HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016

May the telemarketers wait to make their sales calls until you finish dinner, may the commercials on TV not be louder than the program you have been watching, and may your check book and your budget balance that includes generous amounts for charity.

Merry Christmas! 2015

There are only two things certain in life, death and taxes.
But hey, let's forget all that since it's Christmas
Let's celebrate the splendor of Christ's humble birth,
With our family and friends.
Merry Christmas!

Make Money Online: Shorten URL or Screen Capture

Who would have thought that you can earn money this simple, just shorten a URL and share it to your friends or do a Screen Capture you can earn a couple of cents online.

Shorten URL + Capture Screen = Make Money

cc.cc is similar to Bitly and goo.gl they offer FREE URL shortening service. The great thing about cc.cc is that they pay you for it. Share your links on Facebook, Twitter, and more!

- Capture screenshot and Get tiny URLs.
- CPM for 16th December 2015 : $9.00
- Make $9.00 for 1000 visitors on your links.
- Refer users and get 40% commission

JOIN NOW

How To Monetize your weight loss blog

Here are ways on how you can monetize your weight loss blog, or any other blog that you have.

1. Place Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising on your blog like Google Adsense, Bidvertiser, Infolinks etc. this is one of the most easiest and popular ways to earn money on your blog. However, you will need more traffic to earn a decent amount, since more traffic means more chances of them clicking on your ads.

2. Join clickbank, it works best for promoting eBooks and other online products through their affiliate program.

3. Sell Advertising space on BuySellAds or other network like Advertising.com, however they require a certain amount of monthly impressions as a requirement.

4. Join Affiliate programs of companies that feature weight loss ebooks, diet pills, gym membership etc.

5. Join Amazon Associates, Amazon is a huge online retail site. You can capitalize with their success by selling their products and earning commission for each sale you make.


TIPS to be have a successful blog:

1. Your articles should be at least 400 words long. Longer articles gain more traffic and backlinks.
2. Engage with your readers on the comment section so that they will come back for more.
3. The more often you post the more traffic you will get.
4. Blogs with daily new content get more traffic and more leads.
5. Make sure that you share your blog posts on your Social networks.

Find Your Dream Job at Beyond.com

Beyond.com is a job search website that helps employers to search the right person for the job. It also helps people who are searching for their dream job or advance their careers.

The website was founded in 1998, they help their members to have a central location to search for millions of jobs and engage with original and curated career content from over 1,400 sources. Beyond’s network of 500+ talent communities use integrated social features to help members discover relevant career news, advice and resources.

For people who are looking for a job, Beyond.com is a FREE. You can just simply create an account, post your resume on their site and apply to job postings at no cost. As a member, the only time you will pay a fee is if you purchase a product.

Beyond.com Affiliate Program

You can also earn online through Beyond.com Affiliate Program. You can earn commission by promoting their site and driving targeted traffic to The Career Network.

Earn through a pay-per-lead basis. They have criteria for publishers, first you need to be a U.S. resident and that you can consistently provide more than 5,000 leads per month.

They offer detailed reporting and Sub ID tracking for testing and optimization.

Find freelance Job at Authenticjobs.com

Authenticjobs.com is an online job listing site where employers post their job openings. It is a targeted destination for web and creative professionals and the companies who are looking to hire people with their skills.

Jobs that you can find on Authenticjobs.com are Full-time, Contract, Freelance, Internships, and moonlighting. Full-time work are salaried position, usually on-site and long-term, about 40 hours per week. Contract is a temporary or temporary to permanent position, and the contractor usually works on-site some or all of the time. Freelance is outsourced work, usually a short-term commitment, and work can often be done from anywhere. Internships are on-the-job training that may or may not be paid work. Moonlighting are positions that requires only a few hours a week since people looking for it have a second job in addition to one's regular employment.

It's really easy to use their website when you are looking for work, all you need to do is click the check box that corresponds to the kind of job you are looking for whether it be Full-time, Contract, or Part time. You can also click on the map to search for work that are located near your place or click the "remove job" button if you are looking to work at home.

Earn Money on Advertising.com

Advertising.com is completely legit, it is not a scam and it is owned by AOL. They really good and 1 of the best in the business of online ads. They represents 74 comScore's top 100 sites.

Publishers can join their ad network by signing up on their site however, your site needs to have at least 500,000 available monthly ad impressions for it to be approve.

They offer the biggest and best brand names in the industry. But before you can have access to AOL Advertising’s ad network they require high traffic minimum (500,000 monthly impressions). Also their approval process is strict and slow, meaning it can take weeks.

Their ads are compatible with Google AdSense.

