Can You Build an Online Home Business Without a Monetary Investment?

You see it all the time: Ads such as, “FREE HOME BUSINESS”, “MAKE A PROFIT WITH NO COST TO YOU”, etc. You see these claims in emails and on websites all over the Internet. You see them in your local newspaper and in magazines. Are all these ads just a bunch of lies, or can you really build a home business without a monetary investment? I believe the answer to this depends on a couple of different factors. 1) Is the person seriously trying to build the business and, 2) What are the resources being used to build it.

Let’s look at the first factor – YOU! (No, I am not picking on you.) What type of person can build a business without investing any money? He will have to be a self-starter. There will be no boss looking over his shoulder to make sure the job is being done. He also must be dedicated and have a strong commitment to succeed. Trying to build a business this way is going to take much time and patience. There may be many hours of sitting in front of a computer submitting websites or placing ads in his immediate future. He must have “stickability”. He must decide what he is going to try to build and stick with it. He can’t be jumping from one “sure thing” to another.

The second factor we should look at is the resources being used. Building an online business using free resources can be a very time consuming experience. I have read several testimonials from people who have done it, so I know it is possible. Success mainly boils down to this: having the time to do the research on the many free online resources, and then doing the necessary work required in putting them to good use. Let’s take a look at a few of these free resources and see if they really work.

The Internet offers a wide variety of free resources available to a person trying to build an online business. From free web hosting & html tutorials, to free affiliate programs & advice (some good and some bad).

• Websites:

• If you are going to have on online business, you are going to need a website. Various companies offer free web hosting. Normally in exchange for this service, you will have to agree to some type of advertising on your site. Many of these sites will also have certain restrictions of what you can and cannot do with your site.

• Many of these same free web-hosting companies will also offer a website builder. These WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors are easy to use but are limited in what you can do with them. They do allow you to get a website up and running without learning html.

• HTML: Learning HTML at first will seem almost impossible. What did you think the first time you looked at the source for a webpage? My first thought was “You’ve got to be kidding!!” Actually, there are many sites on the Internet that offer free tutorials that are perfect for the beginner.

• Drawbacks: Many free websites are very plain and to be truthful, most people don’t take them serious for a business. Look at it this way: You are given two choices of locations to go out for dinner. The first one is a nice but affordable, sit down restaurant while the other is a guy cooking on a hotplate on a street corner where the only seat is the nearest fire hydrant - which one is going to look more professional to you?

• Products:

• If you are planning to sell some type of product on your site, you are going to have to find a place to get these products. There are a lot of companies that will “drop ship” their products for you. It’s really simple: You sell their product on your site, you collect the money from your customer, you place the order for this product from your supplier and they package and ship the product straight to your customer. Most of them will even show your company name as the return address. You pay your supplier the wholesale cost of products sold and you keep the difference between the retail prices you charged your customers.

• Affiliate programs go beyond the drop ship companies. You promote their products, the customer clicks on your link to purchase the product and the affiliate company will handle the payment, ship the order, and send you a commission check.

• Drawbacks: Making sure your supplier has the product readily available when your customer is ready to purchase.

• Advertising:

• There are tons of places online that you can place free classified ads. Simply do a search on your favorite search engine and you can spend days submitting ads all over the Internet for your product or service.

• Search engines: Getting your site listed in the major search engines is a must. But once you get them listed, will anyone know you’re there? Think about your own search habits. When was the last time you searched through more than a few pages of results to find what you were looking for? Optimizing your website to get high search engine rankings can be a VERY time consuming affair. There are many resources available to help, but it still requires a lot of time.

• Traffic Exchanges: You can join one or more of many different free traffic exchange programs. Simply put, you click on other websites to earn credits. When you earn credits, you site is listed on the site and some one else will click on your site to get their credits.

• Drawbacks: Free advertising can and does work but it will cost you a lot of time in the process.

In conclusion, I would say that yes, a person can indeed build an online business without a monetary investment. But going into it with some foreknowledge of the necessary personal characteristics, process and time investments can aid you in being successful. Be prepared to spend a considerable amount of time. Search out many free programs and make decisions wisely. Even though the program may not cost you money, it will cost you time.

One last recommendation if you are considering trying this method: when you begin to see a profit, immediately invest a percentage of that money back into your business. You’ll soon start to realize that many of the necessary business-building routes become shorter when you buy resources rather than rely solely on the free ones. Your business will still have not cost you anything “out of your own pocket”, as you’ll be utilizing your first profits made from your time investments.
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Starting to Work from Home Online

Are you tired of working for somebody else? Does it bother you to watch someone else get richer off of your hard work? Do you yearn to be your own boss? Why not try to work from home online?


How Can You Work from Home Online you ask?

Work from home online jobs are abundant and range from simple, small jobs that allow for a modest residual income to jobs that can allow you to quit your day job and experience a freedom you never thought possible.

