PROPER RESEARCH IS NECESSARY FOR SUCCESS

Do not skimp on research. Time spent in research will save headaches and lost sales in the future. Knowing the average selling price of the items you would like to sell is key. Do this by selecting Advanced Search button from the main search page, it is located just to the right of the Search Button. After opening the Advanced Search link, type in your keyword(s) of the product you want information regarding.

Select a category, check the Completed Listings button, then Search. Now what you have on your screen are items that have recently closed on eBay. The products which have Sold will be highlighted Green. The products that did not sell, you will see highlighted in Red or Black. The Red items are unsold Auctions, the Black items are Unsold Buy it Now items. Take this data and place in an excel worksheet that you might review in future.

SHIPPING IS ANOTHER CRITICAL STEP

Shipping is definitely a very sensitive subject with regards to eBay purchases. In years past, many sellers would give a good price on the product, then gouge on the shipping fees. Free Shipping many times will get your product noticed and respected. And the buyer will come back for more products later on.

As you perform your research, notice that many of the products that Sold, have either Free Shipping or Low cost shipping. Overall, Free shipping or reasonably priced shipping products will do better in the long run. Make sure to keep the majority of your shipping cost priced in your product, while maintaining your profit margin, and keep your price competitive.

CONSIDER SUPPLY AND DEMAND

No matter how good a deal you may be receiving on a product, if the eBay community is not interested in it (Demand) sale of the product is not likely. If you have a chance to purchase 100 Widgets for $5.00 each, and the last 50 posts if these widgets only produced 5 sales for $4.75, you will probably be losing money on these Widgets. Or friends and family will be getting Widgets next Christmas.

It is recommend to get off to a good start, find a Dropshipper, a legitimate Dropshipper. With a dropshipper, you do not have to stock any products. Just sell the product, and the dropshipper will send to customer for you. You just collect the profits. Yes, I said legitimate, many so-called “Wholesalers” are retailers in disguise. They give minimal discounts off of retail price, but you are not getting true wholesale pricing. Do a Google search for Wholesale Sources, or Dropship Wholesale, perform your due diligence and deal with a wholesaler, not a middleman.

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In all kinds of business, you need to maintain contact with customers, whether be it product update of feedback survey or conducting promotional campaign, you need to contact your clients.

Doing MLM/ Network Marketing online lack the human touch that offline marketing have. But it is possible to make up for that flaw.

Before you can contact your customers, you need to have their contact. Doing business online, the main contact information is usually the Email address. You can collect email addresses through your website through a squeeze page or opt-in page. The main advantage is that the leads are targeted.

These targeted leads will make up your future sale. They have seen your website, expressed their interest, but have not purchased. So you take their contact and update them of your company, new products, or promotions. This helps them to remember you, like how people think of Pizza Hut when they think of pizzas.

To make people remember you, your company, or website, you can use email marketing to reach out to them. Email Marketing is a powerful way to reach out to your leads, and convert them into potential sales.

Email Like a Pro

Here are some sure fire tips to emailing like a professional.

- Who are you?

People will see who sent them the email before opening them. This makes your email address very important. To look more professional, please refrain from using free email accounts like @gmail, @yahoo or @hotmail. Use something that your customer recognizes, such as your name or company name. e.g. support @yourcompanyname.com. Most hosting package gives you a number of emails account you can create under your own domain name.

The next factor that you should pay attention to is your subject line. Your subject must have the power to make people interested in your email. As a rule, keep it under 50 words.

- Main body

After your reader decides to open your email, you have to grab this opportunity to sell your purpose to them. Identify your self and the purpose of your purpose to them immediately. Keep the style of the email close to the style of your website. State the referrer if you have.

Skyrocket the Effectiveness of Your Emails

Increasing the effectiveness of your emails means to increase action rate. Action in terms of the people reading the emails to visiting the website. Here are 6 tips on how to improve your emails to increase your conversion rates.

- Focus on Branding

Remember to brand yourself or the Company, whichever you are representing. Good branding will make readers remember you, or your company. Keep to the branding you choose, and use it consistently, every time you email them. Use the branding in your from line or subject line, so they can recognize you.

- Honesty

In your Email, do not trick readers with false and untrue information to open email. You have to be honest. Not only is being honest a virtue, it is a legal requirement too.

