I often speak with lawyers that are intrigued with the new social media websites. They tell me that they want to get involved using Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to generate new prospects for their firm. The first question I bring up is do you write a blog?

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Everyone likes the idea of the get rich quick approach. Who wouldn’t want a big return with minimal effort? However, this isn’t the nature of social media. Just posting an update on a social media site won’t provide the depth that a blog does. In my opinion, one of the best ways to leverage social media is to share your blog posts with others.

If your lawyer marketing efforts are simply status updates on Twitter and Facebook, without any longer, thought out content of your own, then you will be making comments about many things, but adding nothing of substance to the conversation.

Writing a blog and posting frequently will provide you with two advantages in social media communities:

1. You can promote your posts through social media. This gives you a voice in the community. You are actively getting involved and contributing. People will check out your blog where they can be turned into potential clients.

2. You will position yourself as an expert. A blog will allow you to produce content which puts on display your expertise in your field. This simply can’t be achieved as effectively solely by commenting.

The point is that this involves some amount of work on your end. You have to write thoughtful, engaging content. But when you accomplish this, sharing your blog through social media is terrific exposure.

If you are looking for a way to start making some cash online, and you do not have money to spend, blogging is a perfect way to get started.

Blogging has become very popular recently. For one thing, it’s free. For another, you don’t need to have any technical skills what so ever to get started. If you can read and write, you can blog. So what is a blog? A blog is a simple web page that anyone can set up in minutes. People use them as journals, diaries, and sales pages.

You may want to know how you can make money with free blogs. The answer is by adding Adsense, and promoting affiliate programs.

You will not get rich overnight with free blogging, but over 2 to 3 months, you will start making some decent income. Remember, the cost for all this is absolutely nothing.

For our purposes, we will be using “Blogger”. Blogger is owned by Google. Blogger blogs are often crawled by the search engines, so you can get indexed very quickly.

It is always best to try and make money from what you already know about. It is much easier to write about what you know than to try and make money writing about other things. However, having said that, you can find free content on almost any subject, so you can pick a subject that you think would be profitable, but you don’t really know anything about.

Forget the so-called “get-rich-without-work” scams. The best ways to make some money on the Internet sure as heck won’t make you rich. At best, you’ll have a little money to buy pizza with.

I’ve written this to help people to make their first income online — not their retirement in a week. It’s important for your psychological well-being to earn a little money online before you try to earn a lot. That’s what this free guide is for. Plus, the ideas listed below are fool-proof. They work. Simple as that.

Freelance Writing — One of the most sure-fire ways of making money is freelance writing. There are tons of bloggers and webmasters out there who aren’t willing to write their own content — that’s fine. We can write it for them. Find a place like TextBroker.com and you can make at least $5 per 500 word article. Not bad, actually. A great way to make a couple of thousand extra per year with part-time work.

Online Savings Accounts — this way is actually government backed. Put your money into a high-interest savings account, and you’ll earn a few percentage points per year. Use a search engine like Google to find the best savings account rates. This is even better if you have your income automatically set to split into your savings account.

Online CD Rates — As we talked about just above, an online savings account is a great deal for turning a few minutes into a nice stream of money for years. However, if you’re really hardcore, you’ll go all-in and get a nice CD. A CD is like a savings account, only you can’t pull your money out for a period of time. This means the interest rate is better.

Internet Marketing — this is, by far, the most overused, most misunderstood, and butchered way of making money online. Most people try to make money internet marketing by setting up a blog. This rarely works, because it takes too much time and work. Instead, set up a static website with no more than 50 articles, and build links to the site — this will give you a steady income for years, without forcing you to kill yourself working every day during that time. Just read the links below for more information.

Note: You aren’t going to get rich any time soon. If you buy into the “get rich quick” mantra, it’s easy for this to be a crippling view of yourself. Stop expecting riches next month, and try to make some pizza money today. You find the results in the long-term are better.

This is just the start. Click the links below to get to my sites where I explain the details to how I’ve built a full-time income online. No hype included.