Making Money Online

I heard so many inspiring stories about people making money with ClickBank, some claimed to make a 6 figure income from ClickBank alone, but.. Have you ever REALLY managed to make a decent income from ClickBank? Well, probably, like most of us, mortals, you failed time and again just to realize that unless you invest thousands of dollars in media buying, you can’t even hope to make any income from CB. For 3 years I struggled with CB, never managed to nail more than just a few sales.

I bought some of the tools that promised to boost my income instantly (such as traffic boosters, SEO boosters, and other “programs” that do nothing beside making the developer richer). Guess some things do sell well on ClickBank!

After 3 years of never ending attempts, I finally discovered the formula that works  and instead of writing yet another overpriced e-book and sell in on CB, I decided to share my “secret” here with our readers and I sincerely hope it will help some of you to boost your revenue. I know such a guide would have been helpful for me, if I was to read it a few years ago. This small guide will show you how to start making money without investing in advertising. First let’s view:

The common mistakes that EVERYONE make with ClickBank and you must NOT repeat:

• DO NOT: Go to CB’s marketplace and sort products by highest paying commission, then promote it and wonder why no revenue is flowing in.

Why is this wrong?

1. In order to pay a very high commission to YOU, advertiser must price his product very high as well, and it’s not always easy to sell a $100 – $200+ piece of info on the internet. The fact that they promise to pay you $95 per sale means they must collect minimum 120 dollars from each customer… Not everyone will fork out this much money, especially now that crisis kicked in anew.
2. Everyone wants the high paying commissions to themselves, so everyone promotes it, which means: a hell of a competition. A lot of advertisers will be able to invest decent sums of money in media buying and you won’t be able to compete with them and with their budget.
3. When you come to promote the product, since the competition is enormous, all the spots in Adwords, Facebook and Bidvertiser are already taken, so you have to bid really high in order to even show up in results. All the domains with the product keyword are already taken by those who decided to write a review and put it on a new domain to dominate Google’s ranking.

Another common mistake:

• DO NOT: Promote product with highest gravity.

Although I must say I still can’t 100% confidently answer to the question what “gravity” is in terms of revenue to the affiliate, but I came to realize it has a lot of competition. If a product has big number next to the gravity line, it’s been promoted and purchased through many affiliates, and this brings us again to problems with competition, advertising and promotion.

• DO NOT: Overlook a high paying niche that solves a problem

Although you might think that promoting Forex products where payout per single sale easily reaches $1000, Forex does not really solve a problem. A niche with a big potential is a niche that solves a problem, memorize that. Acne, weight loss, dating sites – all these solve a problem, a big problem and people are willing to pay big money to solve this problem. Think from buyer’s prospective: If you are lonely and hopeless, you will probably pay $20 for a premium membership in the most popular dating site or purchase a small $20 e-book that will “reveal the secret how to get married fast”. You are a lot more likely to pay to solve a problem, than to pay for fun. It’s a lot harder to sell an e-book that teaches you how to draw with pencil, than an ebook that teaches you how to lose weight without a diet. See the difference now?

Bearing this in mind, what do we do?

1. We decide on any of the HIGH paying niches that solve a problem. Again, weight loss, acne, dating sites, self-help and, to some degree, “internet marketing” / making money online niches are probably the only subjects that will convert well regardless global crisis, nationality, religion and other aspects.
2. Pick a new product. The key here is to be first or at least among the first ones, and avoid the whole competition altogether. Don’t go for a product that everyone has been promoting for years, pick a new one that no one knows about (yet) and build your promotional strategy knowing there are no (or very few) competitors targeting your keywords. It’s best to subscribe to ClickBank’s updates so you will receive the info first (there is no option on the marketplace to sort products by the “newest” so you have to subscribe).
3. Don’t promote just any new product in the niche you picked. Since you have no stats yet (gravity, refunds rate, etc), you have to really study their pitch page and see how well it will convert. The best way is to simply visit the page you consider to promote and ask yourself “will I buy this product?“ The page you are going to target has to be visually appealing, rich in graphics, it has to “talk” to the person, and convince him or her that their problem is solvable, and that THIS very product they are looking at will do the trick. You have to really go by touch here so be very critical and go for the page that looks best. If the sales page begins with a boring piece of text, chances are — you are going to lose the buyer before he reaches the “buy now” button.
4. Consider a LOW cost product with MAXIMUM % commission. For instance, $100 software that pays 20% commission will give you the same payout as a $27 product with 75% commission, the only difference is  that a $27 product is easier to sell. You are a lot more likely to sell 10 x $27 ebooks, than 10 x $100 softwares, and remember — your payout would be the same.
5. Disregard upsell / downsell offers. A lot of affiliates say you can earn “up to $90 per sale“.. The “up to” means you will never make $90 per sale, it simply means that if and when you nail a commission of, for example, $45, the vendor will them spam the buyer to death with other offers that have a tiny chance of being sold again and maybe you will earn additional $45 for the upsell. That is if the buyer will be happy with the upsell product and won’t decide to get a full refund altogether because he realized that the first product was just meant to put the buyer through a funnel of future sales. The bottom line is, your commission will only be the “initial sale” and this is pretty much all you can bargain for.
6. Go for relatively low payouts. A $90 commission per sale sounds a lot more tempting than a $20 commission (I mean, all these efforts just for measly 20 bucks???) but again — bear in mind that cheap products are easier to sell if they are well presented and have a great pitch page. I’d save myself the hassle and go with products that cost under $30, where vendors are ready to pay a generous 75% commission so I will be left with around $20 per sale. Remember that your greed can leave you with no commissions at all!

