How To Make Money On The Internet

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By Ophelia Chong December 8th, 2008
Under: Columnists

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Here are some “AHA” Moments that happened to cross my mind while I was on my daily bike ride at 6 AM:

1. Keystroke Power:

Power your computer with each keystroke! A small battery stores the power you generate by furiously typing into your Twitter account or when you decide to revive your blog.

2. Charge Everyone for Using Your Name:

Trademark your name, every time someone mentions you, they have to pay you a stipend. For those with the name “John Smith”, you will have to incorporate and hand out shares.

3. Click and Sniff:

Build an atomizer that sprays the user with whatever they are looking at. This is great for food blogs, but might be a problem with sites that deal with celebrities and small animals.

4. Botox for Blogs:

Write a program that will tighten up a blog by excising any sentence that starts with “My latest…” or “Its sort of like…” and “Here’s me at…”

5. Fiendbook:

Can’t stand someone? Add them to your FiendBook.. Wonder if your “ex” is still in the slammer? Add him to your FiendBook and you will find out when he has his next parole meeting. Put all those people and/or pets that you don’t want on your Facebook in one convenient place.

6. LOL/ROTFLMAO:

Not funny? Can’t be clever every single moment of the day? Hire our in house comedy writers to reply for you when you are not feeling the “funny”. Your followers will not be able to tell if its you or our writers, and they will not miss a chance to type in “LOL” or “ROTFLMAO” into your timeline.

7. SAS SEO – Short Attention Span Search Engine Optimization

Got only a few dollars? Some spare change you found in the sofa? Can’t afford those fancy SEO prices? Now you can. You will get a ReTweet on Twitter by one of our inhouse Twitterers. You can choose from “Wow! Check this out….” or “Just came across this…” Guaranteed to get you notice for about 10 minutes.

That’s it for now until the next bike ride. Feel free to take any of these ideas, I’ve got a million of them.

(Images – Thomas Hawk) (Forum)

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hey dude
Great stuff! i got a lot of inspiration from this post
i went through this page four times
it is very interesting ....
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Thanks

ipanks

if we discuss how to make money online, there is so many ways about making money in internet, and so many source out there that we can use it. and its depend for our hard work to do. nice blog

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hilarious post :) thank you for sharing!

Algarve Property

i loved the 'lol and rotflmao' tip..is so true

Mark

My facebook account already became something like the fiendbook account you mentiones in your post...

Google Biz kit

Great tips to make money online. I really like the second one most :)

Alex

Lol!
Quality post.
Really, really enjoyed it. Time to go and implement those ideas right away on my business.

SEO Miami

LOL... Great post... I totally agree with you specially in no. 2 =p

writearticlesmakemoney

Thanks for the info. The botox blog could be a very good idea

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venici

It was really good thoughts about making money on the net, I just hope that in the near future, the thoughts could be given with some details and more applicable technique, so many newbies just like me can follow it to the top smoothly.. Thank You.

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Online Goals

Once youï¿½ve established that there is a need for your service or product youï¿½ll be ready to determine your business goal and whether or not you can meet this goal online. If your main goal is to sell a product online you should decide how you want to make those sales. For example, do you want customers to buy from you online or do you want them to come to you to close the sale? Youï¿½ll need to decide what action is needed for the sale to be finalized. Small businesses need marketing efforts that are targeted and precise.

search-money

Thank you for the article, this article is to help my blog for making money.I hope It

workout routines

ROFL....thanks for the hearty laugh. i was not aware of any of these ideas. thanks. i've started racking my brains to implement some of them.. waiting for your next ride post. ;)
regards

fish2009

I need to get a bike. I seriously googled fiend book before reading the rest of the post. Phew, need some caffeine.
Great job.

Mr Ejou

Hi everybody,
I think Google adsense is best way for make money on internet. Because it look like more trustfull than other ad networks. take care.

Increase Semen

I agree these are good ways to get started. But like above I think without good seo and web design there is little chance. It seems the good old days of easy income on the internet are over and things are getting more competitive.

