Work At Home Freedom

I'm going to take a break from the usual "make money online" post and, instead of telling you HOW to earn, I'm going to tell you WHY you should be making money online working from home. It's quite simple: when you work at home you earn more than just money...you earn your FREEDOM.

I know that sounds rather dramatic, but it's very true, and it should be important to you. The economy is being flushed down the drain. Workers are being laid off everywhere. Even big car companies that have been around for more than a century, are now faced with financial disaster. There is no longer any such thing as job security. Your employment could be taken away tomorrow or next week...at ANY time!

When you work from home you are your own boss, so you can't get fired! Plus, you can take a break whenever you want to. No more early mornings scraping ice off the car in the middle of a storm to go to work. No more traffic jams when commuting back and forth. Never have to deal with an annoying co-worker or supervisor. You never have to eat a quick "bag lunch" in 15 minutes because of a limited breaktime, or rush to get errands done during your lunchbreak.

Perhaps most importantly is the fact that you never have to go to work again when you feel sick or have the flu and your whole body aches in pain. Yesterday I felt exactly like that. I had a headache and I was tired and I thought I was catching a cold, so what did I do? I dropped EVERYTHING I was doing and went to the beach...and slept. All afternoon just laying in the sand. Then in the evening I stopped at the canteen and had a nice plate of fish n' chips. It was good! By the time I got home again I felt much better.

You don't have to live near the ocean like I do to take advantage of this work at home freedom. You can go anywhere you want to, whenever you want to. When you don't feel well, you can just stay in bed all day watching TV, if you want to.

But this freedom to be your own boss working from home does have a cost. No, it's not money. It's discipline. You have to know when NOT to be lazy, and to be willing to work like a driven donkey most of the time. It's ironic because most people drawn toward the lure of working online do it because they ARE lazy and have bought into the myth that it's easy money when, in actual fact, it's probably about the hardest way to earn a living there is. It's NOT suitable for lazy people at all!

That's why most people fail online. It's not because they CAN'T make money, or they think it's impossible, but because they aren't willing to work at it. I work my ass off online, sometimes 16 hour days, building sites, placing links, promoting for traffic, working on new ideas, etc, etc...and sometimes I'm exhausted, but I do it because it affords me the freedom NOT to do it on days when I just don't feel like it.

I earn a living doing this from home, and it's worth it to me to not have to be part of the daily grind that everyone else has to deal with at work. I choose to work hard now, so that I don't have to later. You can as well. You can do anything you set your mind to do, if you want it badly enough. Think about it, for your own freedom from the rat race....

Multiple Revenue Streams

The key to long term success online is to fully utilize multiple revenue streams. This is due to the fact that earning income on the internet is not consistant. Some days I make $100+, while on others I may only make $10 total. My goal is always to make at least $50 per day, and usually around $100, but there is no guarantee of earnings and you must be prepared for that.

When working at a regular 9-5 job offline you know exactly how much you will make. If your pay is $10 an hour, and you work an 8 hour day, then you have earned $80, minus any expenses related to that, such as dues, gas/travelling, etc. Working from home online for 8 hours, however, is different as you are not being paid hourly by someone else, so you can't expect that same consistency, but you CAN still average the same amount daily over time. You just have to be patient and persistant and combine all your mulitple revenue streams together.

The other benefit to having more than one earning stream is that you are helping to stabilize factors and variables that are usually beyond your control. A good example of this is when a site gets banished to the Google sandbox, which happens quite often now. I've seen forum threads by panicked webmasters who had their traffic cut off overnight after their site gets dropped from the search results and their income from that website is suddenly GONE! They are now in financial trouble because they relied too heavily on one income source.

Then there are things like the "summer slowdown" period which makes work at home income almost a seasonal job. Plus affiliate products that are hot one month and not the next. You need to weigh all these variables into your overall strategy for success.

Even if you only have 10 revenue streams and each one averages only $5 a day, then that's $50 a day. Again, I must stress on AVERAGE, since some earners will make $0 some days and over $100 on others. I've reached over $700 in a day and mere pennies on others.

Here is a breakdown of my earnings from last month, so you can see the real results of how it works...

