What I love about the internet is that anyone can make money online with zero investment. You can create a blog and start making money online immediately. Now, to make money immediately you do have to have some experience and know how to drive traffic but we will save that for a later post. I wanted to talk about some of the free options out there that can help you build a passive income site in 30 days.
Creating a free blog site at blogger.com or wordpress.com is the easiest way to get your start online. I recommend blogger over wordpress but that's just me. Blogger is very easy to use and has more customization/hacks available compared to wordpress. They both have their limitations compared to owning your own site but there are many workarounds and will typically fit the needs for running a full featured blog. Plus, if you want to go get your own domain, you can buy one through Google apps and have it pointed to your blog so you can have a cleaner .com or .net URL.
You can always start with a basic theme that comes stock with blogger but I highly recommend finding a premium theme that looks professional. Now I know what you're thinking, "Jay! I thought we were going the free route?" Well we are, head over to Premium Blogger Templates, this is hands down the best free templates for blogger. You can find just about any niche template on this site and even if you can't find one, there is many standard templates you can customize.
Looking for a graphics editor? I use an open source piece of software called Gimp. It's a high quality graphics editor that is comparable to Photoshop and it's fairly easy to use. I use it to create my banners, logos, and photos for my website.
Need to make videos? I recommend either Jing or Camstudio. Either one will allow you to record your screen so you can show tutorials or record a slide show that you want to talk over. Some of the easiest videos are using powerpoint slides as talking points and talking over these slides.
If you don't have Microsoft Office, no worries, you can get OpenOffice for free! It looks just like Microsoft Office, prior to '07, and has nearly all the same features. I use OpenOffice to create my slide shows for my videos and for writing my e-books and newsletters. It can easily convert documents to PDF, so I highly recommend it.
Monetizing your site is easy, especially if you went with blogger for your site. Inside blogger you can apply for an ad-sense account and the Amazon affiliate program. It's very easy with blogger to implement these programs into your blog. The next easiest method is signing up for clickbank.com and looking for some products you can promote on your site.
Signup for accounts for Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools. These can help you track where visitors are coming from, what they are looking for, and where they are roaming your site. Very useful information which can help you build your site.
Look forward to another upcoming post on free traffic generation methods that will help you get your blog really moving.
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