26 ways to make money online
This video is just a general introduction to online marketing covering the original ebook I wrote a while ago.
I edited a page that I had previously published on another site of mine and put all that text right here below.
I m still going to keep this video as an important introduction video for the very newbies inside this training system.
If you have some experience with online marketing you can skip this page – both the video and the text.
Everything you needed to know about making money online
FIND THE BEST METHODS
Come with me – Learn how to earn online
I have been doing this for so long that I have reached a point where I know I can help you – BUT, do you want to be helped?
Somewhere inside this website is the perfect business idea or money making method for you. One that actually suits YOU.
Find that online business option that fits your skills
After 10 years of full-time online marketing, building over 500 websites, and teaching people how to start an online business I have finally got to the point where I can actually help you in a blunt and honest way.
Why blunt and honest?
The truth is that I have found out that a lot of people want all this without the work that goes with it. All I am going to do here on this site is tell you about it all. You can do the rest 🙂 No hard sell, no pushing you at all.
Plus – you need to make BIG allowances for the conditions that come with you fibromyalgia
I used to say that everyone can make money online easily.
This entire section below, and including my bad view of the human race was written BEFORE I got fibromyalgia. And I stand by my poor view of able-bodied people that do not want to or seem to try to actually improve their lot.
NOW THAT I HAVE FIBROMYALGIA, I am very aware that almost all the people that I meet with the condition are so determined to improve their situations, that my silly rant here below on this page doesn’t actually count with those of you who are now reading this page.
But, I choose to leave it here so you can see how easily you can beat the opposition online BECAUSE those “able-bodied-types” are not trying at all, and those of us with a 30{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} MAX capability can still beat them with less energy.
Go For It
I was such an idiot – because I was looking at it from my education level, my financial levels, my life experience, my confidence level and a whole lot more.
After training a lot of people I have learned something very important. There are a trillion (did I say honest? Ok, so a lot) people who wish they had their own business, as many who would love to have a website, or some software, or anything that will allow them to stop their boring day job.
The sad reality is that there is a small percentage of people who will take the steps towards freeing their financial lives up and live an amazing life of happiness and more.
What? The small percentage that will succeed? Why so low?
(The good news is that YOU are in a percentage of people who are VERY determined to improve your situation, and because of your Fibro, are far more likely to succeed.)
Let me explain.
95{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of online businesses need you to either pay for a lot of pages to get written, or you have to write them yourself.
I believe that only 50{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of people can write in normal English.
Then only 30{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of those are the ones who would like to be financially free.
When you add the fact that only 10{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of people who SAY they will write content actually do, and keep on writing past at least 30 pages…
And you get a percentage of people who will even stand a chance of success at 1.6{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45}
For the sake of my story here, let us say 2{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45}. That is 2{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} that try – really try – to make money online.
How many of those are trying to do the wrong business online?
I am going to say 75{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45}. You see the saddest thing that I see – especially on Facebook, are those people who think they are helping other people by suggesting stupid business systems and ideas to those who come onto Facebook asking for advice and help.
People, I do it for a living, and yet I used to get into massive arguments with people trying to help others the right way. I finally gave up, and do not give a crap anymore. (Ah, and now because of my Fibro, I am putting my faith in you to keep on trying to make this work ) I really don’t. I have researched the success rates between “pyramid” schemes (Yes, I know, multi-level-marketing) and I know for a fact that it is harder than 95{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of the business ideas I would show you. Selling perfume from your lounge is never going to get you a decent living. Maybe if you did it right, but so many do it wrong.
To finish my long story here…
If 75{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of 1,6{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of people are blundering off into the mud, then only .4{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of people who try to – or want to try to start a business will succeed. I actually have become so cynical that I think it is far lower than that. I mean like 1{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of that number. Sad isn’t it? Not my attitude silly, the numbers. (actually – LOL – My attitude is pretty sad too – a few big life issues have changed how I think these days)
Would you like a ton of advice on how to be one of the successful ones?
Let me write a short list of what I am going to be doing for you right here on this website.
I am going to have detailed training courses that are my own and more.
- Everything that I write here is good advice either because I have done it myself or because a marketer I trust has done so themselves. I will always be honest with you on that.
- I will be adding a lot of help that will be there to help you understand how everything works, and then which money business idea suits you best.
- I will be reviewing courses by others that I believe have some benefit to some people. BUT this will be such a blunt and honest review, that I will warn off those for whom that course is not a right fit. Honesty works for me. (OK – so this was from the original page, but I have not deleted it here because i might still review the best courses for those of you who might need very advanced training)
- All my own personal original courses will be available right here.
- I do have some older courses of my own that I will also still add into this system, but I will warn you if they might be outdated.
This is an introduction to the detailed overview of the top 26 different ways that you can make a living online that I will be covering in the niche research section.
