Learning Howto Make Money Online with Affiliate Marketing

If you’re reading this, chances are, you’re thinking about the benefits of working from home. You want to set your own hours, work at your own pace, take time off when needed, and enjoy being your own boss. It’s an attractive thought, is it not?

How about setting up your own web-based business? Have you checked into it? Bet it seemed like a great big tech-based hassle. Web design, product selection… You have to learn how to advertise and sell AND ship the products — it’s got to be a big pain to maintain a web-based home business, right?

Not if you consider affiliate marketing. It’s a home-based business opportunity you can maintain and manage.

The website you will need can be easily constructed via the many site building programs which walk you through building your site from the very beginning. Then you will have the support you need to bring you up to speed when it comes to formatting links and adding other information to your site.

Once you build a functional website, you find the companies who will pay you to link to them. It’s not as hard as it sounds. They’re out there. You’ve heard of Amazon, right? Most major websites have affiliate programs and you can get paid by linking to them. Once you join, it’s just a quick bit of work to create the link and then you’re on the way to making money online.


But if you really want to cash in, you don’t want a website consisting of just a page with a list of links on it. This may earn you a buck or two, but when most web surfers stumble upon these kinds of pages after a Google search, they tend to get frustrated and leave. The best route for a successful affiliate marketing venture is to provide interesting web content on your site that relates to the company to which you are an affiliate.

But wait! I’m not a writer, you say. While content may be king on the internet, there are many companies who will provide the text you need to succeed. Interesting articles are available at a very reasonable price.

And because of that content, your website will be found on Google, Ask.com, Yahoo and other internet searches. You will weave links throughout your information and those links will give you a real cash flow.

Affiliate marketing? Is it for you? While there is risk with every business venture, perhaps you really were meant to work for yourself, from home…

Consider the idea of combining a cool website design with quality content, offering a mix of interesting links leading to affiliate companies. Give it a try. It might be just the job you’ve been waiting for all these years.

In looking at making money online one market has all but dried up. Pay Per blogging has kicked the bucket. I bring this up because it reminds me of the best method I’ve found with making money online. If a system works well then work it hard. Whether the past method of paid posting, the .info temp hop, stores, membership sites or products. There’s no time to waste trying to be a rockstar when serious money is on the table.

Markets and algos change over night without warning. Never have all your eggs in one basket unless that one basket has the potential for huge pay-offs. Take Ben of Blogging Experiment. He’s just sold his site in order to concentrate on other projects and that’s just my point. Keep your eyes open and pay attention.

After you hit a certain level in blogging as you learn more and more how little you truly do know other options will spring foward. Try to keep yourself and your time in such a place as to be able to jump when the time hits. Caroline has an excellent write-up on the subject.

Yes, I’m staring at the clock ticking down to 12am. This is way past my usual bedtime, but I just got an unusual offer. One that really can’t be ignored. OK, back to the macewan.org traffic update. Below you’ll find a graphic demonstating the upward trend over the last month or so. And while I do not rely on this site to generate my online income it’s contribution is certainly welcomed none the less. Keep in mind there isn’t an advertising campaign running that’s responsible for this good fortune. So we’ll have to place blame on the likes of the star shaped brownie stairing at me. The one sitting on the growing list, currently over 85, of sites I’m managing at the time.

So bare with me through the next few days as I unfold several additions to the family of online properties joining macewan media. From colorful insights into Microsoft secret thoughts, FTC Chairwoman odd celebration, Google’s unfair attack on Izea members to Ubuntu Linux tutorials and videos (plug Ubuntube.net). Seriously, check out these videos on UbunTube. Microsoft’s Vista user interafce would best be discribed as pathetic in comparison. We’ve seen not only their one window trick at a fraction of the hardware requirements you find the other worldly app interaction seen by Sun’s Java Looking Glass - oh yeah, minus the resource intense Java. Be sure to check out BlogsPageRank.com for a no nonsense Page Rank update on your site.

Folks love reading how much money certain Pro Bloggers are making each month. Take John Chow for example his JohnChow.com has been monetized since September of 2006. The following month, October, he reported $352.94 earned. Jump forward a couple months to see November 2006 earning at $2,139.93. Twelve months have passed since that report and John Chow is reporting November 2007 income from his blog at $27,420.83. That is not a misprint. Twenty seven thousand four hundred twenty dollars and eighty three cents.

This boys and girls is one hell of an inspiration to those of us that have decided to monetize our blogs. The first month I made the decision to ‘monetize’ I brought in something in the neighborhood of $650 for July 2007 and two months later I earned $2,800 for the month of September 2007. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that I also work full-time during the day so these numbers represent my efforts in the evenings with zero real knowledge of what the hell I was doing.

My goal was to see if it was possible and I showed everyone most importantly to myself that yes it was possible. OK, let’s move forward. On December 1st the announcement was made that the 90 day count down to me going pro had started. However, there are plenty of monthly income reports out there showing that money to be earned by monetizing your blog. My 90 day count down is slightly different from others in that I’m involved in seriously intense professional monetization training. My earnings will not be broadcast. My blathering posting has noticeably slowed during this training period. I will not be able to share everything taught but I can direct you to folks that provide training. So we see it is possible to make money blogging. But blogging is not the only way. On Feb. 16th 2008 I turn four oh. Join me on my journey to “retiring at 40“.

GAME ON!