Earn as You Learn

Posted by Tony

May 7, 2008

I am not lost nor have I gotten rid of this blog,yet. I had to set up my other online businesses and you will forgive me if I post only once in a while and not with a set posting schedule.I think it’s now obvious that I am not a very good blogger but I do not aim to make a living online by blogging. I too have a dream of coming up with the newest facebook and be bought by Google. I am sure Google will not be buying a blog soon.

I have an idea I wish to implement and have now found my self in the situation where I need to build a business plan, find financing ,promote it and market it. I believe you can learn a lot from good bloggers. However, I am finding it rather interesting that bloggers keep on insisting that only bloggers can make money online. I believe it is a tool and not an end all product. Only insisting on blogging is really losing the whole idea on making a living online.

In the past month I have experimented with these various earning methods online.

1. Forum Posting

It does pay for my hosting package, however, I would not recommend it as a long term plan. There are various places to find forum posting jobs, however at the rate of 10cts to 25cts a post, it really did not work for me as I get bored trying to come up with fake topics to write about. My view is that if you wish to do forum posting jobs ,find a topic that you actually like. If the forum owner accepts, add a link to your site and do marketing for your site as you get paid to post of forums.

2. Article Writing

I prefer to do this more than forum posting. However, I came to realize that I could earn more by putting the same articles on my own site in the long run.If you could use it as a marketing tool as you get paid the better. Services like article……. allow you to earn on their sites as you leave a link to your main site(s).

Freelance writing has also helped to keep my pockets a bit full. Elance has been my major source of this income .My advice would be to not compete with cheap article writing services but rather create a niche to write for and you would then be able to earn a lot more. My niche is rather technical and though the work is not much, the pay more than makes up for the effort and I enjoy writing the articles.

I am using the two methods above as I build my main sites as I do not wish to have cheap advertising on my site but would rather have a great web site. I am glad I have done that as now two of those sites are now PR 5 after 3 months. In the meantime, I will be creating my business plan and will be writing down my failures and success in doing so.

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