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I AM DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO BE PROMISING YOU THE WORLD, BECAUSE LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, RICHES ARE NOT MADE IN A DAY, but it is possible to sell a site in a couple of months if you can put the time into writing for it.

I have decided to write a few blogs with the view to help people who have found themselves unemployed and with time on their hands.

Being unemployed can be a devastating state of affairs, in fact even to own a business that is losing money can be just as devastating.

If you have found that you have time on your hands I would like to give you pointers for starting to make some money on the internet and also I will give different websites where you can get information to help you on your way.

FLIPPING WEBSITES

What is done here is a person sets up a website, a membership site or a blog and develops it to the point where it is making some money.  At that point the site is then a saleable product.  Have a look at http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/ where you will see different sites that have been set up and are now up for sale.  Have a good look around this site and you will see the types of sites that are creating interest and see the various amounts of money that sites are being sold for.

If you do not have great technical skills do not be too concerned about that.  By setting up a Wordpress blog you can quite easily have that up and running in a short space of time without too many tech skills needed and you can sell that too.  The beauty of taking on a blog as your first 'flipping' exercise is that Wordpress is so easy to work with and you can edit your material easily and you can pop info on there each and every day if you wish and even a number of times a day. 

They way I would do that is find a niche where people are looking for information and start a blog about that.  For example, if you are out of work as I have suggested above, you might set up a blog about staying positive for job hunting, dressing for interviews, preparing your resume and so on.  The great thing about that is that as you are searching the net for info to put on your site you will probably be finding things that you can do for yourself which may improve your chances in the work place as well.

Other topics could be:

• budgeting
• understanding teenagers
• reviews on mod con stuff like IPods, laptops, etc.etc.
• jewelry
• shoes
• latest trends inclothes

You get the picture.  Find a topic that is HOT and work on it and work fast.  That way you will be able to build the site fast and flick it quickly.

From there you can develop into other sites, like a product website, maybe selling an ebook.  You don't have to write the ebook yourself, but can get it written at one of the writing sites like Elance.com or Guru.com. 

I am in the process of having a cover made for an Ebook on How to Set up a Blog.  Hopefully I will have this loaded into my site within the week.

Keep in touch as I will add more and more helpful hints to get you up and running.

Tags: flipping websites, making money on the internet, making money on the web, setting up a blog, small business, Wordpress blog, writing a blog

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