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Friday, June 25, 2010

Create Easy Income By Offering Affordable Web Site Hosting Services [Make Money]

During the 1990’s, one very popular way to earn easy, passive income online was pay-to-view advertisement feeds. These were applications that you installed on your PC, and for the length of time you had the window open, you would get paid at a certain rate. While the rate was ridiculously low, over time it would slowly accumulate.
One particularly ingenious idea I had was to sign up for as many of the services as I could find (I think I found about twenty at the time), install all of them, and just let them run in the foreground on my computer throughout the day. Gradually, my earnings climbed. I think I approached $15 in about four months (yes, that’s all).

Then, one day, the rules changed – you had to click on the window every now and then. After spending the next few months working diligently on clicking “I’m still here” buttons every now and then, and finally getting my total earnings up to just under $20 (nearly the level when they send a check) – the services ended completely. Apparently the unique online approach to advertising wasn’t working, and the advertisers left all of us hanging out to dry. I swore that I would never be taken on a ride like that by another online money-making scam.
In the spirit of promoting legitimate and authentic online money-making ideas for MUO readers, I would like to offer a business idea that anyone with a little bit of web design and web hosting skill can build which will run itself and provide a nice, steady stream of income every month.

Create An Easy Passive Income Stream Selling Affordable Web Site Hosting Services

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that you host hundreds of high volume websites from a PC in your basement, but honestly if you have 10 to 15 friends or local businesses that sign up for web hosting through you – at $5 to $10 a month, you’ve got a nice little business that brings in $100 or more every single month. Is it difficult? It isn’t really difficult any more. Jeffry provided a great tutorial on setting up a local web server so that you could host your own WordPress blog. Taking it a step further and hosting other domains for friends and businesses isn’t that much of a leap.
However, for those of you who have a fear of hosting other sites on your own PC, there’s a very simple solution. Invest in unlimited web hosting that offers unlimited addon domains. For example, GoDaddy offers Unlimited plans at the market average – pretty much any web hosting service offers these rates, on average.

If you consider that an unlimited web hosting account today costs from $10 to $12 a month, that’s only less than $150 a year, and you have yourself the foundation of a brand new online business that will bring in easy, passive monthly income at well over the $10 a month for the web hosting. Whichever web hosting plan you go with, just make sure that unlimited add-on domains is part of the package. Also make sure that the web host doesn’t prohibit “reselling” web space in this way.
Most small businesses or individuals who want their own websites don’t expect huge traffic or have massive demand for website features. They simply want a web presence that their local customers or friends can visit and that they can update with the latest news, products or services. You could easily offer to host the website of such a local business at a fraction of the cost that they’d have to pay for a full hosting account. All you have to do is create an add-on domain, link their registered domain to it, and upload (or create) their webpage.
When you have a friend or business that wants to host a particular domain with you, first go into their domain registration account and change the DNS settings to point to your hosting account. For example, I use Webmasters.com for hosting, so first log into your hosting account and check the DNS settings.

In my case, the settings are right on the left sidebar – NS26 and NS27 under the webmasters.com domain. Your particular settings will be similar depending on your web host. Next, log into your client’s domain registration account, and assign their DNS settings to the same as your hosting account.

Now that you’ve pointed their domain in the right direction, you have to configure your hosting account to direct all of the incoming traffic for their domain to the correct web hosting directly. Every web host may have a slightly different procedure for creating an add-on domain within your hosting account. Make sure you add the add-on as a “hosted” – this tells the web host you want to host the website under your current account.

Once you’ve done this, usually within hours you’ll discover the new domain folder located inside the “addons” folder within your hosting account.

As you can see, I have dozens of domains that are all hosted under the umbrella of my one hosting account. Each of these represents a website that you could host for a friend or a local business at a nominal monthly fee (easily configurable as a recurring payment through Paypal!). If the friend or business owner wants you to create a simple website for them, and you really don’t want to dedicate a lot of time to it or you aren’t a web design expert – you can create some pretty impressive websites using free web design software tools like KompoZer or CoffeeCup.
Better yet, if you want to provide your client with a simple method of adding their own content to their site, consider installing Drupal, Joomla, or Wordpress. In the end, once you have your add-on domains configured and serving up content, you really won’t have to do anything else other than collecting your checks every month.
Do you have your own approach to earning residual income on the net? Share your own tips in the comments section below.

