Copyright 2005 Sean Gum
The question I am asked the most is, “How can I create
additional income streams if I don’t have any money to get
started?” This article is going to teach you exactly that – how
to create additional income streams using the Internet – without
requiring any money to get started…
If you search for Work-at-Home or Make Money Online, you will
have literally millions of websites to visit that promise you
the next best way to get rich… for a fee…
You can spend hundreds of dollars researching all of the
business opportunities on the Internet. But more times than not,
the money you spend only supplies information on everything else
you need to buy to get started.
Well have no fear! I am going to show you some of the secrets I
use to creating income streams with no money down!
I realize that a lot of you are living paycheck to paycheck.
Everything coming in, quickly goes right back out. My intention
of writing this article is to help you break out of this cycle
with Affiliate Programs.
What are Affiliate Programs?
Affiliate Programs are used to promote a product or service
through a cost-per-action advertising model. Simply put, website
owners will pay you a commission for every person you send to
their website that either buys their product or service, or
perform some other type of action such as filling out a survey…
Amazon.com built a huge following by utilizing Affiliate
Programs. A website owner simply put a unique link on their
website that Amazon.com provided them. Every time someone
clicked on their unique link and ordered a book, the website
owner would be paid a commission – usually a percentage of sales.
Banner ads or text ads are used to drive the traffic to the
affiliate website. For example, one website might say “Click
here to order Sean’s Latest Book.” When someone clicks on the
link, it will go to exactly where they can order the book at
Amazon.com.
High traffic websites benefit greatly by this business model
since they can drive a lot of people to the affiliate websites
which results in a lot of commissions being earned.
But what if I don’t have a website?!
I know, you don’t have a website, right? Or maybe you do, but
you don’t get a lot of traffic? I have good news…
BLOGS = FREE TRAFFIC
Over the last couple years, a new type of website has come onto
the scene. They are called BLOGS. A blog is like a personal
diary of articles that you post that people can read and comment
on.
A couple examples: http://fortunedreams.blogspot.com
http://ulosefast.blogspot.com
You can use a BLOG to drive visitors to affiliate links without
having to have a website. If you look at the fortunedreams blog
above, you will notice that at the end of every article is a
link that says “Click here for FREE Information on Working at
Home-FortuneDreams.com”
If you click on that link, it will go to an affiliate link which
redirects you to a free survey to fill out.
For every person that completes that free survey, I get paid
$2.25. Not too bad, eh?
So How Do I Do It?
Step 1: Open a free affiliate account. Go to
http://www.magmoney.com and join the affiliate program there.
This affiliate program will allow you to earn $2.25 for every
free survey completed.
Step 2: Login to your affiliate account. At the top of the
screen, you will see some TABS. Click on the tab that says
“CREATE YOUR LINKS.” Then click on the link that says “CLICK
HERE To get banner and text link code to advertise our three
different websites.”
The first website listed will allow you to refer other people to
join the MagMoney Affiliate Program. For every person that signs
up through your link, you will get paid 75 cents for every
person THEY get to complete a free survey. (You might not want
to promote this one until later – when you have a friend that
wants to do what you are doing… You can then get paid on their
efforts!)
The second website listed will allow you to send traffic to a
weight loss website. If you want to create a blog about weight
loss, then you will want to use this for your affiliate link.
The third website listed will allow you to send traffic to a
Work at Home website. If you want to create a blog about Working
at Home, then you will want to use this for your affiliate link.
Step 3: Decide which website you want to promote from Step #2,
and click on the CLICK HERE that is next to it to create your
unique affiliate link.
Once you do that, you will get a list with your unique affiliate
link along with about 10 banner ads. Disregard the banner ads
since we will not be using them on the Blog.
Step 4: Write down the affiliate link that is listed under the
heading “Basic Affiliate Url:”.
If you are doing a weight loss blog, your link would look
something like this:
http://www.mailorderwork.com/gl/g.o/USERNAME/http://www.ulosefast
..com
(Except all on one line.)
Step 5: Go to http://www.Blogger.com and create a free Blog
account.
Step 6: Go ahead and create your first blog, whether it is for
Work at Home or Weight Loss.
Step 7: Post articles to your Blog with your affiliate link
posted at the end of every article you post. (Refer back to
http://fortunedreams.blogspot.com to get an idea of what to
post.)
Do the same thing I did with the “Click here for FREE
Information on Working at Home-FortuneDreams.com” But make sure
you link it back to YOUR unique affiliate link that you wrote
down from Step #4.
Where Do I Find Articles?
The easiest way would be to simply copy them from one of my
blogs listed in the examples above. Or visit one of the free
article websites such as http://www.SubmitYourArticle.com .
There are literally thousands of articles for the taking. You
will want to search for articles that fit the topic of the link
you are promoting.
For example, if you are promoting the Work at Home link, you
would want articles pertaining to Work at Home.
Step 8: Promote your Blog! There are hundreds of Blog
Directories and RSS Directories that you can submit to that are
free of charge. When you create a blog at
http://www.Blogger.com, you also get a free RSS feed of your
Blog. You simply add /atom.xml to the end of your Blog.
For example: The blog http://fortunedreams.blogspot.com/ would
be http://fortunedreams.blogspot.com/atom.xml as an RSS feed.
This allows you to submit it to all the RSS and Blog Directories
that you can find…
Step 9: VERY IMPORTANT: After EVERY article that you post to
your blog, go to http://www.pingomatic.com and submit your blog.
Click on ALL the Services to Ping and then submit pings.
This tells many of the popular Blog directories that you have a
new article posted. The more articles you post, the higher your
ranking (and the more traffic they will send you!)
So be sure to do this after every article you post.
Step 10: Post new articles on your Blog several times a day. Try
to post at least a dozen or more new articles on a daily basis
to achieve the best results.
So there you have it! A completely, absolutely free way to start
generating income with the Internet from the comfort of your own
home…
Of course you can repeat the process over and over again
creating as many blogs as you want. You can also use this method
with any of the hundreds of other affiliate programs on the
Internet.
Utilizing this method, you should be able to build up an extra
income from several hundred dollars a month to several thousand
- depending on how hard you work at it.
Now that you are earning a little bit of pocket money, put $250
aside for a special opportunity to turn it into hundreds of
thousands of dollars with the ultimate leverage!
I’ll tell you all about it in my next article about my favorite
Business Model – Network Marketing…
Good luck and God bless!
Sean Gum
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