Skills into Earning

7 Things You Can Do With Google Wonder Wheel

2010-01-09T20:37:00.002+05:00

Google introduced Google Wonder Wheel on May 2009, which shows search relevant results in mind-mapping style. You can just start by typing a word or phrase and the result shown which further dig into by clicking on word and the searches relevant to that word/phrase shown link to that word and so on.
Google Wonder Wheel is a handy tool for students as well for professionals. Its interface is very easy to use.

I’ve prepare a list of things which can be done using Google Wonder Wheel.

Generating Ideas for Blog Post / Articles
Discovery of Related Keywords
Term-paper / Theses Research
Related Products / Services Search
Job Search
Search Engine Optimization
Identify Niche

Where else it can be use. Please share it by commenting.

How to Earn Money by Selling Your Designs

2010-01-01T18:20:00.002+05:00

Whether you are a professional graphics designer or just doing for passion. You can earn money by selling your art works online. Here I'm going to list two websites where you can sell your designs and earn money working from your home.

Graphics Leftovers

Graphics Leftovers is a marketplace where you can sell your design and earn 52% on sales. You can sell illustrations, backgrounds, textures, icons, web templates, web elements, and design templates. Payouts are made via Moneybookers, PayPal or by check. Payouts are processed within 48 hours.

VectorStock

VectorStock is a stock agency, where you can sell vector only images, graphics, icons & illustrations. You can earn 25% of sale price at start and it will be increases as you progress. Payment made by a simple and direct payment process via PayPal and MoneyBookers. Minimum payout is $100.

How to Earn Money by Writing Articles

2009-12-25T20:15:00.005+05:00

Make money online by using writing skills is one of the most effective way of earning on the Internet. If you have good writing skills and have an Internet connection, you are not far behind to make money. You can make money either by making your own Blog or by submitting articles to article sites.

Here I’m discussing the websites where you can submit your articles and start earning.

Hub Pages

HubPages is a user-generated revenue sharing website which provides earning opportunity by setting up affiliate accounts with Google, Kontera, eBay and Amazon. You write content and they will show your ads between the content on 60/40 basis, 40% for HubPages and 60% for yours.

Google Knol

Google Knol is also a content site where you can publish articles and your Google AdSense ads will be shown between the content. Readers with Google accounts may rate, comment on, or suggest edits to the knols, in the style of comments after a blog entry.

Xomba

Xomba is a free community which allows you to write, comment, share ideas, make freiends and be get paid. You can start by writing posts. There are two types of post, one is Xombytes which is anything from movie review to how to guide and another is Xomblurbs which is social bookmarks that allow you to share your links with Xomba community. You can paid by placing your Google AdSense ads on 50/50 basis.

Earn Money by Filling Online Surveys

2009-12-18T20:58:00.000+05:00

Want an easy startup to earn money? Filling the online survey is an easier starter and to get some bucks. This is not a high paid area of money making but still you can earn around $ 50 ~ 70 or may be more in a month. Its mostly depends on your demographic. Most of the survey websites are country specific.

As all the online earning websites, survey sites are also fill up with scams. There are so many websites which take money to register by saying you will earn thousands of Dollars by taking surveys and this is not we mean by survey. All the legitimate survey are free (as per my knowledge) .

I had search and read many forums and blogs for the best survey sites and one of them I found is SurveySavvy. You have to fill a complete profile of yours which contain lots of detail which then use to selecting participants for taking the survey.

As most of other paid survey sites, its also send survey 2 to 4 times a month and if paid between $ 2 ~ $ 20 per survey and you can earn around $ 60 for one month. This looks small money but you can register with various survey sites and if get a better chance and survey frequency is good then you will able to get a respectable amount in a month.

Click here to see a list of other online surveys.

5 Social Networking Tools You Must Know

2009-12-14T21:56:00.001+05:00

The word Social is use everywhere. Social Networking, Social Bookmarking and so on. Social Networking has change as Internet was before. These tools are must have for anyone who wanted to make money online because you have to reach millions of people world around.
For example, you have a blog and people are not coming to your site. So, how will you generate traffic? One option is search engine but you have to work hard to get your result in first page.Another option is to make use of these tools. Below are the five tools to start with.

