 How long does it take to make money online? What you need to know. Hey, in this video, you've come to the right place because if you want to know how long it takes to make money online, I've been selling online since 2009. And in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how long it took me to make money and how you can start making money too. And we're starting right now. Okay, you want to know how long it takes to make money online? Six to 12 months. I guess we're done. No, we're not done. You're still here? You probably want to know more, don't you? I've sold millions of dollars worth of products online, both physical and digital. And there's a lot more to it than that. And I think you know that. I started making money in the beginning, but it wasn't much. And I want to take you through that process. I want to tell you my story so that you can use it and you can benefit. Hey, if you're new to this channel, I'm JR Fisher. And guess what? You need to subscribe. Why? 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Okay, so we all wanna make money online, but as you probably know, there's more to it than that. I'm gonna go through a lot of information on this video and it's gonna be really helpful for you, so stay to the end. Okay, so in my businesses, we sell a lot of different products. We sell physical products and digital products now, but in the beginning, my motivation was what? I just wanted to get away from my boss. I didn't like him, okay? I didn't wanna work for him anymore. He was lazy. He had love worlds and I just couldn't do it anymore. So that was my motivation. Now, your motivation could be entirely different, but whatever it is, it's motivated you to watch this video and get started. I think that's great and you can and I'm gonna show you hell. I don't know about you, but for me, it wasn't about money. I mean, sure, I wanted to make money. That was fine, but my real motivation was to be able to do what I wanted every day, not to have somebody else tell me what to do. So I was pretty motivated to get out there and do stuff. As a matter of fact, I even told myself if I could make one half of what I was making on my job, I would be happier. I just, I couldn't take that job anymore and maybe you can relate to this. Maybe you're in a position like that. And if so, put that in the comments below down there. I'd love to see what your situation is or how you got out of it, right? Or if you're still in it, what you wanna do about it. So just put that in the comments down there. I would love to hear that information. So let's get going and let me share with you the beginning of my story. I almost forgot though, the next thing I wanna share with you is the number two question I get is how much money can I make? What do you say to that? I mean, I don't know. You could make zero, you could make millions of dollars. I mean, it's everywhere in between. You know, that's like saying how much can I learn in a lifetime? Well, that's entirely up to you and how much you make online is really the same thing too. How much effort do you wanna put forward? How motivated are you? How many days a week do you wanna work? You know, how much do you wanna learn? All those things are gonna be factors on how much you can make online. But I can tell you this, you could probably make a whole lot more than you're making on your job right now. Yeah, I will tell you this. In my first 24 months, I broke a million dollars. And I thought that was pretty good. But in the months since then, we've sold millions and millions of dollars. And like I've been doing this since 2009. So that's a long time at this point. So the amount of money you can make is really kind of crazy if you just look at it, but you gotta put it forth the effort. Now this isn't one of those videos. If you want one of those videos where they tell you that you don't have to work and you're gonna make millions of dollars, you're on the wrong video. But if you're realistic and you wanna make a lot of money and you just wanna know how to do it and you're willing to put forth the effort, you're in the right place. Now, I'll tell you one of the key elements is don't wait until you're ready. I know that sounds counterintuitive. However, if you wait until you're ready, you may never start, because you're never gonna be totally ready. You're never gonna have all the information up front. You just need to get started. That's what I would tell you. If you just get started, you're gonna come across problems and issues and you're gonna learn things and you're gonna find solutions to some of those problems. And that's how you're gonna grow your knowledge so that you can do better online. But waiting until you're ready, that's the number one thing that's probably preventing you right now is that you've watched a lot of videos and you've seen a lot of people do it, but you wanna get just a little bit more information, a little bit more information and if you keep playing that game, you'll never get started. So you gotta get started. You gotta get started right now. Now, I will tell you, starting your online business is more about you than it is about making money. Now, you may not think that way right now, but if you start an online business and you get successful at it, it's gonna change you as a person. You're gonna be a different person at the end of this and there really is no end to it, but once you get successful, you are gonna become a different person and that's the main reason to actually start an online business. Now, I do wanna reiterate one more time. If your goal is to work less and make more money, working online is not for you, okay? It's not for you, but if you're somebody who wants to make a lot of money online and control their own time and at times be able to take off large chunks of time and have automated cash flow, this video is for you and I can show you how to do that. You just gotta put in the time up front to get to that stage. Now, as I mentioned in the beginning, this is gonna change you and housing is gonna change you well. When you get your online business going and the more and more successful you get, you're gonna become