Table of Contents

  • Lesson 1: Setting Up Shop
  • Choose a number of hours that you can work each week on your internet business
  • Pick a niche using the Wealthy Affiliate walkthrough I linked to about halfway through the post
  • Setup your website using the four steps I
  • Lesson 2: Install Tracking Codes (and why they're so important)
  • Watch the video on setting up Google Analytics (the first link)
  • Install Google Analytics on your website
  • Watch the YouTube video in this lesson to understand the basics of Google Analytics
  • Lesson 3: Mail Subscriptions
  • Start collecting emails AS SOON as your site is setup (remember "The Rule of Seven")
  • Incentivize opt-ins by giving something of great value to your visitors (like an eBook)
  • Write the eBook yourself, find PLR content, or hire a freelance writer
  • Commit to continuously deliver value to your subscribers (more on that in the next lesson)
  • Lesson 4: Powerful, Helpful Content
  • Before you do any more work, commit to making valuable content creation your #1 priority (even over making money)
  • Commit to never sending out an email, making a blog post, or generating content of any kind unless it adds significant value to your followers
  • Lesson 5: Lace Your Content with Affiliate Offers
  • Don't overdo it. Not every article or email needs an affiliate link in it.
  • Always refer to free resources as long as they're as good as the paid options.
  • Don't refer any of your followers to something just for the commission.
  • Lesson 6: EARNING Traffic
  • Don't pay for traffic early on - try to start generating revenue using free traffic first
  • Start learning and perfecting SEO as a long-term traffic strategy
  • In the short term use things like video marketing and forum marketing to generate traffic
  • DON'T SPAM FORUMS - Contribute to the community with great content and tease them back to your website
  • Lesson 7: 7 Stages of Testing, Tweaking, Optimizing, and Improving
  • Continuously test new options against your current, strongest option
  • Recognize that we all fail a lot in the beginning, and commit to learning from those mistakes, always getting up, dusting yourself off, and taking one more step forward