How To Start An Online Business
(With No Money Down)
An In-Depth Tutorial on How to Earn Passive Income Every Month with Affiliate Marketing
This Beginner's Guide on How To Start An Online Business covers the fundamental strategies on to create and build serious cash generating websites and will walk you through step by step how to start online websites that make you money through affiliate marketing.
What Does An Online Business Look Like?
The blueprint for building an online business is a simple four step process.
Affiliate Marketing is the process of creating and building a website on any topic that reviews products via writing content.
This content would have links to an online store (such as Amazon) where readers would then purchase the product and you earn revenue through commissions.
The more visitors you drive to your website, the more money you will ean. An effective way to drive (visitor) traffic to your website is through search engines.
The goal is to get your website ranked on the first page of Google for your targeted keyword (e.g. [product name] review). Once you've learned how to do this, large numbers of search engine traffic will end up at your website and you earn revenue.
You will have an online business on your hands.
From there, you simply need to scale the process.
SEO = More Traffic = More Commissions = More Revenue
Who is Affiliate Marketing For?
The great thing about affiliate marketing is that anyone can start an online business. Age and experience is irrelevant. Anyone can start an online business if they are willing to learn and take action. willing to take action on what they learn. In essence anyone can earn revenue with affiliate marketing as long as the person is willing to learn and take action.
It is important to have a solid understanding on how affiliate marketing works and the techniques used to attract an audience to your website. This will be the foundation you'll build your online business on.
The free beginner's guide to starting an online business will help you understand how it all works and get you started with building your first affiliate website.
What’s Covered in This Beginner's Guide
This guide will walk you through step-by-step on how to start an online business. The techniques outlined will equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a successful, profitable and long-term online business.
Here's what you'll get instant access to:
- Find an Interest (Niche)
- Find an Affiliate Program
- Find a Keyword
- Get a Domain
- Set up Hosting
- Install WordPress
- Set up Your Website
- Write Some Content
- Monetise Your Website for Passive Income
- Share Your Content
Each of these training modules are in-depth and fresh up to date with the latest online income generating methods.
About the Author
My name is Simon Crowe, I am the founder of The Make Money Online Blog and have been running my own successful online businesses since 2014.
I run several successful online businesses that earn me over $6,000 a month. Best of all, the niches I'm involved in range from Church Growth & Leadership to Trekking Around South East Asia – all topics I'm passionate and excited about.
I joined Wealthy Affiliate 3 years ago and I owe all of my success to the free training and expert support I received there. As a direct result of the Affiliate Marketing training course, in 2014 I was able to quit my UK Customer Service job, take control of my life and move to Sriracha, Thailand.
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Hi Simon.
I really appreciate this how to start an online business guide and Ive just signed up to your free email course.
I just joined WA about 2 weeks ago and love to see people like yourself that have become successful using Wealthy Affiliate.
Thanks
Rick
Thanks, I really appreciate it!
Hey Simon great article. I think those steps you outlined are spot on.
I think there are so many online scams out there people lost so much trust that you can make money online legitimately. I think affiliate marketing is hands down the best long term way to make money. It takes the most work but its the best way.
It’s hard work but it’s so worth it.
Every time I add to my online business portfolio I like to think I’m building another skyscraper – not a wooden hut.
This means it takes a little time to build a strong foundation before I start building on it – but then the sky’s the limit and I have the business for the long-term.
It makes sense right? I’m sure there’s other ways to earn money online but for me this is the best, most passive and sustainable.
I’m quite new into online marketing. I suppose after the initial structure is built, it is then on how to generate the traffics to a certain extent that it starts to bring the passive income in. Do you have any tips or guide on the best way to generate traffics? Even better if you would be able to share some of those that you personally used. Thanks.
Hi Kenny, thanks for your question. Did you start going through the training yet? If not, you can access it here.
It’ll take you through everything from launching your first website (for free) to learning how to generate traffic and how to monetise your sites so you have an online business on your hands.
The traffic generating techniques you’ll learn include both SEO (Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines) and all of the major Social Media sites.
For me, the main traffic source across all of my sites has always been Google. On my first ever site (GrowChurch.net) is now getting 850 visits a day (26,000 a month) from Google alone. I should say this website is two years old This is because I followed the training I’ve given you access to today. There’s no reason you can’t accomplish this within your own niche. I hope this helps 🙂
You have really got me excited! I can’t wait to learn how to follow in your footsteps!
How did you get your start in online business?
I have spent tons of money and so much time on things that didn’t do anything for me except to make me poorer.
I really appreciate the help you are providing by showing me how to make it work! Thank you so much!
Tom
Thanks Tom! There’s never been a better time to start an online business than now! There’s 3.2 billion active online users and growing – the potential is huge if you know what you’re doing.
Honestly, it took me a while, like you (and so many people) I fell for every scam going. I followed the so-called expert training by the letter but never saw any results.
My turning point was when I joined a free training program and online business centre called Wealthy Affiliate.com. Feel free to check out my full (5000+ word) Wealthy Affiliate review.
I stumbled across Wealthy Affiliate by accident one night while desperately searching for a way to start an online business. If you haven’t already Tom, my best suggestion is to create your free account and click on the green tab on the left called ‘Getting Started Training” – you’ll go through the exact step by step process that I took to get me where I am today.
The community is great, help is always at hand – send me a message if you ever get stuck – but I think you’ll really like it.