Apparently, in Knoxville (among other US states) there is serious competition for Frozen Yogurt.  This seemed a little awkward to me, but it sounded interesting after Matthew Wayers (the owner of Froyoz) explained it to me.  When he said frozen yogurt, I asked if it was something like Marble Slab (a store I’m familiar with here in Canada) but with frozen yogurt.  Matthew responded “Imagine marble slab, but you go behind the counter and make all the ice cream yourself.”  I thought to myself, that sounds pretty sweet!

Then Matthew went on to tell me about how they use iPads in the store to collect customer email addresses (something I may be working with him to improve).  The idea itself sounded pretty cool, and the logic was right on.  Customers are drawn to the iPads because they’re new technology, and a page shown on the iPad asks the customer to sign up with their email address in exchange for coupons.  Needless to say, most people do like the idea of coupons and end up signing up.

We’ve all seen the business card fishbowls, clipboard signup lists, and even online list signups, but will kiosk based list building become a thing of the future?  I think so, be sure to keep your eye on Froyoz, the best Knoxville Frozen Yogurt!  They’re on top of their marketing and from what I’ve heard, they have some pretty tasty treats too!

The first step is to place an HTML form on the front end of your website.  As this is a PHP tutorial I won’t be going into too much detail here.  Here is a piece of code to use:
<form action="upload.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST">
<input name="filetoupload" type="file" />
<input type="submit" value="Upload!" />
</form>
Some improvements could be made to the code, however I am sticking to the very basics here.

You need to change the file permissions for the folder that files will be uploaded to.  Create a folder and give it write permissions.  For this tutorial we’ll name that folder uploads.

Next, you need to build the PHP file to handle the upload.

For the sake of simplicity we won’t be testing the file types or filtering anything from being uploaded.

Step one involves pulling the file’s name and changing it to include the upload directory. This is used to direct the file to where we want it.

$newFile = 'uploads/' . basename( $_FILES['filetoupload']['name']);


The next (and final) step is to copy the file from its current temporary location to our uploads folder.

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['filetoupload']['tmp_name'], $newFile);


That’s it, there really is only 2 lines of code on the back end. We hope that you were able to follow along and now are comfortable with file uploads in PHP. If you have any questions feel free to leave comments.

There are a few ways that beginners can make some capital so that they don’t have to invest any money to start, but these don’t pay the best and are best avoided if possible.  The easiest thing to do is write articles.

Writing articles can be rewarding, but even more so if you release them in packs.  For example, you might want to write 10 articles about a popular niche and sell it for $10 to 10 people.  Rather than making $5/article that you might’ve been paid if you wrote these for one person you’ve easily made $100.  But $10 for 10 articles is just way to cheap, you could easily ask for $20 and make $200.

A quick Google search for Internet Marketing Forums will find plenty of boards where you can post offering your services.

Once you’ve made some initial capital, you can buy a domain and hosting and consider setting up a site promoting an affiliate product or a site with a product of your own.  You can also build informational websites which will profit from ads shown.

Hopefully this guide has taught you how to get started making money online.