We all have heard of Facebook at some point in time and most of us are using this social networking website to communicate with our friends over the internet. Facebook have started to build a community of developers whom are developing useful applications that are bringing news, events and people closer together.

If you are not aware Facebook have started Facebook Pages and Facebook Groups which have been around for while but are growing in popularity with businesses and individuals whom have websites that they want to promote online. The great thing about facebook Pages is that it is free to setup and it’s a wonderful free promotional tool that can drive a lot of free internet traffic to your business websites.

Facebook has surpassed the 500 million registered users mark and most of these users are actively using Facebook everyday, what a great place to promote your online business for free.

How Facebook Pages Work

Individuals or businesses can create Facebook Pages which are also known as Like Pages which allow users to “like” the individual, product, service, concept and blog post. Facebook Like Pages look and behave much like a user’s personal private profile, with some differences. Public Profiles are integrated with Facebook’s advertising system, allowing Public Profile owners to easily advertise to Facebook’s users. One of the great features is that owners can send updates to their fans, which show up on their home page or Facebook wall. You will also have access to insights and analytics of your fan base. Early on, users had the option to “become a fan” it has now changed to “like” the page. While an individual with a personal profile can acquire up to 5,000 friends, a “Like Page” can have an unlimited number of “Likes”. “Facebook Like Pages” can also be customized by adding new Tabs using the Static FBML application. This powerful feature can bring additional functionality to a page such as e-mail collection, specialized content, or a landing page for sales activity.

Facebook Social Plugins for your website

Facebook have made available a Facebook developers page where you can customize various widgets and social plugins that interact with your website and Facebook Pages. Some of the social plugins include the following:

• activity feed plugin

• comments plugin

• facepile plugin

• Like Button plugin

• Like Box Plugin

• Live Stream Plugin

• Login Button Plugin

• Recommendations Plugin

Here is an example of what my Facebook Page looks like: Make Money Working from Home Blog

Other Facebook resources on Earn Money Online Blog: Making and Earning Money Online with Facebook

There is a lot of money to be made in online affiliate marketing and more people want to learn more about how you get started with affiliate marketing. The good news is that there are a lot more businesses that are incorporating affiliate marketing into their websites business model and encouraging their users to signup to their affiliate programs with the ability for the users or existing clients to make extra money with commissions they make and drive more traffic to the company’s website.

There are a lot of businesses and companies out there that are offering affiliate programs but one sector that’s becoming increasing popular is the website hosting sector, which is offering some lucrative incentives for bringing in new signups to their websites.

One of these website hosting companies is Afrihost.com which has some great ADSL packages and website hosting packages on offer. The attractive thing about the Afrihost Affiliate Program is that it pays out a very good commission for every signup you bring in and whom signup to a web hosting package. That’s not all; they also offer a 2 tier earning structure lets have a closer look at the Afrihost affiliate program in more detail:

• Afrihost pay R200 ($25) for each web hosting signup that finds their site through your affiliate link

• 1-year (365 Day) cookie for return visitors – Bullet Proof tracking that ensures you get the commission you deserve

• They follow up on clients coming through and ensure the sales conversion rate is high

• Afrihost offer quality hosting services to increase revenue opportunities

• They provide real-time online account reporting,

• Dedicated Affiliate Manager for your affiliate account

• That’s right a 2 Tier System – You earn 10% of any sales made by any Affiliates who sign up for their program from you.

• Applications accepted worldwide

Some great news if you have not already heard is that PayPal is now available in South Africa this has been a long time in the making. FNB and PayPal have teamed up to offer PayPal as an online transactions facility for South Africans that want to tap into the international online markets. A lot of South African business owners and online entrepreneurs have been waiting many years for this to happen and it has finally arrived.

I’m also pleased to report that the whole retrieval process of your money between PayPal and FNB (First National Bank) works very well. Let’s have a closer look at how you can go about setting up a PayPal account and what sort of FNB account you need.

Setup a Verified PayPal Account

The first thing you will need to do is go to PayPal and signup and register an existing credit card with them, it may be with any South African bank. PayPal will verify your credit card by debiting your credit card with $1.00, once this has been done you will be able to make only purchases using PayPal that protect and do not reveal your credit card details to any online vendors or merchants that you are buying a service or product from.

Open up a FNB Account

Once your PayPal account has been verified the next step is to go into a First National Bank Branch to open up an account with them. Open up a FNB Smart Savings Account which requires the least amount of documentation. Once the FNB Smart Savings Account has been opened up for you, you will need to request them to enable you to do FNB Internet Banking. You are able to use other FNB accounts with PayPal you will just need to confirm with your FNB consultant which accounts you can link to with PayPal.

