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You’ve likely seen comments in IM forums such as: “How much will I have to spend to do this?” Or, “I won’t have to spend any money to start this $1,000 a week business, right?”

Yeah. Right.

Where did the notion come from that it should cost zero dollars to start a real business? If you open a barber shop or a donut shop or a flower shop, I guarantee you will need funding for the shop, the supplies, the tools, the counters, cases, inventory, etc.

Yet somehow we’re under the impression that doing it online should be free.

I have 3 words for you: Get over it.

If this is your way of thinking, then just get over it. You will spend the next year searching high and low for the magical, mythical business you can start for zero dollars and be making a grand a month within the week.

And you’re as likely to find it as you are a bag full of unicorn horns.

Here’s how a real business person would think: “Okay, I’m a marketer, not a web designer. So instead of mucking about for the next six months to build a website and a sales funnel, I’m going to outsource the whole thing and have it done in a week, two weeks tops.

“And while that is happening, I’m going to create a free report to give away to build my email list. And while I’m at it, I’m going to create an OTO (One Time Offer), too, so I can immediately start making a few sales from my new subscribers.”

Of course, if you’re not a writer, either, then you would outsource the report and the OTO as well.

The point is, if your specialty is marketing, then that’s where you need to put your focus. Let other experts handle the stuff you’re not good at while you do what you do best.

The difference between trying to do it all yourself (the “free” way) and hiring pros to help you is usually about 6 months. That’s right – try to do it all yourself and you will lose 6 months of business growth and profits.

Or it could take even longer. I know of one ‘marketer’ who has been trying to figure out the tech stuff for over two years. That’s two years he could have been building his business, but instead he’s trying to do everything himself rather than pay someone. That has got to be the most expensive version of ‘free’ that I’ve ever seen.

Outsource your challenges and focus on what you do best. This is the fastest way to get into profit, with the least amount of headaches and hassles. You’ll be glad you did.

So, if you are still wondering “Why should I start making money from home” you should really be asking how soon can I start? Check out the program below for an honest way to make money online. It is working for me…

How to Make Your First $100,000 Online in as Little as 30 Minutes Per Day, With Just 3 Super Simple PROVEN Steps

Why affiliate marketing? Why not? There has never been a time when affiliate marketing has been so easy for the average person to start an online business. With an internet marketing business you do not need much money, you can learn all the skills you need and you can make a virtually unlimited income. Instead of asking why affiliate marketing, you should be asking, what am I waiting for?

Now, here is the catch you may have expected, many people will ask why more people are not successful at affiliate marketing if it is so easy and the answer to that is that it is not that easy but it isn’t difficult either. I know, it sounds like I am contradicting myself, but I am really not. You see starting an online business is cheaper, easier and quicker than it would be if you tried to open a business off line. Plus you can do virtually all of this anywhere that has an internet connection.

There are so many free or low cost resources you can use online. Every form of business online is less expensive than it would be offline. But, that does not mean it won’t take some time, work, effort or some money, it just won’t take as much.

Most people fall for the hype of some magical push button, do it all for you software or system. FYI, there is no such thing. There are many ways you can automate or outsource aspects of your business but there is no magic Genie that will do it all for you.

You have to be willing to invest time to learn some basic skills before you can expect to make any money. Then you have to be willing to invest some time to put those skills to work on a consistent basis. Don’t forget, you are building a business here. Rome wasn’t the only thing that wasn’t built in a day.

Once you have some money coming in you should reinvest that money into your business so you can scale your business up. Your first few months you will either not make anything at all or will only make a few hundred dollars. In most cases, it won’t be what you might call life altering money.

But, if you put that money back into your business, either to hire people to do some of the work for you so more can get done in the same amount of time, or to invest in some software or marketing services like professional solo ads to do some aspects of your business, you will really start to see some big results in the next couple of months.

Realistically, you may be able to achieve enough income in about 3 – 6 months, on average, to replace your full time income. From that point on it simply becomes a “rinse and repeat” type of process. Just keep doing this until you are making all the money you want to be making and until you are working only the amount of time you want to work.

