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Turn Custom Clothing Design Into Cash with Threadless.com

Everyone needs clothes, right?

For one they cover our nakedness, but in modern society clothing or fashion is much bigger than that.

Recently we have seen a boom in affordable even disposable fashion as retailers try to supply the demand from high street and online customers for cheap accessible garments. But with thousands of mass produced products on sale wheres the uniqueness?

Looks are important and first impressions are key.

People are seeking unique custom clothing designs at affordable prices and this is where you, the designer and Threadless.com come into play.

What is Threadless?

Threadless is an online community of artists and an e-commerce website based in Chicago, Illinois. In 2000, co-founders Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart started the company with $1,000 of their own money.
Threadless T-shirt designs are all submitted by members of the community, which is 2 million+ strong.

Why design T-shirts for Threadless?

Threadless T-shirt designs are created by and chosen by an online community, this makes it a great place to showcase and share your designs as well as communicate and network with other designers and maybe make money online.

How can I make money online with my designs on Threadless?

Designers whose work is printed receive $2,000 in cash and $500 in Threadless gift cards, which can be exchanged for $200 cash. Each time a design is reprinted, the respective artist receives $500 cash. Threadless keeps rights to the design on clothing; designers keep the rights to their designs on all other media. As you can see, its a good way to make money online.

I'm not very good at designing, what about slogans?

You can make money online from your slogans. Threadless also have a T-shirt slogan competition called TypeTees. You can submit 1 slogan per day and it is up for 1 week. Over the week the community votes on your submitted slogan (so get your friends and family to vote) and if it is chosen to be printed you will win $500 and your slogan printed.

Interested? Jump over to Threadless.com and sign up, its FREE

What do you think about Threadless? had any joy?

Make Cash Online From Your Articles With Squidoo

Squidoo, you have probably heard of it, but have you used it? Up until recently all I really knew about Squidoo is that it drives major traffic and that people love it. I saw it as yet another place where you can submit your articles and maybe get some exposure, but I didn't realise the full potential of this site until I signed up and dived in.

In this post I will be talking about Squidoo.com and how you can use it to make money online.

What is Squidoo?

Development on Squidoo started in 2005, launching a beta testing period in October of that year. The launch team consisted of Seth Godin, his book editor Megan Casey, former Fast Company employee Heath Row, Corey Brown, and Gil Hildebrand, Jr.

Squidoo is a user-generated website which uses the concept of a lens as its primary feature. In his ebook "Everyone's an Expert," Godin describes a lens as "focusing light and showing us what we need to see."

The site came out of beta testing two months later and reached 100,000 lenses within the first six months.

What is a Lens?

Lenses are much like blog posts, except they're on a single subject.
The users who create lenses are called "lensmasters" (like Webmaster). A lensmaster can be anyone with an interest in a specific subject; they do not necessarily have to be experts.

Squidoo also offers many ways to enhance a publishers lenses through things called modules. Modules work much in the same way as widgets. They basically add extra functionality to your Squidoo pages e.g. Guest comments, Link List, RSS Feed and video modules plus many more.

You can also earn points and trophies related to your activity on the site, these can be used to unlock more tools and other content you can use to add more functionality to a lens.

Before you start creating your lens check out the Originality Pact.

How can I make money online with Squidoo?

The site also allows content creators to make money online from referral links to sites using modules like Amazon.com and Ebay. Lensmasters also get a share in the advertising revenue generated from Google ads and in-text ads on their lens.

Lensmasters can track their earnings through the easy to use dashboard and also see other statistical data about the activity on their lens.

Sqidooo also gives users the option to give a share of their profits to charity. This is a great way for top money makers to give a little help to those who need it.

Check out this page for more info on building a lens: http://www.squidoo.com/whybuildalens

Royalties and Payments

As I'm fairly new to Squidoo I have decided to link this section to a brilliant lens I found that explains in much greater detail than I can, how Squidoo's earnings, Payouts & Royalties work.

Here is the link: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-payouts

Tips:

Lenses are moderated before they are made 100% live to make sure there is no duplicate content being submitted, so make sure your lens is unique before submitting.

Use all the tools available to make your lens as interesting as possible, also interlink your lenses if you can. As well as interlinking, getting some backlinks to your lenses will help them do better in search engines.

Like all ways to make money online, you need to stick at it. The more articles you have, the more money you make.

