Knowledge is power when it’s used. That power can help you make money if used correctly. What’s really awesome about using knowledge to make money is that you can work from home in your spare-time to accomplish this, without even thinking about quitting your day job.
It wasn’t until I started sharing my knowledge, not that I have a lot of that as I quit school at the end of grade 9, way back in 1969. So basically the skills I have are all learned in the real world and today, with the use of the Internet I make my living working at home sharing things I know that others want to know.
There are so many skills that can be put to use working from home. There is also a great opportunity today to learn new skills online that will make you money. Marketing is one of those skills you can learn online. That’s what I did and then used what I’ve learned about marketing online to make money with the skills I’ve learned over the years.
One main key to online success is taking action. If you keep that know-how locked up in your head it’s not going to make you any money, is it. Take action, today.
I have talked online marketing and work at home opportunities with 100s of people and the biggest reason people don’t take that first step is because they believe they can’t make money with what they know.
I let that excuse hold me back for far too many years. Self doubt is a big hurdle to get over but you can basically start an online business for less than $20.00 a month.
I tried a couple of things that didn’t work but it was not anything I really knew much about, just read some stuff online and thought I would give it a try. Well that’s where I could have just given up when it didn’t work but I didn’t. Sure glad I didn’t give up trying to walk after I failed on my first attempt and second, even my third, so why should I give up trying to make money online.
The trick to making money online is to first learn the process, which I hadn’t. Once I did I started to make a little money here and there and then I learned a secret I will share with you right now. It could make the difference between traffic you earn money from and no traffic at all.
Here are a couple of examples from the niches I work from home where I started out wrong but learned and fixed the problems, which turned my site into a money making site.
Sharing My Knowledge Through Personal Experiences
Fly Fishing in New Brunswick
Choosing to quit school and go through life un-educated I had to take the jobs I could get. One of those jobs was working part time at a gas station in Moncton, New Brunswick. I worked there for about 5 years, and had lots of time on my hands which I used to find new places to fish for trout.
I wasn’t married at the time so I spent every spare moment fishing for trout here in New Brunswick, never thinking it could some day make me money.
I learned to fly fish when I became interested in Atlantic salmon fishing so when I look back I’ve had a lot of experience fishing. By the way, I’m almost 60 now.
I decided I would start a fishing related website and share my experiences. I know how much I like to hear about fishing adventure and I try to learn something from each one. Eventually I started a blog to share my own experiences and without realizing it I used a lot of local references which worked in my favour.
My readers would leave comments say they tried this and that from my blog posts and it worked great. Then they would thank me but what I noticed was that they were buying lures I recommended, rods, reels and all kinds of things I talked about that would help them catch more and bigger fish.
Then the lights came on. Why not find a way to have these readers buy from me so I could make money. Well that’s when I started with affiliate marketing and is why I keep building new websites today.
If there is anything I want you to really learn from this articles is that you should localize your content so you get local traffic. It can mean the difference between little target traffic with no income and lots of focused local traffic who listens and buys. That means affiliate marketing.
So I make money from my love of fishing which is so cool that I decided to start a gardening blog back when we were going through a recession.
Home Gardening Tips Moncton
So we were hit with yet another recession here in New Brunswick Canada and we talked about starting a vegetable garden and save some money on our grocery bill. Also I have suffered migraines my entire life and wanted fresh produce that wasn’t sprayed with poisons.
We were not gardeners so I spent some time online learning how to become a gardener which led me to starting another blog to share what were were learning.
I Made A Huge Mistake And A Great Move
I thought I would do some research and find the best keywords to use for our home gardening tips blog. Well I found the tops keywords and started using them in my articles and blog posts. The mistake I made was to use the top keywords which had far too much competition so I didn’t get much traffic at all.
The smart thing I did was to localize my content so I use Moncton, Dieppe, Riverview and New Brunswick in my posts which started getting me local traffic. That’s the only thing that kept me blogging at this point, I was getting a few readers.
Then I learned about longtail keywords and started using them more along with staying local and my traffic started to grow.
That’s when I started adding affiliate links to my web page content, using keywords as my hypertext. The text for my links.
Today it’s a few years later and now I actually get traffic for those top keywords, which took time and the fact that I am still staying local has helped me to move from about 10 visits a day to well over 1000 unique visitors each and every day.
Once I was getting more than 100 visitors a day I added a few banners and some affiliate links in my posts related to my niche and started making money.
Knowledge Is Power And Can Be Learned
Using the excuse you have nothing worth sharing not a good excuse as you can learn new skills, just like I have done over the years, even without a college or high school education.
Now I did know about fishing before I started my blog but that’s just one of my many websites. I didn’t know much about gardening but was willing to learn and now we save money on our grocery bills, I eat healthier and make money sharing what I’ve learned.
So really I am making money sharing other people’s knowledge which I have made my own.
You have the opportunity today to work from home and make extra money, even a full time living. You just need to take that first step and take action.
The Clickbank marketplace is a great place to start looking for quality ebooks on marketing online. Take the time to learn the process for successfully making money online. From there the sky is the limit.
You can also attend online classrooms for training so that you have contact with the instructors Jeff Johnson is a good example for some awesome training and they have a lot of videos as well. I personally love videos over reading as my reading skills are rather slow and I find I have to re-read things over and over, so I do prefer the video training.
Like I said Knowledge Is Power but only if you take action, so what’s stopping you from doing that right now??
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