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bia Afam nwannem biko hapu ndia, maka ha enweghi ògugu isi. As for those calling ala Igbo a landlocked nation, I find this rather funny, come to think of it most of them have never visited anywhere except their self styled belove lagos fyi ala Igbo is never landlocked as we have great potentials to be a strong marine nation if not for Nigerian Pull up down politics that have made it impossible to build a seaport at onitcha. This is so because they know the implication as this might be the death of lagos seaport. On the other hand Oguta an oil producing community in Imo state with a huge potentials of building a seaport via the lake linking it up with the atlantic is another option, but since we are in this stinking hole called nigeria all these becomes all most impossible. And even at that, we Igbos are very creative, industrious and innovative, even if we are landlocked as been speculated by some ignorant folks here who their myopic and jaundiced views have made them into hate drones programed solely for hating Ndi Igbo, we can always make good of our current situation if we can still survive pogrom and near annihalation to become one of the most successful group in Africa. Then we can.

Internet biz like every body have rightly pointed out here getting your biz which could be selling a product or service online.
The anonymity of the internet makes it possible to market your products or services to anyone with an access without even knowing the person.
But to many people internet biz means selling "how to make money online stuff", talking about affiliate marketing and all of that.
For me I blog on varied niches and currently contributes contents to revenue sharing sites, which has really been my biggest earner till date.
I find it worrisome when people who dont know what marketing online means and they use this opportunity to scam others by selling below the par and scrap info to gullible and unsuspecting victims.
Thanks for starting this thread.

Building an Made For Adsense site (MFA) could lead to getting your site penalized by Google as has been the case since the recent algorithm change.
However building a content rich blog then monetizing it only requirers 3 things.
1. Finding a Niche
2. Building a site based on this niche
3. Content and Traffic.
This days you might not even require a blog to make money via adsense,all that you need do is know a little SEO and write fairly well. There are many sites who share their adsense revenue with publishers on their sites and I for example have made more on adsense writing for these sites than what I make on my personal blogs.
Though having a site of your remains the best in the long run, but since you are still new to this I think this will suite you temporarily.

SceptreBizMag: I will check this out.

the problem with 000webhost like every other free web hosting coy is redirecting the DNS. I've tried using this service to host a wordpress self hosted blog and it keeps timing out. Maybe they've changed this year but if they are still experiencing this problem, then their service sucks.
Thanks though for the mention

@desola it is really a pity when people who are not widely travelled sit in Lag or is it the UK and envisage a SW utopia, well let me remind you that all your states even lagos rely heavily on "chop money"in the name of allocation from Abuja.
So what happens when the ND decides to take their "destiny" as you rightly pointed out in their own hands?
Remember this, Lagos was not built on your peoples "percieved" ingenuity or enterpreneural dexterity, but rather it was built by first the Europeans, then the military juntas via nd resources, so dont let the current white elephant projects going on in your region deceive you into believing that your region is on course and should not bother itself with an impending revolution.
All that you need to start doing now is harnessing your human resources cos I bet you when oil stops to flow I wonder if your other village states will rely on Lag who cant even pay its workers when obj seized its monthly allocation or subvention a couple of years back, think about that,

@desola it is really a pity when people who are not widely travelled sit in Lag and envisage a SW utopia, well let me remind you that all your states even lagos rely heavily on "chop money"in the name of allocation from Abuja.
So what happens when the ND decides to take their "destiny" as you rightly pointed out in their own hands?
Remember this, Lagos was not built on your peoples "percieved" ingenuity or enterpreneural dexterity, but rather it was built by first the Europeans, then the military juntas via nd resources, so dont let the current white elephant projects going on in your region deceive you into believing that your region is on course.
All that you need to start doing now is harnessing your human resources cos I bet you when oil stops to flow I wonder if your other village states will rely on Lag who cant even pay council fund when obj seized its monthly allocation a couple of years back, think about that,

