10 Real Make Money Online Ideas

1 Social Media Manager…………………………………………………………………………………………………….2
2 Freelance Content Creator……………………………………………………………………………………………..3
3 Upload and Share Services……………………………………………………………………………………………..5
4 Freelance Photographer and Picture Products……………………………………………………………….6
5 Email Newsletter Writer………………………………………………………………………………………………….9
6 Email blogging………………………………………………………………………………………………………………13
7 Free Website Builder for Local Businesses…………………………………………………………………….16
8 Paid Website Builder for Local Businesses ……………………………………………………………………17
9 Video Tutorials & Affiliate Commissions ………………………………………………………………….…. 20
10 Writing eBooks and Reports……………………………………………………………………………………… 24
Bonus Idea no 11…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….28
Resources………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..31
Copyright Tim’s Minions 2012.
Contents

In this report we have a list of several small home business ideas we Minions have recently come up
with.
We sat down and brainstormed a few ideas, the ideas had to be things that people could do easily
and as cheaply as possible if not for free which they could potentially start as soon as they had read
this report, some of the ideas then could be charged to a third party. As we sat and talked the ideas
evolved, some investment may be required for a few of the ideas but not a lot, should you decide to
invest or need to it is well within the reach of the average person. I think we Minions have come up
with some great ideas at least there are plenty of ideas that you can work on to come up with your
own working idea.
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information in this eBook is at your own responsibility.
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This is a good business that most people can get into from the comfort of their own homes. If you are
pretty good with Facebook and Twitter and have a rough idea about setting up pages, running adverts
in Facebook or starting Twitter chats with hash tags you can easily approach local businesses and
offer them a monthly package where you over see their social media presence.
This can be free to do, all you will need is the login details of each account that you are paid to
oversee. If you have a lot of accounts then you may choose to invest in things like Hootsuite.com or
Tweetadder to aid your work.
Hootsuite and Tweetadder help automate the processes; Hootsuite will incorporate many Social
Media networks whereas Tweetadder is for Twitter only. TweetAdder is an awesome piece of
software and you can see our review of the software here TweetAdder Review. Hootsuite comes with
a monthly cost and TweetAdder is a one off cost.
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If as part of your Social Media business you ran adverts for companies then you may need some cash
to get the campaigns rolling before you invoice them later. You could set up the adverts to your
clients company credit card so your client is billed directly by Facebook and not you, you invoice your
clients for your work separately. The beauty of this business is that you can work for several
companies at a go.
Social Media is all the rage at the moment; it is pretty easy to do from the comfort of your own home
if you have a room set aside so you are not distracted. Companies want people to build them lists of
fans and followers, to promote their products and services as well as interact and engage with their
newly found friends. Can you do that?
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What do blogs need? What do internet marketers require? Content! Without fresh unique content
the blogger has nothing for their readers to read, nothing to keep them on the site where they make
their affiliate sales, without content the internet marketer does not have a product to sell or give
away.
If you are good at one or more of the following, writing articles or eBooks, creating video tutorials,
recording Podcasts, editing audio or video, creating graphics or infographs and other skills you may
think off, then you could approach well known bloggers or internet marketers and offer them your
services as a price per job.
Again this can be done from home; many of them can cost nothing to do like writing reports and this
business can generate work in many ways, emailing websites and blogs, opening up accounts on sites
like Elance.com and via your own blog/social media networks.
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Video tutorials can be done using free online software if you choose not to buy the expensive stuff
like Camtasia, as long as you can make professional looking tutorials you will have skills that many
internet marketers require, skills that they will happily pay for.
Online screen capture software that you can use for free are screencast-o-matic.com and
screenr.com.
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There are many networks where you can join as a writer and get paid to write articles for blog
owners. Elance.com, Rentacoder.com and Odesk.com are three of the most popular sites where you
can offer your services to blog and website owners.
Podcasts can very easily be made by using free software called Audacity that you can download from
the web at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download .
Using a decent headset, which can cost as little as $46 (£30), you talk and record yourself with
Audacity which will create a recording that you can edit and add intro music if you decide it needs it.
You can save the Podcast as an MP3 but you will need to download a free extension for that to work.
The extension can be found at http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar . To see how easy it is to record a Podcast
and upload it to your own Wordpress blog/website watch the tutorial here Adding Podcasts To Your
Wordpress Site
Maybe you are better at art than you are writing and creating Podcasts or videos. If you are using a
PC there is a great free arts software called Paint.net (that is its name not its web address). You can
create great graphics, website headers, banner ads and newsletter graphics in this software.
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I have done a quick tutorial showing you how to use this software to create a header and how to
install it in a Wordpress site; you can watch the video here Creating a Header in Paint.net.. YouTube is
full of great videos showing you how to use this software. The Paint.net software can be downloaded
from Getpaint.net .
You might prefer to write reports or eBooks for people and if that is the case we have
also created a guide showing you how to create and format an eBook, with a useable
eBook template. You can download both the guide and the template from our website
here How To Create and format an eBook.
Each one of the above can be done for other people who will happily pay you to do
the work!
