Sunday, November 16, 2008

Making money online is tough business


I am taking a break from the tough business of trying to make money online. This is my farm in Cagayan de Oro City where I planted bananas.

There are goats here too but they are not allowed to enjoy the young banana plants.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Online Stuff

There are a few things a man can do in order to make money online. However, before he can see a cent of this money chances are he will have to shell out a few bucks of his own. If he were a newbie like I was a couple of years ago he probably will think it a piece of cake to get some kind of online business going which is exactly how I thought at that time. If he has some money budgeted for this I am sure he will find no end to the offers on the internet to help him get started.

I was a complete newbie and I absolutely had no idea what I was doing . What I had was an internet connection, no money and a lot of time on my hands. The first thing I did was to google "make money online" and followed every link I could find. The ones that asked for money outright for some kind of "instant business online" I immediately dismissed not simply because I had no money to spend but also because I am a skeptical kind of person. The person who offers to teach you how to make thousands ofdollars for a few bucks is probably going to make thousands of dollars from suckers who go for this pitch.

I also tried some "paid to click" schemes who offered 10, 20, 50 dollars just for signing up. Well, signing up was free so I did that and started working right away. After a while I realized that I was never going to see a cent of that free money and began to get a feeling about the cleverness of these schemes which felt kinda illegal and unethetical at best. There is never a dearth of cleverness on the Internet but as the Romans say, Caveat Emptor. All I can say about this is that these schemes are best left alone.

I then got acquainted with blogs and there are a lot of them which offer free hosting and a chance to make money using Google Adsense and other forms of online advertising.

adsense , advertising, aerobics, africa, agrarian-reform, air-transport,
air-travel, airport, alternative-energy, alternative-fuels, america, american, antioxidants, antivirus, anything-goes, apartments, arms-race, asia, auto-show, aviation, ballet, banking, basketball, baskets, beatles, bipolar-disorder, blogging, bolivia, boracay, buddhism, building, bukidnon, bulldogs, burma, business-finance, business-jets, butterfly, cagayandeoro, camera-phone, cancer-treatment, cars-trucks,cats, cebucity, celebration, cell-phones, censorship, cherry, china, chingsweb, chocolate, cholera, christ, christianity, coffee, communication, computer-programming, condos, cooperatives, cosmetic-surgery, country-music, credit-cards

I got a little bit of hands-on experience with html and css from trying to put ads and links on my blogger blogs.

Check these out: Ching's Way, Ching's Web, Ching's Best, Ching's Illusion