Facebook

Facebook is a social network site that started out strictly for college students and was available by invitation only. Now, it is a cultural phenomenon stretching across the globe. With more worldwide users than MySpace, Facebook has taken hold as undisputable leader amongst social networking sites.

Profiles in Facebook allow users to post pictures, comments, blogs and apps. Additionally, it has some of the best privacy options on the Internet. We felt that Facebook really encouraged using the site to foster relationships with people you already know, or friends of friends. Within hours, we were already in touch with scores of old friends, relatives and acquaintances.

LinkedIn is a social networking tool open to whosoever that is interested in networking with business professionals around the world. This charter is similar to Facebook, as both social networks maintain they are comprised of real nodes (people) who share real connections resulting in real social activity. LinkedIn and Facebook both require that their users connect based on what they have in common, and that both members agree that they know each other when they connect based on those affinities.

LinkedIn is in many ways more powerful networking tool than Facebook, however, because of how it allows members to search for, connect with and work with each other. LinkedIn enables people to view any other members who are within three degrees of separation from each other on their respective social graphs. This results in an amazing network multiplier effect, expanding one’s view of others’ profiles by up to 15,000 times the number of direct connections in the case of a super user. This network multiplier trounces Facebooks’s relatively rigid use of employer, school, geography and affinity groups. This reflects LinkedIn and Facebook’s different focus on creating business value vs. strengthening friend relationships.

Twitter

Twitter's overnight Internet fame stems from one simple question: "What are you doing?" You have 140 characters of text to answer, and as soon as you hit Update, the site's millions of users can see what you're up to. This small idea has blossomed into a hugely popular phenomenon, with its users covering the entire Earth, developers creating scores of helper apps for it, and a raft of imitation sites. This is the "social-networking and microblogging" site where you can read fascinating and mundane quick takes such as "ate a piece of cherry pie" or "just had a great workout." But despite the service's seemingly trivial function, which causes many to snub it and can at times make it akin to listening to other peoples' cell-phone conversations, Twitter fills a gap left by other forms of communication.

Digg

Digg is a very popular website; articles that make it to the main page generate copious amounts of traffic. Many content creators feature technology news — Digg is the place to publish for these authors.

To content creators, Digg offers a number of tools to integrate information from their site to yours. Digg supports quick blog posting to a number of blogging platforms including Wordpress (to blog any story within digg, simply click “blog story”). Once digg detects that you have blogged about a story, they produce a link to your website via the comment page associated with each story. You can also include the current set of digg homepage items on any page you want.

Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us is the standard by which other social bookmarking websites are measured. In use since 2003, it has a strong community and a rich layer of content beyond that of other social bookmarking sites.

Designed on the less-is-more philosophy, it has a rather plain but easy-to-use interface. Del.icio.us does not have the bells and whistles of some of the other social bookmarking sites, but being simple to use and having a strong community makes it one of the best choices for a new user.

Earn Money By Applying Your Photography Skills

2009-12-11T23:31:00.003+05:00

Do you take good photograph? Do you have passion? If the answer is yes, you are very close to start making money using your photography skills.

There are a number of websites in which you can join that will actually let you sell your photographs to anyone who is interested. Most of these sites do cost a bit of money to join, but once you are a member you have the opportunity to upload as many photos as you want and sell them over and over again.

People who are looking for photos for websites, blogs, or any other kind of online medium that requires photos will search these sites looking for what they need.

If you have what they need then you can realize a little extra money in your bank account. You can even work with websites that will arrange all the billing and bill collecting for you so all you have to do is log on and see how much you have made.

Shareapic

Shareapic is a free service that allows its users to upload and host their images on our servers. Shareapic has a unique revenue sharing model that compensates users for directing their friends and family to see their hosted images. When a member hosts a gallery, they can then show this gallery to others. Each time this is done, the member is paid an average $2 per 1000 views or $0.002 each.

