Welcome to the Make Money Online Zone! Today we are asking “What Is the process of starting an online business?”.
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Today I’m going to prove to you that anyone and everyone can create an online business. In fact, I’m going to show you the exact process that I followed to build an amazing online business that I love.
So if you have an idea, a passion or maybe even a hobby that you enjoy doing, then you are already half way there. Every online business starts with an idea… But what comes next?
Today I’m going to show you a very simple, but very effective way to get an online business up and running in as little as 2 hours.
The Process Of Starting An Online Business
If you would like to start your own internet based business, I’m going to give you some very simple guidelines that will get you started.
Even if you have never done anything like this before, you can get started here with no experience and no prior knowledge of working online.
This method involves building a money making blog based on something that is totally unique to you. But don’t worry, there is a very simply way of doing this.
Let’s get started…
Everything Starts With An Idea
Everybody has something that they really enjoy doing. This is often a really good starting point for an online business. You see, starting a business can be done very quickly, but creating a successful online business takes time and patience.
This isn’t a get rich quick scheme or secret loophole that guarantees to pay millions of dollars! This is a totally legitimate way to make a lot of money in the long term.
The great thing about starting a business like this is that you can get started with no costs. I’m going to show you how you can get free training, a free blog and even free customers!
Get Your Free Training!
Here at the Make Money Online Zone, we recommend the free training at Wealthy Affiliate. You’ll get access to a free training course consisting of 10 videos. These videos will guide you through the process of taking an idea and transforming it into an online blog.
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Creating Your First Money Making Blog
Once you have your free membership with Wealthy Affiliate, you can get to work. Hopefully you will already have an idea that you would like to base your blog on. But if not, the Wealthy Affiliate training will help there too.
Creating your first blog with Wealthy Affiliate is very simple. Just follow the training and they will show you how to get a blog up and running within an hour. There are lots of templates that you can choose from to suite the needs of your online business too.
Simply choose a template from the hundreds that are available to you, and then let Wealthy Affiliate build and host the site on their own servers. This is all included within the free membership and is enough to get you started.
Make Money Online By Writing!
You can make a lot of money online simply by talking about things that really interest you!
Millions of people search the internet each and every day, looking for information on an infinite number of things. By starting an online business, we are proving a service to a group of people that are going to love whatever it is that you have to offer.
You can base your internet business on just about anything. No matter what you are into, you can bet there is a number of people out there who would be interested in your opinion.
But in order to create a successful blog you need a couple things…
Firstly you need to be able to talk about your niche for quite while. And secondly you need the patience to allow your business to grow.
Why Would Anyone Want To Read What I Have To Say??
The key to creating a successful online blog is in creating good blog posts. You should always provide the reader with quality information based on your selected niche.
It doesn’t really matter if you aren’t the best writer in the world. It matters more that you are proving good, truthful or factual information that your readers are looking for.
Writing blog posts is a skill that you won’t master over night. As you write more content for your blog, you will develop a voice and a style or writing.
Traffic Is The Key To Success!
At this point we have talked about getting started with the free Wealthy Affiliate training and we know how to get started with a free blog. But how do we actually make money with a blog?
Well, it all comes down to traffic. Internet Traffic is what breaths life into your website. The visitors who come to your website are referred to as “traffic”. But we are looking for a very specific type of traffic called “targeted traffic“.
You can learn more about making money with internet traffic here.
Get Your Blog Posts On Page 1 Of Google!
In order to get targeted traffic to your online business, you need to be seen. The best way to get your content seen by lots of people is to appear on the first page of Google. Paying for advertising can be expensive, so we like to try and get as much free traffic as possible.
Learn how to get your blog listed on Google
If your content is good and you provide enough of it, Google will reward you with free targeted traffic, and lots of it!
There are a few tricks that you can use to help your pages appear on the first pages of Google.
Check out my free guide on How To Optimize Your Website Content.
How Long Does It Take To Make Money?
Many people start building a blog and expect to see results right away. Unfortunately, this method is not a get rich quick scheme and success will not come over night. It takes time to build a website that people love and trust. It also takes time to build trust with Google.
