Work At Home Business Opportunities Weblog
Of course you have some of these “gurus” saying you’re going to get rich from Squidoo. I WISH it were that easy! If it were, of course, they’d be playing you in play money.
Here’s an interesting lens. I am posting some images from them about this woman’s earnings.
Here’s the lens
Here are the earnings she’s disclosed from the Squidoo royalty system.
Here are the earnings she received from Shareasale and Commission Junction…
Keep in mind that her goal is to earn $2,000 in a few years. Sounds reasonable.
I’ve never earned anywhere near this amount.
I’ve done pretty well from one or two lenses from affiliate sales mostly plus some of the Squidoo royalty dollars.
Megan Casey at Squidoo who sees the money they pay out monthly summarized the “secret” here….
What’s cool is the recipe for earning: lots of lenses + niche topics + personal recommendations and opinions. Quality and quantity, which is pretty hard to game or cheat.
Casey goes on to say that people with 50 lenses that go deeply into a given subject and offer personalized information are the kind that work best and make some money, not the spammy ones. That’s certainly been true about my Angel Food Ministries lens.
I commend the page as very down to earth and realistic.
Make Money Teaching Online:If you’re one of my readers who loved the book Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary
, you’ll love this listing of telecommuting Adjunct professors.
It’s a current listing of telecommuting adjunct instructors for Kaplan University. Degrees required… plus online teaching experience.
With so many people wanting to earn a degree online, there is a booming demand for adjunct professors to accommodate the teaching loads.
These are their most recent. The image is only a partial shot to give you a clue what’s out there.
If you haven’t read the book in a while, you might want to refresh your memory before you apply. There are certain things you can do to increase your odds of success as you teach online.
I’ll post more of this type of work at home job lead as I find them.
Cold Stone Creamery bills itself as the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience.
Here’s one customer whose excitement for the franchise has melted: Cold Stone Dead Creamery
She thinks the franchise is facing some tough times and mentions some statistics to prove it.
It’s a snide piece to be sure but asks an important point for business opportunity seekers… is this business based on solid long term fundamentals or short term fads?
Can this business survive an economic downturn or am I being taken in by their short term success?
In today’s language, will people bleeding at the price of $4 per gallon for gasoline still patronize a business like this?
When the going get’s tough, it turns out people are turning to the Lottery to try to escape their financial woes.
Rattled Americans Try Their Lottery Luck In Hard Times
One guy interviewed plays his state lottery $20 per week. He’s a restaurant chef. I guess he thinks investing over $1000 per year in the lottery is better than investing in himself. Here’s his thinking which he admits is strange:
“The worse the economy gets, the more ridiculous my thinking becomes,” Meredith said this week, taking a break from preparing chicken parmigiana specials at EDZ Restaurant in Goshen. “I say to myself, well I can spend $10 on gas, but that just buys me 2 gallons, or about 40 miles of travel — one day’s commute.
“But if I spend $10 on the lottery, at least I have a chance of making $5,000, and then I could take a real trip. … Times are tough and my only choice is to take a chance.”
I think people move from “business opportunity” to “business opportunity” for the same reasons many times. There are “opportunity junkies” who never stay long enough at one thing to give anything a chance and, I’ve noticed, they tend to jump on whatever the next “GREAT THING” is no matter how preposterous. It’s the same mentality but at least has the illusion of virtue because it’s “business”.
Their definition of “Business” though holds no place for any sense of “calling”, “work” or “perseverance”. It’s what psychologists sometimes call “magical thinking”: “If I wish hard enough, even doing the same crazy thing again and again might work out!”
Now, that mentality in part makes the sales of business opportunity information “evergreen”… always of interest. But when you’re recruiting sales agents, MLM distributors, etc. these people are the ones who think signing up for something produces paychecks and they can really sour you on building organizations.
Saturday, the Senate approved a bail out for stockholders who got rich from the subprime mortgage industry. Nobody is bailing out the tax payers who have to pay for this silk stocking welfare. It remains to be seen if any actual homeowners will be helped, but we know every taxpayer is getting hosed to bail out the Wall Street Boys (and Girls) who made a killing while the subprime profits where rolling in. This kind of bail out just encourages them to go on another rampage later if they have to face no consequences now.