Shutterstock

You can submit your photos to Shutterstock and get paid every time one of your photos is downloaded. Web designers, magazine editors, and other graphic artists purchase monthly subscriptions to Shutterstock to download photos. Shutterstock will pay you 25 cents every time one of your images is downloaded. Once you reach $500 in earnings, your commission goes up to 30 cents pe download.

Shutterstock is different than other stock models. Buyers subscribe on a monthly basis and can download up to 750 images over the course of 30 days. Your cut? Shutterstock will pay you 25 cents every time one of your images is downloaded. Once you reach $500 in earnings,

iStockPhoto

iStockphoto is the internet's original member-generated image and design community. Here you can earn atlease 20% of every credit that's used to download your artwork.

Fotolia

Fotolia is an international stock photography agency (image bank) where people can buy and sell images to illustrate professional and commercial brochures, advertisements, magazines, websites, etc.

You will be paid each time one of your images is sold on Fotolia, you get a commission added to your Fotolia account. Once you accumulate a minimum of 50 earned credits (1 credit = $1) you can cash out this money at any time via Paypal or Moneybookers. The commission amount depends on an images exclusivity given to Fotolia and whether the image is downloaded as part of a subscription.

You can also earn money participating in Online Photography Contests. See http://www.photographycontest.ws/

AlertPay: An Alternate to PayPal

2009-12-09T20:39:00.001+05:00

Want to earn online? But how will you received what you have earned. There are various payment processor available for receiving payment online.

PayPal is a choice of most of Internet users, AleryPay is an alternate for those who are working with PTC websites where PayPal has imposed lot of restrictions due to various scams involved with those websites.

AlertPay founded in 2004, is a payment processor like a PayPal and widely used by PTC sites.

Fees

Opening of account is free. Fees based on its accounts types. There are 3 types of account; Personal Starter, Personal Pro and Business

This is depends on type of the account for complete and most current fees schedule, visit the AlertPay website.

Security

For any online payment business, security is very important and the sites we deals with is fraud that our all hardwork and money will be lost. You can see the status at McCafee and BBB.

I've given direct references to the rating sities because the rating can be change according to people responses.

Receiving your Money

Various options are available to receive money from AleryPay. It depends on where you reside.

Bank Transfer (All Types of accounts)
Credit Card (Only Personal Pro and Business)
Bank Wire (All Types)
Check (All Types)

There is also a foreign currency conversion charges apply.

Business Tools

AlertPay provides two types of integration method for online business. Standard Integration is ideal for those who have no previous programming knowledge and Advanced Integration is designed for business owners who manage their own data. Advanced Integration is only recommended for online sellers with programming knowledge.

The Word of Caution

Always use AlertPay when you have no other option because I’ve found mixed reaction from the user of this service. The problem with us is that as I said earlier that PTC sites

If you want to Sign Up with AleryPay please click here.

How to Safeguard Your Privacy While Working Online

2009-12-07T21:34:00.001+05:00

If you working online you will find frauds every where. I have collected few points which will help is safe guarding yourself from these fraud and work safer and earn better.

Before you fill out a form or give someone a credit card, do a web search to see what other people are saying about the company and its practices.
Search reviews on a particular money making site. Check out a search engine you trust to give you more information on sites you may think are money making scams.
Always read the fine print. Watch out for get-rich-quick schemes that charge a very low initial fee before sneaking in large reoccurring charges on your credit card or bank account.
Be wary of anything resembling a pyramid scheme, where you make commissions by recruiting more participants.
Look for third party verification. Scammers can easily cut-and-paste images to plaster a site with "as seen on TV," "five-star reviews" and the logos of well-known news channels. Products that have really been recommended by experts and fellow users typically contain links from legitimate news sites and multiple user review sites.
Check out the Better Business Bureau (BBB) for listings of legitimate sites. The BBB is a great way to find out if a money making site is trustworthy. Companies and sites on the BBB are those that have to follow certain guidelines to be legitimate and listed on the BBB.
Contact the company who is promising to help you get rich quick. Any legitimate company will answer emails and phone calls about their money making site if they are not a scam.

