My blog is not intended to make money, just keep me connected with people and share some of what I have learned.

But there are those who make a full time living at blogging. Top earners pull in over $1 million a year, just from one blog site (exact pecking order changes through time).

That’s not to say anyone and everyone can earn $1 million a year, merely to say there is money in blogging: good money. Whether blogging for cash is right for you depends on your temperament. Not everyone can write, for sure.

But blogging isn’t about being a “writer”, it’s more about being a personal communicator. If you have something to say and could say it to your friends over a coffee, you can blog. For sure.

All you really need is a passion or interest and an attitude! Read more »

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Let’s continue from before. If you know what section of the market you are looking for, you need to lay some bait (like in fishing). You need to choose a good keyword, and there is plenty of instruction on the web on how to do that. Picking the right keywords is extremely critical to making money online with SEO.

Let’s suppose your keyword is “raise my child’s reading skill”. Note that keywords can be more than just one word. They can be a short phrase, which we would call a “long-tail” keyword. You certainly know what’s in a person’s mind who types in this phrase, right?

If – and ONLY IF – you can answer that person’s needs, then you can go fishing. Read more »

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SEO stands for search engine optimization. That means making changes and settings that will improve your chances of being high on the list of websites that Google shows to surfers searching for your topic. That is to say, the free “organic” listing, not the paid ads you see on the right hand side. It’s usually very long and goes on for dozens, maybe hundreds of pages, on that particular search term.

Paid Google advertisings (AdWords) will allow your ad to be shown when somebody types in a particular search term. You choose these search terms or “keywords” and you have to bid on them. The more you bid, the nearer the top of the display list you come.

As competition has increased over the years, you may find yourself having to pay $5, $10 or even as high as $50 a click, for the very popular search terms, if you want to come out top of the front page.
Not everyone wants to approach making money online with this pay-per-click (PPC) method. It need can be quite demanding in time and money. PPC managers spend dozens of hours a week, tracking their clicks and costs. Bidding can mean you are risking $1,000s.

The alternative, which is free, is simply to make yourself more visible in the organic listings by making certain changes in the settings and wording of your website. We call this  call search engine optimization. Read more »

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One of the biggest decisions facing an Internet marketing newbie wanting to make money online is: what to sell? (Duh!)

Seriously though, it’s a critical decision, whether to create your own products and sell them, or whether to just act as a sales broker for other peoples’ products—the so-called “affiliate” role.

You can do both, of course. But at the outset the choice may seem a little baffling to the beginner. There are pros and cons of both methods. Let’s talk about that… Read more »

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I want you to get really good content from this blog. Keep checking, there will always be something useful here.

One of the key issues I keep getting asked about is whether it’s better to do launches with JVs or use traffic control and pay-per-click to get steady sales.

Both have their values but I can tell you right off I’m biased towards launches. That’s where I made most of my money. In some ways it’s harder to do; it will test your networking and people skills. But it doesn’t have nearly the same complexity as pay-per-click campaigns and riding the search engines.

The plus side of the “launch” formula is that you make a rash of money all at once. It feels really empowering. On the down side, there is huge chaos at the office while the promotion blast goes out, followed by the stresses and strains of getting the fulfillment right. And of course the JVs all want their cut: typically 50% or more.

The steady pay-per-click traffic approach brings in income all the time, which is good. But that means you have to work the system constantly. It’s getting very hard to master the real skills of pay-per-click, as the big search engines seem determined to make it difficult to succeed. And, of course, it’s not really cheap. In fact you may also end up paying out 50% (or more) of each sale in PPC fees to Google etc.

I’m clear which method I prefer to make money online, as I said, but I’ll try and weigh the pros and cons carefully for you. Read more »

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This idea is so BIG it’s not gonna fit on the page!

I just want to share with you guys the real excitement I and the Everyday Wealth Team are feeling over this one. This will start an online revolution.

The major component that’s going to drive success in the Autopilot Wealth Institute is learning- not selling but learning.

I’m not content any more that people just buy my programs and then put them on the shelf. I want people to learn and DO IT. To make money, fix up their lives and really feel the kudos that success online will bring.

With that in mind, we are going to introduce something nobody ever thought of before, which is that students will have to take and pass a test (almost said that dread word exam). But, hey, it’s not meant to be a barrier, like an examination. More of a quality check. We want our work to succeed, so that you guys succeed.

I got this idea from looking at the difference between the courses marketed online and what happens out there in the workaday world. People could buy and download a course, not follow the steps, learn nothing and then bitch “It didn’t work”.

In a real university, if you don’t study and learn what you are supposed to, you don’t get the diploma and that’s that. I think more Internet marketer should take this line and follow through on their delivery, not just take the money and shrug when a student doesn’t get the results he or she paid for.

My model for this learning Institute is that you don’t get to go to the next module until you’ve shown you’ve completed the step before. We won’t even give you the password! That’s how strongly I feel about this.

