Interior design, like other design related careers, is fast becoming a highly competitive industry with a large number of new graduates having entered the market in recent years. And as is the case in competitive industries, sourcing and securing clients is paramount to the success of the company or individual.

In today’s competitive world, however, interior designers like you don’t always have an easy time getting clients.  If you want to expand your practice, however, don’t worry; with the Internet around to help you, you can finally kick your career into high gear.

You can easily have an online presence by securing your own domain (which could be your own name) and setting up a blog on it. The blog and website won’t just allow you to make money online — it also lets you to introduce yourself and showcase your expertise to visitors, allow them to get to know you and allow you to communicate with them and provide useful and credibility building information through blog posts.

Below, we’ve listed the top 6 reasons for you to start creating an online presence so your practice can achieve more success!

1.Reach A Global Market
Landing a domain of your own also makes you instantly accessible to anyone with internet access from every nook and cranny of the planet. This also means that you have a better chance at reeling in more opportunities online and enlarging your client base.

Over time, you may build relationships with visitors to your website and even secure projects with those who have been won over by the expertise and experience you display when writing your blog posts.

2.Create More Job Opportunities
You don’t have to be an interior designer flying solo to enjoy the benefits of having your own domain and blog.  Your blog is the perfect place to post your resume on, and is also the best place for you to feature your work and all your previous projects.  Prospective employers will definitely be impressed.

3.Build More Contacts
We’ve already mentioned that getting your own domain and blog will open up your practice as an interior designer to a bigger market to include people from all over the world.  With your online presence, you can start establishing a network of useful contacts who can help your business grow and flourish.

4.Evolve Your Work
Let your website or your blog focus on the work that you’ve done so far.  Put up testimonials from previous clients, showcase your work, and update your readers on your projects.  Let your designs take new directions by taking note of your readers’ suggestions and comments, and make sure that you also consider the feedback of your fellow designers who are already part of your online network.

5.Build Your Reputation
Use your own name as your domain so that your business as an interior designer appears more established and professional.  With a domain of your own and a blog to boot, you can start building your reputation outside the office through your online activities and your relationship with your readers and other interior designers online.

6.Earn Money From Referrals
When you have your own domain, you can even start to make money blogging indirectly by referring your clients or other prospective clients to a trusted colleague whose design work you also respect.  To make this profitable, you have to arrange it so that you earn a fee or commission for the referral you make.  To Your colleague should also get a fee from you if he refers a client to you, just so that everything’s fair!

With a personalized domain and a blog of your own, you can start getting more clients and solidifying your reputation as a trustworthy and talented interior designer.  Best of all, you can also make more money as you go along, making your business both fulfilling and profitable.

Posted on 28/09/2009
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The importance and value of coaching is often overlooked in today’s corporate and result-driven society. The truth is that training is the cornerstone of success.  A top ranking CEO in a corporation could not have reached his designation had he not been given the proper coaching and development by his previous managers. An advertising guru would most likely have had a solid coaching in the industry to have reached the pinnacle upon which he now sits.

The effects of coaching are ubiquitous, but because of their understated value, coaches are often underpaid, and must always keep up with the challenge of finding new clients.

Utilizing the power of the World Wide Web, coaches can make money online and open up new, previously unavailable opportunities.  By getting a domain name that is your name, you can set up a blog and use it to traffic in more visitors that can generate revenue for you.

Although the benefits of taking your talent online may be intuitive, they may require further explanation.  Below are five key benefits:

1. Coach Customers Via E-Mail
Using your e-mail, you can “sell” a coaching course through your blog.  Simply by writing specific instructions and principles in an e-mail, you would train your customers on a one-on-one basis.  It would be as good as being there!

If management coaching is your trade, sending a regular, weekly e-mail to your client would be an easily-achieved goal.  Each e-mail would cover a different topic in management, making the client truly feel that they’re learning something.

To make all of this even easier, there is a program called Sequential Autoresponder, which automatically sends these e-mail lessons to your clients.  You can specify the program to send the e-mails on as frequent a basis as you want.  You can just write out all the lessons and leave them all for the program to handle!  Sounds easy?  It is.

