There are some new ideas I have used to make money online. The lack of spare time has delayed my ability to update this blog with these new methods. In the next couple of days I will be able to write my blog posts and update this site. If any one wants to write a guest blog post let me know through the comment section or on Twitter.

One of the easiest ways to get more sales is to build a relationship with your customers. This is a very cost effective method to increase the number of customers that convert into paying customers. If you are not collecting email addresses on your web site then you are missing out on a huge number of potential sales. There are many easy to use services to set up a pop form that asks visitors to your site for their email address. Once you have collected email address it’s time to build a relationship with the users subscribed to your newsletter. No hard sell you are building trust and providing the customer with useful information. This is why using an automated service works best for this type of marketing. You can set you first few messages to welcome the user and provide useful information. Once you have created trust then you can start to slip in a few related sales pitches. It would work best if you use soft sale skills to build interest in what you are promoting. Some of the top affiliates online use this method to make a huge amount of money each month. It takes a little practice to plan the perfect marketing campaign by email, but it can be well worth the effort. If you want to learn how it’s done then enter your email the next time you land on a page that offers a newsletter. Watch as messages arrive in your inbox with customer relationship building messages. Start to count how many messages are sent before you get a sales pitch. If you signed up to a good marketer then you will see how this system works and why so many are making money this way. The nice thing about building a list is that you will have an audience that trusts your opinion, and will take action to offers that are targeted to them. The set up for email capture is not that difficult if you understand a little HTML. You will need to place a small bit of code on your web site or blog to make the email capture form work. If you have trouble setting it up the company that you use for email marketing can install the code for you at an additional cost. It is well worth the trouble and effort to start building an email list and you will be wondering why you had not done this sooner when the money starts pouring in.

Selling merchandise from your blog is a great way to make some extra money.

No matter what topic your blog about, there is a product you can offer your readers. If your site has a neat logo you can offer T-Shirts or other branded products. There are web sites like www.cafepress.com that can place your logo on many different items. You just need to create a shopping area on your site and place links back to Cafe Press. The nice people at Cafe Press can will make the item and ship it for you. Since each item is produced on demand you do not have to carry inventory or spend any money up front. That is the nice thing about using a site like this. You only get a product made when a customer requests it and pays for it.

Many blog owners use Cafe Press or other online service to make a little extra money on their site. This is a little different then affiliate marketing. You are encouraging your readers to support your blog and content by wanting merchandise with your brand. The merchandise is also an expression for your readers, they want people to know that they have topic they are passionate about and want to share it.

The benefit to the blog owner is not only in the money collected from each sale, you will also be getting free publicity. When someone buys an item with your brand on it a wears it in public it’s like having a free billboard walking around.

This idea is not going to make you a millionaire over night, but a few dollars here and there is always a plus.

The Blogger service from Google is one of the easiest ways to get online and have your own web site. The platform that Google uses for Blogger is not feature rich as WordPress, but there is lots that can be done to improve your users Blogger experience when they visit your site. One simple action is to add followers to your Blogger gadgets. If you have not used the gadget feature it’s one of the best ways to add new functions and get interaction from your users. The follower gadget will let your readers who also have a Blogger account to get updates from your blog. When the follower logs into their Blogger account they will see your updates in their dashboard.

This feature can be found in the Blogger add a gadget section. There are also many other gadgets that you can play with. If you use Blogger try out new gadgets and enhance your site.

Once in awhile I like to try a new theme on this blog. Every time I change the theme there is always some sort of problem. Then I end up going back to the old theme. Going to play around with this theme for a few days and see if it works out for what I want it to do. Let me know what you think. Should I keep this theme?

It is not that hard to make money at blogging. If you have a passion about a certain topic then you can make money by blogging about it. Time and time again we find people online making money with the stuff they enjoy talking about. If you have built up any knowledge on certain topic others are looking for your reviews and advice. If you become a trusted source for the topic people will return to your site and you will soon start to have a following. It takes a little time to get to a profitable level, but it can be done. If you look at the blog of the more successful bloggers it did not start over night. The first post were not that great and it took time for their writing to develop.


Once a blogger found his or her voice people referred the site and return often to catch up on any new posts. You have to think of your blog as a business and also a community. Without the community you have no business. You want to build trust that what your are saying is truthful and that you want to share the best information with your audience. If you achieve this then when you do mention something that can be monetized on your site your readers will have more trust. If you are recommending then write a fair post that covers the good and the bad on the topic and your true opinion if this is worth your readers time and money. These are just a few steps that you can take to make your blog not only a true community online, but also a profitable business for the blogger.

