Hi, and welcome to Day 1!
If you're reading Day 1 of my 5 day Email Course, then you have taken the crucial first step to starting your online business.
Today I'd like to talk a bit about what we'll be covering in this course, so you know what to expect in the coming days.
I also want to give you a broad overview of what you'll be doing as the owner of an online business, to set the stage for more details in future emails.
Many newbies to online marketing expect a “done for you” system that will allow them to profit in just a few days. Let's get that idea out of your head right now.
We're going to make some money…but it's going to take some time, and plenty of patience while you learn.
The concepts are simple. They are easy enough to understand that a normal type dude without a college education like myself can become a “success story”.
Still, even though the concepts are simple, actually doing them correctly will take some practice. Don't worry though, you'll have myself and a bunch of other successful people help you out as you grow as a new internet business owner.
What we'll cover in the this week
- What it means to do business online
- What is affiliate marketing
- How to make money with Amazon and other affiliate programs
- Choosing a direction for your new business
- Setting up your first website
- Building and expanding your business
- Popular business models
- Hype vs reality
- How to get started
- Where to get support
- Plus a couple more bonuses after the final day of the course
I will also have about 3 tasks for you to complete each day. These tasks are to get you started ‘taking action' – one of the most important factors of success. Remember, if you don't take action, everything is just theory. You can't buy anything with theoretical money.
So, I hope to see you in the coming days, because I am going to open your eyes to something that can truly change your life forever.
About Me & Affiliate Marketing
My name is Roderick, but on the internet I usually go by my middle name, “Nathaniell”. I've been an internet marketer for about 8 years now.
I hope to inspire you to find and meet your own goals. My site's not just about making money online, it's about crafting a kind of life for yourself that you have always wanted.
Affiliate marketing has changed my life. I started out as a English teacher in China making just $1,000 USD per month.
Now, I live in the US and have plenty of time to enjoy my many hobbies like motorcycles, diving, traveling, sailing, reading, and more! I want to teach you how to do the same thing.
You don't have to enjoy drinking coffee in the morning; you can use the free time and extra money of your new lifestyle to do anything you like!
This journey to owning an internet-based business wasn't all fun and games though. I had to do a lot of work to get where I am!
The good news is that I've already taken this path before, and will help you navigate your way to earning your first dollar.
Affiliate Marketing & You
This course is for complete newbies and intermediate affiliate website owners.
If you're already earning a full time income, you'll probably be bored with these lessons.
My suggestion would be to email me, or contact me privately inside Wealthy Affiliate to see if I can help you with something specific.
The concepts covered and tasks required in this course are pretty basic, but are essential to getting into the right mind-set to begin building the foundations of a successful, long-lasting, legitimate business.
Even if you have a bit of experience under your belt, it only takes a few minutes to skim down the page and look for nuggets of wisdom.
Many “gurus” out there teach garbage because it sounds cool, but it doesn't work.
You do not need to be an expert in anything to be able to benefit from this course, or from affiliate marketing.
I started out knowing absolutely nothing about computers, the internet, business, or marketing, and now I am a successful internet marketer.
I absolutely believe that you can do the same if you follow my footsteps.
Getting Started Advice
I was in your exact position eight years ago. I had no idea what I was going to “sell” online, or what the selling process looked like.
Based on my experiences as a newbie, here are some tips to keep in mind over the next few days.
1. Take it slow. The number one reason for people to quit in the beginning is that they feel overwhelmed. There's a lot of information to take in, and for a while, it will seem like everyone has a ‘head start' on you. Don't worry. This is YOUR journey. Take all the time you need.
Of course, it's vitally to take action too, but if something comes up and you need to take a break for a couple days, do it. The internet will still be here when you get back.
2. Forget about the money for now. I know it's a crazy idea, but there are some other essential concepts and skills you must learn before you can build a sustainable business. This is not a ‘get rich quick' scheme, and you will not be making money over night.
For example you need to learn how to write a good article for your website before you start promoting products!
