How To Succeed In Making Money Online

Why do most people fail online? Why do they never make any money? It’s because they think about money first and about their customers last. They create a few pages, stuff them with affiliate links and ads and then they wait for the money to roll in -- usually they wait forever.

Here is a simple formula to build a successful money-making online business:

• Carefully research several niches before choosing a theme for your site. You should be passionate about the subject and there must be a hungry market for it.
•  Start building valuable content for both, your site visitors and the search engines.
• Build more content, distribute articles, participate in targeted forums... this allows you to establish yourself as the expert in your field, to win the trust of your audience and to attract free, targeted traffic from the search engines.
• Add new marketing strategies. Publish an e-zine to build your customer base, to establishes yourself as the expert in your niche, to gain trust...
• Once you have a site of at least 40 content pages with at least 50 unique visitors per day,start monetizing: Add affiliate links, Google AdSense, sell your products or services...

It just doesn’t make any sense trying to monetize your site, as long as you have only a few visitors. Who do you want to sell to? Instead, focus on building more content, driving traffic,building your list...

Follow the "Content - Traffic - Trust - Monetize Traffic" formula and you can’t fail:

• Build valuable content for your visitors and optimize it for the search engines.
• After some time, the search engines will start sending you free, targeted traffic -- traffic that will steadily increase.
• Provide valuable, problem-solving information. This allows you to build a relationship of trust with your audience and they will be more than happy to buy your products, follow your recommendations...
• Ok, now and only now it’s time to monetize traffic: Place your affiliate links and Google ads, sell your own products...

Monetization comes last in the process of building your online business.. First, you should create valuable content, you generate traffic, you gain the trust of your visitors and only then it makes sense to monetize your site traffic.

Motivation is a Choice

Sometimes people ask me ”How do you have time for everything?” or “How can you bother to do so many things?” while they’re sitting there themselves just doing nothing and still asking for help on how to become motivated or whatever. What they don't realize is that motivation is a choice, it's something you have to realize yourself to make it come to true. It is something you must make yourself.
None else is able to come with direct and functional tips on how to get motivated, none else is able to help you choose what to do with your life, seeing as without the realization of what you really want to do, without the realization that it is indeed possible to get whatever you want but that it will require hard work to reach there, you will in the end ultimately fail.

I die a little bit inside every time I see someone making a promise “Yeah, I'll go hit the gym hard and get fit in 6 months!1!1!” and then not living up to it. Yes, they MIGHT go to the gym for a while, just to hit a wall and then forget about it.

It is only possible to provide guidelines for the people who wish to be motivated, but hey, to get motivated you need the motivation to get motivated! Sounds like a paradox? Maybe. But motivation is inside of us all, we just need to come to realize it.

What about time then? What about all the people that excuse themselves from activities just because “they don't have time”? I must say that it is probably one of the worst excuses in the book as you always have time for everything if you really want to. Everything comes down to organizing your life in the end and maybe realizing that you might not need to spend that time sitting by the computer, or the TV, and you could instead use that time to do something else, something productive. Something that brings happiness into to your life.

I still see people being astounded how I find time for everything that I do, but really, you just need to organize everything and to really want to do what you're doing.

Too bad that most people choose the easy way out, and it becomes a part of their lifestyle. Just that makes it harder to come to the realization that you are indeed able to whatever you want to do.

No wonder people say life sucks when they don't do anything with their life.

Just go out and do it. Do whatever you longed to do, and you'll see that everything else will come to place later on. When you choose to do something you really want to do, you choose motivation.

You choose life.

Things I learned running my first successful Kickstarter Campaign

Pre-Kickstarter launch:

Social Media: Start outreaching right away on social media. I found facebook the toughest to outreach so I mainly focused on twitter and instagram. For twitter, I used a find-follow method and started to build an audience that way. For instagram, I found a script online that searches hashtags and likes photos. Both of these strategies will yield a certain amount of followers. They don’t necessarily lead to a high percentage of conversions come launch time but are good for social proof and will be used during your Kickstarter campaign. Pre-KS launch I had 6000 twitter and 4000 instagram followers, for free!

Blogger outreach: This is by far the hardest area to get traction on but you have to do it. Make sure you have plenty samples that you can send out and offer it in the email. The small to mid-size blogs will be more receptive and cost significantly less/free. Most of the larger blogs want you to pay over $2k for a post/review. Start with the specialty blogs that cater to your product. I found some underwear blogs and they gave us the biggest return for the buck. Make sure you budget appropriately and set a goal in line with your budget.

Stress the importance of Day 1:: Send emails to your friends/family and put your pride away. Stress the importance of Day 1 support, even if it’s only at the lowest tier level. That’s where having a $1 backer reward pays off. In retrospect I should have stressed this even earlier but once I did, the support came flowing in.

Kickstarter Campaign

Reaching out to other Kickstarter Creators: This is one of the best ways to get new backers. Once you launch start, reaching out to other successful campaigns and offer to mention them in your updates if they mention you. Also, offer to share it to your large twitter and instagram following (over 10,000 followers!). This is where all the pre-kickstarter work pays off. There will be some really big Kickstarter campaigns that will mention you for this reason and you will see a spike in backers.