Friday, January 27, 2012

What is Fiverr? How Can I Make Money With Fiverr?

So many people are turning to the internet to make money doing the oddest things. And when I say odd... It's odd.

Fiverr.com is a marketplace for many aspiring entrepreneurs to make quick cash ($5.00 dollars to be exact, ergo the name) and get their services in front of virtually 100s of thousands of people.

If you take a look at what's being offered on their site, you'll soon realize... People will do crazy things to make money. I'm not going to list them here because I'll have an enormous list, but I encourage you to browse their site. It will definitely put a smile on your face :)

With the popularity of Fiverr, there's bound to be opportunist who will take advantage of their success. I don't mean this in a bad way, but when a site as successful as theirs, competition is popping up everywhere.

Take a look at all these Fiverr alternatives and you'll see what I mean.

If you plan on using any of these services, like with any new website, make sure you take precaution and validate the company, their TOS and search for social proof that they're site is legit.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Is Your Domain Name Important To Online Business?

It sure does.

Why?

Branding. Branding. Branding.

No matter what business you're in, name recognition needs to fit your primary message. Imagine you have the domain buyautoparts.com but your website sells facial cream. Your visitor already has in their head "Okay, I thought I was going to buy auto parts, but what's all this facial cream stuff!" What you have done is lost their trust and created a negative vibe for your brand.

On cyberspace you only have a few moments to entice, capture and sell you visitor. A domain name is internet real estate and choosing one is not to be taken lightly.

A good domain name accomplishes several things:
  • Set's the tone with you visitor before they buy (remember before the buy is the sell)
  • Establishes trust amongst your competitors
  • Keyword rich for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Also, picking a great domain name can continue the story before a visitor goes to your site (Now, we're not talking about a Once Upon A Time... deal, but somewhere down that line)  Back to the story.

When a searcher is online looking to buy a auto part, they have in their head "Where can I find a place to buy auto parts online?" So they go on Google, Yahoo! or Bing and type in auto parts. They already started the story and they want to continue and end their story. That's where buyautoparts.com's domain comes into play. Your potential visitor see's your domain, it continues their internal story and they click on the link to go to your site.

So to wrap up. There are millions if not billions of searches happening every day online and though there more that goes into the final sale, you need to establish their trust and get them on your site first.

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Make Money Online... When You Don't Have a Clue!

I've been working at my job and I have a lot of free time when there's not a lot of traffic, so I got to thinking "What do I need to do to make money and a lot of it?"
I would what you call a dreamer, well that's what my mom says, but dreamers and visionaries are what makes our society prosper and move forward.

I'm a Visionary. I think...

So how do people make money online. Well, I'm going to make that effort to find out how.

Let this be my first post of many on how a Boy Mogul made something out of nothing.

Here's a link to a guy that makes a living online. He calls himself Taikun and he has a cool network of people who make money (well, I think they do lol). What's cool about this site and the guy is he's been an entrepreneur since he was young (like me) and now he's making money. I just hope I don't have to wait that long to make that DOLLAR!