الأحد، 28 نوفمبر 2010

Make Money Online



53 Ways To Make Money Online!

If you are looking for different ways to make money online, you are in the right place. In this post you will find some of the top ways to make money online, along with some of the most unusual ways people use to make money online. Making money online isn’t always easy. It takes hard work and consistency. But if you are willing to put enough time and effort into it, there are number of ways you can use the internet to make money. Here are 53 unusual and best ways to make money online.

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Wherever possible, I tried to provide you some other resources and information about some of these methods by linking to other articles that are more in dept and detailed, which will give you more information on how to start making money with that method. I hope it will be helpful.
Make Money Trading Forex
Forex or Foreign Exchange is basically a forums of trading where you buy and sell foreign currencies. It’s a very profitable business which is very risky. Make sure you spend enough time to learn how Forex works, before you get into it. A good place to start is the biggest Forex trading website Forex.com which gives you $50,000 practice money, so you can start trading and learning without risking your own money.  Forex Trading For Beginners
Selling Photographs
If you like photography and/or can take interesting pictures, there are many sites you can upload your images too, and get paid every time someone buys it. The good thing is that a photo can sell over and over again. Imagine the potential if you have 100 or so photographs. Make money selling stock images.     12 websites to sell your images on
Sell unused items on Ebay
I know your getting tired of hearing about ebay, but the truth of the matter is that you can make money on ebay in many different ways. You, like most other people may have stuff laying around the house, in the garage or wherever, find them and sell them on ebay. Many times you can find valuable stuff in garage sales and second hand for very cheap, turn around and sell them on ebay for a profit.
Sell other peoples stuff on Ebay
There are many people who don’t know how to sell on ebay. You can sell their stuff on ebay in exchange for a commission.   Ebay for beginners
Designing Logos and Ads
Hundreds of new websites and blogs are born everyday, but most of the blog/site owners don’t know how to make a logo or an ad. Use free classified sites and related forums to provide your service for a flat rate.
Website and Domain Flipping
Buy good domains and resell for a profit. Build a website or a blog, work on it for a while and get it going. Just like flipping houses. When  you get the site to a good point, put it up for sale. People like websites that are ready to go, and they do pay good money for it. Hundreds of website are bought and sold every day on sites like Flippa.com

Get paid to take online surveys
Paid surveys are a great way to make extra money. Although you have to be careful and watch out for scammers, there are hundreds of legitimate paid survey companies out there, that you can register with for free, and make money taking online surveys.
40+ Legitimate Paid Survey Sites
Designing Websites
If you are good at building websites, why not make money doing so. Use forums like site points and digital points to offer your service to webmasters.
Design T-Shirts and Other Customizable Items
Good with coming up with a cool catch word or a cool design? You can make a decent amount of money designing and selling T-shirts on sites like Café Press.  9 Website To Design & Sell  Merchandise Online
Make Digital Scrap Booking Templates
I personally don’t get this, but many People love to scrapbook, and they do pay good money for templates. Make different kinds of templates, and make it easy for people to use them.
Record Songs and Sell Online
Don’t laugh at this one! If you can sing, there is no more worries for finding a record label company who will help you get there. Thanks to the internet and all the video sharing sites, you can easily find your way up, if you are talented an have the voice for it.
Make MySpace Backgrounds
They are all over the internet, those ad for myspace background! That means there is a market for it, if those advertisers are willing to spend money advertising them for this long. Creating MySpace backgrounds isn’t that hard. But many people don’t want to do it, or don’t have the time to do it. You can provide them with this service and customize their MySpace pages, and charge a fee for doing so. And what place better to advertise your service than MySpace itelf?…
Create videos
With the huge interest in videos online, there is always room for more. Create interesting videos of yourself or whatever, and upload them to Web Sites like Revver and Break. They will share a percentage of their ad revenue with you. Plus you get something for each download as well.
Get Paid to Surf
Get paid to surf is kind of big on the internet. And of course there are scammers following it as well. So, be careful and make sure you register with known and trusted sites.  Get paid to surf
Get Paid To Or GPT programs
There are many sites online known as GPT (Get Paid To…), which you can sign up with for free. You earn money or points for doing things you do online. Like registering with freebies sites, shopping and things like that. They are sort of middle man. They get paid from advertisers to drive leads to them, and when you go through their website, the share a percentage of that money with you.  8 Legitimate GPT Sites

