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I've wanted to get into Internet Marketing for quite sometime now. The main issue I have is knowing what products to market and how to get customers to my site.

This is not saying that I do not know anything because I feel that i have lurked and been an active member of WF off and on for the past couple years. What I decided I wanted to do was blog for money. I am going to start a blog and then add adsense and try to make 1200 monthly. I know that this is not much, but it will supplement what I make offline.

You see my wife just got laid off. So, this is just about what she was bringing home each month, so I feel that if I can get to this point, then she will be able to enjoy being home. Any advice on this would be great, I already know about how to get a niche and all. Just not sure on how to get the traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author DTGeorge
    Originally Posted by gvannorman View Post

    I've wanted to get into Internet Marketing for quite sometime now. The main issue I have is knowing what products to market and how to get customers to my site.

    This is not saying that I do not know anything because I feel that i have lurked and been an active member of WF off and on for the past couple years. What I decided I wanted to do was blog for money. I am going to start a blog and then add adsense and try to make 1200 monthly. I know that this is not much, but it will supplement what I make offline.

    You see my wife just got laid off. So, this is just about what she was bringing home each month, so I feel that if I can get to this point, then she will be able to enjoy being home. Any advice on this would be great, I already know about how to get a niche and all. Just not sure on how to get the traffic.
    1. There should be absolutely no issue with knowing what products to sell.

    The problem with so many IM'ers is that they randomly pick products to promote based on profitability.

    That is the WORST way to choose a product, especially if you know nothing about it.

    What are your strengths? What do you know? What do you have knowledge and experience in?

    Find a product that caters to your strengths, knowledge and passions OR make your own.

    Then you won't have to be worrying about creating quality content because it's something that you know or care about.

    2. Don't even bother with adsense. Seriously. It is extremely difficult to make much money with it, especially if you're a beginner. Added to that, a simple Google algorithm change can easily undo all the work you've done in getting your adsense revenue up.

    3. Focus on selling services - If you're a writer, designer, or web developer. You can easily and quickly learn how to use Wordpress for free and make several hundred dollars for a day's work to set up a wordpress site. Or you can focus on something like freelance writing or learn copy writing. There's enough free information that if you're already decently good at these that you can establish a business with NO overheads that pretty much nets you pure profit.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      I must admit, if I wanted to start a blog and make $1,200 per month in the niche, I wouldn't touch AdSense at all.

      My understanding of AdSense is that it's very hit and miss, and many people effectively have to start off several AdSense sites in order to discover which is going to be the one that can produce $2/$3 per day and looks worth building up to $5 and eventually $10 per day, and so on. After that, it's still a very long way (and requires an enormous amount of traffic) to get to $1,200 per month.

      It's also a business model in which you get paid when people leave your site, rather than staying there. (I don't suggest that that necessarily rules it out as an income source, but it doesn't exactly help, if you're trying to combine it with other income sources!).

      I wouldn't, myself, want to combine AdSense with affiliate products because I think AdSense makes the site look like "just another marketers' site" which is exactly what I want to avoid, to help to build the credibility that produces all my affiliate sales every month.

      Blogging in itself is not a paid activity. It's a monetizable activity, for sure, but not in itself a paid activity.

      I make my living through promoting affiliate products in various different niches. In each of those niches I do have a niche blog, it's true, but the primary purpose of all those sites is to collect the visitors' email addresses, so that I can make the affiliate sales by email.

      This post (kind of) explains why: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523 (ignore the fact that it specifically mentions "ClickBank", if you want - that's just an example).

      I think that for most people, most of time, it's a mistake to look at the site itself as the monetized component of the business. I know it's what many people do, but in my opinion that's a major reason why the overall success-rate in IM is so low. Because for many people, that doesn't really work too well, and there are reliable and valid reasons for that.

      These threads explain more ...
      Is it a good idea to spend some time on building a mailing list ?
      Without Building a List, How Consistent is Your Income from Affiliate Marketing
      Does anyone even make money online without an email list?

      In short, if I were in the position if wanting to set up an affiliate niche site to generate $1,200+ per month, whatever specific plans/ideas I might have for it, I would start by saying to myself, really clearly and really unambiguously, "I'm in the list-building and subscriber-communications business". Without that, I don't think it would actually happen. I don't suggest affiliate marketing is anyone's only option, naturally, but that's the one I know, and can use to make a living, provided I have that concept clear, because that's what it realistically depends on. It's about stacking the deck in your favor rather than against yourself.
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    One of simplest, methods of promoting WSOs is looking at their conversion rate and number of sales. Should be more than 10% and 100 sales respectively. Also refund rate less than 3%.

    However if you're not into WSOs...and you dont know much about a product..you can still promote it!
    Gather all the info you can find and make sort of a journey: "How i mastered Product X" or "How to make X by using Y and Z"...
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  • Profile picture of the author gvannorman
    Thank you guys. I think maybe I have not really given this the thought that is needed. Maybe I will do affiliate marketing. Then move forward from there. I just need to learn how to market my blog/site in order to find the traffic and build a list.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by gvannorman View Post

      Maybe I will do affiliate marketing. Then move forward from there. I just need to learn how to market my blog/site in order to find the traffic and build a list.
      Yes; this sounds right. You need a traffic-generation plan (and preferably one that doesn't depend on Google, if your monetization's going to be affiliate marketing!).
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