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Hi again! To continue on with theme week, I am going to make today “Tip Tuesday.” So, today I am going to share a useful online job tip, which is… Use work at home forums. Work at home forums are great places to meet other stay at home workers and discuss job opportunities, possible scams, and helpful info on working at home. There are many work at home forums, but by far the largest and easiest to use is Wahm. Wahm, which stands for “Work at Home Moms,” currently has over 1,927,840 posts and 66,943 members. This forum has some of the friendliest work at homers who happily will help you out with any problems you have. It was this forum that helped me to start working at home. Work at home forums are great ways to get in touch with the work at home community. Additionally, many potential employers will post their job searches on Wahm. Though I love using Wahm, there are two other forums that are also pretty good. These are: Work-at-home-forum and Workathomeforum. Both have multiple benefits for stay at home workers. I highly recommend that you check them out. Enjoy!

Today’s Links:
Wahm: www.wahm.com
Work-at-home-forum: www.work-at-home-forum.com
Workathomeforum: www.workathomeforum.com

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I thought that it would be fun if I made this week theme week. So, today is going to be “Job Monday”. Yes, I know that sounds a little corny, but let’s give it a try! So, let’s kick off Job Monday with an interesting job opportunity which you might not have known you could even qualify for. Idapted, a language learning company, is looking for talkative, friendly people to teach other people their language. Sounds hard, right? Actually, Idapted makes it simple for anyone to learn (or in our case, teach a language.) When you begin working for Idapted, they will provide you with free teacher training, similar to a college course. This can last from one to seven days, depending on how busy you are. According to their website, we do NOT need too know the other people’s languages, as all conversations will be in English. Though having prior teaching experience is a plus, it is not required. Once you have passed training, you will take calls with people not fluent in English. You will be given prompts, but not scripts, as they think that the dialogue should run smoothly, and naturally. As usual, this job requires a heatset. If you are interested in the job, I have posted links to the job application as well as to more information below. Who knows? You might be great at teaching people English!

Link to Job Overviews : http://www.idapted.com/trainers/overview.htm

Link to Job Application: http://qualify.idapted.com/account

Hi again! In the post I made two days ago, I discussed two different companies which pay you to make posts in other people’s forums. Of the two that I tried, (forumbooster.net and postingdirect.com) ForumBooster was by far the better option. So in this post I will mainly focus on ForumBooster. When you sign up with an account for ForumBooster they usually will give you around 16 forums to post in. There is no minimum amount of posts that you can make, but there is a maximum of 15 posts per forum. Additionally, ForumBooster starts you off at 10 cents a post. Once you have made 200 posts, you are paid 12 cents a post, and after 500 posts you are then paid 15 cents a posts. If you do the math, (16 forums, 15 posts a day, 10 cents a post) you will come out with $24 a day, $168 dollars a week. Granted, this isn’t a ton of money, but it does help. With ForumBooster, they pay out to Paypal every Monday. There is a minimum of 100 posts to receive a payout, but that is pretty easy to achieve. I found ForumBooster’s website to be simple to use and navigate. Their support was extremely helpful with any questions I had, and they paid out right on time! Because of this, I highly recommend ForumBooster as a way to make some extra work-at-home money.

If you have done any freelance work then chances are you have heard of Elance.com. Today, I am going to discuss my experience with this company. To start off with, Elance.com is a website that you can go to for finding freelance work. It is great for people who write articles and are looking for high paying clients to work for. I heard about Elance from a reader, so I decided to give it a try. After I signed up, the site required that I take a test to make sure that I was aware of how to navigate and use Elance. They provide helpful FAQ’s that they said I should study before taking the test, but in truth their questions are common sense ones and I don’t really require much thought. After passing the test, I was allowed to start bidding for work. Their site is quite easy to navigate, and I had no problems at all bidding. In general the only thing that is not good about Elance, in my opinion, is its customer service. It was impossible to get someone over the phone, so I tried to email their support a question. According to the site, all questions are answered within twenty four hours. So far I haven’t received a response back. Other than that, Elance seems to be a great way to get started making money at home. I definitely recommend trying it!

