Articles By Liz Tomey
The Most Asked Question…
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007Today once again, I got the question that I get asked constantly.
“Where do I start with making money online, and what’s the best way to do it?”
I get asked this question at least twice a week, so I figured it was time that I addressed this fully and to all of my readers.
First, I cannot tell you where to start. Nope. I really don’t have that answer. There are many options out there for making money online. MANY! You just have to choose. I can’t tell you what’s best for you.
Personally, I think that creating your own products and selling them online is the best way to make money online. However, it’s not the only thing I do online, and it’s not best for everyone.
Is what you have to do is look at all the possibilities out there. You could…
Create websites to earn cash from - This includes Google Adsense, YPN, all the other PPC networks, CPA offers, and many more. Building websites and monetizing them with third party networks is a great source of income. I also do this.
(Sidenote: Two sites that I own that you can learn to do this from are www.AdsenseNewbieVideos.com and www.RSSCashSecrets.com )
Create your own products - As I just said, this is my favorite way to make money online, and where I have made the most money online. This is the main part of my business. There’s a sharp learning curve to it, but is by far the most profitable. Providing services also falls under this create your own products category.
(Sidenote: My www.TomeyMarketing.com sites is where I cover mostly about product creation and creating marketing funnels to sell your products through. Signup for the newsletter and you’ll learn a ton. )
Affiliate marketing - If you don’t want to create your own products, then learn to be an affiliate marketer. As an affiliate marketer, you’ll need to know what products are hot in what niches, and then know how to market those products to the people in those niches. Affiliate marketing also comes with a sharp learning curve. There are some easy tactics you can use to market affiliate products, but a serious affiliate marketer builds sites and products to sell their affiliate products through.
(Sidenote: I started into affiliate marketing only AFTER creating my own products and services. Once I had a list to market products to, and the know how of marketing a product, I then started in with affiliate marketing.)
Freelancing - As a freelancer, you’ll need skills. The most popular freelance jobs are graphic design, website creation, article and ebook writing, and software development. I myself would never do freelancing because I know it’s more profitable for me to hire a freelancer to do these things for me in my business. They make the money by doing it, and I make the money by selling it. Much more money on the selling end, but not everyone wants to run a big Internet business like I do, so that’s why there are freelancers. They just want to get paid for what they know how to do, and not have to worry about the hassles of being a “project manager”.
So for those of you who ask this question….
“Where do I start with making money online, and what’s the best way to do it?”
I want to turn this question now to you…
Where do you want to start making money online, that will best fit you?
How do you come to that conclusion…
You research. Find something out there that you want to do. Read everything you can on the subject. Be it reading articles in the free article directories or reading products from others who are already doing what you are thinking about wanting to do.Find someone that is doing what you want to do and follow them. Quit staying subscribed to those lists where all people are doing is promoting products to you. Spend your time wisely, and only on those who you can gain knowledge from.
Doing what I just told you above will show you how you can start making money online with something that best fits you! You’ll no longer have to ask the question “Where do I start with making money online, and what’s the best way to do it?” because you can answer it for yourself!
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Ben Shaffer got me on the phone one day a few weeks ago, and just totally picked my brain about the ways that I make money online.
From PLR rights and master resell rights to using Web 2.0 tactics and traffic generation tactics. For almost an hour Ben sucked a ton of information out of me. If you’d like to listen to that call, you can get it from tomeymarketing.com/recommends/LizOnThePhone.htm
Just be sure you have a pen and paper handy because I really held nothing back on this call. If you want to know what Liz knows and get to know Liz, this is probably one of the best interviews I’ve done…
tomeymarketing.com/recommends/LizOnThePhone.htm
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Yes, 95% Of People Really Do Fail Online
Thursday, April 26th, 2007I saw a topic on a forum the other day where a few people were discussing… okay, they were out and out arguing about the face that 95% of people who are trying to make money online fail. So, what do you think? Is that a true or false statement?
I’ll say true, and I’m not just guessing. The reason I know 95% of people fail online is because I see them failing. I see the people who are buying ebook after ebook, and software after software and sitting back and complaining that they don’t work. I’ll agree, that a lot of them don’t work, but most of the time it literally is the fault of the person buying the product.
Let me explain… Jane (a fictitious marketer I write about a lot) buys an ebook on how to create money making sites using nothing but RSS feeds. She reads it, and never tries to build the sites because she doesn’t know the technical side of things.
Jane fails…
What could Jane had done note to fail? She could have read the ebook, wrote down everything she needed to do to get one of those sites up and running. When she would come to something she wrote down that she didn’t know how to do, she should have found other resources to teach her how to do what she didn’t know how to do. She’d do this for everything she wrote down until she could successfully build one of these money making sites with nothing but RSS feeds.
Then Jane would go about getting traffic to her new sites. She should write down some ways to get traffic, try them out, keep what works, and ditch what doesn’t.
Jane would succeed if she followed what I stated above.
So let me put this in black and white for you, so you can understand why you might not be succeeding…
You buy a product, and never use it because you don’t know how. You will fail…
You buy a product, learn to use is successfully, and you will succeed.
In order to succeed it takes work. No matter what it is that you are buying, you’re going to have to put work into it. There is no get rich quick, there is no overnight success! It simply does not exist. It’s just used in a lot of ad copy to make you buy something.
So, the next time you go to buy something, keep that in mind!
I just gave you two reasons why I think that 95% of people really do fail online. There’s more though…
Let’s use Jane as an example again.
Jane has bought 10 different products over the last few weeks, and it trying to implement what is being taught in all the products or what the product does. Jane fails…
Why?
I’m sure you know the answer to this. Jane fails because she’s spreading herself too thin and jumping from one product to the next. You cannot do that. When you buy something that is teaching you to do something to make money online, you have to learn to use it as we talked about above, but you also have to give it time to see if it actually works. You can’t just do it for a week and throw up your hands and move on to the next thing.
You also can’t expect to have your attention to be divided between a bunch of different things. I have many things in my business that make me money, but I got one of them at a time making me money. You should focus on one thing, and when it’s successful move on to another thing to increase your income.
Multiple streams of income are very important online, but you can only develop them one at a time.
So what’s the key to not being part of that 95% of people who fail online?
If you are trying to make something work online that will make you money, you have to learn to make it work, give it time to work, and focus only on that one thing. This will make you part of the 5% of people online who succeed!
