There isn’t a single home based business that is right for everyone, but there is one that is easy to start, inexpensive to maintain and offers extraordinary income potential. You can start for free, maintain your business for about $50 a month and earn as much or more as a doctor.
Making money online is not complicated. It does not require expensive training. If a training program is expensive, it is probably a scam.
Regardless of whether you pursue the home business I discuss here or not, remember that the best legitimate home based business will be affordable. A top home business will be free to try.
The added beauty of starting as an affiliate marketer is you will learn skills you can sell to other businesses or use to create products of your own.
You Need a Website.
The most affordable way to become a successful affiliate marketer is to build an authority website. An authority website gets traffic from the search engines and social media.
A WordPress website is the easiest and most flexible website platform for a home business. They’re simple to create and manage, and with the right host, highly secure. Thanks to proprietary software, you can build a free WordPress website in just a few minutes.
The subject or focal point of a website is called a niche. It can be anything that interests you. A hobby or passion is usually a great subject for a profitable website. Think of a niche as a group of people who are interested in the same thing.
You’ll Need Visitors to Your Website.
There are a few ways to get people to visit your website. You can run ads on the search engines which is expensive and not for the newbie, or you can post articles to your website about things people are searching for online.
Use a keyword tool to find out what people are searching for online. Once you know what people want, you can write an article to help them. A properly targeted article will bring visitors to your site.
Writing articles is a free way to bring visitors to your website.
Posting articles on your website about things people are searching for online is the secret to success with this strategy. Each article leads people to your website. The more articles you write and post to your site, the more people will visit. And, the more people visit, the more money you will make.
When your website has a lot of articles, the search engines will designate your site as an authority website and it will rank faster and higher in the search engines which ultimately means you make more money.
There are millions of products and services online you can offer your visitor.
For example, if your website is about model trains, you can sell model trains and accessories on your website. Then, every time someone buys through your website, you make money.
If you focus on helping your visitor, you will be more successful and you will enjoy your business much more too.
The amazing thing about this business model is that your website works for you 24 hours a day. In time, it can give you phenomenal freedom and allow you to live life on your terms without financial worry.
How to Make It Happen.
Perhaps you’re wondering how exactly do I do this? What steps must I take? First, let’s look at why most businesses fail and why you won’t.
Most businesses fail because they cost too much to maintain, the owner isn’t properly trained and supported or the owner quits.
The strategy I recommend costs about $50 a month and should quickly pay for itself. Plus, it includes all the training and support you’ll need to succeed. The only way you can fail with this strategy is if you quit.
The initial training is completely free and comes with two free websites. There is a paid level too which includes everything you need to build a profitable online business. Before you finish the free training, you’ll know if the paid level is right for you.
Why You Can’t Fail.
Remember this: Success takes time.
Here’s what often happens. A newbie builds a website, posts a bunch of articles and promotes a quality product but doesn’t make a sale. Nothing but crickets. She quits and her website bites the dust.
Remember this too: The search engines move in mysterious ways.
It takes time for the search engines to find your site and trust it. In the beginning, you might not see the results you expected as quickly as you hoped. The trick is to keep posting articles on your website.
We’ll teach you many ways to help the search engines find your articles quickly, but you must be prepared to consistently build your business even when you don’t see the results you expect.
The only way you can fail with this strategy is if you quit. In other words, don’t quit and you can’t fail!
The Last Word on the Best Digital Home Based Business.
I cannot imagine a business with as much earning potential as an authority website that is easier or more affordable. The Online Entrepreneur Certification Course makes it simple to start and totally risk-free to try.
The methods you will learn work. They have worked for me and I’ve seen them work for many others.
The ball is in your court. Will you enroll in the FREE training? Will you build an online business and stick with it until you’re successful?
I have to agree with you on this one. Affiliate marketing is by far the easiest type of business to create. It is also a business with the lowest overhead of any business out there.
This type of business is best for people who don’t have much knowledge in the business world and are newbies. The best part about affiliate marketing is that you can choose to start a business that is around your passions/hobbies.
I personally find this extremely amazing, because there are not many people out there that do their work around their passion and that is very sad.
Fortunately more people are realizing the power of the internet and instead would like to work from home. They would have a more flexible schedule and don’t have to put killer hours of work to make their business thrive.
I would rather spend months not making a single penny in the beginning, than spent my whole entire life working at a job that I don’t like, and on top have a limited income and a boss.
In the past 30 years, I’ve owned a couple of businesses, including a copywriting business and a remodeling business. And, by far, the easiest and cheapest business I’ve ever owned is my internet marketing business.
I have no payroll, and no employees, which is often the greatest expense and the weakest link in a brick and mortar business. I can manage my business from my laptop and it works for me 24 hours a day, never complains and never gets tired. And, the income potential is unlimited.
