How to Make Your First $100 Online
Affiliate Marketing – A Unique Form of Online Business
Affiliate marketing is one of the most profitable ways to start earning online. With a solid affiliate marketing business, you can see commission checks coming in month after month.
With enough mini-websites out there, you can have a substantial passive income and only have to work a few hours a day. And it all starts with earning your first $100 online.
So many ways
There are tons of ways to make money online, no doubt. But this guide is concentrated on affiliate marketing for a few important reasons.
First of all, affiliate marketing is accessible. It doesn’t matter if you are brand new to the making money online concept or have spent years spinning your wheels online. You can start an affiliate marketing business with very little online experience.
Your main task
Affiliate marketing is also a great way to make money online. You don’t have to worry about creating your own product or paying someone else to create it for you. You don’t have to take the time to craft a sales letter and set up a payment processor. All you have to worry about is the traffic building process.
Affiliate marketing is also a relatively inexpensive business to set up. With some methods, there are no costs involved at all. If you do have costs, they are limited to purchasing website hosting and domain names, which can run for less than $20 a month. Considering the fact that most new business start ups need at least $10,000 the potential for profiting with affiliate marketing is amazing!
So, what is it?
You may be wondering exactly what affiliate marketing is. Simply put, as an affiliate you are being paid to send qualified traffic to your partner company’s website. If that traffic purchases, you make a commission. Affiliate relationships exist in offline businesses, but they are much easier to manage online.
Your traffic is tracked through a unique affiliate id URL. This affiliate id will ensure that you get credit for any sales that will result from your traffic.
Depending on the affiliate relationship, you may get paid once a month or you may get paid every other week. You can find affiliate programs through affiliate networks, or you can find a product first and then determine if they have an affiliate program.
Visitors are the key ingredient
As an affiliate, you have to find traffic and motivate it to go visit the site through your specific affiliate id URL. There are several ways to do this. You could pay for traffic to go to the website using pay per click marketing. You can spend time on social networks promoting your URL.
Both methods are effective, but they take a lot of money and time respectively.
In this affiliate marketing guide, you’ll learn a method for setting up small feeder sites to drive traffic to a blog.
Minimal costs
The costs involved with this method are minimal (just hosting and a domain name) but the system is very powerful. You’ll have a better chance of being found by the search engines and you’ll stand head and shoulders above other competing affiliates.
The five step system revealed in this affiliate training will guide you through all you need to know about affiliate marketing from finding a niche to setting up your first site. This system is easy and repeatable so you can use it in a variety of different niches, time and time again, in order to develop a substantial passive income.
Your first $100, step by step
For now, though, let’s just concentrate on making your first $100 online. In the first step, we’re going to look at how to find your niche and how to develop a profitable keyword list. Following that, we’ll discuss the technical aspects of setting up your affiliate blog.
Blogging is an easy tool to use for affiliate marketer and it has the added benefit of being great for search engine rankings.
Content is king online and in Section 4 we’ll go over a variety of different ways that you can create affiliate content to bring in readers and help you build credibility in your niche. Content is also important in section 5 where you’ll learn how to use articles to build traffic back to your website.
Finally, the last section is devoted to building free feeder sites to build additional credibility and drive even more traffic. Free feeder sites like Squidoo, Hubpages and Blogger can be used to give you more presence online and really light your affiliate marketing traffic on fire.
Let’s get started!