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29+ Online Money-Makers

1. Offer Credit Card Know-How. 
This knowledge is golden today. You become familiar with the formats of electronic payment methods and help other entrepreneurs achieve merchant card status. Once a company or an individual decides to start a business online, they will reach conclusion that they must accept credit cards in order to function and conduct business.

2. Start A Blog: 
Pick a topic you know something about and start blogging. Use Google's AdSense program to sell ads on your blog; the more your readers click on the ads, the more money you make. Promote your blog on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

3. Sell Your Creative Wares: 
Start a website to specifically sell your own CD, designer outfit, accessory or book. One doesn't need a record contract, a big book deal or a Macy's to make it any longer.

4. Help Entrepreneurs Get Online: 
You'll investigate all the Internet Service Providers and help get your clients online. You can even help them pick out a computer if they need that, too.

5. Open An Import Shop: 
You can start your own import shop online. Find a product from another part of the world that you want to import and sell via your website.

6. Turn Trash To Cash: 
Visit eBay and other auction sites and start your own business turning your junk into treasure. There are so many auction sites available, but do some research and some reading on the online auction action so you can avoid the pitfalls. Visit eBay.com and open an account; it's free!

7. Begin A Promotional Biz: 
You can start a business helping others establish different types of promotions-lotteries, sweepstakes and contests- on their websites. Trivia contests and promotional gimmicks keep customers returning to a website.

8. Go Cyber In Your Current Biz: 
Add online capabilities to your existing business. If you have any type of business, conduct a survey to see if your clients would like it if you added a terminal so they could go online-for a fee, of course.

9. Write For Others: 
Write articles for companies that need to create material for their websites that change frequently, in fact, daily. Companies need a lot of material to keep their websites fresh and you can work on a complete repertoire of choices, graphs, contests, interviews and photo stories.

10. Direct Selling: 
Take your direct selling products or line of multi-level marketing products and sell them online via your very own website. If you are involved in any type of multi-level marketing, develop a website to further extend your reach.

11. Market Your Mail-Order Biz Online: 
If you already have a mail-order business, consider extending your reach by developing a website. These products could be your own creations or you could market your own online e-mail order catalog via your website.

12. Create Online Scrapbooks: 
Thanks to scanning technology, it is very easy to store hundreds of photographs on a disk. And, thanks to the many fonts available it is easy to wrap text around the photographs and create interesting, witty or sentimental scrapbook business that provides a wide range of books or that specializes in one type, say weddings, for example.

13. Sell Ads: 
Sells ads for others on their websites. Engage sponsors. You'll be starting your very own online advertising agency. You can sell ads on your own website too, but consider helping others get ads for their websites. Study their business; develop a target list of potential advertisers.

14. Profit From Net Affiliations: 
You develop a website that lists affiliations with other website businesses. Amazon.com is probably one of the most well known net affiliations. Every time your visitor goes to Amazon.com directly from your website- and buys a book- you receive a commission from the sale. There is no bookkeeping involved; you just receive a check at the end of every month. There are dozens of net affiliations that you can use. To find them, search through Affiliate Sales Program Directories. Here are a few you can search:

15. Offer Piggyback Web Space: 
Visit existing businesses in your area and ask them if they have a website. If they don't, invite them to piggyback on your website for a fee.

16. Become An Internet Tutor: 
Conduct Internet tutor workshops for students, other small business owners and anyone who wants to become a "webizen" if not a webpreneur. You can teach your classes privately or you can set up classes.

17. Launch A Zine: 
Select a topic you are very interest in and launch a website about it. It can make money-selling ads, if you love what you do, the money will follow. The Internet is open to all types of interests, so don't hold back because you feel others won't be interested in your zine on surfboards that were shaped from 1955 to 1961. If you build it, they will come!

18. Sell Your Product: 
Sell your product via an online store. You don't even have to have your own website to sell your wares online. You can tie it with a cybermall or store by contacting one of the many existing online stores. One of the biggest and most popular is store.yahoo.com. For about $100 a month, you can list up to 50 items for sale using their website and technology.

19. Start a B2B Business: 
Sell services and products related to online ventures. See them over your own website. You'll research and compile ways to help businesses use their online capabilities and sell them support services and products.

20. Compile Mailing Lists: 
Put together e-mailing lists for other small business owners. Your clients will be small businesses, organizations, hospitals, charity groups, fundraisers, clubs and others who need to compile specific lists for an event or ongoing project.

21. Start Special-Interest Services: 
Start a service website that contains listings for events, concerts and other activities that will attract a dedicated group of followers. Sell ads to companies that are compatible with your products.

22. Build An Online Store: 
Build an online store and sell products from other entrepreneurs. Do you know a lot of crafts entrepreneurs who could benefit by reaching a worldwide audience? Organize them and offer their products for sale on your website.shop.

23. Publish Newsletters For Yourself or Other Businesses: 
Newsletters are wonderful vehicles to keep people informed of what you are doing. You can develop e-mailing lists to promote your newsletter and distribute it to the greatest number of people that you possible can. Offer top stories photos, include a Q&A about your particular business and ask recipients to send you special requests.

24. Open An Auction House: 
You can use eBay and some of the other online auction houses to sell goods and attic treasures for others. Specialize in one type of item-sport collectibles, for example- or generalize and sell just about anything.

25. Teach a Class: 
Contact local learning seminars and adult education course directors and propose a crash course on the Internet. You can even sell a guide to accompany your lecture series.

26. Start An Online Catalog: 
You can sell products created by others on your website. You don't need to develop any products or invent the next pet rock. Sell what others have such as their products, kitchen gadgets, creative artwork, practical offerings and much more. You can even sell CDs from local bands and groups and help local schools sell their items with your very own online store.

27. Start Your Own Survey Biz: 
You can use the Internet to create your own survey business. You'll take surveys and polls of Internet users for businesses and other and you'll also conduct them for fun on a wide variety of topics-sometimes wild and wacky-just to attract visitors to your sites.

28. Publish Articles and Features Offline: 
You can become a writer specializing in various aspects of the Internet and have your articles, features and columns published in newspapers and magazines. Many newspapers around the country don't yet have staff writers to develop internet-related copy, so you can carve out a nice niche for yourself.

29. Online Sales For Businesses: 
You can use your website as a superstore to promote and sells goods for businesses that don't actively use their websites to build their business and sell their goods and services. Promote local and regionally businesses. You charge a monthly fee for the service and take an out of products sold via your website.

30. Teach A Class Online: 
Do you possess a special talent or skill? Could you teach it to others online? If you determine that the answer is "yes"' then write up your course as succinctly as possible and start a website "teaching" your talent or skill.

31. Trade Stocks Online: 
Proceed with caution. but dabble if you have some disposable income and want to start your own business trading stocks. Make sure you are working with capital that you don't need to rely on for other uses such as mortgage payment, tuition costs, medical insurance, or other significant expenditure. Begin by examining the option with E-Trade, Ameritrade, DLKDIRECT, Datek and American Express.

32. Publish a Local Magazine: 
How many residents in your community are online? If you determine that you have thousands of folks with online status, consider starting your own online magazine. You'll write about local events, affairs, politics, publish articles on upcoming shows, plays and community happenings along with letters to the editors.

 

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