Copyright (c) 2010 Stephen Lau
You surf the web because you want to look for specific information, or to buy certain products. Advertisers provide the information, or affiliates connect you with the vendors, and transactions are made. Making money online looks effortless.
Due to the current dreary economic environment, many people would like to make a fast buck on the Internet. Vendors provide information or products, and in return they want to make some profit; buyers search for information or products to meet their own needs, and may be willing to part with their cash. As long as there is a willing buyer, a deal is closed, and money is exchanged.
But making money online is not as easy as it seems to be, or as it used to be, although the opportunities of making money online are countless.
Why is it difficult to make money online? Because it involves money. Making money online means you, first of all, must have a product to sell or a service for consumers -- that requires investment of time and money; and the competition is extremely keen.
Of course, you can be an affiliate -- that is, you connect buyers and sellers, and earn a commission if a sale goes through. However, even an affiliate may require some monetary investment in addition to the time involved. You may need a website to promote the products of vendors, or you may need to advertise through pay-per-click or some other advertising media.
Mking money is more complicated than you think, because money is involved: the buyers may become wary, not knowing if the products or services are as good as advertised; the affiliates may not be sure if their efforts to promote the products may turn profitable and worth their while.
So, making money online is difficult -- unless the opportunity is absolutely free, and you enjoy while you expend a litte effort in doing it.
Now, there is a golden opportunity that is absolutely FREE to join, and that pays you as you enjoy the web. This golden opportunity is about shared advertising. Essentially, shared advertising is an innovative online advertising that pays the viewers, or rather "targeted" surfers on the Internet. Make no mistake about it: this is not about traffic exchange, in which you may be paid to view websites or advertisements. Shared advertising is innovative, because the advertising is "by requests only."."
This is how shared advertising works: you see ads, which are specially catered for you, on your own browser; if you are interested in the advertised products, click on them, and make a quick review for the advertisers, you get paid -- that is, you "share" the advertising revenue. Without the availability of demographics, advertisers in conventional advertising rely soley on the keywords or search words provided by web surfers. In this state-of-the-art shared advertising, advertisers place their ads on the individual browsers of web surfers according to their demographics. Say, an individual, within a certain income bracket, living in a certain geographical location, with a certain ethnic backgroumd, and with certain personal interests, will be given ads that advertisers would deem appropriate to them. Advertisers believe this type of "targeted advertising" is more cost effective, and therefore they are more willing to share their advertising dollars with their potential customers. It is just a simple no-brainer phenomenon of targeted shared advertising.
In shared advertising, you share the revenue of advertisers by clicking on the ads targeted you as a consumer based on your demographic information. Although the reward is minimal, you also get paid for the rewards of those who have followed your example of putting their search box on their browsers. You tag your friends who tag their friends, and thus creating a viral membership, which pays you. The best part of it is that you become anonymous, and you join it for free, regardless of age or income.
This new concept of shared advertising may be the solution to the difficulty in making money online. After all, you enjoy the web and get paid, and there is nothing simpler or easier than that.
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Find out more about how you can have your share in advertising revenue. Invite your friends before they invite you. For more information on shared advertising, go to:
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Writer and researcher with book publications, websites, and blogs on health and healing, the art of living well, money management, and golf.