a better person. Why? Because you're gonna learn things like websites and you're gonna learn graphics and you're gonna learn accounting and you're gonna learn how to hire people and you're gonna learn how to manage people and you're gonna learn how to allocate your funds and all these things in banking, you're gonna pick up skills that the average person just doesn't have and the reason you're gonna pick up these skills is because you're building your online business and they just kinda come with the territory. Now, this is gonna spread into other areas because you're gonna wanna feel good, you're gonna have to work some hours so you're probably gonna watch your sleep a little bit more. Maybe you'll start being concerned about foods you're putting into your body and maybe once you make some money, you're gonna say, hey, I have money left over for charity now and maybe you can help some charities. So as you can see, as we go through this process, you're becoming an entirely different person than you originally are. You're just trying to become a better person and that's a good thing. So this is really about becoming a better person, not a lazy person. So a lot of people think, well, I'm working 40 hours a week, I wanna work 10 hours a week so I think I'll start an online business. It's not gonna work. You can't show me one of those people out there that didn't put in a lot of time up front. Now, some of those people do work 10 hours a week now but they've built up their business, they've done things, they've put in the hours, they've put in the effort to get to that stage and you're gonna have to do the same thing. Now, here's something that's really different. Sometimes you're gonna make a whole lot of money. Sometimes you aren't gonna make any money and that's what happens sometimes online. You may be used to a job now where you get paid every week or every two weeks a particular salary. It's not like that when you have your own business. Now, some people don't wanna hear the truth but the truth is some people see me eating out at a restaurant or traveling or going places and they go, well, that's what I wanna do. I wanna do all those things. What they don't see is all the work that I put in to get to that stage. The cool thing about having your own online business is yeah, it operates seven days a week, 24 hours a day and it can bring you money in at all those times and while I do work a lot, I can decide when I work. So if I wanna take off on a Friday which I do almost every Friday and go have lunch with my wife, we can do that. That's pretty cool. You can't do that on those jobs but I'm back Saturday morning working on something for the business or I'm working Sunday night working on something for the business but we can build up some money and we can have some great sales and we can take a week off and we can go to another country. We can go traveling, we can visit family, we can do those things that you just can't do in a regular job because they want you to work their schedule and I get it because you work for them but the owner of that business is probably working his own schedule which is the thing you wanna do. Now the first thing like I told you is you just gotta get started, okay? That's just the way it is and you're gonna feel a little bit inadequate in the beginning, why? Because you haven't done this, you haven't been successful at this and anytime you haven't already accomplished something, you know, you don't feel as successful at it. I was listening to an interview the other day with Rachel Ray who's a TV personality and she's written 26 cookbooks, 26. That's a lot and I've written some books myself but the point is she wrote one and that was probably the hardest one she ever wrote and all the rest of them got easier and easier and easier because she'd already done it. She didn't wonder at book number 21 am I gonna be able to write this cookbook? She said, well no, I've already written 20, I'll probably be able to pull this off and that's how you're gonna feel once you get your business going and you have money coming in but you gotta get started, you won't have all the skills you need, that's just the way it is, you've gotta acquire them. I'm telling you, I was severely lacking and most of the skills necessary to make money online when I started. I didn't have any technical skills, I'd never sold anything online, I couldn't type which I still really can't, I hunt and pack, I do it a little bit faster now but I still hunt and pack, I still don't type properly. Now in addition to this, here's the big one that stops a lot of people, I didn't even have a product to sell. Okay, I didn't have anything to sell and you say, well how can you start a business without something to sell? Stay tuned, I'll show you. Number two is sell anything you can find, I mean literally anything. I started off with cell phone cases and I said, everybody's got a cell phone so maybe I can sell cell phone cases. The point is, you could just look around and see what other people are selling and what people are buying and just kinda just jump in the pool with them and see what happens. Now you probably won't end up selling that anymore, I don't have any cell phone cases left and it's not because I sold them, okay? They didn't sell very well. However, it gave me knowledge in a lot of areas by trying to sell cell phone cases. Now most people would tell you, oh I'm sure to be successful online you gotta have the next new cool product, that's it. That's the key. If I could just find that one product that's really cool I would jump online and start selling it and what you'll find is most people who are really successful at selling online they don't sell the next cool product. They don't do that. What they've gotten is they've gotten really good at online marketing. They've learned their marketing skills, they've learned how to sell products online and it really doesn't matter what product they're selling. That's the skill that you really wanna acquire because there's always a hot new product but that hot new product always dies out and if you did have that hot new product you'd almost be assured that it would die