The Real Guide
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 12:17 pm. 3 comments
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Personally I’m sick of all the internet marketing bullshit. Launch after launch of the same old crap, and all it’s really useful for is padding the pockets of the self professed “guru’s” and delaying you from actually making any money!
Too many of the “guru’s” are behind the game, not having actually implemented anything they have been “teaching” for the past 3-5 years. They have no need nor desire to teach stuff worth learning because they have “cash on demand” lists of gullible hopefuls. I hope I’ve gotten to you before you’ve fallen into that trap…
How long will it take? Up to 12 months, even for the most motivated…
How much will you need to spend? You can do it for chips, but if you want to actually succeed you are much better off spending a few thousand dollars outsourcing the nasty boring tasks, like article writing. Its your choice, but if the motivation starts to die, start outsourcing or accept that you will stay in the rat race.
I am in the real world, building real world businesses, implementing the stuff that works on a daily basis and ignoring all the crap. I teach this not to earn a buck, but to earn you a buck!
It is going to take a while for me to really construct this page, but for people new to making money online there is one absolute pre-requisite before you start doing anything else… It’s almost become a cliche, but this stuff is a crash course education, and it’s free. Just be prepared for the mini-pitch fest which follows, and pay attention to what is and isn’t essential.
If you are serious, you will be doing it, and you will be doing all of it. If you can’t get through the entire process, there is just no point in you bothering to read any further. You have NO EXCUSES since its completely free, and completely worth doing.
Whatever you do, don’t expect to be building your online business based entirely on the 30DC process. Its a brilliant crash course, but personally I feel it doesn’t take you to the level you need to be at to make a full-time income in any short period of time, and the folk running the course openly agree, its about making your first dollar, not making a lot of money. (Unless you get super lucky, but I aim to cater to the masses here)
So your first step -
COMPLETE THE THIRTY DAY CHALLENGE
Don’t expect to make your first dollar, its worth trying for, but on the whole this is supposed to be your crash course education and nothing more. I wouldn’t recommend subscribing to anything following the 30DC YET…
Beyond this point my notes will be sparse until I find time to flesh them out…
FIND A MARKET
The very first step on your journey to full-time income is to find a market - We don’t need to faff around with extensive keyword research, nor commerciality analysis, nor any of that other bollocks. What we want is a real industry where people are running real businesses and making real money.
I’ve prepared this little video as a guide on how to find a market. Its based on the principle that if its worth advertising in the yellow pages, its a commercial viability.
Ad’s in the yellow pages aren’t cheap, and running a real world business isn’t cheap, so if you can take any of those businesses online (which you can, with every single one of them) you are on to a winner since you know you can cut out a massive amount of overheads simply but not advertising in the yellow pages, or renting office space or shop fronts, or vehicles, or staff…. etc….
CHECK FOR TRAFFIC
You’ve got a market, now you need to find out how much traffic there is for that market - if its in the yellow pages people are looking for it so there will be traffic. This is another beauty of just throwing the book against a wall. At this stage all we want to do is inspire ourselves by the potential… check it out! Can you imagine being a major online player in that market? Trust me! You can be! If you are committed to the goal, achieving it is easier than stealing candy from an unborn baby. Set yourself a goal “biggest online supplier of napkins within 3 years” - if you give yourself a 2-3 year target you can completely achieve it, I say this based on my own repeated success!
That was easy….
CHOOSE YOUR MONETIZATION METHOD
Whatever market you stumbled across by throwing your book against a wall, you can monetize each of them to a level of full-time income or above with one of the follow methods…
(elaboration on this point is still to come.)
LEARN ABOUT DOMAIN NAME REGISTRARS AND WEB HOSTS
How can you expect to build a buisiness online if you can’t buy domain names and set them up on hosting?
LEARN TO INSTALL AND MODIFY WORDPRESS
A little bit of knowledge in this area will empower you beyond belief.
You should still be doing the thirty day challenge… so I’ve given myself about 30 days to write about where to go from here. Stay tuned, this is going to get interesting.
Still to come:
Building a wall
Throwing shit at the wall
SEO Guide for 2010
Good points. And to think I just spent $ on a populr market research tool.
>They have no need nor desire to teach stuff worth learning because >they have “cash on demand” lists of gullible hopefuls.
Agreed, sorting the junk from the good stuff is difficult to do. Seems like most generally serve up what worked X months/years ago and not really current. Cheaper to spin the old stuff than it is to actually share new ideas.
I’ll looking forward to the rest of your post(s).