I could write about here on entrepreneurial topics and the like, but most people have told me that they don’t give two shits about the life of an entrepreneur and would like to know more about stuff that’s making me money. Now, as I run this blog for you guys - thought I might as well follow their advice, and I’ll bring you stuff that has made me money - not rehashed crap that has been repeated on thousands of other blogs, but stuff I’ve used successfully (and maybe theories I’ve thought up - with a disclaimer, of course) and stuff that you guys can use too.

By no means is the content on here revolutionary - it’s usually just taking simple ideas and tweaking them or putting them together to make huge profits relative to time put in.

If you want to make money online, you have to learn not to complicate things. Now for me - if things are too complicated, I can’t even be bothered to try and understand them, and if things are too difficult or involve too much work, I can’t be bothered to do them. Which is why I keep things simple and for the moment, it’s working.

This idea could be packaged up and sold, and I don’t say this about many posts on this blog. A few, but not many.

Anyways… no more fluff, let’s get started. You can make a full time income with this idea alone.

A lot of the posts on here over the last month or so have been about website flipping… I started website flipping around 2-3 months into my IM ‘career’ and till date it’s been one of my biggest earners. In few other industries can you create something in the morning and sell it in the evening for hundreds (or thousands) of dollars, and with everything being capable of being outsourced, well… when it’s so easy, you just have to try it. I’m in the middle of flipping a medium - large blog live for you guys and will break down what exactly I did.

The problem with doing this is that if you want to make a lot of money, it is far easier to do things in bulk… it’s easier to make ten small websites as opposed to one dominator one. However, to make a decent amount of money (that is a few thousand monthly), I’d say a blog (in any niche) would have to be around the similar size of TUK (500-1000 RSS) or bigger.

Buying multiple - I currently own 11 blogs with more than 500 subscribers - blogs like this would set you back at least $20,000, probably treble or quadruple that (just for comparision, CashQuests sold for $15,000 with around 1,000 subscribers).

However, I paid less than $150 for each blog I run, didn’t set them up myself and get all content on them free. I don’t spend any time updating them, and less than an hour a week maintaining them. They all bring in money too, and have people approaching them to advertise on them and have contests sponsored. This is literally easy money - and today I’m going to talk about how I’ve done it.

This is similar to offline marketing, the concept at least.

A lot of you will have started out on free blogs - that is, blogs using Wordpress.com or Blogspot.com, blogs that didn’t cost a cent to run. Most will have moved on, however at the moment there are still a lot of people on them, most often because they don’t know about doing any more than what they currently are.

First off - a warning - most blogs that you can work this deal with will not be in the internet marketing niche (which includes blogging tips, making money online etc) as they tend to be more web-aware. In other niches though, you can profit.

You’ll have to find the blogs yourself - how you do this is up to you. You can Google them, use search tools like Technorati… entirely up to you. You’re looking for blogs with upwards of 200 subscribers, with a decent amount of traffic and interaction (comments on posts and the like). The best blogs you will find will be on Wordpress.com.

The two disadvantages of Wordpress.com are:

- Looks unprofessional (XYZ.Wordpress.com instead of XYZ.com)

- Can’t be monetized

This is where you come in.

What you’ll be doing is approaching bloggers you find on free hosting - bloggers that currently run a growing blog and with an active following, and push to them the benefits of moving to a ‘regular’ website - that is, their own domain, on your hosting and the ability to make money.

Remember, these are bloggers that have been blogging because they like to. Not for any other reason than that.

You’ll finance the move, of course. Depending on you, this will involve various things - a domain, hosting (you can host all your sites on a Hostgator server pretty easily). I like to throw in a custom Wordpress design as well, based on their specifications. If you want to, you can buy a developer license to something like the Revolution theme and use those for your blogs.

Each website costs me $10 (without the theme) up to $150 with the theme custom created for me. What the blogger then does is post on his current free blog that s/he is moving to a more professional platform, and their readership will follow.

You also offer them a 50% cut of all revenue the website makes. Considering (Wordpress.com bloggers) they were making $0 before, most will be ecstatic to hear about this. You take care of the monetization completely - I like to use Adsense because it works on niche blogs, but I also do banner sales, CPM etc. Most websites have paid for my initial investment by the end of the first month, even with me only taking 50% of the revenue. Everything after that is profit.

To the blogger him/herself, this is like a goldmine - getting paid to do something they were doing anyways, on a more professional look (a proper .COM domain - remember how thrilled you were when you got your first one?) with a design based on their specifications.

For you, you’re getting a blog worth a hell of a lot of money that comes with an active following and existing traffic at a fraction of the price. One where content is created at no charge whatsoever. One where you have to spend around an hour a week tweaking ads, organizing contests etc. When a blog is big enough, people will be climbing over themselves to sponsor contests.

Last week, I sold one of these blogs for $5,000. They go for more than a regular blog would because the blogger will stay on, as long as you continue the agreement. If you want to, you can give the blogger a cut of the sale - you don’t have to though.