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ya these are very effective ways but i think SEO should be placed at the top because without SEO many of these are not possible like no. 2 charging for using my name but if i don't ve a strong name/keyword then who's gonna use my name? to build a good name / keyword i need backlinks and here there is no way other than SEO.

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i believe that forum is a good place for marketing and communication with other members. but we need choose suitable firum for our product.

Video Marketing Tips

There are loads of ways on how to make money online. More and more people are into online marketing nowadays considering that many folks are getting hooked into lots of online stuffs. Thanks for sharing your cool ideas. many newbies can actually start from here. And another appealing and profit-generating method is to incorporate video marketing into your websites or online businesses. This will keep people interested in whatever that you have to offer. Since marketing through videos have become a trend nowadays, see to it that you make the best out of it too. Dont be left behind!

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I am trying to read articles about how to make money online to improve my self!
Hope,i have collected a good info from here to improve my business further!
thank you!

Art West

RE: charging for name use. I thought of a similar idea for music. I'm going to copyright the A major chord. Every use will earn me a royalty.

I can imagine Nancy Pelosi on a similar bent -- she and her colleagues are going to equip taxpayers with devices that count and tax each breath taken. The revenues will enable a pork spending bonanza.

Ski Resorts

It seems to me that with so many job losses lately that people are thinking how to earn money on the internet. They no longer trust having a regular 9 to 5 job any more and in my opinion its not that easy to make money on the internet as experts try to make you believe. You first need to be educated on how to make money on the internet in order taste the success.

Ebook Store

The simple way to earn money from the Internet is to promote products through ads. These ads can placed on your own website or on someone elses such as a search engine in the form of sponsored ads.This is one of my view.

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There is no doubt that one can make money online since there r lot of various opportunities on the internet to do so.One such a way is Affiliate marketing business which provides so many options and been regarded as the job of the future.If one does not know where to start there r lot of free resources which we can use which will allow to make money by sitting in home with out going to office every day.

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If your going to make money online its going to take time ,effort and a lot of trail and error .There nothing special abt the internet.Building a business is work online or off.One shound not open your business today and quit
your job in two weeks.one should need patience , stamina and persistence.Also one should create and nice business plan and follow it.

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Excuse me sir can you please sell me one botox for blogs program and a side of keystroke power.. Seriously, if I could power my computer with keystrokes I could finally reach my dream of living in the forest and continuing to be a blogger!

Jack

SAS SEO - Short Attention Span Search Engine Optimization

It means do something with your online shop to improve the station in search engine?

Jayden Fellze

thanks..it s a nice post..i agree with your thoughts. great funny tips.. i like it. thanks for sharing with us.

weight loss workouts

Good stuff. Were you drinking while on your bike at 6am? Thanks for the chuckle.

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I am trying to save electricity bills and choice #1 seem to be a nice way to power my laptop since twitter has been part and parcel of my daily routine.

Volume

Great tips Ophelia! I don't know how but I am still trying to monetize my site but for me everyday is more and more difficult doing this... I think I am going to quit! hehehe

Internet Marketing

I like the number 2 ideas. BUt how am i can properly do that? who will pay? By the way , if a famous blogger can do that, he/ she should be earning big buck huh? .. By the way , very interesting information you got there. Thanks

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Thats the best part technology brought for today's people and teenagers. Just sit down on your home and earn money!

Annabel

Hey great blog! Lots of new ideas - have you got one for 'I want to see results now or tomorrow will do' : ) Maybe a weightloss program is good ie no moving from the computer(s) until you have some results!

Nikotinplaster

I like the "Keystroke Power" idea. It is a little like the movie Speed - it you do not write fast enough, the computer will turn off...

ophelia_chong

"I....can't.....stop....typing!"
can you imagine?

it's like "sleep" only it shuts down. at least it will help you burn calories.:O)
thanks for visiting! ;O)
ophelia

Dinoking

I thought of this to would be great for wireless keyboards and mice:)

Heather

hahaaaa! hilarious. if only we could do all these things...

ophelia_chong

if only....

