The first shows you EXACTLY how he makes money from his blog. The second shows you how much he makes.

This is some eye-opening stuff…

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In the videos you can watch over Yaro’s shoulder as he take you on a tour of the different ways he makes
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If you were ever curious to see how someone makes big money with a blog, these two videos give it to
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Over the last few posts you have seen some of the concepts that Yaro teaches with “Conversion Blogging”
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it and he offers you proof of what he earns.

If you are ready to start earning big dollars from a blog of your own, then Blog Mastermind is for you.

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At this point, Yaro will not be closing the doors, nor will he be capping the number of people who
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The program is six months worth of training plus a members resources area and online community. You
can participate in two ways -

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You will have immediate access to the member resources and online community and receive one
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Unlike a business in the “real world”, an internet home business does not need a lot of start up money. All you need is an idea, a domain name, internet access and hosting – all of which can be obtained for under $100!

2. You choose when you work

Who says you must work from 9 to 5 everyday? People who are NOT Internet Home Business owners! The Internet Home Business is the biggest proof why the statement “working from 9 to 5” no longer holds true. With an Internet Home Business, you don’t have to wake up in the wee hours of the morning so that you can get to work by 9am anymore. You can start work at anytime since you are your own boss!

3. Work from the comfort of your own home

Where you put your computer is where you will be working. Since you’re going to be working from home, you’ll be saving at least two hours of your time each day by not having to travel to and from your work place during rush hour when everybody else is going to work or heading for home. That means you’ll save at least 730 hours a year! Imagine that – 730 non-productive hours wasted every year!

4. With the internet, the whole world is your market

As you sit before your computer, everyone in the world is not within three feet of you. You can leverage on free or low-cost software and hardware and the Internet Infrastructure – all of which, when combined, will give you leveraging power that far exceeds any conventional business, allowing you to achieve more and more with less and less work!

5. You can fully automate your internet home business

If properly set up, some Internet Home Business models can be fully automated.

6. No need to work 8 hours a day every single day

Once you automate your Internet Home Business in some way, you can use the time you saved to start another Internet Business, improve your existing business, or spend it in any way you like. All you need to do is spend some time online checking your emails on a regular basis, and promote and expand your business. This is all done in front of your computer. You don’t have to spend more than four hours online.

7. Spend more time with family and friends

Owning an Internet Home Business gives you the privileges to have more time to spend with your family, or watch your children grow up. This is what most busy parents crave for. If you are one of them, then you should seriously consider starting your own Internet Home Business.

8. Your online business can be all about your hobbies and passions

This is one of the reasons why I love Internet Home Businesses – it allows your passion and dreams to come to life. This is also the most important component for any business.

9. Online businesses have very little expenses

Believe it or not, some Internet Home Businesses can be set up and running at zero cost. Others can operate with monthly operational expenses that are so low that they are negligible.

10. You can have more than one Internet Home Business

Since the cost of setting up and running an Internet Home Business is so low, and you have the option of automating its operations, it allows you to operate multiple Internet Home Businesses on your own. You don’t need to hire employees since your Internet Home Business system does more of the job, if not all. It works 24/7 for you. It won’t call in sick. It won’t give any excuses. And it definitely won’t blame you for its daily problems.

11. The internet is a huge market (the whole world) and it is getting bigger even as you read these words

According to the Computer Industry Almanac, there were 934 million users up to September 2004. This increased to 1.07 billion in the following year. With each year, this number only increases. Even a small piece of a 1.07 billion pie is a rather attractive target given the leverage you have with the Internet, wouldn’t you say?

Given all the wonderful reasons for starting your own Internet Home Business, I am sure that you have already made up your mind whether starting an Internet Home Business is for you.

1. Pop-ups

Pop-ups are not only expensive, but because it is so annoying visitors close pop-up windows without even bothering to know what they’re all about. This is an internet advertising method that you can do without.
Fly ads are derivatives of pop-ups which are also equally irksome to your visitors.

A new method that has been gaining popularity is called the “Pop-under”. Inside of appearing over the website you are looking for, it appears beneathe it. Readers don’t see these until they close the window they were looking at. They are viewed at a time when your readers are more willing to take a look at what your pop-under has to offer instead of being annoyed by your pop-up that delays them from getting to the information they are really hungry for.