The most successful online business owners just keep on creating content that their audience will love. If you keep doing this, your audience will grow and you will eventually have a large following.
You can speed up this process by promoting your blog via social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
It’s impossible to say just how long it will take for your business to become successful. It depends entirely on the niche that you selected and the amount of competition that you have.
How Do You Get Paid?
One of the main things that excites people about blogging for money is the fact that you can do it from the comfort of your own home. But how do you get paid?
At Wealthy Affiliate we mainly concentrate of a method of making money called affiliate marketing. This technique enables us to make money by simply recommending products and services.
By placing advertisements and text links within our blog posts we can get paid from companies that need our help in spreading the word about their products.
There are affiliate programs in just about every niche that you can think of. These are generally free to join and you are paid based on the amount of buying traffic that you are able to produce from your blog.
Check out this training on affiliate programs to learn more!
Here’s To Your Success!
The most successful online businesses are those that keep on building content for their audience. Over time your skills will develop and your earnings will increase if you follow the guidelines given to you here.
One of the great things about working with Wealthy Affiliate is the fact that you can get help whenever you need it.
We all run into problems now and then, but at Wealthy Affiliate you can always get help from the huge community of online entrepreneurs.
I wish you the very best of success with your online business and look forward to meeting you in the members area of Wealthy Affiliate.
Thank You!
Thanks for checking out my guide to starting an online business. Please feel free to contact us in the comments section at the bottom of this page, We would love to hear all about your online business experiences!
I’ve been a member of Wealthy Affiliate for one and a half years, and I can only agree with this article’s recommendation of it. If you join WA, one of the first things that you’ll probably notice is how many of the members have been there for a long time; some have been there for over a decade. To me, that’s a measure of WA’s quality. Also, the free membership offers an abundance of tools, Although most people probably move up to a premium membership, you probably could build an online business just using the free resources. However, the paid resources are well worth the cost.
I couldn’t agree more! I actually started out years ago using nothing but free websites and tools. So I know that you can also make money with the free stuff found at WA. The paid membership is recommended for those people who want to boost their business and take it to the next level, but the free membership is brilliant for newcomers.
You often find people that have been a member of WA for years, I’ve been there for 4 years now. How time passes!
Have a great day,
Andrew
Hi, Andrew. I have to say that I’m very lucky. This article let me know that we can make money by conducting online business beside working. Since I didn’t work, I have tried lots of ways to make money, but they didn’t work well. Your article let me realise that I have plenty of time, and I can build my own website to make money by blogging. Thanks again. Best wishes for you.
There are tons of websites out there that claim to be able to offer you the solution, most of them are pretty bad! I’m not surprised that you didn’t have much success. Hopefully the guidance here will get you started in the right direction. I look forward to seeing you in the members area!
I’m amazed at the simplicity in disseminating your information in this post. It’s worthy of being commended.
Wealthy Affiliate has become a perfect opportunity and place to get started with online business. I was very clueless at first, but when I joined wealthy Affiliate, I learned the step by step guide to launching a niche website capable of generating traffic and making money. I was grinded in the act of consistency is creating worthy blog posts. At first, I was writing for people to gain experience and this really helped me.
creating valuable and insight posts with accurate information is all that is required to get the blog running and generating income over time. Thanks for the post. Cheers
Glad to help! In my opinion the Wealthy Affiliate membership is the best place to get started, simply because of the brilliant training and support that you get. This really is a one stop shop for entrepreneurs!
Thanks for writing this guide on the process of making money online. I must say I really find every part of this article educative and informative on how to make money online.recently I join wealthy affiliate and I must say it has been helpful with all I have been learning how to create my business online. Am just creating my first website I will try as much as possible to put everything in this article to use.
Great to hear that you have got started! Well done and may I wish you the very best of success.
Take care,
Andrew
Hello there, I absolutely love what I read in this insightful article because it is full of great information. This is fascinating and interesting to me. Your article has given me an insight to make more money apart from my affiliates job. I’m very interested in writing but didn’t know how to go about it till I stumbled on your post. Thanks for the insightful and informative article. How long does it takes to start making money through writing and owning a blog?
