May 24, 2012

Lessons in Monetizing Your Website or Blog

PowerHomeBiz.com was recently featured in the blog of the search-targeted advertising network Chitika in the post entitled “Mega Unit gives 450% revenue increase to PowerHomeBiz.com”. The post detailed how using one of Chitika’s new (and big!) ad formats significantly increased our revenues. Aside from the Chitika experience, here are some lessons we’ve learned from earning through advertising in our 10 years on the Web:

How to Start a Home Business: 10 Things You Need to Know

It’s New Year, and I hope that everyone is ready for all the thrills and challenges of starting and running a business in 2010 .  For me, one of our strategies this year is to create multimedia repurposing of our content, from PowerPoint presentations to videos. Our first video product is the video version of the article “10 [...]

How to Earn Money from Home

There are many opportunities for earning money from home – from buying into a turnkey business opportunity system, finding work at home employment, starting a home-based business, or even buying a home-based franchise. The key is to know what interests you, what you’d like to do, and what your resources can allow you to do. [...]

Tips to Successfully Run a Home Business

One of the most common questions we are asked is, “How do I start a home business?” My husband and I started PowerHomeBiz.com in 1999, and a decade on the Web has taught me a lot in terms of what to do (and what not to do) when running a home-based business. Here are some [...]

Can Your Business Make a Lot of Money?

When starting a business, our first thought is often: Can I make money with this business? I previously wrote about how to evaluate a business idea in the article Evaluating Your Business Idea and Product . The article lists some helpful questions you need to ask yourself when thinking of what products or services to [...]

How to Earn from Your Videos

With the rapid growth of broadband, videos have become a vital part of the Web and watching videos on the Web have become much more commonplace. My 4-year old son, for example, is addicted to YouTube and watches videos of Bugatti and Ferrari cars. But if you’re at the other end of the spectrum and [...]

How to Start a Computer Repair Business

If you have a passion for working with computers and have the technical knowhow to make it work and trouble shoot problems, you may want to consider starting you own computer repair business. With computers now an integral and commonplace equipment in both businesses and homes, computer repair is one of the fastest growing industries [...]

New Service to Monetize Your Website

If you’re thinking of earning from your expertise — whether presenting yourself as a consultant or as an expert in your field — there’s a new web tool that will allow you to earn money from your blog or website. SpeaktoMe Expert Services http://www.speak-tome.com/ offers a widget that makes giving expert paid advice to clients [...]

40 Best Business Tips for Home-Based Entrepreneurs

We all love great tips on how to increase our incomes, be more productive and generally make our lives easier. So how about 40 such tips? We’ve compiled tips, strategies and tactics from various magazines and books on different topics affecting the home based entrepreneurs. From choosing a home business to raising capital from angel [...]

Importance of Traffic in Earning Advertising Revenues

There’s an interesting question asked on Yahoo Answers on whether there exists a tool or chart to tell how much a site will earn from advertising given its traffic levels. There’s none that I know of — and with good reason. While traffic is one of the factors that can help a website earn from [...]

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