Linking your FNB and PayPal Accounts

If you have successfully opened a PayPal account and it’s been verified and you have opened an FNB Smart Savings Account and your FNB Internet Banking has been setup you can login to your FNB Internet Banking and link your PayPal and FNB account by providing some connecting information.

You can now withdraw funds from your PayPal Account to your FNB Account just remember to read both the PayPal terms and conditions and FNB terms and conditions to keep up to date with the legal requirements. Once money has been deposited into your PayPal account you have 30 days in which to with draw it into your FNB account a requirement from SARS which can take up to 7 days to clear into your account.

Hope this opens a new income revenue stream and helps you make more money for you and your business.

If you are from another country let us know of your PayPal experiences

Do you want to start your own independent website or blog but don’t know how to identify reliable and affordable website hosting facilities? It’s vital to research hosting providers and not just pick the first one you find.

We will examine the top 10 website hosting providers and what they offer. Choose the right hosting package to fit your website or blog requirements. Doing some research could help you save money over the long-term, and even make you money if you sign up to a reseller account and sell hosting space and bandwidth to your clients.

What is Web Hosting?

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients. They also provide Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called ‘collocation’.

Top 10 Web Hosting Providers

Site5 Web Hosting Personally I rate Site5 as one of the best Web Hosting Providers out there on the web. They have great support services and you can choose anything from hosting a simple blog site to having a reseller account where you host hundreds of your own client’s websites and blogs. They offer affordable hosting packages, reseller accounts, and virtual servers to dedicated servers. They are also launching cloud computing hosting services. Unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, hosting packages starting at $4.95/month.

Afrihost Website Hosting one of South Africas best web hosting providers. Afrihost: Web Hosting & ADSL Broadband in South Africa · THE BEST WEB HOSTING SUPPORT EVER! Hosting packages starting at R65.00/month.

HostGator is a leading provider of web hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers. Over 250 000  websites trust HostGator for their web hosting needs. Since its establishment in 2002, HostGator has been a world-leading provider of web hosting service. Unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, hosting packages starting at $4.95/month.

GreenGeeks 300% Green Web Hosting. They specialize in customer satisfaction, using green alternatives to power their servers. Unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, hosting packages starting at $4.95/month.

HostMonster has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal websites since 1996. Their internet hosting package helps businesses and individuals get high-powered service at a fraction of the cost. Unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, hosting packages starting at $5.95/month.

Bluehost is a top-rated web hosting provider. Free 1 click installs for blogs, shopping carts, and more. Get a free domain name, real non-outsourced 24/7. Unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, hosting packages starting at $6.95/month.

Web Hosting Hub offers the easiest way to get your new website online. The best and most reliable unlimited personal and small-business web hosting provider. Unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, hosting packages starting at $4.95/month.

InMotion web hosting solutions. Top-rated business class web-hosting solutions for small and medium businesses. VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, hosting packages starting at $3.50/month.

Just Host is dedicated to providing their customers with the most reliable web-hosting service possible. Fast, reliable, web-hosting at an affordable price with secure servers, and 24/7 technical support. Unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, hosting packages starting at $3.45/month.

GoDaddy Register and transfer domains for less. Reliable hosting. Easy-to-use site builders. Affordable SSL certificates. eCommerce solutions. Unlimited disk space, unlimited traffic, hosting packages starting at $14.95/month.

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Are you a stay-at-home mom looking for innovative ways to keep yourself busy? Would you like to earn an online income using the internet from home? So you’re a mom who has had enough of the typical day-to-day chores that come with being a stay-at-home mom. You’re itching to use some of your creative talent and become more than just a typical housewife.

Well the good news is that with the explosion of the communications age and the internet, you can do just about anything from a computer and the internet. It’s becoming more affordable for everyone to get connected to the World Wide Web.

Let’s look at some things you can get involved with, and who knows you could become a very successful woman entrepreneur working from the comfort of your own home.

Blogging to Make Money

Blogging is big on the web at the moment and will be around for a long time. The great thing about blogging or owning your own blog is that you are able to capture commentary, descriptions of events, or other material (such as graphics or videos) to your very own blog. So you can start a blog about your hobbies, passions or offer your expertise about a product or service.

If you eventually attract a big audience to your blog you can monetize it with Google Adsense and make money from it every month. Want to start a blog? Go to blogger.com or wordpress.com.

Start an Online Forum

You can start an online forum that helps people interact with others who need help with problems and exchange ideas on specific topics. You can monetize your online forum with Google Adsense and infolinks.

