Earning an income from home online

~(and offline too btw)~

This simple statement Earn income online can be an absolute minefield for the internet beginner. If you have no internet skills apart from being able to send an email or using Facebook, then getting your internet earning machine off the ground is a big task!

First you need a domain name and you need a hosting site to link to your chosen name. Once you have the name and the webspace you need to design your site. You could pay someone to design your site for you but this means extra start up expense and means you need to involve someone else in your planning and strategy, this has another downside as any time you need to change or edit your site you need your WD to do it. And web designers don’t usually come cheap!

Then once you have a site all up and running you need traffic.

Getting traffic requires careful planning and skills! There are lots of internet gurus who will tell you the best method to get traffic to visit your site. You will then be asked to buy their course or pay to watch a training seminar. Again this will cost you money!

Once your site is up you can share affiliate links to products or services. For example say there is a book you like – you can open up an Amazon trader account and then create a link on your website to the Amazon sales page where it will recognise your affiliate code and pay you a commission on the book sale.  Or you can sell your own product or market the service you offer.

I like the affiliate side and I do business offline with a range of products that I like that give me consistent monthly income. see Here

Whatever you choose you can’t just do it because you want money! You need to  have passion and belief as well as marketing skills to get your site noticed as       THERE IS A LOT OF COMPETITION OUT THERE!

An example of affiliate links are the boxes on the right of this screen these are actually free training courses by folks who have made the step you are taken and cracked the code. They can  explain a lot about how you can get up to speed on the marketing side. Now these are free courses that I would recommend you watch before you do anything else.

Then I would recommend signing up for the $10  – 14 day trial as shown on these courses. There are step by step video guides to setting up your site the proper way! This will save you lots of time in the future, I promise.

By the way if hosting etc is something your not comfortable doing you could set up a WordPress blog hosted on the WordPress system for free, but this would mean the site is never really yours, and is also under the scrutiny of the WordPress hosting police which may result in your site being closed down due to any infringement of their guidelines and rules. Basically your site is not yours.

For these reasons you may wish to consider self hosting. So bearing in mind these startup rights and wrongs – the basic things to get you started are:

Hosting – This is where your website data sits and you want reliable and fast data transfer.

Domain Name- When you purchase your hosting consider -  HOSTGATOR it offers all you need plus there are offers for free domain name with certain packages.

Email Account – You can have this self hosted on your hosting site or you can use the free email accounts offered by  Gmail, Hotmail,Yahoo 

WordPress Blog  -   download the neccessary files from WordPress then upload the WordPress zip file to your computer then install on your hosting  here

SEO tools -  Article Marketing Robot, SEOPress + Google Adwords Keyword Tool, good understanding of Keywords and Tags

To get started out properly using a system many successful online marketers have used, I would recommend  a 14 day trial of MLSP (MY LEADS SYSTEM PRO) it shows step by step how to do all of the above + then how to set yourself up to be seen using incredible marketing strategies

It’s a fun and satisfying journey so hop on and let’s get you EARNING AN INCOME ONLINE!