Making Money Online is a skill. Just like cooking, or carpentry, or football. But like any skill - IT CAN BE TAUGHT. It really can. So many people online teach how to make money -- when all they really are doing is trying to sell lame products.
- Does it take time? Yes - it does (it took me 5 months). But does it work? You bet it does. Are you excited? You should be! Fundamentally there are 4 elements - all equally vital - to online success.
The Four Elements To Online Success
1. Having the correct attitude
2. Knowing some simple web skills
3. Having a product(s) (be it yours or someone elses
4. Having the skills to market your product .
Now - I am very aware how terrifying - particulary for a newcomer - creating a website can sound.
However - if you are serious about wanting to make money online - you must get over your web fear. We all felt this fear at first (I certainly did).
This is a business based on HAVING A WEB PRESENCE. That is a simple, cold fact.
Therefore - you WILL need to know some SIMPLE WEB SKILLSAnd if you haven't yet started creating your first website - I think you will be amazed at how easy it really is.
Now - products. This is where I see a lotof people make a common mistake.
A lot of people will spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars purchasing a veritable orgy of products from experienced marketers - with great promises of riches by 'simply' selling them on.But what happens?Almost all of the time these products of DVD's or modules or CD ROMS end up gathering dust under the bed or in the garage or on a computer's hard drive.
Why?The problem is - most people do not know WHAT to ACTUALLY dowith products.
I want you to FORGET about what product(s) you want to sell (for now).
Instead - we are going to tap into a little secret that all successfulmarketers like to keep relatively quiet.
QUESTION: Do you know how the MAJORITY of people make money online?
ANSWER: They sell direct to their own list.Read that again!! And think about it.They sell to people who are ALREADY on their database.And how do they have their own database? These marketers work hard to capture our details when we visit their website in the first place. The Money Is In The List.These savvy marketers spend time and energy building their list, and then EVERY TIME they have a product, they bang out an email to this list. And because they have spent time cultivating and building a relationship with their
list... sales ALWAYS follow.This method has been proven time and time again as so much easier - than trying to sell 'cold' to a first time visitor to your site.
The money really is in the list. I see many newcomers to this business make the same mistake. They mistakenly believe that simply having a product online (as good as the product may be) will result in sales.
That may have been the case 6/7/8/9 years ago - but not now.
The Most Common Mistake Newcomers Make
I see so many newcomers these days trying to SELL a product direct from their site IMMEDIATELY.This is very, very difficult .A lot of newcomers believe that just HAVING a product on a site is enough. It isn't. 10 years ago maybe -- but not now.
A lot of newcomers will get all excited about having a shiny, sparkly product. Now I certainly am NOT crushing any passion or enthusiasm (as that's vitally important...)
I am however saying that having a product on a site is not enough anymore. I see COUNTLESS newcomers believe that 'all they need is a product online.' (I hear this many times too...)And this really