Hope you guys use this idea, as it’s a great one and I haven’t seen it discussed anywhere else. Approach bloggers on free platforms and you can make a lot of money - just don’t be selfish, and try and let them benefit as much as you are - remember, its their content, their following. Good luck!

I love website flipping - this month is heading towards being my biggest ever income wise, and the best thing is that none of it had to do with things I don’t really like. Very little was from affiliate marketing, as I’ve cut down on that almost completely - why make others money when I can make myself money? I’m on course for over 20k, and there are still a few days left. Small money for some, but for others like me…

As always, if you have any questions let me know via the comments. Hope this post was worth waiting for, as I did take a break from here- I’m also going to talk about another variation of website flipping soon that I came across a few days ago and mentioned in an earlier post. How does 3k for an hour of work sound?

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Some time ago Jason made a post about making instant niche money by checking out the current events from Yahoo Buzz and Google Trends.

This reminded me of a method I tried in the past. It’s about taking advantage on new hot product launches and social networking sites like Squidoo and Hubpages.

To do this method, you need to know about a new, hot product launch as fast as possible. You should subscribe all the possible mailing lists of the biggest names in internet marketing. It’s better to create a new email account for this and check it daily. You can also look for forums like Warrior forum for posts talking about upcoming and current product launches, or you could just spy on new Clickbank products you think might become big.

All the product launches of the big names are hyped up like hell before the official launch so they are that not hard to find.

Last time I did this with a product by Harris Fellman. I didn’t do very well that time because of the few mistakes I made, but I will try to correct those in this post.

So what we are going to do now, we will go to sites like Squidoo.com, Hubpages.com and Wordpress.com. Use all the free, high authority sites you know.

We will create these pages with the services:

product-name.xxx.com

product-name-review.xxx.com

product-name-scam.xxx.com

(With Wordpress you could just take ProductName.wordpress.com)

Create those pages on all of the sites you know, but Squidoo, Hubpages and Wordpress.com are pretty much the best ones.

You can also use other phrases, but scam and review are usually the most searched ones.

As you might know, sites like Squidoo and Hubpages rank very high in search engines. If you have ever searched for “ProductName review” on Google, you have probably found a Squidoo page with that name.

I believe that Squidoo is the best one as they also give you commission for ad clicks and in my experience it ranks the highest, but still create the pages to all the high authority sites you can (or at least those main three.) Last time I thought that Squidoo is enough and I saw good rankings for the first few days, but then my Hubpages one grabbed first place on Google and my other page slowly started to fall down.

What should you write on those pages?

You could write your own review and paste the same one to all of the pages or even create a unique review for each of your pages (BETTER).

Or if you are feeling really lazy, you could just copy some sentences from the official sales page and add some of your own. Just make sure that people want to buy the product after reading the post. Make it sound like a real, honest review. Would you be more likely to buy the product after reading your review?

Of course, don’t forget to use your affiliate link!

Now when you own the Squidoo, Hubpages, Wordpress etc. pages for the main keywords of the product, you have great chances of ranking well on search engines for the searches related to the product. However, you can still optimize the pages a bit…

Link those pages with each other!

I’m not any SEO guru, but there are two ways of linking that might work:

Either just link all of the pages to each other or select some page (I prefer Squidoo) and link from all of the other pages to that.

So there you go! A completely free way to start affiliate marketing. You can use this for pretty much any new product.

Feel free to ask any questions. I will try to answer them here at TUK. Also check out my other posts over at http://www.BlackhatWay.com!

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A few of you guys asked about what happened to the post I promised - I promised to write one on here guaranteeing a $500+ site flip.

This post will show you how to create a niche website that you can flip for $500 or more, however that actually wasn’t the post I was talking about.

I had a different idea for this one… instead of telling you, why not show you?

Now for past posts I’ve written on here, I couldn’t show you exact examples of successes I’ve had for a few reasons - fear of competition in profitable niches, buyer protection (when you start selling larger websites, buyers want things signed, like a non-disclosure or non-compete form for example) or other reasons.

However now I’ve specifcally setup a website for flipping - I’m going to work on it, spending no more than 30 minutes a day; and after one month, I’ll list it on Sitepoint.

Unlike other similar flipping case studies (which have been done before, like for example the CowPetition) I’m not going to list the URL here, or even mention it to you guys until the sale - I don’t want things like the readership behind this blog distorting the statistics. And I will not laze myself out of doing this project, mainly because it’s already been started.

Around 3-4 days ago, I started this, and as of now around 10 people know about it (just so that they can keep an eye and follow it, to see that I’m not pulling stuff out of thin air). Here’s the statistics for the last 3-4 days, since I acquired it:

- Nearly 50 RSS subscribers

- More than 1,000 uniques

- $20 revenue

I’m aiming for around 100 RSS subscribers and around $500 revenue - I’m going to use marketing strategies that I’ll reveal to you guys when I’m done.

The eventual goal is to flip this one for four figures, but as I’m only spending 30 minutes a day or less I’ll be happy enough with anything over $500.

