MAKING MONEY ON THE INTERNET

There are probably as many articles about how to make money on the Internet as there are people to read them. First of all, and I am sure you have heard this before, don't fall for the get rich quick scams. You know, the make a thousand dollars or more a day SCAMS. If that could be done then why isn't everyone doing it ? and I suspect that if everyone started doing it then there would not be anyone buying what you are selling and therefore that idea sinks down the drain. But the fact is that the person making any real money is the person that came up with a reasonable idea, something believable, and the money to market it. Think of the millions and billions of people that the internet reaches everyday, and it's the law of numbers. If you reach enough people, you are going to sell something to some of those people. For example and for easy math,let us say that 1000 people a week,(and that is a low number, if you have the money and skills to market your product), people come to your website, on "how to sell the best organic kitty litter ever made." Well first of all, you've reached a large portion of those 1000 people because a number probably own cats. And of course they want only the best for their little friends and rightfully so.

* There are approximately 88.3 million owned cats in the United States
* Nearly 34 percent of U.S. households (or 38.4 million) own at least one cat
* Fifty-six percent of owners own more than one cat
* On average, owners have two cats (2.3)
* More female cats are owned than male cats (73 percent vs. 63 percent respectively)
* Eighteen percent of owned cats were adopted from an animal shelter
* Cat owners spent an average of $175 on routine veterinary visits
* Eighty-seven percent of owned cats are spayed or neutered

So by the chart above you have a potential market of 88.3 million cat owners, and you are selling your special kitty litter for 20 dollars for a 20 pound bag. Well, results from a new survey by Marshal show that 29% of respondents to a recent survey admitted they made purchases from spam messages.This is up from 2004 where only 20% admitted to doing so. So now you have, and let us go back to our 1000 people, because my head is starting to swim and say that only 15 percent of that 1000 and not 29 % buy this best kitty litter ever made at 20 dollars a bag. Now you have about 150 customers times 20 dollars a bag and you are now making 3,000 dollars a week. And remember we have used very low numbers here. So in a year with those low numbers you are making 156,000 dollars a year. Not bad...But Wait !

There is a catch, first of all you need some kitty litter that is at least reasonable, something that people can't get anywhere else but from you, and is maybe not the world's best but you've already convinced them it is, and as long as it doesn't smell to high heaven, and Puffy doesn't get sick, you now have a repeat business. But there is a problem, how much money will it take to create this great kitty litter? how much money will it take to market this wonderful bathroom necessity to enough people to make it worthwhile? And you have to consider having employees, making the litter, bagging the litter, order taking, shipping and on and on and on. So now the profit margin is shrinking and the effort may not be worth it. So what do you do?

You market a CD or course, with a formula for making the world's best kitty litter, and since you have a degree in internet marketing you can tell people how to get noticed and make the fortune of a lifetime all for the low, low cost of 49.95 for the CD. So you set up a CD duplicating system in your home, maybe need one or two people to help. And the 150 people you sold the 20 dollar bag to are now paying 49.95 to learn how to make their own and market it and now your profit is 7,492.50 a week. But poor Joey and Mary may or may not make this system work. But you've convinced them it will and you've got your money.

Well of course, kitty litter is meant to be a silly example, but I think you get the point. Market it and they will come. I suspect that one of the main reasons you are reading this Blog is because of the title. If I had called it How to go broke on the internet, would you be sitting there reading this and wondering by now, what is the point? I seriously doubt it. So my kitty litter in this case or my CD is the title of this blog. " Making Money On The Internet"

But now I am going to tell you for free how you can make some money on the internet, with no overhead, no investment except some hard work, a creative mind and some writing ability. And you do not have to be F. Scott Fitzgerald. And I said make some money, not get rich. There are a number of free sites that you can write for. This site that you are on now is owned by me for me and it is truly a lot of work and I have learned a lot as I go, I started this site two months ago and have had a little over 10,000 visitors. That's pretty darn good for a new site. It can take months just to get noticed by the major search engines. And the ads on this page, if someone buys something from one of the advertisers I get a cut of the profit. Amazon, E bay and Google all have profit sharing programs, as well as other sites such as BuyAt.com and many others. My favorite site for writing, other than my own is Bukisa http://www.bukisa.com/r/ASeaRogue

If you click on that link above and join Bukisa, you become a part of my network and while you make money, my network grows and so does my profit. How's that for truth in advertising? And you can create your own network and so on and so on. This system works. You will not make a thousand dollars a day but with hard work you will make some money. But best of all it is absolutely free. There is no investment of money now or ever. Bukisa makes its money from the ads they place on your blogs and the more visitors your blogs get the more money Bukisa can generate from the advertisers and the more money you can make from you visitor traffic.

There are other decent social sites/blog sites. Hubpages, still a free site, you need a Google AdSense account, which is not difficult to get, And you meet some great people. I am also on there to a limited degree, but it is where I started. It was there that I knew I had to start my own site. There is also Triond.com another good site. But another that I like a lot is www.blogger.com it has an easy format you can place ads on it and has some nice extra features like the "Picture of the day." I think what I have learned in the few months I have been at this, is that you need to be on a few sites to generate some decent income. And by the way starting your own site and maintaining it is a lot of work, but not much investment and a lot of satisfaction, you can do this through GoDaddy.com.

So if you think you have some good ideas and something you would like to say, you can have the fun of that and make some money at the same time. And I do hope you will check out http://www.bukisa.com/r/ASeaRogue

I promise you have nothing to lose. And as my cat sits next to me, she says she is very happy with the kitty litter she has.