Got a Camera? Make Some Money!

I recently went to Bora Bora for vacation and fell in love with the place. It's definately one of the most beautiful places I've traveled to. I got back home from my trip and decided I wanted to build a website about it. The only thing is, I needed pictures for my site and the ones I took while there weren't very great. So I started looking on the internet for places where I could purchase or download copyright free images. I came across a couple sites where people were selling their photos. That's when I realized how much money some of these people make just by taking simple pictures of their vacations! I'm definately bringing my camera with me next time I go somewhere scenic. Pretty much every type of picture you can think of is on these sites. Just simple pictures of cities are in demand on these sites. I saw one picture of a flower that was downloaded by 2,983 people in 1 year! The average person on these sites makes anywhere from about $1.00 to $4.00 for each download. So this can really add up if you take 20 or so pictures a month and just leave them posted on these sites. You don't even need a camera if you are good at designing or drawing. I came across a design somebody made of a globe that fetched over 5,000 downloads in 2 years time. So this person probably spent 1 day designing this image, and in 2 years time, that 1 day of work had made them between $5,000 to $20,000. This is assuming they only posted that image on one site. There's alot more than just one out there so they probably made alot more than that. This may not seem like alot but imagine if they did this everyday for 2 months. Most people have to work an entire year, 5 days a week to make that kind of money. So if you have a digital camera, or you are a creative person with drawing or designing skills, I recommend you check out some of these sites and bring your camera with you next time you think you're going to see something interesting.

Websites where you can sell your photos, images, and designs:
iStockPhoto
Fotolia
BigStockPhoto
DreamsTime
ShutterStock

Myspace Money

FBPro
This is a great way to make money online. If you aren't familiar with Myspace, you must be living under a rock. Well I'll explain, just in case you have never heard of it. Myspace, in a nutshell, is a social networking site that allows people to have their own profiles, where they can upload pictures, videos, and send comments to friends, amongst many other things. One of the most valuable things to people today trying to market their products, is website traffic and advertisements. Millions of people use Myspace every single day. A valuable feature on Myspace to marketers is the "bulletins" feature. This is where the money comes in. Let's say you have 2000 friends on Myspace. 2000 people that you know that you or saw online that you have added to your profile. If you wanted to say something to all 2000 of those friends, you could post a bulletin. When they log in to their Myspace accounts, whatever you posted as a bulletin is visible on their main screen. So let's say you were a company and selling a product. Those 2000 friends you have on your profile could potentially turn into 2000 customers if you were to post a bulletin of a product you are trying to promote, or a video with an advertisement in it. It's against Myspace rules to sell accounts, but not illegal, and what they don't know won't hurt them. Are you starting to see where I'm going with this? Tila Tequila is the product of Myspace. She was not famous until she had over a million friends on Myspace. This how she became a Celebrity and started signing deals with MTV and the TV Networks. It's obvious that a couple guys who put together a program to automatically add friends, used her sexy picture to further entice young males and girls who may idolize her to add her to their profiles as a friend. There may be other programs out there, but the most popular one for automatically adding friends is FBPro. It's about $30 for one Myspace account and $60 for multiple accounts. I recommend trying the free trial out first. The trial only allows you to add 50 friends per day, but it's a good way to see how it works before you spend any money on anything. You can download the free trial on their website here: FBPro Free Trial. Once you have enough friends added, you can sell the accounts on sites such as eBay, Craigslist, iOffer, or just make your own website to sell them on. If you click HERE, you can see completed listings from ebay showing how many people successfully sold myspace accounts with large friend lists this week. Just don't tell anyone what the address of the account is, until after they pay for it, because some people are very hateful and will report you to Myspace and get the account deleted just because they can. I've also heard that MySpace cancels some accounts if they see unusually high numbers of freinds being added every day, so you may not want to do too much in one day (Try to keep it under 2000). Once somebody pays, go into the account settings and change the email to their email address and give them the password to the account. It's that easy. You can make some serious money doing this, but my advice is to market niches. What I mean by this is find people yourself that may be struggling to get more traffic to their sites. Music Artists are perfect for this. For example, with the FBPro program, you can choose which state or city you want to find friends in. So let's say you add only friends in New York. 3000 friends from New York would be very valuable to a New York musician who is struggling to make a name for themself. I think you get what I'm saying.....

