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How to Find the Perfect Affiliate Products and Merchants for Your Website Oct 15, 2008: Once you have decided that you are going to make money from affiliate marketing, you have to find the best affiliate merchants with the most relevant products for your website audience.

How Are The Most Experienced Online Entrepreneurs Making Their Money Today? Aug 25, 2008: There are secretive group of online entrepreneurs who are always at the cutting edge of what is happening on the internet. If you watch what they are doing you will have a pretty good idea of what the next web trend is.

“Can I Make a Lot of Money From ‘Affiliate Marketing Arbitrage’?" Aug 22, 2008: Affiliate arbitrage is a well proven way of making money online, but it needs patience and a focus on detail.

Increase Your Revenues By 15% By Making a Few Small Changes to Your Website Jun 2, 2008: Almost 60% of people who start to buy a product or service via a website, abandon the process before it is finished. If you can reduce this number by 10% you will instantly increase your revenues by 15%.

5 Ways to Make Money Online Apr 25, 2008: In this article I’m going to focus on simplifying what you need to know about making money online and then run through a case study of a website that does all these things really well.

Money on Demand: New Revenue Streams for Online Content Publishers Apr 8, 2008: Everyday, new and exciting ways of making money are emerging on the internet. One of the most exciting is the ability to create products on demand. Many create opportunities for you and I that didn't exist even a few years ago. With a bit of creativity and entrepreneurial enthusiasm, you can create many additional revenue streams to maximise the profit from your content website.

How Much do Bloggers and Online Content Publishers REALLY Earn? Mar 21, 2008: I recently met up with a successful online publisher, who agreed that I could publish his earnings provided that I did not reveal who he was. This will give you an insight into how a real site is making its money.

Most Valuable Action: The Route to More Profits Nov 9, 2007: Understanding the most valuable action (MVA) theory will increase the profit you make from your content website.

The best money-making content websites have multiple revenue streams. Often they have contextual advertising, display advertising, affiliate links, paid membership, an online shop selling books, reports and other items, an order form for tickets to offline events and much more. The tendency of a lot of these sites is to squeeze as many revenue sources as they can onto every page, the theory being that the more opportunities they give their readers to click on a money-making link, the more chances they have of making money from every visitor.

How to Take Your Customer’s Money Sep 6, 2007: For a publisher to be able to achieve the goal of multiple revenue streams, it will have to integrate payment processing into its site. This will enable the site to sell products and services (such as downloadable reports and software, branded merchandise, software, etc), charge subscription fees for access to premium content and promote and sell events (seminars, webinars, courses, etc.).

This can be a torturous process unless you know what you are doing.

This is a quick guide to getting started, based on my experience of launching sites all over the world, including the U.S. and the U.K.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Taking Control of Your Time Jun 12, 2007: This article provides some tried and tested ways of taking control of your time. Why Bother? Running an online business can consume every hour of every day if you let it. By planning and managing your time, you can balance your work and leisure activities.

The 5 Ways of Making Money from Online Content Mar 16, 2007: There are essentially five ways that you can make money from your content on the internet. As you move down the list, the stronger the relationship has to be between you and your customer to earn ever increasing sums of money from them.

How to Pick the Right Merchants Mar 6, 2007: Picking the right merchant partners for your website is essential for a number of reasons:

How You Can Make Money from a Content Website Feb 1, 2007: There are essentially five ways that you can make money from your content using the SubHub publishing platform. Find out what they are.

What You Can Learn from the Grateful Dead Jan 16, 2007: It might be difficult to imagine that a former San Francisco hippy rock band could offer much insight for publishers of content websites, but alongside their psychedelic musical explorations, the Grateful Dead pioneered some of the winning techniques in product marketing and community-building that work effectively on the web today.

The Hidden Truth About Online Advertising Revenues Oct 10, 2006: At SubHub, we are frequently asked the question: “Why should we charge for access to our content when we can give it away for free and sell advertising space on the pages?”