Earn Money with Hits4Pay.com

Hits4Pay is one of the oldest sponsored email reading networks online since 1998. Here you get a signing bonus of $5 and they pay you 2 cents for every email you read. Sometimes the emails pay you 5 cents but those are rare.
If you refer people and they sign up, you get 2 cents for every email read by the referral.
The payout is $25, credited to your account through PayPal.

Earn Money with She Told Me

Earn Money with She Told Me

While researching for this list, I came across She Told Me. Apparently, it is the biggest AdSense sharing revenue network these days.
In this, you get to write your own chosen articles and get paid. I don’t know whether they pay upfront for the articles but they surely pay for the AdSense revenues.
Here the AdSense is divided into 3 blocks – one block is for the writer (yours), the second block is for She Told Me and the third block is for the referrer (if any) who recommended the website.
The best thing – if you already have a Chitika advertisement account, you can insert your own Chitika ads and earn 100% revenue from them.
Signing up is free.

Making Money With Twitter

Popularly described as the “SMS of the Internet,” Twitter is among the “Top 10” most visited sites in the world, according to Alexa web traffic analysis. Current estimates suggest that Twitter has roughly 190 million users and these users create around 65 million tweets per day. Like Facebook, Twitter is also a social networking or a micro-blogging platform where users post ‘tweets’ limited to 140 characters per tweet. Making Money With TwitterSince its launch in July 2006 within the public domain, Twitter quickly became one of the preferred social platforms to stay connected personally and professionally as well. For those not using Twitter as a money making source, it is a platform to stay connected with friends, catch up on news or ‘follow’ their favorite film stars. Internet marketers believe that Twitter is a good resource for business promotion and in the process, yet another stream of revenue. Whether Twitter can help to earn direct or indirect income is the purpose of today’s discussion. A Brief Twitter History The foundation of Twitter was the result of a brain storming session by employees at the ODEO – a podcasting company. The initial idea was to develop a prototype through which internal members of the company could communicate and remain abreast of current developments within a company through the short messaging system. The first Twitter prototype installed for ODEO was on July 15, 2006. Within 3 months, Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and others acquired ODEO and Twitter from its investors and shareholders; Twitter was separated and established as a singular company in April 2007. Twitter Demographics Industry experts like the comScore or the Sysomos have found out important demographical markings for Twitter. If you are in the Internet marketing business, keep note of these facts and figures because it will influence your marketing strategy. 
1. Only 11% of Twitter users are between 12-17 years of age (comScore)
 2. Older adults use Twitter more than anyone else (comScore) 
3. Only 47% men use Twitter as compares to 53% women, without considering which country they belong to (Sysomos) 
 4. Large percentage of Twitter users are based in New York, USA (Sysomos) 
5. On an average, 63% Twitter users are less than 35 years old; 16% are African American, 11% are Hispanic and 60% are Caucasian (Quancast) 
 6. An average of $60,000 is the total household income of 58% Twitter users. 
In terms of Twitter content, the Peer Analytics Company found the following after examining 2000 tweets in August 2009. 
 1. 40% of social grooming tweets (also described as “pointless babble”) 
 2. 38% of conversational tweets 
3. 9% of “pass along” tweets 
4. 6% of self promotion tweets 
5. 4% of spam tweets 
6. 4% of news tweets Moreover, only half or even less of tweets are posted through the twitter.com website because users mostly use third party applications like Salesforce.com, twitterfeed.com, HootSuite.com and TweetDeck.com to post tweets, says a 500 million Twitter analysis by Sysomos. There is also a Twitter service through which URLs can be shortened and then promoted. However, this is available only to that content published in Twitter. Now that we have a broad idea of twitter functions and its use with the global audience, let’s look at its money making potential. Note this: 
THE BEST WAY TO EARN MONEY FROM TWITTER IS THROUGH ADVERTISEMENT. 
 You can use Direct Advertisement as a means to promote advertiser’s products on Twitter. Since tweets can only be 140 characters long, there is no space for long reviews or article content publishing. You have just 140 characters which is barely a long sentence, and don’t forget you have to fit in the URL (the site address where you want the twitter visitor to be directed) as well. Be-A-Magpie.com, Twittad.com, HootSuite.com and RevTwt.com are some websites where advertisers gather to find Internet marketers with big Twitter followers so they can help them market or promote their business. How does it typically work? You are the Internet marketer and you create an account in, let’s say, HootSuite.com. There you collaborate with advertisers looking for promotion. Try to find a product you will be interested in promoting. There are no shortages of options. Advertisers from multiple arenas go there to search for promoters. Since this is paid advertising, you have to negotiate a budget and therefore, you have to keep in mind your competition. For instance, there is another Internet marketer who is offering 150 tweets for $50 which includes promotion content creation too and you are offering 150 tweets for $60 which also includes promotion content development but obviously, the advertiser is going to choose the first Internet marketer. Therefore, you have to create a good package for twitter advertisers. Suppose for the same $60, you give an advertiser 180 tweets + tweet writing package + tracking option + updating tweets regularly – this is a package that will motivate any advertiser to give a long thought to your services. Remember that making money with Twitter through direct advertising is very difficult. There are marketplaces where advertisers are hiring twitter product promoters for less than $5 and they are giving advertisers tweeting service for up to a year for that measly $5. Yes, tweeting is not a hard task but come on; a five dollar package for 365 days is not worth the work!!! Now similar to this option is another alternative to earn money from Twitter – Affiliate Marketing. For affiliate marketers, this is a good platform to promote your affiliate products. Suppose you are selling fairness cream product, what you do is tweet about it from your own account or, in this case, hiring other Internet promoters to do the same works as well. You could tweet – “Best Fairness Beauty Product with Aloe Vera Extract – URL”. You could use variations of the same. There are two main aspects here – don’t forget to keep the content interesting and don’t forget to paste your affiliate link in the URL; otherwise, you won’t get any credit for sales made. Persistent Effort With Twitter Internet marketing promotions, you have to be constantly on the edge because this is not something you can do once in a while. If you wish to seriously make any money from Twitter, continue to give it 100 percent. You have to practically be online 24×7 on Twitter.

