October 2009 – The Work At Home Blog

Get Paid to Answer Questions

Quite a few sites want to offer people the ability to purchase knowledge and if you want to work at home, you could be answering questions for pay. People can buy answers online, they can view some of them for free, and they can get answers on their mobile phone, too.

If you’re looking to work at home and like doing online research, this could be something lucrative and enjoyable for you. Some sites offer revenue share and some offer paid services. Do beware that some places only offer pay if a customer is satisfied with your question.

Should you do a per question answering job or a revenue share option?

Up front pay might be what you’re looking for but be aware that revenue share options could result in passive income and might amount to more money over time.

Several Paid Question Answering Options:

Weegy

If you’re looking for a part-time work at home gig, consider joining http://www.Weegy.com.

Weegy pays about $0.20 USD per answer. You get paid via PayPal when your account hits $20.

WebAnswers

Webanswers.com pays with revenue-sharing. You can ask and answer questions. You get paid directly via Google Adsense so need your own account. There’s no guarantee with revenue sharing but it can have more long term earning potential if your answer is popular.

ChaCha

ChaCha.com is a popular choice and is said to pay ChaCha Guides between $3-9/hr for answering questions.

JustAnswer

JustAnswer offers a variety of paid questions for various rates and pays via PayPal.

AnswerGem

Answergem pays $9-$45 per answer. There are several levels of expert and clients can also pay to see archived answers so you can receive passive income here as well.

Askables

Askables.com is one to watch. They currently offer revenue sharing for those posting articles and points system for those answering questions. High points = more revenue share on your account. The site is also planning to roll out paid expert services as well in the near future.

Many won’t work full time answering questions from home but find it to be a nice sideline for a part time work at home job.

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How Can You Make Money With Google Adsense?

Google Adsense shares ad revenue with publishers. This is a great opportunity for those that want to work at home part-time or even full time. The more publishing you do with Google ads on the page, the more money you can make online.You can sign up to be a Google publisher and make money from Google by utilising Adsense in many ways.

Here are some Google Adsense tips:

Start a blog
Join passive income sites
Post on forums

Blogs

Bloggers can add Google Adsense code to their websites. By doing this, you can earn revenue when people visit your blog. Join a blog network and you’ll share revenue. Start your own blog and you’ll earn 100% of revenue made on that blog. Even a blogspot.com blog (which is free to start) can make you money.

Passive Income

Many sites exist that allow you to share in their income. By contributing, through writing articles, you can earn revenue on an ongoing basis. Sites like Bukisa, InfoBarrel, HubPages, and Askables all have such programs.

Forum Posting

Some forums even share Google revenue as well. For every thread you start, you’ll earn a % of the revenue on that page. In this situation your Google publisher ID is put into your Control Panel.

One of the greatest things about publishing for Google Adsense revenue is that you can publish something once and earn from it indefinitely. There are techniques you can use to drive traffic to your pages as well and this can enhance the earning opportunities. Do some keyword research and you’ll make even more money because you can research the high paying keywords out there and that can increase your income.

How much can you make on Google Adsense?

The sky is the limit with Google earnings. You do need to be very careful that you follow their publisher guidelines otherwise you can get tossed out of the programme and have to forfeit your earnings. Google doesn’t divulge their earning formula so that they can keep the programme honest.

How do you get paid?

Google Adsense pays publishers monthly. For every month that you reach $100+ USD, you’ll get paid in the following month. You can be paid via a cheque in the mail or through direct bank deposit.)

Success Tips:

Post regularly, check your stats so you can analyze where your money is coming from, be sure to create valuable pages, and do keyword research.

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Make Money on Facebook with Cloud Crowd

Do you spend a lot of time playing on Facebook? Why not get paid for it with Cloud Crowd? Join CloudCrowd and turn your Facebook time into dollars. You can get paid via paypal for completing various tasks on Cloucd Crowd such as editing, tagging, research, and rewriting. And, if you refer your friends you make money when they do work as well. The system exists as a Facebook application and is easy to use with your Facebook account. So far, the system doesn’t feed anything to your news feed and works unobtrusively.

How does CloudCrowd Pay?

The company , who has been providing work via a Facebook application, has been offering work since September 2009. They pay via Paypal daily which means you can transfer the funds into your own account or withdraw via a PayPal debit card. Learn more about setting up PayPal and withdrawing Paypal funds to your bank account here: Paypal setup and withdrawal.

Home based money making income streams like Cloud Crowd, MTurk, Paid Surveys, and Passive article writing income can all add up to a part-time work at home income. Some people writing on work at home sites have said they’ve made up to $80-90 a day on CloudCrowd.

What kind of work is CloudCrowd?

