The questions are not necessarily academic as a matter of fact most of them are about a variety of mundane topics for instance you may have something about cooking like how to make the perfect round tortillas or about travel for instance what would be the perfect spots for a romantic Caribbean vacation or anything else n those lines. There are a good number of academic questions as well spanning across subjects from psychology to astrology and from mathematics to arts. So it’s really up to you what questions you answer but there us certainly no dearth of options to choose from.

This is how it works; to begin with you will need a yahoo account so start by creating one if you don’t already have one. But your checks don’t come from yahoo they come from clickbank.com. This is a service that has several e-books written by numerous authors on a variety of topics on specific niche markets and these e-books are sold by Clickbank.com. So to make your money you will; have to create an affiliate account with ClickBank. Once you have an account with them, browse through the different e-books available and the subjects and issues that can be handled through the use of these books. While you are checking out a few of the e-books don’t forget to create a “hoplink” to some of them so that you can use them when and as you need.

The next step is to browse through the recently asked questions. Pick ones that are related to the e-books that you have browsed through at ClickBank. Now even if a question is just listed for a few hours it may have more than 7/8 answers but you should only be looking for questions with less than 5 answers.

Once you find a question that can be answered with the help of one of the e-books available on ClickBank. For instance, a question like how can I know if my spouse is cheating one me can be tacked with a book like Infidelity issues in a marriage; answer such questions. All you have to do is provide some details on the subject perhaps a few lines and then mention that you have seen a product or have used a product that really helps and insert the ‘hoplink’ to the e-book in the reference box.

Now simply submit the answer. The success of this technique is based on the fact that many writers search the answers for previously asked questions to answer one of the questions that they may have. For instance, if they also have a question that can be linked to marital infidelity they will click on it and read the answer and doing so they will get you clicks on your ClickBank affiliate code.

You can also use this technique to divert traffic to your website or blog by just finding a category that related to your website or blog. Now click on questions in that category and answer them with brief information and add a link to your site or blog.

The better your answers are the higher your reputation as someone who knows their subject is and you’ll gain credibility. You can add your website link in the sources column to get traffic back to your website. To make sure you are not seen as a spammer it’s always a good idea to only place a link back to your website every third or fourth question so you will be trusted more.

Since Yahoo Answers ranks well on both Google and Yahoo try including long-tail key phrases in your answer so that you can be listed high in the search engines.

If you are one of the first people to answer the question then you are more likely to get more traffic and even get your answer chosen as the best which will give you even more exposure.

If you are having trouble finding questions in your niche, try the user-friendly advanced search features. The search form is simple, and it will even save your search as a default for easy searching later. You may be surprised what you can find using the search as Yahoo! doesn’t have a category for everything, but there are questions for almost anything.

Another way is to use yahoo answers to increase the sales and make money through affiliate marketing links to the sites of the product manufacturers. But in order to do so make sure that you choose a screen name that makes you sound like an expert on the topic for instance Dr. XYZ. If you have experience selling anti aging products you can answer questions related to anti aging and include a link to the product manufacturer page of the products that you are endorsing or recommending.

Considering that Yahoo Answers was a completely free way to place links and help grow your online money making, it became very popular very quickly. However, the system has now be tweaked a bit to make it harder for marketers to take advantage of. If you are only a “Level 1″ user on the website, your links will not be accepted and your account could even be banned. This means that before you really place any link on yahoo answer, you are going to have to build up some credibility with yahoo answers website first.

A good tip is to install a free traffic tracker like Google analytics on your site. This will allow you monitor where you traffic is coming from, and you will be able to see how much traffic is being generated using yahoo answers.

Do not forget to give a meaningful answer to the question that will further accentuate your position as an expert on the topic and then people will be quite willing to buy the products that you are recommending thus increasing your sales.

The first step is to sign up for a MySpace account. It is one of the most happening and fun filled ways to promote your business online. With 192,000,000 members the site is a veritable treasure trove of potential customers. The number of hits that the site receives each day goes to the tune of a few million which means that even if you can set up a small profile of your business on the site you can milk it to get massive traffic and an unprecedented number of leads to your site and there is a good possibility that at least a few of these will be buying customers. The first step is to visit MySpace and sign up for an account. The next step is to set up a key word rich profile that gives interesting information and facts related to your business. There are several sites online that offer free tutorials on making your MySpace page attractive, use them judiciously.

