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Hello! I am Roope "Robert" Kiuttu, the founder and owner of YourOnlineRevenue.com. I created this website back in 2015 to help you to make money online. You can ask me anything and I'll be happy to help you out. I help people daily to make more money online and I love seeing people succeeding. If you want to get my 1-on-1 support and help to make money online as well, get started HERE.
Think 10 or 20 years ahead.
If you are young and thinking what should you do when you are “big” and grown up. You are wondering, “How to Choose the Right Career for Me?”
Or maybe you are fed up with your current job and you are thinking about the same question. How could you determine which career path is just right for you?
Today, I will tell you truthfully how I made and many other people make their career choices. I believe that my examples can give you some inspiration to help your own decision.
Most of the people choose the career path based on the example of their, parents, relatives friends and from the other examples what they get from their environment.
You probably know some people who decided to choose exactly the same job as their parents. One of my friends’ father was a doctor so she always wanted to become a doctor herself. Now she is studying her third year in a medical school.
When I was a kid people asked me, “What will you be when you grow up?” I guess that many people asked you the same question when you were younger. I just answered, “Taxi driver” because my uncle was a taxi driver. My mother or father didn’t have a permanent profession for a long time so the closest example that I had was from my uncle.
Then I ended up driving a taxi on weekends during my studies. The choice became stronger also because I knew other friends who were taxi drivers.
During the last year of high school (or vocational school) you must decide what will you continue studying, at least in Finland. Will you go to the university, university of applied sciences (or college) or start working??
How on earth could someone know what they want to do rest of their life when they are 19?!?!
That’s why I wrote this text to help you to choose the right career path just for you.
After high school, I saw advertisements of universities and colleges. Universities seemed to be theoretical and boring. It seemed that you just sit there on the lessons and read some books. Then ads from colleges said that studying there is very practical, down-to-earth and there are lots of internships so you will get your first work contacts and networks easily.
I also figured out that I want to help people to have a better life instead of calculating some boring mathematical functions in my office.
So, I decided to start studying social services in College (or you can call it University of Applied Sciences). Some of my friends and my mother asked, why didn’t I go to study something more challenging as I always got some of the best grades at school. I had always been one of the best in my class.
Well, I wanted something practical and at this point, I wasn’t thinking about the salary. But later on, I realized that my mother and friends had a good point.
Now I have finished my studies and I am waiting to get my “graduation papers” at the end of this month (30.9.2016 is my official graduation day).
Sometimes one crucial question flashes in my mind, “Did I choose the right career path?”
I have been thinking that I want to do something great and big during my life. I want to influence on thousands and millions of people. I want to help people to have a better life, get to know God and live happily. If I would go to work to a local kindergarten with 20 children, how could my dream become possible? Of course, I could affect there some people but not something very big that I am dreaming.
I figured out that I would also need some money in order to develop something big.
For example, if I would want to help homeless people to get their life on track again, it would require money and effort. I couldn’t do it alone. I could start an organization for helping people in need but it always requires some money. Money to rent/buys the building, food, furniture, employees and so on.
Let’s say that you work as a bachelor of social services and a typical salary is 2,500€/month (before taxes). It makes 30,000€/year. As a doctor, you will easily make 5,000€/month after graduation. It makes double as more as a bachelor of social services. Of course, after reducing taxes the difference is not so big but it’s still remarkable.
After taxes 2,500€/month in Finland makes 22,000€ and 5,000€/month make 37,500€. The difference is 15,500€. In 10 years the difference is 155,000€ and in reality, it’s much bigger because doctor’s salary will rise faster than a social counselor’s salary.
I didn’t take these things into account when I was thinking about my career path. But I should have.
I am not saying that money is the only thing that matters in a job but we cannot deny that it’s still a big factor. If you earn double income, you could work for example one year, and during the other year do whatever you want. For example, help the people in need or go to travel around the world.
The cold truth is that many things in life require some money. But if you would be doing a job that you don’t enjoy then you probably won’t endure long.
I love learning and discovering new things. So, I have figured out that an optimal job for me is where I can learn something new, have challenges and get paid for that. What are your passions? When do you feel the excitement in your body?
Even though I probably don’t become a doctor I am very glad that I found an opportunity influence people’s life through the Internet. And in addition, I could do it anywhere in the world.
There are more than 3,3 billion people online and I have an opportunity to reach them. AND YOU HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITY TOO!
Before, I didn’t know how to build a website or almost anything about reaching people online.
Then I found Wealthy Affiliate that taught me for example
I realized that building an online business would be a wonderful way to
1.Do what I like
2.Earn big income
3.Live anywhere I want
4.Help millions of people
If as a bachelor of social services I would be able to earn 2,300€-3,000€/month while working in Finland, doing online business I would be able to earn 10,000€/month or much more while living literally anywhere in the world.
You can work online even on a beach. 😉
The answer is: Probably not.
I read about a guy who was earning good money online. He started his online business while working in a regular job and then after work a few hours for his online business. He was earning +$3,000-5,000/month online.
Then he quit his job to focus more on his online business and something strange happened. Before, he had been usually max.3 hours/day time for his online business. Now when he had 14 hours/day. But he said that most of the time he achieved to do less in a day than before!
Despite having 14 hours, instead of 3, it didn’t guarantee better results. He always thought, “Well, I have so much time so I can do it later.”
I think that’s what would happen to many people. Even though they would have hours and hours of time they wouldn’t get the things done because they would
1.Sleep late
2.Check Facebook
3.Check a few Youtube videos
4.Eat
5.Exercise because it’s also important
6.Call friends and chat how easy life is
7.Have some fresh air because being inside it’s not fun.
