How I make money online
The following is a list of all the ad networks, affiliate programs and revenue streams I am using to make money on SiliconCaribe.com and other blogs. It’s six major things. I use Google Adsense, Affiliate Marketing,Sponsored Reviews,Private Placement Advertising,Featured Site Link Sponsorship and Caribclix-Caribbean Ad network, I co-own with other Caribbean Internet entrepreneurs. They were chosen from an exhaustive list and I selectedrevenue streams that anyone can use, but are particular applicable to site owners that are outside of the United States, are Caribbean or publish Caribbean content as well. These revenue streams I highly recommend as they have proven to provide good service/support and most importantly, on time payments. Some of them pay out at US$50 minimums and others at US$100 and you can accept payment via Paypal.com and then use xoom.com to send the money to yourself or you can request a cheque. 1. Google Adsense I’m sure most of you right now are using this already and have kissed and taken pictures of your first cheque like I did. If you haven’t heard of Adsense, clearly you’ve been on Planet Remulock. Google displays simple text and image ads on your blog that are targeted to what you’re writing about, your content. Since Google has recently bought Doubleclick one of the largest online advertising networks, you can expect to see even a great range of advertising on your blog. 2. Affiliate Marketing Affiliate marketing is simply you adding ads to your site and becoming a sales representative for a particular product, promotion or service and making a commission on it. You become an affiliate. There are a alot of affiliate programmes out there, so be selective and choose ones that are reputable,you’re excited about and is relevant to your blog. Some even give signing bonuses and I tend to like those that do not require you to buy something from them first. I use the following on my blogs. eToro.com- forex trading info, training, platform OK if you live, work or have any interest in Jamaica, the Caribbean, you’d have know that these two words forex trading have grown from being mere buzz words to having a cult following thanks to David Smith, his pioneering company Olint Corp and the millions people have made because of him and a few other forex outfits. Everytime I write articles that had to do with that company, the business of forex trading, site statswouldskyrocket. So If you write such content on your blog, or have a site that has visitors you think would be interesting in that subject then go for it. It pays US$2/lead. Text link Ads Textlink Ads is sweet, when u sign up as a publisher and are approved, you can do two things to make money…be a publisher of textlink ads and make 50% of what they charge advertisers and you can also sign up to their affiliate programme and get other site publishers to sign up and make US$25 for each advertiser or publishers that signs on through your blog, your site. I know, I know, don’t thank me. Clickbooth.com- Because Neil Patel recommended it Clickbooth.com was a recommendation from a fellow blogger and internet marketing consultant I read regularly on pronetadvertising.com and quicksprout.com. So I tool and look and was sold. He said it pays out really well for affiliates. When you sign up for clickbooth as a publisher, you can select from a wide range of advertisers and you can run ads on your site or by using email campaigns. I’m about to launch this now. Try it with me. 3.Sponsored Reviews Sponsored Review I just launched and the response has been positive and swift. Sponsored Reviews allows advertisers to buy sponsored reviews on your blog and you can set your own pricing. On SiliconCaribe.com you can get your site reviewed right now for an introductory rate of US$55. Advertisers have no control over the reviews, but always, the intention is to be fair and balanced. The only requirement is the review must be at least 200 words long. Sponsored reviews receive the top front page post position in addition to sitewide exposure and rss feed subscriber readership. This gives your review maximum exposure to SiliconCaribe.com readers. Order your sponsored review by email: ingrid[at]connectimass.com 4. Private Placement Advertising Your blog can offer banner, button, in article kind of advertising set at rates you determine based on your site’s number of unique visitors/readership, the amount of ad space you want to sell, what the market rate is. Because on this blog I already have mulitple revenue streams, I don’t charge alot. For top of the site banner adthe industry standard size of 486 x 60 pixels, ,I charge US$300/month. For sidebar button ads the size of 125×125 pixels, I charge US$150/month with up to six spots available. If the advertiser wants a bigger ad in the space like a big square of the size 250×250 pixels, then I charge US$250/month. Book your ad by by email: ingrid[at]connectimass.com 5. Featured Site Link Sponsorship Your blog naturally comes with a blogroll, a list of website links you want to feature to your readers. You can monetize those. You see, people always typically visit your blogroll,and they are located site wide on the premium right side bar you can turn this into a Featured Site Links. I have and the cost for is US$50 per month per link. If you’re interested in buying a Featured Site link,send the anchor text and URL to ingrid[at]connectimass.com. 6.Caribclix-Caribbean Ad network This is an ad network that I co-own with other Caribbean Internet entrepreneurs. If you have a quality site that’s Caribbean, target Caribbean people or Caribbean Diaspora or a site that carries Caribbean content, Caribclix provides Caribbean and international advertisers to your site. Our CPM rate is higher than what Google Adsense tend to pay site owners from this side of the world. Check it out. 
Earn Money Online Just By Showing Up
Blogging for Dollars-Want to be a Dot Com Mogul like John Chow? How about showing up every day and being consistent for starters, how far would that get you?
