How to Start an Online Ebook Business

Planning an eBook
1. Use a mix of creativity and business smarts and create an eBook that people would want to read. Use keyword search tools to find out exactly what subjects people search for online.
2. Choose at least 20 subjects that are the most marketable and typically get at least 30,000 to 50,000 hits a day. Whittle the list to a few by using the criteria of uniqueness and whether the topics are saturated on the Internet.

3. Sign up for Google AdSense. Create a one-page website with a survey asking what people think of your eBook idea or what they may want to see. Google AdSense helps bring traffic to your survey site by placing ads on the page that pertain to your website topic. Eventually, you will use this to get visitors to your eBook site.
Creating the eBook
4. Study the data on your survey after just a few days and start to create your eBook using any word-processing program. Keep the book under 40 pages and on topic to keywords you researched earlier.
5. Hire a ghostwriter after writing a few of your own eBooks and selling them independently through eBay or your website. Once you start turning healthy profits, it is best to have other people do the writing. Then you can focus on the marketing aspects, which will take most of your time.
6. Look for bargain ghostwriters and general content producers through outsourcing sites such as RentACoder. You can advertise your eBook project there and get bids from freelance writers.
7. Request use of SEO, or search engine optimization, in your eBooks. This means your eBooks contain keywords that enable the books to place high on search engines such as Google.
Marketing
8. Start selling your eBooks on your website using Google AdSense. If you paid attention to trends and start offering multiple eBooks on a weekly basis, you could be selling many of these and turning in big profits. Website design can be simple.
9. Set up commerce on your website using PayPal so customers can buy and download your eBooks.
10. Market your eBooks through methods other than relying exclusively on SEO and AdSense. Use mass email marketing to certain groups you know would be interested.
11. Visit forums on the net that pertain to the subject of your eBook. Leave a link to your website in one of them and your site likely will receive visitors within days if not hours.
12. Find blogs on the net that write about the subjects of your eBooks. Ask the bloggers to review your eBook or start your own blog if you can find time to write regularly. Buy an ad on a blog that is not yours but relates to the topic of your eBook.

How to Make an Internet Magazine

1. Create a concept for your Internet magazine, and be as specific as possible. If you want to create a fiction magazine, decide on a genre and a focus. For example, you might decide to run a romance magazine focusing on vampire romance. Nonfiction magazines should be even more specific: a magazine focusing on tools for beading jewelry crafters, for instance. Sharply focused magazines are easier to run and market.
2. Choose a title, and at the same time, buy a domain name. Don't agonize over 'the perfect' domain name; just pick something close to the title of your magazine. The vampire romance zine above, for instance, could be www.love-bytes.com or www.dark-love.com.

3. Choose a commercial (not free) web host that offers unlimited storage and bandwidth and that has received excellent reviews. Your website should have, at minimum, a cover page home page, a table of contents linked to stories and an archive section. Many online magazines also run forums for writers and readers, and some also offer an email version of their magazine that readers can subscribe to. You may not know everything you will want to do with your ezine yet, so try to keep your options open.
4. Decide how you're going to monetize your magazine. Even if you're just running your zine for love, it's smart to try to turn enough profit to offset expenses and maybe even pay your writers a little bit. The simplest and surest way to make money from your magazine is by running advertisements provided by Google's Adsense program and by signing up to do affiliate sales for Amazon.
5. Create your website template and the logo for your website. Keep it simple for your first launch: home page, story/article pages, advertising slots, a table of contents.Develop a writer's contract. Writers will need to assign you electronic rights to publish their stories, and you will need to inform them of exactly how long their stories will remain electronically available, as well as what your future plans for their stories are. You will also need a page outlining submission guidelines. The easiest way to develop both these documents is by visiting online magazines that are similar to yours and using their guidelines and contract as samples.
6. Advertise for submissions to your magazine. Post advertisements at writers' websites and on Craig's List. If you offer to pay for published stories, you are likely to be swamped with submissions. Give yourself plenty of time (ideally, about six months) between requesting submissions and launching your first issue, as it will take time to wade through manuscripts.Before you're ready to launch your magazine, you should have enough submissions lined up to fill two magazine issues. Generate, acquire or find graphics for your magazine, as well.
7. Once your first magazine is in place and you have user-tested it to ensure your links work, you're ready to launch. Have a marketing plan in place so you'll have good traffic from the very beginning. Advertise using Adsense or Yahoo! ads (many web hosts give away a limited amount of these when you first sign up), and create a Facebook page so you can advertise there, as well. If you have any famous writers publishing in this issue, write and distribute a press release to the appropriate industry media. Put up fliers in your local bookstores and libraries. Ask friends and family to advertise your ezine, and ask writers in the issue to advertise, as well.Then start preparing your next edition.