Just for the record, the product I was promoting — Victoria Flame’s Healthy Weight Loss Method, a small e-book that costs only $28 to download, has a fantastic looking sales page, offered 3 bonuses with each download and pays a 75% commission. It fitted perfectly in my criteria and the result was amazing.

Next, promotion for smart people.

Forget about Adwords, you will need to pay minimum $1 per click so a small budget of $100 will melt away before you know it. Also, if you chose a bad-converting product you will be losing your money just on the “learning” process, and it’s crazy.

Let’s assume you picked a product (we will use the Healthy Weight Loss Method for this example), now you have a few options. Either post a banner on your website (which means = minimum  potential sales) or review the product. People will be looking for “weight loss solutions” online and people who have already heard of Victoria Flame, will be looking for a review of the product. It doesn’t matter whether the person heard about it before or not, an honest review that highlights the advantages and the disadvantages will catch the visitor’s attention. Posting a review on your blog will yield results only if you have a truly popular, niche targetted website with good traffic and ranking, otherwise don’t waste your time on it.

1. Register a domain name that has all or some of the products keywords in it. Be careful with trademarks. If you are on a low budget, you can buy an ultra cheap host that gives you a domain with purchase + Adwords, Facebook and Yahoo credits. I used FatCow.com as they have a limited time promotion now, 65% off, and for my $4 a month I got a free domain, $50 Adwords voucher and $50 Facebook voucher. I also got $25 but since I am outside of US I had no use for it and sold it on digitalpoint forums. It’s definitely worth it as for a few dollars you get a professional package with everything.
2. Install WordPress because that is the only platform you will find truly easy to use and maintain.
3. Get a beautiful wordpress theme. The trick is to make the site look professional. If you are willing to invest, download a premium theme from ElegantThemes.com (they offer a whole bunch of them for $39, so you get a theme for less than $1!), otherwise just pick a really good looking free theme, don’t leave the default layout on, it looks bad.
4. Fill your blog with some related articles from articlesbase.com or any other articles directory. Don’t just copy and paste articles, because you won’t have unique content + you will have to give credits to original authors who promote their own weight loss methods, instead, go to article-rewriter.appspot.com and spin (auto re-write) the articles you have chosen, that way you will get about 60% original content that will pass copyscape and Google will love it, considering it “unique”. It’s not ethical to spin someone else’s content, but hush, they will never know! Backdate the articles to make your blog look a lil` “old”.
5. On the front page, post a review about the product you are promoting. It has to be the front page! Write one yourself, or hire someone from public forums to write it for you. It has to highlight a lot of advantages but not blatantly scream “buy it, damn it!”.
6. Once you have the website set up, it’s time to bring in some targeted traffic. Only targeted traffic will convert! What I am about to tell you is not a blackhat SEO method, but it’s not completely white either. Perhaps we will call it grey seo. You probably heard about a lot of SEO softwares that spin and submit articles to multiple directories, that post spammy comments on thousands of blogs and create zillions of social profiles in 3 minutes. All these kinds of software cost between $100 to $300+, and you need to spend a few weeks wondering how to use them. Forget about them, you don’t need to purchase anything, all you need to do is head to fiverr.com, create a FREE profile. It’s a place where people are willing to do A LOT for $5. For example, write, spin and submit your article to 200 directories (instant backlinks), post your comment on 6,000 auto-approve blogs and while this is believed not to effect Google ranking, in reality — it does. Let alone Bing and Yahoo are still running on the old algorithms, so if you get 2000 comments on dead blogs and ping them all, Yahoo will index 2000 backlinks and bump you in SERPs. Trust me, I tried it a few times and it works like a charm. So pick keywords (preferably long tail) and fire a few people to do article submission and comment blog posting. The more they promise, the better. Get the maximum off your 5 bucks!
7. Now, you have a domain with keywords in it, blog with unique articles and tons of backlinks, all this cost less than $20 and within a few days you should start seeing traffic flowing in. You also have Google and Facebook vouchers you can use on advertising your products, plus you can use your mailing list (if you have one) to promote the product. Now, it’s pretty much just waiting for sales, but I’d not stop there, get fresh backlinks weekly. For $5 weekly you can significantly boost your SERPs and it totally worth the effort.
8. Post new articles weekly (re-written), leave the front page intact but with the database growing — you will have more and more influence on Search Engine. No traffic will convert better than traffic from Search Engines (or sponsored search results, but the whole trick is NOT to pay money for it!)

