| Earning
money online
We all have read about
online success stories where someone sets up a website and
instantly becomes screamingly rich. But the reason
we read about this amazing overnight success is simply this:
it is such an unusual occurrence that it is newsworthy. All
the millions of websites that perform poorly or merely adequately
never make news.
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It
is, however, possible for an individual to make some
money with a website or blog. But it is unlikely to
be millions of dollars and it is equally unlikely to
happen overnight.
I know. I have
almost a
dozen websites and can tell you that it has taken years of
work to build and maintain them. The first one was
launched in 1998. My sites provide
a modest supplemental income--which is very nice now that I
am retired.
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What
kind of online business are you going to launch?
The first thing to do
is decide what you are going to do online. Internet businesses
generally break down into two categories:
1) You sell stuff and the money
you get paid from the stuff you sell is
your income. An example of this kind of online business would be
selling collectable china online at Ebay. Or selling boxes
of peanut brittle you make from your grandmother's treasured
recipe on a website you set up.
Or 2) you become a
publisher of an informational blog or website and the ads on your
site become your source of income. The Huffington
Post, Hot Gardens, and
this website are examples of online publishing which rely on
advertising for revenue.
Continued: Niche Marketing--where real
internet success comes from...
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