Turn Your Desktop Computer into a Money Machine

Two great minds (and millionaires) of Internet and direct marketing -- Corey Rudl and Dan Kennedy -- discuss how you can make Millions of Dollars using the Internet teamed up with direct mail, radio, TV, classified ads, Yellow Page ads, infomercials, and MORE!

They also give you step-by-step instructions on how to start OR expand your first business... and then GROW with the right balance of advertising to generate MAXIMUM WEALTH, with minimal risk!"

For those of you who want to make it big on the Internet, there is still empires waiting to be made.Find out how!

I found a great article on Readers Digest of all places that gives some great tips on how you can start using your computer to earn money at home during these uncertain economic times. I am excerpting and summarizing these five says so if you want to read the article in its entirety, please visit here

Start Auctioning Things on eBay: You can make a living finding one niche market on eBay and make and owning it or even sharing it with others.

In New York, where trend-conscious executives and socialites routinely clear out cramped apartment closets to make room for newer looks, Bonnie Levine is considered something of a personal seller. Think Carrie Bradshaw in reverse. When the Manolo Blahniks and Pradas have to go, Levine gets a call to pick them up.

At home, Levine, 41, and her partner, Mindy Calo, 34, auction off the shoes, designer clothes and accessories on eBay, taking 50 percent of all sales. "We're both moms and our husbands work full-time," says Levine. "We do this to earn extra money between family chores, not to get rich quick."

Levine and Calo devote about 20 hours a week to their e-enterprise, and each pockets about $3,000 a month.

Blog for Dollars: Blogging is a hobby and pastime for many but for some people, its their livlihood. Blogging has empowered many free-lance writers and journalists to earn a good living, posting to their blog every day.

Glen Renolds founder of InstaPundent says that blogging is something of a Seinfeld experience -- enabling anyone with a website to write about nothing and everything on a regular basis and receive feedback from readers. What did you do today? That's a blog. What do you think about today's headlines? That's a blog too. How's your pet chinchilla doing? Another blog. "It's like your own printing press, without having to worry about paper, ink or postage," says Reynolds

Become a Trendspotter: Can you forcast the future. Take the pulse of the consumer and predict what he or she will want next. That is the job of the trendspotter and it can be a lucurative job.

Emily Jones's friends are jealous because the 16-year-old Portland, Oregon, high school sophomore is paid $125 a month to take digital photos of teen culture and send them to What's Next , a youth-culture marketing and trend-forecasting firm in Hollywood. Jones is just one of What's Next's 35,000 teen trendspotters worldwide who feed their network inside information about the ever-shifting tastes of the lucrative youth market. The demand for hip, sharp-eyed trendspotters is growing as companies and consultancies attempt to learn more about what makes teens buy.

Some of What's Next's corporate clients, such as Virgin Mobile, a cell-phone service provider, use the images on their websites to give pages an authentic teen feel. Which is why Galash's subjects must first agree to be photographed and then sign a release before she can upload their images to look-look.com.
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Jones was offered a shot as a trendspotter last August, when her cousin gave up the job. Known at What's Next as a "photojournalist," Jones finds her best subjects at school, in the park, at local malls and near the city's many music clubs. "It's getting more difficult to capture original styles because so many young people work hard to stand out," says Jones. "You have to be able to spot the difference between someone who's copying trends and someone who's truly inventing a new look."

Jones' advice to those who want to eneter this emerging field is: Develop your communication skills and intuitive feel for that next cool thing.

• Setting up a Google Account with GMail
• Setting up a Blogger Blog
• Getting a Google Adsense advertising account
• Setting up your Blogger Blog to work with Googles Feedburner
• Configuring your Feedburner feed for optimum effectiveness
• Setting up a Feedburner Feedflaire and adding it to your Blogger Blog
• Adding Adsense to your Feedflair in the Feedburner control so each post shows adsense ad
• Adding a Feeburner subscribe chicklet to your Blogger Blog
• Setting up email subscriptions within Feedburner and adding a subscribe by emal to your Blogger blog
• Becoming a Google Webmaster by adding your new Blogger Blog to the Webmaster Tools control panel
• Verifying your Blog on Webmaster Tools
• Adding a Google sitemap for your Blogger Blog to Webmaster Tools
• Submitting your site to Google to make sure your content is indexed