When I started freelancing a couple of years ago, I never knew that the potential could be so enormous. There are many who have quit their regular jobs to become freelancers. Some have even gone ahead and opened their own firms. There are various skills which are in demand and sites like scriptlance, getafreelancer and The On Demand Global Workforce - oDesk provide the required platform for freelancers. It is a win-win situation for both freelancers and service providers who can get their work done at a fraction of a price than what they would have paid to a full fledged company. If you think that you have skills in writing foreign language or computer programming then you are in. All that you have to do is open a free account in one of the freelancing sites and start getting work for yourself. If you have a website then all the more better. You can join the affiliate marketing bandwagon and make thousands of dollars by leasing your web space to publishers to publish their advertisements.

Apart from these two mechanisms there is Ebay sales which enables you to promote and sell products of leading online retailer Ebay. Initially all these may look a little difficult. However, once you are into it, you will surely find yourself among the many people who have made their dollars sitting out of home and running a fledging business. If you find difficulty try Susan Whiteheads wonderful video based course on ebay sales. You can best Buy here.

So without much wait just log into your computer and start searching for work. No sooner you will see the first dollars trickling into your account. Of course have a Paypal or Moneybookers account ready because most of the freelancing sites pay through these two payment systems. A little bit of research on freelancing will help you to get the confidence that you need to start.

Wish you all the best!

Am discussing the same aspects of ebook produced by Trent where he has mentioned how to make money online without expenses but learning certain skills and common sense.It is interesting guide to those who want to make money online as Home based business. I have just went through it and it is quite useful.

Those who are serious about making money using craigslist,adsense and ebay must go though this guide. Check it up the one at EASY CRAIGSLIST PROFITS

Have great earning momentum.

We all know that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to earn online and when combined with a well thought out blog can be a real fast money maker. But if you are newbie to this or if you can’t spare more time on this I advise you to go through How to build a professional Blog . This will help you step by step and have lots of resourceful information.

This method envolves Unruly Media, a network which pays you every time you get someone to view their videos. Like in all arbitrage methods, you’ll have to find a source for cheap traffic which you can send to Unruly Media. Don’t use adsense, it is way to expensive. Instead try newer less used networks , AdEngage is a perfect network for this.

After you’ve signed up to both sites, or anyother sites you are fans of, find the best campaigns to promote on Unruly Media. There are 2 ways you can choose which campaign to promote, you can either promote the ones which pay the most, or you can promote the “sexy” videos. Both have their advantages, the ones which pay more will get you more gross profit. But adult traffic is usually cheaper, and better converting (people are really horny, and will almost defientaly view a free video).

After you decide on what video to promote, you’ll have to setup a landing page for all the traffic you get. Just make a quick 1 page site + relating domain(or any random domain that you happen to own).

You’ve now finished all the preperation, all you have to do now is run your ad on AdEngage and watch the money role in. It’ll probably take some tweaking to find the right campaign settings and which videos are making the most money etc. The first time I tried this I broke even, the next time I made a profit of 100$. This was all before I discovered Unruly Media(which a close friend recommended), and now with all the experience I’ve gained I reckon I can pull in atleast 300$ of net profit (I also have more money to invest).

Feel free to comment saying that this is stupid, you just made 10000$ or you don’t understand something and want it explained more clearly.

Just a quick tip from yours truely to tell you guys about this small window of oppurtinuty! A slight rise has been seen on google trends, but nothing to high so you guys still have a chance to prepare for this massive wave of traffic!

Basically what happened was, people would reach our blogs, if they clicked randomly we got money. This got us banned quite quickly, so we decided to setup a php script which generated a random number between 0-10 and if the number was 5 then the script would run. This effecitvely lowered the CTR. We made around 100$ and then got banned from the network (never recieved payment).

There were two options, lower the chances of the script running, or just sign up to more networks and randomly choose which ad to show. So if the random number was 1, then it loaded iframe # 1 and so on. We have a small network of sites, running generating around 1$ per day with all the different networks. We still haven’t recieved payment but we are hoping this will work.

I’m not sure what the future of this will be, I started this out as way to test a new way of making money, but I think it is to risky and is hurting the advertisers to much. I’ll probably put the script in a passworded post and hold a contest and give it out to a few lucky readers. So stick around, this blog isn’t dead, I’ve just been concentrating to much on this little project.

If you guys are keeping up-to-date with things going on online, you’ll probably be aware that torrents have become a really popular way of sharing files on the internet. If you’ve been following more closely then you’d know that lots of ISP’s in the world are starting to throttle(slow down) bittorrent traffic. This is where seed boxes come in.

Note: Another reason seedboxes are popular is because people are members of private torrent trackers where the download/upload ratio is important, and most people have slow upload speeds so they buy seedboxes.

More and more people are starting to get their bittorent traffic throttled now days, which means more people are starting to look into torrent flux hosting. And if you look around the market isn’t saturated like hell yet(unlike shared hosting).

