Annie Binns | Life in the Fun Lane

As you may already know, I’ m a huge fan of Lynn Terry and her internet marketing blog, ClickNewz!  I can’t remember how I found her, but I have been reading her blog for a long time, and just recently started participating in her weekly webinars.  Lynn has been online for more than a decade, and has a refreshing no-bullshit approach.  The thing that gets me about Lynn is that she genuinely wants to share the knowledge that she has put to use to become a successful online entreprenuer.  Internet marketing is full of people who talk the talk, but Lynn is one of a few folks who actually walks the walk.  When she makes a buck from something she promotes, you’ll know it.  When she doesn’t, you’ll know it.  Speaking of which…

Disclaimer time:  Lynn is testing a pay-per-post social media marketing idea and I will probably be getting paid a small gratuity for this post.  I told her that if she didn’t pay me, I would write it anyway.  So there – I really showed her, huh!

She wrote an article this weekend that I really want to share with you.  In Starting a Free Online Business, Lynn talks about going to lunch with some gals who she hooked up with on MySpace.  Lynn knows how to use MySpace.  I don’t.  The only fun thing I’ve discovered about MySpace is a typing game.  I’m a crazy-fast typist and crazy-competitive by nature, so the game really hits my sweet spot.   But I digress…

So Lynn meets up with these ladies and starts explaining some of the ways you can make money online:  Selling your own products or services; and promoting other people’s products and services.  The latter idea appealed to Lynn’s new friends, and to me as well, because it involves passive income.  Lynn is quick to point out that you can’t get up one day and decide to start getting passive income:

"To clarify, when I say passive I dont mean that you wont have to work at it. I think we’ve all kind of figured out by now that “get rich quick schemes” dont really work. And we were discussing real, legitimate ways to make consistent income online. "

That’s the secret in a nutshell, folks – you have to work at it.  It takes a lot of work to create a situation where you can make money while you eat bon-bons by the pool.  So much work, in fact, that a lot of people simply turn back to traditional ways of making money.  We all know how to go to the office for 8-24 hours a day and bring home a paycheck.  Lynn wants to teach you something different and she goes to great lengths to explain it to you.  If you think you’re too new at this to understand what she’s teaching, you’re wrong.  Lynn know a lot of technical mumbo jumbo but thankfully, she keeps that stuff to herself.  Instead, she just tells you what you need to know, in very simple terms.  Got a question?  She’ll answer it.  Personally.

The archives on Lynn’s site walk you through every step of setting up your own online business.  I could happily spend days digging around in her site.  However, the post I mentioned earlier, Starting a Free Online Business, has links to all the necessary "first steps" of creating that business.  She also links to some other very well-known tutorials by Jeremy Palmer about selling other people’s products (a.k.a affiliate marketing).  This single article has everything you need to get started.  I hope you enjoy it, and getting to know Lynn, as much as I do!

P.S.  Here’s the money part of the post:  LYNN ROCKS!  LYNN ROCKS!  LYNN ROCKS!

P.P.S.  Note to self:  Charge per color.

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