“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.” ~Moshe Dayan

This is the Fifth Part in a series of articles I have written about making money online.  Read the others here:

I can clearly remember the first time that I first associated the internet, and making money online, with freedom and with my future.  I had been back to work just a couple of years, after my 10 year early retirement, and I was starting to explore the internet.  All of my old ways of growing my business and getting clients still worked perfectly and my business was doing well.  The internet had not been any part of my previous business model and I was curious about what it might do for me.  So, being me and loving to give seminars, I started to attend seminars about the internet and at one of them I had a huge revelation!

Online Business Empowers Freedom

I was sitting in the very back of the classroom, my normal location so I could leave easily if the seminar was lousy, and the speaker started to talk about how he was selling a few short e-books that he had written online.  At this point, I didn’t even know what an e-book was and I sure didn’t know how to sell it!  Then he said that he made an average of $100 additional US dollars each and every day, 365 days per year, from the sales of these e-books.  Now $100 additional dollars per day wouldn’t support me – but it wouldn’t be a bad start either!  So, I raised my hand and asked what his topics were and how long these e-books were – expecting an earth-shaking length and topics of great importance.  Wow, was I in for an eye-opener!

Two Billion English Speaker Internet Users Equals Massive Online Opportunity

He said his e-books were about 85 pages in length, dealt with the care and maintenance of certain types of pets, sold for $29 dollars US apiece and were unconditionally satisfaction guaranteed.  His next statements completely changed my world view.  He said that:

  • at the time of this seminar that he was giving, there were approximately 2 billion English speaking internet users
  • and that the number of English speaking internet users was growing rapidly
  • and that in a market that large, there was already a huge number of people that would like to pay you for something you already know about
  • and your products just have to be good, not necessarily great, offer a great guarantee and be visible…
  • that all you need to figure out is how to reach them and give them the opportunity to pay you for something you already know!

A Huge Number of People are Waiting to Pay You for Giving Them Something You Already Know

Wow!  Double Wow!  Since that seminar, my life has never been the same.  I have learned so much in such a short time: organic search engine rankings, SEO, e-books, auto-responders, merchant banks, blogging and so much more.  Follow along with me this year and you can watch the internet change my life and change yours as well if you wish!

A Simple Step by Step Plan for Making Money Online

Since we are talking about making money online, tomorrow will be the last day that you can sign up for Yaro’s and Gideon’s Become a Blogger course. I highly recommend it.  Step by Step, week by week, you will be guided and encouraged to build an online presence and then to monetize it – to make money from it.  I did lots of study on my own – I still do, but their course is the best that I have seen.  If you are just getting going making the internet pay off for you, or you are just beginning, then consider taking their course.

Till next time…Jack

“Action is eloquence.” ~William Shakespeare