Earn Referral Payments By Posting Relevant Job Listings On Your Website

One thing I am always on the lookout for are new and creative ways to earn more money on the Internet. Here at MakeUseOf, I’ve covered a number of resources you can use to generate income, such as selling eBooks, selling online computer support, and a whole list of things teens can do to earn money on the web. So, I was very excited to discover yet another tool you can use to generate another stream of income with your online endeavors.
This new approach requires very little work on your part, but it does require that you have a website or blog with a fair number of readers interested in a particular topic. You’ll find this opportunity at JobCoin, a very cool service that acts as a “middleman” for both businesses and companies looking for wide exposure for their job ads, and online publishers like you who have both web space and a readership interested in applying for those jobs.

While you could always integrate a job board on your own website, you’d also have to manage that job board. You’d have to manage the back-end database, obtain employers who are interested in posting their job ads on your site, and then handling communications between the employer and the applicant. Instead, JobCoin lets you simply embed their fully-functional job board on your website, and then employers pay you to let them post their job ads on your website. It’s one of the easiest ways for you to kill two birds with one stone – you offer your readers a valuable job hunting tool, and you earn money. It really is a win-win setup.

Signing Up For Your Customized Job Board

In this example, I’m going to use JobCoin to generate a custom website geared specifically for my readers at FreeWritingCenter. My readers there are typically online writers and bloggers who are interested in SEO tips and earning money online.
When you first visit JobCoin and click to sign up, you immediately start out by defining the look and feel of your job board widget. You can make it a larger full-page listing, or a sidebar menu listing. In my case I want to fit the job listings into the right menu, so I chose the vertical widget listing 4 jobs.

Then, it’s just a matter of filling out your personal details to create your account, and your default widget is pretty much set to go.

If you leave your widget as it is, it’ll show up on your site completely blank, with a link for employers to click on to post ads on your site. If you’d like to populate your widget with existing jobs from the JobCoin job network, the next step in the setup process lets you do that. Target the job listings toward what your readers are interested in by searching on the keywords that apply to your blog or website.

Select the jobs that apply to your site content, and then click to preview the job listings. On the preview page you have the option to include each (or all) job listings on your particular widget. When you are in your JobCoin account, you can click on the “Manage Jobs” tab to see all of the jobs you’ve allowed on your job board.

As you can see, you have full control over what ads are listed on your site. It isn’t like Google Adsense where the ads that show up are pretty random, and from a list that someone else puts together based on your content. You get to choose the specific job ads that really apply to the jobs that you believe your readers are looking for.

When you’re done configuring your widget you can just highlight the embed code and paste it in your site. In the case of Wordpress, if you’re pasting it into the sidebar, you can simply add a text/HTML widget and paste in the code.

Once you copy and past the embed code into your website, the job listings will show up immediately. Here is what the job ads look like in the sidebar of my blog.

If you don’t want to apply any free job ads to your site, then you can leave the selected jobs unselected and just wait for employers to purchase job ad space on your site. If you do this, your widget will start out looking like this.

When a potential employer clicks on your link, showing a desire to purchase job ad space on your website, they are whisked off to a personalized job posting form that applies exclusively to your website and your website alone.

Currently, the revenue sharing system that JobCoin offers is very fair considering that they do all of the hosting and management of all job ads. Once an employer purchases ad space on your site, JobCoin processes the submitted and ad and payment and lists the ad on your site. You receive 70 percent of the revenue for offering up your web space, while JobCoin takes 30 percent for their efforts.

All-in-all, it’s a very fair and hands off approach where you can make some decent cash simply by offering your readers a useful job hunting resource.

The cool thing about this setup is that you’re completely in control of everything. You can alter the pricing (anything over a minimum of $99), as well as the period that the job posting will apply. If you have lower traffic, you should maintain appropriately low pricing, but if you have significant traffic – obviously employers will understand that they need to pay more for the wider audience. You can even offer occasional discounts to entice potential employers to post ads on your job board.