Payment Methods Available: Check, Direct Deposit, PayPal.
Payout: 45th day after the end of the month
Minimum Payout Threshold: $25.

Happy Halloween

Witches, elves, zombies, ghosts and monsters may lurk in the dark, jesters and vampires may even embark, but if you are ghoulish and ghostly wherever you’re seen, you’re sure to have such a wonderful Halloween!

Work at home: Project4Hire

Just like PeoplePerHour it is an online marketplace for freelancers where freelance professionals and contractors all over the world can meet up online. Clients or employers can post projects and jobs with requirements or skill set they are looking for. Freelancers or contractors submit bids for the amount that they would charge to do the job or service.

Then clients or employers will choose the freelancers or contractors that they want at anytime and begin the project with them.

Project4hire offers wide range of freelance work for data entry, SEO, web admin, programmers, IT specialists, web developers, graphic artists, writers, translators, virtual assistants, HR consultants, bookkeepers, paralegals, engineers, and others.

Registration and bidding is free on Project4Hire, however if get the project you will have to pay Project Acceptance Fee (commission fee) which is 5% of your winning bid before you can start working on the project. The client or employer can choose to pay the commission fee for you, in which case, you may begin to work immediately on the project.

JOIN HERE

Make Money on Infolinks

Infolinks is another way to monetize your site or blog aside from Google AdSense. Infolinks boast as being the 4th biggest marketplace of websites in the world. They have more than 125,000 publishers and website owners that helps them monetize their site and blogs.

The good think about Infolinks is that it is easy to easy to set up and once you are done setting it up. The ads will automatically shown on your site or blog and will start making money immediately. However, take note like other text advertising network programs it takes experience and time to earn decent income from Infolinks. You have to have good and interesting content so that you will attract more traffic to your site or blog.

Infolinks works in a way so that views and clicks count towards your earnings. When visitors engage with your Infolinks ads, you earn money. Another good think about Infolinks is that they do not work with fixed CPM rates and each advertiser sets his own price per view.

Infolinks minimum payout is $50 for payment methods PayPal, eCheck, ACH and Payoneer while for  Bank Wire Transfer option the  minimum threshold requirement of $100 ($1000 for selected countries).    

Once your monthly earnings exceed the minimum payment threshold for your chosen payment method your payment will be processed and sent to you within 45 days of the end of the month.

If you are wondering if you can use Infolinks while using Google AdSense, the answer is yes. You can run it with your current AdSense ads without any problems.

Make Money Online on BuySellAds

BuySellAds is an online advertising network that helps both publishers and advertisers find the best advertising opportunities. They give publishers high quality ad units, while the advertisers get high quality publishers in return. The company is based in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2008 by CEO Todd Garland.

If you want to earn money on BuySellAds.com and become a publisher you will need to submit your website to them and they will review your site for quality control. The more traffic your site have the more chance your site will be approved.

Once you site is approved, it will then be posted on the marketplace where advertisers can review and check it out. Publishers put a price on their ad space.

To sign up just fill up the form and it's free.

Requirements:

1. You website should have at least 50,000 page impressions per month.
2. Good quality contents.
3. Original content that is updated consistently.
4. It should be in English.

Earn Money on Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser just like Google Adsense is a pay per click company. With Bidvertiser, you can earn money from your online content. Bidvertiser is one of the oldest PPC (Pay Per Click) company just like Google Adsense. They auction your ad space to advertisers  and sell it to the highest bidder using PPC.

Bidvertiser don't require their publisher to have a minimum impressions per month unlike other PPC company. So it is easier to join. Its Alexa global rank is 1,121 and the site was created on May 13, 2003 so it has been around for some time now I don't think this is a scam.

To ensure quality website and blog they have a manual process to check your website and blog if they comply with their requirements. 

You will earn through BidVertiser every visitor that visit your site or blog and clicks on an advertisement placed on your site or blog and an extra revenue if the click turns into a conversion.  Conversion can be filling up of a form, signing up to a website, or buying a product.

Payment options are Paypal, Western Union, Check, or Wire Transfer the minimum withdrawal is $10 for Paypal while Western Union is $100 as well as Check. Wire Transfer is also $10.

Earn Money on Clicksor

Clicksor is like Adsense, it is an online contextual advertising network based in North York, Ontario Canada. The network is launched by its mother company Yesup Media Inc., which was founded in 1999.

Clicksor ranked in the Alexa top 100 in October 2008 and May 2009.

They have a traffic minimum which is 50,000 monthly impressions. To get started just sign up as an advertiser and go through the simple, step by step process to create your first advertisement.