I don’t know why more people aren’t building a online business. It might be because there are so many scams online that promise you can make money on the internet, but then only take your money.
The truth is, when done right, it is very affordable to start an internet business. It does take time and sustained effort. Because it takes time to build a profitable online business, I think most people quit before they see success. If they only would have kept going, they could be financially independent.
If you are interested in building an online business, I highly recommend that for the first year, focus on learning the skills to succeed online. You’ll probably earn money that first year, but don’t make it a race to earn money as fast as you can. The money will come, but first you need to learn the skills. Go here to learn how to build a profitable online business the right way.
I really like this post. No gimmicks just straight forward information. I totally agree that online success does not happen over night like some other programs say. Really any type of success doesn’t just happen, you have to work for it! The wealthy affiliate community definitely sounds like the place to go to get the ball rolling!
It’s amazing, once you can see past the fog of hype and online scams, the process of making money online is very simple. Give people what they want and when they come to your website, offer them something else they might want too.
There have always been con men, scammers and scoundrels in business and the internet has brought them out in legions. However, there have always been honest people in business too who build business empires that survive world wars and are passed down from one generation to another. The reason legitimate business endure is because they are built on integrity and proven business principles.
I totally agree with you about having a website to see about making money online. I have seen many different variations on how you can see about making money by using other means such as eBay, surveys, etc. They all tend to come back to the same issue of as you work by selling or doing something to earn money, once you stop so does the money from what you were doing or selling.
With your opportunity do you have a way that once you get things set up you can work less but still earn a residual income?
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your experience. The great thing about having an online business based on a website is it tends to have a life of it’s own once it’s established. It’s not set and forget, but it doesn’t have to be tended to every day.
I like to compare a building a website based online business to building a spaceship. It takes time to put all the pieces together, but once it’s built you can go anywhere.
This is an excellent article with so many truths! I know from experience now that everything that you say here is completely true!
I have seen so many people do the exact same things that you have described here in this article. So many people start up a website and then end up quitting after a month or two when they discover that they haven’t made a fortune.
The truth is exactly as you have described it, I know this because I was in the same position and luckily I didn’t give up. Making money online takes time! But it does work and when it does happen its fantastic.
It puzzles me that people accept that college takes four years or more to get a Bachelor degree and many more years for a Masters or a Doctorate. And they will often go deeply into debt for a college degree.
In the end, a college degree is nothing more than permission to interview for a job. And the job, it they get it, gives total control of their finances to their boss! They will never earn more than their boss will permit.
Yet, people too often expect to make big money on the internet within days or weeks. When I tell people it took four months of effort before I made my first dollar online, they ask why it took so long.
The internet is not an ATM, but it does give anyone with a computer the power of mass communication. When properly focused, this power will create unimaginable wealth.
Some people do make money their first month online, but I think they are the exception. In my experience, if someone works at it about 20 hours a week, they can expect to start earning money after 3 or 4 months. And if they keep working at it about 20 hours a week, the income will increase.
Please just use these figures as a rough guide. There are many variables.
I wish people would look at making money online as a long term commitment, because it takes commitment to succeed.
When someone considers becoming a doctor, they are looking at at least 8 years of school and massive student loans.
A doctor goes through 4 years of college, plus 4 years of med school and residency, plus specialty training and board certification. In the process, they will go deeply in debt to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the end, he or she makes a lot of money, but they also work long hours.
Because of the internet, anyone with the drive can make the same kind of money as a doctor without going into debt and without working killer hours. It won’t happen over night. Like a doctor’s education, it takes time.
Imagine you commit to building an online business for 8 years. You work 20 hours a week and don’t make a dime for the first 6 months. Then you start making a little, then a little more. After a couple of years you can afford to quit your day job. After a few more years, you can afford a bigger house in a nicer neighborhood.
After 8 years you’re earning as much as a surgeon and are free to live life on your terms wherever you want to live. All this without ever going into debt or learning anatomy.
That is the potential of the internet. It’s amazing. Anyone who can operate a personal computer can do it, if they commit to it and take action. This is the best place to learn.
Your website has great information. It’s easy to read, concise and well written.
I definitely feel I could learn a lot from you about online marketing and I hope you do interact with the people once they join WA through your recommendations.
I like the format of the blogs (clear headings / questions in chronological order make for easy reading!)
It’s a pleasure to help someone learn how to make money online and I would be happy to help you too. Wealthy Affiliate is, by far, the best place to learn how to build an online business the right way. It’s affordable and includes all that is needed to build a profitable business based on ethics and proven business principles. It’s where the good guys live online.
In Wealthy Affiliate, we all help each other regardless of how we found our way to the community. The training is clear, precise and well organized, plus one-on-one support is available 24 hours a day. I take a personal interest in members who have joined because of my recommendation and I’m committed to helping them every step of the way.
