Domains

Lets talk about domains for a moment.

There’s always chatter about exact match domains. What this means is if you’re building a site about “large dogs”, if you find the domain “largedogs.com” you have an exact match domain.

The claims are that an exact match domain will give you an edge in the search engines. Your website will have a slight ranking edge when someone searches for large dogs.

A domain costs about $10.00 a year. The mini course we offer goes into this subject in more detail about.

Why Get Your Own Hosting Plan?

Hosting is relatively cheap, about $5.00 a month for a basic hosting plan. As mentioned, we use wordpress 99% of the time for our main websites. WordPress is free, it’s not hard to learn and it has a wide range of options. These options are called plug-ins, there are hundreds of them and most are free too.

Free website builders like blogger. They have improved templates that allows for easy customization of several post elements.

Free Site Problems – you always have to be aware of the fact that whoever owns the site can close it anytime, they can close your account anytime and you can loose all your website in a flash. To be fair, these sites don’t close accounts for fun, there is generally a good reason.

The second thing is selling your website. There could be a time when you want to sell your website. You cannot do this with a free platform.

The third thing is some do not allow advertising(adsense) or affiliate links. This restriction kills any chances you had to make money from that site.

The fourth thing is rankings. It takes more work to get these sites top search rankings. There was a guy who had the number one spot for “Making Money Online” who used blogger. One day his site vanished, Google had taken him down. It was later resolved, but it makes you think that if he had his own site on his own hosting, this wouldn’t have happened.

Free Sites – Feeder Sites

You can use free sites for feeder sites. Feeder sites are exactly what they sound like, they support your main website. You fill these sites with information related to your main site, then you feed links to your main site from them.

Feeder sites have a purpose, they support your main website. As mentioned, you need your own hosting for main sites and for good reasons. Besides some of the things mentioned before, these free website places come and go.

You spent months building a business on a free platform and one day you get a notice, it says “We’re Shutting Down”. Or you “Violated Our TOS” another common thing that happens, why risk it. Use several feeder sites, diversify, and this will solve the problem.

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If you’re serious about building an online income and want to do it right, you need your own hosting, domain and website.

When you have your own hosting and website you don’t have to worry about getting your account revoked, you can even sell your site.

In Internet terms we cal your website “Virtual Real Estate”.

What’s Passive Income?

Passive income is income where you are not directly involved with the process on a daily basis.

Some Examples:

• Rental Properties
• Absentee Business Owner
• Interest Earning Investmenets
• Pensions
• Royalties
• and Yes, the Internet

Traditional Passive Income Example:

Lets take a quick look at rental properties. What you are buying here is an established asset. This is a income generator, but it requires a lot of cash to purchase.

Many people don’t have the cash or means to borrow what’s needed.

Other factors are taxes, maintenance fees, vacancies, property price fluctuations. So basically a 4 unit rental for $500,000.00 returns $5,000.00 in rents. This is a 10% return per year before other expenses.

Online Passive Income

With online income you are looking at risking a lot less cash, but you don’t have an established asset, you have to build it.

So lets say your monthly expense to build this income is $100.00. Realistically in 6 months you are making $500.00, this is a 400% return.

Now, once you learn how to do this your income will increase, but the monthly expenses won’t increase much at all.

Of course, as you learn more you’ll probably want to purchase better tools and do some outsourcing.

The Result

The average person cannot play the same game as a person coming in with a lot of money.

The Internet somewhat levels the playing field.

Also consider the risk. In good times folks have made fortunes leveraging real estate, but the opposite is true in bad times.

It’s worth taking a closer look to see how the Internet can fulfill your financial dreams.

The online world is one of the craziest places in the world, you can buy almost anything you want and more and more people are using it daily. You can access the internet with your computer, cell phone, I pad, mobile unit, it’s crazy. So, with all this technology and gadgets to get lightening fast results, how can You make money online?

One Way to Make Money Online

I was in the bank the other day (which I have been a customer for 10 years now) and I over heard a new customer being told that there would be holds placed on checks they deposited for the first thirty days. I nosed around because I thought the bank had implemented a new policy. What the teller told me was all new customers have holds placed on their checks deposited for 30 days until they build a relationship with the bank.

So, what does this have to do with making money online? It has everything to do with it, do you think you can just build a website, put a few items for sale on it and people will flock to but them? Heck no, they don’t know you, there are probably thousands of websites selling similar stuff, you have no Relationship with them.

Relationship Building – You Better Pay Attention

There’s only one thing I sell on this site, and it’s a monthly membership to someone who knows what it takes to build online relationships with people. You can’t miss the offer, I make sure you can find it, but for a good reason, it’s the best way to make money online.

It’s not the only way to make money, but in the long run it’s one of the best we know of.

Building Relationships Takes Time

Just like the example with the bank, it takes time to build relationships, but is it worth it?

Hey, it’s up to you.

When I first got into this internet thing I went for the fast money schemes, I hop scotched around from one thing to another until I realized nothing was working. Then it started to sink in, the same reason I don’t buy things cold turkey on the internet is the same reasons people pass by my website, They Don’t Know Me.

If you trust somebody and you know them isn’t there a better chance you will buy from them compared to a stranger? Of course there is.

So, if you open any business online or off, the same thing applies, Build a Relationship.

Save Time and Money – Use a Mentor

The word mentor sounds expensive, in some cases it is, something like $5,000.00 a day or more.