@desola it is really a pity when people who are not widely travelled sit in Lag and envisage a SW utopia, well let me remind you that all your states even lagos rely heavily on "chop money"in the name of allocation from Abuja.
So what happens when the ND decides to take their "destiny" as you rightly pointed out in their own hands?
Remember this, Lagos was not built on your peoples "percieved" ingenuity or enterpreneural dexterity, but rather it was built by first the Europeans, then the military juntas via nd resources, so dont let the current white elephant projects going on in your region deceive you into believing that your region is on course.
All that you need to start doing now is harnessing your human resources cos I bet you when oil stops to flow I wonder if your other village states will rely on Lag who cant even pay council fund when obj seized its monthly allocation a couple of years back, think about that,

My brothers and sisters my candid advise to you all is this-Nigeria is not worth dying for, rather it will be preferable for it to die for you.
Remember Nigeria is on auto pilot, thanks to GEJ and his clueless bunch, it on a crashing course, so let it crash then protect your own pieces by mending it with your human and material resources.
The 2015 failed state prediction is inevitable, atleast we are still doing well on the failed state index, for starters the Mo Ibrahim report on governance index placed Nigeria 41 out of 53, with the likes of ghana ranking 1st by African rating.
2014 is nigh, Kalu Idika and other notable patriots have recently called for a "people's constitution" just like that of The American nation that starts with the preamble "WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE", but all these calls have fallen on deaf ears, so since our leaders or rulers have decided to continue like this, then my suggestion is let the rubles fall on their stupid heads period!

@omoalaro thanks man you said it all.
Revolution can only be possible in an almost homogeneous society where the people have one language, culture, aspirations and religious belief or dogma.
It this contraption called Nigeria it is at best impossible, if I might recall not long ago a certain defunct political party AD decided to sacrifice its mandate on the alter of ethnic bigotry to keep their man OBJ in power, but the man being what he is did not reciprocate the gesture instead he had the likes of Osoba, Adebayo Adefarati etc booted out of the goverment house of their respective states and replaced them with PdP thugs.
Presently there is an Ijaw apologist in the house, who not long ago where crying marginalisation but since testing power there've hurriedly forgotten the main struggle for self sustainance and sufficiency through resource control, and senile elders like Edwin clarke are now happy with their lot, while the looting and raping going on their backyard continues unabated.
So if I may ask the op who will lead this revolution?
Is it the hausa who are fighting for their birthright? Is it the yorubas who naturally have fried balls and are only good in making noise about lagos being their own? Is it my Igbo brothers who after having their region turned into a theatre of war and are only concerned with minding their business?
Or is it the Ijaw man who thinks that since one of his own is in government that it will suffice?
Or better still the efiks, itsekiri urhobo etc who are foolishly basking in SS solidarity while fighting amongst themselves?
Only when these questions are answered will we then as a country know if we can indeed start a revolution.
I rest my case

@Jason123 or whatever, one thing your likes love doing so well is distorting facts to suit your bruised ego.
Awo according to your assertion is laughing in his grave after institutionalising corruption and ethnicism which your group is known for.
If I might educate you further, after the indigenistation policy after the war,your brother's whose "administrative ingenuity" according to you destroyed the economic foundation of this country and you can see what your "competence" has led us to.
You are dissing your father not Ojukwu and I'll prefer a Gadafi handling things than for your ilk, atleast you can see what your brother Obj did with the country for eight years.
There are few Yoruba that I can stand up for Soyinka, Fela, major ishola williams, Gani the rest are losers.
Go and ask the likes of late prof Awojobi who was busy giving reasons why Ojukwu should not come back from Ivory coast, if you know history you know the rest of the story.

