In a nutshell these are the steps and the order I would take them.

1.) Set goals what do you hope to achieve with your online business
2.) Find a niche or product that you will work in to earn your money
3.) Develop a plan to reach your goals.
4.) Devise a marketing strategy to sell your products, affiliate products or services
5.) Take the actions necessary from your plan to achieve your goals.

Now there are countless steps under each one of those steps depending on what you are doing, for example in finding a niche or product you want to find something that people want to buy. Not necessarily what they NEED. You should do some market research on your niche and some keyword research to see if there is a market and if that market can be profitable.

This applies to almost anything you want to get into in that might be profitable the more knowledge you have on your market, what they are buying, how many are buying the better off you will be in coming up with your market strategy.

You market strategy is also important what are you going to do before and after you sell them the first product? How are you setting up your site? Is it a giveaway to brand yourself or are you just doing direct marketing? If you are doing direct marketing do you have an optin on the sales page to catch some of th people that aren’t buying? Do you have an upsell after the original purchase? Can it be set up as recurring income? Are you setting up an affiliate program? Can you find JV partners and affiliates? These are just a few items you need to know the answers too before you start your campaign and quite often they are over looked and this doesn’t even mention getting traffic to the site.

I do see that you are selling PLR products one question are you selling any products with your name on them? If not why not? You have the PLR products you can go through them, find one that is good, change it so that it is better put your name on it and sell it. A bit of advice here, never use them the way they come, they are usually written by freelancers and they usually have wrong information in them, change the content, change the name, change the images and anything else you can think of to really personalize it and make it your own product.

You also mention you have a blog, is your blog getting any traffic? Is it targeted at a specific niche? Is that niche related to how you plan on earning your income?

As you can see I am not one of those guys that tells you that you can make $10,000 in the next 30 days with no work, no effort, just push the magic button. You can do it but it does take doing the work and understanding what you are doing.

I think this is long enough for a comment response but feel free to ask more questions.

Randy The Hermit

I am have a great deal of difficulty getting started making money online. Could you help? What are 5 of the most import steps to get started online? I do have a website, a direct marketing site and a personal WP blog hosted on my own domain.

Sincerely,

Daniel Tetreault.