Source For Income
Posted 4th January 2009 at 12:39 AM by comfysami
Updated 4th January 2009 at 01:07 AM by comfysami (To Categorise my Blog)
Updated 4th January 2009 at 01:07 AM by comfysami (To Categorise my Blog)
Extra Income through Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is the fastest growing industry on the Internet today.
Extra income made through this channel runs into billions of dollars yearly.
Many people get involved in it without a solid plan for success. Indeed, many
want to earn extra income using affiliate marketing, albeit without a real base plan, which is the most important reason for most being unsuccessful at it. Do you really look at any earning without understanding or planning the future of any business, be it at work or at earning extra income?
Do not be under any misconceptions, though affiliate marketing is an easy and
entertaining way to earn extra income, it is serious work, and just like any other job that requires effort, perseverance, and above all, a clear line of sight and plan of action from start to finish line. Small things like setting up your home office properly, getting up to date on know-how, setting achievable goals, making people connections, and investment in your business will ensure that you are one-up on your competition, and also make sure that you firmly stand over them.
Home Office Setup
The most important step to take before becoming an affiliate marketer is to
set up your base - little home office you've always wanted.
You can find many resources on the internet about ergonomic design. Ergonomic
because anyone intending to spend a major amount of time working on their
computers need space which promotes good posture at the same time takes care
of safety issues involving their office workspace.
Learning the Trade
Nobody gets into work untrained. Even when you applied for your first job,
you had made sure that you are qualified and can do justice to it. Putting in
a nutshell, no one hires you for giving you a free extra income without basic
training.
What you need then, is to get some training on how to become a professional
affiliate marketer. You can start by finding another one and check what they
can do to help you. There are many professional affiliate marketers already
earning a substantial extra income, who would be willing to teach you by
passing o their knowledge so that you can augment the extra income they are
already earning. The internet also offers a lot of resources and conference time tables which you can attend to learn.
The secret is to become a student of your own business; you will get to learn
something new day after day. Now you are ready to begin by setting some
realistic goals for yourself.
http://sourceforincome.com
Goals
The major problem that plagues most affiliate marketers is that they tend to
set themselves unrealistic goals by being over confident about their skills
and plans. This results in becoming disenchanted very quickly due to non
attainment of goals. Being realistic removes a lot of pain in this context. For example a goal of $5,000 a month realistically attainable, but a first time affiliate marketer is not likely to attain it when starting up.
Beginners and first timers should look at something more modest than $5,000
dollars a month. Starting with a smaller objective like $50 or $100 extra income a day, at the same time learning the trade's smaller and important nuances will be worthwhile in creating a long term and sustained affiliate marketing business.
As a goal of earning extra income of $50 a day may seem small and non lucrative, but it is achievable and affiliate marketing being a continuous learning process, it is a good place and budget to begin with. Remember, you are also learning how to do things successfully at the same time. Give it
some lead time and you could substantially increase your extra income using
affiliate marketing.
Keep revising your goals periodically, as often as fortnightly or monthly.
Remember these goals should point in the direction of one larger single goal
that you want to achieve in terms of success or in terms of amount of extra
income you want to earn. Put these goals on paper and make sure they are in
visible range on your table all the time. This will help focus your energy towards your goals.
A lot of literature is available on focus and goal setting by renowned and successful people like Zig Ziggler and more. Reading them would help you not only to add to your knowledge base but also to work in a better and more efficient way towards achieving that extra income goal of yours.
The next step would be the most important in your career as an affiliate marketer to earn extra income. Go out of your way and into the field to make connections and contacts with relevant and useful people in the affiliate marketing industry.
http://sourceforincome.com
Connections to Your Future
The professional affiliate marketing people are well knit and close group of individuals connected constantly and regularly with each other. A constant stream of information is shared helping each other. All these successful marketers strongly believe that everyone benefits by learning from each others' mistakes.
Getting out there to help people would be a better attitude to take rather than just looking for business, since this field of marketing works on a principle which says "Help yourself by helping others." This is a better philosophy to follow in the long run to make long lasting friends and building a business that gives long lasting extra income. People out there will certainly help you when you are willing to help and extend the hand first.
If you can try and relate to these people, which I am sure you can, since you will be sharing the same objectives as they do in the long run of generating a good extra income, will relieve a great deal of work stress and as a result you will be able to perform better. The moment you invest a little money in someone else's business, you cannot be ignored. They will take you seriously and you will shine… all the time
making that extra income!
http://sourceforincome.com
Online Businesses
According to popular belief online businesses are basically scams. I beg to disagree. There are some very good online businesses that are not out there to scam you. You just need to be diligent when choosing who to do business with.
Your online business needs your approval heart and soul; otherwise success will keep eluding you and so will the extra income you planned from it. If Edison did not believe, that electricity can be harnessed to light up
human life; we would still be living in the dark ages, wouldn't we?
Clickbank
The best place to start if you are looking to start Affiliate Marketing is through Clickbank.
Clickbank Marketplace or (CB Mall) is an organized directory of over 10,000+
of most popular products. These are listed in order of popularity across a number of categories. The benefits of the Marketplace are:-
Publishers can list their products here and have a potential audience of 100,000 affiliates to promote them.
Affiliates can search for individual products that they wish to promote, or promote the Marketplace as a whole.
Choosing a product to promote
Against each title in the Clickbank Marketplace is a percentage rate e.g [earn 50%] showing the rate of commission you receive on selling that item. Click on that to generate the link that you need to promote the item.
To Get Your Own Marketplace
http://itshrunk.com/f5f4e7
Each link to a product will have your nickname embedded, earning you
commission for any sale made from the Marketplace. To promote your Marketplace you would still need to obtain your Affiliate Nickname from Clickbank.
Wishing you success in your Online Business!