And eventually at 7pm they would realize that the day is almost gone and they decide to work on their online business tomorrow. The Same cycle repeats tomorrow.
When you are starting an online business, you just need to be smart an efficient. 2 hours a day is more than enough if you focus on important tasks. -Edy (3 Steps to Make Money FAST? by Singaporean guy)
First, just concentrate on progressing consistently. Even 30 minutes a day is progress. Watch a short video and put the principles into action.
If you don’t have 30 minutes a day, then try to concentrate more on weekends when you probably have a bit more time.
First of all, think long-term. What do you really want out of your life? What do you want to be remembered for when you die?
“Dig down, dig deep down. Who do you want to be? Not what, but WHO?” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
The truth is that when you will be working 40 hours a week, that’s a huge amount of time! Would you like to spend your time and your life doing something that you don’t want?
I always recommend to pray and seek God’s guidance in your life.
5 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6.
Ask many people for advice too. Not just your mother and father but tens of different people. You don’t need to know all of them personally because you can scroll different opportunities online.
Check for example a list of professions. Read some description of the most interesting ones. Then search more information from Google.
Even though you would have read many descriptions and heard experiences about a certain profession, you still may don’t know if it fits for you or not. The best way to find out if you’ll like it or not is to try.
I have worked for example
My thoughts about different works have changed after my own experiences. You may have illusions of different jobs.
However, note that at some point you just need to commit and stick with one profession. Probably you will have ups and downs but commitment and consistent effort make you better.
You may not have an opportunity to try everything yourself before committing to it. But at least visit different places, ask from other professionals and really get all the information that you can get to make a good decision.
Based on my experience and observations, most people make their career choice without thinking too much. Brian Tracy has said that the best-paid profession in U.S.
Einstein stated, “Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” I encourage you to dedicate lots of time thinking about your career choice. It is one of the most important things that you will be doing during your whole life.
I have decided that I want to build my own online business although I am working on a normal job as well.
I am in a process of building my online business and one of my dreams is to commit at some point 100% doing an online business. But I love working in general. I am not like people who hate the 9-5 job. But still having an own online business has so many like listed before:
1.Do what you like
2.Earn big income
3.Live anywhere I want
4.Help millions of people
5.Learn something new every day
6.Choose who you want to work with
7.Opportunity to be creative
If you are interested in starting your own online business (or developing a current one), I recommend you to start a free training in Wealthy Affiliate. I will give you also my 1-on-1 help on all the issues that you need. In addition, there are dozens of other successful online marketers who are already making big money online. Feel free to join.
I really hope that you enjoyed my article and it’s helpful to you. If you have any comments or questions, don’t hesitate to leave them below and I will be more than happy to give you a response.
Everyone knows the world-famous bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Austrian Oak, Arnie, The Governator.” There are many names that you can call him.
What has Arnie to do with internet marketing and making money online?
Keep on reading and you’ll find out!
(I don’t agree with Arnie on everything but this wisdom I agree with him.)
As you may already know, you can make $10,000, $20,000 or even $100,000/month online. That’s 100% possible for anyone but still, you must remember that you will never make those amounts of money if you are not willing to work your butt off.
I am not teaching you some “get-rich-schemes” but something more reliable.
In one of his famous speeches called 6 Rules of Success Arnold said that it’s okay to have fun in life. It’s okay to have a little party every now and then.
BUT.
The story doesn’t end there.
“But when you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.” -Arnie
It’s easy to look someone who has an online business making him $100,000/month and think, “He was just lucky. He was in the right place at the right time.” First of all, I don’t believe in luck.
He might have been in the right place at the right time but if someone makes hundreds of thousands online it means that they have worked their butt off. There is no other way around. (Well, at least if we are speaking about honest ways.)
While you have been chatting with your friends or playing online games, internet entrepreneurs have been building their business. They have been making new content, social media marketing or a review about a new product.
Now they are “reaping the harvest“.
I am not saying that if you want a successful online business, you must totally end all parties, never have fun and spend the rest of your life in the front of the computer. That’s quite far from the truth.
But the point is that results don’t come without work.
If you want the prize, you must pay the price. (Price = work, work and work)
The positive side of all this it that if you are willing to work, you will also reap a good harvest.
As the Bible says, “Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.”
If you sow seeds to your business, you will reap good results in return.
If you sow seeds in honesty, you will reap honest results.
If you sow seeds on your friendships, you will have good and strong friendships.
If you are willing to start an online business but don’t know where to start, you have come to the right place. Now you are in the right place at the right time.
If you don’t have any background on making online businesses, start here.
An online community called Wealthy Affiliate teaches you literally everything you need to know in order to build a successful online business.
You will learn to:
If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to leave them below and I will be more than happy to respond you personally.
One of our readers asked me an opinion about Iglobal Surveys. I didn’t have any personal experience of their service back then. I decided that I will make a review about Iglobal Surveys so all our readers know what it is .
Is it a quick way to make good money online or another boring survey site?
Let’s find out.
Name: iGlobal Surveys
Website: www.iglobalsurveys.com
Price: Free to join
Founded in: 2013
Field: Online Surveys
Overall Rank: 25 out of 100
iGlobal Surveys is another survey sites that gives you a little reward for giving your time and opinion on different products. It works with the same idea as other survey sites like Clixsense, Toluna and Opinion World.
Why does someone want to pay you for answering surveys?
