New Year Resolutions

Happy New Year !! 

Hey guys! 

This one is going to be quick! It's not about making money but it can help you achieve just that. 

In the last couple of months I've been going through a process of letting go of the past, of letting go of anger that I didn't even know was there until I had the time to take a look inside. 

If you feel like you always want to do a lot but you end up doing nothing, or like you are standing in your own way don't be mad at yourself, at list not yet. I  I had all the motivation in the world and all the tools I  needed to succeed but I ended up doing nothing. I couldn't figure it out! So after I finally finished my B.A I had time for myself. I had no more excuses I had all the time in the world and all I had to do was start working in order to make my dreams come true. Instead I found myself watching TV 18 hours a day, getting mad at myself for doing nothing. So I started asking questions, I found out there were some things in my past that made me angry about myself, an anger that I wasn't even aware of. This anger made me feel like I didn't deserve to make my dreams come true. I had to let go of the anger and all the negative feeling I had in order to finally move on. As I said I didn't even know those feeling were there, but after I figured it out and let it go I felt such relief. Like a giant rock I wasn't even aware of got lifted of  my shoulders. Sometimes we get used to pain until we don't even notice it's there anymore, but it doesn't mean it doesn't leave it's mark on you and effects your every day life. 

What I recommend your New Years Resolution should be is for you to stop for a day, and try to look inside into your most inner pain, regret, fear. Find out what it is that slows you down and just let it go! It will take some time to reach it and let it go but it will be worth it, you will feel energy flows through your body, you feel like you can be great, like you deserve it!

Celebrate your life, celebrate the moment and remember that happiness is not a goal, it's a state of mind, you can choose to be happy! 

Yours, 

The Beginner

Day 11- Making money with Facebook

If you don't know what Facebook is  you probably don't have a computer ! Facebook is a successful social networking site, through it you can connect with people that have the similar interests as you. It is a really great way to promote products, advertise and more. when I first heard someone say that you can make money with Facebook I was a little shocked, I mean I've been using it for about four years and only now I find out I can actually make money with it??? Well, it's not that easy and like everything else you do, you need to invest, time, effort and creativity - here are the ways to make money with Facebook in a really general way.

Before you sign up you have to think of what you want to achieve and which people you want to attract to your profile. It means you don't have to be yourself ! The goal is to become an expert in the topic of your choosing. 

After you develop your profile and get known on the area you chose there are a couple of things you can do: 

1. Sell on the Marketplace -You can place ads in the Marketplace for free without limitation of the number of ads. So If there are products you want to promote, or you found stuff on e-bay that are related to your niche you can post them there and sell them. 
2. Promoting your site with Social Ads - If you have a website you want to promote you can promote it with Social Ads. Facebook is not currently charching any more for ads that contain a social call to action, although a recent Nielsen report claimed that almost 70% of users are more likely to click on an ad previously visited by friends. In addition these ads will appear in a users friend's newsfeed.It’s important to keep in mind that Facebook is still social media, and so marketing efforts should be information and value driven, because the goal is to appeal to them not to “hard-sell”.

I created a fan page for my blog and I have some people sign to it, not many yet, but I think that in time I will learn more about how to attract people to the site, I think I already posted about how to create a fan page so you can take a look at the archive. You can also connect your blog to your facebook page so that every time you post on your blog it will come out as a note on your facebook page. 

Let's make money people! 

Yours,

The Beginner

Day 10- Make money with Forex

Hey everyone! 

Today we are going to talk about Forex and other similar sites that you can make money with.

OK, the first and the most important thing about this is DON'T go live until you have practiced this thing...in most of those sites there are Demo version that allow you to practice offline until you get the system and you feel confident enough.

What is Forex? 
Forex trading is the buying and selling of currencies.The value of currencies is always quoted in pairs such as USD/JPY or GBD/USD. The reason for this is because you’re always buying one and selling another.

How do you learn? 
As I said you can either download a 'demo' version from the site and practice until you get the hung of it or you can participate in the workshop offered by those sites, some sites offer free training and give a lot of useful information in their site. I will recommend to explore the site and see if you think that you can learn it by yourself or you will need professional training. If you are serious about making money through Forex and you are willing to invest a little time and money I would recommend taking a workshop, in this case knowledge about how to read the market is a very valuable tool!  You can also buy an automated software that will trade for you like Leo Trader.

