The laptop lifestyle; Is it at all possible? Or am I deluded to think so?

How many times have you mailed your subscribers? What are you selling them? What do they want to be sold?

Prepare to work a lot, for a long time.

The money is there, if you're willing to put the effort in.

I've seen so many people, many of them on this forum actually, who've kept chipping away at their business for years and eventually breaking into the region of 6 and 7 figures.. and even one guy who broke 8.

The keyword here is keep chipping away. It takes time and dedication, and you have to roll with the punches too. There are many.

You've got the basics, just keep tweaking things, and relentlessly test.

Keep an eye on your conversion rate.. but without looking at what you're doing, it's impossible for us to give advice that might actually mean anything beyond the same old generic stuff.

And with that said.. 100 subscribers isn't many at all. People are joining your list though, so you're doing something right.

I should add that I don't know how or where money comes from.

I have nothing to sell, just a free eBook!

There seems to be many different possibilities such as:

Affiliate marketing
MLM
Amazon business
Youtube
Blogging
Having your own products/services

There seems to be no strategy to work towards anything because I don't know where to start or what avenue to pursue.

I highly, highly recommend Andrew Minalto as a coach. He has a series of online entrepreneur courses on his website, just google him.

You mentioned health and fitness, mindset and motivation. They go very well together. Why not setup a blog around this niche (perhaps you already have), start giving your subscribers free helpful tips and tricks around the topic. Via email and blog posts.

Create a landing page to generate leads by giving a way a free weeks training plan or diet plan. Anything helpful really.

Over time, you can start to promote any services you create to your subscribers. Such as your own training regimes or diets, how to get the right mindset on a daily basis and stay consistent, etc.

Hope this helped. All the best.
-David

It's never been more possible. The world is being layed out for you to get the "laptop lifestyle" your looking for. Self Application >>> Outdated Education

It's possible.. I've seen and met many folks who are doing it now.
And no you don't need to have your own product to start off but you need to invest both time and money..
a lot of investment and you can get something back within a year that's scalable and real.

My advice - Get a Coach and prepare to invest some more money into building your business - start off with affiliate marketing and start building an email list. Get to know people in the industry - there are folks in the Personal Development Niche which is a billion dollar ever green niche btw that are doing very well. So if you have experience and/or interest in the Self help and Health niches this might be for you.

dude you're well on your way.

the little that you've done, is all that you need.

now just be consistent

best of luck,
Ike

You most likely haven't dedicated enough time to the one or two areas that will ultimately bring you targeted traffic.

For example: Don't be all over the place and only handle the most crucial things. Then keep at it -- for a long while.

In this case (assuming you have a blog and a few optin forms configured) hang around several forums and contribute over there like crazy. Apply a similar approach to the likes of Reddit, Quora, and/or Yahoo Answers. People in your niche hang out in those places -- so you NEED to be there as well.

That builds trust, and when a lot of them come to your website, they might subscribe. At that point, you want to keep building trust through periodic emails. Then, and only then, may you start selling.

Anyway, just narrow your focus a bit, because you said you have tried many things already.....

Good luck

hey there


My questions to you!

• How long have you spent trying to do this?
• Do you have a blueprint set up?
• How much time do you spend on your business?

The lifestyle is totally possibly and my husband has just quit his job in the last 6 weeks and now does it too with me - so I am proof however - and this is a big BUT - you do need to work your arse off at the start. And I'm not talking doing a few extra hours here and there, for the first year, I worked my normal corporate job and balanced my business after hours and on weekends and then after a year or so I decided to lock in a few projects and work permanently for myself (just me and my laptop). You do have to have a great pipeline, and for me that is running a marketing agency and bringing in ongoing client work as well as managing monthly projects that allows me to know what money is coming in. You also need affiliate partnership with people who refer you work - in my case marketing, content writing and other marketing strategy work. If you're not already doing it, I would also throw some networking into the mix. While you may not want to get out and about and pump flesh, it is important to build your network and to let people know what you are doing. i am sure if you look back in 6 months you will have it all sorted, I think what you're experiencing now is that thrill / fear of being out on your own. Frankly, it's amazing working for yourself and having flexibility, however it's not a walk in the park and some days you're going to get stressed, but for the most part it is awesome. Good luck.

