Do you remember when you were young and passion came so easily? You could get excited about a girl, a car, a song or your favorite pair of pants. Life has a way of sucking the passion out of you, to a point where it is difficult to get excited about anything. I think my passion got shoved in a box when I started worrying about getting the kids to school and saving for their college fund. Life became consumed with the practical, the mundane, the routine and the necessary.
I have discovered that being successful on the internet requires unpacking my passion and enjoying life again. On the surface this sounds great, but most of us grown ups find this very challenging. I guess, we have gotten so used to living with reserve, cutting loose is awkward.
Do you remember that first job, when you discovered that passion and creativity were looked down upon? The job required that you keep your head down and go with the flow. Do as you are told for goodness sake and don't make suggestions. I discovered that being successful in the corporate world required keeping my mouth shut and my passion hidden. I was a great team player!
Find a Product or Service that You Love
The key to internet success is finding a product or service that you love and can get excited about everyday. Are you into cars, guns, gardening, comic books, politics, classic music, antiques, collectables, dolls, art, photography...? What do you like spending your spare time doing? What are you really good at? When you have free time how do you spend it? Find what you are passionate about and everything after that will come easy. Well maybe not easy.
Discover How to Make Money Doing What You Love
Now you ask "How do I make money off my obsession with cabbage patch dolls"? First, you have to admit you have a problem! Just kidding. If you love dolls you can create a doll website, or a doll club, or you could market a company's doll products, You could buy dolls for cheap online and then market them for their retail value.
Once you discover what you love, you will need to find a way to make money with it. That's the next challenging step. You need to develop an understanding of how the internet works and how people make money with their products. This is as easy as putting "making money with dolls" into your search engine. Thousands of results will pop up and you will have to wade through them. Then it is Research Research Research. Don't skip this step. The better you understand the industry the more easily you can make some educated decisions about your direction.
Find an Engine that can Teach You the Ropes
You will have to develop a basic understanding of marketing and web design. This is why internet entrepreneurs get discouraged and give up. The weight of these details hinders the inspired from continuing.
Lucky for you there are thousands of programs out there interested in helping. They sell some kind of program to get your feet off the ground. Again these require Research Research Research. Keep researching and you will find an engine that will turn your doll obsession into gold.
Three Suggestions when Choosing Your Engine
1- Only use a program that is 100% money back guaranteed for 60 days or more. Many products are guaranteed for 30 days. This isn't enough time to get the box open and give it a try. If the product doesn't work then SEND IT BACK. It doesn't matter if it is your fault or the products fault. If it doesn't work for you SEND IT BACK. Take your money and buy another doll. Don't waist your money on something that didn't work for you.
2- Only use a program that has a customer support line, an actual phone line with an actual person. If you have to jump through hoops, speak to a computer and talk to a different person every time you call then don't do it. Develop a relationship with one or two of the customer service representatives and always speak to the same person. If you buy the program and you discover that the customer service sucks then SEND IT BACK! Try a different program or buy another doll.
3-Only use a program that is very detailed and gives you lots of information and credible proof that it works. If it has been effective for other people then their should be lots of signs that point to this success. You should have a very clear idea about how the program works and how you will be making money with it. If you open up the program and are disappointed then SEND IT BACK!
If you find your passion you can make all the money you want online!
Make Lots Of Money Online
The first thing you need to do is find a niche. The Google Adwords Keyword Tool has served me well in this. I start by brainstorming words and typing them into the keyword tool.
There are 3 very important factors I look for in keywords:
1. What is the average cost per click on the keywords you are looking to target? The higher the cpc, the better the keyword you have found. The same amount of effort goes into building all websites. You should put your effort into one that will pay you top dollar. Brand names of products often have a much higher cpc. In my experience, two dollars per click is a good bottom dollar amount.
2. How many times is the word typed in per month? I set my minimums at about 10,000 times per month. If you are going to put all the effort into designing a website, it should be one that will generate a great deal of traffic.
3. What is the competition level of your keywords? The fewer results when you type your keywords into Google, the better. I have one website that had less than 50,000 search results for the keywords I targeted. With only two backlinks, it was in the top ten rankings of Google when it first got listed. The higher the competition level, the more difficulty you will have to word to get top 10 rankings in search engines. It is possible to get high rankings with any level of competition, but it can be very frustrating trying to achieve them. It is much easier to accomplish one hundred websites that make only a dollar or two per day than one website that makes one or two hundred dollars per day. The sites that make only a dollar or two per day also require much less maintenance to maintain the high rankings, as nobody else is working is competing for the rankings.
After you have brainstormed some keywords, look and see if the .com or .net of the exact phrase you found is available. Other extensions of domains can also move up in the rankings, but I have been most successful with .com's and .net's..com's are always the most coveted and preferred domains. If the domain for your phrase is not available, keep looking until you discover a good one that is not taken. In my experience, one or two good domain names per hour has been my success rate for brainstorming. Not every domain that looks good is a winner, but they usually at least pay for themselves.
The reason the exact phrase should be used in your domain name is because the search engines usually give preference to exact phrase domains in their rankings. I have successfully moved to the number one spot in search engine rankings with sites that were not the exact search phrase, and that had the exact search phrase, along with another word or two, but it took much more time than my domains that had only the exact search phrase.
If you can manage to build just one website per day that makes one dollar per day, in time, less than a year's work will earn you more than one hundred thousand dollars per year for the rest of your life. It often takes me just a couple of hours to find a domain name and build a website. Then the work lies in building backlinks and moving up is search engine rankings. Get started today and work towards financial freedom through adsense.
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