Let me be realistic, making money online for some people may be a dream come true. And it is! Why? Because you have the flexibility of leaving your full-time job, spending more time with your family and enjoy more flexibility for a better quality of life. Maybe you may want to hit the gym more than twice a week or have more time to travel. Whatever your reasons are I can tell you that it’s not impossible.
In this post, I will be going over some of the steps I took to get started to generate money by using the internet.
Create a website
I have always been fascinated by what we can do online. How we can extend our reach to different people all over the world. It is incredible how innovative the culture of technology has become and how we communicate with one another. I also know that many of us depend on technology daily to help us with different types of personal development.
There are approximately 300 billion people online every day; that’s just about half of the world’s population.
With that being said a website is so important to have because it is going to extend your offerings to people all over the world. I mean technically you don’t need a website to make money online. You can primarily monetize your IG account or Facebook, or any other social channels you currently use. But a website is going to help you deliver a much different marketing message.
Start a blog
Yes, start a blog! Blogging is going to help you reach people that share similar interest with you. Blogging also helps people learn more about your business as well as the products and services that you offer. NO, you don’t need to have a product or service to sell to make money online. You can write about the products that you recommend and earn some money that way. This is called affiliate marketing.
Check out my latest post on “How to create a blog website for free.”
Now when you are scaling an online business, it can take some time and effort from you to generate money. The way I make money online is by representing a service I provide. I also make money by doing affiliate marketing. This is when you sell someone else’s products or services and earn a commission out of the sale. I use the internet to my full potential by extending my freelancing career to clients across different states. I do a lot of research, read a lot of books and listen to tons of podcast to provide you the best information possible.
To learn more about me check out my Linkedin profile
Focus on one platform
I know that having a website may not be the only thing that will help you generate money online; there are other social channels like youtube, Instagram, Facebook, and more that you can use to leverage this. However, whichever one you choose make sure you focus on one technique to master. I focused too much on trying to monetize or gain an audience on my other channels that it wasn’t benefiting my website at all.
Blog daily
Yes, I know it may suck for some trust me it sucked for me too in the beginning, especially if you aren’t accustomed to daily blogging. I can tell you one thing it does get easier and easier over time, so don’t get discouraged. For me, it started with one sale, time, and dedication. Next thing I knew I was making a few hundred bucks a month just blogging. That is not counting my freelancing career, which is where I make the most money, and it currently pays my bills with.
It took me over a year to create an active online presence. The more I keep growing my portfolio, the more referrals I generated.
The internet is the future
I want to go over the platform that I used when I first started, and I continue using to scale my business. This truly is the REASON why I was able to scale not only my freelancing business but… I was able also to generate money online.
Wealthy Affiliate
Computers, websites, web design, technology, building professional profiles educating people. These are the subjects I am very fluent in. I worked for a telecommunications company for over seven years and have an advanced degree in IT. I knew that by going to school, I could have an excellent job and become successful in my field. The problem with that was I wasn’t satisfied, or I was often overlooked since I had no real experience. I wanted to find ways to work for myself and be more independent, and I did.
The best platform to start your blog
Wealthy Affiliate made me a believer to the internet and creating a name for myself in the online space. I was able to gain the exposure that I needed for my freelancing career as well as generated money through my sites. I have two active websites; one of them is dedicated to my freelancing business and the one you are looking at now.
Below is my resume building website. This is how people find me to help out with their professional documents.
Why Wealthy Affiliate [Two free starter websites]
On the Wealthy Affiliate platform, you have access to start two FREE starter websites to get your blog going. On the platform, you have various options you can choose from in terms of membership. The price starts from $0 to $349 per year. I am confident you will find value on what you get for the price. Besides, you can try it for free and see if this is something that might benefit you.
If you are just interested in doing your FREE lifetime membership, you can do that too.
Monitor your website’s performance
To have a successful website, you must monitor your site’s performance. How else will you know if you are receiving any traffic? You need customers to visit your website for you to generate some money. Wealthy Affiliate offers within its platform a way where you can monitor your site’s performance. This will help maximize your site’s potential for traffic and earning money online.
Earn money for comments
Within the Wealthy Affiliate platform, you can manage, build, purchase domains, create site content, request site comments and feedback, and more. There is so much you can do to build up your business and earn money online. The hardest part for most is getting started and being consistent.
Affiliate programs you can join
Affiliate programs are a great way to generate some money online. It’s probably the best way to make money online. You have the option to provide feedback on just about anything that interests you. People are just looking for real honest feedback on products and or services before they decide to purchase.
Check out this read to better understand the fundamentals of making money online.
Understanding How to Make Money Online
Your best bet is to research the affiliate programs that might benefit you and pique your interest.
Below is your earning potential if you used Wealthy Affiliate as your affiliate program. I make a few hundred a month just through affiliate links using this platform.
Wealthy Affiliate is not my primary source of the program. I also use CJ Affiliate to choose programs that I am interested in and blog about. My intentions are to scale it to thousands a month. I know that with consistency this can happen.
Another great way on how to make money online is through your mobile device. Here is a post I wrote that talks about the top 30 apps that make you money as well as how to create a blog website for free.
Google Adsense
Google Adsense is not going to make you rich much but it’s a good way to generate some money on your website. With Google Adsense, you can post ads related to your content and when someone clicks on the ad then you receive a small commission out of it. You can make some good money from it if you have a high traffic site.
Last Thoughts
I hope that I was able to provide some valuable information on how to get your online journey started. If you have any questions please leave them on the comments below. If you already started your online journey then share what you do to generate income online? What steps have you taken to achieve this and how has it impacted your life?
The internet is like a huge storefront where literally billions of potential customers search for things every day. Blogging is a great way to get any message out there and the Wealthy Affiliate community works with you like a smooth running team to get your blog to the top of search engine listings. The potential to make money online is real, and anyone thinking about joining Wealthy Affiliate I encourage to try for free, and definitely consider Premium. Thanks for sharing on this topic Munoz, and I wish you the best of luck. ~ Elaine
Hi, Elaine thank you for your feedback. I absolutely love the Wealthy Affiliate platform. Thanks for stopping by wishing you the best of luck. 🙂
When the electronic Book reader (tablets) became a reality, some radical people predicted the Book would disappear as we know it (nothing like that has ever happened), then newspapers would also disappear (something like that is actually gradually happening).
The internet has enabled some quite disruptive technologies that have taken down complete industries by fully migrating complete markets, guided by innovation; nevertheless, there are some key aspects that seem to be never changing standards Like:
E-Mail Marketing (Leading industry conversion every single year)
Blogging (Content being the king here)
It doesn’t really matter how much things change, those two grandfathered tools seems to be necessarily at the top or somehow linked to any effective approach.
Thanks for the post, I’ll definitely follow your recommendation on this one!
Hi, Juan, thank you so much for your input it really puts a perspective on how the internet works. Please come visit again.