I am guessing if you have found this page, then you have probably been investigating for quite some time various ways to make money online. You have probably seen every T.V. commercial with a trusted retired celebrity pushing different internet marketing methods requiring little work from you, a small investment and promising lucrative returns almost overnight. You have probably been bombarded by spam e-mails describing tons of different methods, claiming that you can make $30,000 a month working only 15-20 minutes a day, and they may even offer to give you a FREE website to get you started. (They don't mention the fact that you have to pay for hosting, a domain, and advertising. The fact is anyone can get their own website absolutely FREE and I will show you where as we continue.)
The bottom line to all these get rich quick online schemes is: You can't. Not overnight and not for 20 minutes a day anyway. You can make some handsome money in a reasonable amount of time however, and have your own profitable little business FREE of charge. You will have to eventually put some money into it for marketing costs, business license, hosting and domain services, of course, but these costs will be very nominal to what you can actually bring in. I will show you here step by step how to get started in your own online business absolutely FREE of charge!
You are going to need some tools and a little time, but it is free to set up. If you follow my instructions, you can be up and running in just a few hours and you will be able to track your income online so you can see exactly how much you are making.
The first thing you need is a website or blog, if you dont have one then you can get a free blog here http://www.blogger.com/. A blog is a very good starting point and you can actually begin making money right away by applying for Google Adsense. I recommend opening a Gmail account to keep track of all business correspondence and to have access to all of Google's services. You can simply type in "Gmail" in Google Search and obtain the necessary info on opening your FREE account.
Once you have your Gmail account go here: https://www.google.com/adsense/login3 to set up an Adsense account. This will give you a basic form of income from pay per click advertising. Once set up, this will enable you to place advertising on your blog which people will click on and if they purchase the advertised goods or services, it will earn you some revenue. It is free to set up and you will get a check once a month!
So now you have a blog and a small source of income, but at anything from 5 cents to a dollar a click, you probably won't be able to quit your job in the near future so let's look at some other forms of income.
One of the more lucrative forms of income is placing specific ads from various advertisers directly onto your site. You don't get paid if they click the ad, but you do get paid a commission if they buy a product and this can be very profitable indeed.
For these types of ads you will need to register with sites like Shareasale and Commission Junction. These sites have many of the major advertisers from all over the world registered with them. They will check your site content to see if you are suitable for certain advertisers before allowing you to post their ads. As long as you have valid content on your site which isn't harmful to the advertisers then they are usualy quite happy to have you on the books.
Again, it's free to register and you get paid on a monthly basis either by check or you can have it deposited directly into your bank. Commission from these sites' ads can be from as little as $1-$500+ per item depending on it's value and your chosen commission plan that you decided with that specific retailer.
So all of this is fine and dandy, but you need to have people looking at your site or blog on a regular basis. What you could really do with is some subscription services to affiliate your site with that will keep your customers coming back again and again. Since I am such a nice guy, I have provided some information on such services below!
Referback
Referback is a highly recommended advertiser for some very reputable online casinos and currently offer one high traffic bingo site. They have about 5 well known sites and accept US players. I thought that I would start you off with this affiliate site as they will pay you monthly by check where as many others require you to set up a QuickTender account or pay by wire transfer. It is also a good idea to start out with just a few sites like these in order for you to devote the attention needed to promote them. You can get the feel of affiliate marketing in this manner and grow as you go, adding more and more as time marches on. I currently have well over 100 affiliate sites and have some of them listed on my forum in my affiliate link section. I will add more to this in the future and probably add an affiliate section to my latest site as well.
Again, I recommend starting off with a blog as it is much easier to market since you won't have to fuss over meta tags, keywords, and other search engine optimization tricks as required with a website. Forums are a good source of traffic as people like to be able to offer feedback and interact with other members. They also help you to build a good client base which will enable you to notify your customers of promotional offers by e-mail without it being considered spam. You can be banned from affiliate programs for spamming and marked with a big scarlet letter for life. Just not a good practice if you want to win friends and influence people.
I made the mistake of starting off using a Proboards forum site, which is free to set up. There are others out there, such as Yuku and ActiveBoard and each will require you to learn some HTML and UBBC skills. That's where I ran into difficulty as I was pretty computer illiterate and had to learn the hard way. You can build a pretty professional looking website using Freewebs which is what I am using for my portal site. You can take a peek at that site by clicking here.
Well, that should give you a good starting point and keep you busy for awhile. I will add more advice here in the weeks to come and I welcome any feedback or questions that you may have. Feel free to send me an e-mail and let me know of your progress.
Good Luck and Happy Webpreneuring!!
T. Billy
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I would like to thank you for the very helpful information. I been looking for awhile for some helpful hints. i will inform my friends of your helpful advice.
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