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Everyone talks about how easy it is to build an online business in 2022, but is it really that easy?

Well, I’ll present to you all the pro’s and con’s of making an online business that will help you figure out if it is worth it for you to start.

Let’s start with the con’s!

1.It Is A Lot Of Competition

As it is very easy to make an online business, everyone started to do it, so that created a lot of competition to be there.

This competition can be very difficult.

Many niches have become not worth it anymore.

This might be one of the biggest cons of having an online business.

2.Many Scams Are Out There

If I hear one more person saying that you can make money out of surveys, I swear I’ll go mad.

Even with real online businesses like blogs, affiliate marketing and dropshipping won’t get you the income that you dream of.

Obviously, you won’t become a millionaire from starting a small business like a blog, but it can make you an income.

Not every type of online business is worth it, I have tried many and a lot of them didn’t work. I have listed my experiences with every business I’ve made in this article.

3.Getting Organic Traffic Can Be Almost Impossible

Personally, I believe that getting organic traffic is not something easy to do.

Platforms that can get you organic traffic, can take back that organic traffic in a second.

You’ll need to put a lot of work in to make an organic traffic source grow, but it can still end up not being worth it.

Now, let’s get with the pro’s!

1.It Is Cheap

Online businesses are a lot cheaper than normal ones.

They can cost a bit, but surely not even close to how much a normal business can hurt your pockets.

2.It Is A Lot Simpler To Learn

Online businesses don’t take that many skills and you can learn them from anywhere on the Internet.

3.You Can Work From Home

Probably The Biggest pro is that you can work from home.

Working from is a huge advantage not everyone can afford and that’s why starting an online business is a great thing to do.

The Big Question: Is It Still Worth It To Make An Online Business?

I think so, but I also think it depends on the person.

You need to take all of these things into consideration and decide if they are good or not for you!

Everyone that starts a blog wants one thing: BLOG TRAFFIC. But, like everything else, getting more blog traffic can be very difficult.

Some things just don’t work as well as others and that can really end up discouraging you as a new blogger.

I’ve talked with 6 other bloggers, and we’ve come up with the most effective 11 traffic sources you can build for your blog.

As years have passed, blogging and affiliate marketing have been gaining more and more popularity and with that their capability of becoming profitable has decreased drastically.

What I’m saying is that affiliate marketing is not as profitable as it used to be because everybody does it.

Now , don’t get discouraged! I do it and I make an income, just not the income you’d expect.

I make around $2000–3000 per month, but I have been doing it for 2 years now.

It’s not the amount you’re told online.

You most likely won’t become a millionaire from doing affiliate marketing and by blogging, but that is completely fine.

There are however a few things that have changed and that you should probably keep in mind when starting this type of side hustles.

First, to make affiliate marketing profitable, you need to have a blog or a place where you have full control over your audience like an email list.

You need it because it will make it more likely for your audience to buy the products you promote.

The second thing you have to do is: PROMOTE EVERYWHERE.

I mean on Pinterest, Tumblr, Tiktok, Redditt and so on.

Another thing you need to try:

COLD EMAIL MARKETING.

What is it? It’s when you email someone you haven’t spoken to before. Great side hustle you should surely begin.

You only need to get into THE MAIN INBOX.

For that, you should have DKIM, DMARC, SPF. If you’d like to read more about them and cold email marketing, I have written this article on my blog.

Affiliate marketing is surely a good place to start, but if you’re an aspiring millionaire I’ m assuring you affiliate marketing or dropshipping won’t get you there.

To actually become one you need to begin your own business and sell your own products, whether they are digital or not.

But nonetheless, affiliate marketing is a great way to make even a full time income while not working that much.

Everyone tells you that the key to financial freedom is to build as many side hustles as you can? But is that really the truth?

We will uncover it in this article! Plus a list of realistic side hustles you can begin!

I will give you a straight answer: YOU DON’T NEED MORE THAT 3 SIDE HUSTLES TO BECOME RICH.

Trying to build more than that it’s just worthless. It will waste your time and won’t get you very far either.

These are the type of side hustles you need to begin:

A Startup/Business Side Hustle

A Creative One

An Investing/Stocks Side Hustle

Let’s start with the startup side hustles ideas you can begin without too much investments:

-A Blog

-A Shopify Shop

-An Online Shop

-Freelancing Services

-Web Designer

-Translator

-Copywriter

-Online Writer

-Email Marketing

Creative Side Hustle Ideas

-Graphic Design

-Instagram Influencer

-Pinterest Influencer

-Youtuber

-Video Editor

-Photographer

Investment

-Stock Trading

-Fund Investments

-Crypto Investments

-Roth IRA’s

Whichever one of these you choose to begin, it will be worth it!

It’s true that in order to achieve financial freedom you need to begin online side hustles and these are the best ones to begin online.

