(Free-Press-Release.com) December 14, 2009 -- WORLD WIDE WEB, December 14, 2009 — A new website has recently been launched geared towards the entrepreneurial minded at: http://www.101waystomakemoney.com
Brock Hamilton, the sites owner and editor presents the information on this site as part of his ongoing mission to educate people all around the world about the opportunities that exist online. He has been showing people how to make money through various alternative methods, rather than having to rely on a 9 to 5 job, so that they can live the life that they have always wanted, the life they deserve.
“This site is designed to introduce people to the myriad of money making opportunities that the internet has to offer. To give them a basic understanding of the different methods and business models available so that they can not only tell a legitimate money making venture form a fake one but to also be able to succeed at the venture when they undertake it.” Hamilton stated about his reasons for putting the site together.
But don't think the site is all about how to make money online, off line business can also take advantage of the speed, versatility and global exposure of the internet. Everything from hand made jewelry to premium organic gourmet coffee can have its money making ability increased dramatically by online exposure.
According to Hamilton, “The Internet has opened up a whole new avenue of business opportunities, and the best thing about it is the level playing field it gives to anyone who is willing to roll up their sleeves and do some work"
The website offers guidance on how to promote your business online by telling you the best methods for building a high impact website, generating not only traffic but the right kind of traffic, motivating buyers to make a purchase and return again in the future or generate leads for your business who will ultimately come into your store or purchase through offline methods.
You can also learn about how to make money on eBay, make money with affiliate marketing, or even make money with Adsense - Google's content advertising program. You can learn how to take advantage of the phenomenal power of social networking to make money using sites like Facebook, twitter and more. You can learn the power of “free-speech” sites like Squidoo and Hub Pages to inform potential buyers of your products and things going on in your company. The possibilities of how you can make money online either with a cyber business or a off-line business are endless and with 101waystomakemoney.com you can find a bottomless well of ideas to make more money today with whatever type of business you do.
Hamilton asserts that “There are millionaires being made every day online, those are the ones who have invested the time and effort to make the most they can, but the truth is for every millionaire there are hundreds of real people who have used the power of the internet to change their lives in smaller but no less meaningful ways. These people have used the internet to replace or supplement their incomes, giving themselves just that little bit extra each month which can make a huge difference.
With the release of the new website http://www.101waystomakemoney.com Brock Hamilton gives the worlds entrepreneurs all the information they need to get started making money.
This site is a new key resource for anyone who wants to make money through different means, and create a better lifestyle for themselves and their families.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Make Money on the Net - Learn How to Make Money From Home Today
You can generate a huge amount of money working on the net. All you need to do is to look for a nice programme to join and you are on your way to making profitable income online working from the comfort of your home. A good programme that you can start making money from is the Google AdSense. This is a programme sponsored by Google to enable publishers of all types to earn money by displaying relevant ads sponsored by advertisers on the internet.
You need to know what article writing is to be able to make money from AdSense. Article writing is all about writing good contents online for people who are looking for their various interests on the internet. If you don't have a web site yet you will need to get a free blog which is an equivalent of a website. You can then start your content writing and the after two weeks and you have gotten up to ten articles then you can apply to Google AdSense. When your application is approved you can then start displaying relevant Google ads on your website or free blog and be sure to make money.
You can open a free blog at blogger.com. The site and services of blogger.com are provided free of charge by Google for all those who want to make money online through article or content writing. In writing an article you need to choose a good topic for your website, then all your articles will be directed along that line of topic. Eg you can choose the topic of your website or blog to be (how to make money on the internet, then all of your articles will be directed towards money making ideas and opportunities available on the internet.
You will need a little knowledge on keywords to make it in terms of writing a good article which will be interesting to your audience. Keywords are the specific words or phrase for which your content and writing is based upon. For example if the topic of your website is how to make money from the internet, you can choose a phrase such as, make money from Google AdSense, then you write your article and its content based on the key word or phrase that you have selected.
To make money from AdSense you need to adhere to their policies religiously. For instance you are not expected to click on your own ads, doing so your account will be removed by Google. Doing so means falsification of earnings which will not enable the advertisers to obtain their objective for the advertisement. So Google strictly worn against that. All you need to do is to read and adhere to their policies as well as write original contents to enable your article to be indexed on Google search engine.
