Are you asking if online business is free to setup? Well if that’s the case, then the answer is yes, it can be set up for free. Just try setting up a blogger account, start populating it with information, place some ways to make money on your website and you’re done!

It may be free, but it’s not going to be easy.

Anything free usually comes with a catch. And in the case of most Internet marketers I know, this catch comes in the form of time.

We trade time to save money, the more of our own time we use, the more money we can save.

But if we trade money to save time, the more traffic we can get, in the form of traffic in a short amount of time.

Nothing in life is really ‘free’ especially when it comes to making money online or starting a business in general.

I think you can in the long run, as long as you have a mailing list in the thousands, which you can promote your own, or a good affiliate product to.

Which is why I started this blog. I have no illusions that I will be making a killing from Google Adsense with such low traffic numbers, and even if I do manage to increase the traffic numbers, Google would probably make a lot less than pushing an affiliate product.

So why bother?

Well the make money online niche may be full, but in Malaysia, the ‘online business’ or ‘Internet marketing’ niches have a little space to maneuver still.

So why not build some interest, some traffic to my site and brand myself a bit? There’s a chance that someone might want to hire me to consult on their blog/website/SEO or anything else which I have knowledge on.

And at the same time, put same make money online articles on the blog to slowly start ranking higher for that keyword?

I figure that there are many many many more niches that can make you much more money much faster than the make money online niceh! Heck, I bet a ‘how to get rid of pimples’ website would garner more success in the short to mid term than a make money online blog.

But that’s just my 2 cents worth,

Good luck with whatever you do, just make sure you DO IT! Action action action!

Without ACTION, there will be NO result.

-William Lee

Login to their site (above) and type in your username and password. Ignore that voice in the background, it’s set to loop so he keeps repeating the sales message over and over again…

You’ll have to fill a form up after that. But if you notice, it’s only available for certain countries. If you’ve even read the title of my website, then you know that I’m not in Australia right now, but I used to live there so I know a post code or two.

You can use the one I’ve put above if you’d like. We’ll see if I can finish filling in the form or will it tell me to f’ off since I’m not in Australia.

Unfortunately, the site would not let me get to step 3. I guess it detected that I was indeed not from Australia. In fact, I even tried using a proxy server but that didn’t work either.

I guess in my case, I can’t make money online doing surveys.

Well I never liked taking surveys anyway. Haha…

You can try though,

-William Lee

All of us have personal goals. You reading this now has some sort of goal that you’re trying to achieve right?

Putting a goal/ target for your readers to see also has the added benefit of getting in touch with them. People can relate to you better if they know you are aiming for something not too dissimilar with what they are aiming for.

And let’s face the facts, money is a target for almost every single one of us out there, regardless of what some may want us to believe.

So why RM75,000? Well it’s the money I need to make so that my dad can retire at 60 rather than 65 years old.

What is RM75,00 equal to? It sounds like quite a lot right? Well in Malaysia, it IS a lot. But here’s what it breaks down to in other currencies (approximations – Feb 2009 exchange rates):

Pounds = 14,545 (1212 Pounds/month)

Euros = 16,238 (1353 Euros/month)

USD = 20,500 (1708 USD/month)

= (56 USD/day)

= (2 sales/day of USD30 comission/sale)

= (a reasonable target)

AUD = 32,468 (2705 AUD/month)

RM = 75,000 (6250 RM/month)

So you see how the weakness of my currency and I’m sure alot of other currencies out there is actually an advantage to Internet marketers?

Some of the values above are probably at, or below the ‘cost of living’ numbers for those respective countries. So where I would be struggling to survive if I made that much money online, in Malaysia I would be doing extremely well.

Breaking things down like this makes what started out as a gargantuan task a lot more manageable.

So what is your target? Break it down into something which seems easier to achieve rather than target a ball park figure.

Wish me luck,

I wish you luck too,

-William Lee