Do you want to learn how to make money online? Are you ready to take calculated risks? If yes, then read these lessons carefully and practice them. The ideas in this article will help you to make money online using your phone or laptop at home.
Make no mistake, anxiety site is one of those personal topics that are
very sensitive to a whole lot of people. In fact, many people would fight you
tooth and nail to deny that they are suffering from any kind of anxiety and
they will tell you to your face, “What the hell are you talking about?” if the
conversation somehow some way veers into something that is too close for
comfort.
Unfortunately, no matter how you deny it, if you are suffering from
anxiety, your life will suffer overall. In fact, you may reach a point where
the only person you are fooling is yourself.
Imagine that! You're walking around talking to people, living your life
yet everybody knows that you've seen better days. Everybody knows that you're
not having a good time but throughout it all, you think that you are putting on
a good show and everybody's none the wiser. Pretty sad situation, right? It's
like wearing clown makeup and everybody looking at you are trying not to laugh
and you thinking that everything is fine.
Let's not mince any words. Anxiety is a mental and emotional rot that destroys you from within. It’s only a matter of time until the rest of your life falls into shambles. At the very least, your ability to
enjoy life and everything that it brings to the table is severely damaged by anxiety.
It's always a good idea to get a handle on it but for that to happen, you must first understand that you have it. Here are ten of the many signs that somebody is struggling with anxiety.
If you exhibit a few of these signs, it’s time to own up to it. Stop sweeping it under the rug. Look at it straight in the eyes. Get professional help.
If you are
taking care of the children at home, then this can be a full-time endeavor. To
succeed with an online business, you will need to dedicate time to it.
So, the first
thing that you need to do is to work out how you can find chunks of time to
learn all that you need to know about online business and take action to make
it happen.
You really do
need the support of your family and friends here. If you have a partner, then
sit down with them and tell them that you really want to start a successful
online business and that you will need to work on it every day. This means that
they will need to help you around the home and in the care of the children.
What about
your parents and your partner’s parents? Do they live close by? Would they be
willing to look after your children for a few hours while you work at your online
business? A lot of grandparents say that they don’t see enough of their
grandchildren – well this is a perfect opportunity for them to see more of them
and help you out at the same time.
How about
siblings, friends and neighbors? Some of these are likely to want to help you
out. If you have older children, then explain to them what you are doing and
ask them to help out more around the home. They can wash dishes, clean up after
themselves, go to the store for groceries and even do the laundry. Use
incentives here if you need to.
There are lots of success stories of moms with babies creating successful online businesses. If you need help with childcare, then investigate this as an option. Babies will sleep a lot so you should have some time during the day and the evening to devote to your computer. Nobody is saying that it will be easy.
Stay at home
moms can get really tired doing all of the things that they need to do.
Sometimes the thought of sitting at the
computer and learning something or performing some Internet marketing tasks
will not be that appealing. So, you need to be highly motivated to run your
online business.
Before you
start your online business, you need to set some goals for it. Think about what
you want to achieve in the first 6 months and then the first year and write
these down as realistic goals. Be specific here and add monetary values (the
income your business will generate) and specific milestones you want to
achieve.
Create long
term goals as well. Where do you want to be with your online business in 5
years? How many different businesses will you have? How many websites will you
have making you money on autopilot every day?
The other
thing that we strongly recommend that you do right at the beginning is to
create a strong WHY statement. This is your reason or reasons for starting an
online business while you are looking after your children and taking care of
things at home.
You need to make your WHY statement as strong as you can and write it
down. Have your WHY statement easily accessible wherever you are. Make copies
of it if that helps.
When you are writing your WHY statement, think about the things that you want
your online business to provide for you.
Some examples could be:
• To purchase a larger home for your
family
• To purchase a better car
• To send your kids to college
• To have wonderful vacations with your
family
These are
personal things to you. Write down some ideas and then as you read each one
notice how they make you feel. A WHY statement needs to stir up strong emotions
within you and motivate you to persevere with your online business no matter
how tired you are feeling or what other things are going on in your life.
If you don’t write down your short- and long-term goals you will have no
direction. Without a strong WHY statement you are going to find it really hard
to keep your motivation levels high every day. There are many advantages to
running a business from home such as being there for your family. But one of
the disadvantages is that you have no boss to answer to.
You need to be accountable to yourself and your family. If you have had very little sleep because your baby kept you awake during the night, then you will need the highest possible motivation to work on your online business. Nobody said it was going to be easy but goals and a strong WHY statement will always help.
The cost of
getting started with an online business is low. Some people start with nothing
and are successful. If you wanted to open a shop in your location, then you
would have to invest a lot of money. You need to rent or buy a property in the
right location, purchase stock, employ people, invest in security and a lot of
other things.