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Many bloggers and internet marketers get traffic to their sites by spreading their content around the
web to satellite sites, article directories, photo storage sites and social media networks. Doing all of
this yourself can take a big chunk of time out of a bloggers/ internet marketers day.
Places like Fiverr.com have people offering their services to create accounts with places like
pixelpipe.com which is a mass media distribution site. So we know there is a demand for it.
3 Upload and Share Services
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This small home business idea is to have these people create pixelpipe.com accounts for
you for a few pounds (or do them yourself) then offer your services as a media
distribution service sending pictures, videos and articles for companies to the four corners
of the web each week.
You could charge per job or as an on-going monthly plan. This could become a simple
middleman business, where you pay people on Fiverr.com to do the uploading and
sharing while you charge a higher rate to businesses. Reducing your work down to nothing
more than liaising between your client and the person you are paying to do the work. This
could be an add on to the social media management business idea.
You may think that if people are going to email you stuff to be uploaded then they might
as well do it themselves, well this is where sites like Dropbox.com come in handy, you
open up a Dropbox account and invite your clients to join, you both download the
Dropbox folder and then you and your client simply drop files into it as you would any
other folder and those files are saved to the same folder on both yours and your clients
computers.
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They are also stored by the third party Dropbox on their servers so both you and your
clients have access to the same files when you are away from your computers. It is far
easier than trying to attach files to emails all the time. Go to the Dropbox site and watch
the video on the home page for more information. There is a free service but the more
you use it and the more people you add to it then you will need to subscribe to a paid
option.
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Everyone these days has access to a high definition digital camera either as a camera or on their
mobile phones. Usually they are with them every day of the week and what is it that bloggers, and
websites need? That is right, pictures!
If you have a great eye for a picture or take interesting pictures you can start taking pictures and sell
them via sites like iStock.com and Corbisimages.com. There are more than those two sites where you
can upload pictures to. Some may require your pictures to be of a professional high standard.
When someone wants to use your images they buy them from sites like Corbis and iStock, who take a
cut and then send you your share. Professional photographers will have photos loaded up to several
sites and earn revenue from all the sites when their images are bought.
4 Freelance Photographer and Picture Products
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The other small home business ideas we came up with to do with photography was having your own
photoblog where you sell from it products like T-Shirts, mugs, calendars, and notebooks that have
your photos printed on them. These can be printed at places like Cafepress.com. CafePress is not the
only printing company that will print and ship your product then send you a cheque at the end of the
month.
In this day of home publishing you could have your own picture books printed, for example, if you
appreciated street art and had a large collection of graffiti from around the world, those pictures
could be turned into books, and printed onto T-shirts. Those T- Shirts could be shown in the back
page of the book; the book can direct people to your blog where you sell the T-Shirts from.
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CafePress has over 250 items it can print your design onto. There are 7 different CafePress sites
dealing with Canada, UK, USA, Germany, France, Spain and Australia. Each one has a basic shopfront
that they will HOST for you so you do not need to have a blog if you just wanted to sell T-shirts, Mugs,
Journals, Baby Clothing etc. direct from CafePress. There a 2 ways to open up a CafePress store. I will
let CafePress.com explain in their own words…
Option A: No Up-front costs
When selling products, you earn royalties. From monthly checks we deduct 10% (up to a $10
maximum).
NOTE: This is $10 of royalties, not total sales volume.
Examples:
If you earn a $30 royalties for the month, we deduct 10% ($3) and mail you a check for $27.
If you earn a $300 royalties for the month, we deduct only $10 (not the full 10%, which would be $30).
So you get a check for $290.
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Option B: Pre-pay & save money
We'll bill your credit card each month:
$6.95 per month
$18.45 for 3 months ($6.15 a month)
$34.95 for 6 months ($5.83 a month)
$59.95 for 1 year (only $5 per month)
Not only can you set the amount of profit you want to make off of each item once CafePress have
deducted their base price (materials, manufacturing costs and overheads) you also receive a
performance bonus based on the amounts of sales.
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There have been many stories made public of people making six figure businesses selling T-Shirts
through CafePress. You could possibly be the next. Below is a screenshot of some of the successful
CafePress shops.
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Very simple designs can sell well, they can be single line drawings like stick men or just simple sayings
like ‘S**t Happens’. You could take simple black and white photographs and with software like Paint,
Word or Paint.net add basic text to create a funny picture that can be used. Photos can be uploaded
and modified in online software like Photobucket.com.
CafePress is not the only place around that offers a print on demand service, there are many others. If
you wanted you could set up your own site and advertise all of your products on it along with places
like eBay and when someone comes to buy the product they will be sent to CafePress where the
payments are dealt with. You do not need to print, pack or post anything. CafePress and the other
companies deal with all of that.
All you have to do is create the designs and choose which products to promote then send traffic to
your own site or CafePress store.
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In many ways this takes a lot of the hard work out of the equation, if you did everything yourself,
including sourcing the products, printing onto them, packing them, posting them, taking the orders,
building the websites, promoting the site, creating new designs etc. Al of that would take up all of
your time and not give you any room to succeed. At least with CafePress you can create the designs
and focus on building your online brand and promote your site without all of the other time sapping
jobs. Not forgetting it saves you buying all of the expensive printing equipment!
