! Your first $1,000 How to Start an Online Business that Actually Makes Money! By Simon Cave Founder The Becomer
How to Start an Online Business that Actually Makes Money If you read this ebook it s because you have a goal. You want to develop your own Online Business and increase your income. That way you could travel more, pay off your debts, buy things you want to buy without feeling guilty, make more gifts to people you love, stop living paycheck to paycheck and maybe eventually quit your boring 9-5 job... The problem is that it s not that easy to make money online because of the information available out there! It s not that making money online is a secret that only a few people keep for them; it s just that it s damn hard to know which strategies really work! Making some good money online is not about luck; it s about finding the good strategies and having the good mindset. If you focus and work hard using the wrong strategies and tactics, you will never achieve what want and that s what makes people give up. So if you feel like giving up on what you ve already created or if you don t want to give up before even starting, I recommend you to read carefully what s following because I am going to explain why so many people don t make money online and I ll also reveal some practical strategies that you can use right away to make your first $1,000 - for real. Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 1
The Misconception About Making Money Online Too many blogs out there talk about displaying ads on your website or promoting affiliate programs to make money online. They will tell you that you can make a great profit if you use them. The problem with that is that these monetization systems are not adapted for beginners. (For those of you who don t know how these monetization systems work: Ads: You display ads on your website and get paid every time someone click on it, or every time 1,000 people see them for example. Affiliate programs: You basically promote a product or service using a special link, that we call affiliate link. Every time someone clicks on it to buy what you promote, you get a commission out of the sale). Let me show you the common pieces of advice that you find when you write make money online on Google: About.com Entrepreneur website: Start your own blog. At Blogger you can set up a blog for free in less than five minutes without knowing a thing about web design, and Blogger even automates setting up Google AdSense so you can make money off your blog by displaying ads and getting paid when people click on the ads. To make even more money from it, set up an affiliate program for books, music, etc., and insert your affiliate links whenever you refer to those items. You'll have to get a lot of traffic to become a six-figure blogger, but Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 2
pick an interesting topic, write well, tell all your friends, and you're off to a good start. Wikihow: Become an affiliate marketer. This is a great way to make money for promoting someone else s products or services without having to carry any inventory. Affiliate advertisements are usually incorporated into your website/blog/page via linked articles, product-placement videos, or, less and less commonly, banner ads. If necessary, you can also marketer without a website. If you have a lot of traffic, you might want to do cost-per-click advertising, which doesn t earn you much per click but banks on the fact that the sheer number of visitors will build your revenue. If you have very strong content, you might want to do cost-peracquisition advertising, which makes you a decent commission (either a fixed amount or a commission, depending on what you ve pre-agreed to) every time someone on your site makes a purchase with your affiliate company. Lifehack: Google Adsense Google s advertising platform is as simple as signing up, enabling (on Blogger) or pasting a small code on your Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 3
website, and allowing the advertisements to automatically roll in. The problem with this program is that you don t get any commissions and you don t get to control the ad content. This is useful for some, but powerful users will want something a little more robust. Amazon Associates Amazon has an Associates program for site owners and bloggers. They offer a search tool to find the right products and services from their site and a variety of ad styles to display on your site, including text-based and banner images (digital billboards) like this: Each item purchased through your Amazon links give you a commission. It doesn t take high volume traffic to achieve results, either. I began making money with the program when I only had 1,000 hits per month on my site. They can apply your earnings to your Amazon account balance, issue you a check, or direct deposit into your bank account. If you love Amazon, you ll love their associate s program. If you are beginner who wants to make some good money online and who follows these advices, you will become frustrated very soon! It takes a lot of time before making any good money off these systems. Trust me I made the mistake! Let me explain. When you start a blog, you are small and don t get much traffic. The first months, you ll get maybe 500, 1,000 visitors on your website. If you decide to display ads and to use affiliate programs, it will take you a lot of time before you make your first $1,000! Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 4
Usually people who make $1,000 with ads and affiliate products, get at least 50,000 visitors on their website and it takes time to get so much traffic! Let me take a very realistic example: On average, people make $1 every time someone clicks on the ads they display or when 1,000 people see it. So if you only get 1,000 people on your website and get 5 of them to click on your ad, you will make $6. Nothing fancy here but that s the reality! The same goes for affiliate programs. If you use the Amazon affiliate program for example and that you promote on your website several products that cost $50, you will only get a 4% commission every time you get someone to buy. So let s say you get 1,000 visitors on your website and 2 of them buy a product you promote, you will only make $4 (2 x ($50 x 0.04). When all is said and done: if you are a beginner who gets 1,000 visitors and that you follow the common advice using ads and affiliate product, you will only make a $10 profit (ads + amazon affiliate). As you can see, displaying ads and using affiliate programs to make money online is overrated for beginners. So what s the best solution when you just start off and want to make some good money as fast as possible? Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 5
