Start earning and get paid

The way it works is simple; you make money from home with a service-based business. There are several such businesses to choose from, but here are the three of the best that I found.

In the top photo, I'm using the site Shopify to sell t-shirts on my own website. You can use Shopify's templates to create your own online store and get started in less than an hour! The second photo is of me taking orders for my custom iPhone cases on iCr8tiveWatches.com . I took this photo with the iCr8tiveWatches iPhone case, which is the only thing listed on their online store. The third photo is of me using the  aliexpress.com  website to buy some cool looking LED flashing lights that I'll be using in my next interview contest

All three of these businesses can be run from home and require virtually no startup capital to get started. Shopify is based on WordPress , and you can create a fully functional store simply by clicking here and following their step-by-step instructions. With iCr8tiveWatches, you can use your iPad or iPhone to take orders from customers all over the world. You have to have an Apple developer account to be charged for app sales, but you'll only need about $100 to get started. And with Aliexpress, you can start buying goods from China and selling them on your own website .

Just a note:

This is a very tempting offer. I got really excited the first time I saw it, but I chose not to claim it. The reason is that there are a lot of people out there who will say things like "start earning and get paid" without giving you all the information. I've seen a lot of these before, and I want to give you better information so you can make the right decision for yourself.

After doing some research on these offers, I found that there is no minimum to start earning money with them – it's completely free! With that being said, I'm just using them to demonstrate how they work so you can get the general idea (it's not nearly as good of an opportunity as it sounds). Keep reading if any of this is interesting to you…

So what do they do? Well, they sell ads. A lot of people don't realize this because most online ad companies charge per click or visitor. But with these offers, you don't have to pay a cent for each click or visitor! Instead, you'll get paid a flat rate every month.

How does it work? You advertise a great deal in exchange for coins. Each coin you buy has a $1 value (they sell for this rate), and each month, you'll receive your coins in your Paypal account. As I mentioned earlier, there is no minimum to start earning money with them.

That's the basic concept of these offers. But here's more information that might help you better understand what they are doing.

What is a coin?

These offers call them coins, and they look as follows:

With these offers, you have to buy the coins before you can start earning money with them. The good news is that these coins are transferable , so you can sell them whenever you want. Here's an example of how they're used…

Let's say that I want to put a deal on the site aliexpress.com . To do this, I need to pay a flat 10% commission for each sale that comes from my website (this is a pretty standard for affiliate programs). I pay 10% commission on each sale I get from my website.

I give aliexpress.com 10% of the total sale price ($100) as commission

aliexpress.com gives me $10 in coins (1 coin is equal to $1)

Using my coins, I advertise the deal and get people to buy from aliexpress.com

people buy from aliexpress.com and I get a commission of 10% + $10 = $110 on that sale

aliexpress.com pays me $110. This is my commission on this sale

The coins are billed by Paypal and deposited into my account within one day.

This whole process takes about a week to complete. In this example, I spent four months building the traffic to my site before anyone bought from it, but you could always promote your site and get people to buy your products while they're waiting for you to promote them through ads or something else.

A lot of people on these offers talk about "having their site up and running" so they can start earning money with them. I'll call that a myth. Even if your website is up and running, you have to pay a membership fee to get anything going. Only the first 6 months of your membership fee is free (you can cancel anytime and not be charged), so trying to make any money from your site with these offers is pretty hard if you're not already generating income for yourself.

After looking through a lot of these sites, I think most people would be better off just using this general strategy instead of getting into something like this:

This is the only thing that I'm trying to create with the sites above because it works. My goal with these sites is to convince other people that they can do the same thing.

If you're interested in generating income from ads on your own website, click here .

How can my website make money without charging for clicks?

There are a couple ways you can do this, but if I had to pick only one, it would be affiliate programs.

Conclusion

To sum up, here's some helpful information to give you an idea as to what these offers are selling:

"Earn $25 per sale with free commission and no minimums" is false. You need a lot of time to build traffic and make sales. "Free money for only minimal investment" is false. These sites aren't worth it, even if you don't have any funds for the membership fee . "Making money from ads on your own website" is possible, but it's more complicated than these offers lead you to believe . I highly advise against making a decision based on what you read here.