- $821.23 (combined affiliate sales from several networks)
- $143.46 (selling adspace, includes all PPC programs - slow month!)
- $187.99 (websites/script sales)
- $90.39 (referral sales)
- $104 (ptc earnings)
- $200 (working from home as a mystery shopper)
- $55 (odd small jobs that don't fit other categories)

- $1602.58 total (average was $51.69 daily earning)

This does NOT include my highest day of over $700 because that is not a typical day and, therefore, it would throw off the overall average. Plus, as the weather gets warmer, less people are online, so a few numbers, such as ad selling were lower than normal. These numbers include ALL my multiple online revenue streams and it is how I earn a living working from home.

Even though I just barely made my $50/day minimum goal last month, it is still a fairly decent wage, considering it happens EVERY day, including on weekends when most people aren't making any money. I also take days off when I go out of town frequently or just goof off at the beach...lol

There is no reason why you can't acheive this same goal. Just try several things, then drop what doesn't work and strengthen what does. Then try a few more things and repeat your success until you have several streams of earning programs that DO work and, if some things stop working later on, there is no need to panic because you now have multiple revenue streams at your command all working for YOU. To your success!!

My Online Money Making Secret

I've decided to reveal my online money making secret out of sheer frustration at seeing so many people fail to make money online. Are you ready for it? It's a combination of these 3 elements: Honesty, hard work and enjoying what you do. Yeah, I know, it sounds kinda boring and isn't really very "sexy", is it?

I have no cool sounding "system" like the "reverse funnel", "spiderweb", "arbitrage conspiracy", "GDI", "People Search" or any of the other multitude of affiliate schemes that are meant to sound impressive, but are really just full of hype and shattered dreams. All those scams are well thought out by the "guru" who invented each one to get others to pay their $67 (or whatever the cost) to make THEM money, irregardless of whether you make anything at all.

And don't say "but it's FREE to join!", so it won't cost me anything, because that's BS. There's ALWAYS a cost. It just may not be obvious at first, but money MUST be spent somewhere for money to be earned somewhere else. That's simple economics. Remember that.

Any program you join that is based on getting you to sign up others to earn anything is going to leave you disappointed. That's because people are poor, the economy is bad and no one can afford to invest in anything. That's why so many people join these so-called "free" programs, but then no one is buying into it, so you aren't making what the original guru claimed you should be making.

Sure, THEY are making money, but you aren't. The gurus get rich because they suckered you, and then you have to sucker others to earn anything in return. Think about it. I mean, REALLY think about it. If you are currently promoting any sort of affiliate scheme, how much have you made? Was it as much as you expected? Do you actually ENJOY promoting this to others? Seriously?

So, what is it that I do differently? Well, first, and most importantly, my income does not depend on trying to push some system onto others to get them to join in order for me to make money. Yes, I have joined MANY affiliate programs, but mostly to test their claims, and I'm never pushy about them. I'm honest about it and I present the facts, which are that 95% of them are crap and only a couple really work, and only then if you put some effort into it. That's the cold, hard truth.

Keep in mind that I work from home and this is what I do. I make my entire living at home, with no boss or daily grind. No traffic jams either! I do what I enjoy. I like to write and blog. I like playing video games, so I run an arcade network of sites. I love to watch movies, so I have movie and TV sites. I have a series of fun, entertainment sites including joke sites, funny videos and pictures, music, webmaster advice and more. This is what I enjoy doing and I make money from it.

I earn from this network of sites specifically by NOT being pushy, or desperate to make a sale of some crappy product that no one wants or can afford. Surfers play games on my sites or have fun interacting by submitting their own fun stuff and, if they click an ad, that's ok, but if they don't, then that's ok too. I also have CPA surveys on some of my sites. These are the fun entertainment type and, if a visitor wants to fill one out, great! If not, I'm ok with that too. NONE of those things costs my visitors anything!

The point here is that I have multiple streams of income and I don't depend on any one thing to pay my bills. They all combine to create a sustainable, living wage working from home. So many people fail online because most of them are just doing it wrong. Trying to promote some affiliate gateway page to some program that 1000's of others are also promoting and you don't even really like using yourself is NOT going to make you rich!!! It amazes me that 97% of newbie marketers miss that very basic logical reasoning.

If you are not making at LEAST an extra $100 per month with anything you try after 3-4 months, then it's time to drop that and move on to something else. Try something FUN, that you enjoy doing, and STOP wasting your valuable time trying to make some guru rich!!! I mean it!!

