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Are You Serious About Making Money Online?
Jul 10th
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~e.e. cummings
Are you serious about making money online? Great! Me too! Bad news first:
- There are already approximately one hundred million blogs with perhaps two hundred and fifty thousand more being started every day – and you will need to compete with these for attention online.
- You will need to work hard and smart – although I believe in miracles, I am going to plan my work in such a way that miracles are not a mandatory part of my business plan.
- You will probably need to keep your day-job for awhile – perhaps an extended period of time, while you create your online business.
- You are going to need to develop new skills and new habits to be successful.
- You are certainly going to need to find the time to work on your online business – it will take significant time devoted on a regular basis.
Now for the good, even great news:
- The one hundred million blogs are important but not as much as you think. Most are orphaned by their authors within 90 days or are strictly devoted to socializing.
- The vast majority of blogs are updated rarely – if you write to yours five times per week you will absolutely stand out.
- In a world of two billion English speakers, a number that is growing rapidly, there is plenty of opportunity for new and marvelous success stories – including yours and mine!
- You will get to really be yourself – even if you don’t know who that is yet.
- You will have more friends – across the entire world – than you have ever before had in your life.
- People all around the world will care about you and care about what you think.
- Carefully planned and worked, your online business can grow more rapidly than any other type of business in the world today.
- Your financial investment in your online business, at least in the beginning, is trivial compared to the real opportunity.
More next time…Jack
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” ~Judy Garland
Your Work Should Be Like Play Especially Online
Jul 9th
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.” ~Mark Twain
Last time I encouraged you to set a small goal – to make $250 dollars per month from your online business – each and every month. I still think this is a great goal and only the smallest percentage of people trying to make money online ever even make this goal a reality. Wow – why? I think it is because they are all going for the big quick score without doing the groundwork first.
It was interesting the huge number of tweets that I received yesterday promising overnight riches from online business. (For those of you that are not yet on Twitter – a “tweet” is a 140 character micro-blog. Twitter is becoming a force that must be taken into account and I will talk more about how and how not to use this service soon.)
Today, I just want you to think about your passions and your hobbies. What do you love to do – not for money, but because you just love it? Or think about it this way, if money was no concern, how would you honestly be spending your time? This bit of self-analysis is critical for your future online success and is my suggested homework for you. Look at what you love to do – even if you have never had time to do it and just write that down. Next time I’ll talk about why this was important.
Till next time…Jack
“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.” ~Buckminster Fuller
Making Money Online and Your First Goal
Jul 8th
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am going to share with you, my faithful readers, a great goal to consider: How about setting a goal to make $250 dollars per month from your online business? How does that goal sound? Does it sound small? I hope so – I want it to sound small and achievable – doable, and yet there is a great reason why to choose this goal for your Internet business.
(Now, I know that many of my readers are not based in the United States and $250 USA dollars may not have any meaning for you. Let me try to find kind of a way to translate this into virtually any kind of money: In the USA, the minimum wage for most workers is around $7.00 per hour. At $7.00 per hour, $250 dollars equals about 36 hours of work – nearly a full work-week of 40 hours here. $7.00 per hour is the kind of wage that most people right out of high school will probably start at – without any particular speciality skills. So for you, whatever someone working an entry level job for 36 hours can expect to earn – that should be your initial monthly monetary goal. Does that make sense?)
Now, why $250 dollars per month? In study after study of families and individuals in the United States that end up declaring bankruptcy or become financially insolvent, the amount that they are short each and every month that finally builds and destroys their finances and credit, is around $250 per month. Interesting huh? For the vast majority of people, if they had a consistent additional $250 dollars per month of income, they could stay afloat financially. That is a great goal and a great starting place!
Now I know that the Internet is full of get rich quick schemes and some of these might even be real – let me repeat the might. Most of them are not real or they are certainly not sustainable. What I want you to consider is getting to a real and consistent and sustainable additional $250 per month from your Internet business. (If you are already way past this amount, and I know that some of you are, then consider what I talk about here from the standpoint of making your income more consistent and more sustainable. From past experience income that rapidly builds without a solid foundation can also rapidly decrease and that is no fun!)
There is another great reason to choose $250 dollars per month (or your local equivalent) from your online business as a great starting place. Once you are making a consistent $250 per month, you will have already built a great foundation that will let you move up rapidly and consistently from there. How long will this take? Come back next time and we’ll talk about that.
By the way, I have also set this goal for myself. Although I already make much more than this amount from my blog – in terms of getting hired to speak and coach, I do not currently make any income from my blog from product sales – so that is my initial goal – to make a consistent $250 each and every month from product sales and together, we will go over every step to make this happen.
Till next time…Jack
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” ~John Quincy Adams
A Worthy Cause, Making Money Online and Motivation
Jul 6th
“Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.” ~Charles Caleb Colton
Hi all. We are going to talk just a bit about growing your online business in the this post, but first – Wow! I recently had the pleasure and honor of being recontacted by one of my personal heroes. I am still excited about this and my posting to this blog was the reason that I was found at all!
Just a Bit about HomeClub
Some of you have heard about my time at HomeClub and all of the wonderful, and awful, experiences that I had there. To recap in short, my first job out of college ending being at one of the fastest growing companies in American history – and I got to work with them from shortly after funding, thru rapid growth, thru massive cash struggles, thru their IPO, thru the death of a company president on the job, thru their acquisition by another company and thru the beginning of their death thru stupidity – and all of this in just a nibble over 5 years! Wow! Double Wow!!