For more information about how to generate income online working from the comfort of your home read my blog http://confidencelife.blogspot.com/2009/12/work-from-home-generate-income-working.html
You need to know what article writing is to be able to make money from AdSense. Article writing is all about writing good contents online for people who are looking for their various interests on the internet. If you don't have a web site yet you will need to get a free blog which is an equivalent of a website. You can then start your content writing and the after two weeks and you have gotten up to ten articles then you can apply to Google AdSense. When your application is approved you can then start displaying relevant Google ads on your website or free blog and be sure to make money.
You can open a free blog at blogger.com. The site and services of blogger.com are provided free of charge by Google for all those who want to make money online through article or content writing. In writing an article you need to choose a good topic for your website, then all your articles will be directed along that line of topic. Eg you can choose the topic of your website or blog to be (how to make money on the internet, then all of your articles will be directed towards money making ideas and opportunities available on the internet.
You will need a little knowledge on keywords to make it in terms of writing a good article which will be interesting to your audience. Keywords are the specific words or phrase for which your content and writing is based upon. For example if the topic of your website is how to make money from the internet, you can choose a phrase such as, make money from Google AdSense, then you write your article and its content based on the key word or phrase that you have selected.
To make money from AdSense you need to adhere to their policies religiously. For instance you are not expected to click on your own ads, doing so your account will be removed by Google. Doing so means falsification of earnings which will not enable the advertisers to obtain their objective for the advertisement. So Google strictly worn against that. All you need to do is to read and adhere to their policies as well as write original contents to enable your article to be indexed on Google search engine.
For more information about how to generate income online working from the comfort of your home read my blog http://confidencelife.blogspot.com/2009/12/work-from-home-generate-income-working.html
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Making money on the stock exchange
My friend Jack (not real name) believes he has got it made. This year marks the fifth year in which he has owned shares on the stock exchange.
A fifth anniversary is as good a time as any to take stock of progress and as the year winds down he has been doing just that.
He bought his first stock in 2004 with the dfcu initial public offering. He has not added to that position since, but that initial commitment has more than tripled in value in the ensuing five years.
During the same period he has been involved in the initial public offerings of the New Vision, Kenya’s power generating company Kengen, Stanbic and more recently Safaricom, Kenya’s dominant telecommunications player.
He also bought into Kenya Airways and Equity Bank in the secondary market.
He has exited some positions while adding to his existing interests in other firms.After the initial toe-dipping he has grown increasingly bolder by the year.
Going over his figures he has more than doubled his investment and had he been more experienced to take advantage of the market turmoil of the last two years, he estimates he would have added a few more percentage points on his returns.
Jack was noticeably excited about what his records showed. He was excited because in five short years he has seen a hot market where every stock owner looks like an investment genius, a down market where no one wants anything to do with the bloody stock and a sideways market where shares just drift along neither earning or losing money.
Through it all he not only came out with his initial investment intact but even doubled it.
He was excited too because Jack, who will be 38 next year, believes that when retirement comes along for him in less than 20 years, he can safely retire to a life of comfort and ease.
Using his current portfolio as a base, Jack estimates that if he commits an additional one to five million shillings annually to the market for the next 17 years, assuming a compounded annual return of between 15 and 20%, he thinks he can retire with a share portfolio of between sh870m and sh1.6b .
Jack admits he still has a lot to learn. But he is learning from the best. He hangs on to every word that falls from American billionaire Warren Buffett’s lips and tries to mirror his investment style.
Buffett, the second richest man in the world, has as the foundation of his more than $40b networth a number of judiciously chosen shares bought off the stock exchange.
The 79 year old Buffettt’s well publicised investment style is hinged on buying companies with strong competitive advantage, selling at a significant discount to their estimated true value.
Jack’s story is an eye-opener for people who think because they do not earn CHOGMesque salaries, they cannot aspire to financial freedom or a wealthy future.
Jack is a middle level manager, which means he is in limbo between an entry level salary and an executive salary. He drives a second hand Japanese car. Has been married six years and the older of his two children is four.
He helped foot the fees of his recently graduated youngest brother at university. His parents are alive and well and therefore he has inherited no property. Nothing spectacular about his financial pedigree.
He admits that when he started socking money away into stocks, he was not driven by a bountiful vision of the future but just out of need to store his money in a place, he intuitively knew would grow his cash faster than in any bank.
He was introduced to Buffett well into his share investing adventure.
Jack’s ultimate dream is to own a 100-unit housing estate, which will finance the many travels he has lined up in his dreams and a life style where money is no object.
Barring any accidents he is convinced he is on the right track and 2010–the first year of the rest of his life, cannot come soon enough.
