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Today, the Internet is full of Money Making opportunities. There are affiliate marketing, eBay auctioning, blog marketing, ebook selling, AdSense site building and etc. All these are online business opportunities that can make you a life changing income.

But, if you are the type of person who prefers to have a job career on the Internet, you may find that these online business ideas aren’t for you. In this case, you can consider taking part in the outsourced customer service call center field. By becoming a call center agent, you can earn a good income consistently. These online job opportunities exist because many companies are now wanting to outsource their customer support or help desk in order to cut down their cost and free up more office space.

The benefit of working as an call agent is that you don’t need to work in office. And you probably already owns most of the tools required to get started. The necessary tools are a computer or a laptop, broadband speed Internet connection and a headset with microphone.

The job will depend on the company you work with. It can be taking incoming calls from potential and existing customers who want to ask about the products or services of the company. Or making outbound calls (not cold calling) to existing customers.

There is not much pressure doing the job. But you do need to have communication skill as you will be talking over the phone with different people. Patience is a must because sometimes you will get phone calls from people complaining about the company’s product.

When you apply to join a company as a home based call agent, usually you need to first go through a training program. The company will probably pay you for working in the training program. You will also be instructed to install some software to help you with the call.

One thing that the company will insist is the room you use for dealing with customer calls must be quite. The company will not want their customers hear noises like your kids are running around the house, baby crying and etc while you are talking to them over the phone. This is a rule you must comply because the company may listen to some of your calls when appraising your performance.

Here are two US companies that offer the outsource call job opportunities:

1. Custom Loyal
2. Alpineaccess

You might need helpful info when applying a job from these two companies. The existing call agents have been providing good info and assistance in WAHM Forum. The threads specifically for Custom Loyal and Alpineaccess are:

Custom Loyal – http://www.wahm.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=107
Alpineaccess – http://www.wahm.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=97

Outsource customer service calling job is quite a new way to make money online. You can choose to work for part-time or full-time depending on the free time you have.

Your skill in a particular field can earn your cash from the Internet. The idea is to provide your skill to others who need it through the Internet for a price. There are numerous Internet marketers and entrepreneurs needing help, with the right skill you possess, you can help them solve their problems. There are also loads of Internet users interested to learn your skill. You can earn money by sharing your skill or guide them to do the thing they love.

Below is a 3-step process you can take to turn your skill into cash:

#1 Step – Find Your Skill
This obvious isn’t difficult. You should already known what best skill you have. Skills that can earn you money those are that can help people save time, solve a problem, save money or save time. Some of the high demand skills now are:

• Writing – article writing, copywriting, blogging and ghostwriting.

• Web and graphics design – website building, blog theme design, e-cover design, graphic and images creation.

• Search engine optimization - Building inbound links, optimizing website and etcs.

• Technical – Programming, script installation, blog installation, tracking and testing.

As you can see, the above skills are directly related to Internet marketing and e-commerce. The e-entrepreneurs and webmasters often need them to get their problem solved fast.

For most other skills that has nothing to do with the Internet marketing, it is best to turn them into educational guide and offer it to a target group of Internet users who want to learn it.

#2 Step – Turn Your Skill into a Product or Service
If you do possess a skill related to Internet marketing, it will be profitable to start a freelance business specialized to provide your service to the e-entrepreneurs and web publishers. While doing your freelance business, you can also develop your paid coaching program or e-book product that will teach people to master a skill of Internet marketing niche. This can become an additional source of income to you.

For those of you who are good at office support (data entry, etc) or accounting, you may check out Guru.com, Elance.com and other freelance service sites for freelance works that suit you.

Even your skill has nothing to do with Internet marketing, it still can bring you online income. There are already a group of people searching on the Internet to learn the skill you have, you can just write a ‘how to’ e-book or guide and sell it to this target group of people.

#3 Step – Start Your Business
When you have your own products created or you are ready to provide your expertise or skill, it is time to plan and start your online business. A website is needed to launch your business.

Don’t worry, it isn’t difficult to get a professional website nowadays. Web designers are everywhere on the Internet. Just hire a good and experienced one through the freelance marketplace and your problem solved. Lets the web designer do all the work for you (from website building to setting up).

As you are selling a service or product, marketing will be vital to you. For a beginner who hasn’t experienced much about web marketing and promotion, PPC advertising is a good choice. PPC advertising can give you instant potential customers at no effort. But, you will pay for each targeted visitor send to your website.

While your PPC ad campaign is running, you can spend more time to look into what other Internet marketing approaches to use for promoting your business. If you can come up with a marketing plan, that will be even better. The plan will clearly list out your goal, the exact marketing strategies to be used for achieving your goal with a budget of how much to invest in each marketing approach.

