The best investment you can make in almost any stage of your online career is in yourself. So many people ask, "How do I make money online w/o spending money?" Seriously... if you want to make full time money, you have to invest in yourself. Both with TIME and MONEY.
Then there are those who try to get things done as cheap as possible... "okay so I'll spend $8 on a domain and $7 a month on hosting and I'm set". WRONG. Realistically you must invest in yourself in order to continue learning, being creative and generating ideas.
Good things to invest your money in are THIS forum, SEO Book (for beginners), possibly the Adwords book by Perry Marshall (that's it for eBooks... only those 2 if any!), a keyword tool (Wordze, Wordtracker, KeyCompete), SEO Blackhat's forum (mid to advanced level), and there are tons more quality investments to make. Research them first or search this forum for prior reviews.
You must also remember to invest a ton of your time into advancing your skill set, learning about the online industry and your specific market research. No matter what niche you're in, you must learn the market inside and out. That is the only way to dominate that market. You must then combine your market research with your online knowledge with your sales and marketing skills. Jon preaches this more than anyone and he is absolutely right. Remember this all takes time and success doesn't come overnight.
Things to invest your time in are: get a list of 10 blogs and read them religiously (shoemoney, aojon, john chow, super aff mindset, pepperjam, etc etc) Some of you may disagree with the blogs I named but if you are creative you can turn MANY of their ideas and posts into money making systems. Also read forums. This (WF) is probably the single most important forum I can attribute my success to. Syndk8 is another good one if you're just starting out. Find the rest that are worth reading (forget DP).
This forum itself is a goldmine as some of the members have recently pointed out. Come back here everyday and see what's new. A lot of the guys here really know what they're doing and you might read something that jogs a creative idea of your own that makes you money. Here are two threads off the top of my head that have plenty of good ideas in them:
http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate...rating-high-converting-zip-email-submits.html
http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/18153-secret-becoming-super-affiliate.html
Lastly I'll leave you with this. You cannot make long term income from copying someone else's methods/ideas word for word. Sure you can turn a small, short term profit for a while, but it will not last. The key is to take what they share with you, put your own spin on it and THEN make long term profits.
Here are two examples:
http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/17603-here-how-i-got-rich.html - if you can't pull ideas from this thread then you will have trouble making money. You don't want to copy what he says word for word, which I'm sure some of you have done by now, but instead take his methodology / strategy, put your own twist on it or apply it to a different market and bam - you might have a money maker.
There's also a Facebook post that got popular here about 1.5 weeks ago that I can't find right now but the guy showed that he made some decent money with certain aff offers that no longer work with Facebook. Instead of asking him question like - How much did you spend? Let me see your LP? Tell me your secret? etc and sitting here pouting and being upset that Facebook no longer allows you to make easy money, you should be thinking to yourself - "how can I apply his strategy to the markets that I know well?" "What new offers will work with facebook?".
This post is not as organized as I would have liked it to be but the main take-aways are:
1. Don't be scared to invest money in expanding your own knowledge (even if it means spending money you haven't made yet).
2. Invest time in your own online money making reading and market research. You can't profit from a niche if you don't know it inside and out.
3. Study others' strategies and methodologies instead of saying "tell me your secrets."
Good luck.
Then there are those who try to get things done as cheap as possible... "okay so I'll spend $8 on a domain and $7 a month on hosting and I'm set". WRONG. Realistically you must invest in yourself in order to continue learning, being creative and generating ideas.
Good things to invest your money in are THIS forum, SEO Book (for beginners), possibly the Adwords book by Perry Marshall (that's it for eBooks... only those 2 if any!), a keyword tool (Wordze, Wordtracker, KeyCompete), SEO Blackhat's forum (mid to advanced level), and there are tons more quality investments to make. Research them first or search this forum for prior reviews.
You must also remember to invest a ton of your time into advancing your skill set, learning about the online industry and your specific market research. No matter what niche you're in, you must learn the market inside and out. That is the only way to dominate that market. You must then combine your market research with your online knowledge with your sales and marketing skills. Jon preaches this more than anyone and he is absolutely right. Remember this all takes time and success doesn't come overnight.
Things to invest your time in are: get a list of 10 blogs and read them religiously (shoemoney, aojon, john chow, super aff mindset, pepperjam, etc etc) Some of you may disagree with the blogs I named but if you are creative you can turn MANY of their ideas and posts into money making systems. Also read forums. This (WF) is probably the single most important forum I can attribute my success to. Syndk8 is another good one if you're just starting out. Find the rest that are worth reading (forget DP).
This forum itself is a goldmine as some of the members have recently pointed out. Come back here everyday and see what's new. A lot of the guys here really know what they're doing and you might read something that jogs a creative idea of your own that makes you money. Here are two threads off the top of my head that have plenty of good ideas in them:
http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate...rating-high-converting-zip-email-submits.html
http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/18153-secret-becoming-super-affiliate.html
Lastly I'll leave you with this. You cannot make long term income from copying someone else's methods/ideas word for word. Sure you can turn a small, short term profit for a while, but it will not last. The key is to take what they share with you, put your own spin on it and THEN make long term profits.
Here are two examples:
http://www.wickedfire.com/affiliate-marketing/17603-here-how-i-got-rich.html - if you can't pull ideas from this thread then you will have trouble making money. You don't want to copy what he says word for word, which I'm sure some of you have done by now, but instead take his methodology / strategy, put your own twist on it or apply it to a different market and bam - you might have a money maker.
There's also a Facebook post that got popular here about 1.5 weeks ago that I can't find right now but the guy showed that he made some decent money with certain aff offers that no longer work with Facebook. Instead of asking him question like - How much did you spend? Let me see your LP? Tell me your secret? etc and sitting here pouting and being upset that Facebook no longer allows you to make easy money, you should be thinking to yourself - "how can I apply his strategy to the markets that I know well?" "What new offers will work with facebook?".
This post is not as organized as I would have liked it to be but the main take-aways are:
1. Don't be scared to invest money in expanding your own knowledge (even if it means spending money you haven't made yet).
2. Invest time in your own online money making reading and market research. You can't profit from a niche if you don't know it inside and out.
3. Study others' strategies and methodologies instead of saying "tell me your secrets."
Good luck.
