If you ask how to make money online, you’re generally going to hear one of two things. You’re going to hear people telling you that you can’t make money online. That all the good topics and business models are taken up. However, that’s untrue.

You’re also going to hear people who will promise you that you can make millions online. While that is true for many, it’s not common. What is true about making money online is that anything is possible, and it’s quite likely that you can make a very comfortable living doing something that you love. So here’s the lowdown on how to make money online.

What will actually give you a cash income?

There are a few basic business models that generally achieve a good deal of success online. They include:

There are a few things these five business models have in common:
They all operate online – that’s a given fact as we’re talking about online business. They also all need people – traffic – to visit their website in order to survive, no traffic = no income!

So how do they get people to people to their sites?

Content is the unifying theme behind successful websites.

People go online to be entertained, to be informed, to connect and communicate. The single unifying thread for all of these interactions is content.

Content can be:

It can be:

Without content, a website doesn’t stand a chance! Information is the reason for the internet. If a website doesn’t provide information, it has no value to online users.

Okay, so you choose your business model. You choose a business topic or specialty; this is often called a niche. A niche is a specialty topic. For example, you could decide you want to start a membership site. Great – about what? Recipes, because you love to cook and share recipes. Fantastic! Now it’s time to create the content for your website. You need to give people a reason to visit your website and become a member. The next step is to continue to provide value. What are you going to offer your members to motivate them to stay members?

What information are you going to provide as an information marketer that will motivate people to buy your books? What information can you provide clients to motivate them to hire you as a service provider?

Online, regardless of the model you choose, people want to know one thing: What is in this for me? How will this benefit me? Choose your topic and model wisely. Create fantastic content and provide value, this is very important. That’s the core of any successful online business.

There is nothing worse that staring at a blank screen think, what can I write about? Every blogger/writer will at some point hit the wall, albeit temporarily, for the newbie blogger content creation can be quite, quite daunting.

Here are a few ideas of how to generate great content:
You can hire someone to come up with ideas for you. You can hire someone to write the content for you, too easily done on fiverr.com. You can even purchase PLR, post it as it is or rewrite it or hire someone to rewrite it for you, again no shortage of rewriters on fiverr. These are all great solutions however, you can also wrtie great content yourself.

Try these:
(i) Jump on a social networking site of choice and read posts in your niche. Visit the pages of your industry guru and read their latest posts and information. Chances are you’re going to find many content ideas.

(ii) Make a list. Lists are easy to make and they’re well received online. If you’re struggling to find content ideas, write down three to five list ideas and tackle them one by one.

(iii) Grab a magazine from your coffee table. It doesnít even have to be a magazine in your niche industry. Just about any magazine will do. Now take a look at the cover. Write down the headlines as they appear. Chances are they’ll look something like this:

Once you’ve written down the headlines, replace the keywords with your own. Fill in the blanks. If there are ten headlines on the cover of your magazine, you now have ten articles or blog posts you can write.

(iv) Read forum and blog comments on other sites within and around your niche. Often these comments are enough to be an article or blog post all by themselves. Just polish it up and format it for the web and youíre good to go. If the comment or forum post is short, expand on it. Use your feedback to create article and blog content on your website.

(v) Read your own blog and review the comments. Skim past the ones that say, ‘Thanks for the information’. Those don’t offer any value to you right now. Instead, look for the questions or the meaty comments. Those are ideal for inspiring content ideas.

Article and blog post ideas are out there just waiting for you to find them. With a little creativity and inspiration, you can turn an unmotivated writing session into a productive afternoon.

Remember that good content leads to more visitors, which with a little monetization, you should make money online.

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