out and you don't want that to happen. You wanna acquire the skills that it takes to sell products online. Now when I went through this process I mean I learned about a lot of things. I learned about eBay and I learned about Amazon I learned about listings, I learned about shipping I learned about taxes. I learned how to do Photoshop, right? That's pretty cool. I'm still not great at it but it's something I learned and I learned about doing emails and email sequences and all these things. I didn't even know what these things were when I started and now I actually do them and sometimes when you get into selling online you kind of forget all the things you do know and you talk to somebody who doesn't know this and their eyes kind of bug out like well what are you talking about? My wife and I will have this conversation a lot where we'll have a conversation about online marketing and we'll turn to each other and say if anybody else heard this conversation they wouldn't even know what we're talking about and the cool thing was neither one of us knew this when we started. This is something you can do too is anybody can do these things. These are not really difficult things to do they're really pretty simple, it's just hard work. Heck, you don't even need a physical product to sell. I mean you didn't have to be anything you could touch. It can be a digital product. There's this thing called affiliate marketing where you actually sell other people's products and they pay you a commission and you don't have to fulfill the order you have to do anything that they take care of all that. So this affiliate marketing thing I just mentioned it's pretty cool, the way it works is maybe somebody has a course and maybe that course is $997. I have a course like that and they offer it for sale. Now understand courses are online, they're digital so once you've made it you really don't have any more cost to it outside of maintaining what it costs to have that course online. And they may say well if you sell my course I'll give you $500 of that $997. Wow, pretty cool. So you can actually go out and find somebody who's got a course or a digital product or some training and go out and market it and make money. And the cool thing is if they've already sold this course and they've already made money at it they can actually give you the tools. They'll give you the emails that you need. They'll give you the ads that you need. They'll give you the sales pages that you need. You don't even have to create any of this. All you have to do is actually drive traffic to that particular offer which you can do through a website, through blogs, through social posts, through ads, whatever you want to do and then every time somebody buys you actually get paid, pretty simple stuff. Next thing I will tell you is use the latest technology. Now this doesn't mean that every time a piece of software comes out you're gonna go buy it. I don't mean that at all. But what I am telling you is I talk to people online who buy from like our food company and they'll say well I don't use the internet, I don't go online, I'm 50 years old and I don't wanna do that. And I'm thinking you're just making things harder for yourself because you could go online and place this order, you don't have to call us, we don't have to talk to you. It would be so much simpler. And I think people get their age confused with their knowledge of technology. Technology is for everybody. It's not for a 10 year old or a 14 year old or an 80 year old, it's for everybody. And technology is really designed to make your life easier. So make sure that you adopt this technology. Make sure you're open to technology. We came across a program called CARTRA which I love. I'll put a link in the description below and you can actually get CARTRA for a dollar if you want. And if you don't even wanna get it yet, you just wanna see how it works, click that link in the description and there's a video there that will show you exactly how CARTRA works. And it can actually run your entire business for you, your emails, your sales pages, everything that you have going on, CARTRA can do for you. So I highly recommend you doing that. And it's one of the cutting edge technologies right now. Now along with staying on the top technology, you wanna make sure you attend some trainings. Get some more training. I have training, I have courses. Get trainings from people who have actually done what you wanna do. If you wanna sell e-commerce and sell products online, I'd be your guy. I can help you out with it, I've done that. Also get on other people's list. If you see them being successful, make sure you go ahead and opt into their list. You can use another email address or something like that. If you see people selling products and they're successful at that, buy their product. Actually go into the funnel of products and buy all their products so you can see exactly how they're selling them, what sales pages they're setting up. That's a really good way to stay on top of stuff like that. As you get further into this, I would say attend masterminds. And masterminds are nothing more than groups of people who sit around and share ideas that have already really accomplished something. And these masterminds can be awesome. And some of them can be a rip-off too, so be careful about that. But just check out who runs it, how long it's been around and the people that are involved in it. And for the most part, masterminds are pretty good for you. The last thing I will tell you is as you learn this stuff, help other people a lot, okay? Help other people. If somebody asks you a question, remember you were a new person at the time and you didn't know anything at the time. So make sure you help these other people along the way and that really will come back to you. And I would say number four is don't depend on a single product or even a single niche. These things can go bad at any point, okay? So you want to have a couple avenues of money coming in so that you're always kind of covered. Don't label yourself as a blank. And what I mean by that is we sell survival food and I don't label myself as a survival food seller. I don't do that, okay? I do sell survival food, but that's not who I am. A lot of people do the same thing with their jobs like I am a cashier, I am a travel agent. No, you're not. That's just the job you're doing right now. So you've got to realize not to label yourself because as soon as you label yourself, you're kind of shutting yourself off from other possibilities that are out there. If I labeled myself, I would say I'm somebody who sells stuff online, but that stuff is varied. There's a lot of different stuff I sell online. Now, I'm not saying do every single fad that comes along. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying don't be shut off to new things that may be related to what you're doing right now. Almost every fact, every one of my opportunities that I've gotten that I make money off now are because I tried some different things. I did stuff that was out of my comfort zone, things that I wasn't used to doing and that's what opened up those opportunities for me. Now I started in 2009 selling cell phone cases and by 2010 I was selling survival food. Since then I've written a couple books, I have five courses, I do consulting, I do coaching, so I do other things now and that affords me money from different areas which is really kind of good. I don't have to depend on one thing because maybe my survival food's up one year and down the next and I've got other areas I can make money at. So keep in mind when you're selling online, become an online marketer. Don't become a survival food salesperson because that's not who I am, that's one of the products that we sell. Now, I will tell you this, make sure you always add value to whatever you do. So if I'm selling survival food, maybe I'm protecting a family, if I'm teaching somebody Facebook ads, I'm showing them how they can make money. So what I'm doing is actually adding value to these people and the more value that you add, the more money you're gonna make. Remember, online marketing isn't just about money you make, it's about what it makes out of you, okay? So you wanna keep that in mind. It's gonna make you a different person, you're gonna learn different skill sets, you're gonna know how to do different things if you're successful online. Now, with this online business and freedom comes great responsibility. You will always need to serve other people if you wanna be successful in life. And if you look at the most successful people in the world from Mother Teresa to the Dalai Lama, okay? They serve a lot of people. Right now, if you're on a job, you maybe serve one person and it's your boss and that's all you gotta worry about. And when you're not around him, you don't have to worry about him unless you have one of those bosses like I had where they would call you all the time even if you're there or not. But the bottom line is if you have your own business, you gotta serve thousands or maybe millions of people. So you're gonna have more responsibility by doing this. Number five is value your own time. I see this happen too often when people start an online business and they try to do every single thing even if they're not good at it. I did that, I was guilty of these things where I wanted to do every single image, I wanted to edit every single video and to do all these things. But when you calculate what your time is worth, my time is a whole lot more valuable by making a video than it is by editing a video because I can hire somebody to edit a video in another place and it's gonna cost me a whole lot less money. Whereas being able to develop these videos and come up with the ideas for marketing, that's not something I can pay somebody for. So make sure that you understand what your time is worth and don't waste your time doing jobs you probably shouldn't be doing. Now when you figure your worth, also figure out if I'm not gonna do this, make sure I'm doing something that has value. So don't say I'm not gonna edit my videos, I'm not gonna make my graphics, I'm gonna watch TV instead. That's not a good use of your time, you gotta make sure that you invest your time in something that's valuable. The most valuable thing you can do is spend your time creating new stuff, okay? So that may be a new brand of one of my survival foods or a new bucket configuration, it may be a sales page, it may be a video, it may be a blog I write, but make sure you're creating new stuff because that's where you're gonna add value to other people and you're gonna actually get value back. Okay, so my original answer was, it's gonna take you about six to 12 months. And you know, the more I think about it, it really took me longer than that because I started selling in the end of 2009 and I didn't really quit my job until the beginning of 2011, so it actually took me over a year. So that's outside of that span there, but I will tell you this, I wanted to replace my income first. So it's dependent upon how much money you wanna make. If you wanna make half of what you're making now, maybe it'll go super fast, maybe you can invest a lot of time in it. I didn't have a lot of time to invest, you know, a few hours in the evening to work on it. So if you don't have that time, it's gonna take you longer to do this. Now, you have how long it's gonna take you to make money online. That was a long answer, wasn't it? But it's the truth. It's up to you. The amount is up to you. The time is all up to you. But here's something I want you to really grasp on to. If you say to yourself, well, a year's a long time or six months is a long time, six months or a year, it's gonna pass anyhow. So if you do nothing, what you've done is you've given up that opportunity. So you putting in the effort right now is a whole lot better than not putting in any effort in the year just passing in your one year closer to death, okay? And I don't wanna be negative about this, but that's only thing you're racing towards right now. If you aren't investing your time into something worthwhile where you can actually build your life, build your family, build who you are, become a better person. Now, if you enjoyed this video, do me a favor. 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