Why You Need This – Sustainable Online Businesses are Based on Real Resources

March 25, 2012

Do you really need to create “killer” resources in order to have a successful website? Can’t you just create a “pretty good” website, or at least one that is slightly above average? In my opinion, you are not going to make it in the long run with “decent” or “average” content. I think your website [...]

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Free eBook – My Journey to Economic Freedom and Online Success

March 24, 2012

At one point, I was all set up for a life of consumerism and consistent 40 hour work weeks. I earned money at a day job and then I spent it in order to live. Society had me pegged for a life of white collar slavery, trapped in a cycle of debt and spending in [...]

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True Freedom is Avoiding a Soul Sucking Day Job through Your Own Efforts

March 24, 2012

In my opinion, the greatest freedom that you can achieve is to avoid what we might label as “modern day slavery”–being trapped in a job because your lifestyle demands the income. True freedom is being able to walk away from such a job, whenever you want, and living off of some alternate form of income. [...]

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Finish Line is in Sight – Embrace Frugality in Order to Quit Your Day Job Sooner

March 24, 2012

This was a big key for me, when I figured out that my spending habits were part of what was keeping me trapped at my day job. At one time, I had a job and was working part time and I was only bringing in around $900/month or so, net pay. So I had a [...]

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Forming a Natural Community Around Your Ideas by Creating a Platform for Discussion

March 23, 2012

You have a flagship website. It is earning income. It is getting regular daily traffic. You examine your site, and you find some winners. A handful of your articles are making more money than the rest. Most of them probably make nothing. That is fine. Here is what you do: Start with your winners and [...]

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Seeing a Trickle of Income and Then Working Hard to Multiply it and Scale it Up

March 23, 2012

My guess is that most people who have success online get it started with just a trickle of income at first. At least, that is how my success started. I had a content based informational style website which was to become my flagship website project. It would eventually reach over $2,250 per month in income, [...]

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Experimenting with Promotional Strategies to Market Your Website

March 23, 2012

So in my journey to economic freedom on the web, I experimented quite a bit with promotional strategies. Clearly this is important. No website can profit without traffic, and no traffic will occur without some form of promotion. Either you have to get the backlinks that will build authority and eventually result in “free” search [...]

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Creating Valuable Content, and Realizing it is Not Good Enough

March 23, 2012

Part of the journey in success with Internet marketing is in creating killer content. You want your website to become a destination. You want it to become a valuable asset, a resource that others will refer to. If you can build this much value into your website, then it can become a viable brand and [...]

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Experimenting Online to Find Your Business Model

March 22, 2012

My first few attempts at making money online were a total failure. I did not mind these failures, because I knew that I would figure it out eventually. I had made the leap of faith into Internet marketing, and there was no turning back. I was determined to pursue this thing to profitability. So my [...]

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Making the Decision to Shift Your Hobby Towards Building Passive Income Streams

March 22, 2012

It was quite a revelation when I realized that I could have fun and make a hobby out of entrepreneurship. Instead of just idly passing my time, now I was going to build something, something that generated income. And, it was going to be fun. That was the part that got me really excited–that I [...]

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Do You Have Growing Discontent with Your 40 Hour Per Week Day Job?

March 22, 2012

I most definitely had a growing sense of discontent with my day job. There was a time in my life when I had been working only 3 days each week. One of those shifts was a 16 hour long shift and the other two shifts were 8 hours. This was enough for me to pay [...]

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