Don't misunderstand, it is possible to make boat loads of cash doing this, and it makes some people into millionaires. That takes time though, and contrary to what some scammers want you believe, it's not possible to start making money right away. It took me 3 months to make my first $5.
3. Take Action, Take Action, Take Action. The one thing you will hear REAL internet marketers hammer into your head is that the most important thing right now is to take action. It simply means to DO something, not just read about it.
Even if you feel silly or stupid, try to do everything in the lessons. If you get stuck, ask for help.
You are going to make mistakes along the way. The secret is not to fear them. You must look at them not as a road block, but as one step forward in the right direction.
Conclusion
That's it for today. Tomorrow, we're going to get into some concrete business building examples, and even start looking at which direction you're going to take your business. Don't forget to look for [OM2C] in your inbox for your course material.
Tasks For Today:
Task 1: Create a Free Account at the WA Online Business Community
You should have done this already, but if you haven't, do it now. Remember! There's no credit card or personal info needed
There's no need to buy anything to complete my course! However, I'll be linking to some training and videos over the next couple days, and to view them, you'll need to sign up.
Task 2: Add a Profile Picture & Short Bio
I know it seems silly, but as you progress through your Online Entrepreneur Certification course there, having a finished profile will help you connect with the community. Other members want to connect with a real, human entrepreneur!
Please say hello on my profile to let me know you've signed up for my course. I ALWAYS help people that that sign up to WA through my course. You now have a 1-on-1 mentor to help you start your online business.
Task 3: Think about what you hope to accomplish by starting your own business.
Do you want more money? Do you want more time? Do you simply hate having a boss? It's different for everyone!
When you are clear about what your goals are, you will be able to focus more on the work that needs to be done. “Being rich” is not clear enough.
Task 4 (optional): Read About Me
I know that's a lot of reading for today, but you can save it for later if you like.
I was once in the same position as you, so, I am proof that this really works. I knew nothing when I got started, and now I do this full time.
PS. Today was just kind of an introduction day. In Day 2 I will tell you exactly how my business works and how I make money from my websites.
Thanks nathaniell
Excited to get started
Sweet! Welcome Paul
Thanks
You’re welcome Ambi!
The lesson is written in plain English, contains valuable info, it’s motivational and well organized.
Thanks Nataniel!
No problem Tom!
Great first lesson; It is really glad to have a website like this one I was searching for things to do online to make money on my free time and found your website so far is being very nice experience, I hope I can learn some good things that can help me get my business started, my husband and I have a landscaping company that we started this year so I am trying to learn more about marketing strategies to gain clients, I hope I can get some great info int his course.
“Local Marketing” with your website will definitely be a great way to get more clients. You’ll be surprised how much traction you can get with a simple website that gets people to call you. Lots of folks get sick of Yelp and Google reviews, and want to know more about a company before signing up. I’m dealing with landscapers now. I picked the company with the best reviews on Yelp, and so far, they are not doing very well. I wish I would have tried a different company!
Hi Nathaniell,
I am soo glad to come across your website as I now feel truly inspired on this opportunity in turning my life around 🙂
Thank you soo much! 🙂
Hope you enjoy the training Sylvia!
Thank you Nathaniel my desire is to benefit more from this
Thanks Nathaniell
I look forward to the days ahead.
Awesome!
You’re in Modesto.
I worked in Modesto and grew up in Stockton. What a small world.
Now I live in Long Beach, CA.
I am ready to learn. What to travel and write.
Nice to meet you Joe!
Hi Nathaniell, I have completed my first day of training and I am super excited for coming days. Thanks for being here
Regards
Hello Nathaniell. It’s fantastic to meet you. It’s as if you have been reading my mind. I have wanted to do something along these lines for several years after reading “The 4 Hour Work Week” but was overwhelmed by my current job and all the information out there and I’m no technical web genius! But want to live my own life on my terms as you have. I’ve finished my first day and, again, THANK YOU!
You’re welcome John! I’m a huge fan of the 4-hour work week too!
