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42 million women in the United States (roughly 53% of the 79 million adult women in the United States who use the Internet) participate in social media at least weekly. That’s according to a recent social media survey by BlogHer, the women’s blog network, along with iVillage and Compass Partners.1 in 3 Moms Tweet, Blog. So if moms (and women in general) are already actively engaging online, why not make it into a business? Many are doing so and here are 5 ways to make money while you play, share, browse and stay home as a mom (which by the way, are viable ways for unemployed people in general and young-recent graduates, to make money from the comfort of their home)
Ideas:
1. Blogging- (Get paid to review products, Google Adsense – Get paid for displaying targeted Google ads on your site.) Mommy bloggers have been quite active for the last couple of years, providing news and reviews on a variety of different product & services. According to eMarketer, there are currently 3.9 million mommy bloggers active in the United States — this number is expected to reach nearly 4.5 million bloggers by 2014. They also enjoy consuming blog content, with 17.5 moms reading blogs in 2010 — this number will reach well over 20 million by 2014. Ways to make money as a blogger:
a. Affiliate marketing is the process of promoting a product or service through an ad or link within a post and having the reader pass through your site to another and make either a purchase or fill out an offer form.
b. Google Adsense: When a person or company wants to advertise on Google to get their site to appear at the top of the search engine they will often using Google Adwords. They bid on keywords and build ads around that keyword. Then their text ad appears at the top and sidebar of Google.com.
c. Paid Posts. Some sites will actually pay you money if you write a post.
d. Direct Advertising. Once you start to have good traffic on your blog and companies see that you have traffic that you can send to them you can start charging for ads to be placed directly on your site. It is up to you as to how much you charge for these ads. The 125 x 125 small square ads might go for $25 a month but if you start to have thousands of visits a day you could charge $100 or more for those ads. This is where you start to negotiate.
Resource: Mommybloggersguide.com
2. Get Paid to Search, Click, Shop and Review – Earn rewards and free stuff by searching and shopping online, answering surveys, and more at Swagbucks.com, a customer loyalty rewards program. In a nutshell it’s a search engine that pays you to use it. It’s also a lot more but I’ll get into that later. For now, let’s just focus on the easiest way you can make money with it, which is to just use it for your web surfing habits.
3. Get Paid to Surf: Do day to day web surfing and make money. Give 70% of the Ad money they generate. Share with friends earn 10% of what they earn and 3% on the referrals of your friends. MLM surfing. FREE membership. The more you use and share the more you earn.
4. Get Paid to Tweet: SponsoredTweets.com is an online marketplace that allows you to connect directly with advertisers to engage in sponsored conversations through Twitter. Advertisers compensate you with cash in exchange for a sponsored tweet. Think of it like eBay for tweets.
5. Become a virtual sales “rep”:
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