2. Write E-books
With your expertise as a coach in your given field – whether it be for fitness, management, business, or self-improvement – you can start to make money blogging by publishing your own eBook on a topic of your choice and make it available for downloading on your blog.

This can be as easy as compiling all or some your e-mail courses (as above) into a digitally formatted book and selling it on your website. Plenty of people would be willing to pay for an effective coaching e-book that costs a fraction of what it would it would costs to go to a coach in person.  Just sell products that are informative and helpful to your clients, and your reputation as an expert will enjoy a good boost.

3. Train customers from all over the world
The Internet is used by over a billion people, and because anyone can contact anyone else, you can use that to your advantage by selling your products to people all over the world.

4. Multiply your efforts
With your own blog, you don’t have to limit the number of people signed up for your courses, the way you would if you were working in an actual classroom.  If you take the e-mail/online newsletter route for example, you can “coach” hundreds of people without breaking into a sweat.

Remember that when you send out an e-mail to your mailing list, you don’t have to make each e-mail different for your clients.  In fact, you can use your e-mails over and over again, especially if you provide a set of e-mail courses that can be recycled to no end.  Just remember to make updates when necessary, and make sure you don’t accidentally send mail to people who have already received the same product from you.

5. Make a Name for Yourself Online
Over time, as your Blog becomes more and more popular, you will become well known in the Internet community as well as your own chosen field. This is especially so if you use your own name as your domain name!

Once you’ve created a big impact as a coach, people will be willing to pay for your services in whatever form it will take.  Whether it’s for a project or extra gigs like motivational speaking, your services can fetch you more money and do wonders for your reputation.

These are just a handful of what you can accomplish with your own domain and blog.  Don’t limit your chance at professional growth and success!  Explore your career possibilities through the internet, and your rewards shall come in due course.

Posted on 24/09/2009
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Remember when Bruce Lee made waves with his extraordinary martial arts skills? While martial arts movies and serials aren’t as common anymore, the popularity of martial arts as a form of recreation and self-defense hasn’t diminished.

Although martial arts schools are ubiquitous, they have also been competing with more and more alternatives over the past several years. For this reason, it’s more important for martial arts teachers to figure out new marketing strategies.

If you are a martial arts teacher, you know only too well the importance of marketing your services and expertise to ensure you get a large enough group of students - and one great additional way for you to market yourself is through the Internet. With a simple set up involving just a domain and blog that can be set up easily and at a low cost, you can give your business and career as a martial arts specialist a big boost.

1. Higher Enrollment
Putting up a website means your business will be more accessible to people in your area, likewise giving you the opportunity to make money online. This will also provide you with an advantage over your competitors, because, more and more each day, people instinctively search the Internet for information, and there’s always a good chance that people who Google up “karate lessons” will land on your blog.

2.Appear More Established
When you have your own domain and blog for your martial arts school, you give off the impression that you’re serious about what you do and about the prospect of making your business grow. An even better way to boost this favorable image is by using your own name as your domain and by drawing up an About Me page that summarizes your experience, credentials, and accomplishments.

3. Make a Name For Yourself
By getting a domain that is your own name, your websites serves an additional purpose - to build up your reputation in the online world as a martial arts specialist. Anyone that visits your website and blog will know of your name and of your services, and over time, that prominence will spill over into the real world, providing an additional impact for your career.

4.Start A Newsletter
You can also make money from your website by starting a weekly newsletter providing training tips and tricks for your students to learn from home. In exchange for receiving regular e-mails filled with your expertise, your visitors can pay you a monthly fee to be on your mailing list. Now isn’t that a clean and easy way to make money blogging?

5. Be an E-Book Vendor
For more money, you can collect some of your thoughts and notes in electronic format (usually a PDF file) and write e-books on various topics. These can easily be sold online for a fee and will make instant profit because you have managed to save on overhead costs. Who would have known that you, too, can sell products that you’ve created yourself, and which can absolutely boost your revenue?