Writing Content for Websites

Want to see your name in print? If you want to publish your writing you can sign up to websites like about.com and ehow.com that pay you to write content for their websites.

Become an Entrepreneur

Start a business from home, turn your talents into something useful that you can do over the internet and earn yourself an online income. It does not cost much to start something from scratch. All you need is a decent computer and internet connection and you have all the resources at your fingertips.

Feel trapped at home? Get connected and who knows, your business or product might be the next big thing.

I’m sure you have heard of eBay and that you can buy just about anything from eBay. Well what if I had to tell you that there are thousands of people out there that are using eBay to make money from and they are even earning an online income. We will be having a look at some of theses profitable ways so that we can also make money on eBay.

The great thing about eBay is that they have made the eBay web interface very fun and easy for clients to use. Anyone can start to make a profit on eBay without marketing or business knowledge, computer skills and even zero start-up capital! eBay store is one of the cheapest and most profitable businesses you can start with on the internet.

Start an Online eBay Store

So how are you going to make a profit from selling goods online when most goods already have a markup. You will need to buy products at wholesale from a wholesale supply company like Doba, you will be able to buy all the latest and hottest product ranges from companies like Apple, Sony, Nautica, KitchenAid and many more brand stores.

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Search for any wholesale product items and find a variety of companies that have what you are looking for through the Go Wholesale Search Engine this search engine will perform searches for wholesale merchandise and suppliers.

eBay Partner Network

Probable the easiest way of earning money through eBay is to join up to their online affiliate program called the eBay Partner Network. The number one thing to remember is that if you drive quality traffic to eBay through their affiliate program you will then be able to make more money.

eBay Partner Network will provide you with all the necessary tools you will need to run very successful campaigns. You just need to ensure that all your traffic is tracked and that you abide by the terms and conditions supplied by eBay Affiliate program.

Tools for eBay affiliate program

Here are some of the useful tools that you will be able to use once you have registered and been approved to take part in the eBay affiliate program.

• A variety of colorful graphic and interactive ads to enhance your site called Creatives.

• Link generator allows you to create a trackable link to any of eBay Partner Network’s program pages and is great for all types of business models.

• Add a customizable flash banner with relevant, real-time eBay listings to your web site with Custom Banner.

• Generate trackable RSS feeds with dynamic eBay content that provides users with live eBay listing information.

• Develop innovative applications to tap into eBay’s marketplace with their API tools and services.

• Product Feeds allow you to download a large amount of eBay listing data and cache it in your own system.

• Add relevant, real-time eBay listings to your website or blog in just seconds with the Editor Kit.

• Showcase your favorite eBay discoveries directly on your website with eBay To Go.

Other ways to make money with eBay

Remember there are a ton of ways to make money on eBay you just need to be innovative. There are people out there that are selling just a about anything and are coining it. So get creative today and make eBay work for you.

John Chow is a very influential blogger who makes a living by blogging about ways on how to make money off the Internet. He has just published his first book and he talks about how blogs have quickly become just as legitimate and influential as mainstream newspapers and magazines. He reveals how you can make a very healthy income from blogging and he will show you how you can make a five figure income every month from blogging.

John Chow’s personal blog consistently makes over $40,000 a month. In his book, he describes exactly how he went from earning $0 to over $40,000 a month from just a couple of hours each day. He’ll walk you through the process, step by step, uncovering all the secrets that other pro bloggers are too afraid to tell you.

With the current recession, people are looking for ways to make some extra money or maybe replace their current job. This book offers a blueprint on how to make money from the internet and blogging in particular. So if you don’t want to be stuck in the rat race for the rest of your life, then what are you waiting for get yourself into the blogosphere and start making money today.

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Make Money Online: Roadmap of a Dot Com Mogul

For those of you that want to make money online using your blogging site or website that talks about the latest products, or you might have a music or movie review blog then a great affiliate program to join up to is Amazon Associates.

Amazon Biggest Online Retailer

If you are new to buying goods online, Amazon is one of the biggest or should I say probable the biggest online retail store in the world selling almost any products you may be looking for ranging from DVDs, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys. What they are truly known for is selling books which made them big from the start.

Amazon Affiliate Program

A few years back Amazon decided to start their own Affiliate program which was called Amazon Associates which allows anyone with a well established website or blog to join their affiliate program and having access to the Amazon’s database of thousands of products to promote and sell.

How Amazon Associates Works

Like any affiliates program you would need to signup to Amazon Associates and once signed up you will have access to links and banners, Amazon Widgets which can be integrated into your site or blog and a very useful aStore feature which is a self-contained online store embedded directly within your web pages.

