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As we enter the new year, it seems that more and more of you are turning to the internet in an attempt to earn money online. I don’t know if this is a natural progression of emerging technology, or a sign of the slumping economy, but it seems that working people are looking for something different.

On the flip side, with so many people searching for the best cash jobs online, there are also a hundred new “make money on the internet” websites being created everyday. Some of them are truly offering good information, but sadly, the majority are nothing more than money-sucking scams.

So how does a normal Joe who it new to the internet earn a living online?

Just as in the real world, the internet offers more than a thousand ways, plans and blueprints for earning a living. Being that most of you reading this are beginners, I am going to tell you the quickest and easiest way to get started.

(1) First, choose an online service that pays commission on referrals. The trick is to change your thinking here, however. You are not going to make money by joining a membership site! Instead, you are going to make money referring others who sign up and you make a referral commission.

I like the ‘online paid survey’ companies for this one because they are easy to sign up for, and they don’t charge a membership fee to prospective survey-takers. These companies pay their members to complete all kinds of offers; some of them useful, and others just fluff. But you don’t care because you are sending others there to discover that and getting paid to do it.

(2) Next, you need to actually join the survey company you have chosen so you get a first hand idea of how it works on the inside. The reason for this will come clear in the next step, but just keep in mind that you should take notes on everything from the sign up process, to the actual use of the members area. Be sure to write down your likes and dislikes. You should also attempt to actually make a couple bucks as well so you can report your earnings to your potential referrals. If you made $100 in one day, then you want to talk about that and use it as a selling point.

(3) You now need to get people to the site using your referral code. Most survey companies have an “affiliates” link at the bottom of their site which provides information on how to sign up and generate referrals. If you are unsure how to set up an affiliate link, most sites have a tutorial available to teach you how to code it. It is very simple.

(4) Finally, you need to publish your findings on a website that leads people to sign up for the survey company. The best way to begin experimenting with website building or blogging is to get a free account through Google or Yahoo and just start writing. Tell your prospective readers all about your experience with the survey company and encourage them to “click here” and join as well.

There are many more tips I could give you regarding making money on referrals, but this should be a good enough start to get your mind thinking about it. With a little effort, you can easily make $10-$20 per day by referring people to survey sites.

Here is a link to the best survey site that also offers a great affiliate opportunity. To get more info, click here.

It is relatively easy to get your first auction up and running on eBay, here’s what you need to do to get it working.

Step 1: Open an eBay seller’s account

If you’ve bought things on eBay, then you already have an account - just log in with it and click ‘Sell’ in the toolbar at the top of the page, then click ‘Create a seller’s account’. If you’ve never used eBay before, then you’ll need to open an account first using the ‘register’ link underneath the toolbar, and then click ‘Sell’ and ‘Create a seller’s account’. The eBay site will then guide you through the process. For security, this may involve giving card details and bank information.

Step 2: Decide what to sell

For your first try on dry run on eBay, it really doesn’t matter what you choose to sell. Take a look around your house, I’m pretty sure there’s at least one thing in there of value that you’re not really attached to and could form the basis for your first run on eBay. Selling a CD or a Book is idea for first choice items.

Step 3: Submit your item

Click ‘Sell’, and you’re on your way to listing your item. The first thing you need to do is choose a category - it’s best to just type in what the item is and let eBay choose for you. Next, write a title and description. Include key words you think people will search for in the title box, and all the information you have about the item in the description box.

Next step is to start your start bidding price. Setting it at one cent is probably the best starting price as it will draw people in to make a bid who otherwise wouldn’t be interested, and products will generally rarely every finish at a low price. The next process to go through after setting the start bid is to set the duration of the auction, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days. This is purely up to you, setting longer auction durations will usually result in more bids, but will also seem to drag on forever. If you have a picture of the product that you’ve chosen to sell post it up straight away, items with images also do better on the auctions. Lastly, select the payment methods that your able to accept, PayPal will be most ideal for now, and where your willing to delivery your product to, for now it’d be best to limit yourself to your own country, submit that and your ready to go.

Step 4: Wait for it to sell

This is just a matter of sitting back and letting eBay do its thing - buyers will find your item and leave bids on it. Some bidders might email you with questions about the item, and you should do your best to answer these questions as quickly as you can. Remember that if your item doesn’t sell then you can list it again for free

Step 5: Collect payment and post it

EBay will send out an email after the auction is over guiding the auction winner on how to make payment for the product. Make sure you have all the money in your account before you send the product out to the auction winner. Once the money for the product has been received, your next step will be to pack the item for posting (using bubble wrap is most ideal), write down the buyers address from the confirmation email that eBay has sent out to you on the parcel. Put the appropriate amount of stamps on the package and post it and you’re done. I really hope that you have enjoyed selling your first item on eBay.

