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Just a quick post today. I’ve got a lot to do, but have you ever considered monetizing your Flickr account?

There’s an interesting post over at Just Make Money Online that discusses seven ways to make money on Flickr.

I suggest checking the post out. Ideas range from incorporating affiliate links with product photos to selling your photos as prints.

There’s definitely some good ideas in there, and they give you some “bonus” tips going beyond the promised seven.

Check it out here.

Trying to make money online but not finding the success you were hoping for? Let me give you a little motivation. It’s so easy even a 13 year old can do it.

Well, actually the 13 year old in question is 15 now, but he was 13 when he started. You may have heard of him. His name is Carl Ocab, and he has been doing it well for a couple years.

With a little help from his father, but mostly on his own from what I gather, he has carved out his place in the blogosphere alongside names like John Chow and Jeremy Schoemaker.

Perhaps the fact that he is so young is a gimmick and contributes to his success, but even so, if a kid can do it, why can’t you?

Not to take away anything from Ocab. I think what he has manged to accomplish is remarkable at his age, and he probably has a very bright future ahead of him. Chances are you are already in the middle of your future, so to speak, so consider this the motivation you need to kick your efforts into high gear. Just remember, your’e getting shown up by a 15 year old.

Here is an interesting concept for making money online. And with a slogan like “it’s what Willis was talking about”, how can you go wrong?

What is the thirty-day challenge? According to the site itself:

In a nutshell… The Thirty Day Challenge is about making your first $10 online. For a full 30 days we are going to be showing you exactly how to start your own Internet business and generate your first income online without spending a dime.

That’s right, this is going to cost zip, diddly, nothing, nada, ziltch. The entire training program is free, and you won’t have to spend a thing to get your business started and begin making money. No credit card required.

It starts on August 1st, but “pre-season” has already begun. I’m not exactly sure what pre-season entails, but they appear to still allow you to join, so I guess you still have time.

When you’re trying to make money online by selling goods, it is usually a good idea not to drive customers away. As shocking as it seems, they don’t want to buy from you if it is a hassle to get what they are looking for quickly and painlessly.

Some of the things that customers like to see before purchasing a product online are, customer reviews, different views of the product, information about the product, free shipping, whether or not the product is in stock, etc.

Jason Miller at WebProNews points to findings from a recent survey:

- Only 37 percent offer multiple images views of products.

- Only 33 percent offer customer reviews.

- 62 percent have difficult to read fonts.

- Only 14 percent allow customers to change the font.

- Only 43 percent offer free shipping.

- Almost two-thirds do not offer in-stock information on the product page.

There are more facts like this that I won’t get into (you can read Miller’s article), but I think you get the point.

The owners of these sites probably sit around and wonder why customers don’t want to buy from them.

Usability is critical to online store success, and if you can’t give customers what they can get elsewhere, you’re not leaving them much reason to buy from you.

If you’re looking to make money online, there’s a good chance you are also looking to do so from the comfort of your own home. It just so happens that many companies are looking at telecommuting even if they weren’t in the past, as a bi-product of expensive gasoline.

They’re either letting their current employees work from home or requiring people to work from their homes so they can save money on office space. In fact, results from a survey were just released indicating all of this.

So how does this benefit you?

It may be a good time to seek telecommuting jobs online. A huge plus is that by working remotely, you should be able to work for someone from just about anywhere in the world, provided you speak the same language (and hell, there’s even plenty of translators out there that can also be found online and perhaps benefit you in this area).

The bottom line is this: business owners are looking to save money anyway they can, and office space ain’t cheap. There are plenty of online job search tools where you are bound to find some telecommuting jobs that allow you to work from your home. Qualifications are most likely going to be required, however.

There has been recent talk in Washington D.C. regarding regulation of Internet Advertising. This was mainly sparked by a recent advertising deal between search engine giants Google and Yahoo.

Popular belief among small online businesses who thrive on upon ads that accompany their content is that such regulation could be very damaging. If you are one of these businesses or even if you are one person trying to make money this way, this is a topic you should keep an eye out for in the news.

So far, the government (as discussed in a hearing from the U.S. House Small Business Committee yesterday) has decided that not go forward with any regulation, but some congressmen think there is room for it in the future.

The Internet Advertising Bureau had a strong presence in this hearing, and defended the notion that government regulation was a bad idea. It appears that this battle has been won for the time being.

As we all know, social networking can often lead to success online, or at least play a part in it. Many people these days are using Twitter for their networking, but it has been hard to find new people to follow for any particular niche.

The WebProNews team has introduced a new tool that makes that much easier, and users are loving it. The tool is called Twellow, and has been well received. Many are calling it a feature that Twitter should have had in the first place.

Mashable has a good write-up on Twellow, which is basically a directory of Twitterers broken down by categories (and sub-categories) of interest.

For example if you want to find some new people to follow in the marketing field, you could go to the marketing category, and perhaps even the CMO category to find some Chief Marketing Officers of companies to follow. They would probably have some useful information right?

There are many categories that contain members based on their interests and bios. You may want to tweak your own bio a bit to accommodate searches.

Twellow is still in alpha, and will probably have plenty of new features and updates in the future.

Visa and Facebook have partnered up to offer a resource for business owners to network with each other and find valuable tools to get the most out of their online business efforts.

If you are trying to make money online via an actual business, and not just an instant cash prize, this is something that may be well worth looking into. It’s called the Visa Business Network and can be found here.

In a press release, Visa says that it is aimed at helping you:

- Connect with others

- Manage more efficiently, and

- Grow your business.

There are features that let you talk to Wall Street Journal experts, and help you get a presence on Google Maps, just to name a couple of useful ones. Check it out.

We talked recently about attracting offline eyeballs to your web presence as a way to potentially get more money from your online efforts.

More specifically though, if you are selling physical goods, take a look at the way you are packaging them. Is there room on the packaging to stick some more marketing materials?

SmallBusinessNewz cited two examples of effective package marketing techniques. One from a nut company and one from a gum company.

One used a cartoon character and a message about finding our more online, with a special URL based on that character, as well as having a separate URL for their regular site. The special one redirected to the regular one, but it inspires one to investigate when it is used in conjunction with the character.

The other one takes you to a MySpace page where there is plenty of interactivity and socializing to be found. Both are effective ways to use a physical packaging (that is probably being used regardless) to market a website.

This is a strategy that sellers should keep in mind. I don’t see why this should be limted to companies. You could use this technique as you sell goods on eBay auctions or whatever.