It sound's promising then!

But where can I start?

I'll make sure I invest one of my day's off to learning and doing whatever I need to do, to get to where I want to be.

you need at least 5000 subscribers bro

100 is nothing ... not even a scratch

Great topic Paul. You have taken great steps already and don't give up when you don't see immediate results. You have skills that are in hot niches. I would suggest to join facebook groups and forums that match your skills and niches you wish to target. Make a few posts but don't go in all salesman like.

Also, regarding your email list. Possibly design a 7 day FREE course to send to them day-by-day and then when it concludes send them an email offering your service with your price with something along the lines of ''If you want to learn more in-depth''.

It's not too hard once you get the hang of it.

Best of luck.

Hi Paul,

I thanked you for sharing your journey. I know how it feels and appreciate your openness and honesty.

"Being able to make a difference in peoples lives is what I'm certain I can do"

Bingo. That's it. That's your starting point. Devote all of your intent to making a difference in people's lives while you follow what feels most fun to you, niche wise. The practical tips, influencers, mentors, prospering ideas and inspired actions will find you more regularly if you hold this intent most of the time.

As if the laptop lifestyle is possible, I've only paid for a domain and hosting over the past 8 years and have spent near nil on coaching and mentoring (didn't drop much at all, like zero pretty much, on systems and coaching), and this is my life:

Blogging From Paradise

I've circled the globe for the past 5 years as a full time blogger, living in places like Fiji and Bali and Thailand for months or years at a time. Writing these words from Istanbul now (normal day to day living, don't trust the headlines).

What I did not spend in money I spent on facing and experiencing my demons (not pleasant, but darn freeing), learning by reading voraciously, practicing to improve my skill sets, and persisting with both my personal development and blog-building activities to create this neat lifestyle and to help other folks do what I do.

If you are struggling the answer lies within. Because until you get really clear on why you're doing this and until you face, embrace and release any anxieties/fears/limiting beliefs around the worries (thru meditation, EFT tapping, etc), anything you touch will turn to custard. Which is why the training and mentoring and websites and everything have yielded 0 dollars for you.

It's like: you can't get over or around something that's still *in you.* Does that make sense? The energy is there, in you, and reflects back to you as the $0.

And believe you me, the answer is not in doing more, or hustling or pushing, because if you don't address the energies, they ain't going nowhere and you will self-sabotage. Take it from a former expert in this area

I think many well-meaning and even successful laptop lifestyle mentors gloss over addressing the pain points because they're hungry to make profits. I explicitly have felt the pain, misery, depression, rage and outright grief of trying to gloss over or bury the mental blocks and deeper, sometimes nasty feelings for years, and I've also felt the joy and liberation of facing, embracing and releasing these energies, to live my life by design, to feel more detached from outcomes, and in so doing I was blessed to be featured on some of the world's most famous blogs (Forbes, Richard Branson's Virgin blog) as a "digital nomad authority"...whatever that means LOL.

I do coaching/consulting on blogging and on living the dot com lifestyle you so deeply want to live. Information is available on Coaching tab thru my home page (geared toward blogging there, but I do full analysis for anybody wanting to do what you want to do). I focus heavily on the inner work with a healthy dose of practical tips to get things up and running so you can get on the right track toward living your dreams.

Get super clear on 2 things Paul: following your fun and following your freedom. Your passion is in personal development, which is awesome. So you will free yourself more and more thru expressing this passion.

As you progress, and honestly assess how you feel, as you dive into doing freeing but uncomfortable things, you'll begin to feel deeper emotions, most of them anxiety and fear-based, that you need to face, experience (cry out, punch a pillow, grieve, etc), and then, release, to be freer of those success-blocking energies.

Then, the doing gets a bit easier and you'll get some neat ideas and hope will spring up, more powerfully, from within your being. This is the big shift or turning point that the guys and gals who live their dreams, making: feeling the pain, letting it go, and moving forward from a more relaxed, prospering space, moving into specific actions to build their online biz's while maintaining the right vibe to manifest success.