How to Get Unbanned on 'Meez'

1. Go to meez.com. After logging into your account using your 'Meez' ID and password, scroll to the bottom of the web page and click the 'FAQ' link.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Click the link under the 'Why is my Meez Banned?' heading to access the ban appeal form in the 'Meez' community forum. All questions and concerns regarding the ban process are handled by Angie Meez -- a community administrator.

3. Locate and click the 'Ban Appeal Form' link. Enter all required data into each blank field, including the username and password to your banned account.
4. Write a brief explanation regarding the circumstances that led to the ban and why your account privileges should be reinstated.
5. Click 'Submit' to send the appeal to Angie Meez. Wait for a response to your appeal, which normally takes two to three business days.

How to Change Your Joomla Heading That Shows Up on Google

1. Sign in to your Joomla! site administration ([sitename]/administrator). Click on the 'Site' menu link.
2. Click on 'Global Configuration.'

3. Move to the 'Site Settings' column. Change the value in the 'Site Name' field. This is the field used for the heading.
4. Move down to 'Site Meta Description.' Type your custom description here. This is displayed beneath the site header in Google search results.
5. Click on 'Save Close' to save your changes.

How to Make Money From Creating Your Own Website

1. Decide a topic for your website. To make money with your website, focus on a particular topic, or niche. Your website has to provide information for people that they can't find anywhere else. At the very least, it must provide information that few other websites offer so you won't have too much competition.
2. Find a domain name. This is what people type into the address bar of their browser to visit your site. For instance, you may have typed eHow.com into Internet Explorer to get to this page, because eHow is the domain name. Your domain name should have some type of connection to your website's topic so people have an idea of what to expect when they hear or see it. Next, register it. You can do this for a small annual or monthly fee, depending on the company you use.

3. Find a host. A simple online search will yield numerous hosting services. Most of them charge a monthly fee based on your bandwidth and the amount of space you use. Other hosting companies, like Google, offer free hosting for basic websites.
4. Design your website to attract people to the products or services you offer. If your website is mainly a blog, make it easy to read and pleasing to the eye. Flashing ads and neon colors are hard on the eyes and will cause people to click away in a matter of seconds. But a well-organized, viewer-friendly website will keep people looking and clicking around your website to see what it's all about.
5. Post products or services relating to your topic. Your website can be anything you want it to be, but you won't make money from it unless you offer products, services or advertising related to your topic. If you have a website about wrestling, find affiliate programs and advertisers related to wrestling. If you have a website that reviews your favorite movies, find ways to sell DVDs and movie-related merchandise that will generate income.
6. Generate traffic. Traffic is the lifeblood of a money-making website. If nobody visits your site, it won't generate any income because advertisers won't see the need to place ads on your website and nobody will be buying the products or services you offer. Market your website by visiting relevant online forums and chat rooms. Visit websites that are like yours and leave comments with links to your website. Ask other website owners if they would like to enter into an agreement in which you help promote each other's websites through trackbacks and other methods.
7. Add advertising to your website. Google AdSense is one of the most common and utilized methods for creating income through your own website. When you have an AdSense account, Google places ads on your website and you can configure the appearance and placement of the ads. Once your website becomes popular, search for other advertisers that are willing to place their relevant ads on your website to create an entirely different stream of income.

How to Add an Expanding Banner in Google Ad Manager

1. Open and log into the DoubleClick dashboard for your account. If you want to create a new campaign with the banner, click 'New Ad Unit.' If you want to change a current banner, click the ad and click 'Edit.'
2. Click the 'Browse' button in the New Creative section. Select your animated file, such as a Flash banner or GIF image that expands in the ad space. Click 'OK.' Type the click-through URL and click 'Save.'

3. Type the cost-per-click information in the next window. The cost is what you charge customers when a user clicks the ad. In the Price Priority text box, give a priority for the banner. If you get paid more for this banner, set it with a value of 1 so it will show more often.
4. Click 'Save' again to save the settings. Open the URL that contains the banner ad to verify that the ad expands and runs properly in the ad space.

How to Increase Website Exposure

1. Bring up the URL submission pages on Bing, Google, Yahoo! and any other major search engines you prefer (see Resources). Enter your website address in the 'URL' field and click the 'Submit' or 'Add' button to enter your URL in the search engine directory, which helps your website come up in search results.
2. Sign up for social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and add your website address to your profile. Performing this task enables your friends to see your URL on your member page and access your website. See the network's 'FAQ,' 'Support' or 'Help' page if you need assistance adding the information to your profile.

3. Join discussion forums that relate to your site's topic and add your website URL to your signature. When you create a discussion thread or reply to an existing one, this signature appears underneath your post and gives readers the opportunity to discover your site.
4. Write articles pertaining to your website's content and include a paragraph at the end that has a link to your pages. Submit these stories to free article directories. These directories have a high page rank with major search engines, such as Google; therefore, your articles have the potential to show up on prevalent search result pages, which gives your website more exposure.
5. Comment on relevant blogs that allow feedback and include a link back to your site. High-ranking blogs have lots of visitors that can discover your URL from your notes. Be sure to leave meaningful feedback on these pages so the website author is more likely to publish your comments.

