by TheMarketingProfessional
Let’s talk about how to make money blogging, sure, it can be intimidating if you don’t have a clue of how to do it. One way you can learn how to make money blogging is through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is when you promote someone else’s product and you receive a percentage of the sales from that product.
Today affiliate marketers are using blogs to promote products to their readers and you can do the same thing. They realize they can still get an audience by using their blogs to post entries, get comments and make sales.
Marketing affiliate products is a good way to learn how to make money blogging. You should choose affiliate products that are similar to the information that you post in your blog. Some places where you can promote products as an affiliate are Commission Junction, Clickbank and Amazon. You can also promote products that you have purchased from other marketers.
If you don’t have a blog you will have to choose one, there are three main platforms to choose from: Blogger, WordPress and TypePad. You can learn how to make money blogging with any of these. Blogger and WordPress are free. They both have websites with instructions on how to set up the software. TypePad has a fourteen day trial period. Then if you decide to keep it, you have several different monthly options to choose from.
When you’re looking to make money blogging with affiliate marketing, there are several things you should keep in mind. You should take into consideration the keywords for the products you are promoting. Use those keywords in your entries and comments of your blog. Make sure that you get to know your readers and have a bonding with them. This is how they will trust you and eventually, starting purchasing the products that you recommend.
You should update your blog on a regular basis. This will help keep it in the search engines. If you want additional traffic, you need to post in related forums and blogs. Be sure to leave your signature link so people can click on it.
As you learn how to make money blogging, you can promote more affiliate products as you go along. Don’t promote an avalanche of them at once. Take your time and focus on providing quality content so that your readers will continue to come back.
Here’s to your blogging and affiliate marketing success,
The Marketing Professional
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by TheMarketingProfessional
If you are thinking about making money on the web, then affiliate marketing is the way to go. For those of you who don’t know what affiliate marketing is all about, let me give you a brief introduction.
Affiliate marketeers get paid a commission for selling other peoples products. You don’t need to sign a contract, you don’t need experience and best of all you don’t need any money to get started. All you need is a computer with an internet connection.
The most popular products being sold by affiliates are info-products and software, because these products offer you the highest commissions (up to 75% per sale)!
How to get started? Choose your path:
1) If you have absolutely no money to spend on your ‘internet business’, that’s ok. It’s perfectly possible to make hundreds or thousands of dollars without spending any money. You’ll have to put in more work and time, but it’s the perfect way to get started, as you’ll learn the affiliate marketing basics. Most affiliate marketeers start out this way and a lot of them will continue using free methods of promotion throughout their online career. This free method is called ‘article marketing’ and it is very easy to learn. But you need a proven affiliate marketing plan to follow. There is so much information to be found on the net about affiliate marketing and a lot of it is just hot air. Eg: It’s ridiculous if you have to pay for a plan that will teach you how to make money for free!
2) You can afford to invest some money ($200 or less) in your new online business. Know that investing money means that you should get more back than you put in. If that’s not the case, your just wasting your money! But why would you invest money if you can do the same for free with article marketing. Well, it’s simple: to save time and make your business grow faster. You’ll get more done in less time!
Here are some of your options if you want to invest some money:
- Let’s say you have some experience in affiliate marketing and you want to speed things up: Do not invest your money in any kind of software, but in knowledge. Don’t buy fish, learn how to fish!!
In my opinion the best ways for marketeers with some experience are Pay per Click (PPC) and building email lists. If you do this right, these methods can earn you some nice money (hundred dollars a day or more).
However, if you want to give PPC a go without any previous experience and knowledge about it, this will probably cost you a lot more money than you put in and you’ll burn through your budget before making any sales.
The same principle applies here: get yourself a proven affiliate marketing plan.
If you have a budget of $200 and you want to spend it on PPC ads, but you know nothing about it, your money will be gone before you know it. But if you invest part of your money in learning PPC, then the rest of this money will generate a nice extra income for you!
- If you have no prior experience in affiliate marketing but you still want to invest some money to speed things up:
For people with no experience I wouldn’t recommend starting with PPC, because your lack of basic affiliate marketing knowledge will probably cost you money, not make you money! But that doesn’t mean you can’t put your money to work for you. A good way to do this is to invest in getting help from experienced affiliates that you hire to help you build your business much faster than you would by yourself. You probably think that this is expensive, and it is. But there is another way to do this: By joining a group of experienced marketeers who are dedicated to helping other affiliates (beginners and experienced marketeers) on the net. That’s what I did and it was the best decision I’ve made in my affiliate career!
Do you want to start without spending any money or do you want to start with PPC: My friend Guy Neyens has created a website with a specific affiliate marketing plan for everyone, including you!
BONUS: Guy is now offering the free ‘affiliate starter package’ with a value of $269 to get you started with article marketing!
Let me know if this helps you.
Always to Your Success,
Mark Edward Brown
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