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Today I am working from home and it’s such a great feeling not getting up and heading out the door for 8 or 10 hours five days a week.

You don’t have to work at home full time to make money online though. Lots of people share their love for certain hobbies and interest through blogging and make money sharing products and service they like.

For me that meant starting a few blogs about gardening at home, fly fishing and acoustic guitars. Like-minded people want to know what you’re doing and will continue to visit your blogs to learn more. Those same people will follow your links and some will even buy products and services you like.

Create A Blog About A Hobby And Share

My Home Gardening Tips

My first hobby blog was my home gardening blog. I didn’t expect to make money I just wanted to start sharing what I was learning about gardening as we had just bought a home where we could start gardening.

After just a couple of months I already had a few hundred unique visitors every day so I added some ads to my blog and people started clicking and buying. At that time I started my second gardening related blog and got a little more focused. It wasn’t long before my new keyworded domain had more visitors and was making more income for me.

When visitors commented with questions I didn’t know I would find the answers so I not only helped my readers I learned more and have more to write about.

Next I Created The Joy of Fishing Blog

Fishing is a hobby I have been enjoying for almost 60 years so it just made sense to create a blog about my love of fishing and that too ended up being more than one blog.

Rewrite Articles Using The Best Spinner

I don’t just write articles for my blogs. I like to publish articles around the web on relevant sites and point back to my blog.

That’s where an article rewriter like The Best Spinner pays for itself over and over, day after day, week after week and year after year. One of my best investments.

It was the free 7 day trial that hooked me on TBS and I’ve been using it every since. I wasn’t even through the first day of my seven day trial before I was completely convinced of it’s power.

The Key To Article Spinning Today

The best advice I can give you for using article spinners is to be selective when choosing word replacements or synonyms. If an article is hard to read because of poor word replacement choices people will leave the page.

That means the more thought you put into each word you replace the better chance you have at keeping your readers on your page all the way to the click that could make you money.

Give the free 7 day trial of The Best Spinner a try today and see how much it can benefit your bottom-line.

I had such a good weekend planned as fishing season is only a month away. I was going to spend my Saturday looking for the best muskie lures and then Sunday was to be my first muskie meeting.

I was awake before 5am, yes I’m a fishing fanatic, and rushed down stairs to start looking. The plan was to know what lures to look for and then buy what I could at the swap meet that was planned for after the meeting.

I first started my computer and then put on the coffee. Can’t start my day without a stiff coffee. Then I headed to the bathroom to clean up before Jenny woke up.

When I was finally as fresh as a daisy I grabbed my coffee and took the 30 second commute back to my office where I found my computer still trying to boot. I probably should point out that I work from home in Moncton New Brunswick and really rely on my computer, even though this was the weekend and I was only looking to have fun this day.

For some time now my desktop computer had been showing it’s age, over four years working it hard every day. Many days it runs 24/7. I had even been looking for a new computer for  my home office and laptop or notebook for the family room.

Of course all the data I had collected was still on the computer. I should have printed it out as I could no longer order them online and had to go shopping for new computers.

My web design clients know I don’t work on the weekends but of course ‘Murphy’s Law’ caused on client to call me in a panic. He had forgotten to get me to update his prices and needed them done ASAP. He knows I charge double on the weeks.

That would help pay for my new computers so I told him it would be done as quickly as I could get it done. I hung the phone up and went shopping.

A Brand New Desktop Computer And Laptop

I think we were gone about an hour and I was back home setting up my new desktop computer. I instead my web design software and updated my client’s website. I was done all this before noon.

I still didn’t get to the meeting as it’s my business computer and I needed it up and running before Monday morning. So my weekend kind of sucked although I made a nice chunk of money for those web updates.

My wife calls me a pack-rat because I don’t like throwing things out. But I prefer to recycle things for other tasks. Like using popsicle sticks for garden row markers rather than tossing them in the trash.

Well articles can be recycled using The Best Spinner and then creating an ebook. I like to be sure my articles are unique, even for an ebook. Doing it right can lead to money in the bank.

The Plan Is To Give My Ebook Away? What??

Okay I’m sure you’re rolling your eyes and thinking I’ve lost it but the fact is… “It Works”. It does take quality content but that should go without saying really. I use The Best Spinner to help change the articles up a bit and swap out appropriate word replacements or synonyms.

Note that it’s not likely to work very well unless you know your subject and make your articles on topic and helpful.

