I know a lot of people are still struggling to make their first dollar online. It starts with one dollar after all, and then you scale up once you know it works. Below is a rough outline of a simple method to make money. Total investment, – under $200, and if you do it right, you can make money in 30-60 days. Nothing Blackhat, and everything can be learned from some basic principals. I recommend a few courses to get, if any of this is completely new territory for you. If this is the case, keep in mind that you will need nothing else other than the course I mention below. Now if you don’t know anything about html, you will actually have to stop now and  learn some basics.

8 Crucial Steps

1-Use keyword tools (Google’s Keyword Tool for example) to find an untapped niche, or one with little competition. Try to stay out of the Internet Marketing Realm unless your time frame is longer to make money.
2-Create a free giveaway report to go with it. (This could be a 10 page pdf tutorial on how to “Make A Dog Sit” for example – Something you already know how to do – Make it easy on yourself.
3- Use “google friendly landing pages” to build your landing page. This could be a simple Wordpress blog – I would use Thesis with no sidebars to accomplish this.)
4- Learn basic adwords techniques from YouTube.com. Adwords is paid promotion to your blog/site. You can learn the basics simply by searching for “How To” videos.
5- Sign up to Hostgator. Either transfer a domain (.com) to your account or buy a new domain, with some keyword relevancy to your chosen niche.
6- Purchase domain and hosting while using the coupon “jury” to save about 10 bucks.
7- Set up the landing page on your hosting account. Did you know that you can go into your cpanel and get a free $50 adwords coupon?
8- Start sending traffic to the site with Adwords. You can then alert your subscribers of new, related-products they should be aware of. I Suggest Aweber for your email client.

Suggestions for Products

- Sell related PLR products, but first re-brand them
- Create your own product, but dont BS peple/ only do this if you have experience in thisfield
- Google experts in the field, then interview them on freeteleseminar.com and get the mp3 download and the transcript, and create a product from that (my recommendation)

The last method would take maybe $100, but now you have a product to sell.

There are 2 ways you can sell your product

1) As a basic maybe $27 product, but make sure you have a backend either in place, or planned. You can interview the same guy from the first product on other topics
2) My recommendation, learn microcontinuity methods and follow this way of thinking. Use the first product like a giveaway to show people for free how their problems will be solved and the benefits they will get for free. Once they enjoy the value you provide, you can then bill them monthly for a product you deliver in set increments. You can set up multiple microcontinuity systems here.

For your merchant account, you can use 1shoppingcart’s trial for $4 for 30 days, then $100 bucks a month after. Or just use Paypal, but 1shoppingcart has more features, including an autoresponder.

Reccomendations

- For e-mail marketing help, I recommend anything by Ryan Deiss
- For extra Adwords/PayPerClick help, I reccomend the “PPC Classroom” course.
- You can use Wordpress to build your website, or Dreamweaver. I prefer Wordpress with a Thesis theme because of the SEO help it provides.

Then after the system is set up, Make sure you take a look at Traffic Mayhem (Upper Right-Hand Corner of This Page) to start the process of driving multiple visitors a day to your site.

Having implemented these processes you can then go on to sell affiliate products to that list of customers and prospects who visit your site and subsequently sign up for your subscription list.

My favorite way of getting long-term traffic

Writing Articles and PPC. Article writing in particular, b/c once you have written a good article, it will last forever and will provide passive traffic to your site forever.

After, an only AFTER your business is set up and running can you invest profits in scaling your business up. I recommend these two courses:
- Response Dynamite by Joe Lavery
- and Multiplier Method 2

These will help you leverage certain systems in your business to increase your bottom line, cut down refunds, and help add back ends.

Please enjoy this guide, it’s the basics of most gurus niche businesses and a powerful resource that should always be kept close to heart. Remember – nothing here will benefit you at all unless you take ACTION, which is after all, the most important step.