Want to Make Money Online? Just Do It!

May 9th, 2009 | Posted in Affiliate Income, Affiliate Marketing, Make Money, Online Income

TV, newspapers, and your corner busy body all speak about mid-life crisis, especially when you see a 60 year old driving a convertible. Mid-life crisis are brought on when we realize that we have not obtained our dreams and reach the midway point in life. Why do people not live their dreams? Why do they not follow Nike’s advice and “Just Do It”?

Part of the answer can be found at Erica.biz. Erica Douglass built a successful business in her early twenties and sold it for $1.1 million. Erica Douglass then “retired” and started working on making money using the internet. Erica Douglass recently wrote an article entitled “2009 Goals Update – Perfectionism is Your Worst Enemy“.

Erica Douglass speaks about her 2008 goal of earning $10,000 per month online. Erica started a new membership website. Early on, Erica received some criticism from potential customers at a conference. Erica thought that they brought up some good ideas. Erica began changing her plan to incorporate these ideas. Erica did not continue her current idea. Erica speaks about the money that this time cost her.

Making money online does not have to be difficult. Internet World Statistics states that there are 1,596,270,108 internet users in the world. If you could sell a $1 product to 100,000 internet users, you would have a six figure income this year. That is less than 0.01% of the world’s internet users and selling a $1 product.

I realize that this seems like a monumental task. You may be sitting there saying “OK, but how do I sell that many $1 products”? I will not pretend that I have all the answers, because I do not. I am still learning myself. That is one reason I am developing this site. I want to allow other people to follow me through the process and learn from my mistakes. I will share with you my current success plan.

Identify your goals – my current goal is to be making $3000 a month online by December 31, 2009.
Identify what you enjoy – I identified that I enjoy helping people and writing. Using these talents I am developing a series of blogs. In addition to this website I have “World’s Dumbest Criminals” and “My ADHD Blog“.
Follow through – for me this has meant actually developing the sites and finding ways to keep them updated. My goal is to provide new content every day. Currently, I am up to a couple of times a week.
Educate Yourself – It is important to educate yourself about internet marketing. Research for this site is one way I am educating myself. You may also want to view the resources I have listed.

If you are looking for ideas for making money online, here are a few of my personal favorites.

Associated Content – a great site to make money writing articles online.
People Search Engine – this is a new idea that I have been trying. You get your own search engine for people. You are paid based on sales to the site. Personally, I like that they even help you advertise the site.

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