|
|
Website designed using CoffeeCup Visual Designer |
Copyright 2009 Infomum-Enterprises.com |
Other sources of income from your site |
Work at Home Answers |
Home - Info - Adsense - Affiliate - eBay - Other - Marketing- Marketing2 - Product - Contact Us - Privacy Statement - SEO - Content - Content2 - Content3 - Website - Website2 - Advertising - Download |
We have spoken about advertising with eBay and Google adsense, and we have spoken about affiliate marketing. Here I want to talk about other ways to earn money from your website. You can use your content rich website to promote a real life business you own. The income you earn from this wont come directly from your website if your other business is a service business, or a shop etc, but it will bring customers to your door (or phone). |
If you are a creative person, and make your own products that can be sold by mail order, you can sell them directly from your site, especially if they are relevant to the content of your site. If they are electronic products that can be downloaded, then your business can run itself while you are asleep, or playing or at work. The most common electronic products offered for sale are software, graphics and ebooks, but try and think out of the square a little. |
Do you like to sew? Or do scrap booking? Then write a content site about your hobby and offer electronic downloads of scrap booking lessons, layouts or designs etc. My sister does quilting and machine embroidery. She designs and sells digitised patterns for embroidery machines. The business runs itself as the patters are an electronic download, and she earns a tidy income every month from her products. She doesn't actually own or operate a content site; she has a shopfront on someone else. Much of her marketing is done via magazine articles (online and print), but by far the greatest sales come from word of mouth and repeat customers. |
This brings me to another income idea. If you know a lot about a craft or hobby, and write a great content site about your hobby, other hobbyists will visit your site. If you host a shopfront facility where other hobbyists can list and sell their products, you can earn a commission from their sales, or charge them a monthly fee for hosting their shopfront. This requires some detailed technical knowledge, but there are software products available that can help you set up shopfront stores if you want to explore this avenue. If like me you are great at writing content, then you could make a career out of writing content and selling it. Either sell the content as a collection of word documents (logically arranged into pages which represent website pages), or sell them as fully functional websites like I do. Or you could make an income from writing articles - but to do this your articles need to promote an affiliate product or one of your own (such as an ebook) since there are few avenues for selling the articles themselves nowadays |
If you have a site with great topical content that you keep up to date on a weekly or daily basis, you could run a membership site where visitors pay you a monthly or annual fee for free access to all the material you publish on your site. To do this you would have a great content site with information freely available to everyone, and some pages that were restricted access for members only. You would put your useful, quality content on your main free access site, and put additional quality information (or plans, patterns, ideas, special offers etc) on your members only pages. The content of your main site will determine what products you offer on your members only pages. |
Hobbies, crafts and personal interests are great vehicles for membership sites. To use my favourite fishing example ( I actually know nothing about fishing), you could write a great content site about fishing, and offer membership only access to special updates about where fish are running well, on a daily or weekly basis. You might also offer exclusive interviews with local or internationally known fishing experts. The same goes for any sport or pastime really. All it takes is for you to think outside the box a bit and be willing to try something new. |