A Common Online Business Mistake
// One of the most common online business mistakes I see (and have seen over the past 10 or so years) is when individuals put all their eggs into one basket and concentrate on just one online business and one online income stream. For me this has never been an ideal option and quite frankly, in my opinion, it is risky beyond belief! The Internet changes at an alarming rate and what works today may not work tomorrow. Believe me, I have owned websites which were earning £3000 a month on Friday but due to a Google update were down to £300 a month by the following Monday! At the time, if that had been my only website and my only source of income, I would have been seriously worried. As it was, the site was only one of several which I owned at the time and although it was incredibly irritating/frustrating/annoying, it wasn’t the end of the World and I wasn’t going to lose my house over it. I have said it before and I will say it again, it is far better to have multiple streams of income. I would always prefer to have ten websites each earning
iPhone Apps – Developing Apps Without Programming!
// As iPhone sales (and now iPad sales) continue to grow, the demand for new iPhone apps is growing at a similar rate. Although I have been busy with my web businesses over the past few months (mainly on account of the fact that I have had nearly three years ‘off’!), I have had one eye on the iPhone apps market as I think there is considerable opportunity to make some serious money over the next few years. Now I am no app expert but I have been reading a fair bit about the marketplace over the last few weeks and have followed a couple of individuals as they have developed and released iPhone apps onto iTunes. There are two main ways of ‘selling’ an iPhone app, either for free or for a fixed price. My initial thoughts were that the paid apps would be the best way of earning however this does not necessarily seem to be the case. With a free app it is possible to include adverts (a bit like Google Adsense) which earn you money whenever someone clicks on one. This means that you could potentially earn something every time a user opens the app whereas
Writing for Info Barrel can make you money!!
// If you can write articles, this might be one of the most important things you read over the next 12 months! Info Barrel is a revenue sharing website. What this basically means is that the site acts as a location for people to publish articles in return for a share of any revenue which these articles may generate. The revenue generated tends to come from Google Adsense adverts which are placed on the article page so that when a reader finds the article via a search engine or other link, the hope is that they read it and click on an ad. Info Barrel also allows you to place a couple of affiliate links in each article and will also display Amazon adverts with your affiliate link. There are many similar sites around for example, eHow and Squidoo, both of which are very well established sites with many many writers and articles already online. Info Barrel is slightly different in as much as it is relatively new BUT it is growing at a considerable rate and shows every chance of succeeding in giving the big boys a run for their money. I only heard about Info Barrel a couple
Do you get it?
// What’s the ‘£300/month ideas’ category all about – Find out here… I base many of my articles and newsletters on my own day to day experiences in the world of Internet marketing. Things that have happened to me. Emails I have received. Interactions I have had with customers, subscribers and other Internet marketers. The more I work online, the more it becomes apparent to me that some people just don’t ‘get it’. What don’t they get? Well in my experience, many things but the ‘thing’ that someone didn’t ‘get’ this week was the benefit of marketing an affiliate product which has a recurring income element to it….. One of my membership websites, SimplyWholesale, has an affiliate program which allows anyone to link to the site and earn 50% of any sales generated by their visitors. Nothing special here – millions of websites offer a similar deal. In addition, because one of the payment options offered by SimplyWholesale is a monthly subscription, my affiliates can also earn 50% of future monthly subscription payments made by a member who they introduce to the site. Again, nothing special here – many membership websites have the same arrangement. So what’s the story? Well,
Google Adsense
// What’s the ‘£300/month ideas’ category all about – Find out here… I don’t recall ever having written about Google Adsense before and given the amount of publicity that Adsense has received over the past few months, I did kind of assume that everyone knew what it was all about. It would appear though that I was wrong…. So let me explain….. Google Adsense basically allows any website owner to act as an affiliate for Google by displaying Google’s paid ‘Adwords’ adverts on their own website. If you are not familiar with Adwords, just do a search on Google – the boxed results down the right-hand side are Adwords and every time you click on one of them, the owner of the site being advertised gets charged a set amount. The exact amount of the charge depends on how popular the keyword is that you searched for and a few other factors – without going into too much detail, you just need to be aware that this charge can be anywhere from 5cents to several dollars. If you sign up for an Adsense account (which is completely free – more details from the link at the very bottom of this
