Make Six Figures In Your Spare Time

When I first got started with affiliate marketing and making money online I treated it like a side hobby for years.

Now, if you listen to any successful online marketer, they'll tell you that in order to be really successful, you need to start treating what you're doing online as a real business.

Once you do everything changes.

But, one of the main reasons I was just "dabbling" in making money online for years...

Was because I was honestly scared because I didn't know what to do when it came to taxes.

I had always been taught to get a "real job" - so that's what I did.

So, all I ever had was a single income source, one W-2 at the end of each year...

With maybe some random side hustle cash jobs that I didn't report.

But it wasn't until I was working as a chauffeur for a hotel that everything changed for me.

I was driving around a very successful freelancer and I was talking to him about my fears with starting my own company, etc.

And I asked him which was more important...

College is an awesome window of time because you're essentially in sort of a bubble between high school and life.

And most people are in college for about four years...

Which is plenty enough time to not only make some extra money, but actually build a very stable passive income pipeline that can produce residual income for you for a very long time.

Now, every college student is in a different situation.

Some people have a lot of free time.

Others have a full course load PLUS they need to get a part-time job to supplement their expenses.

So, I'm not sure where you fall exactly, but here's a big tip...

Don't be deceived by the promise of "easy money".

There's a lot of scams, hypey offers and business opportunities out there promising you the world in a short amount of time.

Instead of trying to make a million dollars next week, focus on mastering a skill.

Something that you can do a little bit each day...

Get better and better at...

And start to build a passive income snowball.

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There's really only one way to attract organic traffic to your website.

Content.

You've probably heard the phrase "content is king".

And it's absolutely true when it comes to getting free visitors from search engines.

Sure, if you want to increase the ranking of your content, you can boost it with powerful backlinks.

But, if you don't have high quality, relevant content...it's never going to get found by the search engines in the first place.

So, How Do You Do This?

Simple.

Create content on a regular basis.

And if you're lazy or or too busy to, outsource it.

If I was creating the content myself, I would pick a niche or topic and start writing content based around all the long tail keywords related to that niche.

Long tail keywords have far less competition, which means they're much easier to rank for.

Most of the time you'll never even need backlinks of any kind.

Because a lot of times there's basically no other high quality content for the search engines to find for the long tail...

Whether you love them or hate them, email popups work.

If you're currently getting traffic to your website and you're not using popups, you're missing out on valuable leads that you could be collecting and remarketing to.

Now, there are dozens of solutions out there when it comes to popups, exit pops, forms, welcome mats, etc...

But, the one I recommend over all the others is OptinMonster.

What I like about OptinMonster is that they specialize in conversion rate optimization.

Many of the other solutions that exist are either free (which means they don't come with a lot of features)

Or collecting leads and emails is just an extra feature they happen to also do on the side.

OptinMonster includes all the same features that other tools out there include, combined.

It also easily integrates with most popular email marketing services and website platforms.

And to top it all off, it's cloud-based, which means you can manage all your sites and popups from a single dashboard.

So, if you've...

Keyword research is not something I typically bother with.

It is very important, because with SEO (search engine optimization) the keywords you choose to target are going to ultimately affect how easy or difficult it's going to be to rank for those terms.

I do use keyword suggestion tools like KeywordTool.io, but I don't normally endorse tools or software that label themselves as "keyword competitiveness tools".

However, I know there are people that are searching for these kinds of tools.

So, if you're one of those kind of people, and you're looking for a suggestion, I would start with Long Tail Pro.

Long Tail Pro is a product created by Spencer Haws from NichePursuits.com.

He has been involved in Internet Marketing for several years, makes his full-time living from SEO, and has developed hundreds of successful niche affiliate websites.

Learn more about Long Tail Pro

A dating product may sound like a random thing to write an article about on a marketing blog, but I can assure you it's highly relevant.

Years ago I was introduced to the pickup artist scene and various strategies and methods to increase my success with the opposite sex.

At first it seemed kind of wrong...

Learning all these different methods for "manipulating" women to do what I wanted...

But, then, after consuming quite a bit of information on the subject (going through several books and courses)...

I had my revelation.

If I had to sum up everything I had learned about the art of pickup in one sentence or bullet point, it would be this...

Confidence.

If you boil down every strategy that is taught inside these courses, the main goal of all the training to help you increase your confidence with women.

Because confidence is everything.

It doesn't matter if you're a complete asshole or a nice guy.

Because both of these extremes have the ability to pick up hot women.

You just have...

I get it.

When you're first starting out you're broke and you're doing your best to bootstrap things and save as much money as possible.

So, the idea of spending money on quality images for your project, even if they are just a couple of dollars, doesn't seem like something you can afford.

I was the same way when I first got started in online marketing.

But back then stock photography marketplaces weren't as abundant as they are now and prices weren't nearly as affordable.

Now, sure, if you're just starting out and trying to make your first couple hundred or couple thousand dollars a month online, you may decide to cut corners and use free images you find on Google Images or reverse image search sites like TinEye.

But, once you start to see a little success, I encourage you to start using more professional photos.

There are even some really high quality free stock photo websites out there like Unsplash and Pixabay, so there isn't much excuse now not to be using stock photos.

The...

When I got into video marketing and created my first YouTube channel years ago I thought you had to have all this expensive and fancy equipment to produce a professional-quality recording and video.

And that's simply not true.

Other than a few very inexpensive tools, you don't really need all that much.

So, to save you some time, I've made a list of all the tools I recommend and consider essential.

Anything you decide to invest in outside of this list is not a requirement to get professional results.

Recommended Tools For YouTube Marketing

• A Quality Microphone - For this I recommend a USB microphone like the Blue Yeti, which can be found on Amazon for about $100. Probably the most important element of a quality recording is having good audio and it's especially important if you're doing interviews.
• Lavalier Mic - In addition to your regular microphone that might be sitting on a desk, if you're considering doing any kinds of videos where you're walking around, maybe using your...

In recent years a popular trend that's arose is standing desks.

According to research, these desks are supposed to be better for your health than just sitting all day.

Now, I'm no health expert, but I do think it's a great idea to get up and move around a couple of times every hour or so, even if you have an amazingly comfortable office chair.

However, because standing desks have become such a big trend, there's tons of solutions to choose from.

And whichever one you select is all based on your personal preferences.

But, if you're looking for suggestions, the brand that I really like and recommend is called Autonomous.

What I like most about the Autonomous desks are they're very minimalistic and extremely affordable.

They also have an electric motor that makes it fast and easy to adjust the desk up and down.

They have several different sizes and options, but my favorite model is the SmartDesk 2.

They also have several different complimentary products you may think about investing in...

Webinars are an extremely powerful medium for making sales online.

They're basically the most intimate method for communicating with people - the only thing more powerful and effective is a live, in-person presentation.

And since webinars are so intimate, they're an excellent way to build rapport, which usually results in higher conversions.

Most marketers use webinars to sell high ticket offers and as long as you're following a proven formula you don't usually need that many attendees to make a very comfortable living online.

Now, in regards to the webinar solutions that exist, there's quite a number of them.

But, most of the solutions that are out there are either not designed for affiliate marketers.

They're mostly designed for group calls and meetings.

However there is one solution that I highly recommend.

It was designed by online marketers for online marketers.

And it's called Demio.

The reason I really like Demio are...

• It's Extremely Simple To Use - Allows you to run...