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Start A YouTube Channel

Starting a Youtube channel is the simplest way of all and needs no investment. YouTube gets almost 5 billion video views per day which proves its power on the internet. Felix Kjellberg, the owner of PewDiePie (a YouTube account), has earned 12 million dollars in 2017 from running a single YouTube channel. You too can see such success if you capitalize on the opportunity that YouTube provides us currently. Suitable For - People who love to create videos, like to talk about a video, shoot documentaries or short films. Skills Required - Ability to create a video using software tools or record a video using your mobile phone or camcorder. Time Required For Starting A YouTube Channel - Virtually you can start within minutes. You will just have to visit YouTube.com, create a channel and upload videos. Tips - 1. Create a YouTube channel around a specific theme such as Humor, Tutorial, Recipe, etc. Don’t just go out create any random unrelated videos channel. For example, if you love gadgets, you can create a gadget reviews channel where you review latest gadgets and help people to decide whether it's a right choice for them. 2. Select a theme in which you are really interested. Analyze other videos related to your topic, see how many views those videos get. It will help you to get an overview of how many people are interested in your theme. 3. Generally, more the views more beneficial the theme is. As more people are searching for it. 4. Check out if there’s any concept missing in the currently existing videos related to your theme. You can cover these concepts in your videos to fetch more views. 5. Give your best to engage with your audience. Study the comments you get on your videos, learn the hidden expectations that your audience has from you. 6. Try to find out what they like about your videos and what they don't. Study which videos get the highest retention rate and find the reasons behind them. 7. Spy on your competitors and try to model the things that are working for them. But never try to copy them, always maintain your uniqueness. 8. Always try to improvise each new video from the last one. So when you look at your first videos after few years, you should think aww how bad I was earlier. That's a good sign; it shows that you've improved. 9. Experiment, experiment, and experiment. Never fear to try something new and see how it works. Experiments are the only way where you can find new and exciting stuff which can catapult you way ahead of your competitors. 10. Finally, try to collaborate with other YouTuber's who are doing similar work. Learn their strategies and mindset. Working together can do wonders for your channel. 11. Have fun. Do the things that you love and enjoy your life. How To Monetize - The general rule for monetization in YouTube is straightforward. More views your videos get, more money you’ll earn. You’ll have to enable the monetize option in your YouTube channel settings. It's very simple. Start A Blog Being a blogger is one of the easiest ways to earn money from home. Unlike any other job, if you are blogging from home. You don’t need to work 9-5. You can work at any time of the day with ease. But beware blogging takes time before it starts making money for you. So I suggest you jump into this field slowly. If you have a day job, don’t quit it. Start part-time with your blog. Once it is on the stage where it is earning you more than your comfortable limits, then it’s the best time to turn into full-time blogging mode. Suitable For - People who love to write and would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the world. Skills Required - Ability to express knowledge in writing with simpler yet efficient way. Time Required For Starting A Blog - The time required depends upon your level of expertise if you are an expert you can easily start a blog within few hours. For a complete beginner, a day or two would be sufficient. Tips - 1. Start a blog about something in which you are really good at. For example, if you love traveling and you have visited a lot of places then start a travel blog. 2. Always try to limit your blog to a particular domain. Don’t put content on multiple domains in one blog. For example, writing about recipe tips on a fashion blog. Keep your blog specific to one domain only. 3. Using your experience and expertise try to create a unique and phenomenal content. Try to give a lot of value to your readers. Write about something that will make a difference in your reader's’ life. 4. Listen to the readers of your blog. Try to solve the problems they are facing. Always reply to their comments. Make them feel better. 5. Be committed to your blog. A blog is like a relationship. Give it some love, and it will flourish. Ignore it, and it will die a death. There’s no point in being half-hearted in your blogging efforts - if you don’t care about it, why should anyone else? 6. Think about content, style, the tone of voice, audience, etc. Look at the people who are already doing what you’re planning to do. Ask yourself the following questions: How will I stand out from the crowd? What can I say that hasn’t already been said? What’s my unique selling point? Why do I want to do this? 7. Be professional in the way you handle and grow your blog. Don’t criticize other brands, bloggers or people. Remember what goes around comes around. You don’t want something you’ve said to come back and bite you one day. 8. Be open-minded and willing to collaborate with other creatives. You’ll meet some fantastic and awe-inspiring people. How To Monetize - You can monetize your blog by recommending products or services related to your blog’s topic either by writing an informative article or placing banner ads on your blog’s relevant pages. You can earn handsome commissions when a person buys a product recommended by you. Another way is you can place Google Adsense ads on your blog. More people click on your ads more money you will make. Do Affiliate Marketing What is Affiliate Marketing? Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards a certain percentage of commission for each product bought by the customers who are brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts. Suitable For - People who love to talk, write, explain and have the ability to persuade. Skills Required - Ability to promote a product online using social media, videos, ads, etc. Time Required For Starting Affiliate Marketing - Virtually within an hour. You just need to select an online product that pays a commission when you promote and sell it using your affiliate link. Tips - 1. Select an online product from the domain in which you are well conversant with. For example, if you are a dietician then select a product related to diet. There are lots of products available in every domain you just need to focus on which domain is suitable for you. 2. Places to find products: Clickbank.com, Shareasale.com, Jvzoo.com. These websites have thousands of products listed from multiple domains. 3. Choose a product that pays you at least 50% commission on each sale. 4. Most product websites handle affiliate link generation and payouts so you don’t need to worry about how you’ll get your commissions. Just get your custom affiliate link created by the vendor and start promoting it. 5. If you want to earn instant money from affiliate marketing try to promote your affiliate link on social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit. How To Monetize - Monetization is simple, just make more people buy the product through your affiliate link. Create a Facebook page or Banner ads about the product. Tell people how the product will help them to solve their problems. Improve people’s knowledge about the domain and help them to solve other related problems. Create Niche Websites What is a Niche Website? A Niche Website is a small website focused on one particular topic which shares all the information relevant to the topic that is both useful and interesting for the target audience. A niche website can be of few pages or even of hundreds of pages depending upon the size of the niche. Suitable For - 1. People who have an interest in a very specific topic within a large domain. For example, in large a domain like Yoga, you can choose specific sub-domain such as ‘Yoga to lose weight.’ 2. People who love to talk, write, explain and have the ability to persuade. Skills Required - 1. Ability to create Niche website based on specific sub-domain using Wordpress, Blogger or other available software and tools. 2. Ability to promote the website using social media, ads etc. Time Required For Starting A Niche Website - You can start a Niche Website within a day. But creating a good content for the website might take time. Tips - 1. Write out as many niche site ideas as you can, using the sub-domain that interests you the most. 2. Narrow down your niche idea based on finding the answers to the following questions: What is the audience size of your niche? Is your audience known for spending money on purchasing the niche related products? Are there multiple products available which you review on your site? Are there affiliate programs that provide more than 50% commissions? What is your investment budget? 3. Create at least 10 articles of rich content with 1000 words that will provide value to your niche targeted audience. 4. Sign up for at least 2 affiliate programs that offer products related to your niche with more than 50% commissions. 5. Do keyword research and find at least 15-20 niche relevant search terms and try to rank your site for them. 6. Try to network with the owners of the authority blogs in your niche and find guest blogging opportunities. How To Monetize - Promote the products relevant to the topic of your niche website by placing affiliate links in the content and sidebar of your site. Try to get more visitors to your site by doing SEO, forum marketing, social media and paid ads. More people visit your niche site and buy products through your affiliate link, more money you make. How about creating 10 more Niche Websites with every site generating $500 a month in affiliate commission that would be $5000 of passive income per month. Publish A Kindle eBook Publishing a Kindle eBook is another simple way of generating consistent passive income. Did you know that Amazon.com is the biggest competitor to Google than any other search engine like Yahoo or Bing? More shoppers try to search for a product on Amazon than on any traditional search engine. When people want in-depth information on a specific topic, they don’t search for blog posts on Google but instead, try to find a highly recommended book on Amazon. Your aim should be to leverage the power of Amazon.com’s growing outreach and popularity to generate a stable passive income source. Suitable For - People who have in-depth knowledge of a certain topic or love to do research and explain it in an easily understood from. Skills Required - 1. Ability to provide detailed insights on a particular topic. 2. Ability to provide some extraordinary tips for solving people’s problems. Time Required For Creating An eBook - The time required completely depends on the creator of the eBook. What topics he/she wants to cover? How many details does the creator want to include? These are the important factors that define the time required. Tips - 1. Research, research, and research. It is the key to successful Kindle eBook product. Research about what people are looking for in the domain related to your eBook's topic. For example, if you are creating an eBook on ‘Yoga to lose weight' look for how many people are looking for yoga exercises to lose weight on the internet and Amazon? What are their expectations from a book? You can easily conduct this research by studying the comments, reviews, and popularity of the existing competitor's books on Amazon. 