Starting to work from home online is not as difficult as you might think. First, you need to gather the correct materials. Obviously, you will need a computer in order to work from home online. In addition, you will need to get an Internet connection. A high-speed Internet connection is the best way to go if you plan to work form home online. This will save you a great deal of time and allow you to work more efficiently.

Since you will be spending a great deal of time connected to the Internet with your computer when you work from home online, you will also want to get plenty of software to protect your computer. For starters, you will need a virus protector such as Norton or McAffee or any number of their competitors. Without a virus protector, your computer is a sitting duck for being attacked by a virus. This is particularly true considering you will most likely correspond regularly with many people through email when you work from home online.

Another good investment is a spyware protector. Spyware is found on many websites and even on software purchased for your computer. Spyware was originally designed to help businesses gather information from computer users in order to better target their demographic market. Unfortunately, spyware is also used for negative purposes, such as for hacking into computer systems. Therefore, you will want to install spyware software when you start to work from home online.

What are Your Work from Home Online Options?

There are endless possibilities when it comes to work from home online. First, there are several different freelance opportunities, including translation, graphic design, photography, writing, data entry, online surveys, and transcription. All of these careers can be pursued and completed either entirely or in large part while working from home online.

Other work from home online options include completing surveys for cash and selling your own items on eBay without ever having to leave your house. Or, you can set up your own website and set up residual income through Google ads or through affiliate links.

Yet another option for working from home online is that of telecommuting. Telecommuting essentially consists of working at your regular job via computer and webcam instead of going into the office. Telecommuting offers some distinct advantages for both you and your employer. It is definitely worth looking into.
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Earn Money Working from Home by Blogging

Are you wondering how to make money through those advertised "work at home" jobs? Well, it is quite easy, today as there are various options available online. One of the best options is blogging. In the present self employment world, a large number of people are making a great amount of money by using daily blogs.

Anyone who has an urge to write or possess a writing ability can opt for this option. There are various kinds of blog software in the market that are very simple and can be used easily. The need is to find a website that is offering free blogs. I believe there won’t be any problem, if you make a little search of them on the internet. This will help you to get teleworking jobs as well, which you can do while being at your home.

But, if you are looking for really good opportunities, then the very first thing that you have to do is to create a webpage that must have correct and precise content. It will help you to have an online presence and can attract the employers you need. It is also effective in the promoting an online business, blogging is a good way to go.

Additionally; you can increase your visibility by your accurate writing technique. Eventually it will provide real value to your readers. Therefore, if you are serious about blogging, the only key to earn more is to produce quality blogs.
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Working online and succeeding

What is your motivation for working at home and earning online? Is it the thrill of not reporting to your boss? Is it avoiding the rat race and trying to beat deadlines. Is it the hate of being told what to do? Is it the freedom and convenience that comes from working at home on your computer and making an excellent income? Whatever it is, we all have our reasons for pursuing a career online. However, it is not as easy as the scammers paint it that you earn thousands of dollars for little or no work.

It is not as easy as buying an e-book or software. You need to invest time. Initially you could spend more time and as your work at home business prospers, you can spend fewer hours in your endeavour just keeping on eye on your endeavours to ensure that they are running fine.

To succeed online, you have to have discipline, focus and the right attitude. You are your own boss as there is no boss looking over your shoulder. It is you who decides how much time you put into your business. Without discipline, focus and the right attitude, your online endeavour will probably not take off. Endeavour to invest time and energy into your online work. Once you start seeing the fruits of your labour, you will be motivated to continue and you will succeed. Many times, people will say that making money online is not possible. It is possible. If you spend money on an e-book for example and it outlines the steps you need to earn online, implement those steps and you will succeed.

Whatever, the time you put in, it's all up to you. As they say, you reap what you sow. Your efforts will pay off as long as you are systematic, as long as you persist and remain focused.
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Finding Keywords Straight From The Bank...

I still remember the day I read about this strategy in an excellent newsletter and was blown away. I went straight to my computer and started using what I learned and I was amazed at how much money you can make!

I had found golden keywords straight from the bank(keyword finder services)

What keywords? MISspelled keywords. That’s right – You can actually find profit in something people are doing “wrong.” Any time someone spells a word wrong on the internet, You stand to make a hefty profit!

What are misspelled keywords?

Misspelled keywords are words that are frequently misspelled by searchers on search engines. An example would be to type "intrenet" instead of "internet" - you would be surprised as to how many times misspelled keywords appear.

Why to use them?

Misspelled keywords can be very profitable because there is little competition against them and they still bring very targeted traffic. Optimize for them because others likely are not. Also, use pay per click with them because most other are not!

What are some of the advantages?

There are many advantages of using misspelled keywords, here are a few:

• Little competition - most are focusing on the competitive "correct spelling."

• High searches - most make the same spelling mistake and many make the mistake so you still have a high number of searches.