To learn how to make a successful side hustle like I did, I have the entire story and tips for you on Fixed Happiness.

Which one of these ideas did you like the most?

Are you wanting to become a blogger, but you have absolutely no clue what to blog about?

I got you! As I’ve searched the Internet trying to understand what are the best blogging niches to begin with, I’ve realized just how much things have changed in 2022!

Without any preamble, let’s get right into it!

So, what are the best blogging niches to begin?

Well, for starters we have:

1.Digital Marketing And Online Businesses

Whattt?

Yes, the best way to make money online is to teach others how to make money on their own!

In 2022, with everything going on in the world, people from all around the world have started to make their own online businesses and have started to try to look for help on how to make their biz successful.

2.Fitness And Nutrition

Yep, this will always be one of the top niches!

It’s not a shame to admit that everyone likes to take care of their physical appearance.

I have found it extremely entertaining that people don’t want to start a blog about this niche.

If you have the knowledge, I say you give it a try as it is a very good niche to go into.

3.Interior Design

Such an unexpected one! It’s a great niche that I haven’t seen many people get into.

If you are interested, surely give it a try!

4.Fashion

What can I say? Everyone wants to dress better.

Especially with all of the things happening right now!

5.Photography

With all of these social media platforms, there has to be someone teaching the arts of photography and editing.

6.Personal Development

This can include millions of other sub niches!

7.Parenting

Obviously, this might not be one for everyone, but if you have experience with kids and like to talk about it, this is surely a niche worth trying.

8.Education

Students have become more and more familiar with platforms that teach online and they many times look for educational help on the internet.

And these were about all! Did you like them?

Also, if you want to learn step by step how to start your own blog, you can go to my blog Fixed Happiness, where I have it all explained!

As an online business owner, you are constantly looking for new ways to get more leads, but the truth is, sometimes it can be harder than you might think!

There are organic and non-organic ways to get more leads to your online business, but the most underrated and organic one out there is by far: COLD EMAIL MARKETING.

What?

What is cold email marketing?

Well, it’s when you send an email to someone you haven’t spoken to before and that isn’t subscribed to your email newsletter.

Seems great? Well, it is!

But as with all good things, there must be something not so good.

That thing is: getting into the main inbox.

Like it or not, it can be difficult to get sent into the main inbox.

I know, for me, it took three months to finally understand what to do to get into the main inbox.

To make it easier, let me show you the exact steps to make cold email marketing successful:

-Have DMARC

-Get Your Own Signature

-Use One Collumn Layouts

-Get SPF

-Have DKIM

-Using Only Curated Links

-Send It To The Right People

-Keywords Proof Subject Line

Wow! Seems like a lot and too difficult?

I got you! I have explained it on Fixed Happiness in this article.

As a business owner you should surely try to use cold email marketing as it is one of the most helpful ways to get business leads.

What do you think about this?

Do you like it? Think it’s worth giving it a try?

Did you recently start a blog, but you don’t understand what holds you back from massive blogging success?

If yes, this is the biggest mistake we’ve noticed for new or pro bloggers: producing more than promoting!

Whattt? What does this mean?

Well, let me tell you, in the blogging industry, many people keep on telling you that you need to publish more and more content every single day, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

It’s not about how much content you post, but about how much you promote it.

Another thing is that longer articles do a lot better than shorter articles, so it’s better to post less articles that are longer than more posts that are shorter.

But, how do you promote your blog effectively? What are the best platforms to promote your blog on?

After working with multiple websites, these have proven to be the best blog traffic source you can begin to make a blog successful:

-Platforms: Pinterest, Medium and Tumblr

-Cold Email Marketing

The first one is quite obvious, online platforms have a huge impact on our world so it’s extremely helpful if you start many social media accounts on many different platforms.

Out of them all, Pinterest, Medium and Tumblr have been proven to be the most effective ones.

You just start an account, are consistent on it and you’ll end up seeing growth.

Let’s move on to the next blog traffic source: cold email marketing.

What is cold email marketing?

It’s when you send an email to someone you haven’t talked to before that can get you a potential blogging lead.

Cold email marketing is a great and underrated way to increase blog traffic.

But, as it is underrated, it’s also not that easy to master.

Let me show you what you need to have to get into the main inbox and drive more traffic to your blog:

-DMARC

-DKIM

-SPF

-Curated Links

-Curated Content

-A List Of Real People To Send Your Emails To

Seems too difficult? I have them all explained in this article on my blog Fixed Happiness!

And this was about it!

Do you have a different opinion?

I would love to know! Tell me in the comments down below!

Have a lovely rest of your day,

You hear most digital marketers talking about email newsletters, but you almost never hear them talking about cold email marketing.