That is it, within 1 week, if you play your cards right, you should see sales. Good luck!!

G and notice the number of visitors to your blog or the website increasing. When a fan clicks your like button, it becomes a promotion to your website. The same way when you have a like button of face book installed in your website it is able to promote your Facebook profile. This way a Facebook button could be used on two ways to improve your business. Due to this reason, it is important to get more Facebook likes. The more of them you get the more will be the popularity of your website. There are quite a few ways to get free likes.One way is to post a status update on your website mentioning about your Facebook page. Invite your visitors to join you in your Facebook fan page. Very often your visitors will do as you say. Also you need to provide them some reason to join. Provide something interesting such as news or some interesting content.

In case you have a twitter page, you have the option to get your twitter followers to become your Facebook fans. This also will allow you to get more likes. You might have to send all your posts to twitter with a link back to the pages in the Facebook.

In case you are engaged in email marketing, you have a mailing list. Use this mailing list to inform your subscribers about your Facebook fan page. You could also include a link to your page in the mail to enable your subscribers to visit your fan page effortlessly. You will get more Facebook likes when you do so. Right now, Facebook Likes have become officially more important to Google and other search engines’ search result pages and rankings. Also, there are whisperings that “likes” are beginning to measure up as a form of backlink. Every online business would be concerned on how to increase their business Facebook Likes this year. Facebook is the social media platform with the largest number of active and passive users. Building a reputation on Facebook means a whole lot to any online business.

Here are top tips on how to increase your Facebook Likes:

1. Send request to people via email and ask them to like your Facebook page. This is a basic but effective technique. Of course, most of your friends and family members would love to like your page. These people may not all be your target audience, but this can help to enhance the legitimacy of the whole thing.
2. Incorporate your Facebook URL anywhere possible – on your site and blog. Include a URL or an icon to your email signatures and business cards. Also, include links from other social media or business platforms such as LinkedIn. A link to any of your present or past presentations would be a great idea as well.
3. Embark on cross-promotion of your Facebook Page on your other social media accounts – Twitter, LinkedIn and even your personal Facebook Page.
4. Integrate a Facebook Like box on your blog, so that those that already “like” your page will be visible to others.
5. Consider putting up a Q & A on your Facebook wall. Ensure that the answers are from experts on each given question. If such expert is popular, a lot of people are likely to come to your page as a result. Even the Q & A on its own is powerful enough to draw people to your social media page.

Indeed, Facebook Like button has come to stay and would give your business a leap when you generate quality ‘likes’. If you need to buy cheap facebook likes, we would strongly recommend the company we have been working with for a long time, — BuyCheapFBLikes.com, they deliver real fans in a totally legitimate way, and the fans are yours for life unless you really scare them all away.

Today, more and more people are looking to open an online store and no wonder — selling digital goods, or reselling affiliate products, became so easy and accessible, that it would be a crime not to tune in to this profitable niche and earn your own money from millions of online shoppers. If you have something to sell, you should really try and open an online store, and reach thousands of people who will be interested in your product instantly. Unlike “offline” or so-to-speak “real life” stores, you won’t need to pay rent, buy equipment or employ anyone except yourself. But still, so many people miss out on the opportunity of opening an online shop, why? Simply because they don’t know how to handle an e-commerce shopping platform. It’s hard to set up, a real nightmare to maintain and if anything breaks or goes wrong it costs way too much to fix. It doesn’t have to be that way, with the new solution coming from MarketTheme.com. If want to earn money selling anything online but completely lack any technical skills, this solution is exactly for you. Market Theme is one of the easiest, quickest, and fastest ways to setup your own virtual store.

