Learning to Make Money Online

Maybe you found this site because you are looking for ways you can make money from your own home, using the Internet. Hopefully this site can be a great tool in helping you become successful (along with me).

Within this page and its links, you should find a plethora of tools at your disposal that you can use along your way. I will include details to all of the sites and programs I am currently using, helpful links to other sites, hints and tips, information on what does and doesn't work, and a blog with the details my exact earnings that will be updated at least weekly (but my goal is 3-5 times a week).

So stick around. Favorite this page. Use the guestbooks or contact me with links or ideas that you think are relevant. Keep me updated on your personal progress. Ask questions.

Perhaps you stumbled across this page while looking for relevant links for your own lens or other website.

Maybe you have a really awesome page with really awesome information that other people looking at this lens would appreciate. Don't leave this page without leaving me a link back to your site. If you have strong, relevant information, I want to link to you!

Share your expertise with me. Share your expertise with all of us.

Feel free to hang around longer and give helpful suggestions. They are always appreciated.

Journey to Success Blog
I consider this one of this most important aspects of this lens as this blog will give you consistent updates on my earnings and exactly what I am doing to make that money.

Links to Useful Resources
Throughout the entire lens, you should be finding useful and relevant links that will help you make money. There will be links to blogs, other lenses, and any other sites that I see as helpful.

Money Making Opportunities
This is really what you are here for. There are text modules detailing the different opportunities that I am currently taking advantage of as well as shorter descriptions of the opportunities that I may have come across or heard of, but haven't taken advantage of yet for one reason or another.

Monthly Earnings
Although my blog is where I will be keeping track of my earnings day to day, the Monthly Earnings section of this lens will be where you can find my finalized earnings for the current and previous months.

Other Stuff
Goals (Yours and Mine),
Commentbooks,
Ways You Can Support Me,
Fun Stuff (For When You Need a Break),
Polls And More!

1. My Handy, Dandy Laptop
Gateway computer that runs Windows Vista. I have Microsoft Office 2007 installed.

2. High Speed, Wireless Internet Connection
Road Runner High Speed Internet

3. My Brain
Wants + Creativity + Ability to Learn + Drive

4. Sense of Humor
And by sense of humor, I mean I can laugh at my mistakes. I'm not funny. I apologize in advance. I can be very silly sometimes and I love to laugh, but I'm not funny.

5. My Secret Weapon
Photoshop Elements

To do this, you really need to have the first four tools. The fifth (Secret Weapon) is not required, but is suggested. (See the next text module for more details) A computer (of some variety) and the Internet are obvious requirements. I'm going to assume that you already have those things since you are viewing this page right now.

Your brain is the easy part. I know you have that. It would be creepy if you didn't...

A sense of humor is probably the hardest item on the list, but if you don't have one, you need to get one fast. This is probably going to take a lot of work. Most of it should be enjoyable, but stuff does happen...like your computer dying or something that you just spent hours on not saving. Be prepared. Be patient. Be willing to laugh. This is kind of a trial and error deal with hopefully more trials without the errors than one with.

What is the secret weapon and why do you need one?

First of all, you don't NEED one, but you may really WANT one. A secret weapon is a tool that you can use that not everyone on the Internet knows how to use. It needs to be something that involves some kind of skill or expertise.

For example, my not-so-secret, secret weapon is Photoshop Elements. I can edit and manipulate photos. This is something that I am going to and have been using in effort to make money online.

Your secret weapon doesn't have to be a program. It can be a skill like being really good with HTML or being really knowledgeable about something. For example, if you are an incredible baker and know everything there is to know about baking, you may be able to put that information to use in a way that will earn you some money.

Think about it for a little while. Don't despair if you can't think of something right away. Sometimes people don't know what their own secret weapon is. That doesn't mean that you don't have one.

Squidoo
If you are already a lensmaster, feel free to skip over this blurb. If you stumbled across this site from somewhere outside of Squidoo, click this link to see what it is all about: Become a Lensmaster.

What do you think? Pretty cool, huh? So, not only do you have a lot of fun making these addictive little lenses, but you can make money off of it as well. You can then either cash out, donate it to charity, or split it up and you can make as many lenses as you want! Squidoo works with Google AdSense (they get paid when people click the advertisements).

It is different than the way it works on your blog though. They divvy the money up so that more of it goes to the people with the best lenses. This helps avoid click fraud (which is when you get someone to click an ad over and over on your site so that you make money). No one knows the exact formula for this, but it has to do with your lens rank. You can make direct royalties by having modules for Amazon, Ebay,CafePress, and others on your lens. Revenue gained by Squidoo through these advertisements are split with you. Check out this >Payment FAQ lens for more details on getting paid through Squidoo.

Associated Content
Associated Content is one of a handful of sites that will actually pay you for the articles you write. Depending on whether or not you have published an article elsewhere or not, you can potentially submit it for an upfront payment review. They typically pay somewhere between $3 and $20 per article. The more rich in content the article is, the more you will supposedly get paid.

I am currently waiting to hear from them about some articles that I submitted. Depending on how much they choose to pay me may make me continue or discontinue use of their site for publishing my content.

You also get paid $1.50 for every thousand views which doesn't sound like much, but just think, if you have articles that are just sitting there, then they are gaining you a little bit of extra money every month. The amount you get paid per every thousand views increases minimally after you have received a certain amount of views.

You can check out my work on Associated Content by clicking the link below:
Brittany's Associated Content

CafePress
This is where my secret weapon is going to come in handy. CafePress allows you to design t-shirts, hats, mugs, clocks, and more that you can sell. They have a set fee for each item (depending on how much it costs them to make it) and anything that you charge above that is yours to keep.

Now, imagine the possibilities if you have a lens promoting your very own shop on Squidoo.

I'm going to be designing some shirts of my own, but I have begun by designing a couple of shirts for my friend J Lynn and I hope to do designs for other bands.

You can see some of the items in my shop below. There isn't much there yet, but there will be. To go to my actual shop, click here: Rea of Sunshine Designs

Go ahead and submit your lens to Google and Squoogle.

By submitting to Google, your site will get indexed the next time that they crawl the web which will gain you more traffic. Submitting to Squoogle and other directories that are similar will gain you more traffic as well. Those sites handpick lenses to make sure that they are good pages. This will drive more traffic to your page as well.

I will eventually add what I hope to be a long list on this page telling you exactly where you should submit all of your sites.

Publish E-Books for Amazon

Have a book you have been working on? A collection of articles? A bunch of recipes? How about a How-To Guide? Whatever it is, you can publish it as an E-Book for Amazon.

They have this cool, new toy that just came out that is an E-Book reader which allows the owner to access E-Books from anywhere. They could be waiting in a doctor's office and download an E-Book from their Kindle. Now, if you have been uploading E-Books, it could be potentially your book! You set the price, so you have a fair amount of say in what you get to earn and from what I have heard about these things, sales have done really well in this area. Since this new Kindle came out, now might be a good time to jump on the bandwagon and start publishing.

I'll probably do this eventually. I just want to get some lenses up first, but definitely check it out and let me know what you think.

It hasn't been a full month yet since I began this project. Check the Journey to Success blog for more details about my day to day earnings.

I'm not asking for you to give me money and I'm not asking you to buy anything (unless you really want to). I'm just asking that you take the time to check out my blogs and lenses. If you visit a lens, give it a rating. That's all I ask. That would make me a very happy girl indeed.