Making a Living Online

Stress is something we all deal with, some more than others. When you do freelance work or have a home business, stress can get the better of you, often leaving you burnt out and with a headache. What’s worse, people tend to take their stress out on their spouse and family members, effectively “taking your work home with you”. It doesn’t have to be like this though. Following a few simple yet enormously effective rules, you can reduce home business stress significantly. 

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I have a treat for all you marketers on twitter out there. TweetWhistle does everything the popular twitter automation tools do but doesn’t have the huge price tag. I can’t believe some of these software developers have the nerve to charge a monthly fee! TW can auto follow, auto unfollow, gather ids based on region, mood, keywords and more. Unlimited accounts, just add them and your all set, you can even setup an automation process to add/remove users from all your twitter account(gather separate users based on keywords for each account) then save the whole process so you can run it each day. Of coarse all the time delay settings are there too.

Anyway, you can give this a try for free but if you decide to buy it, use the coupon code : L7E625ZH53K for 20% off discount! You can’t beat that.

Sign-up for an affiliate program at a trustworthy “website builder” site like webs or weebly(and many more). Buy a .com domain that reflects the service you are trying to sell. Have the domain foward to your affiliate link. Design a flyer and print a few hundred. Drop off the flyers at schools, public parks, groups, concerts ect.. You’ll probably see better coversions if you pitch specifically to a niche. For example: young bands looking for a presence on the internet(band website).

Many people have come to me asking, what are the “best ads for blogs”. A year ago i would have probably said, adsense, i’m not so sure now. I have a slew of blogs and adsense is increasingly getting worse. There is one ad company that has been getting better though and has actually become my primary way of monetizing my blogs. I joined Chitika in June 2009. I was looking for a different way to make money from my blog at the time and really didn’t know anything about them. So, i set things up, put a few units on my site and was pretty amazed at the difference.

Chitika units work extremely well for US traffic, especially coming from search engines like google. Clickthrough rates are much higher than adsense because chitika will only show ads that are targeted to what the user typed into google to get to your site! Awesome right? They have tons of unit sizes and also allow you to hid the border so units can be integrated perfectly into any site.

Now, I make a pretty good amount from the basic and mega units they offer but i really make a killing with their Linx program. Linx is basically ads that are put into text as links. When a user clicks, i get money. It’s simple concept that has doubled my earnings so far.Chitika also pays via check or paypal. The best ads for blogs is, hands down, Chitika.

So, if you’re interested in making some money, and i know you are, go ahead and give it a try. I’ll be honest, if you signup using the link below, i get 10% of what you make but you get 100% of what YOU make so you have nothing to loose. It even says it in the referral program.

Sign Up for Chitika!