Using WordPress as backend, the most popular and easy CMS around, MarketTheme had designed a WordPress Theme that does all the job for you. Fully integrated with e-commerce features yet requires no work from your side, apart from entering your paypal ID and adding products with their photos, just like you’d have done with a regular blog posting.  Since technically it’s just a “theme” you won’t need to do anything, really. For $55 only, you can:

• Install the theme on unlimited domains
• Get  access to Support Forums
• Receive FREE lifetime upgrades
• Rights to fully customize Market Theme (non-encrypted files)
• Unrestricted access to Download Center (for additional plugins and custom mods)
• No usage fees or hidden costs

As I already mentioned, you can sell both physical, digital and affiliate products. MarketTheme also supports multiple payment processing methods such as PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net and even offline payment support with the facility to use the  “Bill Me Later” button. I just purchased a license and I can say with full confidence that this is the ultimate solution if you are like myself,  looking to open an online store instantly. Among other notable benefits of this products are:

• Ultra fast set up
• Several layout variations
• Payment flexibility
• Plenty of Modules (accessible once you obtain your license).
• Money Back Guaranteed policy (so you can purchase risk free!)

This is also a great opportunity for developers, who can obtain a developer license for a one-time fee of $150, so if you are charging thousands of dollars from your client for building a complete online store, you might want to spend $150 for having the backend fully done for you. It comes with a pretty basic design, so you will have no trouble customizing it to match the look of your website. You might think at first that compared to other shopping-cart-integrated platforms the design is too basic, however, this is the main plus of this theme — it’s extremely easy to customize, easy to navigate and very easy to modify even for newbies. You can try it risk free anyway! Even if you don’t know yet what can you possible sell, the website owners took the time to gather all the best affiliate vendors and merchant websites where you can sign up and instantly start earning money, promoting their products. So, what are you waiting for?

Do you love blogging? You can easily turn your blog into a money making machine, and you don’t have to scam your readers or do anything sleazy. All you have to do is offer them something valuable, and they’ll be happy to pay for it. You can make money blogging by creating quality. Here is a simple strategy where you blog, build a list and then offer your readers even more.

Step One – Crank Your Blog Into High Gear

The first step is to get your blog going. Start a blog on a topic that you love and fill it full of content. The content comes first; once it’s full of original, high quality information, then you can start getting traffic to it. If you’re not sure you’re up to the task, hire an article ghost writer to do the content for you. Once your blog is going, you’ll need regular posts, so you can have them do those for you too.

Step Two – Get Traffic

This is a huge topic that books have been written on, but for now let’s just say that you need to optimize your blog for keywords so that people can find it, and build backlinks that lead back to your blog. If you keep these two things in mind, there are lots of different strategies you can try. Also, make sure that you keep your high quality article ghost writer posting regularly.

Step Three – Build A List

Once people start reading your blog, create a place where they can sign up for your list. Your membership list is your fan base. These are people who enjoy your blog, your audience, and your future customers. Send them exclusive information through email newsletters and let them in on special deals. Give them stuff for free and build a good relationship with them.

Step Four – Offer An Information Product

Once you’ve got a good, growing list, it’s time to offer them a deal. You can either create your own information product or choose one from Clickbank that relates to your niche. Your reputation depends on how good it is, so choose something great. If you’d rather create your own, you can always have your article ghost writer make it for you. If you’ve created a great blog with a list of loyal readers, you’ll get sales immediately when you offer them a valuable information product.

This is just one strategy for making money with blogs. Like all strategies, it takes time and resources to do it. But it’s all about building your blog and your list. Nobody does it overnight. Once you’ve got it going, you’ll be able to offer info products regularly and you’re guaranteed sales.

About the Author: Greg Scott:

I write your content so you don’t have to at www.gregscottwrites.com. I’ve got hundreds of satisfied customers under my belt. This article is copyright 2010 by Greg Scott.

Ever dreamt of getting 100+ twitters overnight? Or even more? 500? Now, it’s possible in the most legit way, with twiends.com.
Twiends works on the simple principle — follow others and get credits, when you have credit points, others will follow you. Some people, for example, offer 10 points in exchange for a follower, and you can set your credit on 2 points per follower, in other others you earn 10 points for following person X, and then you have credit for 5 new followers, it’s that simple. Plus you can get free credits for various things; email subscription, referring other members, blog posts and so on.

