Unless You Use The Internet To Play Around!

Yesterday I attended an internet marketing webinair conducted by marketing great Mark Widawer. Although the course was really aimed at beginning marketers, there was one particular topic he addressed I found quite interesting: “How To Make Money Online!”

I must say that despite my successes, I never really looked at profiting online in that way. Had I known this before, it would have certainly saved me a lot of grief and frustration trying to break through.

Here then are Mark’s four ways to profit online:

1. You are passionate about something you want to share and love to write about it a lot:
If that’s you, your online business should be in the direction of publishing your own ebooks. You could create a bundle of different ebooks about your topic and create a website where you promote your ebooks.

You could make even more money with your ebook business by cross promoting your ebooks through various online distribution channels like Clickbank or Paydotcom as well as have your own affiliate network.

2. You are very knowledgeable and passionate about something you want to share but you love to write only a little:
If this shoe fits you, then you might want to start a blog about your topic. You would update your blog with additional posts at regular intervals, like a few times per week for instance.

Your revenue source would come from having Pay Per Click ads on your blog, affiliate products you promote, Amazon or other third party products and services you could generate income from.

Of course, everything you promote on your blog is directly related to your topic.

3. You really like numbers and you’re in a hurry to get going:
If this is where you are, then affiliate marketing is the direction you should take to make money online.

Simply find a product to promote, drive droves of traffic to it using predominantly Pay Per Click and cash in.

Of course, you need to find a product that solves a problem and you need to focus on tracking and tweaking your ads and your traffic constantly for optimum performance.

4. You got products or services to sell:
In that case, your online money potential is obvious: start an online store or get involved with eBay.

You could further enhance your income with PPC ads as well as third party add ons. For example: your online store sells shoes, then you could also sell an ebook written and owned by someone else that is about “How To Keep Your Shoes Scuff Free!”

And much like option 3, you would promote your store with advertising and tracking and tweaking your ads and traffic for maximum conversion.

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Making money is such a broad topic and over the last few years has gotten a bad name (and might I add, rightfully so). People have been scammed by various “quick money” schemes all over the internet. They have become leery and distrustful towards anything that deals with “how to make money online”.

These 4 ways of doing business online, shed new light on how to make money online and should make it relatively easy for you to find your direction; i.e. what should you sell online.

Of course, you could also consider making money online joining gambling or gaming sites. If that fits you, there’s nothing wrong with that.

The four ways discussed above however are for those of you who are looking to build a solid, steady and long-term business that builds overtime and generates revenue you can depend on.