If you have tried every single free option to drive visitors to your site to no avail, your next step might be to pay for advertising. There are thousands of different ad networks on the internet and hundreds of different ways to advertise, but for this I am going to stick with the main one. From my experience, the best advertising option on the internet is Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising. The two top PPC companies currently are Google Adwords and Yahoo Advertising. I have tried both, and I have to say that Google’s program is by far better. You get more clicks over a more diverse audience with their program. Additionally, Google is extremely good at detecting fraudulent clicks. The only thing I would worry about with Google’s program is the fact that their clicks can be quite costly and it is easy to quickly spend a lot of money with them. The main plus that I have noticed with Yahoo’s program, on the other hand is that it accepts Paypal. I have not had much luck with Yahoo in terms of quality clicks. When choosing keywords to bid on for PPC advertising, I recommend using niche ones similar to your site first and then going into the broader keywords. The reason for this is that the niche keywords tend to be less expensive, as well as you are more likely to have your ad shown higher up on the page. For example, if have a blog about poodles, consider using the keywords: poodles, toys, miniature poodles, and standard poodles, before going into broader keywords, such as: dogs. Another thing to consider is to try using advertising with Google’s content ads before using it’s search ad advertising. The reason for this is that your clicks on the content program are sometimes more likely to be from users truly interested in you topic, and those users are sometimes more likely to stay on your site for longer periods of time. For example, before using Google to advertise on the search term poodle, consider using Google’s content program to advertise on blogs similar to your’s that are also about poodles and are in Google program. And that’s about it. PPC advertising is quite simple to use. Just remember to set a limit on the amount you plan on spending, track your statistics, and use niche keywords.

Many people post in forums for fun conversation, but did you know that you can actually get paid for posting? Neither did I until just this week, when a reader submitted a question about it to me. Basically, different companies will pay you to make posts in their clients’ forums. From what I have seen, on average the pay is around 10 cents a posts ($10/100 posts). While this doesn’t seem like a lot, it quickly adds up. At first, I was a little skeptical as to why companies would want to pay you to post in forums, but then I found an explanation. Basically, when a forum is first created, it has no posts, so people visiting it are unlikely to post. So, the forum owner will pay to have people make posts in the forum, making the forum appear to be popular. This will help to generate more organic posts from non-paid posters, which will get the forum started. So far, I have signed up for two different posting companies: http://forumbooster.net/ and postingdirect.com, but I plan on signing up for a few more. Next week I will make a post reviewing these companies and will discuss which ones are reliable and pay the most. Until Then,

Lisa

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This week I’m going to do a review of the affiliate program known as Clickbank.com. I previously mentioned Clickbank in my Monetizing Your Blog post, but I think that I might have been a little too harsh on the company, and should go more in depth into what I like and don’t like about Clickbank. To start off, Clickbank is a great company which makes it easy to earn money through your blog/website. I have never been cheated by them, and always received my payments on time. The only big problem I have with Clickbank is its clients. If the company could only find more professional clients I would feel a lot easier recommending them. While affiliate networks such as Commission Junction and PepperJam have big name clients with reliable products, including Dell, Lending Tree, Yahoo, Adobe, Expedia, Apple, Monster, Staples, and DKNY, Clickbank on the other hand mainly seems to have shadier companies which specialize in Get Rich Quick and Weight Loss products. Not that those are bad, but just think about it. What products do you think would be easier to promote, Apple’s Ipods or some unknown company’s product which will let you make money while you sleep. If you can get past that and be successful at promoting their products, then Clickbank would be the perfect program for you, but for the average blogger/website owner, in my opinion it would be better to try out other programs first.

