My sister wants to make money online. Any suggestions to get started?

Why not just help her out and show her what you're doing? I'm not saying you have to hold her hand every step of the way, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to help your sister?

Maybe you could at least recommend some books, courses, websites, etc. that have helped you "make a fortune."

Does she have any money to invest at all?

If she's just looking for 'something to do' online to make some extra cash then I would have her check out fiverr.

See what gigs are popular that are something she could do and would be worth $4 for the 15 minutes it (hopefully) takes to do if she wants to offer something similar.

Or look at popular fiverr gigs and add more value, then instead of fiverr use ad forums like those here at WF or Linked In to find higher paying clients and do a gig for $37 or $47 that would be $5 on fiverr.

As she gets experience (or even right away) and once she has access to potential clients she could simply do service arbitrage by reselling fiverr gigs for a higher price.


Another idea would be to JV with you (so to speak) list building where she would only need minimal technical skills to set up a funnel and autoresponder. She could do all the research and work developing/finding products for her funnel. And you could lend your experience and credibility to sales pages and products.

There are lots of other ideas but these two I thought 1) does she just want piece work for extra cash or 2) How can she leverage your experience without taking time from you to 'mentor'.

There is also a great thread "What to do if you're desperate" which has many great ideas, even if you're not desperate.

A helpful index of ideas in the thread was recently posted here:
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ate-index.html

It has some good advice about using the ideas too.

Mahlon

OPTION 1:
If you really care about your sister, pay her $X an hour to watch what you do.

Think of a creative way, better yet, she think of a creative way to increase her value (or start on her own) from there.



OPTION 2:
PS: There are also legit "work from home" opportunities that can pay $12-$15 per hour.

OPTION 3
Or, try Fiverr on for size. (You can help promote her gigs if you want to make success more feasible).

How can you not know how to help your sister?

If you are really making a fortune as you say then you are probably way ahead of most of the people who are going to reply with the same old advice.

Since you are making a "Fortune" yourself surely you must have a method, tips, tricks that you can teach your sister?

dont teach her. let her learn on her own. just give them you exact process of building a website

product selection
keyword research
sizing up the compitetion
site creation
creating content
building backlinks

you dont have to explain anything just tell her what to do.

example:

product selection - go to amazon best seller find a product with atleast 10 reviews at 4/5 star rating

keyword research - search product name keyword with atleast 500 local searchs, steady local trend, and note other related keywords

i hope this helps

Odd that you're doing so well yet can't think of how to help your family make a few hundred dollars a month online, but here's a recent thread that a fellow warrior posted on that is the best advise in my opinion. It can be found here -->> http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...e-start.html#2

Thanks goes to warrior PCH for giving this advice.

Make it a great day,
Joe Remington

I've got to agree with some of the other posters here in the fact that something is just a bit incongruent with those two statements...

Having said that, here is an Indexed list of topics generated by users here at WF of ways to make money if you are desperate. The list includes online and offline methods.

There is a very good chance that you could find something on that list that she could do as 90% of them are suitable for newbies.

Here it is:

What to do if you're desperate index

Best,
Alex

You can take everything that you learned over the past few years and show her what you did that worked and what you did that did not work.

If you can put this into a course for her, you can sell this info to others and make more money.

That way, you are helping her and having your own product that can bank you more sales and money.

It seems to me that you already have a blueprint for her to follow.
You can make her aware of the hours needed to test find the right
squeeze page to build your list with

You could perhaps also give your sister some credit
tell her to first what you have to do is this
after you get that done come talk to me about what is next

and help her build her business one step at a time to better take
care of your Nephew

Get her to set-up an authority site in a subject of her interest. It will take some time but will be worth it.

Have her start a blog and put adsense on it...

Hire her as your assistant. You can let her do for you things that you wouldn’t outsource because you cannot trust strangers so much, but you can trust your sister.

She could give CPA a try? It's free to join and promote. If she's interested in that, I'd love to help her get started.

online only,

She could chase shiny balls forever....

I would go right to product creation....

Sure, there are "tons of products" out there...

The thing is 90% of them are sub-par...

The only real "competition" is from the top 10%...

To put it together, I'd recommend Kevin Riley's Clockwork Recipe For Creating High Profit Video Courses.

Once she her product is assembled, she can then recruit affiliates.... They are always looking for "new" quality products to promote... and put $$$ in their pockets.

Of course, she doesn't have to focus on MMO/IM. There are lots of "desperate" niches out there to serve.

All The Best,

Rich Beck BCIP, MCSD, MCIS

Show her the same thing you're doing... just in a different niche.

How about web or content researcher? or writer? It is really difficult to explain to the family that it doesn't mean that you work from home, it's also that easy to earn money from there. I have explained to them how complicated it is and how hard it is to find a great and legit company to work with.