(please use the menu to go to the niche research section for a detailed look into all 26 main money-making methods)
They are each a separate business model in their own way, and by reading this page and then the pages that will be found in the niche research section from beginning to end you will gain a lot of inside knowledge on what options are available to you as an entrepreneur online.
Most people who are starting to look into making money online waste the first few months (years?) flitting from shiny new idea to shiny new idea before they gain enough experience to be able to make an informed decision on which way their talents and skills should have been used in their business model from day one. (plus, with fibro, you need to be extra careful that you get your niche research right from the beginning)
If I help you to understand the main styles/niches/categories that you could use as a business opportunity – it will save you weeks and months of going about the normal learning curve that we all have done in the past.
Doing a business that is also your passion is almost a guaranteed path to success.
Do it! And do not stop until you are smiling all day
Disclaimer
While I do have 11 years plus of full-time internet marketing experience and I used to train a lot of entrepreneurs – you must not just presume that everything that I have written here will work for you.
I offer no promises at all – sorry.
I purchase dozens of courses just to see who has what new technique to offer, I test as many of those on my own websites or on my client’s websites – with their permission.
But none of that proves anything.
BUT, I live the life, I read and research and test all the time, I belong to forums and mentoring and mastermind groups – it is my passion.
I have worked from home with a 100{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} full-time income from internet marketing for the last 11 years, I spend time with my family as and when they need me, I choose the pace at which I wish to work sometimes doing 18 hour days and other times not doing any work at all for a few days at a time. (Edit here – all that is still true, but now the Fibro plays a big part in how I live those free hours)
Never in my life have I found such a rewarding way to live than what I am able to do with my computer.
There are thousands of different ways to apply your skills.
Personally, I have quite a few income streams, some earning enough to be considered a full-time income.
I write this here for you and promise you that beginner and experienced marketer alike will get some useful information from this site
I also do not claim to be any good at spelling and grammar – ignore the mistakes please – and rather gain extreme cutting-edge marketing knowledge from me here in this report.
Disclaimer number two
I refuse to try to cut the length and detail down to headline type bullet points and short explanations. I am a person who loves to add examples and explain some things in detail – or worse, over and over again. If that is likely to piss you off, you will need to have to stop reading now.
I do things my way and love it – you will just have to come along with me for the ride.
I do promise you that I am damned good at this malarkey – Eleven years of being so passionate about something will definitely make anyone very good at doing it.
Let us get started
Your education and help start here… (Edit here – it actually starts on the niche training page)
Overall Online money making – a viewpoint
The secret to making money online or starting any business for that matter is having a bird’s eye view of how the whole system works.
That way you can choose the best fit for you personally – and immediately know what to target so that your income grows at a happy rate.
I have spent hundreds of hours explaining this to people like the basics for everything they need to understand before they do anything EVER online.
Number one – Online is just as complex as offline
An amazing amount of people think that the internet is simple, you either have a business website, a blog, a shopping website or a social website and then one of those becomes your business model. They do get that there are details below the surface like building websites, apps, coding or doing SEO services – but a lot of the time see the opportunities as only a choice of a few ways to make money.
Oh, not forgetting the multi-level marketing options. I have tried those a long time ago in my past and will NEVER do so again. But if you like that sort of thing – be my guest.
If you said to me “Rob Please find me a job” naturally referring to a normal offline job, I would have to ask you a dozen questions.
There are thousands of different types of “jobs” in the world.
Each will need a different level of skills etc.
Online is exactly the same.
There are thousands of different ways you can make money online and just like offline your experiences, knowledge and skills will determine if you are capable of doing any of those income-generating opportunities that this online wonder called the internet will work for you or not.
Number Two – There is some very good news
The brilliance of making money online is that a very large portion of the opportunities are in fact easy to do, easy to understand and as long as you actually work – you will succeed.
You will need to learn some basic stuff and more, but as long as you are capable of reading and writing in your chosen language, you will succeed if you actually make the effort.
The Bird’s eye view
Before I go into detail on all the different types of choices you have available to you in your chosen method of making money online I will list a few of the biggest methods that are probably earning the bulk of the money for people all over the world online these days.
The idea is for me to explain it in enough detail for you to realise that you either love that method or are glad you found out you hate it before you wasted time trying out a website business within that niche.
So, while I have already told you that there are thousands of ways to make money online there are about 10 big and popular ways to make money. From those 10 are another 20 offshoot ways to make money. Then within those offshoots, there will be other offshoots that could still earn you a very decent living.
I will list them here and add some points as to what skills you will need to become part of that method of earning an income.
Before I start – I need to tell you this point and make it very clear!
When I say you do not need to spend any money on an idea or online business model, I am probably not including the fact that for 99{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of the opportunities you will need a domain ($15 ish annually) and Hosting ($12 ish per month).
Plus you will learn very quickly that some things are just tedious and if you have the budget, it will pay to get someone else to do that task. For example, if you came to me and asked me to set up a complete business for you, I can do so very easily. I will simply outsource all the necessary tasks and in 6 months hand of a business to you that is already making money and growing by the day. But it would need to be a big budget – sorry.
