The Wealth Gang

Whether you want to live a lifestyle of only working a couple hours a day, or you are like me and have days that you put in 15+ hours into your marketing efforts (not because you have to, but because you love making money), there are certain things you can do to be way more effective and efficient.

I for one, have been guilty of hitting the refresh button, double checking that all my links work correctly, and wondered where the day went. When I waste and entire day looking at stats, I get really disappointed with myself. I consider it negative work… not only did I waste time, but absolutely nothing got accomplished to move my business forward. No matter how many times I check my stats, I’ll make the same amount of money at the end of the day. Hitting the refresh button does not make income grow — marketing does.

So what does that mean?

1. Turn Off Email: When you sit down to work, check your email and respond to anything urgent. Then shut it down and don’t check it again until you are done marketing. Email can wait, but the more time you put off marketing your business, the more damage you are doing to yourself. This includes instant messaging. Get your priorities done first.
2. Quit Checking Stats: This is the biggest time suck out there. Check your stats over and over again does nothing. If it keeps you motivated, find a different way to motivate yourself, such as a picture of a big pile of cash. Check your stats once, and again when you are done working. That’s it.
3. Stop What You’re Reading: Everyone thinks there is a big secret out there that nobody is sharing. By reading forums, blog posts, and ebooks, you may learn a few things, but do this in your spare time. The Internet rewards people who work at building their business, and reading blogs is not considered building a business. Just do it and learn from doing. You’ll get way more out of that than any blog can teach you.
4. Start With Most Effective: You have to think long-term and short-term for you business, but think about what you can do that will not only immediately have the most impact on your business, but will have compounding results. Writing a new blog post, for instance, is probably a more long-term strategy. Optimizing your ad placements is a more immediate and compounding task. Not only will it help you make more money today, but the 20 minutes you spend will help you make more money for a long time — over and over again.
5. Optimize Existing Traffic: There are two main things you can do to make more money. Get more traffic, or find a way to squeeze more money out of your existing traffic. The later is probably the most effective method that Internet marketing gurus are experts at. It’s a lot easier to find ways to make more money from the people already visiting your sites that it is to get more people to come to your site.

As you work, try to keep efficiency and productivity in mind so you can make yourself as valuable as possible. Ideally you want to make the most amount of money in the shortest amount of time. One way to do that is to use your time effectively. Then, once you start making the big bucks, you can hire a couple employees to do the work for you.

One thing I’ve learned in the short time that I’ve been running The Wealth Gang is that the biggest challenge people face with making money online has nothing to do with the actually making money… it has to do with themselves.

I can’t tell you the number of emails I get from people that tell me they started a blog and haven’t made any money and need my help. Like a fool, I’ll actually go to look at their website and guess what? There’s nothing there.

Pardon my language, but how the hell do you think you can make any money on your website without a freakin’ website? Just because you started a blog and wrote one worthless “About me” page doesn’t entitle you to making any money. The methods I outline need to be put into action. They may seem simple, and that’s because it is.

It is incredibly easy to make money online, but the biggest challenge for people seem to be getting off their butts and doing something about it. If you want a serious change in lifestyle, dedicate 45 minutes a day to building your business. You can make a ton of cash… I’m certain of that and I know a lot of other people that have done the same. Heck, I’ve met people that found this website and started to implement these strategies and are starting to make a nice income in their spare time.

The only challenge is you. Don’t try to “figure it out” and “find the secret.” There is no secret.

The more content you create, the more ways people have to find your site in Google. This won’t come on it’s own unless you pay someone to create content for you. Otherwise you actually have to do it yourself.

I’m very happy to review websites (feel free to leave yours in the comments below), but I refuse to help people that won’t help themselves. It’s a waste of my time and, quite frankly, those people will never succeed so I recommend giving up.

But, if you put in the effort and think about actually trying to build a business rather than figuring out how to crack some code that doesn’t exist, you will actually make money. It is possible, but you have to make that reality possible for yourself.

If you haven’t taken the steps to start making real money, start right now. Refer back to Building Your First Website…

If you’re hard at work and waiting for the big payoff, hang in there. It will come. The Internet has a mysterious way of rewarding those who work hard. And if you need a little inspiration, check this out…

I personally think that the easiest and best way to make money from home, free is to start and publish to a blog every day. There’s nothing better than free traffic to your own website, and the easiest way to get loads of it is to create a lot of content. Little by little your blog posts will bring more visitors to your site, where you can then make money from home in a multitude of ways.

This is the simplest method because virtually anyone can start a blog online. If you know how to send an email, then you already have all the necessary skills to publish to a blog. I mean that literally. Here is a snapshot of where you can set the email address to send your blog posts. All you have to do is email your article and it will appear online.

Here’s the thing about making money online and why I believe it is the best way to make money from home, free:

1. It Can Be Done in Your Spare Time
2. It Can Be Done With No Out of Pocket Expense
3. There’s a HUGE Marketplace With Billions of People Online
4. There’s No Risk — If You Make a Mistake, Who Cares?
5. Residual Income

The last point is important. By blogging, you are creating an asset that has potential to make money for you over and over again. Let’s say that every day you write an article and post it on your blog. Imagine that each article you write brings one visitor a day from someone doing a search in Google. That doesn’t sound like a lot right?

But if you write every day, by the end of the year you’ll have at least 365 people visiting your site every day.

There are many people, including myself, that have websites that produce over $1 for every single visitor. That’s an easy $365 a day, regardless if you decide to publish on your blog again because the content you’ve already created is still bringing visitors to your site. That’s free money!

You can do this all without actually spending a dime and without having any technical skills. For those who have more than just 30 – 45 minutes a day to devote to their online business have the opportunity to build their income much faster and make money from home, free. It’s a simple method that is making thousands of blogger rich completely on accident.