They plan to roll out more types of work but at the moment you can:
submit websites that are hosted in China with poor English (About $0.16 each)
grade websites submitted (about $.04 each)
rewrite poorly written text to improve English (about $1.42)
grade rewritten text done by others (about $.05)

Pay and tasks available can vary and if you sign people up to be in your Crowd, you’ll earn a % of their revenue for three levels down. CloudCrowd is really becoming popular due to the easy money and fast pay. If you can rewrite quickly, you can make about $10-$15 an hour. There is a credibility score applied to accounts by the system and your work is graded. Future opportunities and pay may be related to that score. Join CloudCrowd

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How to Become a Paid Askables Expert

Askables is a site that people can go to for information and it’s a great ehow alternative for writers who want another passive income stream. There are articles published and there is a place for questions and answers. Beyond using the site for information, you can also use it as a source of online income. Askables is currently accepting experts and top experts. They accept international writers (instead of just US-based such as eHow and Firehow), and offer more than one way to earn money writing.

Benefits of Being an Askable Expert

Askables has a revenue share programme that allows you to either submit your Google Adsense ID and share revenue for your articles, or, you can even have the site track your Adsense income and pay you for it via PayPal. Your articles could become profitable if they get a lot of traffic to them.

But if you’re interested in participating in the site regularly, you can earn even more money because there are two categories of site participation that could net you a per-article rate of either $5.00 per article or $15 per article. If you participate regularly and write high-quality and original articles, the site could earn you actively and passively.

Learn more by visiting Askables and navigating to the “Hey Bloggers” cloud. By meeting point requirements, you could either earn $5 per article or $15 per article plus earn passively forever and ever. Not bad!

How to Choose Which Clickbank Products to Promote

Clickbank presents a great opportunity to work at home. In building your own online business, you won’t have to rely on someone else and your income can be limitless. Having several streams of income works well and after a bit of effort, they’ll be passive income sources that won’t require much (if any) action on your part. Affiliate marketing is something that I do, in addition to other ways I make money online.

How does Clickbank work?

It’s quite simple, really. You can make money online by directing people to Clickbank landing pages. When the Clickbank info product (usually downloadable, or, a membership) is sold, the person whose link was clicked to make that sale gets the commission. You use a hoplink that identifies you and triggers payment into your account.

The great thing about affiliate sales is that you’re not spending money to buy and resell items and you don’t have to touch the sale. You simply facilitate the sale of information products and get paid for driving traffic that converts.

If you sign up for a Clickbank affiliate account, you can browse the market place to see what products are out there. You can also see what the commission rates are, check out the landing pages, create your hoplinks, and sometimes there are pages set up for affiliates that have creatives such as logos, banners, and private label rights articles for you to use.

Hint: When you choose a product that offers support to affiliates, you can often be more successful at selling that product.

Browsing the Clickbank Marketplace

When looking at the marketplace, you can search for a particular subject, search by category, search by popularity, etc.

The Pitch Page

It’s really important to read the pitch page of a product you’re planning to promote. Does it appeal to you? Would you buy it?

Reviewing Products

It’s not a bad idea to buy the product you’re planning on selling. In fact, the affiliates who do that are going to have a greater chance of success.

By knowing what you’re selling you can have a greater chance of selling than the vast majority of people who are out there blindly promoting affiliate links for products when all they’ve done is read the pitch page.

It’s highly competitive and there are hundreds of products to choose from in the Clickbank market place.

Here are some tips for choosing products:

Look for products that are popular but not too popular. Clickbank gravity can be a difficult number to understand. The more popular, the more competition for them. You want to find a good mix of popularity and ability to compete. Though, if you’re a subject matter expert (or willing to become one) on a really popular product, you have a good chance of selling it.
Again, read the pitch page. If you’re not dazzled by it, others probably won’t be.
Look for a product that supports customers. If there’s no support, there may be a high chance of refund request, which will impact your bottom line profits.
If possible, look at subscription-based products. These offer recurring income.
Choose a product you’re interested in. That’ll make it easy to write articles and regularly promote that product
Look at trends. Google Trends is a great tool for helping you figure out what products are likely to sell.
Learn about Clickbank gravity. My friend Matt Bredel explains this well in his Tru Guru membership program.

Before you get started on your affiliate marketing journey, do some research about effective ways to promote your affiliate link. You’ll find a lot of resources out there that can help you learn how to maximize your potential through things such as: article marketing, pay per click, organic SEO, social marketing, and more. There are some resources on Clickbank itself, too. And the great thing about that is that there are 60 day money back guarantees if you choose to buy into a program that teaches you how to make more money on Clickbank.

Helpful Clickbank Resources:

Maverick Money Makers – Coaching Club for making money online.

Clickbank Code – The blueprint to Clickbank sales from a successful affiliate marketer

Secret Affiliate Weapon 2.0 – Passive Income Secrets