Making Money with Unused Domain Names

Guest Post by Kevin Frost

If you’re like many internet entrepreneurs, you probably have a few extra domain names lying around that you’re not actually using– domains from defunct websites, website ideas that never came to be, or tracking domains used in advertising campaigns. Like forgotten treasures uncovered in the attic, your unused domain names can be a great way to earn a little extra money online.

Selling your unused domain names can be one of the easiest and cheapest ways to make money online: there’s no expenditure required beyond a few bucks for registration fees, and the only work required is a bit of research and setting up a few accounts. Let me walk you through the process.

As they say, every mother finds her child beautiful, but in order to sell for a good price your domain names need to appeal to others as well. Here are some tricks to find out if your domain name is trash or treasure:

1. Estibot.com will give you a free automated appraisal based upon several common metrics. For example, Estibot’s report values the domain for my site MakingMoneyOnline.com at $30,000 – not too shabby!

2. Use Google’s Keyword Suggestion Tool to determine if people are searching for the keywords in your domain, and how much advertisers are willing to pay for a single visitor in that space. Anything over 1,000 exact match searches and at least $0.50 per visitor is starting to be interesting, though more is better. “Making money online” gets nearly 50,000 exact match searches a month, with each vistor worth $2.66 on average.

3. Check to see if similar domains are already taken. NameStation will let you check almost 40 popular domain extensions in a single query. If you own the .com and most other extensions are taken, your name is likely valuable. NameStation finds “Making Money Online” regisered in 22 extensions and available in 16 (mostly non-English speaking country extensions).

Even if the results from the above research isn’t looking good, you may still want to try putting the domain up for sale until your existing registration period runs out. You never know, someone may find a swan in your ugly duckling.

Avoid paying a listing fee to sell your domains – the most popular marketplaces will only charge you a commision if they are successful selling your domain name. I recommend creating an account and listing your domain for sale at three of the largest domain marketplaces:
1. Sedo.com – the largest domain name marketplace with over 10 million listings, Sedo sells thousands of domains each month, and charges a 10% commission if they sell your domain.
2. GoDaddy Auctions – GoDaddy is the most popular domain registrar in the world, so it makes sense to go where the buyers are. A standard listing costs $4.99/ yr. for membership plus a 5-7% commission fee.

3. The AfternicDLS will let you sell your domains at popular domain auction site Afternic.com, as well as several partner websites across the web. Membership costs $19.95 per year, plus a commission fee of 10-20%.

Everyone’s heard of blockbuster paydays like the $3 million sale of Vodka.com, or Fund.com for $10 million. Most domain names aren’t worth a fraction of that amount. The average domain sold on marketplaces like Sedo or Afternic goes for about $1,500 – $2,000. Unless you own a highly-searched one or two-word dot-com domain, you can probably expect to earn anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand for each of your domains. But hey– it’s easy money, and a heck of a lot better than the zero dollars you get if you let your valuable domains expire..

Author Bio:
Kevin Frost is an experienced domain name investor and broker who writes regular articles on domain name investing at the site Making Money Online.

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Mistakes An Internet Marketer Needs To Avoid

Guest Post by Ashley Wright

It is all good speaking about the highs of Internet marketing, but then there is always the downside to every marketers progression. The main thing that hindered my progression online was believe it or not…
Actually taking action!

There is no point learning everything under the sun, going to every seminar known to man and when it comes down to it not actually doing anything with what you know!
There is this thing called knowledge overload! If you don’t actually do anything with what you know the time will come when you want to do something with what you have learned and you start to get muddled up as you have to much information in your mind! Then you have to then go through the course again, which as you can imagine is very time consuming.

There are three types of Internet Marketer:

1. Those that buy everything and don’t even finish going through what is taught.
2. Those who buy products and courses go through them and then go and buy more and more.
3. Those that buy a course or product go through it and implement what is taught and actually see results from this.

Believe me now you want to be the last type! Your maybe asking yourself though I don’t buy products or courses. Well if that’s not the case then am sure your reading articles, blogs listening to free material etc and still not doing anything with the information you know!
Trust me when I say you can have as much knowledge as knowledge can be, but if you do nothing with it then the knowledge is powerless. The sooner you take this message on board the better!

So once you get past the stage and are actually ready to take action guess what there then comes another huge brick wall in front of you and you know what that is? DISTRACTIONS!

Distractions can hinder anyone’s progress in anyway not just as an Internet Marketer. You have to see it like this, once you sit down by your computer or laptop how many distractions are around you? Here’s a list of some of them:

* The Internet
* Instant Messenger
* TV
* Phone
* Others in your household

They are what can easily hinder your progression online, I am not saying to get rid of them for good but there are ways in how you can put away these distractions.

