When I started my career in IT, it began with programming, hardware building, terminal installation and computer cabling. Because computers were new to business, especially small businesses they usually all required the need to have their buildings or dwelling cabled for terminals or PC’s. Lets not forget Printers. Printer cable had be hand made and were specific per printer, computer and or application. There were many ways to do cabling, all of them sweaty, smelly and difficult. This is not an exaggeration when it came to wiring homes that were turned into businesses. The floors were hard wood and were built before computers and PC’s were thought of. Installing cable in homes required large drills with a long bit. The bit needed to be about about a foot and a half to cover all walls and floors in a home. I found buildings with multi-floors the easiest and the messiest. You can run the cable in a drop down ceiling but this was also messy. Opening up the ceiling enabled you to enjoy eating fiberglass, dust and any rat droppings you get lucky enough to find. But throwing a cable was very easy and you could run cabling in the floors from holes or drop them down inside a wall. Dropping a cable in the wall is called fishing. Over time you become an expert fisherman at digging cables out of the wall. Now any new building of the last twenty years comes built with conduit and usually pre-cable. For very large building projects we would sub-contract with a structured cabling contractor to have more bodies running cable, especially if it was a rush job. Those were the days of great fun. Every once in a while I dabble back at a little fishing.

Now that we are reaching the end of the school year there is an important decision to make. hmmmm … Where to sell my college textbooks to get the most money for them. This is important for some, extra money for summer or for those bold enough to take classes during the summer, you still have to purchase textbooks for those classes. In the textbook world now is when you get the best price for your books, the longer you wait the less money you get. It is the way of the textbook jungle. The way to get the most cash for college textbooks, I would suggest you sell them now, every time they are not needed by you I would sell them online for best price for your textbooks.

This is one of the easier ways that I have made money online.  Free sign-up to use all the services from paid ad programs, affiliate programs and use their cool SEO tool set for free. The SEO tool set has Meta tag check/create, Keyword search, Search Engine Position Tool, a tool to see the internal and external links of a given website URL, Find The Estimated Value Of Your Links and more. You cannot loose on this, the site is designed to make you money with your blog and it is free. Go sign up and start making extra money from your blog. Create several different blog topic niches and use these tools to make as much money as possible. Now this is nothing to do with overnight get rich quick scheme or anything but is designed to allow you to get the maximum profit from your blogs.

If you are thinking about going into business for yourself and not sure what you want to do there is a business that you should think about. The Vending Machine Business is a cash business that just sits and makes money for you. Just think about how many times you use a vending machine in the course of a week. The next time you pass a machine notice how many people are using it. Well placed Vending MachinesVending industry then you already know there is something about the fact that while you are doing something else your money is still coming in. Once you have decided that this is something you are interested in you have to do your research to be certain you get the machine that is best for you. There are companies out there that will give you cheap machines but these are buyer beware situations. If you find your self with an outdated machine not only can it be hard to place but it will not have a long life span and wind up costing you more. There are machines that are built to last that are non restricting on your merchandise that you want to offer or how much you need to charge for them. The older machines can not handle the energy drinks that everyone is buying now so if you purchased one of those you would be restricted. You can also not make change so they have to have exact change and you can not charge over a dollar and energy drinks cost over that. So that becomes a market lost. This is just one of the things you have to think about. Using these two examples of life span and limited merchandising you can see why a good up to date vending machine is your best choice to start out. You may think you can save money with a cheaper machine but you will soon realize that you get what you pay for.

Have you ever made money from a hobby? I have made money teaching Karate before, it was hard to turn down more than $2000 dollars a month for about 10 hours worth of work a week.

If you are a photographer and like taking digital photos, there is a demand for you. Where there is a demand, there is a way to make money. This is an Ideal job for someone on a part-time basis. Taking photographs allow you to work when you feel like it. At this hobby you could start off small and work your way to bigger and more cash. Some are showing the possiblity of making $200 a day taking photos, if that is the case it time to turn it into a career. It would be cool to “Earn money taking Pictures“, other than the cost of the camera, you overhead is very low to run.

MySpace is one of the largest a social networking website with an interactive user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and latest with MySpace videos for teenagers and adults.

One should develop MySpace social site and use the site to drive traffic to your blog. MySpace being a social network that sees very heavy daily visitor traffic from millions of users has been the focus many internet maketers and all entrepreneurs. The traffic you get from MySpace and others can be transformed into profit through various monetization methods. Direct all MySpace traffic to your affiliate links page on your blog or products for sell page. By working on increased traffic, your visitors will create for you another source of getting online income.

Facebook is one of the most popular social network on the entire planet. There is no secret there. But, did you know that Facebook is the 5th most visited website on the entire internet every single day? The social networking site Facebook has a huge active community. It is reported that of the 200+ million active users, about half of them can be logged in each day. Facebook is a free-access social networking website that allows users to join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and even the region you live in to connect and interact with other people. You can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg founded with his fellow Harvard University computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Their initial website was a membership site limited to students of Harvard, then expanded to other Ivy league schools, working its way down through high school students that were 13 and over.

Facebooks’s name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that most colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. Mine at one time was put in a book form and given out to all students.