Just hook her up with some people who need those sub par articles for blog networks. She can surely write better than most of that junk they put on those sites and make 300 a month easy.

I know a friend who has a web cam chat service. Pretty good money in that and pretty much a guaranteed job for her.

Hey, you are already making a lot of money. Why not help your sister to do the same?

Seems like a self promotion post.

Thanks

How about the tasks you're doing in your business that you can delegate to her? So basically she's working for you and you're helping her. That way also you can teach her your ways of making money online at the same time.

For girls, the best model should be vblogging, build an authority youtube channel and teach people something, about making up, workouts, etc,....

pay her for writing the articles that you have prepared early.that ways you can help her.

blogging with affiliate programs might be good way to start. I have friends that write about fashion and they make couple hundred bucks with it per month.

Either your not telling the truth (i.e. your not making a fortune) or your not the best family man going around.
I agree with most of the posters pointing to you helping your sister out - she's only asking to make $300 a month. How easy would that be to show her.

some suggestions - setting up a blog, doing surveys, writing articles or building a list.

Obviously depends if she has money to invest but generally, she shouldn't need money if she only wants to make $300 a month.

Pay your sister some of your fortune

Who else in the world can help her better when she have a successful, fun loving online Guru?

EBay can be good if she is a smart shopper type or enjoys markets, vintage stores etc.
Mummy bloggers can do well if they are inspired and consistent with their postings. Help her set up a nice Wordpress themed blog where she can connect with the world of Mums and bubs etc? If she writes about what she knows, adds pics, ads, affiliate products etc. Twitter account to drive traffic. Network, make friends, attract some sales, share her experiences. Best wishes to you both.

Here's a couple of things she can do on Fiverr:

- Draw illustrations (if she can draw)
- Write children's stories (300 words for $5)
- Voice acting (30-60 seconds for $5)
- Video testimonials (30-60 seconds for $5)
- Send postcards (simple Gig with 0-15 words: $5, more words: $10)
- Sell PLR eBooks (buy cheap ones or get free ebooks, sell them for $5)
- Kindle reviews (free or $1 books: $5, more expensive books: $10-$15, more text: +$5)

2 Gigs a day: 2 X 30 X $4 = $240 / month

And there are many other options to earn money on Fiverr...

You should begin by introducing her to what you do and also let her know making money online require learning curves.

Some of the sensitive things she should have at the back of her mind are:

Internet marketing which include list building, how the search engine works among others.

Traffic source from targeted terms via social media, ppc, SEO, blogging, forums and others.

Some bit of web design.

She has to know that she needs money to make money and that's why you should consider article writing, freelancing sites like elance, fiverr e.t.c to help raise some funds for possible business expansion.

While it's not a good idea to bring her into the same niche as you, ofcourse not without telling her the reason.

This thread makes no sense. You make a 'fortune' online but cant think of anything to tell your sister to do. You have no time to help her since your such a busy person making your fortune but you have time to post a thread on the WF and read the answers? Come on man...

i guess , the author of this thread asked for himself and not for his sister )

This guy is saying that he has been in Internet Marketing for 3 years, is making a fortune and yet, he is the member of warrior forum for only 1 year. Very clever way of marketing.

Instead of you asking warriors to advise you in few sentences on what can done, i think it would be better if you can sit her down with you and let her look over on your screen to see what you do to make money.
I am sure this will be the best coaching for her if she learns from you.
A successful brother teaching her newbie sister; what else can be better than this?

I have sit down several people whom I love in real life and have taught them from zero, trust me all of them are heroes now.

So take a step, ask your sister to see what you do on your screen, teach her and I bet this will be the best coaching she would ever receive.

Hey man I just built a platform that does exactly that. I require you pay $250 upfront and have your own Google adsense account.

I would be willing to wave the $250 for you if you and your sister are interested in helping work out the Setup process. This is a real system. I have been making a living off for a while and I want to help others make a few bucks as well. Our best site does $6k per day and most do about $10 per day all paid directly from Google. This will be limited I'm setting up for immediate family and friends but anyone willing to help make set up videos do graphics design, coding or have anything else valuable to offer to this project you can get in free.

I'm pretty sure she knows your story how you struggle to make it. Ask her if she's willing to go through the process and has the patience.
There are programs that can help her out without you intervention.
I know there is a pretty good program out there, but I can't remember right now. Let me go and look for it. and I'll post the link here. so check my posts later on.

Plug her into an existing business with a supportive and exclusive community.

I think you have to invest money. if you are not invest you can sarch free online earning.

OO, any niche where you create value and make connections works What vibes with her? Does she like creating? Blogging would fit. Or perhaps she likes networking? Go the social route. Find skills within to find the best outside match.

Get her to write an ebook about something she is good at or may bring value. She may be good at writing and has the time now.