Back in the real world of consequences for lending money to people who can’t prove they have a job that won’t land them in jail, Craigslist CEO: Our Real Estate Listings Are Booming Housing sales ads are up over 85% and rentals up 120%.
I love WordPress and use it pretty much for all my websites. The one I sold for a nice chunk of change was a niche WordPress site.
It tells you how to thwart plagiarists who scrape your RSS feed, how to use WordPress as a membership directory, etc. It’s an awesome collection!
63 Essential WordPress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats
My website LowAuctionSeller.com is has 3 income streams… Adsense, Clickbank, and Ebay affiliate commissions.
It’s never made me rich, but I love the site.
When Commission Junction was eBay’s affiliate partner, this site seemed to spit out commissions daily… even if they were just small ones.
It may be a pure coincidence, but since ebay themselves picked up handing the commissions, my commissions have been almost ZERO. Finally a commission of $1.14 showed up today.
Possibly there’s just a huge time lag between bidding, winning, and collecting fees which result in tuition. Perhaps the money will start coming in steadily again.
Hopefully THAT’s what’s happening.
Have you had the same experience? Any thoughts on the subject?
Related Links: If you are an aspiring affiliate marketer hoping to take advantage of Ebay’s potential for affiliate dollars (50% commission on auction fees when products sell through your link) you want to know about these two tools:
If you’re completely new to online marketing, you want to get a hosting account and then invest in Build A Niche Store. It takes you step by step through the process of building an Ebay affiliate store.
If you are a bit more experienced and have experience with WordPress blogs you want to check out PHPBay. This script functions like a plugin for WordPress that lets you easily post relevant ebay auction listings on any blog post or page. Both are excellent ways to get started tapping into the Ebay affiliate marketplace. If you have experience with WordPress already, I’d definitely point you towards PHPBay!
Here’s an article by Tim Knox: How To Create Your Own Information Product
The interesting tidbits…
1. How to become a co-author!
2. Some tips on getting a ghost writer
3. Publishing a directory
4. Focusing on curing customer pain
5. Make it entertaining
6. Choose and “Evergreen” product
Read the whole article here at Tim Knox: How To Create Your Own Information Product
In case you didn’t see this yesterday, I’ll be posting more information as I get it.
I knew I’d love “Teaching Sells” ever since running across this book: Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary
I’ve been reading that book because I want to learn as much about teaching online as possible.
If you have a terminal degree, it can be a good strategy.
But there are disadvantages… like never having a vacation for fear another freelancer will take your place.
I don’t know about you, but most people want to work online to AVOID having to even work for hours while on vacation. Family members don’t get into that too much if you know.
But what if you could take what you know and using something simple like WordPress create simple membership sites that can teach what you know but not tie you down?
Hmmm. Or at least let you keep from having to commit yourself all the time to being available to students by phone, for example.
I found out how to do that in Teaching Sells and I’m building that right now… I’m working with two content providers (so I’m using THEIR information) and I’m providing the technological consulting.
This same idea of course can turn your “Free Blog” into a “paid” blog instantly!
Unfortunately, Teaching Sells is closing but you can still get the “how to” on this simple idea.
But it’s not too late – at least until July 31st, 2008. Here’s a special offer before it closes down forever in its current form.
Don’t miss out becauseTeaching Sells is Closing the Doors
My Angel Food Ministries lens was up to #176 on Thursday.
It was still at about 500 out of all the half million or so lenses Squidoo has!
But I did some updates in the last day or two and that jumped it up to #176 as of Thursday. I did some more work on the lens today so I expect it to pop up even more.
Lesson learned: Focus on lenses you LOVE that have a VIRAL quality if possible and update them frequently. They will stay on top!
Best of all – a church in South Carolina read my lens and then started to distribute food by participating with Angel Food Ministries! I’m happy for that!