Free Ebooks And Affiliate Marketing

Creating informative articles, that are well written, and then sprinkling them with a few topic or niche relevant affiliate links and you have the recipe for making money working from home. The great content will gain the trust of your readers making them feel more comfortable clicking your links.

NOTE: DO NOT TRY TO SELL ANYTHING

Just share what has worked for you and let them click on your links without prompting. I know I don’t like to be sold to. When they follow one of your affiliate links and make a purchase they are thankful for the link and you just made some money.

It All Starts With Quality Content

Create quality content without adding a bunch of filler. I get really annoyed reading stuff I don’t need to know, so get to the point. Include only a couple of affiliate links per page so the page doesn’t look spammy in any way.

If You Learn About Branding You Can Make More

I’m not an expert on branding but I did know that I like free ebooks which have the option for me to brand it with my name and websites. However I really like it when I can join the affiliate programs listed in the ebook and then share the ebook with others.

Like I said I’m not sure exactly how to explain branding, other than what I just said so check out this link and learn about branding.

How are your typing skills? Do you have speed as well as accuracy? Are you able to focus on doing the same thing for an hour at a time? Do you have a computer and Internet connection?

If you answered yes to those question you have what it takes to be a data entry clerk who works from home making extra money using your skills, even in your spare time.

Working From Home As A Data Entry Clerk

I thought I would give a basic description of what a Data Entry Clerk is. This is directly from Wikipedia

A data entry clerk, sometimes called a typist, is a member of staff employed to type data into a database using a keyboard, optical scanner, or data recorder. The keyboards used can often have specialist keys and multiple colours to help them in the task and speed up the work.

While requisite skills can vary depending on the nature of the data being entered few specialized skills are usually required aside from touch typing proficiency with adequate speed and accuracy. The ability to focus for lengthy periods is necessary to eliminate or at least reduce errors.

What To Expect As A Data Entry Clerk

As a data entry person you will be asked to type things for other people and companies and they usually want fast and accurate results or they would likely do it themselves. The nice thing about doing this from home is you can set your schedule, within reason of course. Your earnings will either be sent by check or as I like it, directly to my Paypal account.

Look Out For Those Who Would Scam You

Scammers are everywhere and will try to take your money without giving you anything in return. So for this reason it’s important to really look at opportunities closely before you commit and NEVER give money out in return for data entry jobs.

If something looks too good to be true it probably is. So if you see sites or videos that claim you will make big money for little work I would suggest you turn and run. Well at least close that video or webpage.

So What Can I Expect To Earn

That of course is the most asked question I get but it’s a tough question to answer as everyone has different skill levels so what I can earn compared to what my wife can earn or yourself can only be figured out based on the skills at hand.

Your best bet is to find some software that will test your typing skills just how fast and accurate you really are. Note that if you aren’t fast or accurate you can practice until you are. I’ve increase my speed and accuracy through posting to my many blogs over the years but my wife still kicks my butt when it comes to being a real data entry clerk.

Your earnings are going to be based on the tasks you complete, no matter how long it takes you. If you have speed and accuracy you’ll make more than if you have to constantly being making corrections.

Where And How Do I Get Started?

My suggestion is to checkout Youtube where you can watch a few videos on legit data entry jobs you can find online. The time you put into researching online jobs is well worth your time so you can avoid the scammers.

When I am looking through videos on Youtube I like to see a useful video as well as having more Likes than Dislikes. I also like to see comments active and an interaction between the video owner and those commenting.

I tend to allow the Force or my Spidey Senses to guide when looking through videos. If I don’t have a good feeling about the video, like when I see too much hype, it tends to set off alarms in my head. Or if the video is less than two minutes and has no audio.

Below is a example of two videos about legit data entry jobs that I watched, one was worth my time while the other sent my senses tingling and was a waste of my time.

I started with the following search text in Youtube:

finding "legit data entry jobs"

My search found 47 videos plus a couple of ads. The ads weren’t relevant to my search so I ignored them because I am looking for my search text to be in the titles of the videos. So I looked to the first video that wasn’t a paid ad.

Results #1: The first video I watched had a title that matched my search criteria very closely.

• over 4 minutes in length
• uploaded 8 months ago
• over 13,000 views
• 75 comments
• 43 Likes / 2 Dislikes
• interaction between owner and comments

All that info was available at a glance and tells me it’s worth viewing. However the next video I looked at was #3 in the list and it’s a whole different story.