There are many make money online web sites, some are good and some are bad. The list is made up of the top 5 sites that I find myself visiting on a daily basis.

The honest posts from the site admins makes me return to these blogs. I am not looking for post with perfect grammar all I want is information that makes sense. There are bloggers out there who claim to have high standards, yet all they post about is paid reviews. When you find a site that is constantly doing paid reviews you might want to move on. The sites on the list try to provide great content for those trying to make money online. It’s alright if a blogger mentions a product or service they use, and link to it with their affiliate id. We all have to make a living. What is not alright is taking advantage of newcomers to the industry.

Here is my top 5 list:

1. http://www.affiliateconfession.com Alan provides affiliates with great tips and reading his posts motivate the reader to do better at their affiliate business. Great work Alan you deserve to be number one on the list.
2. http://www.ianfernando.com/ Ian is a top notch affiliate and provides and insight into the back end of affiliate marketing. He has visited some of the networks in New York City and interviewed account managers, which help other affiliates get a better understanding of what is required to make money in this business. There are many videos on YouTube from Ian and quick lessons on many affiliate related interests. Great work Ian it was a toss up for first place.
3. http://zacjohnson.com/ Zac is a long time affiliate marketer and very respected in the industry. His blog provides many helpful articles for those trying to make money with affiliate marketing. There are some paid reviews, but Zac has class and evens it out with great content. If you want to understand affiliate marketing then Zac’s years of experience can really help you.
4. http://www.affiliatestuff.co.uk/ Kristy has background in SEO and affiliate marketing through a networks point of view, as a former employee of a network. With here honest post she provides great advice and shares many secrets to make your affiliate efforts profitable. Spend a day reading all her previous posts and you are ready to rock in affiliate marking. Amazing job Kristy.
5. Http://justindupre.com/ Another top notch affiliate make money online blog. All Justin’s affiliate efforts take place from his hideaway in Thailand. What a great home office he has. With his fresh approach to marketing online Justin does a great job. This is a blog that you are going to want to read all the older posts. Keep up the great work Justin and never forget your sun tan lotion.

There you have it the only 5 sites (well 6 if you count vendingmatic.info) that you need to follow to help you make tons of money online.

Wow 6 months have gone by and the this blog has grown by leaps and bounds. The orgiginal blog that I had hosted with GoDaddy.com on their blog platform just did not meet my needs. The platform did not allow for an changes and was not flexable at all like WordPress. The short story is I set up vendingmatic.info and moved all my contenet to this site. The old blog still stands at www.moneymyweb.com the theme is a mess and GoDaddy did not have any nice built in themes to use. If you set up a blog go with WordPress or Blogger. These are the best blog platforms in my book and they can be customized. Well let’s go hard for another 6 months. Everything I learn I want to pass it on to the readers of this blog.

For those who know about Richard Branson he inspires those that want to be entrepreneurs. A few days ago I found his blog at www.virgin.co.uk and it is worth bookmarking. Here is one post on leadership that I think anyone in the regular workforce can understand and also make you want to work for your self even more.

Richard Branson’s Blog Post:

In 2004 I did a programme called The Rebel Billionaire for Fox Television, where I was nice to people and then had to whittle them down to a winner. In one episode, I told a participant we were going to be the first to go over the Victoria Falls in a barrel. Annie Taylor was the first person to conquer the Niagara Falls in Canada, riding the 170-foot drop in an airtight wooden barrel in October 1901. Since then many other daredevils have copied her achievement. But the Victoria Falls in Africa – at 360 feet – is more than twice as high, and much more dangerous, with jagged rocks at the bottom. I asked one of the contestants, Sam Heshmati, if he was ready for the challenge of going over the falls with me, in a barrel I said had been specially created by NASA.

Were we going to do this thing? Bravely, Sam nodded. We got into the barrel. A large crane lowered us into the fast-flowing river, a few metres away from the drop. A two-minute countdown began. It seemed an eternity, Five. Four. Three. Two . . .

A split second before we were due to plummet, I shouted: ‘Stop! Hold on just one moment, I want to show you something.’

So we got out. And I showed young Sam the bottom of the falls. I pointed at the rocks below.

‘Sam,’ I admonished him, ‘you were ten seconds from certain death. You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasions.’

Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

Richard made me think on this one.

OK here is a little post to help start the comments on this blog. As a fairly new blog traffic is still low, but I would like those who find the blog to participate and share comments with others. Even if you want to use the comments to let me know if there is some information you might be looking for. The comments add to the site and create a community. So go ahead post a comment about my comment drive.