Hi, my name's Roderick, but on the internet, I usually go by my middle name, "Nathaniell".
I'm an internet marketer, and One More Cup of Coffee is a website where I teach people how to start an online business and make money from home.
I wasn't always an internet marketer; in fact, I've done quite a few different jobs over the years.
Internet marketing was just the career path that 'clicked' for me, mostly because I could do it from the comfort of my own home and according to my own schedule.
But let's start a bit further back; if you're going to get to know me, you should know a bit about where I'm from and what I've done.
People always ask me...
They say, "Well, you got started in 2010. Did I miss the gravy train? I'm sure there's too much competition now, so I'd never stand a chance!"
But the funny thing is that it's easier than ever to make money online. Why? There's two simple reasons:
- More products are being sold online now. People are shifting more and more of their shopping habits to the online world and that just wasn't the case even 5-10 years ago. Even small businesses and grocery stores are selling their products on the internet!
- There are more tools to make starting your business easier. Before, you had to code everything in HTML and be internet savvy. Now, there's tools to automate everything. Thousands of people have made the journey before, and you can use their wisdom to make your path easier.
It's kind of like traveling. In the past, you had to take a ship and spend weeks on the ocean to reach far-off places. Once there, you had to make your own adventure! Now, You can reach any destination in the world within 24 hours. There a guidebook for every country in every language, and there are smartphone apps for instant translation to your native language.
From 2017 you can see that there are people with websites less than 1-2 years old earning $500-$8698 per month. One person even posted about how they had to evacuate during Hurricane Harvey, but their business kept making money in the meantime.
Then, look at the success stories from 2018. One person made $4,550 by their 7th month of online marketing. Another made $489 in a single day, and yet another sold their blog for $30,000 profit!
Also, 2019 is off to a great start with a guy earning $3700 in ONE DAY, and a 65 year old person talking about their 5th year in the biz. Can you see how each year people are starting new businesses and making money? Are you ready to join the club?
I grew up in California, but left soon after graduating high school to travel in Europe. I was completely bored in the US and wanted to see the world. At the time, I had a friend living in Prague, so used her house as my "home base" between trips. When I needed money or had some down-time, I freelanced as an English teacher.
Eventually I landed a pretty sweet job as a kindergarten teacher, so I was officially getting paid to play duck-duck-goose and hide-and-seek for a few hours a day.
After a few years doing that, I broadened my horizons and set my sights on China. I wanted to learn Mandarin and start the next chapter in my travels.
China was wild. I made tons of friends, traveled all over the country, and became fluent in Mandarin.
But after being in China for a while, I began thinking about my future. It had been ten years since I left the US. I was having a blast traveling, but I had no job security and saving any money very difficult working for low wages.
So I hatched a crazy plan to make US dollars while working in China. I wanted to start an internet based business so that I could work on my computer in China but earn US money. Even just $30 per day was basically a full time income in China.
I made many mistakes along the way. I wasted time taking surveys. Then I joined a pyramid scheme. One time I stayed up until 4AM to watch an educational webinar that turned out to be a total scam.
It took me about six months of fumbling around: browsing around different sites, joining tons of mailing lists, watching hours of promotional videos, and following my share of purported "gurus" before I came across Wealthy Affiliate.
They were the legit online training center I was looking for. After three months of training I had made my first sale through my website. Six months after that I was generating regular sales. After a total of eighteen months working on my website I was earning over $10,000 per month so I quit my job in China and bought plane ticket back to the USA.
By 2013 I owned my own home, a brand new truck, and a motorcycle!
I was actually making money online!
So it's 2019 now, I've returned to the US, and work full time as an internet marketer. I've been running my online business full time for 5 years now.
I've got a couple sites, but what I really enjoy doing is helping people make money online. The website you're looking at right now is my passion.
One More Cup of Coffee is about helping YOU.
After being in this industry for about 9 years now, I've seen hundreds of scams, misleading offers, and hyped sales pages claiming that you can make lots of money fast with a "secret system". It's all a load of BS.
Making money online is possible, but it takes work. Looking at the big picture, two years is not a lot of time to turn a website into a six figure business, but it can seem like a long time when you're grinding out content day after day.
I made a lot of mistakes along the way. I wasted time, money, and energy over the years. But I also learned a lot during the process!
Now I want to share my knowledge with you and help you start earning money on the internet, through your own website.
- You pick the topic
- You pick the products
- You write the content
- You reap the rewards
I created a free starter course that you can join that is designed specifically for newbies looking to start making money online. I've taken out all the hype and scam tactics that gurus use, and explained the concepts of how I make money on the internet through my websites (I own several now)
You can join the free course below. It includes a free membership account to Wealthy Affiliate, the same place where I got started in 2010. They've updated the training since then of course, so you'll get access to the updated modules for 2017.
By signing up you get a combination of information - the free training inside Wealthy Affiliate, plus my personal insights and tips via email.
If you have any questions or comments about me, my business, or online business you can leave a comment below! I check these weekly, so will get back to you ASAP.
I would like to talk to you about SiteLock affiliate program
Sure thing David. What about it?
Hey man I’m very interested in this. Can you do all of this from a cell phone? Like create and monitor the site, sales, etc. What can you sell on these sites?
No, it’s not possible to do all of this from a cellphone. You need AT LEAST a tablet. Ideally a laptop or home computer.
We have been approached by Microsoft to join their affiliate program. We have no website, blog, etc.Is this worth pursuing. Why would anyone come to our website ?
If you were “approached”, then it’s likely a scam. Did they call you? Definitely a scam. More than likely it’s a company trying to sell you a website. The scammers say the “represent” Microsoft, which is double-speak meaning they can sign you up for the Microsoft affiliate program, which is free for everyone.
Hi, Nathaniell,
I had been focus on sex toys about 1 year, but nothing had changed about my sales, I am so confused, I nearly try anthing I could, but there are no orders, so I really wanna know what I should do? Could you help me?
I checked out your website and it looks like you’re doing an ecommerce store, not a blog-style website. For general SEO advice, I’d say you need to focus on categorizing your products more efficiently (look at URLs, category names, page URL, tags, etc), and also create better descriptions of your products. Right now, navigation on your site is kind of messy, and the product descriptions could use some improvement.
For general organic traffic advice, you can start a blog. Do some keyword research and start writing on topics related to the products you’re selling.
Hi Roderick, my name is Jerry and I’ve been with WA for a bit over a month and am a premium member. I’ve just bought a domain dealing with retirement as research shows lots of traffic. I’m trying to find products for this subject and since I know little about investments, I’m trying to decide what products on a site where I found you. They all have affiliate programmes. Another problem I’m having is finding one of WA WordPress sites. I’m not sure if having a blog is a good idea, again since there isn’t a great deal I can talk about with posts and interaction. Do you have any ideas?
Having a blog is an awesome idea. Highly recommended! That’s how you publish content to generate traffic. These days, “blog” just means “website where you publish content regularly”. It’s not the “blog” of decades ago where you talked about your life, like a diary.