You could do a massive amount of different income generation methods without a website at all but it just makes sense to have a “home base” website anyway. You decide.
Then there is the building of your website, your keyword research, your niche research and a few things like banners and headers that you could learn how to do yourself or pay a person to do that for you upfront. If you choose that way, you will pay a fee in the beginning – but then your website will be built and earning you money a lot faster than if you spent three months fiddling with the build and layout of your new website.
Again, your choice – as it is dictated by the amount of money you have available to start online.
It is obviously better to have it built for you, but if you do not have the money then go and learn how to do it yourself. I must add here that you MUST get past this step very fast (days) so that you can then go on to the actual money making work as fast as possible.
In each of these main money making categories, I will add these questions below and give you short answers for each one.
Do you need a website?
Do you need any skills at all?
Do you need complicated skills?
Do you need to spend money?
Do you need to have detailed knowledge of that subject?
How much income potential does this niche/method have?
How fast would I likely start to earn money?
Would I need one or many websites?
They are in no particular order
I have another interruption here and it is vitally important.
While I have listed 26 different main birds’ eye view categories here below you need to know that a lot of them could easily be combined into one big business.
For example, you could choose to start a business on one of your passions.
Random example = dating.
This would potentially fall under a few of the categories I have listed below. It would be a blog, it will become an authority site, you could add your own products, reports or software as the site grows. You could easily add a forum, social media site, and apps etc as the site gets busy. Then you will need a membership section and could even have affiliate programs of your own selling your software and courses. Email marketing would have become a vital part of your business.
Do you see?
While I try to explain each section to you in general, in reality, a lot of them will need to be combined as part of your business model.
Naturally, if you are a newbie then you will start small and grow each additional section as and when you need it and have learned how to incorporate it into your online business.
So the bird’s eye categories are just to give you a better understanding of how and why each section functions, and what you would need to know or do to add that as a business or income stream.
The whole point is to give you the opportunity to choose the correct section/field/niche BEFORE you start.
A bit like knowing you want to be a degree professional or a storekeeper or a service provider or a factory worker in an offline job before you get to start that job or business.
Bored already? I hope not.
Not taking the time to do your research will only hurt those who are not serious about making money, so I thought to interrupt here to remind you that owning and running a business takes time and effort.
BUT I WILL TELL YOU HOW TO MAKE MONEY HERE IN ONE SIMPLE SENTENCE
Build a very big authority website (meaning many many many pages and posts) when it is so big you will have thousands of visitors and then you can sell them something
(OK, Rob, Is this true? – yes, but if you stop reading this report, and do not know which type of big authority website to build and how to build it – then you will make a tenth of what you could have made if you followed my research advice)
MASSIVE REVISION HERE (This headline was written two years ago, and now at the end of 2018 I am updating it all yet again.)
This text was first written 5 years ago. I do revise it occasionally and am doing a current revision to update any major changes to what I say here.
This is what has changed over the last five years and what will likely be changes going forward.
- Google is constantly tightening up their search algorithms and you will always need to do decent keyword research, decent content creation and decent white-hat link building and marketing.
- Mobile is becoming bigger and bigger. This means that “Local Search” type businesses are flourishing online. IE if you are a gift shop or a Gym, or a landscaper – it is now easier and easier to rank for your keywords and get buyer traffic to your websites. Currently, there is a “near me” thing going on that makes this a great business idea.
- I should have stressed more the fact that 99{0e56fee8af7502e4a42b012a21282bc2b9fe73f5ab246fcaddba9c77d75f1d45} of online businesses that you start no matter what your niche or product or service are – you will need a decent website. One that looks good, is mobile compatible, is HTTPS, has decent plugins, has meta tags that are done correctly and a whole lot more. Do not panic in this aspect. If you take my advice and are in constant contact with me via my posts on this website you will get all this information sooner or later.
- Social media has grown and seems to keep on growing. Sites like Pinterest are now capable of driving buyer traffic to your website with ease if you do your marketing the right way. This is true for all the big social media sites – Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Facebook and naturally YouTube and good old organic search. Remember that no matter what you do from a social media point of view, you should ALWAYS have a decent organic search keyword related content plan going on. It is easily the strongest source of traffic for your business.
- Competition is becoming bigger and bigger, so niche’ing down has become the best way to ensure that your target market is targetable.
- “Blogging” seems to be making a comeback. People, please remember that blogging these days is still just a website. Preferably WordPress. Use the links below to go to my websites to see the current information relating to this topic. This blogging thing is what I refer to as an “Authority” site in this report.
- E-commerce has become MASSIVE. There are 16-year-old kids making $ 100 000 a month. This is Shopify, Drop Shipping, FBA and more. If this is your chosen niche, then please join my Facebook groups and ask for advice there. My Things-to make-and-sell sites will cover this in detail.
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