Every plumber starts off on his own, after a year he will take on an apprentice, after two or three years he will start employing other plumbers so that he can take on more work or bigger contracts. After ten years he will rarely leave his office and might have another employee working in there with him.
You need to follow a similar plan if writing articles is your business.
Make Millions Online - The First 6 Months
In the first six months you will be learning the ropes, learning to write articles yourself and beginning to understand SEO. You need to be able to do any job better than the people you will one day employ, so you will be able to convey your exact requirements. You will make only a small income online during this time.Sign up for Info Barrel. This is the best place to learn the business of being an article writer because the InfoBarrel forum is so open and friendly, enabling you to learn more in a shorter time. InfoBarrel gives you between 75% and 90% of the Adsense (TM) clicks. Articles there rank in Google (TM) search results quickly, too, there is no six months sand-box effect.
Write your socks off. Write articles every day on a variety of topics. Aim to write for at least eight hours a day. Visit the Infobarrel forum every day. Other Info Barrel writers are unique in their generosity and you will pick up tips to earn money online every day.
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At the end of the first six months you should have earned your first $100 from Google's Adsense (TM) program.
Make Millions - The Second 6 Months
This is where you start to scale up your efforts. In the second six months of your plan
There are only 24 hours in a day and you can only write for 12 of those. If you need more articles to earn money for you, then you must outsource the writing.
Use the $100 from Google (TM) along with $200 of your own money to hire writers at
oDesk. You should only hire a writer to write an article that you know will earn you that money back within a few months. You can find writers from the Philippines who will write 1000 word articles for $5-$8.
Start by hiring one writer at a time. Once you find a suitable writer keep them supplied with work on a regular basis. Gradually increase the number of writers who are working on your articles.
By the end of your first year you should be earning $100 a month from Google's Adsense (TM) Pay per click advertising program from your own and your freelancers' efforts.
Make Millions Online - The Second Year
During the second year of your plan you will continue to hire an increasing number of writers on oDesk. You will be spending a larger proportion of your time managing your writers than you are writing.
Now that you have the knowledge and experience needed to earn money online you can risk investing up to $3000 of your savings in hiring more writers, in addition to reinvesting your Adsense (TM) income.
By the end of your second year you should be earning $1000 to $5000 a month from your articles.
Make Millions Online - The Third Year
During the third year of your plan is when you will start to employ others to manage the day to day running of your article writing business. This will free up your time for strategic planning.
Consider moving offline and into the real world to give lectures and seminars on how you built up a business from nothing to earn money for your children to give them a head start in life. You can earn $1000 for an evening's work doing this kind of seminar. That is the way to make real money, to make the online and offline worlds mesh together.