No, you didn't misread the title. I've come to the decision that Side Income Blogging is not where I want to spend my time right now or in the near future. A few months ago, I had some great plans, eBooks, an online training program, lots of content, building websites, consulting, etc etc. Then as I started to plan it all out, I realized my heart wasn't really in it. Writing about earning income online just wasn't where I wanted to spend my time. Not to mention this niche is Continue Reading
Earn money with MyLikes
Last month, I ran across a great way to earn a little extra cash AND at the same time provide to my social media followers that they would love. Sounds like a win/win right? It definitely is. The affiliate program is called MyLikes, and over the past two weeks I've earned nearly $100.00 using it. The best part (well, other than the money), is that MyLikes is really easy to set-up and use. What is MyLikes? MyLikes is a really slick affiliate program where they create a "viral Continue Reading
Building an ebay Based Niche site
As those of you who read my articles and updates on a frequent basis know,I enjoy building out niche sites on various topics. The makers of EasyAzon, a plugin I use on my Amazon based niche sites, introduced another plugin recently for eBay called EasyBay. I thought I'd try it. I ended up building a whole new niche site for it... In 2009, I had some great success with ebay building out niche stores, but Google all but killed off the whole niche store concept by deranking and penalizing Continue Reading
Earn money with Facebook pages
One the things I learned with my Blue Ridge Mountain Life site is that Facebook can be a huge traffic driver, if you play your cards right. As a result of the success of the Facebook page for that site, I started building out Facebook pages for some of my niche sites, primarily to drive traffic to them. A formula that I've found that works really well is to find a profitable niche, that is photogenic, meaning the niche itself has lots of beautiful photos and build a niche site and Continue Reading
How I made over $100 with my first teespring campaign
I've been reading and hearing stories about online entrepreneurs having success with teespring for a while now. Learning more about it and running my own teespring campaign had been on my to do list to try. After hearing about some teespring success that my friend Servando has had, I just had to give it a try. I ended up earning $100.52 with my very first campaign. With that kind of income, teespring is definitely a viable source of online income and a great way to further diversify your Continue Reading
Make money from your blog using affiliate programs
There are numerous ways to make money with a blog. I've already discussed a big one, monetizing your blog with Adsense. Another option that will further diversify your income sources is: affiliate programs. Affiliate programs for me have generally performed second to Adsense, but I know a number of bloggers where affiliate programs are their number one earner and I would suspect that may be the case for me here on Side Income Blogging as well. Regardless, affiliate programs are a great Continue Reading
The Biggest Risk To Your Online Success
How many bloggers or website owners do you know (or, perhaps yourself) that start a new blog or website, successfully drive traffic through SEO or Social Media, get approved for Adsense, then slap on some Adsense code and call it a day? Adsense is fast, it's easy, and it's virtually automatic. Paste the Adsense code into your blog or website, set it, and forget it! Sure, you might generate $5, $10, or even $100 or more per day using Google Adsense but I am here to tell you that limiting Continue Reading
How to find a niche for your niche store
The most important and often the most difficult step in building a niche store is deciding on your store's niche. A niche is a specific area of a more popular or general area. For our niche store, our goal is to find a niche set of products that people want to buy. Again, this can be a bit difficult, but I'll guide you through the steps I've used to find various niche's for my stores. Criteria for finding a good niche Finding a good niche for your nice store is much like finding a good Continue Reading
Build a niche store – Introduction
Update 2/4/2013: Building a niche store to earn side income is no longer a strategy that I recommend. As part of the Google Panda updates, Google pretty much killed the niche store as I used it. While I was incredibly successful using this strategy until end of year 2011, my earnings across all of my niche stores have dropped significantly and continue to fall. You can read all about the details in my article, Don't build a niche store. Again, this is no longer a strategy I would recommend. Continue Reading