Thanks Nataniell, for willing to be my 1-on-1 coach.
You’re welcome Nelson!
just super excited waiting to see my future drastically change thanks nathaniel
Hi Nathaniell,
Thanks for your inspiration and great articles.
I followed your advice and after a few years of playing the master procrastinator role I decided to take action and hop into the Wealthy Affiliate through the Day 1 email from your free course.
Thanks again and all the best!
Welcome Nuno!
I initially signed up after I moved back at the end of June, but I got distracted and failed to follow through. Now I’m back, probably due to needing to get a job and absolutely promising myself that this will be the last one I ever have (because sometime within a year or so, I can quit the rat race for good).
Thanks for the info, Nathaniell. I look forward to the rest as well as my time on WA.
Welcome back Nate!
I really enjoy your content and story. About a year ago, I signed up with WA, but with information overload, I did not do much on the site. This last week I decided I want to do online marketing so
I went back to WA. Thank you
Welcome back!
Hi Nathaniell! I received your course a few weeks ago, I’ve failed so many times I was giving up but today I’m jumping on your course as I believe you’re on the level. I’ll check back through my progress.
Hi Nathaniel, I really appreciate your engagement here. I am 58 years young and a totally newbie in internet businesses. From my own experience and some friends of mine I have become sceptical about all the promises and guarantees that are so easily made in most of the websites I visited. as a former financial consultant my principle always was to be honest and fair to my customers and only recommend what I would do for myself. I have a good feeling about you and Wealthy Affiliates. I am ready to learn and my goal is to increase my income for me and my family. Thanks so far and let the journey begin.
Hi Nathaniell,
D-Day 1: joined w.a., read your stuff, completing the profile today.
Then we will go about changing my family’s financial circumstances for the better, and the quality of life too!
Regards,
Alberto
Welcome Alberto!
I’m not gonna lie Nathaniell, I’m a little scared. I’m going to plug my way through the training here and on WA and hope the information I learn will help me formulate a solid plan moving forward. I look forward to speaking with you further. I’m glad I found your site.
Hi nathaniel, Just went thro your first day course. Inspiring start.In parallel going thro WA training also. As you said its little overwhelming at present especially choosing your niche. Hope to lock it down ASAP.
Hi Nate good to come across you, I was seriously considering following Ewen Chias mold so I am definitely switching tracks here. I trust you man… You seem like a good guy to learn from. I’m hoping for the best… About time I get back into my field. Will be in touch.
Thanks John. Glad you found my review useful and have started your training.
Hi Nathaniell,
How are you. I hope I joined through your website because that’s how I found out WA from your blog :). Please confirm if I did. Thank you and best wishes, Ruthie
Thanks Ruthie! I’ll have to check your username to make sure that you are registered as my referral. Send me a message in WA and I can double check for you!
Hi Nathaniel. I joined your course One More Cup of Coffee where you ask your students to join WA free. I can’t do that since I was at WA for 2 years. Didn’t do much cause (like you mentioned in your lesson) I became overwhelmed and just quit. How can I join WA as a paying member and still be your referral ? Please let me know what steps I need to take to do that. I’m looking forward to looking you up for help when I join WA again. That’s the only way I think I can succeed. Thanks
Unfortunately, if you already have an account, you cannot re-join under me. You can, however still join as a regular member, and take advantage of the community support available to every member!
Cristina, use a different email address.
Two main things that i hope to accomplish by starting my own business:
To have more freedom, and to have more control of my own life. (apart from making money, of course! :-P)
You can absolutely achieve those things! Having more control and freedom is something that everyone wants, and creating an online business is one of the best ways to get them. Looking forward to working with you Judy!
Hey there, Nathaniell!
It has been said that doing lessons over will help to anchor new concepts. I was in a whirlwind financially and with family when I signed up thru your One More Cup of Coffee site over two years ago. I have had, as you may remember, a couple of major stalls (family members cancer and another’s suicidal depressed state) but never let go of my hope and desire to make this work, indeed determined to do so.
