How To
Make Money Online with a Website
We could never write enough
articles about how to make money with a website.
Everyone thinks you open a
website and the money shows up in the mail. But of course anyone
with any reasonable level of sanity knows better. The problem is,
those people are few and far between
We have people getting rich
running retail businesses and we have people that make nothing
and do nothing but still complain that they are not making any
money.
Recently a discussion
with a customer that had a website up for 3 months revealed that
they had 20 sales in that time solely generated by the website.
That alone is nothing to write
home about. Or is it?
Approximately $60 in
investment resulted in 20 customer sales. No matter how you look
at it, that number is strong.
And, not only did the website
do the advertising, it also processed the sales and completed the
transactions.
But 20 sales of about $50 each
is not going to make anyone rich. Still there is no other medium
that can produce the same results for such a small investment.
To increase that
income, you need to reach beyond the website.
You should never expect the
website to do the work for you. You need to push customers to the
website so the website can process the sales. If the website
earns sales on its own, that is a bonus.
The fact that this web hosting
client had done nothing and had sales is pure proof that the
website does work. Unfortunately, the hosting client didn't do
anything except wait for sales.
As a company that makes 100%
of its income providing web services of some sort, we know you
can make insane amounts of money online.
But you still need to work.
You still need to advertise.
Our hosting clients don't show
up, we find them and advertise as much as our resources permit.
Like any website, pageBuzz.com
will bring in it's own hosting clients, but not enough to pay the
bills. The system earns more than a substantial income, but
through extensive efforts to bring in new clients.
If we sat back and waited, we
would likely still be waiting for our first customer.
If you start a new website,
its nothing without some promotion.
If you wait for Mr Google to
bring in buyers, you will be wasting your time. Not that you wont
get buyers, because in all likelihood, you will. But not the
numbers you desire.
Basic Advertising
If you run 1 ad and you get 3
sales. It just makes sense if you run 3 times as many ads, you
get 3 times as many sales.
The advantage of a
website is that the cost is low. So anyone with $20 a month
to spend can start an online business. But if you only spend
$20, don't expect much more than that back out of the website.
If you spend an extensive
amount of time online promoting your products then you will get
some benefit from that.
You don't have to spend hard
cash to make money. But you do have to make more of an effort
than waiting around to get rich.
There are countless
ways to make money online:
It does not matter what a site
does, there is a way to make money with it. But there will always
be one common denominator. You need to get people to the website.
If you can get traffic, you
can make money.
Not that could be with a viral
cat video that gets 10 million views or it might be with a new
clothing line that sells at upscale boutiques. In every case, the
amount of money you make will be related to the number of people
you get to your website.
You can use:
Social Media
Online Ads or Banners
Newspaper ads
TV Ads
Radio Ads
Or just about anything else
you can think of.
The point is, you can't depend
on the website to do all of the work.
We all laugh about the local
business that has some guy dress up in a chicken suit on the
corner holding a sign. But it gets the job done. The business is
visible and people get the message.
Having a website is like
having that same guy in the chicken suit stand in your garage
with the door closed.
So to get more attention, open
the door and march that chicken into the busiest corner in the
town.
It is a simple concept
and one that is true for the chick and your website!
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