• Easier to work with - because of less competition these words are easier to optimize for.

• Cheaper - you can buy pay per click traffic on these keywords for far less (more on this later).

• Still targeted traffic - you are still getting highly targeted traffic.

Where and how to find them?

One of the best ways is to just sit down with your list of keywords and to think of any possible misspelling possible. Also, you can go to keyword search tools like the one at Overture, http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ac/index.jhtml and see what the most common errors are repeating themselves. We also suggest a program called Wordtracker, http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com. This is a far better tool than the one offered by Overture.

How to optimize for them?

The same way you do for any normal keyword. Make sure that the keyword appears in it is misspelled form through your content, in your meta tags and in incoming links to your website. Optimizing for a misspelled keyword is no different than optimizing for regular keywords - just easier :)

Using Pay Per Click with misspelled keywords

Make sure to add as many misspellings as you can possibly find into your pay per click campaigns. For a keyword that costs you over a dollar or more per click, you may very well pay 5-10 cents a click for the misspelling.

Although more and more people are discovering this strategy and bidding up the misspelled keywords as well, there are still some golden nuggets there.

If you’re one of those affiliates who makes their money by running Google Adword campaigns – I have just told you something that can seriously double your income by tomorrow. Take all of your campaigns, one at a time and find all the possible misspelled keywords you can find. Test them like you do with everything else…
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Using RSS Data To Make More Money

You may have heard the term RSS, however didn't know exactly what it was or how to use it. Now you will learn how to use this technology to keep your websites "fresh."

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site

Summary. It also has been referred to as a "pull" technology rather than a "push" technology. And, in fact, this feature is what makes RSS so popular in terms of today's Internet usage.

It's probably hard to argue that anyone who uses the Internet today hasn't heard of spam. If they have an email inbox it is probably full of it.

Spam, for the uninitiated, is the receipt of unwanted emails from people whom you did not request to receive information. Spam represents the "push" technology. That is, people "push" their email message at your inbox, whether you have asked to receive the email or not.

And that aspect of "push" technology is what many have come to believe is the death of email. It's arguable that email will still be around for quite a long time, even though there are still people who continue the illegal spam process. In fact, companies are making millions now just providing everyday users as well as huge corporations, solutions claiming to solve their spam problem.

RSS, on the other hand, can be said to be the exact opposite of the email "push" technology. Because you cannot "push" your message to subscribers. In fact, the only way that people can subscribe to an RSS feed is to do so voluntarily. And, at the same time, they can unsubscribe whenever they want.

That's why it's called a "pull" technology. Because subscribers "pull" information into their readers and, if the content isn't what they expect, they can unsubscribe whenever they'd like. So, unlike the email "push" technology, there is no one using RSS that is experiencing an inbox full of spam. All they have to do is to unsubscribe and they will never receive another message from the person who provided the feed.

RSS has become a popular way to make money on line too. And that is due in part to the popularity of the RSS "pull" technology. Here's one way of monetizing a website using RSS feeds.

Imagine setting up a static one page web site - a minisite if you will. Now, add either Google Adsense code or the new Yahoo version of the Google Adsense style ads that, when clicked by a visitor - you earn cash.

This gives you a nice starting point and, if you optimize your web page properly, there is a good chance you will get a high ranking in the search engines. And, the more people who see your page, the more likelihood they will click on one of the links on your web page and you'll earn revenue from the click.

But RSS provides an even greater potential. Because by adding an RSS feed to that same web page, you turn a static web page that only contains the information you placed on it, into a dynamic ever changing web page that others will likely come back more than once to read.

After all, once someone has read a one page web site, what incentive is there for them to come back? Plenty, if you use RSS feeds on your web page. It is possible to add 5, 10 or 15 feeds on your once static web page and now, you've got a page that automatically updates itself and provides something that people will want to come back to read time and time again.

You can easily convert any web page into a dynamic web page using free RSS creator software. One of the most popular free versions is called Carp and you can download it at this web link: http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/.

Once you've set this program up on your website and added the proper code to your website, then you will need to collect RSS feeds that relate to the topic of your web page.

Let's say that the topic of your web page is flower gardens. You could go to Google News and get their RSS feed code, place it into the appropriate position in your Carp coding you put on your web page and then adjust the code as follows:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=flower+gardens&ie=UTF-8&output=rss

You can also get a similar feed from Topix.net and you'd adjust the code like this:

http://rss.topix.net/search/?q=flower+gardens&xml=1

Now, once you have uploaded your web page, your site will automatically pull in fresh information from Google and Topix about flower gardens. Simply follow this illustration for any web page you'd like to monetize and watch your search engine ranking soar and also your bank account!
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Eugene Rivera is an internet marketing protégé. He is the webmaster of Secrets of Online Success. Learn about all the money making techniques to achieve success on the Internet. Click on our webpage at http://www.secretsofonlinesuccess.info
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