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Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Much of my “free” time the past couple weeks has been taken up with freelance projects. Which leads me to a great way to make some extra income online, freelancing.
Take a look at this list and tell me if you have skills in any of these areas:

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I’m a huge fan of Wordpress and every site I have built for making money on the web is built on it. Therefore, today’s news that older versions of WP are under attack is a pretty big deal. I’ve been hacked into before and, believe me, it is no fun to deal with. So, if [...]

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In the not-too-distant-past I was a pastor and seminarian. Both of these required me to read a lot. I got into the habit of not only buying books that I needed, but books that I thought I’d need “some day.” About a month ago I was sitting in my home office trying to figure out [...]

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If you have a blog, you obviously want people to visit it. Trying to make money on a blog with no visitors is pretty pointless. One way to get visitors to your blog is Facebook. Now, a lot of people I know (and I used to do this) simply use Facebook’s RSS import feature for [...]

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The Amazon affiliate program is a great way to make some extra money online. One of the features of the program is that commission on sales is tiered.

As you see, when selling general products, your commission increases substantially when you sell your 7th item. A great trick that I’ve learned for increasing my total sales [...]

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Just because you build it, doesn’t mean they will come. This isn’t the Field of Dreams here. That said, over the years I’ve found 8 fairly consistent ways to get visitors to your site.

Aweber – In the near future I am going to write a post about the benefits and power of having a mailing [...]

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Assuming that you’ve been convinced that you should be hosting your blog or website on your own hosting account. And assuming you’ve taken my advice on the best web hosting companies. And assuming that you’ve set up your hosting account. Then it is time to install Wordpress. Instead of giving you typed out instructions on [...]

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Most people don’t set up there own domain and web hosting because, let’s face it, it can be intimidating. Personally, the main reason I waited so long to get my own domain and hosting when I first started was that I had NO IDEA what I was doing. Let me assure you, it is easier [...]

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A friend of my point this out to me the other day. Apparently, the new search engine Bing is paying you to start your shopping with them. Basically, you sign up for a cashback account and then every time you are going shopping online, start your journey at Bing. If you buy your product from [...]

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