Once your account is set up, download a program called FriendBlaster Pro. This is a very handy tool to get visitors to your profile page. There are two versions of the software available one is the paid version and the other is the free trial version, start with the trial, version till you make some money off of it. The software helps you to send friend requests to other MySpace users. You can either target a particular user segment depending on a set criterion such as interest in music etc or you could send random invitations. With the software you will be able to set up 10 MySpace sites and surf all of them simultaneously till you have 400 friends on each site, so if you have 10 sites that would be 4000 friends request sent in a single day. This is a very potent way to build a database of friends and customers who are interested in your product. Once you have a network of friends you can channel your marketing efforts towards them by sending them regular updates about new products, events and other information..

Even if you don’t have an online business of your own where you sell products or services but f you have an exceptionally large friends list you can use it to generate an income. You can send out bulletins or comments to the users on your friends list leading them to the site or product that you are advertising. But be careful so that your efforts and not dubbed as spam

You can also use your time online to create MySpace accounts for others, just get creative with the names and create a sizeable number of accounts each day which can then be sold to webmasters who want to promote their business through MySpace.

Yuwie on the other hand is slightly different from MySpace, even though it is also a social networking site they actually pay you for socializing. Just sign up for an account which is totally free. Now start promoting your referral link. You can send invites to your friends and even use MySpace. The site pays you on the basis of revenue sharing rate which means that you will get a part of the money that the site generates through your page. For example for a particular month you may get $1 for every 100 views that your page receives.

Yuwie utilizes the socialization scene to promote Adsense and advertising, then offers revenue sharing to all its users.

You need to be very active to make good amount of money with Yuwie. You are paid on the basis of page views we generate. So the more page view means more money for you. You are also paid on the views generated by people you actually referred on Yuwie. So invite friends, send them comments, messages, rate them, and view their profile and so on. You can even start a blog on Yuwie and upload content, videos and images on that blog. At the end of each month, you will be paid per participation and receive a payment in your Paypal account on the basis of page views you get such as Profile page, Blog pages, Friends list, views on comments and picture pages and so forth.

What is more subtle is the fact that many people at this site are there to make money and promote their business. Yuwie has a pretty stringent set of rules about blatant advertising, and more power to them. Spamming is not tolerated. Therefore, another method to make money online with Yuwie is a well constructed blog about a subject of your interest and contains links to the product you are selling or promoting. If you have a circle of like-minded friends and your reputation is good then they are likely to follow your advice or recommendation.

As you can see, the sales and amount of money that can come from using and exploiting social networking sites can really compound. Basically, the more friends that a person has in their community profile means that the more chances they have and the more members they have available to them in order to market and try to sell their products. All in all, using Yuwie, and MySpace can definitely make you money via online in the long term.

I am here to share with you an amazing news about the way to make your money grow on trees. What about $5,000+ a month? Sound exciting? so just stay with me and listen carefully. Let me tell you what.
You know, there are thousands of people, just like you and me, are working home and making tons of cash, with just clicking the mouse. Why? let me explain:

Think about how many times you’ve rejected suh phone calls that ask you about your opinions on their products or your preference. Maybe, you dont like to be borthered by such calls or maybe you dont wanna show your opinions by free. That is why the telemarketing doesnt work. of course they need to pay. Believe it or not, big businesses spend more than 40 billion dollars every year to do market research to find out what you bought, what you wanna buy, what is your take and what is your advice.
When you get some of the money in your own pocket, image you will never worry about your bills; image getting rid of boring jobs; image working at home with a cup of coffee on hand; and image more good times you will spend with your family and your friends. sound nice, right? It is easy for you to make it.

What you have to do is is open your inbox and click on a survey link. It takes just a few minutes to answer basic questions about your shopping preferences, and then, with a click of the mouse, money comes to your account.each survey will bring you $10-$40 for just 15-20 minutes of your time. If you do 4 surveys a day, you may make extra money of $5,000+ a month or more than $50,000+ a year.

No special skills required,no pressure,and no risks at all. If this sounds too good to be true, believe me, I felt the same way in the first place. but,facts talk. just think about what you may do with such amount of money.