Not only can you conceivably build your business as big as you want, you can also build it in such a way that you don’t even have to spend many hours working on it every week. Passive income online is very, very realistic but only if you are willing to work on it in the beginning until your business is actually generating some income and you can automate and/or outsource some aspects of it.

So, if you are still wondering “Why affiliate marketing” you should really be asking how soon can I start? Check out the program below for an honest way to make money online. It is working for me…

How to Make Your First $100,000 Online in as Little as 30 Minutes Per Day, With Just 3 Super Simple PROVEN Steps

The most frustrating thing about starting in affiliate marketing is the… NOT KNOWING.

Not knowing… if you’re doing it wrong.

Not knowing… if you should stop or persist.

Not knowing… if you selected the right niche/product to promote.

Not knowing… if you picked the right traffic strategy.

Not knowing… if there’s a better way you don’t know about.

Not knowing… who to trust.

That’s why I’ve been watching fewer YouTube videos and attending fewer webinars lately.

They’re inspiring, but give you no useful plan to follow.

I figured the only way to get a specific step-by-step action plan is to follow and learn directly from people who have become full-time affiliate marketers like my buddy Igor.

In this really cool new video Igor just released you can see and understand how he’s taking students from nothing to their 1st affiliate commission in just 30 days. Sometimes, in 10 days. It depends on the student

What’s clear, though, is that in the last years he’s been pretty consistent at helping people start and scale affiliate businesses from scratch. It’s clear by all the case studies he shares in this new video he released

What I find most impressive is how he’s got case studies that are:

Male and female

English speaking and non-English speaking

Middle class income earners and below middle class income earners (not one of his students started out with a large capital or anything)

Young and old It’s like he knows a universally-effective way to get people started in affiliate marketing.

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You could not be blamed if you think a blog exists to inform and entertain its readers. After all, a blog really isn’t much different than a magazine, right? And a magazine exists to inform and entertain its readers. Right?

Actually, this is the exact point where many information marketers go horribly wrong.

Let’s pull up a quote from an ad executive named James Collins:

“There is still an illusion to the effect that a magazine is a periodical in which advertising is incidental. But we don’t look at it that way. A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising. It is a large booklet with two departments – entertainment and business. The entertainment department finds stories, pictures, verse, etc. to interest the public. The business department makes the money.”

James Collins said that in ’07.

That is, 1907.

And it’s as true today as it was then. Maybe even more so, with the advent of the Internet.

Why do websites make you click links to read the following pages in an article, rather than putting it all on one page??

Why do websites make lists of “The Top 20 __” and then make you scroll through each one, rather than putting the entire list on one page? It’s to expose you, the reader, to more ads. If you have to go to 3 different pages or 20 different slides to finish an article, you’re exposed to 3 times or even 20 times the number of ads.

As a content marketer, you must focus on two things:

Providing interesting content. It could be entertaining or informative or both, so long as it captures and holds attention. But the content isn’t what’s keeping you in profit – it’s the products you’re selling. Content is simply a means to a sale.

Making a profit. This profit could come from ads on the page, or products you promote, or even products you create and sell.

One business, two functions: Entertainment and business.

When you view your business in this light, everything becomes much more clear. You suddenly know what it is that you have to do, and more importantly, what you don’t have to do.

Look at it this way: The only purpose for your content (blog posts, articles, podcasts, free ebooks, tweets, posts, etc.) is to gather the specific audience you want.

So you choose your audience and then tailor your content accordingly.

Now then, ideally you want your audience to sign up to your email list. This makes it far easier to do the business side of your business. Otherwise you are dependent on readers to click your ads or buy your products. But with a list, you can send emails to your prospects promoting products they can buy.

Your focus should be on turning every reader you can into a subscriber. And when you do, you offer them whatever it is that they already want.

Find out their desires and sell them the solutions and products they already want. Don’t try to forge new paths by educating your audience on what they “should” want. This is an uphill battle you will lose. Instead, discover what they already desire and also how they like to be sold. Then act accordingly.

Remember: Your content is simply a device to induce people to read and act upon your marketing. It’s that simple.

If you are asking yourself “Why is my affiliate marketing efforts not working”, you are not alone my friend. Anyone can make an affiliate marketing program work and become successful at it but there are several things that you need to make sure of to be able to find success.

