Searching for ways to make money online

Lots of qualifications. What have you done so far online? What skills do you have online? What sort of business can you see yourself starting? What will you sell?

You have expertise in a really good niche - what do you plan to sell?


If the goal is to make money - SOMETHING needs to be sold. It may be physical products or informational products but that's where the money comes from.

I am going to give you four things to decide upon.

Then I'm going to give you four systems * every * business needs, no matter whether you're a bakery or a bank.

First four decisions:

1. Who will you serve?

2. What will you help them with? What product or service or outcome will you provide?

3. What price point will you play at?

4. What outreach method will you choose and * commit to * for at least 60 days?

Then the four systems every business needs (and we can find a post on this very forum from 2011(!) where I talk about this...fundamentals don't change):

1. Lead generation

2. Qualification

3. Closing

4. Fulfillment.

I have just given you the skeleton of a business.


Why the four decisions are important:

1. Who will you serve?

Who's your customer? If it's "everyone", it's no one. Get specific. This is called your target market, and it can be defined by demographics (where they are) or psychographics (what they believe).

So it could be "People in downtown Manhattan at lunch hour" or "Engineering design firms who understand that IT support is critical to their work", as examples.

2. What will you help them with?

A good choice here is to solve a problem * they admit to having * with a solution you like to talk about all day. This will make you automatically enthusiastic.

So examples matching up with the target markets above could be "Tasty hotdogs and lemonade lunches" or "Fast downtime detection and restoration service".

3. What price point will you play at?

This has everything to do with money tolerance, which is a topic I have talked about deeply here and on my blog and in youtube videos. "How much is a lot of money?" is a question with an individual and personal answer, and it's also a moveable target.

If you believe $500 is "a lot of money", you will struggle to sell $5000 offers because you'll deeply believe "no one would pay that".

So find an offer that matches your money tolerance so you make selling easier for yourself.

4. What outreach method will you commit to for 60 days?

Something that is NOT talked about enough is that business is about developing certain competencies. And the first of those important competencies, vital to having a business, is this:

How do I reach out and start conversations well with members of my target market?

This can be done with cold calling, cold emails, LinkedIn messenger, FB ads, dropping leaflets from airplanes, running a herd of zebras through town square wearing monogrammed blankets with your name and website address, or standing in the busiest intersection in town wearing a pink bunny suit and holding a sign with your business name and phone number.

The problem is that newbies don't know that even if you're given a template or roadmap you still need to develop competency with that leadgen method yourself. If it was paint by number everyone would be rich. Success does not work that way. It has an X factor.

Every time you see a shiny object or think the grass must be greener on the other side of some different outreach method you go back to zero.

So you have to stick with an outreach method to get good at it.

Which runs right into the first of the four systems every business needs (and yours is NOT any different):

1. Lead generation

You need a consistent way of bringing a number of interested people to you every month. Whether organically or paid, however you do it, you MUST do this. Do not rely on referrals, friends, or dumb luck for enough people to find you. They won't. You need enough leads coming in to have enough sales conversations to have a chance of hitting your money target.

Most people, who don't pay attention to this, have 1/10th to 1/100th of the number of leads they really need coming in. So even though they are not lazy, they are beaten before they start. I can say this after 10+ years of doing paid funnel strategy calls.

2. Qualification

Leads coming in must be filtered. Good ones must be separated from bad. Here are three things to filter for:
Need (do they admit they have the problem you solve?)
Budget (can they pay you to fix it, is the problem large enough to warrant your involvement in solving it)
Personality fit (can you work with them or are they a potential Client from Hell?).

3. Closing

Every business needs a way of helping some of the qualified leads become Buyers.

How will you do this? Decide. Sales page with copywriting and a buy button at the end? A live Zoom sales call? Over Messenger? Some other way?

Get clarity and improve upon the process as you go.

4. Fulfillment

Now you need to give the customer what they paid for.

Those businesses that don't do this are rightfully called a scam.

This is what you need to develop.

Make those first four key decisions.

Keep your eye on the ball and build out those four systems.