Sell your Own Digital Product/ Informational Product Selling your own digital product is the real deal here! When starting, it s the fastest way to make a great profit online. But what s a digital product exactly? Udel define digital products as intangible products that can be downloaded over a digital network. They can be software, apps, music or informational products. So if you are a programmer or a musician, you can sell software, apps or some music. If you are not, you can still sell what we call informational products. An informational product is a package with a content that teaches something to people. Informational products usually put together ebooks, Audio files, and/or videos. When people buy it, they can either download the content on their desktop computer or get a user name and password to login to their personal account to get access to the content. Here s an example of informational product: Informational product about fitness: 1 ebook of 100 pages about how to lose weight in 60 days + 8 videos that show the various exercises. The main benefit of selling informational products is that they cost nothing to produce (just your brain and a computer with Word) and make you 100% profit! Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 6
Another great thing is that when you sell your own product, you know who buys from you, which is a valuable information when it comes to making more profit overtime. Let me explain. When people buy your product online, you automatically get their email address, which is an opportunity for you to keep in touch with them and to sell them more products overtime. That s impossible when using affiliate programs because when you promote other people s product you only get a commission and leave the valuable contact information to the seller. So now let s talk numbers to illustrate the power of using informational product to make some good money online. Strategy #1: Let s say that you still get 1,000 visitors on your website but that this time you create an informational product that you sell for $50. Let s also say that you get 4 of your visitors to buy your product (that s less than 1% of your visitors, which is really doable), you will make a profit of $200 (4 x $50)! In other words if you create and sell your own informational product on your website, you will make 20 times more profit than with ads and affiliate combined! It means that you will only need 5,000 visitors to make $1,000 online instead of 50,000 if you used affiliate and ads. Strategy #2: You can even add to your informational product a back-end product to increase your profit. If you don t know what a back-end product is, it s basically what you are offered after buying a product online. It looks like this: Hey you want to buy this dress, we also have this nice bag Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 7
that would perfectly go with it. Would you like to add it to your basket? Or Hey you want to buy this console; we want to offer you this game at 40% off! Do you want to add it to your basket? In the case of your online business, a back-end product may refer to another informational product of yours. For example after people buy your $50 product you can offer them an additional $70 product. If 2 of them buy it, you will increase your profit by $140, which would make you $340 in all. Strategy #3: If you want to make even more profit, you can use an affiliate program, not as someone who promotes other people s product but as someone who offers commissions to people who are willing to promote his/her own product. So let s say you use Clickbank to sell your $50 product and that you offer a 50% commission to people who promote it. If 10 people promote it, and bring you 30 sales you will make an additional $750 profit ($25 x 30). Now if you think that I am making all that up using random numbers let me show you a couple of real examples of people who has been making some great money with their own product (the figures you are going to see come from real income reports available on each site mentioned): If you take a look at the income of the very famous Pat Flynn of SmartPassiveincome.com, you will see that during his first month of monetization he made $7,126.91 with his own product and only $596.31 with Google Adsense (Ads). Pat Flynn had already some great traffic before starting the Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 8
monetization of his website that s why his income looks so great, but still, it shows the difference between informational products and ads. The same goes for Lindsay and Bjork founders of the great website PinchofYum.com. If you take one of their income reports, at the beginning you will see: Bluehost affiliate program: $195 The Thesis Theme Affiliate Program $54.42 VigLink $68 Google Adsense $680.24 Amazon Affiliate Program $1.14 Tasty Food Photography ebook (own product) $1,320.50 As you can see the income they got from their own product is superior to every other ads or affiliate products combined. Now I am not saying that you will never make any good money if you use affiliate programs and ads, I am just saying that it s not the fastest way to make some good money when you just start off. You have to understand that creating your own product and selling it on your website is optimal when you are a beginner. Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 9
To conclude... Now it s up to you to take action on this material. Because education is meaningless without action. Go use this material now! Create your own product and promote it on your website. You will be surprise to see the results. And if you liked what you ve read, here s what I want you to do next: 1) Send me an email at simon@thebecomer.com saying, Hey Simon, just read your ebook and I found it very useful because... 2) Say hello to me on Twitter or Facebook, I love hearing from my readers! The Becomer Founder Simon Cave Copyright2014http://thebecomer.com/ 10