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This is an exciting idea we came up with, I personally think it is an awesome idea (Andi the Minion).
Websites, blogs and businesses are told that they need an email newsletter and that they should
build email lists, and this is true, they spend a lot of time and money building these email lists but do
not know how or what to write in the newsletters. Some new websites and blogs do not have
newsletters and should!
To be on top of your game you need to be sending out a newsletter each week with fresh content.
We believe that newly formed, up and coming websites, blogs & businesses would love a service
where they get their newsletters written for free.
For FREE? I hear you shout!
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Yes for free, and here is why:
You offer to write emails and newsletters for people but they must leave in a link to either your own
site or an affiliate offer. That is the deal, to get a fully working content rich newsletter they must allow
you to promote to the list as payment.
Originally the idea came about as a way to build an email list for free without having the cost of a
website. The idea is you write all the emails and newsletters for several websites giving you several
fresh and large lists to use as your own.
You could be promoting to thousands of people within months maybe even weeks. Depending on the
sites you approach you could be promoting to thousands of people as soon as you start.
You could share any earnings with the website owner or do alternative promotions where you
promote a product then the next time you promote a product for the owner.
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If you actually run the whole email campaign for them, setting up the email capture form, creating
the follow up sequence and writing the emails then you can have control over all the links in the
emails.
With some smart planning you could build up the newsletter subscribers for several businesses, by
using things like list swaps and solo ads. The bigger lists your clients get the happier they will be and
you will have bigger lists to advertise your site/services/affiliate links to.
If you are thinking that businesses won’t like the idea of you linking to your site or your affiliate offers
think of this for a minute.
The website/business owner who needs an email newsletter has to either write it themselves which
takes time if they do not know how or what to write about and writing a newsletter can rob them of
valuable time which could be used for something more productive and cost effective, or they pay
someone to write the newsletter for them.
If they employ someone just to write the newsletter it will cost them a lot even if it’s part time or
they can outsource it which for a long helpful newsletter could cost them a fair bit of money, money
they do not have.
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They cannot measure what you earn from your links as it is something that is a result from
a) You building an email list for free for them which they were not doing anyway and
b) Is saving them money which they will see more than the perceived loss.
(Try imagining loosing something when you had nothing to start with!)
For this small home business idea to work you will require an email auto responder account. (If you
are taking over the whole set up and management role) There are a few free ones like Mail Chimp
where it is free up to a certain amount of people on your lists or the industry standard is Aweber,
here you can have a $1 (£0.62) trial for the first month. It then goes up to $19 (£11.81) a month after
that. However, we believe you should be making the money back fairly quickly after starting.
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Originally we thought this idea would be good for those without a website however it might be
worthwhile having your own blog while you do this, at a cost of about $46(£30) a year to host; a blog
is one of the cheapest investments you can ever make.
The emails you send out to your clients can link back to your site which can bring in good free traffic
where you can build your own list and eventually sell your own products or generate revenue from
advertising and affiliate offers.
To make the emails look more professional, you could source pictures and fonts from the sites that
you are offering your services to and head over to Fiverr.com to have some professional HTML email
templates made up.
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The site owners would love the professional looking newsletters you are sending out. These
templates can have a picture button or link pointing back to your site.
In many ways this is a case of hijacking other people’s traffic, but done in a seriously ethical way that
has a win win situation for both parties. Once your business is growing and your clients email lists are
growing you could start to charge for the service. (You could start charging for the service from the
beginning for a small fee, we thought a free service would be snapped up giving you the chance to
use the lists as you build them)
One you have over 2000 subscribers to the newsletter you then offer a monthly service fee for the
extra work involved. You could then outsource the writing of the newsletters allowing you to build
your business in other ways.
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While you are writing the newsletters for your clients you slowly build up your own email lists on your
own site or sites, adding more and more names to your list so should any of your clients decide to no
longer use your services you are not left stranded without a business.
There are many ways to evolve this small home business idea, in fact home business idea is an
understatement, this is a web based business that can be run from anywhere in the world.
Every newsletter that you write will need articles and this is usually easier than you might think. As
most information based sites usually cover topics based in fact you can re write almost anything. Fact
cannot be copyrighted. Most philosophies and ideas are shared by many, who can have ownership on
the thought ‘Chinese food is tasty’? Copyright is assigned mostly to how the article is written not
what the topic is about.
The other point is that most email newsletters are only seen by those who receive them, they are not
usually on a website for all to see. What you do is re write interesting and popular blog articles, that
way you make them yours and who is to know that they are based on someone else’s work, it will
look different anyway.
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The quicker form of newsletter is the kind where you source 4 or 5 interesting articles; you add a link
to the article and add a short summary giving any website and author credits just to be safe. The
newsletter subscriber would still be happy as they receive a newsletter with interesting and relevant
articles. They just need to click on the links to read them.
The downside to this method is you can lose people to other sites should they find the articles you
suggested are on better sites, they may unsubscribe from your newsletter. I personally would not
focus on this method as the main method, maybe linking to one ‘Related’ article in a newsletter now
and again might be a good feature. To be safe, re write any interesting articles you find. Make the
articles your own!
