Did you know that you can make money on line?

Making money online used to pretty much require you to have your own Web site, products to sell and some marketing savvy. But a new generation of dot-coms have arisen that will pay you for what you know and who you know without you having to be a web designer or a marketing genius.

But it's hard to tell hype from the real deal. I did a search on "make money online" and "making money online", and much of the information out there is just promoting various infoproducts, mostly about Internet marketing. I see why people sometimes ask, "Is anyone making money online besides Internet marketing experts?"

So I put together a list of business opportunities with legitimate companies that:

• Pay cash, not just points towards rewards or a chance to win money
• Don't require you to have your own Web domain or your own products

• Don't involve any hard-selling
• Aren't just promoting more Internet marketing
• Give a good return on your time investment

In the interest of objectivity, none of the links below are affiliate links, and none of them have paid or provided any other consideration for their presence here. These are legitimate companies with business models that allow you to get paid for a wide range of activities.

Help friends find better jobs.

Sites like ReferEarns, Zyoin, Who Do You Know For Dough?, Bohire and WiseStepp connect employers with prospective employees, many of whom are already employed and not actively job-hunting, via networking - the people who know these qualified candidates. Rewards for referring a candidate who gets hired range from $50 on up to several thousand dollars - not chump change. If you know a lot of job-seekers (and who doesn't these days?), this is a great way to break into the recruiting business with no overhead.

Connect suppliers with buyers.

Referral fees are a common practice in business, but they haven't been used much in online networking sites because there was no way to track them. Sites like Salesconx, InnerSell and uRefer now provide that. Vendors set the referral fees they're willing to pay (and for what), and when the transaction happens, you get paid. uRefer also allows merchants to set up referral programs for introductions and meetings, as well as transactions.

Write.

A growing number of sites will pay for your articles or blog posts. Associated Content and Helium will "pay for performance" based on page views for just about anything you want to write about. Articles on specific topics they're looking for can earn direct payments up to about $200. The rates are probably low for established writers, but if you're trying to break into the field and have time on your hands, they're a great way to start. Also, a lot of companies are looking for part-time bloggers. They may pay per post or on a steady contract. Our Weblogs Guide posts blogging jobs weekly in the forum.

Start your own blog.

You don't have to have your own Web site, or install blogging software, or even figure out how to set up the advertising. At Blogger you can set up a blog for free in less than five minutes without knowing a thing about web design, and Blogger even automates setting up Google AdSense so you can make money off your blog by displaying ads and getting paid when people click on the ads. To make even more money from it, set up an affiliate program (see below) for books, music, etc., and insert your affiliate links whenever you refer to those items. You'll have to get a lot of traffic to become a six-figure blogger, but pick an interesting topic, write well, tell all your friends, and you're off to a good start.

Related: Monetizing Your Blog

Create topical resource hubs.

Are you an expert on a particular niche topic? Can you put together an overview of the topic and assemble some of the best resources on the topic from around the web? Then you can create topical hubs and get paid through sites like Squidoo, HugPages and Google Knol. Payments are based on a combination of ad revenue and affiliate fees. You'll get higher rates doing it on your own, but these sites have a built-in supply of traffic and tools to make content creation easier.

Advertise other people's products.

If you already have a Web site or a blog, look for vendors that offer related but non-competing products and see if they have an affiliate program. Stick to familiar products and brands - they're easier to sell. To promote those products:

• Place simple text or graphical ads in appropriate places on your site
• Include links to purchase products you review or recommend in a blog, discussion forum or mailing list you control
• Create a dedicated sales page or Web site to promote a particular product

They all work - it just depends on how much time you have to spend on it and your level of expertise with Web design and marketing.

Related: How to Really Make Money on the Internet With an Amazon.com Affiliate Site

Microstock photography.

You don't have to be a professional photographer to sell your photos for money. People are constantly in need of stock photography for websites, presentations, brochures and so on, and are willing to pay for the right image. People generally search for images on stock photography sites by keywords, not by photographer, so you have the same chance as anyone else of having your image picked. Just be careful that you don't have images of trademarked brands, copyrighted art or people's faces that are readily identifiable (unless you have a model release), but just about anything else is fair game, and I promise - you'd be amazed what people need pictures of, so don't make any assumptions. If it's a decent photo, upload it. Some sites to get you started include Fotolia, ShutterStock, Dreamstime and iStockphoto. The great thing about this is that it's truly "set it and forget it".

