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.
Loriann
Hi Nathaniell,
I have been looking for a while for something that I can do as a side job to make an extra income stream. I work full time as a retail manager. Everything that I have found appears to be a scam. I just happened to stumble upon your site and I must say that I am intrigued. I’m not looking to make 10k/mo. I’m looking to increase my income by a couple k/mo. I’m extremely motivated and can do anything that I put my mind to. My question for you is,”Am I the only person out there that has no idea what to do or how to actually get started? I’m very smart and I have a great work ethic. I’m also tenacious as hell but I don’t consider myself someone who has any “special” talents other than that I am a hard worker. When you talk about finding a Niche what exactly do you mean? I have no special talents, nothing that I would say that I’m an expert in but I am still very interested in building an income stream on line. Is this something that I can still do?
These questions may sound a bit silly to you but I’m pretty sure that there are quite a few people out there with he same questions as I have.
Nathaniell
You are not the only beginner out there Loriann! When I got started, I remember trying to get started with various programs, and I would always ask, “what do I sell”. I just didn’t get it. Wealthy Affiliate can help you decide what to make your business about, and how to get traffic to your website. Those are the main two ingredients for earning a living online. Picking a subject, and writing content about it.
Even if you are not a expert now, it’s relatively easy to do online research. You just need to have the confidence to actually publish what you think on a topic! Most of what we read online is opinion, not fact. Even big websites hire out articles to be written by staffers, not experts. So with a little practice, you can write better content about your niche than big websites who cover popular topics, but not in-depth.
Scott
Nathaniell,
What did you mean in an above comment here:
Volume of content is important if you are going the “white hat” route and not link building (like I do).
What does “link building” mean?
Thank you!
Nathaniell
“link building” means actively searching to get links from other blogs. You may pay for them, or offer to write articles, or try to insert your links on other websites with other methods. It’s ‘building links’ to your website actively versus letting them happen naturally (other people linking to your website of their own will).
Ashish Saxena
Thank you, Nathaniell
This article helps me a lot. I’m also looking for online money making by posting my drawing videos on YouTube. I read your YouTube article as well and now image is clear in my mind and feeling very satisfied. Let’s see how it goes…
thank you so much Nathaniell 🙂
Nathaniell
You’re welcome Ashish! Glad I could help!
Steve
Thanks Nathaniell for the info.
Just to clarify, to earn $500/month would not require 5+ hours per day. But I can imagine that $15k/month would require 5+ hours per day. I already have a website and am familiar with WordPress templates +plugin’s so am hoping that helps. I am looking to begin with about 2 hours daily and see how far it takes me. I have signed up for your 5 day course and I am intrigued.
Nathaniell
There’s really no direct connection between X amount of hours = Y amount of income. It’s just a best guess to say you really gotta hit it hard in the beginning. Volume of content is important if you are going the “white hat” route and not link building (like I do). Stacking up enough content on your site to garner enough traffic to make sales takes a lot of time in the beginning, where as later on, after you have a few hundred posts ranking, you can chill out a bit and post less if you want.
If you’re familiar with WordPress and all the basics of setting up your site, 90% of your work will just be content creation (and social media if you go that route). After you get traffic, you can start dedicating more time to conversion optimization.
Starting with 2 hrs per day is totally fine. Avoid burnout! Once you get those first sales it’ll light a fire under your butt to dedicate more time. Just be sure to push through that moment when you start to think “Ugh, this will never work!”. Because it does work. Success is right around the corner. Sometimes you have to zig and zag a bit before you get there though.
Keep in touch Steve!
Steve Barlow
Hi Nathaniell,
Thanks for your great website and articles. Your professionalism and hard work comes through. Congratulations.
I am thinking of joining WA but wanted to get a better steer on the required level of workloads. I assume that there is a lot of research/reading/tutorials to go through in the initial phases and then it is all about creating the content. As an example, if someone wanted to earn $500/month what would the first 6 months of workload look like? And would it require daily work or could you work alternate days (due to other commitments).
Thanks Nathaniell.
Regards, Steve
Nathaniell
If you really want to shoot for $500/day in the first six months my guess is that you would have to dedicate 5+ hours per day. That is assuming you have no previous experience, and are doing all the work yourself (not outsourcing). This is just a guess based on my own workload, and of course no income is guaranteed. Basically, it takes a lot of work to get going. You can definitely tailor your schedule later, or, what I do, is just take the long road to those first earnings. I had a few sales at the six month mark of my first business, but nothing close to an income. I was doing about 1-3 hours per day at that point, but after I got serious and started doing more hours, I saw much faster results.
The combination of having site already running (from the six months of previous work), then the added hours of content creation and social media promotion meant the 2nd six months of my business grew a lot faster!