With an
online business you can start with a domain name for $10 a year and web hosting
for less than $10 a month to launch your website. Because of this a lot of
people find it hard to take their online business seriously.
When things
go wrong, which they will, then it is easy to think “well I only spent a few dollars on this, so it doesn’t really matter”.
Many people get involved in Internet Marketing and then chop and change to
different online business models because it doesn’t cost much to do this.
You need to
take your online business seriously. Even if you start with nothing you need to
have a strong emotional investment. Writing down your goals and a WHY statement
will help. But you need to do more than that.
It is
important that you create a plan for your online business and break this down
into daily tasks. We recommend that you have a “to do” list that you actually
write down on paper. There is something about writing things down that
increases your commitment to them.
So for
example, if you want to have your own website offering parenting tips and
advice and you will promote affiliate products to make money, or even create
and sell your own products, then you will need a plan for this.
So, your initial plan
could be something like this:
• Choose a good domain name
• Get the best web hosting
• Create your website
• Plan the content for the website
• Look for affiliate products to offer
• Create an incentive to build an email
list
• Find a good auto responder service
• Plan the content for your email
marketing
• Decide on which social platforms you
will use
• Decide on a visitor traffic strategy
Don’t worry
if you are unsure what some of these things mean or you don’t know how to do
some of these things. That is all part of the Internet marketing learning
process. You can use Google to search for the answers that you need, and
YouTube is an excellent resource for finding out how to do things.
You need to
be prepared to invest some money in your online business. It is not enough to
create a website and then expect a ton of visitors to come. You will need to
drive targeted traffic to your website and the quickest way to do this is
through paid advertising such as search marketing and Facebook Ads.
If you don’t
have any money to invest that’s OK, you can still take your business seriously
by making a time investment. Everything that you need to know about creating a
successful online business is out there on the Internet.
There are a lot of free resources that you can
use to get started. Invest a portion of the money you make back into your
online business.
You need to
be aware of and avoid the “shiny object syndrome”. Every day there are new
courses launched by experienced Internet marketers who will tell you that their
system or business model is the best. Often, they will use a lot of hype to
make their offers more appealing.
People get
sucked into this shiny object thing all of the time. The message is “hey come
over here because the grass is greener!” The reality is that the grass is
rarely greener with these new things. Once you have decided on an online
business model then find out as much as you can about it and stick to it.
It really isn’t possible to make
thousands of dollars overnight by clicking your mouse a few times for only 15
minutes a day. But people are always duped by this kind of nonsense. Successful
stay at home moms take their online businesses seriously and are not swayed by
shiny objects.
There are many different online business models that you can choose from.
Here are some of the most common ones:
• Affiliate marketing
• CPA marketing
• Creating and selling your own
products or services
• Opening an online store
• Amazon FBA
Each of these
is different and has its own advantages and disadvantages. Here is a brief
explanation of each one:
Affiliate marketing – this is where you promote other
people’s products and services for a commission. You can promote physical
products and / or digital products. The commissions you will earn by promoting
physical products are a lot lower than with digital products. It is easier to
sell physical products though.
CPA marketing – CPA means Cost Per Action and you
will be paid by a CPA network for promoting offers from their clients which do
not usually require a sale. For example, you can be paid for someone providing
their email address to a client. Or participating in a free trial of a product.
The
commissions are usually lower than with affiliate marketing, but more people
will complete an action that costs nothing than purchase a product.
Creating and selling
your own products
– one of the biggest problems with affiliate marketing and CPA marketing is
that you are sharing revenue with others. Also, the customer is never yours so
you cannot contact them in the future to sell them something else.
Creating your own products will take time,
effort and probably some money. But you will keep all of the sales revenue and
the customer will be yours so that you can keep in touch with them regularly.
Online store – people really like to shop online
these days. So why not open your own online store and sell your own products or
make a commission selling other people’s products? It is not difficult to open
an online store.
You don’t have to purchase stock either. You
can work with a drop shipping company and promote their products for a
commission. They will take care of sending the purchased items to the customer
and deal with returns etc.
Amazon FBA – FBA means Fulfilled by Amazon. Amazon is the largest
retailer in the world. It has a huge amount of visitor traffic and with the FBA
program you can sell your products on Amazon.
You can source your own products from manufacturers in
China for example, and then sell them for a much higher price in western
markets. Amazon will take some of the money, but you can make good profits with
this model.
So, which of
these appeals the most to you? If you are really limited on time, then
affiliate marketing or CPA marketing could be a good choice. But they do have
the drawback of you not owning the customer (there are ways around this).
