Dark Venge
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- Dec 27, 2018
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Here’s my advice for all those fiddling with blogs to make money.
First, a blog is not a business.
It’s a distribution channel.
A blog should act as way to funnel people to your business.
If you own a local business and you share flyers in your neighborhood to promote your business you wouldn’t say you are in the flyer business would you?
Take Adsense To The Backyard And Shoot It In The Head:
Forget Adsense.
Adsense or any other form of ad monetization is the worst way to make money online.
Why are you making things hard on yourself bro?
If you’re relying on ads for online income as an average internet marketer you are dumb as Bleep. You owe your math teacher in school an apology.
The traffic levels to make ads work for you can’t be done by 99.9% of you.
Do the math.
Average conversion payout on a clicked ad on your site is $0.1. That’s a lot of traffic you will need to stack cash even with a 5% conversation rate.
Side note: Most successful internet marketer will sacrifice a goat to the gods of the internet if they can get a 1% conversion rate on their offers.
Forget ads. That’s for the dumbwits.
So what should you do?
Forget starting a business or optimizing an online business model or any of the the latest fad your online guru is promoting.
Here’s the most straight forward way to make money online:
Learn a skill > sell that skill.
Kapish.
Do both sides of the equation well and you will line your pockets with dineros.
While you are struggling with ads on your blog and shuffling pixels around, Nigerians are banking $30,000 per month on Upwork.
Granted that’s not easy. It’s straight forward and simple.
I use to blog like a mad man.
I made cash.
But I was playing in the small league until I learned a skill and started selling it.
I closed an industrial consultant last Friday for a website redesign and I’m hosting their new site tomorrow.
I got a wire transfer of 450k(play money) this week.
Like a boss.
That’s a lot of ad clicks to catch up.
Pick a high ROI skill (a skill as close to the money as possible) and offer that skill to businesses.
There are a lot of freelance platforms that have done the job for you by aggregating potential clients. So you don’t even need to do any marketing. Just send good proposals and make bank.
If you doubt any of this just go search on google: Top earning Nigerian freelancers.
Click on an Upwork link so you get the data straight from the birds mouth.
I went for a freelance meetup (sorry you can’t get in unless you are banking $10,000/month) yesterday and the least earning person in the room was doing $15k dollars a month.
I’m talking verified earnings.
This is not a cake work. If you’re doing backflips already settle down and calm your tits.
It’s load of hard work.
The reason why a lot of people don’t follow this route is because they are lazy mofos.
They want to sit at home in their pajamas and write stupid blogs filled with eye scratching sentences constructed in a language they call English.
Go learn how to code? Oh no, that’s too hard.
Go learn app dev? Gee, I’m a dumb donut, how am I suppose to learn that?
Go learn copywriting? Dude, what’s copywriting?
Here’s the news flash:
If you’re struggling to make money, soaking garri everyday and generally just frustrated with life, here’s why life is hard for you:
YOU HAVE NO SKILL!
The difference between the guys that rule and conquer the world and those that are street bums are skills. One group of people have them in abundance. The others? They can’t learn a skill out of a wet paper bag.
You want to make money online?
Sell that good for nothing blog. Let the domain name/hosting run out. Never install Wordpress ever in your life!
You think Dangote is fiddling around with blogs?
You think Mark Essien has time for SEO.
You think Jason Njokwu is writing yet another TOP 10 Celebrity blog posts?!
Oh please.
Stop being a sissy and go learn a high ROI skill and sell that to businesses.
That’s it.
You don’t need any money to do this. So that’s the excuse of ‘but I’m very poor’ thrown in the bin.
All the worlds knowledge is on that thing you carry around snap chatting and retweeting yet another Davido’s jet living life.
I started a challenge this year to show people how simple this was if you apply yourself.
The challenge was to make $1000 per month from scratch again within a year Freelancing.
I deleted all my freelance accounts so I could replicate a total noob/beginner.
And...
I surpassed the income goal I set for myself.
I got three remote jobs with companies in India, an Independent Aussie and a firm in Germany.
Some of the people that followed my thread and the challenge did amaze balls things just in few months as total beginners.
Here’s the caveat though:
Many people focus on marketing, ideas, business models, the latest hacks, spamming and all sort of external stuff when they are trying to make money.
A billionaire (in Naira) mentor of mine gave me one advice I have found to be bulletproof if you want to get to the pinnacle of life:
Invert what most people do.
Most people >>> external (a focus on things outside of themselves. Things not in their control).
You (the warrior) >>>> internal (focus on yourself)
The trick to make this work is to shift your mentality inward. Focus on the skill (whatever it is you run with) you are learning and be very good at it.
Instead of spending 1 hour learning the skill and 10 hours promoting yourself or doing external stuff, reverse that process.
