Making Money Online: Just How Easy Is It to Make Money with Minisites – The Real Pros & Cons
May 7, 2010
Today’s Freelance Friday Tip is about minisites – as in should you go this route to make money online, or not? Every since I detailed how I make money with minisites, I’ve gotten a few queries about how to go about it.
Today’s tip walks you through the pros and cons of minisites. I agree with a log of what this web expert said about them.
As I mentioned in the post I linked to above, I decreased the number of mini sites I wanted to start. Why? Because no matter how much you read about it being one of those “easy, quick ways to make money online,” building them is not as hands off as much of what you’ll read on the web makes it seem.
Learn How to Get Money Quick – Or Not
If you don’t remember anything else from this Freelance Friday post remember, there is no such thing as easy ways to make money online. While there are simple procedures you can follow to make extra money from home (which is the goal of many starting out with minisites), it is not simple to make easy money online.
On the other hand, if you’re trying to figure out how to make money on the side, minisites are ideal because they contain many of the foundational facets of making money online – eg:
How to market for free online (eg, article marketing);
Website design (ie, minisite design);
Content creation;
How to make money blogging (many minisites are just simple blogs);
How to make money with Adsense;
How to track and mine data;
Etc.
With all of these lessons learned, if you decide to quit making minisites, you will have learned a great deal just by dabbling in this multi-faceted “making money on the internet” idea. So you can take these skills and apply them to other ways of making money online.
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May 11th, 2010 at 6:14 am
I’ve just started blogging (having converted my existing static site to Wordpress), and I’ve been following your advice very closely. As a professional copywriter of over 10 years’ experience, I admire your model of providing high quality content as the basis of everything you do, and will try to emulate this approach on my blog.
May 11th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Joe,
Thanks for taking the time to write in.
If you remember the “great content mantra”, you’ll start to cultivate loyal readers in no time.
And, don’t forget to be patient with your blog. Sometimes, it’ll seem like no one is interested or reading, but many of your readers will never intearct with you. So you’ll never know they’re there.
HOWEVER, as soon as you start not to post, they’ll wonder where you went.
So post, even when you think no one is reading.
Good luck, and thanks again for writing in.