Start your own Amazon Store

Similar to Zlio but with Amazon, you get paid on commissions. Click here for the actual store - My Amazon Store .

BidVertiser

Similar to Google Adsense. Let see if this works out.

You can sign up for an account here:

Be creative

Being creative always works... This blogger is offering $20 "beer money" which what im after to put the following code on your blog:

Find out How To Make Money
Online by reading HowToMakeMoneyOnline.ca .

So every friday he will draw a name of whoever does this and he will Paypal you $20. Like I said be creative... and get a Paypal account - this is how you get PAID !!! He's offering $20 but in turn he will get lots of people that are linking to his blog, thus creating this huge pyramid.

Give it a try...

Widgets

I have been playing around with a couple of widgets (those banners that appear to the right of this blog). It tries to attract people with text ads based on your blog content. Advertisers bid to appear on the text/link ads and in turn appear on your blog when you add the widget. There are several that I am working with right now. Enter a comment and I will send you a couple of invites to the widgets that I am testing out.

Shopping Ads
Check this one out. Just ad one of these widgets to your blog and see what happens. Again generating traffic to your site is key. Check it out, I have it at the bottom of my blog, scroll all the down, and you will see the link - Ads by ShoppingAds . Its the green letters at the bottom.

Generating more revenue

In addition to selling products on Zlio . You can setup an Adsense account. These are the banners you see on this website as well as on other websites. This is another quick and easy way to generate more revenue. Again the key is to get people to your website. In turn they will see the ads on your website and click on them. By them clicking on the ads, you will earn money on the clicks.

Check out Google Adsense or http://adsense.google.com on how to this feature up. As usual if you have an questions feel free to email me or post a comment.

The Basics

Before you get started you should get the basics. You probably already have the basics found below, if you are Internet savvy.

1. Get an email account - ( Hotmail or Gmail ).
2. Get a paypal account - This is how you get PAID - Create a PayPal Account .
3. Think about a topic that you are passionate about.
4. Finalize on a topic, being more specific on a topic tends attract more readers i.e. digital camera expert.
5. Setup a blog - Blogger is a free hosting site - Create a Blog .
6. Create a store - Zlio is a good place to start .
7. Link the Blog to your Zlio store i.e. blog about digital cameras and create store selling digital cameras and accesories (tripods, memory cards, digital frames, etc...)
8. Spread the word. Comment on other blogs, get people to visit your blog, get people to visit your store. Send the blog link to your friends.

Most importantly, have fun doing it !

Opening up a store

If you want to get started right away click here.... - Create a store with Zlio

Reading the news on the Internet is the best way to get ideas. However if you are reading about it then someone has already thought about it. It goes back to the "being the first" idea. So one day I stumbled upon this web site Zlio . What this web site does is it allows you to create a website store without holding the inventory. The company allows you to setup a web site and manage the products you want to sell on your own website. You add the products you want to promote. When someone clicks on it, it refers the person to the vendors site. If the person buys the product, then you would receive 3% to 10% of price of the product. The vendor takes care of the shipping and charging the person. All you do is collect the commission. On average according to the article I read people can make up to $300 a month, that is some good beer money!! For the top people you can earn up to $3000. It wont cost a thing.

Are you excited yet ?? Check it out and sign up for an account now, it's free ! Zlio Web Site - http://www.zlio.com/signup?r=269724.

Once your shop's up and running, all you need to do is advertise it round (family, friends, your blog…) Zlio even provides all kinds of tools to help you do that. And then, when people log on and buy anything from it, you get a commission from the supplier. But best of all, you don't even need to worry about handling the product yourself – it's shipped straight from the merchant to your customer. All you ever need to handle is the cash!

So next time someone asks you where you got that incredible book/watch/shoe/couch/computer/remote controlled helicopter/etc… make sure you're be able to send them to your ZlioShop and to get your cut on the way! With over 100 000 people who have already created stores with us (some of whom now make over $750 a month!) and over 2.5 million unique visitors a month, you just can't go wrong!


Still want to read more ? Well, here is the article from reuters as to what an average person can do....If you are ready click here - Zlio Web Site - http://www.zlio.com/signup?r=269724.


Start a web business in an extra few minutes
Reuters Monday, 24 March 2008

When David Pangelinan isn't logging 14-hour days driving a fuel tanker, he's at his computer indulging his latest hobby: building a succession of online stores in minutes.

