This article was written by my husband, Glenn. He has allowed me once again to share this piece. Its aimed more for those who are starting off in this field, and has some useful pointers…

‘Are you interested in making money online? There are actual legitimate money making online opportunities out there that will actually make you the kind of money you are looking for online. One of the most obvious choices is affiliate marketing. There are companies that make use of affiliate marketing as a major source of their income and if you choose to also become an affiliate marketer, you can potentially generate a great amount of income as well. Another option is to choose an online auction site such as eBay, where you can potentially earn a percentage of every item that you sell.

So how do you become an affiliate marketer? All you have to do is search around the internet until you find a suitable business opportunity that catches your attention. You can locate affiliate marketing opportunities in many different formats, which include affiliate networks, CPA networks, email marketing, and so forth. Before you do so, however, you should probably consider which money making online opportunity will be suitable for you. Although some of them require you to sell real products, such as vitamins or electronic goods, there are also many other forms of goods to promote for which you can become an affiliate marketer.

It’s also important to consider your skill set. Although many of the online money making opportunities call for your skills as a writer, marketer, or possibly a accountant, it’s also important to know what you can best do and what sorts of skills are valuable for a given opportunity. If you were to use accounting software, you should be familiar with its features, how it performs, and how it adds together to profit. Marketing software, on the other hand, will be designed more for the advertiser, such as CPA networks and CPA affiliate networks.

Once you’ve chosen your money making online opportunity, you will have access to banners and other creatives you can use to promote the product or service. In addition, you can also check the cookie setting function to determine if a user was referred by you and if they could potentially be a conversion. If the finding is positive, you will be compensated with a commission, which can range from pennies to full commissions. As such, it is of critical importance that you always give the above details about yourself and your situation to any network or program you join in order to ensure you are compensated in accordance to agency policy.

It’s important to remember that if you are just starting out, you may not have much money or purchasing power to put into these affiliate marketing programs. Thus, it is of your best interest to enroll in multiple affiliate programs until you find legitimate work from home friendly affiliate marketing programs with which you can build a reliable and steady income.

How To Spot A Good Money Making Affiliate Program

Many people are seduced by the lure of affiliate marketing programs. They think they can just sign up, drive traffic to a few landing pages, and watch the commissions roll in. But to be a successful affiliate marketer, you must master and employ a variety of tactics and strategies. Cloaked under a variety of names and guises, the techniques involved include PPC advertising, SEO, email marketing, and other systems and techniques.

By driving traffic to your affiliate landing pages and building up your email list, you can generate commissions for years to come. You can also install Spyware and other forms of adsware to unsuspecting users and install them with their permission, gaining profit each time someone clicks on the ads.

PPC

It won’t take too long to become familiar with PPC Advertising. After all, this is when you pay for traffic and this is also when your ads will show up alongside other ads of the same advertiser. PPC is also when affiliates write ads to promote products and when advertisers respond to these ads by displaying yours.

Above all, create landing pages that are unique and researched to get high conversions. There are easy to use drag n drop online softwares like Clickfunnels to create sales funnels and landing pages to advertise your offers, but most of these will be subscription based. They will most likely offer free hosting for your sites. Subscription based software like Clickfunnels is usually best but make sure you can afford the price of a subscription based service.

PPC is all about bidding for the top spots and making sure that your ads are seen.

Email Marketing

Buying leads from your vendors and setting up email lists is one of the classic forms of affiliate marketing. Creating a large email list and sending sales offers to that list are some of the most effective ways to make money as an affiliate.

If somebody is going to buy the affiliate product that you are promoting, they are already pre-sold on your product so it would take a lot to convince them to buy anything. By getting the email addresses, you can send them other offers along with sales movies.

If you have an email list, you can simply send out a sales offer every week or month. If you send out sales emails solo, you will attract a lot of people to your program.’

Glenn Riley.