Your affiliate marketing promoting efforts should be a program or service that you are interested in. That’s not a golden rule but if you have interest in the product and/or service you will be more inclined to stay with it. Your affiliate marketing should be something that is high quality and catering to a growing market. Your affiliate marketing efforts will be well paid if they are successful. Don’t promote products or services that you only make a small commission on for your affiliate marketing efforts.

If your affiliate marketing is going to be successful, especially if you are relatively new to affiliate marketing, again make sure you are promoting something that you have an interest in. It helps if you are passionate about it or at least coming with a good background in the field pertaining to the product or service. The reason is, you are going to have to find some way to connect with those who would be interested.

To be credible and effective, you are going to have to know what those interested in it are really wanting to know or purchase. If it is something you are interested in you are going to know all the right answers, well almost all the right answers. You are going to know who, what, where, when, why, and how. You will know the questions to ask and you will know what the right answers that will give them confidence in you and you start building trust. You also know how to look for what really works.

Your affiliate marketing efforts are going to need to be promoting something that is a high quality product or service. First it will help you feel good about what you are doing in offering the people something that will actually help or solve a problem for them. You don’t want to have people returning what they buy but you want to have them returning to you. If they see that you are going to be pointing them towards something that they can trust, they will look for your guidance more. Look for products and services that have favorable testimonials. Sharing these will help bring credibility.

A good affiliate marketing program will help you be successful and will be something that caters to a growing market. Find a good wave and ride it but try not to jump form affiliate program to affiliate program. Just try to find a wave that isn’t dissipating. Look at the things that you are most interested in and see what has the largest number of people interested in it. Look for markets that are expanding. And again look for products or services that offer good commissions.

You want to make sure that the compensation will be worth your marketing efforts. It is a lot easier selling one product for $100 commissions versus trying to sell 10 products for a $10 commission. You may want to put a lot of energy and time and maybe some good money into promoting the product or service but if it doesn’t pay out a good commission, it will not be worth it. Finding something that is really going to reward your affiliate marketing efforts will make you want to work harder and smarter. Check out the online business below as I have had much success with it and it pays monthly commissions.

How to Make Your First $100,000 Online in as Little as 30 Minutes Per Day, With Just 3 Super Simple PROVEN Steps

More than likely you have seen them cropping up all over the internet: work from home schemes promising participants vast sums of money for taking surveys, selling a product or service, stuffing envelopes, clicking ads, making phone calls, etc. The plans are as varied as they are innovative. Remember not all work from home online business are scams. There are some excellent online businesses out there, you just need to look for them and do your due diligence.

Unfortunately, many are scams meant to extract cash from your wallet and certain to leave you feeling miserable and stupid. So, just how can you make sure that an online business is legitimate? Continuing reading on for some suggestions to help you avoid being cheated.

Better Business Bureau

– Check with your local Better Business Bureau (BBB) to determine whether the company has had any complaints levied against it. If it is an out of state concern, check with the BBB in the area (state) where the company is based.

State Attorney General’s Office

– Every state has an Office of the Attorney General and in most cases it is this office that is tasked with investigating complaints against companies. Some states allocate this responsibility to their Bureau of Consumer Affairs agency or similar department.

Online Forums, Blogs, etc.

– Google a search on the internet for the company’s name and narrow the results further by including negative words such as: complaint, scam, judgment, etc. If a company or program is up to no good, likely that information has been published somewhere.

Caution: too much praise about a company could be a company “plant” placed online to create a positive spin about their operation. Conversely, bad news could be a single disgruntled person. Get as much additional and independent information before making a determination whether something you read online is actually true.

Personal Investment

– If you have to pay to receive a list of companies providing work information, etc. this should be a warning flag to you. Any outlay of cash on your part should raise some concern. They should be providing an explanation about their opportunity and/or service for free.

MLM

– Some work at home businesses are nothing more than multi level marketing (MLM) schemes. This means you make a percentage of the sales of people you bring in to the business below you. Not all MLM schemes are illegal…unethical may be another matter! Some are legitimate so perform your due diligence.

