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Question by Johnny. D: How do I start an internet radio station?
Any information about how to get started, any licensing, equipment, technologies, legalities, overhead/budgets, and everything that goes into owning and operating an internet radio station with the intent and goal of receiving income from this.

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Answer by Andrew Strauss
If you wish to set up a broadcast and don't want to pay the fees a other third-party to host your Internet radio stream - and you are a do-it-yourself kind of person - you might do well creating your own online radio station by using your own personal computer to create a dedicated server for doing the job.

Some of the software options for getting this done include:

SHOUTcast: SHOUTcast is one of the original free Internet radio software solutions for streaming audio. You can start your own station fairly easily and the software is free to download.

Helix Server Basic: Free streaming media server software which can distribute live and on-demand video and other media. Realnetworks.com describes it as: "Simple 5-stream server. This free media server is a great solution if you are getting started with streaming media and want to experiment before rolling it out to a large audience." The Helix Server Basic is free to download.

Quicktime Streaming Server: Apple.com says: "Whether you are looking to add streaming media to your web site, deliver distance learning or provide rich content for your mobile subscribers, Mac OS X Server has all of the tools you need. QuickTime Streaming Server lets you deliver live or prerecorded content in real time over the Internet." You can find out more at apple.com.

Quicktime Broadcaster: Apple.com writes: "Combining the power of QuickTime with Apple's ease of use, QuickTime Broadcaster allows just about anyone to produce a live broadcast event." Download this software from apple.com

Peercast: Peercast.org is a non-profit website that provides free peer-to-peer broadcasting software. "PeerCast is a simple, free way to listen to radio and watch video on the Internet. It uses P2P technology to let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of traditional streaming," according to the peercast.org website.

Icecast: Icecast is "free server software for streaming multimedia." Download a copy from icecast.org.

Andromeda: Andromeda is delivery-on-demand software. "Andromeda scans your MP3s and presents them as a fully-featured streaming Web site. That means you simply add, move, rename, and delete files and folders to update the contents of your Andromeda-powered site. It's as easy as drag, drop, stream," according to turnstyle.com where you can download an evaluation copy.

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Question by captainespinosa: I am thinking of becoming an affiliate by advertising products on my Blog. I want to start an online business.?
Can anyone show me where I can find good products? And or show me how to write a good blog to get a lot of attention. I know there are ways to make money online without any out of pocket cash, and that is what I am looking for. Because I feel why spend money to make someone else some money. Can you help me in any way shape or form?
Thanks. God bless you.

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Answer by Iaesmom
Good places to sell product for are bay and amazon. Look at products you like online and see if the page is looking for affiliates. Even ticketmaster sells through affiliates.

Here’s a good place to start learning about blogging and get a good free site. Read this and see if it interests you. Hope it helps

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Question by elana242: How does one start to be an affiliate marketer and does one need a website?
I do not have a website but I need to make money. Promoting other's products seems like a good idea, however I have no idea how to get started. I have bought several scams and they did not work or I simply did not understand them.

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Answer by G N A
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Remember, when you become an affiliate you are actually a commissioned sales person, so you earn more when the people you refer to the merchant sells more. You do not sell the product or service - you find people interested in them and refer them to the merchant. The merchant's job is to sell their own product or service.

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Question by Nathan R: Whats the best way to start saving money?
I need to start saving money for a house. I do not make much money and I have some bills. But I do have some spare money every now and then. Whats the best way to save money without being tempted to spend it.

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Answer by Goethe
Plan. Budget. Make it happen by setting aside 10% of EVERYTHING you make.

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Question by : How do you become an affiliate of a site and start making money?
I am interested in starting several blogs and becoming and affiliate of relevant sites!! Any advice?

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Question by : How to start a blog and make money off it?
So I've had this idea for a while, but I'm not really sure where to start! I want to have an astronomy blog, (mainly focusing on observation, but also on space news in general) and eventually a blog that I can use to help promote my music as well. But I don't know where to begin. I know I can promote the blog on twitter, but how do I get followers and viewers to the point where I can start making money off of it?

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Answer by Junior
Hi Zippy,

First to all, you have to make sure that you have a specialist blog, so that you could have a loyal readership that would accumulate overtime. Then you need to promote your blog. To let more people know about your blog, you may do some SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This way, search engines may possibly land you some people who are searching on some particular sets of keywords. And to have a successfully SEO optimized blog, you need external links too. In this case, you may also try setting up mirror blogs on different blogging host, say if you set up your blog at blogger.com, you may want to consider setting up mirror blogs at http://self.my, wordpress.com, livejournal.com etc, and each of them pointing back to your primary blog.

To save time publishing to multiple mirror blogs and to do back up for your blog, I recommend that you take a look at WebStory, a very convenient blogging client for this purpose. HTH.

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Question by Anthony C: how do i start my money-generating blog?
what website is best to start a money-making blog?

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Answer by photomom04
The cheapest and fastest is to use blogger.com They let you add advertising like adsense and other affiliate advertising. You can also make money on a blog with payperpost.com and blogitive.com.

If you go with wordpress you will need to find your own hosting in order to include any advertising on your blog.

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Question by denyceezworld: How do I start blogging and make money at the same time?
I would like to start making money blogging. Can someone lead me in the right direction? There are so many free sites, kits, etc? Don't know where to start?

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Answer by aline j
www.blogger.com is a good free blogging site.

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