RSS Feed to Twitter Using Dlvr.it

Dlvr.it allows us to automatically publish content from RSS Feeds to social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Dlvr.it has many features that make it perfect for automating your twitter account and its interface is very easy to use. Here is a quick video to get you started with Dlvr.it...

This video only shows a pinprick of the power this site has, its tools like content filtering, custom URL shortening, scheduled posts and automatic hash tagging plus much more make it a must have tool for anyone promoting on twitter. The best thing is, its FREE!

There are so many ways you could use this tool to help make more money online, the best way to get started is to jump over to Dlvr.it and take a look at what it has to offer and how you can best use it to promote your pages.

Make Cash Online Designing Logos. Logomyway.com

This post and some of the next posts I publish will be focused on how designers can make cash online. lets kick start this with a little bit about a site called Logomyway.com.

Logomyway.com is a site that allows companies or individuals to purchase custom made logos for their projects by creating logo contests.

What do you mean contest?

A contest is set up by the buyer. A Prize amount is set and brief created. Average prize money is about $100 - $600 but it varies.
After the contest is started designers are able to submit their logo designs that are based on the brief. All contests have a deadline, and after it has ended the winner is chosen.

There are plenty of different contests to choose from, so there is something for everyone.

What if I cant win any contests?

Logomyway.com also offer a Logo Marketplace, where designers can list their logo designs and buyers can purchase their products directly. This makes Logomyway a great place for designers to make extra cash online.

Want to know more?

The best way to know exactly how it works and wether you can make money through logo design is to jump right over to site and dive in. It's FREE to join, or you can have a look at the videos below which give you a quick look at logomyway.com

If you have used Logomyway.com and want to share your experiences, please leave a comment.

Organising Multiple Social Accounts With Hootsuite

Social networks have become very important in today’s society for many reasons, and the amount that is popping up is growing all the time. Social networking has become a vital marketing tool and a great way to generate more money online.

If you have a blog you probably have a Google+ account, and if you have a G+ account you probably have a Twitter, a Facebook, and maybe a LinkedIn account as well. Managing these different accounts on different domains can be a long process when done individually and that’s where a site called HootSuite comes in. HootSuite allows you to manage and organise multiple social network accounts through one easy to use website, freeing up valuable time that you can use doing something more productive.

Post to multiple accounts at once

HootSuite allows you to post a message or update to several accounts with just a couple of clicks. They also offer location tagging and custom URL shortening.

Scheduled Updates

Schedule your tweets to be posted at a later date allowing you to semi automate your social networking and free up that much need extra time.

Team Management

HootSuite Pro offers some very cool team management features. This allows groups or businesses to easily manage accounts, track statistical information and control access and permissions.

Post from RSS

If you have a blog you can setup HootSuite to automatically post your latest post to your social networking sites. This saves a lot of time seeing as most bloggers have at least 3-5 social accounts.

See multiple accounts activity at once

Hoot suite has a great interface that allows you to see in real-time the activity on multiple accounts using customizable tabs. See exactly what you want to see from any of your accounts at any time.

And much more

HootSuite has loads more powerful features that can seriously boost your social networking efforts.

Best of all you can use it for FREE!

Seeing things in action is always better than reading about them so here is a video that looks at HootSuite in more detail and demonstrates how you can utilise it...

How to Check your Backlinks Easily with Google and Yahoo

As you all know, backlinks or quality backlinks are vital for the success of your site, page, article etc. and boost the chances of them making money online. But how can we easily and quickly check the number of backlinks we have without any programs or special tools? Well, the short video below will show you how to do a simple and fast backlink check using only Google and Yahoo search.

Fiverr.com: 4 Ways to Make Cash EASILY on Fiverr

In this video Robert from Kezanari talks about 4 profitable and easy ways to make money online through outsourcing and Fiverr. These kinds of techniques have made people a lot of money online for a small amount of time and work. Take a look at this video then try Fiverr for yourself, you could be making money online within hours even minutes.

Designers, Make Money Online with ThemeForest from Envato

ThemeForest from Evato is a marketplace where you can buy and sell HTML templates, WordPress themes, Joomla themes, and Drupal themes. It is a community filled with buyers, designers and developers. This is a great site to look for themes for your website or sell your designs to a huge audience and make money online.

Imagine creating what you want, when you want, from the comfort of your own home, making money online whether you’re working or not. Some of their authors sell stock in their free time as a hobby, some do it to get their name out there, and some are able to make it their full time profession.

Envato’s top authors make between $20,000 and $50,000 per month selling stock!