There are companies that supply writing services for websites, in many ways you can become a
service like that. You and maybe a few friends/employees spend your time crafting great looking
newsletters for companies that get sent out once a week.
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Can you imagine how much time you are freeing up to a blog/site owner by offering to write quality
newsletters for them? How grateful do you think they would be if they hadn’t started to collect
emails to build a list or if they had but hadn’t gotten round to creating the follow sequence and
emails and then you come along offering them a constant supply of great relationship building
content? I think they would be very grateful, not just for the fact that you would supply them with
quality newsletters but you have also saved them a lot of time looking for that right person to
outsource the writing to.
The beauty of this idea is that it has a very low cost if any cost to start it. You could start right now by
going to Google, looking for websites without email capture forms and emailing them. Sign up to a
few newsletters or email forms on sites you believe are in need of help and see what you get, if you
can help them, send them an email with your proposition.
See what response you get, after all, it doesn’t cost you a single penny to send out an email. If this
idea sounds good to you, keep at it, don’t give up if your first 10 or 20 emails are rejected or not
replied to. You only need a few to get you going. What do you think?
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Slightly different to email marketing or an email newsletter and the normal version of blogging, an
email blog is the combination of the two. Instead of a blog you create a single one page squeeze page
where you collect emails to build an email list; the normal practice is to give away a great valuable
resource like an eBook. When you are building up your list you email your list with what can only be
described as a blog post.
If you use Wordpress or want to create one page squeeze pages quickly Optimizepress is a Wordpress
theme that not only allows you to create great looking squeeze pages fast, it also allows you to create
a blog and a membership area of the same site.
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Instead of writing a post and adding it to a blog you send it to your email list, and you do this
regularly. People love receiving valuable information, and that is what you do, similar to a newsletter
but without so many promotional emails and a lot more quality content. The normal industry
standard for a newsletter is 50% content to 50% promotions.
Many marketers now only seem to send out emails when they find a product to promote. With this
system you provide 80% content - 20% promotions or maybe 90%-10%. This might sound bad when
you want to make money on-line but there is a reason for this which will reward you nicely.
The main idea behind email blogging is that you provide seriously good content. A bonus of email
blogging over normal blogging is that it is easier, cheaper and quicker to implement. After writing out
your post you paste it into your email broadcast and hit send. There are no SEO tricks required, you
don’t need any images unless you choose to have them. You don’t need to create internal links to
other posts or external sites, again unless you decide to.
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6 Email blogging
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However saying that, having a link back to your site or squeeze page in your email is very
advantageous, imagine you got a fantastic email with an idea about an online business idea that you
wanted to try and you knew people who might be interested, you probably would forward it on. Your
quality email blog posts could go viral or at least be passed around a bit which could get you more
subscribers.
Unlike the usual email marketing methods this is all about giving ideas and methods that work, things
that people would like, the idea is to get people looking forward to the email arriving, waiting
desperately to see what great ideas or advice are in the email.
Obviously you can also run a regular blog if you choose to; you can link to the squeeze page and get
people to sign up for your special members only email blog. Having a blog is a great way for people
to see that you are an authority and a name within your niche, not just some random squeeze page
that is floating in cyber space belonging to an unknown person.
You don’t have to add blog posts regularly, as long as it is updated enough for new and existing
visitors to see that the site is alive and that you are adding valuable content to the community. What
your blog should really do is get as many more people as possible to sign up for your email blog.
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This is what you need to do
• Buy a domain and hosting (Hostgator)
• Create a one page squeeze page (Optimizepress)
• Create a giveaway list building product like an eBook or video
• Set up an autoresponder (Aweber)
• Create 10 quality follow up emails
• Create another report, eBook or video to sell (or promote someone else’s quality product)
• Rinse and Repeat
When you have a 10 – 15 page report set up as your incentive to get people on your list, you then
write 10 follow up emails, these are to be the longer than normal emails that you probably get, cram
them full of great tips and ideas, give the reader a reason to appreciate the email. Set them to go out
every week at the same time. Keep adding new emails to the system so that they build up, when new
people sign up to your list they will get the emails in the sequence from the beginning.
The next step is to promote products but as stated earlier you do not promote the usual Clickbank
stuff every week. You do less promoting and you chose your products wisely. Ideally you would create
another product of your own and charge up to £17 or $17.
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This is great for seeing how many of your list are buyers, if you have your own product with your
name over it and you have been giving them great information for the last 10 weeks they are more
likely to buy your product than one from some random guy.
You then create a string of follow up products; you may decide to go with the £17/$17 range for
everything. Some people have done very well by offering loads of quality reports for £5/$5 or £7/$7
every month. Please remember though, the important thing here is that you first and foremost
provide quality useful information for your subscribers.
Imagine each month you sell 100 small eBooks or reports at just £7/$7. You would have made
£700/$700
It is basic business practice, keep your customers happy and your customers will keep you happy. And
by far the best way to keep your customers happy is to provide a great service and user experience
and they will reward you by spending their money with you.
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This one is a great little system to make money; the hardest part is convincing smaller businesses to
have a website. This idea relies on offering to build them a free website. The deal is that they must
get the hosting from Hostgator. Once you join Hostgator as an affiliate they pay you every time you
get them new customers.