2. Pod casts

A pod cast is to the internet what a Broadcast is to TV. It’s one sophisticated internet advertising method that can hamper your budget. But if you’re thinking results, pod casting is worth the money.

3. Pay the Search Engines

How does this one work? When someone types in a keyword related to your site, your URL is automatically included in the first page of the top results. By paying a fixed price to the search engine, you can jump to the top of the search engine without having to waste time building up your search engine ranking. This is expensive, but if you’re looking at Google and Yahoo, it can be well worth the price.
This is associated with another internet advertising method: the pay-per-click system. Pay-per-click is great because you only pay for your ads that have been clicked on so you don’t waste money on useless advertising.

4. Advertising on Ezines
Ezines are basically online magazines. Just as a regular magazine sells ad spaces to companies, you can also purchase ad spaces on Ezines. You can purchase a variety of ads on magazines such as banners, top sponsors, and solo ads based on your budget. Ezine ads have the advantage of allowing you to target a specific audience and they cater to a wide budget range. Obviously the more attention you want your ad to have, the more it will cost you, similarly to a double page, colour ad in a regular magazine, versus a quarter page, black and white.

5. Blogging

Hop onto the bandwagon and blog about your website. This is an internet advertising method that has gained popularity in recent times. All you have to do is sign up for a blogging account, post and voila! You don’t even need to pay - unless you want to host your own blog. Blogs are well received by the search engines and can help increase a website’s ranking because they are frequently updated with fresh content (search engines love websites that are constantly updated).

6. Submit Your Website to Smaller Search Engines.

This is cheap and dependable. If you submit your site to smaller search engines, you have a bigger chance to get bigger results. Remember that the search engine giants can dwarf and overlook your site easily, so this internet advertising method might just be right up your alley. And if you target several small search engines, the sum of the results can add up.

7. Text Links

Not only are text-links cheap, they can be free! All you have to do is get someone to text link your site and return the favor. This is also known as a link-exchange. You can also purchase text links for a price, or you can go one step further and purchase a blog review - Smorty, SponsoredReviews, Linkworth, Payperpost, Blogsvertise.
The more links you have pointing to your website, the more traffic you can generate. Additionally, the search engines also reward sites that have lots of quality back links with a higher ranking. Just make sure that the site linking yours is relevant to your website’s topic.

8. Article Marketing

This is a free but very effective alternative to purchasing ads on ezines. There are many content websites online that are open to receiving articles contributed by individuals. It is usually free to submit your article, although there may be some requirements to meet. If your article is accepted for publication, it will be accompanied by a resource box that contains a link back to your website. Since you will be the one providing the resource box, make sure it is well-written and sufficiently enticing to invite readers to click on your link.

9. Forum Marketing

Join a forum and contribute useful tips and feedback on it. You can then add a link to your website in your signature. If other members of the forum find your posts useful and informative, they may click your link back to your website. It takes a bit of work, but this is a great free way to create traffic to your website. Just a word of warning, though, make sure that whatever you contribute to the forum is useful and relevant. Posting rubbish posts and attempting to sell your website or products is not only annoying but it can get you blacklisted from the forum. So if you do choose to apply this technique, make sure you do so carefully.

10. SEO Marketing

By optimising your website for the search engines, you can increase your website’s ranking through search engine optimisation. This method can be challenging and requires a bit of work but if you succeed in getting your website ranked number one for relevant keywords, it can be an extremely effective way to advertise your website.
If you don’t know much about SEO Marketing, there are plenty of courses out there that you can take to learn more about it. Alternatively, if this sounds too complicated for you, you can pay someone to optimise your website for you, but be prepared to pay a lot to get the job done properly.

11. Traffic Generating Sites (e.g. Instant Buzz, Traffic Swarm, Hits2U)

These are free to join and provide an easy way to promote your website to others. The results can be a little “hit and miss” though. They also offer the option to upgrade with various benefits that make your website links more prominent.

12. Email Marketing

If you have a mailing list, you can send them an email inviting them to visit your website, promoting a product or offering useful, relevant information. It is important, however, to get permission before sending such emails, otherwise your emails can be labelled as spam. If you don’t have your own mailing list, you can buy them from companies like Rent-a-List and Push-Button Leads.