- Instill Urgency

Use time sensitive words or phrases to create a sense of urgency in readers. Use words like, For Limited Time Only, Buy Now, and Whilst Stock Last.

- Entice them

To further entice them to open the email or action, offer them benefits to action. You can combine urgency and the benefits in the subject line.

- Keep to the limit

In your text, avoid using too many bold, capital letters, bright colors, and punctuation (referring to ! ). For the simplest reason, it makes your text very confusing and distracting. It also triggers spiders and filter to classify it as SPAM.

- K.I.S.S Keep It Short and Sweet.

Don’t try to put in tonnes of information and updates in one email. Keep it short and sweet, focusing on the main points only. Practice your own discretion when writing emails to your audience and purpose of message.

*P.S Take note that it is a mandatory requirement to include an “unsubscribe tab” in your emails.

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Affiliate marketing programs allows advertisers to reimburse webmasters for the space of putting up advertisements on their webpage or even within the e-mails they send. These advertisers pay for space on the internet, much as they would on a billboard or in a magazine or newspaper.

Due to its simplicity of operation the affiliate marketing program has become the most famous methods of how to make money from home. This program can suit to anyone and everyone on this planet. Even housewives who dream of a ahome business work at homea can earn from this.

From the above lines a simple question arises. How and why do advertisers pay to webmasters for just putting up their advertisements? Well the answer is more than simple. Webmasters who receive several thousands hits a day on their webpage are among the top that are posted on various search engines.

Having an add on such a page would be lucrative to any company as it can account to hundreds of new customers everyday. Therefore the price that advertisers pays to the webmasters depends on the number of hits of the webpage on which the add is going to appear on.

Advertisers using affiliate marketing programs pay based on the several types of actions that occur as a result of a website user clicking on their ad. Some pay per click, per thousand click, per action after click, per lead, per completion, and many others.

In a pay per click the advertiser pays the webmaster each time a web site user clicks on the hosted ad. Likewise, in the per thousand click scale the webmaster is paid for every thousand times a web user clicks on the ad’s link. A per action scenario requires that the web user must not only click through the ad link, but also complete a particular action, such as filling out customer information, signing up for a contest, or perhaps completing a purchase before payment is generated to the webmaster. Another payment scale type is cost per lead which is similar to cost per action, but the webmaster sends potential customer information to the advertiser much like one company you purchase airline tickets for might sell your information to their credit card company.

How do webmasters choose the right affiliate marketing program for their websites? Many simply search the internet! The best way to determine which program best suits a webmaster is to search for affiliate programs, evaluate the payments schedules, and determine if ad placement is suitable for their site (size and location requirements).

The income earned from such programs can vary depending on the number of hits your webpage receives. But is the income taxable or not? It depends on the region you are staying in and the type of government. The opportunities in this field are enormous and are worth exploiting!

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A stock market trading plan will not guarantee your success in the markets, but a good plan will enable you to work methodically toward your stock market trading goals while reviewing on a regular basis what is working and what is not. It will act as a roadmap for your trading journey. It will enable you to respond positively and constructively no matter what happens with your individual trades. And, most importantly, it will help you control the only thing a trader can control: his or her own actions.

Finally, stock market trading is a business. It can be a fascinating and sometimes thrilling business, but in the end it is a business. A trading plan helps you treat it as a business.

Successful stock market trading begins with a winning trading plan. It’s as simple as that. If you develop a well-conceived trading plan to guide your actions in the stock market you will already have the advantage over most of your market competition. Put simply, it gives you the edge you need to win over the long haul when trading the stock market or forex market.

Finally, stock market trading is a business. It can be a fascinating and sometimes thrilling business, but in the end it is a business. A trading plan helps you treat it as a business.

Here are some important elements of a trading plan.

1. Why am I trading? What are my goals?

The answers to these questions might seem obvious, but they usually are not. Take some time to ask them of yourself, and seriously consider the answers. You may be surprised by what you learn. And whatever the answers, you will have a clearer picture going forward of what this enterprise means to you, and that will help you survive any rough patches.

2. What markets am I going to trade and why?

It is often best to specialize, especially for beginning stock market traders. Many pros make a great living trading the same stock day every single day for years. Choose a market that is appropriate for your experience level and trading style. Consider other factors such as available margin, volatility and liquidity.

3. What is the concept or philosophy behind your trading methodology?

Your trading system must have a concept behind it. Whether you are a value investor like Warren Buffet or a trend trader like George Soros, you should understand why you are doing what you are doing, how your beliefs about the markets define what you will do as a trader.