Stay tuned daily. This launches tomorrow and will explode fast.

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I’ve been hard at work developing an idea I had…

It’s big.  In fact, it’s the biggest idea I’ve ever had.

It will change the face of Internet Marketing and change the lives of thousands.  I can’t say anymore so I’ll leave you with an image.  Let me know what you think!

UPDATE: I realized after I wrote this that I sound like “just another I’ve got the next best thing”.  I want to clarify WHY I think what I have will change the face of marketing and those wanting to make money online:

The Autopilot Wealth Institute is a way of learning.  A proven method to learn.  Time tested through years of research.  There has been NO ONE to my knowledge that has provided a “marketing school” so to speak, like I am developing.  For the skeptics out there, you should be as there is too much crap out there to take my word for it.  The Autopilot Wealth Institute isn’t a new product, it isn’t a big launch I’m up to, it’s above that.

Great comments by the way, many (in fact most) of you love the new logo, and a few of you aren’t too impressed.  To clear it up a bit, palm tree represent freedom to me.  Autopilot represents the ability to create residual income.  Wealth is what we all strive for.  Institute implies that you have to learn and work for it.

Keith Wellman

Autopilot Wealth Institute Logo

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A quick search on Google for “Make Money Online” will bring up a myriad of different methods of making money online. Unfortunately the majority are pure scams.

People often associate Internet Marketing with scams. They couldn’t be further from the truth. When I teach people how to make money online I teach business. Creating your own information product to sell online. There are other methods too. For example you could set up affiliate pages and sell other people products to earn commissions.

One of my new favorite methods to start making some good cash on the internet is blogging.

While I don’t use it on this blog, I do blog for traffic which builds my list. I can then recommend products and services to my list to generate revenue. I could also pimp out my blog to advertisers but I’m not looking to do that on this blog.

My mom (Lorraine Wellman - Greatest mother in the world) is a GREAT example of blogging to pull in massive traffic.

She loves to write. Not only that, she’s great at it. So my Dad showed her how she could set up her own blog on Wordpress.com

Every single day she’ll post articles that she writes on things that interest her. From Oprah to scientific discoveries, she’ll write about it.

She is now getting over 1,000 unique individuals going to her blog every single day. That’s over 30,000 people looking at what she writes every month.

So how did she do it?

She wrote.

It was simple for her, write every day on topics that are big in the media. Politics, war, TV shows, etc. It started with 10 - 15 people reading and grew every day. In fact I think she’s only been posting for about 6 months (maybe less).

How can she turn that into cash?

Advertising. She could get people looking to pay for text link advertising and put their ads on her blog (a sponsor if you will). Adster is just one of those type of companies that allow you to buy and sell text ads.

My moms even inspired me to follow a passion I have and now I’m getting ready to launch my own tech blog that I’ll support with advertising. It’s an enjoyable hobby of mine to write about technology and science so why not get paid to do so :)

To check out my Mom’s blog head over to: http://writeasrain.wordpress.com/

To Your Success!

Keith Wellman

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The Orlando Gateway To Wealth seminar was just fantastic. Our speakers commented this was one of the best-attended events in recent months. It was a feast of knowledge. Lots of people took up courses and programs to turbo-charge their online businesses. No recession here!

You can learn details of the new “Gateway To Wealth” in Atlanta, October 17th- 19th 2008, by going to the GTW website. You’ll hear some great testimonials from Orlando attendees.  If you’re looking to make money online, this is no doubt something you must do.

Once again we have a cavalcade of star speakers booked for you, including the man who wrote THE book which changed everything for me: Stephen Pierce, “The Truth”.

All the speakers are committed (and briefed by me) to give you high impact value content. There is no better way to kickstart your pathway to wealth than to attend this mega-event.

Block out your calendar and get your ticket booked.

All details are on the website. Here’s the link again Gateway To Wealth Seminar

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If you haven’t yet started making money online, here’s a quick tip. Go over to a viral traffic plan, such as TrafficSwarm and get signed up. It’s totally free and you are GUARANTEED traffic to your site

If nothing else, you get one visitor for every link you click (tit-for-tat). You read 50 other ads, for a minimum of 15 seconds, and you are rewarded with 50 clicks to your sales page. You don’t have to buy anything, just click on the ads and read them briefly.

You can make the viral traffic page your home page; then you get a click every time you load your browser. It adds up.

But the smart thing to do is get other people to sign up under you. Then you get override links, like MLM. Some plans go down several levels. That can mean hundreds and even thousands of clicks - thousands of visitors to your site (or your Clickbank hoplink page).

This is one of the easiest ways to make your first $100- 200. Free traffic to your hoplink (affiliate) link, for a product you know converts. It’s like GoogleCash but you don’t have to pay for the Adwords clickthroughs!

Try it.

But remember, the REAL money online comes from having and managing your own product. These are just baby steps.

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