What would the internet be without information? Well, it wouldn’t be the internet we know and love. The internet is all about information and without articles and content there would really be no information. In this post I’m gonna shed some light on two different ways you can make money writing articles. There is obviously a safe and steady way and there is a more risky and profitable way.

I’ll be honest, writing articles is what launched my internet career via the more risky and profitable way and I’m sure you’ve heard of plenty of other people who have hit a few goldmines writing articles. The risky and profitable way of writing articles involves writing them to get ranked in the search engines on certain keywords and of course the article would contain an affiliate link or a link to one of your websites where you would then make sales. Now the reason I say this is risky is because you spend a lot of time writing articles and out of 10 articles only 2 of them might even see the light of day on page one of Google. Not to say that this method isn’t effective or that it doesn’t work but there is a lot of front end work to be done in order to start seeing results. I have heard of several people hitting the jackpot with articles and making tens of thousands of dollars from just one article so if you have the time and the patience to give it an honest attempt, go for it. If you want a good starter course for learning how to make money with articles you should check out the Bum Marketing method by Travis Sago.

The other “safe” method is to become a freelance writer for webmasters who need content for their websites. A decent writer can easily fetch $10 per article and get swamped with enough work to keep them busy full-time. Obviously you would have to enjoy writing to take on a full-time writing position but I can tell you from first hand experience that the demand is certainly there. To get started you should sign up for a provider account at Elance.com and start bidding on writing projects.

Let’s make some money!

Kris

If you’re looking to get into the affiliate game without the high prices of web design or the lengthy process of learning how to build websites yourself, you may consider one of the many free website services available online. Some of the services are completely free but they may take a percentage of the commission your site generates and other services allow you to keep 100% of the commissions for a small monthly fee.

After trying out a few of the ready made affiliate site services online, here is my list of the best ones:

1. Money-Making-Website.net – Money Making Websites offers a plan for a any budget including completely free. They also offer a Pro Plan which gives you a whole new book of options over the completely free plan. Their free plan includes a ready made website that is instantly created when you create your account. You are only given a sub-domain which means the site sits on their server and includes their main domain in the URL. For example, your website address might look like this: YourFreeWebsiteSystem.com/mywebsite. The site comes pre-populated with 3 different money making programs and once in the members area they provide you with training and tools for marketing your website. The Pro Plan offers two easy ways to pay including a monthly fee of $19.95 and a yearly plan of $140. Once you select your payment plan you will continue on by choosing a domain name from Blue Wire Domains and then you will create an account at Clickbank.com. Next you will create an account, checkout and by the time you come back to login your website is setup and live on the internet. Once you login, you will be able to change many of the features about your website and you will have 5 different affiliate sites to choose from. These 5 different sites promote the top performing products from the Clickbank marketplace so your chances of making sales seems to be pretty good. You are able to change all the content on your site, you can choose any products from Clickbank.com that you want on your site and you can even add Adsense and an Aweber auto-responder to your page for collecting email addresses.

The bottom line is Money-Making-Website.net offers one of the most flexible and powerful affiliate website systems on the internet. From what I can tell, they are the only online affiliate website provider that allows you to have a website setup and running within minutes of signing up. Many of the other providers online take 24-48 hours to have your site live and on the internet. There aren’t many other providers that also offer the customization and freedom that Money-Making-Website.net offers. If you’re looking for a fast and affordable approach to getting your own free affiliate website online then this is the company to go with.

2. Acme People Search Websites – This program is a little different from your typical free affiliate website but it works and you will make money if you do everything involved in the website sign-up process. Basically you will be getting your own “people” search engine where people can come to your site and lookup people. The search engine then displays results from several sites all of which you will be an affiliate for. I signed up for this program and got my site setup in about an hour and I made money within the first two days of having the website live. Granted you can’t change anything on the website but you really wouldn’t want to, it’s already built for what you need it to do anyway. Tissa, the creator of this program offers an easy system for marketing your website and it’s highly recommended you follow his marketing plan because it does work.

I will add more to this list as time goes on however these are easily the best two free affiliate website systems on the internet. I’ve made money with them both and I still use them to this day.

Let’s make some money!

Kris

So your ready to start making money but you don’t know which path to take? I take it you’ve already read the “What it takes to make money online” post I posted earlier today? As a beginner, your best bet is not to re-invent the wheel but rather swipe a proven business model that other people are having success with. This is a great way to learn and if you can stay disciplined enough to focus on one project at a time then success is inevitable.