My Experience
I started using Finexo or something like that and I still don't fully get it ... It's overwhelming, once you sign in you have a lot of graphs and your not sure what they mean, I started buying and selling and soon enough found my account value dropping like crazy! Until I found out how to close deals. I took a deep breath and started over, this time I made one buy/sale at a time, chose it by the graphs. I tried to see which currencies are rising but are now in a little drop, I bought one and waited for it to rise after it rose and I thought it reached it's peak I closed the deal and got the revenues. Soon enough the account value rose to the value I started with.

I'm not sure I will go back to using this method to make money, it is fun when you don't risk real money, but that feeling I had when the account value dropped so fast just made me think about have out of your control some of this is. Maybe if I had the time, money and willingness to learn I could make money out of it but right now I think I will concentrate in fields that  I feel more comfortable with.

Let's make money people,

Yours,
The Beginner

Day 9 - Get Rich Fast?

Hey Everyone, 

Today I will write a shorter post about the affiliate gurus and all the other advertisements about making 300$ a day in five minutes. Well if you read my blog so far you would know that I've just started this whole making money online mission. Before I started writing the blog I looked around, did a lot of research and read a lot of false promises. I also found out that once you start searching these things out online you are bound to get tempted and press on those ads about the stay at home mom who started making 345$ a day in less than two weeks. After you press on the ad you get to a squeeze page that tempts you to buy this product which usually worth 20,000$ but you will get that and more for just 40$ and this formula you will get is bound to make you rich fast! 

Sounds AMAZING right? Well, those gurus would never read this so I'm not really worried about what I'm going to say next. After about a month of 24/7 on the internet I have to say I'm just sick of it... Just because I know it's not possible, all I'm saying is don't fall for it and buy the stuff they sell you, they usually just give you a general over used ideas about online marketing without any of the essentials and technical stuff. Luckily I have a friend who has been in my situation and already made most of the mistakes, he told me not to buy those things because it never works, you just have to understand something and the sooner you get it the better. There might be some shortcuts along the way but in order to succeed in this you have to work hard for a while, try things and make mistakes .... You can't shortcut the whole learning process, if we could, we would all have been rich by now! 

Nonetheless, I do have respect for those guys and they might be who they say they are so here is a little tip, I sign in for their e mail list on the squeeze pages, get a lot of junk to one email that is maid just for them, they send me a lot of offers but since I've already resolved not to buy anything I dismiss them easily... 

WHY do I do it?  --- I learn from what they are willing to share, I learn about the right terms to use in affiliate marketing, the different sites and tactics that were used ect.. HOW? Well, those gurus send you a lot of junk but in order to make you stay on their list they give you bits of useful information just to get you curious...  I gather that information and try to create  a bigger picture. 

My recommendation is : If you decide to try and learn from them don't buy anything. Get the information they give you and try to screen out all the 'marketing' so that all that is left is the little bit of information. If you like the tactics they use on you just try to learn that instead of the information they send, but most of all don't spend to much time on it, and don't let them discourage you! 

Let's make money people! 

Yours, 

The beginner

Oh, by the way this the site of that friend I mentioned earlier, he really knows what he is doing and gives practical tools, he helps me with something I'm trying to do and until now he is just great! So this is his site.. you can take a look and see if you like it....

http://makemon25.syqel.hop.clickbank.net

Day 8 - make money on e-bay

Hey guys, 

Sunday is here and for some of us it's the beginning of the week while to others it's still weekend, but for me it's another day of learning. So today we will talk about e-bay.This money making idea just like many others is not about selling your own personal items, at list not completely. It's about finding the right products on the market and then selling them on e-bay, I will explain it all in this post. 

So the first thing you need to know about e bay is that creating an account is free! After you go and create yourself a seller account at: register ebay you should learn a little bit about what it means to sell on e-bay, you can go to all the explenations they have over there but I will brief you up- for every product you want to sell above 0.99 cents there is an insertion fee, for every product you sell there is a sell fee of between 8 to 12 percent, some people say the fees are a little bit high. Here is a full list of the fees you will encounter if you choose to sell on e-bay- fees on ebay.