In all, exercise extreme caution before agreeing to any work from home plan. If a work from home plan sounds too good to be true, then likely it probably is too good to be true. Ask hard questions and do not sign a contract before letting a legal professional (of your choice) review the plan. There are a lot of legitimate work from home online businesses just be careful and do your research. Also remember these programs do take some work and effort as there is no such thing as getting rich overnight. Check out the program below for an honest way to make money online.

How to Make Your First $100,000 Online in as Little as 30 Minutes Per Day, With Just 3 Super Simple PROVEN Steps

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Fear of the unknown and doubting ones ability to achieve success have stopped many good people from achieving their goals.

If we could see the future, we all would be rich. Our lives would be almost mistake free and we would have very few problems. But we can’t see what will happen down the road. It’s this fear of the unknown that has held many people back in many areas of their lives, especially in the area of starting their own internet business, particularly a work at home online business.

I realize there are many scams out there but there are also many legitimate ones that you can make money with and the negative mindset has stopped many people from even trying. Many people see themselves as failing before they even start. They see themselves as not having the time, money, or know-how to make their own internet business work. They see what they “think” should or will happen.

They are also influenced by others who tell them they can’t do it. The basis of what they see is a mindset – one that says, “Others can succeed in this but I can’t.”

So you see, people don’t start their own work at home businesses not because they don’t have the time, money, or know-how. They don’t start because they have a negative mindset. They simply believe that it won’t work for them.

They feel they are cursed to failure, cursed to live week to week, cursed to always work for somebody else, cursed to working 40 or more hours a week, for 40 years, and hope they will have enough money to survive, much less do anything else.

“You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself; there are no limits.”

So, how do you change this mindset? Well, it isn’t easy. All of our lives, we have been told that, “You can’t do that” by friends and family. We have been programmed to think negatively. Reprogram your mind by flushing out the negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones. I am not talking about some magical or mystical formula here. Although volumes of books have been written on the subject, here a couple of simple tips.

First, try to surround yourself with positive people and avoid, as best as you can, the negative folks. Begin to read books written by motivational speakers such as Napoleon Hill, Jim Rohn, Dale Carnegie and others that deal with thinking the right way and sit in on seminars and teleconferences that deal with changing the way you think.

There are even work at home online opportunities whose sole basis is showing people how to be successful by changing the way they think.

It won’t happen overnight but eventually you start to see yourself thinking in a different light. The “I can’t” will become “I can.”

You will stop doubting yourself. You will begin to see that you can do it. You will step out and do things you thought you would never do. In closing, let me share a quote with you from Napoleon Hill:

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Think about it!

How to Make Your First $100,000 Online in as Little as 30 Minutes Per Day, With Just 3 Super Simple PROVEN Steps

Being an affiliate Marketer can be extremely profitable, but it’s not as easy as all the gurus make it sound. After all, you have to generate targeted traffic and make it convert in order to get paid. That means convincing people, most of them with short attention spans, to take sign up for offers or make purchases through your affiliate link(s). But there are ways to greatly increase your opportunity of success.

Affiliate marketing works out well for both parties because the product/service producer doesn’t pay you money until you give them some leads or customers. Affiliate marketers use this relationship to make money without having to worry about customer service, product development or product delivery. It sort of lowers the risk for both involved parties.

For beginners, this is a great way to start earning money. You’ll also learn the ropes of internet marketing and this is vital to your long term success. Of course, your site might have its own goal but starting off with promoting a product that is already converting and optimized you’re making things a lot easier for yourself. Doing so requires a combination of factors almost all of which are under your control, which is a good thing.

Many companies will allow you to sign up for their affiliate program even if you don’t have a website of your own. On the other hand, some companies require you to have a website that’s closely related to their niche and you’ll need to submit traffic stats to them in order to become an associate affiliate for them. After all, if you have the same topics on your sites, there’s a greater likelihood of crossover from readers. If you had a soccer website, you probably wouldn’t have crossover readers for a site on wheelchairs.

Another factor to know about is keywords, solo ads and creating your own capture funnel(s). Click on the link below this article to get Free information on how to set up your new affiliate marketing business. Keywords are the words that people put into search engines to look for a specific topic or subject. Just about anything can be a keyword phrase, but some keywords are more profitable than others. These are usually keywords which have moderate to high searches on a regular basis and a low number of competing pages. Optimize your sites/funnels for the most profitable keywords and you’ll stand a greater chance of not only making sales but securing a hands-off income stream.