Using a Regular Setup, you can choose from layer banners, inpage banners, inline text ads, pop-unders, or interstitial ads. Then you will click “Get Code” to get the code for your website or blog.

Minimum payout is $50, you can choose these payment methods: Check, PayPal, Wire transfer there's a $75 fee for this.

Clicksor gives you great context sensitive ad serving just like Adsense. You also have the choice to place keywords yourself. The payouts upto a market leading 85% and unlike a number of alternatives. Usually the cost per click bid values are high enough that you can earn decent money from this. Adding multiple sites or domains under a single account is allowed.

Microsoft PubCenter Earn Money From your Apps

People who uses smartphones love using Apps. So if you have develop an app for Microsoft and want to monetize it you can use Microsoft PubCenter for free. PubCenter is like a Google adsense, however PubCenter is for Apps. It is really easy to place ad units in your apps that will give you additional revenue.

Here are the benefits of pubCenter:

    1. Targeted ads - they will give you ads that are relevant to your app and targeted to your customers.
    2. More ads - Microsoft PubCenter is one of the largest advertising networks in the world.
    3. Ad unit sizes - You can choose just the right size ad unit to appear in your apps.
    4. FREE to join: You don’t have to shell out money to join pubCenter and start monetizing your apps.

Here's how it works:

1.     Sign up for free for a Microsoft PubCenter account. Access the pubCenter sign-in page, sign in with a Microsoft account, and then sign up for a pubCenter account.
2.     Create ad units for your app: Tell pubCenter the name of an app you've published in the Windows Store or Windows Phone Store, and in just a few clicks you'll have ad units set up for it. Note: you will need to insert some pubCenter IDs into your app's code to make the ad units appear.
3.     Track monetization performance: Try ad units in different apps and in different sizes and follow the results. See what time of day they perform best. Almost any combination of performance variables can be checked so you can fine-tune your advertising strategy.
4.     Monitor your revenue: Check your pubCenter account to see how much your app is earning. Using a CPM (cost per thousand views) revenue model, we pay you for the gross number of impressions your apps display. Speaking of money, Microsoft pubCenter gives you a very competitive revenue split.

Make Money on Flippa, Buy and Sell websites, domain names and iOS apps

Flippa is an online marketplace for buy and sell of websites, domain names and mobile apps. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia and San Francisco.

If you want to earn passive income and build a business online this is the place to go to.

Mark Harbottle and Matt Mickiewicz founded the company they have traded more than $140 million in websites, domains, and mobile apps.

Their most expensive sale up is planetrx.com which was sold for $1,200,000 USD. Facemash which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg'was sold on Flippa.

They charge a listing fee and when your auction sells. They also charge a success fee, which is a percentage of the sale price.

All listings that are successfully sold will result in a 10% success fee.

	Established Sites	Starter Sites	Domains	Apps
Auction	$19 Listing fee with free standard relists	$9 Listing fee	$9 Listing fee with free standard relists	$0 Listing fee
Classified Listing	Free Listing fee	Free Listing fee	Free Listing fee	--

Fotolia: Earn money from your Photos

Here's another online marketplace for photos and illustrations, Fotolia. It is an online microstock photography agency that sell and buy royalty-free photos, images, vectors, illustrations, etc. Fotolia is headquartered in New York, New York, founded by Thibaud Elziere, Oleg Tscheltzoff and Patrick Chassany in November 2005. The company also has offices in Seattle, Washington and Paris, France.

Fotolia has been a leader as a stock marketplace worldwide, and particularly in Europe, for the last 10 years. Now with 40 millions images and ever growing.

You earn commission for every image or video sold and the amount is determined by your ranking and chosen exclusivity options:

•     For content sold through Pay-As-You-Go system pay-out is between 20% and 63% of the sale price
•     For content sold through Subscription pay-out is between 20% and 25% of the sale price with a minimum guarantee.

The minimum payout amount is 50 Credits you can withdraw it as cash using Paypal or Moneybookers. Fotolia does not charge transaction fees.

iStockphoto: Earn money from your Photos

iStock, just like Shutterstock and DepositPhotos is an site that offer royalty free, international microstock photos with the micropayment business model. Images cost between 1 and 150 credits, depending on size and image collection. 

They offer not just photos but also illustrations, videos, and music clips. To sell your stock you will need to be an iStock member, don't worry it is free. Then you will need to Apply to Be a Contributor where you will need to pass a quiz. After that you will need to Submit Samples of Your Work. You will need to Upload 3 samples of your work along with your application.

iStockphoto pay with a base royalty rate of 15% for each file downloaded with iStock Credits or Pay As You Go pricing. If you are an Exclusive contributor you can earn up to 45%. Images downloaded by subscription are paid a flat royalty based on contributor exclusivity and the collection their file belongs to.