In your JobCoin account, when you click on the “Status” tab, you’ll see your earnings from month to month, so you can see how well your job board is doing and whether it’s generating any income for you.

Hosting a job board on your blog or website doesn’t have to be a complicated programming job. By taking advantage of JobCoin’s job board hosting offer, you can have a valuable job hunting resource for your readers, and you can also enjoy a tidy stream of income from all of the employers who post their ads on your board. It’s a perfect match and a great use of your web space.

Have you ever used JobCoin? Do you know of any other job board hosting services like it? Share your experiences and opinions in the comments section below.

How to Set Up an Affiliate Program on a New Blog or Website

Pay-per-click advertising through services like Google Adsense can make your blog profitable, but it usually isn’t the most efficient way to bring in money from a blog. The problem with pay-per-click is that the payout for each click is simply too low. The advertisement you show may be for a product which cost hundreds or thousands to purchase, but you’ll often end up receiving less than a dollar for one click.

Setting up an affiliate program can provide a large boost in revenue. Affiliate programs pay when someone you referred actually make a purchase, and you receive a set amount or a percentage as compensation. This can add up to a large amount of income. ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse, for example, lists affiliate income as his number two income source, just slightly behind Adsense.
At first glance, setting up an affiliate program can be difficult. However, it really isn’t as hard as it seems, and the rewards can be great. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s get started.

Step 1 – Find an Affiliate

Affiliate programs are very profitable, but there are many smaller blogs which don’t use them. Why? Because affiliate programs are a bit harder to find and use than pay-per-click ads. Adsense is incredibly visible and simple to use – all you have to do is copy-and-paste some code into your website. To reap affiliate income, however, you have to find an affiliate, and there is no single, dominate go-to source.
There are several popular websites which make it easy to find affiliates. These match-making websites allow bloggers to sign up and search a database of businesses looking for blogs to become affiliates. The range of products and services offered through affiliate programs is broad. This is a good thing, because it makes it easy to find someone whose product fits your blog’s theme. Becoming an affiliate for someone who is selling fitness advice doesn’t make much sense if your blog is about airplanes.

Some of the best websites for finding an affiliate program include:

Amazon Associates – Amazon.com offers an easy, flexible affiliate program. You can link to any of their products and earn a percentage (usually 4 to 6%) of each item sold.
Affiliate Scout – This huge database lists hundreds of affiliate programs which you can sign up with at any time. You’ll probably find a suitable affiliate program here no matter your blog’s topic.
Commission Junction – Commission Junction manages affiliate programs for some of the largest companies online today. This includes websites like Buy.com and Newegg.

Step 2 – Set Up the Affiliate Links

Affiliate programs work on a very simple principle. You place links and/or information about a product or service on your blog or website. In return, you receive a commission whenever a person purchases a product or service by clicking through your links.
While the manner in which you earn income is different – you’re paid on commission rather than per click – making money from an affiliate program is also ultimately subject to the almighty click. If no one clicks on your affiliate links there is a 0% chance than anyone will buy the product or service you’re advertising through them. It is up to you, then, to set up the affiliate links and make them attractive.

This can be done simply by placing links on your website just like you would a normal pay-per-click ad. Chances are that if you have high traffic someone will, eventually click and buy. To be truly effective, however, you need to do a little advertising. The most effective way to do this is through recommendations.
For example, let’s say that you know about computers. You also know that a lot of people are searching for information on how to repair computers. In order to set up your affiliate links, you might write about the top three PC repair books currently available and then link to PC repair e-books with affiliate programs. This is just one example – any sort of recommendation will greatly increase the chances that someone will actually purchase through the affiliate program you are a part of. There are some bloggers who set up entire blogs focused on recommending a single product. While this appears cheesy, it can bring in a lot of money if you are proficient at writing advertising copy and you know how to do keyword research.

Step 3 – Enjoying and Growing the Rewards

Most affiliate programs pay on a monthly schedule. Large programs, like the one through Amazon.com, will be able to make direct deposits to your bank account or send you a check. Small programs, like those which are operated by a single person selling an e-book, will usually only pay through Paypal. Be sure to confirm that the affiliate program you are entering can pay to your location, as many smaller affiliate programs have difficulty paying affiliates in foreign countries.

