinos vary in quality, although there is no lack of quantity. It is important that any casino you play with is *fair*.

Blackjack, which does not shuffle the deck after every hand, is one of the few games in which the player may have an advantage over the house. Casinos have gone to quite some trouble to make sure card counters do not profit too much. The problem is that most of their security measures are designed for actual in-person casinos – not online ones.

The first step is to learn basic strategy. Basic strategy is the best course of action for any circumstance in Blackjack. This will almost even the odds against the house. Combine this with the Hi-Lo strategy of card counting and you have a simple strategy that seems foolproof.

Why would this work? There are not pit bosses, cameras, irritable dealers, or shills playing in online casinos. They normal card counting inhibitors are gone. This is just another idea on how to make money online (albeit gradually).

(EDIT: I recently talked to a friend of mine who owns a few online casinos. He says they can be consistently beaten and to look into Pai Gow as well as casino bonuses. I’ll research more thoroughly and try something out.)

Associated Content

Recently there has been a surge in sites that allow you to publish your content on their site and profit from traffic. Sites such as Associated Content are even willing to pay upfront for articles. So here are some tips on making money online with Associated Content.

Firstly, you will need an account. You can register here . Fill in necessary details as requested, including your paypal account information. If you are not from the United States you are not *technically* allowed to receive payment for your writing.

Secondly, find an article online that you are somewhat familiar with and rephrase and restructure the article for a personal flair. Alternatively, write your own article and make sure you pay attention to Search Engine Optimization techniques. Additional artwork, photography, sidebars, or sources will add credibility and value to your article.

Thirdly, publicize your article. Use social networking sites, traffic exchange sites, forums, emails to family and friends, blogs, and other popular sites that can drive traffic to your writing talent!

Rinse and repeat, scaling upwards by outsourcing the writing and automating the marketing, if possible.

Poker Tournaments

An easy way to get started making money online is by affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing requires few resources to start, and makes money for both you and the company you are advertising. Sites that monetize traffic online can benefit from your additional pageviews. An easy money making method is to run a poker tournament online hosted at a popular online casino.

Start firstly by creating an online account at a place similiar to Pokerstars.net. With this you can create your own room (from which you will run the tournament). You will want to complete your profile to present an honest and clean appearance. Start advertising your tournament by posting on forums, craigslist, and social networking sites. You will need the attention of potential players to make money online – and it’s up to you to get the word out.

In the advertisement for your poker tournament include your affiliate link to the product you are selling. This will often be a signup at the poker site where the tournament is hosted. If you can get players to deposit cash you may make $25-75 per player, depending on the quantity of traffic. This should make quite a bit of money online with little to no beginning investment. Make sure you’re patient and sensitive to the desires of your target audience and you will be making money online in no time.

Making Money Online

Let’s admit it:

If we could, we would skip the morning commute, the conventional work schedule, and the office politics if it meant staying at home comfortably and making money online. As the Internet becomes a bigger part of our lives, a complex economy has developed online – and it’s up to you to take advantage of the opportunity. In this blog I hope to examine and elaborate on some methods of making money online as I experiment. Years of marketing and experience in the real world will hopefully continue to serve me well as we transition into an online society. I hope to share my knowledge and experience so that we can successfully make money online.