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01.24.08
Building An Autopilot Business
 By
Andrew Wee
I think "passive income" and "autopilot internet business" are 2 of the most frequently abused terms in the brick-and-mortar as well as the online business world.
If you're thinking that you can set up a business and have it running completely by itself, which continues to generate consistent and regular income month-on-month and continues to do that without you having anything to do with it, I would be pretty keen to take a look.
It IS possible to do it once you have systems in place, but given the highly competitive nature of niches in the online marketing world, you will need to put in some effort to maintain your business performance.
If you are interested in building a long-term, sustainable business continue reading on.
So you hear about some Internet guru telling you that if you create 1,000 websites and they make $1 a day, and if you make $1,000 a day, that's $30,000 a month, right?
WRONG.
While you can theoretically do that with made-for-adsense sites, or automated scraper sites, or even 20,000 page content sites, relying on random search engine traffic, I'm not sure it always works well in practise.
I do know a couple of guys who're doing this, and they're pretty skilled (having racked up more than 10 years of experience in doing this).
But then it can be a struggle sometimes, because even if you are indexed, sites might be manually reviewed by staff at Google or Yahoo! or MSN, and de-indexed, or relegated to search engine result page oblivion (maybe page 50 or so...).
Here is what I do to build my online income.
•Due diligence: Evaluate an offer. Find out what top earners in that niche are doing. Determine if it will work long term (I prefer year-round niches, rather than seasonal ones which might be based on the summer, or the current season of American Idol). See if it's something that make sense.
•Focus: I'll focus and test that one offer - whether it's through natural search traffic or paid traffic. I'll promote only that offer and see if it generates results for me. (no offer will perform exactly the same way for 2 affiliates).
Continue reading this article.
About the Author:
Copyright Mike Moran
Andrew Wee is an Asia-based Internet Marketer focused on blogging, social traffic generation and affiliate marketing. Previously rated as one of Asia's top technology journalists, Andrew covers breaking news and industry developments at WhoIsAndrewWee.com
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