Navigating this minefield called internet marketing involves a lot more work than I originally envisioned. My plan was to read as much as I could on the subject, and learn how to make money online selling. After almost 3 months of all of this research I was no closer to knowing how to start a blog or even where to begin. Up to this point, not a one of the sites I visited provided lessons on how to earn money online or starting a blog much less a full blown website.
Sometime around the end of March I found myself on a site titled how to make money online for beginners. As I read the authors post it became clear to me that this guy knew what he was writing about and would gladly show anyone how to begin a blog that would make money from the internet. I came to this conclusion because this person assumed (rightly in my case) that a beginner was just that, someone who was completely new to writing anything on an internet site.
In a 5 lesson series the author takes you step by step from setting up your first blogsite, writing an article, and publishing said article to the internet. and when I say step by step I mean starting at where to go to create a blog, blogger .com, which, with all of my reading I wasn't familiar with, how to set up your account, and detailed instructions on the correct buttons to push(click) to get started. All of this was accomplished without making one feel like a complete dumbass.
Taking my time and reading everything through on these lessons I, after almost 3 months, had finally started my first blog. It wasn't much of a blog but, it was a start and a huge first step for me personally.
If you're still reading this and in the same boat I was in, follow these instructions from this site: make money using blogs and you'll soon be creating your own websites making money.
To Your Success
Rick
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Make Money Affiliate Marketing
After a couple of months of reading every thing I could find about making a living from the internet, I read about a business model I hadn't heard of...affiliate marketing. Questioning a friend of mine I was told, Yeah, You can make money affiliate marketing. It's one of the best ways to make money, earn money from the internet. Thousands of websites making money use this business model as their primary means of making a living online.
I started researching affiliate marketing as a means to making a living online.
Basically, to make money affiliate marketing, you install a link on your website or blog directing your visitors to another site with a product or products to sell. If your visitor makes a purchase after being directed there from your site, you make a commission. Simple enough, right?... Wrong!
First you have to find companies and websites with an affiliate program. Preferrably selling something with which you at least have a little knowledge. Most of us have hobbies, interests, job knowledge, etc. that will serve this purpose. Now all we need is a blog or a website set up to sell this product or products. You do know how to create a blog or a website don't you? Well, I sure as hell didn't. I was literally and figuratively putting the (shopping)cart before the horse.
I learned all that stuff from a "beginners" guide to affiliate marketing. Biting the bullet, I purchased a highly recommended guide to affiliate marketing for the beginner. Only cost $27. Near as I could tell the ebook was very well written and researched. Lots of references to sites where one could make a living online. And how to get started. Almost. The ebook made the same assumption common to all of these ebooks to make money affiliate marketing. It assumed I knew how to create blogs or websites making money. Nowhere in the ebook did it explain how to create said blogs or websites.
This business where I could make money affiliate marketing interested me greatly. But, before that was possible I was gonna have to learn how to create blogs or websites making money or both. Until I could find a site offering instructions on how to do that, I read everything I could find that would teach me to make money affilliate marketing.
I started researching affiliate marketing as a means to making a living online.
Basically, to make money affiliate marketing, you install a link on your website or blog directing your visitors to another site with a product or products to sell. If your visitor makes a purchase after being directed there from your site, you make a commission. Simple enough, right?... Wrong!
First you have to find companies and websites with an affiliate program. Preferrably selling something with which you at least have a little knowledge. Most of us have hobbies, interests, job knowledge, etc. that will serve this purpose. Now all we need is a blog or a website set up to sell this product or products. You do know how to create a blog or a website don't you? Well, I sure as hell didn't. I was literally and figuratively putting the (shopping)cart before the horse.
I learned all that stuff from a "beginners" guide to affiliate marketing. Biting the bullet, I purchased a highly recommended guide to affiliate marketing for the beginner. Only cost $27. Near as I could tell the ebook was very well written and researched. Lots of references to sites where one could make a living online. And how to get started. Almost. The ebook made the same assumption common to all of these ebooks to make money affiliate marketing. It assumed I knew how to create blogs or websites making money. Nowhere in the ebook did it explain how to create said blogs or websites.
This business where I could make money affiliate marketing interested me greatly. But, before that was possible I was gonna have to learn how to create blogs or websites making money or both. Until I could find a site offering instructions on how to do that, I read everything I could find that would teach me to make money affilliate marketing.
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