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52. Affiliate programs can be great fun and very lucrative. The
trick is
learning to generate traffic, funnelling it to your merchant and hiring
expensive accountants to handle your massive tax returns. It has made more
millionaires than you'd believe and I've personally met many of them. I
hope to write a lot more about making money from affiliate programs in
the months to come.
53. But if fine-tuning ad
CTRs and monitoring
ROI is too much like hard
work ... be your own affiliate customer. Credit card companies, mortgage
companies etc., pay anywhere upto $100 per form filled on their site (per
valid lead). Go apply for some credit cards and mortgages BUT do them
through your own affiliate links and make a few hundred dollars per day.
Sign up in as an affiliate in your wife/husband/dad's name to get around
the occasional restriction that applications in the affiliate's own name don't generate
the commission.
Pure fun
54. Like playing computer games?
There's money in gaming. Top players get
paid handsomely for participating in tournaments, attending gaming fests
and endorsing products. OK, Tiger Woods does make more but does he have as
much fun? I mean, have you ever seen him happy? Like deliriously
happy ... and shouting for joy? No. Because his golf club don't have
no buttons. But it's not just for big hitters. Anybody can make a few
hundred bucks a week.
55. MMORPG, or multi-player online role playing games are virtual worlds
where otherwise sane humans lose all perspective and all sense of reality.
Or they pretend they do. They spend money on invisibility cloaks,
virtual machine guns,
characters and even virtual money! It's hard to
explain how it works but Be The Seller, there's a
thriving economy there worth millions of dollars every year.
Whether it's
WoW
or
SecondLife.
56. Adult entertainment: Like dressing up kinky? Do it front of a webcam
and adult webcam sites will pay you. (John Prescott need not apply.) Like
chatting dirty? Are you a balding man who likes pretending to be an 18 year
old blond, female model? The online equivalent of the premium rate phone
lines is where you can earn money all day just having fun. I won't provide
links - use a search engine and find them yourself.
57. Or get paid for promoting other adult sites. This is like other
affiliate programs except that you get to give away stuff on your site
(usually cut-down/lower quality versions of videos and pics) for free. These entice
visitors to click through for the larger resolution version which requires
a small subscription. So, free content for you and - if you can get enough
visitors to click through and subscribe - a healthy commission cheque at the end of
the month.
 58. Mystery shopping: Shopping on behalf of firms to see how staff on the
floor are treating customers. Buy products, have holidays, eat at
restaurants and have the tabs all picked up by your employers... as long
as you provide them some feedback on what the service is like in-store.
There are worse ways to earn a living. Some
sceptics say they have fun but don't earn a great deal.
Others disagree.
59. Spend your time entering competitions. Despite the name "competitions"
rarely require skill, they are nothing but glorified lotteries/ sweepstakes. The most
challenging question they are likely to ask you is, "What's 1+1?" Try
searches like "competition
entry" and "win
a prize".
60. Or enter contests of skill. Good at
SEO? There seem to be a lot of SEO
competitions around. Good for nothing? I tried Google on a search for
Good for nothing competitions and I get a lot of results. :-) Weed out
99% as junk and you should still have some good 'uns there. Good at
taking or editing videos and have a good idea? Video sites like
metacafe pay you
if your video is popular enough (this
guy made $100K). See, also,
this NYT article for inspiration.
And this is a good piece on how to make money on YouTube.
61. Good at poker? You can
make a living from playing it all day long (or go broke).
Bonus method: Start a video blog.
Like surfing?
62. Become an estate agent. Not a real one; in places like the US that's
too much effort. No, you can act for buyers without all that formality by
being a
buying agent.
Clients have a clear idea of what they want but you have the time to keep
hitting rightmove -or wherever your local listings are
- to find them that
special property. In the UK "buying agents" charge 1-3% of the property value.
63. Concierge services: If you know the exact type of bra you want but
can't find it would you pay someone a few dollars to find it for you?
You'd be surprised how many busy people would. Whether it's a list
for the supermarket delivery or a bathroom tap unavailable locally - for some
people the hour or two hunting is not worth the $10 you'd charge.
Maintain preferences for your signed up customers - so they can tell
you to order "milk" without having to specify semi-skimmed, 2 litre,
cardboard packing etc. - and close relationships with local businesses and
even I'd sign up. Example
64. Be a researcher. At places like answers.com people pay for you to go
research an answer to questions they don't have time to answer themselves.
Like, "How do I choose an SLR camera?" and "What's the name of the theme
song to the TV program A Bit of Fry and Laurie?" Note: Google has now
closed the answers.google.com
service but if you're that good at hunting things out you'll find that
there are other places where people pay for answers. And, I'm not just
talking
paid homework help.
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