Not many folk know about purchasing a domain name. Or, know anything about web hosting. That's ok. The internet can be used for more than searching out singles online to date. Making money online from your laptop or home is possible for anyone who takes the first step faithfully in starting an online presence, whether it be a blog, forum, or website. Blogging is a great way to get started for free and creatively express yourself.
A good thing about getting into affiliate marketing is the ability to get started with no money. That's right. If you think about it and compare affiliate marketing to MLM, you'll notice it's two different styles of marketing. Affiliate marketing is a process of earning commissions from advertisers who you partner with online and place their ads on your site. When a visitor clicks the ad and makes the purchase, that's called an "affiliate commission."
MLM is a form of marketing where they want you to pay a fee up from to be a member in someone's downline. You have to recruit other people into your downline as an MLM marketer. If those people you recruit in your downline get lazy, don't pay their membership fee or fees, nor work their downline, this affects your MLM income. Why should you have to suffer if you're doing the work and other MLM'ers in your downline aren't? See the difference now? With affiliate marketing, you're not recruiting anyone. Yet, selling ad space on your site and making money in commission only if someone buys something or clicks a contextual or graphic banner ad on your site from a contextual advertising program such as Google AdSense.
Here's what you need to do to get started for free in affiliate marketing:
1. Create a free G-mail account
2. Create a free Blogger.com account and use your GMail account to create a free blog
3. Sign up for free affiliate networks and apply for affiliate programs on ShareaSale.com, ClickBooth.com, Clickbank.com, LinkShare.com, CJ.com, DigitalRiver.com, AffiliateWindow.com, IndustryBrains.com, ImpactRadius.com, and affiliate-program.Amazon.com
Signing up for affiliate networks and applying to be an affiliate in affiliate programs are always free "except for ForMeToCoupon.com because they are a paid coupond datafeed network worth paying for. Their service is great for coupon affiliate marketers."
Once you're approved as an affiliate or all or some of the affiliate networks mentioned above, grab the small snippet of HTML, iFrame, or JavaScript code and insert it into your Blogger template. To learn how to insert Google AdSense or any other ad code from advertisers into your Blogger template, learn more here.
How to insert ad code into Blogger:
Now that you possibly have your ads setup in your Blogger blog and ready to go, it's time to make your first blog post. Be mindful your blog is your personality. It's best to be your genuine self and blog with emotion. Blogging with emotion and speaking from past experiences tends to pull a targeted audience in faster. Why so? Most people who don't know you from a can of paint online will take the time to stop by your blog and read what your posting. If they can relate to your blogs and what's said in them, this is where you, the blogger, start to possibly make money from thhose affiliated adverts on your blog. As your blog grows in organic web traffic and readership, so will your affiliate income.
As your Blogger blog grows in traffic and starts to trickle in some money from affiliate programs, this will also be the time to seriously consider purchasing a domain name and web hosting. Reason? You are growing and need to brand yourself. Branding with a domain name makes you look professional online and helps people easily remember your blog. Additionally, a domain name can also help you stand out from competition, thus, helping poeple easily spread word-of-mouth advertising about your blog. Result? Increased traffic, becoming a future online blogging authority in what you blog about most, and increasing the probability of making more money from affiliate programs.
In this line of work, you must have faith. You'll earn a can of beans starting out in affiliate marketing. All super affiliates started out that way too. Broke. Your faith will take you a very long way in this line of work if you continue doing the transformation work as a blogger and webpreneur. There may even be days you get writer's block. Find a news article, YouTube video, or something compelling on the web and write a commentary blog post on your feelings about what you viewed. People will read it and possibly share your blog post. This is a great way to instantly gain exposure, build long-term web traffic and possibly earn affiliate revenue in the moment of having that commentary blog post shared on social networks. You can and will achieve if you believe. If you're a Debbie downer or down someone else that's trying to do good, pick yourself up and try something new, so you can become a positive person and inspire someone else to do good too.
Stay tuned for an upcoming thread on how to automagically share content on social networks without manually lifting a finger.