On the internet, there is no shortage of ways to earn a living. People are making money in every niche imaginable, leveraging just about every skill imaginable.
From dog grooming to shoes to even selling a gold mine on Ebay (the price at the time was $ 2 million), there is no shortage of opportunities to earn a decent cash flow.
So why does it seem so hard for so many people? Why is it that everyone around you, including your next door neighbor and his goldfish, are earning millions on the internet, but you’re left behind? Why is it so easy for them?
You’re not alone.
I know the feeling.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned being around the internet, it’s that a really, really small percentage of people are actually making money! It’s just that we happen to hear more about the insanely rich people because we want to believe their story will be our story.
It’s the same thing with news stories… kidnappings get insane amounts of coverage, yet there were only 115 of the “Law and Order” type kidnappings in the entire United States in 2009. Compare that to 115 people dying per day from car crashes in the U.S. Which one do we hear more about?
Sorry for the little tangent… I just thought those numbers were fascinating.
The point is, there’s nothing to be ashamed about if you haven’t made your money yet on the internet.
How about we change that?
I understand that a lot of people who are looking to make money on the internet have little or no start-up money. People usually turn to the internet when they have bills to pay off immediately, hate their job, or need to pay off some debt.
Now, my two favorite ways to make money are to leverage your skills and build a network marketing business.
Each has its pros and cons.
A network marketing business can earn you boatloads of money, but it usually takes a little longer to get going. You can earn long-term residual income from the efforts of others.
Leveraging a skill can earn you instant income. You can do it as many times as you like, and there are plenty of places on the web where you can find people who are willing to pay for what you know how to do.
The only problem is, the instant you stop, the income stops. You get paid for what you do and not what a team can produce.
What skills can I earn money for?
I would first head on over to Elance.com. Elance is my favorite freelancing site where people post a job they want done, and people can come in and bid for it. Then, whoever posted the job decides who they want to pay.
I would check out Elance and browse through the different sections and see what people are willing to pay for.
Elance has tens of thousands of jobs posted at any one time, so the possibilities are limitless.
It’s also a great place to see how others “describe” themselves. Find someone who’s made a lot money on the site (it usually displays their career earnings on their profile), and see how they present themselves.
Now, the easiest skill to learn is writing articles.
There are always hundreds of people on Elance looking for people to write massive amounts of articles for them. Some are even looking for people to write for their blog over a long period of time.
These long-term jobs are an amazing way to earn some extra (virtually guaranteed) income for the foreseeable future doing something relatively easy.
But, finding people to write articles is like finding the haystack instead of the needle; they’re all over the place. For that reason, most people won’t pay more than 2$ -5$ to write an article. If the articles require research, it may take you too much time to be worth it.
My all time favorite skill to leverage is setting up WordPress blogs. Because this skill is a little more specialized and technical, people will pay you more of a premium!
I’ve been building blogs for people for several months, and I’ve put as much as a $ 1,000 in a single month in my account, and all for no more than 10-15 hours of work.
I know, you’re probably saying something like, “But I can’t set up WordPress blogs! That’s waaay to technical for me!”
As a rebuttal, let me tell you a little about myself.
I graduated college with a biology degree. Any real job I’ve had has involved working with animals or bra-fitting at J.C. Penney. I currently know less than 10 HTML codes, and I’ve never taken a class or read a book on web design, Photoshop, or anything to do with any internet techie stuff.
I had never even heard of WordPress 10 months ago.
Now? I can set up WordPress blogs, including headers, incorporating graphics and videos, setting up opt-in forms, installing themes and plugins, and everything else in my sleep. And… it takes me less than 3 hours.
So how’d I do it? How long did it take me to learn?
Believe me when I say that you can find a tutorial for anything you can think of on the internet. I basically taught myself by trial and error, and Googling for tutorials when I got stuck.
Within a week, I had my own WordPress blog set up, and had the process mastered.
If you’re not sure of what plugins to install, Google it! If you don’t know a good theme to use on someone else’s blog, Google it!
If I told you that you could spend a week learning a skill, and then use that skill to make $ 1,000 a month (or more) whenever you wanted, would you do it?
Some people also believe that the header is really complicated to set up as well. The very first time that I ever played around with Photoshop was when I was trying to set up my very own header.
An hour later, my header was done. Not as hard as people think.
If you decide to learn a skill and have an open mind, willing to Google something when you get stuck, it really becomes easy to learn.
Of course, there are other skills that you can leverage, but they are usually much more complicated, like redesigning websites, writing iPhone applications, writing CSS and HTML codes, and other crazy stuff.
Now, you can head on over to http://elance.com, http://guru.com, and http://odesk.com. These are some of the most popular freelancing sites on the internet, where you can set up a profile and display your skill.
Then, spend some time every day browsing these sites and bidding on jobs that you would be willing to do. Of course, a lot of the jobs you won’t win, so be sure to apply to more than you want to do.
You can easily get a few jobs a week and earn a significant income, or even a full time income if you dedicate enough time.
And the best part? All of this is free! That’s the beauty of being taught by online videos and tutorials.
How can I build a network marketing business with no start up?
So, getting people to pay you for a skill is pretty cool, but you have to work and you lose money if you go on vacation.
So, the other option is to work on building a network marketing business. Of course, it’s a little more difficult when you don’t have money at the beginning, but read on to see how to overcome that.
The first step is to make a little bit of money so that you can buy some cool tools (they’ll make life a lot easier) and join a network marketing business.
For now, you need to find a digital product that you can sell. Preferably, at this beginning phase, I would say it’s not a good idea to use your own product.
The idea here is that you need to make some quick money to get into gear, and it doesn’t even have to be very much. It would take you too long to develop your own product, plus it would be near impossible to avoid any set up or design fees.
Plus, if you use somebody else’s products, you don’t have to be bothered with returns, distribution of the product, product development, sales page creation, or customer service in general. Sounds perfect for your immediate goals.
The place to do this completely for free is at Clickbank.com. If you don’t know what it is, it’s basically a gigantic marketplace where people can come and post products that they have created. Anyone else can go on and find a product they like and start selling it for a commission.
Now, because you’re working toward a network marketing business, pick a product that would appeal to most people in your niche.
Then, make sure that the product has a good track record. You can see the “grav” rating for each product, and the higher the number basically means that it sells more.
Another alternative (and the one I would go with), would be to purchase Magnetic Sponsoring by Mike Dillard. Not only is this probably the most well-known and successful Ebook written on network marketing, but then you can sell ALL of his high-converting products.
The only problem is that you have to actually buy the Ebook before you can sell his others… and that’s $ 40.
However, once you generate a lead, that person is “coded” to you forever. If they buy another Magnetic Sponsoring product a year later, you still get the commission.
Plus, in the back office of Magnetic Sponsoring, you can see all of your leads and their info. Now, you can even follow up with them to increase your sales.
Like I said, I think this is the way to go to make some quick money because Magnetic Sponsoring is guaranteed to sell well, you get control of leads, and your people are coded to you. This adds up to some serious dough!
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