4. What will be your specific method?

In other words, specifically how will you execute your trading ideas? Will you buy breakouts or pullbacks? Buy oversold or sell overbought? Or will you use specific technical setups such as moving-average crossovers or another indicator-based strategy? Under exactly what conditions will you enter? When will you know to exit?

5. How much money will you risk on any single trade? On trading in general?

This is critical. Of course, start small. But just as importantly, have a plan in place for how much you will risk, emotions don’t cloud your judgment when the time comes. The key is to find an allocation that doesn’t cause any stress but still makes the trade worthwhile financially. One of the biggest problems with newer traders is that they are trading way too big in relation to their account size. Like when you are forex trading. Trading forex at 100-1 leverage is like introducing your mistress to your wife. Yes, you can do it, but that doesn’t make it a good idea. Normally they don’t get along too well.

6. What will my trading rules be?

This is also critical. Your trading rules include entry and exit rules, rules governing maximum daily, weekly or monthly losses, maximum risk on any given trade, the maximum number of trades per week, etc., etc. These rules enforce discipline and keep you out of trouble. What stock price will enter at, what stock price will I will exit. Be discplined.

7. How will I record and evaluate my trading performance?

Allow me to repeat myself: This is critical. In fact, this might be the most important element of trading for new traders in the stock market. A new stock market trader who evaluates his trades, winners and losers, in an effort to learn what works and what does not, will make quantum leaps forward in terms of ability and profitability. If you have a working trading plan and evaluate every single one of your trades after you have closed it you have already beaten 95% of the competition.

8. What are my rules for managing profits?

What’s the problem with profits? Well, believe it or not there is one, and it’s a serious one. It’s called euphoria, and it clouds the judgment perhaps more than any other emotion related to trading. Start piling up the profits for the first time and it won’t be long before you are convinced you are king of the world. About 30 seconds later you’ll be broke, following a series of unwise and exceedingly risky trades. So have a plan for protecting closed profits when you have reached your goals for the week or the month. Don’t give them all back.

9. How will I reward myself for following my trading plan?

Don’t leave this out. Following your trading plan will bring rewards in the form of profits, but you should also consciously reward yourself for doing so because it is such an important part of successful trading. So if you finish the week or the month (or even the day) without having broken any of your trading rules, find a way to reward yourself. You deserve it. You are in rare company.

If you follow your plan you are improving your chances of becoming sucessful stock market or forex trader.

Happy Trading

About the Author

CFD FX Report is a real time tool for clients with an interest in the trading of stocks, indices and commodities globally.CFDs (Contracts For Differences) are one of the worlds’ fastest growing trading instruments that allows clients to profit from a rising and falling market. The CFD FX Report is a company comprising of expert traders that analyse the market daily and are able to make recommendations for the following day trades based on this analysis. The CFD FX Report is released everyday at 6.30 p.m. (Singapore time) for review by the clients for the next trading day.

We provide sms and email service for our trade ideas as well as full member support. The trading tool that traders needs. Free 1 week trial

A stock market trading plan will not guarantee your success in the markets, but a good plan will enable you to work methodically toward your stock market trading goals while reviewing on a regular basis what is working and what is not. It will act as a roadmap for your trading journey. It will enable you to respond positively and constructively no matter what happens with your individual trades. And, most importantly, it will help you control the only thing a trader can control: his or her own actions.

Finally, stock market trading is a business. It can be a fascinating and sometimes thrilling business, but in the end it is a business. A trading plan helps you treat it as a business.

Here are some important elements of a trading plan.

1. Why am I trading? What are my goals?

The answers to these questions might seem obvious, but they usually are not. Take some time to ask them of yourself, and seriously consider the answers. You may be surprised by what you learn. And whatever the answers, you will have a clearer picture going forward of what this enterprise means to you, and that will help you survive any rough patches.

2. What markets am I going to trade and why?

It is often best to specialize, especially for beginning stock market traders. Many pros make a great living trading the same stock day every single day for years. Choose a market that is appropriate for your experience level and trading style. Consider other factors such as available margin, volatility and liquidity.

3. What is the concept or philosophy behind your trading methodology?

Your trading system must have a concept behind it. Whether you are a value investor like Warren Buffet or a trend trader like George Soros, you should understand why you are doing what you are doing, how your beliefs about the markets define what you will do as a trader.