The above list is by no means comprehensive, but it highlights some of the new and interesting ways to make money online without investing any money, without having a product of your own, and without having expert sales and marketing skills. Most of all, unlike taking surveys or getting paid to read e-mail, the potential return on your time investment is substantial.

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Did you know that one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime?

DID YOU KNOW THESE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FACTS ?


Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another. It is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community, regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality or educational background.

Did you know that Domestic Violence is often against women is an accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior, and thus is part of a systematic pattern of dominance and control. Domestic violence results in physical injury, psychological trauma, and sometimes death. The consequences of domestic violence can cross generations and truly last a lifetime.

Did you know that:

1) One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.


2) An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year.


3) 85% of domestic violence victims are women.


4) Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew.


5) Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk of nonfatal intimate partner violence.

CHILDREN WHO WITNESS

6) Witnessing violence between one’s parents or caretakers is the strongest risk factor of transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next.

7) Boys who witness domestic violence are twice as likely to abuse their own partners
and children when they become adults.

8) 30% to 60% of perpetrators of intimate partner violence also abuse children in the household.

SEXUAL ASSAULT AND STALKING

9) One in 6 women and 1 in 33 men have experienced an attempted or completed rape.

10) Nearly 7.8 million women have been raped by an intimate partner at some point in their lives.

11) Sexual assault or forced sex occurs in approximately 40-45% of battering relationships.

12) 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men have been stalked in their lifetime.

13) 81% of women stalked by a current or former intimate partner are also physically assaulted by that partner; 31% are also sexually assaulted by that partner.


HOMICIDE AND INJURY

14) Almost one-third of female homicide victims that are reported in police records are killed by an intimate partner.


15) In 70-80% of intimate partner homicides, no matter which partner was killed, the man physically abused the woman before the murder.


16) Less than one-fifth of victims reporting an injury from intimate partner violence sought medical treatment following the injury.

17)Intimate partner violence results in more than 18.5 million mental health care visits each year.
PROTECTION ORDERS REPORTING RATES

Domestic violence is one of the most chronically underreported crimes.
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Only approximately one-quarter of all physical assaults, one-fifth of all rapes, and one-half of all
stalkings perpetuated against females by intimate partners are reported to the police.
1

Approximately 20% of the 1.5 million people who experience intimate partner
violence annually obtain civil protection orders.
1

Approximately one-half of the orders obtained by women against intimate partners who physically assaulted them were violated.
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More than two-thirds of the restraining orders against intimate partners who raped or
stalked the victim were violated.

Did you know that most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police?

Did you know that Marge Asimpson will be on the cover of Platyboy?

CNN) -- If those coveted 20-something readers can't identify with Hugh Hefner, maybe they will with "The Simpsons."

Marge Simpson will appear in the November issue of Playboy as the magazine's first cartoon cover model.

Like nearly everything printed on paper these days, Playboy magazine has been facing tough times. Advertising pages have dropped 31 percent over the last year, newsstand sales have dried up by 25 percent, and its circulation has dipped to 2.4 million, according to publishing insider Media Industry Newsletter.

Can a blue-haired mother of three deliver the iconic gentleman's book to a new generation?

Part commemoration of "The Simpsons'" 20th anniversary, part nod to the golden days of Playboy, what has become known as "The Marge Simpson Cover" has drummed up more attention for Playboy than the premiere of the original "Girls Next Door." But it remains to be seen whether the animated move can open the wallets of a younger generation.

"The shock value always does Playboy very good," said Media Industry Newsletter online editor-in-chief Steve Cohn. "This is a novelty one, but it's no different than a celebrity. In a sense, Marge has something in common with a woman who's never done it before, someone like Nancy Sinatra."

But it's not exactly shock value Playboy is going for -- more like "hip, cool" and the kind of magazine a 25-year-old would read. Maxim, a "lad mag" with an average reader of 29, also ran a cover of Marge Simpson in 2004, depicting the d'oh-eyed beauty in a sheer dress on all fours, scrubbing the floor.

"We knew Marge's pictorial would appeal to a large demographic," said Playboy editorial director Jimmy Jellinek. "This cover and pictorial is just another example of how we're evolving our editorial content to continue to reach men in their 20s, and also maintain the elements of the magazine that have attracted readers for more than 50 years."

