Speak Up
Today’s entry may be one of the most important ones I have ever sent out.
Why?
Because your response to this newsletter is going to help guide the direction of all future newsletters!
This is the day that I am asking for participation from every one of my readers…
… and I am counting on you!
I have one question for you, and I would ask that you take a few minutes to provide me with your answer below.
Ready?
Here goes…
What is your BIGGEST question about making money online?
Now, I don’t want you to just ask me, “how do you make money online?”
That would be too simple.
In the thirteen years of running an online business, I’ve done just about everything that isn’t illegal or immoral.
I know a few things… but I want to know what YOU want to know!
This is your opportunity to ask whatever you want, so please take advantage of it.
Scroll down the page and go to the comments section where you may input your biggest question about making money online.
Feel free to ask a long question or be brief. I just need to know what’s on your mind.
I look forward to reading your questions!
HOW can we survive and compete with the existing online marketer ?
Why we not fail and HOW we not come back after venturing out online biz?
What is a realistic income target for Internet marketing? I currently make about $140K per annum working as a business software consultant. If I can devote up to 50 hours a week to IM activities, how likely, and quickly, am I to be able to fully replace that level of income? N.B. I have a downloadable audiobooks business that is ready to launch – if I had the time – and I know enough about website building to start rolling out mini-sites pretty quickly.
Hi Joel,
I bought your $2000 package at the never work again seminar in orlando with T. Harv Eker. I started to read your material and the first step says build a good website. I have started and stopped several times and have nothing of value…yet. The net is that so far I don’t feel that i have received any value from your material because I am starting from so far back. I should have waited to purchase your materials. I expect that you have updated some of it by now. I was really enthused at the time and don’t know if your material is still valuable given that it has been almost a year and I have not started to make use of it. Do you have any suggestions? Some direction “how to get started” would be good.
An actual reply from you would be appreciated.
Thanks much,
Bob K
Two years ago I didn’t know how to turn a computer on. Today I have a website, an ebay store, have read and watched the experts and been involved in a mentoring programme. Like everyone else, getting traffic would be the hardest although I haven’t implemented all the techniques I have learned so far. Which leads me to the point which I regard as the very hardest to make money. This point is the fact that my partner and friends see me as ‘playing’ with the computer. I have explained that it is an investment in the future but I still get hit with how much time I spend (or waste) on the computer. I guess if I gave it even more time I would be more advanced than I am at present. Maybe when I start bringing in $2000/week plus I won’t hear so many complaints.
Is this a common problem?
Kay
2/20
This is a general response to some of the other posts. My website currently gets about 4200 unique visitors a month. It has taken me almost 4 years to get to this level and a lot of work producing content. There are no free lunches in the internet marketing world. No matter what the gurus tell you. If someone does hit a homerun first thing, it is the exception and not the rule.
Make a committment to working at least 10 hours a week on your business following a marketing plan. Joel Comm has done very well but he worked hard to get there.
You will need some money to get started. If need be, get a job carrying groceries, or at McDonalds or Taco Bell to earn some money. Some money is better than no money. A second job can help supply funds to start or expand your business. You don’t need to keep it forever.
Sign up to ONE or TWO quality IM newsletters. Joel’s is one to start with. I wonder how many have even read the links at the top of this page for information.
DO take time to sign up to the Friday Traffic Report and download the Authority Black Book on Web 2.0 marketing. READ IT. Jack Humphrey is one of the web’s top experts on Web 2.0 marketing.
Don’t expect to get rich overnight and please don’t look for the magic bullet. There is none.
Free blogs are one way to get started with little money. Google “free blog hosts” in quotes and investigate the top 3 to 5 entries. I don’t recommend blogspot.com as that is owned by Google and they can shut off access to your blog off if they think you are a spammer by too much product promotion.
Wordpress.com is a good one to host a free blog. Read the TOS on the top 3 free blog hosts. If you don’t know what a blog is. Google “what is a blog” in quotes. A free blog that will let you promote products is a good place to start. http://www.squidoo.com is one such place.
