Make Money Online the Easy Way

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If you are new to computers and making money online: As I explained when you first came to my site, I didn't even have an internet connection until 2003. I was very "Anti-computer" and I hadn't had any experience with the Internet at all. When they hooked up my Internet connection in 2004, I got addicted to it. I got addicted to marketing digital products, earning commissions from promoting department stores online, selling domain names, selling affiliate-driven websites and creating affiliate-driven websites. We are going to go over all of these business models. It's a lot easier than it seems. All of these applications have one thing in common: You do not have to do anything physical. All you need to do is use your mouse and keyboard. We hardly cover any business models in this manifest that require shipping & handling or speaking with buyers, except when you sell a website for $600,000 you probably will speak with the new buyer over the phone a couple times. If you are making your living online in the 21s
t century, you are probably an affiliate marketer, a webmaster, a poker player, a buyer and seller of domain names and websites, or an inventor, like the guys who sold You Tube to Google. Me? I am mainly a Webmaster and an affiliate marketer. Affiliate marketing is one of the most important elements of commerce today. Almost every company that works on a retail level online uses an affiliate program. (We will get into Affiliate Marketing in the next chapter.) Some business models (Like affiliate marketing) are built on the concept of promoting products for commissions, some others have to do with hosting ads on your blog collecting revenue from them, or mailing out "promo blasts" promoting a product. You can also buy domain names for $8.00 & sell them for sometimes thousands of dollars, and so on. The possibilities are endless on the Internet, but the concept of digital promotion is the most powerful. A good place to constantly learn new things, and get caught up with the basics, is at an online marketing fo
rum. If you are new to the business, you might want to spend some time asking questions in the "newbie sections" of these marketing forums. We will go over the basics here briefly, but then it will get intense, so if you have any questions, visit those marketing forums, ask questions, drop me a line and I will collectively answer your questions in the next revision of the ebook.

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You receive these "commissions" from promoting website "offers." Websites and services pay you these commissions when you refer to them a customer. Some website offers are software downloads; some are physical products like lawnmowers or stereo equipment. Before we get ahead of ourselves here, you must know that in this day in age, there is not just one way of doing things. As an affiliate marketer, you can promote different "offers" that function differently, some pay you only when a "visitor" or "consumer" buys something, and some pay you when a visitor or "consumer" signs up. It is your choice, which offers you want to promote. You can start & stop at anytime. You can promote these offers using all sorts of different methods. Some methods cost money, and some techniques to promote the offers are 100% free. Once you get familiar with the way it works and the terminology, you will see it is actually very simple. You will gauge the performance of the product you are promoting with a measurement of success ca
lled a "conversion rate." A conversion rate is the calculation of how many visitors it took to get a sale. If your website or offer gets one sale for every 15 visitors, you would have a conversion rate of 1:15 or 6%. If your website or offer gets one sale for every 20 visitors, you would have a conversion rate of 1:20 or 5%. How these affiliate programs track your efforts and ensure that you are paid for each sale: When you sign up for an affiliate program, you are given a unique code, called a "hop link" or an "affiliate code" which looks like a web address. In a nutshell, you want consumers to click on this web address, which will take them to the site you are promoting, and buy whatever you are selling. You will get a commission. We are going to go over some pretty clever techniques you can use to promote your code, some of which include posting an ad on a "free classifieds" website, blogs, or search engine advertising, then at the bottom of the ad, you will tell visitors to click on your affiliate URL "t
o get started."

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