newbie needing help

the best advice I can give is to search trough this forum, you can find anything you need to know right here.

Before thinking about monetizing your blog, you should think about building a readership around your blog. If you can build a good readership, your affiliate products will work for you.

Thank you :-)

I'm not really planning on montizing my blog as I don't feel it's niche is defined enough. It's literally just about may day-to-day life. Plus I only get roughly 50 to 100 vistors per day. I would probably be looking more to build website around a more specific niche but am looking for some decent training to enable me to do it well...

Buy most of CraigRC or Craig Mako's ebooks from the WSO section. I am not an affiliate and I am not advertising. But I am awestruck by his work and can vouch for most of his work, not for all though.

There are few WSOs if any that come close to being as precise and interesting as his ebooks.

Also, buy the War Room subscription. That is again a very big deal to all of us here. You need to have some basic knowledge before you can take action on it.

If required, sell your writing services to earn enough money to invest in your IM biz.

The greatest temptations in Internet marketing is to "buy the shiny new object", and to do something purely because you think it will make you a lot of money, regardless of what niche it's in.

Don't do either of these things.

The master of masters, the guru's guru, Rich Schefren, states that if his sister were to ask him the question, "How can I get started making money online, even though I know nothing about it?" He would tell her to start a blog in a topic which she's PASSIONATE about.

So here's a process...

01) Start a blog you're passionate about.
02) Write at least one post each day on that blog.
03) Monetize your blog with related offers that you can put into the sidebar/content.
04) Track your traffic with analytics.

I can tell you that marketing expert Daegan Smith (Creator of the awesome "Maximum Leverage" system) has set up a website back in 2006. He did no SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and he never promoted it at all. All he did was write a post every two or three days for six months straight, and by the end of that six months he was getting 350+ unique visitors each day.

Remember, this is with NO backlinking and NO promotion. He made more than $27,000+ after setting that site up, and leaving it alone for more than four years. That's all with just an AdSense block. Imagine what YOU could make in a blog you posted in every day, promoting it in different ways and offering great advice, solutions, and products to your visitors.

It's possible, but you mustn't let things get overly complicated, and you MUST be patient.

Yes, there is a wealth of knowledge here on the Warrior Forum. However, don't let yourself be swayed by false knowledge (Which you will grow to discover which is true and false with time and experience), and don't fall victim to the "shiny object syndrome" like I once have and so many others have as well. It will suck your bank account dry, and leave you with crushed hopes.

I follow one simple format, and it's the format explained in my Signature Link below. I know it sounds a bit "hyped up", but that's the point of marketing is to get somebody excited. I can say it works, and it keeps me on track so that I don't deviate from my goals, and so I stay focused on what's important.


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Wow, thank-you Holywarrior... some great advice! My only worry is that if I try to monetise my blog it will start to look a bit spammy and people will stop reading? Probably a bit of a newb worry but do you have any tips on making affiliate links less spammy?? :-/

I remember starting out with a blog about how to make money blogging. That was a bad idea because not everyone is a guru like John Chow

Hi ukmum,

I did not buy this video course yet, but it seems OK, for only $9.95, you can buy it and start from there.
Here is the link to this WSO:
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-pick-day.html

Regards
Amer

There are so many ways to go it's a struggle to focus in the beginning. I've been online for 3 years now and I remember the days when I it was all to overwhelming.

My advice to you would be to choose a method that suits your skill set or interests (To minimize friction along the way).

I started off learning how to build affiliate sites then I would sell them on Flippa. That got me started, then I progressed on to learning SEO to use on more longer term sites and then I discovered list building which for me was the third piece to the 'site building/monetising' puzzle.

I haven't done a lot with social media or paid advertising with regards to my business but again, lean towards your interests and current skill set as it'll help you a great deal.

Visit every sub forum,
and read every post ,I think it will helpful for you.

Many good proposals. I'll use them, too!

If your new, don't buy anything. Just read, read and do more reading.

Good luck

You will certainly find anything you are looking on this forum. Ask questions, take action, and realize that your business will not make you millions overnight. Be careful of the 'Shiny Objects' out there! Research, research, research!

Everyone always askes the same questions when starting out. You're not alone, mate. You'll be in good company here at WF.

Let me save you some time....

Start with the best posts: 5 Star Posts - Main Forum

With those alone you will have a good foundation to work from...Have fun!

You say you are a media production graduate and recently trained at University in Search & Social Media marketing and you want to become an affiliate marketer? That's just going to be a whole lot more learning and consuming other people's information. With no guarantee of making any money.

If I were you I would leverage the skills that you already have. Sell your search and social media marketing skills as a consultant to local businesses or advertise them in the Warriors for hire section of this forum. Providing a service is a much more immediately lucrative business model than affiliate marketing.