the best way to start an online business

bysiskiyoujim

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5 years ago

I have a longtime friend, she's retired and now she and her husband travel and go fishing all over the USA. She just started a blog to chronicle their journey. I'm going to show her Wealthy Affiliate. I think its the best way to start an online business or set up a blog.

Start an Online Business for Free

Anyway, I don't know if she hopes to monetize her blog. Even if she doesn't, the information in the free lessons of the Online Entrepreneur Certification gives everyone who takes the course a solid foundation.

The Wealthy Affiliate Free Membership is a bargain for anyone who wants to start a blog of any sort. I think it opens up the possibility that nearly anyone almost anywhere can start a profitable online business. Best of all, it's your business, your passions or interests, and you control the entire operation.

Where else can you get free hosting, a free domain space, and all the lessons step by step to set up your blog?

Your Wordpress website is installed on a high speed server. You have access to tons of free photos and links to other free photo sites. Besides all that, there are several thousand Wordpress themes to choose from.

By the time you finish the free lessons, you'll be ready and your site will be organized. If you want to continue to learn, then entire Premium membership and its vast library of instruction and classes and teachings are yours for only $49 a month. ( Of course you can try out the Premium Package for a whopping 59% savings for a month for only $19.00)

What are the steps to starting an online business?

1. Determine if you are a good fit for an online business
   1. Do you like make your own hours?
   2. Would you like to quit your job?
   3. Have you tried other home based businesses?
   4. Are you a student, mom, dad, retired, unemployed, or underpaid?
   5. Are you in need of extra income?
2. Determine Your Goals
   1. Are you looking for full or part time income?
   2. Do you need a few hundred or a few thousand dollars each month?
   3. How Would it change your life for the better?
   4. What's on your bucket list, and how can you get there?
   5. Where do you want to live? To travel to? To Drive?
3. Get Professional Help To Start Your Business
   1. You could go to school and get a business degree
   2. You could buy a bunch of books
   3. or, you can get FREE Affiliate Marketing Training here at Wealthy Affiliate!
   4. Be part of a Networking Group
      1. included with Wealthy Affiliate
      2. 24/7 chat help available
   5. Take ongoing Continuing Education classes (52 live classes a year and over 300 recorded classes included and available as part of the Premium Membership)
4. Get Help promoting your website and learn how to get free traffic
5. Write lots of good content
   
6. Learn Search Engine Optimization
   
   1. the basics are included in the Free Wealthy Affiliate
   2. Get in depth SEO help, training, and tools with the Premium Membership.
7. Find Affiliate Programs to Make Money or Promote your own business and products
8. Be Patient. Traffic, Income, and Google Rank all take time, effort, and patience.
   

Use the Wealthy Affiliate Blog platform to build your traffic,

Make money attracting others to Wealthy Affiliate.

One thing I've come to realize is the tremendous power of the WA platform. How many times when you are searching for terms related to the Wealthy Affiliate affiliate program do you find posts from a member either above or below the Wealthy Affiliate site itself? Lots of times!

I'm going to be using this blog and posts like this one to point people to the benefits of blogging with Wealthy Affilaite. This should increase my traffic, and hopefully conversions to new members.

If you are a member of Wealthy Affiliate already, this is just one more way to get ahead of the curve while waiting for your own sites to rank and develop traffic. It could take several months to develop enough content to start seeing the traffic you need to get sales.

If you blog a little along the way, you'll be doing what used to be called "article marketing" and you'll be found online through the WA website and your own sites as well.

What's easier to write? A well researched article or writing from the heart and from whats on your mind? This blog post will take me somewhere between 30 miuntes and an hour to put together. It all depends on when I quit my storytelling and decide you know evough now.

What are some good ideas?

Who should you be writitng to so they can benefit from articles like this one on the best way to start an online business? Here are just a few ideas. If you wan the entire list, you'll need to get an account and read the blog on the best target audiences for Wealthy Affiliate, where a few dozen more are listed. Here's the really short list.

• College Students
• University Students
• Retired Individuals
• Middle Class Populous (large majority of US consumers)
• Retired Veterans / Disabled Veterans
• Disabled Individuals (who can work from their computer)

I'd add in this would be a fantastic project for teaching homeschool students. They will learn typing, grammar, marketing, business, SEO, front end development, social media marketing, and so much more.

Besides all that, a good student who listens to instructions and follows them should be able to pay for their own college by the time they finish high school by following the Wealthy Affiliate training. While most of their buddies are flipping burgers and changing diapers on the weekend babysitting jobs, they can be reaping the financial benefits of their education at home.

I think I'm done. You and I who are Wealthy Affiliate Premium Members, I'm encouraging us to blog more and get more traffic and more sales. Those who are looking, consider that not only can you make money with your own ideas on your own website, you too can promote this training and get paid. If you are a premium member, you get 100% more commission than a free member. (This is a big incentive, and you could develop a full time business doing this alone)

Anyway. Get out there and create good content, do white hat SEO, and make some money.