A fifth anniversary is as good a time as any to take stock of progress and as the year winds down he has been doing just that.
He bought his first stock in 2004 with the dfcu initial public offering. He has not added to that position since, but that initial commitment has more than tripled in value in the ensuing five years.
During the same period he has been involved in the initial public offerings of the New Vision, Kenya’s power generating company Kengen, Stanbic and more recently Safaricom, Kenya’s dominant telecommunications player.
He also bought into Kenya Airways and Equity Bank in the secondary market.
He has exited some positions while adding to his existing interests in other firms.After the initial toe-dipping he has grown increasingly bolder by the year.
Going over his figures he has more than doubled his investment and had he been more experienced to take advantage of the market turmoil of the last two years, he estimates he would have added a few more percentage points on his returns.
Jack was noticeably excited about what his records showed. He was excited because in five short years he has seen a hot market where every stock owner looks like an investment genius, a down market where no one wants anything to do with the bloody stock and a sideways market where shares just drift along neither earning or losing money.
Through it all he not only came out with his initial investment intact but even doubled it.
He was excited too because Jack, who will be 38 next year, believes that when retirement comes along for him in less than 20 years, he can safely retire to a life of comfort and ease.
Using his current portfolio as a base, Jack estimates that if he commits an additional one to five million shillings annually to the market for the next 17 years, assuming a compounded annual return of between 15 and 20%, he thinks he can retire with a share portfolio of between sh870m and sh1.6b .
Jack admits he still has a lot to learn. But he is learning from the best. He hangs on to every word that falls from American billionaire Warren Buffett’s lips and tries to mirror his investment style.
Buffett, the second richest man in the world, has as the foundation of his more than $40b networth a number of judiciously chosen shares bought off the stock exchange.
The 79 year old Buffettt’s well publicised investment style is hinged on buying companies with strong competitive advantage, selling at a significant discount to their estimated true value.
Jack’s story is an eye-opener for people who think because they do not earn CHOGMesque salaries, they cannot aspire to financial freedom or a wealthy future.
Jack is a middle level manager, which means he is in limbo between an entry level salary and an executive salary. He drives a second hand Japanese car. Has been married six years and the older of his two children is four.
He helped foot the fees of his recently graduated youngest brother at university. His parents are alive and well and therefore he has inherited no property. Nothing spectacular about his financial pedigree.
He admits that when he started socking money away into stocks, he was not driven by a bountiful vision of the future but just out of need to store his money in a place, he intuitively knew would grow his cash faster than in any bank.
He was introduced to Buffett well into his share investing adventure.
Jack’s ultimate dream is to own a 100-unit housing estate, which will finance the many travels he has lined up in his dreams and a life style where money is no object.
Barring any accidents he is convinced he is on the right track and 2010–the first year of the rest of his life, cannot come soon enough.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The media mix: how to make money from paid-for media content
What will people pay for online? The received wisdom is not very much, if anything at all. But there are beginning to be chinks in the "no-pay" armour, led by better-targeted services like Apple's iTunes and paid-for iPhone apps.
But for media companies especially, there is still no guaranteed business model for making money from their content, be it music, video or information. Look at the newspaper business, which after embracing the free, ad-supported model online is now putting pay walls in place. The former proponent of free news online, Rupert Murdoch, now proposes that his News Corporation introduce pay walls for all of his papers – including The Sun and The Times – to be in place sometime next year, essentially following a model he inherited from Dow Jones when he purchased the Wall Street Journal.
Apple's iTunes has proved that some people do pay for music, and some will watch an advertisement before seeing an online video. And witness the success of online TV site hulu.com in the US, which offers TV shows from the biggest broadcasters online supported by advertisements.
But moving online users accustomed to "free" access is not proving easy. And there is a big gap between the amount of money being earned online versus offline. How that gap is going to be filled is still unclear. "For a lot of legacy media companies it's a question of how quickly they are willing to move from the old model to the new, digital model, because for most of them it means a significant drop in revenues – at least initially," says Tudor Aw, media partner at KPMG.
The most pertinent advice seems to be: build a large audience of users with a free-access principle supported by advertising and sponsorship and then find ways to charge for added-value services.
This is what online music service Spotify is all about. The music website acts like a sort of online radio station, offering "free" music if users listen to advertisements. Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek says that the plan is to move online music lovers away from pirated music into a "legal environment" as a first step. "Younger users, especially, are used to downloading illegal content, and they are comfortable with sharing content with their friends," says Ek. "They are happy to spend $10 a month on World of Warcraft (the online game) but they won't spend anything at all on music unless it is a concert ticket or something unique."