While martial arts are an ancient and revered skill, it would do no harm to bring it to the forefront of technology (in a sense!) and bring your training expertise online. With insanely low start-up costs and a great number of benefits to be enjoyed, this is a great way for you to ‘knock-out’ the competition!

Posted on 23/09/2009
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Architecture is a highly respected career and field of business to be evolved in. It requires a great level of intelligence, creativity, discipline and hard work to become an established architect (let alone a highly successful one) in your country or region, no matter which part of the world you are from.

This, however, is not meant to sound like a deterrent to budding architects out there. It is merely a reflection of the value of an architect’s expertise, a fact that can be used to great benefit by architects all over the world to make additional income on the Internet.

Here are just some of the best ways through which you can use own domain and blog work to your advantage, help you to make money online, and keep your architecture practice a profitable one:

1.Provide Information Via E-Mail To Members
As an expert in your field, you’re sure to have tons of great advice and techniques that other people might want to get a hold of.  Pool together your best insights on architecture and compile them into sets of online newsletters that your subscribers can receive once they pay a minimal fee.

Of course, since your information is highly valuable and useful, people may want to pay you a membership fee in order to be accorded onto the list. These individuals can be students of architecture, young professional architects or anyone who has an interest in architecture, really. In return, you simply send out an e-mail every week to these members. You can probably even automate this process so it can be sent automatically to your customers on a weekly basis.

2.Write Useful E-books
If you want to further explore a particular subject regarding Architecture, you don’t have to confine yourself to sending out e-mails to a mailing list:  you also have the choice to sell products by publishing an eBook through your site.

Because we’re talking about digital products, you won’t have to contend with the gigantic costs involved in traditional publishing. Just make your eBook available on your blog, set up a credit card payment system that will manage the payments, and you’re good to go.

3.Provide Referrals Or Consultation
Providing referrals is a great way of making money that doesn’t even require you to do work! All you need is to compile a list of architects from all over your country or region. Then whenever any one of your blog readers requests work that you cannot provide for whatever reason (usually logistical, since your readers will be from all over the world!), you can provide a referral to one of your contacts. In exchange, your grateful contact will pay you a referral fee!

4.Create Opportunities By Having An Online Presence
Finally, having your own domain and blog doesn’t just help you make money blogging; it also helps you acquire a reputation that reflects both online and in the real world.  For example, your readers may want to hire you and pay for your services beyond a virtual setting.  You may also be invited to do talks, connect with other architects, and even be contacted by a prestigious architectural firm that wants you to join them!

With a domain and blog of your own, you can focus on giving better services to your clients while earning more money and gaining the respect of your peers.

Posted on 19/09/2009
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The real estate industry may have its ups and downs, but it has always been one of the biggest industries in the world and a large chunk of the world’s money is invested in properties and land. Within this industry lie many other industries and key professions, a very important one of which is the mortgage brokering industry.

People rely on mortgage brokers to handle all aspects of their housing loans, and with such great competition in the housing and property industry, the search for customers is a never ending battle for mortgage brokers and consultants all over the world. As most customers are one time customers (people generally buy properties ONCE in a while), there is always a need to source and locate new Prospects.

If you are a mortgage broker, you can use the magic of the Internet to increase your client base and make money online.  Simply by creating a blog with your own domain, writing a few blog posts each week, and corresponding wit your visitors, you can avail of many great benefits!  Among these are:

1.Garner Greater Countrywide Awareness Of Your Services And Expertise
You can’t do your work online, but you would definitely be able to expand your network and search for more contacts and possible clientele.

And because people who drop by your site and stay on it are likely to be interested in real estate matters and in getting the services of a mortgage broker, you’re already dealing with a market that’s suited to your offerings.  It can’t get any easier than that for you!

2.Provide Advice For Money

With your experience in the industry, you’re bound to be an expert and a skilled mortgage broker in your own right.  Given your level of expertise, wouldn’t you be perfectly equipped to provide sound advice to people who need a guide to mortgage and financing?  The good news is that you actually can sell this kind of advice, and that this sort of information is something that many people are willing to pay for.

In addition to your blog posts, you can e-mail your online audience on a regular basis or sell products and provide information en masse via e-mail.  You could give them tips about housing loans and do’s and don’ts.