Realize that although this idea might not apply specifically to you—at least at the present time—it certainly will apply to many readers. Moreover, even if it does not apply to your particular situation, it is worth thinking through anyway, because you certainly have many friends and associates it does apply to and you will be able to share it with them. I am going to explain this idea to you as if you were a married person with a family to support and you are either the sole breadwinner or an important contributor. Now one of the principal reasons for wanting the amount of money you desire is to provide for your family, and not just in an adequate manner.

After all, you want them to live life to its fullest. Realize, therefore, that as long as you live and are able to follow the plan outlined in this book, you will be able to do as you want with respect to your family. However, if you really stop and think about it, you will very likely agree that you would want your family to live “the good life,” even if you were suddenly removed from the picture—wouldn’t you? Jokingly you might say, “No, who cares if I’m gone.” But this is not a joking matter. This is a very serious matter. Of course you care—I know it and so do you! Now, if you’re alive and healthy, you will create this wealth for your estate. But what if you die or are permanently disabled? Well, our society has taken care of that situation as well; we have “Life Insurance” and we have “Disability Insurance.”

But, let’s get back to your thinking again—you might be saying to yourself, “Life insurance, what a rip-off. This guy Bob Proctor really doesn’t know where he is coming from.” Well, let me tell you, that when it comes to life insurance, I believe I can claim to be an authority of sorts—for I have conducted seminars for the insurance industry for almost ten years, and I have had close to 50,000 people from that industry “go through” my seminars. Therefore, I can assure you, that when I say approximately 95% of the people whom you talk to are almost completely ignorant when it comes to the subject of insurance, I am not “talking through my hat.” Granted, many of these people hold important positions in business and industry, in government, or in the professions, and because of their positions, it would be very easy to just assume they know “of whence they speak.”

But the sad fact of the matter is, many of them are either badly misinformed or completely uninformed when it comes to the important subject of life insurance. Understand this—there is no way to replace your income and create a certain and instant estate other than life insurance; and statistics indicate that although most people are insured, the vast majority of people (at least 90%), are dangerously underinsured. That is to say, when they die, most people leave behind only enough money to pay for their funeral and possibly enough money to cover their family’s living expenses for one year!

The unfortunate part is, that for a relatively small sum of money, these people could have had their financial affairs set up in such a way that if something did happen to them, their financial goals would be reached by their families automatically. Since this book is designed to help you reach a substantial, financial goal, I felt duty-bound to include the information on life insurance. The book could not be complete without it. (Keep in mind there are only two ways to earn money: people at work, or money at work.) You will be happy to know the remainder of this book is designed for the person who is going to LIVE,.

For you to answer this question, it would probably be a good idea for you to decide what you want the money for. But to simply say, “I want the money to live on,” is not good enough. You should realize our society is structured in such a way that the government will “keep you.” In fact, in most places, they will even mail a check to you—you can sit at home and still receive a “living wage.” At this point you are probably saying to yourself, “Oh yes, I know that, but I want to live better than that.” Well, let’s get specific—how much better? Bearing in mind that this kind of an exercise is going to require some serious planning on your part, get out a sheet of paper and draw up a list of all the “things,” or “activities,” that you plan to spend money on over the course of the next year. To assist you in getting started with your list, I have outlined several sample categories below: Food, Rent/Mortgage, Clothes, Automobile, Utilities, Education, Vacations, Recreation, Insurance, Savings. Understandably, these are just a few of the many possibilities; so keep working on your own list until it is complete! And remember, you do not fill in the amounts you are now spending. Rather, you take each item on the list, visualize how you want to live and then fill in the amount of money it will cost you to do so.

For example, you might only go out to a nice restaurant to dine on very special occasions, but you might visualize yourself spending a very enjoyable evening out for dinner once a week, where the service is excellent, the food is even better, and the environment is fit for royalty. How much would that cost? — that is the figure you’re looking for. You could be driving a car that is getting old and is showing signs of rust, but you might visualize yourself driving a brand new car of your choice, that you trade every year or two. How much would that cost? Remember, you do not have a contract to live forever, nor is this a practice run—this is your life and you should be enjoying it to the fullest extent humanly possible! Therefore, you should have the amount of money you need, to provide the things you want, to live the way you choose to live. Let me caution you—it would not be unusual for your mind to be playing tricks on you at this point.