Companies want feedback about their products so they could make their products better, brand them in a way that they want and increase the sales. Companies collect the feedback in different ways but one practical way are online surveys.
The company pays the consumer a little reward (for example $0,50) to give a feedback. Let’s say that they collect 100 opinions and pay $0,50 for the each one. It costs them $50 but they have got incredibly valuable information what clients really think about their products.
Many times the questions are also related to their brand so the companies will know how their branding is working.
The way to make money in IGS
Just like in most of the other survey sites, they have a referral system in IGS. So you can earn money by referring people to join. I will explain more about it further.
In one survey, there can be tens or even hundreds of little questions. Here are some examples what kind of questions there can be:
Have you ever used the following products?
1.x-product
2.y-product
3.z-product
etc.
What kind of words comes to your mind when you think about Coca-Cola?
1.juicy
2.high-quality
3.freedom
etc.
In the beginning of almost every survey you will need to fill personal information about yourself:
1.Where do you live?
2.How many people live in your house?
3.How much money do you earn annually?
4.What is your highest education?
etc.
After filling your personal information you will be either qualified to answer the whole survey or disqualified because you were not person they were looking for. If you are not qualified for the survey, naturally they won’t give you any reward.
You may imagine it can be to fill out the same personal information about yourself 5 times and get disqualified 5 times. It’s just a waste of your time.
Let’s be honest right away. Not very much.
For every survey you may earn like $1 but it will take 20 minutes to fill one survey. So if you would be able to fill three surveys in one hour you could earn $3. Compare how much you are earning in your 9-5 job. Probably 5-10 times more.
The problem with online surveys is that they don’t require any skills or real efforts. Anyone can do them without learning or education. Compare to normal jobs. Usually, you get paid more when you have better skills and you provide better value for the company.
A pilot who had just started is probably earning like $30,000/year while a pilot with 15 years of experience can earn up to $200,000/year or even more. When a pilot gets more experience, he earns more. But despite of your experience in online surveys you can’t earn more than $5/hour.
The reality is that most of us are not ready to sacrifice 20 years to become a $200,000/year earning pilot. But I am glad to tell you that your incomes can increase exponentially online.
In the last post I explained about 5 internet marketers who are earning +$10,000/month (=+$120,000/year). One of them achieved that income with only one year of experience. The other one with three years of experience but now the same guy is earning +$20,000/month which equals to $250,000/year. The potential to add your income online fast is way better than as a pilot.
The picture explains how the referral system works in iGlobal Surveys
When you leave your link somewhere and someone registers through your link and completes a survey, you will get paid some commissions.
You will be paid $0,50 for the each survey that your referral completes. In my opinion, it’s quite good.
The picture above how many referrals would you need to earn certain amount of money. Then if we go further 500 referrals who complete 5 surveys a month = $15,000/year. You could live a luxurious life with that money in China! (at least some kind of luxury 😉
But there is one little problem. Completing surveys take so much time that it’s not recommended. So if it’s not recommended to join, why would you refer anyone? Well, if someone is living in a country where $2/hour is a good salary then he could consider filling these surveys and make referral income for you.
But if you are earning $10/hour or more in any job, answering surveys should be totally out of a question.
When I read a few reviews about IGS I saw that at least one website owner was suffering from the slow loading time. He said also that iGlobalSurveys.com page was down for several days some time ago.
When I tried iGlobal Surveys the website worked well most of the time but I must admit that the loading time was sometimes bigger than normally.
One reason why you can’t find many complaints of iGlobal Surveys yet is that they don’t have so many users as in the bigger survey sites and their company is also relatively new.
Pros:
Cons:
As you found out above I am not a big fan of online surveys because of the low earning potential. But if you are anyway interested in filling online surveys I would recommend Clixsense or Toluna.
They are probably the biggest one out there with about 15 million users in total. There are also other ways to earn money on those sites, like paying ads and playing little games.
But if you are wise, you stay far away from online surveys and look for the better ways to make money online.
My recommendation is affiliate marketing because it’s simple, anyone can learn it and there is very high earning potential.
In a nutshell, it works like this:
1.You build a website (it’s possible in 30 seconds nowadays -> learn how!)
2.You get traffic to your website (Learn how to get traffic)
3.Visitors click your links and you make money.
This is a simplified 3 step formula to affiliate marketing online. If you are willing to learn the details I recommend to join Wealthy Affiliate for FREE. (Please, put your credit card away!)
iGlobal Surveys at a Glance…
Name: iGlobal Surveys
Website: www.iglobalsurveys.com
Price: Free to join
Field: Online Surveys
Overall Rank: 25 out of 100
VERDICT: Not Recommended. Learn a better way.
I believe you found this review explains you well what is iGlobal Surveys and is it a good way to make money or not. If you liked it, don’t hesitate to share it on social media.
Do you have personal experience of iGlobal Surveys or other survey sites? What is your opinion?
Name: Bluehost
Website: www.bluehost.com
Price: Starting from $2,95/month
Founder: Matt Heaton
Field: Domain Hosting
Overall Rank: 90 out of 100
Do you know who is Pat Flynn? He is the guy who is earning over $1,600,000/year online which means about $135,000/month. We must admit that guy knows something about making money online.
Pat Flynn is recommending Bluehost on his famous website SmartPassiveIncome.com. And as far as I know, Pat doesn’t recommend something that is not legit (correct me if I’m wrong).
Still, we need to remember that Pat makes the most of his income with his affiliate links so his opinion may be somehow biased.
Bluehost is hosting over 2 million websites worldwide which give even more authority. Cheap plans start with only $2,95/month which makes it very appealing.