Uchenna Ani-Okoye is an internet marketing advisor and co founder of Free Affiliate Programs

You Google the term ‘web hosting’ and come up with page after page of possibilities and each hosting solution has a comprehensive set of solutions to common hosting questions.

If you are to believe every web hosting solution you come across you would have conclude that every option is the best available. However, that just can’t be true, can it? I mean surely there are web solutions that are better than others, right? How can you tell the difference when all web hosting options sound so perfect?

Probably the first key to unraveling this mystery is to come to terms with the fact that you may be comparing apples to oranges, metaphorically speaking. Not every web hosting solution is designed to fit all customers. There are no cost or low cost options that are well suited to manage a sizeable number of personal or startup ecommerce websites. On the other end of the spectrum are high-end web hosting solutions that may be overkill for the majority of entrepreneurs.

As a website owner you should also take careful stock of your actual need. You may find a solution that has many things going for it, but lacks a significant component you need in your web host.

Beyond assessing your current needs you should also evaluate where you want to be a year from now. Will your hosting solution grow with you or is there room within the current structure to manage the growth? Do you have enough bandwidth or can more be made available quickly in the event of a quick burst of activity? Do you plan on making an ezine available? If so, does the web hosting solution have the ability to manage your subscriptions?

If you were to compare this scenario to a real world counterpart it might look a bit like renting an office. Do you need two offices or twelve? Do you need phone service alone or do you need high speed Internet? Do the desks need to be solid oak or will a veneer be sufficient? You see, just as offices come in a variety of configurations so too does web hosting solutions. In the end the more you understand your actual and potential needs the better you will be at finding the right hosting solution.

Find a solution that meets and exceeds you need and then make sure the fee is affordable and a significant amount of uptime is guaranteed. This scenario provides the best possibility of hassle-free growth.

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If you have a clear idea of what you are doing, then you shouldn’t have any problems finding what you’re looking for on eBay, the more you learn about eBay buyers search tendencies, the easer it will be for you to make your products be found, here are a few pointers that you might want to take into consideration.

Be specific: If you’re searching for the first edition of the original Harry Potter book, you’ll get further searching for ‘harry potter Rowling philosopher’s stone first edition’ than you will searching for ‘harry potter’. You’ll get fewer results, but the ones you do get will be far more relevant.

Misspellings: it’s a real reality than many of the individuals on eBay really can’t spell to well. Whatever you might be looking for, try a few common misspellings; you might be surprised to find a few products that would have otherwise slipped through the cracks.

Get a thesaurus: You should try to search for all the different words that someone might use to describe an item, for example searching for both ‘TV’ and ‘television’, or for ‘phone’, ‘mobile’ and ‘cell phone’. Where you can, though, leave off the type of item altogether and search by things like brand and model.

Utilise the eBay categories: Whenever you decide to make a search, you might also notice the category section right next to the search results. If you just search for a graphics card, then you might want to click on the ‘graphics card’ category to see further results solely in that category. Why bother looking through search results that might return products that are virtually unrelated to your search term?

Don’t be afraid to browse: Once you’ve found the category that items you like seem to be in, why not click ‘Browse’ and take a look through the whole category? You might be surprised by what you find.

Not many people are aware of how powerful the eBay search engine actually is, just a few symbols here and there and it will work with flaws for you.

Wildcard searches: You can put an asterisk (*) into a search phrase when you want to say ‘anything can go here’. For example, if you wanted to search for a 1950s car, you could search for ‘car 195*’. 195* will show results from any year in the 1950s.

In correct order: If you search on a search term and put it into quotes (”") then the results that you’ll receive are ones that have all the words that are contained in your search term. A good example of that would be searching for ‘Back to the Future’ wouldn’t give you any results that say something like ‘Back to the House’.

Exclude words: Put a minus, and then put any words in brackets that you don’t want to appear in your search results. For example: “Pulp Fiction” -(poster,photo) will find items related to Pulp Fiction but not posters or photos.