The more customers you get them each month the more you earn. If you get them up to 5 new
customers you will earn $50 per customer. So you will earn $250. Up to 10 people then you will earn
$75 per new customer so you will generate $450.
If you can refer 21 new people then you will earn $125 per new customer. That is a ONE time
payment not a continual monthly payment. You have to hit the numbers per month to receive the
amount. For example the first month you refer 5 people then you earn $50 per person. The second
month you do 20 referrals then you get $100 per person but the following week you only refer 7
people then you get $75 per sign up.
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As part of the deal you can offer to write a free email newsletter each week and have a link to your
own site or affiliate offers as suggested in idea no 5. You could offer to build the free website,
knowing how easy it is to install Wordpress then charge an on-going monthly charge to maintain the
site, write emails and create and run Twitter & Facebook accounts.
Small business are suffering, several small business have been saved by creating an online presence
using blogs and Social Media, connecting their services to people who wasn’t aware of who they
were or what they did.
Small businesses are calling out for help, and you can offer it. Keeping costs down for them will help
them to decide to take you up on your offer. If they get a free website built by you, you still get paid
via Hostgator so you don’t lose out.
If getting paid by Hostgator once isn’t for you, you could always buy a reseller package with a hosting
company and charge a monthly hosting fee as well as a maintenance fee for the newsletter, Social
Media package.
Who can benefit from this service? Bakers, plumbers, bricklayers, Coffee shops, martial arts clubs,
sports clubs, virtually anyone you can think of.
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Today’s post is about a little system that many ingenious people are secretly using to make good
money. You may recall that I recently blogged about becoming a middleman style business where you
created a website and creamed off profits from transactions made between two separate parties.
I used Fiverr.com as an example of such a site, where they take $1 from every $5 transaction that is
made from through their site. Well this idea is similar, it is still a middleman business but for this to
work you will not need a website set up like Fiverr, you could in theory run this business without a
website, it would look odd if you didn’t have one and you will see why shortly.
The website you would need for this business would be a fairly simple even basic cheap to run
website. It needs to look good but that’s about it. This little business idea is about leveraging the skills
of the people you find on Fiverr and offering it to people who need a website but have no
understanding of the internet and charging them a fee.
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Can using Fiverr.com make you money? The answer is yes, it has been making money for more people
than you can imagine and we are not talking about the people who actually sell their skills on there
for $5. So how do can you use Fiverr to make you money?
Local Businesses are in Need of Help.
Many small local businesses in many countries are suffering due to the state of the economies,
people are struggling to make ends meet and the only way to go forward is to earn money. To do that
they need to advertise their services to more and more people, their businesses can benefit from
going online. Going online can open these businesses up to a wider audience of potential customers.
We are talking about the smaller local businesses that you will find in your town and surrounding area
that do not have a website or a social media profile. If you are not aware, website development
companies in the US, UK and Australia can charge a lot of money for basic websites. The cost of living
and general overheads in these countries make it ridiculously hard to keep the prices down without
losing profit.
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You on the other hand, will not have loads of overheads; you will not need a big office full of the
latest powerful computers or expensive software. You won’t be hiring University graduates with
degrees in design or web sciences. Neither will you be paying by the hour or paying for down time.
No, you will hire people on Fiverr to do the jobs that are needed to create great looking but simple
Wordpress sites for your clients. There are people from around the world who own the super
computers and expensive software who have the relevant degrees or skills to do the work you
require.
They can build the professional looking sites that are good enough for smaller businesses that just
need a site as an online brochure and a place of contact.
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They can design the impressive logos and headers or set up the Facebook pages for your clients for $5
(£3.21) per job.
I don’t need to tell you how great and versatile Wordpress is or what functionality it can have with
the array of plugins and Themes that are available. Wordpress sites will easily cover the needs of
small local businesses.
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The Internet Business Opportunity We Call A Fiverr to Thousands.
So here is what you do, go through the local directory looking at the local businesses that you believe
haven’t got a website and who could benefit from having one. Do a quick Google search to double
check they haven’t got a website. Write out a letter template that you send to all the businesses
telling them about the great offer you have. (Remembering to change the company name and details
for each letter) 
You could try phoning and emailing the companies too. Maybe send a letter then follow up a few days
later over the phone asking if they received the letter and explain a bit more what you are offering.
In the letter refer your potential clients to a website with more details and a few examples of the kind
of sites they can have. Your website would be like an online colour brochure, you can lay out in detail
the benefits of having a website and what your offer can do for them.
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Offer them a package that is far cheaper than traditional web design companies but is a lot more than
what you will pay to have the work done via Fiverr. If a client is interested you can have them buy a
hosting package via a link on your site that is an affiliate link to someone like Hostgator. So not only
do you get paid for creating their website you get paid by the hosting company for referring your
clients to them.
Hostgator and other companies can pay as much if not more per new customer than you will have
paid the people on Fiverr to actually do the work.
The website package could include, registering a domain name, getting hosting (if you pay for the
hosting through your own account you will not get an affiliate commission but you could charge a
monthly fee) installing Wordpress, creating a custom logo and header.