If you really want to know what the website is, contact me privaely and I’ll tell you - however, I’m not going to mention it on here. Can’t do this anymore because I got around 30 - 50 IMs within the last hour asking for the URL, which obviously won’t work. All will be revealed at the end of the month!

If you have any ideas for what you’d like to see with regards to this site flip, let me know as I’ve still got the full month left.

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Another day, another way to make money for you guys. I’ve been using this method to take advantage and make a few pretty decent website sales.. I’m talking low four figure sales for about an hour of work.

You see, the problem with niche marketing is that well… it’s difficult to get a foothold in the established niches. Forex, diet pills, make money online even - there are thousands, if not millions of competitors out there, most of which have a budget that will blow yours out of the water.

What if those competitors… weren’t a problem?

What if your competition was so weak… you could rank first page for a 500+ daily search term… in a day or less?

I have, and now you can do.

I’m talking about current event annilhilation.

By taking advantage of current events, we can make sure that most of our competition isn’t established… everyone starts out on an even foothold. No more having to compete with sites that are years older, have thousands more backlinks etc.

One of the comments yesterday spoke about wanting to know how to find and act on untapped niches… about setting trends and the like.

The websites we’ll be setting up will be small, 5-10 page niche websites. Nothing too complicated. Here’s how to find our niches though.

The two best places to find what people are interested in is a) Yahoo Buzz and b) Google Trends.

Yahoo Buzz has a little chart on the right showing top ten searches (updated hourly) while Google has 10 on their homepage and up to 100 if you click through.

This is a goldmine, because we can see what exactly people are searching for at this moment. Hot search terms = profit.

Let’s take a direct example, so you guys can understand better… at the moment, one of the hot search terms in Yahoo is Miley Cyrus.

Right now, people are pretty interested to see what she’s up to. At the moment there are more than 100,000 searches daily just for her name… that’s not even including other keywords.

As soon as you see a search term that you like, what you do is enter it into SEOBook’s tool.

From SEOBook’s tool, we can see variations of the hot keyword that other people are searching for. Now the direct keyword - in this case Miley Cyrus - will usually be too hard, but there are plenty of others.

You’re looking for anything with more than 500 searches daily.

The easiest way to rank first page… is by snagging the relevant domain. If the domain is still available for a term, it’s likely that there’s less competition, and thus it’s easier to rank.

Now for the above keyword, there are around… 20 terms that get more than 500 searches daily. That’s a potential 15,000 visitors monthly (if you snag top place - this is not difficult with the exact keyword in your domain).

Use Instant Domain Search to make searching fast, and just take keywords from the SEOBook tool and enter them directly in.

A lot of the direct keywords were taken, but in this case the keywords miley cyrus shower and miley cyrus bra were both available (in .COM). Both are near the 1,000/day search range, one slightly above, one slightly below.

Now the former keyword had around 2,000,000 competing pages. The latter however, had only around 750,000 pages - ripe for domination.

Pick a simple template from OSWD and setup a 5 page website. Make sure you do simple SEO (meta tags, page titles, bolded keywords, h1 / h2) and create 3-4 articles, one picture page. Make sure you download any pictures you find and reupload them with the keyword as its title (to benefit from Google Images traffic).

Now… pages need links to get them indexed. So submit them to the top few Social Networks, using the keyword as your title when allowed (Digg, for example). You don’t care about promoting it, just the high power backlink. After you submit it, ping the Digg entry to get your site indexed within 24 - 48 hours.

You can also leave comments on dofollow blogs or build links in other ways. All you need is around 25 links total with your keyword as anchor text (if you have an account on forums with a few hundred posts, this is good enough). Use the search term as your anchor text.

As for monetization… use Adsense, or similar (PPC). For some keywords (like miley cyrus bra) Adsense may not work, so use something like Adbrite. However you can stick to ’safe’ keywords if you prefer, as Adsense pays better than any similar kind of program. The great thing is that it’ll pick up the keywords in your article and link to similar websites, and especially celebrity related topics - these kinds of users are click-whores.

You can also try out affiliate programs - no offense meant, but in this case - the people that search for celebrities tend to be not that bright and believe they can win things like a free iPod by just entering their email address. Email / zip submits are king on celebrity kind of websites. However, most of them only allow USA traffic, while Adsense allows you to monetize everyone.

Within a few days, use Shoemoney’s SERP tool to see where you’re ranking for your keyword. Depending where you are, build links - you should be first page or close to it, but if you’re not just keep on building

Once you hit the first page, keep working (won’t take long) until you’re top five. At the top five positions, it’s fairly easy to make around $20/day. As long as you have 2-4 weeks of consistant revenue, you can flip the website for $1,000 or more (just list it at the various webmaster forums).

You’ll make anywhere between $100 - $500+ of revenue and net a thousand or so for the website sale.

Don’t think. Act. All you need to spend on is the domain name and some time (hosting is available at $0.01 first month at HG) so you have nothing to lose.

Good luck, and if you have any questions let me know

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