Let’s talk about some of the popular business models that people are using to make money online and then you can decide for yourself which direction to take. When I first started out I used a free course from Travis Sago called “The Bum Marketing Method” and it worked very well for learning the basics of affiliate marketing and Clickbank. Basically it consisted of writing keyword targeted articles for clickbank products and then posting them all over the internet at the popular article sites including USFreeAds.com. This worked great and I did make some money but nothing to pay the bills with.  Before I begin rattling off the different models I have made money with I should express my honest opinion and that is that affiliate marketing with clickbank is probably the easiest way to learn how to make money online. Clickbank is just so large and there are so many other successful affiliates out there that are making money that it will be easy for you to find a “way” to make money with it. Obviously as an affiliate you aren’t limited to just Clickbank, there are several affiliate networks out Buy cheap Cialis Online there but Clickbank is the easiest on a beginner in my opinion.

Here are some business models I personally have had success with:

• Affiliate marketing via articles, blogs, email, review sites
• Site flipping
• Warrior Special Offers
• Selling my own products
• CPA marketing

As I mentioned, the easiest business model to get started with is obviously the free methods using articles and blogs as an affiliate marketer because there is literally no expense out of pocket. If you are on a tight budget than I recommend you check out the Bum Marketing Method course by Travis because it’s free and it works.  If you are willing to part with some cash, you can find some decent programs that will teach you some pretty solid strategies for setting up a profitable affiliate marketing business.  I don’t recommend going with any of the other business models until you have at least a steady daily income coming in from affiliate marketing.  One program off I hand that I personally know is a good quality beginners affiliate marketing program is My Online Income System.  This course breaks down every step you need to take on a daily basis for 60 days to become a successful affiliate marketer and all of the methods in the course are free to implement. Let’s talk about the other business models…

Site Flipping – At one point in my online career, site flipping was paying the bills and keeping me afloat while I got other projects off the ground. The key to this is creating unique sites that are either generating some sort of revenue or have really good potential to generate revenue. Your site is gonna to have to stand out from the rest of the site sellers out there if you plan on making a decent profit. The site I used to sell my sites is Sitepoint.com and their marketplace has become even more popular since I was using it about a year ago. Once you learn what people are willing to pay for you will know exactly which type of sites to create and how to price them. One way to see whats selling well is to go to Sitepoint.com and see which sites are getting the big buyouts and see if you can create something similar. There is a lot more to site flipping than what I have outlined here but I will put together a full post dedicated just to site flipping.

Warrior Special Offers – This is another model that will require some experience and time before it can be used as a money maker. A Warrior Special Offer or WSO is when you create a product outlining a technique for making money online or you create a cool new software or you have a valuable service to offer for a reduced price and you sell it at WarriorForum.com in the WSO thread. This forum is explosive in growth and I would estimate there are a couple thousands people on this forum at any given time. If you have a decent product that provides value you could easily create a WSO and get it in front of 10,000+ people over the course of a few days.  Again, you need some experience under your belt and you need something of value to offer. If you try to sell a garbage product in this forum they will east you alive and never buy your stuff again.

Selling/Creating Products – Creating your own products is something that comes with time and some experience selling other peoples products as an affiliate. You really wont understand how to make your own product sell until you learn how to pre-sell other peoples products. Creating a product also takes a lot of time. You have to design the website, write a sales letter, create the product itself, program your website to automatically deliver the product to the customer after purchase and so on. Having your own product can be very profitable especially if it sells well and affiliates pick up the product and sell it. You literally sit back and let your affiliates do all the work. This topic will definitely be covered again in a later post as there are too many aspects to cover in this particular post.

CPA Marketing – This is another business model that has many faces but it’s fastly becoming one of the most popular ways to make money on the internet. You can sell products as an affiliate/publisher similar to selling products on clickbank and you can also become an advertiser and have thousands of other affiliates sell your products or generate leads for you. This form of marketing takes some advanced skills and usually a decent budget for making money if you are trying to make the big bucks. There are several little courses out there that may show you how to make a little money with cpa offers but most of the strategies are short lived and require a lot of work to keep going. This topic will also be covered at a later date in a dedicated post.

The bottom line is you need to start somewhere and I am suggesting you start slow and stay focused. If you jump around from one thing to another you will NEVER make any real money. You need to stick to one thing and work it over and over until it pops because when it does it will make you a lot of money.

Let’s make some money!

Kris