A gazillion years ago I published a series of posts. This series was called “20 Ways To Make Money Online”. Around 4 billion people have IM’ed me, emailed me, phoned me and even sent me letters asking me what’s going on with that series of posts.

Well, but anyways, ever see the X-files? Whether you dug molder & scully or not - yes - the truth really is out there … the truth, the answers are within this very blog post. And it was right here in front of you all the while. Here are 20 links to my last 20 blog posts showing you 20 ways to make money online!

1. Website Flipping

   The art of buying, dressing up, and Selling Websites.

2. Affiliate Coupons.

   Promote Discounts via Affiliate links for products and just give people what they are looking for.

3. Create Information Products.

   Create your own Information Product and enjoy Passive Income. Like I do. Not linking to my original post, but a new project I am working on to help YOU create a product in 24 hours. Yes, 24 hours.

4. Ebay!

   Go see who I exploited to highlight ways to make money on Ebay, the largest Employer in the World.

5. Be an Expert.

   Get paid to offer expert advice in any field you know well.

6. Video Promotions.

   Increase sales by adding video to your sales / service process

7. Outsource.

   If you can figure out how to outsource successfully, you can either work less, but hopefully earn a lot more as others get more done for you!

8. Network.

   Be Seen. Meet other like minded people. This could earn you more money than ANYTHING else you do.

9. Educate yourself.

   Spend some time learning some of the basic skills that are holding you back from success. Understand how to use Wordpress, FTP, Video Editing, and some Graphic skills, to name a few. You will save money on hiring out help, and achieve much faster.

10. Solve a Problem.

    Identify a Problem, Figure out a solution, Tease the target market with some of the solution, and then hold back the rest of the solution for money! Works like a charm.

11. Climbing the Search Engines.

    Naturally if you are able to make it to the first pages of the Search Engine, you are going to get a lot more visitors and make more money, yes? Yes.

12. Take a GOOD look at yourself.

    You can earn a lot more money if you can identify MISTAKES you are making, and how you are leaving MONEY on the table. Big Money.

13. Stay Focused!

    If you can learn to stay focused on the results you want to see, you will make a LOT more money.

14. Viral Marketing.

    Create a Viral campaign, and returns will be more $$$ and lots more.

15. Educate Others.

    Not a way to make a lot of money, but one I certainly enjoyed writing about. I offered money for great insights, ways to be productive, ways to make ME make more money by learning what YOU know. Offer is ALWAYS open.

16. Add Audio.

    Not ready for Video? Easily add some Audio to your website and increase sales. Explain what you are doing with your voice.

17. Increase Brand Awareness.

    Attach your product / service with an online personality, allowing them to self brand and promote for you! You both Earn.

18. Blog for Impact.

    Expand your reach. The possibilities are endless…and fruitful.

19. Increase your Page Rank.

    Get Backlinks to your site, increase your Google PR, move up in the search engines, and watch the magic happen.

20. The COPY is Key.

    If you ask any Internet Marketer what is the most important Element required in a product campaign.. they will all say THE COPY. You cant skimp on the copy. It will make you money.

I am certain people will disagree. Heck I hope some do! However, it is my belief that succeeding online is most often correlated to your ability to crank out a product. Most people, myself included, are very capable of getting a lot done, but if you imagine product creation as a mountain, and only after the money is rolling in automatically, and affiliates are creating most of your sales for you as reaching the summit, then most of us never make it to the top.

This does not mean that money can not be made, and successfully, in a myriad of other ways online.. and we have already and plan on uncovering MANY more, but if you want to create that passive income dream, one that doesn’t pay you as long as you are clocking in, well setting up some info product sites is certainly a highly recommended way to go. Regarding everything else becoming much easier afterwards, there is a lot of truth to this. The steps necessary to complete this particular task, even if it just means you have managed to successfully outsource, are what it takes to be an ACTION TAKER, a DOER, a MAKE IT HAPPENER, and basically, potentially RICH!

Enjoy the video: (Oh, I am holding the camera myself the whole time, so clear evidence why I am not a surgeon, hope it doesnt disturb).

Big P.S. - Since I had nothing better to do, ha! I added a bonus video to be a little less lofty sounding and more this is how I did it. Tell me which video you prefer.. Bonus video below the original.

I didn’t do it on purpose.

I didn’t have a 4 year plan, anticipate my next move, or really… have any choice. I was under a spell.

