What are the most common difficulties of working from home and how to overcome them. You may find it surprising to read this but it’s true. Many people find it very difficult to get work done even when they are working from the comfort of their homes. I know this from first-hand experience as I quite often give out assignments to people whom I know and who wish to work from home. Some of them have a tough going of finishing anything on time. These are some of the common reasons why they cannot do the work. No dedicated time […]

Can you take good pictures with your mobile or digital camera? Do you enjoy doing it? Well, then there is more you can do with your pictures than upload them to Facebook and Instagram. There are websites, and they also have phone apps, who need all kinds of images. They need people to submit images to them so that they can sell them further and give you a commission every time you image sells. A popular image can get sold numerous times to different people, and in this way make you a recurring income for a long time. These websites […]

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online. It is one of our favorite and most successful way of monetizing our blog. There are affiliate programs across a wide range of subjects and there is bound to be a topic that will interest you. In this post we will explain what affiliate programs are and how you can earn a great income by becoming an affiliate. I typically do not like to use the phrase affiliate ‘marketing’. I feel that the word marketing can put off a lot of people. I know that it put me […]

Fact versus fiction.. Busting the Myths About A Drop Shipping Business. The normal trend to write about any business opportunity or a means to make money online is to make it sound really good to the reader. 99% of the articles are written in this manner. Every opportunity you read about wants to make you believe that this is what you should be doing. The websites have a reason for doing this. They want to engage the reader, get them to spend time on a page. How many will read a page if it says, right at the beginning: “What […]

Spending too much time on social media sites and apps is supposed to be a bad thing, right? But what would people tell you if you were making money off the time you were spending on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest et cetera. The fact is that a lot of us do spend a lot of time on social media. And it’s largely for the fact that we enjoy it. If you are someone who enjoys their time spent on Facebook, Instagram or any of your online social platforms, the next time you log in, you can look at it as […]

Anytime you want to make money, you have to bring something to the table. Something that someone is willing to pay for. Whether you are working in a regular job, part time, looking to work from home or want a gig to make some extra cash on the side, in every scenario you need something to sell that someone else wants to buy. (Read “50 Websites To Make Money” for realistic ways to earn from home. There is something for everyone.) It is always to your advantage to leverage some knowledge, skill or expertise when looking to make money, regardless […]

There are certain jobs and gigs that many adults will not like to do for various reasons, but are just ideal for teenagers and college kids to earn some extra money. There are many reasons why these jobs may not appeal to older adults, although that is not a hard and fast rule. First and fore mostly, older people might be looking for something that pays more and pays regularly. The second thing is perhaps the nature of the job itself. For example, a teenager might be alright with pet sitting, making deliveries etc., whereas an adult might feel odd and […]

If you look for help online on the subject of how to earn some money online or from home, you will get results in millions. SO why do I feel the need to add another page to that? Here’s why. Most the methods and means that I read about, the various ways that I can make money, a majority of them do not speak to me or really make sense. I mean if I am looking for ways to earn money, I do not want to read how I can do that my selling my old books, CDs and other […]

These are the top methods of making money from a blog. The first 2 methods are our favourite and a great mix for anyone looking to make a great income with their blog and website. 1) Using Contextual Ads There are many companies, networks and programs you can use to make money from your blog. And we will talk about them next. But the success of all and any of these monetisation methods depends on one thing, that is, the quality of your blog content. It doesn’t matter if it’s the written word, pictures or videos. As long as you […]

When people ask me how they can start a blog (and I get asked this a lot) the first thing I’d like to tell them it’s this.  Forget about things like what domain name or which hosting service to use.. Forget about the great blog designs you see online.. Think of these thing first… What are you going to put on the blog… Do you have enough to create 20 good posts?… Will you be posting regularly once ever week or ten days for the next 6 months? What you make your blog about and the upkeep of it will […]