Online Income
Online Income
I used to work in finance and as an information consultant for developing businesses, but now I have decided to expand my online presence and will this website to report on my latest discoveries in this strange new world we live in.
I will be exploring different ways to make an online income, and will share my exploits – as I start to grow my online income as a means of supplementing (and now replacing) my day job earnings.
First a word of warning – there are many products purporting to teach you how to make an easy living online – but beware of terms like ‘easy’ and ‘guaranteed’. It is not easy, and it takes dedication and indeed some measure of time to get it right and begin to build a successful business online.
But it can be done, and all the effort will be time well invested if you start to establish a recurring income into the future.
Latest Income Earning Opportunity.
I have tried many courses over the last 2 years or so. I even signed up for some of the ‘you can’t fail’ guru packages. While succeeding in earning what I used to call ‘beer money’ this has fluctuated over time. I did not graduate very successfully with my first 3 courses, but this was nearly as much down to a lack of spare time on my part, as it was to any shortcoming with the course content. But as I said there is no silver bullet out there.
Be careful not to get sidetracked with too many new challenges. I did learn a lot of web stuff ‘though, and sometimes I got my money back if I remembered in time to seek the refund before my time guarantee ran out! Most web earning courses come with a 30 or 60 day money back guarantee – (which gives you time to ‘suck it and see’).
I found a few very helpful, and cheap, online instruction courses. These taught me all about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and Website building, and I only use WordPress nowadays to build and manage my sites. I got my fingers burned using PPC (pay per click) advertising, and I wanted to find out how to get free traffic (SEO), and more of it.
And Now
Now I mostly recommend free traffic solutions, using tools and tricks to enhance SEO. So my first piece of advice – only use pay per click (eg Bing or Google adwords for example) sparingly – for testing purposes, as these methods can very quickly eat up your resources. But it is still a good way to test the market, and get some exposure for your products.
SEO will require more learning and dedication to developing traffic to your sites, using the right tools to research keywords and to automate the repetitive demands wherever possible.
The web is changing daily, and you need to ways to keep up to date with all the changes going on too. One new avenue of earning online is provided by all of the self-publishing options – from publishing on amazon to other online readers supported by Smashwords publishing.
The products I recommend are the ones I am using and I have learned from, and some software which I personally use to run my internet business today, to help manage the workload, and to automate many of the daily tasks (eg Market Samurai Keyword Search Tool).
My next step will be to outsource more of the tedious daily tasks so I now concentrate on finding and building new revenue streams. Always learning, and the internet is always changing .. but the rewards are there if you make the effort.
Stick at it
And my critical word of advice on ‘how to make money online’ – PERSEVERE!
Whether you are IT literate, or a complete newbie, or a work at home mom (WAHM), it can be done. Lots of people are successful online. There are hurdles and obstacles for sure, and some late nights to encounter, but it is worth sticking at it. Just think, you’ll be able to work from home, in your own time, and earn a good living creating those recurring, online income streams!!
Try KashZPresso as a gentle entry into the world of earning online – and Mosh is very generous with his advice and tips.start (remember it is guaranteed and you can get a refund after trying) – and good luck, if you have any queries please send me an email to .. alsedge@awakesol.com