It started out very innocently. In 1999 I learned some HTML. In 2000 I was hired to work on some websites, and their affiliate links (whatever the heck that meant). A short while after that (and a lot of riduculously interesting information that I am omitting for effect) :

I joined an email list.
Then another.
Then another.
Then I bought an ebook. or two. or three. or ten.
Then I signed up with Site Build it.
Then I stayed awake for 8 pm Eastern time (3 am here) to listen to a teleseminar. again. and again. and again.
Then I was on 30 mailing lists.
Then I bought a coaching program. or two
Then I joined a membership or four.

I witnessed more urgency in a stream of ‘if you dont buy / use this / know this then you will NOT be able to succeed online’ pitches than an Emergency Room MD. Trauma care patients don’t know copywriting like these guys. I wonder if the survival rate would increase if John Carlton was pitching each patients case.

The IM’er (as it is labeled for short) Experience.

Lately I have been ‘hanging around’ (in the Social Media sense) a different online crowd. These people may refer to themselves as Internet Marketers, but many don’t know who Mike Filsaime is, or perhaps even John Reese!

While we are always reinventing ourselves, the IM path may sound something like this.. rich jerk, niche marketing, resale rights, PLR, Warrior Forum, Earn $100 a day, list building secrets, social media domination, adsense is not dead, blah blah blah. A more traditional marketer may have their success tied more to scalability, building relationships, and clients. Their means to an end is to create a self sustaining line of work, and yes, a nice revenue stream. (which could actual happen accidentally rather then intentionally - almost never in the IM’er space)

Life is a series of experiences that mold us into who we are. We are the products of our own ‘choose your own adventure’. I dont mean to sound so holistic here, but I feel I owe respect to the experience I had, even if I am prepared to question the fuel that drives it. I also have more leeway to do such since I am partially responsible for supporting it.

Last week I wrote about the surprise I had attending the Mashable Tel Aviv Event to discover so few marketers were aware of web concepts I have been embracing for so long. I also wrote that I had a half written post to dust off about the subject. Here is that post. Partially.. some of the work was done for me in the meantime:

A few days ago the debate was on full steam, ironically, starring.. John Reese and Mark Hopkins from Mashable..

I don’t see that John has anything he needs to defend. Its like a local musician being accused of ’selling out’ since he wrote a song that became a top 10 single and made him famous. Yes, you owe a lot to your fans, but it helps to have a lot more of them, and it helps to be able to afford to keep doing what they like you for .

Next the advent of the e-book, while not making many people at home millionaires, due to it’s ‘mass production’ is able to share golden nuggets of how to take advantage of the web for a much lower price tag than hiring consultants. I haven’t earned from each e-book, but I have learned from each one.

Mark - it is simply that as an outsider to an experience you didn’t have, the vision from where you are sitting allows you to see this for what it actually is. Well, what it is to YOU. A survival of the fittest, MLM style society. Hey I hear you - when my friends start pitching AGEL and NuSkin to me (actual network marketing companies) I laugh and roll my eyes in ridicule - and think they are on crack. However, to them its a very real adventure, they love the products, and its potentially lucrative, so who are we to judge? Maybe more people are losing money than earning, but the same 80/20 rule applies to this as with any other industry. Or the more realistic 95/5 - it CAN be done. You CAN become famous in Hollywood. You can get rich online. Just not many will. Should they stop making movies since it fuels others desires to have what they most likely can’t?

For me? It is directly as a result of this experience, one that caused me to part with so much of my hard earned money, and take time away from my family, that I am able to claim what I can today. I may not be able to drink Pina Coladas all day while the money racks up in my account, no Ferrari in the garage, or a house in the Hamptons (as we have been so frequently pitched).. but I most certainly could get a sick paying job in a big firm, could consult with the best.

How?

Because I DIDN’T learn what they teach new college graduates, because I DIDN’T learn traditional marketing. I learned how to market in a way that turns the web into our own personal ATM’s. I learned marketing the Rich Dad way. I am too wise to go back and relive it, but I cant change what I know, and yes.. I actually make money online.

Internet Marketing is definitely poised for a ‘face lift’, I expect a lot more crossover between the two different arenas. However, as long as people wake up and type in ‘make money online from home’ on Google, there will be products created to cater to them.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

 
Yeh.. you know me always trying out for something. I was looking to find the link to show you for my latest
 

 

I was sitting down with company this weekend, and was asked, as I am often asked…