Working From Home is Not as Easy and You May Think

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At the time of this writing I have never worked at a real job for a real boss. I can’t say that I know what it is like to be nagged by your boss for 12 hours each workday. I never had a job.

I started making some money when I was 16 helping people out with different projects like painting a room, fixing problems with my friends computers, etc. I stopped doing all that when my family moved. A friend introduced me to content writing and I started working for a website known as The Content Authority. I was not making a lot of money from that website but I was making a lot more than what I was used to earning and I was happy.

After awhile I realized that I wanted to cut the middleman out of the equation and find clients on my own and I did. I was making a decent amount of money and I was having a good time. I managed to save up a significant amount of cash and took some took some trips to different countries. I was having a good time,

Then suddenly my clients all stopped ordering articles from me. I started placing ads for my writing service on different blogs and forums but I only got a few clients who need articles on a semi-regular basis. Thankfully I am still living with my parents so I have my basic needs met. I spent almost 12 hours everyday searching Google for leads for some work. I didn’t get anywhere. I broke up with my girlfriend during that time as well and things just didn’t look to great for me anymore. It was a low point in my life.

Of course, after awhile, I managed to find a couple more clients and I was able to make a bit of money to at least get out of the house every now and then.

So this brings me to the point of this article. Working at home is not as easy as people make it look. You will have to force yourself to find your own work and force yourself to work for certain hours each day. You can get distracted easily while working at home as well with social media and Youtube.

I am thinking at this point I need a offline job because I need to know what it feels like to work everyday under the threat of being fired. Of course, you can learn to schedule your work hours accordingly but it can be quite difficult to focus on work if you never had a real job in your life. Working at home is not a breeze – it is actually quite difficult.

Everything depends on you when it comes to working from home. It is up to you to find your work. It is up to you to work. It is up to you to keep your customers happy. Everything is up to you. When you work a offline job you do what you are told for a certain period of time and then you go home – you get into the habit of working everyday.

Working at home will work for you if you make a habit of working everyday instead of slacking off and taking your time. You need to force yourself to work as if you were working at a real job.

Working at home is not for everyone. Keep that in mind before you quit your day job. You can make it work – but everything depends on you. (no pressure).

Good Luck!

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What I Learned About Finding Your Niche

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Your success as a internet marketer depends entirely on the niche you target. Sure, there are thousands of different ways to make money online but if there are only a handful of ways to make passive money online.

The most common strategy to make passive money online is to create a product, build a squeeze page, build a list, and market products to your list. Of course, in order to create a product you will need to find a niche to target.

So how do you find a niche?

First, think about what topics you are personally interested in. It will be much easier for you to create a product if you are interested in the topic you are targeting. Make a list of the topics that interest you and write them down somewhere.

For example, here are some topics I am personally interested in: fitness, video games, internet marketing, photography, and web design. Of course, it will be very difficult for you to create a product that is based on such a broad niche. Sure, you can make the product, but it will be very difficult to market it and make some sales. The trick is to target a sub niche of a large niche. For example, instead of targeting “fitness” target “weight loss for kids” or “weight lose for moms”, etc. The possibilities are endless. Just make sure you are interested in the sub niche and you want to learn more about it – you will need to become a expert on your niche if you want to create a high quality product that will sell.

Another thing that you need to take into consideration when it comes to picking a niche is the demand for products in that niche. If there is no demand for products in the niche you are interested in your product will rot away and you will hardly make any sales.

So once you find a sub niche of a niche that interests you the next step is to determine whether or not the sub niche is in demand or not. Join forums based on the niche and search through each thread carefully and learn as much as you can. Check the sub niche with Google Adword’s Keyword Research tool to determine how many times the phrase is searched for on Google. Conduct as much research on the niche as you can before you start working on a product.

The most profitable products are products that solve a problem people in the niche’s community are experiencing. The easiest way to find out what problems a community of people is facing is to join a forum and browse through the threads or even create new threads to find out information about your niche. Niche research is extremely important – don’t take it lightly. Never rush into creating a product without THOROUGHLY researching the niche you are targeting.

You will probably get excited and rush into creating a product so that you can start trying to sell it as soon as possible – it’s natural. But you need to relax and take your time especially if you want to create a product that will knock people’s socks off. Never let your emotions take control of you when it comes to internet marketing. If you are planning on launching a new product I hope this article will help you find a niche and make some money. Don’t forget to like my Facebook page on the right sidebar if you want to read future articles. Good luck with your business!

Starting My Internet Marketing Career Part 2

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Part 1. 

I didn’t reach my goal of 100$. In fact, I didn’t even start working on my plan. I bought a domain without doing much research and now I don’t think it will be successful so I am going to scrap it.

I made a grand total of 0$ from internet marketing.

I am not discouraged because I know I hardly even tried. When I wrote part 1 of this post I was motivated to work and I had a basic idea of what I needed to do. But, I slacked off. I got distracted. I lost my motivation. I didn’t even try.

So what have I been doing for the past month?

Not much really. I finished my high school. I write a couple articles for different clients every now and then. But in general, I am not doing so well.

