Best course of action for part time success

My suggestion would be to plug into a system or an affiliate program with some structure to it. If you are simply trying to create an online business with your own product, then you could waste a lot of that 2 hours per night just trying to work out what the question is. A good system will help you pick a strategy that works (in the context of that system) and lead you through setting up your daily goals.

BTW - information overload is pretty much a standard state when you're getting started. Just keep taking the next step, and it will all start to make sense!

Hi Ed

Maybe we can help you here.

Post back with this information:

1. What value (yes, real value) are you planning to offer?

2. Who (yes, real people) are you planning to offer it to?

3. How are you going to let those real people know about it?

There nothing more to it apart from the mechanics of doing it.

Cheers,

Neil

If you can afford it on your full-time job salary, pay for some articles to be written around keywords in whatever niche you pick. Use some on your site and submit some to article directories. Spend your own time getting links to your site. Use social networking sites like Twitter and start following people in your niche. Many will follow you back. Contribute to forums like this one and always use a link in your signature pointing to your site. Find forums in your niche and do the same.

Add content to your site regularly, never stop working on getting links, and find ways to monetize the site. If the niche you pick is something you know a lot about, create products and sell them from the site. If not, go the affiliate or AdSense route. The key is traffic, of course, which means adding content and always working on building links. Good luck!

John

Hey man,

Ok the reason I suggest you are struggling is that you are not working to a plan...

When I finally started doing this my productivity trebled ! I like you work a full time job and I put in around 2 - 4 hours per night into my online business.

Get yourself a 2009 year diary, preferably one that is a day by day A4 size so each day has its own page.

How far in front do you think you could plan ? ?

Me I work out a 90 day plan, then I break that down into a 30 day plan ... Then a weekly plan and finally into a daily plan.

Without a plan to work to how do you know where you are heading my friend ?!

It is a MUST that you plan tomorrow TODAY !!!!

So each time you sit down at your pc you know exactly what is to be done.. Then you complete those tasks and move on. Turn off all distractions during working time ( emails, skype,msn,forums etc... )

Trust me when you make a plan and WORK it ... You will head strongly in the right direction.

I dont believe you need to buy into any more ebooks or software, if you really want to invest some cash into yourself then in your postion I would suggest a good mentor. That is what I did about 3-4 months ago and have since made around $4,000 with my blog.

Best of luck

Dean

Cool.

That all seems pretty clear.

So it seems that your next steps are to:

1. Create the product.

2. Put a sales site up for it.

At this point you'll feel a whole lot better and feel you're heading in the right direction.

3. Start driving your targeted traffic to the site.

Embrace the fact that there is no "holy grail" for (3), apart from maybe PPC so you just need to do anything and everything you can do drive that targeted traffic.

I believe the lack of focus in this area can be put down to the fact that you don't want to waste time doing stuff that doesn't produce results.

Understandable, but know there are no guarantees, no matter how long you seek them, or how much you spend on research.

So accept that and move on.

Start driving traffic and commit to leaving the guesswork and hope out of it.

That really does remove the feeling of lack of direction and focus.

Meaning?

Keep track of your numbers:

- your conversion rate.

- your visitor value

- your costs (eg PPC).

This is a numbers game, pure and simple, so know your numbers inside out.

Do more of what works, and less of what doesn't.

Hopefully this helps somewhat.

Cheers,

Neil