Directory Submission
In order for a website or blog to be successful and make money, it needs traffic. There are many ways to work on traffic. One way is to submit your site to website directories. But, many webmaster and blogger are busy with other aspects of running a site, so they don’t have time to do this. That’s where you can come in, and offer to submit their site to directories for a fee. Again use forums like site points and digital point to offer your service.
Making money Affiliate Marketing
This is by far the best way to make money online, at least in my opinion. You are basically selling other peoples stuff for a commission. You can find digital products like e-books and short reports to promote on sites like clickbank and paydotcom.   Affiliate Marketing for beginners
Get Paid To Review
Set up a website or a blog, and start a review site. Website owners and bloggers will pay you to post a review of their site on your site. It helps them get the word out and helps you make money.
Niche Directory
You have seen those directory sites that have a list of specific sites in different categories. Set up one for yourself. Gather a list of site and sources related to a specific niche, and list them on your site. Sell ad space to other webmasters. You can charge a monthly fee to have their ad shown on your site. byuandsellads is a good place to look for potential costumers.
Get Paid to Search
Search engines are big money makers. No wonder every day new search engines pup up everywhere. But since they are not as big as Google and yahoo and some other engines, they pay you to use ther site to search. Basically their sharing their earnings from their advertisers with you. 6 Search Engines that pay you to search
Make Photo Mosaics
If you can make photo mosaics, set up a website and offer your Photo Mosaics service. You will be surprised how many people pay for these things.
Become a Virtual Assistant
Its becoming very popular, as more and more online based businesses are born every day. People use virtual assistant for research, finding things, doing time consuming tasks, making phone calls and etc. Setup a free blog or site to offer your service.
Forum Hosting
Use software like SebFlipper you to host hundreds of separate forums from a single web server. Make money by charging people to host a forum with you, or offer it for free, but show your ads on their forums and make money that way.
Get Paid To Install Applications
Most People have problem with installing different kinds of applications. If you are good at installing a particular app or a software, why not make some money while helping others?
Get Paid To Answer Questions
If you have knowledge about something (which you do, everybody knows about something that others may not know), put it to work for you. There are many websites that you can offer your expertise and knowledge in exchange for money.   11 Site To Give Advice & Answers For Money.  11 Website that pay you for Giving Advice And Answering Questions
Pod casting
Think of it as a voice or video blogging. Talk about interesting topic and make money from ads shown. If you are a good speaker, and have a nice voice, its not that hard to get hundreds of subscribers.
Get Paid To Participate In Focus Groups
Focus group are basically the same as paid surveys, but unlike paid surveys, most focus groups are conducted in a physical location. Focus group studies are held in most major cities. You will be in with a group of other selected people, talking and answering question about whatever product or service the study is about. You can expect to get paid from $60 to $250 for an hour to a full day of study.   10 Legitimate Paid Focus Groups
Domain Drop shipping!
Its basically selling domain registration for big domain registration sites like TuCows, which makes it easy for you to start your own private label domain registration and make money not only from the initial sale, but from renewals as well.
Create and Sell E-Books
You can make e-books about anything. If you have some knowledge about anything, whether its a recipe or a how to do this and that. Its not as hard as you think. Look at some e-books that are selling for $50-$100 or whatever, and you see what i mean (most of them are crap, but people do pay for them!).    How to create an ebook for free(6 steps)
Make money with Amazon Mechanical Turk
Its one of the biggest unknown ways of making money online, yet its so easy to do. You do simple tasks like differentiating pictures from text, and get paid for it. If you have enough time to invest in it, you can make good money with amazon turk.           Make Money With Amazon Turk
Software Review
WebSites like SoftwareJudge will pay you for using and reviewing any of the software available in their collection.
Make Money Blogging
Blogging is becoming more and more popular. You can set up a blog in less than an hour. There are many free blogging platforms you can use at first. When you get comfortable, then pay for your own hosting and domain name. You can blog about anything you like, no matter how bizarre and unusual it is, there will be an audience for it, believe it or not. You can make money by showing ads on your blog using advertising programs like Google adsense.
Moderate A Forum
Forums are another great way to make some extra money. You probably already participate in a forum or two, so why not start your own? Make money by showing ads. plus if the forum gets good and popular, you can charge people to join, or have a special room in the forum where one has to subscribe in order to participate. An example of that would be the WarRoom which only paid users of worrier forum have access to.
Get Paid For Data Entry
