Ever wanted to ditch you day job, and make money online or work from home? This is most peoples dream. Forget about the commuting, dealing with bosses and meeting ridiculous deadlines or targets. Live life the way you want. Work when you feel like it and profit from your efforts.
Before you rush out and start you must consider your strengths and your weaknesses. You need to design a simple business model. Consider the strengths you can use to create profitable affiliate programs. Your weaknesses need identifying so that you can outsource those tasks.
So lets now look at how to make money online from your new affiliate programs!
1) Find 3- 5 Affiliate Programs That Are Currently In Demand
You need to promote at least 3 - 5 programs in very similar niche areas as sales will fluctuate in each program and if one fails you still have others to rely on. You should promote digital products as they are more profitable, can be easily and instantly delivered and they are easier to market. Go to Clickbank.com and search the Marketplace in categories that interest you. Gravity is the best indication of products that are currently in demand. Stick to products with gravity over 100 and preferably over 200. The best products pay 75% + for a sale and then have recurring future earnings.
2) Create Blogs or Squidoo Lenses For These Affiliate Programs
Create simple informative blogs on these 5 niche topics. There are lots of great locations to easily create them in 10 - 20 minutes. Write the original content yourself, but if you can't write it yourself, hire a ghostwriter from eLance to write a set of 5-10 articles for each blog. See my articles on how to write articles that work! The best content are product reviews, with customer testimonials. How-To- type articles are also very popular!
3) Drive Lots Of Traffic To These Blogs
Publish your articles in article directories and on your blogs. One fantastic way to generate a heap of high quality links from a few articles is to use an article traffic specialist. These free programs allow you to rotate multiple keywords, anchor texts and paragraphs to boost the quality and variety of your links. Using this system you could generate 50+ unique articles in hundreds of locations form your original 5-10 articles. A word of warning though - you still need to submit some of your articles to other article directories.
When Your On A Winner- its time to scale.
Scale Your Marketing by writing or outsourcing more articles. Ask for 2-3 versions of the title, introduction, conclusion and each paragraph. Submit them and spin them with article specialists . Start driving traffic with other methods like blogging, social book marking and all the other free and low cost marketing methods.