Do People Really Make Money Online? You Can Find Out HERE!

Posted by youryogi on July 21st, 2009

I can understand your frustration, simply because building a business online is more difficult than building a business in the Brick and Mortar world. (I know, because I have tried both!)

First things first, you need to avoid any advertisement, sales page or inducement that tells you how you can make lots of money overnight or in a few weeks or even 60 days. These ads are no more realistic than the lose ten pounds overnight nonsense.

The unscrupulous marketers use your desperation against you to get you involved in their scheme. (I personally challenge any of these so-called marketers to prove they can make thousands in 48 hours from scratch!)

The problem to making money online is two-fold:

1. Expecting to make instant money (Instant gratification) with little or no effort. You are NOT going to make money quickly! It takes time, sometimes a few weeks and sometimes a few months and a lot of work.

2. Wasting huge amounts of efforts on things that do not work.

Most likely, the area you are working in is not yet giving you a return because you are spending too much time on things that are not working.

Without knowing the program you are following, the advice you have been given and the process by which you are using to earn money online, it is difficult to critique what it is you are doing that is not producing an income.

However, I can give you some general techniques that may work for you:
There are two basic rules to making money (this applies in the real world as well as the online world):

Rule #1 STOP SELLING and START GIVING!
Rule #2 If you are not making any money online, refer to rule #1

Have you ever been in a store and there was a lady handing out free food samples? You tried it, you maybe didn’t buy the product, however, it gave you a good feeling and you appreciate the store more because they did something nice. This applies in the online world as well.

Make a webpage where you will giveaway something, sort of like a free sample, in exchange for the visitors email address. (You can use a simple html formmail or if you do not have access to that through your domain server, you can use the free PHPlist program.)

Here is a good example: FREE Miliion Dollar Advertising Report
Whatever you do, make sure your freebie is valuable enough to get your customer to come back. Many marketers make the mistake of giving away some PLR report or software that is essentially useless to the recipient. Make sure it is useful, and if it is software, make sure it works. (Would you be happy if the free food sample at the store tasted like spoiled milk?)

Once you have their email address, send the freebie, and NOW, you are beginning to build a list. Start to promote that Free Report page everywhere! In forums, twitter, blogs, article directories, web directories.

The trick is to build a targeted list of people who are ALREADY interested in your product/brand/website, because THEY requested your informational freebie. Now use that list and email a newsletter, or short message promoting a different aspect of your business. Send out a new angle each week or 10 days.

I realize I may have oversimplified this process, yet it is an effective course of action, and the basic meat and potatoes is right here!

If you need more info or would like to learn more visit my resource box below.

Hope this helps!

John Benjamin is the webmaster of Internet Business Ideas. John’s most popular home business recommendation is the FREE Home Business Ideas where you can get your own share of internet business feebies. You can also download a FREE copy of the science of making money online HERE.

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