Bluehost was originally founded in 1996 which can be considered very old in Internet time. Think, for example, when you got your first internet connection.
In this review, I will give my honest opinion about Bluehost. Let’s go through some complaints that I found on the Internet related to Bluehost
Although I found many people recommending Bluehost, some people claim it’s not the fastest domain hosting out there.
However, low loading speed can happen for many other reasons as Bluehost has listed. When people’s website has been slow for some of the other reasons, they still may blame their domain hosting sites.
It is good to remember that many people (including Pat Flynn) are still claiming that Bluehost is recommended domain hosting and most of them are not complaining about the loading time.
Some Bluehost complaints are related to their customer support. They have 24/7 support but sometimes their response hasn’t come in minutes. Some users said it has taken 43 minutes. You may consider it slow or fast depending on what you are used to but from Wealthy Affiliate’s support team I have almost always got the response within minutes.
I found the text you can see above made by the user of Bluehost. His story shows that Bluehost customer service isn’t that bad that you should always wait for 43 minutes like someone had to wait.
Bluehost has 24/7 live chat support and when I asked them a couple of questions I received the answers almost immediately. I believe that 43 minutes waiting time is very very rare.
I don’t have my own personal experience of Bluehost because I have been fully satisfied with Wealthy Affiliate’s domain hosting.
Most of the user experiences that I saw on different review sites were ultimately positive. In other words, most of the people didn’t have any serious problems with Bluehost and they had given what they had promised.
Somebody said that their service is very easy to use and I can believe it’s true as I scroll on their website. It’s easy to find an answer for different questions and the website is simple enough.
Their long 20 years experience must have given them lots of expertise and knowledge on what people like and how to build a user-friendly website
3 Price Plans
As you can see in the picture above, there are three different pricing plans right now (17.7.2016) in Bluehost. The prices $2,95/month, $5,95/month and $13,95/month are for the first month and afterwards, the normal prices will apply.
What are the differences between those three plans and which one would be the best for you?
The cheapest one, $2,95/month provides you 50Gb bandwidth/month which should be more than enough for a normal website.
The basic package should be good enough for you if you are planning to run only one website. If you want to have multiple websites, then the other plans will be better for you. Plus and Pro package offer you an unlimited amount of websites.
In addition, Plus package offers you marketing coupons worth $200, unlimited email accounts and unlimited email storage. Get this for $5,95/month (normally $10,99).
If you are looking for the highest quality, marketing coupons for $300 and extra features, then pro plan is for you. Get it today for only $13,95/month (normally $23,99).
Bluehost provides also specifically optimized hosting for WordPress websites. You can use the cheaper plans that I showed above but if you have some specific needs, then you can consider the following plans:
WordPress Hosting Plans in Bluehost
So, their cheapest plan is $12,49/month. Other plans are $37,50/month, $60/month and $85/month. Details you can find in the picture.
In $12,49/month plan you can manage up to 5 WP sites which is good for the beginners. Notice that each plan includes only 1 domain and after the first month the price will be higher.
Pros:
Cons:
I saw that most of the people are fully satisfied after using Bluehost which naturally explains their success (more than 2 million sites hosted by Bluehost).
I was surprised to see some complaints about Bluehost related to page loading time and the customer support. I think that their customer service is very reliable most of the time but sometimes people had to wait a little bit longer and that’s why they left the complaint.
The main reason that I don’t try Bluehost myself is that I don’t need it because I believe that Wealthy Affiliate is the best one out there. Domain hosting in Wealthy Affiliate has run smoothly and their 24/7 support is very fast.
In addition, Wealthy Affiliate’s community, training and tools make their service ultimately valuable and have given a great experience to me.
If for some reason I quit WA in the future (which is quite improbable), I consider Bluehost as one of the best possibilities to host my websites.
Bluehost at a Glance…
Name: Bluehost
Website: www.bluehost.com
Price: Starting from $2,95/month
Founder: Matt Heaton
Field: Domain Hosting
Overall Rank: 90 out of 100
VERDICT: Legit. But Wealthy Affiliate is better.
I hope this Bluehost Web Hosting Review provides you valuable information about Bluehost. If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to leave them below.
Do you have experiences of Bluehost domain hosting? Leave the comments below.
Every successful blogger should be constantly thinking “How to Drive Traffic to My Blog?”
More traffic means more engagement, better rankings and eventually more revenue. It’s much easier to make money when there are 100,000 visitors/month instead of 1,000 visitors/month.
Today I am shortly going to show how you can instantly drive lots of visitors to your website. Many of those visitors may become your subscribers and some of them may even buy some of your products.
By trying this trick the traffic is almost 100% guaranteed. I have tried it once and it’s the most read article on YourOnlineRevenue.com. The average time of that article is about 5 minutes. That’s a high average time! It means if someone has instantly gone away from the page, the other one has been on that page for 10 minutes.
The trick is called…
If you haven’t heard it before, I will explain briefly what do they mean.
Expert roundup is a post where you ask the same question(s) from many experts on a certain field. Then they give their answer and you collect all the answers, build one post which shows and summarizes all the answers.
For example, YourOnlineRevenue.com is all about internet marketing and making money online. One of the most important things in my field is to get ranked in Google in order to get organic traffic. That’s why I asked the experts, “How to Get Ranked #1 in Google?” (Read what 17 experts answered!)
I will give you examples further how to decide your roundup question and subject. But what are the benefits of the expert roundups?
Expert roundups lead to shares on social media
Today in 2016 we have better ways to get in touch with any person in the world than ever in the human history. You have social medias, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, email and so on.