The information that readers can receive through e-mail should be paid for first with a monthly fee.  E-books can be sold through an online marketplace, which you can set up easily on your blog to facilitate the exchange between product and money.

3.  Make Your Name Bigger and Better
Through your blog, you’re sure to cement a better and more recognizable reputation for yourself as an expert mortgage broker.  Of course, this favorable reputation isn’t chained to your blog — it will actually manifest itself in real life, often in the form of a larger client base, better industry connections, and more opportunities to make money and establish yourself as a key player in the real estate game.

To further advertise yourself, use your own name in the domain address, so merely typing it out will ingrain your name in your prospects’ minds.

4.  Expand Your Network
No matter how good you are at what you do, you’ll always benefit from knowing more people.

Because of the wide accessibility of things on the Internet, your blog will attract a wider audience of potential customers, employers, partners, and other, more random people.  The possibilities are endless since you never know who may be coming into your website, be it on purpose or on a whim.

Although the above may be enough to send mortgage brokers rushing to secure their self-titled domains (if they’re still available), there are still plenty of other benefits. Simply put, a domain and website or blog can open a plethora of opportunities for any mortgage broker. It’s only once you get started that you’ll start to fully appreciate what a big boost your domain can be for your finances, career and life in general!

Posted on 19/09/2009
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The personal coach (or life coach) trend has definitely picked up in recent times. More and more people are turning to professionals for sound advice, and perhaps more importantly, motivation, to change their lives for the better.

But as the market for life coaches has exponentially increased, so has the number of personal coaches and life coaches that are available to cater to these individuals. Thus, as a life coach, it is important that you exhaust every possible angle to build trust, credibility and faith with your prospective customers so that you can ultimately garner the most possible sales for your products and services.

Here are a number of ways through which you can give your business a boost and make money online, only by getting your own domain and blog!

1.Reach Out To Millions More People
As a Life Coach, you earn your keep by interacting with people and providing a specialized service that they’re willing to pay for.  When you step into the bounds of the internet, you find yourself open from all sides to the attention of people from every imaginable place, making your more accessible!

Since there are over a billion Internet users at any given moment, the market you’re opening up your business to is practically boundless.  Take advantage of this and start building your reputation online!

2.Use It As A Communication Platform
Who says you need to be in the same room with a person just to communicate with them?  Through your own domain and blog, you can carry on meaningful conversations and exchanges with your clients and readers, building a relationship that your clients can find support in.

3.Provide Life Advice Online For A Fee
After building a personal relationship with your readers and visitors (who are your Prospective customers too!), you can then take the next step forward by selling them your expertise through your website.

This can be done by providing advice via e-mail one a regular basis (say every other day, or every week) and in return, your customers pay you a monthly fee to be included on your mailing list. This may sound difficult but it is actually a very simple task, and you can even pre-write a number of e-mails and set them up to be sent out automatically to your paying customers.  It’s an effective way for you to make money blogging without neglecting your responsibilities as a life coach.

4.Use Your Website To Promote Your Books/Events
Aside from business from your website, you no doubt have a lot of products and services that you supply in the physical world, such as books you have written or events (such as boot camps) that you will be organizing. Your website will come in incredibly handy in this situation as you can use it not only to talk about your books (or events) and convince people of their value through your blog posts, but you can also sell products like these them to your customers directly through your website. This saves you a lot of money and hassle in promoting your books, talks and seminars through the press or magazines.

5.Build Up Your Reputation
This is especially the case if you use your actual name in choosing your domain. Everyone who visits your website will definitely remember your name and similarly, anyone who hears of you offline and runs a search of you on an Internet Search Engine will immediately find your website, thus giving them the impression that you are highly established and profession.

With so many advantages to be gained by starting up your blog, and with very little start-up and maintenance cost, it’s one of the best investments you can make in your career as a life coach or personal coach.

Posted on 16/09/2009
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The increase of electronic media, which was made possible by more sophisticated computer software, may make artists who use traditional media feel outdated and passé.

