Make Money Online with Affiliate Marketing, Part 2 - My First Affiliate Marketing Experience

8 Step Process towards affiliate success

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My very first affiliate marketing venture was a success. I was shocked. My wife was shocked. It took less than 24 hours. I got a Paypal payment in the amount of $40 less than 4 hours after sending an email out to a bunch of my friends. My cost was absolutely nothing, I just wanted to test out the very first affiliate link I found to be useful. All of a sudden my Paypal account had a deposit in it. Amazing, and I’ve been hooked since of this brilliant idea of selling somebody else’s products and getting money for it.

Unfortunately after that really quick success, I didn’t succeed again until months later. I read tons of books about it, read a lot of information online, and signed up for a lot of programs. One program out of all of them helped me the most, and it was very inexpensive compared to the others. I actually made the money back with my first affiliate sale. It was James Martell’s 8 Step Process. It provided every piece of the puzzle necessary to get started.

You can always check my website or blog out for tons of free affiliate marketing info, and this weekend I should be uploading to my free Google Group an in depth e-Book about succeeding with affiliate marketing. Make sure you’re a member! Otherwise you can buy it on eBay for a few bucks, but for members, everything is always free. Wouldn’t be a bad idea though just to have an ebay ID.

The trickiest part about affiliate marketing, just like my article about adsense, is getting people to view what you are offering. With Adsense, the trick was to get people to your blog or website so they would click on your advertisements. With affiliate marketing, you don’t even need a website or blog. You can simply advertise your products through email or Adwords and I’m sure you know it takes a lot less work to make an Adwords campaign than to run an entire website or keep updating a blog.

The beauty of Adwords is that you can start your campaign immediately, people will see your ad on their Google results if they put in the right keywords that you are targeting, and if they click on your ad and purchase the item or do whatever your affiliate goal is, your profit is the commission subtracted by how much you paid for the click. If they click on your ad and decide against the product, you lose the cost of the click so it is extremely important to make good ads that only the people who plan on buying will click on them.

This is all very in depth stuff that requires studying before you jump head in. Again I strongly suggest you go ahead with the free Adwords e-course to really educate yourself on the subject of Adwords.

Of course if you decide against using Adwords, you can still be an affiliate marketer, it’ll just be a little tougher.

Tomorrow I’m going to identify the ways to be an affiliate marketer for free, but don’t forget to check out this great ebook if you decide you want to independently investigate yourself.

You hopefully signed up for the free e-course on Adwords from the previous article. Now I want to share with you yet another 100% free e-course done completely through email from one of the true Adwords geniuses, Perry Marshall. Click here to sign up for it, no cost, no fuss, and if you really like it, you should read his book. I did and it changed the way I look at using Adwords to make money.

For people who already get the basic gist of Adwords and want to go on to the next level, get an Adwords consultations, click here, or for personal Adwords coaching from a true genius, click here.

Still no laptop, still making money online....its not such a bad life...

Making money through the internet is really a beautiful thing. I'm now on day 6 of not having my laptop due to the $%^#&@*(@ hard drive crash, but because of the way I set my adwords, adsense, affiliate programs, and eBay business up, I'm still making money.

The most important way to make money online without turning your computer on, or even having one in my case, is to set up a good adwords program. Adsense makes good money too but not nearly as much as adwords.

Setting up a good adwords program involves

selecting the right products to advertise,
set up your ad campaign
sign up for the affiliate programs,
create excellent ad campaigns and occasionally revise them

That’s it!

Now just sit back and revise when necessary. Sure without being able to constantly check my computer, I’ve had to hold back on the revising, which probably does cost me a little, as it is a very competitive world, but still its doing very satisfactorily considering the fact that I’m doing no work at all. I sit back, blog from my PDA phone, harass the laptop repair shop once an hour, and write down more money making ideas. Yes without a computer, I sure do write a lot.

The best way to learn about adwords? Of courser I’m going to plug my own website here. I put this section together based on everything I’ve learned doing it, along with some other information that I’ve collected from people who seem to know what they are doing. The point is if you follow those directions just like I did, you’ll be making money with adwords and affiliate marketing in no time. I also give away free ebooks about the subject in my free members section.

Some people think affiliate marketing and adwords are two different things. Hell before I started, I didn’t even know what they were, let alone that they were so closely related. But the fact is, without adwords, affiliate marketing would be very difficult to do. Without affiliate markeing, theres really no sense in paying for people to click on your ads. It’s still possible, but requires a LOT more work.

Find one of the best Pay per click advertising programs here

For example, if you decide today you want to start making money with affiliate marketing, what would you do? Set up a website and advertise your affiliate products on it hoping that people come there and click on your ads so you can earn some income? Or do you just email all your friends and tell them what a great product you find? Do you have that many friends? You can go around leaving comments on their myspace accounts too but is that really efficient?

This is where adwords comes in. You create an ad campaign, set your budget, pick your keywords, put in the right links, and you’re off! Anytime someone goes to google and searches the keywords you’re using, your ad will come up. If they click on your ad, you’ll get charged whatever it is a click costs for the ad you have. They will be sent to the product directly, no intermediate website, and if they buy the item, you get the affiliate profit. Now that’s my idea of thinking globally and acting locally. Just a few keystrokes on your pc and the whole world has access to your ads. Not just the whole world, but only the section of the whole world who is actually interested in your product. The rest of them are never even bothered with it. I think this is a beautiful concept and if you don’t, you aren’t meant for a life of making money online.

Get started, click below to Sign up, you’ll obviously need an account if you want to get in the game…

Sign up for AdWords.

Of course you’ll also need to know the basics of affiliate marketing. check out my website section on it.

Also, Check out my Tips for a Successful Pay Per Click Advertising Campaign

To learn an incredibly large amount of information about adwords for free, and to get a free ebook about it, check out my website, and also check out Perry Marshall’s website. I bought his book before I got started and he really stopped me from making a lot of the mistakes most people make because he had already made them and put it all in his book.

He also has a completely free course on adwords that is extremely useful or get a full adwords consultation here

There are a lot of affiliate programs out there you can join. Linkshare and Clickbank are the big ones as far as I can tell, but theres thousands. What is more is that there is thousands of dollars to be made a month using this method, and once its set up, you never have to look at it again, well once in a while, but on the grand scheme of things, hardly ever compared to other occupations or methods of making money online.

You have no website to cry about if your hard drive unexpectedly crashes, you have no blog to have to update every day, you have no inventory to ship out, you don’t need to do any physical labor…I mean seriously, whats better than that? All this time you’re wasting reading blogs, checking people’s pictures on facebook, watching stupid videos on youtube, and you could be making thousands of dollars advertising other peoples products. You figure out which you want to do and get started.



Yes my adwords campaigns still are active and are making tons of money for the affiliate products I’m currently advertising. Yes I’m teaching others how to do it. And yes I still don’t have my laptop so I have plenty of more time to devote to writing blogs, even if nobody is reading J