It might sound strange to make money online without having your own website or product, but it’s actually quite easy. Follow these simple steps:
1) Find something to sell
In this step you actually find a product: You don’t develop your own product, you can find great products that are already created and selling in the marketplace and sign up as an affiliate.
Why would you do this?
First, creating your own product is very difficult and most people never end up finishing theirs which holds them back from actually making money online. Second, products already created and selling illustrate that there is a market online and that the product is desired by customers. This bypasses the market research phase that needs to be completed if you are considering creating your own product.
Where do you find them?
You can find digital products, usually information products, on affiliate networks like Clickbank.com. You can tell if the product is selling or not by looking at the product’s gravity (which is a percentage that Clickbank uses to indicate how well a product is doing in the marketplace). Go to clickbank’s marketplace and conduct a search and you will find thousands of products in many different markets. You can see the products gravity below each product description.
How do you sign up to promote a product?
Simply create a ‘hoplink’ in Clickbank for the product you select. To do this, all you have to do is sign up to Clickbank (it's free), select a product from your marketplace search, and click on ‘promote’ which is next to each product. Your hoplink will now track all the clicks and sales that go through your link.
2) Create a redirect
To promote and sell your affiliate product you don't need to develop a website or purchase hosting, which can be challenging and costly. Instead, all you need to do is purchase a domain name from sites like Godaddy.com for about $9 a year. Choose a name that is related to the market you are in.
Then, once you purchase your domain name create a redirect which directs anyone that clicks on your site to your affiliate offer (through your hoplink). This is easily done through Godaddy. Each click is tracked and for anyone who purchases the offer you will receive a percentage, usually 50% or more depending on the product, for each sale.
3) Drive traffic to your redirect link
You can do this a number of different ways. One effective and free way is through article marketing. Write a 250-500 word article related to the market you are in and post it on sites like Ezinearticles.com or Goarticles. Below each article write a brief description of the product you are offering and include your domain name link, which will redirect traffic through your affiliate link to the product's sales page.
Another way to drive traffic is through pay-per-click advertising. To do this, sign up to Google Adwords and create an account. Find keywords that people search for related to the market you are in and place bids on these words.
You can see examples of Goolge Adword ads on the top or right side of Google search results. This is what your ad will look like and where it will show up. Just follow the instructions in Google Adwords and look at other examples of ads to see how to craft yours.
There are other ways to drive traffic including forum marketing, social network marketing and so on, but they are beyond the scope of this article. Once you get the first two marketing strategies going you can branch out and explore other avenues.
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