Can You Really Get Paid for Taking Surveys?

CashCrate
I personally don't spend much time doing surveys because I make money many other ways on the internet (which you can read about in this blog) and my websites and online sales keep me busy most of the time. But whenever I have free time, if I'm watching a movie or listening to music, I occassionally fill out surveys at sites like CashCrate. They aren't the only paid survey website on the web, but one of the few that I have actually made money at and been paid. CashCrate pays me every month so if I spend an hour on there, the extra money every month helps with a few things. But I would never consider it an online job. It's easy money if you don't want to do alot of work online or think too hard about things, but as I said, definately not the best way to make alot of money. Another well known cash for survey site is GangsterGreed.

CashCrate
GangsterGreed
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Write Articles=Get Paid

That's right. Get paid to write articles. There's a few sites out there that I have come across which pay people to write articles. The most popular one is definately AssociatedContent.com. If you aren't very good at discussing things, or just don't like typing, then this definately isn't for you. It doesn't pay too well up front but if you write about popular subjects, it can definately pay off in the long run. The way it works is this: You write articles for them and post your articles to their site. You can see how many visitors visit your articles every day. AC will pay you $1.50 for every 1,000 visits your articles get(and sometimes, if they really like your article, they will pay you a bulk amount of money up front, depending on how much they like it). So if your article gets 10,000 views, that's $15. What's great about this is that they will continue to pay you, even 10 years from now (assuming they will still be in business then, which I am sure they will, considering how popular they are). So if you write an article today for them, you could continue making money off that very same article, year after year for the rest of your life. This is the closest thing to data entry jobs that I have found in my 6 years of working online and finding new ways to make money. Another way to make money writing articles, which probably pays much better than AC, is to freelance. Basically, you can create a profile on AC or even EzineArticles.com (Ezine doesn't pay you but they let you add links to promote your own site). After you create a profile and start writing a few articles on there, you will begin building your portfolio. Once you have enough articles or a reputation built up. You can start advertising your writing services on sites such as elance.com and getafreelancer.com. Many people who own websites want more content for their website but are not good at writing. So they will hire writers. Many of them pay $20-50 per article, maybe even more. So imagine if you write a few articles a day at that rate? If you are good at writing, and are an expert at something, this could easily become a full time job.

Turnkey Websites and Reseller Hosting means Big Bucks

Ever wanted to start your own membership business? I mean where your customers will continue paying you a membership fee every month? Well here's an awesome way to get started. Two words: Turnkey Websites. Turnkey Websites are basically just websites that are ready to go. You can create them and sell them to other people and those customers would not need to set up anything to get their websites up and running. They would not need to create any websites or modify anything. It's already done for them. Now this would require you to have some knowledge in building websites, so if this interests you, I suggest you learn by googling some tutorials on the web. I can't teach you everything, but once you learn how to build websites, you can sell them. Make websites about anything. You can make a website with nothing but embedded youtube videos on it such as a Cooking website with nothing but How-to-Cook videos from youtube. You could make a website with free videogames on it by going to sites such as miniclip.com and embedding them into your website for others to play. You could make an informational site about something. Write the content yourself, or use free articles from websites which allow you to use their articles on your site such as ezinearticles.com. You could make a website about anything. Anything you think you can sell to people. But the real money is not from selling websites. No no no my friend. The real money comes from Reseller Hosting. Let me explain.....
Websites need to be hosted in order for them to stay on the internet. Certain companies out there, like HostGator for example, host people's websites and people have to pay HostGator monthly fees to keep their website on the internet. Well HostGator offers Reseller Hosting. This means that you purchase a Reseller Hosting package from them, and then resell it to someone else for more money. Once you understand how to build websites, you can build a website for your Reseller Hosting company and the websites you are selling. When you sell a website to somebody, you will want to convince them to host the website with your company. Many people who sell Turnkey Websites, state in the details for the website, that the customer must host the website with them. You can take a look on eBay by clicking here to see how many people are making money selling Turnkey Websites. In fact, you don't even need to know how to make websites. If you know someone that can, or can hire someone, you can just sell the same website over and over again once it's made. A website on your computer is like a file, you just copy it and paste it to duplicate it. Find somebody that knows the basics of websites and they will explain this in further detail to you so you understand. It's not that complicated but I'd rather explain how to make money from them for now. When you sell Reseller Hosting, your customers will go to your website and think that you are the host, but it's really HostGator that is handling things behind the scenes because you purchase Reseller Hosting from them. If your customers have a problem with their hosting service, you can just contact HostGator and get answers from them, then relay that to your customers without telling them that it was actually HostGator that gave you the information. So what you want to do is set up a website for your Reseller Hosting company, and when people host with you, they will pay you a monthly fee for the hosting. You can make up any monthly fee price you want. HostGator gives you a certain amount of memory to divide up for hosting. For example, one package is 24,000mb for about $25.00. So let's pretend you purchased this package. You could divide those 24,000mb by "alotting" 1,000mb for each site. So you could copy your site 24 times, and add 1,000mb to each site. This would give you 24 Turnkey Websites with 1,000mb each. It cost you $25 for the 24,000mb, but now you can sell each website and charge your customers $5 a month for each website they want hosted. This would give you $125 per month for every $25 you spend. That's $100 profit. So if you sell 100 websites your first month, that's close to $400 profit you would make. If you can keep those customers happy and keep them wanting to host with you, thats $400 every month. So if you can sell the same amount every month, by the second month you would be making twice that per month ($800 per month). By the third month you would be making $1,200 per month. In 1 year you would be making $4,800 per month. That's about $1,200 per week, and this is just from reselling hosting. You can make any price you want for the actual websites so I'm sure you would be making a whole lot more than this after you make a profit on the hosting and the actual Turnkey Websites. Most people who go to school for 1 year to learn a skill don't even make that much. I suggest you check HostGator's site and read all the details if this sounds interesting to you, or go to google and search for "Reseller Hosting" to compare rates. I recommend HostGator only because they are the most well known and dependable, but there are new companies popping up everyday on the internet so it