Results #2: This video also had a title that matched my search text but that’s where the similarities ended.

• less than two minutes in length
• uploaded 2 years ago
• 2700 views
• 11 comments
• 0 Likes / 3 Dislikes
• no interaction between owner and comments

Quite often I can tell just by the data I can see in Youtube but I still make it a point to check out their link just in case they suck at videos, like I do. So the next step is to look at their website and see what it’s like.

Once I’ve looked at the site I then copy the link and head over to SEMRUSH.COM where I can get a lot of data about the site. Very quickly you will see if a site is one you should run from or one that has potential.

I looked at site listed below each video. The first link had lots of information however the second video link had no information that would tell me to continue with it. So I bookmarked the first site and then went on to the next video in the list and did the same research again.

Once I had a weeded out the crap or non trustworthy sites I went back for a second look at each of the potentially good sites.

This research did take me a while but it may have saved me from making a mistake which usually means getting scammed or making far less than you’re worth. Take the time to research the sites you’ve found and pick the best of the best and forget the rest.

When I started marketing online I went for niches I thought would make me money without thinking about what it would take to create the content people would see as helpful. I worked so hard for the little money I made doing it that way.

After a year of frustration I decided to try building a site based on one of my interests and I made more money than I was making with the sites I wasn’t knowledgeable in and the lights came on.

Since that time I have been adding more and more hobbies and interest to my list of websites and life is easier and definitely more fun.

My first hobby based niche websites were local fishing, home gardening, playing acoustic guitar, but I keep adding more interests, but only in niches I love. Why hurt my brain going for money in niches I don’t know about. It’s great having less stress and frustration when it comes to content creation.

If Know Work Your Interest…

Really when you think about it for just a second it makes sense that if you work a niche you already have an interest in you are your best customer.

This means you should know your customer which allows you to make better sites and more money. Oh yeah, and you can enjoy working, instead of struggling like I did that first year.

So, What Do You Already Love…

Are you filled with puppy love? People do love their pets and will go to great lengths to make them happy.

What do you love doing that you can’t stop talking about. Okay, let’s keep this out of the gutter, alright.

Seriously, there are so many hobbies and interests one could have but it’s important to learn, right up front, if there is money to be made in those niches and that means a little research.

Learn About Affiliate Marketing

Having a niche that can make you some money is great but you need to have things, digital or physical to promote and sell to your targeted visitors. My personal recommendation for learning affiliate marketing is the Super Affiliate Handbook. This ebook will take you from knowing nothing about affiliate marketing to a super affiliate.

Investigate The Niche Before Starting

As you are learning more about affiliate marketing you’ll see the need to research your niches so you’re promoting the best products to your visitors or potential customers.

I’m proof that it’s not wise to jump into niches you don’t really know, not at the beginning anyways. I didn’t make money with the make money niche until long after I started making money in other niches.

So in conclusion, picking a market or niche you’re familiar with if vital.

One more thing. If you are not a Clickbank member you should sign up. It’s free and you’ll have access to 10s of thousands of digital products. For collecting money from customers I use my Paypal account. I even have it set so I can send money right to my bank account.

Curators are known for displaying or putting together shows or displays, for example in museums. The goal of the curator is to give the visitor the very best experience.

It’s the same thing with PageOne Curator. It gives you and I the help we need to be able to create the best possible experience for our visitors in the shortest amount of time.

It Was A Google Slap The Woke Me Up

After Google was done with my sites in early 2012 they were deemed NOT worthy to be displayed on Google page one results any longer. At the moment I am lucky to find anything closer than page three of their search engines.

I didn’t take it well as I have been working more of my sites since before 2007 and some go all the way back to 2001. My income plunged into the depth so it took me a while to get my head to stop spinning.

I know how hard it can be to create an authority site and I really don’t have enough time to do it manually, like I was doing when I started my work from home business. So I started looking for software that could help me accomplish this task but it had to completely whitehat.

I tried so many things but every single one of them either wanted more money once I had bought their product, in order to make it work or it just wasn’t what I was looking for. Then I gave up trying for a couple of months and worked on my sites manually.

I had to either drop a load of my sites or find a better way to make authority sites so I started looking again. I don’t know what I did differently but I found a link to PageOne Curator and my excitement level rose once again.

On a good note: I noticed this morning that keywords that used to ranked on page one of Google searches, that had dropped to page 5 or deeper have not moved to page 3. That’s just by removing the crap articles along with their links.