Many bloggers and affiliate marketers may not ever find the answer to that question because they won’t do it. Even though I’d never recommend anyone get involved in an mlm business, my 2 ventures into that dark realm were very valuable lessons. We learned that to be in the top 10% of mlmers all you had to do was show up to meetings and events, and then to be in the top 5% all you had to do was show up on time and be prepared to do business. Those seem like brain dead simple things to do, but it was utterly amazing how many people didn’t do them.
Translate that into blogging and online business and you’ll find the secret to making at least some money on the net is no secret at all. The secret is called work. Being in the top 10% of bloggers and affiliate marketers requires that you just do something besides shop on eBay and read the news all day. If you are going to blog, then quit screwing around with it and do it every day, no excuses. Being in the top 5% probably requires little more effort than adding 10 comments and 2 forum posts a day and 1 article to an article directory per week. For More.
Cashing In on Domain Names
The only thing going for Candy.com is its wonderfully generic Web address — one so simple that it was appraised last week for about $2 million. Rick Schwartz, the entrepreneur who owns the site, says he’s holding out for more.
While America’s housing market slumps, sales of domain names, the real estate of the Internet, climbed 60 percent last year. More than 100 reported domain sales exceeded the $100,000 mark in 2007 — up from 70 the year before. And last May, an adult-themed domain sold for $9.5 million. More Here
Typosquatters make millions in domain name trade
In October, Dell sued a group of domain registrars, alleging the companies bought more than 1,100 domain names with trademark-infringing characteristics, such as “dellbatterrogram.com” in order to put advertising links on the pages.
The practice, known as typosquatting, is illegal. It’s intended to draw unwitting Web surfers to pages with URLs (uniform resource locators) that are similar to legitimate sites, and then redirect them to other sites. The owners of these Web sites get revenue from advertising referral programs every time a link is clicked. more
So you want to make money from ring tones
With all the talk last year about The Marley family threatening to sue over reggae legend Bob Marley’s songs being offered as ringtones on the Verizon Wireless via an agreement with Universal Music Group, we thought we’d find out just how does one make money from the sale of ringtones in the USA.
Here’s the breakdown: The example shows how the sale of 50 Cent “Candy Shop” master tone might break down, based on a retail price of US$2.50:-A carrier like Verizon typically receives about $1.12,or 45 percent.-The parent label receives about $1,or 40 percent of the total,and out of that pays the artist a royalty. At an estimated 18 percent royalty,50 Cent would receive about 29 cents.-The publishers collectively receive about 25 cents,or 10 percent. From that share, the writers are each estimated to receive between 9 cents and 11 cents.-Performance societies like the American Society of Composers,Authors and Publishers,would receive an estimated 3.5 percent of the total,or roughly 9 cents.
The ringtone industry up make up 12% of total music sales by 2008.
The ringtone industry, currently valued at about US$3 billion world-wide, is expected to make up 12% of total music sales by 2008, according to a recent study by Baskerville/Informa Media, reports the WallStreetJournal”However, the value of the market “will start to level out as prices come down and the effects of home copying kick in,” said Steve Mayall, an analyst with the U.K. research group.As the sector grows, the music industry will likely need to expand its fight against online piracy to include Web sites that offer unauthorized ringtones, the study said.”Source: moconews
Interview with a Caribbean Internet Entrepreneur: Richard Powell
Richard Powell when he lived in
RP:
SC: What schools did you go to?
RP: St. Andrew Prep,
SC: How old were you when you started Fuxito?
RP: I was 18 years old
SC: What led you to start Fuxito and describe the naming of that site?
RP: I identified a huge market need. Then created the name and brand for the site by combining Futbol (football in Spanish) and exito (success in Spanish).
SC: Describe your start up environment-where was your office, staff numbers, money status before funding?
RP: Office was a house between Harvard and MIT on Mass Ave. Staff was 7, on a budget of US$150k before raising US$1mm in VC money.
SC: From start up to first round of funding, how long? Describe that process briefly.
RP: It took 9 months. The Process can be described as longer than expected.
SC: Guy Kawasaki, co-owner of Garage Ventures is quoted and saying that Web 2.0 companies have it easy in starting businesses (low entry and operational costs, access to ideas, world talent) and that venture funding is stupid i.e. not even necessary…he started truemors.com as a testament to that theory…what’s your own take on that ?
RP: As with every type of business, experience and contacts define how difficult it will be to get to the next level. Many firms still need funding today, though teams and entrepreneurs who have done it before will have it much
easier.
SC: From start up to sale, how long was it?
RP: It was 2.5 years.
SC: Why did you sell/was that your exit plan from the get go?
RP: The market for internet companies collapsed in early 2000. So that was not the original exit plan.
SC: How was the company valued and how much did you sell it for?
RP: The company was valued at over US$120mm at one point. Because of the Internet Bubble we sold it for much less than that!
SC: Why are you now choosing to be a venture capitalist vs. an entrepreneur?
RP: I’m not a VC. I run a PE firm that doesn’t invest in tech firms. It’s Risk-adjusted, it is a better investment model.