The great thing is that you can customize your Widgets, links and banners to fit into the theme of your site or blog and can choose the products you want to sell on your site. Once people start buying you can earn up to 15 percent in referrals by advertising Amazon products off of your site or blog.

If you are currently using Google Adsense to make some extra money online, you can use Amazon Associates to complement your Google Adsense and will have two money revenue streams been generated from your blogging site.

Amazon Associates have some really cool widgets that rotate various products that you may want to offer and you can include the widget into your blog side columns. Links and banners you can insert into blog posts.

All the best to you in your endeavors to making money online

A lot of us dream of doing away with our corporate 9 to 5 day jobs. The reality is that it’s possible and I feel that with the fast and rapid growth of Technology over the passed 2 decades it is making it easier for people with skills to work from home and hire out their skills to corporations and the mass population. It costs companies a lot of money every year to employ thousands of people and corporations are looking at cheaper alternatives and that includes hiring out skilled consultants to perform specific tasks’ within the company or organization.

We all at sometime in our lives think of going it alone and starting our own Internet or Home startup Business, we get very excited about the prospect but at the same time it can be very intimidating. But the good news is that by following a few simple steps and rules it is easier to start a business than you think and the success is much greater too. Let’s have a look at some of these simple steps that one can follow to a successful business startup.

Startup Business where to begin

• Choosing the Right Business Option – remember that you need to choose something that you are going to be good at and that you have some sort of skill at, that suits your lifestyle.

• Research your Market – You will need to do your research and make sure that there is a need for the product or service you will be selling or providing to others. Try and find a product or services to sell that does not already exist and you will stand a good chance of success.

• Draw up a business plan – this will give you the information you will need for your businesses operational and financial direction, it’s like a road map for your businesses future direction.

• Right people to employ – remember to employ people who have experience in the business that you will be starting, not all startups will employ new staff members from the beginning.

• Market your business – you will need to market your business so you will have to get out there and promote your business by advertising in newspapers, magazines and online.

• Financial systems in place – you will need to put in place solid financial system from the beginning or even finding someone with professional financial skills to assist you with your business financials.

• Cash Flow Management – remember that cash flow is the life blood of the business and needs to be managed correctly.

• Contract Specialist skills – as an entrepreneur you will find that you will not be able to run ever aspect of your business so you might need to contract specialist skills to run specific parts of your business for it to grow and expand.

The main thing to remember when taking on the prospects of starting up your own Online or Home Business is to do something that you are going to enjoy and to have lots of fun doing this as this might be something that you will be doing for a very long time.

More and More people are looking beyond their own countries borders to invest their money capital in other overseas markets to make better returns on their money, as back home their investments are not doing as well. This is due to many factors including the latest recession that hit the world’s economies very hard and a lot of countries are battling to recover and might take many more years before they have fully recovered.
So you have been hit hard by the latest recession and many of your other capital investments have reduced in value. Where do you start to look for better returns on these investments of yours? The truth is a lot of us are scared to remove our investments and try other investments that might yield better returns and even go as far a field and invest oversea or offshore.

Oversea or Offshore Investments

Just because your country is suffering to recover from the recent recession does not mean that other countries have had the same effect. Some countries like Denmark and China had very little impacted from the recession and are doing well. Great time to invest in China if you can get into the local markets.

Type of Offshore Investments

So you asking yourself where do you look and what do you invest your money in, well there are a lot of resources on the internet and here is a list of some things you can research for your possible future investments.

• Property and Land Investments

• Overseas Stocks and Portfolios

• Blue Ship Stocks

• Overseas Business Adventures

• Internet Business Opportunities

• Offshore Banking

• Tax Free Havens

Just remember to take care when you invest money into business adventures, do your research and make sure that the company, property or organization that you will be dealing with is legit.

How to Make Money with Property Investments

10 Tips to Save Money during the Recession

How blog owners can drive more traffic to their blogging sites using popular keywords or key phrases and how this can influence the amount of traffic that comes to your blog. Let’s have a look at some important key factors with regards to what word content you can use for your blogging site or general website that can help  improve traffic flow and make you more money online.

Traffic Equals Money

I don’t know if you have ever come across this phrase ‘Traffic Equals Money’ mentioned on some successful Pro Blogger sites. Well I have and it is a proven statement when it comes to the internet. If you look at the numbers of visitors that visit top internet sites on a regular basis and blogging sites and how those site owners use monetization methods to convert their visitors into making  money online, using systems like Google Adsense, selling online advertising banners and text ads, affiliate marketing programs, these methods are known to equate to making money online.

