How To Set Up An Online Business with Ian McConnell

Should You Consider Hiring a Coach For Success in Your Online Business?

If you asked me a few years ago “Should I hire a coach?” …I would have probably said NO! But then… If you asked me today… I would say absolutely YES! So, why the big shift in thinking? Well, years ago I thought coaching was something that would cost me $10,000, or more, and so I could […]

A few years ago I remember thinking that if I could just make $500 a month from selling an ebook… I would be very happy! So, to make $359,515.79 in 23 months was an outstanding result. It was hard work, but well worth it! And then to be interviewed by Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com was the […]

Shane MeLaugh from imimpact.com interviewed me… Shane is the “Swiss army knife” of internet marketers. His precision, quality and dedication to growing viable online businesses is something I highly respect. Because of this, and the fact that this was the very first time I had been interviewed on camera, I was nervous and a bit shaky […]

Want a BIG challenge in life? Then start a business! Want an EVEN BIGGER challenge in life? Then start a business online! Why? Because it’s freaking HARD! Don’t let anyone else tell you differently… It is hard! The Facebook articles and ads from the “guru’s” showing off their travels, cars and houses might look lavish […]

Quality content is essential for my business online because it allows people to identify with me. They get a snippet of my knowledge, and my personality, which leads to them (hopefully) liking and trusting me and then acting on my recommendations… or buying my products 🙂 My main strategy for writing great content is to build […]

Gary Vaynerchuk - Stop THINKING, Stop PONDERING

Are you one of those online business non-starters? Do you talk about how you are going to do this or that someday when this or that has happened? I see and hear the excuses as a business coach all the time! In business, the scorecard is the bottom line… It’s the net profit! People tell […]

The Easiest Way To Sell Big Ticket Items by Dan Henry

If you have followed my coaching for any amount of time you know that I suggest that people create their big-ticket product first ($1,000+) and then spin off smaller products ($27 – $197) from that big product. One of the reasons is that it is actually easier to create that big-ticket product because it is usually a coaching program […]

How much money do you want to make in your business? We are all capped with how many hours we have in the day, but yet some people will start a business and make $100k/yr while others make millions. Why is that? It’s because of the value they provide. Myron Golden explains it extremely well […]

In 2014 my son and I travelled around New Zealand for 2 months. We had an amazing time and created memories that will last forever… But what was so noticeable was the happiness I felt almost every day! It was incredible… I felt alive and excited and energised almost all of the time! I enjoyed […]

If you have been trying to make some money working from home, and make less than $10,000 a month, I would like to help you create a major business breakthrough and guarantee your success. I’ve heard from a lot of frustrated people trying to create an income working from home and not getting results. So, […]

Have you ever struggled to determine and then clarify your goals accurately? If you answered Yes (or No)… Ask yourself, and answer, the Dan Sullivan question below. You will be amazed what you uncover… Find out more about “The Dan Sullivan Question“…

One Reason Why You Are Not As Successful As You Should Be

Business success is something that many entrepreneurs really struggle with. So, if you feel like you are not as successful as you should be, this message is something you need to hear… Some entrepreneurs seem to be blessed with success… They make it look easy! But, most often, it hasn’t been easy. Enjoying business success […]

Do you want to… Work flexible hours from anywhere (with an internet connection), Have an automated way of making money, and Work once and get paid over and over again for years to come? If YES, you are in the right place! InMyHomeOffice.com gives you the step-by-step strategies and help you need to set up […]

How To Get A Constant Stream Of Targeted Visitors To Your Website

If you have been internet marketing for some time, you have probably worked out that doing the research, picking a niche and setting up the website is the easier part of internet marketing… The hard part is getting traffic to your website! I have seen many “ugly” websites do well because of the sheer amount of […]

Making money online as an affiliate marketer is a quick way to get started as an internet marketer. There are many advantages to affiliate marketing, with very few disadvantages, but first let me explain what affiliate marketing is. What is Affiliate Marketing? Affiliate marketing is basically selling other peoples services and products ( physical or […]

Do you like writing on certain subjects? Have you been told that you write well or are a good story teller? If so, then you can turn your writing into cash by becoming a freelance writer! This is another one of those money-making methods that’s incredibly quick and easy to implement. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never written for […]

