Searching For What It Takes To Make Money Online

I was recently reading through my last post and started to kind of chuckle to myself. I re-read all the resolutions that I’d promised but never followed through on. All I could do was think to myself “how do you expect to make money online if you don’t do anything?” And now it’s almost a year since I’ve really done anything with my business.

Why?

To be completely honest, I lost the drive. I was going strong up until the summer of 2013, but soon dropped off the marketing scene. Every now and then I would make an attempt to come back (last one was in March, I think), but it was very inconsistent.

At first, I blamed it on the weather and seasons and I recall thinking it was too nice out to be inside writing. I’ll pick this up when the weather turns and I’m inside again.

Winter came and I started a new job in construction. Now my excuse was being too tired. I was going to bed at 8pm and waking with the baby every other morning at 4am before going off to work at 7.

Now, here I am, still thinking about a possibility of success in online marketing. I’ve come the closest to giving up than I ever have before, yet I haven’t. I’ve neglected to put the time into building my business, but all the while, I couldn’t give up the possibilities it offered.

Beyond having invested all this time so far, why wouldn’t I just give up?

Well, as I went in every day beating my body up from working construction, I’d dream about working at my desk and not worrying if I’m going to hurt myself. I’m 40 years old with a blended family of seven, so being out of work would be disastrous.

Then I start then I started thinking about retirement. I have no retirement so far and there’s no way I could continue doing what I’m doing for as long as I’ll need to work. With online marketing, I don’t think I would be concerned about a retirement age.

Becoming successful in online marketing would be a great skill to teach my children. If I could show them the proper steps, they could possibly live the life I dream of, just sooner.

And the biggest reason I want to succeed? It’s a big one, one I haven’t shared with my wife.

In ten years, I want to pull my youngest son out of middle school and home school him. Only this home school will be done in a RV, traveling cross country with a hands on approach concerning all subjects. The older 4 will be out of the house (fingers crossed), so it would just be my wife, youngest son and myself. Maybe for a year and we’ll see what happens from there.

Now, what makes this post any different than my declarations to retry from the past? Nothing really. I’m just going to try to be more honest with myself and remember why I’m doing what I’m doing. To make money online in order to do all the things I want to do.

Make Money Online, No Money Invested?

When I started this blog, I wanted to see if I could start a career in affiliate marketing without spending anything. Earn as I learn, I phrased it. I wanted to see if I could make money online, no money out of pocket and start something from scratch?".

I started this blog, trying to get traffic to a site I had no idea how to put together. I paid for a domain and hosting every month. It wasn't much, but it wasn't free, either. For the duration of 2012, I blindly posted on blogs and wrote articles, trying to build traffic without much luck.

Then I started thinking about an affiliate program called Wealthy Affiliate I joined back in 2009. I was a member for only about a month but was happy with what I was getting. Thing is, I wasn't mature enough to do the actual work necessary. Ever since then, I haven't been able to forget about their program and wanted back in.

So at the end of January, I joined again and wish I had done it much sooner. At least looked into it. I could have saved myself a lot of time, aggravation and money.


Some of the tools I took advantage of seem invaluable now that I've used them.

The keyword tool is worth the paying subscription alone. I have had tremendous turnaround in my article views and have a much better understanding of how keywords work since using this tool.

The education I've been getting is also very valuable. I joined in the end of January and took part in one of their training modules. I have learned more with better results in the last month than I have in all of 2012 trying to do it on my own!

The sign up process was simple and I didn't need to pay anything to access some of the best tools I've come across, for free!

You can actually set up a website, have it hosted and market it without paying anything. What I found was if you wanted to learn about the business, paying the subscription fee is well worth it. As you can see on my profile, it's the best education I've paid for (or my parents).

Using Wealthy Affiliate, I found it is possible to make money online, no money out of pocket and potentially build an online business out of nothing. It will just take lots of time, patience and consistency.