In the field of internet advertising, you may have to work out which methods work best for you, your website and your business. Sometimes it may require a bit of trial and error before you can settle on any method, and while some methods work for you at present, the ever changing world of the internet requires you to be flexible and adaptable. When a particular method no longer works for you, change it and look for something else that will work. Go for what you want as long as the results are there.

1. Writing Reviews on Your Blog

If you already own a blog, this is easy. If not, you can choose to sign up for a free blog, such as Blogger, Wordpress, Blogdrive, just to name a few. A search on google will help you find more sites that host free blogs. Alternatively, if blogging is something you are serious about, think about hosting your own blog. Wordpress offers a great program that allows you to host your own blog and there are many hosting companies (like Bluehost) that have a one click installation that will help you get up and running in no time.

Once you have your own blog, simply sign up for a free blogger/publisher account at any of the following sites to be eligible to write reviews or paid posts on your blog. You will need to wait for your blog to be approved before you can blog reviews. Each site has different criteria that you need to meet in order to be eligible. For instance, you may need a blog that has been around for a certain number of months with a minimum number of posts before you can blog for them. They may also have restrictions such as the number of paid blog posts you can accept or the maximum number of paid blog posts your blog is allowed to have, etc. Each site has different rules and regulations so make sure you read through them carefully when you sign up.

Smorty
SponsoredReviews
Linkworth
Payperpost
Blogsvertise
Blogitive
Loudlaunch
ReviewMe
Payu2blog
Bloggerwave

2. Agloco

After joining (which is free, by the way) this program requires you to download a view bar. Depending on your usage of the view bar, you will be paid money or shares.

3. Selling text links on your website

If you have a website or a blog, you can submit it to a text-link broker that will sell text-links to advertisers on your behalf. You’ll get paid for any text-links that are hosted on your website. Words will be taken from your blog posts and converted to text-links so you don’t have to write anything other than your usual blog posts. Below are a couple of text-link brokers you can try:

Text-Link Ads
Linkworth

4. Join a blogging/writing network

If you don’t have your own blog, you can write for blogging/writing networks that pay you through a profit sharing system. These sites usually monetise their sites with ad agencies like Adsense and you will generate an income based on the traffic that visit the articles you write or something to that effect. One of the advantages for writing on these sites is that they have many writers who are all constantly submitting new articles. The search engines love websites that are constantly being updated so they get good rankings and lots of traffic. Lots of traffic means more click throughs which generate revenue for the website and you.

Hubpages - make money from Amazon, Google Adsense and eBay writing articles about topics you enjoy
Senserely
Helium
Creamaid
B5Media
Blog4cash
Blogcharm
Blogger Party
Blogit
Weblogs Inc

5. Sell Advertising Spaces on Your Website

If you have a website or blog with lots of traffic or the topic of your site is very specific, you may have advertisers who are interested to advertise on your site. For instance if you have a blog about scrapbooking, you may have a scrapbooking company who might want to place a banner or a text-link on your website and they may even ask you to write a review on their products.

6. Join an Affiliate Marketing Program

Again, if you have a website with good traffic, you can market related affiliate products on your site. If your visitors click through and purchase those products, you will receive a commission for the sale of those products. There are many affiliate programs available on the internet. Some companies offer affiliate programs directly from their website, while others may advertise their affiliate program on an affiliate marketing network. Below are a few affiliate marketing networks you can join for free:

Clickbank
Amazon
ClixGalore
Implix
Leisure Audio Books

7. Join an MLM Company that Offers a Free Trial Period

Some MLM companies offer a free trial period so you can work to generate an income before you have to spend any money. Here are a couple of companies that offer free trial periods or are free to join:

SFI
IAHBE
Traffic Swarm
Host4Profit
eCosway

8. Sell Products on eBay

I think anybody who has been online will have heard of eBay. Most users have traded on eBay at some stage, and some have even sold products on eBay - perhaps some old books or miscellaneous items around the house you no longer needed or wanted? But did you know you could run a business eBay? eBay has a learning center that teaches you how to sell products and increase your sales, but if you really want to become a powerseller, you can get the Insider’s Secrets to Selling on eBay.