If you don’t know who are the experts, just make a few searches in Google and you will very quickly find people’s websites, contact forms and social media accounts. When you find one expert, you will soon find another one.
Then just send them your question. It’s just simple as that. You will be surprised how glad experts are to answer your question even though many of them are busy.
Remember these three things when contacting experts.
1.Be polite.
2.Keep your answers short enough.
3.Send a follow-up email if the expert doesn’t answer for the first one.
If you need more help on how to contact the experts, don’t hesitate to leave a question below in the comments.
Maybe you are wondering how people will notice your expert roundup. Let me give an example from my own experience.
One of the participants in my roundup was Chris Dreyer who has almost 100k followers on Twitter. After publishing my roundup, he shared the post on Twitter for his 100k followers. Then tens of his followers retweeted it and many of them clicked the link to see the post.
Many of the experts shared my roundup in Google+, Twitter and Facebook. They have tens thousands of followers who then shared it further and also clicked the link to read my post.
Experts want to share the article for many reasons
I think you are beginning to understand how many people will eventually see the roundup posts. 🙂
When I made my first roundup on YourOnlineRevenue I got an answer from 17 experts. Next time I am planning to gather more (50 or even 100) experts to get even more shares on social media and to drive even more traffic to my website.
Think how much traffic would even shares of 50 or 100 experts would give! We are talking about thousands or tens of thousands of visitors to one article.
The interview question must be very relevant and important to your website’s subject. If your website is about gym training, don’t ask about the best tennis rackets. Instead, you could ask for example, “What are your 3 favorite exercises in the gym?”
When the experts give their answers is easy to list their answer into a summary. For example in the following way:
Results from 20 experts. Favorite exercise in the gym:
1.Deadlift 15 points
2.Squat 13 points
3.Bench press 10 points
and so on.
If your blog is about traveling, you could ask 20 travel bloggers, “What is the best place where you have been in the world?”
If your blog is about losing weight, you could ask fitness bloggers or people who have lost weight, “What is the fastest way to lose weight?”
Use your imagination and make even better questions. I believe that you can make a wonderful roundup.
This is true. Making an expert roundup takes much more time than writing a normal article.
You need to send a question to experts, then send a follow-up to some of them, respond to their answers, gather their answers to one post and summarize their answers.
But everything worthwhile in life takes time. And think about the benefits.
I don’t know how many social shares you usually get by writing the normal article. But by making an expert roundup I can guarantee that you will get more traffic.
Think about the rewards: traffic, social shares, new connections with the experts, Google rankings, high-quality content and so on.
Think about the rewards to give you more motivation.
Probably you are somehow like me and you read lots of different blogs. Then you get many new ideas but forget them because you didn’t put it into practice right away. If so, let’s make the change.
Write down a plan and dates when you will
Write down the dates.
Then do it and let me know what kind of results did you get.
I hope this trick helps you to drive traffic to your blog. If you need any help or have a comment, don’t hesitate to leave them below and I will be more than happy to respond you personally.
PS.I got an idea to make a roundup from Wealthy Affiliate. Here is the article that inspired me, “A New Twist On Expert Roundup Posts – How To Get Hundreds Of Shares To Your Site“. If you don’t know what is Wealthy Affiliate, read my comprehensive review here.
Learn the “secret”
Have you ever heard someone asking the question, “What is the secret to making money online?” I bet that you have!
Many people are looking for a secret that would make them automatically rich online. The other side of the coin is that many scammers have used those people to milk money.
They have made their “secret programs” that teach how they earned $100,000 online by “pushing the button”. If you have followed my blog, you know that kind of buttons doesn’t exist in this world. They only way those “push the button” -guys have made their wealth is by cheating people to believe their lies. Sorry that I’m rude but I don’t want anyone to fall for the online scams.
Thank God, not all the people who are earning +$10,000/month online are scammers. Most of them are totally honest and wonderful guys.
If you want to contact many successful online businessmen personally, I recommend to create a free account in Wealthy Affiliate and sent them the private messages.
Let’s think how those honest men have built their online business.
In the beginning, most of them didn’t have anything.
They didn’t have a website when they born.
They didn’t have skills before they started.
They didn’t even know how to use the computer before starting.
My point is that all of them have started from zero at some point. Many of them had even the worse starting point than you have/had.
All of the successful online entrepreneurs must have succeeded only one step at a time even though they have taken the different ways.
Some of them made the first success through SEO.
Some through social media marketing.
Some through PPC-marketing.
And so on.
Just take one step at a time to the online success
Let’s take for example the guy who made success through SEO. First, he learned how to build a website. Then he wrote something and added pictures on his website. Well, many people can do to this level but not all.
He added affiliate links on his website to make commissions on the products. But he didn’t have many visitors yet.
Then he learned how to get ranked in Google. He started to get organic traffic from the search engines when people were searching certain things related to his website.
Let’s say that 0,1% of the visitors ended up buying something through his affiliate links.
He thought that the conversion could be higher because now only one of 2000 visitors bought a product. He updated his sales pages and saw how 0,2% of the visitors bought something. The sales doubled.
He wanted to get even more visitors to his website so he updated his old content to get ranked better in Google. Then he wrote more articles to answer even more questions of his audience. The traffic kept increasing from the search engines.
Then he repeats the process until there were hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors and the conversion rate was much higher than in the beginning.
The story talked mainly about traffic from SEO but in reality, when you have the great content on your website, visitors will share it on social media which will drive even more traffic.
