Summary
- Start by focusing on long-term efforts rather than short-term cash grabs. This approach not only helps in the short run but has compounding effects in the long run.
- Build your own audience to create a lasting platform. Having an audience allows you to continuously engage and monetize, much like Cristiano Ronaldo did on YouTube.
- Direct traffic from social media to your own website or landing pages and collect email addresses for direct communication.
- To build a successful website, first choose a niche you are passionate about, as this increases your likelihood of success.
- Use tools like Google Trends and market caps of publicly traded companies to ensure your chosen niche has a large market.
- Set up a website easily using WordPress and choose a catchy, short domain name, preferably with a ".com" extension.
- Create unique, fresh, and in-depth content to engage visitors. Use tools like Ubersuggest to identify popular topics and improve upon existing content.
- Prioritize three main areas for Google ranking: high-quality content, clean technical SEO, and acquiring backlinks.
- Utilize backlinks to improve your site's credibility. Relevant links carry more weight, especially from high-traffic sites like CNN or the New York Times.
- Find content gaps where your competitors have traffic and you don't, then create better content to fill those gaps.
- Promote your content on social media platforms like X, Facebook, and Instagram, while engaging with the community to build an audience.
- Offer lead magnets like quizzes and PDFs to capture emails and maintain long-term engagement with your visitors.
- Leverage affiliate marketing to earn revenue by promoting third-party products through platforms like Commission Junction or ClickBank.
- Diversify income streams by selling your own products or services to take advantage of different monetization opportunities.
- Provide multiple monetization models at various price points to cater to different audience segments, ensuring you can capitalize on diverse customer budgets.
- Aim to monetize at least 1% of your traffic by offering value-rich products or services. Continually providing value will help retain customers and leads to recurring revenue.
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How To Take Action
I suggest starting by focusing on long-term goals instead of quick money-making schemes. This will help your business grow steadily over time.
Begin building your audience by choosing a niche you're passionate about—this will keep you motivated. Use Google Trends to make sure your niche has a large market. Then, set up a website. Platforms like WordPress make it easy, and using a ".com" domain is best.
Craft unique and fresh content that interests your audience. You can use tools like Ubersuggest to find popular topics and improve on them, ensuring your content stands out. This will help your site rank higher on Google.
Improve your site's credibility by acquiring backlinks. Try getting links from high-traffic sites like CNN or New York Times. Use Ubersuggest to find potential link opportunities from competitors.
Leverage social media platforms like X, Facebook, and Instagram to promote your content and engage your community. Use social media to direct traffic to your site, collect emails for direct communication, and offer lead magnets like quizzes or PDFs.
Consider affiliate marketing to create passive income. Utilize platforms like Commission Junction or ClickBank to find products to promote. Also, consider selling your own products or services for diversified income.
Finally, have multiple monetization models at different price points to cater to varied budgets. Aim to monetize at least 1% of your traffic by continuously providing value, leading to recurring revenue.