The key to how much can might be charged users is directly linked to how attractive, accessible and relevant the product or service is to a particular audience, or digital tribe. In fact, KPMG has identified twenty attributes that the consultancy calls "digital value propositions" that include attributes such as "compelling content", "convenience", "choice", etc.
In the case of Spotify, Ek believes that he will only make Spotify's business model work if he appeals his users by packaging a good online music experience, supported by advertising, combined with unique paid-for products and services like Spotify's premium, ad-free subscription, plus other paid-for items, including tickets to live concerts and special CD sets. ". "If you look at the two sides of my business in isolation, the ad-supported side and the subscription or premium side, they don't work. That's because the [average] revenue per user (ARPU) is high enough on the subscription side, but there is not enough of the ad-supported side, where there is a lot of traffic but not enough revenue," explains Ek. "Only [by combining the two] and adding ticketing and other things can you get the volume as well as the revenues."
A big part of creating enough revenue is creating an attractive online proposition and putting it where users are congregating. ITV's The X Factor is a prime example. On television, the talent show attracts upwards of 14 million viewers, but now it is also attracting a substantial online audience – principally on Facebook and Twitter. Nearly 865,000 Facebook users have become fans of X Factor on the social network site and the number is expected to hit 1 million by the end of the series. All of these fans receive the updated X Factor content in their Facebook live feeds, and some 30,000 Facebook fans have also added an application to say which contestant they support. ITV has also created a "supporter" called Twibbon on Twitter, which has been downloaded on to 11,000 Twitter profile pictures. The company says this exposes the X Factor brand to around 840,000 Twitter users.
"We are taking a lesson from Facebook and going for scale," says Ben Ayers, social media manager at ITV.com. "Rather than obsessing on making money from fans we should obsess about building the relationship and building scale. That's the way agile web businesses work, and that is a lesson we should learn. I know the end game is to make money. But as we get to know our fans we will learn more about what they want."
Meanwhile, advertising through big search engines and online advertising suppliers such as Google is also getting more sophisticated, both on the web and on mobile phones, with better tracking and targeting tools that deliver more relevant adverts – which brands are willing to pay more for.
"The key to monetisation is customer insight," says Jay Fulcher,chief executive of Ooyala, a service that manages online video streaming and counts Arsenal football club as a client. "We have built an engine that tracks how consumers interact with content so we can personalise their experience and target the ads."
Google and Channel 4 in the UK are hoping to capitalise on a recent deal that will put all the broadcaster's TV shows on Google once they have aired on the TV, with Channel 4 responsible for selling the advertising using Google's highly developed web analytics.
Meanwhile, FremantleMedia is exploring sponsorship deals to pay for creating original programming for the web. A recent online drama called Freak had more than 1m views on MySpace, and was sponsored by Red Bull and Pearl , a feminine hygiene product. The community for the drama was very active, with more than 9,000 original music tracks being submitted by MySpace users for use in the drama. "This wasn't like a sponsored bumper on TV, it – it was about social engagement with the audience," says Claire Tavernier, senior executive vice-president of FMX Worldwide, the digital unit of FremantleMedia. The drama, about a teenage girl who feels sheis a social outcast fits well with the target audience for Red Bull, which is seen as edgy, young and about taking risks.
Tavernier admits that Freak will not be a "significant contributor" to FremantleMedia's profit, but that the brands were pleased, as was MySpace. "This was a good learning experience, but I am sure there won't be enough funding from sponsorship to fund a lot of online content creation," says Tavernier. "It will have to be a mix of subscription and micropayments and free with ads and sponsors. That is the mixed business model that we all should aim for."
But for media companies especially, there is still no guaranteed business model for making money from their content, be it music, video or information. Look at the newspaper business, which after embracing the free, ad-supported model online is now putting pay walls in place. The former proponent of free news online, Rupert Murdoch, now proposes that his News Corporation introduce pay walls for all of his papers – including The Sun and The Times – to be in place sometime next year, essentially following a model he inherited from Dow Jones when he purchased the Wall Street Journal.
Apple's iTunes has proved that some people do pay for music, and some will watch an advertisement before seeing an online video. And witness the success of online TV site hulu.com in the US, which offers TV shows from the biggest broadcasters online supported by advertisements.
