| How to make money online has to be the "most | | | | article marketing. |
| asked" question in the Internet Marketing world. | | | | Four - You need to be able to get paid (collect |
| And there are a thousand answers. Here is a | | | | money) automatically and not have things go |
| description of one of the most common methods. | | | | haywire on you. You need to be able to rig a |
| A few days back I went for a motorcycle ride on | | | | simple download page, or how will you |
| beautiful roads and saw beautiful scenery. We ate | | | | automatically deliver the info you just got paid |
| at good restaurants and had great conversations. | | | | for? Exception: ClickBank does it all for you! |
| When I got back there was notification of sales in | | | | Five - You need to become conversant with the |
| my email! | | | | language of this business and some of the small |
| My business, a blog, had visitors while I was gone, | | | | technical things that scare off the uncommitted. |
| and they saw fit to buy something. | | | | Things like FTP and Hyperlinks and anchor text. |
| Some of them joined my list! | | | | When you get the physical infrastructure |
| PayPal took their money and sent them to my | | | | obstacles out of your way and actually WORKING |
| download page and they got what they bought | | | | for you THEN you can start marketing (selling) in |
| while I was having the time of my life out riding a | | | | earnest. |
| motorcycle around Oregon. | | | | First order of business...get your marketing |
| That's an example of what I call an automatic | | | | machine (infrastructure) in place and working. |
| website. I want sites that generate their own | | | | Doing this builds the base you need for operation. |
| traffic to offers that that "kind" of traffic is | | | | Remember the goal... to build a business that |
| interested in. Then I want the sales process to be | | | | operates automatically and then to GROW that! |
| completely automated. This isn't some pipe dream. | | | | Then you give it the content it needs to attract |
| These sites are all over the world! | | | | the type of people you need and just get down |
| Automatic websites that spin out income. Low | | | | to the basics of marketing. |
| overhead. Low maintenance. | | | | Stuff like writing sales copy. Stuff like coming up |
| Make money online...what a great idea! People are | | | | with products to sell to the type of traffic you |
| sure they want "it", but they are not sure what | | | | have coming. Writing email sequences. Learning |
| "it" is. So they roam around looking for something | | | | different methods of gaining traffic. Getting better |
| that makes sense. | | | | at all this all the time. Growing the business. Once |
| Wake up guys! Nothing makes sense until you've | | | | it's growing and looking good you could duplicate it |
| been at it a while. | | | | in another market. |
| Here is what I found were the basic obstacles | | | | Stay with one site until you have it all fleshed out |
| everybody faces when at first they consider the | | | | and producing some income and building a list. |
| alchemy of making money online. | | | | Once you are there |
| One - You have to know a little HTML. Easiest | | | | There is a little maintenance. You have to tweak |
| way to learn? Get an HTML editor. "NVU" is free. | | | | copy. You have to drive traffic. You need to pay |
| Two - You have to be able to get a Domain | | | | attention to your list and email marketing. |
| Name and Hosting so that you can put your | | | | After you have one site up and running you can |
| simple web pages or blog, up on the web for all | | | | decide whether or not to go to another. It'll be an |
| to see. (I prefer Wordpress blogs) | | | | easy decision. |
| Three - You have to learn how to drive targeted | | | | You'll know what "it" is and what you want, unlike |
| traffic to your web pages (sales pages) - including | | | | the first time. |