Quick Content Cash
This article introduces quick ways to cash in on content — concentrating on profitable activities you can implement in a relatively short amount of time. The important thing to remember while reading this guide is the role content plays in creating income-generating opportunities.
Blogging
Blogging made its online debut as a free forum for sharing personal ideas, thoughts, or experiences. Today, blogging evolved from an electronic diary to a full-blown business opportunity, and there’s no reason why you can’t take advantage of this forum as well. As a business oriented blogger, you can build a blog that links to specific items of interest on your separate, business website. When visitors reach your blog, they can read your link descriptions and then click on over to your business website for more information and of course, to complete a sale.
Remember, blogs are casual communication forums, so your text needn’t be as formal as the text on a business forum. This gives you a wide playing field to work with, and it allows you to use content in unconventional, creative ways! Here are a few forums you can use to create a blog of your own. Be sure to read the user agreements of these forums since they differ.
http://www.aeonity.com
http://www.atom5.com
http://www.blogates.com
http://www.blogeasy.com
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.blogsavy.com
http://www.blogsome.com
http://www.okayblog.net
http://www.supersized.org
http://www.tblog.com
http://www.weblogs.us
http://www.wordpress.com
http://www.blog.com
Of course, reality dictates sales aren’t that predicable, and chances are, visitors may not load up your business website at all. They could simply leave the blog and go somewhere else, empty-handed. As an online merchant, you don’t want your visitors to leave empty-handed. You want them to leave with an intent to buy something.
So the smartest way to capitalize on blog hits is to create income-generating opportunities on the blog. In doing so, you can increase your chances of making money whether your visitors decide to visit your business website or not. After all, ‘Tis better a visitor click an affiliate link or contextual ad on the way out of a website, than to click the back button empty-handed.
Contextual Advertising
Once you’ve placed content onto your blog, you now have a rich set of keywords for contextual advertising systems (like Google Adsense) to respond to. Contextual advertising systems place ads next to content – based on what that content describes. So, for example, if you have material that talks about “cats,” Google Adsense will display ads next to your material that advertise pet care, cat care, cat food, cat toys, and other relevant products.
The best part about contextual advertising systems is that they pay per click. That means if one of your visitors clicks an ad, you get paid a percentage of the advertising fee. You don’t need to wait for a product to sell the way you would have to wait in an affiliate program. Contextual advertising systems pay immediately.
Affiliate Products
Speaking of affiliate programs, you can place affiliate links within your content as well. This gives you even more opportunities to make money from your blog. Here’s a list affiliate programs you can join to generate even more income from the content on your blog. As always, read the user agreements before you use them!
123Posters.com
http://www.123posters.com/
Amazon.Com
http://www.amazon.com
Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Clickbank
http://www.clickbank.com
Commission Junction
http://www.cj.com
LinkShare
http://www.linkshare.com
Viral Content
One of the easiest ways to make money with content is to simply resell it. Since you have the rights to do so, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t capitalize on this opportunity. You can share or sell your content at any price to anyone, anywhere.