4. What will be your specific method?

In other words, specifically how will you execute your trading ideas? Will you buy breakouts or pullbacks? Buy oversold or sell overbought? Or will you use specific technical setups such as moving-average crossovers or another indicator-based strategy? Under exactly what conditions will you enter? When will you know to exit?

5. How much money will you risk on any single trade? On trading in general?

This is critical. Of course, start small. But just as importantly, have a plan in place for how much you will risk, emotions don’t cloud your judgment when the time comes. The key is to find an allocation that doesn’t cause any stress but still makes the trade worthwhile financially. One of the biggest problems with newer traders is that they are trading way too big in relation to their account size. Like when you are forex trading. Trading forex at 100-1 leverage is like introducing your mistress to your wife. Yes, you can do it, but that doesn’t make it a good idea. Normally they don’t get along too well.

6. What will my trading rules be?

This is also critical. Your trading rules include entry and exit rules, rules governing maximum daily, weekly or monthly losses, maximum risk on any given trade, the maximum number of trades per week, etc., etc. These rules enforce discipline and keep you out of trouble. What stock price will enter at, what stock price will I will exit. Be discplined.

7. How will I record and evaluate my trading performance?

Allow me to repeat myself: This is critical. In fact, this might be the most important element of trading for new traders in the stock market. A new stock market trader who evaluates his trades, winners and losers, in an effort to learn what works and what does not, will make quantum leaps forward in terms of ability and profitability. If you have a working trading plan and evaluate every single one of your trades after you have closed it you have already beaten 95% of the competition.

8. What are my rules for managing profits?

What’s the problem with profits? Well, believe it or not there is one, and it’s a serious one. It’s called euphoria, and it clouds the judgment perhaps more than any other emotion related to trading. Start piling up the profits for the first time and it won’t be long before you are convinced you are king of the world. About 30 seconds later you’ll be broke, following a series of unwise and exceedingly risky trades. So have a plan for protecting closed profits when you have reached your goals for the week or the month. Don’t give them all back.

9. How will I reward myself for following my trading plan?

Don’t leave this out. Following your trading plan will bring rewards in the form of profits, but you should also consciously reward yourself for doing so because it is such an important part of successful trading. So if you finish the week or the month (or even the day) without having broken any of your trading rules, find a way to reward yourself. You deserve it. You are in rare company.

If you follow your plan you are improving your chances of becoming sucessful stock market or forex trader.

Happy Trading

About the Author

CFD FX Report is a real time tool for clients with an interest in the trading of stocks, indices and commodities globally.CFDs (Contracts For Differences) are one of the worlds’ fastest growing trading instruments that allows clients to profit from a rising and falling market. The CFD FX Report is a company comprising of expert traders that analyse the market daily and are able to make recommendations for the following day trades based on this analysis. The CFD FX Report is released everyday at 6.30 p.m. (Singapore time) for review by the clients for the next trading day. We provide sms and email service for our trade ideas as well as full member support. The trading tool that traders needs. Free 1 week trial

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Like most of us online we have been selling on ebay with not much success.

Well the obstacles in your business are the underlying cause for virtually every failure on eBay and kill almost all your business. The thing about it, is that making money on eBay couldn’t be any easier. All that’s necessary is finding products that you can “buy low and sell at a profit”. This is the secret of making money on eBay — but it’s also the hard part. And this is precisely where many of the so-called how to make money on eBay courses miss the mark. Half-truths about Internet auctions have proliferated around the Web like an epidemic. It seems that everyone is offering a course about eBay about some wholesaler.

And so none of the programs adequately address the number 1 question that’s on every seller’s mind: “Where can I find items at ultra-deep discounts necessary to generate the big profits on eBay.” Right…..

But not only do these courses fail to answer questions — they merely focus on the initial phase of building a business on eBay. Although learning the basics is important, and will help you make some money at first — clearly these starter kits do not give you the insider strategies needed to grow your business.

And whats even worse is the fact that the courses are typically written by self-proclaimed marketing “gurus” — many of whom have never sold anything on eBay — or anywhere else for that matter.

Obviously, with such a lack of adequate training material available, it’s no wonder why so many people abandon their hopes of making money on eBay. Can you blame them?

