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3 – Selling & Leveraging Digital Content
I’ve been leveraging my digital content since I started blogging back in 2006, although I didn’t know it at the time. Although I wanted to make my own website since I first heard about the internet and finally made one in 2004 with Andy’s Ultimate Site of Ultimateness (isn’t that the most SEO-friendly name you’ve ever heard?), I actually began blogging by accident.
One day while searching the internets to find an article my best friend Eriopolis wrote for the Yu-Gi-Oh! section of Pojo.com, I stumbled across his Xanga page. I immediately signed up, commented, and began to make posts of my own. It eventually grew from just talking about my life to other things like anime reviews, different guitars that I’ve owned, etc.
After reading online what guys like Joel Comm and Steve Pavlina were doing to make money from their websites, I threw my hat in the ring and signed up for several advertising and affiliate programs to leverage my content like Adsense, Chikita, Kontera, Text-Link-Ads, Amazon Affiliates, ExitJunction, and many more. Some programs went by the wayside either because I got greedy and took advantage of them or because they weren’t making me money. However, I’m grateful for the money I receive from the programs that I still keep around. I’m no big online money maker, but I do make actual money online (around $24 a month and growing).
2 – eBay & Craigslist
Oh, how can I forget these lovely sites? One allowed me to buy and sell several things, including two of my guitars. The other found me the apartment that I’m living in right now. There’s not much else I can say that hasn’t been said about them already.
1 – Online Banking
Although the expression “in this day and age, __ is essential” is overused to the point of cliche, in this day and age, online banking is essential.
Without it, I wouldn’t be able to receive direct deposits or know how much is in my account without calling the bank or be able to buy things online without a credit or debit card.
Digest that for a second. Online banking makes it possible for anyone to buy online without worrying about maxing out their credit card. Online banking makes it possible to receive direct deposits from your online ventures, your job, unemployment, etc.; all without having to drive to the bank or wherever to cash a check. Boom and it’s there!
Closing Thoughts
In conclusion, the landscape of today’s business world is indeed different than it was a decade ago. With several big-name companies going by the wayside along with a once-unfathomable number of jobs, I predict that the people of tomorrow will come to embrace the ideas that e-commerce have brought us, such as multiple streams of income, as a necessity instead of the bad name it gets as just another get-rich-quick scheme.
Believe me, the money I make online is real; it just takes time to separate the wheat from the chaff.
TheAndySan
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