Main Advantages?
You can buy credits by subscription and watch your followers count going up every day. This is really ideal if you are participating in programs like Sponsored Tweets, where you are paid to tweet, based on your followers count. It allows you to get even thousands of followers fast, and most important — without having to follow back and ruin your quality score ratio.
You also have a choice of sorting followers based on country and interests match, which allows you to narrow down the audience to a very targeted group of Twitters.

Disadvantages?
Just like any other popular service, you will get a few abusers who think they bypass the system by creating fake accounts, so some of your followers won’t be real (I know they are not real if they have 1000+ followers and not even single tweet!). Of course it’s a very small percentage of them, maybe 5% based on my experience, but just be aware of that. Moreover, some members unfollow, after they have earnt the credit for following you. That’s rather annoying, but maybe if I was an interesting Twitter I’d have had better chances of keeping my fans. I don’t use Twitter all that much so I can’t really tell how well does it perform for me.

The only thing I can be sure about, that it instantly will boost your followers count, I got 400+ new fans in less than a week, and I didn’t even need to return the favour, as long as I have credits on my account. If you are serious about your Twitter business and this social network i valued to you, you are going to love Twiends because this a great pain-free way to gain popularity.

I personally wouldn’t be concerned all that much about those who unfollow you, because they lose credits earnt (only they are not aware of that, yet), so most likely they would want to earn them back and have to follow you once again. Also, don’t be worried about the fake accounts, after all the number of followers often has a psychological impact. Ashton Carter has 3 millions of followers, does anyone care if even half of them are not real? So go grow your network now, it’s free!

I have been working online since the beginning of 2005 after starting my marketing career offline a few years before that. I love making money online
and the idea that I can be on holiday in an exotic location and have to just answer a few emails is what I would call real bliss. At the end of the day to run an online business and make serious money online all you need is a working laptop/computer and an internet connection.

I have several different streams of income that allow me to make money online. Some are better than others as they take less time and energy. Those that you have to put the extra effort into are always the most rewarding just because of the pain and passion that has gone into the creation.

Here is a list of my best ways to make money online:

One page information sites: This is where you create a one page site of information that people will need to know on a daily basis and cover it from head to toe in Adsense. To be able to make a decent profit you want to have at least a hundred of these and they require absolutely no maintenance and can be forgotten for years to come. They could cover things like maps for holiday destinations, calendars, local area events or even software that people are desperate to get their hands on.

Affiliate Marketing: Just by writing a review for someone else’s product can seriously increase the amount of money into your PayPal account. Aim for products that are new and not those that have already been oversaturated in the market as you want a prime position in Google. If you own a website why not include a couple of banners or a review on a customers download page.

Blogging: I personally love Blogging and if you can write a simple Blog Post there is lots of money waiting for you. Create small little niche sites with lots of Adsense or Bidvertiser and make sure that your Blog Posts reflect what is being currently searched in the search engines and you have it made. When your Blogs are doing well and you are earning a regular income from it you can get Blog posts written for you for a rather low amount so in effect you can have an automated business with very little work involved.

Article Writing: Just by writing 5 articles a day and then have a link through to one of your products can seriously increase your sales. They say that if you do write 25 a week so that’s 5 a day Monday to Friday you can expect to make $1000 in your first 30 days. However as your popularity grows and your reputation increases for being a accomplished writer you will earn much more than this.

Forum Marketing: This is my personal favourite you just NEVER knock the ability to build a business through the likes of internet forums. I use them most days and through answering a simple question and telling the person that I am replying to that they can find the answer on my Blog I can add over 100 clicks in a matter of minutes. This can work in any niche too and doesn’t just have to be associated with the make money online niche.

Social Marketing: This has to be the most powerful way of gaining traffic through to your products and services. As a member of many of them including Twitter, FaceBook, Digg, StumbleUpon and Yahoo Answers I have seen first hand how much they can help your business day in day out. By answering a quick question on Yahoo about Hostgator I can create at least $200 in affiliate commission. Using bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon and Digg has had an amazing affect on the amount of sales that I have received and placed me in the search engines a lot quicker than I could have possibly imagined.

I have now provided you with five excellent ways to make money online. I have to say without a doubt even though these are not the only ways they are my best ways to make money online. Just think about which ones are yours!