I could be here for 16 hours writing about this stuff but Turkey is calling my friend

Feel free to DM me and we can chat.

Hold that freeing intent, hold your dream and you'll create the life. I know it.

Ryan

PS....I've written 126 eBooks talking about how to live this life - heavy emphasis on blogging but I cover a bunch of topics which may interest you - and also give out 1 free blogging eBook every Friday for my list and Push subscribers. Could be helpful for you to build your personal development biz on a blog for it's a foundational branding tool, so yep, these free eBooks may be up your alley.

well let me know first about yout strategy. How many times you have mailed to your subscribers in a day ?I am little bit confused about your niche.Well you can go for motivation and health topic like you have mentioned.But Let me know , you can sell any thing or earn from every thing If you have an investment and you have potential to run ads on fb (how to target audience and make interest). I mean low budget and high conversion strategy.

Unfortunately, you fit the description of someone who's been fleeced. I'm not going to attack you since it's not always the victim's fault. Other people here will put the onus on you, when it's really on the people who were selling you dreams. That's all it is...selling dreams. Your results are very typical!

I do! I have the truth for you. The ugly...bitter...truth. Would you like the red pill or the blue pill? Most people here like the blue pill...if you'll excuse the Matrix reference.

You've learned the real secret to anyone that makes money online in the "new age/new wage/selfish help/info product/laptop lifestyle" business. They make money by selling dreams.

Then you're done for. I'm sorry. It's not what you want to hear. But even with the dreams and deceit aside, it is hard to make money.

It's simple arithmetic. If you want to make $1000/day for example...you'd need to sell 20 units at $50. That doesn't sound too bad. But upon further examination, you find that your conversion rate is only 2% (the industry average is less than 1%) so you'll need 1000 targeted visitors to your sales page every day, or 7000 targeted visitors per week. That's A LOT.

At a conservative cost of .20/click it will cost you $200/day to get those 1000 visitors, which gives you gross sales of $1000. BUT! We forgot to factor in a conservative refund rate of 5%! So you actually make 19 sales a day and $950 gross revenue.

We also forgot to factor in a conservative 3% in processing fees! And we forgot to factor in 20% in taxes! You're left with $737/day while spending $200+/day. I didn't even touch upon your operating expenses! And this example is still very dreamy! Your actual costs will be higher and your conversion rates will be much lower.

Holy crap! Where is all the money going?! Not in your pocket! That's for sure! You'll most likely burn through all your money like you were at the casino.

I'm sorry to pop the bubble with the facts, but the "laptop lifestyle" is a cruel lie cooked up to sell dreams. You're not delusional yet. If you ignore my post and continue to believe that you'll "crack the code" and make millions online...then you'll be delusional.

I'm sorry. I am. But I'd rather give you the facts and save you lots of money, than lie to you and have you spend your life savings on pipe dreams and unicorns.

The best thing you could have done with your money and could still do is invest it monthly into high interest funds or treasury bills and track your dividends online if it would make you feel better to use a laptop to watch your earnings. Keep doing that for a year or two and you will have fun watching your money multiplying and working for you.

Internet marketing is very difficult to do especially if you are a noob and before you know it thousands of dollars invested into could be lost instead of earned which could have been better utilized.

Absolutely it's possible. But the 20-hour work week may not be as such and it can take quite some time to build your business to a point where that is possible. Although I am in a fixed location overseas, my business is completely dependent on my laptop and an Internet connection so I can just get up and go somewhere new if I want to. Having said that, I easily put in over 50 hours a week on my projects.

There's a huge difference between wanting to do something and doing something. You should also keep in mind that many of the people making the most out of a gold rush are the ones selling shovels. When it gets down to it making money online is a big competition and the ones who are killing it aren't going to give out valuable information to random people on the internet. It just doesn't work that way. There are exceptions of course but I think it's essential that you instill the attitude in yourself that you're going to have to do the work almost entirely on your own. You can pick up pointers from others but where the work is concerned you're on your own. With that understood approach things with the absolute commitment to learn from mistakes and to start small and then scale once you find something that works. Finding what works is where the grind is. You grind as smart and as efficiently as you can and take absolute responsibility for whether you succeed or not. You aren't going to succeed online with a half-assed approach unless you get incredibly lucky. You have to grind.

