How to Sell Your Small Online Business

How to Sell Your Small Online Business

This post draws inspiration from the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook for 1 billion USD (wow!) and the ongoing trend of selling valuable business websites / blogs to high-end buyers. Unlike the non-Internet age when people considered selling a business only if they were running into losses or becoming bankrupt, the Internet age has unleashed a new age of online business sellers who thrive by selling perfectly running and optimized money making business websites and blogs at a … [Read more...]

Top Business QR Code Failures

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Previously, we wrote about the advertising potentiality of QR codes and its use for online marketers. In this discussion, we will talk about QR code failures. When QR codes are not able to manage all the encrypted data, when there is no web accessibility while scanning QR codes or when there is a lack of compatibility with the scanning devices, your QR code marketing plan could fail drastically. Ever since its inception in the digital marketing industry, the responses towards QR … [Read more...]

Online Fraud Prevention and Control: PCI and VeriSign

Fraud Control and Prevention Online: PCI and VeriSign

Someone “purchased” from your site and one of two things happened: The buyer’s credit card data is compromised & the buyer holds you responsible. The buyer didn't purchase the product, still the credit card is charged. As a small business owner, marketer, merchant or a retailer, it is necessary to make the website secure, especially when the site is used for selling products and services. Online Fraud Prevention and Fraud Control Here I will talk about two … [Read more...]

Top 10 Advertising Platforms to Make Money

Advertising Platforms to Make Money

Anyone who runs a blog wants to monetize it. While some write sponsored reviews, some sell products, yet another group of bloggers create blogs just for selling space for advertising. Earning through blog advertising is one of the preferred ways to make quick money. People have been known to create niche blogs, publish 50+ pages, get high PR and then create advertising slots for advertisers. Advertisers easily pay $5 to $150+ per month for each advertising slots depending on the … [Read more...]

10 Tips to Begin Your Start-Up Business Online

Start-Up Business Online

As promised, we are here with the follow-up blog story on 50 inspiring startups of 2012 with a handful of tips that will help you to start your online business. These tips could be a warning against mistakes people usually make or a guiding tip for online ventures. 10 Tips for Beginning Start-Up Business Online Tip 1: Thinking of copying some ideas from the list of 50 inspiring startups? Yes? Because you think that doing so will give you the same proportion of success … [Read more...]

50 Ways to Make Money Online in 2012 – Part Five

Ways to Make Money in 2012

Continued...Part Four 41) Earn Money with Forums Forums are live discussion boards that attract a lot of footfall because of the kind of information you get to view there. Either you can join existing forums like Warrior Forum or you can create your own forum. Either way you can use them as an investment strategy to earn money. On your own forum, you can make money by showing advertisements. Once the forum starts getting a high number of memberships, you can also open a … [Read more...]

50 Ways to Make Money Online in 2012 – Part Four

Ways to Make Money

Continued...part three 31) Earn Money with Flickr Flickr does not offer any direct earning money methods as we have seen in the earlier sites but you can still earn money from them. If you have a good eye for photography, you can use Flickr to post stock images that cannot be downloaded for free. If they are of high quality and resolution, you can put them up for sale at a suitable price. Further, if you are into affiliate marketing, you can embed the affiliate links with … [Read more...]

50 Ways to Make Money Online in 2012 – Part Three

Ways to Make Money Online in 2012

Continued...Part Two 21) Earn with Gather.com Gather is a paid social networking site that pays you money to remain active on the social site. Its similar to Facebook; the only difference being that Gather pays you for being active and Facebook does not. You can earn on Gather by doing the following: Posting videos Posting pictures Updating status Using their apps Playing games and others Whatever points you accumulate through these tasks can be redeemed in the … [Read more...]

50 Ways to Make Money Online in 2012 – Part Two

Make Money Online in 2012

Continued...Part One 11. Create Niche Blogs Unlike regular blogs, niche blogs are keyword centric, which are targeted to rank high on search engines. For instance, there are many people blogging about mobiles, but only a few are talking about Nokia ONLY. So if you have a site whose content is only about Nokia, you are creating a niche blog which has higher chances of better keyword rankings. Later you can add contextual ads and earn money. Or, you can sell the niche blogs … [Read more...]

50 Ways to Make Money Online in 2012 – Part One

Ways to Make Money Online

As I had written almost a year back, the Internet is still the Pandora box waiting for us to make money online in 2012. In the last 12 years, we have come across plenty of make money online options. Below is a list of the top and the best 50 ways to earn quite handsomely in the year – 2012. Note: We will post 10 at a time... This list consists of only those ways which I think, both theoretically and practically, will be able to give us really good returns. Earning … [Read more...]