by The Funky Olive

Created on: February 06, 2007   Last Updated: April 17, 2007

I currently use five different on-line sites to make money, and I'm not doing too badly at it either. The first one, and the largest money maker for me so far is Cafepress. Here, you can open an on-line shop, either a free basic shop, or for a very small monthly fee, you can open a premium shop, and have a little more freedom in setting up your shop the way you'd like it. You then create graphics (not someone else's copyrighted work - your own) upload them to your shop, place them on the various products available to sell them on, and when you make a sale, the company prints out that item, and ships it to the buyer. This doesn't come without a little hard work on your part, but if you're willing to roll up your sleeves, you can make a nice profit there.

My second, third and fourth sites are all pay to blog sites. Blogitive, which pays a flat commission of $5.00 per posting, with a minimum of 100 words. PayPerPost, which pays a varied range of commission - around $6 - $7 for an average, and a range of anywhere from 50 - 300 words per posting. Some postings pay higher, but your blog has to meet the required page rank, which is also usually higher as well. And Blogvertise, which I don't really have a lot of experience yet, as I have just recently started blogging for them, and have only done one posting so far that paid $7.50 for 200 words.

Lastly of course is right here at Helium, where the dimes keep ringing in, building your earnings a few cents at a time! I believe the key to making money here is by regularly putting out quality informative articles, regularly rating other articles. Quantity does account for something as well, as the more articles you write, the more that will be viewed, thus the more dimes will ring in for you!

I also used to sell on eBay, but I am finding what I'm doing now is working better for me, as I don't have to parcel up items and make weekly treks to the post office. But don't get me wrong, there is money to be made on eBay, and many people are doing just so.

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