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Making Money Online

I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a long time, but I keep putting it off, why would I write something so obvious? However, I’ve seen so many people ignore this point, so here goes…

Forget everything you’ve read about making money online and remember this, there are only 2 ways of making money online: Sell something; or help someone sell something!

There! Obvious isn’t it. But I think people get caught up in page-views, visitors, RSS subscribers, Twitter followers and everything else that they forget the fundamental things. You’re in business to make money, to make money you have sell something to someone.

If you’re not selling something directly you’ll be helping someone else to sell something, either thru some form of advertising or affiliate marketing.

As someone running their business in their spare time, it is even more important to remember the fundamentals. You often don’t have the luxury of figuring out how you’ll make money after you have lots of visitors, because you probably won’t be around if you don’t figure out how to make money NOW.

If you don’t plan on selling something directly on your website, think carefully about the types of visitors you’ll be getting and start making relationships with people that want to reach that type of person.

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