OK, so we learned about the fees and read a little bit about e-bay what should we do next? So the first thing you should do is get the feel of the system. This is a recommendation for everything you do in life, don't jump before you test the water! Sell some personal items to get the feel of selling on e-bay.

After you sold a few items and got the feel of things you can start making real money, but there are few steps that you should take to focus yourself. You make money on e-bay by creating a reputation for yourself, it is easier to create a reputation in one field then by selling random products.

First of all you should choose a category like movies, electronics, toys, art ect. You can sell a lot of different products under each category. Just think of something that interest you and that you would like to sell. You have to understand that in order to sell you will have to buy products, but don't worry ! There are ways to minimize the risk, we will get to that later.

So what product should you buy ? This is a big decision! You should look at the listings and see what is sold consistently, you don't want to try and sell a cold product. After you chose your product it's time to buy and sell !!

How to get stock? There are to main options wholesaler or dropshippers, to me it seems like the better option will be dropshippers, let me explain. The wholesaler option means you will have to pay for the stock before you sell it which will require you to have the money before the sale, you will also have to have room to store the products until you sell them. In other words is a risky option, on the positive side, you will be able to know exactly how much products you have in your stock and will not risk your reputation by selling something that run out. The dropshipper option is less riscky, you pay for the product only after the sale and you don't have to have storage room. A Dropshipper is the one who actually stores, packages and ships the actual products.In this option you will have to get updated with the dropshipper about the items you sell and make sure they are still in stock.You will probably have to pay a registration fee or some kind of one-time  payment to become a member. So to me it seems like it take a little more work but it will be less risky.

Here are a two dropshipping sites if you want to take a look:
doba
megagoods

The last thing you need to do is to build your feedback - get your score up, you will do that by selling your products consistently in the category of your choosing. The more people will buy from you the fastest you will get to a Power-Seller status. This status require a minimum time of 3 months, and there are 5 levels you can get to.  The first one is bronze.

This is what I learned about e-bay today, I promise to update you once I make my first personal item sell :) As you already know I'm trying things out just like you!

Let's make money people!

Yours,
The Beginner

Day 7- Persistence

Hey everyone! 

Well weekend is here again and in that spirit I will take a little rest from technical stuff and I will tell you about the last few days and about the most important thing in your way to success - PERSISTENCE.

"persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time"

Well, in the last few days I wasn't feeling very well, the whole making money on the internet thing over whelmed me a little bit. Every time I started to think that I have figured out a little bit of this huge thing called the internet another million questions pop and I discover there are a lot more steps I need to take before I even begin to try to make money. 

Over whelmed by the internet and feeling ill, I found out two days ago at 11pm that I have to organize a room that became our 'storage room' so that someone could sleep there the next day. If you took one look at that room you would have thought that it was mission impossible! That's what I thought and I honestly had no idea how I was going to do it. I got into the room, looked at it, I thought that maybe I should plan it out a little bit before I start but then I figured that if I will think about it even a little bit longer I would just give up so I just started to take everything out of the room. In the end it didn't take much time to organize that room and make it hospitable.  I even got rid of a few unnecessary things  we just kept around for no good reason. I was pretty exhausted by the time I was done with the room. That night I planned to write a post and publish it the next day because I knew I won't have time to write one on Thursday. So I set down to write the post when I heard my mom panickally calling me, I went to the kitchen were I found my mom standing around a big pull of water that kept growing and growing. apparently our dishwasher was leaking!! So we had to draw all the water. In the middle of drawing all the water the power went off! 

So here I am in the middle of the night standing  exhausted in the dark on a really wet floor ready to give up on it all.  

You probably figured out that I didn't give up... I decided nothing will keep me from writing that post for my blog! So I fixed the power problem, dried the floor, took a deep breath and wrote the blog....

What does it have to do with persistence? Everything! If I would decide to slake anytime things aren't going my way I would end up nowhere. With that said, I think that we can allow ourselves to take a step back every once in a while, as long as it really is once in a while. 

