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The first thing you need to do prior to starting an online business is to choose a money making idea or a profitable online business opportunity. When selecting an online business idea, there are a number things to think about, including:

1. Passions – Most of the business opportunities on the Internet are just like any small business startup, they take time and effort to become profitable. So when choosing an online business, you should first think about what types of online businesses you have an interest in and what area of business work your are passionate about. Doing what you like and interested will keep you working consistently and avoid getting bored easily when profit is low on the initial stage.

2. Skills and abilities – It is very difficult to work on something that beyond your abilities. Before starting an online business, you need to make sure that the online business opportunity you have chosen fits well within your abilities and constraints. You may evaluate your abilities, skills and knowledge as an business owner, and ask yourself whether you can handle the record-keeping tasks, online marketing work, and other administrative tasks required of each business opportunity. If you cannot do it all yourself, outsourcing will be a good solution.

3. Market demand and competition – Before going into any opportunity, it is vital to conduct an online market research to identify the market demand for your product, service, or information you will be offering. You would definitely want to start an online business that has high market demand or at least has a reasonable amount of market demand. If the size of your target market is too small, consider looking for another business opportunity. Also think about looking at a narrower market within each business opportunity to find a need that hasn’t been filled.

On the other hand, competition analysis is also needed, you don’t want jump into a niche that is crowed with tons of competitors.

4. Operating expenses – Do some calculations to get a general sense of an online business startup budget before deciding a business to pursue. Weed out those business opportunities and ideas that will exceed your predetermined budget.

When you find an online business opportunity that:

• Interests you.
• Is manageable using your skill and knowledge
• has a profitable market with reasonable competition,
• and falls under your budget

You have found an online business opportunity that is potentially workable.

Below are several common online business opportunities that you can choose to make money on the net:

1. Content-based Websites – Websites that are in content-based typically offer some kind of useful content to their targeted audience in the form of articles, e-courses, audio or videos. The targeted content will then be monetized in some ways (usually through contextual advertising programs such Google AdSense, YPN, Kontera ads link and many more) to generate revenue. Community websites like online forums and social media sites that have fresh content posted every moment can be also monetized in a similar fashion.

2. Online Services – There are plenty of online services you can offer on the Internet through your website. Some examples of services are web design, SEO, Internet marketing, web programming, Java script, web copy and content writing, data entry, account and administrative services, or even Web services such as domain registrations or Web hosting.

3. Online Products – You can virtually sell anything on the Internet. There are plenty of choices of selling products on the Internet, including creating custom products, promoting affiliate products, reselling others’ products, or developing your own digital products such as e-books, reports, DVD courses, audio and video tutorial, etc to sell online.

Use these basic example of online business opportunities together with the above tips for choosing the most appropriate business idea for your online startup, to aid in creating a manageable and in-demand online business.

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You’ll know what you have to do and what tools you need to get your first profitable business up on the Internet.

Google is the biggest search engine you may have used when searching for information on the Internet. But have you ever used Google for more than just finding information you need? If not, then you are missing out on some very good tools provided that can make searching the Internet not only more effective, but also fun.

One of the best places to begin is by finding out which products are popular today. On Google’s homepage, click ‘more’ located in left-hand corner. Click ‘products’ and you will see a list of products. You can begin your search for niche markets here. Compare what’s on your list to see if there are any categories that match. If not, don’t give up; hold on to your list as you can use these topics in other searches. Begin by clicking on topics that interest you. These topics may also be easier to create products for later on because you have an interest in them.

Keep in mind that for now, you are simply browsing the Internet looking for popular items that people are searching for. Listed below are other tools to use when searching for niche markets.

Google Directory
When you want to narrow down a topic, the Google directory is a good place to begin. To get to the directory, go to http://www.google.com/dirhp. You will be given a list of popular categories to search that will help you narrow down your topic. Pull out your list and begin your search. Each category has sub-categories to search. Eventually, you will reach a page that contains a list of websites where you can find additional information. If there are few websites listed, this is a good indication that you have found a profitable niche because the niches needs are not being met.