2. Write for one reader. When you know your ideal reader, you know how much he/she already knows. You can avoid boring him/her with obvious information, and you can provide exactly the information he/she’s looking for. 3. Check out how many people are asking questions on the topic you have chosen, using websites such as Quora, Yahoo Answers, and WikiAnswers. More questions mean more people are looking for answers and that’s a good sign. 4. Look out for the market gaps in your selected domain. And see whether there’s demand for some topic, see whether your eBook can cater that demand. 5. Visit Amazon.com and see how many books are present on your selected domain. Are people buying those books? This will help you to understand the demand and purchasing ability of the market in your domain. 6. Find a few friendly readers who match your ideal reader profile and give them your first draft. Not only will they help make your book better, it will also boost your confidence. How To Monetize - Sign up to Kindle Direct Publishing Program, with this you award exclusive distribution rights for your Kindle eBook to Amazon. This will allow you to sell your eBook in all the countries where Amazon.com is available giving it a massive exposure at launch. Create a small niche site on the related topic and promote your eBook through it. The more eBooks you sell the more money you make. Create A Membership Site What is a Membership Site? A membership site is a private website, with exclusive content available only to the signed up members. It usually provides members with the ability to interact with each other. They pay a monthly fee for being a member of the website. Suitable For - People who like to interact with, guide and lead a community. Skills Required - 1. In-depth knowledge of any particular domain. 2. Ability to research new things and constantly generate new and helpful content. Time Required For Creating A Membership site - Depends on the domain expertise of the creator. Tips - 1. In the beginning, keep the fee for joining the membership site ridiculously low. Aim to create a minimum viable product instead of creating a perfect product. You can always improve your site in later stages. 2. If you’ve never been a part of any membership site till now, consider joining a few related to your domain. Study those sites. 3. Find what’s working well for you and other members of that site? What’s makes it worth the monthly fee and how could you replicate this? 4. Interact and engage with members. Your membership site shouldn’t be the one that only drip feeds the content, with little or no input from the owner. You must provide insider access for your members who want to communicate with you. Even if you’re busy, you must spend at least half an hour a day to get involved with your membership site. You can do this by many ways, such as you can interact with the members answer their questions or even lead an interaction inside the forum. 5. Run group events and challenges to increase members’ engagement with your site. Organize regular events, challenges, or similar. Make it easy for members to participate. Offer prizes, display leaderboards or similar such things creates a great incentive for members to participate and get involved. 6. Periodically review what’s working and what isn’t. Try to adapt the site based on the member's’ needs. For example, if you offer most of your content in text format but your members are engaging more with the video content then shift from text-based to video content. 7. Try to introduce new initiatives and see how your audience is responding to it. Such as live Q&A calls or similar. But be careful, don’t overwhelm members with several different initiatives at once. Introduce one thing at a time. How to Monetize - Monetization is very simple. More members sign up to your website more income you generate from the monthly fees that members pay. More Help - Check out Matthew Woodward's tutorial on how to create a 6 figure membership site. Sell Websites On Flippa What is Flippa.com? Flippa.com is an online marketplace for selling and buying websites. Suitable For - People who like to develop websites. Skills Required - In-depth knowledge of Wordpress platform and website creation. Time Required For Creating A Website - Depends on the expertise of the developer in website creation. Tips - 1. Choose a topic you are passionate about. You need to be passionate about the subject your website focuses on. If you launch a website about something that you don’t care about, you will lose interest very quickly and inevitably stop working on it. 2. Think about your long-term business model. To make your website successful you should do a lot of research beforehand. Try to find the answers to the following questions: Who are your direct competitors? How do your competitors make money? How will your website make money? How can you make your website stand out from others? How long will it take to monetize your website? 3. Choose a domain name that is relevant to your topic and appeals to your target audience. A good domain name is an essential part of branding your blog. Choose a .COM as your domain extension because it looks more professional. 4. Choose a reliable paid host like Hostgator, Bluehost or anyone that might suit your needs. 