2017-07-18

The Real Way to Make Money on the Internet

Here's my advice (it's free, and it's definitely going to be worth every penny you paid for it.)


Let's break it down. There are three things you need in order to make money on the Internet:


1) A website.


2) Traffic.


3) A product to sell.


Do you have all three of those? If not, start here…


First, commit to a single path. Stop trying to set up 23 different websites in 23 different niches. Yes, I know Guru XYZ did that and is now making [FLASHING RED TEXT]10 Billion Dollars A Day. But even Guru XYZ probably started out with one website in one niche. You will never get anything done if you have your hands in too many pies. So stop working on all your websites except one. Pick one, and make that profitable. (That goes for all those worthless domain names you're holding on to, as well. Let a good amount of them go, and stop registering new ones.)


Then, pick ONE source of traffic and learn it inside and out until you're consistently profitable with it. Put up a squeeze page on your site, then learn SEO, PPC, Facebook ads, Plenty of Fish, guest posting. Twitter, heck, even direct mail. Pick ONE of the above. Then learn it. (As a bonus, if you purchased a course on one of those, now's the time to actually put it into use.)


Again: Learn only ONE traffic method right now! I mean it. Entire empires have been built from a single source of traffic. Until you've got one source of traffic profitable, you're wasting your time learning other sources of traffic.


Next, learn Google Analytics. Got traffic coming to your website? How is it converting? if you don't know the answer to that, it's time to learn Google Analytics and its Goals feature to find out your conversion rate. This will take you a day or two to set up. Invest the time and learn it inside and out. Analytics is powerful, but you need to know how to use it. Don't even think about outsourcing this. You YOU! need to learn something in order to make money online. This is as good a place as any to start.


Tweak your offer. What should you offer to people who land on your landing page? A free report is a good place to start. Don't be lazy and outsource this. If you're not a strong writer, record something and have it transcribed, or have someone interview you. You can also use a program like Camtasia to talk over a slide show presentation. Take action and get something out there now.


Tweak your landing page. Is your landing page converting at 10% or less meaning, are fewer than 10% of your visitors actually typing in their name and email address to get more information from you? You can do better. Aim for 40-50%. Now's the time to learn split testing. Tweak your headline, your opt-in box placement, and especially your offer. What works better? What doesn't? Give it a shot.


Now, keep writing good content and offering it to the people on your mailing list. In my case, I write a blog post every week. It's well worth it for me to carve a few hours out of my week to write a post that will attract new readers. You may want to consider doing the same. Again, if you're not a writer, record audio or video. Be consistent about it. This will help your readers warm up to you and feel like they know, like, and trust you.


Then, make an offer to your list. This is the exciting part! If you're just getting started, you should probably wait a few weeks (and send out some good content to your list) before you make an offer. Pick a product you know your list would enjoy and that you can personally endorse. Then write a sales letter for it and send it out to your list!


If you make even a single sale from this, celebrate! You've earned your first dollar online.