Regards
Its the big question that everyone asks! There is no way to say how long it will take you to make money because there are so many things that could alter how long it takes. It depends on your niche, the competition you have, how quickly you learn and how quickly you take action. If you spend a couple of hours learning the process and then don’t take action right away, then it will take you longer than someone who gets cracking. If I was forced to give a rough guide, I would say that the average time is around two to three months, depending on how much work you put in.
I operate a blog for my online network marketing business and quite disgusted that the blogging system provided to us by the funnel company does not allow for adding of new plugins. This is the reason why I am scouting for new platforms and I found this review about Wealthy Affiliate, which to me sounds good.
My question is, with my niche as network marketing, am I allowed to join Wealthy Affiliate? I heard that this company and its members are critical to the network marketing niche, with some members labeling all network marketing businesses as scam. Before I hit the link and join Wealthy Affiliate, I wanna be assured that I won’t be kicked out or ridiculed.
Hey there Gomer! I personally have never found a more friendly community than the one at Wealthy Affiliate. I have seen people that have been kicked out of the program for being rude or trying to spam the system. Wealthy Affiliate takes this very seriously. But thrown out because of your niche? I don’t think so! So long as you are not spammy and you don’t try to promote anything within WA, then you won’t have a problem.
Tons of value to be found on this post on how to start online business
This is a great and simple to follow guide.You laid it all out clearly and showed series of examples that helped emphasize your various points.
I have always known continual search for knowledge to improve your niche is very important.
Another important thing is originality and perseverance make your style unique .
Thanks for the eye opener. This is a must for all newbies to read
That’s right, you need to find your own voice as well as your own style. I’m pleased that you found this article to be valuable. Enjoy the training!
Hey! Thanks for sharing this nice article on how to start an online business, this is great. I have now understand the process of making money online. This post is really informative and educative. I have sometimes wondered how to start an online business and make money. Your post has just helped me out. Again thanks for sharing this.
No problem, glad to help!
If one really understands how making money online works, they can pretty much tap into what they are really passionate about and turn it into a valuable business idea. It really is not rocket science. There are ways that are proven to work to help anyone make money online.
But before one can do this they need to be given the right lessons which is where wealthy affiliate comes into play. You need to know how the online world works and where to go to get the people you wish to target. To do this you need to become a part of a platform in which their main objective is teaching how to succeed online. That is just what one needs to do to start an online business.
Thanks for that Jay! Correct, you need to understand how to properly tap into your niche before you can even think about making an income. Everything needs to be put in place and then you can really start to build a profitable business.
Hi, it’s a pleasure to see posts like this, especially the once that impacts positively, I’ve come across so many ways of making money online, I’ve even tried writing but I don’t enjoy doing that, lately I was introduced to wealthy affiliate, where I built my site and still trying to get a profitable niche for it. Passion is the key, if you you don’t enjoy what you do, then it’s no go.
That’s completely true! In this article I mention that you need to be able to talk about your “Niche” for quite some time, and that’s because you need to create lots of content. Content and traffic is what will eventually make you money, so if you don’t enjoy writing about your subject, then there’s no point in doing it. Of course you could try your hand at creating video?
Hey Andrew, lovely article its very informative even to someone like me who has already joined wealthy affiliate. I have a question, is there another method to make money online apart from affiliate programs offered by different brands?
If you know of any please let me know. Please also add me on your notification list for your next articles.
Nomie
Hey there Nomie! Thanks for the question. Yes, there are other ways to make money other than affiliate marketing. First of all, you could simply opt for one of many advertising companies that will pay you to display advertising on your site. You will no doubt have seen Google ads on some websites. There are lots of alternatives as well, some companies will pay you a monthly fee to rent a bit of space on your website too. If you rent space out, you should always be aware of what it’s going to be filled with though.
And then you could always go for website “flipping” as well. This is where you basically build a website, get some traffic going to it and then sell it on. Some people make quite a lot of money using this method.
Hope that helps!
Have a great day,
Andrew