There are several ways to make money online, I have tried and tested different online business models, some were successfully, some were not, but its down to what you feel comfortable with doing. I have shared methods that have worked for me. Hopefully this article will help you decide which method is best for you.

1/ Offer Or Sell A Service

The best and the least expensive way to make money online is to provide a service to other people, whether you are a dog groomer, programmer, seo expert everyone needs something done for them, you can do this by advertising your services offline through friends and family, make sure you set up your own blog or site advertising your services and promote your brand online using social media.

2/ Create And Sell Your Own Products

You would need a bit of capital if you are going to create your own products, unless you have graphic design and programming skills, you would need to outsource the work if you want quality and professional looking products. You can create ebooks, training materials, webinars, software and much more. Read my free product creation report for more details – Download Free Report

3/ Set Up Your Own Retail Store

I have sold products via Ebay its a great way to make extra income, but depending on what product you are selling, Ebay can be very saturated and you would need to stand out from the crowd, the alternative to this is to have your own retail store. I use and recommend Niche Blueprint 2.0, its a step by step training course that teaches you how to market and set up your own online retail store quite easily.

4/ Set Up Your Own Social Networking site

Creating your own social networking sites is not difficult at all, there are free scripts and paid scripts you can used to create a social networking sites you could use scripts like Ning, Kickapps, phpfox and many others. If you need to make changes to a script just hire a programmer from many of the freelancers websites such as Get A Coder.

Other Ways To Make Money Online
Here are some other ways to make money online – click here

Before you start creating your online business, make sure you do your market research first check out pervious Posts: Find Product Ideas , How To Choose The Right Niche (part 1)

I had the privilege to one of the beta testers for this new keyword research tool called IM Eye created by Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton. This tool is one of its kind and if used correctly will greatly improve your success online.

IMeye works in a completely different way to other popular tools like Keywordspy, Spyfu, Market Samurai & Keyword Elite, as excellent as they all are.

IMeye uses a proprietary method of gathering the best keywords out there, doing all the analysis and research on them and then storing them in a huge database ready for your use. All you have to do is tell IMeye what criteria you want for your next big project and IMeye delivers the top matching keywords instantly!

EXAMPLE

The first thing to do is set the criteria anyway you want:

- Monthly research volume is 20,000 over
- The competing pages < 20,000
- Intitle competing pages < 50,000
- Adwords CPC’s are > $ 0.20

IMEye will give you all the best keywords, it will tell you what Adwords CPC’s to bid on, which domains are for sale, all the information you need to profit from your project.

You can also search by  ecommerce product keywords that are selling and affiliate marketing e.g. Clickbank

IM Eye also filters out keyword match domain names, domains for sale, Amazon, Youtube, BlogSpot, Squidoo and other social media sites that are in the top ten of Google.

There are many different ways of using this keyword research tool, the skys the limit. Also Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton will be adding more new features too IMEye in the future, which will make it even better.

To find out more about IMEye watch the demo video >>>click here

If you have any comments or questions let me know.

In the pervious posts I talk about how to find a niche and how to preform indepth keyword market analysis. Check out pervious Posts: How To Choose The Right Niche (part 1) ,  How To Choose The Right Niche (Part 2)

Get to know your competitors better, Who are your competitors? What are customer needs and preferences are you competing to meet? all this shapes your business decisions. Competitor analysis identifies the strengths and weaknesses of competing products or services. Find out exactly where your competitors traffic is coming from. Find out exactly which keywords are sending them the most traffic.

Here are some tools that is great for competitive analysis.

KeywordSpy

KeywordSpy – SEO & PPC Keyword Research software tool, that unveil your competitors most profitable Ad copies and keywords.

Quantcast

Quantcast.com -presents the demographics of web sites as well as the estimated monthly unique visitors, similar sites and the profile of a typical visitor of the site. Unfortunately, the results are sometimes unusable, because there are simply too many sites quantcast doesn’t know yet.

Compete

Compete.com – provides information for every site on the internet including site traffic history, competitive analytics, visitors, keywords that are driving traffic and more.

Google Adplanner

Google Adplanner – Free research and media planning tool that connects advertisers and publishers. Provides statistical profile of visitors to any website.

I hope you have found this post useful, let me know what you think by leaving a comment below.

Lee McIntyre is a young and successful internet marketer from the UK who makes his living running a six figure per month online business and is teaching others how to do the same.

Lee McIntyre’s business revolves around selling information products online and offline. He does business with the  belief that you will be more successful if you truly put the customer first and are honest in all your dealings.

In this interview Lee McIntyre reveals how he runs his business all the way through to outsourcing, traffic generation and making money.

If you would like to learn how to run a successful online business  download this free interview right now and listen to what Lee McIntyre has to say.

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To find out more about Lee McIntyre: visit website

Anyway I hope you enjoy the interview, I would love to hear your comments, please leave them below once you have listened to the interview.

I have just started week 3 of Dean Holland’s Starting With Marketing coaching program. If you want to read pervious weeks modules click here
Module 3 – Traffic Tanks

As you know the biggest hurdle people face in their online business, is knowing how to drive targeted traffic to their websites. Without traffic, no one will be visiting your website, no one will purchase your product or service, quite frankly no one will know your online business exist.

Tracking Your Website Traffic

In the training modules Dean Holland discuss the importance of tracking traffic that is coming to your website, so you can see what traffic methods are working and to adjust your traffic strategies accordingly. The wordpress plugin that I use to track my traffic is Google Analyticator. Google Analyticator has features that I find useful such as a dashboard widget that displays a graph of the last 30 days of visitors, summary of site usage, the top pages, the top referrers, and the top searches. Google Analyticator also integrates well wth Google analytics.

You will also need to register for an Google analytics account to get your detailed traffic reports sign up here

[Screenshot]- of my blog Traffic report

As you can see from the screenshot Google Analytics gives you detailed reports of visitors, traffic sources, content pages look at, keyword analysis etc.. all of this imformation can be use to give you an idea of which keywords are popular to use, the best content to add on your website, the best social media, forums, blog sites to add your posts too etc…

Free Traffic Methods

Currently their are free and paid ways of driving targeted traffic to your blog or website. The main focus of this module is how to utilise the free methods to your advantage to drive targeted traffic to your site. Here are some of the free methods to drive traffic:

Search Engine Optimization
Using targeted keyword phrases in your blog title and continuously in your posts can also help drive traffic to your website.

Blog / forum posting
Submiting comments on other blogs or forums related to your niche, you are establishing yourself as a knowledgeable member of a community and if done properly, an expert with valuable information to share.

Social Media
Posting your websites url post to social media sites to drive traffic back to your website. Is another effective way of getting targeted visitors to your website.

I hope these traffic tips has helped you on your online business…In the next coming weeks I will post other effective ways to drive more traffic to your site.