Writing and selling short reports can be one of the most profitable ways to make money online. Just have a look at the information products online and you’ll see examples of people using this strategy to pull in $100,000 or more per year. Here’s how the strategy works… 1) Pick a Market and a Topic […]

Selling on eBay® is a great way to make money quickly and easily. You can get started today, simply by selling stuff around your house. I have read statistics that the average person has around $2,000 worth of stuff that they don’t use or need anymore. In today’s electronic age it is very easy to […]

About 12 months ago my teenage son asked how he could make some extra money, without having to get another part-time job or spend days building a website and hoping someone would visit and buy something. I told him that selling digital photos is one of the best ways I know to earn passive income… […]

This blog post is to answer one of the most common questions I get asked… “How do I choose a niche?” There are lots of variations to the question like… Which niche should I choose? Do I need to be passionate about my niche? Do I need to be an expert in the niche? Will my […]

The lifetime value of a customer is an often overlooked metric in most businesses, especially in the online marketing world. This is a mistake, because I believe it’s the most important metric in any business. It’s the metric that will help you make the right decisions and create more profit while working less… My background […]

If you’ve known me for more than a day, then you know that I’m always banging on about traffic and conversion being the only 2 factors you should be focused on in your online business. No matter what strategy (or mix of strategies) you employ, it all comes down to getting people from where they […]

Masako from WorldKlassRunners.com emailed me the other day and it reminded me of myself many years ago… Here are snippets of our email communication… I was wondering if you could give me a weekly to do list? I am a little bit lost at this point and need clear step by step guidance about what to […]

After Yaro Starak interviewed me, then the Shane Melaugh video interview, many people emailed wanting more detail on how I created such a successful membership site in a hobby niche (over $300k in less than 2yrs). Some questions were about niche selection, others about the technical side, the member retention strategies, promotion of the sales […]

Almost everyone has some knowledge or skill, that someone else would like to learn. It could be a hobby, tango dancing, playing a musical instrument, marathon running, changing careers, trading the stock market, budgeting, training sausage dogs, or anything else. But… how do you make money from your knowledge or skill? Let’s take Cambell, and […]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, books (physical, Kindle, ebooks) are the easiest passive income you will ever earn online. It takes a BIG effort to research and write the book, but books can sell over and over again, for many years, to many hundreds or thousands of people. Most people overlook […]

I met Victoria and Andrew at a internet marketing seminar in Perth a few weekends ago. I knew that I wasn’t going to learn anything new from this event, but I always learn something new from the people attending… If you have heard my model train niche story, you will know that interacting with the […]

In the internet marketing game, getting visitors to your website is referred to as getting traffic to your website. This traffic is the biggest problem website owners face. Thousands of people have websites on the internet buried in the search engines and will probably never be found. It doesn’t matter how well designed, how well […]

People always have interesting stories, even if they don’t think so themselves. And those stories usually involve unique experiences that make people experts by default. An expert is generally someone that knows more than someone else… And this knowledge can always be turned into an information product and sold. Cambell is one of those experts in […]

Masako is one very interesting lady with diverse interests and experience… She has made some great progress with her internet marketing, and hopefully I can guide her to achieve the success she deserves. First, let Masako tell you her story… Masako Houghton’s Story My name is Masako Houghton and I live in Vancouver, Canada. I am currently […]

While I was working in the model train niche, I noticed a lot of irrational behavior. I came across retirees who had spent over $30,000 on their model trains. Some, I suspect, had spent a lot more, but hadn’t kept a record of their expenses, or just weren’t willing to publicly say what they had spent. […]

John’s story is one of success and a desire to get to the next level. The hardest part of internet marketing is making that first dollar, but the next hardest part is scaling the business. Turning that 1 sale per day into 10, then into 20, then into 100. It’s not as easy as it […]

Kevin’s story sounds just like mine was many, many years ago… Being paid by the hour for services provided, and going from a flood of work in one week to no work the next. It’s a typical ‘technician’ strategy to focus on the work, but don’t take the time to sit down and think how […]