However, you can’t push a noodle and I can’t make someone succeed. I can only show them how and light the way. They must commit to their success and do the work. They must take action.
And I especially liked that you mentioned affiliate marketing as the best way to make money online.
For people who have little to no online marketing experience, I also think affiliate marketing is the way to go.
And then when you start to become a pro, you can move onto the other stuff. Which involves creating and selling your own product. (If you want, I guess. :P)
But yeah, you can make so much money with affiliate marketing you can call it full time. Right? 🙂
Thanks for stopping by. I recommend people who want to make money online start with affiliate marketing and an authority website. It is the most simple and direct way to succeed and it teaches valuable skills. These skills could late be used to create your own products or to freelance. And I recommend Wealthy Affiliate as the place to learn.
In the past, I’ve tried many different ways to make money online. Back in the day, I had dozens of niche sites and was constantly building back-links until Google changed it’s methods of indexing websites. All my little websites were sent to the back of the line. Years of work vanished in a day.
This made me a believer in authority sites, now I don’t build back-links, I just focus on creating helpful content for a few websites.
The skills I learned with building authority websites has evolved into a profitable side business of helping local businesses rank in the search engines.
It all started with building a single authority website based on the training at Wealthy Affiliate. Anyone who can operate a personal computer can do the same thing. And they can earn a full-time income or more. A full-time income is probably different for different people. What I mean by full-time income is the amount of money someone would have to work full-time to earn.
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Hey Gary!
I have to agree with you on this one. Affiliate marketing is by far the easiest type of business to create. It is also a business with the lowest overhead of any business out there.
This type of business is best for people who don’t have much knowledge in the business world and are newbies. The best part about affiliate marketing is that you can choose to start a business that is around your passions/hobbies.
I personally find this extremely amazing, because there are not many people out there that do their work around their passion and that is very sad.
Fortunately more people are realizing the power of the internet and instead would like to work from home. They would have a more flexible schedule and don’t have to put killer hours of work to make their business thrive.
I would rather spend months not making a single penny in the beginning, than spent my whole entire life working at a job that I don’t like, and on top have a limited income and a boss.
Keep educating people on this important topic!:)
Omar
Hi, Omar!
Thanks for stopping by.
In the past 30 years, I’ve owned a couple of businesses, including a copywriting business and a remodeling business. And, by far, the easiest and cheapest business I’ve ever owned is my internet marketing business.
I have no payroll, and no employees, which is often the greatest expense and the weakest link in a brick and mortar business. I can manage my business from my laptop and it works for me 24 hours a day, never complains and never gets tired. And, the income potential is unlimited.
I don’t know why more people aren’t building a online business. It might be because there are so many scams online that promise you can make money on the internet, but then only take your money.
The truth is, when done right, it is very affordable to start an internet business. It does take time and sustained effort. Because it takes time to build a profitable online business, I think most people quit before they see success. If they only would have kept going, they could be financially independent.
If you are interested in building an online business, I highly recommend that for the first year, focus on learning the skills to succeed online. You’ll probably earn money that first year, but don’t make it a race to earn money as fast as you can. The money will come, but first you need to learn the skills. Go here to learn how to build a profitable online business the right way.
All the best,
Gary
I really like this post. No gimmicks just straight forward information. I totally agree that online success does not happen over night like some other programs say. Really any type of success doesn’t just happen, you have to work for it! The wealthy affiliate community definitely sounds like the place to go to get the ball rolling!
Hi, Albert!
Thanks for stopping by.
It’s amazing, once you can see past the fog of hype and online scams, the process of making money online is very simple. Give people what they want and when they come to your website, offer them something else they might want too.
There have always been con men, scammers and scoundrels in business and the internet has brought them out in legions. However, there have always been honest people in business too who build business empires that survive world wars and are passed down from one generation to another. The reason legitimate business endure is because they are built on integrity and proven business principles.
Now, thanks to the internet, anyone can build a profitable business if they take time to learn the skills and take action. This is the best place I’ve found to learn those skills.
All the best,
Gary
I totally agree with you about having a website to see about making money online. I have seen many different variations on how you can see about making money by using other means such as eBay, surveys, etc. They all tend to come back to the same issue of as you work by selling or doing something to earn money, once you stop so does the money from what you were doing or selling.
With your opportunity do you have a way that once you get things set up you can work less but still earn a residual income?
Hi, Travis!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your experience. The great thing about having an online business based on a website is it tends to have a life of it’s own once it’s established. It’s not set and forget, but it doesn’t have to be tended to every day.
I like to compare a building a website based online business to building a spaceship. It takes time to put all the pieces together, but once it’s built you can go anywhere.
All the best,
Gary
This is an excellent article with so many truths! I know from experience now that everything that you say here is completely true!
