THE WHERE

TO START ONLINE
BLUEPRINT
(lessons learned from 5 years working online)

ALAN HOWARD
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The Where to Start Online Blueprint

TH E WH ERE TO START
ONLINE BLUE PRI NT
(lessons learned from 5 years working online)

Years ago as I was making the transition from a 9-5 job to working online I
was overwhelmed by the choices, should I become a web designer, learn
coding, dropshipping, or create an Amazon FBA store.

My path was unique to figure out the online space and finally have success
(make money and love what I do). My hope is that in the next 5 minutes
of reading I can save you months if not years of your time in being able to
understand the online job market and where you can best fit into it.

The 3 Types of Freedom:

3
TIME
1
FREEDOM
FINANCIAL
FREEDOM The freedom to spend
your time and life on
The ability to make the tasks that you
enough money to want to.
cover your desired
lifestyle. BONUS

PURPOSE
FREEDOM
2
LO C AT I O N The incredible feeling of
FREEDOM freedom you get when you are
working daily on your purpose,
your passionate work, the thing
The freedom to work
you care most about sharing
from any location you
and teaching the world.
wish to.
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REMOTE WO RK E R VS
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FREELANCE R VS O N L I NE
BUS INES S OWN E R

Many people ask me the question: “should I get a remote job,

do freelance work, or become an online business owner?”
That ultimately comes down to two things: your level of
confidence and also the amount of freedom you want.

REMOTE Pros: Cons:

WORKER • Potentially easiest • Rarely 100% remote
way to work online • Limited time
• Medium income freedom
potential
• Intermittent location
freedom

FREELANCER Pros: Cons:

• Many sites for • Making consistent
freelancers money can be
• Medium income difficult
potential • You are trading time
• Substantial location for money
freedom • Short term contracts
= constant hunt for
work

SIMPLE Pros: Cons:

ONLINE • Time freedom • Can be difficult
BUSINESS • Financial freedom knowing where to
• Location freedom start
• If using Owner • Lots of effort early
mindset time to start but long term pay off
is marginal
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2 Ingredients to
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PAS S IONATE WO R K

Regardless of your path whether it is going to be a remote worker, freelancer, or online

business owner the first steps to finding work you love is understanding two things:

#1 Understanding the type of work you love doing

What type of works fits your creativity, personality, and ambition.

#2 Understanding the market or subject you are infinitely curious about

A question I ask my students is what subject could you read 500 books on or watch
hours of YouTube videos on and not be bored?

This mental prompt allows you to start brainstorming the ideas around the subject/
market you are infinitely curious about.

A brief story for you, one of my former students Garrett

(name changed for anonymity) loved managing people,
it gave him a beautiful energy daily, he knew from a
personality perspective that managing people was
the ideal role for him. However, 2 years into his digital
advertising job he felt unfulfilled, and he started to think
maybe management is not the thing he should be doing…

He explored other areas and eventually stumbled across

the Passion to Business course, through the course he
realized that he was in the right role (managing people)
but had not found the market or the subject he wanted to
manage people in. This process of understanding both
the market you want to serve, that you are passionate
about, and the type of work that fits your personality is
extremely powerful as Garrett found out.

Garrett started his own business but in a market he loves

and now he manages employees but in a field that keeps
him infinitely curious.
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3 FIRST STE PS TO F I N DI NG
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WORK YOU’R E PASSI O NAT E

ABOUT (KN OW YO UR SEL F ):

1. Free Personality Testing with 16 Personalities (Take this now)

2. Future Day Exercise

Start with the End in Mind

What do you want your day-to-day life to look like? What matters to you? Time freedom,
location freedom, financial freedom or all the above. Spending time planning this is
the most important thing you can do. You have to be clear in understanding what
you want your day to look like. As they say if you don’t have a target you are aiming
for it’s hard to know which direction to shoot.

Exercise: Your Ideal Day

Get comfortable, grab a cup of coffee or a tea and start to list out what your current
day consists of and also what you want your ideal day to be, what activities are you
doing now that you don’t want to be doing? What activities need to be part of your
future day?
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“Your life comes down to what you do everyday. If you

don’t love what you do daily you won’t love your life”

YOU AVERAGE TUESDAY NOW YOUR FUTURE TUESDAY

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3. Sending a Free Survey to Your Friends and Family Members

Oftentimes the things that we are best at our zone of genius are things that come so
naturally to us that we don’t even notice our level of competence. One of the most
powerful processes for understanding the type of work or business you should be
creating is learning the commonalities those closest to you notice about you.

That’s why we have built a survey template for you to send to your friends and family,
this is a very eye opening and anonymous survey to help you learn more about
yourself and put you on the right path.
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