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.
Paul
Hi Nathaniell,
I also touched on WA some time ago, when its ads appeared a lot more sleazy and difficult to tell from scammers’ ads. I have signed up to learn more a few weeks back but the spam mail is rather uninteresting.
I have a website now somewhat completed and plan to market forex data and research which is highly valuable and of great significance to the average retail fx trader, who usually is in a perpetual drawdown. I have been very profitable and also quite unprofitable; but there are som unusual things i have discovered which i am putting in an ebook and hope to sell this year (i have a local publisher and have written about 1/3 of the book but it’s a long way from being marketable).
So, i suspect that WA is merely another programme that sells affiliate plans to others to sell WA stuff. You say the following:
Now I want to share my knowledge with you and help you start earning money on the internet, though your own website.
You pick the topic
You pick the products
You write the content
You reap the rewards
But, do you mean:
Now I want to share my knowledge with you and help you start earning money on the internet, though your own Wealthy Affiliate website.
You pick the WA topic
You pick the WA products
You write the WA content
You reap the WA rewards
Please clarify, before i go any further.
Thanks!
Paul
Nathaniell
I understand the confusion Paul, but I do really mean what I say, in that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PROMOTE WA. The main course is you choosing your topic. I have hundreds of ideas researched on my website here and there are 10’s of thousands more possibilities. Affiliate programs range from computers to weight loss to traveling and more.
The free version of the membership does not require a credit card, so “proof” of this is easy to come by. You can view the first 10 lessons for free and see what I mean.
WA does offer an alternative, to promote their service. This is only suggested if you truly can’t think of your own niche. You’d be surprised at how many people just don’t have an interest in anything at all and will just do what’s handed to them. But many others are tired of dealing with scams, and would like to promote a legitimate “how to make money online” service. Whatever their reasoning, some people do choose to promote WA.
That’s not the main course though. The main course has you pick your own topic. In this case, it sounds like you’re interested in something related to forex trading. Right? That’s a massively profitable niche, so I wish you good luck!
jaz
hello sir
Do you have any idea about Kolotibablo site?
Nathaniell
I haven’t heard of it, but will check it out. Something about making money solving captchas…but I can’t imagine you can make much money with it simply because it’s such a menial task.
Neeru
Hey I want to start my own thing online but don’t know how n what to start with…plz suggest or share ur experiences….
Nathaniell
You can join the courses featured on my site or use my free training to get started.
A.k Shunmoogum
Hello I’m in south africa what options do I have here to make a few extra bucks as we say
Margie
Hi There! Odd that it seems I first came across Wealthy Affilliate during the early phase of its beginning. Now I am back here again after so many years and disappointment trying to find what works long term and produce results.
I was about to never trust anything ever again tried of the hype and let down time after time. I will apply the actions if results are obtainable . Looking for results.
Mrhodes
Nathaniell
I have heard this story many times Margie! People come across WA, then fade away to try other things that promise faster and better results. Years later, they come back to WA realizing that making money online doesn’t sound so fun when you realize how much work you have to put in, but Wealthy Affiliate is a company that will be with you through the whole journey. I’ve been a member for 7 or 8 years now. I can’t even remember how long!
Christine
Hey Nathaniell, great stuff. Thanks for sharing. Curious if you could somehow describe average work hour stats (% per day, per week)? Those same stats provided for the early stages of the biz and at more established levels? I’d love to get a sense of the lifestyle this has afforded you. We’re a young family and time is, well, precious 🙂
Nathaniell
In the beginning, I was a bit crazy and did at least 5-6 hours per day, sometimes more. That’s why I saw results so fast. Some people are smarter than me and do it more casually, but I made a lot of mistakes, so had to redo things constantly.
Nowadays, I still work a lot, but I have a lot of projects going. Maintaining this website, maintaining old websites, building a new one, providing support in WA. I’m a busy guy. But if I wanted to I could chill out more and just be happy where I am. I make enough income to support a family, so technically I don’t have to work that much, and sometimes I do just the minimum for a they day then work on my hobbies. It really depends on what type of income you want to build.
Now that I’m self employed I realize that I need to create my own retirement, a safety net, and pay for my own health insurance. So being a self-employed business owner is not always “relaxing”. It means you’re on your own in a lot situations.
But it also means i get to be home all day, take days off whenever I want, and plan my work around my life instead of plan my life around my work.
It’s not “laptop on the beaches” freedom like the gurus sell, but it is an amount of freedom that I’m happy with!