9. Freelance

If you search online, you can find some agencies that offer freelance work opportunities. One such agency is Academia Research. In order to be an approved writer, you will need to submit a CV and writing samples of your work. You are then given a test assignment to complete. If your test assignment is approved, you will be able to apply for writing assignments which usually pay anywhere between $6-10 per page (with 250 words on each page). The number of pages per assignment starts from two pages upwards. Another company you can try is Get A Freelancer.

10. Contextual Ads

If you have a blog or website, you can place contextual ads on them. Contextual ads are basically clever ads that search the content of your webpages and displays ads that are relevant to your content. For instance, if you write a blog post about early childhood development, your contextual ads might display educational DVDs and books for toddlers. A few sites that offer contextual ad codes are listed below:

Bidvertiser
Kontera (they have a requirement of accepting only websites that have a minimum of 50,000 page views, however, if you visit John Chow’s Blog and sign up for Kontera via his sign up link, you can get your site accepted as long as they find your content suitable because John has a special arrangement with Kontera)
Google Adsense

11. Shopping Widgets

Again, if your website or blog has good traffic, you can try placing a shopping widget on your site and get paid whenever one of your visitors clicks on an ad displayed on your widget. Unlike contextual ads, these aren’t based on your website content, however it makes better sense to your site if you choose categories that are related to your website content in some way. My only gripe about these widgets is that they slow down the loading time for your website. Here are a couple of sites that offer shopping widgets that you can easily add to you website:

Widget Bucks
Shopping Ads

Click here to see an example of what a shopping widget looks like at the bottom of a blog post.

12. Paid Blogger

You can also get a job as a blogger. With the increasing popularity of blogs, more and more companies are adding blogs to their websites. The only problem with a blog is that it needs to be mantained and updated on a regular basis, so these companies are also hiring freelance writers to produce the content on their blogs. You can look for blogging jobs at:

Problogger Job Board
Indeed (just search for blogging jobs)

These are all pretty effective ways to make money without requiring a big budget, however, as with most other jobs and business opportunities, they are only effective if you really apply yourself to them. Signing up for these opportunities and doing nothing will not make you any money - you’ll just waste your time and get frustrated. If making money online is really your goal, I hope you find this list useful. Good luck!

If you’re interested, you can see the original blog on blogger - Getting Hitched - which eventually became The Household COO, since I’m now married and the blog is no longer about getting married.

After blogging about my wedding, I discovered I really enjoyed blogging and wanted to continue doing just for my enjoyment of writing. Naturally, I enjoyed it so much, the thought eventually moved on to, “Wouldn’t it be nice if I could earn money by blogging?” With that thought in mind, I bought a book called “Blogging for Dummies” by Brad Hill.

It was disappointing to discover that I knew everything I wanted to know about blogging without reading the book. The chapter on making money from blogging was also sadly lacking because Brad Hill (the book was published in 2006 so I’ll give him the benefit of poor foresight) was of the opinion that you couldn’t make much money from blogging. I believe he said something along the lines that at best, you could probably earn enough to pay for your hosting fees. Needless to say, I was extremely disappointed.

During 2006, I discovered affiliate marketing and Payperpost, and that was when blogging took on a new life for me. I realised that you could make money from blogging, although I didn’t know what the potential was like. Little did I know that there were people like Darren Rowse and Yaro Starak who were already making money online back when Brad Hill was still of the opinion that you could only make petty cash blogging.

Yaro runs a Blogmastermind mentorship program that teaches people how to make a living from blogging.  It’s a very successful program that has been running for over a year now.  I’ve taken the course myself and Yaro takes you through the process step by step offering not only the methods that he used that were successful but other methods that have been successful for other professional bloggers.  It doesn’t matter what the topic of your blog is, if you follow Yaro’s program, you will make money.  How much is up to you and how dedicated you are to apply yourself.

Even after the course is over, every student who has completed the BlogMastermind program has full access to all the Blogmastermind materials, including new resources that are added at a later date.