Not the scam one, we are talking about data entry for Google. Google pays people to take photos of businesses, and enter basic data such as hours of operation. You know how many business are located just next to your favorite grocery store? MyDataTeam
Write And Sell Software
Know how to make a software? Then start writing software and plug-ins. One of the hottest plug-in markets is the blogging platforms like word press and blogger. Use forums to find out what bloggers need that you can make a plug-in for. Create your plug-in or software, and set up a free blog to advertise it.
Get Paid as a freelancer
There are tons of places online you can offer your writings. There are even ome websites that pay you for writing exclusive content for them.         18 Websites that pay you for writing
Make Money Posting On Forums
People who start a new forums often pay people to post on their forums, so it will look active, therefore attracts more people to join the discussion. Many forums will pay up to $0.25 per post, which can be just a sentence or two. Again you can use established forums to find people who are looking for forum posters.
Ads On Forums
If you like participating in forums or are already a member of any forum, look for “ad share” sign in your user CP. Some forums offer a percentage of their earnings from ads, with their members.
Translate Document
If you speak a second language, why not translate document online and offline, and get paid for it? Free classified sites are the best way to advertiser your service.
Become a Life coach or an Adviser
You don’t even have to set up your own company if you don’t want to, there are already many sites that pay you to advise and couch others over the phone or by chat. You can use your expertise on many different subjects to make money as a coach.
Get paid to play games (game money)
On game sites like Farm Gold and Second Life, you can make virtual money, which can be exchanged for real money. I am sure you have heard of like Ansche Chung, which is the first person who become a millionaire, exchanging her virtual money earned from Second Life for real money, worth over a million dollar.   10 websites to get paid to play games
Become Game Tester
Very easy way to make money by doing something enjoyable. But its hard to find though, but if you look around, you may find a company or two. If I do find one, I will update this page and post it here. So be sure to bookmark this page and check back.
Your own Search Engine
Use Google to build your own custom search engine. Build a search engine for a specific topic like a search engine just for finding information related to music or what have you. To get it going, set up contests for searchers, and give a prize to the biggest searcher. You make your money when people search from your search engine and click on ads.
Get paid to comment on blogs
In order to rank higher and attract more traffic to make money, bloggers need quality links pointing back to their blog from other blogs, more than anything else. You can do that for them by commenting on other peoples blog and charging $0.50 or so for each link back.
Become a Job Referrer
Some firms pay referral bonuses of up to $1,000 for referring the right person for a job. Develop relationships with recruiters, like temporary job finding services and refer people who you know are fit for the specific job. You can do this both online and offline.
Software Plus
Work on already developed softwares and make programs that will make the software better and easier to work with.
Convert Online Money
You can make money by converting, EGold money into Paypal money, etc. people charge up to 5%-10% to do the same thing.
Drop Shipping
Use sites like Café Press to create a free storefront online and be a drop shipper. You don’t have to deal with anything but getting customer to visit your online store front.
Sell Craft and Art Work online
Have free time on your hand and are good at making things? Well, use your skills to create art work and crafts to sell online. You can sell your art work and crafts either on ebay or classified sites, specially craigslist.
Get paid to Shop as a mystery shopper
Mystery shopping is becoming a popular method for companies to evaluate there employees and customer services skills. Although there are a lot of different opinions about this, mystery shopping is actually growing as an industry. You will be assigned to shop and dine in different places and report your experience back. Depending on specific assignments, you can expect to get paid anywhere from $40 to $300 or more per assignment. Of course the amount that you spend buying goods and services, will be reimbursed. Sometimes you get to keep the item you bought at no charge to you.                    10 Legitimate Mystery Shopping Companies
Make money with CPA
CPA is a much easier version of affiliate marketing, which most of the time you don’t have to sell anything, you just have to send leads to advertisers site. For example, some Advertiser will pay you up to $2 each time you send a lead to there page where the person enters an email address or a zip code in order to participate in a survey to win something. The good thing about CPA is that although to get accepted by CPA networks you have to have a website or a blog, you don’t need a website or blog to make money. Depending on each advertisers terms, you can even use free classified sites to advertise your special link which send people to advertisers page where they can enter information, so you get paid.   CPA for beginners
Get paid for sharing files
There are a couple of document sharing sites that you can upload any kind of file you own to, and every time someone downloads it, you get paid for it. The files can be in almost any format, from txt to pdf and everything else. 5 Website To Get Paid For Sharing Your Files