Also, assume everyone in this industry is broke and fos until proven otherwise. It should help you sift through the noise much quicker.

The laptop lifestyle is real, it's just that you must learn how to find it. Don't go for obvious get rich schemes, you are smarter than that. You just have to seize good opportunities that come by and when you do find them remember that 'Without Action There is No Reaction'. So taking action is the foundation key to success. You got to take action when it comes. Only then can you say you have taken the first step to make a difference in your life to learn the trade to become an online marketer.

This has always worked for me especially in my last 6 months when I took actions to one business opportunity that now earns me $200 per day.

The only way any person on this forum ever earns money is by selling a product or a service (at a price higher than their cost) or as wages from working for a company that sells products and services.

All businesses sell something and every employee everywhere supports the process of selling services, making things to sell, doing the sales, or supporting customers after sales are made. If you have nothing to sell at a profit, you will make no money. If you have a product or service to sell but cannot make sales, you will make no money.

You don't need a mentor. You need to be able to watch how people make money. Every time you see a link here ... Every time you visit a website ... Every time you listen to radio, TV, read a blog ... ask yourself: What are they selling? When you learn what is being sold, then look to see how they are doing it.

The money that will pay your bills (regardless of preferred lifestyle) will come from making sales. The better you are at making sales, the more money you will make.

and the reason why is: You are not selling a product or service for a profit.

You make money by making a product or service yourself and marketing it, by selling a product or service at a price higher than your cost, or by working as a salesperson for others.

For your list above:
Affiliate marketing is working as a commission salesperson for a company that sells products or services. Drop Shipping is the same as affiliate marketing (except you get your commission at the time of the sale instead of waiting.) MLM is selling another company's products at a higher price than your cost (also as a commission-only salesperson). Amazon is selling products online at a price higher than cost plus fees (or you can be their affiliate). YouTube is promotion of products and services. Blogging is writing for a specific area of interest, which can be monetized by selling products and services that would be useful (needed, wanted) to the demographic.

Can you determine how Ryan Biddulph (in his post above) makes the money he needs to live the lifestyle he has chosen? For every link in this thread, including signatures and the Warrior Forum top banner, the link is selling something. Every link on your computer to a business is selling - This is where their money is coming from.

The Laptop Lifestyle sure sounds good and easy but actually it requires a lot of hard work and dedication. start with that and the money will starting pouring in slowly.
p.s try to get as many subscribers as you can.

There's already enough great information on this thread about some great mentors and people to learn from.....but to answer your original question, NO, you are not deluded at all.

It's about investing your time and money on a system you believe in and can give you results.

I know what it's like to be you. I started in this business a year ago on this forum and got lost buying product after product.

What did I do? I left this forum and focused on MAKING MONEY.

You ask, "what did you do to make money?"

I left this forum with tons of products on YouTube, CPA, Affiliate marketing, list building, and everything in between. I bought a ton of WSOs and Clickbank products with almost zero results.... When I was lost and confused in pursuit of making an income in Internet marketing and having the "laptop lifestyle", I decided to go through the products that I bought and I ended up piecing stuff together.

The three things that I learned from the first WSO I bought I pieced together with the other WSOs on that same topic. It took time.....but I eventually pieced it all together. With multiple income streams going on now, I can tell you upfront that you are not at all deluded about the idea of creating a business in the online world.

I think making multiple 6-7 figures working 20 hours or less for most will never happen!!! Those with the least amount of experience, usually have the most unrealistic expectations.

By no means am I saying it can't be done. However, if someone is generating 7 figures and works 20 hours or less, they probably have a team that does the actual work and other forms of support and are delegating / overseeing what needs to get done. To me, this is the only realistic way, someone is going to reach this goal.