Either/or: If your interested in searching for many terms at once, then all you have to do is put them in brackets: The TV example I presented to you earlier would become ‘TV,Television’, which would return results for items using both search terms. Don’t get stressed over trying to learn every single attribute of the search engine, though there are quite a significant number of people on eBay who don’t search at all but rather prefer to look through the eBay category system and save all the URLs in their favourites list of their browser.

Uchenna Ani-Okoye is an internet marketing advisor and co founder of Free Affiliate Programs

Hostgator web hosting is an example of a great web hosting company that has been able to ride a wave of positive public opinion in making a successful web hosting venture.

Many people have one sore point with what is otherwise a superior web hosting service, and that is Hostgator’s current domain registration system, which offers domains at a pricey $15 per domain. However, the biggest flaw in Hostgator’s system is not the price, but the lack of coherently meshing domain registration into their user console, instead almost hiding their domain registration offer.

Peculiar indeed. It seems almost certain that were Hostgator to add a domain registration for easy setup within their console, that among the the tens of thousands of Hostgator users many would opt to use it for convenience’s sake alone, and due to the trust and friendly disposition many webmasters have towards Hostgator today.

This is a situation that Hostgator should certainly take advantage of. Perhaps even an offer could be made to a larger, trustworthy domain registrar to resell their services to the Hostgator clientele. Streamlining this process could be a great addition to Hostgator’s services, and in the end a boon to Hostgator’s bottom line.

What could go wrong? Well, if you were to resell domain registrar services, and the support for that domain registration process is poor, it could reflect badly upon the Hostgator name. So, Hostgator should consider only a trustworthy and reliable service were Hostgator to use a reseller, or Hostgator complaints could emerge from it that lead to negative publicity, which Hostgator has managed to avoid quite well so far.

It is hard to say whether or not Hostgator is currently using a reseller that they trust. As it seems Hostgator has hidden their domain registration process under the “services” area, which is really quite hard to find, as it is at the bottom of the page, and one might not associate the word “services” with domain registration, considering Hostgator makes no mention of their domain registration services on the front page.

This seems odd, if not outright suspicious, almost as if Hostgator does not want to promote the very service it is offering! If that is the case, Hostgator should renegotiate with a reseller’s services that with whom Hostgator would feel comfortable offering their registration services to it’s customers.

By including domain registration somewhere on the front page, and again in the console with a streamlined process from adding registration into monthly billing or an instant charge, either way Hostgator could provide a valuable service to it’s customers and in turn, add an important new, consistent revenue stream.

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If you are looking for a way to earn a little extra cash without having to use much of your time, then online paid surveys just might be the answer for you. All it needs for you to start earning money is to have a computer or access to one, and a reliable Internet connection.

You will then need to enroll yourself in one of the many online survey sites there are on the Internet. The more you sign up for, the better. Just remember to look for sites that will not ask you for a registration or a membership fee. You want to stay away from those. Any legitimate company will not let you pay anything to join them. Another is that you find ones that will pay you cash upfront for the services you have done. Those that offer you chances to win prizes in exchange for some of your earnings are also bogus sites.

Once you have signed up, you can expect to receive a survey within two weeks. Some are lucky and get to have some sent within the hour. Just try not to be disappointed if it takes a while for you to receive a job. This is also one of the reasons why it is best to sign up with several sites. Since that survey forms do not entail that long to get done, you should not be worried if you are sent several within a few days. The important thing is to keep the ball rolling so you will have consistent jobs to do.

What are online paid surveys and who pays you to have them done?

These electronic survey forms are part of research data that belong to many large companies and corporations that need to seek answers for developing markets and products. By answering the survey form honestly and with the best of your knowledge, you are helping these companies save a huge amount of cost. The data you will render them will allow them to analyze and determine their position in the market as well as potential business they could make by understanding fully the market, trend, and viability when launching or developing an existing or upcoming product.

Earnings you can get by filling up these survey forms can fetch you a minimum of $300 a month, working only an hour a day. You can earn more than this if you invest more effort and time to it. So, you see, it is a nice way to save up a little money for something special or to just pay off some of the bills. Since it does not take much time to do it, then just consider it a part-time occupation that simply helps.

Considering this opportunity, where else can you find an easy job like this that pays a decent amount of money? Online survey sites have been around a while and will continue to exist. Since the population is readily expanding, there will always be new products and businesses out there that will need the services of surveying for them.

Finding legitimate paid surveys is key to making money doing them. It all starts with a good list of paid survey companies, and some time in front of your computer. With some hard work you can be on your way to earning a good side income.

