How do you actually make money online?

Similar to any offline business, there is a system to success, it is no good starting out in a web business ‘hoping’ and ‘wishing’ and sitting with fingers crossed; there is a process to learn and you need to learn what this process is.
Does this process take time to learn? Yes it does and it took me 5-6 months to really learn what it was all about. Does it work? You bet it does but you really do need to know what you are doing if you want to build a sustainable business and you are in it for the long haul.
4 main elements to online success
Basically there are 4 main elements, all equally vital to online success and these are: Having the correct attitude, the right mindset
    •    Knowing some simple web skills
    •    Having a product(s) (be it yours or someone elses)
    •    Having the skills to market your product
You have the correct mindset already if you are reading this article, because it means you are interested in, or are considering moving towards an online business.
If you are serious about wanting to make money online and you have a fear of the web, you need to get over this. I am sure 99% of people have this fear when they first start off and I was no different.
Products – this is where I see a lot of people make mistakes. A large majority of new marketers will spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars buying a vast range of products from experienced marketers with great promises of ‘riches’ by simply selling them on. What happens in many cases are these products, be they DVDs, CD ROMs or elearning materials end up gathering dust under the bed, in the garage or sitting on a computer hard drive and never opened up. Why is this? It is because most people do not know WHAT to actually do with the products.
Do you know how the majority of people make their money online? They sell directly to their own list. This means they sell directly to people who are already on their database. How do they get people on this database? Well they work very hard to capture our details when we first visit their website, we enter our name and email and we are entered straight into the marketers’ list or database.



Thank you

Trevor