10 ways to make money on the Internet

FOR YOU

1 – Create a blog or a website and write excellent articles on it. If you manage to attract many visitors and to have loyal readers, you can make money with ad placement. Another solution is what we can call “affiliate marketing”. It consists in putting on your website links to other websites that sell goods or services. Then, if someone clicks from your website and go to the other website to make a purchase, you will receive money from it.

 

2 – Sell your old stuff on eBay, instead of throwing it away. And if you’re not an eBay expert, you can visit this blog that gives you tips to sell more efficiently your items. 

3 – Become a music producer by subscribing to My Major Company. This website is a kind of community labels. It allows visitors to discover and launch new artists. Indeed, internauts are invited to support some unknown artists they like, by investing money : they bet on the success of one artist. When the artist gets more than 70 000 euros, he records a disc and a videoclip, and the co-producers share together 30% of the sales.

 

4 – Discover AC. AC stands for “Associated Content”. It’s an open content network. You can submit content on any subject in any format (text, audio, video or images). For example, if you’ve written a story, you can submit it. And AC will pay you from 3 to 20 dollars if the viewers like it.

 

5 – Create a Facebook application. Indeed, this social network opened its service to outside developers, inviting them to create tools and to try to profit from them. This is the link to a long article I’ve written on this subject.

 

 

FOR COMPANIES

6 – Be present in Second Life ! The growth of this virtual world has been particularly impressive. Many companies have seen an opportunity for marketing, promotion, sales and recruiting. Accenture, Adidas, BMW, American Apparel, Coca Cola and IBM are some examples of brands which operate a presence in “Second Life”. I invite you to read the long article I’ve written on this subject.

 

 7 – Sell your contents. It’s the case of many newspapers or TV channels that sell additional contents online. It can be another source a revenue in a period of journalism crisis. 

8 – Use the e-commerce to sell your products, opening an online shop on your website. E-commerce has many advantages. Firstly, companies can update their online catalogue anytime, in a very flexible way. Moreover, it allows customer to shop at their convenience (even on Sunday) and at their place. E-commerce also eliminates middlemen because you sell your products directly to customers. And with the recent advancements in payment technologies (like Paypal), the online payment is very secure.

FOR SOCIAL CAUSES

9 – Raise funds ! In order to solicitate donations, you can use different fundraising tools : website, email messaging, newsletters, etc. Those tools permit to inform the potential donors of the activity of the charity, and to create a relationship with them. Internet gives the opportunity to non-profit charities to reach more people virtually than physically. It requires a relatively low expense : indeed, it’s cheaper than hiring people to promote the charity. But currently, Internet fundraising is only a minor part of the charities’ sources of revenue.

 

10 – Create a buzz. Often, charities don’t have much money to spend to promote their action. Buzz is a good solution because it’s a very cheap way to communicate. We can evoke the campaign launched by Amnesty International to denounce the non-respect of human rights in China. A short video was posted on the Internet and generated buzz. This is an article I’ve written about it on this blog.