And with a public so hooked on digital creations, artists who work with traditional media find themselves pushed to the sidelines.  Gone are the days when producing art was a practice only the skilled could make a living from — these days, any high school kid with a knack for Adobe Photoshop could create a “painting” that would cost much less than the real thing.  The result?  More work for digital artists and much less for old-school talents.

How could old school artists then make enough money to earn a living without “selling out” to an industry they have no passion for?  How can they go back to doing what they love and actually earn money from it?  Believe it or not, the solution may lie right where you might least expect it: on the Internet, and most particularly, with their own domain and blog.

Using their own names as their domain names, artists can host blogs which will open an enormous window of opportunity to share their artwork with the world and help them make money online in the process.  Artists should immediately get started on this, for the following reasons:

1. Build a Much Larger Fanbase

The major hurdle when it comes to traditional art — whether it be on canvas or mounted as a sculpture — is that in many cases, it’s not as accessible to the public as it should be.  Works of art don’t always make it beyond a gallery exhibit or two, thereby restricting the number of people who manage to view the pieces.

Using the Internet, however, artists can post digital photos of their artwork and even add some back-story with each piece, which, is virtually like guiding someone around a personal exhibit.

Budding artists will find that this method is a great way of launching their work to the public without having to fork over their money to a gallery. With your own website, you can start showcasing your work nonstop to an audience comprising people from all walks of life and from every corner of the globe.

2. Meet Other Artists And Build A Useful Network

As an artist, it will do you well to build and nourish your connections among other people within the art community.  A fellow painter might introduce you to a gallery curator who could feature your work, or you might collaborate with other artists in a production that can earn you some money in the end.

By having a presence on the Internet, you will meet a large number of other budding artists like yourself from all over the world, which may prove to be invaluable contacts in the future. You will also allow yourself to be found online by art gallery owners and managers, art collectors and other art aficionados, any of whom may play a role in advancing your career.

3. Hold Transactions Online

The quickest way to convert your artwork into cash is to simply sell it!  On your blog, you can set up a merchant account which will facilitate the trade between product and cash, as customers can easily pay with their credit cards.

Besides selling your best work and the pieces you’re most proud of, you can also try to sell products that promote your art, such as unique, hand-made bags, buttons, purses, and caps with reprints of  your art.  Find a good and trustworthy courier service that will deliver the goods to your clients quickly and efficiently, and you’re bound to start making money faster than you think.

4. More Opportunities

Aside from selling your work, a website or blog opens the artist up to other opportunities from which money can be made. For example, a frequent visitor to your website who enjoys your art may commission you to create an artwork for a decent fee. Or you may be invited to sell your art at an auction after an organizer of the event came across your website.  It’s an indirect — but nonetheless effective — way for you to make money blogging without neglecting your art!

As you can see, you don’t have to steer clear of the art you love just so you can earn some money and keep up with the times.  Once you get your own domain and blog, your career should take off and give you more room to start making more art — and a living — for yourself.

Posted on 15/09/2009
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As a financial planner, you probably already know all of the best techniques and methods for a business to earn more money, to lower its costs and to overall better manage its finances. So you’ll almost certainly agree with the idea that, as a financial planner (or anyone who is an expert in managing finances really!), you can certainly earn some extra money by expanding your business to the Internet.

Think about it:  with billions of people surfing through the internet second by second, you have a really big chance of attracting a larger chunk of your target market.  The best part about this?  Putting up your own website costs only around $10 a month.  That’s a real steal!

If you want to broaden your services, get a larger client base, and make money online, you can do exactly that by providing relevant and reliable advice on the Internet to clients who need to manage their finances better.  Here’s how you can do it:

1. Provide Regular Advice (E-Newsletter) For A Monthly Fee
If you’re always scrambling for time, the e-mail/newsletter method is the best place to start with.  All you need to do is compile brief pieces that contain exclusive information that your subscribers can access for a set fee.  The benefits of this tactic is that first, of all, you can get away with doing this without shelling out any money.  Sending e-mails doesn’t cost a thing, and neither does writing your own content.    

