Make money with affiliate marketing

If you have a website or a blog, you can earn money through affiliate marketing.

Per wikipedia, here is a description of affiliate marketing:

Affiliate marketing is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies and in-house affiliate managers, specialized 3rd party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates generally use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, email marketing and to some degree display advertising.

Affiliate marketing - using one site to drive traffic to another - is the stepchild of online marketing. While search engines, e-mail and RSS capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing, despite lineage that goes back almost to the beginning of online retailing, carries a much lower profile. Still, affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers' marketing strategies.[1]


Two affiliate networks I utilize are Linkshare and Share-A-Sale. They are both FREE to join.

Holly Mann - Honest Riches

For years and years I have always wanted to find a way to work at home. I had worked outside of the home for 10 years but after my daughters were born, I really wanted to be able to stay home with them. I did a lot of research online and looked into various money-making opportunities, which even included "get rich" schemes, and lost a lot of money. I soon found out that if it is too good to be true, then it probably is. I ended up taking a course in Medical Transcription and was lucky to find work as an independent contractor at home but it took a lot of hours and persistence. I still own my own transcription company today (14 years later) and enjoy it. However, I still always had the desire to find other ways to earn money on the internet, to have multiple streams of income coming in.

Four years ago I came across an e-book called Honest Riches written by a single mother named Holly Mann. I was very skeptical but decided to go ahead and purchase the book. I was really surprised to find that these methods discussed in this book were really feasible and actually worked, not a way to "get rich overnight." This book provides you with the most profitable and up-to-date ways to build income streams through a range of different methods. I really liked the idea that you don't have to have a website to make money, although I am working on launching a website in the very near future. Holly provides honest and real tools to succeed in earning an honest online income. I also learned by using a lot of her techniques and tools that you can make money with no money upfront, but again, I am in the process of building a website using Holly's skills she teaches in her book. What I also appreciate is the fact that Holly has a work-at-home forum where you can actually ask her questions and get advice from other successful internet marketers.

Honest Riches is a 245-page book that teaches a variety of techniques to create online streams of income. Some of the topics included in Honest Riches include:

Making money without a website - Forums, classified adds, how to write a product review, etc. - *I have made some money using these techniques. If you like to write, this is a good way to get started.

Business Preparations - Business Entities, self-employment and taxes.

Affiliate Marketing - Researching Affiliate Programs and Networks - *This is where I have made a good portion of my income so far.*

Researching - Brainstorming, niche finding tools, and much more. - *This has helped me get ideas regarding building a profitable website.

Website design and development. *Very well explained in easy terms. I knew nothing about this prior.

Search Engine Optimization - *Again, I knew nothing regarding SEO. Holly explains it in easy terms.*

Advertising Methods - Many FREE!

Creating your own e-book/Product Creation/Self-publishing

and so much more…

If you are interested in earning income from your home, I am recommending you check out Honest Riches.

Dave Ramsey

Who is Dave Ramsey?

America's trusted voice on money and business, Dave Ramsey is a personal money-management expert and extremely popular national radio personality. His three New York Times best-selling books—Financial Peace, More Than Enough and The Total Money Makeover—have sold more than 6 million copies combined. His latest book, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches, releases in September 2011.

By age 26, he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age 30. Using the wisdom he gained, Ramsey rebuilt his financial life and now teaches others how to be responsible with their money, so they can acquire enough wealth to take care of loved ones, retire with dignity, and give generously to others.

For more info: http://www.daveramsey.com/pr/who-is/

I have read several of Dave Ramsey's financial books and they provide a wealth of information on how to manage money, save money, pay off debt, invest, etc. With the economy not doing well very now, I have really started becoming frugal with money. I am listing a couple of books below which have really helped me and my family's financial status.

The Financial Peace Planner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Restoring Your Family's Financial Health

The Total Money Makeover Workbook

The Money Answer Book

Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University: 91 Days to Beat Debt and Build Wealth!

Bad Economy

Right now with the bad economy and lots of people losing jobs, higher gas prices equaling higher prices on almost everything, more and more people are looking to find ways to make money on the internet. Having said that, people have to be very careful when looking for ways to earn money online. There are so many scams out there, get rich quick schemes, etc. Please be careful when looking into programs or books that promise you big money earnings with little or no work. In reality, it takes time and lots of work to create a profitable online business. There are truely no ways to get rich quick unless you win the lottery but the odds of that are almost nil.

Four years ago after losing a lot of money to scams, I discovered Honest Riches written by Holly Mann. Per Holly, Honest Riches is 245 pages, 10 mini books in one, with guided graphic tutorials and all the tools you need to make a real honest living online. All of the techniques taught in the guide are ones that she personally uses to make her online income. Honest Riches is ideal for beginners or anyone who has not made any money from their online efforts yet. The guide will provide you with all the tools you need to succeed and make an income online and best of all, no previous experience is necessary.