Free Website Script Contest

I'm running a contest on one of my webmaster sites where you can win a free website script just for referring people to the site! All you have to do is sign up through the contest widget at http://www.webmastertechs.com/?uid=1 and then post the referral link you are given during registration.

You can post your unique ref link on your site, blogpost or anywhere else that people visit. It does not work through email, so you must post it on a website where surfers will click it to go to my site. You get credit for every click you send and the registered username with the highest number at the end of the month will win the website script of their choice from my "buy website scripts" page (retail value up to $18).

When signing up, when it asks for your real name, just type in a username instead for your first name, as that is what will show up in the widget. If you have any questions you can email me through the address on the sidebar or just post a comment here.

Good luck!

How To Schedule A Blogpost

Someone asked me how to schedule a blogpost yesterday so I thought I'd post the instructions here to let everyone know how easy it is and that you should use it often. Many bloggers complain that it's time consuming to update their blogs, so here is a useful tip! When you find yourself with any extra time, then simply write a few blog posts in advance and just schedule your blogposts to publish at various times over the next few days, weeks or even months! That way you always appear to have fresh content, even when you're not around! It's a great idea to use during the hectic summer vacation period as well.

Here's how to do it with the 2 most popular blogging platforms:

Blogspot: After you are done writing your blogpost just click on the bottom left corner where it says "Post Options" and then manually type in the date and time you would like it to be published, according to the format shown in that box. That's the only change to make!

Wordpress: When you are done writing then you go to the right side where it says publish immediately and you click to edit that section. There is a drop down and field boxes to fill in with the date/time you want changed and then you click "schedule". You're done!

...and that is how you schedule a blogpost. Now you can finally leave your computer and go on that trip you always dreamed about! lol

Comment Posting

Comment posting on blogs is a simple and effective way to get lots of easy, free backlinks to your site. Just click to leave your comments and fill out the form. It's very easy to do and you should get used to doing it as often as you can.

The trick when leaving comments on Wordpress blogs is to make sure the "name" field is filled in as your website anchor text and NOT your actual name! So, don't put "John", but instead type in "make money online", or whatever keywords fit your site. That will give a direct backlink to your site.

This is a form of off-site SEO and helps get your site a higher PR (page rank) in Google.

But what if you are the blog owner? Spamming by comment posters is by far the biggest problem when it comes to comment posting. Many webmasters simply copy and paste their info on a high volume of blogs that don't even have anything to do with their own site niche. Some of these posters use bots and programs to do this to mass effect and, as the webmaster who owns the blog being commented on, it can be a headache deleting all the crap you get posted to your site every day. Fortunately, you can enable comment moderation so it has to be approved by the administrator (you) before it is published.

Wordpress (WP) has a plugin called Akismet that, when activated, will catch most spam and hold anything else to be moderated by the blog's owner so it can "learn" what is a bad comment and what isn't. If you are an honest webmaster just looking to get some good backlinks, then be sure to only leave a comment on sites that are relevent to your niche and write something related to the blogpost you have just read. DON'T be spammy!! Join in on the post discussion, but Do NOT drop a spam comment like "hey! check out my site at www....", as that won't work and it will be thrown in the cyber dumpster.

Personally, as the owner of several blogs, I can be quite generous when allowing people to comment on my sites, as I know how important it can be, but I'm also a tyrant when it comes to deleting spam. If you leave a comment, then make sure what you write is related to the topic of the blogpost or else it WILL be deleted by me.

Today someone left a comment on my CPA post that was about getting readers to check out their dating site. That is a perfect example of what NOT to do, and it is now gone, but if you do comment posting the right way, then it's a great method for getting free, permanent one way links to your site. Good luck!

Lazy Affiliate Referrals

Today I'm going to rant a bit about lazy affiliates, and no, I'm not talking about the "bum marketing" method! To succeed in making money online takes a LOT of work, and I'm not even remotely kidding here. You have to learn website building, html, promotion, stats, link management, marketing and signing up to so many sites it would make your head spin!

The amount of effort it requires can be overwhelming, and that's the problem. MOST people just don't have that drive to succeed. They've been mislead into believing it's easy, so they sign up to a program and expect the riches to flow. WRONG!!!!

I'm sure anyone reading this has at least one sponsor program they are promoting right now by trying to get people to sign under them. Everyone is in some sort of affiliate program in an attempt to make some money at some point. So, how's that working out for you? Ready to retire yet? No??

