Yes it’s possible to build an “earn money autopilot” system from your laptop. But it’s not easy! I fell for many of those systems. You know the ones. They tell you how easy it will be to earn money on autopilot with only a few steps. In truth, it’s not easy. It takes time and effort. but it can be done!
I took many digital profit courses which claimed they could make me some easy money. I learned some skills and eventually did start generating income from the internet. But it took some time and some understanding. In truth only 3% of those who start out trying to build an online business from scratch will actually make it a viable income which can replace their existing one.
So if you’re looking for a quick and easy autopilot money making system, then you’ve come to the wrong place!
Earn Money Autopilot – How?
To earn money on autopilot requires building a system which runs without you. When I started out online learning how to make money using my laptop, I used eBay. I bought and sold items and made a profit using this strategy. But I was in the system. It didn’t work without me; which was where I went wrong.
To build an “earn money autopilot” system, you need to create a system which works 24 hours a day, 265 days a year on complete autopilot. You need 3 things to make this a reality:
- A Marketing engine – to get people to your sales funnel
- An autoresponder – email marketing software
- Affiliate products – products you can use to sell for a share of the profit
That’s it! That’s all you need! But what’s the catch?
What’s The Catch?
I spent years figuring out what didn’t work online. I built many websites and wasted a lot of time. I blogged and blogged and blogged but nothing happened. Why? Because I didn’t know how to get traffic to my website or landing pages. I couldn’t get people into my sales funnel and I was stuck in a poverty mindset which stopped me taking actions outside my comfort zone.
Getting people into your sales funnel is pretty important and this takes a marketing engine. This was the step I got wring for years. I focused on building pretty websites and writing a lot of content which nobody saw!
But unless you’re willing to spend months and years building content and sharing it, you’ll need a marketing engine which drives traffic. This is expensive so you’ll need a product range which offers enough value to recoup your marketing budget and make a profit.
So your sales funnel is pretty important if you want to build an “earn money autopilot” system. Without a good sales funnel which offers a lot of value and gives you large enough commissions, you won’t be able to afford to advertise (using paid marketing). Which means your marketing efforts will need to be free or low cost. And cheap marketing costs time; time which most people simply don’t have.
Can You Afford To Market Your Funnel?
Most cheap online business systems offer a low cost product for you to promote. What they don’t tell you is that you won’t be able to afford paid marketing to promote it. Paid marketing is the best and fastest way to build an “earn money autopilot” strategy that actually works. Organic (free) traffic is hard to come by. It used to be much easier to get organic traffic to a website. But now there’s paid adverts all over the top of the Google search results.
So to build a serious online business that works takes either a huge amount of time and effort building content and promoting it, or paid marketing.
A high ticket funnel lets you use paid marketing because your average customer value is much higher than that of a low value affiliate product. With a range of high ticket items and recurring commission affiliate products in your sales funnel, you’ll be able to recoup your marketing costs more easily.
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Building An Earn Money Autopilot System Without Paid Marketing
You can still build an income from a laptop without paid marketing. However, it’s much more difficult. There’s various strategies to do this including:
- Blogging – creating website content like this article
- V’logging – creating video blogs and posting to YouTube
- Social media – Using Facebook, Instagram Twitter etc to build a following
- Email marketing – an email autoresponder does cost a small amount but will help multiply your efforts
You can of course use a combination of many strategies. Ideally use a small amount of paid marketing and build up your advertising budget as you learn and build your business.
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Advantages Of Paid Marketing
Paid marketing is easily scalable. This is probably the best advantage of all. With organic traffic, you have to wait for a long time before your content generates traction in your business. With paid marketing, you can run an advert and see immediate results. If an advert isn’t working, simply cancel it. If a campaign works and brings a profit, you can scale up just by increasing your advertising budget.
It’s very difficult to scale up an organic marketing strategy. One article could go viral and make you a heap of sales. But it’s difficult to replicate this success with other content. Paid marketing is reliable too. You can set up a paid marketing campaign and it can run 24 hour a day, bringing you leads on autopilot. With content it’s more difficult to get people to view it consistently. Paid marketing is very targeted too so you can get the right people in front of your offers.
So ideally use some paid marketing in your online business if your business model (and average value of a customer) allows it.