How to Increase Earnings Potential

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Improve your educational credentials. Even if an MBA is not a solid requirement for your career, obtain one if you are in a business-related position. Statistically speaking, the higher your degree, the higher your pay. If your company will not adjust your pay based on an advanced degree, consider alternative positions or companies.
2. Research salaries for your career and position. Make copies of the data to provide to your supervisor. ('How to Get a Pay Raise,' linked in Resources below, provides advice on this meeting.) Before taking this route, however, ensure that you have been performing well, so the boss cannot find an easy reason to turn you down.

3. Present your case, with salary survey data, to your supervisor. Tell him you would like to be considered for a raise out of sequence. If this is not possible because of your company's compensation rules, ask to be given a larger increase at the normal salary review. You may also wish to consider other, more lucrative careers.
4. Apply for promotions. If the new job involves supervising others, get experience by volunteering to head teams at work and taking the initiative to oversee new projects. Be sure supervisors take into account any experience you have supervising outside of work (such as military, prior jobs or community service).
5. Take a part-time job at night or on weekends. Contact employment agencies and local stores or businesses to advise them of your availability. This solution can provide a temporary boost to your cash flow problems..
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Make money online by doing surveys, writing blogs or selling on eBay. If you have a little spare time each week, you could find these money-making ventures helpful and can work from home.

How to Make Money from Advertisers when Selling eBooks Online

1. Trial Pay is a new payment platform that increases your customer's willingness to pay for your product.
2. Here is the concept. You create a special offer or make your item free to the buyer if the buyer completes an offer with an advertiser. An offer is something like a free trial at NetFlix, 25 free music downloads from eMusic, a free audiobook from Audible, or a free membership to Blockbuster.

3. If your customer completes the offer, he gets your item for free or at a discount, and the advertiser pays you anywhere from $10 to $25 or more. So, instead of the customer paying you for the product, the advertiser pays you more than the customer would have.
4. To try this program, sign up for Trial Pay and create an account. (See the resources section below.) Then create an offer such as 'Get this eBook free!' Add the HTML to your product pages on your website.
5. Why does this strategy work? A customer willing to pay the full price for your eBook may be worth more to an advertiser than your retail price. Think of the big picture. Many online advertisers have customers with lifetime values that range in the $100 to $1,000s. For example, let's say your customer signs up for the NetFlix free trial. He decides likes the service, and converts to a paying customer. NetFlix can make $100s or $1,000s of dollars from that one customer over the next several years. NetFlix's investment was only $20 or so they paid you to get that customer through your website.
6. The customer gets a good deal, gets your eBook free, and gets to try a new product or service for free. You get paid a nice referral fee, and the advertiser gets a new customer. Everyone wins.
7. This type of passive income is much more efficient and can pay much more than pay per click advertising on Google Adsense through affiliate programs. You will still want to do those programs, too, but, the advertisers on Trial Pay will pay you much more.
8. Trial Pay is also a great way to acquire new customers that might not want to pay for your product. In essence, you can make more money from the advertisers than you make selling the actual eBook.
9. See the resource links below for more information on Trial Pay, how the program works, and to see an example of it in use on a website.

How to Earn Money Online With Proofs

1. Build a website. There are many online companies that offer free website-building tools you can use to create your own professional-looking website even without having technical website-building skills. Visit websites such as Webs or Weebly and create an eye-catching website for free.
2. Create content for your website. Write short articles on topics you know a lot about or enjoy participating in (your niche area) from travel advice tips to best cooking practices to include in your website. Share the information, pictures, videos and photos relating to your niche area in your website to build an audience and gain a steady number of visitors to your site every day. You may also use sites like Yahoo Buzz to find out what topics are popular and write on them, to try to bring more traffic to your site.

3. Promote your website. Purchase pay-per-click search engine text/word ads, such as Google AD Word or Yahoo Sponsored Search. Search engine text/word ads display short messages that point to your website along with search engine results. You pay a certain amount every time someone clicks on the link. Also include links to your website on social media websites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
4. Enroll with a pay-per-click program such as Google AdSense or Adbrite and acquire a code for your website. The code will enable ads relevant to your website content to be displayed on the pages of your website. You will earn a certain amount every time someone clicks on the ads.
5. Sell products on your website. Join an affiliate program to sell or promote another merchant's products for a commission. Choose an affiliate product to sell from affiliate networks like Clickbank, Click2Sell or PayDotCom. Get the affiliate link associated with the product and insert the link in your website. Each time someone follows the link and purchases the product, you will earn a certain amount. Sell your own products by listing the products on your site and setting up a payment method, such as PayPal, for accepting online payments.