Search Engine Optimized traffic

What a lot of top bloggers have discovered is the way to generate good quality traffic through search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo one needs to write good quality content which is rich in keywords or key phrases that are related to the articles that they write about. Search engines love blogs and websites with rich content and if you write informative articles your blog posts will more than likely be ranked highly in the search engines top searches.

Captivating Titles and Topics

You need to sometimes research the topic or title you are going to write about. It needs to be captivating so it draws in your audience and they want to click on your Title to read. People don’t want to read boring information, that’s why the latest news always gets great click throughs like the latest Celebrity Gossip, Fashion, Sport, Technology, Financials and Politics. Try using popular names in your titles like for example if you are writing a Celebrity gossip on The Beckhams try using their names in the Title or a Technology post about the iPhone mention the iPhone in your blog post a few times as well in the title.

Blog Monetization

Blog regularly and create some captivating articles and you will draw in your audience and will grow your website traffic. If you would like to find out and keep up-to-date with the latest trends on the internet then try out Google Trends to keep abreast.

Once you have got a steady flow of visitors to your site don’t forget to use blog monetization methods to make money online for you and start earning an online income today from your website.

I’m sure you have heard the term Affiliate Marketing assigned to the words Make Money Online. That’s because there is a lot of money to be made from Affiliate Marketing if you master the way and a lot of people are making an online income through this online method. Let’s look at what Affiliate Marketing is all about and where you can get started with your online success to making money online.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Businesses rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts this is what is called Affiliate Marketing which is an Internet-based marketing practice. It is an application of crowd sourcing. Some examples include rewards sites, where users are rewarded with money or gifts, for the completion of an offer, and the referral of other possible members or new referrals to the site that is offering the rewards.

Affiliate Categories

These days there are so many different Affiliate Categories one can choose to market. What I suggest is to pick some product or field of expertise you are good with as you will find it easier to work with and will already have a head start and will pickup good marketing tactics to help you become successful with online Affiliate Marketing.

Here are some various Affiliate Marketing Categories that you can research: Auto Affiliate Programs, Beauty and health Affiliate Programs, Poker Affiliate Programs, Books Affiliate Programs, Insurance and Mortgage Affiliate Programs, Legal Affiliate Programs, Shopping Affiliate Programs and many more this is just a few.

Where to Start

So you are new to affiliate Marketing and want to start making money online through this exciting money making method where do you begin. Well a very helpful Affiliate Marketing website called Affiliate Tips where they have extensive resources on affiliate marketing and also very helpful tools to help you through your marketing campaigns. They also review and compare all top affiliate programs and rank the best ones. If you are not new to the game of online marketing and would like to find some top Affiliate Networks that have extensive marketing programs with some top branded companies in the world then you need to checkout what the following affiliate networks have to offer you.

Some Top Affiliate Networks

• Linkshare Affiliate Network is the leader for Affiliate Marketing Services and Lead Generation. Their services, technology, tracking tools, and reporting, will help you find new leads.

• Pepperjam Network is a next generation affiliate marketing network they are built upon the foundation of empowering advertisers to build successful publisher relationships through exceptional communication.

• Market Leverage is another affiliate marketing network and they create the best Publisher experience in the industry.

• Commission Junction is a global leader in Affiliate Marketing, Online Marketing, and Search Engine Marketing. They drive quality results.

• Neverblue Ads is a global lead generation company and advertising network. There affiliate marketing program delivers targeted lead generation to clients all over the world.

• Amazon Associates the webs most successful and popular Affiliate Program.

• LinkConnector is an Affiliate Marketing Network which incorporates Internet Marketing strategies and innovative technologies into your Affiliate Programs.

So if you are interested in the world of online affiliate marketing and to start to earn money online from affiliate marketing I suggest you invest some of your time to research this lucrative money making market. Good luck

This was one of my first serious money financial advice books that I read which was a few years ago, just goes to show you how financial smart we are when it comes down to money matters? I’m sure most of the world population out there were not taught from a very young age how to deal with money and how to become money smart, the Rich Dad Poor Dad book tries to take us out of our safety zones that society teaches us which most of the time is not about money but how to spend it. This book tries to get us thinking more openly about money and how to profit and teach our selves and our own children how to use money wisely and become self sustaining.

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Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is a must read, escape the 9-5 job scenario join the New Rich and live anywhere in the world. These are just a few of the points that are covered in this captivating read. It’s very true that the more materialist things we have in our lives the less time we have for ourselves, the less stuff we have to deal with in our lives the more productive we become which increases not just our money income streams but frees up our time to explore the world and spend more time with our families.