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There could be a total of 5 Fiverr jobs in the package, at a cost of $25 (£16), you could then charge
the client $250 (£160). You could also add content creation like article writing or a couple of social
media accounts into the package and charge a premium price for the set up.
You do not do any of the work unless you want to, adding Wordpress is simple enough, you could
outsource the graphics and other jobs to Fiverr.com and do a couple of the simpler tasks yourself.
Fiverr has workers from all over the world, many of them have learnt the same skills as their
counterparts in the US and UK but they live in places where the cost of living is very low. Many of
these countries are emerging from poorer statuses so their skills and access to technology is great but
the cost of services and living on the whole is poor.
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An extra $5 (£3.21) an hour to them is a great supplement to their weekly wage whereas in the UK for
example, even the simplest jobs are protect by a minimum wage that is higher than what you pay on
Fiverr. Try getting a skilled person to do an after hour’s job for less than a Starbucks coffee in the UK, I
believe it will be virtually impossible.
This is one of those internet business opportunities that doesn’t rely on search traffic so you can be
immune to any Google slaps. As you are a specific job and localised you should never have any issues
really with Google ranking. As you are attracting smaller local businesses you can advertise in the
local directories and papers, you are in control of contacting companies and attracting your clients
outside of the search engine arena. This kind of business wouldn’t have been possible 10 years ago
but now the internet is bringing people together and shrinking the world, we can connect and create
a workforce around the world. Saving you money in overheads and generating more profit per job. So
does that sound good?
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They say that ‘FREE Is A Magic Number, yes I know it isn’t a number but it is loosely based on the old
song ‘Three Is A Magic Number’ by Bob Dorough.
The idea behind this online business is that when you give away great quality content for free people
will love you and come back for more. They will trust you and respect you.
After all in this world where a lot of people are trying to take everything for nothing and scam people
out of their hard earned cash, when you give something of value away for nothing then it is
appreciated greatly and leaves a great impression in the mind of the person who has received your
free information.
This idea is based on creating great quality free video tutorials and generating affiliate commissions
from the products and services you show how to use in the tutorials.
9 Video Tutorials & Affiliate Commissions.
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As an example, there are people who do not know how to register a domain, get a hosting account,
point the domain to the hosting companies name servers, add and set up a Wordpress site including
installing all the right plugins.
Well here is what you do, if you know how to do those things, (or different things) you create a series
of easy to follow tutorials showing exactly what you do, you upload the videos to YouTube then
create a Wordpress site where you embed the videos. Below each video you have some text and an
affiliate link or banner advert to the relevant places like
• GoDaddy - Domain Registration
• Hostgator – Hosting account
• Woo Themes – Premium Wordpress Themes.
The videos can be about anything as long as you can find a good relevant affiliate match for them.
Should you not be any good at anything particular that can be made into a video tutorial, why not
watch other people’s videos and follow what they do? Record yourself doing the same thing and set
up a site full of tutorials with affiliate offers.
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You don’t need to be an expert to start with and by the time you have watched the video, done what
you saw in the tutorial and created your own videos you will know as much as the expert and more
than the average Joe. Should anyone ask you a question you will be in a good enough place to answer
them.
If you do not have professional screen capture software like Camtasia you can create the videos using
free online software like screencast-o-matic.com. This software allows you to record 15 minutes of
free video before needing to upgrade. There are others that allow you to film 5 minutes of video, one
site is screenr.com.
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15 minutes is usually long enough for a video tutorial. Most people find it hard to sit and watch long
winded tutorials and would rather watch several short videos so if you need longer than 15 minutes
for a video it might be better to break it up into shorter parts.
The software will record what you do on the screen, you can have some readymade slide show
screens with wording on them that you can refer to when you need to or if you use something like
Camtasia you can add these in during the editing.
A screen can have a call to action like ‘to get recommended hosting click on the link below for
Hostgator’. If you are unable to add these slides you can add annotations to the video after they have
been uploaded to YouTube. Annotations can have the same call to actions in them.
You could do videos showing how to create header graphics. If you had your header graphic done at a
company then you could possibly do a video on uploading and placing the graphic into the Wordpress
site and again have an affiliate link below the video to the design company.
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There are so many possible slants to this idea, with free and affordable Wordpress themes designed
to embed mainly video a site can be made and filled with tutorials surrounded by Google AdSense
and affiliate offers.
So many videos can be given away free in exchange for an email address to build an email list to
promote to. To get the rest of the videos in the series they need to give you their email address and
you can send them the rest.
You could charge up front for access to the videos as a tutorial course once you have made them
which goes against the free model here however you could use something like MediaPass that allows
you to lock so many videos behind a pay to see wall.
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MediaPass is a company that will take credit card payments, they take a percentage of your
transaction fee, they deal with all the payments, customers and issues then they send you your
money after their fees are taken out.
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A few videos can be offered for free with affiliate links and then the rest can be locked behind the
MediaPass wall. These can be the all-important videos that are needed to finish off the project or
take it to the next level.
I have heard of one guy who built a website using other peoples Yoga videos that he sourced on
YouTube then charged a monthly membership fee.
Wordpress sites can be turned into membership sites by using several Plugins and Themes. Some of
these are premium Plugins and Themes so they do cost but they can be easily integrated with
merchant companies like PayPal.