5. You need to make your website's design and layout look very professional. Believe it or not but first-time visitors will make a judgment about your blog within first 10 seconds of loading, so you need to make sure that your website’s design appeals to them and they like it. How To Monetize - 1. Sign up and register your website on Flippa.com. Flippa works on bidding model, the highest bidder gets the ownership of the website. 2. Set the bid price of your website 10 times greater than the current monthly income of your site. For example, if your site is earning $500 per month then you can set the basic selling bid price of your site to at least $5000. 3. Start the auction and wait for bids. People will start bidding for purchasing your site. Once you receive the bid that satisfies your target selling price, then finalize the deal with the bidder. 4. Flippa will manage all the payment and other technical stuff for you and you'll receive your commissions via your selected payment method. Sell A Video Course On Udemy What is Udemy.com? Udemy.com is an online learning marketplace. Udemy has a huge list of courses in everything from programming to yoga to photography and much more. You can create a course in the text, audio, and video formats. Every course is available on demand and students can learn at their own pace, on their own time and on any device. Suitable For - People who like to teach, explain and solve problems. Skills Required - 1. In-depth knowledge of any domain of your choice. 2. Ability to express knowledge in easily understood form. 3. Ability to create and record high-quality videos. Time Required For Creating A Video Course - Depends on the scope of the course, the number of modules included and time required for preparation. Tips - 1. Pick a topic in which you are specialized in. Study the courses relevant to your topic and see how many people are interested and have actually enrolled in the courses. 2. This will give you a rough understanding of the people who are interested in your topic and willing to invest in your course. 3. Study the other available courses and find out the things which you can offer that will make your course much better, different than other available courses. 4. Identify your audience level and then create the course content. For example, you need to first decide whether your course is for beginner level or expert level audience. Then accordingly you need to create your course content which appeals to the right audience. 5. Make sure your course title and description are optimized for appealing your target audience. Try to answer the frequent questions that your audience asks in your course description. 6. Deliver at least 80% of your course in video format as it is the most engaging way of interaction. Also, keep the length of each video lesson between 2-10 minutes. 7. Build a rapport with the audience, and engage. You can always do quiz ups between lectures to make it engrossing and interactive. How To Monetize - 1. Udemy gets a lot of daily visitors so there is a good chance that your course will get noticed and people will enroll in and you will start earning money. 2. You can even start a small blog on your course-related topics and promote your course. 3. More people sign up for your course more money you make. Sell A Service On Fiverr What is Fiverr.com? Fiverr.com is a global online marketplace which offers tasks, services, and products, starting at a cost of $5. Fiverr gets almost 4.7 million visits per month. Your aim should be to leverage Fiverr’s powerful visitor base to reach more people and sell your services or products to them. Every service or task you offer on Fiverr is called a GIG. With Fiverr’s millions of visitor base, you don’t need much to worry about your gig’s promotion and payment handling as Fiverr handles this for you. All you need to do is focus on delivering high-quality work to maintain your ratings, as ratings given by your customers will have a huge impact on the failure or success of your gig. People offer a diverse variety of services on Fiverr which ranges from Graphics and Design, Digital Marketing, Music and Audio, Advertising to anything you can practically think of. Remember you can sell your gig at any price, $5 is just the minimum price. Top Fiverr gig sellers make over $50,000 a year by leveraging the platform and providing high-quality services. Suitable For - 1. People who love to help others by making their easier. 2. People who love the freedom to work, doing what they really like. Skills Required - People having in-depth skills in any particular area, using which they can help other people to complete their tasks or ease their life. Time Required For Creating A Gig On Fiverr - You can create a Gig on Fiverr almost within an hour. All you need to do is first sign up on Fiverr. While creating a gig you’ll have to insert your gig’s title, upload gig’s image, write gig description and insert relevant tags and keywords. Tips - 1. Find your best skills - The first thing you need to do is sit down quietly and figure out the skills of which you are the strongest and stick to tasks related to them till you see some success. For e.g. if you are a person who can design logos and websites, then you should create and sell those gigs in Fiverr that are focused on logo creation and web designing. 