When I ask people how much they want to earn online the wrong answer I get is “As Much As Possible“. But ‘As Much As Possible’ doesn’t exist. That’s an in-existing target. You can not hit it. People with such a goal eventually quit without making even a single dollar. ;

So what is the blueprint to make your first dollar online?

• Write down your clear target. It should be something like “I will make 1000$ a month online by 30-April-2010″. You should have a clear idea of how much and bywhat time you are going to make it.
• Now you need to research your niche. List down things that interest you most. They may be photography, gardening, self-improvement etc…
• Now pick top 1 interesting thing that has a potential to make money. For example gardening niche has many products to sell.
• Do a competitive research for the market. Search in Google for websites  and blogs regarding your chosen market.
• Search for articles in article directories and make copies of the content.
• Do the keyword analysis for your market in Google. Google has a free keywordtool.

Now you have the hard data about your market – who your target audience are,what are they buying and where are they going on internet. Now you have to implement the below blue print.

Blueprint

Offer A FREE Gift -> Squeeze Page -> User Registration -> User Confirmation ->Deliver Gift -> Sell to User the Products -> Build Relationship with user.

The first step would be to have a website where you capture your visitor information and deliver your free gift. For that you need a domain name, a hostingaccount and an auto responder.

A free gift can be any e-book, special report that has damn good quality content.

Now go to neamecheap.com and register a domain name. You can also buy PHP hosting account there. (Click here to get FREE Unlimited Hosting).

You also need an autoresponder to store and manage your communication withyour subscriber. An autoresponder is a piece of software that captures your visitor information and manages your communication with them. Using this you send emails selling your products or other people products. I User Aweber and they have a 1$ trial offer going on. Go here.

Setup Your First Website

You have to setup three pages in your website
1. squeeze page (index.html)
2. thank you page (thankyou.html)
3. confirmation page (confirmation.html)

Squeeze page is the landing page where you put your offer for free gift and put the auto responder code to capture visitor name and email address. A thank you page is where the visitor goes once he enters his name and email and clicks submit. In this page you give directions to check his email box and click on the activation link. A confirmation page is where the user goes once he confirms his subscription and downloads his free gift.

For a step-by-step video tutorial click here…

Make Money

After setting up these pages, you need to find products to sell to your list. Go to clickbank.com and find products related to your market. Get the hop links and the affiliate emails for that product.

Log into your auto responder account and send the affiliate emails with your hop link to all your subscribers. That’s it. When people buy the products you get the money.

Over a time, selling on internet is changed. People are not appreciating direct hard selling. So you need to build relationship with your subscribers to send them useful quality content and promptly answer their queries.

Write some bunch of good articles and send them to your subscribers in auto responder. Give them special offers. Treat them well. Remember, the money is in the list.

Cheers
Gunasekhar