Work At Home Based Business Ideas

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2011-04-23T17:41:00.000-07:00

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Thoughts About Backlinking Via Hubpages and Infobarrels

2009-07-30T12:56:00.000-07:00

Here is something I am realizing about creating hubpages and infobarrel articles for the purpose of getting backlinks - some random thoughts and ideas:

You definitely need more than one website, and a few hubpages, squidoos, infobarrels, and what not that you have personal created. Mainly for the experience and so that you can do 3 way link exchanges.

But if looking at hubpages and infobarrels as primarily backlink sources, and not thinking about the revenue they _might_ generate, it makes more sense not to write them.

Explanation example: Most folks on hubpages do not make much, and have maybe 10 established aged domains. Typical hubpager. So one approach is to offer a hubpager who has established hubs in your subject area to buy advertising in the form of text links. You could probably get 5 links with varied anchor text on 5 different hubpages created by one hubpage user for $20. If i put myself in their shoes, it seems like you might have to ask more than one person, but it seems like it would be easy to get that deal.

Or you could write those 5 hubpages yourself. But it seems to me it would take 2 hours to write them, in real life. So if you can make more than $10-12 bucks an hour, you are better off working elsewhere and buying the links. Yes, you could get income from the pages if you wrote them. And that income could continue for a long long time. So then you are back to better off writing them. Or if you want to outsource, hire someone to write them. But then you are probably looking at $50 to have someone write five hubpages. So round and round I go... just brainstorming ideas.. getting everyone in the mode to be constantly thinking about the pros and cons of different approaches.

Then you wonder if there would be any hubpager takers at $10 for 5 links. Then you only need to be making better than $5 a hour to make this approach make sense. $2 a link, and you get them on aged pages, instead of having to wait for your created hubpages to age.

Now buying links is against Google rules. But you can buy text link ads. So this would be a good way to get traffic. It is hard to make a call on this one, because how do you distinguish between buying links and buying advertising?

Just brainstorming...

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Work At Home Based Business Idea #1: Trade Virtual Loot

2009-07-01T10:16:00.000-07:00

For my first work at home, home-based business idea, I have chosen the job Trading Virtual Loot. Virtual Loot? Yep. Or maybe I should call it a "Play" At Home Based Business Idea, but heh, the cash generated is real, and it can pay your bills.

Here is how it works -- You like to play games - like those massive multiplayer online role-playing games. So do lots of other people, and they all want to obtain status and virtual goods to increase their game playing fun. So the Virtual Loot Trader works at home playing these games and then selling his or her loot to other game players. It is a wonderful cottage industry and can make a lucrative home based business. There are whole new societies and economies blooming in the digital desert of the online gaming world. And in that world -- it is real world economics - supply and demand - that are making it possible for some virtual loot farmers to even make six-figure incomes, and a very rare few to make six figures per month! Not bad for a work at home job or home based business, eh?

Don't laugh - computer gaming is poised to eclipse all other entertainments in dollar volume. Hollywood and the movie industry? Soon they will be small potatoes relative to the on and off-line video game industries. In today's internet savvy world, the lines between play and work, and between real and virtual, are becoming increasingly blurry. What is play? What is work? And where can or do they overlap? In the future, this distinction between work and play may become even more blurry. This is great for people who want to work at home based busineses, as the line between telecommuting or working at home or working your home based business mostly from home versus working at a workplace is also blurring. But anyway, as written in the LA Times, this virtual loot home based business is indeed serious business:

Hail the rise of yet another strange creature of the Internet revolution--the professional online game hunter.

Ebaid played for hours, slaying every computer-generated monster on his screen. For his effort he figured he'd made a few hundred dollars--real dollars.

Ebaid is part of a growing wave of online game players who hunt down and collect weapons, equipment and other accessories from popular online computer games, then sell the booty to other players for up to thousands of dollars apiece.

"This is hilarious," said Ebaid, a Riverside County resident. "All it is, is data. . . . But when I turn off my computer, I see cash."

Ebaid and his hunting partner, Lee, who lives nearby, play the game as a team and have made more than $6,000 in the last month by selling their captured game equipment and accessories on EBay, an online auction firm.