Thus, almost all the money you gain by charging your customers a monthly fee to become a member of your e-newsletter is your profit. The only additional tools you will need to set up is your credit card online merchant account (which enables you to receive payment via credit card) and your mailing list autoresponder (which allows you to pre-insert e-mails beforehand, allowing your e-newsletter business to almost run on auto-pilot!).

Of course, you need not only send your customers information in the form of text - you can also send them video and audio files. The better the quality of information and mode of communication that you use with your customers, the higher you can charge them monthly and the easier for you to make money blogging.

2. Write E-Books And Sell Them On Your Blog
You can also use your expertise — and even exercise your writing abilities — by drafting an eBook and publishing it on your site.  When you sell products like these, you’re bound to increase your chances at earning a bigger income and establishing your credibility as an expert.  An eBook is generally a document in .pdf format that can go anywhere between 30-75 pages (or more!).  It costs little to produce, but holds a potentially great amount of revenue when produced and marketed well.

The visitors who read your website regularly are great potential customers for your e-book as they already have an interest in learning more on financial planning. Thus, you only need to use your blog to market your product, and every cent you make from its sales is your profit!

3. Build Your Reputation As A Respected Financial Planner
Another great advantage of owning your own domain and blog (that does not necessarily make you money) is that you will build yourself a reputation within your readers as a reliable and trustworthy financial adviser on the Internet. This is even more true if you use your own name as the domain address i.e. www.YourName.com.

What’s more, your reputation doesn’t just get better online; it will also manifest in the real world, as some of your impressed readers will want to hire you and pay for your services beyond a virtual setting.  You may also be invited to do talks, connect with other well-regarded peers, or even give seminars!

As a person who truly understands the importance of analyzing the profitability of a business before venturing further, it must seem quite clear to you that securing an online presence for your career and expertise is a step in the right direction. And the sooner, the better, too. After all, the sooner you build up a following of readers, the quicker you can start earning online!

Posted on 11/09/2009
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As the Internet has taken the world by storm, and almost every household in America boasts an Internet connection, many individuals have turned to the Internet as a valuable and reliable source of information. In fact, with search engines perfecting their ability to sift through millions of web pages, the Internet is now THE place to go to find news and information about any topic under the sun.

And when it comes to what kind of information people search for, medical information definitely ranks somewhere near the top. While it was previously a necessity to consult a doctor to run through your symptoms, people now have the opportunity to self-diagnose minor symptoms online by visiting websites that provide medical advice.

This increased demand in expert medical advice on the internet has given many medical practicioners and health and wellness specialists a lot of opportunities to strengthen their careers and make money online while they’re at it.  As a chiropractor, you definitely aren’t the exception; you can start boosting your practice and your profit by getting your own domain and blog.  Here’s how it works:

1. Sell Information Via E-Mail (E-newsletter)
After years as a practicing chiropractor, you probably have a great deal of experience and knowledge on the subject. All you need to do to earn from this expertise is to provide advice on a regular basis to your customers.

Every week, or every month, you send customers of your e-newsletter (who are added to your mailing list) an e-mail talking about a specific topic related to chiropractic medicine, and in return for this information available as a member of your mailing list, your customers pay you a monthly fee.

Through your own domain and blog, you can create and publish blog entries that will help cement your reputation among your peers and readers — you can even make money blogging if your blog gains a larger following.  Your blog posts should be relevant to chiropractic medicine or your specific practice, but should not be as detailed as your newsletter entries.  In fact, your blog posts should serve as a teaser of some sort that will entice your readers to become paying subcribers to your newsletter!

2. Sell Information As An E-Book
Aside from providing information in small portions via e-mail, you can compile larger amounts of information and sell it in the form of an e-book. An e-book is essentially a book written in an electronic format, such as a PDF file. This makes it easier to distribute and also means that you will not incur and publishing or printing costs.

One of the biggest advantages to working with an eBook is that it can be very inexpensive to make, especially in comparison to printed books.  For example, you won’t have to ship your books anymore to other locations: all you need to do is put up your eBook for downloading on your blog, and you’ve already taken care of its circulation.  You should also put up an e-merchant credit account that will keep your payment system in tip-top shape, giving you time to focus on your practice and making it grow online.

