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Earn Extra Money Online From Home in Your Spare Time

By Lowell on July 2, 2015 in Blog

Be honest. You could use some extra money, right? With things being what they are these days, we are mostly just grateful to have an income at all sometimes. Knowing what can happen in a recession, etc., has been a wake-up call for lots of people. Even when you are doing an excellent job, even when you have been with a company for years, there is no real job security. Things can happen that are even beyond the control of your employer and sometimes they have no choice for whatever reason to ‘downsize’. This is the reason you should start now to earn extra money online from home: ‘Just in case’.

In the meantime, life goes on. Things catch your eye or you remember how you always wanted to have something or to go somewhere, but you never can afford anything extra anymore. Most people are living paycheck-to-paycheck and again, they are just grateful to have a job at all. In this environment it is unlikely people will just switch jobs because they can make a little more money. So it can get almost depressing to realize how hard we work day in and day out and yet we can’t afford to really enjoy some of the ‘finer’ things in life!

You know what though? That is not really so true. You can definitely control the situation and make more money than your employer is able or willing to pay you. If you are really determined to ‘get ahead’ then why not consider how you might earn extra money from home in your spare time? What spare time? You will find it if you look for it. If you really want to make it happen you will somehow carve out some time and space to start looking at ways you can earn money online from home.

If you have a couple hours in the evening and/or on weekends you could start the research and planning on what you could set up that would be more or less on “autopilot” (eventually). It’s “more or less” because it does take time to set it up and get it to run smoothly — and even then you have to remain somewhat engaged to keep on top of things. There is no ‘asleep at the wheel’ when it comes to earning income anywhere. You have to really focus even if it is just for those few hours.

One of the easiest online businesses to get started in (the least work, least expense and least experience required) would be affiliate marketing. This is because for a small monthly fee you get so much from an affiliate program. They are not all created equal but for the most part you should find one that includes resources as well as some level of training that would give you the necessary information for marketing and advertising (promoting) your business. They all usually provide graphics (images) and web pages for you to use, handle support for your customer’s questions, and process the actual sales transactions that you can earn commissions from.

Affiliate Programs: How to Earn While You Learn

By Lowell on June 10, 2015 in Blog

It is very easy to join an affiliate program. You can start advertising the same day as they give you your affiliate web page link. That is literally all there is to it as far as planting the seed and starting out. The program provides the product or service that you can earn money from if you are able to sell it.

So far you have invested nothing – no time, no effort (yet) and the only money you have spent so far is the membership dues if applicable. You are getting a very fair deal in most cases if there are no contracts other than month-to-month (no contract should be a requirement when determining which program you want to start out with).

Just factor in what you would have had to spend to start a business without being able to join an affiliate program. Consider the cost of market research and product development, programming, website development, operations management, etc. You are looking at years and big bucks unless you can do all of the things necessary to create a business.

So don’t begrudge the program and realize that they need to maintain their business and they could not provide all that they do and pay affiliate commissions, without your contribution. That’s why affiliates are referred to as ‘members’ rather than customers.

Just consider that cost as ‘the cost of doing business’ and accept it gratefully. Any other attitude is going to impede you, such as being in a big rush to see results based only on the fact that you are paying monthly dues and quite possibly not seeing any return on investment in the beginning.
If you really engage in your business and use all of the resources that are available to you to learn how to earn money online – the more you apply yourself the sooner you will see your results. If you put in just a half-way effort, then that is what you will receive if anything.

Note that there are different models where you can join free and then upgrade to make more money if ever or whenever you are ready to get serious. With that said there are actually a few programs you can even make money with at the free level.

Eventually you may wish to add more affiliate programs to your portfolio of money-making ventures and again benefit from any and all tools and resources they will provide. These assets do include some level of training most of the time and you should take full advantage of everything you can so that you will keep learning more, which will make it more likely you will have a successful business.

Get Started Now to Earn Extra Money Online

By Lowell on June 3, 2015 in Blog

Nobody can know what is just around the corner. While we hope for the best it might be that we are going to lose our source of income someday unexpectedly. Unfortunately that is not the time to try to start a business unless we have saved money and have severance pay and/or unemployment insurance.

In other words, unless you have money to live on, you need to focus on getting a job rather than to speculate on starting a business online. Nobody knows how long it will take you to develop a source of income from your own business and while it is much, much less expensive to start a business on the Internet than it is offline, it is going to take some resources – for sure your time and effort, and possibly some money if you have it, will make things much easier to be possible.

It is preposterous and sad to hear people that are only at the stage of trying to learn how to navigate the Internet and really not even on first-base yet, being fearful about not making the rent or the car payment. This of course puts them in the desperate category and this is bad for a whole bunch of reasons.

First of all when people are desperate that is when they are most vulnerable – they can make unwise decisions because they are not thinking clearly but are instead emotional – and with good reason, but we need to try not to get in this kind of a mess. Also not the best environment if you are in a rush; it’s just not possible to rush some things (unless of course you have a lot of money, which the majority do not).

If you don’t have a contingency plan (savings, etc), good luck on starting a business living under a bridge or in your car. Sounds melodramatic but it does happen even to professionals – let alone people (the majority) who live from paycheck to paycheck. It is much smarter to try to find at least a part-time job FIRST so that you have some income that you can count on. If you can start this while you STILL have unemployment benefits you can report your income and this will result in your benefits being stretched longer.

So the point is do not wait until you are ‘between a rock and a hard place’ to decide to earn some extra money to save or pay down your bills. Do it while you have an income and a place to live, etc. Don’t be in denial about the possibility of needing to survive without a job in the future. It can happen in a heartbeat. Don’t think because you try so hard to do a good job, and get so many compliments that the business would hesitate to let you go if their bottom line depended on it or their superiors directed them to reduce the workforce immediately.

That is just how the world economy is these days. It is nothing personal. However you do need to get your head out of the sand and take action today so that you are prepared financially in case it happens to you. Look at it as using your time wisely and instead of surfing the net just for fun, start doing some research on how you could earn extra money online in your spare time today.

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