How Not To Suck at making Money?
How NOT to suck at making money?
Yesterday evening, I got a call all the way from New Zealand. And this guy Brian was intent on asking me very heavy duty question.
His question was – “Can you realistically tell me how soon anyone can be making $100 (US) a day?”
I was silent for quite a while as I knew this was a loaded question. There are so many variables that are needed to meet to make $100/day. Heck It took me many months to get that kind of income.
“Brain, frankly speaking anyone can start making money in less than 24 hrs. To get to $100 a day, can be achieved in 5–7 days.”
“Really”, he asked me.
“Yeah, It’s possible, but you have to understand the mindset of a marketer to achieve that kind of results fast”.
For Example – About 3(or 4) year ago, a friend of mine asked for my help to earn some pocket money with part time stuff. I explained to her, what I do (blogging) and How I do it?
I gave her the link to basic resources like blogger.com, google’s adsense link and a statcounter link.
Also told her how to use pingomatic to ping all of her content. And few examples on how to get traffic.
I spent about 30–45 minutes explaining detail about all of the above stuff. No secret techniques, no secret traffic generation software, nothing. Plain basics.
For next 30 days, she kept in touch with me and kept asking me very basic questions like How to add adsense to blog or simple stuff like that.
In first 20 days since she started, she hit her first goal $5/ day. Which was really good from my opinion.
In next 12 days (total 32 days), she got her 2nd goal of $20/day.
In 32 days, she achieved what I wasn’t able to. Most affiliates or internet marketer do not even make $200 a month income. And she was able to do generate $600/ day Income all doing 20–30 minutes of blogging every day.
How did she do it?
1. She understood the basic of marketing “People are buying, all you have to do is stand in front of them and pitch”.
2. She was consistent, agressive and solid in promoting her blog and content.
That’s it.
So If you have to ask me to list few key things about her mindset, then it’d be much like this.
- Laser like Focus on your tasks.
- Do not give a shit about others and what other thinks about your blog/site etc.
- Treat it Like a Business.
- Do not waste your time on un-necessary stuff like (buying too many of “Secret techniques to Make $14,475 overnight”.
- For God sake, Stop crying and Do something. Anything will do, As long as you keep your goal in front of you.
- Become passionate to promote your stuff (if you don’t like your shit, chances are nobody else will too).
- Always Keep Your Goal in sight.
- Remember the IMBasics Mantra–> Content + Promotion = Traffc = $$$ bling bling.
Realize that you’ll fail… Accept it, Let go And Find Way to Make Some serious dough.
Now I know what I said was pretty much oxymoronic. But remember If you are hung up on “Doing it Right” then you’ll never get off your ass and do things.
In my friends case, the moment I told her to make a blog, in 30 minutes later (on 56 Kbps Phone modem line), she created her first blog and made a post.
Money Likes Speed <– Joe Vitale.
Act fast, Act with passion on your desires and then focus on your goals. Taking action is going to make you money.
The faster you’ll fail, the faster you’ll start making money.
To answer’s Brian Question I told him to.
- Find a Hot Product that people are buying
- Send Traffic to that Product (Use PPC)
- Repeat as many times as humanely possible.
That’s it. 3 damn steps you need to do.
People are hesitant to spend their money on PPC because they expect to get charged “TOO much” by Google. From my experience, if you spend 1 days using PPC, you’ll have more experience than 85% of the current online marketers.
When you put your money on the line, you realize the consequences of your action. You Put All of your focus into it. You automatically start to thing clearer and smarter. That’s how much putting your money on the line can do to you.
Can You do it with Free Traffic Sources?
Heck yeah, Remember there’s no such thing as FREE lunch. When you are talking about Free traffic sources, you are still putting a lot of your time and effort.
If you just create 1 Page in a week and Then spend 2 hrs on promoting that page it all over the place for next 7 days, You’ll get traffic. PERIOD.
In 30 days, You’ll have spent at least 60 hrs on promoting 4 pages (hopefully you’ve have created these pages as Pre-sell to affiliate products). You’ll see income rolling in.
When You are writing anything and promoting your stuff, your passion will flow from you and it’ll show up in your work. If you are not passionate, then chances of your succeeding is low.
Remember You do not need another $1000 or $2000 product. You are only chasing the marketer’s dream.
The moment you stand tall, sit back and start focussing on your own dream and put all of your efforts into it. You’ll succeed.
[Learn to focus without distraction.
In the end, If you do not want to suck at money, then
- Stop Chasing Marketer’s Dream.
- Start Working on Selling and promoting products RIGHT NOW.
- Get Focussed on Doing the damn work (there’s no Free lunch).
- Spend money on things that brings you money (i.e. PPC, Buying links to your site etc).
- Follow the 3 Steps above and promote the heck out of your pre-sell pages.
One thing that can help you in getting foccessed is Derek Franklin’s Action Machine. Put Your Own List and Add how much time you are going to spend doing each activity (Write a Post, Promote Your articles, create videos etc) and Let the machine go. Take any task you’ve been putting off, give yourself 30 minutes to get it done, start your timer, and watch what happens. Click Here to get Action Machine.
Image Credit – David Jackmanson, Image Credit – CassiaA, Image Credit – sepblog
About the Author
Varun Pratap is working in online business as a pro blogger from 2004. His blog on Imbasics (Internet marketing Basics) is all about making money online ethically without resorting to tricks, techniques and gimmicks.
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