How To Become A Successful Make Money Online Blogger
shoemoney
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Many people credit me as the first make money online blogger. There were lots of IM before me but for whatever reason I seem to get a lot of credit. Whatever.... Either way the most common question I get is if you had to start over tomorrow what would you do. Well I can tell you how I got here and I notice its becoming a trend with others:
- You fell into your niche after trying and failing and one day started raking in the cash. (for me it was ringtones)
- You notice all these "Gurus" online talking about how to make money online but they seem out of date.
- You start your own blog under a anonymous name and start to call out these gurus. You call the products they sell scams and what not. (I used to be hard on guys like Joel Comm and he rest of the ebook authors).
- You start to write guides on what is working for you and start to get a following. (see my guides on ppc from years ago that are now completely out of date).
- You come out of your shell and start speaking at conferences. (for me this was about 4 years ago.)
- Your original niche where you made all your money starts to die off so you start to leverage your blog following into building a REAL product. (We built a company called auctionads which was a pretty big success. We also started the elite retreat conference which is doing pretty good. Now we have shoemoney tools and lots of other things in the works).
- You start to write your own ebooks and guides (which I used to make fun of people for doing).
- You are now a guru and people attack you and call you a scam without knowing you at all. They also attack your audience saying anyone who listens to you is *sheep*
- You talk about how your blog was never supposed to be your thing and it all just kind of happened because you like what you do