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True or False:
You CAN Make Money While You Sleep
Copyright 2005 Diane Hughes
It’s a crying shame really. So many people have
tried to follow the Internet dream. They’ve heard
the stories of others who quit their day jobs, wake
up whenever they choose, take leisurely lunches with
friends, shop for hours on end without one worry
about how to pay for their purchases, buy new cars
and pay cash for them, and make money hand over fist
while they sleep. Naturally, these people would
drool over the thought of being able to do the same
for themselves.
However, as the landslide of people all across the
globe began to flock to the ‘Net much like they did
to California in the gold-rush days, they find that
making money while you sleep might be a myth. They
wonder if they’ve just been led astray by wicked,
evil people with nothing better to do than make
fools out of innocent, hardworking folks.
What is the answer? Can you make money online? CAN
you make money while you sleep? I don’t mean an
extra $200 a month to pay for groceries, but a real
living. If so, how do you go about it?
It’s True! I’m Doing It Myself!
First of all, it’s not a myth. I can honestly tell
you that I am making a full-time living online. And
yes, there have been many mornings where I’ve
awakened, turned on my computer, and found
notifications of sales that occurred during the
night. I AM making money while I sleep, and you can,
too.
Let me tell you what I think probably happened to
generate this long-standing myth.
The early Internet pioneers discovered ways to make
automated income. They realized this was a wonderful
thing and began to spread the news to everyone they
knew. Then, however, those unscrupulous types (you
know... the jerks) saw this as an easy way to make a
fast buck. They began preaching that making
automated income online was as easy as pouring
yourself a glass of water. In essence, they told
half the story. As more and more people tried to
make a living online and failed, the promise of
making money while you sleep became fiction instead
of fact.
So How Do You Do It?
What’s the real truth? How can you make a full-time
living online just like me? There are several ways.
Let me give you the unvarnished gospel when it comes
to online business. You may not like what you hear,
but it is fact,
not fluff.
ACTION STEP 1
Plan, Plan, Plan - It won’t happen overnight.
Nothing good ever does. In the beginning, you’re
going to create a plan then be ready to work that
plan. You often hear about throwing up a website and
making money while you sleep. Technically, yes,
that’s all there is to it. But... how does that site
get up on the ‘Net?
You have to create your site or have someone else
create it. That means you have to take the time to
learn professional website development (PLEASE,
don’t create some junky, homemade-looking site!), or
you have to pay someone who already knows how to
create websites. And what will you have on your
site? Your own products? (Having your own
e-products is highly recommended.) Someone else’s
products? You’ll need to decide before your site is
created.
How will people pay for the products they buy from
your site? Do you have a merchant account? Will you
become an affiliate for someone else so you don’t
need a payment system?
Will you go for high search engine rankings or rely
on word-of-mouth, PPC ads, and other types of paid
advertising? If you want good search engine
optimization, you’ll have to plan for that upfront.
Again, you’ll have to take time to learn how to do
it or pay someone else who already knows how.
Before you take one more step toward launching your
own Web business, find the answers to the questions
above.
ACTION STEP 2
Be Ready to Work - Once your site is ready to
launch, how will people find you? How, exactly, will
you drive qualified visitors to your site? Will you
use organic (free) search engine listings? Will you
use Pay-Per-Click
search engine ads? Will you buy ezine ads? Do you
have other means for getting customers to visit your
site? People won’t just come out of the blue, you’ll
have to bring them to your site somehow.
Even if you choose to go for the organic search
engine listings, you’ll have about a 4-week to
4-month wait before seeing your new site listed.
What will you do in the meantime to drum up
business?
ACTION STEP 3
How Will You Keep It Going? - Prosperous businesses
are continually growing to keep up with customer
demands. How will you keep your online business
moving forward? Will you do research into what
consumers want? Will you guess? Will you just follow
the crowd?
You’ll want to have some method for gauging customer
responses so you can know what your site visitors
want and how to provide it for them.
One such way is to use Survey Monkey (http://www.surveymonkey.com).
You can create online surveys in order to keep up
with the needs/wants of your site visitors.
ACTION STEP 4
Service Is Key! - In order to make it in the long
run, you simply must provide exceptional customer
service to your clients. Those who lie, steal,
cheat, or hide are destined to fail.
Understand this: Your success depends on your
customers’ success. If they aren’t happy, you won’t
be in business long. Make every effort to treat them
as the kings and queens they are.
See? The people who turned the "make money while you
sleep" fact into fiction did so because they skipped
all the important information. Now that you know
what to expect, you can see that it is most
definitely possible to make a full-time living
online. It is even possible to make money while you
sleep. However, you must have a plan, be ready to
work, look for ways to keep your business growing,
and treat your customers as true V.I.P.s.
When you do, you’ll have all the tools you need to
develop a long-standing business that - with time -
will produce for you.
Diane C. Hughes * ProBizTips.com
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