Of course, being an affiliate marketer isn’t the be all and end all. Unless you’re simply there to make money, you probably opened a website because it’s something you’re interested in. If you’re not enjoying it anymore and you’re not just in it for money, feel free to move on to more interesting prospects. But why would you as you are in this to win. Don’t give up.

You are in a place that’s good for you to start making money doing affiliate marketing otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. Once you get your business set-up it is truly run basically on autopilot with minimal time. If you’re still interested, there’s a lot of money to be made being an associate affiliate marketer and if you go about the process correctly you can turn your minimal efforts into residual, long term rewards. Click on the link below to get Free information on how to set up your new affiliate marketing business.

How to Make Your First $100,000 Online in as Little as 30 Minutes Per Day, With Just 3 Super Simple PROVEN Steps

A common mistake that new internet marketers make is to create a website and then think of ways to get guaranteed web traffic to it. While that is an intuitive thought, you should really first put some analysis into the traffic before you even establish your website. The reason for this is that SEO (search Engine Optimization) will be an important way for you to gain organic traffic, and if you do it the right way, you can start seeing visitors right away.

SEO is comprised of two elements: relevant keywords and backlinks or, as some people refer to them, incoming links. Before you develop your website, you will need to have an idea of the keywords that you want to target and make sure that they are included in the website’s content in order to get guaranteed web traffic. It’s generally recommended that when you first start out, you should go for the lower-search volume keyword phrases, rather than the more competitive general terms.

For example, if your business focuses on jewelry, you might want to identify a more specific keyword like “costume jewelry” or even more narrow, like “costume jewelry earrings”. The keywords that you will include on your website should be the exact terms that people are looking for when they do a search online. And you can find these keywords very easily by using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool which is completely free of charge.

This tool gives you keywords that are relevant to your business and also provides information about how competitive the keywords are, how often they are searched for, and how much people are bidding on them for PPC ads. You want to locate the lower-searched terms that have less competition. Identify three to five that you can use early on in your website or blog.

In general, each keyword should be used once in some sort of important position in your site or on your blog (like the title or page header), in the first five words of any description following the title or heading), and in the last sentence of the content. In the body of your content, it should be used no more than three percent of the time. Before you start looking for backlinks, you want to have at least five articles (of about 500 words) on your blog or at least five pages of your website.

Then you can start working on obtaining backlinks. You can do this by submitting articles about your business to article directories, Squiddoo, HubPages, or article directories and linking them back to your website. Or you can comment on blogs and forums that are related to your industry, and include your link in your comments.

These are just a few ways that you can get backlinks to your site. The more quality backlinks you have, the better the search engines “like” you, the higher you will be ranked in search engine results and the more guaranteed web traffic you will obtain.

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As you know, there is a lot of money to be made in working with offline businesses. If they don’t have a site you can build one for them. If they have a site but it’s not mobile friendly, you can build them a mobile site. If they’re not doing video, you can do that for them. If they’re not building a list, you can get that started for them and so forth. The possibilities are nearly endless, and there’s tons of support on how to do it.

But here’s the sticking point for most online marketers: They do not want to go out and talk to business owners.

So if you’re one of those who prefers to stay at your desk, then how can you cash in on offline marketing? Simple – hire a sales person. Pay that person a commission such as 50% of profits or a straight 25% off the top. This way you only pay when you make money.

And if you don’t want to be the one to provide the services, you can always outsource that as well.

This is a great side business for marketers. You’re still free to focus on your online business, diverting your attention to offline only when there is a sale. And it’s a great opportunity for the sales person, because they can pursue it in their spare time.

And if you’re outsourcing the work, you probably only need to spend a few hours per week to make this work.

So, if you are still wondering “Why should I start making money from home” you should really be asking how soon can I start? Check out the program below for an honest way to make money online. It is working for me…

How to Make Your First $100,000 Online in as Little as 30 Minutes Per Day, With Just 3 Super Simple PROVEN Steps