Spend 10 hours learning the skill and 1 hour doing any other shitty thing.
My point:
Pour all your energy on getting absolutely good at what you learn. Becoming totally world class at it.
When I first started my freelance journey I picked copywriting to start with.
You know what I use to do?
I use to write 20 copies everyday. Every damn day! Told you this wasn’t a cake walk.
Everyday I take a pen and notebook.
I go online.
I find anything that rubbed my emotions in a good way. Anything that made me want to click an article. Anything that made me want to buy something. Anything I read that made me go ‘wow’.
I took that thing and I copied it word for word on my notepad. I was internalizing how it was written.
I did this so I could also write that way.
So I could make people do what it is I want them to do.
That’s what Copywriting is about.
Whatever skill you pick, have the same sort of devotion toward that skill.
Here’s what happens after:
There’s something about humans.
We know quality when we see it.
We are drawn to Quality.
We will open our wallets and splurge any amount when we see good stuff.
Look at a Lamborghini.
Have you ever seen their ad on Tv or them blabbering on a radio? Have you seen any of their banner ads online?
But if I were to ask you what car you would absolutely get if you had all the money in the world, I bet a Lamborghini will be top on your list.
Or a Ferrari.
Or a Benz.
Or a fucking amazing car.
You know why?:
It’s quality!
These brands shifted the focus internally.
They focused on their craft and inwardly.
They made mad cars and let that do the talking.
You must do the same.
Do great work and money will find you.
I became so good at moving people’s emotion that I barely sell and people throw money at me?
You know why?
They saw my work and just knew they wanted it.
Quality.
I’m doing the same to you now.
I write comments and threads on Nairaland like this.
And you know what happens?:
My email goes off!
People start calling me a god.
They want to work with and for me.
They want me to Mentor them.
They want to give me their money.
That’s because I have focused on my craft. Been doing this for 5 years. I have never sold a day In my life and I get more work than I know what to do with them.
I’m saying all this for two reasons:
1 To brag.
2. To show you the possibilities when you take a similar approach.
Go get a job at an eatery or whatever that pays for your living expenses.
Then pick a skill. Not just any skill.
A skill that makes people money or get them laid.
Those are the only skills worth learning.
The closer the skill to money the better.
So article writing < running Facebook ads.
Then hone your craft. Go full throttle on that skill.
Your goal is to be the Ferrari of your market.
Start selling from day one.
Apply to job boards.
Freelance platforms.
Learn how to send cold emails.
Promote yourself on social media.
Your mentality too matters.
Your goal is to provide people with value. Solve people’s problems. Not to make money.
Solve problems and money will take care of itself.
I see a lot of nonsense about people looking to make money online.
You don’t make money.
You can’t.
Unless you have a money making machine at home (cut me in if you do).
So what do you do then?
You take money.
All the money in the world is in people’s bank account. Yours and mine.
(Unpopular opinion: Not even God can give you money literally. Unless you want him to take it from someone else and deposit it in your pocket. He doesn’t have any).
The only way to have some of that money for yourself is to
1) Rob them
2) Give them some sort of value in exchange for money.
We are no thieves (if you are, get thee behind me) so option 1 is out.
Behind every product or service is an offer (the results).
The results is what you should sell.
Dont sell the product or the service.
Most people > Hey buy my suit.
You > Everyone I sell this suit to goes back home with a 10/10 girl from the club. Want one?
Focus on getting results for your initial customers.
For example take web design as a skill:
Is not enough to just redesign a website.
No one wants a website.
They want sales.
The website is the product.
Sales is the offer and results.
Remember the industrial client I told you about?
I designed a website for their competitor last year.
They used the site to close LNG as client! Got a long term contract signed with them. (Talk about results!)
That’s why they chased me down to get their own website redesigned too so they can get a result like that.
Be confident in your abilities to provide results.
I see this a lot from people.
For some reason they lack the believe that they can get results for others.
Guys, that’s all that matters.
This is why I said you most go full throttle on your skill so you get to a level where you are so good at it that you provide results for people.
I learned Copy.
I use my copy to close big clients on freelance platforms even as a Nigerian (infamous online).
I get a response almost every time and get hired(results).
I created a small email list where I then sold my proposals for all those that were pestering me to write one for them.
My proposals sell like hot cakes.
You know why?
They get results.
Without results you are nothing.
Another way you can do this:
Start personal projects.
Say you want to learn SEO.
Pick SEO as a skill.
Rank a couple of websites on the first page.
Do this until you succeed.
When you succeed, sell that to people.
Watch as you line your pockets with dineros!
This is how you make money!
If you’ve been struggling here’s your problem:
You have no skills.
If you have skills, you have no demonstrable results.
That’s it!
Go get both!
