Money Making Online

Some interesting links on my preferred sites and other stumbled webs:

* The Web Celeb 25: Forbes published the web celebrities ranking (top 25). Perez Hilton is now the “rock star” on Internet.

* eMoms at Home: An online magazine with Money-making ideas, resources, news and motivation for parents with an Internet Home Business (or looking to start one).

* Creative Curio: I think this is an excellent blog about Graphic Design. Even if you are not a graphic designer, I bet you will find something useful there.

* Lootist: Very interesting website where you can discover the best products and gifts. You can browse by category, make recommendations, declare a specialty, and more.

* HopURL.com: If you have an online marketing program that includes affiliates, you should consider this free tool. You will be able to shorten links and see daily statistics about your affiliates’ performance.

* PageRank wrecked the web: Rich Skrenta on Skrenta.com talk about how the Pagerank and the aggressive Google campaign against paid links are affecting the web.

* Malaysia Online Personalised Gifts Store: For my Asian friends: Heartbeat is a cool online store where you can express your own artistic impulses and customize a lot of gifts such as T-shirts, mugs, puzzles and so on, that printed with your photos and special wording on it.

* Video speedlinking: Jeremy Shoemaker’s presentation on Blogworld Expo about smart ways to monetize a blog.

Online Videos by Veoh.com

Tags:
Internet Making Money

Google just released its Google Zeitgeist 2007 report which is a way to check the trends about what is hot in the world now, because that has a lot of searches (on the major search engine) during 2007.

This information could be really important for entrepreneurs on Internet due to the power of search engines to lead traffic to websites. And also, this is a quick way to pick up some topics a blogger could write about in order to attract more audience. Of course, the keyword should be related to your blog topic.

Here is the summary of the Fastest Rising searches in the world:

1. iphone: iPhone is a multimedia, Internet-enabled mobile phone designed and marketed by Apple Inc.

2. Badoo: A worldwide community that provides its members with the ability to communicate and share their lives.

3. Facebook: Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

4. Dailymotion: Dailymotion is a video hosting service website, based in Paris, France. The site is well known for its superior video quality in comparison with other flash-enabled video hosting websites.

5. Webkinz: Webkinz pets are lovable plush pets that each come with a unique Secret Code. With it, you enter “Webkinz World” where you care for your virtual pet, answer trivia, earn “KinzCash”, and play the best kids games on the net!

6. YouTube: is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.

7. ebuddy: is a web & mobile messenger which supports various instant messaging services including MSN Messenger, Yahoo! , AIM, Google Talk and MySpace IM.

8. Second Life: A downloadable client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called “Residents”, to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service in a 3D environment.

9. hi5: Social network where users create an online profile in order to show information such as interests, age and hometown and upload user pictures where users can post comments.

10. club penguin: a safe virtual world for kids to play, interact with friends and have fun letting their imaginations soar.

More info: Click here.

Tags:
Making Money Ideas

Based on Kiyosaki’s work

Personally, this point has been a difficult step for me in the search for financial freedom. Having a true mentor who is successful in the business and investment world, can be difficult in a society where most people have a financial fight to stay afloat.

It evidences that most people are caught up in what Robert Kiyosaki and other authors call “the rat race”. Many of them are afraid of losing employment because they depend on it to survive. Other people are simply caught up in a debt trap. And other people consider themselves as business owners, when they are self-employees who fight to stay afloat, month by month, without a long-term vision. Finally, other people believe they are investors getting really low yields or betting and praying so the stock market doesn’t crash.

So far, I have decided that my mentor is Robert Kiyosaki although I don’t know him personally. Through his books, I try to know him and enter into his mind in order to learn everything I can from him. At the same time, I read about the biographies of businessmen and investors such as Henry Ford, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, etc.

Although it is not the ideal way, at least it is better than having bad mentors. Sometimes, people ask advice from a person who is in the same situation or worse: relatives who are only employees with no experience in business, stock brokers who get a wage even if you lose money, small business owners who are close to bankruptcy, financial journalists who are known as experts when they are only employees of a media company, or friends who are interested in wasting time and spend money on useless things.