With hundreds of web hosting providers existing online, the competition for your web site’s business is brutal. That’s fantastic news for you and can mean extremely cheap web hosting options. However, many webmasters aren’t sure what a fair price is to pay for hosting their web site and are anxious that cheap web hosting translates into compromising service and quality.

The truth is that you can find a web hosting provider for even the most intricate site for under five dollars a month. For the purposes of this article, cheap web hosting will refer only to the price of the hosting, not to the quality of the company or the service they provide.

Benefits of Cheap Web Hosting Plans

Many web site owners still believe that if their site requires high end security, database access,or other complex features, then their monthly hosting costs will be well over $40 a month. However, with the many new providers on the market you can locate cheap web hosting that includes all of these features and many more for far less.

In fact, many of the hosting providers grant their subscribers access not only to open source databases and technologies, but also allow them to utilize proprietary technologies such as Microsoft SQL or ASP.Net 2.0 web applications.

What Are The Risks of Cheap Web Hosting?

While there are thousands of cheap web hosting providers to choose from, be sure you do your research. Their costs may be comparable, but their quality and services are not. In reality, many web hosting companies are essentially only resellers of an existing company’s services. In some instances, there are resellers of a reseller.

Choosing a bad hosting provider can cost you days of wasted time and effort. Here are the essential qualities to look for in a cheap web hosting provider:

-Does the company offer enough disk space? The quality affordable hosting providers provide over 5 gb’s of space. Some even allow unlimited disk space. Don’t settle for limited space.
-Does the company have bandwidth restriction? If your hosting company is limiting your bandwidth, then they’re limiting your growth. Look for companies that won’t hold you back.
-Does the company offer telephone support? Many cheap web hosting providers only offer support through email. If your website has problems, you need to speak with someone immediately. You do not want to send an email and wait. The best affordable web hosting providers have 24/7, 365 email and phone support.
-Does the company offer web site design other tool? Even an advanced web developer can benefit from tools that make initial site design time faster. Evaluate all of the extras the company provides. The best providers offer 100’s of web sitetemplates and other tools.

Where Can I Find Cheap Web Hosting Providers?

As you were cautioned before, do your research. Don’t just plug in cheap web hosting on a search engine. Find a good review site that compares and ranks each of the existing options. Many of the available review sites also provide special promotions or discounts.

Rather than surfing from website to website, these review sites allow you to evaluate and examine all of your options for affordable webhosting on one web site. This can make your decisions process much easier and help make certain that you make the best choice for your cheap web hosting needs.

As a website developer and consultant, Brian Anthony has extensively evaluated the majority of web hosting alternatives. He passes that information on to his clients and provides in-depth reviews and helps them compare cheap web hosting here.

As an expired domain trader looking for a good domain name, you may face a number of difficulties and challenges like fierce competition, lightening quick registration by your competitors and exorbitantly higher buying prices. To avoid all these hassles and to buy very good names, you can use a number of domain backordering models offered by well known backordering services. Here are some of the famous and recognized domain backordering models made available by backordering firms:

First Model that offers services by individual and separate registrars:

Some well-known registrars offer this model by refusing to delete the expiring domain name especially at stage 2. However, they may assign a particular name to an individual, who has paid the required fee to backorder the domain. Examples of registrars are: GoDaddy and eNom.

Second Model that offers services with the help of Coordinated Registrars:

This model offers a single window, application point for backordering a domain by multi-registrars. You may need to submit a request through SnapName web portal which eventually works with the registrar of a particular domain just before the final deletion. Examples of registrars are: Network Solutions.

Third Model that offers services with the help of the Registry:

All of us know that VeriSign controls the registry and it has the power to guarantee that any names deleted at stage 2 is redistributed to an interested buyer, who has registered to VeriSign’s much hyped Waiting List Service or WLS. Any ICAAN registered and approved registrars can offer this service. It offers you two distinctive parameters when compared to a standard registrar type of model.

a) First, registrars offer this to those people, who can opt to offer a particular domain to their customers.

b) Second, only the registry has the complete control over the names that reside in the third stage.

Tip: If there are no pending backorder requests for any domains forwarded through WLS, the said name will advance to the fourth stage after which dedicated software can grab it for immediate purchase.

Fourth Model that offers services by using automated registration software:

You can capture those domains that pass the registry at sixth stage. Using good software, you can send electronic requests for registering a domain with the help of an ICAAN accredited registrar. However, this is perhaps the most famous model that poses you several challenges that concerns how quickly you are grabbing an expired domain name. With good software, you can post simultaneous requests at the same time.

