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Online Business Easy Startup Plan
There’s also more than one way to make money online and nowadays, there are probably hundreds of more ways to make money online than there were 10 or 20 years ago when I first got started online.
So, I just want to let you know right off the bat that in this course I’m not going to be showing all the ways to make money online and I’m just going to be talking about what worked for me and what works for me currently.
In fact, there are many marketers who have better systems than me and make more than me.
This is just how I earn a full time income online.
And just as a disclaimer here, I’m not guaranteeing that what works for me will work for you and that you’ll make any money off the methods explained in this book.
This is not financial advice. This is just for educational purposes only.
My Online Business History
I’m going to share a little bit about my internet business history and how I got started online.
I’d estimate it was over 15 years ago, maybe closer to 20 years, when I first got started with trying to make money online.
And the first method that I used was to sell things on eBay. At first, I started selling random things on eBay until I found some suppliers that could provide me with a consistent supply of inventory to sell on eBay.
And the products that I focused on were clothes. During this time, drop shipping was rare and it was difficult to find drop shippers. I don’t even think there was Alibaba yet.
I would just order the inventory and store them in my storage unit of the apartment that I was living in at the time.
And although sales were great, I did not enjoy the business. I spent a lot of time packaging and shipping.
Because the inventory was always different, I spent a lot of time taking pictures of the new clothes and writing new product descriptions.
If I had a constant supply of clothes that were the same, I could just quickly list them on eBay without always having to write new descriptions and take photos every day.
And then when they sold, I would have to package them and walk to the post office across the street.
All this took a lot of time when you consider the large volume of products I had to package on a weekly basis.
I did think about hiring someone to assist me in this business, but the profit margins were just too small that it didn’t make sense.
So, this is when I started thinking about selling digital items online. With digital products, you don’t have to package anything and send them to the post office. Everything was just digital.
This concept was still new at the time. The whole idea of earning income while you’re at the beach appealed to me very much.
So, I started writing an eBook, and I believe the first eBook that I wrote was how to find a job. To write this eBook, I did a lot of research.
I also knew that to sell eBooks online, you had to have a good sales copy.
If you’re new to internet marketing or making money online, one of the most important skills you can have is to write a sales copy.
I recommend that you invest in a book or a course on how to write a sales copy, because if you have that skill of writing a sales copy, you can sell almost anything.
But back to my business history here…
After writing a sales copy and creating a sales page for my eBook, I started driving traffic to it through Google Ads. The results were okay, but not enough to earn a full-time income online.
I then decided to create an eBay course (video tutorials), and the launch was a success.
Afterwards, I took a break from product launching and just focused on list building. I used JV giveaways, ad swaps, and solo ads to build my list.
I also started promoting affiliate products to my list. This is when I realized that I could start earning income daily by just emailing my list.
A few years later, I started launching products again. What I love about launching products is the cash flow that it brings in. Plus, you get fresh blood. And by fresh blood, I mean new buyers into my list that I could promote more products to in the future.
I also partnered with other marketers so that I could launch more products. I tried to use that as a leverage. But now I prefer to launch products on my own.
So, my current formula now is just to email my list daily between one and three times a day. To build my list, I just buy solo ads and I also try to launch products.
Benefits of Working from Home
Now let’s just quickly talk about the benefits of working from home.
You get to spend quality time with your kids and your loved ones.
You don’t have to worry about commuting in the traffic to your work every day. And that’s one of the things I’m grateful for. Sometimes, when I do have to drive in traffic, say to drop off my kids at their sports or activities, I’m grateful that this is something that I don’t have to do every day.
And you can tell that a lot of people driving in the traffic are stressed out. So just imagine them doing that every day.
So, I recommend working from home if you can.
Another benefit is just the ability to control your schedule. If you’re the type of person that prefers to work in the afternoon or late at night, then you can do that in your business if you want.
Or if you prefer to work in the early morning hours so you can enjoy the rest of your day afterwards, you can set your schedule to that.
I also love the freedom to do what you want. You could take breaks whenever you want. You could just take a day off.