Let’s get moving on with some more ways to make money online. After my last post Audio, Video and TV on Your Blog, which went into the pros and cons of using certain media on your blogs to gain readers and boost your credibility, we’ll turn our radar onto other ways of turning the Internet into a make money machine. This post looks at something that Internet Marketers tend not to promote so much and that’s franchises.

First, lets look at why franchises are not so widely promoted on the Internet as a way to make money for newcomers.

This is plainly obvious in that to get into a franchise, you need startup capital and the vast majority of newcomers to the field of make money online don’t have any. From a seasoned Internet Marketer’s perspective, promoting franchises to people with no money is a waste of their efforts, especially when they can relieve many a newcomer to the world of make money online of a couple hundred dollars without too much work. In other words, most Internet Marketers go for the easy cash by working the big majority for small returns rather than having to work hard at convincing a few people with the money to spend it on this or that franchise.

Of course, this scenario is focused on the majority of Internet Marketers that we all know and love (a little). Franchises are not solely in the realm of the generic Internet Marketer, as there are other companies out there that do promote them with a good degree of success.

Franchise Opportunity specialist AmericasBestFranchises.com are one such company that successfully promote many money making Franchise opportunities in many different areas of business. Many people erroneously believe that you need many thousands of dollars to buy into a franchise, but that is not necessarily the case. When you visit their website, you’ll see that some franchises start at less than ten thousand dollars. At the time of writing, there is one franchise going for less than fifteen hundred dollars.

That’s not a great deal of money to get yourself set up in a branded business where you can potentially make a lot of money as long as you get your marketing right. Well what better way to do that than to do what you may well already be doing and that’s marketing online. One leads to the other in that if you are already successfully marketing one or many products online, there is every possibility that you could turn your already honed skills to marketing a brand name via a franchise.

That’s the positive side of the coin and it would be remiss to omit to mention that there is a negative side. In any business, you get out of it what you put into it. If you work hard and put your all into a business, then you will most likely succeed at it. Conversely if you expect to set up a business then sit back and wait for the money truck to roll up outside your door, you will doubtless fail. Same goes for a franchise. You can’t expect to pay your money, however much that is, to buy into a successful branded franchise business and then just sit back with your hands behind your head waiting for the payoff, because it will never come. You have to treat a franchise like any other legitimate business in that you have to work hard to make a success of it.

That may all sound like common sense to most of you, but you’d be surprised at how many people think they are going to make money hand over fist by starting a business and then not working at it. That haunting statistic comes back to remind us that fully 95% of Internet Marketers will fail. That means that fully 95% of everyone who starts a business online fails to make any money from it.

That’s a fact.

So if you’re in the 5% who succeed, pat yourself on the back because you have worked hard to make money online, no doubt about it. If not, then a franchise may not be for you and you should not give up your day job just yet.

Freedom Writer
Make Money