Cashing in through the Internet

This true story maybe good news for some job-seekers or for those who wish to try the internet as an alternative venue for making money.

Anyway, to keep his privacy let me call him James, he is 29 years old. Two years ago, James chose to stop working as a loans officer for a local bank to attend to his sick mother who was already on her final stage of lung cancer. As a father of two young children, the choice to leave a rather compensating work was something that he did not like knowing that his wife, Remy, was also jobless at that time.

Being with his mother for the last few moments of her life was perhaps the most compelling of all reasons to make such drastic decision. Relying on a small property and some savings, (which he thought would be enough to last them six months before he could get himself a new job) what James did not anticipate was the cost of maintaining an ailing mother. The first three months alone, says James, already got him heavily in debt because of the medicines and the life-support system that had to be used to keep her mother survive a little longer.

The next thing he knew his property was already mortgaged at a bargain to a usurer.

At this point, James already felt the creeping desperation until one day, as he was busy emailing his resume to some employers, he came across a website which he did not expect would change his life for the better. In short, that website started for himself a little cash machine.

Since his mother died a year ago, James is still very much into what others would call a "home-based business" using a computer and an internet connection. "My business started in fact in a small café at the neighborhood at first. I have now my own computer and a broadband connection and my wife enjoys helping me out." beams James who is right now, by any standards, financially sound.

But just exactly what does James do? He does a lot of things. He answers online surveys, runs a blog, sells some software, surfs the internet. Sounds a lot of work huh? In reality it's not. Answering surveys takes him only about 30 minutes. Posting a simple blog takes him about an hour. Checking his software website only cost him 15 minutes while surfing the net takes him about two or three hours a day.

By the way these things are not new in cyberspace. James showed me some URLs about market surveys, which have been running for years already. You may want to try it yourself. Just Google or Yahoo it, and you will see that there are actually a lot of survey sites where you get paid for answering consumer-related questions.

His blogsite actually earns money thru Google's Adsense. Creating a blogsite by the way is free. You can try www.blogspot.com and then you can already enroll your site to Google's Adsense program for free after which, you will get instructions on how to put ads in your blog space. Every click your visitors make earns you a few US cents. The more clicks, the more money.

In addition, don't you know that you get paid for clicking websites? Yes it's true. You can try opening an account with www.stormpay.com and then get to their BrowseClix program.

Pay-for-click is also available in other sites. Again you may need a search engine to get into these sites.

There is also another site he recommended www.cognigen.com where you can resell products like software, telecom and other consumer items. All you need to do is signup with that site and eureka, you have your own website complete with web tools to monitor purchases from your customers.

There you go, instead of chatting for nothing, why don't you check out what the internet can do for you. Who knows, you could be the next James later.

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