Making Money online blogging Selling Other People’s Products A lot of people are now getting into making money online blogging and online marketing either to supplement their “real world” income or for it to become their primary source of income.

Why? Because online marketing just provides them a lot of benefits!

First, you can reach just about anybody in the world who has Internet access if you market your products online. That means a wider market for you, which can translate to larger profits.

Second, setting up an online business requires only a fraction of the cost required to set up an actual business establishment, which means a lot of savings for the business owner. Setting up a blog to make money online costs NOTHING. Or very little if you host your or blog. Another aspect that has attracted a lot of people towards online marketing is the fact that one doesn’t have to have their own product to get started. In online marketing, one can start making a lot of money just by selling, other people’s products. And getting started making money blogging is actually quite easy. All that one needs to do is to go to click bank or commission junction or find any affiliate product by searching google, and after everything you’ve selected your product and have your affiliate link, one can immediately start making money blogging by selling the merchant’s or the retailer’s products.

Incidentally, the most popular and the fastest growing method of selling other people’s products online is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing, is a relationship between an online merchant or retailer, who has products to sell, and his affiliates a person who is willing to promote the merchant’s product on their website, or in this case a blog. In a typical affiliate marketing set up, the merchant provides his affiliates with banners and text ads that links to his site. The affiliates will then get these ads posted on their website and they get paid whenever traffic or sales is directed to the merchant’s website. Affiliates are often paid on commission basis, although other online merchants would opt to pay a fixed fee for the affiliate’s compensation. Starting to make money online blogging with affiliate marketing is relatively quick and easy.

All that one has to do is to sign up as an affiliate for an online company that offers affiliate programs. An alternative method, and usually an easier one, is to sign up as a member of an affiliate network—a network that hosts a variety of affiliate programs for different online merchants or retailers. Signing up is usually free, although other companies and networks may require you to pay a particular fee. Such fees, however, are made as payment for additional services that the company may render, like providing you with tools and assistance to jumpstart your online business. When you sign up with an affiliate marketing program, you are usually required to fill out a form containing information about yourself. Some affiliate programs may also require you to present the URL of your website and describe its contents. This will allow the retailers to verify that you actually have a website with contents that are relevant to their products. Some affiliate programs, ho
wever, won’t require you to have a website. After filling out the form and all, you are then allowed to choose the affiliate programs you want to promote.  
After signing up with an affiliate program and being an actual affiliate, you are now ready to start making a lot of money by selling other people’s product online. How do you make money? There are actually a number of ways for you to earn money as an affiliate, and most of these ways depends on the type of affiliate marketing program you’ve gotten into. Many affiliate marketing programs compensate their affiliates in either of three ways: pay-per-click (PPC), pay-per-sale (PPS), or pay-per-lead (PPL). In pay-per-click affiliate marketing, the affiliate is paid whenever he directs traffic to the merchant’s site. PPS and PPL affiliate marketing programs work rather differently. In PPS, the affiliate only gets paid when his referral converts into an actual sale. In typical PPS affiliate programs, the affiliate would usually get 15% to 20% commission for each conversion. PPL affiliate programs work the same way, although affiliates are paid a fixed fee whenever his referral converts into a lead for the company. Some affiliate marketing programs are two-tier programs, wherein the affiliate is also allowed to recommend other affiliates to the merchant. In such affiliate programs, the affiliate would not only be paid for the traffic or sales that he would direct to the merchant’s site but also for the traffic or sales directed by the affiliates who signed up with the program through his recommendation. Yet another way of earning more profits with affiliate marketing is through residual affiliate programs. Residual affiliate programs are affiliate programs where the affiliate gets paid a number of times for as long as the merchant keeps the customer the affiliate has referred to his site. One form of residual program gets the affiliate paid a commission every time the referred customer purchases something on the merchant’s site. Another form of residual affiliate program gets the affiliate paid a percentage every month for as long as the company keeps the referred customer. With a lot of options available and a lot of ways to earn money, affiliate marketing is undoubtedly the most popular and the easiest way to make money by selling other people’s products online. As to how much money one can get from affiliate marketing actually depends on the affiliate. A dedicated and hardworking affiliate would certainly get more from the program compared to those affiliates who would simply sign up and forget about the program later. 