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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

As we all know Twitter is one of the big social networking things that are happening online at the moment and there are ways to make money off Twitter even though Twitter themselves have not implemented away yet of capitalizing off their big success on the Internet.

There are some Entrepreneurs and businesses out there that are hopping onto the Twitter money making band wagon and are implementing software applications that integrate into Twitter and use its vast membership and internet reach to make twitter a place where one can make money from.

In-Stream Advertising on Twitter

Im sure who ever reads this post has a Twitter account and is actively involved on twitter and if you have quite a big Twitter following then you can use this to your advantage and make some extra money from In-Stream Advertising.
So what is In-Stream Advertising well its when an advertiser asks you to accept a Advertised Tweet on their behalf and that Ad will be displayed has a Tweet to your followers under your Twitter profile and you will get paid money for showing that Ad from the sponsor.

There are currently two In-Stream Advertising websites that I know of and I’m sure more will pop up over time.

Ad.ly

The first one that I have joined up to is called Ad.ly they are new but have gained a big following and they also have some famous celebrities that are using them and there are two ways you can make money from Ad.ly and that is first through sponsored tweets and also through their referral programs. You can request payment through PayPal, Check or if you want you can donate your money to charity.

Sponsored Tweets

The second In-Stream Advertising network is Sponsored Tweets which has been around longer than Ad.ly. I have not joined up to Sponsored Tweets but it does sound like they offer a similar experience to what Ad.ly offers.
I will do a future follow-up post on how well I’m making money off of Sponsored Tweets.

Role-playing Game Apps

Just like on Facebook and MySpace you are having a lot of game applications that are already present on these social networking sites, well a new group called Lolplaying, have introduced a new role-playing game on Twitter called 140 Mafia, they are trying to explore Twitter’s moneymaking potential with an idea of introducing a Super Rewards system, a “virtual currency” service that already has been showing positive results in the online gaming sector. This game could be big on Twitter

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Apparently the place to make money online at the moment is writing how to articles for eHow and other related sites like eHow. We will be having a look at how you can make some extra money by submitting your articles to theses article websites that have a money compensation program for you to make money.

eHow is probable one of the top 1000 visited websites on the World Wide Web these days and its all to a very clever niche they have come up with, How to Articles and they also have a page on How to Videos.

More about eHow

eHow is an online knowledge place which houses more than 300,000 articles and videos that offers step-by-step instructions on “how to do just about everything”. eHow content covers a wide variety of topics that is created by both professional experts and amateur members. Through a social networking platform and tools, eHow maintains an online community of users who publish how-tos, images and video clips and receive a percentage of profits earned from traffic and advertising from the eHow website. eHow members can network and collaborate by building a personalized profile, creating friend lists, commenting on articles and interacting in an online forum.

Want to Join

All you need to do is head over to the eHow website and go to the write tab on the home page which will lead you to another page on how to join up through eHow’s new Writer’s Compensation Program (WCP) and automatically earn extra money through PayPal which is an online payment system.

Once you have registered with eHow you will be able to find a lot of resources to help guide you in how best to write How-to articles to drive tons of traffic and will get paid a percentage of profits earned via your written content.
So the more optimized How-to articles you produce the more traffic you will receive and the more money you will possible make.

Other Get Paid Article Sites

There are other get paid to write online sites out there, here is a list of some of the top ones out there and you can make money from these article sites. You could even find yourself earning a living from writing articles online.

• Constant Content

• HubPages

• Associated Content

• Examiner.com

• eHow

• Sponsored Reviews

• TextBroker

• Demand Studios

• ContentCurrent

• ProBlogger Job Boards

Check out the eHow video on how to make money with eHow

South Africa has some of the highest telecommunication rates in the world and been a South African I’m constantly looking for cheaper internet ADSL and broadband rates and other reduced rates when it comes to telecommunications in South Africa. Competition is now entering the telecom market and we will be looking at ways to save and find more competitive broadband rates in the industry.

We will be looking at some of the cost structures of some of the big and smaller players and will see where we can save and look for the most competitive broadband rates in the industry.

Telkom ADSL Broadband

Telkom has the monopoly in South Africa when it comes to the telecommunications industry and what can they offer us in terms of affordable broadband rates. Their cheapest broadband solution for the individual is their Do Broadband packages.

• Do Broadband Level 1 (R199.00 a month): Speed 384kbps, International Cap 1GB, Local Cap 10GB, have to buy an ADSL modem. Excludes setup, line rental, voice and fax call charges.

• Do Broadband Level 2 (R258.00 a month): Speed 384kbps, International Cap 3GB, Local Cap 20GB, free Wi-Fi ADSL Modem on 24month contract or have to buy an ADSL modem. Excludes setup, line rental, voice and fax call charges.