If you’re not sure about signing up, Yaro offers some very useful FREE resources that you can check out first.  Applying these resources alone will make a big difference to your blog.  Here are the resources:

• Blog Profits Blueprint (pdf)
• Conversational Blogging (video)
• Interview with a Million Dollar Blogger
• How Yaro Makes Money with his Blogs

Darren recently published a book called “ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six Figure Income” which can be ordered from Amazon.  I’ve also bought and read through this book.  It’s a great overview about the whole process of making money through blogging, but if you really want interaction and someone to hold your hand, you are much better off with Yaro’s BlogMastermind Mentorship Program.

Although I am not a “six figure” blogger yet, I am aware of 8 ways you can make some decent money blogging (and yes, you’ll definitely get more than just your hosting fees back). Each of these methods have varying success rates in income generation depending on your blog topic, flow of traffic and blog ranking. So if you don’t want to check out Blogmastermind or Darren’s book and you just want a little taste of success before sinking into the bigger morsels offered by the probloggers above, here are some tried and tested (and some not so tried and tested) methods of making money from your blog:

1. Sponsored Posts

Writing sponsored posts on your blog is by far the easiest and more reliable way to generate some extra cash from your blog. How much you can earn depends on the popularity of your blog and your blog ranking. In general, the higher your blog’s rank and the more traffic your blog receives, the more sponsored post offers you will receive and the better the rate you will be offered for each sponsored post you write.

There are several sites that can calculate your blog’s PR (or page rank), but the one that really count’s is Google’s PR. Google gives your blog a page rank out of 10. To check your blog’s Google PR, you use this link. Sponsored posts usually start from $5 per post and upwards.

The great thing about writing sponsored posts is that you can still earn an income even if your blog is new, with a relatively low traffic count. Most other blog income methods are dependent on traffic flow to your blog.

To get sponsored posts offers, you will need to sign up for a blogger’s account at any of the following sites (there may be more, but these are the ones I am currently aware of):

• Smorty
• SponsoredReviews
• Linkworth
• Payperpost
• Blogsvertise
• Blogitive
• Loudlaunch
• ReviewMe
• Payu2blog
• Bloggerwave

I have not seen any rule that says you can’t sign up for all of them and generally, the more you register for, the more offers you will get. Each site has its own rules and regulations which you will need to read up on and make sure you meet. For instance, you may be required to have a blog that is at least 3 months old with at least twenty posts; you must not have more than 50% sponsored posts in your blog; your posts must have at least 50 words; etc.

Once you have registered your blog (most allow you to register more than one blog), you will have to wait for them to approve your blog before you will be able to take on any sponsored post assignments.

2. Text Links

There are several text-link brokers that will sell text-links to advertisers on your behalf. All you need to do is submit your blog to them and wait to be approved. Once approved, the text-link broker will look for advertisers who want to purchase text-links on your blog. You will then be paid on a monthly basis for as long as the text-link is hosted on your blog.

The difference between text-links and sponsored posts is that text-links are purchased from content you have already written on your blog. Sponsored posts require you to write new posts based around the text-links they request. Here are a couple of text-link brokers you can try:

• Text-Link Ads
• Linkworth

3. Blogging Networks

Part of the problem of generating an income from your own blog can be due to the low traffic levels you may be receiving. With more and more people starting their own blog, creating a blog with a good flow of traffic is becoming more and more challenging even if you can write great blog posts. To circumvent this problem, you can sign up to write on blogging networks. Due to their large membership of bloggers and content, they usually have better PR and traffic flow so if you choose to write for them, your blog posts have a better chance of receiving more attention.

Blogging networks usually monetise their sites with ad agencies like Adsense, Amazon, and eBay and you will generate an income based on the traffic that visit the articles you write. As I mentioned above, the main advantage for writing on these sites is that they have many writers who are all constantly submitting new articles. The search engines love websites that are constantly being updated so they get good rankings and lots of traffic. Lots of traffic means more click throughs which generate more revenue for the website and you.