This year, a little glitch with getting my annual membership paid cause a 3 minute loss of membership logging back in so I could pay for my membership with my PayPal account. And now I get to come back to the very beginning with you. With access to your training and resources. BONUS!
I have always appreciated your clear communication within the WA community and now I’m looking forward to these next five days. REALLY COOL! I expect some of what you will share, I know, but I’ll tell you what, I’m going to treat it like I don’t know a thing and make sure I really understand.
Last week I received my very first $3.13 check as compensation/commission from my website. From everything I have seen and read, that is just the beginning of good things to come!
Thanks for ALL you do.
Linda
A tiny first check is the way everyone experiences their first taste of online earnings. Mine was a $5 sale that came as a huge surprise back in 2010, and it’s been onward and upward since then!
Hi Nathaniell,
Today’s Date is> Tuesday, December 8,2015
Today is My Lucky Day in the Episode of Affiliate Marketing Tutorials!!!!
I FOUND You on the Internet Quite by Accident and Am Very Happy That I Did!
Since 2008, I have invested thousands of dollars trying to learn internet affiliate marketing and
until today, just before accidently finding you on the internet, I was actually becoming very frustrated and discouraged with all those “so-called” pieces of training I wasted my money on.
The large tinvestments I’ve made so far are all lost causes for me and a very hard lesson for me to know that I was “scammed” by so many so -called “experts of internet affiliate marketing mentors and trainers!”
After reading over your website and getting to know you, I made the decision to follow you and hence, I joined from your Wealthy Affiliate link and …
Viola!!!…. HERE I AM!
I have to admit, it has been my fourth time returning to WA … !!! UGH! How Embarrassing!
But now, after all, that I have experienced and wasted money on, I am here TO STAY simply because
You will be around to assist me in learning all there is to learn on this subject.
Now I can look forward to a better end result of learning how to be an internet affiliate marketer!
Thanks to you!
BTW … I decided in 2008 to end my 34-year career in Network Marketing …and will be selling all of
them when my New Business in Affiliate Marketing replaces the total sum of residual incomes from each of those businesses.
So I will be very dedicated and committed to this entire association of Wealthy Affiliate and You!
Thanks for being there when I needed to re-establish my belief in Internet Affiliate Marketing!
Boy, am I looking forward to all this with you!
With the greatest appreciation, I shall remain,
Kenneth
Kenneth
Wow, thanks for the awesome message Kenneth, and I’m glad to see you are excited to get started. I think you’ll find a HUGE difference between affiliate marketing and network marketing in that you are not dependent on one particular company, and do not have to rely on team performance to get paid. YOU do the work, and YOU earn the income.
Looking forward to working with you!
Nathaniell. I have been at Wealthy Affiliate for quite sometime now and am still looking for my way forward. I always appreciated your great trainings in the WA and also have been to this site at the beginning months sometime back. I should have joined you on this site at that time. I now stumble again upon your site and find out that you are one of the honest senior members at WA. What you are doing is just simple, straight forward. You are really great, awesome. I trust you. Now I am with you, please count on me as one of your students.
It sounds like you joined WA, but are not my referral. I wish I could help everyone personally, but I have to focus my efforts on those that have joined through my website. Please make use of the extensive support network within WA and I”m sure you’ll be fine!
dear nath., consider doing a private mentoring outside WA referrals.you could be the alternative for the contries INDIAN/NIGERIA that WA do not support.God bless you.
I would love to do something like that, but I simply don’t have the time. Outside of helping my referrals in WA, I also run my own websites which make money!
Hello Nathaniel
I’ve been reading your blog now and you come across as genuinely honest and sincere. You convinced me quite a while ago of the benefits of WA and I decided that I will sign up once I have some spare time on my hands. That time has come, signing up now.
Cool deal man! See you inside!
I’m really looking forward to this. I have some big goals in mind for a lot of things, and this will really aid me in that journey.
