About Me

About



Believe To Make Money(BTMM) is a blog by Emelda, with some posts from guest or temporary bloggers. It’s included in the Top 100 Making Money Online Blogs list. It’s also included in various Top 100 blogs list in Australia & the Philippines.

BTMM is a site dedicated to help people from all walks of life to make money online by offering various practical tips, advice, ideas, and resources on the web. The articles here are mostly based on experience and recommendations. It is especially geared towards beginners and newcomers to online businesses. It avoids tech jargon and offers a community feel, to let readers know that they are not on their own in this web journey.

Background:

This blog was started on the 2nd of January 2005 (shares Emelda’s real birthday!), as Make Money Online: The Internet Income Blog via the AboutWeblogs network. When AboutWeblogs merged with b5media, this blog was reborn as Believe To Make Money (BTMM) in June 2006.

When the AW-b5 merge happened, Nomad became a partner/co-owner of b5media. She is also now the Vice President of Community for the network. b5media raised $2M funding late in 2006, from Malaysia-based VCs: JLA Ventures and Brightspark. b5 is based in Toronto, Canada.

About Emelda:

Emelda has been a long-time web and business enthusiast. Growing up with business-minded families taught her that making a living for yourself is not only doable – but also worthwhile. She started her first business ventures in first grade. And, never stopped since.

When it comes to making money online, Emelda began exploring the web for pleasure – and profit – since late 1999. Her first jobs and cash from the web came from writing content for various websites and online publications.

She later ventured in to making websites, publishing ezines and e-newsletters, running forums, selling on eBay, selling her own digital products, online counselling and consulting, and online teaching, among others.

Emelda is currently making money online on a full time basis – and slowly edging her way to a six-figure income.

From Emelda:

“Hello and welcome to Believe To Make Money! I hope you find something useful in this site. And, if you don’t find what you’re looking for, please know that I welcome questions. Sometimes, I offer these questions online as part of my Advice series. This is so we can all help each other out when it comes to learning more about making money online. If you do not wish for your email to be published, please let me know advance.

In any case, thank you for visiting BTMM. If you like what you see, please subscribe via a feed reader or by email (see sidebar). Or, simply bookmark this site and please come back again soon.”

Some comments from readers, bloggers about BTMM…

* “Believe To Make Money lists tons of great ways to make money online, including websites, links, and easy to understand descriptions of how each site works. The site is a nice change of pace that is low on the techie insider stuff and heavy on the practical pick-up-some-quick-cash tips and tricks.” – Ryan Shamus, via blog post
* “I have come across a million and one blogs about making money online (okay, okay, maybe not quite that many) and most of them are either full of crap, or full of affiliate and referral links and nothing useful to anyone who is really looking to make money online. Your blog, however has some real information and makes the reader feel like you are here for more then just trying to make money. Thanks.” – Aiden, via comment