The three-page pictorial, featuring a scantily-clad Marge in cartoon lingerie, was "obviously tongue-in-cheek," new Playboy CEO Scott Flanders told the Chicago Sun-Times. "It had never been done, and we thought it would be hip, cool and unusual."

Playboy's use of "hip" isn't the only thing retro-cool -- the cover is a clear nod to the empire's peak in the 1970s. Marge's now infamous image, itself considered to be groundbreaking as the first cartoon character to land a Playboy cover, was inspired by another bunny-eared milestone: The October 1971 issue featured Darine Stern, the first black woman to pose on a Playboy cover.

Darine Stern's picture on the October 1971 cover served as the inspiration for Playboy's November 2009 cover.

"We decided to re-create [it] because it's one of our most iconic covers," Jellinek said, "and because Marge's sexy blue beehive immediately made us think of Darine Stern, whose beautiful, voluminous hairdo was front and center on the October 1971 cover."

For Hefner, "Marge Simpson is the quintessential girl next door who stole our hearts 20 years ago and has held them captive ever since. We were delighted to learn she wanted to grace the pages of our magazine. Her pictorial is truly stunning," he told CNN.

This move comes on the heels of a disappointing first half of 2009, during which Playboy lost some attention from the demographic it does have -- the average reader is a 35-year-old male. The magazine came in 200,000 short of its 2.6 million rate base -- the minimum circulation a magazine promises to advertisers -- according to BusinessWeek.

Playboy's lackluster showing as of late can be attributed to two things, Cohn said. One, the audience transferred some of their desire for tastefully disrobed women to the Web. Second, Hugh Hefner got old.

"The reason for their audience shift can be seen in Hugh Hefner. I went to college in the '70s and Hefner was in his 40s back then. He was the symbol for what kind of guy I wanted to be," Cohn said. "Now he's in his 80s -- it's hard to identify with someone like that. That's a problem for Playboy."

But, Jellinek said, "Playboy is a state of mind and a way of being, not a pre-prescribed age. We knew this was something that all of our readers would enjoy, because the show has been on for 20 years and it resonates with adults of all ages."

The "Simpson"-ized Playboy will be available at newsstands Friday.

Did you know that in 1989 Milli Vanilli was the first artist to be stripped of their grammy?

Did you know that:

John Legend  and  

Kanye West
both have received 8 Grammy.

Did you know that 12 is the most Grammy nominations in one year, which is held by two artists ?

- Michael Jackson was nominated 12 times in 1983 and 

Babyface was nominated 12 times in 1992.

Did you know that in 1989, Milli Vanilli was the first artist to be stripped of their Grammy award for Best New Artist when it was discovered that it was not actually them singing on their album?











Now if you didn't know, now you know...



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Did you know that these Blacks have received a Nobel?

Did you know that these:

Ten other remarkable Blacks have received a Nobel: Albert John Luthuli, 1960 Peace Prize;












Martin Luther King Jr., 1964 Peace Prize;














Sir William Arthur Lewis, 1979 Economics Prize;














Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 Peace Prize;














Wole Soyinka, 1986 Literature Prize;









Derek Walcott, 1992 Literature Prize;














Toni Morrison, 1993 Literature Prize;













Nelson Mandela 1993 Peace Prize,














Kofi Annan 2001 Peace Prize and










Wangari Maathai, 2004.”

Did you know who is the youngest person to win the Nobel Prize?

Did you know that the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901?

Did you know that it was not until 1950 that a Black person was a recipient. An African American from Detroit, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was the first black man to receive the distinguished prize for his work as a United Nations mediator; his efforts led to the 1949 Arab-Israeli armistice agreement.




Did you know that in 1964 that Martin Luther King Jr. had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1964. King became the youngest person in history to win the peace prize, he was 35. He also donated the $54,000 cash award to the civil rights movement. Did you know that he also won a Grammy after his death in 1970?

Did you know that Obama won a Grammy and Nobel Peace prize and roughly $1.4 million which he will donate to charity.

Did you know that 797 people have won the Nobel Prize so far. Among them, 765 are men and 32 are women.

Did you know that Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal has missed 5,000 free throws?

Did you know that on December 25, 2008, O'Neal missed his 5,000th free throw, becoming the second player in NBA history to do so along with Wilt Chamberlain.

Did you know that O'Neal earned a MBA