Google Sets
If you are having difficulty narrowing down your topic or you want to generate more categories from a larger topic, use Google sets. This is a tool that allows you to create a set of like items that you can search from. Visit http://labs.google.com/sets to use this tool.

This is a good tool to use when brainstorming for niche markets as well. After a set has been created, you can search through websites that contain the information.

Google Zeitgeist
This tool is used to help you generate niche ideas or to see how popular the topics on your list are. You can search in the US or around the world if you choose. While this is tool will only give you an idea of how popular a trend is becoming, it is handy when beginning your research.

Google Trends
If you have a few topics that have gained exposure in the past few months, you will want to check out their popularity to see if it will continue to be popular a few weeks or months from now. Google trends is a tool that can give you a better idea of how many people have been searching for a topic over a certain amount of time. You can track the progress of any topic you like to see if the trend will continue of if it will die down. Trends on the downside are usually not worth pursuing.

Visit Google Labs, http://labs.google.com/, to see more search options and tools that are available. While some of the tools are experiments at the moment, you will find some that are very useful in your search for profitable niche markets.

Know More Media has recently recruited 11 experts to write and contribute content for the blogs in Know More Media Network. But it seems that the owners of this company haven’t found enough bloggers for their blog network. They are still looking for people who can write topics and subjects such as real estate, entrepreneurship, fitness, finance (ie. commodities, mortgage, double ledger, and etc), retailing and call center.

Know More Media claims that bloggers who join its network would typically make $150 – $1000 per month. This is a nice extra income for beginner wanting to start making money on the Internet. You may apply for a paid blogging position by visiting the below link.

http://www.knowmoremedia.com/write-for-us.html

Some requirements of these paid positions are:
1) You must be passionate on the topic you want to write.
2) A personal expert in your topic and able to share your opinions and give advice.
3) Good writing skills and able to write in a unique voice that your readers will enjoy reading your blog entries.

Full details about Know More Media blogging opportunities can be accessed here.

Here are the latest blogging job opportunities I came across on the web this week:

Writers/Bloggers Needed in Type-A Mom
Type-A Mom is looking for mom writers to contribute content for Type-A Mom. Mom who become writer of Type-A Mom will get a 50-50 share of Google ads on all the published articles on Type-A Mom and get a free banner advertisement in the rotation on the site. Find out more: Type-A Mom Writer.

AwareGeek.com – Several Gadget Bloggers Positions Opened
AwareGeek.com is one of the gadget blogs in yaBloggy Blog Network. They are currently paying $3 per post to bloggers that can write interesting and unique content for AwareGeek.com. Bloggers must be well-informed, experienced in their topic and have at least a basic understanding of HTML to apply this position. Full detail can be found here.

Bloggers Wanted in 5 Sites
There are 5 established and new sites now searching for bloggers to write the following topics: environment, green cars, technology, car technology and gadget. The chosen blogger(s) for each site will be responsible for 4-6 posts per week. And the pay is 5 canadian dollar per post with average lenght of 300-500 words. If you are interested, you may apply here.

When you are running a website to market your Internet business and make money online, choosing the best Internet marketing methods is crucial for your online business, which will give you the greatest reward in traffic and revenue compared to the amount of work put in and the time and money invested. This is called getting a good ROI (return on investment) from your Internet marketing campaigns or effort.

There are many common methods of Internet marketing, and most can be applied to market a wide variety of websites, blogs and e-businesses. Below are a few of the general forms of Internet marketing:

1. Email Marketing – build a opt-in subscribers list through a website, newsletters or e-zine. Then send offers, promotions, coupons, etc to the opt-in subscribers.

2. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – it involved on-page and off-page optimization which include changing your website keywords and structure; and building relevant inbound links.

3. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) – search engine advertising like Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing, etc.

4. Viral Marketing – video / file-sharing, tell-a-friend, spreading free e-books, report and other downloadable things.

5. Affiliate Marketing – having others market your products or services free, share a percentage of sales with those who made sales for you.

6. Online Advertising – banner ads, text link ads, sponsorships, etc.

7. Online PR – Write and submit press releases to news sites, blogging, etc.

8. Article Marketing – write interesting articles related to your website, products or business, and then distribute them to article directories and submission sites.

