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Income Generation Series: Informational Products

Overview
Selling informational products is a very common business model on the internet.  Nowadays it is hard to surf the internet without running into an e-book or course being sold on even conceivable topic imaginable.  Informational products includes e-books, course, informational websites, and guides.  The basic concept is to produce a body of specialized […]


Income Generation Series: Service-Based Business Models

Overview
Service-based business models are based on exchanging time and expertise for money. Whenever someone is providing labor in exchanging for money, they are providing a service. There are many service based opportunities such as graphic design, web design, SEO outsourcing, or consulting.
There are some distinct disadvantages to developing a service-based model.  These models […]


Income Generation Series: Affiliate Marketing

Overview
Affiliate marketing is based around promoting offers for other merchants.  Offers are found through website affiliate programs or through CPA networks  Affiliate marketers are usually paid on the conversion of an offer.  Conversions can range from email submissions to the actual purchase of the product.  In this business model, the affiliate marketer focuses all his […]


Income Generation Series: Partial E-Commerce Websites

Overview
The business models of partial e-commerce websites are somewhat different than their full e-commerce counterparts.  To the consumer, there is often no recognizable differentiator between the two.  The differences can be found in the operational procedures of the websites.  Partial e-commerce typically uses drop shippers to outsource the shipping logistics and inventory concerns of the […]


Income Generation Series: Full E-Commerce Websites

Overview
Full e-commerce websites are focused on promoting a website to generate sales of physical goods. Once a sale is made, goods are then packaged and shipped to the customer. These websites can range from simple part-time operations to huge virtual mega stores. These require much more energy to promote, establish and […]


Income Generation Series: Niche Marketing

Overview
Niche marketing is focused on advertising to specific niche markets.  In a broad sense, all internet marketing is focused on niche segments.  However,  true niche marketing is applying an effort to dominate advertising small, obscure niche markets.  Individually these markets usually do not yield large returns, but these website generally require minimal maintenance.  The objective […]


Income Generation Series: Website Acquisitions

Overview
Websites are acquired from active marketplaces, known for selling web assets. Acquisitions are made based upon a preexisting buying criteria. There is a great deal is risk associated with buying websites, so a risk mitigation strategy is devised to limit the potential for loss. Once a website is acquired, it is transfered […]


Income Generation Series: PPC Campaigns

Overview
PPC (pay-per-click) campaigns use advertising networks to direct paid traffic towards websites to make ad conversions. The objective is for the commissions paid out on conversions to be higher than the cost of traffic.
How it works
Traffic is obtained through services such as Adwords, MSN Adcenter, or Yahoo Search, and is bought on a […]


Income Generation Series: Overview

The lifeblood and critical success factor of my internet media company is income production. The ability to produce a reliable and stable income will ultimately determine the long-term success of my business concept. There is a multitude of ways to make money on the internet, although not all opportunities are created equal. […]