Quotes by Author
"You just need this blueprint"
"The biggest thing that people make a mistake on is they focus on short-term cash"
"Long-term wealth comes from leveraging an audience"
"When you have traffic your goal should be to monetize 1% of your traffic"
"Just have options for both"
Full Transcript
if I had to start from zero this is exactly how I'd become a millionaire in 12 months After decades of building successful businesses I know exactly what I would do to go from zero to a million dollars as fast as possible And the crazy part you don't need a genius idea or a massive budget to do it You just need this blueprint Let me break it down for you First let's talk about the biggest obstacle you need to overcome if you want to become a millionaire The biggest thing that people make a mistake on is they focus on short-term cash It's really hard to make cash in 30 days 60 days You got to think long term When you're shortsighted what you'll find is you'll put in a lot of effort get very little results and get burnt out And you start thinking about what can I do today and a lot of times that effort that you put in to make money today won't really matter 6 months from now year from now 2 years from now So instead what you want to do is focus on long-term efforts because that way not only will it help you in the short run but those efforts that you focus on in the short run will have compounding effects in the long run And the best thing you can do to take that long-term approach is to build an audience In essence you're owning your own platform Think about it Facebook Instagram Google they're all examples of platforms When you have your own audience kind of like a Tony Robbins LeBron James or Kardashian you can continually go after that audience and monetize them See when Christian Ronaldo got onto YouTube he instantly had millions of followers It was one of the fastest growing accounts You know why it wasn't because YouTube's a popular platform It's because Cristiano Ronaldo owned his own audience He had loyal followers that would move with him no matter where he went Long-term wealth comes from leveraging an audience not short-term money grabs However if you rely on social media platforms that means you truly don't own your audience That's why you want to direct traffic to your own website to even landing pages where collecting email addresses so you can have direct communication with people and sell them If you do this easy thing with your website making your first million dollars becomes effortless My ad agency NP Digital is one of the fastest growing ad agencies out there according to AdWe One of the reasons we're are such a fast growing ad agency is because we built up such a massive user base of people coming to our website each and every single month I'm not talking about a few hundred thousand visitors I'm talking about millions And these are millions of visitors in the marketing vertical which is a very lucrative audience And when you get people going to your website you can end up monetizing them You can sell them products like bags or purses or clothes Or you can even sell services like I do such as consulting I want you to think about this from a basic math formula At neilpotel.com we generate over a million visitors a month We sell products for $30 a month and upwards So let's say you can get 1% of that audience to sign up From a million visitors that's roughly $10,000 people a month At $30 a month that's roughly $300,000 a month in reoccurring income After $3.5 months you're already at a million dollar not just in annual revenue in monthly revenue That's the power of getting visitors to your website That's why my company NP Digital does over 9 figures a year in revenue But before any of this you need to actually build a website And as hard as most people think it is I have a tried and tested method to build a professional website that literally anybody can do The first thing that you need to do is choose a niche that you're passionate about This increases your chance of success Look being an entrepreneur is not easy If you hate what you're doing you're not going to put in the time and energy to succeed But if you love what you're doing you're going to put in the effort even when you're not seeing results That's why you need to be truly passionate about whatever you're doing Now once you have whatever you're passion about you want to make sure it's a large market You can go to Google Trends type in any keyword related to your market If it's getting a lot of search volume kind of like the term marketing that means you're on to something And you can compare it to the term marketing You can also look at other publicly traded companies within your industry to see what their market cap is The market cap tells you how much that company is worth The more they're worth the bigger the market Now to make a website on WordPress it's actually really easy You can go to wordpress.org They have a whole repository of themes that you can just choose from and upload it to your instance And best of all if you use a hosting provider like Bluehost you can click one button after you sign up and it'll install WordPress for you and you just select a theme and you're off into the races You also have to select a domain name which is the trickiest part Not because it's hard to decide what domain name you want It's hard to actually find a domain name that you want that's also available That just takes some time by typing in some words and eventually coming up with something that you like Just make sure your domain name is short to the point and is catchy And of course use a dot domain People aren't used to typing.org.ai.io or any of those other extensions If you want step-by-step instructions on how to set up a WordPress site and blog just check out this URL Now that you've created a blog you need to focus on creating content around whatever vertical you're going after Make sure that content is unique fresh and it's really in-depth If you're not sure on the type of content you should be creating you