To finding and select the Internet marketing tactics that work best for your website or online business, you need to create an Internet marketing plan, including a budget.

When creating an Internet marketing plan, list all possible Internet marketing methods and techniques that fit your budget and have the potential to reach your target prospects. Once you’ve completed a master list of potential Internet marketing methods, test each of them to discover which methods work and which ones aren’t working for your website. Testing each potential Internet marketing techniques and tactics will take some time and money. But it is worth doing it because you will discover the effective marketing methods for your business that will provide consistent traffic and revenue.

You will be able to narrow down the best marketing options once you have done testing, and create your final list of Internet marketing methods and tactics for your website or online business that:

- Will reach your target market.
- Will be able to influence the target market.
- Has been applied in this niche targeting a similar market successfully before.
- Will not exceed your budget for Internet marketing campaigns.
- Provide consistent traffic and revenue for your website.

This blog, MoneyMakerInfo.blogspot.com uses to rank #1 for a numbers of my primary keyword phrases in Google below:

• Make Money Online
• Making Money Online
• Make Money
• Making Money
• How to Make Money
• Earn Money Online
• Money Maker
• How to Earn Money Online

But, for the past 3 months I have experienced several times my Google rankings drop. The keyword phrases ‘earn money online’ was first taken down from no.1 to no.2 and it never go back to no.1.

And then the same happened to my other keyword phrases ‘make money online’ as well. It fell from no.1 to no.2 also. The drop didn’t affect my traffic level since I still no.1 for this keyword phrases in Google other countries such Google.ca, Google.in, Google.com.au and etc.

My Google rankings didn’t stop here. Today when I check my Google positions, I found that my Google rankings in a few of other keywords went down also. The keywords phrases are ‘how to make money’ and ‘money maker’. Both rankings went down from #1 to #2. Besides that my top positions in Google other countries have got busted too. What a bad day I have.

But fortunately, my traffic level isn’t seriously affected. The Google traffic I get today is only a few percent lower than usual and my daily earning from this blog is just slightly lesser than usual.

I have no idea what’s the reason causes this drop. May be Google has done another ranking algorithm update causing my blog down or may be it is a little penalization from Google to me for climbing too high. Whatever reason is it, I’m optimistic with my Google positions. I guess this is just another Google ranking fluctuation that happen to many site and blog also. I think I will get back my no.1 rankings when another Google ranking fluctuation occurs.

WidgetBucks shows pay-per-click (PPC) shopping widget ads on web publishers sites and blogs and the publishers will earn money each time a visitor clicks on a WidgetBucks ad. It works just like Google AdSense except their ads format are so different, AdSense displays contextual ads while WidgetBucks displays their creative widget ads.

Since WidgetBucks is a PPC ads network and is compatible with AdSense, you may have used it on your site or blog and earn a nice extra income from it. If you have really done that, congratulation to you. But, if you have tested it and get poor result or you have heard about WidgetBuck but don’t know how to optimize it on your site to make more money, I suggest you check out Joel Comm’s new free e-book ‘Widget Bucks Secrets’ released few days ago.

Widget Bucks Secrets – 33 Page e-book

Joel Comm who has made an extra $1,000 monthly from Widgetbucks will teach you step-by-step how to generate additional web income using WidgetBucks.

Lately there have been a number of quality video trainings and content released by the big name experts in the Internet marketing industry. First, it’s the video training in the Going Natural 2.0 Series I have mentioned in this blog last week. The video were published by Andy Jenkin from Stompernet. It is professional and provide numerous social marketing strategies. You should watch them if you want to double or triple your traffic and website income using social marketing.

Stompernet.net – Social Marketing Video

Just after a few days Andy published his latest video, Frank Kern has come out a list building video. Frank is the guy that has brought in millions dollar into his bank account by building a list and promoting products to his list. So I’m sure that you’ll learn something useful for improving your online business profit from watching this list building video.

MassControlSite.com – List Building Video

And Yesteday, John Reese released a video also. He encourages people to make money online by marketing Internet marketing products and exposes a lot of good info on how you can make money in the Internet marketing niches. You may watch John’s video here.