Here are six more tips for making money online.

1. Buy Your Own Domain
Yes, you can make money using one of the free servers out there, but your customers will feel much more comfortable buying from you if you own your own domain. Visitors who notice that you are on a free server may wonder if you’re just another fly-by-night company and think twice about ordering from you. Owning your own domain will also give you a little more control of search engines, which will help potential customers find you.

2. Start Your Own Opt-In E-mail List.
Did you know that the majority of sales come from opt-in e-mail techniques? If you look at the stats of some major Internet players, you will notice that the most aggressive e-businesses have an opt-in email list and regularly send offers, sales, solo ads and more to their list. So the best way to start making money with your own products or as a member of an affiliate program (selling other people’s stuff) is to start an opt-in e-mail list.

There are three different ways you can run an opt-in list:
You can use e-mail software to run your list. This works great when you have a small list, but once you have more than 1,000 names, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage mailings. Another solution is to use a list server. The problem with a list server is it will cost you around $400 and you can’t personalize your mailings.

The final way way is to use a CGI program. There are several out there which can send HTML e-mail messages, personalize the e-mails with the name of the subscribers, and best of all, can handle all of the subscribes and unsubscribes automatically.

3. Target One Specific Theme And Market.
Don’t try to be everything to everybody. You need to pick one specific target market and focus your marketing to only that market. Don’t sell website design and Pokemón trading cards on the same site. Pick one main product and maybe one or two other products that are similar or can be used with the main product.
The key to success is focusing on one market at a time. You can make money selling just about anything online if you know how to market it effectively. Choose a product that you enjoy talking about or using. Then, learn how to position it correctly and get the right traffic to your website, and you’ll probably be successful with it.

4. Create At Least One Of Your Own Products.
You can make a significant amount of money from affiliate programs (selling other peoples stuff), but the biggest profits almost always come from selling your own product or service. Create a report, book or audio tape about something you enjoy, like a hobby or something you have accomplished in your business or personal life.

Once you have your own product or service, you can then offer an affiliate program for other people to sell it for you. Plus, it’s much easier to develop backend products based on your original product, such as tape sets or how-to videos.

5. Develop Multiple Traffic Sources.
You need to use many different sources of traffic to market your products. Place free classified ads on sites like Yahoo, submit to search engines, use pay-per-click search engines like Overture, submit articles to ezines, and find people who will “recommend” your product in their newsletter. If you rely on a single source for traffic, you could find yourself up a virtual creek if that source changes their policies or goes out of business.

6. Develop Multiple Income Streams.
Your business needs to have more than one stream of income. Many of the most successful websites are making money in a dozen or more different ways. Participating in affiliate programs is one good way, so is building a solid line of backend products. The smart thing to do is build strong relationships with your current customers. You will find it infinitely easier (and cheaper) to sell something to an existing customer than to go out and find a new customer.

Get Indexed on Google within 24 hours and Get Paid to Do It

If you have created your new blog, mini-site or other fancy presence on the web. You’ve got your adsense in place, your first few articles written and you are ready to be indexed on Google so you can start building traffic and hopefully make a little money. Well, personally I don’t like to wait that long to start monetizing my website. So I devised a little plan that gets my site indexed within 24 hours, every time, and starts making me money immediately.

Here is my short to do list to make it happen:
For this example let’s say I have registered www.VegChampaign.com obviously for the niche of skin care. (Not a site or niche I use - just a random example)

The first thing to do is set up an email box called: contributors @ www.VegChampaign.com (or whatever the actual domain is)

The second thing to do is find an affiliate product that has something to do with the niche of my new site. It can be a Clickbank product or an affiliate program of any kind just as long as it is good and relevant to my niche.

Once I have found a relevant product I set my affiliate link as the signature for all emails coming from my new domain. The signature says something like: Have you seen the latest breakthrough in “Niche Name Here”?
(Note: I usually cloak the signature link with a simple redirect page)

The third thing to do is a quick search on ebay or google for some info or something about my niche with master resale rights. Most of the time I can find it on ebay for less than a dollar. (Just search your niche along with the word “resale”)

The fourth thing to do is set up the resale product or products with paypal. I set the price at $7 or under. (I like to use ejunkie to host my files for sell but it isn’t absolutely necessary)

The fifth thing to do is set up an auto-responder for the email address that I created in step one. The text reads something like this:
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“Thank you for your interest in becoming a contributor to www.VegChampaign.com (or whatever). We will review your submission and contact you if we feel that a working relationship can be established.
Our current contributors find the resource below very useful. As a potential contributor you may get your copy of this $89 resource for only $7.
Title of Product Goes Here (link to the reseller products I set up through paypal).
We hope to be in touch soon.
- VC Staff ”
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The Sixth thing to do is to go to craigslist.org and choose the largest city that will have an interest in your niche. Post an ad under “creative gigs” that looks something like this:
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Title: Can you write articles about vegetarian?
www.VegChampaign.com (<- make sure that is an active link. Very important!) is looking for aspiring writers with an interest in skin care and beauty. Everyone is welcome to apply. Please submit a short sample of your writing on any related subject (200-400 words) to contributors @ www.VegChampaign.com
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Now here’s what happens:

1. That live link on craigslist.org will get you indexed on Google within 24 hours every time.
2. Lot’s of targeted people will click on the link to see what your site is and some always end up clicking on adsense ads.
3. Your auto-responder will fire off immediately to anyone who responds to the ad and offer them the “discounted” info as well as show your affiliate loaded signature. (again to highly targeted people)
4. If anyone actually sends you good content (most will suck) you just scored a great writer for your site. Work out a deal accordingly.

Don’t try to keep bumping the ad to the top. Leave the ad live until it naturally expires. If it made you any money, (always does), then run it again. You were going to try to get indexed anyhow and this way is is a hell of alot more productive.

P.S. I always use 7 email to create 7 craiglist account and use one account to post daily.