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Making Money From Things You Like

You always hear the usual advice when asking what type of blog or online making money adventure to begin. It goes like this "pick a topic you love, or are interested in, or you hobby, or something you enjoy."

Then most of us try that and we dont' make any money. Thats usually because we also follow the other usual advice of using affiliate links or adsense.

In my experience if you have a topic that doesn't have bunches of traffic or high ticket items you might have a hard time making money with that topic.

There are two things I see people doing to make these sites work for them:

1. They create their own products. From ebooks to dvds to the product the topic is about. They always sell their own stuff and not someone elses.

2. They ask permission to contact the visitors again. They are always trying hard to get people's email address so they can contact them again.

If I were starting an online endeavor that I wanted to be profitable and wanted it to be about something i really enjoyed, I would certainly be getting every visitors email address that i could and also only promoting my own products.


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Are you giving up on

Are you giving up on affiliate marketing? Lately your videos are more become a merchant type of stuff. Any updates on Mashup Money, how is that going so far?

MashupMoney is going good, 25

MashupMoney is going good, 25 people enjoying it, more soon.
Still doing some affiliate marketing.  Just prefer to sell my own stuff when possible, or when there isn't much affiliate stuff to be had.

My Own eBook

I've been tossing around the idea, for several weeks now, about putting together an ebook detailing the way I make my extra money each month online.
I guess I have two problems with this: I kind of find ebooks scammy in nature and while I do quite well with the extra income it is by no means bank busting. It's just a nice supplement to my regular professional income.
The big motivator that won't let me drop the idea is the fact that my method is easy to do, doesn't cost much to maintain (if anything) and is repeatable. Those are the three things that everyone is looking for but no one seems to really be offering.
So maybe I'll give it more thought and go ahead with it.

the ebook creation is the

the ebook creation is the easy part, how are you going to market it?

I'm not even sure I'd want to

I'm not even sure I'd want to sell it, to be quite honest. It might just be a freebie.
Although I guess that doesn't answer your question. I hadn't really thought about marketing it. I don't have a popular enough blog to push it via that avenue so I'd need to come up with something else; forums or blogs with actual readership, unlike my own.

Niche

Like anything else, one has to look for niche opportunities-niche marketing before the anybody knows about it.

Sad But True

Definitely like this post, it's so true that most people are trying to enter into niches that will never be profitable. I think that adding a mailing list by asking commentators or forming some kind of digital product or ebook is definitely a step in the right direction.

Selling items from your on

Selling items from your on low profit adsense site is a great way to supplement internet income. Asking permission to send emails is a great way to stay in contact with a customer.
 
Regards, Greg from Homebizseo.com

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