Get paid to Socialize
Now that Social networking sites are becoming more and more popular, a lot of people want to get in the game and make money running their own social networking site. But again since they need some members to get the word out and make the site look active, so they are willing to pay people to become a member and post messages. Here are some social networking site you can get paid . 5 Social Networking Sites that pay you
There you have it, 53 ways you can make some extra cash online. I hope this list can give you some ideas and inspirations to make some extra cash, specially in this hard times. I will be happy to add more ways to this list, so Please feel free to let me know If you know of any other ways to make money online.

Forex Trading Secrets to Really Boost Your Profits

There is no doubt that forex robots are creating a big impact on the fx market. Due to the various benefits that these robots provide they are great news for a novice looking to trade forex but they can also offer real benefit to more advanced traders. So what is the secret to why these robots are proving to be so successful? These software applications are usually known as robots or expert advisors (EA). They do live up to their name since they are said to have helped in the $3 trillion market turnover everyday in the forex market.
Exactly what does a forex robot do and what are these advantages over the old method of trading? The expert advisor software analyzes the up to date information available and then indicates to the trader when to enter or exit he market. It is able to process the information a lot quicker than a human could.
Forex robots can be set by their owners to just alert them of trade opportunities, leaving the trader to actually execute the trade. Whats truly impressive is the forex robots capability to trade 100% without requiring human intervention if asked to. For greater flexibility the trader has the choice to keep the robot on its default setting or alternatively tailor the robots trading pattern by adjusting the settings.
These robots are sophisticated enough to actually buy and sell instead of just enter and exit the market.
An additional important feature of the best forex robots is their money management facility. The robot will systematically vary the size of each trade to avoid taking large risks and trying to maximize the return on investment with the element of caution. Of course the trader can alter these settings to meet their trading style.
The capacity to use stop losses if needed as well as alter them and remove them is an additional huge advantage that a forex robot posesses, allowing them to be very flexible and allowing each trader to tailor them accordingly.
If you have an online trading account already open then all you need is to buy the forex robot which you then install onto your current trading software. The EA would be downloaded to your computer and would make trades for you.
The expert advisor can literally trade 24 hours a day 5 days a week and allows you to get on with your life. So, there are some companies that offer virtual hosting where traders can continue trading while giving their computers and trading robot the needed rest.
Learn the basics involved in the forex market, take time to familiarize yourself with all of the features and settings of your forex robot and just monitor the progress as your robot trades.
Dan Jones has been a professional forex trader for the last 7 years and worked in London, New york and is currently based in Tokyo. He wants to help new forex traders avoid the common errors that are so costly when starting out to trade forex.

G20 Finance Ministers Gather In Gyeongju, South Korea

Ahead of the summit meeting of the heads of state of the group of 20 leading economies next month, this weekend sees a meeting of their finance ministers in Gyeongju, in South Korea

Trend following

Trend following is an investment strategy that tries to take advantage of long-term moves that seem to play out in various markets. The strategy aims to work on the market trend mechanism and take benefit from both sides of the market, enjoying the profits from the ups and downs of the stock or futures markets. Traders who use this approach can use current market price calculation, moving averages and channel breakouts to determine the general direction of the market and to generate trade signals. Traders who employ a trend following strategy do not aim to forecast or predict specific price levels; they simply jump on the trend and ride it.