@Jason123 or whatever, one thing your likes love doing so well is distorting facts to suit your bruised ego.
Awo according to your assertion is laughing in his grave after institutionalising corruption and ethnicism which your group is known for.
If I might educate you further, after the indigenistation policy after the war,your brother's whose "administrative ingenuity" according to you destroyed the economic foundation of this country and you can see what your "competence" has led us to.
You are dissing your father not Ojukwu and I'll prefer a Gadafi handling things than for your ilk, atleast you can see what your brother Obj did with the country for eight years.
There are few Yoruba that I can stand up for Soyinka, Fela, major ishola williams, Gani the rest are losers.
Go and ask the likes of late prof Awojobi who was busy giving reasons why Ojukwu should not come back from Ivory coast, if you know history you know the rest of the story.

I wonder what Awo and others like him are currently thinking in their pathetic graves while a country the allegedly fought to "keep together" was matter of factly ranked an abysmal 41st out of 53 according to Mo Ibrahim's recent Governance Index rating for 2011? While some cyber tigers are busy dissin a great man loved by his people, and led them when a pogrom/holocoust with a strong intent to obliterate them was raging.
Today thesame people that were given £20 war severance fee now dominate every competitive facet of the Nigerian economy going by today's statistics, thesame people single handedly built the 3rd largest film industry that currently employs more people than all the govt establishment put together.
If I might indulge you further, thesame people that where denied access to the basic needs of life, has consistently dominated JAMB enrollment statistics for over two decades now, yet you cowards have the balls to call Ojukwu a coward.
If Ojukwu dies today,the ideals he fought for still lives on, unlike Awo, Boro etc.
Isaac Boro for the records happens to be one clueless and senile freedom fighter who was killed like a chicken, if I must educate those who dont know, the only position he has ever attained in his pathetic and miserable short life was a student union leader at UNN, a position that was given to him in an Igbo dominated uni, yet you call us bigots.
The other pus-e Asari who in his days @UNICAL was busy labelling Igbo lecturers his enemies after failing any course and did it consistently and got himself rusticated for poor performance.
Today he has abandoned his struggle, who is the coward then.
Edwin clarke on the other hand a coward in his own right, feels that getting the presidency will solve the Ijaw mans trouble after the north and west has continually raped the region and even had obj ordering a military campaign @ odi where your women and children where raped and maimed.

@1st Citizen it is quite unfortunate that I have to bridle words with a witless ijaw worm like you especially as regards Ojukwu's pride of place in the historical annals of this jungle called Nigeria.
If I may ask you, where is boro asari boyloaf tompolo etc, if i may remind you, your brother Asari was weeping like a pus, e when he was detained for less than a year, he was given a plea bargain to abandon his struggle and like a coward that he was he ran with his tails inbetween, but Uwazurike was given thesame bail conditions which he declined, so between this two who belong to the race of cowards? Yet you are here saying rubbish about a man who withstood Goworm and his minions for 30 months after your likes betrayed us.
I've come to respect just two ijaw men, Atedo and Banigo, aside this two you all are a bunch of spineless bastards who keep licking the ass of the northern hegemony just like your son who we gave our support at the polls is currently doing and FYI goin to SA etc on amnesty prog cant salvage your lots pathetic situation, get a clue.

this is a very good list thanks

Making money online is seriously misunderstood in this part of the world.

Basically there are a thousand and one ways of making money online, it only depends on two things; which is

1. Identifying a need by researching for a market (which is called niche marketing in internet marketing parlance)

2. Solving this need by either selling, manufacturing or referring the solution.

This two steps is all that is required to make some money or a lot of money from the internet.

Take for example the rave of the moment Mark Zuckerberg the CEO of Facebook; if you have seen the movie "The Social Network" then you'll understand what facebook was originally designed for before it went viral and exploded to sit on top of Alexa ranking as the number two site in the world trailing just behind Google.

The guy applied these two steps and today he is rated the 35th Richest man in the world with a net worth of 4 Billion US dollars making him the youngest billionaire in the world.

Having said that, there are so many ways to make it online, all you need is the two steps above and of course perseverance, patience and discipline.
It is about following successful models that have worked for people like Yanik, Seth Godin (USA) and then people like Akin Alabi (Nigeria) and you'll get to make it not getting obsessed with some get rich quick scheme like the one above and getting your finger burnt.
Those who make it online do so by doing stuffs like;

1. Selling affiliate products that can be either CPA or CPS from sites like Amazon, ebay, maxbounty, paydotcom etc

2. Domain Flipping and parking which Has been added to the Google Adsense package, a business originally handled by seedo and godaddy.