3. Market Products As An Affiliate
In all your blog entries and information provided to your online customers, you will be bound to mention the use of various medical products. This can be a very viable way for you to make money as well.

Becoming an affiliate partner can easily boost your revenue, and this is how it can work for you:  you can team up with suppliers, manufacturers, and merchants that sell products related to chiropractic medicine.  You can then start promoting these products on your blog, and later receive a commission for every visitor on your site who purchases their product!

The above and just three simple ways you can expand your income as a chiropractor by taking your expertise online. It really doesn’t take a lot to get started - just a domain and a blog - and the potential benefits could be huge! 

Posted on 11/09/2009
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Making money as a magician or illusionist is certainly not an easy task. While magic may be seeing a renaissance of sorts with many new street magicians such as David Blaine and Chris Angel inundating the airwaves, becoming a full-time magician (and earning well for it!) is still easier said that done.

For example, it’s difficult to be a full-time magician, since you’ll have to string together a lot of projects and always keep yourself on the go.  And the truth is, it’s not always so easy to get hired for an event besides your usual kiddie parties.  The good news, however, is that you don’t have to stop at your tricks to start making money.  All you need is your own domain and your blog, and you’re all set and ready.

With your own domain name, you can have a blog that can not only advertise your magic, but also impart your knowledge for a fee. In other words, you don’t just get to reach out to a larger audience — you also bag the opportunity to make money online!

1. Teach Magic In An E-Course
Since you’re already an expert in your craft, shouldn’t it be just fair to share some of your knowledge to other people, especially to aspiring magicians? You can actually accomplish this by sending out instructional e-mails to paying subscribers on a regular basis.

As the teacher, you have many options as to how to offer your course.  You can send them plain-text e-mails that give excellent tutorials to some basic tricks, or maybe even show instructional videos of yourself performing a particular magic act.  The choice is yours; just make sure that the fee you’ll be charging covers all your expenses!

Getting your newsletter service up and running shouldn’t be too hard, and, at most, will require a small investment in an autoresponder service that will automatically send the e-mails for you according to your settings.  By introducing an e-Course in magic through these newsletters, you can reach out to more people, establish your reputation as a trusted magician, and make money blogging all at once!

Put Your Knowledge in an E-Book
An e-Book, or a book written electronically, is another way you can impart your knowledge about your chosen profession.  It can be of any length and can contain as much information as you wish, and, of course, should be sold for a fee.

An e-book that compiles a large amount of magic tricks can be quite easily sold on the Internet, and you can easily do that directly from your blog! After all, your visitors are obviously interested in magic, and which budding magician can turn down a book full of neat tricks? Take the opportunity to sell products like this, and you’ll soon see a significant jump in your earnings.

3. Get Asked To Perform At More Magic Shows
Blogging on your own domain is also a really good and inexpensive way to market yourself and promote the kind of services that you’re willing to offer to clients.  Through your blog, your potential clients can get to know you and the nature of your performances better, upping your chances at actually landing a good gig.

Now that you have an online presence, just about anyone can contact you and inquire about your services, no matter where they’re situated.  Not only is your business open ’round the clock, it also fans out to locations you wouldn’t have dreamed of reaching!  You don’t just get the chance to keep in touch with local clients; if you impress your readers enough, one of them might be happy to pay for your plane tickets and book your next performance a state or a continent away.

Sell Other Websites’ Wares
As mentioned earlier, you will get visitors from all over the country (and world) reading your blog posts and appreciating you and your magic, and you may encounter situations where your visitors ask you to recommend a product or service related to your craft. You can use this as a money making opportunity by becoming Affiliates of websites that sell magic-related products and services and by recommending your visitors to their website (via a special Affiliate link), you stand to earn commission.

You can also recommend other magicians (that may be better located, perhaps, for an event) in exchange for a referral fee. A blog certainly gives you as a magician a wide array of new opportunities of making money, and in truth, all you need is to spend a few hours a day writing for your blog and you’ll soon be able to put the above into practice to start earning money. How’s that for some magic?