Staying Healthy and Making Money Online

The internet offers a chance for some of us to make an income from home and for the first time feel the freedom that not being an employee gives you. But the truth is many of us love our jobs and we would not feel secure without it.

I plan on retiring from my job and will need to make a bit more money than I will be getting as a retiree. You have to face the facts when they present themselves and the fact is we probably wont have enough money to support ourselves and there may no longer be a social security check to fall back on.

So that is why I am growing my internet business now and hope it holds up in the future. One way to do that is being diversified as possible and that is why I joined GVO.

GVO is short for Global Virtual Opportunities and is a site I stumble on when I started experimenting with safe lists. I am trying out a couple of safe lists and see if they can get me any subscribers. GVO is a great place to promote because it offers promotional materials targeted towards safe lists and Traffic Exchanges.

Both safe lists and traffic exchanges have made HUGE changes recently and that is making them more attractive for list building.

So look out for my next post when I will go more in depth about both of these.

For a quick lesson on what not to do – don’t put dates on your posts like I do and also never mention when it is in your headline. Unless of course you actually are able to post regularly which you can see I am not.

Is it just you trying to make some money online? Are you feeling alone? Does your family and friends think you are just wasting time? Still waiting for that first sale or even worse that second sale (me)?

If so then you are not alone because you have me sharing the pain. We didn’t think it would be easy but never expected it to be this hard.

I have officially been a self-proclaimed internet marketer for over 2 years and have yet to find the success that I am looking for. Does that discourage me? Honestly, sometimes but for me there is no other way to go. I actually think that I can make a full time income selling products on the internet.

What about you? Are you in the same proverbial boat? Do you have a goal of making money online that seems to allude you? What can we do about it? Many times I thought I had the answer only to get disappointed again.

So the next time you are online and feeling lonely then stop over here. Leave a comment or just read a post. But most of all know that you are not alone and that there is probably a small army of us.

With the economy sucking it is easy to fall back into the scarcity mentality and start doubting yourself. Leslie Householder says that hope is truly the poor man’s bread and if you can find that spark that gets you motivated that is all you need. I mean it is all pretty well summed up in one thought and that is:

IF YOU QUIT YOU WILL NEVER REALIZE YOUR DREAMS SO DON’T QUIT

I may never realize my goal but even if I don’t I can look myself straight in the eye knowing that I set a goal, wrote it down and never stopped trying to reach it. Like the billionaire said “All you can do, is all you can do” are you doing all you can do?

Today at Staying Healthy and Making Money Online:

The title of my post today comes from needing to run to the store to pick up “a few things” for my wife. Of course I had to get unmentionables, are you a newlywed?

Anyway I was thinking about all the traffic that may be on the road right now with people just running an errand for someone else. If you relate that to the traffic we get as internet marketers, I wonder how much is just people on the net doing an errand for someone else?

Would this  be traffic we would want to avoid? I doubt much shopping is done by this traffic and when it is on the internet I doubt they ever return if they do.

But, the more I thought about it the more I came to realize that we are happy with a sale or even a sign up no matter where it comes from.

When I think of driving traffic my mind instantly thinks of advertising which  would include PPC of course because I was trying that also. My first attempts at advertising were with the Ad sites like AdlandPro and USFreeAds.

Finding a stampede and getting in front of it and getting run over with sales is one of my favorite ways of thinking about internet marketing. This concept does not “drive” traffic but rather finds it and just gets in front of it.

My favorite part of this new enterprise is looking at the “competition’s” website’s. This is where I go to find out if they will let me leave a comment. This seems to work if the website you enter links back to one that is relative to the subject. Keeping your comment relative also helps and when appropriate, a thank you for the information. Sites that don’t have a place for a website I pass over.

If you link back to a site with little or no content and even worse, just ads, then you will probably not only not be approved but possibly hurting yourself. Or least that is what appears to be happening.

I believe this because I don’t always get my comments approved and when I did get one approved I also got an email saying that my site had so much content that he wanted to know if I would let him use some on his site. I thought that was something to keep in mind going forward.

My hope is that by having sites with lots of content on them and as specific to one subject as possible that they will start getting visitors and after that sales. I also like the idea of having passive contact forms for collecting email addresses. Everyone says that this will not work and that you need to be more agressive at collecting email addresses for your list.

As you can see by my long url and blatant selling methods that I am not following the great advice I have found out here. For example have you seen the commercial for Overstock.com? They will now be able to be found at O.co. Doesn’t get much shorter than that.

So for right now I am working on my writing skills so that I can have sites with lots of content. I guess only time will tell if this will work or not and it does take a little more work than probably necessary. I am doing this with an end in mind that I can only reveal once I am ready to move to the next phase.

In the meantime I don’t see a problem with sharing one of my blogs that I am using to load up with content and then some of the odd ways I use to promote it.