As my readers know, I have been making money online for a long time. Well, online usually meant mixing offline with online. Visiting (boring) clients, talking to people in person (which I hate), giving presentations (which I hate even more). And then the work usually would move to online; getting outsourcing for the project set up, talking to the client via mail from then on (if I could help it) etc.

But that is not really making money online. For me making money online is a total process of making every cent you earn in a ‘project’ or company online; no offline things involved. This means;

• getting the client online
• having the ‘product’ created online (by outsourcing or otherwise)
• transferring the cash online (Paypal or that kind of thing)
• doing all specs online

For me personally it actually means zero facetime, not even that horrible invention called Skype.

Ofcourse there are different kinds of businesses you could run totally online which have all the above points covered;

• services
• products
• website concept

I have been doing services all my life (or so it feels) and practically most of it has, luckily, been online. But that was ‘fake’ online as currently I have never done a complete services company or process online. Going somewhere to meet up with clients/parthers/whatever was always part of the deal.

Products I have done completely; most successful with Layeredpanel.com (which I have sold to pursue other goals). The product (and project) was fun to do ; it was technically challenging and the rewards were good. It was an easy business to market and most clients were very satisfied.

Then there is the option of running what I call a ‘website concept’ for lack of a better name. It simply means a website that brings home the bacon on it’s own, without doing much labor or websites with the option of truly outsourcing all the work. I am talking about websites like yelp.com, craigslist.com and digg.com. These kind of websites are the dream of every web entrepreneur and seem like a very far utopia for most of them. I owned a datingsite which worked exactly like that so I know how that works.

So what am I getting at with this article? I gave myself a challenge;

I want to make myself a steady income by starting a few online businesses from scratch. I am going to use a number of different approaches:

• automated content sites
• affiliate programs (Clickbank and so on)
• ebooks (selling them)
• setting up some real concepts and see if/how they fly
• Wordpress services/templates

Note that I have no clue if any of this will work or if they are even viable options to make money, but I’m willing to put some effort and time in them just to get the feel for them and see if the ‘make money online’ crowd on sites like Digitalpoint and Sitepoint actually can succeed with the plans that are so often shown on that site.

To find ways of making moneys I will be buying ebooks of people who already did it and follow their methods; I will blog about their methods and tell you if they work. I already know that most of them most likely won’t and that’s ok; I can afford to miss a few I guess.

I hope you guys will like this information and that you use it to get ahead. For me most of these things are interesting experiments to see how this all works and which things are fake and which things are real.

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