How to get started online.
I have a lot of friends that think it is really cool that I am able to make as much money as I do online. It’s really nice to not have to get a job during the Summer because of my internet stuff, and I always enjoy telling people how I do it or helping them out personally.
Let me set this straight to begin with, I don’t make that much money online. Well, I make enough to cover a part-time job, but compared to some of the other people on the internet I’m nothing. The possibilities are endless. The reason I don’t make as much money as some of those other people is because I don’t spend that much time on it. Doing well in this business takes time and hard work.
One thing that a lot of people don’t understand is that it isn’t easy to make money online. You always hear about all those people who seem to sit around on their computers and make millions of dollars. Well this usually just isn’t the case. If they are just sitting around making millions then chances are they have already worked their ass off to get there.
All it takes is an idea. Almost anything online is profitable, you just have to set your mind to it and keep working on it until you get there. This is hard for a lot of people because not everyone enjoys working online. If this is the case, I suggest you find something else to do. I don’t mean that in a bad way, I just think that making money online is something you really have to have a passion for. You have to have fun doing it. Most people who hate working online will never get anywhere. On top of that, the overall statistic is something like only 1 out of 10 people actually will be successful online.
Don’t let this discourage you though. I believe that if you are motivated enough and you enjoy it, you will definitely be successful online. For some people it takes longer than others, but I believe that if you have those traits, there is no way you can’t be successful.
On that note, just get started! All it takes is an idea… it doesn’t matter what it is. I urge people to choose something that they are very passionate about. Once you find something you love, in my case Mac and web development take that and work with it! Get a blog set up, make a forum, or sell a product. There are endless things you can do and all of them will make you money some time or another as long as you stick with it and never give up.
I have the problem of moving on from one thing to the next without finishing the first thing. It’s hard to stay away from, but try not to do that as much as you can. Just because you don’t see success right away, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t going to work. Sometimes some of the biggest success makers take the longest time before they start showing returns.
So there you have it, all you have to do is be passionate, work hard, and don’t forget to do your research! If you do those things, you are bound for success both on and offline.
I urge you to get out there and get started immediately!
-Nick
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February 18th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
um “only 9 out of 10 people actually will be successful online” is actually amazing odds and not discouraging at all. I think your statistic is wrong.
February 19th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
ohh haha I have that backwards… 9 out of 10 people will be unsuccessful online. It’s not an official statistic by any means either.. Thanks for the correction.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Hey Nick..
I got to your website here from your post on digital point forums.
Man it seems like you know what you’re doing. I’ve been working with websites for a while now and I’m trying to promote the blog I just started. I was curious to know if you put much faith in the forums on digital point that offer directory submissions. Do you think search engines will shy away from your site if it suddenly gets 1000 incoming links all from directories within a week?
And..there’s all those people offering to review your site on their PR4 blogs and that for 4 bux a pop. Do you think that’s worth it in the end?
Thanks
Gavin
February 20th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Cool! Thanks a lot, yea I do what I can
Nice, what’s the url to your blog?
Yea I normally don’t do much with directory submissions and stuff like that. I find it much better to get high quality relevant links. Of course you wont be able to get as many, but they sure do weigh in a lot more than just random directory back-links. I couldn’t say if the search engines would shy away or not, but I do believe high quality relevant links will get you a lot further in the long run.
Again, you need to make sure the sites posting or linking to your site are relevant to what your site is. I guess it might be worth a shot if you can find one that seems legit.
Overall, if your blog is new and you are just starting to promote it, I would stick to the basics. Just get some posts in and work on other things like swapping links, making forum posts, or making comments on other blogs before you start spending any serious cash.
I should really make a post on here about this, thanks for the idea!
If you have any more questions i’d be happy to answer them (or at least try).
-Nick
February 20th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Speaking of high quality links, the best traffic is organic traffic from the search engines. I wrote the first article in a series on SEO basics a few weeks back. I think you guys might benefit: http://blog.shofr.com/2007/development/seo-101-sitemaps/
February 20th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Thanks Nick,
Yeah.. I seem to have the itchy finger disease to go on to the next thing if I don’t get things going right away.
I’m just getting the design of the blog setup now.. so I still have to make some changes. It’s at http://www.fresh-web-solutions.com
It uses a wordpress design.
It’s a PR1 right now.. I don’t know how =) I’ve only made a couple forum posts ever for it and now it’s PR1. But I’m guessing the difference between a PR1 and PR3 is pretty big.
DO you figure you have to be a PR3 before you start getting some noticeable traffic? Like 100 hits a day?
February 21st, 2008 at 2:45 am
Tell me about it, I do the same thing all the time.
PR really doesn’t have much to do with how much traffic you are getting to your site. In a way it does, it’s actually more accurate if you say it the other way around. “You will most likely have a higher page rank if you are getting a lot of traffic to your site”.
From what i’ve read, Google doesn’t even put much, if any at all, importance on the actual page rank when deciding where to put your website in their search results. It’s the relevance to the keyword, and how “non-spammy” your site seems to the robot that makes your website appear higher on the search results.
Nice template by the way
February 21st, 2008 at 2:53 am
Thanks Nick! I felt really encourage by your words. They really lifted my spirits up. Thanks a lot. Great success on you blog and future endeavors
February 21st, 2008 at 3:01 am
Thank you for the kind words! I’m glad I could lift your spirits! Just keep plugging away, the money is always there, sometimes it just takes longer than others.
By the way, just checked out your blog and it look as though you have a new reader.
Best of luck to you as well,
Nick