2. Do your initial homework - Before diving into gig creation you must do some research to ensure that the gig you are planning to offer has interested buyers. What if you have a wonderful gig idea, but it didn't sell? To avoid such situation you must undertake necessary research to understand what buyers in your niche are looking for. 3. Find popular gigs related to your skill set - One of the best ways of seeing success with Fiverr is to dig out the popular gigs related to your skill set, study them, then model your gig accordingly. Most important metrics you should look at while studying other gigs are its: Title Description Image Pricing strategy Upsell strategy Bonus strategy 4. Craft your gig’s title - Now as you are ready with all the research data, jump into gig creation. Obviously, here title creation will be your first step. Following are the steps you must follow to optimize your gig’s title. - Based on your research data model your gig title, use intriguing words into the title to ensure it catches your target customers the attention and is relevant to him/her. For example, if you are offering a logo designing gig. You should consider using titles such as > I’ll design 3 MAGNIFICENT logos in 24 hours > I’ll design a PROFESSIONAL logos with free revisions > I’ll design 2 STUNNING logos BONUS Free editable file - All the above titles are beautifully crafted because they include two important things. First, they all have intriguing words such as MAGNIFICIENT, PROFESSIONAL, STUNNING and BONUS. These words definitely help to catch the attention of the right people. Secondly, they all are appealing to the most important aspects that any person who wants to design a logo is looking at. For example, the first title “3 MAGNIFICENT logos in 24 hours” will appeal to the people who are in urgent need of a logo. The second title “PROFESSIONAL logos with free revisions” will appeal to the kind of people who want the option of incorporating their changes into logo design. The third title “2 STUNNING logos BONUS Free editable file” will appeal to the people who have some knowledge of logo designing and want to customize the logo on their own. 5. Create your gig’s image - While doing initial homework you must have observed that some gigs have better images than other which makes them really stand out. Shortlist such images and take inspiration from them while modeling your image. Once you’re ready with the initial idea use free online image editing tools such as Pixlr or BeFunky to create your gig’s image. 6. Write gig’s description - Your gig’s description plays an important role in convincing your potential customers to place an order with you. So you must ensure that your gig's description is precise, clear and appealing to your potential customers. Study other top related gig’s descriptions to get some inspiration and model your description on them. Remember, don’t ever copy other gig’s description it will get you banned. Just use theirs to get ideas to create your unique description. Also, make sure you’re listing your gig into the right category to maintain its relevance. 7. Use right tags - Tags play the most important role in ranking your gig higher. Most of the people don’t realize its importance, so it provides you with the best opportunity to overtake them if you optimize your gig properly using accurate tags. 8. Apart from all the points mentioned above, you need to make sure that your work is credible and unique on Fiverr. There might be many logo designers out there on Fiverr, but if you are the one who understands the needs of your clients and delivers the work in the best possible way then you’ll be able to secure them as your client for a long time. How to Monetize - Monetization is very simple. More people place orders with you more money you make. Your delivery work influences your user ratings which directly affects your order placement. The simple rule of thumb is, higher the user ratings, higher your orders will be. Fiverr handles all your transactions securely so you don’t need to worry about any payment processing issues. Resell Items On eBay What is eBay? eBay.com is the most popular website to buy and sell goods on the internet. It’s a place where individuals and businesses can buy or sell new or second-hand items, from books and clothes to cars to almost anything. Here's how eBay works: A seller lists an item on eBay, almost anything from antiques to mobile phones, books to sporting goods. The seller chooses whether to sell the item at a fixed price or accept only bids (auction-type listing). In an auction-type listing, the bidding opens at a price the seller specifies and remains on eBay for a certain number of days. Buyers then place bids on the item. When the listing ends, the buyer with the highest bid wins. In a fixed price listing, the first buyer willing to pay the seller's price gets the item. Suitable For - People who are self-motivated and know how to spread the word – to friends, family members, acquaintances and strangers using online or offline mediums. Skills Required - Some experience of selling goods online or offline is welcome, along with a business savvy mind. Time Required To Start Selling On eBay - To start selling you first need to create an eBay account and a PayPal account. After that, you need to enlist your product for which you’ll need some product pictures and write an appealing description. Even if you are a beginner you can all the above tasks within a day or two. Tips - 1. If you are completely new to eBay and your account does not have any feedback, then getting some feedback before starting to sell anything is a good practice. People are very wary of buying anything online nowadays, so if your account has 0 feedback then no one’s is going to buy anything from you. It’s recommended that you should get at least 10-15 feedbacks before selling anything. The simplest way to get feedback is to buy 10-15 $0.99 items with free shipping. Many sellers leave positive feedback to you straightway when you’ll make payment. 