Then since you know how to build sites, and monetize via affiliate links promote her ebook that way you help her out and at the same time you make money too. If it does well, you make a bigger fortune and she will make a fortune. Win - Win for both of you.

Good luck.

Online Only

Looking at the site you are linking with I would say you know about marketing and business if this is what you do and its your annual gig?

With regards to your sister, the best play here would be to take her onboard as an assistant and teach here the jobs you do each day which are a time suck and can easily be outsourced. This will free your time to get above your business and see the bigger picture to making more money than you do now and it will allow your sister the opportunity to learn the business from the "inside".

Her path will then become clear as you and she proceed.

Enjoy the party in August

Hi Sir,

In my views, fiverr is best for making money in spare time.

My question is, why do you feel any of those things are too difficult for her? I mean everyone has to start from somewhere.

I bet you any money if she started off by using the right system and developing a small site in a low competition niche, she would end up hitting that target you mentioned of $200-$300.

Personally I believe that one of the easiest ways of making this happen is to target one specific product or offer and write content around the keywords related to the offer. In short a small niche, product review blog.

There are three benefits to starting small like this:

1. The keywords normally have low competition on Google
2. You don't need a lot of traffic to make money as people are entering from targeted keywords like "PRODUCT NAME review" or "buy PRODUCT NAME".
3. You get to learn all the necessary skills to get you started working online - web development, content creation, keyword research, SEO, etc. etc.

If done correctly using the right model, your sis will hit that number relatively quickly.

You told here, Already you are earning from online sites. I am sure you know many thing, how to earn from online, you can suggest to your sister, which way will be more convenient for her.

Blog, blog and blog some more. Make as many friends as possible by promoting them. Focus on creating value and making connections, and monetize with a few set channels.

Originally Posted by online only Hi, I'm currently making a lot of money via affiliate marketing. I've learned the hard way. I've burned a lot of money, I've been frustrated, once I almost decided to quit. However, after a lot of trying and failing I've finally managed to earn money. I think it took almost 3 years.. I'm doing really well, I'm mostly building sites, monetizing them via affiliate links and getting traffic from Google and PPC. I'm also building lists and starting to create my own products. Now my family is all over me, since they know I make a fortune. They keep asking questions: "How do you do that?" "If you can do, I can do that too!" "Can you show me some guides to make money online" etc... I'm not really into mentoring/teaching. I'm a really busy person and I just don't have time to teach basics. Plus, I know that 99,9% of people will fail anyway or quit before they make any money. Now my sister (28 years old) has some spare time since she is being home "stuck" with her new born baby. She would like to earn money from internet as well. She is asking my advice to make $200-$300 per month from "side". However, I'm absolutely clueless how to help her... Obviously PPC, SEO and building websites is way too hard for her. She can be a support person for some internet company, but that's all.. At least I guess so. Any suggestions? I would really like to help her, but I just don't know how.

Here are my tips that may help you and your sister.

1. Find a niche which you have a solution to most people's problems or passion for something which others also have passion and most importantly are willing to spend $ on it.

Can be things like baking cakes, cooking, drawing, design, playing musical instruments, health and personal development besides just making $ online.

2. Go to relevant forums and Facebook groups related to your niche. You can find them easily on Google and Facebook. For Facebook, you need to get an account and upload your photo.

3. Introduce yourself, learnt to connect and see if you can help others like this forum. Another reason is to find out what they need, want or are having problems with.

4. Once you get hold of those, write at least 4-5 articles providing helpful tips using Open Office or Microsoft Office. Then upload them as PDF.

5. Sign up for Clickbank and relevant affiliate programs.

6. Get a domain name at Namecheap, Hostgator web hosting and build a squeeze page addressing the main points of your report on what your prospects get before signing up as your subscribers to get your free report.

You can build a squeeze page at either Free Squeeze Page Generator you can find through Google search or paid Optimize Press by James Dyson for $97

7. Sign up at Aweber for your autoresponder to connect with your subscribers through emails.

8. Drive traffic to your squeeze page using forums, Facebook group and other methods like article marketing, blogging in sites like Blogger, Hubpages and Squidoo, classified advertising and Youtube video.

9. At the same time, create a Wordpress blog sharing information on how you get started in your niche as well as helpful tips to your subscribers through emails.

You don't want to give your subscribers the impression of spamming them by constantly sending them affiliate links to offers.

With that said, this is the basic foundation of how you make $ online.

By helping people to get what they want, they will give you what they want.

I'd also suggest she starts with blogging.

Since your making a lot of money from affiliate marketing, why don't you just show her a method or 2? she's your sister and she has a newborn she wants to earn money for the baby, your niece/nephew.

It all depends on what she is passionate about. First she will need to pick a niche and a way to drive traffic, then she can take off from there. Wish I could be of more help!

Best of luck with your sister.

She should go to Blogger.com and read some of their blogs.

