MONEY
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK #2
If you can’t find a way to
focus your efforts, you will not make money online. Plain and
simple; believe me, if you’ve been seeking to making money
online.
When I first got into the “make money online” field,
I couldn’t get focused. I was listening to this guy, that guy,
another guy, every guy and got information overload and didn’t
take action.
I wasn’t able to pick a project and stay focused and
finish it. I would read an e-book or take some information from
someone and try to put that information in use to make money for
myself online.
Some of them had great information and I could make
money from the information when I started that project. The
problem was that I would never finish a project. I was always
searching for something better. I was always looking for the
next big thing. I was looking for something that didn’t exist. I
was looking for something that didn’t require hardly any work
and was going to make me a millionaire overnight.
There is no product that is going to do this for you!
I had the information in my hands to make a handsome
living online. I just wasn’t using it. I wasn’t staying focused
on a project long enough to see any returns.
I was lied to, like most people who get into the
making money online field. We are told by people who want to
sell their products to us, that we will make a million dollars
overnight and don’t have to do much work. Guess what, you won’t
make that kind of money overnight and it does take some work.
What you should do is pick out some projects and
finish them.
Once you start finishing your projects, whatever they
may be, creating a product, building a website, writing sales
copy, writing articles, etc., the money will start coming in.
I always say that the toughest dollar to make online
is the first one. There are so many people that don’t make any
money online and give up and go back to their day job.
The first dollar was definitely the toughest for me
to make. I think it gets easier because once you have made some
money online, you have broken down that first very important
barrier down, it gets a lot easier.
You realize that you really can make money online and
your confidence soars! You can just keep on doing what you were
doing to make more money. Work harder and expand your business.
Repeat what you’re doing to make money and just keep expanding
on that process and keep working on ways to improve your
business.
Focus and hard work is going to get you a long way in
life.
Using focus and hard work to make money online are
the two major keys to success and don’t let anyone else tell you
otherwise. As you focus a “funnel” will be created to drive
traffic, conversion of that traffic and ultimately sales. Focus
and hard work are equivalent terms in reaching your objective.
The one promise I can make, because I’ve experienced it, is if
you will focus your efforts with your hard work you will achieve
your desires!
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True or False: You CAN Make Money While You
Sleep!
By: Diane Hughes
It's a crying
shame really. So many people have tried to follow the Internet
dream. They've heard the stories of others who quit their day jobs,
wake up whenever they choose, take leisurely lunches with friends,
shop for hours on end without one worry about how to pay for their
purchases, buy new cars and pay cash for them, and make money hand
over fist while they sleep. Naturally, these people would drool over
the thought of being able to do the same for themselves.
However, as the landslide of people
all across the globe began to flock to the 'Net much like they did
to California in the gold-rush days, they find that making money
while you sleep might be a myth. They wonder if they've just been
led astray by wicked, evil people with nothing better to do than
make fools out of innocent, hardworking folks.
What is the answer? Can you make
money online? CAN you make money while you sleep? I don't mean an
extra $200 a month to pay for groceries, but a real living. If so,
how do you go about it?
It's True! I'm Doing It Myself!
First of all, it's not a myth. I can honestly tell you that I am
making a full-time living online. And yes, there have been many
mornings where I've awakened, turned on my computer, and found
notifications of sales that occurred during the night. I AM making
money while I sleep, and you can, too.
Let me tell you what I think probably
happened to generate this long-standing myth.
The early Internet pioneers
discovered ways to make automated income. They realized this was a
wonderful thing and began to spread the news to everyone they knew.
Then, however, those unscrupulous types (you know... the jerks) saw
this as an easy way to make a fast buck. They began preaching that
making automated income online was as easy as pouring yourself a
glass of water. In essence, they told half the story. As more and
more people tried to make a living online and failed, the promise of
making money while you sleep became fiction instead of fact.
So How Do You Do It?
What's the real truth? How can you make a full-time living online
just like me? There are several ways. Let me give you the
unvarnished gospel when it comes to online business. You may not
like what you hear, but it is fact, not fluff.
ACTION STEP 1
Plan, Plan, Plan - It won't happen overnight. Nothing good ever
does. In the beginning, you're going to create a plan then be ready
to work that plan. You often hear about throwing up a website and
making money while you sleep. Technically, yes, that's all there is
to it. But... how does that site get up on the 'Net?
You have to create your site or have
someone else create it. That means you have to take the time to
learn professional website development (PLEASE, don't create some
junky, homemade-looking site!), or you have to pay someone who
already knows how to create websites. And what will you have on your
site? Your own products? (Having your own e-products is highly
recommended.) Someone else's products? You'll need to decide before
your site is created.
How will people pay for the products
they buy from your site? Do you have a merchant account? Will you
become an affiliate for someone else so you don't need a payment
system?
Will you go for high search engine
rankings or rely on word-of-mouth, PPC ads, and other types of paid
advertising? If you want good search engine optimization, you'll
have to plan for that upfront. Again, you'll have to take time to
learn how to do it or pay someone else who already knows how.
Before you take one more step toward
launching your own Web business, find the answers to the questions
above.
ACTION STEP 2
Be Ready to Work - Once your site is ready to launch, how will
people find you? How, exactly, will you drive qualified visitors to
your site? Will you use organic (free) search engine listings? Will
you use Pay-Per-Click search engine ads? Will you buy ezine ads? Do
you have other means for getting customers to visit your site?
People won't just come out of the blue, you'll have to bring them to
your site somehow.
Even if you choose to go for the
organic search engine listings, you'll have about a 4-week to
4-month wait before seeing your new site listed. What will you do in
the meantime to drum up business?
ACTION STEP 3
How Will You Keep It Going? - Prosperous businesses are continually
growing to keep up with customer demands. How will you keep your
online business moving forward? Will you do research into what
consumers want? Will you guess? Will you just follow the crowd?
You'll want to have some method for
gauging customer responses so you can know what your site visitors
want and how to provide it for them.
One such way is to use Survey Monkey
(www.surveymonkey.com). You can create online surveys in order to
keep up with the needs/wants of your site visitors.
ACTION STEP 4
Service Is Key! - In order to make it in the long run, you simply
must provide exceptional customer service to your clients. Those who
lie, steal, cheat, or hide are destined to fail.
Understand this: Your success depends
on your customers' success. If they aren't happy, you won't be in
business long. Make every effort to treat them as the kings and
queens they are.
See? The people who turned the "make
money while you sleep" fact into fiction did so because they skipped
all the important information. Now that you know what to expect, you
can see that it is most definitely possible to make a full-time
living online. It is even possible to make money while you sleep.
However, you must have a plan, be ready to work, look for ways to
keep your business growing, and treat your customers as true
V.I.P.s.
When you
do, you'll have all the tools you need to develop a long-standing
business that - with time - will produce for you.