2. Start small - Most of the eBay resellers buy a bulk wholesale stock of any particular product then sell it on eBay at a retail price. If you don’t have money to buy a wholesale stock then find out unwanted items present in your house which are in good condition and make a list of them. 3. Research - Now as you have a list of few ready to sell items you must ensure that there is a market for them. Take 10 minutes to Google your item and uncover its true market value on eBay and another bunch of e-commerce sites. This will help you to sell right items more competitively because you’ll have the knowledge of your item’s market and its pricing strategies. Also, dig out relevant targeted keywords which will help people to find your items via Google search engine. 4. Craft the title - Title is the single most important factor for grabbing the attention of your potential buyer. Make sure your title is appealing, complete and you’ve included targeted keywords. You don’t have to be a tech wizard for this. Just ask yourself, what would a potential buyer for this item type into the search box? 5. Write item’s description - Fill out all the fields in your listing, and make sure your textual description is providing all the information that your potential buyer might look for. Most of the lazy sellers ignore this and fail badly at selling anything on eBay. 6. Upload item’s pictures - Upload only high-quality pictures. Ensure that item’s pictures are new, clear (not blurry) and cover the product from all angles. Also, don’t restrict yourselves to 2-3 pictures upload at least 6 pictures. 7. Timing - Most of the expert sellers use 10-day listing starting on Thursday, you should use it too, it will give you two full weekends of eyeballs. You’ll usually receive the highest traffic on weekends.” How To Monetize - Monetization is very simple. More people place orders with you more money you make. Your item quality and delivery influence your user feedback which directly affects your order placement. So make sure you are delivering items with good quality. eBay handles all your transactions securely so you don’t need to worry about any payment processing issues. Once you are in a profit-making stage, buy your most selling products in bulk at a wholesale price and then sell them on retail price to increase your profits. Rinse and repeat. Become An Amazon Associate What is the Amazon Associates Program? Amazon Associates is an affiliate marketing program that allows website owners and bloggers to create links and earns referral commissions when any of the website visitors clicks through and buys products from Amazon. Suitable For - 1. People who love to write, explain things in details and would like to share their knowledge and expertise with the world. 2. Best for people who already own a blog or website with some daily traffic. Skills Required - 1. Ability to express knowledge in writing with simpler yet effective way. 2. Ability to persuade and convince people through right argument and explanation. Time Required For Becoming An Amazon Associate - First, you should sign up for the Amazon Associate program. You’ll need to provide your website’s name while signing up. Amazon will analyze your website, and if they find it appropriate according to their standards they will approve you as an official Amazon associate. The approval process might take 2 to 5 days. Once you’re approved, find out the relevant products you want to promote on your blog then grab their affiliate links and insert them into your website. Tips - 1. Dig out relevant products - The first and most important thing is to find out the products that are relevant to your website’s or blog’s content and audience. The more relevant the product, the better chance you’ll have of selling. For example, promoting wristwatches on a blog that teaches people to do Yoga exercises is highly unlikely to make you any sale. But instead, if you try to promote Yoga mats, pants and books you’ll see great success. 2. Place affiliate links inside your content - Placing simple text links within the context of an article is the most effective way to get people click your affiliate links. People trust the body of the content on a page more than any other area of the website. Hence it is very likely that they will click on the link when it’s placed inside the content’s body. For example, “Check out this cool [your aff link] smartwatch [/your aff link]. It has retained the position of No 1 bestseller since last two months.” 3. Link product images to Amazon - Images play an important role in grabbing visitor’s attention. Another simple way to get people click on your affiliate links is to use lots of high-quality product images and make those images as clickable affiliate links. One good thing about Amazon is that it allows you to freely use any product’s image on your website for promotional purposes. 4. Write a product review article - Doing a quality product review and writing a great article explaining all the facets of a product is another great way to generate high click-thru rates and sales. But while doing any review make sure it is of high quality and unbiased. People shouldn’t think that you are badly trying to get them buy the product. A high-quality review should answer all the answers and clear confusion or reservations any potential buyer might have. Make sure your review does cover all the above-mentioned aspects. 5. Just send people to Amazon - One of the great things about Amazon is that it is very good at converting visitors into buyers. You don’t need to follow them nor target them with ads, Amazon will do the rest for you. All you need to do is send them to Amazon.com through your affiliate link. The great thing about this is when somebody visits Amazon.com through your link you get a percentage of anything they buy for the next 24 hours. For example, if one person clicks on your “Yoga Mat” affiliate link and visits Amazon.com and buys 2 wrist watches instead of a Yoga Mat within 24 hours, you’ll get commissions for the wrist watch sales even if you didn’t promote it directly. 