Be careful what you wish for.

There’s a few things to ponder as you search the internet endlessly for an ‘online job’.  The most important is do you want an online job?  OR do you want to work on the internet?

These two questions seem essentially the same but are completely different.

Listen if you want a online job, feel free to get out there and get it.  You can hook up with ChaCha right now and help to expedite questions for their text messaging service and easily work 40-50 hours a week from your home and make actual real money right now.   Simply get approved by taking a quick test and you are well on your way to having an online job which I’m sure most people have told you is impossible.  But buyer beware, you will quickly be working your tail off to make an income.  Work is work,  nothing is easy in the world of having an online job and overall tends to be tougher, lower paying, yet you set your own hours and have no repercussions if you don’t show up.

Though if you want to work on the internet you have a whole different aspect of what you’d like to do.  ”Own your own business” as they call it.  Simply put, become a webmaster.  Run a website, sell a service, open an online store.  What have you.  You’re goal here is to having something profitable for you that you can eventually run on auto pilot.  Auto pilot is something I’m going to dive into more in future articles.   But for right now really sit here and ponder, do you want an online job or do you want to work on the internet?   Your answer decides your future here.

There will always be tools that internet marketers need to do their jobs correctly and more efficiently and surprisingly these tools can turn out to be fairly easy to create.  But hey a marketer is simply that and has no intention on making the tools they use and so they will pay out the nose in order to get them.

Whether it’s a content management system, search engine submission, article spinner, membership system, template or whatever other option you can think of.  Someone needs it and is willing to pay you to do it.

But how can this be done?  Listen, it’s tough.  But not really.  When Myspace was taking off, I taught myself how to program in php within weeks and quickly sold full rights to a Myspace layouts script for over $5,000 and have since sold php scripts to people in total for high 5 figures.  While 5 figures isn’t exactly mansion living it was certainly worth it to concentrate for a few weeks on programming and being able to create these programs.

And with tools such as php.net and Google being able to troubleshoot your programs and learning how to develop is easier now than ever and let me be perfectly clear you won’t be the best programmer and almost certainly couldn’t get a job with a programming firm as your code is likely to be sloppy but it will be functional and with functionality comes the ability to sell it.  Coders code, consumers don’t.  They only want it to work and aren’t necessarily concerned with how you do it as long as you do.

This type of work isn’t for everyone but if you’ve got the time to concentrate this could quickly become your second source of income!

-Justin

So you’re stuck.  No ideas flowing, complete webmaster block.  Can’t write anything, no designs and just losing your mind trying to think of that next idea to make you some money.

We’ve all been there, heck I’m probably right where you are atleast once a week.  I just lose it, all of it.  It’s a sad realization that I have way too many ideas and they can all get mashed together and suddenly my call of action is internally shut off and I sit and stare at the computer screen doing absolutely nothing.  My wife is notorious for walking into my office at this exact moment to yell at me for not spending the time with her if I’m not working which is even more detrimental to my case of nothingness.

But maybe you’re not at that point and you just overall need an idea on what you’re going to do next.  Whether you want to sell a real life product and have it dropshipped, or you’re going to house them in your bedroom closet and mail them to people or you just want a new idea for a brand new website to add to your ever growing portfolio.

In 2002, yes I know ages ago in internet time.  I came across the easiest way of finding that one or two ideas that will make you money.  In that year I made over $60,000 using this method.  Subsequently I also blew through all that money being a young adult in less than a year so don’t do that part as its not a recommended portion of this method.

So here it is, the moment I reveal to you something so simple its outrageous that it made me a dime never mind that amount of money.

I went to eBay.  What?!!  Yep thats it right there.  I went to eBay more specifically this Category here: Businesses For Sale

I went right there, sorted the list by Price: High To Low.

Now when you sort it that way you are going to be bombarded with listings full of absolute garbage that people are trying to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Skip right over those and find the highest priced ones that people have actually bid on and try and make sure its over one bid.

Now click on that auction, find out exactly what the website is about and what it does.  If its selling a product immediately try and figure out where you can get that same product and how much you can get it for and then see how much its selling for on that auctions website and see if you can make a profit and then go for it.

If its an actual website that isn’t selling anything but has some sort of feature that users are absolutely drooling over see if there is a script out there that does the same thing for cheaper or for nothing at all.  Try hotscripts.com and the like to see if anything is available.  Then you can make a website just like it as competition.

Here is the absolute best part of this method.  Bookmark that auction right now, and start your new website right now.  Now if things go wrong, and it just doesn’t pan out and the website isn’t successful or isn’t as successful as you had hoped it would be.  List yours for sale on eBay in the same category.

Make note in the subtitle that “Similar website sold on eBay last month for $14,000″ or however much it sold for.  Not only will you get the attention of the average browser you may find a couple of losing bidders from the past auction who still want that website and will bid on yours to get a clone of it.

Please also note to do your homework.  My 2002 grand victory was probably a fluke beyond flukes but it worked nonetheless and I ran profitable businesses the entire year and sold them all off in December for a good chunk of cash as well but I did my homework on the industries they were in and all were actual real life products that had high demand throughout the year.  I sold them right before the Holidays and I’m sure the users who bought them made a boatload of cash that holiday season.

And yes, for the record I had forgotten about this method until I was just talking to my wife about how much I used to make on the computer.  I’m actually going to eBay right now, and she’s pissed that I’m telling you guys about this method when I ‘should’ve made an eBook or something’ out of it.  Ha.  Enjoy and let me know how it works out for you guys.

-Justin

Online-Jobs.Org

The main focus of Online-Jobs.Org is for people who want to get rid of the 9-5, possibly can’t get a 9-5, or is a stay at home parent needing a little extra money to make ends meet.

I’m with you on all accounts.  I have a 2 year old son, hated my 9-5 but had a difficult time finding a new one to replace what was my current one.

Now for most people searching on the internet looking for work to do at home you have or will most likely come across a ton of offers for:

• Data Entry
• Typing
• Multi-Level Marketing / Network Marketing
• Internet / Affiliate Marketing

However, before you give up your search for an ACTUAL online job please allow me to show you a list of companies looking to hire RIGHT NOW for REAL positions.

Please note, these companies are 100% serious and legit.  They have an application process, most will call you to schedule a phone interview, and while most will allow you to set your own hours you must do just that, say I can work this Monday 1-3pm, Tuesday 9-12pm etc. and they will expect you to be on time just like a normal job and Adios you go.

So if you would rather not deal with learning how to make websites, advertising said website, article writing, etc. like alot of Online-Jobs.Org goes into depth about.  Please follow the links below:

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