I do believer that one could have a 6 figure business and work those kind of hours. But this would only happen after they have put in their time to develop it and may end up in the end, requiring a virtual assistant to make it possible.

With internet marketing, I don't think there is anything that can beat automating tasks, that make sense to do so and hiring inexpensive VA's, in order to cost effectively reducing the time you have to actually spend working.

I'm grateful, yet concerned with the mixed responses. But now I'll feel like every other person who offers advice is just trying to sell me something.

I'm willing to put in the time and effort if I know it's the right thing, but I'm not willing to be misled into multiple links for people to make money off me with no real intention to want to help.

At the end of the day I have a strong desire to change lives as I already do on a one-to-one basis in my job. But I'd like to expand and free up more time for myself and get involved with the online world.

I'm guessing that with so much shit and tons of scams out there, it's hard to know who to trust.

Yes, by selling you something, they will make money. The posters promoting education in this thread want your money.

There's the post that says you need more subscribers on your list and has a link where you can pay money to him to learn how to get more subscribers. There's the post that says: Of course it is possible, and they are selling a course that claims anybody can make five figures a month. There is forum spam in this thread, new members with a single post that write and say you can have it all and here's the link you need to click.

They are each attempting to monetize their forum activity - most of them will disappear because they are trying to appear as authorities but have not applied their limited knowledge. When you have tried and tested enough methods, you will know which posters don't know what they're doing.

Until you can determine which advice is real and which is useless, any money you spend trying to learn how to build an online business will be a waste.

Your answer is:

When a forum does not limit new members before links are allowed, the spammers will overrun the threads. It shows more activity but degrades the quality of response. Even some established members have links to education they obviously have not fully tested. For new people like yourself asking questions, you should know that some of the advice here (and elsewhere online) is financially dangerous. The established, knowledgeable members here could all use something like a reverse-thanks but then the spammers would use it for their benefit.

Is the laptop lifestyle possible? The fact that there are journalists working for major news organizations and individuals that have built large targeted followings, that afford them the ability to travel, says the answer is Yes. Can you do it? Not without a lot of hard work and long hours over a period of years building a business.

I believe Ryan Biddulph (that posted above) is, in fact, living a laptop lifestyle. How do I know this? He sells a blogging course on his website, he sells coaching (that can be done from anywhere) and, most importantly, Ryan has written 255 books that are available on Amazon and his website. The residual income from book sales alone could likely enable his travel and writing. I can assure you he was not working 20 hours a week as a journalist to generate that quantity of material. Can you do what he is doing? Of course! ... just write a hundred books, place them for sale at ecommerce sites on the internet, and when sales and profits are high enough to start traveling, you can continue writing from wherever you want to go.

It's definitely possible. But it will take a lot of hard work,dedication and focus. Most people never achieve success because they're only focused on lining their own pockets and nothing else. The way you make money in any kind of business is serving people and solving problems. Do those two things on a consistent basis and you'll be way ahead of the pack.

IMO.. the long term goal might be to work 20 hours a week, but when you are starting you will need to put in 3-4x that.

Think of it as a long term investment, you are sacrificing the present for your future. It's an up front cost with a long term gain.

Yes, good honest advise.

SOS, (Shiny Object Syndrome) is an addiction, since it sells hope and anticipation, but never the desired result.

You believe in the sales pitch, since they show the walking the dogs on the beach, and then go back to their loving wife, and PC on steroids, to do an hours work, watching the money,..... (where's the bucket).

That lifestyle is possible, but it takes up to almost 10 years of being chained to your Laptop, (yes, there is more than one Laptop lifestyle).

True, best to seek advise from people like me and others, who are not sugar coating advise, and don't have any coaching links in their sig?

But l do have a tropical avatar image, but that is more for my benefit.

Tried building a list, got up to a couple of hundred, mainly using free online coaching videos, and free books, and most of the time the initial sale is easy and then it is near impossible to get any more.

Adwords, very hard to find enough kw's to sustain growth, and enough cheap ones at that.

The list is endless, and l am not trying to sell you anything, promise.

