Monday, December 17, 2012

Make money with domaining

I must say that I'm rather new to domaining and in my quest to find ways into making money in domaing I have found that there are at least 3 different ways. There are probably many more but these are the ones that I've found are the best ones.

1. Park domains
Buy, register domain names and park it with a parking company like sedo.com, godaddy.com, namedrive.com. The parking companies will show a webpage with links from different companies. You'll make money on your domain when a visitor clicks on one of those ads. As you can guess, this will only work if you get a type-in-domain (visitors who find your domain by punching in your domainname in their webbrowser) with lots of daily visitors. Probably only 2-4 visitors per 100 will click on the ads but this of course depends on the domain.

The key is to have many domains that make at least $20 per year so that you make more money than the yearly domin cost. This is an longterm earningplan and the goal is to have a moneymaking machine that gives you PPC (Pay Per Click) revenues every month without having to do anything.

Notice that you should only register domains that are genereric and doesn't infringe on trademarks and company names as this could cost you alot in future lawyer fees.

2. Flipp domians
The second way is to buy and register domain names with the aim to flipp them at a later date by selling them to a buyer. It would take a little more time to get an income stream but as you buy and sell more domain you should be able to make some money. You'll also need to invest more money to buy better domains that could generate a higher pricetag in the future.

3. Develop a website
This is the most expensive way in making money with domains. First you have to find the perfect domainname for your product/service and then develop the website and fill it with content. It takes more time to make money but at the long run it could be the way to make a lot more money than the previous alternatives.

There are loads of other ways to make money on your domains - like selling backlinks (if your domain has a Pagerank of 2 or more), redirecting your visitors to another site that pays you per visitor, lease the domain to a developer or do like chicago.com did. Chicago.com noticed that they could take out a monthly fee for an e-mail service to their visitors. If you have a lawfirm in Chicago wouldn't you want an e-mail that looked something like lawyer at chicago.com? The Chicago idea would probably only work on a Geo domain or a perfect generic keyword.

My strategy at the moment is to find great domain names and park them with a PPC parking company so that I get some revenues. This gives me the time to figure out what my next move is - to flipp it or to develop av website. I would of course let it be parked should the domain have enough of a revenue stream via the parking company.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Make and/or save money with fiverr

A couple of weeks ago I encountered fiverr.com while surfing the net. It is an marketplace where anyone can sell their services for $5 + extras for more. For ex. one seller makes a video with your testimonial and sends it to their facebook page for only $5. This video could then contain a message of your choosing like your product or webpage. It is a easy, funny and cheap way to get your word out to the masses.

This site seems to bring opportunities for both buyers and sellers. For the buyer this is a perfect buying place to find services at very low prices and easly get the word out. For the seller you can make money by selling your services to buyers from all over the world.

There are so many different services offered on fiverr.com but I'll make a small example list on what is offered.

I will post a video message to your facebook saying what ever you want for $5 - a perfect way to get your message without you yourself making the video.

I will design animal mascot for $5 - need a mascot here is your chance to get one for only 5 bucks.
 
I will distribute 35 flyers in New York City for $5 - get your word out in New York without you even have to be there.
 
I will write a 550 word SEO article in 24 hours for $5 - pretty cheap - get an 550 word SEO article for you website or publish it on Ezine.com for only $5.
 
I will make a video with Santa driving Car and small cute KOALA wishing Merry Christmas or promoting... for $5 - perfect for the holidays to come. Give a Merry Christmas to your loved ones or promote you webpage with a holiday greeting.
 
The list could be made very long as there are hundreds and hundreds more services to choose from. Summarized fiverr.com seems to be a place where you could both save and make money. It is your choice.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Won securites.info auction on Godaddy

Yesterday Godaddy had an exclusive auction for .info keyword domains. It was an exciting auction with lots of good domain names like chef.info, bonds.info, discounts.info, election.info and many more. I submitted bids on about 10 of the domains but won only one, securities.info.

When bying domians my main object is to think out if I can develope it to something likeable and commercial. Securities.info is a broad generic keyword that can have information regarding on all sorts of securities like stocks, bonds, warrants and much more. My first task is to come up with a plan on how to make the site work and perhaps find a partner that has more experience with securities. I will post more as everything progresses.

It was a bit of a bidding war as the prices for the best domains went up in price. My securites.info domain went up to $600 whitch is a ok price for such a generic keyword. My main goal had been to buy chef.info and to develop that domain into a socialsite for the worlds top chefs but the price went up to high for my taste and was sold for $1365. This maybe wasen't such a high price for such a good generic keyword but my motto is not to put everything in one basket but to have a bunch of projects running at the same time.

