The Simple Truth About Making Money Online By Trevor Kugler

The Simple Truth About Making Money Online
By Trevor Kugler

In my experience there is a ton of misinformation floating around about making money online. It seems as if everyone has the next big idea about making money online. The problem is that most of these ideas revolve around you giving someone a bunch of money, and them giving you the 'secret'. As a person who makes some money online, let me clue you in. There is no secret. Making money online is just like making money anywhere else.
You see, making money is a process. Much like learning to ride a bike is a process. Did you wake up one day and start riding a bike? Of course not! To begin with you had training wheels. Then you practiced and practiced. Then you tried riding without training wheels and fell down again and again. And then one day, you rode off and you knew how to ride a bike. Riding a bike was a process and making money is exactly the same.
It makes no difference if the money is made online or offline, the bottom line is that you want a business that makes money. For this article though, we're focusing on the truth about making money online. And the truth is (as mentioned earlier) that making money online is just like making money offline. It's just that the process is a little different.
People run into trouble when they start buying into all the hype out there about making money online. If you believe the hype you won't make money, because hype causes you to do things that you normally wouldn't. Then the next thing you know you're out a bunch of money and no better off. All because you bought into a bunch of hype like: Never make another cold call, or we'll do the selling for you, or pick out your favorite 'style' of site, etc. etc. None of this hype will get you any closer to making money online.
The truth is that if you aren't passionate about what you're doing, you have no chance of making money either online or otherwise. If you want to make money online, there is most likely going to be a website involved. You better believe in this website and be passionate about the subject that the site is based on. If your online money making venture revolves around your passion, you've got a good shot of making money online. Just keep in mind that's making money online is a process and won't happen overnight. Just like with learning to ride a bike, you need to keep practicing and getting back up when you fall down. If you do, you'll be making money online sooner rather than later.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!
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The Simple Truth About Making Money Online

The Top Ten Things No One Told You About Having Your Own Website

The Top 10 Things No One Told You About Having Your Own Website

Like many things on this earth, having a website sounds great on paper, but what you don't consider are some of the most important aspects of having the site. These are my top ten in no particular order.
1) Having a website means absolutely nothing without traffic. That is without visitors. Without visitors a website is like a piece of paper you jotted a note on and forgot about. What's that piece of paper worth to you?
2) Getting traffic is not an easy thing to do. Don't let anyone tell you that it's easy or quick to get traffic. Unless you're willing to spend a lot of money, getting traffic quickly is not going to happen.
3) Once you start to get a little traffic, expect to get inundated with unwanted emails like you were some porn addict putting your email address into any box that pops up on the screen in the hopes of getting a quick 'peek'.
4) If you pay someone else to do your site, and you need changes it's going to cost you a lot of money. (And by the way, you will want to make changes).
5) Making money on the internet is not easy! It can be simple, but not easy. I've seen a lot of crap out there that makes it seem as if making money on the internet is as easy as brushing your teeth, but this is not the case.
6) To have a decent site, it's going to get changed more than a teenager with a two hundred and fifty dollar gift certificate to the Gap, especially in the beginning.
7) Everyone says that you MUST have a newsletter. But without significant traffic, it doesn't matter, because no one will sign up for it any way. You can of course buy a list of names to email your precious newsletter to, but this will cost you a decent amount of money, just like everything else.
8) Search engine Optimization is not everything everyone makes it out to be. Many times it's made out to be the be all and end all. But you must pay attention to where all the hype is coming from. Normally it's coming from someone trying to sell you SEO services. Just paying someone fifty bucks a month for these services is not going to bring you five hundred dollars worth of business a month.
9) Very few people mention article writing as a means of promoting your website, but it's a good one. And in most cases it's free. That's probably why it's not mentioned a lot, because some dorky tech guy's not going to make a buck off of it. But, no matter what you hear, article writing is a good thing.
10) Just keep at it and trust your instincts. There are many people on the internet trying to squeeze money out of you, especially if it's a subject that your unfamiliar with nso just trust your instincts. They will rarely steer you in the wrong direction.
Those are my top ten things that no one told me about having a website. Hopefully they can help you save some time, money, and heartache.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!
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The Best Kept Secret To Online Success