So here are some quick and easy tips to making a fortune on ebay

1. Set your account up properly. This is overlooked many times in the beginning and will stop progress quickly

2. List your items correctly with no mistakes in the spelling. One mispelled word can cost you the sale or place your item in the wrong area.

3. Take clear photos The sale many times hangs on the photo …So take great pictures!

4. Look at other auctions. This is a short cut to see how you stand up against others……use their ideas also!

5. Free Shipping changes things This is where customers compare you to others…be free if you can.

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Do not forget, a divorce ends a marriage and a separation agreement does not. However this does not mean that an agreement does not have the potential to be very significant and effective. A agreement can accompany a divorce to help define the specifics of the split. In that situation the marriage ends by way of the divorce but all the finer points are addressed in the agreement.

Or, it can be used on its own so that a divorce can come later, or not at all. Some separated couples get back together or remain apart but never actually terminate their marriage with a divorce.

Sometimes an agreement is filed with the court when a divorce is processed. Other than that, it is only filed or registered with the court if one party breaks the agreement and the other needs to ask the court to enforce it. Filing it with the court does not make it legal, signing it does. But it has to be signed correctly.

In some provinces certain terms of the agreement are not enforceable unless each spouse receives independent legal advice (from a lawyer) prior to signing it or at least signs a waiver of independent legal advice which is witnessed by a lawyer. It is always a wise move to spend a little extra to have a lawyer go over your agreement with you before you sign it.

Be sure to have your spouse get independent legal advice as well. If they do not get it, they can ask the court to overturn it because they did not understand what they were signing.

The most important things to cover in your separation agreement are the details regarding the care and financial support of children, the issue of spousal support, and the division of your property and debt. Obviously if there are no children, low income and little property, this is easier than if all of these matters must be dealt with.

So the essential things to keep in mind are: 1. to understand what a separation agreement can and cannot do; 2. to make sure that it is signed correctly after receiving independent legal advice; and 3. to make sure it deals with the important issues of children, income and property.

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A well known fact amongst the trading community is that 90 percent of investors lose money in futures and Forex tradin! This leaves 10%, which is then broken down to 4-6 percent break even and only 4-6 percent make money.

What Group Are YOU in?

Given the high numbers of clients that are unsuccessful, it is all the more important for investors to approach futures and forex trading in the right manner. So we have put together some rules that hopefully help you become a more successful trader.

Secret 1: Trade with Money you can afford to Lose

Now that you have decided to get involved in trading, sit down and asses how much money am I going to trade, investor, speculate on the market with. I understand that this is trading and therefore there is the chance that I can lose my money.

Secret 2: It’s Not how many trades: Do not OVERTRADE

So many new traders come to the market thinking, I am going to pick 8 winners out of 10 and make all of this money. Well it is possible to pick more winners but still lose on the market. Why because of risk and money management, so always put in equal amounts per trade. Eg: if you have $20,000 to trade, break it up into $2,000 trades, this will help with you staying in much longer and increasing your success to become a successful or a full time trader.

Secret 3: Run with the profits, and cut those losers.

If a trade goes against you, remember to cut it. No one can pick the market 100% of the time, so don’t think you are different. If the trade is going the wrong way cut it. Re look at the trade, there is going to be plenty more. Once they start going up, let them go, who knows how high they go. Remember always use trailing stop losses.

Secret 4: Feel Like you can’t pick your nose- Have a Break

It can be possible that you are just not picking the market right or there are strange market conditions if this is the case take a break. Walk away and then come back and look again.

Secret 5: Work like an Egyptian build pyramids

As the market moves up and you are long much earlier, you must learn not to double up your positions. Instead, reduce your positions each time you add to a position. If at first you had 10 contracts, the second should not be more than 5-6 contracts and the third should be 50% of your second (i.e. 3 contracts). An upside down pyramid will be top heavy and could wipe out all your hard-earned profits should the market reverse.

Secret 6 : Don’t Double Down- It just compounds losses

If start to add to a losing position by averaging down this is going to be very dangerous. Remember you are investing with “margin”. The contract is not yours; you merely paid a percentage of the total value. Averaging a losing position is equivalent to not admitting your mistakes, that you were wrong in the first place. Successful traders cut their losses short and realize that you can’t get 100% of winning trades. We all try, but we can’t. So cut losses.