P.S. sorry for the long rant and all the typos. I was typing from my phone (acting up a bit)
First, a blog is not a business.
It’s a distribution channel.
A blog should act as way to funnel people to your business.
If you own a local business and you share flyers in your neighborhood to promote your business you wouldn’t say you are in the flyer business would you?
Take Adsense To The Backyard And Shoot It In The Head:
Forget Adsense.
Adsense or any other form of ad monetization is the worst way to make money online.
Why are you making things hard on yourself bro?
If you’re relying on ads for online income as an average internet marketer you are dumb as Bleep. You owe your math teacher in school an apology.
The traffic levels to make ads work for you can’t be done by 99.9% of you.
Do the math.
Average conversion payout on a clicked ad on your site is $0.1. That’s a lot of traffic you will need to stack cash even with a 5% conversation rate.
Side note: Most successful internet marketer will sacrifice a goat to the gods of the internet if they can get a 1% conversion rate on their offers.
Forget ads. That’s for the dumbwits.
So what should you do?
Forget starting a business or optimizing an online business model or any of the the latest fad your online guru is promoting.
Here’s the most straight forward way to make money online:
Learn a skill > sell that skill.
Kapish.
Do both sides of the equation well and you will line your pockets with dineros.
While you are struggling with ads on your blog and shuffling pixels around, Nigerians are banking $30,000 per month on Upwork.
Granted that’s not easy. It’s straight forward and simple.
I use to blog like a mad man.
I made cash.
But I was playing in the small league until I learned a skill and started selling it.
I closed an industrial consultant last Friday for a website redesign and I’m hosting their new site tomorrow.
I got a wire transfer of 450k(play money) this week.
Like a boss.
That’s a lot of ad clicks to catch up.
Pick a high ROI skill (a skill as close to the money as possible) and offer that skill to businesses.
There are a lot of freelance platforms that have done the job for you by aggregating potential clients. So you don’t even need to do any marketing. Just send good proposals and make bank.
If you doubt any of this just go search on google: Top earning Nigerian freelancers.
Click on an Upwork link so you get the data straight from the birds mouth.
I went for a freelance meetup (sorry you can’t get in unless you are banking $10,000/month) yesterday and the least earning person in the room was doing $15k dollars a month.
I’m talking verified earnings.
This is not a cake work. If you’re doing backflips already settle down and calm your tits.
It’s load of hard work.
The reason why a lot of people don’t follow this route is because they are lazy mofos.
They want to sit at home in their pajamas and write stupid blogs filled with eye scratching sentences constructed in a language they call English.
Go learn how to code? Oh no, that’s too hard.
Go learn app dev? Gee, I’m a dumb donut, how am I suppose to learn that?
Go learn copywriting? Dude, what’s copywriting?
Here’s the news flash:
If you’re struggling to make money, soaking garri everyday and generally just frustrated with life, here’s why life is hard for you:
YOU HAVE NO SKILL!
The difference between the guys that rule and conquer the world and those that are street bums are skills. One group of people have them in abundance. The others? They can’t learn a skill out of a wet paper bag.
You want to make money online?
Sell that good for nothing blog. Let the domain name/hosting run out. Never install Wordpress ever in your life!
You think Dangote is fiddling around with blogs?
You think Mark Essien has time for SEO.
You think Jason Njokwu is writing yet another TOP 10 Celebrity blog posts?!
Oh please.
Stop being a sissy and go learn a high ROI skill and sell that to businesses.
That’s it.
You don’t need any money to do this. So that’s the excuse of ‘but I’m very poor’ thrown in the bin.
All the worlds knowledge is on that thing you carry around snap chatting and retweeting yet another Davido’s jet living life.
I started a challenge this year to show people how simple this was if you apply yourself.
The challenge was to make $1000 per month from scratch again within a year Freelancing.
I deleted all my freelance accounts so I could replicate a total noob/beginner.
And...
I surpassed the income goal I set for myself.
I got three remote jobs with companies in India, an Independent Aussie and a firm in Germany.
Some of the people that followed my thread and the challenge did amaze balls things just in few months as total beginners.
Here’s the caveat though:
Many people focus on marketing, ideas, business models, the latest hacks, spamming and all sort of external stuff when they are trying to make money.
A billionaire (in Naira) mentor of mine gave me one advice I have found to be bulletproof if you want to get to the pinnacle of life:
Invert what most people do.
Most people >>> external (a focus on things outside of themselves. Things not in their control).
You (the warrior) >>>> internal (focus on yourself)
The trick to make this work is to shift your mentality inward. Focus on the skill (whatever it is you run with) you are learning and be very good at it.
Instead of spending 1 hour learning the skill and 10 hours promoting yourself or doing external stuff, reverse that process.
Spend 10 hours learning the skill and 1 hour doing any other shitty thing.
