4 ways to start making money on their hobbies

Almost any hobby you can earn. For example, the master of hand-made products are sold through an online store, travelers - talk about their trips and hikes in the blog (and monetize it later), hairdressers and fashion designers can show their skills, and cooks and confectioners - share recipes and collect orders. The easiest way to do this using the Site.

Typically, the workflow itself and their favorite thing takes up most of the active time, and at promoting themselves on the web stands out far fewer hours. You give up this idea just because do not understand anything in site building?

It's time to break the stereotypes and get online. It's much easier than you think.

To begin, decide what form to choose a site for your business. It is obvious that from this will depend on the conditions of all further work, including selection of the control system. For each activity has its own ways of generating income.

1. Make your online business card in 5 minutes

This simple site is not overloaded with information, which is suitable for small businesses associated with the provision of services.

Site-card performs all the functions that need a small business: informs about the conditions of work and shows the advantages of the goods or services.

To list a hobby that will help develop a small site, it is possible for a long time:

• cooking;
• sewing;
• hairdressing;
• manicure and make-up;
• organization of celebrations and so on.

In addition, to manage such a site is very simple, it requires minimal effort.

Here we come to the interesting question: how? How to make a website, if you do not know anything about this?

The days when websites were created by experts on a line of code, has long passed. And a lot of services offers service site building. For example, a completely free website builder is included in the package you purchase from the hosting service HOSTiQ. With his help, you can make a card for 5 minutes.

The most difficult thing in this process - to believe in what you get. But the very creation of the pages takes a little time: in front of you 170 templates that you can modify in its sole discretion.

All actions are performed on the basis of drag & drop, which are used to working all computer users. What you do in the constructor, in this form users will find when they come to your site.

Here is a sample video, which is an elementary card for 5 minutes.

This is not only a video tutorial that explains how to create websites and manage them on a different CMS (a control system). We have a service HOSTiQ channelWith which you can become an expert just looking visual clips.

2. Start making on his blog

Form a site in the form of a blog is suitable for photographers, travelers, and anyone who is going to talk in detail about their activities. This form is good, if you want to know about you.

Blogs are different in that you can almost endlessly talk about your favorite business, to demonstrate their results and acquire loyal subscribers. Minus - you need to constantly maintain a high level of content and at the same time to add it quite often. Do not overestimate your strength. Blogs, of course, are popular, but let you better be a good online business card, than a bad blog.

The main condition for creating a blog - you really have something to tell you.

What to do? First, decide what you will write and for whom. This is important, because it is on the tastes of the audience you need to be guided, if you want to eventually make money on the blog. Anyway blog monetization associated with advertising and advertising brings in the money, if you have an audience. In addition, it affects the appearance of pages. After all blog hunter will clearly be different from a blog naturalist, although both write about nature.

For WordPress blog engine fits perfectly. We speak with knowledge, because our Layfhaker built exactly on this system.

Plus, it is obvious: it's easy. WordPress - the right tool with which you will learn to work very quickly. Especially that there is as simple as hosting specifically for sites on WordPress: you just press the button and immediately find yourself in the admin area of ​​the engine.

To create a blog using HOSTiQ, enough to register and follow the instructions that you will receive the letter. It will look as follows:

And then you find yourself in the Admin panel and work directly with the engine already. If a small website you will have to work not so often, but to improve it and make changes, if they are, then the blog is updated several times a week.

You can change the theme, add entries and modify the blog on your own. On HOSTiQ channel has 15 lessons - only 15! - you need to go to the blog started to play with all the colors and become attractive to the readers.

3. Sell ​​their hand-made-products

If you are a manufacturer of handmade goods and your product has accumulated in such quantities that the site of a small of them will not tell, you can start a small online store.

Its main comfort, of course, is the ability to get paid without coordination with each customer.

store management system should include all of the tools that will be useful in the future and are not available on other types of sites: this scheme receiving payments, collecting orders, basket. We need the ability to expand the store and turning it from a small shop into a powerful supermarket.

An example of CMS in such cases is a PrestaShop. This engine, which works steadily, which has a Russian version and a great community. In addition, with this engine can be carried out optimization of the store, interact with social networks, receive analytics and reports.