Get a product of your own as quickly as possible. With your own product you have a chance to JV with someone that has a large email list.
I suggest you stay away from internet marketing to start with. This field is very competitive.
Every one has a PDF ebook in them. Think about Google free PDF compilers and investigate some of them. There are some good free ones out there to get you started.
Good luck to all and after you each become internet millionaires, I hope to see your ebooks on clickbank.com
Marshall, Editor
http://www.fly-fishing-colorado.com
http://www.110flyfishingtips.com
A lot of Gurus say it’s easy to make money on the Internet & they are making Tons of it & we spend. – I am still asking HOW ?
Don’t mind spending a year or 2 to be succcessful & be rich from Internet Biz. Spend a lot of money on all the Promises/Programs like many others but I always see most going no way. I am more than 1 year into the search for Internet Success.
Still can’t get my own website up or get a niche eventhough there are Tons of guides & ebooks on this except promoting Affiliates Programs but no results. -Where to Advertise for Maximum effectiveness ?
Only can make from some Free To Join Programs where self-effort bring in the money. Of course, that’s not we want. We want to make Real Auto-Pilot Residual Income. HOW ?
Frankie
What is the most effective way to generate business/income when you are just starting out and don’t have gadgets such as an autoresponder etc (sorry if this has already been asked but I simply don’t have time at present to read through 205 responses!). I’m just starting out (launch the website within a week – yeeha) and am so keen to be successful, but wonder if my hopes are too high when I have had to do it without all the “mod-cons”(as can’t really afford at the moment).
Cheers
Lesley
What I am working on now which seems a bit challengingis a sales letter for my website that is currently in progress which I’ll use to promote the site listed above. How does one stay focus with what seems like an information overload? For a beginner with no or very little knowledge about it’s challenging. It seems as though one needs a lot to get started right. How can one start small and not feel that you one is losing ground?
P.S. Have just read Marshall’s e-mail (second to last by my reckoning) and just wanted to say I so appreciate people like Marshall who give a “heads up” to people like myself who are new to this game. Thanks Marshall, for the google ideas and the rest.
Cheers
Lesley
Lots of good people give good marketing advice. None that I know of give reviews or comparative evaluations of alternative software programs to build your web site, programs to evaluate & select keywords, companies to use as your web host, etc. What are the pros and cons of the best choices for different sophistication levels of web sites and number of products (ie:selling one product vs selling many products within the single web site).
If you can do this, great! Or can you give the web sites where these reviews
can be obtained?
Thanks, Joel
You have give me a chance to speak up, I have promote your product but I have not sell one of them I want your advice. What I have to do in order I can make more income on internet, I have tried make a blog, advertise on google adwords, join a forum,join yahoo answer and free ads.
Thanks
adrian
Traffic = Money
NO Traffic = NO Money 🙁
How to drive traffic to your site? Besides PPC..
I haven’t had much success with SEO that’s y my adsense earnings sucks :S
first i want to thankyou for your continous support.
i started in november last year my business on internet.
but the first 2 systems were not what it was write in the sales page.
i ask my money back,but they give me nothing.
i lost over $ 100.
the sad thing is that several coleagues of you recommand strongly
this systems.
from 2006 a joined more than 30 lists,and so i now know who is real
and serious in IM.
thankyou once more ,nik
1) Do a blog? or put up numerous content Adsense sites? Outside of writing your own content where do you get it as it pertains to a specific KW?
2) This whole business is information overload! Everyone has the answers, the solutions. And for your credit card number I’ll give you the answers and solutions!
Joel! any advise on narrowing some of this down and focusing in on something other than buying something else? Some of this is like a gambling addition!
Thanks,
Don
When can we expect an answer to all our questions? (or even some anwsers to at least a few questions).
Wow! What a great response to my question!
Thanks so much for taking the time to let me know what is on your mind.