The Internet & Instant messenger
The best thing to do unless you need to use the Internet is to just basically turn it off! If your working on a new product, writing email sequences, blog posts etc then what you need to do is gather all your information from the Internet first of and then just switch it off. Trust me this is what made me become more productive and I just seem to get so much more done with this. You do not realize but even if you are doing some research on the net you usually seem to drift and become “too involved” with what is going on. So for example you could be doing some research on a forum, your reading a post then you see a signature box that stands out to you; you then go and click the sig box which leads you to opt in for a free report. You then read the report and guess what you have neglected what you was actually doing in the first place! So what you do is set 5-10 minutes aside for research switch your Internet and instant messenger off and then sit down and concentrate with the task at hand.

TV & Phone
Nothing different here also all you need to do is… TURN it off! It is as simple as that. If someone rings you for a long chat tell them you are busy and will return their call later on. What you have to think again here is if you are in the middle of writing and then you get chatting on the phone, you are going lose that momentum and flow that you had going. The TV is worse as every time you look at the TV screen you are loosing momentum, so the truth is with the TV you are actually not getting any momentum and you will find it harder to work when you have something such as Family Guy on in the back J

People around you
Now this is not as easy as the other two, which is to “turn it off” as it does not work on humans! First things first you want to make sure you are in an area where you cannot be disturbed. Then just let everyone around you know that you will be busy for an hour or so, so that no one bothers you.

I hope you have took a lot from this post and you start to put it into action as you will start see taking action and getting started is the way forward.

You don’t have to get it right you just have to get it going! (Mike Litman)

Author Bio:
If you are looking to further yourself as an Internet Marketer then you need to grab your free copy of Conquer Internet Marketing Monthly which is a Online Internet Marketing magazine which will help take you and your business to the next level. Get your FREE Issue here http://ConquerInternetMarketing.com.

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Free Training - Make Money Online

Last week I posted about a live training event that you can attend to learn about how to make money online, many have joined the event. if you have missed it, here's a replay:

http://www.trainmetoblog.com/tmtb-reg.html

You'll get to listen to several dozen Questions that Affiliate Marketing & Internet Marketing Expert Michael S. Brown took the time to answer.

Make sure to watch the event from start to finish at it will really open your eyes to exactly how to make money Online.

Michael also agreed that even if you watch the replay you may still submit him questions and he'll answer you!

There is not a better way to learn to make money online than from someone who earns their entire living on the Internet!

http://www.trainmetoblog.com/tmtb-reg.html

Set aside at least 1 hour to watch this :)

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How To Make Money Using Ebay

Guest Post by Shane O'Driscoll

Whether your looking to make $100 a week or $1000 a week, the internet is a great source to make money. The main problem is where to start and what will yield profits the quickest. Many people opt to start taking surveys and start making cents for filling out a survey that might take them 20 minutes to complete. In my opinion this is pointless. If your serious about making money online then look to something that is proven to make you money.

That is where we arrive at ebay. In large, ebay is without a doubt the easiest way to start making money online. Within the space of ten to twenty minutes you could have your first auction up and your first sale in the bag by the end of that day. Although there are many advanced techniques to selling on ebay, even sticking with the basics will yield you a considerable profit.

So the question is How To Make Money Using Ebay?

* Selling your own possessions or something that you know might yield a profit and you were just going to throw out.

* See if your family or friends have anything they wish to sell and sell it on for them with an agreement that you receive 15% of any profits. After ten to twenty products you wll start seeing some good commissions. Also word of mouth will help get your name out there and you can start to become an ebay broker.

* Source a supplier for a product you are looking to sell. For example, you might wish to start selling ipods or clothing and find a supplier for these will allow you weigh up the profitability.

* Using a drop shipping company to help distribute your products. These are probably the easiest way to make a good income yet you need to know what your doing (This is where the more advanced techniques arise).

* Buying products on wholesale and then selling each off at a profit. For example, you could buy 10 iphones and make $50 profit per phone. This would quickly add up as you sell more.

* Checking the want it now section on ebay, you can locate items people are looking for. Then you check out craigslist to see if you can find that item, if you can you bargain with the seller and then resell on ebay for a massive profit.

* Secret trick: Using craigslist to list an item for sale then when someone emails you regarding the product, have an auto reply set up with your ebay listing. This works particularly well for products like blackberrys or iphones. Your using craigslist to sell more of your products on ebay.

So now I hope this opens up your eyes to some of the methods you can use on how to make money using ebay.

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Passive Income From Selling Things Online

Guest post by Scott Carlson

Making money selling things online takes careful planning, a focused approach, and a certain knowledge that can only be gained through experience. While snake oil salesmen try to represent that making money online is both easy and instant, the truth is the process of building a money making website can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months or more. By taking a short term perspective, you are setting yourself up for disappointment and failure.

When you decide that you want to start an online business, you need to have the mentality of sticking with it until you see the results you desire. Anyone who tells you that you can start making money immediately is doing you a great disservice. Realize that snake-oil salesman have an incentive to tell people it is easy to make money online because it will help them sell more of their package. Who wants to hear that selling stuff online requires time and lots of hard work? They could care less if the people that buy their product succeed or fail, all they care about is making the sale.