You can build an email list, make social media marketing on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc., build PPC campaigns and much more.
The bottom line is that you can learn each of those things if you just want.
But let’s be realistic that the learning takes time and in the online world you don’t see the results immediately. When you have built the new website, during the first three months it will probably not rank very well in Google.
With the PPC-campaigns you need to test, test, test and scale until something proves to work. You don’t always see the results immediately!
Let’s say that you built your online business during one month (30 min/1 hour per evening) and earned only $5 and in the next month $25. In the third month, you make $125. Then you calculate, “Hmm… I have earned only $155 during 3 months. This doesn’t pay enough. I quit.”
Didn’t you realize that you made 5 times more than in the previous month! If you would keep on scaling the business every month like that it would mean $625 in the fourth month. Then -> $3,125!
Of course, everything doesn’t always work in a linear way but the idea is that on the Internet you can scale your business to a huge extent. For example, I have about 11k followers on Twitter and it takes only 3 minutes to send 131 tweets to all of them (Using Hootsuite). If we compare it to the start when I had 100 followers and it took 3 minutes to write 1 tweet.
Did you know that only 1 of the all 43 U.S. presidents has been divorced? One of them remained single. It means that 41 out of 43 remained married until the death made them apart. The statistic tells something about their commitment.
Building a marriage takes time. You need to get to know to a person, spend lots of time together and so on. It’s a process where you get to know each other even more and know what the other person likes and dislikes.
The same principles apply to an online business. It takes the time to build the content and it takes the time to build the relationships with the audience. But every time when you put some effort, you take one step closer to your online success.
Making money online is not a sprint. It’s a marathon.
When you keep on sowing the seeds to your online business, at some point you will reap the harvest. That’s the natural law of cause and effect.
If you compare to a “normal profession” where you study first 3 years in a university before earning a single dollar, making money online is much faster way to (passive) income.
The truth is that there is no such “secret”. You need to learn the skills like in the offline business.
But the secret to making big money online is scaling. You can scale your business in much better way than you could ever imagine in the offline world.
Get 10,000 visitors/month to your online store. Think how much more investments and risk it would require to get the 10,000 visitors/month to your offline store.
So, forget the mystical secrets to making money online. Instead, think what would be the next skill that you need to learn.
Learn to build an email list?
Learn to get ranked #1 in Google?
Learn to get 100 visitors/day from social media?
Learn to make videos?
Define what is the skill that you are going to need to scale your business. Learn it and then put the knowledge powerfully into action. Rinse and repeat.
No excuses!
Sow the seeds to your online business
Many people don’t have the knowledge and they don’t know where to get it. Don’t worry.
Wealthy Affiliate provides a step by step online business training, community, and comprehensive support.
You will learn everything from building a website, monetizing your websites, driving traffic from search engines and from social media.
You will also get many friends who have their own online business and you can ask them how to learn certain skills and they will provide their help.
Name: Opinion World
Website: www.opinionworld.com
Price: Free
Field: Surveys
Overall Rank: 20 out of 100
As you may guess from the name of the company, this website is all about the surveys. “Share your opinions in the surveys and we pay you the little reward.”
In practice, you are earning a certain amount of points for the each survey you accomplish. When you have enough points you can transfer them into money.
You have probably heard the same story in many other survey sites. Some of them are scams like for example Ipoll. And some of them are legit like Clixsense and Toluna.
Millions and millions of people are using Toluna (over 8 million members) and Clixsense (over 6 million members). I don’t know the exact amount of the members in Opinion World but I can guess that they have hundreds of thousands (if not millions) members.
After registering, you can answer a couple of surveys right away to earn some points. But then you must wait that the new surveys open. There are not surveys available all the time.
They will send you an email once a week on average to inform you about the new surveys suitable for you.
If you would like to answer for the surveys without waiting for the new ones to open, you should register to several survey sites and find the available surveys from each of the sites.
The problem is that it takes the time to always log in, log out, look for the surveys, fill in the personal information and so on. Many times, after submitting your personal information, they just say “You were not suitable for this survey. Wait for the new one.”
Useless surveys take too much time.
Like the other survey sites, this is made for the people who want to earn some little money by answering surveys.
If I am honest, the survey sites are made for the people who lack the real direction in life. They don’t have clear goals in life, so they spend their valuable time on the surveys that are paying them $2/hour.
I bet that your hour is more valuable than two measly bucks?
I could recommend you to join to the survey sites because it would be financially beneficial for me. I would earn the commissions for the each member and the referrals would buy something it would be even better for me.
But I don’t want to be selfish and recommend something that I wouldn’t use myself.
I am being totally honest with you and recommend you only the products that are really beneficial for you.
I know that you would earn some money in Opinion World but you would end up spending hours to make that money. I can’t recommend you to use 2 or 3 hours to earn five dollars!
I know that many people, even the successful online entrepreneurs, are doing that on the Internet. They praise many different survey sites in order to get lots of referrals. Once many people join, they have multiple income streams from the multiple sites.
However, the other side of the coin is that many people are spending their time (and life) on answering the surveys that only benefit the companies.
My purpose of the Opinion World review is to reveal you the truth behind these survey sites and give you some better options to make money online.
Instead of answering surveys, I recommend going to a real work or starting affiliate marketing online.
is that you are not learning anything by answering the surveys. Learning and developing is one of my values. I always want to learn something new and I believe that we should never stop learning.
By answering surveys, the only thing that you are learning is probably how the surveys are made. If your passion is to make surveys, then you probably can get new ideas by answering many surveys.