We all know about Pinterest, we all know about SEO, but how many actually know the real importance of : email marketing?

You most likely know what it is? But did you know that both types, cold or not email marketing can help you get more blog leads?

I mean that’s what I think works best, do you think so too?

Normal email marketing is great because it allows you to get people that subscribed to your email newsletter back to your blog more times a month.

But, how much do you know about cold email marketing and how it can help you?

With this type of email marketing you have to be a lot more open and you have to send much more helpful and intriguing information.

It’s a simple way to get people to come to your brand new blog.

But there’s a few things you need: 

-Have a well set up profile

-Have DMARC, DKIM and SPF

-Contain only curated links

-Have a one column layout

-High-engagement rate

If you find any of these interested, I have talked and explained them in this article.

Also, cold email marketing is amazing for building relationships with great people too.

So keep that in mind too!

It’s a great and underrated way to get a good amount of leads to your blog.

And it’s not any leads, they are the perfect leads because they are the perfect audience for your niche.

This is what I have found that works for me and my clients.

I wanted to know your opinion too, do you think the same?

Have any other thoughts?

I’d love to know!

Have a lovely day,

If you’re a brand new blogger, you need to avoid these mistakes.

After creating a blog, everything might seem new and exciting, but it’s not all rainbows and sunshines in the world of blogging.

There are specific mistakes that can end up damaging your blogging career.

And for that not to happen to you, this is a list full of blogging mistakes you must avoid after starting your blog.

This Pinterest change might surprise you…

All digital marketers know about how great Pinterest is for every online business out there.

But lately, Pinterest has been changing dramatically and many don’t know if it’s for better or for worse.

Everyone noticed how Pinterest has been pushing Idea Pins more than anything, but this isn’t the only thing they’re changing.

Pinterest has been decreasing the impressions of many creators and as a Pinterest manager, many of my client’s account's impressions have been decreasing.

Now, the big question that popped up in everyone’s head is: how can you get to pinterest success in 2022?

I’ve been searching for the answer everywhere and I think I have found it, but let me know if you think this works.

The first thing I found to work is posting an Idea Pin directly talking about a section of the website/product/service I’m promoting.

For example: “Do you want to know how to start a blog?” “If so, you can go to the link in my bio and go check out the guide”

The second thing is you have to get long tail keywords.

That’s right, not just any keywords, longtail ones.

It’s like Pinterest SEO is becoming more and more similar to Google SEO, isn’t it?

I have talked about finding the perfect long tail keywords in this article.

Long tail keywords have become a for sure thing to keep in mind when making a standard pin or an idea pin.

And these were all the changes I have found.

I want to know from one Pinterest marketer to another, if you have noticed any other changes or if you have any other tips.

Let me know!

Have a great rest of your day,

Well, blogging is great, isn’t it?

But recently a huge thing happened and many changes are already coming in every blogger’s way.

Blogging is changing fast!

What is this big thing that happened? well you’ve probably heard about Meta. Many have seen that their traffic is slowly decreasing and will go down even more if we don’t do anything.

Why? Because Meta and every social media platform out there want to keep their audience on their platform.

Pinterest is doing this, Quora is doing this, LinkedIn is doing this, Instagram and so on.

That means it will become extremely hard for you to drive an audience to your blog.

But we have found a way to drive readers to your website even if certain apps don’t want to.

That way is: brand awareness and to make profit you need to add affiliate products in your social media.

What do I mean by that? Well, you need to promote the name of your blog as much as possible.

Make the reader remember the name, so that later on they can come to your website.

For example, on Pinterest create an Idea Pin where you offer the reader information and then you tell them that if they visit your website they’ll get access to a checklist or anything like that.

Now, what about profit?

Affiliate marketing can now be done directly on the platform.

Promote affiliate products on your Instagram stories, on your Idea Pins.

Now, you need to have a few things to make profit:

-good CPL programs

-programs with recurring commissions

-programs that offer you banners

-programs that offer you long cookie duration

Seems hard to find these kinds of programs? I have a list of them and of affiliate marketing strategies in a blog post: How To Create The Best Affiliate Marketing Strategy (List Of Affiliate Programs).

If you’ll this, the change with blogging won’t affect your success.

Have a great day,

All email marketers should know this change…

Email marketing has been constantly growing recently and that is an amazing thing, but unfortunately, this has made a lot more competition appear in the whole email marketing community.

So, it’s not as easy to create successful email campaigns.

Many things changed, but the most important things to get over 78% engagements in your emails are these:

Incorporate unique signature/logo

Studies have shown that emails that contain a logo of their brand have a chance of 15,4% of better engagements.

It seems more professional and gives your reader an impression of trust that will overall make them interact more with your content.

Pre-Header should be the attention grabber

Not necessarily your subject lines.