PageOne Curator : Now Rebuilding Begins

I started with my biggest site which was also the site I made most of my income with. It took me months going through every single article on the site to be sure I removed all the non relevant content and links. Hours seemed like days and the days just went on and on but I made it.

Now it’s time to put what I have learned about PageOne Curator to work and get that site back to being the authority site it once was. I had put 5 years of my life into the site so it’s not going to be fixed for some time, but I’ve started.

I played with PageOne Curator as I was learning it and of course kept getting ahead of myself and having to start over. But that’s not a bad thing as I was learning even through my mistakes and actually find it quite enjoyable to work with.

As I see more progress I will return with the results.

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Why not begin a secretarial service company and work right from the comfort of your home, even while you’re currently employed elsewhere? It’s a great opportunity to protect yourself from all the downsizing fears people live with today.

You can work as much or as little as you want because you’re the boss.

When it comes to the skills required for secretarial services I lack, a lot. I can type really fast but when I do I spend as much time correcting errors and when time is money that doesn’t work out to earning much income.

Earn Full/Part Time Income Working From Home

In the past few years we’ve seen so many things increase in cost yet we seldom see our income increase to compensate. That’s what makes this Secretarial Service In-A-Box so awesome. You can learn how to make as much or as little extra income as you desire.

For me I started a work from home web design business to make extra money and that led to recurring income, just like a secretarial service will do for you and all it takes is your typing skills, a computer, printer and of course paper.

Relax, you don’t need to be lightening fast, although that would help you to make money faster. All you need is an accurate 30 words per minute and you can make money from home in your spare time, earning $20 or better per hour.

Remember The Phrase: Time Is Money

Actually we just bought a laptop for my wife so she could start this herself. She can type circles around me with one arm tied behind her back. It will be great to have extra income now that we are both retiring.

Take just a minute and think about all the professionals out there in the world with no time to get all the secretarial work done that they need. They are quite willing to pay someone, like you, to help them get it done.

Things like reports, letters, proposals, brochures, newsletters and guides.

Learn how with the Secretarial Business In – A – Box system. This system will show you the steps to successfully set up your work from home business and how to find clients. Of course you have a full 60 days to see if this business is truly for you or just ask for your money back and you will get it, no questions asked.

Back in 1998 Clickbank started a secure online retail outlet that grows bigger and bigger every year. Today they have more than 50,000 digital products available along with more than 100,000 active affiliate marketers, myself included.

Not a Clickbank affiliate yet, what’s holding you back?

I started my work from home online business back in 2001 and became a Clickbank affiliate immediately. It wasn’t nearly as big as it is today with its 126 categories and tens of thousands of digital products but we still made a great income.

The only downside I’ve seen with the Clickbank marketplace is the difficulty there can be finding that exact product my visitors want or need. That is where having a CB Engine account made things easier. I could find relevant products in the Clickbank marketplace so much easier.

CBENGINE is a powerful research and tracking tool that lets you find quality products of interest in the ClickBank Marketplace. Simply use the search box in the right-hand menu to begin finding ClickBank Products. We suggest you experiment with it and try all the search variables and combinations of search variable available. It takes a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, it’s easy.

Sign Up With Clickbank And Start Making Money

You can’t really go wrong by signing up as a Clickbank member because it’s free to become an affiliate like I am. You can start promoting products right away and start earning commissions anywhere from 50 to 75%, nothing to sneeze at.

How To Make Money With Clickbank

You can’t make money through Clickbank if you don’t have a personal CB ID which is why you need to sign up for your account before continuing. Then all you need to do is stay true to your niche and find niche relevant digital products your readers will enjoy learning about.

1. Step one of course you need to be a CB affiliate, as I mentioned above.
2. Always match products to your niche.
3. Create a post or squeeze page that directs your visitor to the product.
4. Drive as much relevant traffic to that page as you can.

So you can see the process is actually quite simple, when you keep a focus on your product, your niche and the kind of traffic you are sending. Get started as a Clickbank marketplace affiliate, today.

When I first started a work from home business I started selling stuff we didn’t care for any longer. I choose to sell them on eBay to make a little extra money for fishing season.

