Make Money Online from your website
There are many people out there promoting how easy it is to make money online from the internet, by using your own website. They might be saying all you need to do is register a domain name, plug a template website onto it and within a few short weeks you will start to see the cheques / bank transfers of thousands of dollars start to line your letter box.
In reality this is simply not possible or how it works. Beware of scam sites that are promoting instant ways to overnight riches. The only way to make money online is by hard work, creativity and more hard work. Even if you have the most amazing product or service, its going to take a lot of persistence and patience for people to even discover your site. On average Google takes 3 weeks to even really discover brand new sites and rank them so unless you can plug immediately into advertising no one is even going to see your website!
The reason so many people fail to make any money online from their websites is that they just don’t stick at it.
I have been around computers, the internet and business for several years. I had my own personal laptop since early days in school and taught myself coding, various media applications and other tools that help to improve how a computer runs. I also have been very entrepreneurial from a young age, by doing things such as yearly garage sales to sell all my old stuff to make some money, or sell photographs that I was taking of landscapes on ebay or even teaching young kids music at a local school after hours. The thing is that all of this, along with two degrees in computer science and commerce has lead me to where I am now. Making money from the internet isn’t an easy thing. Depending on the timing on when you start, your niche area and how much money you can invest you might be working for free for quite a few months until your site generates money. For me it was at least 12 months before I started seeing a postive return. Why did it take so long? Well, for this site in particurlar, the keyword ‘make money online’ is incredibly competitive. There are like 100 million other search results for the term in Google and new blogs, sites, and also those scam sites I mentioned earlier popping up all the time. Its a big sea of opportunity, but you need to be a big fish to make an impact.
For people that want to make money in a reasonably quick time, its probably best to look at a smaller niche where there is high demand , but low competition. This will allow you to be the big fish in a small ocean and see returns much quicker. Of course it helps if you chose an area that your passionate about as you find it much hard to succeed if you aren’t passionate about your business.
