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Many people earn a few extra dollars by taking paid surveys online.

This would be very easy to work around your family, and with many surveys don’t take long to complete, it’s possible that this is a good income generating opportunity for homeschooling parents.

Can you earn decent money by taking paid surveys, or is it a bit of a scam?

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If you look back to one of my earlier posts on writing web content for dollars HERE, you’ll notice I’ve mentioned you can write private label rights (or PLR) articles for payment.

In a nutshell, PLR articles, reports and ebooks are those which you have the legal right to modify and call your own. Rights do vary, so you need to check what rights come with each package. Generally speaking, you can usually use them as blog posts or website articles, or sell the ebooks and reports.

Why not look at it from the other side, and think about using PLR products yourself that others have written. PLR is very useful indeed when you’re building or maintaining an online business. It can save you doing all your own research and writing, and allow you more time to take care of your children’s needs.

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Squidoo is a great service which allows you to build a one page website for free – no technical skills required. While you can make money from your Squidoo lens, most people use their lens to direct traffic back to their main site, and to give them a high quality back link. This can really improve your search engine rankings.

It’s just as important to do your keyword research for a Squidoo lens as it is for your main website.

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One feature of earning an income from most websites is that when your customer has come along, made their purchase and and received their product, they may not feel the need to return.

One way of making repeat sales to the same customer is by building a membership site.

Basically, this is a subscription based site where people sign up and are charged a fee on a regular basis, commonly monthly. In exchange, they get access to information or products.

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One popular business option for home schooling families, is selling home school teaching aids and curriculum material.

There are a couple of ways of doing this – each one with its own advantages and disadvantages.

You have the option of selling tangible resources, such as textbooks and reference books, both online and at home schooling conferences. Alternatively, you can sell downloadable products online.

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When we look at affiliate marketing as a means of earning from home, there are two sides to the coin.

We’ve checked out how you can use affiliate marketing if you are a website owner – promote a product on your site and get a commission if you make any sales.

The other side of that coin is useful if you create your own information products or ebooks. You can list your product on an Affiliate Directory such as Clickbank, and have it promoted by many website owners. More and more people will see your product, and the result will be increased sales.

So, what do you need to get thousands of people promoting your product?

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Another effective method of earning an income online is with affiliate marketing. You can get started with this method with only a computer and internet access.

Affiliate marketing is, in it’s simplest terms, being paid a commission when you refer a buyer to a website, and they make a purchase from that site. It’s no different to chatting to your friends and mentioning the great pizza you’d had from the shop down the street, except you get paid for the referral when your friends buy a pizza too.

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One thing I’d like to do as part of this blog, is to review products out there which claim they can help you start a business from home. As I’ve already mentioned, there are certainly a lot of scams out there, and to be sure I can help you avoid them, I won’t be discussing or promoting anything I haven’t reviewed or tried myself.

So, here is our first product review.

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Whatever area of business you’re interested in following, whether online or offline, you need a website. You may think that it’s expensive to have a website built and it’s tricky to maintain, but it needn’t be.

I’m not very good at technical stuff – I struggle to write a line of html – however it’s so easy to create a website like this one, get it looking the way I want it, and then update it on a regular basis. I can build a site, add pictures, put links in the sidebar, and add extra pages, all with very little skills, and in a matter of a couple of hours.

Want to know how?

Wordpress.

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As a keen photographer, I love to turn my passion into pennies. As we’ve already mentioned, most photography businesses aren’t really compatible with homeschooling children.

There is another way of earning from your photography that will allow you to work on your business while you homeschool and in the evenings, and that is stock photography.

Stock photography is basically selling photos for publishers to use in their books, magazines or websites. You would be surprised at what will sell – scenery, food, pets and animals are popular topics. You can also include photos of your children or yourself, which can be purchased for use on family type sites, however I’m personally not keen on having my children’s photos able to be used anywhere for a dollar.

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