Someday, I hope to find my own mentor, personally. But without a doubt, I will choose that person carefully.

Most people are not aware of seeking a mentor, and they try to be successful by trusting their own financial knowledge. That is not bad at all. The problem is that almost all people come from an educational system that teaches us to be employees or self-employees and those people don’t have enough knowledge about the money. So, if we don’t invest time in the financial education first, our plans will be quite risky.

Another important aspect is the environment that surrounds us: the people who are surrounding us most of the time. If we don’t create a favorable atmosphere, our destiny will be similar to the destiny of trees planted in a bad soil.

Kiyosaki proposes an exercise:

1 - Write down in a piece of paper the names of 6 people who surround you most of the time.

2 - Write down next to each person, from what quadrant the money come for this person in a major proportion: Employee, Self-employed, Business Owner or Investor.

3 - Write down what kind of investor each person is, according to the classification of the “seven levels of investors“.

4 - Now, write down what quadrant you are in (at this time) and what quadrant you would like to be in.

5 - If most people in your list are in the quadrant you would like to be in, then you have a great chance of achieving your goals.

Question: Do you need to make changes in your daily environment and relationships? Have you identified a mentor yet?

Tags:
Robert Kiyosaki

Some interesting links on my preferred sites and other stumbled webs:

* Darren Rowse On Work Life Balance: The famous Problogger recently shared some of his time with Derek Semmler and this is an interview about balancing work and Darren’s role as dad and husband.

* Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger?: I know, this is not about money or business, but it is a cool website about amusing pictures that have cats as main characters. Very funny! (Actually, I think this is about business for the owners… :-)… )

* Manage To Change: Ann Michael has a fascinating writing style. This blog is about the change. Ann hopes “this blog will help us to open our minds to new ideas – get comfortable with them – and maybe even take them out for a spin!”

* The Attention Age Doctrine Part 2: Rich Schefren released his Attention Age Doctrine second part. A recommended document for bloggers and people building an online business. There, he is focusing on Web 2.0: social media, online communities and blogging.

* StomperNet Going Natural 2.0 - Success with SEO: Andy Jenklin released his first video of his Going Natural 2.O series. This series is about how you can increase your website traffic and revenues. In the first video he talks about the excellent increase in his e-commerce sites on less than one month. Interesting to see!

* Selling links that pass PageRank: This is a controversial topic and many webmasters are criticizing Google due to its reaction about links trading. Anyway, it is important you understand the Google policies about links if you are making money online. Matt Cutts, who is a Google employee, explains why Google doesn’t like the paid links and posts by using an illustrative example.

* The next evolution of labels: For those who love Gmail, and maybe they don’t know it yet, I only want to inform about the new and cool feature: the colored label. It can be really useful for our mail management.

* Video speedlinking: Aaron Wall from Seobook published this video about “How Aggressive Ad Placement Kills Websites”. Note: In case you don’t know him, Aaron is a well known person on web optimization & marketing field.

Tags:
Internet Making Money

Some few months ago, Mpire Corporation launched another option to monetize websites: WidgetBucks. WidgetBucks features pay-per-click shopping widgets that help the bloggers and website owners make money fast. A widget is a small interactive program that show information related to a specific topic or category. You earn money each time someone clicks on a WidgetBucks ad widget on your site, also called pay-per-click, or PPC. You can also earn money by referring people to WidgetBucks.

This could be a complement or, actually, an alternative to Google Adsense. Mpire claims that these widgets see $3-$6 CPM (cost per thousand impressions) which is very good and maybe better than the average ad networks that deliver less than $2 CPM.

The widgets are really attractive and if the widgets inventory contains specific ads that match your content, your website could look enough nice with these new ads. If you want to test these new ads network, please keep in mind that if you use Google Adsense already, you must use the widgets ads in a non-contextual mode (i.e. by category) in order to be OK with the Adsense TOS.

To sign up, please Click here

Tags:
Making Money Ideas