The Best Kept Secret To Online Success

If you're reading this article you're obviously interested in online success. And I'm going to give you the best kept secret of online success that no one will tell you about. But before I get to the secret, if you're interested in the quick and easy approach to online success, STOP right now. You're never going to find it. There is nothing quick and easy about online success, so get that idea out of your head right now. Just stop and go spend your money on a fistful of lottery tickets… your chances of making money the quick and easy way will be greatly improved with lottery tickets.
There seems to be a common misconception out there that online success is as simple as building a website putting that website on the world wide web, and bingo your good to go. For the uninitiated, this is a complete fallacy. Simply slapping a decent looking website on the World Wide Web doesn't amount to a hill of beans. That is of course unless you simply want a "billboard" sitting in the midst of infinity.
You see, making money online is exactly like making money in any other endeavor. It just seems (to the average person) like making money online is somehow different than making money anywhere else. This may be due to the fact that anyone and I do mean anyone, can have a live website up and working in a day or so. As I've alluded to though, just getting a website up and running has little or nothing to do with online success.
Online success is a process. That's the secret! Contrary to what many of the so called "experts" say, there is no substitute for hard work when it comes to becoming an online success. Many of the "experts" out there make it seem as if becoming successful online, which more than likely Means making money, is as simple and easy as scratching your head. This simply isn't true. The secret, that none of them want to tell you is that success online is a process.
You, as the person interested in having success online, are going to have to work your butt off. You, or someone that you hire, is literally going to have to go out and get traffic for your website, because if you don't realize it, without traffic, there will be no online success. And getting traffic is a continual process. There, in a nutshell, is the key to online success. Yes, the key to online success that no one will tell you about is the fact that it's a process! Online success isn't something that happens with the snap of your fingers or that happens just because you think it should.

Trevor Kugler - Co-founder of JRWfishing.com and founder of yourmoneyconnection.com Trevor has more than 20 years of fishing experience, and raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country....Montana.
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Should You Waste Your Money On SEO By Trevor Kugler

Should You Waste Your Money On SEO

Do you have a website? And when you got that website looking like you wanted it, and everything seemed to be good to go, what happened? If you're situation is anything like mine, you then discovered, like someone quietly wrapping their hands around your throat and squeezing the life right out of you, that it didn't matter much. You see, once everything was as we wanted it, we then realized that none of it mattered if no one visited our site.
So we asked our webmaster what he thought should be done? His suggestion was a search engine optimization service he was selling for fifty bucks a month. He said that if we did this, our website could be in the top 10 results on various search engines. This sounded wonderful, and we assumed it would bring a ton of visitors. In theory it would, however your website doesn't end up in the top ten results! Actually we were in the top three results for terms that people would never search for, simply because the terms ar5e an unknown entity. Would you search for the term, 'gang hook'? I think not, but we were number 1 on most search engines. I remember our webmaster actually saying to me once, "that's a good term, you're the first result." The thing that I quickly realized about being in the top ten search results is the fact that it doesn't matter if no one searches for that term!
At that point we were eight months intro our little internet venture and becoming more and more frustrated by the minute. I would think to myself, "Screw this, you're not going to be able to make money on the internet. It's a big scam!" And to be honest, I still think that much of the internet is a scam.
Then I discovered things like article writing websites like this one and things began to change. I could actually see results from writing articles on a site such as this and it didn't cost anything but a little time. And there were real results, as apposed to some techie filling my head with utter gibberish!
I suppose the bottom line is that much of the stuff you read and hear on the internet is garbage, especially when you're just starting out. I've found that the internet is exactly like everything else on this marvelous pebble we call earth. About ninety five percent of what you hear is junk and the rest is worthwhile. The internet is just like everything else; you're going to have to invest some time and money to make it work for you. But beware; there are a lot of people trying to take advantage of those of us who don't completely understand all of this 'tech stuff'.

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Should You Waste Your Money On SEO

SEO-What The Weasels Won't Tell You By Trevor Kugler

SEO-What The Weasels Won't Tell You
By Trevor Kugler

In my experience as a non- techie, there's a ton of misinformation out there about search engine optimization and how it can help your website. The basics fact sound great: Pick out key words and phrases that people will type into search engines and then have your website show up in the top ten results on said search engine. That's sound wonderful, right? Being in the top ten search results for given phrases would be great, the problem is that it's not as simple and easy as paying someone fifty bucks a month to 'submit' your site. Many companies make it seem as if you give them your ten search words or phrases, along with fifty bucks a month or more, and bam your wonderful website will be in the top ten results for those phrases. This is not true.
Unless of course your search phrases are so unique that no one would search for them anyway. For example, if you have a product that’s brand new to the marketplace and the phrase used to describe that product are unique. In that case your phrase will climb rank in the search engines, buy it's because no one searches for it. If you're trying with words and phrases that people search for such as 'book deals' for example, you won't sniff the top ten search results. Not without spending a lot of time and money. No one tells you this though. Our webmaster simply wanted to make the fifty bucks a month, without explaining what we should actually do.
In order to optimize your website for search engines, you need to build it that way. The phrases you decide on need to be incorporated into the site and page titles. These are the types of things that no one explained to me about search engine optimization. I was just told things like, "pick some phrases that you think people will search for and we'll submit those phrases to the search engines." This, of course, accomplished nothing, other that us wasting money.
My point to this entire article is to tell you a few of the things that no one told me, in the hope that you won't have to go through the same experience. There's no easy fix to the search engine optimization puzzle and the bottom line is that it's not simple and easy to get in the top ten search results for phrases that are worth a plugged nickel. It's rather difficult as a matter of fact. I simply think that anyone who wants more traffic should be aware of this little fact. Do your due diligence, and don't ever expect something for nothing. It's simply a fallacy that you can spend fifty bucks a month and end up in the top ten search results. There's a lot more involved in the mine field known as search engine optimization.