Ever have one of those weeks when everything goes wrong, or when bills just all of a sudden start getting out of hand? Yeah I thought you did too.

Let me tell you about the last few weeks, and then I’ll tell you why I’m happy I’m making money blogging and selling as an affiliate marketer.

No I’m not goona brag that I just bought a new porsche or yacht or private plane or any of that other non-sense bs you always read about. Im going to give a reality version of what a bad week looks like and how it all comes out ok when you’re starting to make money blogging

Ok so here goes.

For the past year Ive had a molar that is (was) sensitive to cold and was starting to hurt. Well the pain got to be a little bit worrisome so off to the dentist I go.

Dentist: "well shane looks like you have a cracked molar from an old filling and it’s either dead or dying. Im going to have to remove that old filling give you a root canal and put a crown on it." Ok fine so long as the painstops and life can get back to normal, you know chewing on boths sides of your face… $1825.54 Later and a week or so and it was all done.

Then the brakes on my ferrari Chrysler Sebring were’nt sounding so good. Actually they hadnt been for a while, I know I put off stuff till the last minute ie the molar….

SO I took it to a friend of the family’s garage, and told him to fix the brakes, he’s a long time friend so I know I’m not gonna get raped…. (ahem) $770 later the squeeky brakes are gone and I feel better about being able to stop in traffic !!!

Then, yes it goes on… we’re driving down the road and our five year old boy spots some beavers on the way to beaver class?, or what ever they call it. " can I join beavers?", so we go check it out and sign him up $169 plus a $25 due (beaver food they call it)

Then, My girlfriend is watching an oprah episode, ok I admit I was watching it too.. it was the one where she is telling the women of the world that they’re wearing the wrong bra sizes and don’t now how to size a bra properly, go figure eh, women dont know how to buy lingerie either. So my girlfriends gets all jazzed up about this pulls out the tape measure thingy and shes like OH MY GOD Im wearing the wrong bra size !!!.Then she gets all perturbed that she cant afford to replace her bras. NOW GET THIS. I decide to be the good guy here and tell her to use my visa to buy some new bras. BIG MISTAKE. she bought 7 bras, one for every day of the week. for a grand total of $230. I almost freaked out. But its all for the greater good right? (wink wink nudge nudge).

Now thats some where in the area of like 2500 to 3000 dollars EEEE GADS thats horrid!! But I’ll tell you what If I havent been doing what Im doing and making money blogging and selling as an affiliate marketer I wouldnt have been able to afford it with out some serious cuts in other ares of my life.

Whats really even better about this is that I have been catching hell from my girlfriend because I spend a good deal of time on the computer. Good to know she has some faith and is getting to be a lot more supportive!! after having the sick few weeks we just had.

Hahahaha Just when I thought I was getting someplace and getting ahead of the game!!! Good damned thing for affiliate marketing and the blogosphere !!!

See!.. no bs claims about buying fancy cars or big houses or other stupidity just a real honest tale of a few weeks of money hell all gone wrong and then made right from making money blogging and selling as an affiliate marketer.

Just a little horn tooting here though I got a check from Click bank for $356.46 a week back. Good thing My visa is starting to scream!!!!

So you can have a hellish few weeks and cover it by making money blogging and selling as an affiliate marketer

Last night I thought I would give instant buzz a go. Instant buzz is a mike filsaime product. Good name, well known internet marketer. So I thought I couldn’t go wrong with this product. Well it went wrong in a bad way. Heres what you get with the download. Or at least what I got with it. Your experience may differ from mine. And mine was a bad experience. Hence the bad review. So what I got with the down load was TONS OF SPYWARE, ADWARE, browser hijacking crap the list goes on. I’ve spent all day today doing nothing but trying to clean up this garbage and I’m still at it. !!!

Now it just might be me and the way I installed it or NOT. Bt at this point I would steer clear of Instant buzz