Making Money From Your Website Has Never Been Easier

March 6, 2017

It has often been said that we are living in the age of the passive earner. It is true that an increasing number of people are developing a real interest in the processes of generating income without doing anything, and there are also an increasing number of ways to do just that. One of the most popular forms of passive income is to have a website, and then set up a number of ‘set and forget’ options which allow you to have money streaming in on a regular basis. In this article, we are going to look at a few of the very best of these options. Consider these if you want to make money – or make more money – from your website.
Products
This is probably one of the simplest ways of making money from a website, and it is also one of the oldest. In this model, you simply use your website as a vessel for a number of products which you sell to your passing visitors. This might sound easy, but actually encouraging people to buy thing from you over the Internet can be harder than you would think. Your best option is to make sure that you have as many typical and classic marketing techniques on the page as possible. A little Internet research will reveal that there are a huge number of these to be getting on with. As for what to actually sell, that depends on who you are and what you can offer people. It might be that you want to sell training courses, or ebooks which you have written, or really anything at all. Whatever it is, make sure you make it enticing and give your visitors a real reason to buy it.
Advertising
Advertising has long been a popular and powerful way of drawing in more money, and with Internet advertising it is now easier than ever. You don’t need to know a great deal about the way that advertising works today to make decent money from it, so that is a definite plus. If you read something like this case study from Clicteq, you will find that you can easily make money from advertising in a short space of time. All you need is your website set up, and then you can draw in a lot of cash each month through various advertising techniques. Whether it is the use of Adwords, or pay-per-click – either way, advertising remains one of the most essential ways to make money from a website of any kind.
Donation
You will no doubt have seen many websites which have a donation option on them somewhere. If you are serious about making more money from your website, then you will want to make sure that you have donation buttons on your pages. The truth is, donations are an easy way to sit back and let money come rolling in, no matter what your website is actually doing. If you want to make sure that people actually donate, of course, you will need to be providing something worthy of it. As long as you are, this can be lucrative.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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