can go to neilpel.com/ubersuggest Type in any keyword It'll show you all the content that's popular around that subject or on the web You can use this as an example of the type of quality content that you want to create You just got to make sure that your article talks about something that's fresh that they don't talk about and is better than theirs Because if it's not fresh or better than theirs why would people read your article versus theirs and you may think this is hard but it actually isn't that hard Cuz most people they write content and they leave it there and it starts getting old after years After you built a website you need to ensure it shows up at the top of Google search so visitors can find it Here's how To rank at the top of Google there's three main areas that you need to focus on The first is content The second is technical SEO How clean is a code on your website and the third is links The more people linking to you the higher you're going to rank So let's go over the first one content We already discussed that you need to create content that's better than the competition and it's talking about stuff that's new Because if you're not talking about stuff that's new you're not going to do well The second is technical SEO This is how clean your code is and search engines can understand it so that way they can easily rank you Because if your code is messy it makes it hard for them to understand your web pages which means they're not sure where to rank it for and for what keywords So you want to go to ubersuggest.com put in your URL and go to the site audit report in the lefthand navigation This report breaks down all the technical errors that are off on your website and it not only shows you what they are but it prioritizes which ones you need to fix first second and third to rank higher And it even shows you how to fix each and every single error The third thing you need to focus on is backlink The more people linking to you the higher you're going to rank Links are like votes So when you have election like the presidential election in most cases the candidate with the most votes wins And the reason I say most cases in different countries the rules are different For example in the United States they do it on a state-by-state basis So if you win in one state you get all the votes from that state And the more websites linking to you are like votes the more relevant they are the higher you're going to rank The higher quality they are the higher you're going to rank For example if I told everyone to vote for a specific candidate it's not going to do as well as let's say Bill Clinton or George Bush or Barack Obama saying that you should vote for someone Why because they're more wellknown in politics than I am But if I give marketing advice it carries more weight than Bill Clinton or George Bush Why because I know more about marketing So links are very similar If you're a marketing business and you get other links from other marketing and business sites that has more weight than let's say getting a link from joetheplumber.com So you want a lot of links but relevant links And you want to make sure that these links are seen So when you get a link from a site like CNN or New York Times or Fox News or BBC the sites get a lot of traffic and there's a good chance that someone's going to click on one of those links Now the way you build backlinks is you go to uberys.com you go to the backlinks report and then you go to the backlinks opportunity report You put in three competitors This shows you all the people linking to your competitors but not you And it shows you the pages they link to your competitor's sites So this way you can figure out what content they're creating that's helping them generate these links Best of all you can produce better content than them And then hit up those same people linking to your competitors and say "Hey I noticed that you're linking to A B and C competitor My content breaks down one two and three that theirs doesn't Check it out If you like it feel free and link to it." See when someone links to not one not two but three of your competitors it means they're competitor agnostic They don't care who they link to in the space They don't have any loyalty to one person So if you hit those people up and you have better content why wouldn't they want to showcase it to their visitors versus something that's not as good as you do this more and more over time what you'll find is within 3 months you'll start getting better rankings on Google Within six to nine months you'll start climbing to the top for longtail phrases that aren't as competitive as terms like credit cards right which would take forever to rank for And all these visitors add up And now it gives you a monetization opportunity After ranking at the top of search you'll need this if you want millions of consistent visitors to your website Look we talked about how you need content to get people to your website If you don't have content it's hard to rank The key though with content isn't just about writing quality content It's about filling in the gaps What are your competitors getting traffic for that you're not getting traffic for this is called content gaps So in Uber Suggest you can actually go to the competitor analysis report It'll show you how much search traffic you get versus your competition The reason you do this after you build links is when you're first starting off you're not really getting any traffic So your competitors are ranking for everything and you're not ranking for anything But as you're starting to get rankings and traffic what you want to do is look for the gaps And this report shows you all the traffic that your competition is getting for keywords that you're not ranking for You can even see the pages that are ranking on your competitor sites for these keywords These are the content gaps You want to create content related to these topics because you haven't covered these topics on your website yet And by creating content around them it'll give you more opportunities to generate