:O) ophelia

Motherhood

ahahaa! nice ideas here! my name doesn't sound so good. can i hide myself behind a pseudonym?

ophelia_chong

Of course you can. However you could make money off it with idea #2.

:O) thanks for visiting!
Ophelia

regiaart

I'll twitter about this great post. @regiaart

ophelia_chong

Thank you RegiaArt! I appreciate the twitter and your comment!
Thanks for visiting, :O) Ophelia

Search Engine Optimization

Hmm, I like the Keystroke Power one.... Maybe I can sell back some extra juice to the power company..

Michael Parness

funny article, you better hold on to these money making gems or someone will get rich of all your ideas.

ophelia_chong

I will be the first in line for Click'n'Sniff.

Thanks for visiting! :O) ophelia

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LOL! Great post.. that is really funny... but I totally agree with you. Thanks a lot for the great share.

ophelia_chong

thank you.;O) i appreciate the kind words, and it makes me funnier.

L:O ophelia

Michael

LOL, I completely agree with no. 3 - click and sniff :-)

ophelia_chong

"AAAHHHHHH!NOOOOO" and on the screen is.....Peppe LePeu.

I can imagine the range of smells coming from a computer in the span of a day. Keep the Febrez close at hand.

Thank you for visiting and commenting!~ :O) ophelia

wilhb81

Haha, I loved the no.2 and no.5 ideas, Ophelia. I think that the "Fiendbook" can be even popular than the Facebook lol

Moumita

Great post, I enjoyed it very much. Thanks for sharing all such important and relevant points.

Chishiki

I thought that the "Click & Sniff" thing sounds familiar. Ever heard of DigiScents? Check it out: http://digiscents.com/blog/ (ranked one of the 25 worst tech products of all time by pcworld, but maybe the technology will catch up.... ;-)

ophelia_chong

That is so cool, thanks for the link. Now I know i am on the right path. You have to wonder what their business plan looked like, that would be a gem to read. thanks for visiting and commenting. :O)
ophelia

Porch Lifts

I don't know if they ever got it working, but OLPC was going to try to integrate a hand crank into their laptops.

I think I like your idea better though. It wouldn't even have to power the computer, but if it could be used to power a coffee machine or something. You might have hit upon something with that one ;)

ophelia_chong

the more you type the more power you get. so the long winded ones will be powered constantly. :O))

thanks so much for visiting, and commenting! :O)
ophelia

danhhoang

haha! I love Fiendbook! Just the idea of it is priceless.

ophelia_chong

danhhoang...we could compete on how many we have each. and how many times we appear on other Fiendbooks...:O) thanks for visiting!

James

It is very difficult to monetize your site without it seeming too spammy. My biggest challenge is getting people to come to my blog. I like the twitter idea, might use that one. I wish there was a way to create some creative info for your site without having to be creative yourself, I'm an SAS Blogger

aiman73

I concur with James. That challenge me and else as blog owner is who surfing bring the Internet to visit blogs that our maintain. Rank blog search engine in the sometimes confusing to understand, how the method is applied to place search engine ranking on the blog-specific search rank.

ophelia_chong

hi james
Twitter is a great way to get the word out about your blog. just remember to interact with other twitter people and not to focus entirely on just "tweeting" about your blog/website.

:O) Thanks for visiting!
Ophelia

danhhoang

James, I recommend just continuing plastering your ideas to sites you are interested in to spread the word.

Weight loss supplements

LOL! Perhaps, nobody will mention names that charge stipends :) But if people start buying this idea, I won’t be left behind ;)

ophelia_chong

Hi WLS
heh, the old days of the Gold Miners, where stores would sell a shovel for 300% of the going price, you would pay it hoping for the big find. online would you pay $ for tools that could help you make money?

:O) thanks for visiting.
ophelia

work at home dad

I think in a lot of industries, the "tool" industry really makes money. Just check out home tv shopping. They got "tools" for weightloss, and "tools" for cooking great foods.

I guess it is a good industry. Just look for people who desperately wants to achieve something, then make a "tool" that will help them get what they want.

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