How Will YOU Make Money Online?
Great question!
The reality is that there are many ways to make money online! The problem is that people often get distracted by the "latest and greatest" product or service and they are never able to build a successful (and revenue generating) business as a result.
Today I am going to run you through one of the most fundamental, yet powerful processes of generating revenue online.
It is a proven process, it is one that we use, and one that 100,000's of other Wealthy Affiliate members use. It is also the ultimate "making money" process that worked 5 years ago and it is going to work 5 years from now (and beyond). It is a process that will reveal as much opportunity in the massive online world as you are willing to work for!
It is called Affiliate Marketing.
But, just one thing before you get into the MONEY "stuff"...
The making money part of your business won't happen quite yet.
Before you earn money, you are going to first be focusing on creating your niche website (which will take place in the next two lessons) and are working to get traffic to your website. Without a website, without content, and without traffic, the MONEY part simply doesn't happen.
So don't look at this like a race. You will reach success and a great deal of it, but before you build your own personal SKYSCRAPER of a business, you must first have a solid FOUNDATION to build it on. That is going to be our first goal within the Getting Started training. Cool?
Alright, let's continue on! :)
Below is a video walk-through of today's lesson and the process of "How to Make Money Online - The Process Explained". Just click the PLAY button to watch it!
In the coming days you are going to be working through this process and by the end of this Level 1 training alone, you are going to have an awesome foundation in place that will lead you to much greater success.
Task #1: Understand the Make Money Process
There are MANY different ways that you can earn money online and many different ways in which you can build an entire business. The most lucrative and the one that we have been teaching here at Wealthy Affiliate for the past 14 years is Affiliate Marketing.
Below is a diagram outlining the process of making money through affiliate marketing.
There are now over 4 BILLION people online as of 2019 (YOUR audience) and these people are going to search engines, social media, or visiting websites for help all the time.
These people are looking for information, solutions to problems and to buy stuff.
That is where you are going to come in with your website and help these "audiences" by offering them information about what they are looking for. You will be "helping" these people, recommending products/services they can benefit from, and you earn affiliate commissions ($$) as a result.
There are over 550 MILLION products/services that you can promote as an affiliate marketer. The opportunity is incredible and it is only growing!
By Lesson 4 of this course you are going to have your very own "niche" website in place that you will use to connect with your chosen audience and make money with. You will have your very own slice of the internet opportunity.
Task #2: Create (Write Down) Your Financial Goals
You want to earn revenue right? That is great! In order to earn anything however, you need to have some goals in place.
In this task we want you to join in on a "money goals" discussion here at Wealthy Affiliate. You are going to be telling us what your goals are and going forward, we are going to be helping you achieve these very goals!
QUESTION #1: How much money would you be happy earning?
QUESTION #2: How much would you be ecstatic (ie, really excited) earning?
QUESTION #3: And how much TIME are you willing to invest to achieve these goals?
PLEASE make 100% sure that you do not skip this step and you revisit this post regularly when you are in need of some motivation. I can absolutely assure you that if you work hard at this and you are persistent towards these goals, you will achieve them. But ultimately it is UP TO YOU!
JOIN DI$CU$ION: What Are Your "Money" Goals?
In addition to this, it would be wonderful if you commented on someone else's goals they have posted within this thread. Aim to comment on at least TWO people's goals. You likely can network with many other "like minded" people here at Wealthy Affiliate and this is a good way to get your networking efforts rolling. We are a friendly bunch here at WA!
If you have any questions about any aspect of the make money process, feel free to leave them in the comments below.
Awesome, off to the next lesson now where you will be "choosing your niche"!
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Kyle has some suggestions here on videos that do not play: The videos are not playing at wealthy affiliate? Also, all the information that is in the videos is written in the text of the lessons so if all else fails, you can still read the information.
Good luck, Shannon
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A niche subject is something you are passionate and genuinely interested in could be a hobby or an interest, and know so well you can write plenty original content about.
ONE niche, a website. Products and programs can be varied however all must be relevant to the niche.
For example if you are in yoga
Yoga exercises for beginners
When deciding on a niche try narrow it down to a more specific niche, you can ask yourself the following question:
So I want to help people with ____________________ ?