It has been over two years I used AdSense on this blog to make money online. I still remember when I first applied to become a Google AdSense Publisher; I was actually rejected by Google. I got approval only on the second application after I done some changes to the site that I used it to apply AdSense.

And recently my friend started an anti-virus blog, I helped him to send an application to Google for opening an AdSense publisher account and he got his AdSense account approved within 10 hours.

With these experiences, I think I can share some info helpful for you to get your AdSense account approved smoothly and start earning online with AdSense

Getting an AdSense account to approve isn’t difficult actually if you know clearly their program policies. Once you have set up your site or blog with content added in, you can read the Google AdSense policies here to see whether your site or blog comply with each of their rules and terms. There is also a set of webmaster guidelines you must adhere as an AdSense publisher.

After reading all Google AdSense program policies and their webmaster guidelines, if it seems that your site or blog doesn’t against anything, you may fill out the AdSense sign form to send your application to Google.

There are actually quite a lot to read in Google AdSense policies and Google’s webmaster quality guidelines. You may not be able to understand all of them. Checking each rule and guideline take time. So, if you don’t have the time to understand totally their policies and guidelines; and making sure you comply everything, here are a few quick tips for you:

Site should be Information-Rich
As Google AdSense program is targeted for content-based website. Your site needs to have a reasonable amount of content. The content must be original and family-friendly. Don’t use reprinted articles which already been published on other sites as Google AdSense team will not like it. If it is a blog you are going to use to apply for AdSense, make sure it has at least 5 original posts before applying.

Proper Website Design and Structure
2 column and 3 column layout are best for AdSense content-based website. The site has a clear navigation section for visitors. The navigation text links should be simple and arrange in a manner that easy for users to browse your web pages.

A site map is suggested although it isn’t necessary. Do some on-page SEO optimization. Especially the title tag and meta description tag, they should be clearly and accurately describing what your website is about and with your primary keywords included.

Three Don’t Do
- Don’t set your site to show pop and pop-up, pop-under when visitors browse your site.
- Don’t create pages with spyware, viruses or adware.
- No hidden text and hidden links in your website.

In the case that your application was rejected by Google AdSense team, Google will reply you with a reason for rejection. Read the reason carefully and review your website. Find the area that against AdSense policies, change it or remove it then reply. You will get the approval if you done the modification accordingly.

I recently came across an impressive file publishing website. It is Youpublish.com. What so good about this website is that it allows you to upload any type of file. The file you upload can be a PDF e-book, MS Word document, photo, music, video, guide and lesson, seminar recording, or even a software as long as you have the copyright to it and the content inside the file is family-friendly.

You can choose to share the files you uploaded with anyone free. Or if you are uploading something that is valuable or useful for some purposes, you can just sell it through YouPublish. You will earn 50% of the sale revenue for each work that sold on Youpublish.com and you keep all the distribution rights.

So, if you have useful resources long stored in your computer hard drive, think about uploading them to YouPublish.com and make extra money selling them to people who are interested on your files.

Getting started on Youpublish is fast and easy. Just sign up for a free account and you can upload your works right away.

I just heard that Derek Gehl has put up an SEO program with the goal of getting 17 websites to reach Top 10 in the big three search engines which are Google, Yahoo! and MSN.com.

In the next 14 days, Derek and his expert team will be choosing 17 websites from the Internet and do all the hard search engines optimization works for these 17 websites so that they can gain a top 10 listing in the search engines. You can submit your website to Derek’s SEO program for your website to be considered by them.

What happen if your site is chosen?
They will first analyze your website and business and select the right keywords for your website. Next, they will move ahead to optimize your web pages such as title tag Optimization, alt tag optimization, anchor text keyword optimization and etc. And finally they will build inbound links and SEO content to get your site listed in top ten.

Once your site got a top 10 listing in Google or Yahoo, search engine traffic will flow to your website and this definitely will help you make more money online.

I would suggest you give it a try by sending your application to Derek’s SEO program. At the end, if your site is chosen, they will get right to work to improve your search engine rankings dramatically.

Here are the helpful material I found this week:

The Money Secret Report
The author of this report, Simon Hodgkinson has been tested numerous tips and techniques to make money online. And he has found a few simple and unique business ideas for profiting online and shared them in his Money Secret report. You might be interested to read this report to see whether his money making ideas are right for you.

Marketing Tips Volume 1,2 & 3
The above are actually a series of reports with loads of information about membership site marketing. You will find the effective methods for running a successful membership site. It’s worth a read if you are building membership site to generate online income. Marketing Tips Volume 1,2 & 3 can be downloaded here.

Plain & Simple Plan E-book
It is better to plan first before you start working on a online business to make money. The plan will include your goals, the marketing strategies you will be using to reach your goals and a clear budget of how much to invest. It is much like a roadmap guiding you to succeed. This e-book is going show you how to create an online business plan the right way for achieving success.