Internet Entrepreneurs Blog

Blah - back to work after a long holiday weekend. What if you didn’t have to go back to work and you were your own boss? You could be making your living online and I’m not talking about selling Beanie Babies on eBay or joining Quixtar. Here’s how I’m doing it.

First off, the way I make my living online doesn’t involve any scams or get rich quick schemes - just good old fashioned hard work. When I tell people I make my living doing “web stuff” most people assume I design web pages and to some degree I do - but I’m my own client. My web business is creating online communities and sharing information about everything from mountain bike trails to campgrounds to vacation rentals online and getting paid for the advertisements I run on the websites I own. What would have been too good to be true in 1999 (making money off online ads) is indeed possible in 2008.

Beyond selling advertisements, some of my sites sell other things like online subscriptions and merchandise. On this blog I’ve talked about some ways to monetize a website and in the coming days and weeks I’ll talk about more of the programs I’m involved in including Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, and Commission Junction. There are countless ways to monetize a website but none of it means anything unless you have traffic.

And your website won’t get any traffic if you don’t have any content. And you won’t get any content unless you have Review App Well, okay, Review App isn’t the only way to collect and manage online content but it really does help. We’ve rolled out 3 Review App sites ourselves and we’re in the process of transferring one of our older, larger sites to the Review App platform. Review App honestly makes managing multiple websites easier and gives us the tools we need to grow our content and our traffic (and ultimately our revenue).

The main purpose of this blog is to share how we grow, manage, and monetize our content communities and secondarily to introduce you to the Review App platform. Keep reading the Internet Entrepreneur Blog to learn how to make your living online!

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