DepositPhotos: Earn money from your Photos

   
Another site where you can earn money from your photos is DepositPhotos, like Dreamstime they are a royalty-free microstock photography agency.  DepositPhotos is headquartered in  Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The money you earn from your photos will depend on the license type under which the image has been uploaded and the resolution in which it has been purchased. They also have levels called "Contributor's Level" which is determined by the number of items sold on their website. The higher your sales the higher your Contributor's Level and the higher your commission.

You will need to reach $50 before you can withdraw payments for the sale of your images. It may take up to 3-5 days for your payment through Paypal or Skrill.

More details about Earning on DepositPhotos Here.

Dreamstime: Earn money from your Photos

Dreamstime just like Shutterstock is an online marketplace for photograps and illustrations. They are a microstock photography with their headquarters based in Brentwood, Tennessee they have also branches in Bucharest, Romania. They boast over 16 million images online from nearly 150,000 contributors and more than 5.7 million users.

If you want to contribute photograps and illustrations they are promising 25 to 60% cut from each sale you make.

In January 19, 2015, Google chose Dreamstime as the beta provider of stock images for the Google Display Network. The deal allows Google to use pre-selected Dreamstime royalty-free images for ads in limited sizes.

CHECK THEM OUT HERE

Shutterstock: Earn Money With your Photos

Shutterstock is an online marketplace for photographers, artists, and creators who wants to sell their  royalty-free images, footage, vectors and illustrations. You can even sell HD and 4k video.

If you love taking photos, videos or making vectors and illustrations why not turn them into money! You can get paid up to $120 per image download! Get up to 30% of the sale price received by Shutterstock for each clip sold. For instance, the regular price of HD clip is $79 they will pay you $23.70.

You can also earn by referring both contributors & customers. Start earning now!

Make Money Blogging Using Blogads

Blogads has been in operation since 2002 so you know they are well established and has tons of experience. They also boast famous blogs like  PerezHilton, DailyKos, Wonkette and Cute Overload. They are legit.

They accept niche sites (book review, movie review, food, parenting, vampires etc) that has 30,000 impressions per month while general sites that has broad topics like gossip, tech and humor need at least 500,000 to 1 million monthly impressions before they start attracting advertiser interest.

The amount of money that you will earn from Blogads depends on these factors, topic, site traffic, variety and placement of ad offerings, and ad prices.

The payout is every 15th of the month for ads that started running on your blog by the last day of the previous month and for which they have received payment from the advertiser. You can cash out through Paypal in which you will need at least $75. For Check or Wire Transfer payments you'll need at least $750.

They also pay out all accounts in full on February 15th of each year, regardless of the balance.

Infographic: How To Monetize Your Website

Skimlinks has created an easy to follow, comprehensive infographic on ways on how to monetize your website. It shows different strategies for different kind of websites. It also tells the level of user happiness, ease of use, and profitability on different medium of income generating engines.

EXPO TV: Earn Points By Doing Video Reviews of Popular Products

EXPO is a website where you can upload your video reviews on products that you own. You can give your honest opinions about the products and services that you have use. You will earn points for the videos you have shared and you can redeem them in the EXPO store and lucky members get the chance to try products for free sometimes these products are not yet available in the market. Redeem your points for Amazon gift cards, DVDs, and other stuff.

You can earn more points by doing other stuff other than uploading your video reviews, like doing surveys and applying for Tryology Programs.

If you stop your activity on Expo you'll risk of losing all your points since, after 12 months of inactivity of a member account the points expires.

Win Money Blogging on Be a Freelance Blogger

Beafreelanceblogger.com has been continuously running a contest in which you can win $100 for your guest post. The guest blogging contest is called "Pitchfest", happens ussually in March, June, September and December. They select one winning pitch in each Pitchfest, plus one or more runners-up.

The winning pitch writer gets the $100 prize through Paypal once their guest post has been published. The runners-up wins $50 on publication, group mentoring tickets, or ebooks.

So you get a chance to win $100 and promote your site at the same time through your guest post.

You can check out the guidelines HERE. 

WiseBread: Earn money Writing about Frugal Living or Personal Finance

WiseBread.com is one of the leading personal finance blog. They give their bloggers 100% of the advertising revenue they earn on their blog posts. They let you write what you love to write with topics ranging from personal finance, frugal living, life hacks, and other personal finance related topics. They even provide you with an assistance to give you sales, tech, marketing and pr support.

