Jun 07 2009
Internet Vampire Caught by Dawn - again
Making Money in your pyjamas, cashing in while you sleep… .
Maybe, I should try and go to sleep at reasonable times occasionally, maybe then I would make money?
It always sounds so good: You need no money to start, you need no product of your own, you don’t even need a Website, and even less you need to know any technical stuff, like HTML.
Then one day, you realise, the first step into Online Business is: Go Online - and that does not mean, “log on to the Internet”, it means enter it, be present on the Internet, publish something by yourself. Without an own Homepage you just don’t exist.
Now some might want to grab some free page builder which never produces the page one wants, and it almost fright which prevents them from clicking the HTML button. And HTML is so easy, once you know what those tags mean. Don’t think you need to write it fluently, every website has a source code, one can always look up, what the exact phrasing is. Of course the first template is work, everything else is copy and paste. So it is indeed no use to believe in this myth about no website needed to start Online Marketing.
Even when one can find a good Affiliate Program - what could one do? Advertise one’s Affiliate links? And where? In the old days (about five years ago) some people indeed looked at sites in traffic exchanges, but today advertising just does not work anymore, means, it does not sell. -
Yes, it is quite frustrating to see, that from advertising at most ten percent of sales are made, while it is at least eighty percent of the work to be done. And all this work is wasted, when all the traffic goes to different Affiliatepages.
So why not invest the three months of work and waiting for visitors to present them a Homepage as perfect as possible, from which they might eventually buy?
When all the advertising goes to such a Website, there is at least a second chance the visitors might something else interesting there.
The preparations have to be done first, and they take a lot of time. (So what is the bit money for domain and hosting beside this?) And one has to seriously learn what does not know. Doing second steps first is a bad trap so many like to put up for themselves. Of course, they want to see results within reasonable time. And actually, there is no time for proper set-up, because everything on the Internet changes so rapidly one can hardly keep up. (And on top of that one even must always stay informed.)
Internet Marketing is real work without much result for a long time at the beginning, (I even doubt, it will still make many people rich at all,) but when it is done diligently and planned well, one can finally make a living online. So indeed, when a first thing needs to be completed, to start the next quickly, it can happen, one has to work day and night.
Next step is: make this perceptible to the Real-Life-People around you….