The hunters, also known as "EBayers," have become some of the most reviled denizens of the online world. Their ranks just seem to keep growing because of the demand for game items, even though some games prohibit their sale.

Unlike traditional video or computer games that people play solo or with a few others in their homes, the new generation of online role-playing games uses the Internet to bring together thousands of players from around the world in computer-generated games that never stop.

"There's a reason people call 'EverQuest' 'Evercrack,' " Ebaid said. "It's an addiction. You just always want to find out what is going to happen next."

Massive multi-player online role-playing games began appearing in the mid-1990s and have been quickly growing as more people connect to the Internet.

Now, in reality, it takes some luck and a real "game plan" to make 6 figures at this Work at Home Based Business. There is a lot of competition, and the game makers themselves try to discourage the practice of selling game loot and status. But it can be done. For more information, try googling "Virtual Loot". Also, read "Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot" by Julian Dibbell. In this fascinating book Julian Dibbell goes thru his experiences trying to make money online working at home playing massive role playing games. He sells his goodies on ebay and to dealers in virtual loot, he makes some money, and gets the background for a very good read. He talks about the players and how it is done in depth, but the book is written more as entertainment and as an examination of the psychology of work versus play.

In Play Money, Dibbell takes an extended walk on the weird side. It is a vivid snapshot of a subculture whose participants are dedicated and rabid about their games and their work, and it is a fun read. To whet your appetite, read this excerpt that starts the book:

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, I announced to my family, my friends, and anyone else who happened to look at my website that I was embarking on a new profession: I was going to start a business selling make-believe commodities, and I was going to get rich doing it.

That was the extent of what I could of told you about the plan. I didn't know then just how routinely surreal the year ahead would prove to be, or just how deep my fascination with the Internet's vast, densely populated virtual worlds would pull me into the half-illusory economy those worlds sustain. I could have sketched the general backdrop for you: a global exchange of fictional goods for very real currencies amounting, in total, to what is surely the most improbable half-billion-dollar-a-year industry on the planet. But the cast of characters remainded uncertain, the pivotal scenes unwritten. The powerful industry player I would come to think of as my professional mentor, Mr. Big; the elite Markee Dragon team of virtual gold brokers I would soon look up to and eventually ascend into the ranks of; and the murky underworld of gray-market gold farmers I would eventually know better than I was entirely comfortable with -- my acquaintance with them all is still remote, a hint, no more, of things to come.

Lots and lots of cool characters like Mr. Big and lizard men in this industry - by that I mean the people, not just the game characters - and one big plus of this home based work is that over time you will meet cool people who become customers and competitors and fellow gameplayers and allies - helping to keep you connected to the real world and avoid the loneliness sometimes associated with working at home in your home based business all the time.

But just because it is fun and games and is working at home, don't think it is easy. It takes a lot of hours, a lot of dedication, planning, and hard work - just like any other business, working at a home based business or not. To get a feel for that, read these excerpts:

So It Begins
I made by first eBay sale today: a runebook, mapping the best mining spots in the mysterious new land of Malas. It went for $1.99 to a person from Florida who said she would be online all day today. This is not a school holiday as far as I know, therefore I conclude my first customer was a grownup. This pleases me for reasons I can't quite determine. I'll give no further details as to the customer's identity. Bad for business.

After eBay and PayPal fees, I estimate my profit at about $1.05.

This, the first entry in my blog, marked the public commencement of the Play Money project. It was not only a beginning, however, but a culmination: the fruit of two weeks' prospecting for precious metals in the caves and mountains of Malas.

It had been tedious work, but I didn't have much choice. I needed startup cash, and having pissed away my first chunk of revenue, I saw no other way to get it but the hard way. A bolder entrepreneur, I suppose, might have gone the time-honored Internet start-up route and maxed out his credit cards for the money, but I had made it a rule not to risk a penny of my existing assets on this venture.

and facing a decision many people face who take their hobbies to the level of an actual work at home based business:

By Friday, April 11, I had sold a total of ten ore books on eBay, for a net profit, after fees, or about twenty-two bucks. Or to put it another way: My new line of business had earned me the dollar equivalent of a little over 1 million gold pieces.

