Starting out

Last Saturday (the 11th July) I dragged myself out of bed and drove the hour down to the Gold Coast to see Brett McFall (brettmcfall.com) who was doing a day seminar called "Making Money While You Sleep." As I have zero income at the moment and limited ways to get more I thought, I can't miss this and a few days before borrowed his book by the same name from the library. ">How to Make Money While You Sleep: How to Start, Promote and Profit From an Online Business.

I got so excited reading the book, that I read it cover to cover in 2 days and had already set up a plan to follow. I took those ideas to the seminar with me. The whole concept is simple. In 7 steps, create an information product people want and will pay for (how to is in the book) and promote and sell it. At the same time, build a big database of emails, to promote your new products to. Once it is done, it runs almost on automatic pilot. The most exciting thing? It can be done over and over again!

I learned so much from the course - the seven steps to starting an online business and Brett was a great teacher, relaxed, lots of audience participation, tons of practical, how to do every step information.

SUNDAY
So I took my product ideas home (now I have 7 ideas) and the next day I checked out the first one using his plan. I checked Google's keyword tracker for researching my idea and found that the search terms for my product fitted his criteria. Then I began to research people I could interview to create my product and the names were coming up everywhere.

MONDAY
My soon to be ex (stbx) took me out for a coffee and was telling me he had a huge database of names through his work and another idea began to form, so I raced home and began to research that! Well, another product is in the planning stages as the keyword searches were again perfect. An hour on Google led to a dozen new ideas for interviewees. And another discussion with stbx about how to promote his company and get to their database.

TUESDAY to FRIDAY
I realised I have a website, Click Art Gallery, with reasonable traffic just sitting there, selling a few books and a few paintings each month that could be doing so much more, with less effort! So I spent a couple of days researching stuff that other people have already created that would be targeted to my artistic audience. I signed up with Clickbank and went ahead collecting links. I decided that html code was not the way to do this and manage it, so I set up a database so I can manage it with ease. Well, so far it's taken about 14 hours, but I have over 30 products for artists on my resources page and it will only take a few minutes to add, delete or edit any part of my resource list.

Well, this is off tangent from my original aim of creating an information product to sell, but my main aim is to make myself some money, and ClickBank marketers offer some brilliant payouts (up to 75% of sales!).