Want to know what are the minimum requirements for the installation of this engine and what actions to take to make it work? Watch the video on HOSTiQ channel.

By the way, it is not only the CMS, which is suitable for e-commerce. The channel detail the other embodiments.

4. Participate in the partner program

If you are doing some kind of common interests, many know and want to attract like-minded people to discuss the future and make a profit, then create a portal with a forum and more links.

Only this option will require you to corrosive approach to administration and takes many times longer than other forms of sites. But you will be able to cash in on affiliate programs and links. How it works - a topic for another article, and more about making a profit from the site, see the blog HOSTiQ.

Business advantages of the Internet are obvious, it is time to go to practice. What to take to make a website?

Choose a good domain name

As you would call a boat, so it will float. Truth cartoon old, but relevant. For a site that means the choice of a domain name - procedure over which will have to smash his head a little. This name - in fact, the site name. That it will call users when they ask: "Have you read what is written on yesterday ???" Or will not ask if the name is unpronounceable and poorly remembered.

The name should sound good, easy to remember, reflect your activity.

Ideally, there should not be a difficult letter combinations (for example, a letter "u", written in Latin letters, looks eerily). In addition, many common names are already taken, so be related to the selection process seriously. whether the domain is not available, you want to get prompt Assistant domains from HOSTiQ service.

Domain shop name is already different from the name of the blog, or business cards. In the first two cases you present yourself and your work. But in the store, you represent the goods, so you better start from the purpose of what you are selling.

After the creative process begins technical - the choice of the domain zone. These are the letters after the dot in the URL site: .com, .info, .net and so on.

You yourself may have noticed how easy it is stored short names of sites located in the same known domain zones, and how difficult it is to recover the memory address at which the domains of the second level. Conclusion: if you want to receive money - take a good domain name.

Where to get it? Answer below.

Select economical hosting

Register a domain using the same service, which will provide hosting. As a rule, a good hosting offers domain registration, often free, and as a result of such a kit is cheaper.

When choosing a web hosting you need to consider the following points carefully:

• Number of sitesWhich can be placed on the server. If you start, you think in vain, that it will cost one site. You will still experimenting, but in any case do not take much.
• The amount of disk space on the server. The analogy is clear: the more this space is hosting, the more information you will be able to place there. And if you need a little bit small, the online store will quickly consume this resource.
• Traffic. On the assessment of that element beginners most difficulties because it provided, what would be the number of visitors who can not always even experienced web analytics, to say nothing of beginners. Do easier: look for a service that will provide unlimited scope of this service.
• Country site placement. Pay attention to the geography of the need to ensure the reliability of the server.

Tariffs Hosting "For Beginners" from HOSTiQ include different features for different purposes. Accommodation is available in three countries: Ukraine, Holland, USA.

Be sure to pay attention to the reliability of the service provider and the guarantees it provides.

HOSTiQ running since 2012 and in that time has received many positive reviews. See for yourself how much service is confident in the quality of their work:

• 30 days you can work with a hosting for free. A month you are given the test period.
• If you pay for the service, but decided to use them, you will be able to return the money within 30 days after order.

And, of course, the cost of services. It is in any case, the determining factor. Here HOSTiQ few can compare.

Make your own website

When you decide what should be your site, it's time to move on to implementation and launch of the project. To do everything on their own and not to hire professionals for the salary which will go round sum, use a simple solution - autoinstaller scripts. This installer with which even the ignorant in the IT people can run for a few minutes to choose the site and the CMS, which best meets their objectives.

With Softaculous can install a set of tools to help you work with different content: file manager, tools for e-commerce and e-mail clients.

Installer working example we have seen above. You simply select the fare, choose the CMS, receive mail and follow the instructions in the email to and from video tutorials. You do not need to deal with complicated programming and technical solutions - Master the simple engine, which set no more difficult than a new toy.

If you are experiencing that still can not handle, ask help from professionals: technical support HOSTiQ operates around the clock and is always ready to answer your questions in the chat, and phone.

why HOSTiQ

Stop to think, whether you need a website. Better hurry with the registration of a domain until the perfect name is not yet occupied. The earlier your site appears in the web, the sooner you find your audience and their customers and the greater will be your competitive advantage. Ideas are expensive, so do not let your idea out of date!

It's time to start your business!

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