• Do Broadband Level 3 (R554.00 a month): Speed 4096kbps, International Cap 5GB, Local Cap 30GB, free Wi-Fi ADSL Modem on 24month contract or have to buy an ADSL modem. Excludes setup, line rental, voice and fax call charges.

Neotel Broadband costs

Neotel entered into the South African communications market a few years ago and are slowly making a name for them selves and is a threat to Telkoms monopoly, I reckon in a few years from now Neotel will be on level terms with Telkom. What I like about Neotel broadband products is that the device price is included in the price of the packages and shows other price structures like voice calls etc.

• NeoConnect Lite (from R99.00 a month): A fixed-wireless home phone solution that offers competitive rates and allows you to select the package to suit your voice, SMS and basic Internet requirements, all-in-one.

• NeoConnect Prime (from R279.00 a month): A fixed-wireless solution that gives you a phone with high-capacity and high-speed Internet access, SMS and voice on a single account.

• NeoGo Datacard (from R299.00 a month): A datacard that offers you unprecedented value and 50% more data with a 1.5GB bundle.

Vodacom 3G broadband

Vodacom is one of the biggest Cell networks in South Africa and has about 80 percent of the country covered. I have personally used their 3G data packages and had very little down time and on average the network speeds were good, here are some Vodacom 3G broadband costs.

• MyGig One (R349.00 a month): High Speed broadband, 1GB cap, USB modem included on a 24 month contract, no setup costs.

• MyGig Three (R649.00 a month): High Speed broadband, 3GB cap, USB modem included on a 24 month contract, no setup costs.

• MyGig Five (R1049.00 a month): High Speed broadband, 5GB cap, USB modem included on a 24 month contract, no setup costs.

Vodacom’s 3G packages are quite expensive but if you are on the move a lot and need to connect in different locations then I would suggest using them. But if your business is fixed I would use either Telkom, Neotel or if you have a Telkom line then you can apply for an ADSL account through Afrihost which has some really cheap and affordable ASL accounts starting at:

• Bronze 1GB package for R29.00 a month excluding Telkom line rental, setup and ADSL modem.

• Silver 2GB package for R58.00 a month excluding Telkom line rental, setup and ADSL modem.

• Gold 3GB package for R87.00 a month excluding Telkom line rental, setup and ADSL modem.

• Platinum 5GB package for R145.00 a month excluding Telkom line rental, setup and ADSL modem.

If you are not connected to the internet yet, get connected and start making money online.

Do you run an online business or a blog that you want to utilize online advertising and make money from it but don’t have an online payment system like PayPal to process these payments or in a country that does not allow you to connect your PayPal account with your local bank. 2Checkout might be your solution to processing your online money payments.

If you are like me, a South African running some online stores and money making blogs and want to provide a means and away to allow possible advertisers to advertise on your sites and then receive the money payments directly into your local banking account or possible some other means where you can easily withdraw your money, 2Checkout might be this solution.

Let’s have a look at some of the issues that some publishers are experiencing when receiving their online money they have made through affiliate programs and from online advertisers.

If you live in a country like South Africa you will have noticed that you can signup for a PayPal account and are able to make money payments through PayPal but are not able to receive money payments. This is due to the South African Government not allowing PayPal to connect to our local banking accounts.

So what is the Alternative to PayPal?

Recently 2Checkout which is also an online money payment system mentioned that they have now added 5 new local currencies to their list of 17 local currency money payouts including the South African Rand and Indian Rupee.

They also offer the ability to transfers your money funds that you have accumulated to your local bank account via wire transfer in your local currency which includes South Africa and India.

If you would like to with draw and have access to your money fast, 2Checkout offers a Payoneer Reloadable Debit MasterCard. What I really like about the Debit card is that you can with draw funds at any ATM that accepts MasterCard around the World.

Benefits of a Payoneer Reloadable Debit MasterCard

• No bank account or credit check required.

• Receive money funds faster and enjoy immediate access to your funds

• View your account, money payments, balance and transaction history online, 24/7.

• Make purchases and withdraw money in your local currency from any point of sale or ATM worldwide that accepts MasterCard®.

• The money on your card is MasterCard® protected even if your card is lost or stolen. Payoneer will ship you a replacement card and transfer your balance to your new card. Note: transactions requiring your PIN are not refundable.

If any of you have used 2Checkout or use another online money payment system that works for you and offers other means of receiving money payments and are just as good please let us know but commenting on this post.

In a future post we will be having a look at different online money payment systems that are available to advertisers, publishers, affiliates and bloggers on the internet.

