Starting an online business from home can be challenging. If you commit yourself to it by being consistent, you can become very successful and live off from it like what some Steemians are doing, earning a full-time income from the Steemit platform.
This topic will be covered in Segments. In this Segment, we will briefly start with three ways (there are more than three ways, though) to generate income online.
Beginning Online
Here are three ways you can use to generate income online:
- Affiliate Marketing – be an affiliate for a product, promote it and earn commissions from selling the product or create your own product and have others promote and sell for you;
- Content Creation – create content like articles, eBooks, software, videos and sell;
- Service Provider – provide services like blog services, content creator services.
There are so many online opportunities to choose from so choose one thing, make a plan, stick to it and you will become successful in it. Spreading yourself thin among too many options will wear you out, make you spend more and divert your attention which can be concentrated on one thing when starting out. The focus is very important; you are your own worst enemy. Also be careful as there are so many illegitimate sites as well that may scam you. Do your due diligence, research and find out before you buy anything.
And before starting online, it is important that you have traffic.
So Why Traffic?
Website traffic is the people who visit your website. You have to drive traffic to your website if you have a website – not just any traffic but targeted traffic.
Do the things that will get you traffic. For instance, if you have a website about tennis, you will require people who have interest in tennis; you will not provide information about guinea pigs! Thus, your materials such as videos, advertising, articles, will be about tennis and not guinea pigs. So do things that will get you targeted traffic. Image Source
And if you do not have a website, you still need to have something to drive traffic to. Do not worry about traffic if you do not have a website but you need to focus on what you need to do to generate money online.
Remember…
The following are vital:
- A website is a must-have;
- Traffic is needed to make money;
- Ensure to use the right traffic; and
- Drive traffic to your website every day!
Thus, use the right traffic strategies for the right type of traffic.
Traffic Strategies
Here are some ways to generate traffic:
- Acquiring backlinks (Off-page SEO) – do various activities to have backlinks to your website to rank on Google
- Affiliate Networks – advertise your links on affiliate networks
- Affiliate Recruitment – have people promote your products if you have products
- Article Marketing – creating articles on a topic and submitting articles to directories or resource centers with your website links on your articles
- Banner Advertising – advertise your banners
- Blogging – for marketing your products, backlinks, etc.,
- Contest Marketing – running a contest
- CPA Networks – advertise on CPA networks
- Ezine – paying for advertisement relating to your niche in ezines and newsletters
- Forum Marketing – posting about your niche on a forum, network with other people on the forum, include your website link in your signature
- List Building – creating a squeeze page, drive traffic to it to build a list to email to it
- Media Buying – banner advertisements, website advertising, etc.,
- Offline Advertising – all other forms of advertising offline such as advertising on billboards
- Paid Reviews – pay bloggers to review your product
- Pay Per Click – advertise on Google Adwords, pay per click to your website
- Press Release Distribution – write content about your company, event or product and distribute your articles to press release sites
- Safelists - joining safelist sites and using their mailing lists to email to members of the sites promoting your products/services
- Social Marketing – using social media like FaceBook to network with other like-minded people and offer your services or products to people who are interested
- Software Downloads – create software about your website and upload to software directories
- Video Marketing – to get backlinks or promote your products
- Viral Marketing – Run a campaign like advertising and people will pass on
- Website Advertising – like paid reviews, banner advertising, media buying
- Website Optimization (On page SEO) – have title tags, use keywords on your websites
To close, we have seen three ways to make money online, the need for traffic and various traffic strategies.
Until the next Segment,
Stay blessed
@postnshalom ☺
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