more visitors And the more visitors you have the more revenue you can make Again when creating content like this make sure your content's better than the competitors If it's not better you're not going to rank higher than them And of course hit up all the people that link to that article cuz Uber says shows you that And reach out to those sites and ask them to link to you But you can't stop here If you want tons of traffic to your website you also need to promote your content all across social media to maximize your reach and blow up your business The strategy that I love is when I create content I love reposting it on platforms like X LinkedIn Facebook and Instagram to maximize my reach These platforms have billions of users So why wouldn't you want to leverage them to get more visitors to your website now it's not just about posting the content on these platforms It's about engaging and building a community on these platforms as well Because the more you participate the easier it is for you to build up a audience And what I like doing is I like first posting on X and using it as a testing ground because it's much easier than most platforms and you can quickly see what's getting engagement what's not Then take your winners and then post it on all the other platforms because X will give you feedback on what's working and not And you can post three four times on X around the same piece of content to quickly see what resonates with people and then you have the copy to use on the other social platforms Now with Facebook LinkedIn and X it's easier to post the link With Instagram you can actually post a story and tell people to swipe up to go to your website With Tik Tok you can drive people to your bio links right and you can do the same with Instagram and have people go to your latest blog post cuz people are clicking on these bio links across all social platforms But if you're not doing this with your website you're leaving so much money on the table What I recommend doing is offering lead magnets which are PDFs quizzes and action plans to capture emails and build long-term engagement If you just look at neilpel.com and you look at our quiz anytime you move your mouse cursor to the very end of the browser it'll pop up and you go through it you'll see how I offer an action plan and I collect an email in exchange for that action plan And doing this is really easy with Mailchimp or any other email tool out there These providers make it really simple to collect emails and they even offer you the design templates that you can put on your website through plugins that allow you to collect emails with a click of a button because WordPress integrates with all the major email providers through a simple plug-in Look email subscribers are more valuable than social media followers And if you believe that you should focus more on social media followers than email subscribers check out this chart It shows you the value of email subscribers versus social media followers Sure it's harder to get email subscribers but they're worth so much more money Why because when you send them an email there's a good chance that they'll see it When you post content on social media the chances are majority of your followers won't see your content Finally to monetize your traffic to your website and make your first million dollars you should do this One of the easiest ways that you can monetize your own website is through affiliate marketing There's a lot of sites out there like Commission Junction or ClickBank that'll show you all the companies that have products in your space and you can promote their products and every time you generate a sale they'll pay you a commission The best part is is when you link to these products within your blog articles you're generating revenue even when you're sleeping because you're constantly getting website traffic But you shouldn't stop there You should sell your own products directly or even your own services because there's many ways you can monetize and it doesn't have to be limited to one At neilpel.com we sell tools like Uberess and Answer the Public We also sell consulting services for SMB businesses through our NP Accelerate division And at NP Digital we also help both enterprise and SMB companies grow their traffic So as you can see we're monetizing in many different ways We have tools we have services and we do this in multiple countries and languages This all helps us make money in many different ways Because when people are sleeping in the United States I'm making money in countries like Japan and Singapore and India where people are awake and can still buy our services and our products Make sure you have different monetization models focusing on different price points because not everyone has a ton of money Some people can afford a Ferrari Some people can only afford a Toyota There's nothing wrong with either car Just have options for both A Toyota may not be as expensive but you can sell it in quantity A Ferrari may be expensive but you can't sell it in quantity It's still worth having multiple options Here's the key When you have traffic your goal should be to monetize 1% of your traffic If you can get a million visitors or even a h 100,000 visitors and you can monetize 1% it'll add up over time Whether you're selling something for $30 or $5,000 there's many ways to make money but you just got to monetize your audience And the way to monetize is by having multiple options for people That's how you get your conversion rates not to 1% but to 2% 3% so you can make even more money and ideally come up with something that's reoccurring so you can keep cashing checks because you're continually giving value to people each and every single month It's much easier to make money from your existing customers than it is to make money by attracting new customers And that is exactly how I'd make a million dollars in the next 12 months even if I was starting from zero Follow this road map test iterate and improve every single day and you'll be on track to becoming a millionaire in no
