My friends and family are in awe of the amount of money I make with my sites.
To be honest, sometimes I am too.
It’s hard to believe something that started out as a hobby/side income venture, has turned into a full-time income that allowed me to quit my 9 to 5 job.
While the process is simple, unfortunately most people don’t have or want to take the time to let something like this develop.
It definitely takes time and I would never tell you this happened overnight.
Here are three reasons I believe I found success online…
1) I Choose Topics I Love
This is the most important step and here’s why…
When you enjoy and are engaged in the topics of your site, writing useful content is easier and can be a lot of fun. You are also more motivated to maintain and promote your site.
The passion for your topic, comes through in your writing and this helps build credibility with your audience.
The reason I chose website creation is when I started building my site back in 1998, there were very few comprehensive tutorial sites (especially free ones.) So I decided to build an all-encompassing site for beginners.
Developing content was super easy because I reflected back to the days when I first started. So I wrote about the topics I needed help with when I was getting started.
My past experience with website creation helped give my site life, personality and allowed me to connect with my audience.
2) I Join Affiliate Programs With Residual Payouts
Say you have a fitness site and you join an affiliate program for a gym membership.
When you refer your visitors to sign up for a membership, the company pays you a percentage of your referrals membership fee for as long as they are a member.
If a customer is a member for 10 years, you get paid every month for as long as they are a customer!
Those are the kind of affiliate programs I look for.
The Ultimate Domain Reseller Program is an example of residual payments. They actually offer a reseller program.
This is a bit different from an affiliate program because you can actually set your prices and determine your profit margin. For that reason, there is a yearly fee.
With this program you selling domain names and web hosting. You don’t have to have a site about web design to successfully sell their products.
You could write a small “About Me” page on your site and tell a short story of how you created your site, then offer them the links to begin their own.
Every customer that creates a site from your link will earn you a commission every month for as long as they keep their site.
I receive 5 figure checks per month from them because of the residual commissions. I’ve been a reseller since 2002 so the income is really snowballing now.
For a listing of more lifetime commission affiliate programs, see LifetimeCommissions.com
3) I Do Something Everyday
It amazes me the number of people who think they can just build a site and the visitors and money will begin flowing automatically.
Making money online is 90% marketing and 10% website building. Don’t think the work ends just because you’ve launched your site. You’ve only just begun, my friend.
I do something everyday that helps build my traffic long-term. That could be anything from blogging, submitting to StumbleUpon, Digg, writing an article for my site or another ezine, you name it.
All these things help build my traffic slowly, but surely.
It’s imperative you learn about marketing, and you’ll have to discover what tactics work best for you. For example, if you have a site that has mass appeal, a site like www.digg.com may help you draw in traffic.
Or if your niche is very focused and specialized, you may find that joining forums related to your subject matter help attract the kind of traffic you need.
Subscribe to sites like ProBlogger.net (for bloggers), John Chow, ShoeMoney, etc. and learn from others how are making a full-time living and are generous enough to show you what they’ve done to succeed.
I believe it’s important to frequent sites of other successful people. They’re inspiring and provide you with good ideas for your own site.
Hey! I know this iis kin of off topic but I was wondering which blog
platform are you using for this website? I’m getting tired of WordPress because I’ve had problems with
hackers and I’m looking at alternatives for anofher platform.
I would be great if you could point me in the direction oof a good platform.
Have you ever considered creating an ebook or guest authoring on other websites?
I have a blog centered on the same topics you discuss and would really like to have you share some stories/information.
I know my viewers would value your work. If you are even remotely interested, feel free to send me an e mail.
Having read this I thought it was rather informative.
I appreciate you finding the time and effort to put this informative article together.
I once again find myself personally spending way too much time
both reading and posting comments. But so what, it was still worthwhile!
With havin so much written content do you ever run into any problems
of plagorism or copyright infringement? My site has a
lot of completely unique content I’ve either created myself or outsourced
but it looks like a lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without my agreement.
Do you know any methods to help stop content from being stolen?
I’d really appreciate it.
Amazing! This blog looks just like my old one!
It’s on a totally different topic but it has pretty much the same page layout and design. Great choice of colors!
When I originally commented I seem to have clicked the -Notify me when new
comments are added- checkbox and from now on whenever a comment is added
I recieve 4 emails with the same comment. There has to be a
way you can remove me from that service? Many thanks!
Hi Keesha, yes on that email there is an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom. Let me know if you have issues.
Thanks for finally talking about >How I Make Six Figures Online – 2
Create a Website – The Blog <Loved it!
Affiliate programs with residual payment is really great!
Much more stable and efficient. Making the sale once but cashing in on it every month.
Thank you for this inspiring post Lisa, it is always great to read something like this to keep yourself motivated, I really needed this.
(Btw. you don’t use the keywordluv part of commentluv premium?)
You’re a guru of marketing online 🙂
We don’t generally respond to posts however may in this case. Amazing 🙂
Awesome post. I’ll forward this to a friend. Thanks for the info
Hi Albert,
2create was started long before I began reselling domain names and I never switched over the hosting. WW Domains Support is pretty good. I call them myself sometimes just to see what kind of response and out of my 10,000+ customers I may have heard 1 or 2 complaints so that’s not bad.
Yes, you can use your own reseller site to host your domains. In fact, my form http://www.websitebabble.com is hosted through my reseller site. It’s much cheaper because you can give yourself a discount through your own reseller store.
Yes, this is run though Wild West Domains (a GoDaddy company)
Lastly it looks to be a Wild West site.
Is this correct.
Further. I have been looking for a reseller account to actually host several of my own sites. Can I do this using the reseller site you talk of.
What are the pros and cons of doing this.
HI Lisa,
I just love your websites.
And I’m curious about “The Ultimate Domain Reseller Program” – You obviously earn revenue from http://www.websitepalace.com – But I see that you actually host your own site: https://blog.2createawebsite.com – On HostGator – When I checked the whois.
My curiosity is about support.
Hostgator gives live support for their sites.
But http://WWW.WhitePalace.com has a type of forum.
Does this cause you any headaches. Do people mind the lack of immediate response.