I except myself as a person who start things but not always finish them, I started learning how to play guitar and didn't really practice it, I start a diet every week but I don't really stick to it, I start to work out but I can't hold on to a routine long enough to call it a routine. I think most of us are like that but some just can't forgive themselves for that. But with this learning process I can't slake and I can't give up, this time I need to be PERSISTENT! I know that if I make it here I will have means to make my dreams come true. I guess what I'm saying is that for some people persistence it easier then to others, if you are like me than just find something that will keep you going, commit to something and let everybody know you are committed to it, once you do that it would be harder for you to give up and once you overcome a setback like I have these last few days you will become even more committed to the cause! And most of all don't be so hard on yourself... 

Have a great weekend! 

"Money grows on the tree of persistence" - Japanese proverb

Let's make money people! 

Yours, 

The Beginner

Day 6 - How to add a donation button to your Blog

Hey guys, 

So yesterday I signed up for PayPal. 

What is it? Well, it's an account that you have online, you link it to your credit card and than you can use this account while buying online instead of giving your Credit Card number and personal information every time you buy something online.

Why did I sign in?Because just like you can pay through PayPal you can earn money through it, you can add a ' Donation Button' to your site just like I did. If you will look at the right side of my blog today you will see a donation button. I know that there are not many chances that people will donate at this point, but hopefully there will come a time where more people will find this blog helpful and would like to donate. Moreover, you can never know what people will do once you give them the option to do so. Just like the donation button if you have a product you want to sell you can use your PayPal account to collect the money. 

Here is a post I found that helped me add this "Donation Button" to my Blog , hope it will help! 

How to add donation button to blogger 

 This is a link if you want to create a PayPal account

Create PayPal account 

Let's make money people! 

Yours, 

The beginner

Day 5 - Free Surveys

Hi everyone! 

Hope your day is going well,

Well, yesterday after I wrote the blog I tried to investigate the whole"Free Surveys" option and how much money can it generate. 

Well, first of all the answer here is very different when it comes to USA citizens and the rest of the world. 

People who live in the US have great offers when it comes to free surveys I found this link free surveys for people in the US which directs you to a guy who gives you all the top free surveys links in the US. In each one of theme you can make about 100US$ per months, so if you sign up for 10 links you can make about extra 1000 US$ per months, you can answer the surveys when ever you want. My recommendation is to create a different email account just for this because you really don't want your regular In-box to be swamped with free surveys and ads.

As for people who don't live in the US our options are very different and I'm sorry to say not so profitable, there are couple of website were you can earn 'points' and then convert the to buying - coupons  in different stores. In other words you don't really get CASH! if you find it appealing here are a few of those sites:

Midgam 

Ipanel 

Sekernet

panel4all 

brandman 

If you want to earn CASH instead of points there are couple of Israeli websites who pay you for watching ads, completing surveys and more... but the payment is very low and the real money comes from making people sign up for the website. You usually get couple of 'Agorot' for every ad you look at, you simply get ads to your e mail and have to click on them and that's it, and for every person  who signs up because of you you get about 1 "Shekel". And again I would recommend creating a different email account for this. So here are a few sites:

http://cash4israel.com/?r=23618

http://www.purecash.co.il/index.aspx?ref=94792

http://www.Cash4Mail.co.il/?ref=makemon25@hotmail.com

One more thing to avoid, once you sign up for the site and want to recruit your  friends, don't spam your friends, social media websites can ban you for SPAMING, think of creative ways to get people interested... 

I'm not just saying that.. yesterday I posted some of those sites on my Facebook and I also sent some emails to my friends, most didn't say anything but some of theme got really pissed... again my intentions were good I really want to help people earn money but it is still spaming when do it like that, so all I'm saying is ... be careful not to piss people off! 

That's it for today! 

Let's make money people! 

Yours, 

The beginner

 

Day 4- exploring my options

Good morning everyone! 

I apologize for not writing yesterday, I wasn't feeling well, I'm still not feeling really well but I can't let it bring me down right? 

OK, so except blogging which we already explored a bit there are a lot of different money making options in the internet. Again, non of theme is a one- button- push thing, so don't believe all of those promotions about it ! If I ever find a one-button-push that can really get you a lot of money I promise I will let you know. 