You could be thinking, “This is really crazy. I’m never going to have the money to live the way this book suggests.” I want to remind you, however, that there are many people who do have enough money to live the way this book suggests—and they weren’t born with it—and no one left it to them. They were “Born Rich” in the sense of having the God-given potential to succeed (everyone is), but like most people, they were at one time short of money. Understand that you too can succeed, and you will, if you will only do as this book suggests. As I am writing this, I feel compelled to digress for a few lines, to remind you that you have great resources of talent and ability locked up, within you, just waiting to be expressed. In this vein, I can vividly recall listening to a tape a number of years ago, that Earl Nightingale made on “Attitude.”

I must have listened to that tape literally hundreds of times and there was a part on it where he said, “Now, right here we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can reach, and yet, for some equally strange reason, we think others can do things that we cannot.” Earl went on to say, “I want you to know that that is not true. You do have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you, and you can have the things you want.”

I wouldn’t even want to speculate on how many times I heard that section, without really understanding what he meant; and then one day I heard it, and every cell in my brain seemed to resonate with the truth of what he said. I suddenly realized what he was “driving at” and I knew deep down inside of me, if they can do it, so can I, if I am willing to pay the price. Please understand you too can do it, because what Earl had to say is as true of you as it was of me. But part of the price for you, is to figure out …

From this you will probably have already increased your disposable income a little already.

But perhaps you are still struggling to find enough to pay all your creditors because you still have a shortfall on your budget and need to fill that gap? Maybe your budget is so tight that you worry you will find it difficult to maintain.

Or it could be that you have a little to pay all your debts but you would like to pay more in order to reduce the overall amount of time it will take you to repay them.

Maybe you just want to increase your income a little more in order to ease the pressure or to save.

Whatever your situation let’s take a look at some more options to help raise money or increase your income.
Welfare Benefits
You should begin by finding out if you are entitled to any welfare benefits that you are not currently receiving.

In the UK, for example, If your income is low you may be entitled to Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit that would help with your housing costs.

If you do not live in the UK you might contact your local government, welfare or benefit office, or search the web to see what benefits are available in your area.

You might be entitled to help with your child care costs if you are working. Once again if you in the UK and are working on a low income you may be entitled to Tax credits.

It is worthwhile applying for any benefits that you might be entitled to even of you think that you will not receive very much. When you are working to get out of a debt situation, every little bit helps, believe me.
Employment
Do you have some spare time in the evenings, weekends, or during school hours? If so, an obvious way to increase your income on a regular basis is to consider finding a part-time job.

Or does your current job offer the possibility of overtime, if so, could you do a few more hours?

If you are not earning enough from your current employer, you could consider looking for another position that would pay better. Keep your eyes open for higher paid opportunities and actively search by using the internet, buying newspapers and reading the jobs section, and registering with local job and employment agencies.

Sometimes working as a temporary employee through an agency pays a better hourly rate than a permanent position. Of course, there are downsides to this such as no sick pay, maternity, or holiday entitlements; no company pension (although many of those are not by any means guaranteed these days anyway); and you are not guaranteed to be working every week.

However, I have a couple of friends who work through employment agencies on supposedly ‘temporary’ contracts who do very well, they work almost every week of the year and remain with the same employer for very long terms, so it might be worth considering, especially if you are currently out of work, building a part-time business or not concerned with long-term security.

Would re-training help?

Look for night classes, college courses, or free training days that might give you the qualifications or experience needed to improve your job or promotion prospects.

If you are looking to further your career, change jobs or simply find a job, you could increase your chances of success by visiting the e-Resumes website to learn how best to create a good CV or resume, present yourself for jobs and other tips.

Your Home
If you own your own home and have a spare room, perhaps you could increase your income every month by considering letting it out to help with costs.

If this sounds interesting but you are unsure about taking permanent or long-term lodgers then you could look into the possibility of student exchange programs or short term lets.

Self-Employment
Do you have any skills that you could employ to create a small part-time business (home typing; gardening; babysitting; crafts; coaching or tutoring, etc? Or you could try joining a reputable and established network marketing programme.

Perhaps you spend a lot of time at home and use a computer. How about building a website to help create a passive income source? You could sell your own goods and services or you could make use of affiliation programs related to your passion or hobby to increase your income.

This website was created using SBI which I highly recommend as it not only offers all the tools you require, but it also provides education on all aspects of your website from providing content and building pages to optimization and much more. It also provides a wealth of tools to help you get your website listed, to get the best from keywords and templates. If you are new or inexperienced this is an ideal way to build a professional website and even experienced webmasters use the SBI system.

