Totally Stuck, need advice

I wrote this text in reply to some other wannabe internet marketer's question but I think it may help you too. So here it is:

Money online can be made in one of the following ways:

- creating a product and then selling it
- becoming an affiliate and then promoting other people's products
- creating a viral content and attracting lots and lots of people to your website
- buying websites and selling them for profit

What do you want to focus on? Before you decide think how you intend to attract people because that will tell you a lot about what you wanna do.

In order to get traffic you can:

- use paid advertising (PPC or solo ads) - quick but requires you to spend money
- SEO - slow and requires work but free
- create interesting viral stuff and distribute it fast all around the FB and other social networks

What do you want?

Not every way of making money is suitable for every type of person. I personally like affiliate marketing, most notably Amazon, that's where I make money. Other people are good at creating their own products, some people are good at viral content.

Making money online is all about finding a very concrete way of making few dollars online and then multiplying it!

Every way of earning money online has its rules. You must enjoy the rules of that specific way of making money if you want to be persistent and have fun. Otherwise it will all be just hard work.

I suggest you find 5 ways of making money online. Do a proper research on what each model will require in order to be a success. The one that you see as a sweet chalenge for yourself and you feel like you would be very, very happy to see it happen - go for it.

You must enjoy that way of making money you choose. I still remember when I made first 2$ on Amazon. I realized I could multiply and make more. I was so happy. I still have that feeling when I put something on the net which I know will add few dollars to my account..

You need that feeling of earning money with something...then just work and multiply!

In order to make money online you always need to give people what they want. People who play games - give them interesting games related offers. People who like health? Give them health products! Where are those people? They are on Google or Bing or Yahoo! Where else? They are on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram! Where else? They are on very popular blogs and websites! You need to jump in front of them and give them what they want!

You think this sounds good but you don't believe it? Listen, how am I making money? I know that so many people go to Google every day. I know they are researching some products. If my website is in front of them when they do a search for a product and I'm giving them info they need - some will buy and I will make money. Go where people are on the net and give them what they need! Give them what they really need and you will last! Want another example?

This forum attracts lots of people who want to make money online? I've been online for the last 10 years and making some money. How can I make more money? I can show people who don't know how to put something online and earn money how to do it! People will rather pay me to show them how to do it than spend couple of years losing nerves while trying and going up and down. You see? If you put in front of the people what they need and you really give them what they can use - you will make money!

Make a plan! Make sure you have that feeling of happines with the way of making money you intend to pursue! Take action! Earn some money. Multiply. It can be done but you need to find that small way of making money that you can grow bigger and bigger.

What are you selling?

What is your strategy in selling what it is that you are trying to sell?

Hey theappchief!

Appreciate your post. It sounds like you've been through quite a bit when it comes to making money online and I can relate myself.

Currently, I am an email marketer but I also am in quite a few revenue sharing programs that are legit and paying out daily.

I would recommend getting started in a couple revenue share programs to get a bunch of income streams working for you at once and over time, you will build up a nice income that will allow you to pay your bills, hosting and domain payments with ease.

If you'd like, feel free to PM me and I can tell you more, or feel free to click my signature link on how to get started :-)

Take good care and talk soon!

-Nazir Yahshua (Joshua)

The quickest way that I can think of to start bringing money in is Amazon kindle marketing. You'll start to see a financial trickle, but unless you really commit to it, you're not going to see enough flowing in to pay your bills (like with anything I guess!).

There's so many directions you can go online that you can get pulled in a million different directions and never make money.

Here's my two cents on the subject:

1) You need a very specific niches and a very specific goal.

2) People make money for 2 things and 2 things only: a) selling a product; or b) selling a service. You have to determine what that is and focus on promoting it.

3) You need to determine if there is a market for your product or service and once you have determined that there is, you are going to need to invest in PAID traffic. Why paid? Because you cannot scale up free traffic. Once you know something works, you want to scale it up in a huge way.

I focus on doing only three things every day. I cannot do everything. I had to find a way that made money, systemize it, and work it every day.

Hope that's helpful.

Pat

Thanks for all the answers. I guess the closest thing to my interests in which I've almost succeded was CPA traffic arbitrage.
I tried ppv, search ppc, social ppv/ppc as traffic sources. Max return I've got was about ~65% of invested money.

Tried pay per signup game offers, cps offers, never got conversions in niches I'm interested personally - financial, mmo, business, franchises, so left that experiments and achieved money-loss-fear experiencing on testing offer stage..

Pick one strategy and only one......make it work......Stop coming on here and getting information overload and shiny object syndrome. Since you only want to make a little bit of money there isn't much pressure and you can do that easily if you don't spread yourself thin with various strategies.

I chose SEO a long time ago and that is what I do now. Are there other ways to make money? Absolutely. I don't mess with them because I am more concerned with improving and testing SEO daily. Pick one thing and get really good at it vs. being awful at many things...that just means you suck

I hear ya theappchief ! The only key to "working from home" is discipline. People overrate working from home. Yes, it does give you certain convenience but it spoils you if you do not plan your day and act accordingly. The point I am trying to make is this; Look at post from ANDREIS, if you do that religiously - you wouldn't have to ( Nor do I ) to worry about the regular bills. Affiliate commissions is the easiest income string. Find a product that you can get traction for - through free media - FB, twitter. All you'd be doing is, following and get followed by people with similar product interests - and take your link and post there.