3 Ways to Make Money from T-Shirts

Ok this is a pretty straight forward guide on how to make money with your own creativity, legally. It's no secret that T-shirts based on popular trends sell well. Imagine how much money people make selling T-shirts based on popular movies that are released. The only problem is, you can't legally sell T-shirts that have the name of a movie on them without permission. So how do I get around this? Quotes.......That's how. When people watch movies, one of the things they remember when they are walking out of the theater is the quotes from the movie that were funny or memorable. People quote movies every single day and it's on these quotes that you can capitalize. For example, the movie "Dark Knight" has been this year's most popular film in theaters. Millions of people are walking around everyday quoting memorable lines from this movie. The Joker, played by the late Heath Ledger, was a favorite character amongst audiences.
One of his memorable lines from the movie that I've heard people quoting is "I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you... stranger.". So there ya go. You could get a simple black t-shirt, change the wording around a little bit and add white lettering to the front of the shirt which reads "Whatever don't kill ya makes ya.....stranger." Then, you could sell your T-Shirts on your own website or on all the popular classified and auction sites I mentioned in my last post. An even better idea is to make custom t-shirts for people on demand. You could set up your very own custom t-shirt business. Have people email you pictures of them and put it on the t-shirts for them. If you really wanted to impress people, you could even use free art programs like Gimp and add effects to the pictures, such as the cartoon effect that can be found in Gimp. If Betty sees her friend Jackie wearing a shirt with an image of Jackie and at the Grand Canyon, Betty might ask Jackie how she did that. Then Jackie will refer Betty to your website. Speaking of referrals, you can even make money selling other people's t-shirts. SpreadShirt is a website that not only allows people to design custom t-shirts themselves, but also allows them to sell their shirts on SpreadShirt's site. The best part about it is that SpreadShirt will give you all the resources you need to set up your very own t-shirt website. So you can list other people's t-shirts on your website, and if somebody who visits your website likes a t-shirt and clicks on a link to buy it, you will get a sales commission on it. This is a great way to make money without ever having to touch the products you're selling. You could even sell your own designs on your site, right alongside other people's, so no matter what, you will make money.