Fill in the blank and you are going to get closer to a specific audience. A Niche is A Group of People Looking for Stuff If you are New and Not quite yet figured (niche infographic within) Essentially you are writing more informational posts so that you do not sound so salesy to Google and if there’s a solution, a detailed analysis review post for your visitors to let them make an informed decision whether to go click your links and go purchase the focused item you proposed to solve their issue.
Once a site starts gaining traction, traffic and authority you can then scale to cover another subcategory.
See example blog post below Succeeding With Golf Balls, Scaling With Shoes! Meanwhile I'd ask as many questions as I want to get clarifications,
Welcome to WA and our community.
Abie & AJ
My honest advice is to go with your passions.
Think ab like this:
A niche you chose from your passions and decide to write and write and write and never stop writing
If for instance you like/love cooking and gardening then these are your passions, go for it.
Some of the eldest/expert people here told me that in order to succeed and in order for Google to see you as an authority you must have been writing at least 20 articles for just 1 passion, eg. cooking.
you may want to see this Choose a Niche hope this will help you decide
many blessing to you
I'm just curious would your existing Brick and Mortar store benefit from a website to reach more people?
As for your business idea: how about something like small online business entrepreneur.
Since you have unlimited usage of Jaaxy, the keyword tool (find at menubar Research, why not enter some ideas and see if they give you an idea of who to choose a narrow niche that resonates with you.
Have more questions, please ask.
Should I pursue this idea or maybe consider other routs?
That's a great niche to be in however broad you may want to narrow it down to a subcategory starting out/ however more related to the products you are wanting to promote on your site.
For example basic surfboards for beginners is a niche subject.
I try run a search on google see who does surfboards affiliate programs, you can look up corporate businesses and see if they run such a program, you'd find them bottom of their main sites.
You may want to look at below resource
https://3hundrd.com/surfing-affiliate-programs
You can do a google search
Your niche + affiliate programs
Your niche + affiliate programs + location
and see what results you get
Once a site starts gaining traction, traffic and authority you can then scale to cover another subcategory.
See example blog post below Succeeding With Golf Balls, Scaling With Shoes! A niche subject is something you are passionate and genuinely interested in could be a hobby or an interest, and know so well you can write plenty original content about.
ONE niche, a website. Products and programs can be varied however all must be relevant to the niche.
You may consult with https://answersocrates.com/ for further research into finding a subcategory starting out. You can search what real people are asking as in Questions, Prepositions, Comparisons, in the past, letters and query. It is also great if someone wants to write a thorough research based article.
When deciding on a niche try narrow it down to a more specific niche, you can ask yourself the following question:
So I want to help people with ____________________ ?
Fill in the blank and you are going to get closer to a specific audience. A Niche is A Group of People Looking for Stuff If you are New and Not quite yet figured (niche infographic within) Essentially you are writing more informational posts so that you do not sound so salesy to Google and if there’s a solution, a detailed analysis review post for your visitors to let them make an informed decision whether to go click your links and go purchase the focused item you proposed to solve their issue.
Meanwhile I'd ask as many questions as I want to get clarifications,
Welcome to WA and our community.
Abie & AJ
Because a niche works best when you focus on a group of people you want to help, how about something like surfing essentials for beginners to start with. Then as you gain a following you can expend th4e scope The website Abie referenced below has some affiliate ideas 3hundered dot com
A niche is something you feel super excited to write about, a skill you have attained, something that resonates with you. You will want to be focused on one niche. What is it that you want to help a group of people with or what problem do you want to help them solve (group could be age, gender, location, experience level, degree or type of need, etc.)
Why should you narrow your niche?
The key to getting started fast is to narrow your niche down to a specific topic. This way, you will eliminate a lot of competition and get results much faster.
Have more questions, just ask,
We wish you much success.
I already found a narrower niche within my initial idea that I am happy with and have extensive experience and passion about it.
Thank you for reaching out to me!
Later on you can maximize your exposure by adding the site to social media. This can be done in the Social tab within your AIO SEO plugin or you can use a separate social media plugin such as Sassy Social. This process will come later in Level 3 of the training.
I do not have any experience with Connect Explore so I can't offer any insight into that aspect of your question. I think you might be getting a little ahead of yourself with this however, since it all starts with creating the site and building it out with lots of helpful, unique content to start the process of ranking and drawing in traffic to the site.