As this eBook is about business ideas that you can start from home fairly quickly and cheaply I will not
go into membership sites here today. That is for a more complicated report however to read more on
the Membership Website model Click Here.
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This has two parts to this chapter which can either be two parts to one business or two separate
individual businesses. The cost of this one can be zero, if you have a computer, which as you are
reading this online based eBook I assume you have, you can start to work on this business idea soon
as you have finished reading this eBook.
Websites and blogs like to give their email newsletter readers free eBooks and reports, many of them
like to give them away as a ‘lead magnet’ to create email lists and many also like to sell them. But
often they are so busy they do not have the time to sit and write them themselves. They go to places
like Elance.com and Rentacoder.com to find people who will write them for them, often at a real
expense.
10 Writing eBooks and Reports.
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This idea is simple, you contact websites and blogs that offer newsletters or maybe don’t and should
then tell them you will write them an exclusive eBook about any topic they choose. If they accept you
agree a price then start writing in the comfort of your own home. You could write this at the table
while you watch your favourite TV shows if you so wished.
You should have some form of writing software similar to Word, if not you can download Open Office
which is a free open source software. There are templates available for eBooks and reports online, we
have one that you can download along with a guide here How to Create and Format an eBook.
If you think you cannot write an eBook or report then I suggest you think again. All the information
you need is on the internet, doing several Google searches and copying much of what you find into a
document will give you plenty of information that you can then re write into your own eBooks and
reports.
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As long as you don’t just copy and paste other peoples work into your eBook you should be safe.
Most things cannot be copyrighted as it is FACT. Fact cannot be copyrighted, just the way it is written.
Simply re write much of what you have read into your own words. An eBook or report similar to this
one looks better if they are filled out with helpful pictures, many of these are screenshots which can
be created easily and edited in free art software like Paint or Paint.net for PCs. (There are equivalent
software for Mac available).
Press the Print Screen button found on the right side of the keyboard at the top (for PCs) to take a
picture of your screen, open up Paint.net, press Ctrl +v and paste the image into Paint.net ready for
cropping.
You could download Jing which is free software that allows you to choose the area you want to take a
picture off and save it to your computer.
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It doesn’t take long to write a report when you have an idea of what you want it to be about and
what information you want it to contain. Within a few days of work you could have created an eBook
littered with affiliate links for a client who would happily pay good money for it. Let’s say you spent 3
evenings creating a short report full of affiliate links for a client. He could make several hundred
pounds/dollars from either selling it and/or affiliate commissions sales so why would they not pay
good money for your work?
After all you have created a product that they didn’t have and probably wouldn’t have had which has
earned them some extra money. Had they tried to write it themselves they would have lost time that
they would normally and preferably spent on doing other things so you have saved them time, work
and made them money. Do you think they would like that? Of course they would!
Graphics for the eBook could be done by outsourcing the work to someone on Fiverr.com to do while
you write the book. $5 is roughly £3.23. It’s not a lot to pay for someone else to do the work is it?
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If you prefer to do the cover yourself you could invest in some great software like ECoverCreator
which has a onetime cost but allows you to create stunning covers.
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Once you have written the eBook or report it will need to be converted to a PDF, this can be done
with the newer version of Word or if you do not have any way of converting your eBook to a PDF then
there are online versions like FreePDFConvert.com. We cover that in more detail in the guide How to
Create and Format an eBook.
Creating eBooks and reports is not hard once you get started, they can cover any topic as long as they
are helpful. As well as creating eBooks for others, or instead of, you could create many small reports
or eBooks helping to solve specific problems for people, and give them away yourself for free with
links to affiliate products embedded within.
Products that will help the reader, as an example, a small report about how to get rid of belly fat and
improve your stomach could have an affiliated link to a product like The Truth About Abs. These
affiliate products can be found by joining up to affiliate networks like Clickbank.com and
Digiresults.com.
When you write your eBook giving really helpful information that teaches the reader how to do
something or how to overcome issues you add links that send them to products they may need and
use. Images can be added to the bottom of pages that are also linked to the actual product.
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Many of the newer PDF creators will keep the links and image links in PDFs active, some may disarm
them, usually it’s the image link which is disarmed so if your PDF creator disarms the image link add a
text link below the image telling the reader what they need to do, which is CLICK the LINK. Should
anyone who clicks the link, goes to the product page and buys the product, you get a commission for
the sale.
With most products from these affiliate networks being digital and requiring nothing more than an
electronical download instead of a postal delivery of a physical product you can earn commissions up
to 75% of the sale price. There are some networks that pay 100% commissions and you do not need
to wait for the money. They will pay once the sale is done via PayPal. They give 100% commissions as
they do it as a list building exercise, they will earn the money back at a later date. Digiresults.com,
WarriorPlus.com and JVZoo.com are two networks that offer instant payment and 100% commissions
on some products.
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If doing the research for writing eBooks sounds like a lot of hard work, there are a couple of things
you can do, you could buy a pre written eBook from places like Master-Resale-Rights.com and
MasterResaleRights.com for a few pounds/dollars and re write the book or if you buy those that allow
you to completely re brand it as your own then add a few affiliate links and products to them.