But if you are not very interested in using your life to learn how surveys are made, I would recommend forgetting the survey sites.
Use your time to be with your family, learn to play the instrument, learn a new language, learn business skills, learn something that will be valuable for you.
In addition, if your primary focus is to make money, survey sites are not for you. I have a better option for you that I will show you later.
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If you want to make the real income online you should immediately forget the survey sites. They will not give you what you are looking for.
If you are looking for $2,000, $5,000 or $10,000/month income online I can say it’s impossible with the surveys but totally possible with affiliate marketing.
In affiliate marketing, you don’t need your own products because you can make all the income by promoting other people’s products. You don’t actually need to sell anything but just say your personal opinion.
In the other words, you can recommend what you like yourself and make the full-time income.
If you don’t have former experience of affiliate marketing, don’t worry, anyone can learn all the skills. If you have former experience, then this is even better! You can boost your sales with this awesome opportunity.
Wealthy Affiliate is the training platform that teaches you everything right from the start how to make money online with affiliate marketing.
It’s also the huge community of affiliate marketers where you can ask any questions from the professional affiliate marketers (who are earning $10,000 or even $20,000/month).
The best of all is that it’s totally free to join!
Opinion World at a Glance…
Name: Opinion World
Website: www.opinionworld.com
Price: Free
Field: Surveys
Overall Rank: 20 out of 100
VERDICT: Not Recommended.
I hope you have found the Opinion World Review useful. If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to leave them below.
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Using social media tools will save huge amount of time and money
I am testing different social media marketing tools in order to find out which one is the best. Today I am going to compare two massive social media management tools: Sendible vs Hootsuite!
In the previous comparison about what is the best social marketing tool, I talked about Manageflitter, Tweepi, Buffer and Hootsuite.
The winner was Hootsuite and still after trying Sendible for 23 days, Hootsuite remains to be my favorite social media management tool. You may also be interested “How to get Twitter followers FAST!”
My favorite tool in Hootsuite is bulkscheduler. By using the bulkscheduler I can literally schedule even 350 tweets in 2 minutes. My record is 150 scheduled tweets in 2 minutes because I don’t have 350 tweets waiting to be published. (yet!)
The only thing that was missing in Hootsuite’s bulkscheduler was the option to add images in the bulk scheduled tweets. I searched for the service that would provide the option to bulk schedule images.
Then I found Sendible. People praised it because Sendible allowed bulk scheduling images.
Then I saw that they had 30-day trial and I was ready to try it!
I was excited!
I registered to Sendible and started to study how to use their service. Like I mentioned in the previous Hootsuite text, social media management tools may take some time to learn but it’s well worth it because afterwards they will save tons of time once you have mastered the tool.
I watched 3-5 videos and read their tutorials on how to use Sendible. I wanted to learn it fully right away.
I was enthusiastic to see what kind of results lots of bulk scheduled images would give to my Twitter account. My previous record by using Hootsuite was about 41k impressions in a day.
I tried to upload some message to the bulk scheduler. But it didn’t work…
I read the tutorials and tried again.
Test file 1… Fail.
Test file 2… Fail.
Test file 3… Fail.
After about 5 different tests I decided to contact their support why the bulk scheduler isn’t working.
They responded me and suggested me different kind of things.
I tried all the things they suggested me to do and we even made the video call to make it work.
The result: I was not able to bulk schedule images or anything else. They said that the problem was in my Excel.
Even though I asked many times which version of Excel would be compatible with Sendible, they didn’t respond me to that question.
After all, I cancelled the account because their service was not working properly. I had wasted countless hours trying to make it work.
They contacted me again and said that now it should work also with my Excel version. Well, they had said 15 times before that now it should work so I am just a bit suspicious.
Hootsuite bulk scheduler works well. Sendible bulk scheduler doesn’t -> 1-0.
What about the prices?
Hootsuite costs under $10/month while the cheapest plan in Sendible costs $59 -> 2-0 for Hootsuite.
Sendible has 4 different plans which cost $59, $99, $139 and $499 as you can see in the image below.
Sendible prices.
When the lowest price in Sendible is 6 times higher compared to Hootsuite we could assume that Sendible would be higher quality than Hootsuite. However, the price doesn’t tell the whole truth. (Read 5 powerful tips how to get Twitter followers instantly for $0.)
The layout in Sendible is probably more appealing but I didn’t find the other reasons why I would choose Sendible over Hootsuite. And the layout is not even so important in my priorities. The most important thing is that all the tools work properly.
Sendible markets the product saying how many social media services you can connect at the same time. Well, you can do the same in Hootsuite for under $10/month.
If you have found some reasons why Sendible would be superior to Hootsuite, please let us know by leaving a comment below.
I didn’t need to contact Hootsuite support many times but when I contacted them it worked properly and I got a good experience.
In Sendible, they were helpful too but the support was sometimes very slow.
For example, after registering to Sendible I received an email where they asked if I would like to have a video call while they would explain how everything works in Sendible. I responded immediately that I would like to have it.
Then they responded me after ~10 days.
To my other questions about the bulk scheduler, the response normally took 1 or 2 days.
It was much slower that I had been used in Wealthy Affiliate where the support team responses withing minutes.
My experience with Sendible wasn’t very pleasant. I can’t recommend their service. I wasted hours and hours trying to make their service their service work but it was a great disappointment.
Now my plan is to try out some new social media management tools, for example MassPlanner, but so far Hootsuite remains to be the best.
I really recommend to give it a try. You can schedule your social media messages for one month using 3 minutes instead of using 15 minutes every day. That’s the reason I love it.
