Wasting Your Time Trying to Make Money Online
Somehow you ended up on my home based business blog. And if I had to guess or wonder, it probably is about the chance to make money online and become an internet marketer of some sort with any work from home program. And as you have probably noticed already, making money with any home business opportunity is not easy and most do not make the money they desire.
So, why is it that so many internet marketers are not making money with work at home opportunities?
The truth is, as they may be many reasons as to why they are not succeeding, but I think they are simply wasting their time when they are “working” online. Which you may think is simple, but there are numerous ways to be lazy and doing the wrong thing and when they think they are working, they really are not. For example I know many internet marketers check their email 50 times a day or check their website 30 times a day looking to see if something has changed.
I read an article once that said many home business people wasted a lot of their time blogging. Which probably surprises you, as most of us, including me, as I write in my blog, that blogging is vital for your home business opportunity and are probably wondering why I would ever say it’s a waste of time and not making you any money.
Here’s why…
The main key to be successful with any online home business opportunity is getting traffic to your website or blog. There is just no better or simpler way to put it, traffic equals visitors equals potential customers and business builders. And why do I say blogging is bad, well its not bad or a waste of time completely, but when you spend all day coming up with content you are forgetting the most important thing, marketing your blog! As a home based business entrepreneur, you have to market your blog and opportunities, that is the only real way to make money online and be successful.
Like I tell people all the time, you can have the best blog or health product or opportunity in the world, but if you have no marketing skills or way to show and promote it to people then you’re stuck in quick sand and won’t be able to sell or promote or make any legit money. And that is why I used the blogging as one of the bigger wasting of your time because you can have the best blog with the best and most original content of any of the top blogs in your niche or opportunity but if you’re not getting traffic or visitors to read and understand and see you, how will that ever make you money. Your site might contain the secret to life, but if nobody knows about your site they will never read it. Do you see what I mean? Unless you get visitors, you won’t make money!
Which brings me to my next point; you just don’t want to get any kind of website traffic or website viewers to your site. You want targeted traffic, or people who would be interested in what you have to say or promote or advertise.
You need to get traffic from the search engines! The visitors you get to your website/blog from search engines are targeted, they are actively searching for your topic, and they don’t have a clue what Adsense is or what affiliate links are. Plus, if you have done your research and are in the right niche, they are ready to spend money. These are the visitors you make money from.
So, what’s the lesson here?
Simple… Stop wasting your time posting to your blog just hoping someone will come read it. Or wasting even more of your time on digg, myspace, delicious, or any of the other social bookmarking and social networking sites that will bring you traffic but not the kind that will make you any money.
Instead, spend more time each day getting inbound links and working on other search engine optimization techniques. Use as much time as you can each day getting your website/blog ranked at the top of the search engines so you can bring in more of the type of visitors that will make you money.
Doing this one simple thing will greatly increase your chances of making money online with any work from home opportunity so you can quit your job to become a full-time internet marketer and live the life you’ve always dreamed of. Now, stop wasting your time and start making money!
