My Debt Free Goal

Since I was already in debt and pledged to not add any more to it no matter what the circumstances I have been building up my online business without using any debt what so ever.

So how do you get started when you have no money to spare? Simple, by doing everything yourself.

That means, you are the article writer, the website developer, the advertiser and promoter. You are the researcher, you are the creativity.

I got to tell you, when you compare internet marketing with investing in real estate there are HUGE differences. One requires a mortgage to have a property, while the other requires a few dollars and some work. Both can be equally as valuable as well.

You don’t have to start out doing anything difficult. Maybe raise some money by doing some freelance work for other people. There are so many people who would love having websites created or promoted and articles written.

Once you have built up a large enough cash flow, you can start to outsource your work and build your business exponentially faster. Maybe set a budget allowing yourself to use half your income for outsourcing to grow your business. That is what I am currently doing. The fruits of this have been a steady increase in my business each month.

I LOVE that I don’t have to take out a business loan. This is truly the best business that you can literally start with less than $20 in your pocket. That is why I chose it as my method for getting out of debt.

Are you selling yourself out to make money? In the pursuit of a quick buck or the almighty dollar it can be easy to lose focus on what is right and wrong because there are so many “gray areas”.

I come in contact with a lot of internet marketers and have been quite surprised at the moral codes they are willing to bend to make more money. These range from going into chat rooms pretending to be a young girl asking the guys to sign up for a dating site (using his affiliate link) to see “her” photos. To stealing other people’s ebooks off clickbank. To selling products that go against their religious or moral beliefs.

I understand the strong desire to make a living to support your family. However, there are things that are more important than money.

Honesty and Integrity are not things we hear a lot about these days. People striving to live this way are often thought of as “prude” and of course the “nice guy always finishes last” right?

What do you do if someone asks you to work on a project that pays well, but is completely against your beliefs?

This is just a post for you and more importantly for myself to always stand up for our beliefs. Even if that means we miss an “opportunity” or two in the process.

The anonymous nature of being on the internet does not lend itself to the man in the mirror or the man upstairs. Remember that in all your endeavors and business ventures.

There is no point in doing something you hate for the rest of your life. If you truly want to be happy, you need to do what you LOVE to do.

I actually hadn’t thought too much about it until I was watching Dave Ramsey on the Fox Business channel on Monday night. He said that if you are in a job you hate, make sure you are not working their by the end of 2008.

I like that he gave us time to do it. That means you have a whole year to transition from doing something you don’t like to working with your passion.

Don’t think your passion can make you money? You are wrong. You can make money from any hobby you can think of! You could make a niche website around it, or better yet… make a membership site teaching others how to do what you love to do.

For example, lets say your passion is knitting. You could create a membership site teaching people how to knit and how they can make money by knitting and selling their creations. People would sign up and pay you a monthly fee to teach them that.

You know you have found the perfect path for you when you would do it for free because you enjoy it so much.

Last night I had an idea that sparked in my head for a membership site I am going to set up this month. It got me so excited I wanted to jump up and down. It is something I am REALLY passionate about and to be honest, I would do it for free.

However, I know I could make a small living by offering it as a low cost membership site to others who share the same passion as me. I will be putting a lot of work into monthly content and organizing resources for my members. It is NOT in the making money online or internet marketing niches, it is something far more valuable to me.

The point I am trying to make here is that you don’t have to work at a job you hate and you don’t have to make a bazillion niche websites to make some decent money.

Think about it, if you had a simple membership site with 250 people paying $20 a month you would have $5,000 a month. It just takes the right idea.

If you want help, I have something coming up where I will take on some people to mentor. I don’t have it ready yet, but if you are interested stay tuned. I cannot take too many people because I will be spending a lot of 1 – on – 1 time with you.

I guarantee that you love to do something, now all you need to do is turn it into a business and you got yourself a dream job.

Oh by the way, Monetize = Make Some Income

I have actually created 7 new wordpress niche blogs so far this month! I am using these templates: Super Adsense and really like how easy it is to set them up this way. In fact, I am using the same template for this blog as well.

I was working double time this week because I wanted to get all of my projects done and out of the way before the 10th.

I am still using WhyPark for all the sites that I haven’t gotten around to building yet. I currently have 80 domains parked there. Mostly .net domains, it seems as though all the good .com ones are already taken. If only I would have gotten all the good .com names back in 1999, oh well… live and learn right?

My ‘6 figures in 6 months’ challenge is supposed to be starting on Saturday (Nov 10th) and I am very excited about it. Of course I will be blogging my journey as I go along and will hopefully be able to teach you all some new things as I go along.

Are you aware that you could be losing sales because of how your affiliate links look?

There are many complicated ways to cloak affiliate links, but I decided to make it easier on myself and everyone else by offering a no cost and easy way to make your own cloaked affiliate links.

I set up an free link cloaker tool here (you may want to bookmark it) – Affiliate Link Cloaker

So that you can simply add the title of the website, your affiliate link and then press the ‘Generate Cloak HTML’ button and it will give you a code.

You just need to take that code and make a file on your hosting with the name of the page you want to use in its place.

Such as Yourwebsite.com/thisproductrocks.html

You would then need to go into your hosting and create a new file called thisproductrocks.html then edit the file and put the code into it.

You could also do this by copying the code into a text document and then uploading it to your webhosting as pagenameyouwant.html

That way when ever you link to that page it will automatically send them to your affiliate link.

No more ugly affiliate links! Yay!

Since there are probably quite a few newcomers to this blog and I have been getting a lot of questions on Niche Websites, I wanted to point you to a past post that I wrote on the subject that may help clear things up a bit for you.

If you have ever looked anything up on the internet and found a website with information and some ads, then you have come across a niche website. They are all over the place.

It is like form of online real estate investing. The more sites you have and the more visitors you have, the more money you make off of advertisements, etc…

I used to build my niche websites from scratch via HTML, but starting about a week ago I have been using WordPress blogs (on my own hosting, not on wordpress.com) to create my niche websites.

Why not wordpress.com? Because they don’t allow any advertisements on their sites, which makes them pretty much useless for making money.

I used to be against niche blogs, but have been turning around due to the ease of setup. I set a goal to create 15 new niche websites/blogs each month.

No I don’t plan to write new posts to all of them on a regular basis, I wish I could, but that could really get out of hand. I will probably try and put a post on each one at least once a month to keep them somewhat fresh, but the traffic will mainly just come from article marketing.

Like I said, I just switched to making niche blogs this week. So I will update you on the results and if it is any better/worse than setting it up as plain static websites (non-blog).

I got a new ebook available for everyone for a $5 debt payoff donation. I use article marketing to promote all of my websites. If you have ever had questions about article marketing or want a very clear (32 page) explanation then this is a really great guide.

According to the original sales letter –

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