Make Money Online - What You Must Know

Let's get real, you might think you can start out of a cyber shop or with your old IBM 468 and a dial up access. FORGET IT.

You must have infrastructure for your home business:
- Reasonable PC/Laptop, 1 GB processor, 20 GB Hard Disc. The faster, the better.
- The latest Windows, Mac, or Linux system.
- Antivirus software to protect your business.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash Player
- Broadband Internet access, 100kps at least.
- One of the latest Browsers, FireFox is best, IE 6.0 or 7.0 is great, others like Safari are OK
- CD-drive for backups, software and eBook downloads
-> optional but good to have :
- Video camera
- Headphones and speakers
- microphone

Get here some resources, all Free :
visit Adobe to get Acrobat Reader and Flash Player
Google FireFox Browser (with Toolbar is better)

In a nutshell - You have to decide a direction before you start anything. You have to chose what you would like to do Online. What's your goal ?

There are several ways you can take, some do work, some not. Some are easy, some hard. Very important is that you decide for ONE, and then stick to it and go deep, menaing that you should not run 10 different things at the same time. Do ONE thing and do it right.

I try to group them a little for that you can follow better. I can only scratch the surface on some as it would fill up 10 Lenses if we go deep into each detail.

Make money on your PC with Home based services
Online surveys, data entry, writing articles or offering any other service or similar stuff.

Be very careful with those. Some are pure scam, asking you for money to register before you get any job, stay away from those.

Article writing is or other services related to Internet Marketing is the easiest and best way to make a fast buck.

But one thing is for sure, you ain't going to get rich with this, it's more for to solva a short term money problem and it's like a hobby.

Make money participating at a shared Program
Amazon, SFI, Herbalife, PowerMall, JoeBucks and many others.

Thousands of affiliates have the same or similar Website, same products, same prices. Stay unique is impossible. It's like having a franchising from BigM with the difference that all are at the same place, at the internet.

You only make good money if A= you have a huge network of friends or B= you get to refer a lot of people to your network/down-line who make sales for you. C=or you have/build a email list you can market to.

Make money with Social Networking
Craiglist, MySpace, Orkut, Facebook, Yahoo Groups, MSN and so on.
This is very trendy and if you know how those Sites are working you can make a good extra cash. Those Networks are growing organized in groups of interests where you can market to. But attention, no salesman approach. All depends on trust and relationships. I can help you with a guide I get from a friend of mine. Click on this text link here get a Free Report about making money on MySpace

Make Money Online With Free Web Sites
Like a Blog, Squidoo Lens, Hubpage, Weebly and so on.

Now it already gets better. This Squidoo Lens here is mine, there are not 2 Lenses identical, although the design of the Lens follows the same principals, all Lenses are different. So are all Websites.

Having your own Site has many benefits. Using your style and personality is one, and you can talk about and promote whatever you are interested in.

You have a pre-defined template, but you are YOUR OWN BOSS in respect to the content. Some will not allow affiliate links, so inform yourself first what you can do if you have a comercial goal in mind. You can make some serious money with this, but you need already some Internet Marketing skills to know how to do this well.

Some resources for you :
Free Blogger Blog , or Free Wordpress Blog
Free Squidoo Lens
Get a Free Website at WEEBLY

Make Money Online With your own Website

The KING of all possibilities is your own unique Website. But at the same time it's the toughest one.

This cost money (Hosting and Domain name)and time as you need to build it, and take care of it. But it's the best off all in respect of uniqueness and sales opportunity.

A Free Blog or Squidoo Lens has some starter advantages against a own Site in respect to the Search Engine Listings, but they are not unique in design.

All Internet Marketers are having several Websites, several Blogs, several Squidoo Lenses and so on.

This for optimizing traffic and improving sales opportunities.
If you have one Website who is making you $500.- in profit each month, why not multiplying this by 10 and making $5000.- in profit ?

KEYS TO SUCCESS
you must know that you have to get several friends to make it Online. Google Search Engine is definitely the most important of all. So how to get him become your buddy ?

Google loves :
- Relevant, fresh, unique, quality content
- Proper coded, unique site design
- Proper structured website organization, minimum 5
pages.
- A Site map (in XML) to spider
- One way links to your site from relevant pages

Google hates :
- Not relevant content inside the domain
- Tipos, grammar errors in general
- Website duplicates
- Content duplicates
- Static content, no updating at all
- Links to not relevant pages

Google wants to build a better Web. They want quality, you want traffic. So let's give them quality and they give you traffic. It's simple.

Well, those are not all points, but the most important ones. So WHATEVER you do Online, keep those in front of you.

One stands out of all the others, RELEVANCY. You must stick to ONE ISSUE in a page, Blog, Lens Website - period.

If you start a Blog about Gardening, you can't mix information about 6 Abs. You always have to stick to one issue only.
This help you get visitors as they know exactly what they find, and ultimately buy what you recommend as they belive you as an expert.

Here we come to the content.
Always provide VALUE with what you write, offer for Free, or sell. Keep a customers benefit in mind. OVER DELIVER with helpful tips, and people will love visiting your Website over and over agian.

Offer visitors a Freebie, a e-mail course about the topic, a Free e-book or report, anything. Ask their e-mail address to deliver the Freebie. This way you can continious to market them Offline, without that they have to visit your site.
Some make 50% of their revenue by e-mail Marketing.