Earn Money Working as a Freelancer Using oDesk

2009-12-04T21:52:00.000+05:00

Making money on the Internet working as a Freelancer is bit easier. We can find lot of resources for doing it. oDesk is one of the services, which provides a hub for Freelancers to find projects according to their expertise.

Here I'm giving a short review what they provide and how it helps in earn money online.

oDesk provides an environment where Employer post jobs and we Provider bid for that jobs, and if bid approved we will get that work to be done on the given period.

How to Start With?

You can start with oDesk by free sign-up. After signing up, you can take a short test that is designed to help you get familiar with working on oDesk.

What Features They Provided?

Hourly and fixed-rate project available.
Free posting of projects for employers.
Free qualification tests.
No membership fees.
Feedback for both provider and employer.
Profiles and trackers for freelancer.
Team room and desk top sharing
Screen snaps for hourly employees.
Task/bug tracking to make sure your employees stay on task.
Pay only for verified work.

What They Will Charge?

oDesk does not charge monthly membership fees to providers. Instead, they charge providers 10% of the project amount paid to them. Employers can use Odesk free of charge.

How I Will Get Money?

They are providing various method of payment. For U.S.-based providers, they can deposit your earnings directly into your bank account. For U.S. and international providers, they offer MoneyBookers, Wire Transfers, the oDesk debit MasterCard, powered by Payoneer, which works everywhere a regular MasterCard would work

Ready to be a freelancer! Sign-up and search for your expertise and starting to earn money.

How to Earn Money By Applying Your Skills?

2009-12-02T23:53:00.003+05:00

God created every human being equally but few got successful and rich. They had able to identify their skills and abilities and then applied those to achieved success in their life and made their own luck.

We can also make our own luck but first we have to believe in our self and then start to identify our strengths, our skills and develop new skills according to the current trends and apply those skills to earn money and get a successful person.

Following are the few points, which required hard work; if you are really want to be rich and successful person.

1. Identifying what you have

There is a passion, interest in doing something that could certainly change a person's life. If you have a passion for Photography, go with that. Someone writes well, some cooks well. What is your ability and what skills you have.

2. Develop new Skills and Sharpen existing skills

You like Photography but what about the marketing your photos, making those photos presentable to prospects buyer and so on. You have to identifying and develop those skills. There was a time when no digital camera. Now there are various types of Digital Cameras available. Therefore, you have to learn how effectively use it to capture good shot. Also, try to enhance your shooting ability by reading articles and books on digital photography.

This same apply to other skills. Improving you skills eventually make you perfect and the result will be more superior than when not having them.

3. Apply skills to earn money

Well, now you have identified your skills, go with it and you will find that how much resources available on the Internet to cash your skills and be a money making machine.

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How to Earn Money on the Internet?

2009-12-01T22:23:00.004+05:00

No one in this world could say that I don’t need money? Money is an important part of our daily life, and what we earn is not enough to live a luxurious life. So, how to earn extra money? Everybody dreamed to have a vacation on some beautiful places, buy the latest fashion accessories and so on.

Here is the question? How to earn extra money when people are losing their jobs due to economy crises? Don’t worry, we have Internet where money is flowing but how to get our part is a problem.

There are thousands of people who got millionaire by using Internet. It is not easy but required some skills and hard working. You can find so many sites saying that earn thousands of Dollars in one day, but most of them are a scam, just to sell their books or so called techniques.

There are various methods used to earn money. People are paying for surfing, reading emails, clicking on ads, writing, playing games, surveys, selling etc. I’ll discuss these techniques in my future blogs but my favorite is writing for blogs.

You have to be caution while going to those sites because some of them are just a scam. They get personal information at the time of registration; spend your precious time on their work like clicking on ads, surfing, and they will never pay you. Especially never, give your credit card number to these sites.

So, be prepared, you may be a next millionaire in the coming years and if not you are still able to get more money than you have today, which surly changes your life.