Blogging and Earn Money

Among many ‘firsts’, the first rule of business is to check out who you’re competing against to establish your business. My question – what is your chance, if any, of making money blogging when there are more than 133 million bloggers (February 2010 data) there already, out of which at least 50% of them are earning money online from blogging? Seems scary, right? How to make money bloggingWhere do you rank? Search any keyword and Google shows thousands of search engine results of meaningful blogs, which have been optimized with money making models but only a handful of them ever succeed. Often, people fail to make money from blogging because they ignore the primary rule of business – you need to offer something worthwhile for the customer to purchase. Everything boils down to basic economics – there is demand, you fill the demand and you earn!!! When you want to earn substantially from blogging, it ceases to be a platform where you can go on ranting about your feelings and personal life…however, you do want your readers to know who you are. This definition of blogging was still relevant, maybe 5 years ago, but not anymore. Like other businesses conducted online, blogging has become yet another way to make money for the long term. Nevertheless, our question was – can you really make money blogging? The answer is both Yes and No. AdSense and Blogging: Both were like Siamese twins but not anymore! In the early years of blogging, people earned much by activating Google AdSense on their site. It was the latest fad. If you are aware, the concept of Google Cash Cow was quite popular with new bloggers and some of them claim to have earned thousands, but does it still hold true now? Let’s see. The problem with AdSense and Blogging these days is three – dimensional: lack of unique niches, flawed search engine optimization and less amount of traffic. You will agree with me that competition in niches like blogging for earning money has enormously increased in the last few years. Therefore, we have reached a point of stagnancy because bloggers need to give their readers something new and fresh. Yes, there are people who like to create blogs based on Google’s “high paying keyword” search but that too fails to materialize because the high paying keywords are not constant, they change according to user’s search criteria and interest. Secondly, even with so much technological advancements around us, bloggers are still clueless about how to monetize their site or how to place advertisements. A point to note here is that advertisement no longer falls under a preferred alternative for site monetization because visitors show the least amount of interest. If a thousand visitors come to your site, perhaps 100-150 will click on those ads and there is no guarantee if anyone is actually going to purchase anything from those advertisements; therefore, if you are trying to promote affiliate products through blogging, there is a slim chance of you making actual commissions. Blogging advertisement has become redundant. It is more redundant because the blogs are not able to provide any actual benefit to the reader. Ask yourself – would you prefer visiting a site that actually helps you in some way, let’s say, to help you solve problems or would you prefer visiting a site just for 10 minutes of entertainment daily? Thirdly, due to the first two factors – lack of niche and flawed search engine optimization – a blog will rarely have any visitors. Even if they do, they will hardly translate into any earning if the blog is solely dependent on AdSense. For many, you can make about $200-$250 monthly… So, what other alternative do you have? Well, the idea is to use blogging as a “supporting” platform for your main website. This means that you cannot earn from blogging directly but you can get lots of traffic to your main website, which provides products or services to the buyers. Suppose you are a designer and you want to provide art copyrighter services to global clients; your website is: artcopyrighter.com, which you create like any other business website highlighting your services and pricing. Now, as a “supportive” platform, you create: blog.artcopyrighter.com, which you will use to blog about your art, your experiences and other things. Now, in both the cases, you have to do search engine optimization for promotion but essentially, you are not expecting to “earn” from your blogging but using it as a way to capture the traffic and direct them to the main business website. The purpose of your blog is to give the visitors a reason to return again and again, implying that your blog content should be interactive enough to catch the reader’s interest. And by blog content, one usually means the writing, but one cannot ignore other factors like presentation, format, images, and easy navigation. If you follow this alternative, you automatically lessen your competition because then your competition will not be measured by the blog itself but by the number of people actively involved in art copyrighting!!! Hence, your competition reduces, you are able to provide something of value to the consumer by marketing your service to a select market niche geographically and you are able to make your business grow. A Final Thought: You need to think twice before creating a blog solely for the purpose of turning into an income source individually. Of course, if you are happy with $200-$250 per month, we don’t have anything to say but what we suggest is to do blogging as a supportive fraction of your main business site. If you are planning on earning money online, best is to go the professional way. Show your talent to the world or if you have a great product that you know people will be eager to shell out $$$, then its best to create a business website and use blogging as an additional Internet marketing strategy to draw visitors to your site by perfectly optimizing the blog pages and promoting it.