I would like to answer these questions and am trying to determine the best way to go about it. I may be making some videos soon to facilitate this process.
Thanks for being engaged in the conversation and feel free to continue posting.
Joel
I run a one-woman operation of internet sales in a niche market and have for 6 years. My sales have always been tremendous. Lately, they are falling like a rock, yet the advertising budget (Google adwords) steadily climbs. With sales declining I find I am starting to worry about spending what money I ‘do’ have coming in on this exorbant google adword campaign. (I usually spend $4k a month and I’m down to $2k and I’m struggling). Yet I know if I quit advertising, I’ll have no sales at all. I’ve tried to follow some of the tips given by Armand in which he states will get the cost per click down to 4-5cents per clk, yet I sure don’t see that happening. As I attempt to set up a new campaign of my own I still end up on the page that asks me to set my budget and what I want to pay for each click. If I said 4-5 cents, you’d never find my listing. I wish there was a very, very definitive, simplified Google Advertising guide that ‘really’ worked. All these ‘secrets’ that are suppose to be revealed in expensive programs…I wish they would really be revealed.
What is the simplest and most successful website solution that will guarantee you $40 a day no matter what?
One of the best ways to make money off the internet is to set up a duplicatable, recurring passive income system. Trouble is, what is that system, how do we find one, and how do we set it up? If I can figure that one out – I’m on my way?
One of the best ways to make money off the internet is to set up a duplicatable, recurring passive income system. Trouble is, what is that system, how do we find one, and how do we set it up? If I can figure that one out – I’m on my way?
How can you research a good niche when you’re not an expert at anything? It’s niches that I find the hardest part of beginning this business. The niche I want, you have to be doing it to gain credibility, and I can’t presently afford to do it.
And, what do you think of all-in-one companies like SiteBuildIt!?
I should like to note here that not all of us are looking to get rich. I just want to have enough passive income to survive so that I can follow my other pursuits (some of which involve earning money, of course). So rather than thinking of things as ‘get-rich’, I would rather consider it as ‘get-decent-income’.
What do you think about the future of internet business and making money online? What is next?
Thanks for this nice opportunity to ‘Speak Up’
Funny you mention ‘Speaking’, because recently I was asked to ‘Speak’ for a rather big croud. Reminded me of the time I had an entire football stadion cheering, I really felt like a ‘Rock Star’ and the croud really went wild!!!!! although it appeared that possibly Mick Jagger comming on stage behind me might have had something to do with it…,
‘Anyway, back to the Question’,
What I would like to ask is if you know some other great positive Questions about ‘Making Money Online’ that I could ask myself
besides the Question:
“Why am I earning so much money online?”
Is it because the visitors like the specific ‘Blogspots’ so much?
Is it because the visitors love the Daily Items on them so much?
Is it because the visitors are excited about the Movie Trailor Previews?
Is it because the visitors can interact in many way’s?
Is it because the many streams of income from Adsense Ads, Amazon, the royalties from my Publishing on Demand company, the revenues from all the other Affiliates etc. etc. etc.
What do you think are the best contributing ‘money making’ elements that
I could add, or improve to make my ‘Waterpump’ run even wilder?
Thanks in advance,
All the Best,
HP
How can you research a good niche when you’re not an expert at anything?
And stop sending me mails!
Hey Joel,
I am thinking about getting into affiliate marketing and my biggest problem right now is what domain name I should get. This is because I may be wanting to promote different products (like web hosting along with maybe affiliate ebooks) which come under different niches. I also wanted to know, when people choose a niche, how do they find so called ‘good’ affiliate programs (from clickbank) in that niche?
Thanks,
Karan
Quality content + traffic is all we need to do a successful internet marketing.
Sam
Quality content + traffic is all we need to do a successful internet marketing.
Sam
Success godluck..
I have the products(affiliate) i want to promote and now Im froze. Need a step by step on where to go from here. Others seem to know about getting up websites and such,not me. How do i get over the wall ive hit and start?