So I gathered a few cool options for making money online:

1. Blogging - well I think we pretty much got this one covered.
2. Ebay
3. Free surveys
4. Affiliate marketing
5. Forex trading
6. Facebook
7. Selling E-books
8. ClickBank
9. Marketing CPA offers 
10. Google AdSense - we already talked about this one at: http://howtomakemoneywithnoskills.blogspot.com/2010/12/day-3-making-sense-out-of-adsense.html
11. Building Niche Websites

 I will look into each option in the next few days... but if you can't wait I encourage you to educate yourselves!

Lets make money people! 

Yours, 

The Beginner

Day 3- Making sense out of AdSense

Hey everyone, 

Hope you had a great weekend and that you are ready to learn some more! 

As I wrote in one of my posts, beside promoting your blog which takes time and patience another thing to do after starting a blog is to make money from it! So today I will try to understand how ASense work and to maximize the amount of money you make from it. Again all the information I'm giving you is a simplified version of a lot of stuff that I read online. 

• What is AdSense? 

The program was developed by Google in order to increase the exposure to ads purchased through the Google AdWords program, which is a pay-per-click advertising program that people use to promote their websites.

When you sign up for the AdSense program, you will have access to codes that you can place on your site. The code will automatically choose ads that are relevant to your content and will be interesting to your website visitors, as well as providing tracking codes so that Google will know who to pay for the click.

• What are the amounts of money you can make with it?  

The commission you receive per click depends on how much advertisers are paying Google for the particular ad. You will earn a share of that amount.  I've heard of earnings anywhere from 2 cents to $15 per click. 

So practically the right way to use AdSense is to develop your site- add a lot of content to it so that you will move higher on the google search and than get more traffic, once you have more traffic the bigger the chance people will click on the ads by google. one more thing you have to do is to make sure the keywords you use are highly searched on the web, that way the ads google will put on your site will be worth more per click. 

It might sound easy, but truth be told from what I've heard it takes a lot of time, effort and patience. Nontheless all of the things I described are things you will have to do anyway in order to generate more money from your site so you can look at AdSense as an amazing bonus!  Here is a product that can really help you with AdSense:
Click Here!

That is it for today! 

Let's make money people! 

Yours,

The Beginner

Day 2 - Motivation

Since it's Saturday and no one really wants to work or learn today I thought about talking about Motivation. I think it's the most important part of succeeding in anything you do, but at the same time it is the most slippery part. You can gain or lose you motivation easily.

Think about it, I started this blog yesterday, at first I got a lot of great responses which brought my motivation up and already made me think about what I was going to write about next. But than I got really not very supportive and skeptic responses from a lot of people who are closest to me. It was a hard blow, knowing that the people closest to me, the ones that are suppose to support me on everything I do didn't even try to understand what I was trying to do here. It saddens and I could have chosen to just give up and tell them - you are right, I can't do it, it's too hard, I don't really know what I'm doing. But instead I decided to prove them wrong and it boosted my motivation up I decided to say: 

" I know it is not going to be easy, I might not know what I'm doing but at list I'm trying to do something. There might be 99% that I'm going to fail but for that 1% of succeeding and for a long process of learning I am willing to try".

What am I trying to do? Succeed, Learn and maybe even help others by sharing my failures and success... 

What I would ask of whoever get to read this blog is, if you start something and no one believes in you - DON'T DARE TO GIVE UP! If you believe in you it doesn't really matter what others think. If you know someone that is trying to do something try to let go of your judgmental ways and just support him, not because you have to but because you might not get it but it wont cost you anything to support someone and it might mean everything to that person. 

So, to those who doubt me , I still love you but I WILL PROVE YOU WRONG, it would have been great to have your support but I don't NEED it... 

"All glory comes from daring to begin." Eugene F. Ware 

Let's make money people! 

Yours, 

The Beginner

First Day - Creating a Blog

Today is very exceptional because of the amount of posts.. But as it is the beginning there are a lot of steps need to be taken..  So the first step is creating my blog, I chose Blogger to do it because it is for free and is very easy to use. I tried using Wordpress but I found it more complicated specially for people like me with no skills when it comes to the internet. 

