The Internet Job

Hello boys and girls!
It’s been a while since I wrote something here, I know…!!

I come here to talk you about one of my projects, a website called shot-mania.com.

Shot-Mania.com

Doesn’t look very bad,huh? By now you should be asking what the hell is the site all about?Well, Shot-Mania is a website in portuguese about Shot’s, those small drinks that use to mixture some strong ones… whisky, absynthe, vodka, rum, etc.
This website is all about shot recipes!! I have a big list of them and so I’m posting them in this website, because I think that altough these drinks are pretty famous amongst the “night people” it’s kind of hard to find the recipes off it!

The number of daily pageviews goes around 200-300, not a number I can be proud of, but pretty interesting if you think I didn’t paid yet a single euro for publicity!

Today I have installed Google Adsense (Content, Search and RSS) in complement with a portuguese related publicity tool, NetAffiliation.

NetAffiliation has some interesting results with some campaigns, but they tend to last only a limited time, wich is nor as regular as I want so Adsense might balance things here!

Let’s see how it evolves…and then I’ll get back to you guys…

For me there are two major tools when we talk about moving money online:

- PayPal

- Moneybookers

Those similar yet different tools have everything you need when it’s about paying or receiving money online.
Witch one should you choose?Well…that’s really up to you.

Both of them only need a valid e-mail account to register, and they both have Merchant Tools for you. This means that if you have a business of your one and want to charge your clients, you don’t have to worry too much how to do it.
Both PayPal and Moneybookers can help you with this. Your clients may choose to pay trough their accounts of this platforms, or they can use their credit card, like they would do on a “high-tech” enterprise site.

Me, personally, I prefer Moneybookers, I’ve been using it for a while now and I only have good things to say about it.
Low fees, reliable yet easy to use service. Fast transactions…you name it, they have it!

But PayPal is probably the most used tool arount the world, you can use it on E-Bay, and this is enough for you to trust it, right?

Go ahead, know the tools, register, and start moving money on the web!

Now…let’s see…you’ve bought your online domain and hosting space and you have a cool theme!

You’ve instaled a visitor counter and started publishing your texts…but…wait…the counter doesn’t moves except when is you that open your website!

Ohh….what a shame…you’re doing your best to write interesting articles..but no one knows about them…why should they come to your place in the big WWW??

Well, let me give you a little help with that!
There are “tons” of newsfeed/newsagregators/bookmark around here! They’re a good place for you to register and add your site/articles and articles from the websites you use to visit (some of this sites may cancel your registration if you use them solo to autopromote yourself and your site/blog,ok?)

Now, here’s a list of 25 TOP WEBSITES TO SPREAD THE WORD:

- Bluedot

- Clipmarks

- Shoutwire

- Backflip

- Diigo

- Mister Wong

- LinkaGoGo

- Dropjack

- BuddyMarks

- YouMob

- Squidoo

- Linkroll

- MarkaBoo

- Maple

- MyStuff

- MyLinkVault

- SiteJot

- IceRocket

- BlogHop

- Digg

- Delicious

- StumbleUpon

- Newsvine

- ClipClip

- Propeller

Now, it’s time to count your visitors and to understand how many are them, where they live, from wich sites do they come from, what are the keywords that brought them to you!

For that purpose, I recomend a free yet usefull tool.

You can grab it on StatCounter.com and I’m sure you will not regret it. It’s adjustable to all kinds of sites and has plenty of resources for your website.

Go and grab it now!

Technorati Profile

Now that you are online, it’s time to have a site that you like and seems like you!

Like your House and your Car, you try to find one that you like and that at the same time, fits your needs,right?

For amateurs and pros, Wordpress is the platform to use! Easy, costumizable, can be adapted to almost anything you want to do online!!

There are tons of free and paid Wordpress Themes for you to download and adapt to your Wordpress site.

The theme I’m currenlty using here was downloaded from a site called Topwpthemes and it’s a free theme.

However, there are some websites with paid themes and I strongly suggest you ThemeForest. In this website you’ll find tons of quality themes for Wordpress, pure HTML, Joomla, Flash and even PSD.
Pretty cool, huh?
Click on the image below to meet these guys!

Their themes start from just $10 (7,40€)!
But you may think: Why to buy a theme if I can get one free?
Well, first of all, a paid theme is more rare, so you won’t find tons of websites like your, you’ll have a much more unique and personal website! I’ve just bought a theme there, but it seems it has some compatibility problems with my wordpress version, I’ve already contacted the author (one more advantage) and I’m waiting for him to help me solve this issue.

Why Theme Forest?

Well, you can pay with Moneybookers, Paypal and the most common Credit Cards.
Second, they’re part of a bigger group and all the money you deposit on your account can be used not only on Theme Forest but in any of the websites below:

Go get your resources!!!

Hello again,

The first stop for everyone interested on having an internet job…is…I suppose…to get online!

So…the first thing everyone should do…is to have a domain name and some webhosting.

I’ve used a very good portuguese company, called Hosting BUG .I’m not winning any type of affiliate money on this, I’m just recomending it because they have really good competitive prices:

- 6 Gb of space from 25€ / year (33.95 USD)

- .com domain names from 8€ / year (10 USD)

Really cool, huh?
For now, their site is only in Portuguese, but they’ll have an English Version really soon and they accept PayPal also!

Take a look: HOSTINGBUG

Hello there!

My name is Xavier Costa, I’m a 25 years old portuguese male!

Why did I created this blog?
- Well, I see everybody saying that is possible to make money online, bla bla bla, that everyone can become the next “web millionaire” (I don’t even know if this word exists). So, I’m here to try to see if it’s really true.

Why now?
- I’ve just turned 25 years old, and I’m not yet as independent as I would like to be, and I don’t have all the money or the things I would like to. As I turned 25 I thought this is really the time to do something for myself, to work my ass out and see if it’s really possible to have an “Internet Job”

What can you see here?
- Of course I don’t think this blog for itself will make me a rich guy, as a matter of fact, I don’t even think I would make any good amount of money from it. But here you can see and read most of the things I would be doing. You would be able to see the projects I’ve created, the ones that gone good, and certainly the ones that gone way bad! You can see the stuff I use, the tools I will use, etc,etc. I will try to keep at minimun all the “junkie posts”, and only post things I found that might be interesting for other people (a review from the cell-phone or laptop i use, or a new webmaster tool that just came up).

Why in english and not in Portuguese?
- English is the most spoken language in the world, it is spoken in almost every country, and it’s the language of technology by default. I’m portuguese, and some of my projects online will be in portuguese language, but here I’ll write in English and most of my projects will be in English also, so that I can reach more people. OF COURSE it is possible to make money with an online portuguese website, but if it’s REAL MONEY you’re in search of, English is the language to do it.

WELL, ENOUGH FOR NOW, I DON’T WANT TO BOTHER YOU GUYS/GIRLS TOO MUCH!

Come along with me on this ride!

Cheers,