Well, I’ve about had it with NOT making money online. I’ve had many ups and have made halfway decent money online, but somehow a wrench always gets thrown into the system and I have to start all over again. A recent wrench has screwed up my income, so I’ve decided once and for all I’m going to try to uncover the “secrets” of making money online with affiliate marketing.
I’ve messed around with this a little bit, but it always seems like 99.9% of the offers are really scammy looking. Some offers look like they were created in 1995. So, I assumed that as horrible as the ads looked there was no way they could work.
I read a few money making blogs including ShoeMoney, John Chow and Zac Johnson. But a recent discovery I made was CPA Share, a blog run by a 16 year old dude that makes SIX FIGURES A MONTH! This has been a nice slap in the face and a wake up call at the same time. It’s always good to hear stories like this if you ever need a wake up call to take action.
It seems like the common theme many of these blogs have is that the majority of the money they make comes from affiliate marketing. Sometimes there’s shroud of mystery trying to figure out exactly what they do to make money, but I’m taking a wild guess that it goes something like this:
1 - Sign up on an affiliate network
2 - Pick out an offer that seems to be performing well
3 - Build a landing page
4 - Buy Google ads pointing to that landing page
5 - Convert that traffic into money
Ok, so I probably sound like a total noob at this, and yes… I am… sort of. I have been on MaxBounty for several months now, but am not even close to six figures a month. I’m at the low 3 figures a month though! Anyway, I’m going to begin my journey into this affiliate marketing stuff and test it out and try to get to $1,000 a month as my first goal. I’ll be really conservative about this and set a deadline to reach this by December 31, 2008.
That’s all for now. I’m doing some research and after some polling am going to list the best affiliate networks to join. There are so many out there, it’s hard to tell where to start. In my next installment, I’ll try taking a closer look at networks such as Commission Junction, Pepperjam, NeverblueAds, Rocket Profit, Market Leverage and a slew of others.
I’ll try my hardest not to look like one of the countless other make money online sites with a hundred million ads slapped up everywhere. Or… maybe not. 
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