Recently, I have been receiving a lot of emails about a work at home company known as Chacha. For those of you who do not know, Chacha was a search engine, (similar to Google,) except that unlike regular search engines, Chacha’s employees do all of the work for you. For example, say you wanted to find a few websites with articles on training dogs. All you would have to do is say that you were looking for dog training websites, and the Chacha employees “guides” would search for the articles for you, and then provide you with links to websites with the content you are looking for. At least, that is how Chacha worked when they first started out. When I worked for Chacha, it was still in beta phase, and let me say that the experience was not a good one. Most of the searches were done by pranksters who just wanted to make us search for vulgar things. In addition, many guides complained about not receiving their payments. After a while, I just decided to leave. Recently though, Chacha has taken a turn for the better. It now is a search engine for people with cell phones. If someone has a question, they just have to send a text message to Chacha and then get a reply back. This has greatly cut down on the amount of spammers, and from what I have heard Chacha now treats its guides better. This is why I think that Chacha is a great new work at home company to work for. To work for Chacha, all you usually have to do is just apply, and then if you are accepted, you will be given a series of tests. This will include an IQ test as well as a test on how well you can navigate the web. Don’t worry, even though the test appears difficult when you are taking them, they are actually very easy to pass. Testing can usually be completed in one sitting. If you finally become an employee, you get paid for answering people’s questions. What could be an easier job than that? If you want to apply, or would like more information, just visit the link below. Enjoy!

http://info.chacha.com/Careers/BecomeaGuide/tabid/74/Default.aspx

You have a blog with great content and lots of visitors. Now how do you start making money off of it?

Well, there are multiple ways that you can do this, and I will try to discuss most of my favorites. The first and easiest way to start making money is by third-party advertising. Some of the popular companies which offer this include Google’s Adsense, Yahoo’s Publisher Network, and Bidvertiser . Out of these, I have had most success with Google Adsense, and the least success with Bidvertiser. These companies are very simple to work with. All you have to do is visit their sites and apply to be a publisher. If they accept you, they will give you some html code which you just have to paste into your blog. And that’s it! Whenever someone clicks on the ads, you usually get paid. A newer form of third-party advertising which recently has appeared is Project Wonderful. This network is more dedicated to small blogs, and it has worked great for me. You basically follow the same steps as the companies above, but other sites will then bid to be in your ad space, and the highest bidder wins the spot.

If you are good at selling products, another great option out there is to become an affiliate. When you are an affiliate, you will be given links to other websites’ products to promote. Each time someone buys the product through your link, you get paid. The advantage with being an affiliate over using third-party ads is that the payout is usually a lot larger, and sometimes is continual. For instance, if you sold someone a subscription to a program, you might get paid each time they renew. Affiliate payments can vary from company to company. Some products will pay less than fifty dollars per sale, but frequently I will see payouts in the hundreds to thousands of dollars per product sold. Some of the companies I recommend for this include: Clickbank, Commission Junction, and Pepper Jam. Between Commission Junction and Pepper Jam, I would have to say that Pepper Jam by far outranks CJ. From other users I have heard that you are more likely to get sales from PJ over CJ. Both of these companies give you very professional products to promote, and include clients such as Ebay. From what I have seen, Clickbank pays well, but the products you are selling seem to be a little shady (eg. Get Rich Overnight Products.)

These tips should help get you started to monetizing your blog. Please subscribe if you enjoyed this post, and if you have any questions please post a comment.  Enjoy!

Unlike most businesses, blogs do not automatically attract visitors. No matter how great your blog’s content is, it isn’t worth anything if nobody is visiting it. Here’s how to drive traffic to your blog:

The first thing to remember is: keywords. Keywords are the words that people will type into search engines to find links to sites. The more quality keywords you have in your articles, the better. For example, if you are writing an article on Poodles, try to include the word poodle in your article at least a few times, along with similar words.

After you have optimized your articles, it is time to start submitting your blog to search engines. Below are the links to submit your blog to.

Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/

Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

If you notice any other search engines, try to submit to them as well.

Another thing to try is posting comments on blogs that are similar to yours. Make sure to include your blog’s address when posting. After you have done all of these things, you might want to try social sites. Post your articles on websites such as digg.com, reddit.com, and stumbleupon.com. Last but not least, you should try out the Social Blog site Entrecard.com. Check out the intro on their homepage to learn more about them. The day after I submitted one of my blogs to it, I noticed a 40% increase in visitors. This site does wonders to your traffic. These are all of the traffic tips I have for now, but more will be coming in the near future, as well as tips on monetizing your blog. If you have any suggestions, please post comments! Enjoy.