3. Writing paid reviews (like I do) for sites like ciao, squidoo etc, which requires a broad knowledge on products and services you are writing for, which you can either write on these sites or perhaps on your blog like in the case with reveiwstream (paid-to-blog)

4. Blogging

5. Conducting paid surveys (not so popular in this part of the world, though many Nigerians make money from this online venture)
etc

These are some cool ways to make some money online, but the snag here is that you need to work, work and really work.

This is not some thing you start today and tomorrow you start reaping millions, no! this is why people get scammed. You must understand that this is strictly a business.

You must see it this way- the way you go about your business offline is exactly the same way to go about this, the only difference here is that you don't get to see who you are transacting business with.

Just do all that you can do, don't get scammed my people play safe and play right.
Good luck to all!!!

a lot has been said about making money online some true others just fantasy and imagination of those who preach about these things.

But from my personal experience I have come to believe cos I have personally experienced it my self.

Making money online for me has been Google adsense (no 1), writing for freelance sites and content sites like triond, ehow, hubpages etc, affilaite commissions from CPA affilaite networks I work for and so many more.

So all you need do is concentrate and know what you can really do to join the very few like me to make the difference.

All the best this 2010
chinemere

making money online happens to be the vogue these days in Nigeria

But the real issue is knowing profitable and genuine ways; most of the people preaching this sermon only make money from selling "make money stuff" without really practicing and doing the things they preach; which is not to say selling info products is a crime; after top internet marketers like terry dean, ewen chaih, mike filsaime all make money like this ; but the difference with these marketers is that this are things they themselves have practiced overtime and it has been working for them and will work for any body who follow the blue prints

without further ado I 'll list few things that are workable in Nigeria as most of the things most people who run internet seminars preach are not workable in Nigeria;

-affiliate marketing; this is referring a product or service to a prospect.
and if he buys or signs up you get paid by the merchant
affiliate marketing can be be pay persale,pay per click (like adsense, kontera, clicksor etc) cost per miile. cost per action etc

top affilaite marketing networks include

clickbank.com
amazon.com
linkshare.com
doublclick.com
performics.com
moreniche.com
worldniche.com
cj.com etc

-writing and reviews: many people shopping online get to read reviews about a product or service before they get to pay for it this is why so many fortune 500 companies through third party sites now pay ordinary publishers like you and I to write reveiews for some dollars to thousand of dollars; and as a Nigerian some of these nsites include

ciao.com
shvoong.com
epinions.com etc for a comprehensive list you can send me an email at

chinemeremz[at]yahoo[dot]com

- freelance writing; so many webmasters, bloggers, ebook writers, etc now place bids at various job sites for bidders to bid for writing jobs ranging from writing blogs, sales copy, ghost writings, ebook writing etc

some of these sites includes

craigslist.com
guru.com
elance.com
suite101.com
getacoder.com etc

-blogging: so many people who join the blogging train get to quit in the first face of of after they fail to realize their goals, every body including top bloggers like seth godin, john tp, etc all faced this

most of these people blog on overcrowded niches forgetting that there are thousand un-explored money making niches

now after choosing your niche to monetize your blog you can use affiliate programs are pay per click advertising network to make the coveted and elusive dollars

some per click networks includes
google adsense9the best), kontera, bidvertiser, clicksor. chitikaeminimallsetc

for a comprehensive list on blogging, making money from it, A-Z of setting up a wordpress niche blog, generating traffic, fighting writer block by showing places where you can generate ideas for writing, setting up a blogger blog and publishing on your own free customized domain etc just send me an email with subject "free blogging ebook" to

chinemeremz[at]yahoo[dot]com

feel free to hit my blog on cpareveiws

all the best