Making Money Online (aka Working from Home)

One way is to Take Surveys from Home (for pay.)

At the risk of sounding like a commercial, please do yourself the favor of reading through the whole blogpost before you roll your eyes <grin.>

About a year ago (it was actually the end of October, first of November last year), an acquaintance of mine and I from the prepping world were talking about what he does for a living, since he works from home and actually makes enough to support his family. He started off building websites for people (beyond my technical capabilities). Then he branched out into Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for those websites on retainer, which is, over time, where the bulk of his income was coming from.

I didn't know what that was, so we talked a bit about it. Summary version is: when you search for a product, most of the time you type in something like "dog kennels in Westerville." Google (or Bing etc.) gives you results based on those words. In Google's case (I detest Bing), it can give you pages and pages. 99% of the time you will only look on the first or second page (out of 1000s) of results. So what he did is (manually) drove traffic (search engine optimization) so that his clients' sites came up on the first page when you typed in (example) "dog kennels in Westerville."

Sigh. I'm like, way beyond my abilities. Then David said, "but then I found this really cool product which more or less automates SEO and allows me to set up my own websites and passively earn income." (Scooby questioning sound heard here=>) "Rrruuhh?" Ok. He now had my attention. He uses a product called Sniper to build websites on the Wordpress (the blog people) platform. As he built more and more of them, he gradually decreased his SEO business (although he used the Sniper system to automate his clients' sites).

I asked if it was hard to do (cuz after all, he's a techie, and I'm not). He said no, even someone like "me" could do it (being a nice guy, he did not say dumb bunny. I would have.) So I went to the Sniper site, watched the promo video (the creator George, loves to hear himself talk, fair warning), and thought, you know? I can do this. And at $47, it wasn't a huge risk.

I am not a super blogger, but my DH is. So I figured between the two of us (and him being unemployed) we could really make a go of this. I implemented only a miniscule amount of what George teaches in his videos, frankly, because I am not a tech person, and I wanted to see if it was "real" before I invested a lot of time (there's an oxymoron if I ever heard one.) But then DH found a "real job" so he didn't "have time" to help me, so I was back to my own devices.

The first month I made $124. I'd like to lie and tell you I made thousands. And you know, maybe if I'd done EVERYTHING from soup to nuts, the way I was supposed to, I would have. I'd like to tell you that my enthusiasm for the fact that his system works, even if you only implement a tiny bit of it, caused me to get off my lazy rear end and invest the time into training and learning how to develop passive sites, since on average, the little bit I did brought in $50 a month. 

But I can't. Because I am a lazy sloth. But I'm repenting. I've been babysitting this past year and averaging about $600-800 a month babysitting; we've needed the money and I'm grateful. But that's working about 20 hours a week. The other day, a lightbulb went on. If I'd spent 20 hours a week really committing to building sites using George's system, I probably wouldn't need to be doing childcare. So I'm changing my ways.

And sharing my process with you. He's actually upgraded the process, and now there's a "copy me" training system in addition to the general system where he shows you how to build passive sites step by step. That's another $97, but if you are a dumb bunny (my words) like me, that's pretty invaluable. So if you've got 20 minutes (no really. 20 minutes. Like I said...the boy loves to hear himself talk), check out the => Sniper system. It really does work, and this year, I'm committed to making it work for me.

Thanks for letting me share.