08.21.09

Creating Your Own Products For Profits

Posted in make money online at 4:34 pm

When I first started working online my main source of income was from affiliate marketing. Simply put I was promoting others people’s products, and making them money. Of course I got paid for every sale I generated, but I was the one doing all the hard work.

Finally after years of successfully selling others people’s products I figured why not create my own and sell it myself and have others help me sell it along the way? This is where the money is made in my opinion.

Sure it’s easy to promote someone else’s product as they give you just about everything, and you don’t have to worry about creating the product or shipping or support. What stinks though is your working hard for only half the price.

So far I’ve created 2 of my own sites that sell a service, and I’m currently promoting my 3^rd product and have a 4^th one coming out in the near future. The two sites I’ve created so far run smooth and constantly bring in a monthly income with doing little or no work.

Don’t get me wrong though I’ve had to bust my butt for a solid 3 – 5 months to get them up off the ground, but I rather bust my butt working to pay myself rather then to make someone else all the money.

So what types of products can you create for online profits?

I’d have to say easiest product to create would be an e-book. This is simply a virtual book people can download and read after they buy it from you. You don’t have to be some great writer to write an e-book, and it doesn’t need to be hundreds or thousands of pages long. My free e-book I wrote on how to successfully use safelists is only about 30 pages long. Even if you don’t know how to write your e-book but have a great topic or idea you can also find someone on Get A Freelancer to write your book for you.

The second easiest thing you can do is run some type of service. All it requires is a simple script. For example I wanted to run a safelist of my own so I purchased a safelist script for $250. I wanted to run an ad exchange of my own so I purchased an ad exchange script for $175. These are inexpensive ways to run a site that sells some type of service.

Finally you can do what I plan to do at some point (when I find some free time) is build a membership site. These are great because they bring in residual income month after month. Your membership site can be related to anything. Example if you are good at selling stuff on e-bay you can run a membership site teaching people how to sell stuff on e-bay. That’s just one of a million ideas for a membership site.

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02.03.09

Affiliate Marketing Strategies

Posted in affiliate marketing, home business, how to market online, internet marketing, make money online, marketing, money, online marketing, work at home at 6:04 pm

Affiliate marketing is probably one of the most popular and easiest ways to make money working from home. However chances are if your just starting out in affiliate marketing you might be wondering what to do, how to do it, and where to do it. I’m sure you want to receive some nice big paychecks in the mail just like the gurus do right?

Well today I would like to share with you some of the best affiliate marketing strategies that I know of, and personally use to help me earn $500 – $1,200 per month in affiliate marketing. They are easy to use, and most if not all of them coast absolutely nothing to do.

The first strategy I would like to discuss is by far the most powerful one to use. What is it? Well its article marketing of course. Article marketing has been around for years, and time and time again it continues to product results, and here’s why.

Your articles you write are targeted to whatever you are promoting which leads to very targeted traffic, and your articles are fresh content which the search engines just love so this gives your articles a great chance to rank organically in places like MSN, Yahoo, and even Google.

So what you need to do is write articles that are related to whatever it is you are selling. Then take these articles and submit them to article directories. A few top directories I recommend using are articlebase.com, buzzle.com, and ezinearticles.com.

Now the second strategy I would like to share is blogs. If you never owned a blog before, it’s about time you go out and started one. They are easy to setup, and anyone can create a blog for free at either blogger.com or wordpress.com.

Once you’ve setup your blog the next thing to do is start posting small blog posts about whatever it is you are selling/promoting online. Make sure you leave links back to your website. You can also even put banner ads on your blog for people to click on, and if you wanted to earn a little money on the side you could even try adding adsense to your blog as well.

Finally the last affiliate marketing strategy I would like to share with you is a little secret place I found a few years ago called usfreeads. I recommend becoming a paid member here (its $10/m). As a paid member you can post unlimited ads per day, and this will greatly increase your ad exposure.

The trick to making usfreeads successful is to post on a daily basis and post in all the categories under the work at home section. It’s really just a numbers game. The more ads you post the more traffic you get, and the more traffic you get the more sales you make.

So now that you know some of my top affiliate marketing strategies its time for you to go out, and put them into action. You will never make money online if you don’t put in the work, and posting ads and marketing takes time and work.

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