BurningKnife

I ran across a great series on Youtube about using CPALead, Youtube, and Blinkweb to make some nice income. What is quite fascinating about this particular series of videos is the depth that’s covered… you can be an absolute beginnner, and simply watch these videos over and over until you understand what’s going on.

I must confess, this idea has slowly wrapped itself around my brain – and I should have paid attention much earlier… but if you want to make money on the Internet – there’s only one single skill that you must have! With it, you can make money easily, without it, you’ll work quite hard no matter how you try to earn online.

The concept behind blogging for dollars is really simple. By putting up a website, and posting articles about interesting topics, you end up with traffic. The more articles you post, the more ‘keyword phrases’ you’ll end up being ranked for, and the more traffic you’ll get from the search engines.

Many Internet Marketers have made it big with Affiliate Marketing – it’s relatively simple to do – it doesn’t require your own product, and the only investment you need to make is in your own time (and preferably, your own website).

There are only two ways to earn money – by providing a service or by providing a product – every method of earning money honestly can be ascribed to one or the other.

We here in the United States are a fortunate people – our Constitution wisely put a fence between religion and government – unlike so many other countries, we are far more stable. With limited government control over our lives (and despite what you see in the news – we still have less interference in our lives than almost any other country) we are free to pursue wealth in many different ways.

One of the reasons that small business owners are generally in the top tax bracket, is not because they tend to be workaholics, putting in 60 hour workweeks – although such is common. The reason they tend to be wealthy is because they’ve learned that a business can take on a life of it’s own – and you earn not just from your own efforts, but from the efforts of others as well.

I never seem to have problems writing articles – I pick a topic, and just start typing away. It helps, of course, that I’m writing about topics that I know something about… If you don’t – here’s what you do…

Most people were suckered long ago… I know, I was one of them. We grew up with the idea that you get hired at job, you work, and then you get paid. You work, you get paid; you work, you get paid. Getting a job was always a prerequisite to getting paid. Your pay is in exact proportion to the time you have invested. Work 40 hours a week, get a full-time paycheck. Work less, get paid less…

Okay, so you want to make money on the Internet – and you need a product or service. No-one will simply hand you cash, you must either have a product to sell, or have a service you can provide. One of the easiest products to create is information products.

Information is the number one selling product on the Internet – more information is sold in a variety of ways than any other product. You have membership websites, ebooks, pornography, computer software, mp3 music, and specialized databases (such as LexisNexis, or CivilWarData). It’s sold in a variety of formats – you can download or instantly view much of it, but you can also purchase information to be mailed to you in either paper or CD/DVD format.