Hello everyone, thanks for joining me again. Today I thought I’d talk about my free eBook Make Money Online – Avoiding the Pitfalls.
This is the free gift you get when you enter your name and email address at my website jonjamesbusiness.com
This book first warns you about the riskiness of trying to make money on the internet. It points out that there are a lot of ways to make money on the internet like amazon or fiverr, but understands that the person reading the book is most likely to be thinking about the bigger picture of business. It’s important to point out to readers that if they want help succeeding its better to approach it from this perspective, as starting a business.
Next, Pitfalls discusses that starting a business online is more like a journey. However, making the map for that journey can be troublesome because of all the excess information and systems found available on the internet (think ‘get rich quick’ garbage). With all this information it can be difficult to discern and filter out what they don’t need.
The book explains that an online business, by its very nature, is a technical business. There will be certain things that, at some point to other, you will have to learn about, buy and use.
Pitfalls takes a look at some of the things that you will need at some point or other and will need to buy, learn about or both, like graphics, video editing, and a page builders (we talked about Builderall, the page builder, last post). It explains that there is also the necessity of some technical training needed for certain elements like graphics, audio/video editing, documents and maybe even some coding (or at least reading the code behind things like embedded video). You don’t necessarily even need to be an expert in any of these particular aspects, but you should at least know something. Pitfalls explains that thing to bear in mind is that understanding a bit of the background when things go wrong helps being able to spot the problem and maybe even fix it.
Rather than going out and grabbing things to build their business with the above in mind, Pitfalls then explains that we need to see ourselves as a general contractor making a plan on a project. The key to building out or plan is building out our trade in order to finish the plan.
For example, let’s say you want to be an affiliate marketer. Ask yourself: “What do I need for affiliate marketing right now?” There are lots of things that you could focus your attention on, but are they in any way relevant to what you’re doing right now?
Pitfalls then can explain that the project is always the decider of whether you need to buy a new tools or training which is usually the next step people go out and jump into. This leads to the pitfalls of buying stuff, stuff you don’t need. If you’re not going to use it don’t get it. It tells them to imagine they’re working through a project, and they hit a brick wall. They’ll realize that in order to get past it, they will only need the software/training/service they right now need to move along to completion.
The book then explains, as in the above example, affiliate marketing can be a great place to start.
CONCLUSION
Making Money Online Avoiding the Pitfalls first brings the focus of the reader onto the bigger picture. It explains that online business involves technical skill and knowledge in order to move along. By stepping back and seeing it as a contractor working on a project the readers can see the path they need to completion. At every step this helps them know which product, service or software they need next to get to the next step. Then in the end it reiterates that affiliate marketing can be a great first opportunity stating:
‘Affiliate marketing probably has one of the lowest barriers of entry to making money online legitimately and consistently…Affiliate marketing still works and can be extremely profitable.’
Sincerely,
Jon James
Jon James Affiliate Successes 