6. Build loyalty and trust - One major factor that will boost your sales is your reader's’ loyalty and trust towards you and your website. Most of your sales will come people who are loyal and repeat readers. Readers who connect with you on a regular basis, over the long period, begin to trust you and your website. So when you make any recommendation or do a review, they are more likely to take that advice than someone who they don’t trust. How To Monetize - Monetization formula is almost similar to most of the other methods discussed in this app. More people visit Amazon.com via your affiliate link and buy products, more money you make. Amazon.com will handle all the payment and commission processing for you so you don’t need to worry about it. Do CPA Marketing What is CPA? CPA stands for “Cost Per Action." CPA is one of the popular ways of making money on the internet. CPA marketing is very simple: you get paid when someone clicks on your affiliate link and completes an action. That action could be: Providing an email address Signing up for a free trial of a product Downloading a mobile app Requesting a quote CPA is easier because you’ll earn money even if a product is not sold. Unlike affiliate marketing where somebody must purchase a product for you to receive commissions. CPA model works on lead generation. Many big companies are willing to pay big commissions for generating targeted leads. Your job is to just get them a lead, they will do rest of the work for generating a sale from those leads. Suitable For - 1. People who love to talk, write, explain and have the ability to persuade. 2. Best for people who already own a blog or website with some daily traffic. Skills Required - 1. Ability to promote CPA affiliate links using social media, videos, forum marketing, paid ads, etc. 2. Ability to persuade and convince people through right argument and explanation. Time Required For Starting CPA Marketing - To start CPA marketing and earn commissions you need find an offer to promote, then get accepted by a CPA network. You can find an offer almost instantly but getting accepted into a CPA network might take a week. But, once accepted you can instantly start promoting an offer of your wish. Tips - 1. Find different offers - Your first step here will be to find different CPA offers available in the market. And the best way to dig them out is to visit oDigger.com and OfferVault.com. Both these sites work as search engines for finding CPA offers. They aggregate offers from all the reputed CPA networks available worldwide. 2. Select your perfect offer - If you already own a blog in any particular niche then select an offer related to that niche. Make sure it is relevant to your blog and audience. For e.g. If your blog talks about android app gaming, then a CPA offer which pays you when somebody installs an android game app would be perfect for you. 3. Getting accepted - Believe or not but getting accepted into CPA networks has become a huge stumbling block for most of the marketers. Most of the CPA networks nowadays implement tough scrutiny to ensure that only high quality and legitimate marketers get access to their offers. This is to prevent any fraud or any illegitimate activity. Following are few tips which will help you to get in: Be honest - CPA networks filter out scammers and not the legitimate people. So make sure the information you provide is real and isn’t shady. Don’t try to trick them. Know you offer - If you already know what offer you want to promote then it’s a great plus point. You’ll be asked about it when you’ll fill out the application. This shows that you are one with a plan. Know your traffic sources - While filling out your application you’ll be asked about your traffic sources. So you must know how people are going to reach your offer. Are you going to promote it through email marketing, mobile ads, writing an article on a blog or anything else, you must clearly mention it. 4. Optimize your blog - Once you’ve joined a network and selected your CPA offer, it’s the time to promote it on your blog. The best way to do this to integrate your affiliate links in the blog’s content. This is so far the best way to get higher click-thru rates. Another way is you can place banners either on in the header or sidebar section. Always do some experiments and try to optimize your link placement to maximize your click-thru rates, but while doing so ensure that you are damaging your blog’s user experience. How To Monetize - Commissions for CPA offers usually range from $0.10 to $10 per action. In some niches such as Insurance, Attorney, Antivirus Software it can go up to $50 per action. Imagine if you could get 10 people to download a trial version of an antivirus software which pays you $50 per install, you’ll earn $500 without even selling anything. Commissions offered are decided based on the factors such as niche, back-end product cost, product demand and supply, targeted country and so on. In order to earn maximum commissions, it is best that you choose offers which are relevant to your audience and pay higher commissions. I Sell Art and Crafts on Etsy What is Etsy.com? Etsy.com is an online buyer and seller community similar to eBay but focuses on selling arts, crafts handmade or vintage items and supplies. With around 30 million visitors per month, Etsy provides a wonderful platform for artisans, crafters and creative designers which helps them in spreading their work to the worldwide audience and grow their business. Your aim should be to leverage Etsy’s powerful visitor base to reach millions of people and sell your products to them without getting into the hassle of creating your own website, promoting it and handling payment processing. Top Etsy sellers make up to 1 million dollars a year by selling arts, crafts and handmade items. If you take action, you can also be one among them. Suitable For - Artistic and craftier people who love to envision, design and create their own items/products. Skills Required - 1. Creative abilities to imagine, think, design and create items which can be sold online. 