The following is a guest post by Patrick Meninga of Make Money With No Work.
How do you become your own boss in the world of internet marketing?
The key is that you have to generate consistent monthly income, enough to cover your living expenses. If you can achieve this income consistently then you can walk away from your regular day job and effectively become your own boss.
So the question becomes: How do you do that? How do you generate a consistent monthly income online?
Let me show you how I was able to become my own boss.
Online Business Models
There are undoubtedly a million and one ways to generate income from the internet. I have expertise in exactly one of these business models, and that is in building an authority website.
I know that other types of online businesses do exist. For example, someone might create an ecommerce store that sells products directly. Or, they might create dozens of tiny niche websites that make money from advertising.
And so on.
The method that I used was to create a large authority website, and I put all of my time and energy into that one web property. Because the topic was lucrative and had real profit potential, I was able to sell the website for a very large sum of money after my traffic reached a certain point. My earnings per month were $2,250 with only about $100 in business expenses at the time of the sale.
There are some huge advantages of generating income with an authority website, and only a few disadvantages that can be easily overcome.
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
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Blogging / Writing
This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti of Sparring Mind.
“It can’t be!”
Ah, but it’s true!
Not only that, this new blog isn’t about marketing, blogging, or making money online!
Refreshing, isn’t it?
Only a few months ago, I started my recent project, an electronic music blog by the name of Sophistefunk.
Before I get into the details, let’s get with the goods:
Above is my most recent screenshot from Google Analytics, and as you can see, I’ve hit over 40000 unique visitors after only being live for a few short months.
And I did it without a single guest post about this blog!
But how?
Well, that’s what I’m here today to tell you!
If you are looking for some sort of secret sauce, look elsewhere, but if you want to see some smart implementation of direct-to-success techniques that you can use in any niche, read on, this post is for you.
But first, let me address why I didn’t use guest posting for this new blog…
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.
Blogging / Writing
This is an interview with Farnoosh Brock of Prolific Living. She is returning again to Kikolani to talk to us about creating a smart exit strategy out of the wrong job and why it pays to find work that you can love.
1. A lot of the readers at Kikolani are interested in full-time self-employment with strong interests in social media, blogging and free-lancing among other things. You share some of these passions. Can you tell us your take on self-employment?
Self-employment was made for me like this super short pixie haircut that I got after chopping off some 14 inches of beautiful hair. It is ironic because I did not think either adventure suited me. It turns out when you give something up; you sometimes get a lot back in return. Giving up a cushy, easy, lucrative job for working 14-hour days plus weekends and hardly matching the income yet has been the greatest joy of my life and I had one happy life despite that miserable career at corporate.
Self-employment is not for everyone; I will admit that and I think that’s wonderful because we are unique individuals and we are meant to find our own tune and I encourage you to find yours in the right place.
For those of you who dream of being your own boss and calling your own shots while knowing full well that it comes with responsibility and accountability and heaps of sweet labor, you will find tremendous fulfillment in paving your own future. It is the simple greatest path to self-discovery and personal development that I have ever known.
