RESOURCES

Starting Your Own Internet Portfolio ~ A Few Helpful Resources

If you are looking for ways to produce extra income or create passive income streams and you are willing to learn a few new skills you could be on your way to building yourself a very valuable internet portfolio in the next 12-24 months.

When it comes to the internet,it can be hard to remember a time when there was no Facebook, no Google and no Twitter but the fact is for most of us the last 3-5 years of having access to the world wide web has simply been life changing. I do not know about you but being able to “Google” something if practically a life changer!

What you probably do not realise is that people are making 5,6, 7 or 8 figures per year with their businesses just on the internet and that is during the economic crisis that is crippling the world right now. Think about it for a moment, for the first time in history we have a “virtual agony aunt” ( Google ) which we merrily type away our questions into and up pops an answer or a solution to a problem.

That is really important because as a marketer your role is to find a lot of people with a lot of problems and offer them solutions! When it comes to being able to leverage that idea, the internet comes into it’s own.

It offers unlimited potential to anyone willing to learn some new skills that will enable them to create their own internet portfolio of virtual real estate.

Smart entrepreneurs are creating themselves an internet portfolio that is capable of generating multiple streams of passive income when you know how to piece it all together … and that takes time, perseverance and plenty of taking action.

If we have spiked your interest and you want to check out some of the resources we have used ourselves and are happy to recommend here is a quick checklist of our best recommendations for building your internet portfolio …

Top 10 Resources To Start Building Your Internet Portfolio

1. WordPress Blogs ( the self hosted version). If there was one skill I would recommend you build it would be learning how to create a self hosted WordPress Blog. Even if you can outsource the task learning the skills yourself will always put you in a much stronger position to build your internet portfolio faster.

2. Market Samurai ( market research tool ). Once you get your first site up and running, you will immediately feel ten times more confident about your next one and as you learn more by doing, the more you do the easier it will get to add to your internet portfolio.

3. SEO Training ( the best we have found bar none). The Bring The Fresh membership is extremely valuable! In case you had not realised it yet, SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is the key ingredient if you want your niche WordPress sites to rank highly for your well researched money keywords for FREE or ZERO DOLLARS. And as with all coaching being led by industry experts ( Kelly Felix and Mike Long) you will soon be on a fast track to getting your sites ranked on page one of Google.

4. Clickbump SEO ( for easy on site search engine optimisation). Quite simply you cannot go wrong with this neat little piece of software. It is going to give you a score out of 10 checklist each and every time you create a post or a page on one of your niche WordPress sites.

5. Clickbump Engine (for one click SEO ready WordPress blogsites). You can use the WordPress free themes for building your internet portfolio but this piece of software does the whole darn thing in one click when you get the full Clickbump Engine package that includes the Jump Start Pro option and creates instant professional looking websites in minutes. Totally customisable you can be Google Adsense or Amazon affiliate ready within hours.

Next Step In Building Your Internet Portfolio? Content And Syndication

6. Aweber ( autoresponder and email marketing service). Building your mailing is a fundamental for every online business and software like Aweber has WordPress plug ins that allow you to easily integrate a mailing list opt in to the sidebar of your WordPress blog sites to make additional revenue from through a series of autoresponders and email marketing strategies.

7. Unique Article Wizard ( for maximum trackbacks and backlinks). Every piece of content on every blog on the internet is like an island in the middle of the ocean and you need to create “bridges” to it using the power of backlinks. One of the easiest ways of building multiple backlinks to your niche WordPress blog is by using article submissions and the Unique Article Wizard is considered the bees knees of getting the job done right.

8. Social Media ( Twitter, Facebook and You Tube). Google places considers highly read, popular blogs posts and articles within its ranking algorithms so you should be looking for ways to integrate Social Media into your content sharing or syndication strategy. An inexpensive piece of software like Hootsuite is one of the easiest ways to manage your WordPress sites and schedule posts and content sharing on autopilot.

9. Pop Up Domination ( for typically 51% More Opt Ins). We read the hype on this little tool and thought “yeah yeah” but seriously in some niches we see typically 51% of ALL opt ins to the WordPress site mailing list coming from Pop Up Domination. Easily one of the best few dollars you will ever spend.

10. Clickbank (for thousands of products to promote). We never promote for the sake of promoting, so we are always a product of the product and that is important because people can tell a fake. One of the easiest ways to start building your internet portfolio is by monetising your WordPress blog site with a Clickbank product. All the customer service, refunds and headaches are taken care of and there are usually ready made content, banners and emails provided for you as an affiliate so you can get started straight away.

*NB The above list is NOT a comprehensive list, but we have tested all of them ourselves with excellent results! Remember the internet is organic, it will continue to evolve and grow and that means if you are interested in “sticking to it like glue” then you stand a much better chance of achieving your goals.