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Most of the work is done for you, and as the screenshot above shows, these books are sold very
cheap. Two of the books in the image above are being sold at $3.99 that is £2.58 for our UK readers.
For $15/£10 you could have a collection of eBooks that you could simply re write and re package with
affiliate links that you could sell to many, sell as one offs to website and list owners or give away for
free to build up email lists or create an online viral library of books circling the web loaded with all
your affiliate links.
There are many ways to get your eBooks out to the masses for free, you could offer them to websites
with email lists who need free information and gifts for their lists. You can upload them to PDF share
sites like Scribd.com, unfortunately many of the PDF share sites like Scribd can disarm the links
however those sites can have short reports that direct the reader to get the better eBook from your
own website.
You can create free Facebook pages and Twitter accounts in the niches that match your eBooks and
give them away free to fans and followers who will then pass them onto their friends if they found
them to be helpful.
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In this bonus section we wanted to go a little bit wild, what if you believe you cannot do any of the
above things like writing, creating graphics or setting up blogs? Do you still think there are no ways
for you to make extra money online?
Well we disagree and wanted to show you a few of the weird and wonderful services people are
offering on sites like Fiverr.com and Gigbucks.com. I cannot say how successful these people are
however there are some strange and crazy things being offered on these sites. We have compiled a
few of the gigs that will hopefully help you think up some ideas of what services you could sell on
these and other sites.
Great idea, do you have a skill that you could teach over a webcam or Skype?
Bonus Idea no 11
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There are a lot of suspicious people out there, even Jamie Oliver’s wife recently confessed
to checking his phone. Could you offer a honey trap service?
Could this one interest stamp collectors or postcard enthusiasts? You could send postcards
to collectors.
Could you do a funny video for both children and adults alike? Ideal for birthdays.
Bonus Idea no 11
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Do you know some great food and drink recipes that you could sell for $5?
Not sure about worrying for someone but could you could offer stress reducing tips over
Skype?
Singing Telegrams used to be hugely popular; could you do an online version?
Bonus Idea no 11
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Websites like interesting promotional photos, could you do something similar?
Oh La La, I will say no more, the image above says it all nicely. Could you…? Hmmm
A very easy to do trick that not a lot of people know, is there any little tricks you can offer like this
one?
We really could go on; there are so many gigs available where people are offering to do so many
diverse things. I have in the past seen a woman willing to dance in a hotdog and pea outfit to the
music of your choice. With a bit of lateral thinking you could think of things that you could do for
money. These are examples from cheap sites, there are no reasons why you cannot use these sites as
a way to find clients then offer a service that is better or longer for more money.
Bonus Idea no 11
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Take the first example of teaching French by Skype, the woman is offering an hour’s tuition that could
be the special discount offer where the customer tries out the lesson, then if they like you and your
teaching methods they could sign up for more hourly lessons at the $20 or $30 per hour price.
People learn more and better when they do with someone. If lessons are scheduled people stick to
them more. If you were relying to learn a language from a CD-ROM the chances are people will not
bother loading the disc and move onto something else. You could easily teach lessons over Skype or
a webcam for money.
With most mobile phones these days having a powerful video recorder installed and the availability of
cheap webcams (most laptops have one built in) you could easily do interesting or funny videos for
people. Sometimes the simplest ideas can become big hits. Now I think we have given you a lot to
think about. It is now over to you. 
We wish you all the best.
Tim’s Minions
Bonus Idea no 11
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Social Media Automation Software
Hootsuite.com
Tweetadder
TweetAdder Review Video
TweetAdder Review
Online Screen Capture Software
screenr.com
screencast-o-matic.com
Audacity Audio Software
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download
MP3 Extension for Audacity
http://lame1.buanzo.com.ar
Resources
Recording a Podcast and Adding to
Wordpress Video
Adding Podcasts To Your Wordpress Site
Paint.net Graphics Software
http://www.getpaint.net
Creating Header Graphic for Wordpress In
Paint.net Video
Creating a Header in Paint.net.
How To Create and Format an eBook Guide
How To Create and format an eBook
Online File Sharing
Dropbox.com

Buy & Sell Photo Stock Sites
iStock.com
Corbisimages.com
Online Photo Storage
Photobucket.com
Cheap Outsourcing sites
Fiverr.com
Gigbucks.com
Standard Outsourcing Sites
Elance.com
Rentacoder.com
ODesk.com
Media Distribution Service
pixelpipe.com
Print On Demand Company
Cafepress.com
Email Auto Responder Company
Aweber
Website Hosting and Domain Registration
Hostgator
GoDaddy
Squeeze page Wordpress Theme
Optimizepress
EBook Cover Creator Software
ECoverCreator
Resources

Online Free PDF Creator
FreePDFConvert.com
Affiliate Networks
Clickbank.com
Digiresults.com
WarriorPlus.com
JVZoo.com
Sites supplying Cheap EBooks with Master
Resale Rights
Master-Resale-Rights.com
MasterResaleRights.com
PDF EBook Sharing Site
Scribd.com
Blogging, Marketing, Social Media Tips,
Tricks, Advice and the Whole 9 Yards
Including the Kitchen Sink
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