What's up everyone, my name's Nathaniell, and I'm the guy who started One More Cup of Coffee. I teach people how to make money from blogging. I've been doing this successfully for more than 10 years now, and honestly, it's a lot easier than you think. I can definitely show you how to do what I do, and how to design a pretty awesome lifestyle for yourself.
For me, being in this business isn't about getting rich. It's about having time to do the stuff I really want to do, like fix up my house, make beer on the weekends, and spend time with my family. In fact, the name One More Cup of Coffee came from the days when I worked a real job and hated having to rush out the door every morning.
All I wanted is a little bit of extra time in the morning for a second cup of coffee.
Well, that dream came true, and I can show you exactly how I did it and how you can repeat the same process for yourself.
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's a guidebook for every country in every language, and there are smartphone apps for instant translation to your native language.
Nowadays, it's easier than ever to get started making money online because there are so many more resources available to you, and you can just “follow the guidebook” to get where you need to go (owning a money-generating website).
So, back to the story of how I got started…
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, 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.
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.
Thanks to my affiliate websites, by 2013 I owned my own home, a brand new truck, and a motorcycle! As of 2021, I'm married with a son, and still working from home “full time” (about 3 hours a day).
Personally, I'm kind of done with traveling for now and enjoy being a homebody. I like tinkering with my house and going on walks with my wife. It's a simple life. No Lamborghini's and no private islands, but I have a family and a couple hobbies, and I'm good with that.
One More Cup of Coffee is about helping you craft your own version of the perfect life. Where do you see yourself next year? What about 10 years down the road?
The cool thing about starting an affiliate blog is that you can take your business anywhere in the world and work at any hour of the day, any days of the week. You don't need any qualifications or prerequisites to learn. No degree required! You can learn everything online, and learn at your own pace.
Making money from your blog is pretty simple, but it takes a lot of work. Don't expect this to be a get-rich-quick thing. If you're ready to put in the hours consistently over the next year or two, I'm ready to share my knowledge with you and help you start earning money on the internet, through your own blog.
- You pick the topic
- You pick the products
- You write the content
- You reap the rewards
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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.
Babs
Nat,
I signed up for wealthy affiliates some time ago but I never did anything with it because I didn’t know how to find a niche or have a product of my own to market. Does your course help with out to find niche or market other peoples product. and How hard is this to do. I may start a new account for my husband who is looking to a job from home. He knows a lot bout music and such. I just don’t know how to get started.. HELP please.
Nathaniell
I’m not sure when you joined, but WA has plenty of courses on how to pick a niche, plus, you can talk to me directly inside the community for further assistance!
Itai Fridman
Hi Nat.
I read your other post about Christianity which was very thorough., Accordingly I was wondering what rev stream one can expect focusing on 2-3 niches?
Best
Itai
Nathaniell
You can get a full time income from just one niche, so if you have enough time to do 2 or 3, then you’ll be set. Just focus on ONE to start with though! A large site can take up all your time!
GEORGE F. KERKHOFF
Dear Nathaniell:
I came across one of your e-mails (12/10/2015) whereby you offer a five days free training course! I did not open this mail until today and read about the course!
I am on your list for quite some time, at least two years, I decided to get started (again) in the Affiliate world!
I decided to sign up for the five days course; however, I was unable to do so! Did you discontinue it? Just inform me if you so desire!
Also, as a side note: Warn your “subscribers” to be very careful or rather not to get involved in any ‘business dealings’ with Accelerated Web Solutions!
Thanks a lot and GOD Bless,
George F.
Russell
Hey what’s up Nathaniell,
I’ve just start your 5 day email course on affiliate marketing and had a question about setting up a website. Do you know of any decent introduction WordPress program that teaches you how to build a great looking informative type affiliate website, based on prebuilt themes, and using my own domain and web hosting? I prefer doing that as opposed to hosting through wealth affiliate. Nothing against wealth affiliate, I just prefer a bit of independence.
And congratulations on your own little corner of internet success. What you’ve managed on your own is quite impressive.
On a side note, if your still looking for any input on investing ideas, or market structures in general, you’re welcome to shoot me a line. I’ve done pretty well across a few platforms.
Russell
Russell
Thanks Nathaniell.
Ill definitely take a look at your Niche Marketer’s guide. At fat stack looks pretty legit too. Nothing better than just raw technical step by step information. Would you say a wordpress beginner could learn how to setup and adjust the appearance of a website using just the information available on Fat Stacks? Or would WA be a better place to start, while relying on Fat Stacks for more for advanced strategy?
Much appreciates. I’ll be sure to use your links.
Nathaniell
Yeah, you can definitely learn the basics from FAT stacks, but it’s much less “hands on” like in WA. The info is there, and you can piece it together with extra training you find yourself outside, but if you run into problems, it’ll be hard to find 1-on-1 help.
If you’re a beginner, go with WA. FAT stacks is gonna have you spend a lot of money on content, images, ads, etc where WA is more of a bootstrap method. You can always invest in FAT Stacks later when you are making money or feel you want to try a new strategy.
Eric
Hello Nathaniell!!
I just want to say thank you, and the reason behind that thank you is that you are a great definition of hard work equals success!! I too was an ESL teacher in China for 4 years and moved back to the states back in 2012. I found WA a month ago and love it! while researching ideas I came across your site, I know I have a very long journey ahead of me but I also know that if I push forward no matter what that I will LEARN the best things that work and LEARN the things that don’t. I feel that, that is what makes people successful in this business they are not afraid to fail in order to learn what the best, fastest and strongest way to profit in this business is and grow it and make it better. Thank you for your encouragment! Take care and I hope you have even greater success in the future.
Nathaniell
Wow, your story sounds very similar to mine! Good luck in your journey towards building your own online business Eric. You can do it it!