And having made my first million, I found myself at a crossroads. Cash out or reinvest? I could move my $22 out of PayPal and into the family bank account, as I had done with my real-estate gains, or I could put it back into the UO economy - - find some undervalued item on eBay, say, and wring some more profit out of it, or even buy a million gp and do some reselling inside the game. It was a business decision, of course, but it was also, in a sense, and existential one: Was I still only playing the game, bringing home the occasional winnings by way of prize money, or was I finally going to take that first decisive step toward making the game my living?

He decided to reinvest, but you'll have to read the book to find out more about how his work at home based business adventures went from there. I am off to find more work at home based business ideas to tell you about.

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Hello Work At Home Folks!

2009-06-30T09:56:00.001-07:00

Hi:

I am a stay at home Dad and I am into home based businesses and working from home. And looking to meet like minded people.

I have 2 sons: Cooper (6 years old) and Nate (3 years old).

I am very proud that I am a stay home Dad and I try to do the best job with parenting that I can. There is no more important job in the universe, working from home or not.

I have never really held much in the way of real jobs. I mean like corporate cubicle type jobs. I have always owned my own businesses. I have bred mice and sold them to wildlife rehabbers, zoos, and pet shops all over the United States. Seriously. I have been a day trader, successfully. And I love the stock market and futures trading and options trading. I have sold used books on Amazon on a large scale, owned a used book shop with up to 8 employees at a time, and been a Platinum PowerSeller on eBay. The used book selling was mostly a home based business until I opened the shop. And the eBay powerselling was all home-based. And I loved it, but I am tired of selling physical goods and having to ship them. I like to write and I want to find meaningful work that I can do from home with my boys. That would be the perfect job and I would be in heaven if I can pull it off. Yes, the hours have to be funny, and there are a lot of distractions to deal with when working out of your house, but it can be done. If you find the right balance it offers the most perfect lifestyle I can imagine.

I have a degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from the University of Arizona, but have not really worked in the field, chasing small business ideas -- especially work at home ideas - ever since I graduated. I also have an almost Master's degree in the same field. I studied rosy boas at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. I would love to go back and finish that degree, so that I have not left something unfinished. And if I had the means to get my Ph.D. in herpetology and do herpetological research, I would like that very much. But I do not really want to be in the field away from my kids - I really want to do something that allows me to stay home and be with my kids and work a home based business. So it is frustrating - balancing different desires and dreams and hopes. But for me my kids have to come first - and that means developing or finding a work at home opportunity for me - custom made if you will. Fortunately, that is very very doable.

I enjoy online selling and started a website based around that called I Sell Online: Hello Online Sellers . ISellOnline.com is intended to eventually become a community and news portal site for online sellers - those selling on eBay, on Amazon MarketPlace, or on their own websites.

I can program in Cocoa / Objective-C on the Mac. I love Apple, and would love to find or create a job for myself working at home, or a home based business, doing Mac programming, but so far I have not come up with the perfect software idea to chase and market. I like Cappuccino and Objective-J programming, but have also there yet to think of the killer application to develop with it. So for the most part I am only pursuing my programming skills in that they help me develop web sites. I am also very good with databases and I know php/mysql web programming fairly well. So now to find a way to turn that into a work at home opportunity...

Right now my focus is on developing websites and hoping one or several of them can develop into a lucrative and legit home based business opportunity for me. That is where I am at in my life right now, I want to make money online by creating cool websites and monetizing them via adsense or other advertising. I feel that would be the perfect work at home based business for me.

I also have a very simple web site here: Home Based Business Ideas and I am developing some much more involved sites in the home-based business / work from home sphere.

I am enjoying learning website design and development, white hat SEO (search engine optimization), meeting other internet marketers and stay at home workers, and feel blessed. Right now -- while I am not making much presently -- at least i have the opportunity to stay home with my kids and pursue work at home ideas - hopefully one of which will allow me to work at home permanently. It is the ideal lifestyle if you at least make enough to live modestly and make sure your children are provided for. I do not need the big bucks, although heh I might still chase them. What matters most is time with the kids. And work from home based business ideas are the only thing that provide the necessary flexibility there.

If you work at home, even as a telecommuter, then I would love to hear from you.

Now, what to do for my first real post on work at home based business ideas?

My newest post is here: Work At Home Ideas