If you have
skills and talents that you can sell to others, then creating your own products
could be just right for you. You can create digital products such as “how to”
guides and even video training courses that you can sell from your website and
other platforms such as Clickbank.com.
It will take
a while to create a product, so you need to take this into account. If you want
to create a video training course, then you will need the right recording gear
for this such as a good camera and microphone. You will also have to edit your
videos so that they are the best they can be.
With an
online store you have the choice of creating or sourcing your own products or
partnering with a dropshipping company and promoting their products.
If you are
going to create or source your own products, then you will need money to
invest. Commissions with dropshipping tend to be quite low but it is easy to
get started.
With Amazon
FBA you will definitely have to invest in your own products. You will need to
send stock to Amazon on a regular basis to ensure that you are never “out of
stock”. There are plenty of manufacturer’s that will brand products with your
logo and ship them directly to Amazon for you. You need to factor in all of
these costs.
Whichever of
these online business models you choose you need to find out as much about them
as possible? How do the super affiliates make 6 and 7 figures a year from
affiliate marketing? What is the best way to find out what a market needs for
product creation? Which products will sell well on Amazon?
When you start an online business, you need to plan for a few months
without making any money. Yes, it is possible to make money immediately with
affiliate marketing and CPA marketing, but this doesn’t always happen.
START FREELANCING BUSINESS.
If you are in need of making money straight
away, then start freelancing or completing online jobs at home first.
The world of
online business and Internet marketing changes all of the time. It is
impossible to keep up with everything, but you need to stay in touch with the
things that are really important for your online business.
Trends change
all of the time online. There are tools available to keep you in touch with
this such as Google Alerts with a Gmail account. Al you have to do is to tell
Google what niche you are in and add some keywords and they will send you
automatic notifications about what is happening.
There is a ton of free stuff online to learn about
Internet marketing. You can also find good training courses which will cost you
money, but they are well worth the investment. Stay away from the hype.
Focus enough on marketing.
A lot of people involved in
online business fail to make the money that they want because they don’t focus
enough on marketing. They spend too much time creating the perfect website or
the perfect product and not enough on driving traffic to their offers.
It doesn’t
matter how sexy or fancy your website or online store is. If you don’t get
visitors to it who are interested in what you have to offer, then you won’t
make any money online. Marketing is essential for your success.
You must
identify your target audience. It is really important for you to know as much
as possible about them. Who are your potential customers? What age range are
they? Are they women or men? Where do they live? What do they like? Where do
they hang out online?
There are
many ways that you can drive traffic (visitors) to your offers. Some of these
are free and will require time and effort and there are paid methods too.
Social media is a great way to find your target market and persuade them to
visit your site. You need to do this properly though so learn how to do this.
If you have
your own website (which we would always recommend) then you should learn how to
optimize your pages so that they have the best chance of ranking high in Google
and the other search engines. This is free traffic and very targeted. Search
engine optimization (SEO) is not as difficult as you may think. It all starts
with good keyword research.
You need to
find out what terms (keywords) people are using to search for what you have to
offer. There are free tools such as the Google Keyword Planner that will help
you to find these. You then optimize your web pages around these keywords.
Content
marketing is a great way to attract visitors to your website. You create
interesting content that has value and post this on social networks such as
Facebook and even create videos for YouTube and other video sharing sites.
It is easy to
test an offer using paid advertising. Using a pay per click network such as
Google Adwords or Facebook Ads you can spend a small amount of money to see if
you can convert visitors into buyers.
There are many ways that you can market your online business both free
and paid. Learn about these different methods and create a marketing plan that
you follow consistently. Getting the word out is very important and will
literally mean the difference between success and failure.
If you need
help, then there are plenty of places that you can go to find it. You can join
forums about Internet marketing and online business and get all of your
questions answered and be part of the community.
If you are
not good at graphic design for example, then outsource this to someone who is
using an outsourcing service such as Fiverr.com. There will be plenty of people
there that can provide you with stunning graphics for your online business for
a few bucks.
The same goes for writing and other Internet marketing tasks. Having a
virtual team of specialists that can perform the tasks that you can’t (or don’t
have the time or inclination to do) is a real advantage.
Yes, it will cost you a bit of money to do this but it
is worth it in the long run.
So now you know the 7 secrets to online success that you can start right now. What you need to do now is to take action. Discuss your online business dreams with your family and get the help that you need to make the time available for you to work on your online business.
Be committed
to learning as much as you can about online business particularly marketing.
Everything else you can outsource. You can outsource some marketing tasks as
well. Take your online business seriously and be prepared to invest time and
money into it.
We wish you every success with your online
business.
THANKS FOR LEAERNING.