Fifth Model that offers you service by using a Multi-model Strategy:

To enhance your chances of winning a good domain name, you may need to use all the above mentioned strategies and models by subscribing to respective services. However, a number of expired domain name traders are approaching VeriSign to use their WLS service to bypass the registrars, who always delete expiring domain names paid and registered through them, provided there is not backorder requests made against those domains. All these models require considerable amount of skills and dedication from you, before you can grab a good expiring domain name.

John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is also the owner of the path breaking web site called
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The web hosting solution for a home-based business will likely be radically different from the needs of a large ecommerce site. The use of a web host is essentially the cyber-office lease for your Internet business. The web hosting solution houses the files you will need to upload and can store you online company data.

There are three primary web-hosting solutions and each one is designed to accommodate a specific need. This article will take a look at these three solutions and what type of business may require each solution.

Co-Located Server Hosting

We will start with the most comprehensive solution first. This type of web hosting is in-house and will typically cost the most. You will need to purchase one or more server specifically for your company use. This server will need to be monitored and will likely require an in-house Internet Technician (IT).

This solution works for larger companies with either lots of data to store or who want to be able to work on any solution regarding their web hosting immediately.

Dedicated Hosting

This plays a similar role to the co-located server hosting option in that you have your own server taking care of your online data. In this case, however, the server is located off-site and is maintained by a third party. Middle to large sized firms would likely use this option to maintain the highest possibility of uptime without the need for an in-house IT.

Shared Hosting

This is the most cost effective method of hosting and takes care of the majority of personal and small businesses sites. Most Shared Hosting options are less than $100 per month (often much less). Many of these same services are adaptable to allow for ecommerce solutions.

There are other options in web hosting solutions, but they typically fall into these three categories. Obviously the Co-Located Server Hosting option will be the most costly and labor-intensive solution, but it will be the best solution for the large business managing hundreds and thousands of transactions online.

The Dedicated Hosting option may be a good fit when a growing company needs a high ceiling for data as well as the comfort of knowing their fate isn’t tied to a server with multiple accounts.

The Shared Hosting solution is perfect for a business startup because it provides a cost effective way to get online without breaking the bank. Some Shared Hosting solutions provide the tools to allow their customers to develop their own ecommerce sites through template rich designs. Remember, just because the server is shared with others doesn’t make it a bad solution. To say otherwise would be to say an office building is bad because it contains more than one office.

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I want to discuss Squidoo as a tool for generating traffic to your site. Squidoo, created by Seth Godin, is a Web 2.0 website, which means the majority of its content is created by its users - people like you and me. Its an online social encyclopedia, with tens of thousands of user-generated pages called lenses on a vast range of topics.

A Squidoo lens is a user-created resource webpage thats focused on a specific topic. A lens can contain text, images, video, audio, opt-in boxes, links, tips, RSS feeds, monetization, and more. Squidoo lenses are free to build, and you can create as many of them as you like. Squidoo gets a lot of traffic every day and you can use it to create more traffic for your website.

Here are my steps you should follow to get more traffic from it:

STEP ONE: Make a list of all the keywords, catch-phrases and tags related to your music. List them all on paper or on a word document. Out of your list, select 2-5 of your most related terms such as jazz pop music or classical Japanese music. Whatever it may be, have the terms ready.

STEP TWO: Open a Squidoo account at www(dot)squidoo(dot)com and create what they call lenses with the phrases you have selected, putting in keywords related to it when prompted.

STEP THREE: You need some good content around those phrases. About the music style, the people in the industry, the history, who you are, what you do, etc. All that should be written into your lens.

STEP FOUR: Make sure your lens is filled with lots of links to your website. This is how people will click to come to your site. Place a link to it at all your current sites - your personal one, Myspace, Facebook, etc

Using web 2.0 technology Squidoo will easily rank higher in Google for those music genres. Its up to the person searching to then click on that link (if your link is at the top ranks at Google, its more than likely they will) and read your quality content to come to your site.

Thats all. Its a one-time set up and then a matter of simply putting a few links on your site to your Squidoo pages and sending it out to your list to start generating traffic. Worth the time and effort, I say. Although it shouldnt take you longer than 30 minutes to set one or two up lenses.

Kavit Haria shows independent musicians how to promote their music, get more exposure, get more gigs and sell more music. Download his free e-book entitled, How To Design A Winning And Profitable Music Business here: http://www.innerrhythm.org/ebook