I have been online for almost 10 years, and can tell you that traffic is the hardest thing to get.

Fix that and wealth is easy, but of course that is very hard to fix.

Not impossible though.

A case in point is me realizing years ago, that since Adwords was too expensive, and Bing never works, that l had to concentrate on sites that had their own traffic?

Find those and the biggest hurdle is gone....

So, l tried....

• Fiverr first, but with only 20 product spots available and closing down large PLR bundle products, pretty useless overall. I am certainly not going to work like a slave for an income.

• Then tried Graphicriver, flyers did well, but, l did the math and found that l would have to work for about 8 years to make a full time living from it.

So 8 years hard labour, so l can wake up in my underwear and see the money coming in, (well, at the right time of day or night l would).


• Then last of all, l tried to get into Creative Market. That took about 6 months of effort and a few failed attempts, but l got in, (set up a store).

I am currently doing fonts for them, as fonts is more profitable than flyers.

But the catch with fonts, is it requires a good year to learn it all, (Adobe software and font software) so, at least $600 up front to a few thousand.

Thankfully l have all of that, and am working on something that should do the trick, but time will tell.

One of my competitors, has done 5, with a few being accepted by the mods over there to include in their emails to their massive lists.

How massive, it has made her, 20k, within about 6 months, and can make 2 to 7k within a week.

So, yeah, that is what l am doing, so l guess that the money is in the list, (but much easier to use someone else's).

And as for killing your demons, etc. I suppose that very negative self talk can go against you, but overall, l just see this as, doing my best, throwing everything l have at it, and making the best or biggest product possible, so they will want to pitch it to their list.

Do l really believe that this will take off, (can't comprehend it at this point) but l don't believe that visualizing goals daily and meditating, etc, will make that much of a difference.

Spent years doing all of that goal visualizing stuff, and all it does is p*** you off, or reminds you that it has been a year, and goal A, hasn't appeared yet.

I am just doing everything that l can to give it the best chance, and motivational, babbling won't make that much of a difference in the end.

Hi there,

I've had passive income online earning streams for 15 years now, and have taken two 3-month road trips supported largely or completely by passive income. I don't live out of a suitcase, though, because that's not my preferred lifestyle.

From my experience and observation, your starting point must be something you care deeply about and that the marketplace values. Both elements are essential. It's in that intersection that a sustainable business is born.

Don't spend a dime on any mentoring or courses until you find that intersection. It may take thinking and research.

Good luck!

Marcia Yudkin

You have a good plan lined out. Hang in there and best of luck.

Cheers

Yes, it definitely is possible because it's already
being done by quite a few people.

But like so many others have already said, you have to work
hard as hell to achieve your dream.

Pick a proven strategy that works...

Block out ALL of the noise.

That means unsubscribe from the email list of people
who promote products to you so you won't get distracted
and start chasing shiny objects.

Believe in yourself even when no one else does...

And never ever ever give up.

I was just watching a program with my son called The Men Who Built America. One of the phrases really stuck with me that "People with real money focus on the game not the money. They watch every move their competition makes and then give complete focus on winning over their competition. The money follows the win."

You have the mechanics in place and all the tools of the trade. But, it seems you're lacking in the other part of the sequence. Instead of trying to figure out how you're going to make money online, find out what people are buying, who they're buying it from and offer something better. You don't have to recreate the wheel from scratch in this game. You just have to be competitive and focus on winning and spend your time getting in front of other people who are spending money online.

Well laptop lifestyle and the 4-Hour Work Week is really possible mate! If you are just starting out, I recommend browsing here on forums --you'll get a lot of ideas and knowledge here.

I also recommend reading blogs on Internet Marketing and putting what you learned into action. SmartPassiveIncome is a good place to start your online journey

Keep doing what you're doing. Slow and steady wins the race. Give up the idea of getting rich quick.

It's not an overnight thing, it's a possible lifestyle but only if you stay consistent. Your product to sell is dependent on the focus of your site. Affiliate marketing is probably the best starting route for you.

Hey Paul,

It surely is a long journey.

There are many others who have done it in the fitness space.

