One of the easiest and most pain-free methods of earning money is when you get an affiliate fee. The first type of affiliate fee is where you earn money when visitors to your website click on a link or advert and buy a product. So what’s the catch this type of passive income? Well normally very few will click on your link/advert and even fewer will buy anything, so it’s a numbers game the more visitors you get the higher the probability someone will make a purchase.
The second type is where you earn a fee when somebody becomes a member of another website using your affiliate link, this is potentially more profitable as you usually get a cut of everything they spend and for how ever long they stay a member.
So what’s the catch? Well the catch is that it’s hard to find good affiliates at least 95% remain inactive free members, I cannot criticise these people because I’ve done it a many times myself, joined some website and never returned , never mind upgraded.
However when you do get a good affiliate it is marvelous to know that someone out there is regularly sending you a fee.
So all in all it’s a numbers game, the more targeted visitors you have the more chances you have to earn affiliate fees.
And one final bugbear “thresholds” many websites will only pay you when your fees reach a threshold, I much prefer the sites that pay monthly via PayPal however small the amount!
All my affiliate links are here http://www.makemoneytips.org/
Since I wrote this I have a new active affiliate here with NeoBux and earned $5 and reached my threshold with eBate.com which has cheered me up!
And now I have a new upgraded member at ClixSense which earns me $2, plus 1cent every time he clicks. It’s funny since writing this post I’ve had a stream of mini-successes. I’ll let you know know when I get my first super-affiliate (an incredibly motivated affiliate who signs up many other people)
I am earning a steady $10 plus a month from Squidoo see my Squidoo Lens Here
I continue to earn steady money with my second hand book business on Amazon learn how here
Both Squidoo and Amazon make it as easy as it possible for the ordinary Joe to earn money online
I earned $48 affiliate fees from Linkworth you can join them here
I earned about a dollar a day with Adsense which is not very exciting and some of my other passive income streams slowly climbed towards their thresholds!
My best earned continues to be Neobux which is one of the first schemes that I’ve invested in by buying a thousand referers , I am usually VERY reluctant to buy Passive Income Streams but this is earning me over $10 a day ( I don’t yet know how much of that is profit)!
Oh and I’ve filled the scrapbook when I stick photo copies of all my Passive Income Streams and Internet Marketing Earnings. So that’s another little success mile stone.
Getting rich quick is almost impossible, even getting rich slowly is very difficult but the principle I follow is to create as many money earning possibilities as possible. I call these mini-businesses they require a little effort to setup but then become passive income steams.
Of course it’s tough at the beginning working on schemes which may never earn money but with time it works and you start to receive payment notices via email and even checks in the post.
So the answer is yes you have to work really hard but unlike your j-o-b it is possible to “work once get paid many times”
But you have to try, you have to take the first steps, you have to believe; I see so many of the people who sign up to say PTC using my referral link only ever visit the PTC website once! ie they give up straight away they never give it a chance (that’s their right of course). Don’t be like them if you take the trouble to sign up for something, say to yourself I will stick at it long enough to properly evaluate if it is right for me!
See what’s doing well for me here http://best.pay-to-click.ever.com/
Pay to Click is full of fly-by-night spammy websites that’s why I’ve researched a long time to find the best ones (and made a few mistakes)
Neobux is the biggest and the best and my favorite, I’m getting a $13 cashout (PayPal) every four days. I’ve never had a passive income stream with regular payments before so I’m very pleased and so will you be if you sign up by clicking the banner below (free). Notice that the banner is displaying how much I’ve earned so far (so should update frequently).
My biggest mistake was not realizing how those clicks can build up and the power of having referrals (I have a 109) all clicking away for me!. The first time you try Pay-to-Click you are likely to be under impressed so if you do sign up please promise yourself that you will stick at it for a few days!
I am taking PTC very seriously and am documenting my progress at http://best.pay-to-click.ever.com/
I am also a member of Clixsense one of the first and very popular
Are you on the left of this diagram or the right?
Curiously the diagram (by Frank Kern) above echos my own recent experience, in the last few days I’ve got commission for selling a Salt Pipe from an old blog posting on my Aloe Vera Blog . My Squidoo lens Barbie Versus Bratz sold indirectly a Thomas the Tank Toy . Another Lens Zulu Principle made 24 cents commission from an eBay Sale. Other than that I made a dollar commision from an eBay affiliation link and a few dollars more from Amazon Affiliation links. So it’s getting rich really slowly but it is proof that blogs and lens do sell product.
As shown in the above sketch you just have to keep blogging about things that interest you and eventually you will get traffic and then sales, it’s just a numbers game!! But it’s not easy and it’s kind of lonely and discouraging to work way for an uncertain reward but that’s what success is all about, that’s what that the success-failure diagram is all about
Martin is both a friend and Mentor I joined Martin Avis’s KickStartYourLife mailing list in May 2004 very near the stat of my own Internet Marketing journey.
To quote Martin “Well here we are then – 1000 issues of Kickstart! I really don’t
know where all those years have gone to, or where all the close
to 2 million words have come from.
All I do know is that it ain’t over yet folks!
Today is a kind of celebration I suppose, so I’ve prepared some
really good gifts and rather special offers for you.”
Get your free gifts at http://1-in-1000.com
Every Little Bit Helps is a slogan for a supermarket where they claim every small saving helps. Well with SEO every little bit also helps, every link, every blog posting, every article written, every link exchange, every properly researched keyword or metatag, every new SEO tip learnt, every use of Web2.0 in fact every bit of TLC (Tender Loving Care) applied to your website or blog is important. Just keep at it, don’t get discouraged you have to do the work before you see the results!
The Wok was invented for Gonzo Cooks that’s to say students, batchelors and the like who cook by mixing all the left overs in the fridge with a judicious mix of herbs, spices and sauces and somehow end up with something edible and occasionally actually tasty.
Learn more here:- Gonzo Cooking with a Wok
