Answers, Answers, and More Answers

Is this a great world we live in or what?  You can actually make money by being helpful and answering people's questions.

Before we get to that, however, let me first say 'thank you' to everyone who bought and reviewed my WSO, "SEO Supremacy".  Sales continue to go well, even though The Warrior Forum seems to be having some major difficulties with their servers.

In addition to that, I also made $240 yesterday (edit: just checked the numbers...up to $308 now) with two methods from Income Greed.  I admit, I initially had some reservations about the system, but the methods covered here have really improved over the last week or so.  Chris (that other Chris) has even been recording personalized, step-by-step videos addressing different members' questions and broadcasting them for everyone's benefit.

Obviously, since it's a paid club, I can't go into too much detail about which methods I'm using.  I will say, however, that the Yahoo Answers system (which was given out as a demo) is definitely part of the equation.

Yahoo Answers has become a lot like StumbleUpon...lots of traffic, very few conversions.  You really have to know how to answer the questions property OR scale it up big-time to see results.

So why limit yourself to Yahoo Answers?  If you want to stay ahead of the game, you will boldly go where no man has gone before (or at least where there isn't as much saturation yet).

Take a look at the top "Answers" websites so far this year:

1. Yahoo Answers - YA went from 94% market share in 2007 to just 74% in 2008.

2. WikiAnswers - WikiAnswers is pretty new.  They weren't ranked in '07 but have 18% market share in '08.

3. Answerbag - Went from 2% market share in '07 to 4% so far in '08.

4. Ask Metafilter - Holding steady at 1.8% market share in '07 and in '08.

5. Askville - Went from 0.20% market share in '07 to 0.85% so far in '08.

Also, let's not forget Q n' A over at MSN.  In fact, Q n' A might be one of my favorites.  They have a very easy-to-manage interface and the traffic is of decent quality.  Did I mention that they were one of my favorites?

Another interesting site that's popped up recently is Cha Cha.  Cha Cha is an 'ask and answer' system that's a little different.  People ask questions from their cell phones and they receive answers from 'guides'.  To become a guide, you have to sign up and pass some preliminary test.  Then, once you're approved, you basically can sit and answer questions from people right on your PC.

Where it gets interesting is that the guides make about $0.20 per answer.  I know a couple of guides who have gotten so good at this that they are able to answer one question per minute.  I don't know about you, but to me $12 an hour isn't bad for answering questions.  Another guide I know made $1,200 last month answering questions for people.  Not too  shabby.

So there you have it.  Now, go answer some questions, help people, and make some money!

P.S. - There have also been some really fantastic money-makers posted over at BHW this week.  Go check them out!

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