Roadmap For Making Money Online
Here’s what I intend to cover over the next 8 or 10 posts here on Talar Systems, where you can learn what it takes to work at home and make yourself real money online … no fluff no BS. As each article gets written, the bullet point below will turn into alive link to the individual articles.
- Making Money Through Paid Surveys Online
- Making Money Through Online Freelancing
- Making Money Through Sales On eBay
- Making Money Through The Sales Of EBooks
- Making Money Through Google AdSense
- Making Money Through Online Blogging
- Making Money Through Affiliate Or Associate Marketing
- Making Money Through An Online Clickbank Marketplace
I’ve arranged these in the order of what I think are the least difficult up through those which require a little more knowledge and study. However all of them, and I repeat all of them are within the capabilities of anyone who was able to use the Internet well enough and read to the level of comprehension it took to get to this paragraph.
Also, each of these methods requires very little or even no investment of that precious commodity, cash. From time to time I am going to recommend things that you might want to invest (small) amounts of cash into … tools to make the work go faster and easier .. but in virtually every case there are free alternatives (which I will certainly tell you about) that you can use instead.
Usually the tradeoff is time for dollars … and one thing each and every one of use reading these words has is the exact same amount of time … no more, no less … so anyone reading here CAN succeed using any of these techniques.
Now I ask you, how fair is that? Your only obligation is read, study and the critical, most important thing of all DO something with the information that I present for you. If you don’t intend to do … but only intend to read, file away and “think about” things you read here,then do us both as favor … leave now because you will only be wasting your time here if you don’t intend to take action … and frankly, my ego and my bank account are both mature enough that I don’t need people reading along just to give me moral support.
If you honestly intend to take action man make at least your first dollar online by tomorrow … with no investment whatsoever, then come back tomorrow and we’ll gets started … but I don’t want you to ‘try’. In the words of the mighty Yoda, “Do, or Do Not, there is No “TRY”.
I’ll see the doers back here tomorrow. Be well.
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30 Day AdSense Challenge — Day 0
Well I have gone and done it. never did learn not to take a dare 
As some of you may have already discovered, one relatively new guy I enjoy following a lot on line is the “Road Warrior) over at "www.workingonthego.com . We share a lot of belief’s about ways to make money on line, how to decide where to spend your efforts. how much of the current ‘wisdom’ about online money making is believable and how much is just plain crap … and most importantly we have like view that the method of running Google AdSense ads on sites that are relevant to, and contain information about certain subjects or “key words” is not dead yet … as many so-called gurus have pontificated.
In my own case, AdSense has never been better ..;and when RW issued a challenge to make $1,000 USD in a month with AdSense I just couldn’t resist. I’ve never made $1,000 with AdSense in the past, but I can’t think of a single reason not to join his challenge, because there is no outcome that really can be bad for me … and I may very well make a nice piece of change out of it all.
One thing you may have noticed. I am not “trying” the challenge … I have joined and I intend to win it, or know the reason why.
I have observed people ‘trying’ for way to many years. I suggest those of you who want to ‘try’ should move on to something aside from making money … because in that area I definitely subscribe to the classic line from the movie, “Karate Kid”. “Do, or Do Not, there is no Try”.
Anyway, here are a few brief notes about the mechanics of the thing:
Goal: $1,000 USD from Google AdSense beginning 1October 2009 and ending 31 October 2009. We are not bound by specific websites in this challenge, although I intend to focus my efforts on 4 sites I already have in operation which badly need a “boost”.
Tools: No tools or anything else that costs money are needed for this challenge. However, I am thinking carefully about this one: Micro Niche Finder which is highly recommended. I’ll write more on this later as time and clicks progress.
One tool I am already putting to good use, though is the Google AdWords Keyword Tool. Typically this is used for finding and buying AdWords PPC ads, but6 it can be invaluable in a situation like this where I already have more than an hour of the contest gone.
Building links to the keyword-enriched articles on the contest sites is going to be critically important, but to be realistic, you need to know what Google already thinks an existing site is about. I tried the Google External tool against the four sites I am going to focus on, as well as (just for kicks) Road Warrior’s sites and I got a couple surprises. One surprise that I’ll write about real soon now is, several of my sites are ranked very well for some nice paying keywords, and I am way ahead of one of RW’s sites according to a metric I use that I don’t really see the current day "gurus" using. More follows, I titled this Day 0 i.e. the 30th of September, but it’s already October 1st in Google time … have to go find some clicks.
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Should I Try Making Money Online?
My blogging colleague Paul Piotrowski recently wrote a great blog post How to Decide if Making Money Online is for You . I recommend you read the whole thing. In the post Paul relates how he often gets asked this question:
“Paul, should I try making money online?”
First of all, regardless how well you craft this question so that it doesn’t sound like that is what you’re asking me, it still doesn’t change the fact that you’re asking me that question.
Realize that I am not you, so there is no way I could ever make that decision for you. In fact, there is nobody out there who will ever make that decision for you. Only you can decide the answer to that question….
and offers some cogent advice as to how the questioner, not Paul, should go about answering the question for him or herself.
… Traditionally, what most people do when they are trying to make a potentially life-changing decision like this, is that they try to “weigh their options”. So, they either do it mentally or they get a piece of paper out and they start writing out all the benefits and drawbacks of going down a certain path.
For making money online, their list may look something like this:
Benefits:
- Can work from home
- Unlimited income potential
- No boss
- More time with the family
- Flexible schedule
- Full control over what you do day-to-day
- Interesting, ever-changing work
- Get to express creativity, make own decisions
Drawbacks:
- Lack of stable “salary” compared to a job
- No guarantee of income
- Many “proven” systems, but not sure which one to follow
- Constant changes in the marketplace, must stay current
- May require some access to capital
- Higher risk than working for someone else
At first glance, making a list like this may seem like a productive and reasonable thing to do when trying to make a decision. However, for those of you who have actually done this, you may have found – as I have – that making lists like this is pretty much useless. It doesn’t help you make a decision at all. It just complicates things even more….
Paul’s post, and especially his conclusions just rang so true to me I couldn’t resist tiding his coattails on this.
For years I was paid to work as a government staffer and my work very often consisted of nothing more than making pros and cons lists like this for any number of questions our senior leadership had to face.
We often called these tasks ‘Decision papers’, but even though they sometimes had decision recommendation tacked on the end, our generals and senior civilian officials almost always made their own decisions …often as not, contrary to their staff recommendations.
Sometimes we who were back toward the end of the tail were a little miffed when the decision wasn’t what we had worked on .. after all, shouldn’t the tail wag the dog at least once in a while?
But looking back from the perspective of time, these folks almost always made the right decision, the one they were getting paid to do.
We, the staffers, were paid to do research and develop lists of details, they, the senior leaders were paid to make the decisions.
Many of you reading this today are one man or one woman bands. At first glance you might feel as if this talk of senior leadership is superfluous and over your head.
But I suggest you stop and give that thought another ‘think’. You, and you alone, are the Chief Executive Officer of your life. Regardless of your thoughts as to how well you are paid, it is your job and not that of anyone on your staff to make decisions for you.
Gather the information you feel you must have … raw, quantitative information only, the you decide, and if your decision is to execute, the execute, decisively and without doubt, hesitation and second guessing.
It is, indeed, the only path to success.
And by the way, if you wanted to add this blog to your subscription list and/or Paul’s blog as well, I surely wouldn’t advise against it.
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