Yesterday, I read an article called “Tough Decisions and Desperation,” in which the author discussed the desperation of people wanting to make money online to pay their bills. The author talked about;

• How difficult it would be to pay your bills from a new online business.
• Ways you can start an online business and about how to sell affiliate products.

Reading the (Tough Decisions and Desperation) article encourage me to write this article and let you know, there are other ways to make money online to pay a few bills, without starting a online business.

People who are interested in making money online need it free and fast. Like most people, you do not have time to go through the process of starting an online business. But, you would like to know how you can make some quick money online. Below, I have listed a few different ways you can make some money online, fast and free.

You may not realize it, but you may have $1,000 or more lying around your house that you can sell online. Things that you may think of as junk or no value can be valuable to other people. And by selling these items at a reasonable price, it is possible to make enough money to pay a few of your bills.

Once you have found all the items you would like to sell online, the next thing you need to do, is find out where you can sell them.

• The first place I would go is Ebay. Ebay has a large customer base with thousands of people constantly looking for items to buy. The good thing about Ebay is, all your customers are in one location. So, you would not have to wait long before a person finds your item. Registering at Ebay is free! But they do charge some small fees to post your items to their web site.

• Like Ebay, Ioffer.com provides a large customer base and is even better than Ebay when it comes to their fees. Unlike Ebay, IOffer.com will only charge you a small fee only if your item sales at the end of auction.

• Craigslists.org is a free online classified ad site, where you can post your items free locally or nationally. Posting items on Craigslists.org would be the fastest way to make money. Unlike Ebay or IOffer.com, you do not have to wait until an auction ends and hope that a person has bided on your item to make a little money. Once you post a free listing on Craigslists.org, you should start receiving emails or phone calls from potential customers within 24 hours.

• Online Local News Papers is another great place to post free listings to make money. Many people tend to forget about their local news papers, because of other popular online sources. Most news paper companies today have online systems, where you can post items to there classified ad section free of charge.

Above, I have provided a few places where you can sell some of your unwanted belongings free to make some quick money. Here are just a few tips to help you sell your items faster and easier.

• Do not set your prices too high! Remember, most of the things you will be selling is out-dated or used. So marking your prices to high can make it difficult for you to make money.

• Be honest when you are selling used things! Let the buyers know as much about the item you are trying to sell. The less information you provide, the less interested the buyer will be.

• Pictures are worth a thousand words! Take pictures of the things you would like to sell. Buyers love to see pictures of the things they would like to purchase.
  

1. It gives them extract security when they actually see what they are interested in buying.
2. It encourages them to buy.
3. It also provides proof that you really have the item and how it looks.
   

• Do not play games with your buyers! If a person emails or calls you about an item you are selling. Try to reply back as fast as possible. This gives the buyer that extra encouragement that you are interested in their business and that you are trust worthy.

• I would encourage you to setup a Paypal account. Why, for many reasons, most of today’s online shoppers only feel safe using their Paypal account to make online transactions.
  

• Do not accept checks! There are plenty of scam artist in the world. And the last thing you need is for a check to bounce in your account.

Setting goals is the best strategy when it comes to making money online. As I have stated many times before, diving right in without any goals can be fatal. In saying that, I have listed below my step-by-step goals in details. I follow each time I advise a person to take when trying to make money online.

Brainstorm – Try to think of a topic, product, or service that is interesting or could help others. Start by thinking of things you like, would like to happen or things of your interest. You would be amazed at how many people share the same ideas or interest as you.

Create information – build up information about your brainstorm, whether its articles, advertisement ads or etc. Try to write 10 to 15 articles or ads about your brainstorm before publishing an online website. Believe it or not, but content (INFORMATION) is what drive traffic to your website. The more information you could provide, the better the traffic.

SEO Ready Website – created or can package, make sure your website is SEO friendly. If you build your site from scratch, there are several tutorials online that can help you create a success SEO friendly website. You could also try me free e-book, SEO Friendly, to help you get started in creating a SEO friendly site. There are also many free packages for none web programmers like; Word Press and Joomla.

Web Traffic Before Money – once you have your website online, your next and most important goals is to get traffic to your website. I try to tell people to try to at least average around 500 visits per month on your third month. Researching online you will find there are many ways to push traffic to your site. Below is a list of just a few things you can do to increase traffic to your site. But most important, it takes time.

• Add signature to your forum avatars and emails.
• Replying to forums and blogs on topics that relate to your website.
• Creating newsletters.
• Advertising using banners or text ads.
• Posting articles on your website, blogs, and other free article websites.

Setting goals can ease your stress when trying to have a successful website, which could lead to making money. As I mentioned before, one of the number one killers to failed websites is diving right in, with no goals and with only one purpose, that is to only make money.

If you where to ask any successful business owner or website owner. The first thing they would tell you, the reason for their success was because they set goals for themselves. But before you go and just start writing down goals, you need to realize you have to set goals that are reachable.

Setting unreachable goals cannot only be stressful but can also lead to failure. Example, if you just open a new online bookstore selling how to books. You set your first goal to sell 1000 books in 2 months hoping to profit $1000.

This type of goal is an SFFG, “SETUP FOR FAILURE GOAL” and could lead you to shutdown your online store. The more suitable goal would be; to sell at least 5 books a week for my first month and increase you’re book sells by 2 each month. This would be a more reachable goal, and increases your chance of success. Because whenever you are successful, it builds confidents and confidents build success.

Listed below are my standard goals when starting an online website. With these goals you can apply them to any ideas you may have to help you in becoming successful.

The goals that I use to be successful are: find a topic, create content, publish the site, build traffic, and the money will come.

• Brainstorm for 1 week about a topic, product or service that interests you.
• Create 10 – 15 articles about the topic you are interested in within a 2 week time period.
• Publish your website online
• Set a target goal to average at least 200+ visitors per month by 3-month online.
• Join affiliate program and post ads on your website.