Here are some blogging networks you can look up:

• Hubpages - make money from Amazon, Google Adsense and eBay writing articles about topics you enjoy
• Senserely
• Helium
• Creamaid
• B5Media
• Blog4cash
• Blogcharm
• Blogger Party
• Blogit
• Weblogs Inc

4. Affiliate Marketing

If you have a blog that has high traffic, then affiliate marketing is something you really should consider. An affiliate marketing program is simply a referral program that pays you a commission for recommending someone else’s products. All you have to do is either place banners, text-links or write about the affiliate product you are recommending. If your visitors click through and purchase that product, you will receive a commission for the sale of that product.

The key to affiliate marketing is choosing products that are related to your blog’s topic. For instance, there is no point promoting health supplements if your blog is on scrapbooking.

There are many affiliate programs available on the internet. Some companies offer affiliate programs directly from their website, while others may advertise their affiliate program on an affiliate marketing network. Here are a few affiliate marketing networks you can join for free:

• Clickbank
• Amazon
• ClixGalore
• Implix
• Leisure Audio Books

5. Contextual Ads

If you have a blog or website, you can place contextual ads on them. Contextual ads are basically clever ads that search the content of your webpages and displays ads that are relevant to your content. For instance, if you write a blog post about early childhood development, your contextual ads might display educational DVDs and books for toddlers. A few sites that offer contextual ad codes are listed below:

• Bidvertiser
• Kontera (they have a requirement of accepting only websites that have a minimum of 50,000 page views, however, if you visit John Chow’s Blog and sign up for Kontera via his sign up link, you can get your site accepted as long as they find your content suitable because John has a special arrangement with Kontera)
• Google Adsense

6. Shopping Widgets

You can also place shopping widgets on your blog and get paid whenever one of your visitors clicks on an ad displayed on your widget. Unlike contextual ads, these aren’t based on your blog content, however it makes better sense to your site if you choose categories that are related to your blog content in some way. My only gripe about these widgets is that they slow down the loading time for your blog. Here are a couple of sites that offer shopping widgets that you can easily add to you blog:

• Widget Bucks
• Shopping Ads

Click here to see an example of what a shopping widget looks like at the bottom of a blog post.

7. Paid Blogger

You can also get a job as a blogger. With the increasing popularity of blogs, more and more companies are adding blogs to their websites to help increase their website’s ranking in the search engines. The only problem with a blog is that it needs to be mantained and updated on a regular basis, so these companies are also hiring freelance writers to produce the content on their blogs. You can look for blogging jobs at:

• Problogger Job Board
• Indeed (just search for blogging jobs)

8. Sponsored Ads

If you have a popular blog or if your blog topic happens to cover a niche topic, you can invite sponsors to place ads on your blog for a price. You can include a page on your blog about advertising on your blog and list down the various ad spots available and how much they cost. Anyone who views your blog can then contact you if they want to purchase an ad space.

Alternatively, you can choose to be more pro-active and approach companies that sell products related to your blog topic and offer them an advertising package with your blog.

Blog Traffic

You may have noticed by now that most of the techniques that allow you to generate an income on your blog require you to have a blog with good traffic. Here are some tips to help increase your blog readership:

• pick a niche topic to blog about - the more specific you can be the better
• write new blog posts on a frequent basis (once a day is a good target to aim for)
• write strong articles that your readers will find useful and interesting to read - they should aim to educate; be informative; provide advice or tips; and be relevant regardless of time (how-to articles are great ones)
• make sure the topic you choose is one that you are passionate about - if you’re going to have to blog on a daily basis, it will be a lot easier if you enjoyed what you’re doing
• offer a free e-Book

For more suggestions on how to make money from your blog or to generate more traffic, I recommend signing up for BlogMastermind. If you want to see what you get out of BlogMastermind, you can download the Blog Profits Blueprint for free. Blog Profits Blueprint is an excellent free eBook that offers loads of tips and advice that you can use to generate an income and increase traffic to your blog. If you are serious about making money from your blog, even if you don’t join BlogMastermind, you should download the Blog Profits Blueprint and check out Yaro’s free resources, like his video on Conversational Blogging, Interview with a Million Dollar Blogger, and details about How Yaro Makes Money with his Blogs.

For instance, fixed deposit interest rates are so low, you would need to have a heck of a lot of money in the bank if you ever expected to make enough money from interest to survive on. Even if you wanted to invest in the stock market, you would need enough money to buy the shares. At one stage, you could only buy shares in lots of thousands which usually meant you needed money in to the equivalent quantity or more just to purchase one lot.