SC: What are the top 3 things
RP: (1.) Access to capital. (2) Experienced management teams and (3) Greater study of the successful models and how it can be applied to business started in the
SC: Why do you think we are yet to have any You Tube, Google, Yahoo, and EBay type innovations from the
RP: Caribbean doesn’t have the depth of contacts or talent that
RP: No. Advantages I had were 1. Access to capital (2) Experienced management teams and (3) U studied the successful models and how it can be applied to the business idea that I had.
SC: 16. What are the areas can
RP: I don’t agree with the notion that they are missing from the
regional. The best advice is to study social and economic trends and build a business that rides irrefutable waves such as (i) aging baby boomers, (ii) globalization, and (iii) increased need to experience new things.
12 Proven Strategies to Get Traffic to Your site
by Coco
Of the these twelve strategies below choose the ones that hold the most relevance to you, then prioritize them, select a target date and put it on your marketing calendar.
1. Write articles and submit to Google and other free article submission sites. Make them no longer than 500 words, quality, relevant to the content of your website and loaded with keywords you’ve researched.
2. Put your website address as a sticker on the rear of your car.
3. Write an article for a magazine with your website address in addition to an email.
4. Getting your site listed in search engines. Go to google.com and yahoo.com and your local site directories and submit your site.
5. Post comments in discussion and newsgroups associated with your industry, they typically ask for your name, email address and website address.
6. Add a Tell A Friend script to your site, so site visitors can click and on a whim send a page from your website to a couple of friends.
7. Have multiple websites that link to each other. With the advent of the blog as a publishing tool, it’s easier to build out a network of sites.
8. Be a guest on a radio show and send people to your site.
9. Put your domain on all marketing materials-business cards, fliers, tshirts, posters etc.
10. Develop a publicity stunt such as a viral joke or flash movie with your website on it.
11. Use Pay Per Click search engines like Google. Start with a small daily budget and test it for 30 days. It can be the start of online branding and push traffic to your website.
12. Create a signature for the end of all your emails.
Milliondollar domain forexjamaica.com for sale on jamdeal.com
And without question, this is another way to make money online - registering desireable domain names based on trends you may see and reselling them, maybe developing the domain name yourself, or as some do, load up that page with links that earn your money via affiliate programmes or google adsense. You see domain names are like prime land, he who got the most desireable piece and at times first, wins.
Check out these alltime top domain name sales US$12million for sex.com, US$7.5m for diamond.com, US$5.5 m for businss.com. Want more proof. Check here.
SPRAWL TEES: Used FACEBOOK for Marketing:SALES went UP 80%
Making Money from the Caribbean -My cousin who is 25, hip and in the know had been harassing me for months to go on facebook, I was already on myspace and hi5, and had my own blog, so it seemed a bit useless to be on yet another networking site.
One day I decided to try it and have been hooked ever since. It has allowed me to reach a market that I would not normally reach. I am in my late 20s and don’t party as much as I used to, especially now that I have my own business.
With facebook, I have gotten to people in the target demographic ages 15-25, people who are in school, and most who don’t yet drive. I have a delivery service so I take the goods to them rather than they come to me.
WHAT I DID:
- For the summer, I had a summer special, dropping the price of the t-shirts from JA$1500/US$21 to JA$1000/US$14.
- Created a facebook group
- Joined a lot of groups, now 173 to get involved, observe, and interact.
- Then I invited who I thought might be interested in my product, mostly males in the 15-24 age group. Primarily U.W.I, Utech and high school students, male. They would then contact me either by phone or email if they wanted to purchase my t-shirts.
- As a part of my strategy for my brand, we have a thing called Sprawl love, where people take photos of themselves in their sprawl shirts and send them to me.
- I also used the market place function temporarily for my summer special but I wouldn’t say it increased sales.
My stuff isn’t in any stores for many reasons (a) I didn’t get a welcome response from store owners and (b) I didn’t like alot of the retail methods - my brand is unique in that it speaks to a specific audience: young people and facebook as well as the Internet is filled with that age group. Many of my target market don’t go out, they are either too young or don’t drive so getting around is difficult. They are also enthralled by the idea that is sort of collectors item, not something mass produced that can be found in every t-shirt store in
I do most of my marketing online because it is easier , I also work a 9-5 and don’t have the time to go out and promote my product, as I am also a single mother so when I get home its all about my family. My sales as a result of facebook have gone up 80%. Marketing on facebook has also opened up another market for me - Jamaicans that live in the
I recently launched my online store and am trying to continue to keep the brand very exclusive and not in any major stores.
Four Reasons Why the Entertainment Niche is Great for Making Money
Just Make Money Online.
Entertainment websites (e.g. music, movies and celebrities) are created to captivate, amuse and gratify. They appeal to emotional interests. You don’t visit a celebrity gossip blog to improve your life, you go there to laugh at something funny, to see something that kindles your desires.
Entertainment sites are inherently easier to monetize and are excellent ways of earning some extra cash. Here are four key reasons why they are low-maintenance and yet high-profit, making them an ideal way to make money.
1. Unilateral Content Structure and One-Way Dialog
2. No Need to Solve Problems, No Need to Provide Specialized Knowledge
3. Non-Savvy Audiences Are Great for Conversions
4. Exceptional Traffic Potential + Ease of Monetization
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