Lloyd Hester

Category: Making Money Online

  • Working From Home and Making A Living

    Working From Home and Making A Living

    Following on from my last post, I thought I would show you that I do sometimes practise what I preach.

    I have just setup a new website to sell portrait paintings which are done from photographs of the subject.

    They make ideal gifts and can be posted anywhere worldwide.

    People who want their portrait painted simply upload their photos and then they are passed onto the relevant artist who begins work on the painting.

    Once complete a photo is sent to the client of the work who then approves the painting and pays for it.

    The portrait is then posted out to by recorded delivery.

    All this is done on auto-pilot. All we have to do is match up the custmer with the artist and take our cut.

    The hardest bit is to promote the site and this is the skill that few people have.

    Fortunately for me and not wanting to be big headed, but I am pretty good at it 🙂

    Check out the site www.PortraitPaintingGallery.com and look for Isabellas Portrait. It is Stunning and very reasonably priced too.

    In fact here it is as well as a couple of other recent paintings that they have done.

  • Setting Up Online – What Sort Of Business Is Best

    Setting Up Online – What Sort Of Business Is Best

    When setting up an online business there are a number of things that you need to consider. Most people say that you should setup a website about something that you know about. I disagree, the most important thing in my book is that you can automate everything and that you can run it from anywhere.

    Setting up an online business should give you the freedom to go where you want without affecting your business. If you set up a website to sell the bird cages that you make in your garden shed then in my book you defeat the main objective of running an online business. You are tied to your garden shed!!!

    If you become an agent for a company that manufactures bird cages and you set up a web site to sell their products for a commission then you have a perfect business. You promote the site and pass all the orders and hassle to the manufacturer. Whether you choose to live in Toronto or Tobago, Manchester or Maui you can run your business.

    The same can be said of digital down-loadable products like software or ebooks.

    Also try to make it a business that does not take a lot of technical knowledge that will require you to be spending time on emails and support questions. The more that you can outsource and pass to others the better.

    With e-books the customer comes to your site and buys the product, they pay through paypal and are then taken to the download page. They then download the book and bobs your uncle. They have what they have ordered and you have the money. All sorted while you are asleep in your comfortable bed or swimming with the kids in the Indian Ocean in my case 🙂

    So, bare that in mind, if you want to setup a business that will make you money and enable you to enjoy life to the full. Don’t get involved in a business that is going to take up more of your time than you want to give.

    Morgan playing in the pool at our house in Bali
  • Making Money Online Experts

    Making Money Online Experts

    I am amazed at the amount of people trying to sell how to make money online courses. Yet these so called experts have never made any money online themselves.

    They read a book or course, copy it and try to sell it. Promising untold millions, overnight success and give up your day job.

    They say copy my formula and you will be rich beyond your wildest dreams.

    It is sad actually as they are aiming at those people who really need the money and can least afford to be wasting on these false promises or who really need to make some money. They spend their hard earned cash on one course after another and none of them work.

    Whilst there are some great ways to make money online the big problem with is that the sales letter promise the world and are very compelling, they are designed to draw you in and take you through a sales process that will have your drooling and pulling out your wallet as if you are in a trance.

    The unfortunate thing is that very few of these courses actually help you make real money online and this is for several reasons.

    1. People buy them and do not take any action
    2. They follow the process but give up when they reach the first hurdle
    3. The course does not tell you how to really make money, they miss out the meat of the strategy and then try to upsell you on a much more expensive course.
    4. The stragey that the guru is using works because he has friends with massive lists
    5. The guy uses automated systems to really crank up the system and these are not easy to use for the technically challenged, which is most of us trying to make money online.
    6. The system just does not work.

    There are just so many scams.

    The first thing that you need to do if you want to make money online is to look at what you are good at and decide what area of the Internet that you want to make money in.

    You can go into blogging, e-commerce, training courses, marketing, trading, eBay and so many other types of businesses. List your strengths , skills and abilities and then choose an Internet business that will suit you.

    Don’t read the shiny sales letters and get taken in by the promises of overnight success. It just does not happen like that.

  • Making Money Online Experts

    Making Money Online Experts

    I am amazed at the amount of people trying to sell how to make money online courses. Yet these so called experts have never made any money online themselves.

    They read a book or course, copy it and try to sell it and guess what it says?

    All you have to do is write and ebook on how to make money online and sell it!! This is like the old envelope address scam that was popular in the 80’s.

    There are loads of ways to make money but it is so easy to get carried away with the hype and sale pitch. I knowI bought most of the crap out there. Most of it I already know and could have put it together better myself.

    The thing is most of it is really easy to do. It is just about following a system and having a strategy to follow.

    I suppose that most people like the idea of working for themselves but not the idea of working by themselves. This is why franchsies work so well.

    So the best thing to do is find a group of like minded people and follow one, YES one formula and see it through to conclusion.

    There are so many ways to make money and you need to pick one that suits you.

    I am creating a free course called the start smart system which will help you choose exactly the business that is right for you.

    We will look at all of the different ways to make money and help you choose one that is right for you.

    Sign up in the box on the top right and you will be the first to know when it is up and ready to go.

    You can check out www.startsmartsystem.com and watch the video.

    until next time 😎

  • Plan your Work and Work Your Plan

    Plan your Work and Work Your Plan

    It is so important to have a plan to work to.  Now, I don’t mean goals, although these are important in my opinion.

    I have learnt this the hard way over many years and the difference, once you learn your lesson is amazing.

    if you do not plan your work by creating a list of things to do and following that plan you will be like a ship in the open seas without a compass, or SAT NAV these days!

    I also try and do the to do list at the end of the day for the following day.

    For some reason I tend to be able to think clearer about what has to be done  for the following day rather than trying to make my list at the start of my day.

    If you are going to work online in you own internet business then you need to be as efficient as possible.

    Outsourcing is a great way to build your business which you shoul do as soon as posible. However, you will not be able to do it unless you are able to list the job that needs doing in order and in a way that makes sense.

    So get into the habit of making a plan and following it and then, when you come to employing your first member of staff you will already be  a step  or two ahead of most people online today.

    Make your daily list of all the things that you need to do and then prioritise them and start at the most important. another tip is to start the thing that you least want or like to do. Set yourself a time limit and get stuck in. Try to get as much done in the time you have allowed and don’t get distracted. Focus all of your attention on that task.

    You will be suprised at how much more you wll accomplish and before long you will be doing it every day 🙂