Is it for real? No scam? Make money online for free?
When I first ventured on the Net for what money I could make, I didn't believe it myself at first. It was the year 2010. That time, I was of the impression that nothing in life came free, especially in business. You have to spend a lot first before you make a lot. You sow what you reap, right? But then this ad online kept popping up on my PC screen in 2010, insisting that I could make real money online almost for free. No big, risky expense or anything like that. You don't have to bet your life savings or pension pay.
But then, you have to take a risk and be responsible for it too.
Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash.
It was true.
Everything FREE
The first thing I learned was affiliate marketing. Get a free blog (and I just loved blogging) and start selling affiliate products. Affiliate products are other people's items you sell online. That makes you their affiliate (sales agent) and earn commissions. No registration free whatsoever. Sometimes they gave 50% commissions. Imagine that money, and all you had to do was stay home and sell online. And you didn't really have to "sell," as in personally sell to a person convincing him or her to buy. Your blog and affiliate banner ads and links did all the selling for you.
You just had to promote the banners and links on you blog by making blog articles about them, and posting those articles on social sites. As easy as that. Did I make money from that? I sure did. Not much at the time, but I did. It really works. Soon, I started selling my own products on my blogs.
Another day soon, I earned my first $100 just promoting other people's ads. That went on. Then people started learning about me online as a blogger and content writer and contracted me for writing jobs. All I did was fill up their websites with rich, well researched content writeups, which was a piece of cake to me since I'm a writer. I made lots of money from that, too, from clients here and abroad. I was a freelancer so I was my own boss. Talk about time freedom. Take note that I hadn't spent a single cent for all this. I was making money online for FREE!
But you don't live happily ever after just staying that way. You improve what you have. You try other ways of making money, especially the simplest way possible. My idea about business growth is finding ways to make everything simple and easy for you and your customers. It's fun making complicated things simple and easy and making money out of that. And the key is customer satisfaction--people online want things easy and quick. There are thousands of other businesses online, and if customers find things more confusing than easy, they'd look for a better business to buy from.
It takes only one quick click for customers to get rid of you. 😂
Start Investing
So after a while, you should start spending for your business. Invest. Money is designed for that--to serve you and your livelihood and make things better and easier. I'd say, you start putting in Php 500 a month for FB ads. Promote your blog and blog articles on social sites with paid ads. Be creative and place your links strategically on your blog articles. These affiliate or funnel links sell for you.
Ads help you reach more people all over the world, and I mean the right people--people who need your products and actually buy them. So, start investing Php 500 to 800 a month, then 500 a week, and later, 500 a day. If you have a big enough captured audience, you can lie low on your spending (having and keeping a captured audience is through your email list. For more on email list and email marketing, see my link below).
How about a Paid Blog?
Do you need a paid blog later? If you want to. It's not a must, but it can help a lot. I had several paid blogs before that I used for other purposes. But I still used my free blogs, and use many of them today, like this one. I don't know--I just love free blogs. Anyway, I'm a blog addict. I love creating blogs and writing blog content. I write the contents myself. I don't believe in paying others to write for me, though that's among ways I made a lot of money--writing for other people.
A lot of e-book "authors" are not writers. They pay others to write for them (or use the latest tech for this, like using writing bots or apps, and the latest is using AI) and then publish. But they call themselves "writers." They don't know what the word means ( I hope they know how to spell it). They're not writers, they're publishers, at best. I call them online sellers, period.
Anywhere you look, authors are writers. God, for instance, authored his book, the bible, by writing it himself. He used prophets as his "pens," but the pens were not the authors. Neither were they "freelancers" because they were in GOD's payroll. They were instruments. They were GOD's "employees."
Of course he used the features of the pens, the colors they came in, but he still wrote it.
Anyway, I'm crazy about writing, probably because writing runs in my family. My dad was a veteran journalist respected by his contemporaries and fellow journalists nationwide. My grand dad was dean of Philippine journalism in his time (when Manuel Roxas was president. They were close friends, by the way). My uncle (mom's brother) is a retired veteran journalist, too, living in New York as of this writing.
The point is, if you're dead serious about making money online without personally selling products yourself, you should start with blogging. If you're not a professional writer, be a beginning blogger. You don't need to be veteran journalist, you just need to start writing, even in Taglish. And you need products to sell. But all that can be easily solved if you are a blogger and an affiliate marketer. 😏
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