When you're not sure what to do, ask yourself how the four systems are doing, in order. You should be able to write out in a couple sentences how each system works.

If you don't have leads coming in, then you need to focus on building a machine that brings you X number of leads per day. And don't stop until you do. No magic bullets, no shiny objects. No jumping from thing to thing. Stick to the platform you choose so you can develop competency with it.

Once you get that in place, then move on to the next thing.

Sounds like work? Now you're getting the picture.

Welcome!

You seem like a fun and interesting person.

I think that you will need to get over your aversion to social media
because that is where the people that you want to connect with are.

You have so many options but you need to take action in order to
make money online, it requires work and effort.

You probably already have a bunch of business books, how to start
a business, books from Paul and Sarah Edwards, and similar authors.
If not, I recommend you browse Amazon and read a couple of books
on the online business topics that interest you.

Books to search for are internet marketing, making money online,
passive income, side hustles, and multiple streams of income.

Some things that you could do to make money:

Publish books.
Develop courses at Udemy, Teachable, SkillShare.
Make YouTubes (you will need videos for your courses)
Set up paid memberships at Patreon.
Print on demand products with your art, or digital art you create with AI.

You have so many options, so decide on something, or a combination
of things that you enjoy that can be monetized.

About your WordPress blog, it is a classic beginner's mistake to want
everything to be perfect, but it never will be and it doesn't matter. Just
get your information out there.

If you haven't used ChatGPT yet I highly recommend it. You can tell
it your skills like the ones you listed here, and it can analyze you and
your business strategy, and recommend ways for you to apply your
skills to internet business.

It can help you with your WordPress blog, setup and content, it can
develop outlines and schedules, instructions, research, and so much
more.

Your talents combined with AI could produce amazing results.

Whatever you do I am certain that you will be successful.

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I call your attention to Kay's post #49 where she states: But - be cautious of spending endless time getting ready to get ready to prepare to potentially 'do something'. Procrastination is human nature - some of us have to fight it more than others.

GordonJ

It looks like you are well versed .You can start by choosing 1 the niches you specialize in so that you can proceed forward and not confuse yourself.

Start a YouTube channel.and a blog to share your expertise and build community.

I think that it would benefit you handsomely if you set up a sales funnel to drive your leads to so that you can follow up with an email sequence and convert your leads into buyers .

Hey hi, you could consider starting an online business centered around nature education, eco-tourism, or wildlife conservation. You could offer online courses, workshops, or guided tours focusing on the biodiversity of Quebec's ecosystems.

Hi everyone. Thanks for all your comments. I didn't think I would have so much help. Unfortunately for the next few days, I don't have the time to reply to you all because you have made so much good suggestions that I really want to take the time to think before writing anything.

My job contract finished Thursday so next week, I will take the time to reply to you all in details.

Thanks again!

P.S. What should I do to receive an email notification for every reply? I thought I did it right but no, I never received any email notification.

Digital Marketing is very important your business pro grace

Affiliate marketing is the way to go.

You will need to find products that you are using yourself and then promote them to others.

The most important skill that you will ever need to MASTER is how to effectively market that product online.

You can explore the world of design. Becoming a great designer garantee you a good salary if you make in the first times some good portofolio

I would focus on three things:
1. What you're good at
2. What you like doing
3. What you will get paid for

A lot of people will focus on the first two. What worked for me is starting with no. 3, figuring out what I like about it, then honing that skill until I was very good about it. I found I can get into sales jobs easily, but I like writing copy so I focused on that.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

Well i see you have many qualifications but i think they dont fit well for affiliate products to sell or at least in my knowledge

I think you can decide on what niche you like the most from your experience and start to create youtube videos related to it but with this it takes time until you are able to monetize your youtube channel so i would definitively combine it with a job

I think it will be good to go to youtube and serch for : how to make money with affiliate marketing and in there you will find a lot of people who succed in this field and they make some good step by step videos on how to succed in affiliate marketing

I built my online store with wordpress and am learning step by step, I hope to make friends with you.