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.
Stephen Mol
So back in 2011, I was going to get back into Internet Marketing, but then I started finding out that a lot of things were changing for the worse for the most part with google putting out new things such as panda and penguin which as a result, caused a lot of internet marketers to start losing a lot of money.
I did join wealthy affiliate, tried to do some of the things they have but found it hard. I have a very hard time coming up with ideas which I found out is very critical in internet marketing.
Nathaniell
Times of change are also times of opportunity. When Google knocked down all those sites, it made room for high quality sites to take their place!
Regarding coming up with ideas – did you ask the community for help? They are great at brainstorming!
Peter Agnew
Dear Nathaniell
I have been following you since 14th of December 2013. I doubt you would remember me I subscribed until 29th of June 2014. The reason I cancelled was due to the fact that I was receiving hundreds of emails a week, looking for the right opportunity to make me “millions” with very little input from me! Disastair and despair!!
I am looking for a mentor to assist me in making my first commission. I would love to think, just with a “push of a few buttons” the money will come running in. I do realise that is a fool’s errand!!
What I am looking for is an affiliate in which I will make an income even if it starts off at $5 per week. Naturally, I don’t want to earn $5 per week, I would want to earn considerably more. I’m not talking about millions but rather having a good structured monthly income which would see me making a reasonable salary in which I could buy my wife nice items which she thoroughly deserves. In particular to get her to leave dispairing job!
Nathaniell, thank you for taking the time to listen. May The Lord keep you safe and well, I look forward to hearing from you. Yours In Christ, Peter
Nathaniell
It’s definitely possible to join an affiliate program and start making money slowly, then grow your business. The issue is that there is no correlation between making a small amount of money and it being “easier”. It takes just as much work to make your first $5 as it does to make your first $100. Most of the time, people have to work for several months before they make their first sale. Then sales are sporadic for several months after that, and if they are consistent, they can be making consistent sales after a year or so. It just depends.
But don’t be fooled into thinking that by just hoping for “$5 per month” that it will be easier to get there. It still takes a lot of work!
It’s possible though. That’s exactly how I started.
Ricky
Hi Nathaniell,
I came in from another site, but that’s how small business people get a start in this world.
The online world is an interesting one, and you have seemed to of forged a well deserved place in it. My advice to you is to follow (USA) Craig Ballantyne and look at how he spends his day, he is very disciplined & paradoxically creates freedom through his structured day.
All the Best from Perth, Western Australia.
Nathaniell
Yeah, that’s something I’m terrible about. I’ll have to check out his site!
Anthony
I have been making a lot research on how to make an online income, even though i have to start from $1/day i don’t mind, but those who i came across are making it very difficult because of the amount charging for their softwares or registration, then i begin to ask myself a question, can i really make money online like you do, if there is any advice that you can render, i am at your mercy. Thanks.
Nathaniell
Anyone can do what I’ve done. I did not specialize in this stuff before I got started. I know that because I started off a complete newbie, that I can teach other newbies to do the same.
Robert
What is your opinion of Mike Hersh and his biz in a box cash funnel?
Nathaniell
Haven’t tried it or investigated! I’ll add it to my list.