Think about how much time (and money) you can save!
If I could find the service where I can bulk schedule images on Twitter in a reasonable price I would be even more excited. If you know that kind of service out there, leave a comment below! 🙂
What is your favourite social media management tool? Why?
What kind of results have you achieved with that social media management tool?
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Name: Smashfund
Website: www.smashfund.com
Price: $149/month
Owners: Rob Towles
Overall Rank: 0 out of 100
The first time when I saw this website Smashfund was from the review by the Wealthy Affiliate member. I went to his website and saw his positive review about the product. I left the comment that the product looks like a scam to me.
He didn’t respond.
Then I went and see another positive review about Smashfund where the blogger praised the product. I also left the comment for him. He responded that he had earned thousands of dollars already.
I made some searches on Google to see what people think about it.
I was surprised to see that there weren’t any negative reviews at all. After two weeks I found out the reason which I will reveal you in the end of the review.
That time I only could found videos on Youtube that claimed you can make $64,000/month with Smashfund. Maybe you have seen similar videos. Or maybe someone has invited you to join.
Today, I am going to give you my honest opinion and explain why I don’t recommend joining Smashfund.
Smashfund is a social crowdfunding platform. Crowdfunding means that you have some project and then you ask people to fund your project. For example, you can fund your new music album, movie or project to help African children.
Smashfund is designed to work like Facebook and other social medias where you have your social networks and you can communicate with them.
One important thing to notice is that they haven’t still launched the product. They are planning to start Smashfund in July 2016.
The basic way to make money with Smashfund is crowdfunding but it doesn’t seem like the way that people are marketing the product. They claim that you can earn $64,000/month but they don’t talk about the crowdfunding.
Smashfund works like a pyramid scheme. Invite people to join and you will get the part of their membership fees.
Their payment system has two aspects.
1.You earn $50/month for every person that you invited to join.
2.You earn $4/month for every person that your referral brings to Smashfund.
That sounds very lucrative. Bring 10 people and you are already earning at least $500/month and probably much more if they keep on inviting the other people.
After seeing such a potential I wanted to take a closer look.
As you can see in this picture of their website, it’s free to join right now. But starting from July they are planning to bill $149/month from every member. That means $1,788/year. Quite an expensive product.
The high price is not the only thing that bothers me. (Read 5 POWERFUL TIPS how to avoid scams online!)
You need to put all your credit card information right away when you register. Even though you would like to try it for free, they ask your credit cards.
Then you can’t join without putting the invite code. You need someone to invite you if you want to join in.
I decided to ask about Smashfund from some very successful internet marketers in Wealthy Affiliate. None of them had really heard about the product before. Some of them said that it seems like a scam.
Well, I still wasn’t sure about the product. Somehow it looked like a scam but it was also a bit appealing because some people claimed that they have earned thousands of dollars using Smashfund.
I wanted to wait and see how the things evolve.
I remembered the product a couple of weeks later. In Wealthy Affiliate, I have got to know many online entrepreneurs that I can rely on. They had something to say about Smashfund.
Read the comments below.
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Many people were experiencing the same as I was. They had left a suspicious comment about Smashfund and the comment was denied. I have already seen 5-10 people saying the same.
It seems that they don’t want anyone to speak bad or pose the questions about this product.
That’s the reason why you hardly couldn’t find anything negative about them a couple of weeks ago! The banned everything.
Lynne Huysamen uploaded a video about Smashfund to Youtube where she showed that the product is a scam. Then Smashfund company contacted Youtube in order to delete to video because it violates the copyright.
Well, she needed to delete that video but she uploaded another one where she tells the truth about the product.
You can also find the original video on her website where you can also take a look to the member’s area.
The surprising fact is that there is literally NOTHING in the members area yet. Just the invitation code.
Some people claim that they have earned thousands of dollars already by Smashfund. Well, how is that possible?
If it’s free to join for everyone so far and no one has paid a single penny, where has the money come from?
The most obvious explanation is that they haven’t earned such money and they are just lying.
They believe that the product will work in the future. They even lie to people in order to make some money themselves. My conscience doesn’t allow such behavior.
To be honest, there are much better support systems out there.
All they have in Smashfund is one email address support@smashfund.com. You can send them questions and see if they answer.
Rob Towles talks convincingly in his video about Smashfund.
But one thing you would like to know about him is that he has run the Efusjon pyramid scheme in the past.
That’s definitely not a good sign from the company. It’s lead by the former scammer.
Maybe Rob has changed but in my eyes his new project seems like another pyramid scheme.
No.
Make money by inviting other people to join. Doesn’t it sound familiar?
Fort Ad Pays, Elite Marketing Pro, Phoenix Power Rising, Pure Leverage System, My Lead System Pro…
All of these scams are based on the same idea.
Pay an expensive monthly fee. Invite new people to pay the expensive monthly fee and earn the commission.
The system can make the founder rich but milk the money from the members. It doesn’t provide any real value. The other name is Pyramid Scheme.
The good news is that there are some better ways to make money online. You can make money by selling other people’s product. Sell, for example, the products in Amazon that you can honestly recommend.
Wealthy Affiliate provides a step by step training on how you can build a real online business that’s not based on cheating people.
Name: Smashfund
Website: www.smashfund.com
Price: $149/month
Owners: Rob Towles
Overall Rank: 0 out of 100
VERDICT: NOT RECOMMENDED.
I hope you found this Smashfund Review helpful. Don’t hesitate to leave your questions and comments below. I will be more than happy to respond every comment personally.
