What To Do With the World Wide Web
With the Internet in most people’s lives do you wonder just what uses we all find for it? The answer is just about as varied as the people you talk to.
Business, research, entertainment, communication; the ways in which you can spend your time are endless. The computer has finally beaten television as the # 1 way to spend leisure hours for millions of Americans. A recent government survey found that 3 out of 4 homes had a computer; that 80% of these had Internet access, and of these, 38% had high-speed connections.
Increasing numbers of people look to the Internet as a way to make some money. Domains are very inexpensive to buy and we all hear the messages about “The Power of the Web”. Is it really possible to make money using the Internet?
For more and more people the answer has been a resounding, yes. If you can avoid the scams and dead-end schemes, there are many ways to make a few extra dollars or even a living. A healthy dose of skepticism is always a good thing to use when looking at the “work at home” offers.
An example from my own business; every week I get several e-mails from people who claim their product (a “how to book”) will change the way I do business on the Internet. For the low, low price of only $19.95 they will share “insider’s secrets” that let them make thousands of dollars each month from the comfort of their own home.
Yeah. Right. You bet. Want to make a bet these books don’t include the instructions for me to write a how-to book and then SPAM the world until someone buys it? Sometimes they offer to let me have “resell rights” to their own books.
Another very popular approach is to have you accept a free Internet business for no charge. You can just send people to your website and when they buy your products, you get a check.
Okay, what’s the catch? You’ll find out you can also “buy” a place in a chain of people and get others to do the same thing. When they sell stuff at their site you get a percentage as their sponsor. This is usually set up as a monthly membership fee and you don’t get your percentage unless you pay for your membership.
Let’s repeat our warning: take a healthy, heaping dose of skepticism and good sense to the Internet just as you would anywhere else. There are legitimate ways to make money and they closely resemble things you see around you.
I will share the # 1 money making idea for an Internet business with you for no charge whatsoever.
Here it is.
You must create or find a product or service that someone else thinks is valuable and is willing to buy from you. That’s it; everything else is research and development.
This week’s definition – “Hits”, a person looking at one page of a website is 1 hit. If 2 separate pages are viewed that’s 2 hits, 3 pages = 3 hits and so on.
Good Luck!
(Next week – E-commerce and what to look out for.)
Mike Myklin is an author, a lecturer, and an e-commerce owner. If you have questions about the Internet and e-commerce you can send them to him and he will try to answer them in his column. You can also read this article on-line at http://www.myklin.com/.
Business, research, entertainment, communication; the ways in which you can spend your time are endless. The computer has finally beaten television as the # 1 way to spend leisure hours for millions of Americans. A recent government survey found that 3 out of 4 homes had a computer; that 80% of these had Internet access, and of these, 38% had high-speed connections.
Increasing numbers of people look to the Internet as a way to make some money. Domains are very inexpensive to buy and we all hear the messages about “The Power of the Web”. Is it really possible to make money using the Internet?
For more and more people the answer has been a resounding, yes. If you can avoid the scams and dead-end schemes, there are many ways to make a few extra dollars or even a living. A healthy dose of skepticism is always a good thing to use when looking at the “work at home” offers.
An example from my own business; every week I get several e-mails from people who claim their product (a “how to book”) will change the way I do business on the Internet. For the low, low price of only $19.95 they will share “insider’s secrets” that let them make thousands of dollars each month from the comfort of their own home.
Yeah. Right. You bet. Want to make a bet these books don’t include the instructions for me to write a how-to book and then SPAM the world until someone buys it? Sometimes they offer to let me have “resell rights” to their own books.
Another very popular approach is to have you accept a free Internet business for no charge. You can just send people to your website and when they buy your products, you get a check.
Okay, what’s the catch? You’ll find out you can also “buy” a place in a chain of people and get others to do the same thing. When they sell stuff at their site you get a percentage as their sponsor. This is usually set up as a monthly membership fee and you don’t get your percentage unless you pay for your membership.
Let’s repeat our warning: take a healthy, heaping dose of skepticism and good sense to the Internet just as you would anywhere else. There are legitimate ways to make money and they closely resemble things you see around you.
I will share the # 1 money making idea for an Internet business with you for no charge whatsoever.
Here it is.
You must create or find a product or service that someone else thinks is valuable and is willing to buy from you. That’s it; everything else is research and development.
This week’s definition – “Hits”, a person looking at one page of a website is 1 hit. If 2 separate pages are viewed that’s 2 hits, 3 pages = 3 hits and so on.
Good Luck!
(Next week – E-commerce and what to look out for.)
Mike Myklin is an author, a lecturer, and an e-commerce owner. If you have questions about the Internet and e-commerce you can send them to him and he will try to answer them in his column. You can also read this article on-line at http://www.myklin.com/.
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