Secret 7: WHO wants to be a millionaire? Don’t Put it all in One Trade

Use risk and money management to protect your capital, divide your trading capital into 10 equal parts and never lose more than 10 percent on one trade. If you lost the first trade, you still have nine more opportunities to be right. Putting all your capital on one trade is suicidal and you will go down.

Secret 8: NEVER MEET MARGIN CALLS - CUT THE $hit- Saves you Money

When you are wrong about the market, get out, admit it and move on. Once you start thinking, very often prices will go against your position, further triggering a margin call from your broker. A margin call simply means that you are wrong in the market and your position should be closed out. Margin calls are made because people do not want to admit being wrong and take a loss; they hope the market will eventually go in their direction and that they will get there money back. It will come back, I am not wrong. Yes you are.. Get out. To avoid this mistake, you should never meet margin calls. Just cut your losses and “get the hell out”.

Secret 9: Transfer Profits

Probably no more than 1% of traders have a rule to take profits out of their trading account. The few wise investors I know have bought their house, a car or simply put part of their winnings into a fixed deposit account, or into some long term shares, otherwise the chances are high that they may lose them all back.

Secret 10: James Blunt knows- Baby because I’ve got a plan Make a Plan

Lack of planning can only result in no plan, and without a plan you are gambling. Look at getting advice, from stock market reports, Great Broker look finding a great stock broker, use this site to see who they recommend.

HELP HINTS: Most traders should listen to the Kenny Rogers song The Gambler, there are aspects of that song that can learn from, mainly, know when to hold them, know when to fold them, and know when to ‘cut’ RUN

1. Know when and at what price you are going to enter the market. 2. Know how much money you are going to risk on each and every trade. 3. Know when and at what price you are going to get out when you are wrong. 4. Know when and at what price you are going to take your profits if you are right. 5. Know how much money you are going to make if you are right. 6. Have a safety stop in case the market does the unexpected. 7. Have an approximate idea of when the market should meet your objectives or when it should begin to make a move; and if it has not done so, get out.

FINAL WRAP UP

One of the most important things to take away are set a plan, has your risk and money management plan in front of you and stick to it. If you have that plan and it doesn’t work, re plan, that’s why if you start small you can soon build up to be whatever trader you want to be.

Happy Trading

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The economic situation of many countries is looking bad. It leads many to try to find other ways to make money. One of those ways is to make money online. Is it really possible for a person to make a living online? I can tell you truthfully that the answer is yes. People every day make money with blogs, websites, and through affiliate marketing. I’m sure you’re wondering if it’s possible for someone that is just starting out with little experience to have success with this business. The answer is once again yes.

The key to success with making money online has a lot to do with understanding your market. If you will be building websites, then you also need to understand keyword research. You’ll also need to understand user habits, as well as learn how to rank your website to the top of Google. Obviously you could build a website, but without traffic the website is just stagnant, and will not allow for people to have the opportunity to either click on advertisements or purchase a product.

Simply doing a search for the keywords “make money online” in Google will return millions of results. So how do you know who is truthful, and who is just trying to get your money through the many online scams? I can tell you truthfully, that you should not have to pay money for it in e-book to make money online. All of the information that I have ever accumulated on the Internet to make money online, has always been free. Some of the so-called gurus, are more than happy to charge you hundreds of dollars and sometimes thousands of dollars, to take their online courses to learn how to make money online.

Why is it that people are so willing to buy trash products? Most people believe that there is some special magic, that the product possesses that will provide them with an easy way to make money. When you think of these types of scams, they are very similar to the TV infomercials where people pay just as much money to learn schemes that turn out to be empty promises.

If I could give you one piece of advice, it would be that the most important type of traffic to your website or blog is through organic traffic. This means direct traffic coming to your site through someone searching in Google. Use Google as much as possible to find free information on the Internet if you are wanting to start an online business. The old saying still applies, if it seems too good to be true it probably is. I certainly hope, that you will use common sense just as I have when I started out in the online business to learn how to be successful. Don’t be scammed, and don’t be gullible, use common sense along with a little effort and you will find what you are seeking.

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But being ahead of 2,050,000 or so other competitors has to be good for something, and mainly Aaron Wall and his SEO Video Tutorials get the credit.

It gives me a warm fuzzy though, and makes me want to get busy and boost up the level of service around here.  2—8 has been an absolutely horrible year for some seniors and retirees and it doesn’t look like it will get a lot better any time soon.