Here is a list of the most popular websites for custom t-shirt designing:
T-Shirts
DesignAShirt
SpreadShirt
ShirtCity

How to Convert Online Videos into Income

Did you know you can make income by creating videos and uploading them to the internet? It's pretty easy to do and here's a great way to start a business that can lead in any direction you want to take it.......
First make some videos, doesn't matter what they are about. The more popular you think the subject of the videos is, or more interesting it is, the better, but any videos will work for this. You can make the videos with a camcorder at home or use a cheap webcam. Talk about anything you like on the webcam or videotape funny or exciting stuff. Basically, anything you think people will want to watch. Once you make a video, you can edit it using free programs such as Windows Movie Maker. While you are editing, you can insert text into the video which will advertise your website. You can create a website through any cheap host such as HostGator and use their Site Builder program to create your site. Then once your sign up for a website, it doesn't matter what you put on it. You can even just leave the entire site down and just put "This site is currently experiencing difficulties." Now take those videos which include a banner on the screen or text that advertise your site, and upload them to all the popular video sites such as Youtube, Myspace, Dailymotion, Metacafe, blip.tv etc...
Now people will see your videos on there, and see the ads telling them to go to that site. Now your site has instant traffic and the more videos you upload, the more traffic it will get. So eventually, when you have enough traffic, you can actually sell that traffic to other people. That's right, people actually sell their website traffic to other people who don't know how to get it. Take a look here on this Ebay page and you will see how many people are making money by selling traffic. You can sell it other places as well where you will have less competition such as Craigslist, iOffer, Ecrater, OnlineAuction etc... You can use Google Analytics to monitor your site and see how much traffic you are getting day to day. Once you have enough traffic built up, you can transfer it to other peoples websites by going to wherever you purchased the domain for your site and "forwarding it" to someone else's domain. Just go into the settings for your domain and choose to "forward it" and enter the domain name you would like to forward to. After you send them their traffic, forward it back to your domain name and wait until you have another customer and then forward it again.

Where to Find Wholesale Electronics

Buy-In-Bulk
Ok, well because of legal implications, I can't really give out this companies information without getting myself in some hot water because their material is copyrighted. But if you are looking for places that list real genuine wholesale products to sell on ebay, craigslist, ecrater, ioffer and places like that or just in your local shop, I would highly recommend Buy-in-Bulk.com. I have only gone through a few of their wholesale sources (One was in Taiwan and one was in Malaysia) and I have gotten some really good deals. I'd rather not say what type of product I'm selling because I don't need the competition, but I'm sure you will have no problem finding your own products to sell since they offer wholesale lists on a few different things with about 15 companies on each list. They list manufacturers and distributors that are located in places such as Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and India. Because of this, I think they have better sources and contacts than people who go through China because everybody is going through China which drives the prices up. Just my take on it. I've been selling most of my items on Craiglist because eBay fees have gotten kind of ridiculous lately. I've found that it's easiest to sell the items if you make attractive advertisement listings on Craigslist. That is really the key. Leave me a comment if you try this out and let me know how it goes for you or post any tips you may have for my readers. It's always appreciated.

Diversify When Selling Online

I personally believe that diversity is the number one key to success. If I didn't believe this, then I would only blog about one way to make money. I'm a former ebay power seller, or I should say "feebay". I used to make a decent income on there until a new CEO, John Donahoe, stepped up to the plate and started making some changes (some pretty ridiculous ones). I still had alot of inventory I purchased in wholesale bulk amounts, so I needed to get rid of it quickly and ebay just wasn't cutting it anymore. So I started looking for ebay competitors with a large amount of visitors and I came across many. One of them even had an ebay parody cartoon which I'm sure any disgruntled former ebay seller would find funny like I did. I was able to sell majority of my items pretty quickly on Craigslist and never really needed to resort to listing on the other sites I found, but I preferred to sell them locally so I wouldn't have to deal with shipping. if you are selling anything online, than this list may come in handy. If you are making profits one place, why not try more than one and see if you can double or triple your sales? Diversification is always a good idea.

Here's a list of selling sites like ebay. Majority of these alternatives to ebay are free to list:
You can check the visitor traffic of each one at Alexa.com to see which ones get the most visitors

Craigslist
iOffer
Ecrater
Ebid
CQOut
OnlineAuction
BluJay
ePier
PlunderHere
Tazbar
BuyItSellIt
SpecialistAuctions
USiFF
WeBidz
AuctionQuests
WagglePop
HiBidder
OverStock
Wensy
UBidRight
YourHighBid