Business Intelligence

Just about everybody I run in to would love to know how to make money on the internet. Think about it. You get up when you want to, you work when you want to, you never have to leave home and you don’t have to listen to a boss. Can you think of a better job? The problem is most people don’t know where to start. The good thing is that no matter what your interest are there’s a way to make money on the internet that will fall in line with what you like.

For starters, you’re going to need to determine exactly what your likes and dislikes are. You can start by brainstorming. Take a piece of paper and in one column write down what you enjoy; in the other, write down what you don’t enjoy. Now you know what to look for and what to stay away from. Once you do this, you can begin to start looking for the opportunity that fits you perfectly.

It’s always best to start with something you have some experience with, but it’s not mandatory. For example, if you like writing and have some experience with it, you may want to write articles or eBooks. You can even get paid for typing spoken words for some companies on the internet if you’re fast at typing. How about taking pictures? If you like photography, you can get paid by online companies for your pictures. It would be hard for anyone to say that there’s absolutely nothing that interest them that they can make money on the internet with as long as they know where to look. read more »

The anonymity of the internet is a double-sided sword. It is very easy to launch any type of online business, which is popularly known as ecommerce. Companies like eBay and Amazon are established models of how to make money online.

Anything and everything, and even something like genuine brick and mortar businesses, can be turned around, to suit the environment of the cyber world, to make money online. Most traditional forms of businesses are evolving into ecommerce markets. The potential of this market is limitless. Because the first thing that happens is that the business is open to billions of people, who can come across your web portal and would like to work with you. Therefore, a concept or idea is all that is required, to make money online.

The revenue earning potential of these websites depends largely on the advertisements. Slowly as the portals establish themselves, they reinvent themselves to make money online. Be it the classifieds genre like Quirk, or the hundreds of job search websites like monster.com, they all follow the advertising model to make money online. read more »

Today’s edition of Ask Amber will be very brief, but answer a question that many people are sending to my mailbox. The basics?

Amber, why does Google say Topeka?

The backstory to this one actually dates back several months, to when Google announced that it would build an experimental high-tech, high-speed fiber optic network in a smaller to mid-sized American city.

In efforts to bring Google to its city, to both bring its residents this burgeoning internet infrastructure in addition to adding Google jobs to its economy, the city of Topeka, Kansas, rallied to garner the attention of the internet search giant. read more »