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Earn Money on the Net
By admin | September 2, 2008
You are looking to make money on the net? You want to make money from home? You want to do it quickly and free?
You cant have everything you know! It is possible to make money but it takes a lot of legwork, time and some money.
Yesterday, I outlined the two types of person looking to make online money. There are those who have some potential ideas and there are those who are literally just starting out and have no ideas at all. Which are you?
I know when I started this I had no ideas at all and because I dont come from a particularly creative background, having spent many years in a legal practice where creativity is positively frowned upon, I probably found it harder than most. Thinking of a niche? I couldnt even think of an idea. I had and have no interest in football, I have no kids and whilst I try to keep in touch with the real world, I am getting on a bit and clubbing isnt really my scene anymore! I was working hard in a field where the rewards were not there any more and I had kind of lost touch with everything apart from my family and friends
I really struggled to think of ideas and you might be at that stage now. All I can say is once you start this process,it does get easier. Ideas start to mount up and before you know it you are off on a frolic of your own and have to rein yourself in. You see not all of those ideas will make you money.
So how do you get ideas in the first place? There are a lot of tools to help you on the net,but one thing I found very useful in the beginning was mindmapping. Just do a google search to get an idea what that is. For those of you very new to this,just go to google.com and in the search box, type mindmaps or mindmapping. I believe there are some paid for tools out there. I will be looking at those in a later post and giving you a review of some of them that I intend to try out.
What else can you try after or other than mindmapping to get those ideas? Think of what you like and dislike about your job for example. Get an idea where your talents or interests might lie.
Write down your life likes and dislikes, what makes you get out of bed in the morning? What do simply love doing? Running? Gardening? DIY,Eating out? Make a list. What do you do that might translate to the mighty world of the internet? If you like running, how have you got to your distances and times? How long has it taken you to work up to that, are there some running shoes that you have absolutely loved and some that have rubbed holes in your feet? Is there a particularly good range of clothing that you have tried?
Do you get the idea? Start to write things down that you like doing that you know a little about and that you might want to tell someone else about.
Think laterally as well. What do your friends do? Has one of them given up running and started walking using Nordic poles? Can you pick their brains?
Once you start the habit of looking at things as a potential market, you will see loads of money making opportunities. The next step is to see if there is indeed a market and where it might be.
Til next time
jane
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