It has been seen that people look in their inbox more at the pre header rather than the subject line.

It’s surely something to keep in mind when creating an email.

It’s a lot more helpful if you do this the right way.

DMARC, SPF and DKIM are a need

To get into the main inbox, which is probably your main goal, you need to have all of these: DKIM, SPF and DMARC.

Seems like something difficult?

It’s not really. I’ve explained it in this article in only 10 steps.

Stick to one column layout

Not more than one.

An email should be kept as simple as possible and this is one way to do it.

Keep it simple! Have only one column layout. You’ll see how much it’ll help you.

By having a one column layout, your email will become a little easier to read and understand.

Avoid walls Of Text

This is one of the biggest mistakes.

You need to avoid walls of text as much as possible.

When I’m telling you, this is one of the most important things out there for anyone that sends out an email marketing campaign.

You need to keep this in mind whenever you’re sending a new email.

And these were about all the changes!

Did you notice any different ones?

Do you still think email marketing is worth it?

Let me know!

Have a great rest of your day,

You hear most digital marketers talking about email newsletters, but you almost never hear them talking about cold email marketing.

Why is that? I honestly don’t know because cold email marketing is so great. It helps beginner bloggers and pro bloggers drive traffic to their blog and even create connections with some important bloggers out there.

One day, some time after starting cold email marketing, I woke up to this:

All business owners should hear this change…

Instagram is a great platform to do business management on and for good reasons, but it has been recently going through some changes.

What changes?

Well, many of them, but mostly regarding the way SEO works.

You probably already know by now that REELS and carousels do the best, but did you know that, now, that your reels should also follow a set of rules to get engagements.

What are these rules?

First, it’s about what you write in the reel or talk about.

Instagram has a search engine tool that allows it to understand what’s written or said in the reel.

Means that your reel and reel description should contain the same keywords.

It takes a while to figure out what keywords you should use, and I have explained it in this article: How To Grow Your Instagram Account With Reels SEO.

Secondly, you need to understand the hashtags.

Probably seen that you shouldn’t use many hashtags, but the question that remains is:

How many should you actually use?

Well, 4-7 is about a good number.

But it’s more about what hashtags you use.

What you should do is find accounts that represent your target audience and see exactly what hashtags they follow and use them.

Do not use too common hashtags, especially for reels.

Another thing instagram loves is: building a reel on their app.

Use Instagram to write the text of your reel and your videos.

Put music from Instagram and so on.

Use as many Instagram features as you can when building a reel.

And these were about all the things that make a reel perfect.

Did you see these changes too?

Do you think anything works differently?

Let us know!

Have a great week,

If you’re interested in affiliate marketing, this might surprise you…

Affiliate marketing is something that probably every digital marketer knows and loves, but as many know, it’s not that easy to make profit from it.

Why? Well, because affiliate marketing is difficult.

Some strategies work and some don’t, but these are the ones that most likely work the best.

CPL Programs

Recurring commissions over bounties

You’ve probably heard of the 3 types of affiliate marketing:

1.CPC (Cost Per Click) — You earn each time someone clicks through your links;

2.CPL (Cost Per Lead) — You earn each time someone offers a lead (an email address, creates a free account);

3.CPA Or CPS (Cost Per Action Or Cost Per Sale) — You earn each time someone buys from your links!

They’re all great! But CPA ones are the only ones that are being talked about.

Why is that? No idea.

It’s a lot more difficult to convince someone to buy from you rather than to just sign up or give their email.

That’s why CPL programs are more likely to work well.

They mostly work best with the affiliate comparison method that I’ve talked about in this article where I also added a list of the best CPL programs.

Now, let me talk to you about programs with recurring commissions.

Why are they so good? Because they allow you to build PASSIVE INCOME.

The thing that everyone wants!

Think about it this way: you have an affiliate program that pays you 33% commissions and the program you promote costs 15 dollars per month.

That means you get 3 dollars every month if a person continues their subscription even if they don’t come to your website again.

A person usually cancels a subscription after 1–2 years of using the program.

That means, by only referring the person once you’ll be making profit every month without working.

Let’s say you refer 1000 people in one month. For the next year at least you’ll be making 3000 bucks a month without sending anyone again.

Seems pretty great, huh?

That’s why recurring programs with monthly payments are a lot better than bounties and why you should always choose them.

Now these were the secrets I have found the most helpful about affiliate marketing!

Do you have any other ones?

Let me know!

Enjoy the rest of your day,

Do you want to start an email list, but you have no prior experience? If so, this guide is perfect for you as it will show you exactly what I did and what you can do to build your email list and start doing email marketing effectively!

Use a pop up

Do not send too many emails

No affiliate links in your emails

Make sure your subject line is good

Link to other blog posts

Be consistent with your emails

Don’t lie when writing an email