When you join a membership site you are joining a group mentorship.

In this format you are paying a whole lot less, I mean a whole lot less and you still get the education you need. I’ve provided the basic outline of one of the best ways to make money online from experience, but you need to sort this out for yourself.

I know the internet business is not for everybody, but everybody can have an internet business if they want it.

Click on one of the many links or signs I have posted here and check it out, you know the old saying “Try it You Might Like It”.

To build a solid long term online income you have to learn the processes first, then build different income streams in the future. This takes time, contrary to some of the “Get Rich Quick” ads you might have seen, building a sizable long term income does take time.

Define Your Income Goals

Try this out for size, start with making $10.00 a month. I know this isn’t much, but here’s the secret – This is More Than Most People Ever Make.

That’s right, most people quit because they put the cart before the horse. They’re dreams of making thousands of dollars online come crashing down when reality hits. They find out that there is actually work to be done, what a shock, you have to do some work before you even make a buck. These latest findings are unfortunate because making online income can be an amazing business, it can change a persons life when it comes to finances.

How to Make Money Online

We need to define what Making Money really means. If you are working for someone else you are earning money. The owner of your the company set up the business, they pay the bills, they handle the headaches you never see, they are the ones that make the money.

When you make money online you are the owner. The first dollar you will ever make online comes from your hours of learning and doing and building your business. If you are not ecstatic when you make your first dollar online, then you might be in the wrong business. You will hear this time and time again “My first dollar made was like making millions”, the reason it’s an exciting breakthrough moment is because you created it, you made money online. It gets better because when you step back and think about it all you have to do now is repeat your success, repeat it a million times and you become a millionaire.

So, how do you make money online?

The program we talk about on this website is the tremendous online business of relationship marketing. Now, you need to find a subject to build your business on. What are your interests? What do you like to do? This is where cultivate ideas for your to explore. You will take these ideas and dig deeper, what can you sell and what type of market is out there for you to sell to?

Here’s why this is an amazing business opportunity for us. Lets say you really blow it, you misjudge the marketplace and build a website about light bulbs. You find out the competition is fierce, profit margins are small, you can’t make a profit. OK, you take this experience and start again, you have limited financial losses (probably under $100.00) the biggest loss was time, or was it?

Mistakes are fantastic learning experiences if you treat them as such. Now, do a quick comparison to starting a traditional type of business. Lets say you open a dry cleaning store, you miscalculated expenses, your cash flow is short and the competition is tougher worse than anticipated, what’s the outcome? First, you end up hating the business, you probably will sell it at a loss. You lose thousands of dollars on the sale, do you get the picture?

So, using relationship marketing you can make mistakes, learn from them and not be financially crushed. Going forward you will use the internet to build a list of customers, provide them with valuable information about your chosen subject, and eventually offer them your product.

You see, taking the time to build a relationship with customer, building trust will payoff down the road in long term online income.

This is a remarkable method used to make online income, this is discussed throughout this site. Now you can learn how to make online income from someone who has done it. Click banner below for more information.

The one mistake a lot of people make is expecting to make money right away. Creating income online requires learning how to, then discovering how to in what area.

The First Step

There are a few things you have to think about before you even construct a website. Here are a few questions you must answer first:

• What is your business about?
• Who is your market?
• What area of the market will you focus on?
• What will you sell?
• Can you be competitive?

You see, if we choose something we like to do the odds go way up for success. But, you have to make sure there are people who want what you have and are can the market afford what you are selling?

If you are selling a $30,000.00 car to people who can only afford $10,000.00, then you will fail. It’s that simple.

So, you must answer the questions above first before you spend any time or money on a website.

Creating Your Own Product vs Selling Someone Else’s

This part of creating income online is always a little befuddling. It’s more profitable selling your own product because you keep the majority of the profits. On the other hand you have to handle returns and customer inquires.

Selling others products is called Affiliate Marketing, many people just starting sell others products first. This is the quickest way to start and you can also learn how the processes work. There is no rush to create your own product, learning how to market is much more important because everything hangs in the balance of marketing.

Creating Income Online

We have a market, we have a product that the market needs, now we need to market to the market.

People make up markets and they always want to buy. In good times or bad people keep buying things. So, why will they buy from you? There are already a hundred people selling the same thing, why you?

This circles back to what you like to do. your uniqueness. If you have spent years learning, investigating and becoming a so called expert at something, then you are only a few steps away from creating online income from it. Let me tell you this, you will never be spot on perfect in the creation process. Did Thomas Edison create the perfect light bulb on the first try? Nope, he had to keep refining it and then he finally had a product he could bring to the marketplace.

This process is the same for you and I, we start with an idea and then build from there. Once a product is created then we can start working on the income part.

Building Requires Time and Patients

The final step in the process is building. Can you construct a high rise building in a day? Of course not, building your business is no different.

Creating income online is a building process, but expect to create a fantastic income online when it’s all done. Don’t forget “When you create it you control it”, this means you are in control of your future, not a boss or a company. This also means you have more responsibility for the over all operation.

The entire process depends on the time you are willing to put into it. That’s why we introduced the idea of starting with something you like to do, doing something you like makes time pass fast, and before you know it income will be flowing in.

List building is the foundation for a successful online business, the core of what is offered here as a course revolves around list building.

Take the next step, remember… you don’t have to be perfect, but you do need to do it. Chris has done it and he can help you too! Click on the mentor banner now!