For those of you who are seeking the magic formula about how to get rich quick online, how to make loads of money through “passive” income and how to sit back on your desert island and watch the money flow to you - I have this to say:
There is no magic formula. Sorry about that.
I’m being driven mental at the moment by all the places that I see “Learn how I made $10K with just one Facebook post” “Go from 0-$100K within 30 days using my formula” “Passive income - earn 6 figures a month with NO effort”
ARGH! Come on people, you KNOW that’s not the right way to make money online. Its like all these weight loss adverts that promise you that you’ll lose pounds in a day if you just use their magic pills or potions. We ALL know that the way to lose weight is to make sensible food choices, eat smaller portions and exercise (in a nutshell, I’m no health coach!) but yet people still fall for these LOSE WEIGHT QUICK schemes as often as they fall for the MAKE MONEY FAST schemes.
The way to make money online is this:
- Create a product or service
- Build somewhere or somehow to sell it (website etc)
- Drive traffic to that product
- Be amazing, build some happy customers
- Sell
Passive income is never passive. It takes marketing, time and effort to build an audience and sell it. Yes for some people this means 50 hours a week in Facebook groups, on forums, running free calls and for others it means 5 hours a week doing the same. Some people spend a lot of money on Facebook ads, others spend nothing. But I don’t think there is anyone out there who genuinely built a product and now spends less than an hour a week actively marketing that product and spends the rest of the time sitting back raking in the money. (If I’m wrong and this is you PLEASE get in touch!)
Making money online doesn’t have to be hard. It doesn’t have to be all consuming. But you do need to work at it. There is no magic formula. If it was as easy as writing one Facebook post and sitting back and waiting for the $10K to fall into your lap then everyone would be doing it. There are a few things that you need to do consistently before you will be able to make serious money with an online business
1 - show up. Every day. Do the work, whatever that might be.
2 - show up. Every day. Do the work, whatever that might be.
3 - show up….
You get the idea? You’ve got to be in it for the long haul.
And you get back what you put in. If you want to work 80 hours a week on your business and invest money in a business coach and getting your social media and marketing right from the beginning then you’ll make the mythical 6 figures long before someone who wants to work 5 hours a week and has nothing to invest in their success.
You get back what you put in.
That doesn’t mean that everyone has to work 80 hours a week on their business and invest tens of thousands of whatever currency you work in before you’ll be successful, I don’t. But it all comes back to your definition of success.
What would you consider to be a successful business?
My business is successful - it doesn’t make 6 figures a year. Yet. I have no doubt that it will do very very soon but I still think its a brilliant success. It allows me to feed my children, to keep a roof over our heads. To eat out when we want to and to go on holiday. It allows me to walk them to school in the morning, pick them up at 3 and be mum until they go to school the next day. It allows me to pay for piano, singing, trumpet, horse riding and gymnastic lessons without having to worry.
That’s pretty successful I think.
And I have built this 100% online. I don’t pay for adverts in local magazines, I don’t even really go to local networking events any more. I pay for Facebook ads and the rest of my business comes from organic social media interactions and referrals.
I don’t promise to show you how to make thousands instantly from one post on Facebook but I will promise that if you are serious about growing your business and prepared to put in the time and effort to do the work and generate the leads on line then I can show you how to build a sustainable, organic business that fits YOUR needs and helps you get what you want out of life.
But first you’ve got to get off Facebook and stop buying into everyone else’s idea of how your life should look.