I’m sick of all the crap

I know you might be thinking I’m pissed off or something because I’ve used “effing” on my title, and I’ll be honest, I am a little. And I think you would be too. The people out there that are on my side know what I am talking about. For those who read this post, please don’t think this is some kind of rant, because it’s not. I just want to make it clear that you don’t need to start a blog on blogging, Internet marketing, or how to make money online to actually make money online. I am just going to show you some markets that can plug into and maybe think of ways to make the income you want online.

Wilson, I am flipping tired of seeing all these “make money online products;” show me how to really find an “effing” business to get into.

Okay, let’s get right into it. To not go that far, let’s look at a real business I found recently through Entrepreneur magazine (yes, I still read magazines) and get my entrepreneurial juices flowing; and I recommend anyone that wants to start a business to read it. Anyhow, the name of the company is Ciclismo Classico. Basically, what cicliscoclassico.com does is provide the most authentic, unique and exciting biking and hiking tours and vacations.

So you can maybe get an idea of how Lauren Hefferon started this business, just listen to what she told Entrepreneur.com:

“I found a niche that I knew very well, and knew that I wanted to be in business for myself, so I made the leap.”

That’s basically what you hear me, and every marketer online, tell you to do. – Find a niche you like and know about.

Moving along; looking at what this entrepreneur did, and that was find a market, NOT a product, like some people will tell you to do online. The adventure travel market actually is a 50 billion dollar market, so you know there is a way to tap into it, and it shows that the market BUYS. Going into a market of proven buyers is essential; after all, if you’re starting a business to make a little profit, at least, while providing excellent value, that’s what I hope, your desires are.

You need to have a niche and be passionate about it!

I used this business because it’s really a great example of niche marketing. This company focuses only on one type of adventure; bike tours. The benefits of this are that the company and the clients get to connect on a personal level because they have similar likes. When you are passionate about something that you like, and you decide to start a business relevant to that, it’s easier to know your market; all the market research is YOU.

Here’s my “effing” advice

Turn your passions into a business. Everyone has something that they like doing a lot. Something they do in their spare time, for free. A hobby, a fear, a problem – SOMETHING! If you still don’t think you have something, here are some markets that you can jump into.

Online Boutique

Market: Vintage shoes and dresses

Size: Don’t know exactly how big; just know that this website below made $50 Mil last year.

Example: http://www.modcloth.com/

Passionate Cooking

Market: Food producers

Size: Around $70 billion

Example: http://foodzie.com/

The opportunity is out there

As you can see these are real businesses making real profits online. You don’t just have to go into some market that you have no passion for to make money online. There is a lot of opportunity to make a difference on the web; we just need to have a remarkable idea combined with something people want and a little love for the niche.

If you need help with coming up with something that you’re passionate about, I liked to offer my help for FREE. Call me, text me, tweet me, or just email me. I’d like to help you get started on your real “effing” business (sorry for the foul language) I just get to passionate when I’m talking about this.

Anybody that’s with me share your thoughts, tell me if you’re not tired of the make money blogging, make money this, that, etc… Let me know on the comments below. What do you think? Is it cool to keep doing what everyone is doing?

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The two main currencies that make everything possible are cash flow and time. How many times have you heard, “You need to have a muse, or passion to be successful online” or something like it? I know that’s all I heard when I was first getting started online. It was hard, sometimes annoying, NOT knowing what I wanted to do.

When you first get started online all you want to know is…

How do I make a lot of money online, right? How do I monetize? Money, money, money…

That’s all we want.

When we should really be focusing on is how to generate an income stream and free more time for ourselves.

I’ll repeat that:

Generate Cash Flow and Free More Time

What I want to do is explain the simplest, fastest, and most affordable way that anyone with any experience online can do what I do.

In my mind the best way is to do it with affiliate marketing. The beauty of affiliate marketing is that you own a business and you don’t have to spend any time on it. You don’t have to run it. And that’s what location independence is all about.

You could make a lot of money with a franchise or any sort of physical store, but that’s not what I want to do and if you’re like me you don’t either. And I’ve done it, and it’s not what I had in mind; I didn’t want to be in one place at all.

I’ve started a series that I have to still finish, here are the two parts that you should be reading as soon as you’re done with this post to get your career going with affiliate marketing if your goal is to one day not have to worry about money.  Just imagine what you would do, if you didn’t have to consume time with customers? That’s the kind of vehicle affiliate marketing is:

1. Readers Who Want to Know How to Earn Money Online

2. Readers Who Want to Know How to Earn Money Online | Part 2

These two articles can help you find your muse and show you how to convert it into cash flow.

So the next thing is TIME. I think one of the best things that has worked for me is the act of eliminating. What I mean by this is getting rid of the TV, iPhone (I gave that to my girlfriend), and even my car too. I haven’t really gotten rid of them, but I’ve forced myself NOT to use them for most of the week.  I’ve learned to spend the majority of my days on work that matters and that gives me the best results. Of course there has been a lot of trial and error in the past year, but I guess that’s how I’ve learned.

If you can identify what it is that you’re wasting your time on each day and eliminate those tasks, I guarantee you that you’ll start seeing results too, if you use that time wisely on your business, blog, or whatever it is that you do that brings in the cash.

Other habits and time wasters you can eliminate, to free some time:

• Checking your email 10 times a day
• Using twitter to often with no agenda
• Pointless breaks and naps
• Mindless web surfing

Have you found your muse yet? What steps did you take? What tips can you give us that can helped you create more free time?

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