Just continue to follow the training and take it one step at a time. This is a long term commitment and as such it takes a lot of time and work to get a new site off the ground. Baby steps and you'll get there :)
Best of luck to you moving forward!
Shannon
By the way, I really commend you on what you do (or did) for a living. I have an autistic son who works with several special education teachers and paraprofessionals. They have really made a huge difference in both mine, and my son's life, and I couldn't be more grateful :)
Just click the magnifying glass in the top right menu; and in the search bar; put in Kyle.
After that; do the same for Carson too.
For sure they can help.
I have been told they can be busy; so it is best to ask both.
Hope this help and encourages?
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In respect to your Connect Explore, you'd have to decide whether you are wanting it or not, however it is not a requirement having glanced a bit of a review
https://socialleadfreak.com/connect-explore-review/
These features are found within Facebook Advertising platform and your campaigns need be testing, so you run a campaign, check it twice a day and study stats, then you make out a subset of the campaign whereby you choose a different search criteria based on your findings in your first campaign and run it again, process repeats itself, till you find a sweet spot you can leverage and scale.
Connect Explore believe connects to Facebook through an API. You can instead open a Facebook Business account and run an ad account.
https://business.facebook.com/
You might want to look at below resource The Complete Guide To Facebook Ad Targeting (fb ad infographic within)
Please see below resource how to Setting Up Your Website Your site once build goes online and global. You would have figured out a niche before you set it up, it is very important to start out with a siterubix subdomain till you are completely figured out you niche, as once you register a dot com domain, and the odd occasion you changed your mind, you will not be able change the URL.
Some info how to go about a niche
A niche subject is something you are passionate and genuinely interested in could be a hobby or an interest, and know so well you can write plenty original content about.
ONE niche, a website. Products and programs can be varied however all must be relevant to the niche.
You may consult with https://answersocrates.com/ for further research into finding a subcategory starting out. You can search what real people are asking as in Questions, Prepositions, Comparisons, in the past, letters and query. It is also great if someone wants to write a thorough research based article.
For example if you are in yoga
Yoga exercises for beginners
When deciding on a niche try narrow it down to a more specific niche, you can ask yourself the following question:
So I want to help people with ____________________ ?
Fill in the blank and you are going to get closer to a specific audience. A Niche is A Group of People Looking for Stuff If you are New and Not quite yet figured (niche infographic within) Once a site starts gaining traction, traffic and authority you can then scale to cover another subcategory.
See example blog post below Succeeding With Golf Balls, Scaling With Shoes! --------------------
Soon it will get indexed by Google, it means it was found and time now to start adding content to your site.
Onward
You would have written 20 - 30 posts and have some traffic to be able apply for affiliate programs as typically they will check your site for relevance and traffic prior approval.
For Amazon it is 10 - 15 posts.
Once accepted, they've given you material and special tracking code links you can share on your site.
Essentially you are writing more informational posts so that you do not sound so salesy to Google and if there’s a solution, a detailed analysis review post for your visitors to let them make an informed decision whether to go click your links and go purchase the focused item you proposed to solve their issue.
Once they do, and in accordance with your affiliation terms and conditions, how commission payouts are tracked and paid. You need to read up how payments are made because different programs follow different rules; some pay by check others via PayPal or straight to your check account.
I would always adhere to your affiliate program terms and conditions.
Once you publish a post you can share it onward to social media platform like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram etc. Now not all social media platforms would suffice, you are wanting know your audience well and their hangouts so that you target them appropriately
You may use Sassy Social plugin for this purpose Adding Social Sharing Links To Your Wordpress Blog Using The Sassy Social Share Plugin In the first instance,
Please follow the training and apply what is taught all is explained within the lessons. Online Entrepreneur Certification - Getting Started Level 1 How to make money by Kyle How to Make Money Online - The Process Explained WA is a learning platform teaches us how to build a progressive successful site for affiliate marketing. Please follow the training and apply what is taught all is explained within the lessons, ticking checklists bottom of lessons, tasks asked of you to complete in order to set up properly.
Meanwhile I'd ask as many questions as I want to get clarifications,
Welcome to WA and our community.
Abie & AJ