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Would you like to learn how to start a blog for yourself? Well here are a few tips and advice one would need to take into consideration before setting up a blog for themselves or their business.

Domain Name

One of the very first things you will need to do is find a name for your blog or if you have a business name you will need to find out if these names you want to use are a available, if you are South African you can do a search through co.za or if you are not South Africa or just want a more international domain name like a .com or .net you can do a search on mydomains.com. If you live in another country you can always do a search on Google for Domain Registrar near you.

Blog Hosting

Once you have done a search and have found that your name that you would like to use is available you will need a place to host or store your blog or website for you. You can do a Google search for a blog hosting company near you. Remember most blog hosting companies can also secure you a domain name this will allow you to go through one company for a domain name and blog hosting for your blog or website.

Choose a Blogging Platform

You will then need to look at what blogging platform you want to use for your blog. The most popular one is wordpress.org but there are others out there like textpattern.com, moveabletype.org and many more blogging platforms out there. These platforms are free to download and will need someone with some web experience to install and configure the blogging platform for you.

Blogging Communities

If you prefer not to get into all the technical aspects of setting up a blogging platform then you can register a blog through one of the blogging communities that have the infrastructure already setup and ready to go, wordpress.com or blogger.com are the more popular and have large blogging communities.

Blogging themes

There are thousands of pre-designed blogging themes out there and especially wordpress themes you can either download free blogging themes from the internet or you can purchase more customized themes. Do a Google Search for free or custom wordpress themes.

Blog Management

A lot of people thing that running a blog is simple and easy to maintain but the truth is that it requires regular updates for the blogging platform and if you are running plugins with your blog these plugins will need to be updated on a regular basis.

Blogging is not like a normal conventional website that you design and then you leave it, a blog is more dynamic and if you want to do well with blogging and make money online from it you need to spend on going time and effort with it on a weekly basis and I would suggest finding a topic related to a hobby of yours as it will make it worth your time as you will already be interested it will be easier to write about your hobby and spend quality time on your blog maintaining and posting regular updates and posts.

If you are interested in how to earn an online income through blogging then you need to pop by this Earn Money Online Blog on a regular basis to find out how.

How can you make your home make money for you in the long term? We have all heard that investing in property can make you a lot of money, as property investments can be a very rewarding experience if you do your research properly from the very start of your search for properties.

As a lot of people are battling to pay off their mortgages and home rentals every month and even loosing their homes due to the global economic recession, there are still a lot of opportunities to pick up bargains and even retain your investment.

Just remember that one of the best investments to have in the world is to own property and if you pick up the right property investments it can be much more valuable than investing your money in stocks or other investment initiatives.

You need to look at some key factors when buying a home or investing in more than one property and ask yourself these questions before going ahead and purchasing property:

Location of the property

Is there crime in the area? Are there a lot homes in the neighborhood that are run down? Are there schools and shopping malls? Research how the property value in the area has performed over the past few years – is there heavy industry in the surrounding areas that could have health implications? These are just some of the factors that you will need to research when looking to buy property, as this could affect the future value of the property you may buy.

Buying and Holding

Renting your property out to a tenant can make money for you by paying for the mortgage, insurance and taxes on that property. Say you put a down payment of 10 percent on the purchase price of the property and you have 5 percent growth a year – you could be making more than 50 percent on the money that you invested on the property. You can’t get that sort of growth anywhere else.

Capital Improvement

Capital improvement is putting in a small money investment to fix up your property which will add value onto your home and will be allow you to resell your property at a much better selling price than before. You will also need to look at smart asset management as this will help you maintain your property at a very reduced cost over a long period of time, and will keep your home and property in top condition.

Rent Appreciation

Every year the cost of living increases and so should your cash flow by increasing your rental income per month by 5 percent. This can lead to a continual cash flow every year of hundreds and even thousands of dollars.

Asset Value Growth

You will start making money and wealth over time as your property increases in value and your asset will grow in value because of local appreciation in the real estate market.

Looking out for Deals

There are always great deals out there to find even when the markets are down. A lot of homes are been foreclosed through recessions and then auctioned off by the banks to cover the outstanding mortgage payments from the previous owners. This is when – if you have a bit of money to put down a deposit – you need to be on the lookout for some great deals. You can then resell that same property at an excellent profit once the real estate markets are doing well.

Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world, says that the best time to buy is when the markets are at a low and resell when the markets are at a high. That is when you make money.

If you own a property and your family are battling to pay off the mortgage, before you go ahead and give up your home, just remember that it is probably the best investment you could possibly have and try to cut costs elsewhere before selling your home.

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