I cannot say that I am making enough money to survive right now. But just like my other businesses, this business requires my dedication to commit myself into growing this online business. The process of any business (including this online business) requires a deep learning curve before we can reach to a stable stage. I remember when I first started this blog, this blog is already making me learn so much things that I almost got myself into trouble with overloaded information. In fact, I am dangling there with overwhelming information and yet I am making myself feel stable in order to conquer this battle.
The First Step
In the beginning, it is really exciting to start a new business. It gives me a rush to get things up really fast. I started to flood this blog with lots of posts from what I have learnt, and post lots of videos which I think is relevant to the blog. Never did I realize that this blog is evolving into an article site where I voice out my reviews and opinions about various happenings. I started it off as a site to blog as I learn along. But I realize there are so many other Make-Money-Online websites out there teaching people how to make money online. I didn’t actually treat this blog as my official business site in the beginning… But because of the overwhelming similar information, I want to stand out from the rest in a certain niche. I couldn’t get a certain niche after all… I decided to put myself as a niche and as a personal branding since this site is under my own name.
Business can make us go round and round the bush until we got it. However, there are many people giving up due to financial reasons or they are not really interested in maintaining that business after all. Life is all about doing something that we like, aren’t we?
After working for a while, I believe the initial stage of starting up an online business is this in step by step:
- Go and learn something about html. You have to learn how to link from one page to another at least, how to embed codings in that particular area of codings, and how the web pages function for the world to see. You need not have to learn in details of building a site from scratch after all…
- Do some keyword research to find out the demand for that particular niche in the information industry.
- Decide the kind of internet model you would want to adopt. (blog, info site, shopping cart, catalog site, etc)
- Construct a site either by software installation, hiring a programmer, or doing it yourself.
- Generate as many keywords as you can from your research, and start building your site surrounding those words.
- Monetize it with Google Adsense.
- Grow your site with time maturity.
- That site will increase in traffic and revenue as time passed.
Internet Business Is Fun
Making money online isn’t as hard as we have thought. But it’s because we have been brainwashed by the traditional brick-and-mortar businesses of how a business should work, and that’s how we are limited by our thoughts. Internet business is all about doing something that you like, while you are making money! The more fun you had, the more money you made!
Why Google Adsense Worked?
Because Google is consistently making money out of it. It is as simple as that. Just simply do a research of how Google is making their money, and you will understand why the number of websites are increasing with Google Adsense powered. Most of Google’s income is from Google Ads… And if Google is so big, you would understand why Google Adsense worked…
Creating Your Own Products For Sale
Many people got rich because of their own info products. They may have found a niche and wrote something about it. Yes, product creation is very important to contribute to your success… But there is something even more important here which is marketing! A good product wouldn’t be enjoyed by many if the targeted prospects did not know about you and your product!
Affiliates
That’s where you have to “hire” an army of affiliates to help you to refer your products. While you are rewarding your affiliates, you must take into consideration of their initial stage where they might have difficulties in:
- Their first dollar invested to bring in the buyers for you… At the initial stage, you have to take into consideration of how much money they are willing to put in to bring in their first profit. Hence, it is always good to give enough commission or else it is not worthwhile to refer your products… And of course, when their referral business is automated, they will get even more rewards from you because of a proven technique of a better traffic conversion.
- They might have difficulty trying to tell their database from their websites and emails about you. You might need to prepare enough sales materials for your affiliates to show their subscribers about you, or else they might not be able to do a better job because they either have to really understand your product fully, or they will just tell lies to their subscribers to get their commissions.
Search Marketing
Search marketing is as important in bringing success for your business… While in the short term, you might want to pay for advertising on Google because of your bad page ranking, you can enjoy a good long term rewards when your site is attracting consistent traffic from Google search engines.
Creating Your Own Information Site
Information site is basically giving free education to the public. They can make their money either through product referrals or pay-per-click advertisements.
Product Referrals
You might do a product review on your site, or even a comparison review of different products to educate the public about it. And when they click to check out for more information, you make the money. This is usually good and ethical if they know that this click is sponsored so that they will put their trust in you for more product reviews.
Advertisements
I realize advertising on your website is also a lucrative market. That’s because Internet is a click marketing where we click to buy, click to sell, click to interact from websites to websites. And those sponsors might want attract more clicks to their sites by paying for them. This kind of click is very lucrative especially if you do it right.
- Taking note of advertisement blindspot positions. Sometimes, your users might not “see” your ads while reading your articles. You might have to put your advertisements as near to your article as possible so that they might be interested look at it. This is not about luring your readers into clicking, but it is actually a way of solving that blindspot problem…
- Advertisement colour blindness. While it is always good to match your advertisement colours to your site to let your readers notice about your advertisements, sometimes it might be better to have a different color to stand out in your site. You have to do trial and error in your site to understand which color is best performing in clicks.
You might want to take a look at adsense tips from sabahan blog here.
Conclusion
It is always a good idea to start something online either full time or part time. Either way, we must always do something that we like about. That’s something good about making money online because this is a information business! When we are marketing something online, it is consistently there 24 hours a day! And we can still get ourselves busy with our other stuff while the money is still rolling… What are you waiting for?
