The Work From Home Blog

Make money on Facebook

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:51:07 +0000

Here is something for you if you like to spend time on FaceBook. It is an application called ClowdCrowd. It allows you to choose from a few available jobs which include things like editing text or categorizing products (much like Amazon’s Mturk). You won’t get rich doing this as most jobs pay just a dollar or two but if much of your day is spent checking Facebook messages anyway, then this is something worth looking into. Take a look at CloudCrowd.

Make money creating educational content

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:38:06 +0000

Seemile is a new education marketplace where you can upload voice or video files of your lectures. You can set your own price and upon anyone purchasing it you will get paid, minus some commission which is kept by the site.
The site is still very new and obviously this is not an opportunity that will appeal to everyone but if you are able to teach a topic it could be worth giving the site a try.

Create custom fabrics with SpoonFlower

admin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:17:54 +0000

If you have ever wanted to design your own fabrics but were not sure how to go about it, take a look at SpoonFlower.com. It is a new web site that allows anyone to print any design onto fabric and have it shipped for a reasonable price, even internationally. Fabrics then can be used to make things or be sold as is (as long as there are no copyright violations of course). When SpoonFlower comes out of beta it will be opening it’s own marketplace for users who want to sell their designs but in the meantime there are already sellers who are using sites to sell their creations such as Etsy, Ebay or their own online shops.

Twee Bay - Buy and sell using Twitter

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:04:27 +0000

As Twitter gets more and more popular there are many new services popping up for the Twitter community. One of the latest is Twee Bay - a free service you can use to buy and sell items using Twitter. There is the option of listing as an auction or as a classified and payment is handled by Google Checkout. Although the service is new it looks like something with a lot of potential.

Ask for donations on your blog with TipJoy

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:34:21 +0000

There are quiet a few ways to monetize a blog and asking for tips or donations is one of them. TipJoy is a site that makes it very easy to accept donations (or even sell digital goods) not just through your blog but also Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and just about anywhere else you can think of. Tipjoy also makes it easier to accept smaller donations without Paypal fees eating up all of it so people can even send payment that are under $1 which is sure to encourage giving :) .

ZimpleMoney launches - a new social financing site

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:48:14 +0000

I have written about social lending or financing in an earlier post and this is just a quick note to mention a new social financing site ZimpleMoney which has just launched. ZimpleMoney can be used to manage loans amongst friends and family or even as a platform that third parties such as non profits can build lending services on top of.

9 blogs that pay for guest posts

admin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:34:00 +0000

If you enjoy writing, and you are looking for a way to make some money from home, one option is to provide guest posts for blogs. Blog authors are often looking for guest writers and in return, guest posters can either promote their own blogs or in some cases, receive financial compensation for their efforts. Here are ten blogs which offer payment for guest posts:

You the Designer

Pays up to $150 per Photoshop or Illustrator tutorial that is accepted.

SitePoint

SitePoint strives to be at the forefront of new ideas, emerging challenges, and cutting-edge technology on the Web.

Smashing Magazine

Leading web design magazine. I am not sure how much they pay but if you can write articles good enough to be accepted here then it is worth doing just for the traffic and recognition alone.

Linux.com

Pays $100-$300 per article.

The Busy Brain Blog

Anything from latest news, gadgets, websites, web services, ideas, to photos.

bloggingtips.com

BloggingTips.com, as the site name indicates, offers advice on how blogs can gain momentum. While the guest posts themselves don’t pay initially, this site hires frequent guest posters as paid writers.

PureBlogging.com

PureBlogging is looking for guest posters who have insight on website promotion and affliate marketing, as well as other topics. This site compensates bloggers with 75% of the Google AdSense revenue that their posts generate.

blog.searchanyway.com

SearchAnyway pays guest bloggers to post about the internet search industry and online marketing.

skateass.com

General Specifics, anything and everything electronic. Guest posting is a new element of the site and is compensated with payment.

Designing effective business cards

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:59:17 +0000

Your business card can have a powerful effect on your small business. Being such a common thing, it can sometimes be taken for granted and even somewhat neglected at times. However it can be your visual brand, the thing that people will make decisions about you by before they even meet you. The more likely it is to portray the right image and be remembered the more likely it is that you will be getting some new (and possibly even more importantly repeat) business.

There are many places on the internet you can go to for inspiration when it comes time to design your card. Design blogs as well as the Flickr business card images set being some of them.
There are some amazing examples of what a little bit of creativity can achieve.

Whether you choose to hire a professional designer or design the card yourself, the procedure is a whole lot more affordable then it used to be. Printing a business card (or even poster printing for that matter) can be done online these days for a few cents per card (no more expensive print shops!) so there are no more excuses not to go out and get the best cards your small business deserves.

BuildYourSite.com - Web Design made easy

Buying established web sites

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:09:14 +0000

Buying an established web site is slightly more expensive then what some of you want to spend in order to start earning a living from home. But if you find the right web site it can be money very well spent. Established sites can sometimes go for as little as $100, simply because their owners have had to sell it for one reason or another.
Quickly some advantages of buying an established site:
- The idea, domain name, the design and some content is already taken care of and you don’t need to spend time or money in acquiring these.
- An established site will already have some traffic, people linking to it, be indexed by search engines etc.
- Often these sites are already earning some income which you can usually improve on.
How much to spend on buying a site
Generally sites will sell for about 6-8 month’s worth of whatever revenue they are generating. Some sites however will not be generating income, in which case you will need to take into consideration how much money it would take to develop such a site yourself and go from there. Traffic stats such as Alexa and Google rankings are taken into consideration as well.
Making money from this
Many sites will already be generating some income so you may simply need to continue promoting the site you have purchased and pocket the monthly revenue generated.

Another option is that if you are fairly comfortable with web design and promotion, you can buy a site on the cheap, improve the way it looks, increase it’s popularity and then resell it for more money.

To give you an idea (and maybe some inspiration), here are some sites that are for sale within the next few days, all under $500.

A four year old home business site - Currently $400
PTLovers - A forum with almost 5,000 members - Current bid $250
Baby Shower Niche Site - On $50 at the moment
Comfortable Ballroom Dancing Shoes - Earns $33/month, currently bid is at $180

These are just a few examples of what you can find, there is lots more on Sitepoint.

6 sites that pay you for writing book reviews

Bukisa - A new revenue share site with extra benefits

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:31:16 +0000

Bukisa is a new site where you can share your knowledge and get paid. Although there is nothing new or revolutionary about this (I have a list of similar sites in other posts) Bukisa has an extra feature with lots of potential. You can refer users and create a network. A user that owns a network will not only enjoy the revenue sharing of their work, but will also profit from their network friends’ revenue sharing. A little bit like network marketing - the more people you refer the more money you can make.
The only problem at the moment is that as far as I can tell you can only invite people by email, not through a referral link. Which kind of limits your earning potential, or at least makes it a lot less automated. Hopefully they will introduce affiliate links in the future.
Found via Mashable