So to sum up what I learned about blogging today is that free blogging accounts have a lot of terms and conditions and that if you want to make great amounts of money it's not the way to do it. The main reason is you don't have full control over your blog and you are bound to the terms and conditions which usually includes not being able to actively promote anything. 

Steps to make money out of blogging: 

1. Think about a theme for your blog - something you can write about everyday. 
2. Post regularly - Some say that if you post at list four times a week your blog will clime up the google searcg pretty fast - We will see about that. 
3. Get people to read your blog (generate traffic)  - social bookmarking sites, social networking sites where you can and build a profile which contains a link to your blog, writing free articles for article directories with a link to your blog at the end. There are some software's that are meant to generate traffic but they cost money and I haven't tried them out yet. 
4. Get money from your blog- 
1. Google Adsense (display contextual ads that your visitors will be interested in to maximize your CTR - click through rate).
2. Pay Per Post and Review Me- websites which pay you money for reviewing a product or a website.
3. Review/Recommend other people's products and get money from the commission
4. Ad space on your blog - but this one is relevant only after you are more established.
5. Sell your blog- after it is more established and generates a lot of traffic. 

So I already acted against the first advice of not creating a blog at a free-blog website. As I read the terms and conditions of this blog site I couldn't find any limitations, it is easy to use as I  have no skills, it is free and for now it best suites me. Maybe with time I will figure out if it was a mistake or not but for now this blog will do. 

As for the steps - I am now working on the second and third steps. I posted the link on my Facebook page and on my Twitter page, sent an  email with the link to everyone I know and now I'm on my way to create a Community-Group on Facebook. 

I found a post about how to create one which was really useful so here it is: 

http://fbml-templates.net/2010/10/how-to-make-a-facebook-fan-page-ultimate-guide/

So this is the fan page I created! 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/How-to-make-money-on-the-internet-with-no-skills/109806022426299?v=photos#!/pages/How-to-make-money-on-the-internet-with-no-skills/109806022426299

Lets make money people! 

Yours, 

The Beginner

First Day - Choosing a Goal and Deadlines

At first I thought about writing about the different options of making money from the internet but than I figured you can't do anything if you don't have a goal and a dead line. 

My Goal - Make money from the internet. 

First Deadline - Get revenues from this blog before my 25th birthday (19/02) . 

Commitment - Write everyday

So the count down begins NOW ! I have 71 days to go! 

Wish me luck! 

Lets make money people! 

Yours, 

The Beginner!

how to make money on the internet?

Hello everyone! 

First of all, let me introduce myself, My name is Hila and I just finished my B.A in Business administration and International relations. I've been looking for a job for over a month, and I haven't found one partly because my demands are problematic, I was expecting to find a job where I could gain experience in marketing and advertising and make a lot of money at the same time. Let me tell you, a combination like this is hard to find. I sign in for a few websites for job seekers, I have a profile in LinkedIn, I used all kinds of connections but no results. I was called for a few interviews and although some of the jobs offered where interesting the payment offered was so low I just couldn't except it. If you read so far you probably understand that I'm not one for compromising. So I went back to the drawing table and started thinking about ways to make money, while looking for a job, this is the list I came up with: 

• babysitting- not really that much money.
• being a waiter- Just the title of this job makes you antagonize it.
• bar tending - Kind of  a cool job, I still might do it just for fun and until I will find a way to make money from the internet. 
• Make money from the internet - Sounds AMAZING but how do you do it? 

So as you can see the best way I found was through the internet but the problem is I have no idea how to make it happen. First thing I did was to write in Google "How to make money from the Internet", apparently there are a lot of ways, the first website I read and that made me write this blog is this one: 

http://www.101waystomakemoney.com/how-to-make-money-selling-e-books/

Every day from now on, I will write about  trying to make money, it is really easy to follow people who already made it but with them you don't really know how to start, what is real and what is just advertising.. This blog is meant to make you a part of my journey, I will share my experience in trying to make money out of pretty much nothing. It would be great to get comments and recommendations. 

So the first step towards making money today was to start writing this blog. Lets see where I will get from here. 

Lets make money people! 

Yours, 

The Beginner