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One of the
most important aspects of being in business for yourself is to learn to create
residual income for yourself – sort of a retirement account.
One of the
easiest ways to do this is with an online business –more specifically and
information business. What everyone online is looking for is information. You
can provide this in the form of Ebooks (online books that are purchased and
downloaded directly to peoples computers) or other pay-per-click advertising
programs such as Google Adsense.
The way to
do this is to thinking about something that you are really passionate about –
some hobby, interest – some area of information that you are an expert in. It
can be anything from growing tomatoes, hosting kids’ parties or whatever it is
that you are an expert on – and you are an expert whether you know it or not!
What is it that you are passionate about?
That sets you on fire?
That lights up your eyes when you talk about it?
Finding a
niche or two seems to be the hard part for most people. We get so caught up in
thinking we have nothing to offer, when it usually is sitting right in front of
your eyes. To help your brain start brainstorming, I recommend starting with
the free 5 day
InfoProducts Masters email class from Site build it or the Make your
knowledge Sell Ebook from Sitebuildit for $49.95. This is a monster of
information on how to create a infoproduct business online. It really helps you
figure out a great niche and helps stimulate thinking! There is also a
info publishing section at sitesell.com.
Creating a
website with the idea of providing high quality content on a topic that others
may be interested in too can create an additional source of income for you while
you start your practice. (It can also lead to a substantial income if you so
desire – not riches, but enough.)
Remember
what I said before about what people are looking for online is information – an
answer to their question, problem or issue. How many times a day does someone
say lets Google that? (According to
Search Engine Watch – about 91 million searches a day with just Google.)
What are
people looking for? You can start using the
Searchit! Tool to find out if people are interested in what you are. And if
they are not it doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have a niche, it just may
take you longer to get it out there. But there is more help in deciding on a
niche in the SBI forums and action guide. The SBI package also comes with
something I mentioned before called “Brainstormer”. It provides more detailed
information and help in choosing a niche.
So you have
this great idea for sharing everything you know about growing tomatoes – how are
you going to make money on that?
Well one of
the first things is to find affiliate programs – that is programs that companies
offer that pay you to sell their products to your customers. You don’t have to
do a thing, but recommend the company or product and the company gives you a
check. One of the first companies to do this was of course amazon.com and they
are still doing it. You can sell gardening books, gardening tools, etc through
them or other gardening supply companies that have such programs. You can find
affiliate programs by using the
Searchit! Tool. There is a search selection under monetizing, then click
find affiliate programs and you will get a list of some programs. While this is
not a complete list, you may be able to find affiliate programs just by
contacting your favorite supply store.
You can also
create an E-book (an electronic book that can be downloaded directly to the
computer) that people can purchase for a fee. Or even sell products that you
create or design.
The other
way to make money is one of the best kept secrets on the web – it is called
Google Adsense. When I tell people this story they are always amazed…
Our friends
at Google have created a program called Adsense that allows website owners to
place Google ads on their website. All you have to do is sign up for a free
account and follow the steps to creating the code and copy and paste it into
your website. You can control the ads, the placement, the color – everything.
You can track the ads by where you place them and the color to see what ads are
doing the best. The ads that show up on your pages are targeted ads – that
means that they are related to the topic of the page – of your keywords. Your
visitors are highly likely to be interested in such products and services. If
and when they are and they click on the ads – here is the really cool part – You
get paid! Yes, that is correct. I couldn’t believe it myself. I had been
hearing about this for about a year but was skeptical as I never click on ads
online and I couldn’t believe that anyone else did either. Then I finally
decided to try it out. I put ads on my top 25 pages and hmmm….I made about $100
or so the first month. So my website
www.thebodyworker.com has about 500 pages. Well, I’ll let your imagination
take it from there. The interesting thing is that I host
www.thebodyworker.com with Ez Web Hosting and use Microsoft Front Page and I
use the format that I laid out for you here and learned from Sitebuildit! but
still former site www.massagetherapycareers.com
which was hosted at SBI! Got a higher click
through rate in the ads – meaning more people are clicking there. I can’t
really figure out why – it must be something with the software SBI uses. (I’ll
be testing this further.)
(I don’t
recommend putting Google Adsense on pages that are asking for people to contact
you for your services. To me it somehow cheapens the service and will take away
from getting your most wanted response – the phone call. )
So, to put
this all together:
Write about
what you love, attract others who love this too, give them more than they were
expecting and ask them to buy your Ebook or products and/or implement
Googles Adsense program! And go outside
and play!
