Topical Hubs and Selling Online

If you are an expert on a particular topic, you can put together an overview of the topic and assemble some of the best resources on the topic. Then you can create topical hubs and get paid through sites like Squidoo, HugPages and Google Knol. Payments are based on a combination of ad revenue and affiliate fees.

You’ll get higher rates doing it on your own, but these sites have a ready supply of traffic and tools to make content set-up easier. If you already have a Web site or a blog, look for vendors that offer related but non-competing products and see if they have an affiliate program. Stick to familiar products and brands – they’re much easier to sell. When you are ready to promote those products:

•Place simple text or graphical ads in appropriate places on your site

•Include links to purchase products you review or recommend in a blog, discussion forum or mailing list you control

•Create a dedicated sales page or Web site to promote a particular product.

They all work – it just depends on how much free time you have to develop it and your level of expertise with Web design and marketing.

Make Money online with photography

You can sell your photos for money on line without being a professional photographer. People are steadily in need of stock photography for websites, presentations, brochures and so on, and are willing to pay for the right image. People typically search for images on stock photography sites by keywords, not by photographer, so you have the same chance as anyone else of having your image chosen.

Just be careful that you don’t try to sell images of trademarked brands, copyrighted art or people’s faces that are readily identifiable (unless you have a model release), but just about everything else is fair game. You’d be amazed a the things people want pictures of, so don’t make any assumptions. If it’s a decent photo, upload it. Here are a few sites to get you started include Fotolia, ShutterStock, Dreamstime and iStockphoto. The great thing about this is that it’s truly “set it and forget it”. This is just one of the new and interesting ways to make money online without investing any money, without having a product of your own, and without having expert sales and marketing skills. Unlike taking surveys or getting paid to read e-mail, the potential return is substantial.