Now for the Making money on Face book part.
The good thing about Facebook Marketplace is you can selling unwanted items or your affiliate products in this Facebook area. The Facebook’s marketplace is where your items can be listed and viewed locally or international. Facebook’s marketplace is a virtual locality that will attract others of a common interests. Listing items that you list in the marketplace is of no cost to you. Cool, me like free. The items you are selling can be seen by others in your profile. Capitalize on Facebook’s unique advantages over the others. Now is the time to Start. The larger Facebook gets, you could become the Facebook equivalent of the eBay pioneer traders who made millions of dollars just by getting in early and before the competition.

Look for ebooks coming soon on Making Money with Facebook.

This is an overview of Twitter which in time will be an up and coming place to make money for you blog, it now drives traffic to your sites. There are a few money making opportunities now on Twitter. These will be covered in another post.

Twitter is the one of the monsters of social networking. You post in a 140 character box of what is on your mind or other things that is happening to you right this second. Twitter is having huge user growth spurts over the last year adding hundreds of thousands of folks that want to social network like me and you. I have been using twitter for more that six months with several projects. It becomes addictive once you get used to the 140 character limits it puts on you.

Twitter is an online service that enables you to broadcast 140 character messages to your friends or family. Along the way you will meet new people that find you or you find them and will mix together your conversations. Twitter also lets you specify which Twitter users you want to follow so you can read their messages in one place. There are may famous people on twitter. You can use Twitter search to check if your favorite personality is on twitter.

Twitter is also designed to work on your mobile phone as well as on a computer. All Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, so each message can be sent as a single SMS alert. This is where some of your text messaging skills come into play. It becomes more and more addictive as you take part. Twitter is a free message pushing service. .

How do you get started on Twitter.

Go to Twitter.com and click “Join for free.” For best results, use your real name when signing up. Twitter will ask you for your Full Name, Username, password and email. The user name is key, it post with everypost you do. This should be your name of the domain of your website, helps increase your find-ability in search engines. You will need to go settings and fill out as much information as possible including your website domain. It’s also helpful to upload a picture, will make you more visually findable. If you select the “Protect my updates” box, people will not be able to read your Twitters unless you authorize them to. Otherwise everyone on twitter can see your posts.

Now that you have a Twitter account and become part of Twitter World, email your friends your username or send them the link to your Twitter page. (Example: http://twitter.com/blogprofit). You will have your own page.

Twitter will also allow you to Hook up your mobile phone and IM account

The Twitter network works for you even if you’re not at your computer or browsing the Web. Once you are registered, you can connect your mobile phone and instant messenger account. Go to Settings > Phone and IM. Connecting your phone and IM programs to your Twitter account is a straightforward process. Note that messages you view on a phone or an IM program also are readable on your personal Twitter Web page.

Sending Twitter messages, or “Tweets”. You can send a Twitter message, or “Tweet,” from any of your registered devices, web, phone or IM.

1). From the Web page, enter a message in the entry window at the top of the page.
2). From a mobile phone, send an SMS message to 40404. Your phone’s caller ID is attached to your Twitter account, so the system will know it’s from you.
3). From IM, message TwitterIM if you’re on AOL, or twitter@twitter.com if you’re on Jabber/GTalk.
Your “followers” will see your message on their own Twitter pages and possibly on their mobile devices as well.

Using Twitter on the Web:
Add a friend - log into your account. Go to your friends Twitter page and press the “Add” link in the “Actions” box. To find a user page, use the search box on your own Twitter page. Once you click “Add,” you’ll start to see his or her Tweets on your page if his or her account is set for public access. If the account is private, the system will send you a “friend” request that must be approved before you start to see updates. You also can see who your friends are following by hovering your mouse pointer over the pictures in the sidebar on your friends’ pages. Those pictures are of their friends, the ones they are following. You can see all the Tweets from any Twitters friends by clicking the “With Friends” tab above his or her message window.

On the phone or IM: send the command follow username to register your phone or IM account to receive public Tweets from a user. You also can invite people based on a phone number: SMS add phonenumber to 40404, and you’ll start following the user at that number. Interesting in the marketing of Twitter. If the phone user at that number is not a Twitter user, they will get an invitation to join Twitter.
Using direct Twitter commands

You will be able to send a Twitter message directly to another Twitter user with the Direct command. Enter d username message, and users will get your ping, only if that person is following you. The problem I have with this, if you are following someone and they send you a direct message you are unable to respond back with a direct message. Take note Twitter, this should be an automatic turn on of direct message to one who gets the message to enable you to respond back to them. This would make them one of your followers, this ok I can live it. Should be the price to pay for sending a direct message. If you enter a Tweet with @username at the beginning of it, your message is understood as being intended for that particular person, this is called a ReTwit.

Some use twitter as a push message or outgoing message to everyone that wants to get updates. Others use twitter a marketing/message board for themselves or their business. Twitter is useful for close-knit groups, you are able to make your posts private and only enable those you want to view your posts. If you follow your friends, and they follow each other, you can quickly communicate large groups of followers. If someone is a popular celebrity, their followers will go up very quickly, some even hundreds of thousands in just a few short months.

You can use Twitter Search to find out who is on Twitter.

Twitter also will put your posts in the search engines, I have seen them in Google as quick as 9 minutes, no joke in 9 minutes from the time I posted on twitter. So Twitter will produce some SEO for you also. So sign up and post with enjoyment. Becareful Twitter is addictive.