Personal websites and business may not go hand-in-hand as far as you are concerned, but I urge you to think again. If you want to sell something, you may need to "sell yourself" first. People enjoy doing business with someone they know and like. More importantly, they want to know that they can trust you.

We are actually able to transact business all over the world due to today's technology. The problem with that can be a lack of personal service. However, with the internet, and especially with personal websites, we can feel as if we know someone that we have never actually met. We can know what a person looks like, we can know the sound of their voice, we can know all about their family, hobbies, dreams, future goals, etc.

When someone is surfing the web looking for a way to work from home, they are also looking for someone to partner with. Someone to mentor them and show them the way. They want to feel comfortable with a prospective future business partner.

If you want them to consider joining your opportunity, you have to be visible on the internet. You have to be willing to get personal and reveal yourself to them. Your site should be warm and inviting. It should provide information about you and your business opportunity. Give them a way to contact you.

This really is the way to gain business partners from all over the world, or from just the good old U.S. if your company is not international. Think about what you were looking for when you were searching for a home business. I don't know about you, but I felt a connection with my sponsor. I felt as if I knew her just by looking at her website.

That is what you want to create. You want to seem warm, friendly, and approachable. You want your reader to feel as if they already know you. A lady contacted me via email recently who was interested in my candle business. She practically told me her life story in that email, and it is probably because she felt like she knew me. She had seen my site and already knew all about me.

That is a good thing. It means that she felt as if I was someone she could talk to candidly. She must have thought that I would be approachable and would be receptive to her. Not everybody who contacts you will be so open. They may be wary of you and your business, but they contacted you because they found something of interest. This is when you provide them with honest answers to all their questions. It is also where you give them that personal attention that they are seeking.

Their state of mind when they contact you is not important. The fact that they made a connection is what matters. The reason for the connection was that they found your personal website and liked something they saw there. They were able to contact you because you provided them with either a phone number, email address, or both.

Do you see how this works? Prospects come to you. You do not have to "beat the streets" or chase your friends and family in order to build your business. This is not yesterday's network marketing, it is the new way. Believe me, it is also the best way. Many of yesterday's methods gave us a bad rap because they were so annoying.

Personal websites and business work well together. Get your own site up soon. It doesn't have to be fancy; just informative. Keep it simple and see what happens. I am sure that you will be pleased with the results. Remember to advertise your website and tell your friends about it. You cannot just build it and hope they will come.

There are many ways to monetize websites for multiple income streams. And this article is just about that. Read on to discover 3 most popular ways to monetize websites made available to you for free.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is the most popular among all webmasters since it is the easiest monetization plan available online. All you have to do is just add the AdSense code in your web pages to let Google decides what the best possible ad for that particular page is. By the end of the month, you will be paid according to how many clicks you got and how much the advertisers are willing to pay for each click.

The only downside is its earnings potential can be so low since it is at the end of the advertising value chain. But what you can do is continue building more contents (at least 150 web pages) based on your keyword research, optimize each page for specific keywords and market it to the whole wide world. By doing so, you can get maximum SEO benefits and make your visitors keep on coming (and eventually, keep on clicking to your AdSense ads)

Affiliate Program

By joining affiliate programs or through some sort of affiliate networks, you can have the opportunity to sell others' products and earn commissions for each sale. It is just like helping others to sell their products and get paid for your marketing effort. And the major benefits of selling affiliate products are:

• No product development: The owner had created the product
• No sales copywriting: The sales pages are already written
• No merchant account: You don't need to process the order
• No customer service: The merchant deal with any customer problem, not you.

So basically, you are leveraging on others' product to make money online. However, be careful and curious if the affiliate networks are charging you money since most of them appear to be kind of get-rich-quick scam. Nevertheless, you can start with established affiliate network such as Clickbank and LinkShare.

Sponsored Links

Sponsored links are sites that pay for placement in web space, which in this case can be in one (or all) of your web pages. The advertisers are willing to pay for such placement mainly to attract traffic from your website visitors. Depending on the number of visitors, you can charge them a once-off payment or recurring monthly fee. Either ways, you can monetize your website the easily.

In fact, this can be great income sources if your website enjoys high Page Rank (PR) of 3 and above. However, be very careful not to be penalized by Google. If you do, your website can be dropped from Google index since they hate webmasters who sell text links in their website for PR trade. What you can do is to keep your text link ads relevant to your website theme as much as possible so that Google do not find it too obvious.

Therefore, choose a website builder that can cater all of the monetization plans. After all, you don't want to limit your earnings potential due to software inflexibility, do you? After using SiteBuildIt for few years, I found that it has the capability to monetize website seamlessly.

Your business can benefit from an online presence because of the flexible nature of online presentation.

It is possible to establish a cut off date for the sale of certain products and then use the same date to establish a new line. This can be accomplished through an automated dating system in web builder technology. You can even assign a certain product to show up in the clearance section of your site months ahead of time if you wish.

In a brick and mortar business environment there is a lot of work that has to be done whenever there is a change in sales promotions or when items need to be repriced and segregated for clearance sales. Staff members are required to stay late or come in early to make sure the new prices and displays are ready for the consumer.

In the world of online business you can create all the changes you want whenever it is most convenient. Because content information is tied to a dating system the web builder software will recognize those changes down to the minute.

If you've promised your customers a special sale beginning at a specific time it is possible to manage this change hands-free. When the time comes for the sale to begin the new information is assigned to the location you predetermined for it and customers gain immediate access to the sale prices.

Imagine the day after Thanksgiving, but without the hassle of actually having to show up for work on time. Many businesses enjoy the flexibility of making changes to their business site well in advance of the date the changes are to be put in place.

This idea may stand in stark contrast to the way you run your website. In many cases the only changes that can be made are alterations directed by the web designer. Often a web designer lacks the ability to make immediate and/or timely changes to your website. Businesses that use a web designer often need to make multiple requests for work to be completed on their site.

The growth of self-directed site design is due in large part to the need businesses have of being able to make immediate changes to their site if necessary. Due to the immediacy of the web it has also become important for businesses to learn to manage those changes quickly.

In a feat that might rival The North Pole and its inhabitants, webs builder technology seems to operate on a magical plane where things systematically change without the need for direct human intervention.

If you're a website owner have you ever had trouble managing even the simplest changes when you need changes made? It can be frustrating to know that the alterations of your website are contingent on the ability for someone else to view your needs as a priority. If your web designer doesn't view you as an immediate concern then you simply have to wait until they are good and ready to help.

Orchestrate your own business symphony by making sure every instrument comes in on time.