When you are studying the available systems, software, packages and products for making money online, you can pretty much tell who is full of it by looking at the guarantees they provide: There is never a guarantee you will make money with any business unless you have the knowledge required to get going, and the perseverance to see your ideas through to fruition. If you are looking for something that’s instant, chances are you don’t really have what it takes. If you are planning on starting your own website, realize that you are in this for the long run.

It makes sense, really. The most appealing characteristic of the automated online business model is that once you get the momentum moving in the right direction, your website will tend to pick up steam. Who cares about how much money you make in the first month, when the real measure should be how much you made in your first year, and then how much you improve month over month from the previous year. If you take the time to invest 200-300 hours and build something that is potentially going to generate income for the rest of your life, what happens in the short term just doesn’t matter.

Author Bio:
Scott Carlson’s eBook Education package comes with everything you need to know to start selling online. Learn how to produce or locate a quality product, build a website to sell it, and get traffic to that website. These steps are the key to generating automated passive income.

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Maverick Money Makers - Your Affiliate Marketing Success Coach

Affiliate marketing is working. Many people are now making money online with affiliate marketing. If you want to make money online, affiliate marketing is recommended for you to reach your goal.

Affiliate marketing is where you become an affiliate of an online company to promote the company's products or services on the Internet and earn commission every time you refer a sale for the company. It is an online business that everyone affords to start because there are no product you need to create, no inventory to take care and no customer service support to provide. The online company or merchant will handle all the works. You just have to focus on promoting their products or services to generate affiliate commission.

Affiliate marketing offers a number of advantages but it's not an easy business. You must learn the ropes and the techniques of affiliate marketing to start and run the business. Don't worry; it's not going to be difficult. If you have the passion of making money with affiliate marketing, you'll learn everything you need to know. Those successful affiliates who make a living now are just like you before they started on affiliate marketing. They knew nothing at the beginning. They took a good training course and have an expert to guide them. Then they applied what they learned and put the work in; and eventually they achieved good result from affiliate marketing.

So where to find a good training course and a reputed expert to help you start making money with affiliate marketing effectively?

The Maverick Money Makers Club is the answer. Maverick Money Makers is a membership club that provides wealthy of information and knowledge of affiliate marketing. The founder of the club, Mack Michaels and his team will guide you and provide the support you need to ensure your success. Mack and his team are certainly the people you can rely on. Mack himself is a successful affiliate. He has made millions of dollar from affiliate marketing. He's done a lot of seminars, teleseminar and podcasts teaching people about affiliate marketing and work at home. So, under the coaching of Mack and his team you can be certain that you are moving in the right direction in building a steady affiliate marketing business.

The training materials of Maverick Money Makers Club will teach you A to Z of how to make money with affiliate marketing. You will know how to begin and get the proven affiliate techniques and ideas that you can quickly implement to earn money online. You might think that you are going to need to read hundreds of pages of content to learn all of these stuff. That sounds boring.

No! You’re not going to spend a lot of time reading. The affiliate training in Maverick Money Makers is a series of educational videos where you can watch anytime to learn and understand affiliate marketing easier and faster.

Also you can access to the member community forum to meet other members, share ideas and experiences of making money with affiliate marketing.

So if you want to be another affiliate that make a steady income, join the Maverick Money Makers Club now. Maverick Money Maker will provide you video tutorials teaching everything you need to know and give full support so whenever you have question and problem; or need assistance, you can consult them right away.

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Want to Make a Residual Income Online by just Posting Answers to Peoples Questions Online?

Introducing Linktheanswer.com! Link the answer is an amazing network that incorporates the newest technology of making money online, and it is so easy to get started! Once you sign up for free you will receive your own control panel and intermission page which you will be able to add your ad sense ID to.

The next step is to start answering questions that people post. Either in forums or blogs it does not matter. Linktheanswer.com allows you to wrap your answer link with your intermission page so before the person whose question you answered gets to go to the answer you suggested for their question, they will first visit your intermission page when they click your link. For example if someone posted a question on whats the best article directory online? And you answered by saying marketmypressrelease.com that person would click on your link which is marketmypressrelease.com but they first will be taken to your intermission page before arriving at marketmypressrelease.com site. On your intermission page you can add your ad sense ID as well as sell banner space to other companies to get more exposure or even add your own banners and links to generate more exposure for your business or affiliate products.

Now depending on how many questions you answer you can start generating a huge amount of traffic for yourself as well as income. And this is how linktheanswer.com starts to create a reoccurring income naturally month after month for you!

Linktheanswer.com utilizes their amazing network to allow people like me and you to create as big of a residual income as we want! The best part of this is that its FREE to get started, there is no cost to get started, all you have to do is create an account and start answering peoples questions online. To sign up and create an account go to Link the answer.

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