It was this reason that I turned my attention to making money through businesses and thought little about investments until I read an article about Warren Buffett. Although I admired the fact that he bought his first shares at age 11, what really inspired me was that he bought a small farm with his savings from delivering newspapers! It was like my eyes were suddenly opened and I realised I had been rather short-sighted to think I had to be earning lots of money before I could start investing.

At that time, I was already starting to make money through my blogs on the internet. Granted it was small money, I decided I was going to start saving that money and put it towards my investment plan to start building my share portfolio in earnest. While I was working on building up my investment fund, I heard about another form of investment called the Foreign Exchange, or rather Forex Market.

In a nutshell, the Forex Market is a little like the stock market, except that instead of buying and selling shares in companies, you are effectively buying and selling money or currencies. Although I knew very little about Forex Trading, one thing I did pick up pretty quickly was that Forex Trading was a lot more risky than trading in the sharemarket. The other thing I discovered was that Forext Trading was not quite as simple as it sounded.

What was great about the Forex Market was the relative ease of opening a trading account and being able to trade online. What was even better was that some trading platforms allowed me to load my account with Paypal. What really sealed the deal for me was that I could invest in the Forex Market with as little as $250.

It became important for me to learn more about how to invest in the Forex Market and while I was doing some research, I came across a few Forex Trading Systems. I tried three programs:

• Freedom Rocks
• My Auto Forex
• Forex Autopilot

Here’s what I think of each of them after using them for about a month:

Freedom Rocks

What I like about it:

• Freedom Rocks is a simple system that works well in the long run.
• It requires only a few minutes a day for you to set your limits and then you can forget about it until the next day.
• You can login and monitor your trades from any computer, any where in the world.
• You can load your trading account using Paypal.
• It is a system that is tied in with an MLM program so you can also build it as a business and make money through two sources - as a business and as an investment. Really, what more could you ask for?
• You can start investing with as little as $250 in your account.
• You can make money through interest on your investment as well - it doesn’t work out to be a lot but if you compare it against a Fixed Deposit interest rate, it’s extremely attractive.
• Recently, they introduced managed accounts which allow you to be totally hands off. I have yet to try it to see how successful it is, but this is great for people who really don’t have the time to monitor their trades. I’ll write about it after I’ve had a chance to monitor how successful the managed accounts program is.

Important points to note:

• Follow the system exactly as they tell you and it will work out.
• Don’t worry if your balance drops, just keep doing what they tell you and it will correct itself over time - it’s not a get rich quick system where you’ll be a millionaire overnight, but you will see your money grow slowly.

What makes Freedom Rocks a great system is that it is both a terrific business opportunity and a proven system for making money through investing in the Forex Market. It provides you two solid areas for making money.

My Auto Forex

Personally, I didn’t really like My Auto Forex. The system didn’t work out too well for me because it didn’t suit my lifestyle.

Here’s what I didn’t like about it:

• I went through a whole month and only received instructions to buy once.
• I found it too difficult to monitor when it was time to trade.
• The system did not notify me by email (like they said it should) when it was time to sell. I had to login to my account to discover that a sell had already been initiated, by which time I had missed the boat.

It might have worked for other traders because, honestly, I didn’t give it much of a shot - I terminated my account after two months.

Forex Autopilot

This has got to be the best one by far. It is basically a robot that trades for you twenty-four hours a day. All you have to do is sign up for your account, deposit some money, configure your robot and it’ll go. You don’t have to check or monitor anything (unless you want to). There is more to this program which I have yet to check out so I will write an updated review once I get a chance to try it out fully.

At present, this is what I have discovered about the program:

While it isn’t the “get rich overnight” program the selling page appears to be, you do make money more quickly than Freedom Rocks (or at least, I did). A $500 investment yielded $220 in one month and since they recently upgraded the robot, I anticipate to do better in the next month.

Another great thing about Forex Autopilot is that it’s a one of investment for the robot. Once you’ve paid for your robot, that’s it - there’s no more subscriptions to pay for.

If I had to pick one Forex Trading System to go with, I would choose with Forex Autopilot.