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  • 1 Definition
  • 2 Considerations
  • 3 Q&As
  • 4 Example
  • 5 Notes and references
  • 6 External links
  • 7 Further reading
  • 8 See also

Definition

This trading method involves a risk management component that uses three elements: number of shares held, the current market price, and current market volatility. An initial risk rule determines position size at time of entry. Exactly how much to buy or sell is based on the size of the trading account and the volatility of the issue. Changes in price may lead to a gradual reduction or an increase of the initial trade. On the other hand, adverse price movements may lead to an exit for the entire trade.
These traders normally enter in the market after the trend properly establishes itself, and, for this reason, they ignore the initial turning point profit.
If there is a turn contrary to the trend, these systems signal a pre-programmed exit or wait until the turn establishes itself as a trend in the opposite direction. In case the system signals an exit, the trader re-enters when the trend re-establishes.
In the words of Tom Basso, in the book Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
Let’s break down the term Trend Following into its components. The first part is “trend”. Every trader needs a trend to make money. If you think about it, no matter what the technique, if there is not a trend after you buy, then you will not be able to sell at higher prices…”Following” is the next part of the term. We use this word because trend followers always wait for the trend to shift first, then “follow” it.

Considerations

  • Price: One of the first rules of trend following is that price is the main concern. Traders may use other indicators showing where price may go next or what it should be but as a general rule these should be disregarded. A trader need only be worried about what the market is doing, not what the market might do. The current price and only the price tells you what the market is doing.
  • Money management: Another decisive factor of trend following is not the timing of the trade or the indicator, but rather the decision of how much to trade over the course of the trend.
  • Risk control: Cut losses is the rule. This means that during periods of higher market volatility, the trading size is reduced. During losing periods, positions are reduced and trade size is cut back. The main objective is to preserve capital until more positive price trends reappear.
  • Rules: Trend following should be systematic. Price and time are pivotal at all times. This technique is not based on an analysis of fundamental supply and demand factors.

Q&As

The trend following strategy answers the questions:
  • How and when to enter the market.
  • How many contracts or shares to trade at any time.
  • How much money to risk on each trade.
  • How to exit the trade if it becomes unprofitable.
  • How to exit the trade if it becomes profitable.

Example

A trader would identify a security to trade (currencies/commodities/financials) and would come up with a preliminary strategy, such as:
  • Commodity: soybean oil
  • Trading approach: long and short alternatively.
  • Entrance: When the 50 period simple moving average (SMA) crosses over the 100 period SMA, go long when the market opens. The crossover suggests that the trend has recently turned up.
  • Exit: Exit long and go short the next day when 100 period SMA crosses over 50 period SMA. The crossover suggests that the trend has turned down.
  • Stop loss: Set a stop loss based on maximum loss acceptable. For example if the recent, say 10 day, Average True Range is 0.5% of current market price, stop loss could be set at 4×0.5% = 2%.
The trader would then backtest the strategy, using actual data and would evaluate the strategy. The simulator would generate estimated number of trades, the fraction of winning/losing trades, average profit/loss, average holding time, maximum drawdown, and the overall profit/loss. The trader can then experiment and refine the strategy. Care must be taken, however, to avoid over-optimization.
It is possible that a majority of the trades may be unprofitable, but by “cutting the losses” and “letting profits run”, the overall strategy may be profitable. Trend trading is most effective for a market that is quiet (relative low volatility) and trending. For this reason, trend traders often focus on commodities, which show a stronger tendency to trend than on stocks, which are more likely to be mean reverting (which favors swing traders).

News Merkel Wants A Permanent EU Bailout Facility

Rumours continue to persist that suggest that the Eurozone may be forced into some form of break-up. However, rather like mixing yellow and red paint to get an orange colour, the reality is it would be almost impossible to undo this integration.
Apart from the logistics of a nation having to re-create its own currency (printing, distribution, minting new coinage, etc), the goal would be to covert Euro debt into “new national currency” denominated debt and let the new currency devalue.
Effectively, this would represent a debt default (since creditors would only get a fraction of the Euro worth of their original investment) and would make future borrowing prohibitively expensive. Imagine, for a moment, how Ireland would fare in the bond markets if trying to meet its current obligations outside of the Euro – yields would be astronomical.
Furthermore, citizens of the exiting nation would know that the value represented by their Euro savings was about to be slashed and there would be a flight of capital before the transition could take place. In short, the Euro and the Eurozone membership is set to stay.
Angela Merkel has stated that she wants to see a permanent EU bailout facility established which would remain in place once the existing provisions expire in 2013. The position is endorsed by French President, Nikolas Sarkozy, and would be designed to reassure investors that the Eurozone block is committed to ensuring a strong and stable Euro over the longer term.
It is clear that regulation and monitoring of compliance with the EU convergence criteria will be strengthened going forward once the immediate consequences of the global financial crisis have settled. All Eurozone members and other nations in the wider EU will need to ensure that public sector borrowing remains in control.