Envato also have other marketplaces where you can make money online, like Codecanyon and Graphicriver. Together they make a great marketplace for coders and designers. Find out more about Envato at http://envato.com.

Getting started

Becoming an author is as easy as can be; follow the steps listed in the link below and you’ll be on your way to making money online by selling stock!
Getting started

Payment Rates

They have recently changed their payment structure and now you can make even more money online selling at Envato. Authors can now earn up to 70% on every sale! Be sure to check out the full payment rate schedule for more details.

http://themeforest.net/wiki/selling/getting-paid/payment-rates/

Referral program

If you refer a new member, you get 30% of their first deposit, whether they buy your file or someone else’s. The referral program is a great little feature added to an already brilliant marketplace, making it even easier to make money online.

Find out more about their referral program here.

SEO Friendly Blog Post Titles the John Chow way

As most of you already know, your blog titles are one of, if not, the most important factor in ranking well with search engines. The problem is there are numerous ways we could go about creating SEO friendly post titles, everyone seems to have their own way of doing it.

Even though there are various methods or strategies for thinking up seo friendly post titles one thing is common to all of them, keyword research. Keyword research can take a lot of time when done manually, so aren't we all glad that there are many automated (well, semi) ways of doing this tedious task.

I have previously posted about keyword research using Wordtracker and Gtrends , but i came across this video by John Chow that demonstrates a neat little Wordpress plugin called Keyword Winner. Using this plugin you can do post title research from within your post editor as you create a blog post.

Check it out below and let me know what you think.

Free Niche Keyword research with Wordtracker Gtrends

A lot of you have probably seen all the hype from marketers telling you to buy the latest next thing in keyword research, guaranteed #1 spot. You probably also heard of niche market research programs like market samurai. The real and blatent truth is you can do good niche keyword research without the use of an over hyped program and of course, for FREE.
There are many ways to do market research, but this post focuses on Niche Keyword Research using Gtrends at wordtracker.com.

The video below by Mark Flavin takes you through the process of using this awesome free keyword research tool to find the right niche market for you.

Gtrends: https://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends/

Horror Stories: Has your Adsense account been disabled?

You may have heard the horrible stories of people losing their adsense accounts for no reason or you may have lost one your self. Usualy what google sees as invalid or 'illegal' clicks cause this to happen. The problem is many of us dont know how this 'illegal' activity is caused and how to prevent it. Heres a few tips to help you KEEP your account..

NEVER click your own ads
NEVER ask anyone to click your ads
Tell your friends not to click your ads AT ALL
Read the TOS CAREFULLY
NEVER use Adsense on pages that include, porn, smoking, illegal downloads, drugs, alchol (exept for education) and various other types of content mentioned in the TOS (Terms Of Service)

Follow these steps and you should be ok, but PLEASE, read the TOS. You should be able to find it in your adsense account.

GOOGLE ADSENSE HORROR STORIES

Alternative Ad Networks: Adsense vs Chitika

Many people are looking for a good alternative to Google Adsense to monetize their pages. But where do you start in the quest for alternative ad networks?

This video pits ad network Chitika.com against giant Google Adsense, exploring the pros and cons of each network and possible usage scenarios.

Second Life: Make Money Playing Video Games.

First of all What is second life?

Second Life is a virtual world in which residents (players) can interact and socialize using a variety of social networking tools eg chat, private messaging and voice chat.

One of the major selling points of Second Life is that all the in-game environments are created by the residents also second life has its own currency which can be converted to REAL money.

More and more the lines of virtual reality and reality are merging, Second Life is a brilliant example of this.

People from all walks of life, in various different countries are ditching there 9 - 5 jobs for the comfort of there sofas and are making REAL money playing video games online. From fashion designers to real estate barons, people are making an income from their fantasy lives.

Below is an example of a couple who have changed their lives by playing a video game for a living.
Head over to easy-lindens.blogspot.com for more info on How to Make money on Second Life

What are Backlinks and How are they used? Off Page Optimization

Backlinks, also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links, are incoming links to a website or web page.

In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node.

Inbound links as votes

Inbound links were originally important (prior to the emergence of search engines) as a primary means of web navigation; today, their significance lies in search engine optimization (SEO). The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (for example, this is used by Google to determine the PageRank of a web page). Outside of SEO, the backlinks of a web page may be of significant personal, cultural or semantic interest: they indicate who is paying attention to that page.
Wikipedia

How do backlinks effect search rankings?

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