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How To Produce A Second Income Online

A question I get asked continually is “How can I start an online business when I already work full time?”

And it is of course a perfectly valid question, firstly, how can you earn a second income when you’re probably busy enough already with your day job, your family and many other day to day activities.

Well, this might surprise you, everybody has the same 24 hours available to them, it’s what you do with them that really counts and the reality is if you want to start generating an income from your own online business working from home then you will need to
become more creative and productive with the hours that you have.

My dad used to have a saying that goes like this “If you need the time and want it badly enough you WILL find it.”

So to help you along just a little bit, today’s blog post will give you some tips on doing exactly that, so read on and discover how to produce a second income online.

A few simple solutions are to get up an hour earlier every day, stop watching tv for an hour or so each night, make better use of your lunch break.

You do not need to be a computer wizard or marketing expert to produce a second income online. To get started, all you really need is a computer and access to the internet.

Here are 6 tips on how to earn a second income by using the power of the internet.

6 Tips On How To Produce A Second Income Online.

1. Find Something to Market That Falls inline With Your Interests.

The first step when you want to earn a second income is to list the things that you have some knowledge of and are of interest to you.

When you sell products or services that you are genuinely interested in, this comes across in your marketing messages and methods so that you immediately show commonality with the type of people you are marketing to and who are actively looking for what you are selling.

How To Produce A Second Income Online

2. Make Sure There is a Hungry Market

Once you have your list of ideas you need to do some market research to establish if there is a market for this product. i.e if there are people looking for it or are already buying something similar. (Check out this blog post on how to do market research).

A quick method for your initial research is to simply type your product or service idea into Google and see what comes up, and don’t worry at this stage if there are lots of competing online businesses already selling the same thing.

Competition at this stage is good, because this indicates buyers!

The internet is a big place and more and more people are coming online everyday. And that’s the great thing about having an online business as you are marketing and selling to a global marketplace.

How To Produce A Second Income Online

3. Find a Suitable Affiliate Program.

Now that you have a fairly good idea of what it is you want to sell and you have established that there is a hungry market for this product, you then need to decide whether you are going to create it yourself (not recommended if you are new to this) or sell something that somebody else has already created.

This is called affiliate marketing and the product owner will pay you a commission on every sale you make. They will also in most cases, take care of product updates, customer service, fulfillment, payment systems and delivery.

Your job is simply to find the customers and motivate them to buy. You can check out this blog post for more info on finding suitable affiliate programs.

4. Create a Website to Market Your Products.

In the most basic form of affiliate marketing you don’t actually need to create your own website as you can just send prospects directly to the sales page of the product you are promoting.

However, it is much more advantageous to you as a marketer with your own online business, to have your own website. Then, when you direct your prospects to the product sales page via your own website, it helps to begin to build YOU as an authority.

Check out this blog post to see how simple it is to create your own website, without ANY coding or techie stuff required.

How To Produce A Second Income Online

5. Send Targeted Prospects to Your Website.

No matter what you are selling, offline or online, you cannot make money without investing in your marketing.

Having said that, there are FREE marketing methods you can use that require time rather than money. Check out this post I did earlier on Social Media Marketing.

However, the quickest way to make money with your affiliate marketing business is to use paid traffic methods. You don’t have to spend a fortune but it is always worth putting aside a budget for your marketing activities.

==> You can read all about the different methods of paid advertising here. <==

6. Build Your Database of Prospects and Customers.

Although in an ideal world every visitor to your website would buy, you have to face facts, not every person who visits your website for the first time will buy. And once they leave your website they may never return.

But, if you can capture their email address, you can remain in contact with them via email, and over time, you can start to build a list of prospects and customers to whom you can market to, via email, forever. Or at least as long as they remain on your list.

This process is commonly known as list building and is one of the core foundations
to building a successful money making online business.

This blog post here explains in more detail about list building.

So that’s it, the above tips showing you how to produce a second income online are proven to work, but ONLY if YOU DO TOO!

So use them TODAY!

All the best
-Jon

PS. The internet has provided opportunities for many people to earn a second income from home. The set up costs for an online business are very low and affordable for most people. However, the challenge to overcome when first starting out is deciding what you should or should not do and how much time, money and resources you should allocate.