My point:
Pour all your energy on getting absolutely good at what you learn. Becoming totally world class at it.
When I first started my freelance journey I picked copywriting to start with.
You know what I use to do?
I use to write 20 copies everyday. Every damn day! Told you this wasn’t a cake walk.
Everyday I take a pen and notebook.
I go online.
I find anything that rubbed my emotions in a good way. Anything that made me want to click an article. Anything that made me want to buy something. Anything I read that made me go ‘wow’.
I took that thing and I copied it word for word on my notepad. I was internalizing how it was written.
I did this so I could also write that way.
So I could make people do what it is I want them to do.
That’s what Copywriting is about.
Whatever skill you pick, have the same sort of devotion toward that skill.
Here’s what happens after:
There’s something about humans.
We know quality when we see it.
We are drawn to Quality.
We will open our wallets and splurge any amount when we see good stuff.
Look at a Lamborghini.
Have you ever seen their ad on Tv or them blabbering on a radio? Have you seen any of their banner ads online?
But if I were to ask you what car you would absolutely get if you had all the money in the world, I bet a Lamborghini will be top on your list.
Or a Ferrari.
Or a Benz.
Or a fucking amazing car.
You know why?:
It’s quality!
These brands shifted the focus internally.
They focused on their craft and inwardly.
They made mad cars and let that do the talking.
You must do the same.
Do great work and money will find you.
I became so good at moving people’s emotion that I barely sell and people throw money at me?
You know why?
They saw my work and just knew they wanted it.
Quality.
I’m doing the same to you now.
I write comments and threads on Nairaland like this.
And you know what happens?:
My email goes off!
People start calling me a god.
They want to work with and for me.
They want me to Mentor them.
They want to give me their money.
That’s because I have focused on my craft. Been doing this for 5 years. I have never sold a day In my life and I get more work than I know what to do with them.
I’m saying all this for two reasons:
1 To brag.
2. To show you the possibilities when you take a similar approach.
Go get a job at an eatery or whatever that pays for your living expenses.
Then pick a skill. Not just any skill.
A skill that makes people money or get them laid.
Those are the only skills worth learning.
The closer the skill to money the better.
So article writing < running Facebook ads.
Then hone your craft. Go full throttle on that skill.
Your goal is to be the Ferrari of your market.
Start selling from day one.
Apply to job boards.
Freelance platforms.
Learn how to send cold emails.
Promote yourself on social media.
Your mentality too matters.
Your goal is to provide people with value. Solve people’s problems. Not to make money.
Solve problems and money will take care of itself.
I see a lot of nonsense about people looking to make money online.
You don’t make money.
You can’t.
Unless you have a money making machine at home (cut me in if you do).
So what do you do then?
You take money.
All the money in the world is in people’s bank account. Yours and mine.
(Unpopular opinion: Not even God can give you money literally. Unless you want him to take it from someone else and deposit it in your pocket. He doesn’t have any).
The only way to have some of that money for yourself is to
1) Rob them
2) Give them some sort of value in exchange for money.
We are no thieves (if you are, get thee behind me) so option 1 is out.
Behind every product or service is an offer (the results).
The results is what you should sell.
Dont sell the product or the service.
Most people > Hey buy my suit.
You > Everyone I sell this suit to goes back home with a 10/10 girl from the club. Want one?
Focus on getting results for your initial customers.
For example take web design as a skill:
Is not enough to just redesign a website.
No one wants a website.
They want sales.
The website is the product.
Sales is the offer and results.
Remember the industrial client I told you about?
I designed a website for their competitor last year.
They used the site to close LNG as client! Got a long term contract signed with them. (Talk about results!)
That’s why they chased me down to get their own website redesigned too so they can get a result like that.
Be confident in your abilities to provide results.
I see this a lot from people.
For some reason they lack the believe that they can get results for others.
Guys, that’s all that matters.
This is why I said you most go full throttle on your skill so you get to a level where you are so good at it that you provide results for people.
I learned Copy.
I use my copy to close big clients on freelance platforms even as a Nigerian (infamous online).
I get a response almost every time and get hired(results).
I created a small email list where I then sold my proposals for all those that were pestering me to write one for them.
My proposals sell like hot cakes.
You know why?
They get results.
Without results you are nothing.
Another way you can do this:
Start personal projects.
Say you want to learn SEO.
Pick SEO as a skill.
Rank a couple of websites on the first page.
Do this until you succeed.
When you succeed, sell that to people.
Watch as you line your pockets with dineros!
This is how you make money!
If you’ve been struggling here’s your problem:
You have no skills.
If you have skills, you have no demonstrable results.
That’s it!
Go get both!
P.S. sorry for the long rant and all the typos. I was typing from my phone (acting up a bit)
