My journey with Internet Marketing

How I got into the whole "make money online" thing

About  6 years ago, in 2009, I googled for "make money online" for the first time. I spent a lot of time on forums like warriorforum.com and other, smiliar website.
It wasn't long until I got full information overload. All the new words, all the scammers, all the spammers and salesvideos and salesletters made me drop the topic again. I didn't know where to start, I didnt know what it all meant. PPV? PPC? SEO? Adsense? Clickbank? Affiliate? List building? Everyone on the forums was talking about a different method to get rich, turns out they all just wanted to sell a course or something, so who could I trust?
I lost my motivation and went on with my life.
Few years later a friend of mine also talked about that stuff, and made me look into it again. At the time I started reading a lot again, and finally decided to take action.

Creating my first website

I kept reading on forums that it's important to just start somewhere, to take action, stay persistent and don't give up. So that's what I did. I didn't have a credit card, so I couldn't afford hosting and a domain. I went with a free domain (.tk) and some free hosting. The website was slow, the domain was shitty, and it looked shitty. I singed up for some affiliate programs (chose some products on clickbank to promote). I wrote some articles about these products and put them on my "website". Then I started commenting on other blogs. I googled for "make money online" and went to all the sites that showed up, I registered and left a comment: "hey nice post, bla bla, please check out my website, it has some good info about making money". I didn't track my visitors with google analytics, I didn't know about SEO and I didn't get much traffic.
But one day, I logged into clickbank and saw, I MADE A SALE! It was around 50$, and meant the world to me. The first sale is the best sale.

The downfall and the 3rd start

That one sale, turned out to be the only sale. No traffic, I didn't post new content, and I couldn't withdraw those 50$, so over the months, clickbank took a few dollars every month, because I wasn't active. Until I was back down to 0$. I wasn't promoting my site, and my motivation was once again gone.
But I learned a lot while doing all that. Setting up a website, promoting it, getting a sale, etc. I knew, maybe one day I would give it another shot!
And so, after a few months of doing nothing, I started reading again, on warriorforum and other forums, and invested some money to get my own domain and host. That's where Proven-onlineincome came to life.
I created the page and posted lots of articles, connected Google analytics, webmaster tools, etc.
Traffic did not come and I let the whole thing slide again, for around 6 months.
That's when a friend and me decided to start some projects again. We created websites and joined some products. When I checked my analytics account, I realized I was getting a few visitors every day from google! I even made a few sales! What a motivation boost!
Since then, I'm constantly improving on SEO, to get more visitors. The visitors are comming, I'm building a list and I'm running around 6 other niche sites with a friend of mine.

The dreamjob is almost here

I'm still fascinated with the whole internet marketing business, more and more from day to day. Profits motivate to move on and push harder. Some days can be frustrating, and some of the work is boring. But there's always something new, and that's what I love. The internet is constantly changing.
I quit my job and I hope to increase my earnings and learn more every day.
When I read it's hard, and I should stay away from it if im not dedicated, I always thought "yeah yeah...". But looking back, It wasn't easy! But it was fun, and I love checking statistics of my websites, I love checking my daily sales, I love putting out a new article and watching the reaction, I love tracking my SearchEngine Rankings, I love looking for new niches and keywords, I would not trade my job for any other job in the world (ok maybe for some jobs ;) )

If you are just starting out in Internet Marketing, I wish you all the best, and may you be more dedicated than I once was. Remember, take action! Making money online is possible, but take care of all the scams and aggressive sales letters, they mostly don't hold what they promise. Good Luck

Officially launched Proven-OnlineIncome Blog

Welcome to Joe Lumberghs Blog about making money online

If you want to make yourself a name online, you need to be present on all the famous platforms, so I decided to launch an official blogger site. While my main site, proven-onlineincome.com is still all about making money online, I will post about different things on this blog, and fairly frequently.
You will be reading about affiliate marketing, internet marketing, search engine optimization, the uprising of social media and about all the tools you need.

The Internet Marketing Fascination

Internet marketing fascinates me. 20 Years ago, this business didn't even exist. The TV and in general the advertisement industry is HUGE. And with the intnernet, and now with the rising popularity of internet mobile devices, a whole new industry emerged. The industry of internet marketing. The possibilieties are endless. On the internet you can highly target your advertisements, you can reach the right people on the right devices.

While ranking in google is becoming harder and harder, Intnernet marketing is still becoming bigger and bigger.

The importance of online advertisements

In the years to come, more and more companies will go online, branding becomes more and more imprtant. Most businessman don't have time or the interest to stay up to date in Internet marketing, SEO, etc. That's why having an education in those fields, is very valuable. There is no university (that i know of), that teaches you SEO, IM of affiliate marketing. Yet these fields of expertise are highly valuable and potention for huge success. A lot of this will change, at some point, but in the mean time, you have to teach this stuff to yourself. But thank god there are so many bloggers and webmasters and forums out there, spreading the information and teaching each other.

The two edged sword of online education

While having this MASSIVE amount of information and communication available on the internet is GREAT, it does have it downsides. You need a thick skin, a good Bullshit-radar. Not every teacher and "guru" online knows what hes talking about. Alot of information is to just lure people into buying a subsciption, an e-book or something else.
With the uprising of video platforms and especially teaching-video-platform, this becomes less and less of a problem, and yet again, a huge market is created. The possibilities online are really unlimited, and getting bigger from day to day, i feel like we live in a great time.

With all these new markets emerging and the internet gaining relevancy in everyones everyday life, of course, the possiblities and ways to make money online are rising aswell. They are literally infinite, you can buy and sell anything online. Isn't that awesome?