One of My First Heroes
One of the founders of HomeClub was, and is, a man named George Handgis. When I met George, I was a newly hired temporary worker, the ink not yet dry on my Bachelor of Science in Business diploma from CU in Boulder Colorado, and George was the Vice President of HomeClub. George was already all of the things that I aspired to be: He was friendly and genuinely concerned about the happiness and well-being of his employees. (Thanks again for the box seat tickets to the LA Gran Prix, George!) He was creative and innovative. He was a massive business success – an expert at rapidly growing a business. He was elegant, he cared about his family and took good care of them, and of great importance to me at the time – he drove great cars! This may sound unimportant, but let’s be honest, I still love great cars – I expect I always will! George became one of heroes and my desire to be similar to George Handgis became one of the reasons that I was able to retire the first time as young as I did.
A Worthy Cause
When Zayre bought HomeClub, and began the process of destroying their new purchase (I expect this was not their actual intention, but it certainly seemed that way), George retired and moved to Hawaii. Of the many things that I am sure George is involved with, he runs a great charitable cause in Hawaii that has touched the lives of many people: The Jonathan Dale Miller Foundation. Here is an excerpt from their website:
The Jonathan Dale Miller Foundation
Jonathan was a very special boy who developed a terminal illness when he was 9 years old. Before passing away a year later, he was asked if he had any wishes. He said, “I want to feed the hungry and give toys to children at Christmas that usually would not receive any.” His selflessness led to the formation of the Jonathan Dale Miller Foundation, which does just what he wished for.
Our Mission: The Jonathan Dale Miller Foundation will establish the benchmark of how small charities should be operated. We vow to honor the final wishes of Jonathan Miller of, in his words, “feeding the hungry people and giving toys (and clothes) to kids at Christmas that wouldn’t usually get toys.” There will not be any administrative costs and 100% of contributions received will be used exclusively to help others consistent with Jonathan’s very specific wishes.
(Jack writing again: Now that is a worthy cause – real people directly helping real people)
“True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.” ~Emanuel Swedenborg
Consider a Contribution
Some of you, after visiting the website of the foundation, could make a money contribution. Please consider doing so. (George did not ask me to make any contribution at all – I am just making my kind of contribution, at least in part, thru this blog post.) Many of you will not currently be in a position where you can make a financial contribution. I understand. Consider this instead: In today’s world, it is critical to be very visible to the online world. What does visible mean? For me and I hope for you, it means top of page ranking on Google and Yahoo for the search terms that most directly relate to you and your company. For Jonathan’s Foundation in Hawaii, I would argue that high organic search engine ranking for the term: Great Hawaii Charitable Cause would be a beautiful thing. (If that makes no sense to you, no worries, we will talk about it one day soon.)
Consider giving an Inbound Link
Here is a gift you can give almost anyone, anyone that has an online presence, give them an inbound link. The more real inbound links that point towards a site, the better – the higher that site ranks organically. So, for example, for Jonathan’s Foundation, the next blog entry you make or tweet that you post, consider adding this little piece: “Here is a nice charitable cause that you might consider reading about: http://jonathansfoundation.org/” Chain that link to the website and move on. You have made a charitable contribution. Use the terms “great Hawaii charitable cause” and you have made an even better contribution. It’s as simple as that. Consider doing that for any cause that you feel strongly about – it will make a difference for them – especially as the ranking of your own site increases.
What does this have to do with making money online?
It has to do with motivation. If you, and I, are going to build a significant business online, it is going to take work and probably a significant amount of thinking – perhaps the hardest work of all. Most likely, you will need to keep your “day job”, perhaps for an extended period of time, as you grow your online business. Most likely, you will need to give up some activities that you enjoy, at least for awhile, in order to free up the needed time to grow your online business. Most likely, you are going to need to move well beyond your current comfort zone, your vision of who you are and what you can do, and this will likely need to be a permanent change. The energy to do all of this – the motivation – your why – this needs to stay in front of you where you can easily see it and stay in touch with it. The motivation to do more, the motivation to make each day an investment in your future is key. You will find this motivation in worthy causes – your own causes and worthy causes of others that touch you deeply.
“If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” ~Bob Hope
Come visit me again soon. You are going to be watching me grow my online business live – day by day – as I convert from a 100% coaching and speaking driven income to an income that is largely driven by online business. Watch, learn and please comment!
Thanks again George Handgis – wishing you and yours the very best!
Till next time…Jack
“Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.” ~Phillips Brooks
Making Money Online Part Five
Jul 2nd
“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:
- Making Money Online Part One
- Making Money Online Part Two
- Making Money Online Part Three
- Making Money Online Part Four
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
Making Money Online Part Four
Jun 29th
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~Milton Berle
This is part four of a ongoing series about making money online. If you haven’t yet read the other parts of this series, you can find them here:
In my next post we will talk more about what you can do to make money online and what I have been doing, but for now you have a unique opportunity to begin the process of making money online this very week. Like most opportunities, this one doesn’t last forever – in fact it will only be around until this Friday. Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick, my blogging coaches, have just given me permission to tell you that their famous blogging course is now open…
Become a Blogger Training Course
But they are keeping doors open for ONLY 5 days, and then they will shut it again for the rest of the year! This may sound arbitrary, but they said that they needed to limit the numbers somehow.
Last time they opened doors, they were bombarded with a flood of new members signing up, and they had to close the program to the general public for a few months to take care of their new members. And I wanted to make sure you, my readers have the opportunity to get in this time.
It’s one of the best, if not THE best blogging courses out there at the moment, and is recommended by dozens of professional bloggers around the world. I certainly owe a tremendous amount to what I have learned from Yaro and Gideon. But don’t take my word for it, go see for yourself over here:
Become a Blogger Training Course
Till next time…Jack
PS: Don’t forget that you only have 5 days to get in on this. When the clock strikes 11.59pm on Friday, June 3, 2009, they will shut the doors, and then you wont be able to get in until next year!
Become a Blogger Training Course
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” ~George Bernard Shaw