by The Extraordinary Tourist

Created on: April 01, 2007   Last Updated: May 22, 2007

Diversity, consistent branding and creativity across many web sites will be key factors in starting and maintaining your laptop business empire. No money? No worries. This article will get you started for little or no start up capital depending on the path you follow.

If you're a person who creates art, can write articles, blogs or make short films (or can do all of these) then this article is for you. Many web sites are paying for content from their users. This is a golden opportunity for you to start your laptop empire. The best part is that most of these web sites are free to join and are a lot of fun to create content for.

Getting Paid...

Before you start you'll need a paypal account (www.paypal.com - check to see if there is a local paypal site for your country too). Paypal allows you to be paid no matter where you are in the world. Most web sites prefer to pay you either by cheque or by direct transfer to a paypal account.

Next, you may wish to consider signing up for Google Adsense (www.google.com/adsense). Adsense is a program where you can earn money through relevant advertising placed along side the content you create. For example if you've written an article about 'cats' Google Adsense will show advertising, relevant to cat owners, such as 'cat breeders associations', 'cat posters' etc. You earn money from people clicking on the ads.

Google Adsense is useful because many sites will allow you to earn money from Google Ads placed on their pages if you provide your 'Adsense for Content' code.

Both Paypal and Google Adsense can be linked to a bank account so you can access payments you receive.

Diversity...

Earning money online is a slow process that requires a lot of work. Although there are some web sites that, theoretically, you could earn all your income from it is better not to keep all your eggs in the one basket (or in this case web site).

Spreading yourself across a number of sites will give you access to many different markets of people and provide many opportunities for cross promotion. Be careful not to spam web sites as this will hurt your earning potential. Tell people about your various web site interests as they get to know you.

Deciding which sites to focus on is the fun part. Whilst you do want to be diverse, you can't be everywhere. Pick a range of sites that focus on different aspects of your creativity. This way you won't simply be repeating the same information on each site and you'll be constantly challenging yourself for new ideas.

Consistent

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