Some that have inspired me are:

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2011/11/...bs-mike-geary/

http://www.incomediary.com/vince-del...o-build-muscle

There are guys like Brandon Carter, Eliot Hulse, Greg from Kinobody, Mark Sisson, Joe Mercola and others who are doing similar things.

Russell Brunson in his book DotComSecrets that you can get off Amazon or from his site gives us the funnels we need to have to even have a chance to use paid advertising to build a business. even if you don;t want to use paid ads in the begining, you'll still need a funnel. I've seen Mike Chang use YouTube to get attention and then send people through his funnel, long before he started using paid ads on youtube.

Marlon Sanders has a few good resources that I've found useful in getting the pieces of the puzzle together (Amazing Formula that I bought and a free optin report called 'Best Of Marlon Sanders') and Eric Louviere has a couple of ebooks (one called the best marketing ebook ever) that he gives out for an optin that reveal the true secret of making money which in 2 short words is -> making sales. This can be as a product owner, or as an affiliate.

Keep chipping away, Use what you already have - testimonials from offline clients, etc to build a good optin report/video/audio and then promote quality products that you either use or believe in, or your own.

All the best.

Have been doing the 4 hour day for years , set up time 12 months if you apply yourself and are willing to learn it can be done

In the first 12 months you will be looking at 9-12 hour days but hey look on the bright side after that 4 hours day is not bad

Jason

I would suggest you create a landing page and offer something in your niche for free. Promote this and build your subscriber base. Alternatively you could offer them a free email coaching course so they get a taste of what you are offering. Once you have captured their attention you can then start emailing them paid courses and take it from there

That's great that you want to help others while living the 'laptop' lifestyle! It is definitely possible. Just remember that if it were easy, then everybody would do/have it. Simply stay focused, try not to get distracted by the 'shiny objects' and fail forward....meaning if something doesn't pan out the way you thought, you didn't fail, you found out a way that doesn't work and are ready to try a new way.

Whatever you decide to do, best of luck to you

You're off to a great start - 100 subscribers is more than a lot of others have. Yes, its possible. I've lived it. A six figure income generated online for over a decade. Its a lot harder to do now than it used to be if you are just getting started, but its still possible. Only go after this if its tied to something you are truly passionate about. Because, as others have said, its going to be a LOT of work. When you do something you are passionate about, it doesn't feel like work.

There is a definition of "entrepreneur" which I absolutely love, because I think it really hits the nail on the head: "An entrepreneur is someone who will work themselves 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week for someone else". And often with little or no compensation in the early days (or longer).

You have to be prepared to do that. Being an online entrepreneur is also not for the faint of heart. If you are lucky, you may experience the highest of highs - - but you will almost assuredly go through the lowest of lows (I've been through both). There will be heartbreaks. There will be disappointments. There will be experiences and situations which are brutally unfair. Know what you're in for! And if you're cool with that, then follow your dream; pursue your passion. Be prepared to give it everything you've got, because that's almost always what it takes.

If your project takes off, let me tell you from personal experience - there is no greater feeling in the world, and it will make all the hard work, blood, sweat and tears worth it. But there are no guarantees.

Life online can be fickle too. Especially if you are dependent on a platform (facebook, amazon, ebay, etsy, google...etc.etc). Don't put all of your eggs in one basket. Be diversified. Otherwise, one platform change, one technology change, and you could be wiped out. If you manage to start generating good income online, look for a sound offline investment as well - buy revenue generating real estate, or invest in some other profitable local business offline so that you always have an income source that is not tied to la-la-land (my affectionate term for the virtual world) - just in case everything goes "pouffe" one day.

And one more thing, don't quit your day job. Its almost impossible to make money if you don't have money - yes, even online. It ain't fair, but that's how it is. Anyone who tells you differently is usually trying to sell you something (ironically....

No its not, and Im saying this as a person who makes 7 figures a year online. There is NO WAY your going to do this working less than 20 hours a week. Ok there is one way, you can pay someone to do all the work for you. But be assured, SOMEONE will be working, and a lot more than 20 hours a week.