Make Money Online

If you are looking for ideas on how to make money online then I suggest that you read this short guide and apply all of the principles you see here.

Before I get into the nuts and bolts how to make money online, I first want to point out that failure in online marketing is largely due to just sheer laziness. People hate working and when you are talking about making money online you need to forget about the pictures of laying on a beach with a martini in one hand and your laptop in the other. These images of success online are absolute lies and will steal your potential if you let them.

The second biggest factor of failure is not pressing through to success. I have been making money online for 7 years now and to this day I have days of “depression”. This mostly occurs when I launch a new product and it doesn’t have the success that I dreamed it would. Usually this will steal 2 – 3 days of my time and with each failure I have to pick myself up, brush off the bust off and then make a decision to keep moving forward.

So if you can get past those 2 elements you are well on your way to success online.

Find the Right Niche

I see a lot of programs that promise to help you find a profitable Niche when the reality is that finding a profitable niche is rather easy.

Let’s do a quick mental exercise . . . I want you to think of something you have seen at Wal-Mart for sell . . . great you got it?

I thought of “cleaning supplies”, so now I am going to go to Google and search “cleaning supplies”.

I found that there are 27+ million results and I see a healthy number of Sponsored links on the right hand side. This tells me right off the bat that advertising and promoting “cleaning supplies” on the internet can be a profitable and lead to me making money online.

You can then back this up by searching on eBay and Amazon for items that are for sell related to the specific niche you have chosen.

So if you were going to target this particular Niche to make money online then your next step would be to set up a web site, find a supplier, and start promoting.

Plan and Strategize How to Make Money Online

Once you have a niche in your head, I always look towards how I am going to actually make money online with that particular niche. Back to our above example . . . the last thing I want to do is stock my garage with smelly products and start shipping orders. Now some might want to do this, but think about when you want to take a vacation with your family and you have 100 orders that need packing (who will ship them out)?

With that said I have learned that when un-covering if a niche is profitable of not I look to how I can monetize the niche and allow me to avoid as much brick and mortar as possible.

I tend to look at larger affiliate networks to see if they have product offerings for the niche I am researching. For “cleaning products”, I might check out the eBay partner network. If I found that there is sufficient volume to be had I would then start to consider what kind of web site I wanted to set up and start to plan my promotion.

Promoting Your Niche

“If you build it they will come” does not work when talking affiliate marketing and making money online. You need to plan a solid promotional campaign.

A solid marketing campaign will include all of the elements of internet marketing. Once I asked a question to a guru when I first started out . . . the question was “Is it better to run PPC or SEO to my landing pages” he answer was both simple and yet profound “Your building a landing page right? . . . then why not do both?”

A lot of affiliates make the mistake when trying to make money online of building 1 landing page in 1 niche and running their entire budget to 1 keyword. If you do this, you WILL fail at affiliate marketing and it will be no one’s fault but your own.

Get a plan together and target long tail keywords for both your PPC and SEO strategies.