How To Create A Passive Income Machine

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How To Create An Online Cash Machine For Beginners

Ever been sick of working 9-5 but cant stop, because the moment you stop work the money stops? Well the answer is simple you need to start generating passive income streams.

There are so many simple ways to earn passive income. This lens is not about all those ways or finding the best way. But this way works.

This lens has been designed to teach a virtual beginner how to find a niche and turn it into an online passive income generator.

The methods in this lens are not designed to make you rich. They are designed to give you the skills that you will then hone and change to earn large amounts of passive income.



I could teach you how to make a lot of income in here but this lens would be 50 times as long and you would give up in frustration. The biggest enemy of all newbie's is trying to learn too much too fast and becoming confused or failing to act.

Hot TipThis activity here won't make you rich on its own, but the skills it teaches you will give you the knowledge to scale it and make a lot of money. And the best bit is if you start with this simple technique you won't get confused and give up.

I have deliberately kept each section as brief as possible to avoid confusion. My goal here is to launch you into learning methods that work without overwhelming you. We can improve them later.

The scope of this lens is not to make you rich or teach you everything there is to know. The scope of this lens is to take you through the absolute key steps.

Once you have learned the basics and implemented them you simply repeat the steps over and over in new niches, getting better and more profitable and learning more about each step as you go.

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Once you can make money with these smile methods your ready to progress.

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Step 1 - Find A Niche 

You first step is to research and locate a niche. Don't just guess.

Ultimately your success will dependent on the niche you choose. So put the time and effort into selecting an appropriate niche.

Firstly make a list of broad categories you are interested in, places you've been or topics you have very good knowledge on and like speaking or reading about. It's important you like what your doing.

Secondly go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

The keyword tool inside your campaigns if you have an AdWords account is far better, but the free one i adequate for your first attempt.

I have created an entire Squidoo lens just on niches and have written e-books on the topic. If you need more information go to http://www.squidoo.com/nicheproductideas
I don't recommend you go looking for too much information as this is the biggest down fall of most beginners.

Google External Search Based Keyword Tool Results 

When you enter a broad category like horse the results come back in a table with three very important columns. The first is the actual keywords people are using to search. The second column is the competition by Pay Per Click advertisers for that keyword. The third column is the monthly searches.

For our purposes here we want to find keywords that have less then 50% of the competition bar graph shaded. We want one keyword with over 2000 searches per month, or two to three very similar keywords with a combined search total over 2000.

Step 2 - Finding Affiliate Products To Match Your Niche 

There is no point targeting a niche if you are unable to find products to meet the need.

Let's go on a hunt for suitable products to meet your niche

The first places to start are with the big affiliate market places. These are free to join.

ClickBank

ClixGalore

Pay Dot Com

Share A Sale

Commission Junction

There are others but this is enough to start with.

If you cant find anything suitable here try Amazon or Google your niche keyword + affiliate or your niche word + partner eg; golf swing + affiliate

Step 3 - Find A Hosting Solution 

Once you have confirmed you have found a need and a solution to meet that need its time to go stand in front of them. Let's develop a web site to make money by servicing this need.

Normally I would recommend you go and get a low cost domain with GoDaddy or Host Gator, but for learning purposes a Squidoo Lens will be perfect.

Please do your keyword research first and try to at least match your lens name to one of your keywords or keyword phrases.

Step 4 - Getting Content 

Firstly Google your keyword terms. Start bookmaking any thing decent in a sub-folder called Content.

Check out your competitors and Google images. YouTube may have great promotional or educational content that you can use.

You can very easily create fantastic information videos from PowerPoint and a FREE trial version of Camtasia.

Subscribe to opt in email lists with free products and e-books in that niche.

Step 5 - Build A Relationship Dont Just Sell 

Don't just start your lens with a sales pitch. Build a relationship with your customers by providing the best information possible.

Content is king. Keep it short, keep it relevant and always try to over deliver.

Nothing is more important on your site then the heading and first paragraph. Your heading needs to be powerful but honest.

The first paragraph needs to be thought provoking, challenging, exiting and leave them with a question in their mind- Gee this is awesome wonder how this works?

Depending on the nature of your site you basically want to launch into step by step information delivery or sequential solutions to their problem.

Have links only where absolutely necessary or only where you can make money from them. If you do have links launch them in a new window by using a new target href command.

An AutoResponder Is An Absolute Must 

An auto responder allows you to build an opt in list and automatically email them with a pre-programmed schedule of email information and offers.

As an example when a person opts-in to your email list the may get an initial confirmation and package, and then an email every 3 days for the next 15 days, then one every 7 days for 5 weeks.

There are free, cheap and ultimate auto responders. The dilemma you face is that whilst you may initially think the $19 per month for the ultimate Auto responder the cost of an interruption to your business and hassle to make the change over in the future is very significant. Having been there and done it I would thoroughly recommend you simply sign up and design your site around the ultimate auto responder in the first place.
FREE - Respond-o-matic
Cheap - Get Response
The Ultimate - Aweber

Regularly Update Your Site With Small Snippets Of New Information 

Search engines and visitors love fresh content.

If your website, lens or blog is information focused rather then selling focused you must add new content regularly.

Have a schedule where once per week, fortnight or month you add some new aspect.

Let your customers know your schedule for updating with a simple sentence stating that your website is generally updated on the 1st and 15th of each month, or whatever your schedule is.

Step 6 - Let The World Know You Exist 

Search engines and visitors will naturally and slowly find out you exist.

You should speed the process up by submitting your URL and site map to search engines. Create a site map in notepad. Google has great information on how and where to do this.

Submit your site to:
Technorati
Pingomatic
Twitter

Write a press release and submit it to ezine articles press releases or PRWeb

Write articles about your niche's unanswered questions and submit them to article directories.

Include your URL in your signature and go and make genuinely helpful posts in forums about your niche.

Respond in blogs and include links to your website or lens.

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