Make Money Online Tutorial – Before You Begin.

Morning!

I'm knee-deep in writing me latest about a really smart way to increase your click and buy ratio from a certain digital vendor, when it occurred to me….

Creating a tutorial on how to make money online would be really nifty indeed!

So let's begin with the TOC for the first week.

  • Before You Begin (that's today!)
  • Day 1 – Take a Good Look At Yourself
  • Day 2 – Understand Time Management
  • Day 3 – Master Google Search
  • Day 4 – Master Cloaking Links
  • Day 5 – Define Your Launchpage

That will take care of this week (as it's Monday now!) so….let's go!

Before You Begin

I've been making money online now since 1997, and let me tell you the first most important point that you'll never hear from people whose main goals are for you to buy their products.

Making *good* money online is hard.

In virtually 99.99999999998% of the cases, there is *no* silver bullet/short cut/etc.etc.etc. to making money online.

I do give credence to the .0000000000002% left, because back in 1998, I was lucky enough to be part that percentage (I was in the right place at the right time with the right product and had the right mentor who could open the right doors for me).

But the plain fact is…

You will have to put in a huge amount of hours, blood, sweat and tears to be successful.

That being said….

There are many many many MANY ways to make money online.

You could do the traditional offline way, ie….

Take an offline product and create a page online to sell it.

You could sell your handmade crafts, your high end audio equipment, your custom-designed sportswear, etc.

'Matter of fact, there are lots of places that let you design/create items from pictures/crafts; they will then do all the legwork of making apparel/knick nacks from them.  Such places include

Etsy is your place for crafting.  And here are some more places for Cafepres alternatives!

Now, if you're looking for traditional Internet marketing ways to make money, ways you'll encounter include:

SEO: This involves getting sites to rank high in Google so people searching for their keywords will stumble across your site.

Money is made when said site has your products or your affiliate links or your call-to-actions, and people  not only click on them but do the action required.  ie, you need "conversion."  You will *not* make money if people don't do what you want.

Good free tutorials about SEO include:

Affiliate marketing: This involves making money from OPP (other people's products)

The sad truth here that nobody really talks about when beginning, however, is that to make money with affiliate marketing, not only do you need quality traffic, but you *also* need people to *buy* what you promote!

One way to increase long-term profits is to build your list *while* affiliate marketing (ie, give your visitors a reason to optin so you can market to them in the future.  Thus, if they do NOT buy from your affiliate link, you can still promote to them later on).

I currently do boatloads of affiliate marketing myself, but much of that profits come from being an authority in the Internet marketing field.

Nifty free tutorials for affiliate marketing can be found at:

CPA: This pays you by "call per action", ie, CPA.   There are companies/products/etc. that will pay you for leads.  You're given the links/forms/etc. to drive visitors to, and then you're paid whenever someone fills them out. 

Have you seen those free movie tickets or free restaurant coupons or free iPads or what have you?  Those are CPA offers.  Whenever you fill them out, some else makes money.

The best place to learn about CPA is from the CPA  forum at the Warriors Forum.

Making your own infoproduct: This has you creating a PDF or a video series/etc. and then selling it online.

This is one way that I make money – every week or so, I create 1 or 2 products that I sell on the Warrior Forum.  I've also sold on Clickbank, on eBay, and on my own site as well!

You can download a free how-to product about making your own product here – Turbo Info Products.  No signup, no optin – just right-click and enjoy!

However, my favorite method for making money online is:

Become an authority: By far, this makes the most sense of 'em all.  When you're an authority in your niche, people will tell their friends about you, listen to you, promote you and more.

Yes, it does take time, but yes also….it just makes sense.  If you're going to make money online, you want to learn everything there is about your niche!  And if you know everything there is about your niche…people will flock to your site to learn more.

Free tips on becoming an authority can be found over at:

The above are only 3 ways to make money online.

But also, you do need to internalize the following.

You Need to Manage Your Expectations.

Never ever try something online and *expect* huge success.

If massive success does emerge, peachy!

But if you dive into making money online thinking you'll make it big the first time 'round…you'll most likely be crushed and disappointed and give up.

Not good!

Make no mistake about it.

Making money online is a deadly serious business….and like a brick-and-mortar business, it requires time and commitment and spending money.

And I do *not* mean "spending money" as in, "spending money to be told what to do."

I mean it as "spending money for tools for your business."

ie,

  • Your own domain
  • Your own autoresponder

at the very least.

Here is a *fantastic* tutorial for realistically making money online:

Consumers Guide to Making Money Online

I highly recommend getting over there and checking it out – there's nothing to buy but tons of quality information.  Woot!

This concludes my Before You Begin! day.  Tune in tomorrow when I will tackle one of the most important aspects about being profitable online….taking  a good look at *yourself*.

Grow strong,

Barbara Ling

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