I have been using many of the techniques in Holly's book to earn money online. Again, it takes hard work and time, but the techniques she teaches in her book are very legitimate ways to earn money. I highly encourage anyone who is interested in building an online business or multiple streams of income to check out her book.

Honest Riches

My most profitable ways of earning money online

There are so many scams out there just waiting to steal your money. I have lost hundreds of dollars checking out these so-called "get rich schemes" as well as many other programs that have failed me. I have done research on ways to make money online for the past 14 years and have finally discovered legitimate ways to earn money.

My main income is through my medical transcription business, which I have owned for 14 years. I have a blog which details the profession. Please feel free to visit my blog for more information: http://medicaltranscriptioninfo.blogspot.com/

Four years ago I discovered Honest Riches. Honest Riches is ideal for beginners or anyone who has not made any money from their online efforts yet. The guide will provide you with all the tools you need to succeed and make an income online. No previous experience is necessary. Holly details genuine ways to make money online. For more information please check out Honest Riches

I am also an affiliate with several companies and promote their products via many different avenues. Honest Riches also details many ways to promote products to earn a very nice income. The biggest three I am involved with are Linkshare, Share-A-Sale and Amazon. They are all FREE to join. The possibilities are endless as you can search through the marketplace of all programs and find thousands of products to promote. Amazon is probably the most popular and, of course, there are thousands and thousands of products to promote. The programs also provide you with links, banners, etc. to promote their products. Again, they are FREE to join. I highly encourage you to check them out. Also, with Amazon you can create your own Amazon store and sell a specific group of products.







At this time I am also working on building my own website to sell my own products. I will announce more about this when it is ready to be launched.

Book Publishing

If you are a writer and want to publish a book, I highly recommend Lulu.com!

My daughter has published three books through them and we have been very happy. There are no huge start-up fees, in fact - it's FREE to publish your book. You can also publish calendars, CDs, music and many other products. After you obtain an ISBN#, it becomes available worldwide through libraries, online bookstores, etc. My daughter's books are available through Amazon, B&N, and different bookstores all over the world.

We have found this as another avenue to earn online money. In addition, it is really easy as well as FREE. You can upload your book online as well as even design your own book covers, etc. I highly recommend taking a look at Lulu.

Lulu.com!

Free traffic techniques

15 free traffic techniques that work:

1. Submit your site to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and to as many other search engines as you can.

2. Write 1-2 articles each week and submit them to the free article directories. Be sure to include a link to your site after each article in your bio box. The articles should be optimized for a keyword your site is targeting.

3. Submit those same articles to email newsletter publishers in your niche.

4. Find blogs related to your topic and leave useful comments with a backlink to your site. Here's a great free tool you can use to find the best targeted blogs where you can leave your backlinks.

5. Answer questions related to your site’s topic at answers.yahoo.com. Be sure to put a link to your site in each of your answers.

6. Join a handful of the most popular forums that deal with your site's topic and become an active poster. Include a link to your site in your signature.

7. Write a press release about your site and submit it to press release sites such as prweb.com. If you are not familiar with press releases, take some time to do a little research: a press release is not written like an article.

8. If you are happy with a product or service you have used, write an unbiased testimonial and trade it for a backlink to your site.

9. Start a blog on blogger.com and a blog on wordpress.com, link them to your site and submit them to the hundreds of free blog directories. This will get you plenty of quality traffic as long as you keep your blogs updated.

10. Post ads with a link to your site on all the free classified ad sites you can find (such as craigslist.org). The best ones will allow you to post a live link. But don’t neglect the other ones. If your ad is well written, people will go out of their way and type your url in their browser. Off course you must post in the appropriate category.

11. Write an interesting email signature that includes a link to your site, and use it with every outgoing business email you send.

12. Start a page on myspace.com and on any other high page rank social bookmarking site you can find and link them to your site.

13. Submit a viral video to youtube.com. You don’t really need any video producing know-how as a simple PowerPoint slideshow with some background music will do the job.

14. Search your main keywords on Google and see if you can exchange reciprocal links with related websites that come up in the top results.

15. Write an ebook or a short report (say 10 to 20 pages), or find a product with giveaway rights that you can brand with a link to your site. Then submit it to all the free ebook directories you can find online.

While all this looks like a full time job, remember, you don’t have to use them all at once. Just pick the one you feel the best with and act now. Invest 30 minutes to an hour daily in building your free traffic.

Then step to your next favorite technique and within a few weeks you should be earning enough money to afford to buy traffic. Or instead of buying traffic, you could pay someone (do you have kids?) to do the free traffic strategies that work best for you, a few hours a day!

Honest Riches