You can use WordPress to make money online. WordPress gives you the platform you’ll need to construct a Web site. With WordPress you can establish your presence on the Internet. You’ll still need a good idea and goods or services you can market, and you’ll have to roll up your sleeves and get to work, if you want to make money on the Internet.

WordPress will provide you all you need of a Web site to market and sell goods or services on the Internet.

So how do you do it?

I’m not professing to be a guru who can tell you exactly how to make money on the Internet. I think it mostly depends on you. I think your knowledge, skills, and abilities, and your hard work and desire are the keys to success of making money on the Internet. This is a deep and involved subject and we’ll only take some baby steps here. Later on in this post, I have a suggestion of somewhere to go for more concrete information from someone I consider (and many others do too) an expert.

Below, I have some ideas that can help get you started. It won’t happen overnight, and you have to consider an Internet marketing business just as seriously as you would a brick and mortar business. There are no shortcuts and no guarantees, but it can be done. It’s all up to you, and you can do it.

Here, in a nutshell is the general strategy to follow:

• Have a good idea of how to solve a problem for a group of people, a niche market. Be an expert on your idea’s topic and the market you are going to target. Your topic hopefully will be something you enjoy, and something other people are searching for answers on. Offer goods or services people need. Use your talents and strengths to help people solve a problem.

• Register a domain name that accurately represents your idea or topic and what you are doing.

• Build a Web site, or pay a web designer to build your Web site. A WordPress blog is an excellent choice for a Web site platform. Once you get it set up at a web host of your choosing and have a good domain name, you can make posts and update information all by yourself. You won’t have to pay a web site developer each and every time you want something changed.

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• Get to work putting useful content and information on your WordPress blog by making lots of posts and publishing pages. Give your Web site visitors value, help them. Help them find answers to their problems.

• Learn about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Generate as much traffic to your WordPress blog as you can. You need people to come to your online store or business, the more the merrier.

• Sell your goods or services on the Web site. Give your customers quality and a fair price.

• Always follow the four P’s of marketing principles: Product, Place, Price, and Promotion. Apply these principles of marketing to the Internet instead of a brick and mortar store. Don’t forget another marketing principle that isn’t a P, but still very important: Service. PPPPS – marketing keys to your success.

WordPress and e-Commerce Plugins

WordPress plugins are gizmos that can be used to extend WordPress and add features and capabilities to meet just about any need or situation you might imagine. There were 7,328 available WordPress plugins from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ as this post was written. That plugin count grows weekly, if not daily.

There is a rich selection of e-Commerce plugins for WordPress you will be interested in if you use WordPress to make money on the Internet. Listed here are only a few of the available e-Commerce plugins for WordPress, all are worth your consideration:

WP e-Commerce
This is a shopping cart plugin for WordPress with lots of features. You can use this plugin to sell anything online.

Quick Shop
This shopping cart plugin requires a WordPress theme with Sidebar Widgets installed.

eShop
An e-Commerce plugin with lots of features.

WP Live-Shopping
A plugin widget that lets you display live shopping offers to your visitors. Has options to alter its appearance.

YAK Shopping Cart
This is the plugin you will need if you are going to sell Yaks on your WordPress blog. Okay, I’m only joking about the Yaks, you can use this plugin to sell any product you wish. Has many options and is very worth checking out.

Are PayPal
If you want to sell your knowledge on your WordPress blog, then this plugin may be just for you. It uses the PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) protocol so the payment and content delivery process is fully automated. With this plugin, you can display the content the customer paid to see, after the customer has paid to see it.

PayPal Donations
Put a PayPal donation button on your blog.

This only barely scratches the surface of how to make money online. There is much, much, more to learn and lots of work ahead of you. It can be done. Don’t stop learning, don’t give up. Learn from your mistakes.

Use the Internet to research this topic. You will have to sort through lots of Web sites that are not of much use, but sooner or later you will find a few that offer information that is as good as gold. You will have to cut through the hype and hot spit. And, yes, I do have a suggestion of somewhere to start. I think it’s a pretty good source to learn about making money on the Internet.

PotPieGirl – One Week Marketing

PotPieGirl is a lady from Georgia who has made lots of money by marketing products over the Internet. Her method is easy enough that anyone can do it.

She has come up with a recipe of making money on the Internet, and I think it works. I purchased her affordable One Week Marketing program and within three weeks of off and on effort (I did not even follow her instructions to the letter), I had two sales! To test and learn about PotPieGirl’s One Week Marketing method, I chose an herbal remedy for leg cramps that I could promote as an affiliate. I loosely did what PotPieGirl said to do, and to my surprise I actually made two sales. That did not make me rich of course, but it proved to me that her method works. All I need is more time and energy!

I think her program is worth your while. PotPieGirl’s method is all about Internet Marketing. She’s come up with some clever stuff, in my opinion. You’ll learn about Internet Marketing from PotPieGirl.

PotPieGirl is smart and entertaining, and has lots to offer if you are interested in leveraging the Internet to make money. Please see what she has to offer and decide for yourself.

"If you’re willing to do for a year what others won’t, you can do for a lifetime what others CAN’T!"
PotPieGirl

One Week Marketing by PotPieGirl

If you use this link and wind up purchasing the One Week Marketing plan from PotPieGirl, then I’ll earn a commission on the sale. This will help me support www.wpblogsandwebsites.com, and I appreciate your patronage. This is one model, and example of how you can earn money on the Internet with a WordPress blog! PotPieGirl well tell you how to promote other people’s products.

This post is only to get you started, to hopefully get you pointed in the right direction and provide some basic information. I think you will find WordPress a very valuable tool if you want to start an Internet Marketing business. I wish you the best, now GET STARTED!