Have You Ever Thought of Making Money Online Utilising Your Existing Development Skills?

As you are a reader of this blog then there is a pretty good chance you have some involvement with software development or web development. If not, don't worry as it may be very useful for you too.

What I would like to know is have you ever asked yourself the question:

"What if there was a way for me to earn some extra money online utilising my existing skill set?"

As you already probably realise there are hundreds upon thousands of people making a living online. You may therefore be quite surprised that a lot of these people are doing nothing more than blogging and building lists of readers in order to do this.

Surprised? - I was!

Assuming you are a developer or techy person of some sort, I would like to maybe open you eyes to the surprisingly simply ways to making some extra money online doing nothing more than simply utilising what you already know AND by using totally free methods.

Many people making money online often started out with zero knowledge about the Internet and many of them still have a very small amount of knowledge about its actual 'workings'. Coming from the techy side of things you will already have a massive leg-up in the knowledge stakes. All you need to do is learn how to leverage those skills to make money online.

There are many ways to make money online and these are the key business models as I see it:

1. You do work for someone to provide a service such as creating a website, artwork, software etc.

2. You sell/promote other peoples product and take a cut of the commission when it sells (this is affiliate marketing).

3. You put things such as AdSense and banners on your website to drive traffic to other peoples websites.

4. You train people to be able to do things themselves to learn how to work online (coaching)

5. You sell your own product or service online.

Personally, I have focused on affiliate marketing and AdSense and have experienced varied levels of success. It is also these two areas that I feel you should really look into too!!

Over a period of several months I had been trying to get my head around it all in between my day job and hectic life but it was not until recently that I actually 'got it' and things started clicking into place. The person I have to thank for this is David Bocock.

Until 2 months ago I had never heard of David and I actually came across him by accident whilst reading some Internet marketing forums.

I had already tried several courses (unsuccessfully) and although I understood what it was telling me I had trouble joining the dots so to speak. I was getting really fed up with trying to make things work and decided to give David a shot as my last chance saloon. All I can say is I am so glad I did.

David'd course is so cheap (just $29) I can't get over how good it is! The value for money is simply amazing. For less than the price of good self teach book he provides over 15 hours of video training - and this is constantly expanding as he adds new ones. You are taken from the basics all the way through everything you need to know.

You may still be wondering how this could possibly benefit you? Well just imagine for a moment what learning these simple techniques to do for you? What could a bit of extra cash a month help with? Money towards bills? Eating out at a nice restaurant? Funding a deposit on a new car or house? The possibilities are endless.

You may be thinking you already have a decent income and don't need to do this. Well I can understand you feeling that way but what if I told you that from applying just ONE of the simple techniques I learnt in David's course to a blog that I own I am now making 8-10 sales per month consistently from a single blog post? This is now running on auto pilot and will do for the foreseeable future.

Those sales are now paying for my car and home insurance. That money is now freed up to be used for other 'fun' things. Just from doing something that took approximately 15 mins I utilised something I already had and monetised it. I was blown away when it worked. :o)

So, here is the bottom line. If you would like to make some extra easy cash from your existing skill set then go and take a look at David's Internet Marketing Course. The course is also backed with a money back guarantee so there is absolutely nothing to lose from trying it. The choice is yours!

So to finish - David, if you happen to be reading this, then thank you for creating your course - its wicked! :)

Wealthy Affiliate University Trial Membership for $1

A few months ago I joined up with Wealthy Affiliate who are widely regarded as the Number One Internet Marketing Training Program. At the time I wanted to learn about affiliate marketing and how to try and make some extra cash online.

As its turned out I've gained a hell of a lot more out of it than just learning about Internet marketing. I have learned so many things about SEO, website optimisation, driving traffic to a website using free methods and how to use google AdWords and pay per click advertising.

I have still only scratched the surface with this and I'm loving every minute of the learning process. I have been able to take many of the things I have learnt into my work also so its a big win win for me.

Since joining up I have also made my first sale online and started to build up several websites. I can't recommend the training program enough so if you are looking to learn any of the above skills then get yourself over to Wealthy Affiliate.

The best bit however is they are about to run a trial membership for just $1 on June 1st. If you are even slightly interested in what I have posted then get yourself over on this date when the trial will be active. Be quick though as this is only going to be available to the first 1,000 people. I anticipate this filling up fast.

You wont find anything on the Wealthy Affiliate site at the moment as this is still pretty much hush hush. So get this in your diary for June 1st - you wont want to miss out.


Read more about the Wealthy Affiliate Dollar Trial here

The Niche Informant - Micro Niche Finder Product

I have posted on my blog in the past about a product called Micro Niche Finder. Well, I still use it today and continue to find great value in it.

This post is about a new service that the makers of Micro Niche Finder have put together called The Niche Informant. In its simplest form it is a monthly package of 20 untapped and ripe niche markets just waiting to be exploited.

With the package you get keywords, private label rights articles to use how you see fit, competition analysis, market research and affiliate program details.

All in all for the $29.99 they are charging it is amazing value.

Instead of going into too much detail on here, if you want to find out more then head over to the link below for more info.

Click here to read a review on The Niche Informant

Getting a First Page Ranking Website using Niche Marketing and Micro Niche Finder

I recently put a website together for a client selling a product in quite an aggressive market. After the website had been put together it went live and the client was happy! What happened over the next few days was to take me on a new journey in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and website marketing.

Search Engine Optimisation

I followed all the rules and best practices to ensure the site met Web Standards and Google standards - things such as only one H1 tag on a page, no keyword spamming in the meta tags etc..