Here's how you can join:

1. Send them three sample of your best work with at least 500 words.
2. Give 5 specific ideas for your future posts.

For more information check them out HERE

People per Hour: Make money online

PeoplePerHour is an online job marketplace where a company and a freelancer connect and collaborate online. You can work on graphic design, link building, online marketing, data entry, software development, web design etc.

PeoplePerHour is very similar to Odesk.

PeoplePerHour Headquarters is located in London, United Kingdom.

Here are some important tips for you to succeed on PeoplePerHour;

1. You need to document your experience, since most of the buyers will require proof of your work, whether it's link building, SEO, Web design, writing job etc. You can post your samples of your work in the Portfolio section of the site.

2. Never pick a job with low pay, except if you are willing to waste your time for it. However, your rate should be reasonable.

3. Write bid that is complete and concise don't write boring long format bid. Never use a generic bid.

Blogsvertise: Earn Money from your Blog through Advertising

Blogsvertise.com lets you make money from your blog or journal through advertising. They host thousand of advertisers that want to advertise on your blog or journal and drive traffic to their websites products and services. In exchange for the traffic you generate for the advertisers Blogsvertise pays you through Paypal. 

All you need to do is register your blog or journal and add your blog to their system for approval. When your blog or journal got approved, it will be listed on the assignment queue. Their system will then displays ads on your blog.

You no longer have to endorse the website product/service, and you will earn money by displaying banner ads and text links.

PayU2Blog, Earn Money From your Blog

PayU2Blog as the name say literally they will pay you to blog. It is like sponsored posts, they give bloggers interesting assignments and they get paid for those assignments. Registration is free, after you register you will have to submit your blog and you will receive an email confirmation within 2 business days if your blog has been accepted by payu2blog.  However, if you didn't receive any it means that your blog got denied.

Once you get approved you they will send you interesting assignments with a link and anchor text. What you need to do is find a way to integrate the link to your post you don't have to review or write about the product or services. You may receive assignment daily or twice a week it depends on the popularity of your blog among advertisers. Your post must have a minimum of 60 words and you can earn up to $5 per post. You may also receive product review assignments.

PayU2Blog is a good source of extra income that you can generate from your blogs.

Make Money on LinkWorth

LinkWorth is another site where bloggers and writers can make money. They offer text link ads, paid blog reviews, in-text links, in-content pay per click ads, rotating text ads, hosted content pages, article submission, directory submission and others. They pay their Partners 50% of the price they set.  Once you register for free you can tap thousands of advertisers hungry for reviews.

They do have a variety of payment options like Direct Deposit (US Only), Bank Wire Transfer (International Only), Paypal, Moneybookers or bank check (US Only) on a monthly basis.

Their company is based in Dallas, Texas.

Sponsored Reviews: Earn money blogging

Sponsored Reviews is just like SocialSpark and PayPerPost where you can earn money by doing honest reviews about their advertiser’s products and services. You can write reviews using your own technique, tone and style, then adapt the ads towards your readers interest. The site boast thousands of advertisers in different industries looking to have their products and services reviewed by bloggers.

They offer two (2) kinds of Sponsored Posts, 1. articles and 2. content repost. If the advertiser wants an article, the blogger will need to composed a post about a topic that will relate to the advertisers industry which is appealing to their target audience. When the blogger is done with the article it will need to be publish on the blog.

While in content repost, the advertiser will provide the blogger with the content for them to post on their blog exactly as written. Advertisers will have their own set of requirements and rules like word count, links, disclosure etc.

Earnings will depend on the blogs number of readership and the quality of blog posts. Bloggers can earn anywhere from $5 to $1000 per post. If you have a very popular and high quality blog, you may earn a lot more.

Bloggers are not expected to write only positive posts they are  paid to compose in-depth, honest posts. Constructive criticism are expected.

Payments are through PayPal on a bi-weekly basis.

SponsoredReviews blog requirements:

1. Blog must be at least 3 months old and be cached/indexed in the major search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
2. Blog must have a minimum of 10 backlinks.
3. Blog must be submitted to a relevant category.
4. It should have at least 10 archived posts with a minimum of 3000 combined word count.
5. Posts must be archived permanently like the other posts on your blog. You are not allowed to remove them. In addition your blog must have links to archived posts on the homepage.
6. All posts must contain unique contents.
7. Blogger is not allowed to use Spun contents.
8. Blog should not have any duplicate content scraped from other sites.
9. Completed Blog posts must be permanently archived and not purposely removed from your website for at least 1 year or a minimum of 1 year.
10. You are not allowed to use a rel=nofollow tag on the links to the advertisers, unless required by the advertisers.

Good luck and happy earning!