Excellent! Keep me in the loop with your progress 🙂
l;’ve been a member oh WA for some time and an angel with gold wings came to rescue me I feel good about this.. is like having one lesson at time.my concentration was poor for me for a time I lost tr
hree of m y family within four years AND NOW YOU CAME ALONG I GAING A GREAT FRIEND GOOD HELPING HANDS can work and this do it right I been looking for something to explain to not much overload formation can wait to get starte the best luck for you and your family
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Hello Nathaniel,
I’ve been reading your blog for a few weeks now and you come across as genuinely honest and sincere. You convinced me quite a while ago of the benefits of WA and I decided that I will sign up once I have some spare time on my hands. That time has come, signing up now. 🙂
Thanks,
Wouter
Cool man! Great having you here.
Nathaniell, the link doesn’t work to get signed up for WA, per your instructions. I tried in a couple different browsers. There seems to be something missing (a box to check off?). When I click the “get started now” button, nothing happens. Please advise
Is it on my website or on the WA website? Which country are you in?
Hi Nathanielle! Nice to make contact with you here. I am looking forward to an awesome experience with WA! Thank you for your introductory email and yes I have set up my WA account as of earlier today. I did take a few hours to spend with the family being July 4th : )) but I am back at the drawing board for a few hours tonight. P.S. I watched your You Tube videos last week and I got through Day 8…so I am SUPER excited to start! Thanks for your guidance!
Hi Nathaniell, I’m glad I found your site, love the name of it and you seem like a nice dude 🙂
I have a Q for you: I signed up in WA some years back, but haven’t been in there for 3 or 4 years. Now I wish I hadn’t already signed up, because I would have liked to have you as a 1-on-1 mentor. Is there some way that could happen anyway, even if I can’t sign up to WA through your course? I’m determined this time to succeed. I really liked “forget about the money for now”, becuase it makes it into something fun to learn and get skilled doing. Although I will of course have future money in mind 🙂
Glad you like the site and my training so far! Unfortunately, there’s no way to sign up under a new person, and I don’t do any private mentoring outside of my WA referrals. It’s a bummer for sure, for both of us, but you still have the awesome support of the community behind you, and there are lots of smart people there that can answer your questions via live chat or the in the classroom area!
Ok Nathaniell, thanks for your swift answer! I still look forward to the rest of your lessons here, and then I’ll embark on the journey to my future 🙂 You’re a fresh breeze in the internet marketing world! Thank you for that.
Haha. Thanks Katrin. It is pretty rare to speak to the actual person behind the website, and that’s what I try to do here on my own site 🙂
Hello
I came across your site reading a honest review about Nancy reviews on myinternetbuissnet.com I brought this and I want my money back after reading about scams online. I have been trying for sometime now about 2 years or longer to have my online business but. I feel close than I miss something I am a member of wealthy affiliate already. But haven’t been using the account why I kind of forgot. Anyway I’m glad I found you and ready to get started.
Yes, Nancy is a notorious scammer and pretty much everything she recommends is worthless.
WA is definitely the way to go. Good luck getting started!
I wanted to join WA for awhile but not just from any link. I’m so pleased that I found your site and have joined from your link. I hope to learn a lot from you and other members of the WA community.
Sure thing Sam! Glad you have joined up and are starting your courses 🙂
Hello Nathaniell!
I just joined WA through your site and am excited to learn and begin growing. Looking forward to all the lessons!
I am so glad that I found your website! Really enjoy it especially the BNMG series! I just signed up to WA….Thank you for all of the great value you share Nathaniell! Looking forward to more training!
I’m glad that someone reads those things! I found your profile in WA. Keep me in the loop with how your website is going man. See you in Day 2.
Good job buddy, looking forward for more training- love also to know what kind of theme you are using
Tom
Thanks Tom. See you in Day 2. The theme I use for my site is from Studiopress!
Thank you Nathaniell, your blog is very helpful. Thank you for teaching us. I am looking forward for day 2.
Great Andreja! Glad to have you on board. I’ve seen your comments in WA and am keeping up with your progress.