There are hard ways to make money online, and then there are easier ways… The hard way is to sell an affiliate product (or line of products) where you make an average of $0.50 from each buyer, and they usually only buy from your affiliate link once in their lifetime. And, if you don’t make the […]

Being stuck in a career that you don’t like is tough. But, leaving it all behind to try internet marketing would be considered by many to be an extremely risky move. I gave up being an electrician to go internet marketing… My thinking (at the time) was that, if this internet marketing didn’t work out […]

Living in the US, Canada, UK or Australia can make it tough for people to get ahead in life financially. An alternative is to sacrifice some lifestyle, and gain some new experiences, by working away from home in Asia. The cost of living in Asia is almost half, or even a quarter, of what it […]

Making money by blogging online has become very popular… But, only a handful of these bloggers actually make any money! Some bloggers don’t want to make money and blog just to express themselves. But, other bloggers create their blogs with the purpose of making money from it. They usually start very enthusiastically and blog daily. […]

Joan Otto asked the question “Is there such a thing as financial good luck?” on the Man vs Debt blog, and it made me remember a few discussions I’ve had with some coaching students… One of them is about creating your own financial good luck. Coaching students are almost always 1 of 2 kinds… they are […]

I was talking to a coaching student today about the exciting online business opportunities that exist today. This is because of the HUGE take up of smart phones and iPads. It truly is a wonderful time to have an online business. Just before I sold the model train website I noticed a big change in […]

Writing content for a ‘money making’ blog requires a very different and strategic approach. In this article I’ll give you the top 5 mistakes bloggers make and how you should avoid them. It can be very easy as a blogger (wanting to make money) to be self-absorbed in the mindset of how can this blog […]

Finding out which keyword phrases people are using to find information about your niche, is another important step in providing the right offer to the right people.

Understanding the demographics of your market is absolutely imperative. It allows you to tailor your website exactly to the needs of your customer.

If you have been following along with my blog posts you should have a list of at least 5 different niches, that have the potential to make you some great money. The problem now becomes… Which niche should you start with? A common newbie mistake is to try and build them all. This usually ends […]

You need to go where the money is… Competitors are a GOOD thing because they could be joint venture partners in the future. Stay away from markets with no competition.

These 2 mistakes cost me 3 years of income… Which I conservatively estimated to be about $246,000… ouch!

Most people over complicate their online business and it doesn’t have to be that way. The secret is to test a market fast with other people’s products. If the market is responsive and you make sales, then it’s time to expand with your own product, a membership site, bigger websites, blogs, social pages, etc. I […]

Hi there, this is Ian McConnell and I want to welcome you to InMyHomeOffice. This is the first video of over 100 where I show you step by step how I created an income of $82,030.27 in 2010 from selling one digital product. The system is totally automated, so most of the sales were made […]

I came to the realisation in 2010, that if I was going to effectively help people to build their passive income online, I had to let them fail. It Was My Job To Help Them To Fail FAST Because, by failing fast it brought success to them quicker. So, what do I mean? Let me […]

Do you ever wonder how some people can afford to spend multiple weeks or even months out of the year traipsing around exotic locations while still managing to effectively run hugely successful businesses? It doesn’t seem quite fair, does it? You spend hours upon hours trying to improve your business and increase revenue, and you […]

Why is it so common that a hyped sales page says you can make thousands of dollars quickly, but this is almost never the case? It may be affiliate marketing, selling advertising space on your site or selling your own product, it always is so much harder than what the sales page said. Find a […]

Learn how to blog quickly and easily with your mobile phone

The statistics tell us that more than 80% of small businesses will fail in the first 12 months. I would suggest that if they factored in all the people that start a part time, home based business, the percentage would be much higher. I remember working at my job, coming home tired, then blogging, creating […]

In the few minutes it takes you to read this article, hundreds of new blogs will be created and thousands upon thousands of posts will have been made world wide. The information age we live in, has allowed everyone, from the local teenager to large corporations to jump on to the blogging wagon. The lure […]

You probably already know that selling information products on the internet is a great business, right? All it requires is getting traffic to a sales page which offers a downloadable information product with the solution to the visitors problem. Within 2 minutes the person with the problem could be reading the solution you provide on […]