Working at home on your own Internet business can be quite rewarding. Consider the time, effort and expense related to working at your existing job. If you have a 45-minute commute each way, you've burned up 90 minutes before you've even done a single productive task!
Working from home you don't need to travel to some other location. If you really want, you can just hop out of bed and shuffle over to the computer. You're now at work! You can put in an hour or so, then head off to get dressed and have a shower... or not!
You also don't have to insure your car for travel to and from work! Cha-ching... you just saved about $150 a year! You can listen to your favorite music or radio station while you work! You can work as long or as short a time as you feel you need to. If you want to take four-day weekends, you can do so without having to beg for permission!
The very best part of working at your own Internet business is that you can determine your own income. This can be a good thing or a bad thing. If you are a generally lazy person with no ideas, no skill and no personality, then you might find working at your own Internet business a bit of a challenge. If, on the other hand, you are a go-getter - one who is full of ideas and loves to be creative, then you will just love this business! I attend conventions with others who work online and I find that they make, on average, a very decent living. When I attended the last convention in Las Vegas back in July 2009, the income range was between $4,000 and $130,000 per month.
You should be aware that this kind of top end is not common and one should not expect that kind of income. It takes a combination of extraordinary skill and luck to achieve those results. At the same time, you should be aware that if you were working for a local fast-food restaurant or hardware store, you would never be capable of making that kind of income. It could be said that working on your own Internet business is a bit like playing the lottery. If you don't play, then I'll guarantee that you will never win!
You might be thinking, "Ok then, why isn't everyone doing an online business in their spare time?" This is where it begins to get complicated. Many thousands of people reach the point where they make a decision, or show a desire, to create an online business. My research indicates that there are in excess of 700,000 searches per day by people looking for ways to create an online income! You might want to read that last line again! 700,000 people PER DAY want to find a way to make money online!
So what is it that stops most of them from developing an online business? Well, here's what happens. People jump onto their favorite search engine and type in some combination of keywords. They start reading what others have done to make their fabulous online cash flow systems. A week or two goes by, and suddenly people discover they are on two dozen or more email lists (hit lists). These lists are managed by automated robots that are programmed to send you a sales letter every two or three days.
The letters are highly optimized for maximum psychological impact. You may be nodding your head right now in agreement. Don't feel badly - many people end up purchasing thousands of dollars in programs. At first you find it tremendously exciting! You read everything that you can get your hands on. But each of us has our breaking point. As much as you want to win this game, most people don't even get half way through the volumes of material before they discover a roadblock or two that makes success very difficult. People find they simply can't do all of the things called for in the instructions. Not willing to toss in the towel, people then find themselves looking for "outsourcing" options.
The days turn to weeks, and the weeks turn to months as people hunt for the elusive "answer". Before long, the would be netpreneur finds he's wasted a year or more. Overloaded with information and no closer to his dream, the average "joe" entrepreneur walks away dejected and bitter.
There are approximately 30 "internet gurus" out looking for you in 2010. They want anywhere from $97 to $4997 of your hard earned cash. Some of their programs include 12 DVDs, dozens of documents and a very large pile of "Private Label Rights" bonuses. If you recognize this route, then you know what I'm talking about. It is "the" major flaw with the Internet hype these days, and it's called "Information Overload".
If this article does just one thing for you, I hope it is this. Be very wary of information overload. Make sure you walk before your run. Not everyone is skilled at all of the things you need for creating an online business.
The "GURU", for example, has the following skills, abilities and resources: He/she can type 40 to 60 words per minute, he has Adobe Master Suite, Xara Xtreme Pro, Dreamweaver or some other solid website creation tool - such as XSite Pro. He knows all about file transfer protocol (FTP) and hypertext markup language (html). He is familiar with cascading style sheets (CSS). He can create vector graphics and knows the difference between transparent graphics, PNG files, JPG files and GIF files. He understands affiliate links and knows about cloaking links.
He knows about site tracking and he has accounts with Google, Yahoo, 7Search, Bing and others. He is likely an AdWords expert. He has enough cash to blow through $1,000 testing an ad and he understands what "split testing" is. He even has an account with an auto responder service like Aweber. It is also likely that has a premium keyword research tool like Market Samurai to do his keyword research - and he knows the difference between long tail and short tail keywords. He knows what the "net" is looking for on any given day. He can tap into the competition's keywords and he is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert.
Buying a $2000 program is not going to get you to the level you just read about. Buying $5,000 worth of programs and information won't do it either. What will do it is finding a small starting place - a micro niche. Take just a tiny little slice out of this huge pie. Learn how to make a few dollars ($400 to $1000 per month) extra without having to break the bank. Once you get this running, then begin to ramp up.
Come to some of the seminars with us and join the right blogs and forums. One thing you will find is that most of us are very willing to help the newbie along. We need you to be successful so that others know it can be done.
You will eventually learn about domain names and how to register them and host them. In the meantime, find one good source of information and then ignore everyone else. This is easier said than done. I am speaking from experience here! I wasted over 5 years before I finally found the rel=nofollow program that put it all into perspective for me. It cost me $47 and boy do I ever wish I had purchased that program 5 years earlier! I think that delay cost me $500,000!
In future articles, I will expand upon some of the concepts discussed today. In the meantime, here's wishing you the best 2010 possible!
Nick Walsh is a professional researcher and information technology analyst with 30 years experience in alternative health care, strategic information technology, and entrepreneurial development. Nick maintains several blogs on alternative health care, anti-aging, green energy systems, technology, and internet marketing in general.
Nick has been a successful internet marketer since 1996. Consistently reviewing the internet marketing industry, Nick is always up to date with the latest successful internet marketing tools and resources.
Nick works from his home in Vancouver, BC.
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