I also ensured the site was listed with google and other top search engines and also had automatic sitemap generation based on the content of the pages - so everything looked setup properly for Search Engine Optimisation SEO. I now had to advertise the site.

Marketing Idea Number One : AdWords

I sat down with the client to help him look at advertising the website. We needed to drive traffic to the site and spread the word about his products as effectively and cheaply as possible.

As i had some experience of AdWords this was my initial suggestion for the client and we therefore set about putting keyword lists together based on the products the client sold and the sort of customer he was looking for to drive to his site.

The hit was instant - we had tons of traffic hitting the site and lots of interested customers. The only trouble was the AdWords budget went out of the window quite quickly because of the aggressive nature of the market.

Owing to this i set about trying to find a way to get the site to the top of the organic search lists (which given the market would have been extremely hard). If we could do this we had FREE traffic to the website! Which takes me onto Marketing Technique 2.

Marketing Technique Two : Drive Free Traffic to the Website Using Niche Markets

Through various sources and quite a lot of reading I have discovered a method of getting your web pages ranked on the first page of google for FREE! Yes - FREE! When you see how its done its one of those things that just hits and you think "of course - why didn't i think of that before!".

The way to achieve this, is by using a technique or trick called Long Tailed Keywords to find a niche market. If you don't know what a niche market or a long tailed keyword is then ill explain:

Say you are wanting to market your website and you are selling an iPhone unlocking service for example. If you put the word iPhone into Google you will see something like this:

Results 1 - 10 of about 328,000,000 for iPhone.

328 million pages! Would you fancy trying to get your website to the first page of those results!!? I wouldn't. So how do we go about getting a fighting chance - a Niche Market.

How to Find a Niche Market

Basically, you need to look for something specific within that market to get a smaller target area (the niche).

Again you have to think smart - IPhone Unlocking again turns up over 7 million pages but if you add extra words to the keyword phrase such as

"how to unlock an apple iPhone"

now have a look at the results.

At the time of writing this we now have 342 pages returned from Google with the exact phrase (with quotes around it).

Using the AdWords keyword tool, if you enter that phrase and search, it will tell you the search volume and advertiser competition (AdWords competition). This is currently showing as zero competition and 110 average searches per month.

You now have on average 110 people searching for exactly what you are looking for and only 342 pages of exact competition.

That is a little better than the millions of pages beforehand hey!

If you now work that keyword into your web pages, along with the other related keywords given by the AdWords tool you have a very high chance of getting a first page ranking for FREE whenever anyone uses that search term! Awesome.

You could also run an AdWords campaign with very cheap keywords to target this phase as yet another way of driving cheap traffic to your site.

You think the above techniques are handy? Well I found something that makes this so easy! It takes away all the hard work and issues with using the google tools and also expands your research to other search engines.

Whilst i was investigating and playing around with this technique i came across an absolutely wicked tool that turned out to save me HOURS of work. The tool is called Micro Niche Finder and i cannot recommend it enough.

I will quickly go over the main features that saved me hours in generating the long tail keywords to work into my clients website.

Micro Niche Finder

Micro Niche Finder (V4 is the latest at the time of writing this post) is basically a keyword research tool that takes the leg work out of optimising your web content to ensure you are targeting it to what people are searching for.

You can write a 10,000 page essay page about one of your products but if you are not creating the content that people are actively searching for they will never find you or know about your product = no sales!

The primary market that Micro Niche Finder is actually aimed at is affiliate marketing. Marketing people use it to seek out niche markets and promote products to sell on the Internet.

If it works for someone selling other people's products i thought it must be useful in improving your own website product sales.

The key areas this product saved me time are :

- I no longer had to think of the long tail keywords and niche markets.
- I didn't have to jump from search engine to keyword tool and back again just to research keywords.
- I could research the competition
- I could look at other people selling the same item

In addition to what i used there are an absolute plethora of features in this product that I've not even touched upon yet but am itching to experiment with.

Conclusion

Borne out of looking for an effective way to rank my clients web pages higher in the organic search results and cut down on advertising budget, i have located a tool i can use over and over again in my job to optimise website content for clients.

Micro Niche Finder is an extremely useful tool that i can also utilise for several other things such as affiliate marketing. Ive not really ventured too deep into the subject before but a tool like this makes me want to give it a try - just for the fun of it to see if i could make money online. If nothing else i will definitely learn a lot more about SEO, AdWords and marketing techniques that i can use in my work.

I feel Micro Niche Finder paid for itself on one project but it can be used over and over again.

I am looking forward to seeing what it really can do for me. I will post further findings as i get more experience with it.

Big up to the developers of this tool - pretty simple but massively effective. I may have been able to develop something similar for myself but like a lot of things - it would have taken many hours out of my already busy schedule and for the price its a bargain.

If you like the sound of it follow the link i have put in the post and enter your email address on the landing page. The folks at Micro Niche will then send you a link to the videos on how to use the product - which i tailored to my requirements.

Google Adsense Marketing

Dived into my first adventure in internet marketing to promote a website ive been working on. Im impressed by the whole adwords/adsense stuff that google has set up. It also quite exciting the first time you set somethign like that live - will we get some new business, how many visitors will we get... etc..

The results after a week of advertising are pretty good. The website was new and therefore very low traffic. Its turned a handful of visitors into over 200 per week with several good business enquiries arising from it. We had a page impression count of around 15,000 from quite a niche market so on the whole very pleased.

Heres hoping it continues to improve and we get some quality leads from it. Even just one good transaction should pay for the campaign!

Onwards and upwards.