The sky is the limit with affiliate programs. Once you’ve figured out how to write a convincing recommendation which brings in customers to the affiliate program you can repeat the formula for numerous products on numerous blogs and websites. Those who bring in major money off affiliate marketing usually do so with a legion of blogs dedicated to different topics.
With that said, affiliate marketing isn’t for everyone. Simply signing up as an affiliate with a few affiliate programs will be enough for many bloggers, and it will also be enough to boost your income.
Do you have any affiliate directories to suggest? How about a particular rewarding affiliate program? Share them in the comments.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Shutdown Timer lets you shut down or log off based on system events

Shutdown Timer lets you shut down or log off based on system events: "
Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

At first, the idea of a program that would let me shut down my PC at a specific time seemed silly to me. I mean, I can already do it with Scheduled Tasks or a 4-line AutoHotkey script. Once I took the time to poke around Shutdown Timer, though, I came away impressed.

The name is catchy, but you shouldn't take it too literally; Shutdown Timer lets you do other operations besides just shutting down your computer (such as log off, lock the screen, etc), and it's not just timer-based but accepts several triggers.

I'm no Mac user, but the program feels pretty Mac-like. The interface is polished and sensible, and it's logically laid out. Since it's such a compact piece of software, I figured I'd just show you all of what it offers so that you can decide if it's useful at a glance. To see the gallery, just keep reading after the jump.

First, here's an uncropped view of the window itself. It's super-simple, as you can see. The time options are right under 'Options,' while other options have their own categories (CPU, Memory, and Network). You can have your computer shut down at a specific time or on a specific date, but I don't think that you can set anything up on a repetitive cycle ('every day at midnight').

As for what you can do with the program, as you can see below, it's quite a bit more than just shutting your computer down. You can restart your computer, log off the current user, lock the computer, set it to hibernate or standby, or just switch off the screen. That last bit is very useful; Windows power management has a 20-minute default, but sometimes I want the screen to shut off in five or ten minutes (when I go to sleep, for example). That's a neat option.

Now let's look at the CPU options. You can perform any operation based on CPU usage thresholds, and it's smart enough to let you specify that the CPU percentage must stay above (or below) that level for X minutes. For example, if you're rendering something and want your system to go to sleep as soon as it's done, it's very easy to set. You can also run the program in tandem with CoreTemp, so it would execute events based on CPU temperature.

The Memory options are kind of an odd choice; I tried to think of a scenario where you would need something like this, but nothing comes to mind. You can basically execute any event based on memory usage, and the program even goes so far as to let you specify exactly what you mean when you say 'GB.' I wonder if anyone actually uses that.

The Network options make a lot more sense. If you're copying a huge file over LAN and want your computer to go to sleep once it's done (for example, a backup job or a 40GB Blu-ray rip), it's easy to tell it to do so. One interesting thing is that you can select a 'Network Computer.' I only had one option (because I ran it within a virtual machine), but I suspect that it might let you perform operations based on another computer's network performance. I find that interesting.

Bottom line: It's an impressive piece of software. I love the UI.

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Ruby is one of those trendy programming languages. It's supposed to be all 'elegant' and stuff. 37signals uses it, and it has one of the craziest textbooks I have ever seen in my life. In other words, it's a language that's trying hard to woo my inner hipster, and I must say, it's kind of working.

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It's an interactive Ruby shell that guides you through a really fun -- and somewhat offbeat -- tutorial. Rather than you following along, you might say that it follows you. You can do anything you want and play around and test stuff, but as soon as you execute the specific line that the program was waiting for, it moves on to the next screen. There's one lesson online at the moment, and it takes you through the bare essentials in just 15 minutes. Not everything worked perfectly for me (the file reading functions didn't work), but it was still a very nice experience and an innovative learning system.

The site was originally created by why the lucky stiff, that mythical Ruby figurehead who completely vanished off the scene and made an interesting story into a fascinating one. But why, _why's story is for another time, I guess. What you need to know is that the writing on the site is quirky and interesting, and it has been taken over by a developer who goes by the name 'Sophrinix' and told me, over email, that new lessons are coming soon.

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