Make Your At-Home SEO Biz More Profitable
You hear about these success stories all of the time – people who quit their jobs and are making handsome money on the world wide web. Sometimes very big money, as in billions of dollars. Of course, that’s the exception to the rule, but the rule isn’t too bad. If you do it right, you can supplement and even replace your paycheck and gain earnings independence – the stuff of dreams.
First, the Right Idea
A place to upload videos? Sorry, it’s already been done – more than once. But it doesn’t have to be an expensive, brain-buster idea. Just helpful. Here’s an example. One man bought a book for his son on how to make paper airplanes. In the process of creating the airplanes, the book itself had to be cut up and basically destroyed. So this give the dad a pretty good idea – a web site that allowed paper airplane downloads – complete with video demonstrations on how to fold the origami flyers.
At first, he didn’t get many hits because he was buried in the search engine results pages. But within six months, he was clearing $200 every 30 days and within in a year he was up to $600 monthly. Not enough to quit his day job, but enough to make a real difference in the quality of his life!
Spend a few hours on the web and you’ll quickly discover that there are lots of individuals, just like you, earning real money on the web. One doctor in Tennessee owns three web sites for pregnant moms and he makes more from his web sites than he does from the work he does in the OR. So, yes it’s possible, with an idea that hasn’t been overused. Topics to avoid?
- get rich quick schemes
- any kind of investment that can’t be explained in one sentence
- flipping and rehabbing old homes for money
- single-topic e-books with dedicated web sites consisting of a single, hype-filled sales letter
- multi-level marketing (MLM) businesses (pyramids)
- anything that makes you uncomfortable because you’ll be working with the
topic everyday
Second, the Right Time
That’s now. The W3 is the fastest growing marketplace ever and the sooner you become a part of it the sooner you can grab your piece of the pie.
How are these for impressive numbers? The National Mail Order Association recently announced that 75% of all web users now use the web to make, or at least research, a purchase. Three out of four web surfers use the W3 as a primary source for easy comparison shopping.
At one time, people were afraid to provide personal information online, fearing that it could (would) be stolen. However, today’s commercial sites employ heavy duty encryption (coding) to make sure the black hats are kept at bay so, each year, the number of people who recognize the convenience of online shopping grows. In 1999, 25% of web users made a purchase. In ’06, that number jumped to 75% – a 50% increase in just seven years. Now that’s a market you want to be in!
If you’re running an editorial or SEO business from home, drop me a line or give me a call. Earn more when you learn more.
Webwordslinger
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The Internet offers so many opportunities to such a wide range of people, it is incredibly accessible and relatively cheaper and easier than starting a business on the high street.
I think that if you have a good, solid idea and are quite Internet savvy then it is the perfect place to make some cash.