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SEO-What The Weasels Won't Tell You

Put It On The Internet You'll Make $1,000,000

Put It On The Internet - You'll Make $1,000,000

Have you ever been talking to friends when someone mentions their idea for this or that and someone blurts out the wonderful option of putting said product or service on the internet and then just sitting back and making a ton of money. Most everyone has experienced a situation similar to this right? Or at least thought about it? I think there's a huge misconception out there that a person can just put a product or service on the internet and bam... make money.
Well, if you've done any research on this subject (that subject of course being making money on the internet) you realize that this isn't at all the case. It isn't as easy as just putting a product 'out there' and making money. I sure wish it was but unfortunately we live on the planet earth, and it doesn't work that way. Think about it, once your site or product is 'out there' how are people going to find it? I've learned from experience that there's not some internet fairy out there flying around making millions of people aware of whatever it is that you're offering. I used to think this fairy was real, but now I realize that it's not. There's much more too it. Making money on the internet with whatever product or service you want to offer requires work.
The first thing that has to be done is for you to figure out how you are going to drive traffic to your website. There are many ways to drive traffic to your product or website, but very few are free. Most options will cost you money and what does the fact that people want money from you bring? The fact that people can make money off of this type of information brings a can of worms bigger than anyone could imagine. Not only does it bring a BIG can of worms, but the can has fallen over and there are worms everywhere!
It seems like everyone has the answer to driving traffic to your site and they would be more than happy to provide you with that answer for a price. My webmaster charged me fifty bucks a month for "search engine optimization" and all that was happening was my site being submitted to search engines! After six months of everything remaining exactly the same, except for me being three hundred bucks lighter, I told him to stop the madness. I told him there was no point in me paying for something that wasn't helping my website or product. So be careful about all of the SEO stuff out there.
There are many ways of driving traffic to your website and some of them are actually free. Some of them would include: Article submission (a great one), free press releases (this one doesn't seem too effective), a newsletter or e-zine (getting subscribers can lead to the same can of worms spoken of earlier), message boards, and others.
The bottom line is that a person can't just 'put it on the internet and make $1,000,000.' Not without the effort that having anything worthwhile takes. With persistence and faith it can be done, it's just not as simple and easy as many would have you believe.

Trevor Kugler Co-founder of JRWfishing.com Trevor has more than 20 years of fishing experience, 15 years of business experience and currently raises his 3-year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country......Montana.
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Online Business And Customer Service By Trevor Kugler

Online Business And Customer Service
By Trevor Kugler

Have you ever noticed that with many online businesses customer service seems to be at the bottom of their agenda? It almost seems as if people think they can slap a website on the internet, offer a product or two, and be done with it. Let me ask you a question. If this were true why wouldn't everyone do it? The answer to that question is really quite simple. Because if you don't provide excellent customer service, you won't last long. I believe that online business and customer service should go hand in hand, and I think you should as well.
It perplexes me that most online businesses don’t seem to feel this way. Most online businesses seem to think of customer service as an after thought. This simply shouldn't be the case. Just because the customer isn't physically being spoken with, it doesn't mean that you can't develop a relationship. Taking care of the customer should be every businesses first priority, whether that business is an online business or traditional businesses.
How many of you have emailed a company asking them a question, only to receive a response days later or not at all. I know I emailed and affiliate of mine months ago, and still haven't heard anything from them. Guess what this means? They are no longer an affiliate of mine, and I tell anyone who's interested not to do business with them. My company is a small fish right now, in a very big pond, but to me it makes no difference. The principles are the same. Eventually, the company I'm referring to will fall by the wayside, because they aren't truly interested in the customer.
Don't you think dealing with a company who's interested in taking care of you is a pleasure? If this company treats you well, aren't you likely to tell other people about it? And aren't you likely to use them in the future? Of course you are. It only makes sense. So always keep in mind that your online business and customer service go hand in hand. Care about your customer, no matter how small your business is, and you customer will carte about your business, it's as simple as that.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of http://www.JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country…..Montana!
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