For more information on SBI click here.

There is more advice and tips on working from home at “Work From Home Advice for You” . Take a look.
Sell Your Unwanted Items
You could raise some cash by clearing out your home and collecting up your unused or unwanted items such as CD’s, books, electrical goods, clothing, extra furniture and furnishings, etc, to sell off.

You could hold a garage sale, advertise in a local shop, sell at a car boot sale, or advertise on a reputable auction site such as eBay.

Of course, unless you are a massive magpie, this will not increase your income on a regular basis, but it could raise a lump sum or two that you could use to towards your debts or savings.

And whenever you have a clear out in the future don’t blindly throw away unwanted items, always think about whether you could raise some cash by putting it up for auction or collect towards your nest car boot sale. I’ve even seen many broken items advertised on eBay for spares and repairs, so you never know - one person’s junk is often another’s treasure.
Other Creative Ideas
If you are really stuck and don’t have many other options here is a slightly more creative way to increase your income, even if it’s only by a small amount - it’s relatively painless and free.

If you have a savings account, preferably with a reasonable interest rate some online accounts give good rates), you could put aside the money for your bills each month then arrange to have your bill payments go out at a set date and make some interest on those bills before you pay them.

For example, the majority of my income comes in early in the month usually, so I deposit my expenses into my savings account and arrange for my bills to be paid at the end of the month.

This means that I am getting interest on that money for almost a month before I pay it out. It may not seem a fortune, but it adds up, so if you leave the interest in there and only withdraw back out the amount you need to cover those bills (or have them paid directly from your savings account if you have that facility) then the interest will also attract interest and over time you could build up a small sum that you would not otherwise have had.

And the beauty of it is that you built this little pot from money that you would normally be putting straight into your creditors’ pocket. Sweet!
And finally…
I hope these ideas to increase your income have whetted your appetite. You may have found something here that is just what you were looking for or perhaps these suggestions have helped inspire some thoughts of your own.

Whatever your own situation I sincerely hope that this series has been useful to you and that you will be able to make use of some of the suggestions to help get your finances back on track and get yourself debt-free.

It may take some discipline and some time but it will be well worth it for your pocket and your peace of mind. Read more tips here

78. There are a lot of arbitrage opportunities in the finance world as discussed below but if economics and finance talk bores you to death, there’s sports arbitrage. Different online bookmakers may offer different odds on a sporting event. By taking the better odds at each bookie you could come out ahead irrespective of the actual outcome of the event. If you’re really clever you could make a program to do this for you. Why don’t the bookies adjust their odds based on what their competitors are offering? Because they have to balance their own books. Their prices are decided based on how their own punters are betting.

79. Hosting: You don’t need to buy a lot of server hardware to provide a web hosting service. Many big hosting companies allow “reseller” accounts where you sell hosting plans to customers and the hosting company will host them all for you under your Reseller account umbrella. You get to charge customers as much as you want. Some Resellers provide value added services and charge more for these. At places like WHT you’ll find that resellers sometimes sell their customers as a “bundle” i.e., you can pay some money to buy a reseller “business”.

80. Related to the above is free hosting where you provide small website owners free hosting and in exchange you serve ads to all their pages to make the revenue to pay the hosting company and yourself. Early pioneers of this model are well known names like Geocities and Angelfire.

81. Being a broker can be done in a thousand different ways. There are some entrepreneurs making healthy profits just by bidding for projects on places like elance and guru (and others) and farming them out to a bank of writers/programmers they use on a regular basis.

82. Trading from home is really catching on in many parts of the world. You don’t need to be an expert on stocks & shares. You can trade on commodities, currencies, lots more. Trading futures allows you to leverage even small $100 amounts of capital into huge fortunes (or bankruptcy).

83. Gambling is a far cry from trading futures but a route to riches for many. No, not the traditional horse racing type of gambling where the only long term winner is the bookmaker. I’m talking gambling against other gamblers, I’m talking the numerous ways of gambling online (search). And there are a million books and ebooks that claim to “teach you how to win”.

84. HYIP, or High Yield Investment Programs are just what they say on the tin. They are also highly risky. You invests your money and you takes a chance, but some pay as much as 100% per day. How do they do it? A very few are putting your money into investments with even better rates of return. Others are simply going to keep paying out the first few customers with investments collected from later ones…. and then they go bust. Pyramid style. Maybe the ones who make the money are the ones who get in early… or actually start HYIP programs.