The way this retiree looks at things, you can whine and moan, you can go down the Socialist road (AARP, anyone?) or you can just shake off the bad news and go out and do something to make life better.

Making my own money online is the way I’ve chosen and so far it’s been working just great.  Overall I’m up about 500% this year, all things considered, and to paraphrase Curly from “City Slickers”, “Year ain’t over, yet.”

One way I have made a little money over the years and plan to make more is domaining.  What the heck is domaining you might ask?  Well the closest ‘off line’ example might be described the same as an investor buying up vacant lots and expecting to sell them later for Donald Trump to build a casino on, or at the very least for Apu Nahasapeemapetilon to open a Kwik-E-Store.  (if you don’t know Apu, you aren’t watching enough TV ;-)).

Unlike real ‘dirt’ property, though, it costs very little to get started in domains and the carrying charges per year are also trivial to say the least.

Here’s a little virtual property I used to own … I sold it for a very nice profit and both the new owner and I are very happy with the deal.

Here’s another one I wasn’t nearly as astute on … could you imagine how many different ways you could turn a profit with this one when gas hits $4 a gallon again?  Fuelfill.com.  Not that the present owner isn’t making money as it is … notice all the ads?  This domain is in a ‘parked’ status, the current owner didn’t have to build anything or do anything really with the domain … he ‘parks’ it and the parking company runs ads and shares the profits while the owner waits for his personal Donald Trump to come along.  And while he waits, the present owner has something over 1,500,000 other domains in his portfolio to keep this one company.

I’m pretty bullish on domains as a way to make mainly long-term, incremental online money.  Here’s just a few of the reasons I think they’re a good deal in 2009 or any other year:

1. Very low investment.  You can buy domains for $6 USD or so, some even less.

2. Residual income.  If you have domains in your portfolio that you haven’t built on but want to keep, you can let them pay their own way with paid parking.  Unlike “real”  jobs where one gets paid by the hour, domain work lasts longer. If you find a few domains that get type-in traffic you will reap the rewards for as long as it receives traffic.  And there are cheaper than cheap ways to build that traffic as well.

3. You can work from anywhere.  Want to travel and still have a business, no problem. All that is required is a computer and an internet connection.

4. Knowledge about domaining is everywhere, and mostly, for free

5. We’re open for business 24/7.  Hate the alarm going of at 0-dark-thirty in order to get to some traditional retirement supplement job like being a greeter at Wal*Mart.  No more.  You domains and virtual real estate earn while you sleep, or play with your grandkids or golf.  You are never tied down

There are many more reasons I think domaining can be an ideal way for seniors and retirees to make money online.  But how about you?  What do you think?  Are you already a domainer and want to share your story?  Had a bad experience and want to tell us why?  Or do you have that burning question you just haven’t seen an answer to anywhere else.

Help is just as close as the comment box below this post.  And while you’re at it, why not subscribe to this blog so you don’t miss any future articles and tips?

All the best for your success in 2009 from this senior who already makes money online.

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One of my favorite guys is Daniel Scocco who has at least two highly useful and successful blogs, Daily Blog Tips and Daily Writing Tips.

Among the many things Daniel doers to help the blogging community is frequent shared writing projects.  Daniel picks a subject, writes a blog post on topic and then invites any others who want to participate to write their own post on that subject and get a link from his blog to the individual posts.

This not only boosts traffic but shares a literal wealth of information because if you follow the lists you get a whole brad spectrum of ideas all on a common goal.

Daniel’s current project is very calendar appropriate, blogging goals for 2009.

Here’s mine:

My 2009 Internet Goals

1. Make every domain I own produce some income

2. Triple my GPS-related blog income

3. Provide a domain monitor service (build or buy)

4. Earn at least $500 per month in affiliate sales

5. Produce and sell at least one self-authored info product (eBook or ???)

6. Get at least 500 uniques a day from some combination of blogs

7. Sell off at least two blogs I have no interest in.

8. Build out two sites with forums to sell or convert to paid membership sites

That should be enough to keep me out of mischief. May hat is off to Daniel … when you look at the numbers he has already attained versus the numbers I am only shooting for you can see just how hard he’s worked. Notice I didn’t say how lucky he has been. I’ve been following much of Daniel’s work for more than two years now and it’s my judgment luck doesn’t enter into the picture much. He works hard and provides value … and that’s the real secret of what ‘on line luck’ is all about.

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