2. Ability to promote your Etsy store using social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. And through blogging, guest posting, networking. Time Required For Creating Your Store On Etsy - You can register on Etsy almost instantly. But while creating your store you’ll need to craft its title, get photos of items that you want to sell, write a compelling description, decide on pricing points. To complete the above-mentioned steps it might one or two days. Tips - 1. Decide what you are going to sell - Before getting your feet inside Etsy make a list of list of items that you think you can create. Once the list is ready, go to Etsy and type in keywords to find other sellers who offer similar items which you are planning to sell. Discover what they are selling? how do their products differ from others? What are their pricing strategies? Do some competition analysis and try to find items on your list which will face less competition. Based on your initial research and competition analysis finalize an item which you think will be more suitable for creating your initial space on Etsy. 2. Select a name for your store - Once you register an account with Etsy, the first thing you’ll have to do is to setup your store. And naming your store is the first step of the setup process. Select a name that represents what you want to sell. But don’t waste your time on lingering for finding a perfect name. Etsy gives you one more chance to rename your store, so pick a name right away, and give it more thought later on. 3. Set up your store - Following are the important steps you’ll need to follow while setting up for the store. - Create a logo Creating a logo is very important for building a brand and improving credibility. Make sure the logo you design is unique and represents the items you want to sell. If you don’t have graphic design skills it’s always better to outsource the logo designing task to somebody on Fiverr. Tell them what you want and let the Fiverr experts do the job for you. - Take appealing item photos Photos are going to be the first point of contact between your potential customer and your item. So you need to make sure that your item photos do the job catching customer’s eyeballs and convince him/her to read the description. If they don’t find item’s photos appealing then they’ll never bother reading your item’s description. One trick is to study the photographs of other successful stores who sell similar items like yours and then replicate their technique. If possible try to take photos using a DSLR and use white plain backgrounds. - Offer varying price points and sizes Most of the successful Etsy sellers offer varying item sizes and prices, this helps them to attract all levels of buyers. This strategy helps them to ensure that there is always something for everyone. For example, If you sell smaller original pieces at a lower price point, people who cannot afford to buy large expensive pieces can still buy from you. In this way, you’ll cater the needs of both expensive and budget buyers. 5. Write compelling description - Your item’s description is the second most important factor after photos, it does the job of persuading potential customers to place an order with you. So make sure that you write the most compelling item description. The best way to start is to study what your competitors have written their description, study the biggest questions that your potential customer ask. Take notes and model your description based on your notes. Also, try to answer potential customer’s questions so that they don’t have any reservations while placing an order with you. Also communicate important details about your item such as dimensions, the material used, care to be taken during use and so on. 6. Include right tags and keywords - Most of the potential customers will find your store through search. So you need to make sure that your title and description has right keywords incorporated into them. To generate a list of keywords, think about what your potential customer would type into the search bar to find what you’re selling. Snoop into your competitor's title and description to dig out more relevant keywords. Also, make a list of relevant keywords that appear in the auto-suggested list of Etsy's search bar and add them to your listings. Other Options To Etsy - When you are planning to sell arts and crafts item Etsy should be your first choice of platform. But if you want to expand your reach even further you should consider selling your arts on the following websites. Here’s the list of the sites optional to Etsy: Zibbet.com HandmadeArtists.com UncommonGoods.com AftCra.com HyenaCart.com How To Monetize - Monetization is very simple. More people place orders with you more money you make. Your customer's rating is going to have a huge impact on improving your sales, brand buildup and credibility. So make sure that you deliver quality items within your promised delivery dates. Take time and care while packaging your item so that it doesn’t bend, chip or break in transit. Try to cover the cost of packing materials into your shipping charges. That’s all! Happy selling arts and crafts on Etsy.