85. What’s it with eBay? You just can’t get away from them. Their bulk “dictionary purchase” of ad terms from the Google Adwords/Adsense system means you find ads for eBay no matter what you’re looking for, even if it’s for toenail clippings or dead pets. Whatever the reason for their success you can join the bandwagon and sell your rubbish on eBay and convert a garage of old junk to hard cash.

86. And when you’ve acquired a fair amount of experience with selling your own rubbish, start selling others’ rubbish. How to get your hands on enough trash? Place an ad in your local paper to do house clearances, or just buy stock from wholesalers in - yes, you guessed it - eBay itself. You can get anything from unused toasters to umbilical cord containers. A lot of ebay sellers are actually shopkeepers; they buy stock new from wholesalers and sell them in eBay instead of a physical bricks and mortar shop… and make a healthy living doing so.

87. You’ve now got a lot of experience buying and selling in eBay. It’s time to write a book or ebook on how to use ebay to generate millions. It doesn’t matter that you haven’t made millions yourself. People still buy these books even if it’s just to learn their way about ebay which can be quite daunting for some. And you can sell it on … you guessed!

88. Don’t fancy writing? Then set yourself up as an eBay assistant. eBay itself will send you people who need help with their complicated system. And you can charge them a commission.

89. Alternatively, setup a shop to accept goods from those who can’t list them themselves. Yes, a physical shop. There are lots of them springing up all in big cities. The operation is simple. You take something in from somebody, sell it on ebay and retain a percentage for all your efforts.

90. Think building an ebay business is too much like building a normal business? If you’ve got the capital you can take the easy route. A lot of ebay “shop” (businesses) come up for sale in site-for-sale forums and with business brokers. The ebay username and feedback generally accompanies the business so you continue to benefit from accumulated goodwill (though the “transfer” is something that eBay may not approve of).

91. Opportunities to make money in eBay are limited only by your imagination. There’s money in everything from making connections (putting people in touch with other people) to coming up with or commissioning software to make the average ebayer’s life simpler or more productive (thousands of such programs already exist). There’s even a business model involving just searching for and finding items that have been misspelt in the listings.

92. It’s not just eBay. Any merchant big enough or third party affiliate manager program - from Commission Junction to Clickbank - has opportunities. For example, you can create an Amazon affiliate site.

93. Set up a proxy. People seem to want to surf at work AND access sites their IT system blocks them from viewing. A proxy allows them to get around that restriction. Some proxy services get by just on the advertising (as it’s easy to get enormous page views in the proxy business). A very good one will even have people paying a few dollars each. There are several ways to monetise a proxy.

94. Enjoy networking? Social networking Web 2.0 style? Make money with it. If you build up sufficient reputation in places like Digg people will start approaching you to start some buzz on their company or their new product. At one point Netscape offered top “Diggers” a sweetener os $1,000 to move over to their competing service.

95. Selling databases of parts/directory listings/modified or value added DMOZ data/ email lists. The DMOZ directory is a massive directory put together by volunteer editors. And they give away their content for free. Kind of. You can download their database and combine it with other information - like phone number and postcode from Yellow pages- to add value / enhance those listings. You could then sell the enhanced product.

96. Find jobs for your friends. An easy way into the personal recruitment business. Know a friend who’s just right for a particular job? Make the connection between friend and employer and you could get up to $5,000 for a few hours work.

97. Get paid for your unused computer cycles. Is your computer sometimes on while you aren’t actually sitting at it? Then it’s using electricity but not performing “work”. Joining a distributed computing group like SETI lets you use that computing power to help reach some worthy/unworthy goal. However, you can also use those cycles to earn money by selling them to companies who have large computing tasks then can’t do completely in-house.

98. Take the cap around: Do something nice. Provide some information that helps someone, perhaps someone grieving for a lost partner. Or info on how to volunteer to help orphans in Africa, or find an internship. Make it useful. Or just make it very funny. Then stick a donation button on there for people to support your work. You’ll be surprised at how well a donation button works on the right type of site. No, it won’t work on this page - or any page promising to make you a millionaire.

