10 Incredible Internet Opportunities That Can Earn You Some Money

Posted Feb 01, 2009 by LesLister / comments 2 comments / Print / Font Size Decrease font size Increase font size

The Internet is an excellent source of information any time when we need it and it also offers average ordinary people extraordinary opportunities to earn some extra money.

The Internet contains millions of website destinations to visit and explore. The size of the Internet global community is expanding rapidly as more developing countries are empowering their citizens with Internet access. This massive immigration of new users has created new opportunities to start a business, build a website, write a blog and these are just the pitiful tip of the preverbal iceberg of opportunities that the Internet has made possible.

Can anyone start a business, build a website or write a blog? Well, probably not. I’d be lying to you, if I claimed that anyone just anyone could do what it takes to make good money on the Internet and I am not keen on lying to my readers.

Depending on what your measure of success is, the Internet does provide the easiest and most inexpensive vehicle to start a business and earn you some extra money. If you set your success meter too high, then you are potentially setting yourself up for disappointment down the road. However, if you set your expectations too low, then you will likely quit even before you really gave your business a chance of succeeding. You will need to set a ladder of achievable goals that will allow your business to grow at a slow and steady pace, because it does take time to build any type of successful business.

The best type of businesses are the ones that you can start with very little to zero startup capital or out-of-pocket expenses. You can always upgrade to a premium account depending on your business needs and most successful businesses will eventually need to grow beyond the free services, so that the business will have all of the available business and Internet tools at the ready, any time they are required.

Start An Auction Business

There are millions of ordinary people just like you and I, on the Internet making full and part time incomes selling boatloads of useful and useless junk in Internet auctions. One of the best auction sites on the web is eBay and it is the biggest, oldest and most successful auction site of its kind. Everyday, millions upon millions of dollars exchange hands from buyer to seller and there is plenty of room for you to make some money too.

EBay (http://www.ebay.com )

Before starting a writing career, eBay was an outstanding source of extra income whenever cash was needed. It does take some time to learn how to use all of the valuable tools that eBay provides to its sellers, but to be successful selling on eBay, it is a very wise thing to learn how to use all of the selling tools that they offer to you. It is up to you, whether or not you will make any money at all, but you cannot make any money if you don’t start.

VSTORE Auctions (http://www.vstoreauction.com )

An amazing alternative to using eBay to sell the products that you have is called VSTORE Auctions. Unlike eBay, this opportunity is 100% free with No Fees to pay, which translates into less money spent and more money earned. Smart sellers can utilize this opportunity to charge less than they would have had to charge on eBay to cover seller’s fees associated with using eBay services and potentially lowering prices will attract more buyers to your VSTORE auctions. All you need is something to sell and the Internet is a great place to locate product suppliers, drop-shippers and wholesalers to find some product to sell at auction.

Freelance Internet Writer

One of the fastest and easiest ways to earn some extra money online is to write articles for a reputable online publisher. There are dozens of these types of opportunities on the Internet, but I have only found personally 2 online publishers that pay well and most importantly, pay on time. Sure, there might be other reputable online publishers out there, but the follow 2 online publishers are the ones that I write for and I can actually testify as an insider and can sleep at night, because I know I haven’t mislead anyone.

Bukisa (http://www.bukisa.com/join/2633 )

Online publishers such as Bukisa provide a platform for ordinary average people to write pretty much what they want to write and potentially earn an excellent extra income. This is a relatively new Internet publisher that has the potential to grow into something really special for both writers wanting to earn some extra money and for readers wanting to learn or be entertained through the imagination of its authors. It is completely free to join and cost members nothing to use the tools that the publisher offers to its members.

Triond (http://www.triond.com )

Triond is an amazing opportunity for writers wanting to make an income. I have published 170 articles with Triond since September 2007. Triond has always paid royalties on time and depending on what a writer writes about Triond royalties can be quite impressive. Remember, writing and publishing poetry does not pay well on the Internet and Triond is no different. Writing articles pay best and advertisers are more attracted to articles more than they are to creative writing publications.

Build a Website

Building a website has never been an easier thing to accomplish than it is today on the Internet. Successful website ventures can potentially earn a Webmaster thousands of dollars in advertising sales or selling products as a web store.

Synthasite (http://www.synthasite.com )

Building a website is a very simple process using the Synthasite suite of user and website publishing tools. Synthasite is completely free, so to build a website to sell a product or to promote your blog or whatever it is that you want to build a website for. Unlike, most of the free website building tools and templates that are available on the Internet, Synthasite offers its Webmasters a free website, free unlimited hosting, free website building templates, free shopping cart, free credit card processing tools, free advertising affiliate tools and a website that is completely ad-free.

Weebly (http://www.weebly.com )

There is not anything much better to promote or start a business than to build your own company website. Setting up a website does not require HTML knowledge, but if you are experienced in writing code, then by all means, use what you know and create a cool looking website. Weebly offers users a free website, free website templates, free hosting, and much more. And, in my opinion, Synthasite is a better website building tool to use, but Weebly is my second choice.

Sell Music

Selling the music that your kick ass band as produced on the Internet is the fastest, easiest and most inexpensive method of building an audience and selling music. Partnering with the most popular websites on the Internet will help you garner massive of music consumers from around the world and almost instantly.

I-Tunes (http://www.itunes.com )

Selling music on the Internet has become a multibillion dollar a year industry and I-Tunes can offer music producers an awesome opportunity to sell to its millions of music fans around the world. If serious about making it big in the music and entertainment industry, then it is a must to setup a vendor account with I-Tunes, so that you can too reach the broadest audience possible.

MyBeatShop (http://www.mybeatshop.com )

Some people have the voice to stand behind a mic and sing like birds and other people have the skills to create their own unique sounds and beats that can be used to produce a hit record. If you are producing your own unique hip-hop beats, rap beats, rnb instrumentals and have a desire to sell what you have created, then MyBeatShop is a good place to start earning some respect and make some money doing what you already love to do.

Paid Internet Promoter

Getting creative and looking for new opportunities to carving out a full or part time business on the Internet is something more and more people are attempting to do. One of the newest ways that some people are making a living doing is by becoming paid Internet promoters. These people are popular members of social networks across the Internet and have followings of loyal fans and friends who are interested in what these people have to share. For a small fee some of these members will promote a website or blog to their audience, but only if the popular social site member really likes what you have to offer.

StumbleUpon
(http://www.stumbleupon.com )

Join StumbleUpon and build yourself a solid friends and fans network as you Stumble websites, games and articles that you are most interested in and share them with the rest of the SU community. Once you have established a robust and effective marketing network, then you can work with bloggers and companies charging a small fee to stumble their websites or blogs (if you like the website). The more successful that your web promotion network grows, and then the more you can charge.

Digg (http://www.digg.com )

Popular Digg members can move tens of thousands of people to visit this website or that website with a couple of clicks of the mouse and this can be quite valuable to serious bloggers and companies wanting to attract more people to their offerings. Join Digg and become a popular Digg member, and then locate people who need the type of service that you could provide to them for a small fee. Just remember not to make it too well known to other members, because it could be damaging to your reputation in the Digg community.

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Comments

magicdarts
magicdarts said... on March 24th, 2009 at 2:37 PM

I definitely agree with your iceberg analogy, its all evolving so rapidly, really useful to have some guidance on tried and trusted places!

pointer
pointer said... on March 24th, 2009 at 1:10 PM

Good article and great information. 



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