Okay, so you say you've built a great high-traffic website and now you're wondering where the bucks are for all your hard work. Sure, you're famous but you can't pay the rent with fame.
Many of the successful Internet companies have also figured out ways to integrate support of the communications environment, thereby getting their piece of the pie - of the entire industry.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
You may consider selling subscriptions to your site (or portions of it) where a user pays a certain amount every month and it's automatically deducted from their credit card account. To set this up yourself with a secure server could cost $10,000 or more. Lucky for you, there are companies out there that will sell, bill and maintain your soubscription for a small percentage of "the take."
You need Resources, Ideas and Programs that you can get involved in to help generate funds to keep your site going: R.I.P. (what your site will be doing if you don't get some financial rewards for all your hard work.)
USE RESTRAINT
Be careful about who you sleep with, financially. Make certain that the revenue generators that you work with compliment your site and visitors are likely to not feel jilted.
E-COMMERCE
If you already have a business or are developing a site for a business, it may be wise to consider an e-commerce package so that you or your clients can offer secure, on-line transactions for customers who desire to order via credit card and the internet. Our eCommerce Package offers a value-priced solutions that will handle all the hustle and bussel of the complete transactions including an online catalog and instant secure credit card transactions without any added drain on your ISP. If you don't need the online catalog, store or circulars you might just want the EZ Payment Gateway.
If you already have a merchant account ecBuilder may be just what you're looking for. It not only offers secure transactions via the web but also has a built-in site generator that anyone can operate (just fill-in the blanks) and have a commercial, e-commerce site with up to 100 catalog items up and running within minutes. Download the FREE software.
I get a flood of e-mail from new webmasters saying, "I'm just getting started and want to test some on-line marketing but don't want to jump in with both feet," (meaning that they don't want to pay for a merchant account, etc... to get started).
No prob. Although, note that you will get more consumer confidence and better orders from other secure methods. Reader's Digest's BeSeen service offers a no-costBuy-It Button that will handle a secure transaction and they will process the Credit Cards with their Merchant Account for a piece of the action (percentage of sales). But FREE is a very good price to test the market.
GETTING SERIOUS
For webmasters of clients who are serious about on-line transactions and generating sales online, you will need three legs to hold the project up. The First leg is a Merchant Account, and a machine to process the orders. The third leg is an toll-free (800) number to promote on your Web site.
My retail accounts sell twice as much, with an 800 number, than without. It makes a big difference. Even though only less than 20% of the sales are made on the 800 number, it increases customer confidence knowing that they can call at no charge, generates 100% more orders than without.
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ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS via YOUR WEB SITE NOW!
E-commerce programs are great for business web sites that have Credit Card Merchant Accounts already in place. What if you don't? Now you can Accept Credit Cards Now thanks to a new program from my friends at Easy Pay. Can't get a MC/VISA account or accept micro-payments? No Problem, Check it out.
Or Accept Credit Cards via Virtual Merchant. They provide you with secure server forms and automatic credit card approval of your transaction within seconds while your client is still on-line. No muss, no fuss, no credit, no problem. Virtual Merchant handles it all for you including setting up your Merchant Account (although they get 2.25% of your credit card business plus 20 cents per transaction).
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It changes the way you look at banner advertising. If I'm visiting a site, see the content as valuable and am getting the information that I was looking for in a pleasing manner: I click on everything I can because it's likely the only method of paying the webmaster for doing a good job and showing my support (and it doesn't cost me a thing).
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Make 25-to-30% of all gross earnings generated through a banner link on your site.
Starluck Casino pays you higher percentages based on your monthly volume. The more activity your site generates for them the more money you make.
I actually enjoy helping match up folks with my own personals website, and thanks to The One and Only Network you can have your own site (that they build and host for you) and makes money while you sleep. This is cool and gives you warm fuzzies too.
Superhelp offers affordable web hosting and a swell e-mail to FAX conversion that is slick. Monthly price ranges from $0 (that's right, zip-ola, zero, absolutely nothin')-to-$40 for the works. Represent their services on your site and Superhelp will pay you bucks.
You can earn $175 for each person you refer that becomes an online merchant. You will also earn $50 for anyone that your refer that has anyone become an online merchant. Just for placing a link on your website.
Spree is by far the most incredible offer I have come accross in my 4 years of Web Surfing. Absolutely NO gimmics!! No cost! With a little bit of effort on your part (putting links on your web site), you can make a pile of money. Do yourself a favor and take a quick peek, you'll be glad you did!
ValueClick
is a new Banner Advertising Network from AAA
Internet Promotions. They pay you on a per-click-through basis for banner advertising on your website. Right now they are paying five
cents per unique click-through. Your site needs to have no less than 1,000 visitors per month to cary ValueClick ads.
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PennyWeb is a clearing house for banner advertisers. You search through their list of advertisers and get a unique code. When your visitors click on the banner, you make money. Pay a visit to PennyWeb and it'll pay-off for you and your website.
Like PennyWeb, Click Trade is also a depository for sites who will pay for banner click-throughs. Click Trade offers a wide variety of advertisers. You are likely to find just the right match.
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Ad Club provides established, successful web sites with revenue from national & regional advertisers and media buyers through their direct sales force and pays you 10 cents a click.
You display advertiser's banners on your site. BURST! will solicit national advertisers. They pay web sites 50, 70 or 80% of ad revenue depending on how long of a contract you signed. They seem to be reliable, experienced and well organized. Charges Advertisers an average of $35 for 1000 (CPM) unique ad views.
Super Action has a very simple program, You get payed for every unique click-through made from your site. Pay period is every 2 weeks for accounts that have accumulated $5.00 or more in click-thru.
electronic Ads (eAds) Web sites are paid $.05 per click through. You get to choose which ads you want to display so that if you have a music site you can display a music banner or a book site can display a book store banner to increase
the chance of a click through.
Display Interlotto's banner promoting their Internet Lottery service in exchange they will pay you a 5% commission on all lottery tickets bought. They have almost 20 different banners you can choose to display on your page.
CyberKeno will build you your own unique Cyberkeno page with your logo and everything. You put a banner to that page and they will pay you a 10% commission. Note: They also offer other games where you make a 10% commission.
Cybergold is the best deal on the net. Advertisers actually pay you to read their ads and explore the web. It takes less than a minute to sign-up and only another minute or so to start earning money. You can even refer others and get paid one dollar for each person who joins.