First update.
Here is the first update on our exciting journey to financial freedom. If you want to know who we are, check out the “about page” Although we have absolutely nothing to show for it yet, we have come a long way since November 2023 when I decided to jump back into the internet marketing game. I’m luckier than a lot of people as I have a background in earning money online, albeit a number of years ago. However, hat I do know is that there is no such thing as a get rich quick side hustle. A business takes time and like anything, we need to build a firm foundation.
First Things First
The whole landscape of internet marketing has changed dramatically while I’ve been away. But the basics are the same.
- Have a clear idea what you intend to do
- Plan your business, don’t just jump in with some woolly idea, be professional and treat it as a real business venture.
- Educate yourself on techniques to succeed. This has been a biggie, so much has changed.
- Work on branding. Who are you, what is your USP, work out why people would want to connect and use your services.
- Set up the basics, websites, email responders, product sources etc.
So Where Are We Now on Our Exciting Journey
The first thing I did was to find a good reliable hosting company. I have used many over the years including GoDaddy, which are great, but our current choice is Hostinger. We then chose domain names. Choosing this one because it describes the site perfectly so will help with our SEO.
We set up another site first Your Mindful Health as a vehicle for affiliate marketing, plus it’s a niche that I am very passionate about. It has been SEO’ed it to death, adding a new post every few days. It was decided to let it organically get established before I really start promoting it. WordPress is our Content Management System for all of our sites. Please notice that I included a link to the other site, inbound links really help with google.
I’ve set up my account with Aweber as my autoresponder, still need to set up StanStore for when we start our social media campaign.
Target Audience
This one is difficult. My natural target audience is people of retirement age, which I, maybe wrongly feel will be like walking through mud. I really want to attract anyone who is just sick and tired of the system and being broke or their job, or both.
However, it will need some imaginative content to grab the younger persons attention. I’m quite happy about being seen and speaking but someone of almost 70 (6 weeks to go) will have an auto scroll effect, so maybe a bit covert to start with. However, as this site and our journey is all about transparency, I must be careful.
This one is difficult. My natural target audience is people of retirement age, which I, maybe wrongly feel will be like walking through mud. I really want to attract anyone who is just sick and tired of the system and being broke or their job, or both. However, it will need some imaginative content to grab the younger persons attention. I’m quite happy about being seen and speaking but someone of almost 70 (6 weeks to go) will have an auto scroll effect, so maybe a bit covert to start with. However, as this site and our journey is all about transparency, I must be careful.
This Site is Part in Our Exciting Journey
I’m building this as a free site that people can subscribe to if they with. There will be lots of useful content and products to buy at really low prices. I’m sourcing MRR and PLR items to cover everything needed to get either or both Affiliate and MRR businesses up and running. I’ve looked closely at The RoadMap 2.0 and think it’s an amazing product, but unless it’s used in the way it was intended, to train you to build a firm scalable business, people just selling it without doing anything else will eventually run out of steam, everything has a shelf life.
Eventually, this site will have enough information and products to train you to build a solid business and yes we will include the Roadmap at some point, but I don’t want it to become a totally Roadmap dominated site. MRR especially is about selling across many different Niches, not just the make money online niche. We have 100’s of great private label and MRR products to promote. So watch this space as our exciting journey continues.