99. Start an article directory. Giving away free articles (with embedded links) is one way for webmasters to build incoming links to their sites. For other webmasters these free articles are a great way to fill out their otherwise bare sites. Be the middleman. Popular article directories make a lot of money from the contextual ads they post on all the free articles they are displaying on their site.

100. Start a content site: The most common way webmasters earn money is probably contextual programs like YPN and Adsonar. But mainly Adsense. It’s simple, quick, doesn’t involve any complicated new skills. You simply put up a website with useful/informative content and some Google provided code, get a few links to the page and wait. Traffic will start flowing to it. The volume would depend on the topic and quality of content. Visitors would see ads served by Google and related to the content of the page. Each time they click on an ad you get anywhere from a few cents to several dollars. I personally know at least 20 webmasters who earn in excess of $10,000 per month this way. There are thousands of others.

The 101st method is my personal favourite because I find it hilarious:

There was this bloke who bought an email list of one million email addresses. He sent half of them a stock tip that a certain stock was going up, the other half got the same message predicting that the stock would go down. 50% of them saw him proved right. He ignored the rest and split this 50% into two groups. Half got an email with another up prediction and the other half got the same email with a down prediction. He rinsed and repeated a few times till he was left with about 15,000 people who saw him get it right several times in a row. They were obviously very impressed. He then invited them to pay $5,000 each for a seminar with him on picking stocks!

CONCLUSION

I make a healthy living online, and with multiple income streams (no I won’t tell you how much. Remember, I’m not trying to sell you anything). I put this article together originally because friends and family kept harassing me to show them what I did for a living so they could do it too. I collected some of the ideas for things I had done myself, got some more from the thousands of site-for-sale threads (and detailed conversations I’ve had with those sellers), and threw some more obscure/zany ones in here for good measure.

May money just flow to you. If finances are tight right now, take heart - money happens, it’s easier than you think. I feel very privileged to live in these interesting times, times full of opportunity, times where I’ve been able to give up my day job, work at my leisure, enjoy my kids growing up, retire decades earlier than I normally would, and spend time writing this drivel instead of running the usual rat race. God bless the Internet and Good Luck. You CAN do it.

Or be the scum that sue companies for small amounts just because it’s be cheaper for them to settle than defend. Even if the grounds for the case are petty and silly.

67. Sell photographs: Live in a big city? Hang around at celebrity watering holes, click some photos. There’s always someone online willing to pay for interesting ones - there are sites specifically for the buying/selling of photos like these. Get “lucky” and click the UN Secretary General picking up a hooker and you can buy that dream home in the Bahamas quicker than he can say United Nations Secretary General. Find Paris Hilton in another compromising video and…. you can buy Bill Gates.

68. Perform domain hunting services for businesses and then send bill them (even if they’ve never heard of you). Some businesses will pay up. A 0.01% success out of a million could be worth $100,000 (at a modest $10 each). For example, you could setup a program to extract company names from a Yellowpages database, run them through a misspelling generator and automail each company a list of domains you’ve identified that it would be in their interest to register as these are very similar to their company name. That’s a service, right? The UK authorities have been clamping down on a lot of these operators… but that’s only the UK based ones!

69. Exploit people’s soppiness. Once upon a time there was a site with lots of lovely pictures of a beautiful little bunny who was very, very happy. And his owner loved him very much. But he needed money so he asked for money on the site and promised that if he did not reach his target he’d eat the bunny. He provided graphic recipes with bunny dish mock-up pictures. Donations followed, fast and swift.

70. Relationship Marketing: Who said relationship marketing was about companies building relationships with their customers? It’s about marketing to relatives. About pimping products to your friends. Whatever the “network marketing” opportunities there ever were offline - from Amway to selling water filters - there’s always a lot of stuff you can “personally recommend” to your friends online. People who don’t open junk mail will open mail from you, because they trust you! And you can get paid for endorsing all manner of rubbish. (Till you lose all your friends, of course)

71. Become a volunteer editor in places like DMOZ and then take bribes to list sites. Is it illegal? In many parts of the world it probably is not, and so it does happen a fair bit. But, the less said about this bribery the better..

72. Petitions: People are constantly petitioning their bosses, their politicians, the rest of the world. Some of those petitioners pay for people to join their cause. Signing up again and again and again has proven lucrative for some, particularly those who know how to proxify their IPs (what is a proxy?).