It worked so well for us I thought I would take a few minutes and write the helpful steps I used to make hundreds of dollars, which I turned around and spent on new fishing gear as well as my fishing license.

eBay Success Step One: The key to success with eBay, well any online business actually is to get started properly. Invest the time to accurately describe your what you are selling. Be detailed and honest, so if it’s new or not so new be sure to specify it. Far less refunds and returns.

eBay Success Step Two: Find the best keywords to put in your title as often it’s the first thing anyone sees and can quickly turn people away before they ever see your listing. I find things easier when I take the time to search eBay for similar items to see what they have for descriptions and then I try to do as well as the best and maybe even a bit better.

People have to be able to find your item before they can purchase, right.

eBay Success Step Three: A picture says a thousand words, so be sure you use pictures. This is where a digital camera comes in very handy. If you don’t have one borrow one long enough to take a few quality images for your potential buyers.

eBay Success Step Four: Nothing annoys me more than an eBay listing that’s doesn’t have the shipping and handling charges listed correctly or they make it overly confusing. Buyers, like myself are really not happy to see inflated shipping costs because we know it’s the seller just trying to make a few extra bucks off of me.

One of my strategies is to actually increase the price of the item I am selling and offer free shipping. It seems to work great for me.

eBay Success Step Five: I have been using Paypal for my transactions for many years now and have never had a single issue. I much prefer using a service like Paypal over checks or money orders. Actually I won’t even bother with listings that don’t offer me Paypal.

eBay Success Step Six: Once an item has been sold don’t waste any time getting it shipped to the buyer. I know that I get a bit edgy when I think I should have received an item but haven’t and then I have to contact the seller and find out why. It’s such a bother when immediate shipping solves most issues.

Note that it’s always a smart move to be able to track what you ship as well as to insure fragile items.

eBay Success Step Seven: Give your buyers a great experience and they will buy from you again. I have eBay sellers I always go to for specific products because they have always given me a great experience.

Stay in touch with your buyer to let them know you know they made the purchase and you received their payment. Also let them know you’ve shipped it and when they can expect it. Also send an email asking if they have received it. Just make them happy.

Don’t just put them on a mailing list. Instead, now that you have made them happy, ask them if you can email them periodically and then be sure you never spam them.

It’s Best To Begin With A Subject You Know

When I first became a work from home marketer I didn’t exactly get things right. I had read that there was money to be made in the ‘make money online’ market and thought I could share make money products and make money myself. Well that didn’t work out so well.

The fact of the matter is I didn’t make anything to speak of. Yes I made a sale now and then, just enough to make me think I knew what I was doing but I really didn’t.

My first year as a work at home marketer sucked big time and I nearly called it quits and started looking for a day job again.

I Learned To Work At My Own Pace

I was so frustrated and was working night and day trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. If it hadn’t been for a new friend I met online I likely would have given up.

Bob told me I needed to be focusing on things I know about instead of trying to learn on the fly. It took me a month or so before I agreed with him but then my work from home business life began to change for the better.

I am a bit of a fanatic about fishing and especially love fly fishing so I started a blog about the joy of fishing and started seeing that my visitors were targeted and when I put affiliate ads on my site I started making money.

Now I had something I could write about all day long and never run out of things to talk about and share. The biggest bonus of marketing to an audience I am part of is that I could now work at my own pace, which is rather slow and still make money.

Then Bob shared a great tool with me that helped me find the best money making keywords and I watched my income grow, almost over night.

Use The Niche Keyword Tool

I was making some money with the keywords I already knew but found keyword research so time consuming. I could never seem to get through a session without getting lost somewhere along the line.

Once I looked at the keyword tool Bob told me about I had to give it a try and with the money I was now making I could afford it. The tool is called Keyword Elite 2.

Keyword Elite change my keyword research into fun and I could get more done in an hour than I was getting done right in days. The number of targeted traffic increase as did my affiliate sales and bank account.

I wasn’t making a killing by any stretch but I was making money every day. I just needed to learn how to produce more content and soon learned about article spinning.

Use An Article Spinner To Gain More Visitors

For along time I was rewriting my articles and publishing them around the Internet with links pointing to my money pages. It was so time consuming and I had to continually look back at the original to be sure I didn’t have duplicate content.

Then I found ‘The Best Spinner’ page online while looking for ways to rewrite faster. This not only made my day it made my entire year.

Now I can write my original content and then using The Best Spinner I can quickly rewrite as well as protect important terms and phrases from being overwritten. I do pick my word replacements by hand which takes a few extra minutes but pays off in quality unique content that reads like an original and works.