Your Financial Life Plan: An Overview

Your Financial Life Plan: An Overview

EDITOR'S NOTE: As Americans continue the uphill climb to economic recovery, deciding where to invest is only part of the battle. In our special report, "Build Your Financial Life Plan," we offer a complete strategy for all aspects of your financial well-being. We've also developed an interactive tool to help you create your own plan. To get your customized strategy, go to www.smartmoney.com/lifeplan.
In architecture, there's a big difference between a sketch and a plan. A sketch sets out the broad aspirations for your project -- it's a picture of what your dream house will look like when it's finished. A plan, on the other hand, lays out the structural details that will bring that house into existence, down to every last window, rain gutter and light socket. And over the past couple of years, many Americans learned the hard way that when it came to getting their financial houses in order, what they thought was a plan was much more like a sketch. Today, with unemployment stubbornly high and the stock and housing markets wobbly, these folks are finding that the devil is in the details you ignore.
But there's growing evidence that, as the economy slowly recovers, consumers are getting serious about drawing up a financial life plan -- not just a new approach to investing, but a strategy that covers it all, from health care to taking care of the family legacy.
That shift is making itself felt in the financial-services industry. In the three-year period ending at the close of 2009, independent advisers attracted more investor assets than big Wall Street brokerages for the first time ever, according to the consultancy Tiburon Strategic Advisers; indeed, despite lingering uncertainty in the markets, more than 60 percent of advisers reported actually gaining clients in the past year. Bing Waldert, a director at research firm Cerulli Associates, says at those firms "you're more likely to see a comprehensive financial planner" who can offer broad-ranging advice about taxes, insurance and other details beyond the investment portfolio. At the same time, big mutual fund companies are recasting themselves as big-umbrella advisers, including Charles Schwab, which just finished a huge expansion of its "money-management education" Web site, and T. Rowe Price, which has unveiled a slick new tax-planning center.
It's all part of a recognition, by clients and companies alike, that well-being stretches far beyond a person's portfolio. "If we don't talk about much more than just investing decisions, plans can easily get derailed," says Elaine King, a wealth manager at the Coral Gables, Fla., wealth-management firm Gibraltar Private.
To be sure, many people have good reason to seek the extra help, as they face not only lower expectations for the stock and housing markets but also bigger expenses over the horizon.
Almost all the tax cuts passed in the first part of this decade are due to expire this year, and in an era of massive deficits, most are unlikely to be renewed -- while other, new levies could stick taxpayers with an even bigger bill. With profits expected to stay modest, many onlookers expect companies to be increasingly stingy with employee benefits, whether it's raises and bonuses or 401(k) matches and health plans. Still, the pros we've tracked down say a detailed life plan that includes the right financial steps can overcome the challenges of a postcrash economy. Here are some places to get started.


Read more: Your Financial Life Plan: An Overview - Personal Finance - Retirement - SmartMoney.com http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/retirement/your-financial-lifeplan-an-overview/#ixzz16Vj2aLu3

Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh may not be Silicon Valley, but the state's second-largest city hopes to recapture some of its former
 Pittsburgh

steel-era glory by becoming a hub for technology start-ups.
Bill Gates wannabes can get advice and capital from InnovationWorks, an economic development organization designed to help tech start-ups that could boost the southwest Pennsylvania economy.
The region's largest seed-stage investor, InnovationWorks has provided more than $45 million in financing to more than 125 technology start-ups since it started ten years ago. Business consulting also is available for start-ups, while a grant program helps small manufacturers boost their efficiency and universities develop ideas that could turn into viable products.
Meanwhile, IT entrepreneurs focused on starting web, mobile, gaming or hardware firms can get free office space, mentoring and $25,000 in funding via its 20-week AlphaLab. AlphaLab companies include Careerimp, which helps users create resumes targeted to specific jobs fast, and Devotee, which sets retailers up with mobile loyalty programs.