73. Email SPAM. Nobody likes it, it’s illegal in some countries, ISPs get very upset, recipients get even more upset but no list of how people make money online can be complete without a mention of this. What do you sell when you spam? Have a look at what type of spam YOU are getting, it will likely give you an idea of what pays. And the stock tips that seem to “accidentally” land in your inbox. But that’s about all the help I’m giving you on the subject.

74. (But wherever there’s a big problem there’s an opportunity: Run an free email service like Hotmail etc., but with a good SPAM filtering system. High startup costs, sure, but if you get enough people signing up you could be worth a few million very quickly. Google tried this with gmail and got about 4% of the market without advertising the service at all; accounts were given by invitation only)

75. Start a HYIP and do a runner. See 101 Ways to make money online (76-101) for more details on what this is.

54. Like playing computer games? There’s money in gaming. Top players get paid handsomely for participating in tournaments, attending gaming fests and endorsing products. OK, Tiger Woods does make more but does he have as much fun? I mean, have you ever seen him happy? Like deliriously happy … and shouting for joy? No. Because his golf club don’t have no buttons. But it’s not just for big hitters. Anybody can make a few hundred bucks a week.

55. MMORPG, or multi-player online role playing games are virtual worlds where otherwise sane humans lose all perspective and all sense of reality. Or they pretend they do. They spend money on invisibility cloaks, virtual machine guns, characters and even virtual money! It’s hard to explain how it works but Be The Seller, there’s a thriving economy there worth millions of dollars every year. Whether it’s WoW or SecondLife.

56. Adult entertainment: Like dressing up kinky? Do it front of a webcam and adult webcam sites will pay you. (John Prescott need not apply.) Like chatting dirty? Are you a balding man who likes pretending to be an 18 year old blond, female model? The online equivalent of the premium rate phone lines is where you can earn money all day just having fun. I won’t provide links - use a search engine and find them yourself.

57. Or get paid for promoting other adult sites. This is like other affiliate programs except that you get to give away stuff on your site (usually cut-down/lower quality versions of videos and pics) for free. These entice visitors to click through for the larger resolution version which requires a small subscription. So, free content for you and - if you can get enough visitors to click through and subscribe - a healthy commission cheque at the end of the month.

58. Mystery shopping: Shopping on behalf of firms to see how staff on the floor are treating customers. Buy products, have holidays, eat at restaurants and have the tabs all picked up by your employers… as long as you provide them some feedback on what the service is like in-store. There are worse ways to earn a living. Some sceptics say they have fun but don’t earn a great deal. Others disagree.

59. Spend your time entering competitions. Despite the name “competitions” rarely require skill, they are nothing but glorified lotteries/ sweepstakes. The most challenging question they are likely to ask you is, “What’s 1+1?” Try searches like “competition entry” and “win a prize”.

60. Or enter contests of skill. Good at SEO? There seem to be a lot of SEO competitions around. Good for nothing? I tried Google on a search for Good for nothing competitions and I get a lot of results. Weed out 99% as junk, and you should still have some good ‘uns there. Good at taking or editing videos and have a good idea? Video sites like metacafe pay you if your video is popular enough (this guy made $100K).

61. Good at poker? You can make a living from playing it all day long (or go broke).

62. Become an estate agent. Not a real one; in places like the US that’s too much effort. No, you can act for buyers without all that formality by being a buying agent. Clients have a clear idea of what they want but you have the time to keep hitting rightmove -or wherever your local listings are - to find them that special property. In the UK “buying agents” charge 1-3% of the property value.

63. Concierge services: If you know the exact type of bra you want but can’t find it would you pay someone a few dollars to find it for you? You’d be surprised how many busy people would. Whether it’s a list for the supermarket delivery or a bathroom tap unavailable locally - for some people the hour or two hunting is not worth the $10 you’d charge. Maintain preferences for your signed up customers - so they can tell you to order “milk” without having to specify semi-skimmed, 2 litre, cardboard packing etc. - and close relationships with local businesses and even I’d sign up. Example

64. Be a researcher. At places like answers.com people pay for you to go research an answer to questions they don’t have time to answer themselves. Like, “How do I choose an SLR camera?” and “What’s the name of the theme song to the TV program A Bit of Fry and Laurie?” Note: Google has now closed the answers.google.com service but if you’re that good at hunting things out you’ll find that there are other places where people pay for answers. And, I’m not just talking paid homework help…