But moving online users accustomed to "free" access is not proving easy. And there is a big gap between the amount of money being earned online versus offline. How that gap is going to be filled is still unclear. "For a lot of legacy media companies it's a question of how quickly they are willing to move from the old model to the new, digital model, because for most of them it means a significant drop in revenues – at least initially," says Tudor Aw, media partner at KPMG.
The most pertinent advice seems to be: build a large audience of users with a free-access principle supported by advertising and sponsorship and then find ways to charge for added-value services.
This is what online music service Spotify is all about. The music website acts like a sort of online radio station, offering "free" music if users listen to advertisements. Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek says that the plan is to move online music lovers away from pirated music into a "legal environment" as a first step. "Younger users, especially, are used to downloading illegal content, and they are comfortable with sharing content with their friends," says Ek. "They are happy to spend $10 a month on World of Warcraft (the online game) but they won't spend anything at all on music unless it is a concert ticket or something unique."
The key to how much can might be charged users is directly linked to how attractive, accessible and relevant the product or service is to a particular audience, or digital tribe. In fact, KPMG has identified twenty attributes that the consultancy calls "digital value propositions" that include attributes such as "compelling content", "convenience", "choice", etc.
In the case of Spotify, Ek believes that he will only make Spotify's business model work if he appeals his users by packaging a good online music experience, supported by advertising, combined with unique paid-for products and services like Spotify's premium, ad-free subscription, plus other paid-for items, including tickets to live concerts and special CD sets. ". "If you look at the two sides of my business in isolation, the ad-supported side and the subscription or premium side, they don't work. That's because the [average] revenue per user (ARPU) is high enough on the subscription side, but there is not enough of the ad-supported side, where there is a lot of traffic but not enough revenue," explains Ek. "Only [by combining the two] and adding ticketing and other things can you get the volume as well as the revenues."
A big part of creating enough revenue is creating an attractive online proposition and putting it where users are congregating. ITV's The X Factor is a prime example. On television, the talent show attracts upwards of 14 million viewers, but now it is also attracting a substantial online audience – principally on Facebook and Twitter. Nearly 865,000 Facebook users have become fans of X Factor on the social network site and the number is expected to hit 1 million by the end of the series. All of these fans receive the updated X Factor content in their Facebook live feeds, and some 30,000 Facebook fans have also added an application to say which contestant they support. ITV has also created a "supporter" called Twibbon on Twitter, which has been downloaded on to 11,000 Twitter profile pictures. The company says this exposes the X Factor brand to around 840,000 Twitter users.
"We are taking a lesson from Facebook and going for scale," says Ben Ayers, social media manager at ITV.com. "Rather than obsessing on making money from fans we should obsess about building the relationship and building scale. That's the way agile web businesses work, and that is a lesson we should learn. I know the end game is to make money. But as we get to know our fans we will learn more about what they want."
Meanwhile, advertising through big search engines and online advertising suppliers such as Google is also getting more sophisticated, both on the web and on mobile phones, with better tracking and targeting tools that deliver more relevant adverts – which brands are willing to pay more for.
"The key to monetisation is customer insight," says Jay Fulcher,chief executive of Ooyala, a service that manages online video streaming and counts Arsenal football club as a client. "We have built an engine that tracks how consumers interact with content so we can personalise their experience and target the ads."
Google and Channel 4 in the UK are hoping to capitalise on a recent deal that will put all the broadcaster's TV shows on Google once they have aired on the TV, with Channel 4 responsible for selling the advertising using Google's highly developed web analytics.
Meanwhile, FremantleMedia is exploring sponsorship deals to pay for creating original programming for the web. A recent online drama called Freak had more than 1m views on MySpace, and was sponsored by Red Bull and Pearl , a feminine hygiene product. The community for the drama was very active, with more than 9,000 original music tracks being submitted by MySpace users for use in the drama. "This wasn't like a sponsored bumper on TV, it – it was about social engagement with the audience," says Claire Tavernier, senior executive vice-president of FMX Worldwide, the digital unit of FremantleMedia. The drama, about a teenage girl who feels sheis a social outcast fits well with the target audience for Red Bull, which is seen as edgy, young and about taking risks.
Tavernier admits that Freak will not be a "significant contributor" to FremantleMedia's profit, but that the brands were pleased, as was MySpace. "This was a good learning experience, but I am sure there won't be enough funding from sponsorship to fund a lot of online content creation," says Tavernier. "It will have to be a mix of subscription and micropayments and free with ads and sponsors. That is the mixed business model that we all should aim for."
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