Comfort Osunsami
http://sourceforincome.com
Comfort Osunsami's Blog
http://iblog.at/comfysami
Affiliate Marketing is the fastest growing industry on the Internet today.
Extra income made through this channel runs into billions of dollars yearly.
Many people get involved in it without a solid plan for success. Indeed, many
want to earn extra income using affiliate marketing, albeit without a real base plan, which is the most important reason for most being unsuccessful at it. Do you really look at any earning without understanding or planning the future of any business, be it at work or at earning extra income?
Do not be under any misconceptions, though affiliate marketing is an easy and
entertaining way to earn extra income, it is serious work, and just like any other job that requires effort, perseverance, and above all, a clear line of sight and plan of action from start to finish line. Small things like setting up your home office properly, getting up to date on know-how, setting achievable goals, making people connections, and investment in your business will ensure that you are one-up on your competition, and also make sure that you firmly stand over them.
Home Office Setup
The most important step to take before becoming an affiliate marketer is to
set up your base - little home office you've always wanted.
You can find many resources on the internet about ergonomic design. Ergonomic
because anyone intending to spend a major amount of time working on their
computers need space which promotes good posture at the same time takes care
of safety issues involving their office workspace.
Learning the Trade
Nobody gets into work untrained. Even when you applied for your first job,
you had made sure that you are qualified and can do justice to it. Putting in
a nutshell, no one hires you for giving you a free extra income without basic
training.
What you need then, is to get some training on how to become a professional
affiliate marketer. You can start by finding another one and check what they
can do to help you. There are many professional affiliate marketers already
earning a substantial extra income, who would be willing to teach you by
passing o their knowledge so that you can augment the extra income they are
already earning. The internet also offers a lot of resources and conference time tables which you can attend to learn.
The secret is to become a student of your own business; you will get to learn
something new day after day. Now you are ready to begin by setting some
realistic goals for yourself.
http://sourceforincome.com
Goals
The major problem that plagues most affiliate marketers is that they tend to
set themselves unrealistic goals by being over confident about their skills
and plans. This results in becoming disenchanted very quickly due to non
attainment of goals. Being realistic removes a lot of pain in this context. For example a goal of $5,000 a month realistically attainable, but a first time affiliate marketer is not likely to attain it when starting up.
Beginners and first timers should look at something more modest than $5,000
dollars a month. Starting with a smaller objective like $50 or $100 extra income a day, at the same time learning the trade's smaller and important nuances will be worthwhile in creating a long term and sustained affiliate marketing business.
As a goal of earning extra income of $50 a day may seem small and non lucrative, but it is achievable and affiliate marketing being a continuous learning process, it is a good place and budget to begin with. Remember, you are also learning how to do things successfully at the same time. Give it
some lead time and you could substantially increase your extra income using
affiliate marketing.
Keep revising your goals periodically, as often as fortnightly or monthly.
Remember these goals should point in the direction of one larger single goal
that you want to achieve in terms of success or in terms of amount of extra
income you want to earn. Put these goals on paper and make sure they are in
visible range on your table all the time. This will help focus your energy towards your goals.
A lot of literature is available on focus and goal setting by renowned and successful people like Zig Ziggler and more. Reading them would help you not only to add to your knowledge base but also to work in a better and more efficient way towards achieving that extra income goal of yours.
The next step would be the most important in your career as an affiliate marketer to earn extra income. Go out of your way and into the field to make connections and contacts with relevant and useful people in the affiliate marketing industry.
http://sourceforincome.com
Connections to Your Future
The professional affiliate marketing people are well knit and close group of individuals connected constantly and regularly with each other. A constant stream of information is shared helping each other. All these successful marketers strongly believe that everyone benefits by learning from each others' mistakes.
Getting out there to help people would be a better attitude to take rather than just looking for business, since this field of marketing works on a principle which says "Help yourself by helping others." This is a better philosophy to follow in the long run to make long lasting friends and building a business that gives long lasting extra income. People out there will certainly help you when you are willing to help and extend the hand first.
If you can try and relate to these people, which I am sure you can, since you will be sharing the same objectives as they do in the long run of generating a good extra income, will relieve a great deal of work stress and as a result you will be able to perform better. The moment you invest a little money in someone else's business, you cannot be ignored. They will take you seriously and you will shine… all the time
making that extra income!
http://sourceforincome.com
Online Businesses
According to popular belief online businesses are basically scams. I beg to disagree. There are some very good online businesses that are not out there to scam you. You just need to be diligent when choosing who to do business with.
Your online business needs your approval heart and soul; otherwise success will keep eluding you and so will the extra income you planned from it. If Edison did not believe, that electricity can be harnessed to light up
human life; we would still be living in the dark ages, wouldn't we?
Clickbank
The best place to start if you are looking to start Affiliate Marketing is through Clickbank.
Clickbank Marketplace or (CB Mall) is an organized directory of over 10,000+
of most popular products. These are listed in order of popularity across a number of categories. The benefits of the Marketplace are:-
Publishers can list their products here and have a potential audience of 100,000 affiliates to promote them.
Affiliates can search for individual products that they wish to promote, or promote the Marketplace as a whole.
Choosing a product to promote
Against each title in the Clickbank Marketplace is a percentage rate e.g [earn 50%] showing the rate of commission you receive on selling that item. Click on that to generate the link that you need to promote the item.
To Get Your Own Marketplace
http://itshrunk.com/f5f4e7
Each link to a product will have your nickname embedded, earning you
commission for any sale made from the Marketplace. To promote your Marketplace you would still need to obtain your Affiliate Nickname from Clickbank.
Wishing you success in your Online Business!
Comfort Osunsami
http://sourceforincome.com
Comfort Osunsami's Blog
http://iblog.at/comfysami
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