How To Make Money Online
That's right...like tens of thousands of others, I typed that very phrase into a search engine sometime ago and now many years later, I continue to make money online and love it. The first money I made online was not selling a product. I made my first money online trading options and some stocks. I did it using dial-up and I also did a lot of praying in those days. You had to pay out the wazoo to get real time quotes and it was much more difficult then than it is today.Then like many others, I graduated to Ebay. I started buying and selling on Ebay and got hooked on making money off everyday items, junk around the house and so forth. One day I noticed this guy selling these barebones computer systems really cheap and so I bought one and assembled a computer and sold it for a small profit. I thought this was pretty cool so I did it again. I then called the manufacturer of those barebones systems and asked to go direct with them and they said no. I then hammered them for months until the consented to sell about 10 machines instead of 50.
I soon was selling computers to everyone around and a business was born out of that which grew beyond my wildest dreams. I business I sold for a nice profit later on in 2004.
Making money online went to the next level
I had been making money online mostly with physical products and I still do that till this day. However, one day I passed a magazine rack and picked up a magazine called "Millionaire Blueprints." It was an unusual magazine and when I opened it up, I began to read about people making money online selling their knowledge. I thought to myself, "this shouldn't be to hard for me as my mother had told me repeatedly I was a 'know it all." The thought of selling things I knew about was very exciting to me. So I started crafting my first information products and started selling them. Some were ebooks and some were physical books that I self published.This is still a great way to make money online and now it has grown to include selling videos, audios, graphics, templates and so much more. Our goal was to educate and put tools into the hands of our customers so they could make money and change their lives.
Now we have taken our internet marketing skills to another level by helping local businesses acquire more customers and clients using the techniques we developed early on in our marketing endeavors. These are tried and proven techniques that help us get into the minds of the potential client or customer and deliver the information they are wanting.
It boils down to education
Internet marketing has come to the place that in order to be effective, we must educate. We use information products or services in order to do this. It may be a video about a product, service or practice area. It may be a series of podcast that inform potential buyers of the benefits of a product or service in small digestible pieces in order for them to retain that information. It could by downloadable whitepapers or DVD's that demonstrate the value and abilities of a product or service. The possibilities go on and on.If we are going to be effective marketers, we need to seek to educate. By educating potential customers, we are positioning ourselves as the experts and go to persons in our markets. Positioning creates authority in a market and those seen as the authority, get the business.
Make it a goal to educate. Put your best information out there and see if you don't fill your funnel with raving fans and people that love you for a long time.