But I have been browsing through the Warrior Forum and contributing where I can and soaking up information like a sponge. I am almost ready to start another website or at least post a AD in the warriors for hire section to advertise my writing service and make some extra cash. I learned a lot about internet marketing in the past month. I never applied what I learned but I will soon.

I just need to find a way to motivate myself. I’m a very lazy person. It is difficult for me to focus on my work – I get distracted easily.

I will do my best to motivate myself to work more and start my online business. Right now I am doing research for a product to market. I will keep you updated on each step I take towards my goal. My success. And my failures.

Don’t forget to LIKE my Facebook page to stay updated on my progress. 

Wish me luck.

The Importance of Learning How to SEO Your Website

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A short post on the basics of SEO.

If you have a website online and it is not receiving any traffic perhaps you need to work on optimizing the website for search engines. SEO stands for “search engine optimization” without SEO your website will remain hidden from search engines and it will be difficult for people to find your website. So if you want to increase the amount of visitors to your website and thus increase your sales you will need to learn how to optimize your website for search engines.

The search engine that brings in the most traffic to websites is Google followed closely by Yahoo and Bing. Google’s algorithm for ranking websites is kept secret but there are several factors of Google’s algorithm that are known to the public. For example, the amount of content that is on a particular website has a strong effect on your website’s positioning in search engine results. The content should be based on a keyword that is related to your website. All the content on your website should be based on one particular keyword if you want to rank well in search engines. The content should be written for human readers – not for search engine robots.

Another way to SEO your website is to build strong back links. You should only collect backlinks from websites that rank well in search engine results. You can build backlinks by submitting articles to article directories and including a link back to your website or by guest blogging on different popular blogs.

You need to realize that Google will rank websites according to the value of the content and the hype around that particular website. If a lot of other websites are “talking” about your website Google will determine that your website must be valuable and your ranking will increase. Once people start “talking” about your website you will rank well in search engines. Alternatively, you can hire a SEO company to rank your website for you.

Building Your List. Part 2

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For new readers: Building Your List Part 1

In the previous post of this series I went over how to conduct research in order to find a product that will be in high demand and can be given away for free. In other words, a product that you can get for free, repackage, and give away for free to people who sign up for your mailing list.

Now you are going to learn how to set up a simple squeeze page either by purchasing a domain name or by using a free domain name such as blogspot.com.

This process can be split a part into several individual steps.

  1. Find a domain name which matches the name of your product
  2. Set up a hosting account.
  3. Write the sales page (give people a reason to download the product)
  4. Design the layout
  5. Install AWeber email subscription form
  6. Set up a auto-responder with AWeber.

So first you want to find a domain name that is easy to remember. If you have purchased a PLR product and if you have permission to change the name in the license you can go ahead and do so. Pick a short name for your product – ideally 2-3 words long – and try to find a domain name that matches. You can use name.com to find a domain name and Hostgator for your hosting. Hostgator is relatively cheap; about 10$ every month and you can host an unlimited amount of domains.

If you buy the domain name from Name.com all you got to do is log in to your name.com account and change the name servers to host gators name servers (remove the default name servers) host gator’s name servers are:

ns2237.hostgator.com
ns2238.hostgator.com

Use them both.

Once you have changed the name servers you will be able to access your host gator control panel by going to www.yoursite.com/cpanel from there you will be able to see the list of different options that host gator has provided you with. If you wish to install WordPress you can use Fantastico Deluxe to quickly install WordPress. You can also upload one .html file to the site.

If you want to use html you will need to learn how to make the squeeze page out of html code. For newbies this E-Book will explain everything.
You should be able to figure out how to set up the rest of your website. The next step is to write the sales page and design the squeeze page. You do not need to write a very long sales page since you are only giving away a free product – you just need to give people a good reason to download the product. Tell them why they need the product and then include your Aweber code at the end of the sales page.

The sales page should be relatively short – for best results visitors shouldn’t have to scroll down to see the sign in form. The layout of the squeeze page should represent your particular niche. For example, if your product is about dogs – put some pictures of dogs on your squeeze page. You should also remember to include the cover of your product on the main page of your squeeze page as well. It is not necessary but it looks more professional and creates better results.

Next, sign up for AWeber (1$ for the first month, 20$ each month after that) and create your email list sign up form and a autoresponder.

If your product is an Ebook you can host it on your Host Gator account and provide the link in the autoresponder. In other words, when someone enters their email and name into the Aweber email subscription form, Aweber will send the link to the pdf file directly to their email address.

So once you manage to get all that working the next step is to drive traffic to your squeeze page and make some conversions. We will go over that in the next post in this series. Check back for more details! And don’t forget to like my facebook page.

For additional information on how to build a squeeze page check out the following links. http://www.slideshare.net/JoshuaElliot/learn-how-to-build-a-simple-squeeze-pagehttp://www.flexibilitytheme.com/build-a-squeeze-page-in-wordpress-with-flexsqueeze/http://www.michaelrasmussen.com/newsletters/ims7.pdf