To get started in this business you’ll probably need a to buy/rent a dedicated server. Because most people will probably be using it to download copyrighted-material make sure it is in a data center hosted somewhere off-shore , I hear having it located in Amsterdam is good (apperently they are very lient over there). You’ll probably want to have a lawyer as well and see if you are in any risk, and get him to write disclaimers and such on your site.

Get a freelancer of two to install torrentlfux on your server, customize it, make it easy for you to create users maybe make a script to email the account user as soon as his torrent has finished downloading with a direct link to download. I don’t really have much experince with torrentflux, so I don’t know what has to be done.

After you get it all setup you’ll have to decide on plans and such. This shouldn’t be to difficult, decide how many accounts you’ll put on the same server, then decide how much you’ll charge. Make sure if all the accounts are full you are making more money than the server is costing you (kind of obvious isn’t it?).

All that is left now is to advertise it. Go to all webhosting forums and pitch them your offer. Put a link in all the forums you particpate in. Sign up at torrenfreak.com forums and post a lot with a link to your hosting company in your signiture.

If you have no moral issues, then the PPI(pay-per-install) people are using torrents to spread their programs… You can sign up at PPI forums post with your link in your signiture, I reckon “Cheap-Seedboxes” as the anchor text would be enough to get lots of people interseted.

This is a great oppurtunity to make a proper business online, and not some way to make a quick buck . If you are wondering why I’m not doing this, it is because I’m quite lazy and prefer the quick buck. If you end up doing running your own torrentflux hosting company then please hook me up when you are rich :D.

I was always told that you should update your blog frequently, some even say that you have to post daily, but I never took them seriously.  Now after I made this mistake my self, and experinced it first hand I’ll never go more than 3-4 days without posting again!

Hopefully those of you who were like me, and think that if you don’t post nothing will happen will learn from what happened to me and you won’t have to experince this first hand. Like that quote which goes something like :

A smart man learns from his mistakes; a wise man learns from the mistakes of others

Happy holidays everyone !

The first thing you have to do is decide what money making method you’ll be teaching. You should only teach things you have tried your self and have found you are good at.  For example; you could teach them how to flip sites/blogs for profit, how to make money on forums and cpa *wink wink*, how to flip products/ebooks, how to make money on associated content etc.

Another thing to consider when choosing what to teach is how can you make more indirect money, as in money you get from affiliates, etc and not your mentee. For example ; if you were teaching someone how to flip sites/blogs and the person doesn’t have hosting, you can point him over to your HostGator Affiliate link and make an extra 50-125$! If you were teaching how to make money on forums then you could get your mentee to sign up to your affiliate network under you, so you make a percentage of what ever your mentee makes.

After all the preperation is done you have to advertise your mentorship program. The two best places to advertise this offer is on Digital Point and on the Warrior Special Offer forum. The problem with WSO’s is that you have to pay a 20$ listing fee, so if you are just starting out I recommend posting on DP because it is free and you don’t want to lose any money if you fail to get mentees.

In your thread you want to keep everything professional. Don’t make promises you can’t keep, this is very important! Be modest.  List all the ways they will be able to contact you; email, IM, skype?  Include a money back guarentee which states “if you follow my steps don’t make your money back after (x amount of time) then I’ll return the money”, make sure it is quite easy to do this. Don’t over charge people, if people pay you 500$, they will probably have a hard time making that much in a month or so by posting on forums and you’d have to give them the money back.

This method has many variations, for example; you can offer people free mentorship as long as they sign up under you. This will get you more people interested in your offer, but many of them will probably just give up half way, so make sure you are selective if you choose to do it this way.

I don’t like wasting time on such things, and neither should you(time is money), so I use a plug-in for Firefox called SeoQuake . This is an amazing plug-in and will simplify and speed up the process . It will line through all “nofollow” and “noindex” links so you can tell straight away if it is worth your time commenting on the blog or not, it also provides more information about your searches on google/yahoo/msn.

Normally you would search on google for blogs in your niche, check if they had high PR and check if they are ‘dofollow’ . Even with SeoQuake which shows the blogs PR right inside google, you’d still have to check each blog to see if it is ‘dofollow’ or not.  However we’ll be doing it differently.

Find a random blog with PR in your niche and vist it like you normally would, if you are lucky and it is ‘dofollow’ then post a few comments. If it’s not then don’t worry, we’ll find the blogs they commented on to get backlinks and comment there as well. To do this all you have to do is press the “Yahoo LD” button on your SeoToolbar, or you can go to yahoo search and type in :

site:”www.TheSiteYouWantToStealBackLinkLocationsFrom.com”

As long as SeoQuake is enabled, you’ll get a good detialed listing of where they get backlinks from, I recommend sorting them according to pagerank and then visting every blog you see on the list and commenting on it.

Some people say this method is wrong, since you are basically just mooching off other peoples research. But I reckon, why should you reinvent the wheel?

TIP: If blogs have a Top Commentators widget, then you should try and comment until you have enough comments to be in it. This will give you a site-wide backlink and not just one backlink on one blog post.

Hopefully this will save you guys some time next time you decide to comment on blogs to get backlinks to your own blog.