You need to make an analysis of what she enjoys and with your knowledge of ppc I'msure you could get a cpa offer that she can promote and realy enjoy. She'll probably enjoy answering questions from posible prospects because its a niche she enjoys

Since she has the time...Start a blog using..Blogger..Squidoo...Hub pages and promote
affiliate products....Check out the super huge listings at AffiliatePrograms.com...they
also have great info on making money..

She wants $200/$300 a month? Why not set up a few PPC campaigns for her?

She could open some gig about video reviews on Fiverr or she could search a day entry work on elance or odesk.

Whatever fast learning scheme you may put her on, it will not help as much as it would if you took her on as an "intern" and taught her from scratch. It's the best way to make sure that she will be able to do this in the future.

I suggest Paid Surveys for your sister. While it is not one of the most profitable of home businesses, Paid Surveys are simple and easy to do and Yes, any one can make money online with them.

Your sister can make four or five dollars a pop, which can add up especially if she does a few paid surveys each day in her spare time.

Simple...invest into building a list. Really is the best way even today!

Unbelievable...

Not one of you said the best way for this guy's 28 year old sister to make money online.

Webcam! If she is good looking she'll make a killing.

She could join freelancing websites or participate in paid surveys. That could bring $200-300 a month.

Why are you assuming SEO and building websites is too hard for her? Wordpress is easy, seo with web 2.0 is easy to do. Why not suggest she try that?

I would suggest that, if she really want to start making money online, you will have to stop her from getting into the trap of online world. We have heard this many times, 97% of people fail online. This is mainly because of jumping from one thing to another & inconsistency.

And these days, every minute a new shiny product comes online, beginners will get into it and keep trying these new products and get nowhere.

So now what should she do?

Simple, stick on to one thing. And I think Social Media would definitely interest her along with making money online. Even if she don't have website etc. she could make something from it.

She could pick up affiliate product, promote them on Facebook, make money from it.
And to do this I would suggest to get a Facebook App which can spread her affiliate products on Facebook Easily.

For this you may check out this really amazing - Facebook App and suggest her you get on to this method.

All the best.

If your sister wants to learn what you are doing, and you do not know how to teach her the step by step process, what you can do is to let her watch you. Show her how you do your tasks for the day. If she has questions, answer it. Let her take down notes. That way, she will have a reference to look at, which is going to be useful in the future.

Yes, you are absolutely correct. SEO is truly NOT the way to go about internet marketing because Google is a bit psychotic when it comes down to SEO. They like to de-rank websites that make it to the first page for no good reason and also it can take up to months and even years just to rank a darn website. In my opinion I think your sister should start out with the good ole list building technique. It is very effective and always will be.

You can do easy stuff like putting up Fiverr gigs or whatever but that is short term.

If she wants to get good at making money online I would share your "expertise" and tricks with her. Set her on the right track.

I'd also tell her to make a blog where she talks about her IM journey and shares any tips or ideas she encounters on the way. By doing this she'll learn how to build a community, she'll learn how to drive traffic, and etc.

When I first started out I made a blog and basically just Googled as much as I could. Over time I started to learn what I needed to do to get it more popular.

Hope that helps

I would recommend giving away one of your profitable biz which earns not too much, maybe just $30/day profit and tell her the ways she can maximize it.
I doing that to one of my friends who don't have any idea about this biz.

Right ...

I'm no expert in this but it is kind of hard to keep your focus with a baby around.

And this field requires focus.

If you want to help her, just help her.

Based on how much that "fortune" is you can simply give her the money. It is your sister, she's family, she would do the same thing.

Otherwise, freelancing may be the way to go for her ... but I know a lot of people who have a baby in the family and that is a full time job alone. It is harder than an exec type position.

Hi I have a idea, your making bank right? Why don't you buy her a course from someone who teaches. I use this Anthony Rocco, he is super good and has great follow through.
Tell him Tim Schlecht sent you over, he is solid.
I hope that helps .
Type his name in the search on the forum.

SINCE YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL THEN LAY THE BLUEPRINT TO HER, EVEN IF YOU GOT NO TIME, BRINGING HER AND SHE SEEING WHAT YOU ARE DOING WILL BE A GOOD START

As you are an expert in that field, you can teach her. If there is a will there is a way. on the other hand there is nothing impossible in the world, of course your sister will learn, how much you know.

Everybody is good at something. Just take a moment, slow down and focus on her strengths (even strengths that are not fully developed yet, but strong enough). Both you of can sit down and have a brainstorming session to expose these strengths if you need to. Then just keep things simple and start from that point. She will naturally add more skills as she becomes more experienced in the world of business and Internet marketing.

P.S. Even if she's not a computer person, maybe she can help with offline promotions. Who knows, she could be a great source for generating new traffic.

Again: Everybody is good at something.