I have seen so many people do the exact same things that you have described here in this article. So many people start up a website and then end up quitting after a month or two when they discover that they haven’t made a fortune.
The truth is exactly as you have described it, I know this because I was in the same position and luckily I didn’t give up. Making money online takes time! But it does work and when it does happen its fantastic.
Hi, Andrew!
Thanks for sharing your experience.
It puzzles me that people accept that college takes four years or more to get a Bachelor degree and many more years for a Masters or a Doctorate. And they will often go deeply into debt for a college degree.
In the end, a college degree is nothing more than permission to interview for a job. And the job, it they get it, gives total control of their finances to their boss! They will never earn more than their boss will permit.
Yet, people too often expect to make big money on the internet within days or weeks. When I tell people it took four months of effort before I made my first dollar online, they ask why it took so long.
The internet is not an ATM, but it does give anyone with a computer the power of mass communication. When properly focused, this power will create unimaginable wealth.
Some people do make money their first month online, but I think they are the exception. In my experience, if someone works at it about 20 hours a week, they can expect to start earning money after 3 or 4 months. And if they keep working at it about 20 hours a week, the income will increase.
Please just use these figures as a rough guide. There are many variables.
I wish people would look at making money online as a long term commitment, because it takes commitment to succeed.
When someone considers becoming a doctor, they are looking at at least 8 years of school and massive student loans.
A doctor goes through 4 years of college, plus 4 years of med school and residency, plus specialty training and board certification. In the process, they will go deeply in debt to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the end, he or she makes a lot of money, but they also work long hours.
Because of the internet, anyone with the drive can make the same kind of money as a doctor without going into debt and without working killer hours. It won’t happen over night. Like a doctor’s education, it takes time.
Imagine you commit to building an online business for 8 years. You work 20 hours a week and don’t make a dime for the first 6 months. Then you start making a little, then a little more. After a couple of years you can afford to quit your day job. After a few more years, you can afford a bigger house in a nicer neighborhood.
After 8 years you’re earning as much as a surgeon and are free to live life on your terms wherever you want to live. All this without ever going into debt or learning anatomy.
That is the potential of the internet. It’s amazing. Anyone who can operate a personal computer can do it, if they commit to it and take action. This is the best place to learn.
Thanks for stopping by Andrew.
All the best,
Gary
Your website has great information. It’s easy to read, concise and well written.
I definitely feel I could learn a lot from you about online marketing and I hope you do interact with the people once they join WA through your recommendations.
I like the format of the blogs (clear headings / questions in chronological order make for easy reading!)
Great work and all the best!
Hi, Shalene!
I appreciate your comment and kind words.
It’s a pleasure to help someone learn how to make money online and I would be happy to help you too. Wealthy Affiliate is, by far, the best place to learn how to build an online business the right way. It’s affordable and includes all that is needed to build a profitable business based on ethics and proven business principles. It’s where the good guys live online.
In Wealthy Affiliate, we all help each other regardless of how we found our way to the community. The training is clear, precise and well organized, plus one-on-one support is available 24 hours a day. I take a personal interest in members who have joined because of my recommendation and I’m committed to helping them every step of the way.
However, you can’t push a noodle and I can’t make someone succeed. I can only show them how and light the way. They must commit to their success and do the work. They must take action.
Thanks for stopping by,
Gary
Hey Gary,
Great post. 🙂 I liked it a lot.
And I especially liked that you mentioned affiliate marketing as the best way to make money online.
For people who have little to no online marketing experience, I also think affiliate marketing is the way to go.
And then when you start to become a pro, you can move onto the other stuff. Which involves creating and selling your own product. (If you want, I guess. :P)
But yeah, you can make so much money with affiliate marketing you can call it full time. Right? 🙂
Anyway…great post, man.
Cheers,
Julian
Hi, Julian!
Thanks for stopping by. I recommend people who want to make money online start with affiliate marketing and an authority website. It is the most simple and direct way to succeed and it teaches valuable skills. These skills could late be used to create your own products or to freelance. And I recommend Wealthy Affiliate as the place to learn.
In the past, I’ve tried many different ways to make money online. Back in the day, I had dozens of niche sites and was constantly building back-links until Google changed it’s methods of indexing websites. All my little websites were sent to the back of the line. Years of work vanished in a day.
This made me a believer in authority sites, now I don’t build back-links, I just focus on creating helpful content for a few websites.
The skills I learned with building authority websites has evolved into a profitable side business of helping local businesses rank in the search engines.
It all started with building a single authority website based on the training at Wealthy Affiliate. Anyone who can operate a personal computer can do the same thing. And they can earn a full-time income or more. A full-time income is probably different for different people. What I mean by full-time income is the amount of money someone would have to work full-time to earn.
All the best,
Gary