Here are the final bids for the .info auctions that I bid on:
(and my thoughts on what could have been done on the sites...)

Bolsa.info $305 (Maybe stockmarket info for the Spanish of Portuguese markets)
Bonds.info $2510 (The name says it all - information about bonds from around the world)
Chef.info $1365 (Socialsite for the worlds top chefs)
Discounts.info $1360 (Blog on discounts from all sorts of sites like Amazon, ebay etc.)
Ebank.info £300 (Perfect for an up and comming internet bank)
Election.info $930 (would have been a great site for information on upcomming elections.)
Enews.info $425 (All the news in one place?)
Economics.info $1105 (Infosite on economic history and updated news on economics today)
Exhibitions.info $730 (Perfect place lists on exhibition around the world)
Innovations.info $505 (Blod on todays and yesterdays innovations that will and has changed the world)


Sunday, December 9, 2012

Write articles and make money

One way that can be both educational and fun is to write articles on Hubpages. Hubpages is a website where you can write almost anything you can think of and at the same time make some money.

You'll need to have or create an Google and Amazon account to begin making money on Hubpages. Anytime someone clicks on the Google ads on your article (or Hub) you'll get paid a cut of those earnings. To make this work you'll have to be able to write interesting articles that people like to read and as more people reads your article you'll get even more readers and followers. Keep writing more articles to attract even more followers and soon you should have a large fan base that loves to read you're articles and hopefully clicks on the Google ads in your Hubs.

Hubpages isn't a quick earning fix. It will probably take time to get a big enough fan base (followers) so that the earnings starts to go up. As you write more articles you can easily put in more ads from Amazon and Ebay. For ex. if you write a review on a TV-series you can put up a module with the DVD set of the latest season for that TV-series from Amazon and Ebay and when anybody buys from these ads you'll get a procentage of the sale amount. So now you have 3 built-in earning alternatives in your articles.

Many Hubbers have been able to make a part time living writing occaissional articles on Hubpages and many makes 1000s of Dollars every months on something that only takes a couple of hours a week. Try it - it is free so you can only make money on Hubpages.

I have some articles on Hubpages that you can check out here.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Make money by answering questions

I've found a simple way to make some money online. And all you need to do is answering questions and you'll get paid for your part of the Google Adsense advertisment.

Webanswers is a website where you can answer questions but also make the questions yourself. To start off you'll have to create a new account and then you can begin answering questions. All new members has to first answer 50 questions before you can connect your Google Adsense account to your Webanswers account. If you don't have an Google Adsense account you can easily open an account for free and start earning money all around the internet. Webanswers will even help you with that as soon as you have reached the 50 questions

To be able to make money you have to get as many of your answers as "awarded" by the member who made the question. Once you are awarded you'll begin to make money on the Google Adsense advertisment that is shown on the question page. As you begin to get more "awarded" questions you will also receive a part of the overall Google Adsense advertisment around the Webanswers standard webpages and not just your awarded questions.

As always content is king so you'll have to write good and informative answers to be able to get as many "awarded" questions as possible and of course to get more people to read the questions and answers. The more people that watches the questions and answers, the more you'll make.

Today there are already lots of people that are making a large portion of their monthly income with webanswers and to get there you'll need to answer alot of questions. As time goes by you'll hopefully have a lot of "awarded" questions and they come up to a nice sum of money each month. My philosophy is to do many different thing on the internet and hopefully everything together is enough to live of each month. I've just started with Webanswers so I can't show much I've made right now but I'll keep reporting on how it has gone as the months goes by.

Good luck with your online enterprises and your way into making more money.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Make money by reducing costs

The idea is to help any company to reduce cost and to make more money. This idea is best suited for anybody that has an economic expertise like business managers, controllers, CFOs, operations managers, accountants, administrators and so forth. By offering any company or business the service of finding cost reductions and more ways for the company to make money and by only asking for a precentage of your cost reductions it wouldn't be a problem getting customers.

Provide your customers with a range of different services like developing short-term and long-term budgets, analyzing fixed and variable overhead, increasing employee productivity, analyzing product and service costs and developing expense reduction strategies to meet each client’s specific needs.  Then show your customer how much money you have saved them and send them an invoice. This business idea should be very suitable to do right from your home and without the cost of office space. Good Luck and please take a look at my other business ideas!