I'm going to give specific examples of the problem here to give you some perspective. One of the affiliate programs I promote is Eye Earn and I've personally recruited 156 people through my efforts. Now, from those 156 referrals they have recruited themselves a COMBINED total of 187 referrals. Think about the math for a minute...156 people TOGETHER only referred slightly more than I did by myself! That's horrible! It's an average of only a bit more than 1 ref per person! If you can't get at LEAST a few referrals from your own efforts then it's time to pack it in and find a new line of work!

Oh, and if you think I did exceptionally well myself because I'm some brilliant marketer, then think again. I actually HATE internet marketing and promotion. I don't want to jam anything down someone's throat that they have no interest in. All my efforts were from passive methods like making a couple of blog posts, posting a few ads and popping my affiliate site in a few ptc's. That's it. I'm not pushy at all and I'd rather someone sign up because they WANT to and not because I'm twisting their arm.

Here's another example: I also promote the instant degrees affiliate program and so far have made well over $5000 in sales. A total of 16 referrals have signed under me, but only 2 sales have been generated from ALL of them combined! Is it really that difficult for them to make sales? No, it's not. They are just lazy affiliates. I always look over the websites of anyone in my downline and most of them don't even have ads up! One guy has the link so buried in a link farm that no one will ever see it! See where MY link is for the program?? At the TOP of my site in a very visible location!

One last recent example: CPALead is the EASIEST way to make money online right now and if you can't start off by making at LEAST $1 a day then you need to get a McJob and stop working online. Someone signed under my referral link with a perfect website for this niche (anything entertainment related), but yet hasn't made a dime. So, I checked his site and he doesn't have even ONE cpa offer added to the website yet! Not one! Yet this is the perfect site for it. The guy could be rolling in dough by now, but he's too lazy to take 30 seconds to post the affiliate code to his site. Amazing!

Conclusion. STOP trying to make money online if you're just going to sign up to something and forget about it. It's a waste of your time that could be better spent practicing how to say "Would you like fries with that?". Look, I'm a very laid back kinda guy and I always offer my personal, free mentoring to anyone who signs under me for ANYTHING I promote and is struggling to make it work for them. I'll help you all I can, but you really have to WANT to succeed. I have no time to deal with the lazy affiliate referrals.

Anyone left reading this who is ready, willing and able to succeed...step right up!!!

CPA Lead Network Program

For those of you living under a rock and completely out of the loop, I'm about to tell you THE hottest way to monetize a website and it's content that there is on the internet right now! The method is called CPA offers, which means "Cost Per Action", and it usually comes in the form of a survey or simple email submit that visitors fill out on your site.

The huge advantage to these offers is that they don't involve any selling at all. You are simply providing leads to well known companies who pay for each lead you provide to them. That's it. No worrying about sales ratios or conversions and, best of all, it's recession proof!

To get started in this lucrative field, you need to join a good cpa lead network program that will provide you with offer surveys that are fun and your visitors will actually WANT to fill out. They will use a gateway to your site content that has the survey in it, so this works best if you have content that surfers can't easily find somewhere else. The type of sites that do well are movie and tv show sites, wallpapers, music, ebook and script downloads and really any type of unique content that you can offer them.

The CPA Lead incentive program works perfect because you can use your content as incentives for visitors to fill out your surveys to get to it. Most other networks won't allow incentivized offers, but they do, and it works great! You can easily make 10 times more per day than you ever would with a standard PPC monetization! Plus, you don't need loads of traffic to make money, like you do with CPM and the like.

I'll leave you with a "real world" example for you to think about. Let's say you have a website with a great ebook that you have been giving away free with your own email submit form to capture emails for your own use. Now, try just changing it to a direct download link, but with a cpa gateway to it instead. Your surfer is then presented with a quick and fun quiz to fill out about their favorite drink (or similar question), which they fill out in only a few seconds and are then rewarded with your ebook. They get the download for free, so they're still happy, and you get an average of $1 per submit, so you've made money!

Even with only a few visitors a day it's pretty much impossible NOT to make money everyday! The only "catch" is that, since these programs are so lucrative, everyone and his grandma is trying to get in, but they only accept certain quality sites, so the approval rate is low. If you do get rejected when you first apply then just try offering more content and apply again. It's worth the effort, believe me! Good luck!