Pangelinan has built four online stores offering hundreds of products for sale, from Bulova watches to Betty Boop pillows, using the Web site Zlio.com . "It was real easy," said Pangelinan, 43, who lives in Columbus, Georgia.
Pangelinan said he's still learning the finer points of e-commerce, and spends time browsing through thousands of products on Zlio.com’s catalogue that he could sell.

"I just went in there and started jotting down the products that were interesting and caught my eye," said Pangelinan, who spends six to 10 hours a week tending to his shops.
Zlio.com , which launched in France in 2006 and in January in the United States, allows people to form online stores for free. Users can choose a name, address and template for the store they want to create and then begin displaying wares, say an iPod or a T-shirt.
It's a simple tool, with none of the typical hassle of designing a site, setting up a payment gateway and keeping stock of merchandise and shipping.
Once signed up, a new shopkeeper can choose from more than 3 million products offered by 120 merchants, including Barnes & Noble, Zappos, Gap and Apple. They can then invite friends and relatives to shop.

"It's the Tupperware party concept gone online," said Zlio.com’s founder and Chief Executive Jeremie Berrebi. "But people are defining the concept of the shop."
Berrebi, an internet journalist-turned-entrepreneur, said he meshed the idea of a Tupperware party with social recommendation features in which users turn to friends for shopping suggestions to create Zlio .

The notion of helping people create online stores is nearly as old as the commercial Web itself. Major e-commerce players eBay and Amazon.com have helped Web entrepreneurs set up hundreds of thousands of independent online stores.
Sites such as CafePress.com have been around since 1999, allowing Web users to create stores to sell personalized accessories like coffee mugs. Zlio offers a far wider range of goods for sale and takes more of a social networking approach.
Zlio also provides some marketing help. They can put a widget on their Facebook or other social networking page, or use Google Inc's AdSense software to direct traffic to their sites.

So far, people have created more than 250,000 stores, many organised around themes. One was devoted to all things red, another sold only hot sauce, a third focuses on The Beatles.

John Holsen, who runs a small publishing business in Kansas City, Missouri, recently started a shop with his wife, a yoga teacher, to sell yoga gear.
"It started as an experiment to see if I could build an e-commerce site in five minutes," Holsen said. "And you can."

He said his site gets up to 5,000 hits a month and makes about $US300-$US400 on monthly revenue of $US3,000. "You won't get wealthy off of it, but if you built enough sites, you can probably make a decent income," he said.
On average, shopkeepers make about $300 a month, but top sellers can make as much as $US3,000, Zlio.com’s spokeswoman Rachel Bremer said.

Merchants share the revenue with Zlio.com and the seller based on the number of clicks and sales. Shopkeepers display wares and can earn up to 10 per cent commission through eBay's PayPal online payment service, either on every sale or on every click generated.
They don't have to worry about shipping orders because the companies take care of it. Last year, Zlio.com’s generated $US12 million in sales for the companies with which it has tie-ups, Berrebi said.

He refused to disclose how much money the site makes. He also has seen some business interest in the site. Mangrove Capital, which was an early investor in eBay's popular Skype internet phone service, is backing Zlio.com , too.

As for the name Zlio itself, Berrebi said it doesn't mean anything. "It's just a four-letter word."

Now you are ready right ? Get to it ! Zlio Web Site - http://www.zlio.com/signup?r=269724.

How do you start an Internet Business ?

There are many intricacies to an Internet business. What do you want to sell ? How do you market your Internet business ?

Well...that's what I'm here for. Let me start by telling you that I am no expert. I wish I can tell you that I have made millions but I haven't. It is going to be tough. The good thing about it is, that if you have time you can do it. Most of the time it wont cost you a thing. The Internet is a huge marketing avenue.

What I am here for is to get you started. Where to go to find things, what to do to get started. What is google adsense ? What is google analytics ? What is a blog :) ?From there it is up to you to get your internet business started. Hopefully you will discover some hidden gems or "nuggets" that no one has yet to discover yet. The key is being the first. If you start the trend then you are already ahead of the game. After you prove your success, people will follow what you do.

Well read further if you are interested. I will try to keep this up to date as much as possible. Please feel free to leave me comments. Tell me if you like it or not. If it is helpful or not.

My goal is to have residual income. A few hours a week here and there devote to maintaining the business, in return getting a few dollars a month. Just like in college, you were so happy to get some money to pay for beer on the weekends. I just want money on the side to pay for some toys that I want. I have expensive hobbies (see my Home Theater Blog for details - http://hometheaterroom.blogspot.com/)

Good luck. Oh....BTW feel free to share that nugget with me before you let everyone else know when you stumble upon it.