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3 Ways to Earn an Online Income, Writing, Affiliate Marketing, Information Products

Fran Civile — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:50:41 +0000

affiliate marketing

Steve Scott’s Income Trilogy Report is a treasure of information about three ways to earn an online income : writing, affiliate marketing, information products.

This post will be about the affiliate marketing option and this is the table of contents:

An Introduction to Affiliate Marketing

Introduction to the Affiliate Marketing Blueprint

Step One: Find a Good Niche Market

Step Two: Create a Lead Magnet

Step Three: Create an Opt-In Page

Step Four: Build Relationships with Your List

Step Five: Get LOTS of Web Traffic

Step Six: Use Testing and Tracking

Step Seven: Fix What’s Not Working

Steve says he might be ruffling some feathers because he says that the reader needs to dedicate 15 hours/week working on his business and goes on to describe some production “hacks” he uses … not saying they will make things easy but make it possible to accomplish more with the time you’re given … so you can work on your business without disrupting your professional life or your family … but take it seriously like you would anything that’s important in life.

Personally I like the quote: ‘If you’re willing to do now what others do not you will have what others will not!’

Steve struggled from 2002 to 2006 … doesn’t like sleazy marketers who tell people it’s easy to run an online business … he admits to some obstacles being self-created while others were caused by following bad advice!

He says:

“In my opinion, affiliate marketing is the best way to make money on the Internet.
Whenever someone asks me how to get started on the Internet, I always recommend
this business model.

Not only is it great for the short-term, it’s also an excellent way to build a long-term income.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of misinformation about affiliate marketing.

Some “gurus” love to overcomplicate the process. Others want you to believe it’s easy and doesn’t
require any effort.

I feel you can easily simplify affiliate marketing. The trick, however, is to know how to make money from it without wasting lots of time.

In this section, I’m going to reveal my personal blueprint for earning an income from
affiliate marketing.

It’s taken me four years to create this step-by-step plan. So I ask that you pay close attention because this is the exact same system I’ve used to put lots of money in my pocket …”

Pages 36 through 55 will lead you through the steps to set up a solid business and you’ll find links to more helpful reports on Steve’s blog SteveScottSite.com.

He set up this blog two years ago and talks about the internet lifestyle he has lived thanks to the great income he made with a couple of affiliate sites since 2006… allowing him to travel through Europe for several months last year while getting an income.

Here is the link to download Income Trilogy Report.pdf

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Work At Home | Solid Plan For Making Money With Affiliate Marketing Niche Sites

Fran Civile — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:03:51 +0000

I have been signed up to a free course about making money with affiliate marketing niche sites. In Build.Rank.Profit, Alex Whalley goes into every detail from beginning steps of how to set up a website or blog to being able to make money and beyond to promotion

I was influenced to sign up after reading this post in Alex Whalley’s blog he wrote right after New Year 2012 when he was planning his Build.Rank.Profit course. I totally agreed with his opinion about the tendency to try “do a million things at once and jumping on every bandwagon that drives past!!”

This is a little of what he says:

“Get Back to Basics!

You want to make money online? Then stop trying to do a million things at once and jumping on every bandwagon that drives past!!

Make money from Facebook, No! Make money from Twitter, no wait – LinkedIn is where it’s at. What – no, how about CPA and offline marketing – or craigslist – or eBay, or dare I say it, Blogging.

And this is why 2012 is the year to Build Rank and Profit.

Why? Because it’s simple (kinda) and it works!
How do I know? Because while I was tending to family matters and taking a holiday I earned a passive income of over $4000 from my niche websites.

I did not make $13,754 in 2 weeks, nor did I make that money in the first year of being online. The fact is it took A LOT of work , and a crapload more trial and error.

I am just getting back into the swing of things and putting the finishing touches on my Build Rank Profit membership site, a site that will provide you with all of the knowledge I have about making money online and a site that will NOT try and promote 3000 different systems to help you get there.”

Read the post HERE

I decided I wanted to share the information because I’m really impressed by the caliber of this course and I want to give you a chance to look it over.

This is the latest post in the Build.Rank.Profit Course and Alex shares his plan for further developments!

I believe this is a great course! I have followed the 23 modules and they are filled with solid information, a great free opportunity to start building a niche website or blog from someone who knows what he is talking about … here is a link to the introduction of Alex Whaley’s Free Course

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Building an Online Work from Home Income | Frustrations and Rewards!

Fran Civile — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:51:22 +0000

In this post I want to provide information and direction to readers who wish to produce a work from home income.

In the past few weeks I’ve been narrowing the direction of this blog in an effort to provide useful information about building an online income.

There are at least two aspects of living your life on your terms that need to be considered 1. being mentally ready to make the transition from a ‘JOB’ and a paycheck 2. deciding how to earn enough to pay the bills! There are all kinds of practical consideration like having a little chunk of money saved up before cutting loose … I’ll skip over that since it so elementary!

Most of us took a job after getting out of school and were congratulated for being responsible! Now that you wish to live life on your terms, take time to consider some alternatives or you might be getting involved in various online schemes that will waste time, money and energy because they didn’t work out!

‘Income Trilogy Report’ by Steve Scott of ‘Steve Scott Site’

Steve Scott of ‘Steve Scott Site’, one of the sources of information I’ve been referring you to has written an excellent ebook ‘IncomeTrilogyReport.pdf‘ that he offers for free at his blog. He draws on several years experience he has in making a good income with affiliate marketing, to describe three basic ways to make an on online work from home income.

Briefly, these are 1.writing for a living, 2.affiliate marketing 3.publishing ebooks etc. Since these match some of the ways I have directed my efforts to earn a work from home income I have decided they will be the focus of my writing on this blog.

Steve Scott’s Income Trilogy Report’s 88 pages are divided as follows: a few pages answering Internet questions and then pages 14 through 35 about different aspects of writing for business, pages 37 through 54 about affiliate marketing and pages 56 through 77 about information products he labels as long term income. Then some more general and valuable information about business.

I have written some articles about the business of freelance writing, ghostwriting, PLR etc. on this blog – titles will show as related articles below this post – and of course writing is required for a lot of the online business you might be doing such as affiliate marketing.

Writing for your business would not be like writing for your english teacher … you need to be able to describe a product or get a point across like you’re writing to a friend, and you’ll do fine even if you make spelling mistakes as long as you take time to proofread before you publish.

If you don’t feel confident creating or promoting information products or even writing articles there are freelance professionals you can pay to take over and PLR providers who research subjects they write about and sell their packs of 5 or 10 articles at very reasonable rates; this helps get around the problem of lacking inspiration and all that is needed is to slightly rewrite these articles to add your personality.

I will be writing more about the other parts of Steve Scott’s report. There is plenty of ground to cover and I will continue to write on these subjects.

To download IncomeTrilogyReport.pdf

In the meantime I would like to get some feedback from you if you picked up Steve’s report or even if you didn’t! Maybe you have some questions about starting a business at home?

Fran

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Work at Home | Firepole Marketing | Steve Scott Site | Tiffany Dow

Fran Civile — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:25:52 +0000

If you’re thinking of earning ‘work at home’ money as an internet marketer I highly recommend the following:

This email I got today from Danny Iny, Firepole Marketing says:

“I’m writing today because I’d like to make an introduction.

As you may remember, back in January we ran the Marketing That Works Ideas contest on Firepole Marketing. Lots of marketers submitted ideas, and we picked the 20 best ones to feature on the blog.

We ranked them based on the interest our readers showed in them, and then our readers voted to pick a winner.

The person that I’d like to introduce you to is Cassie Hicks (@CashMachineGal on Twitter). She won the contest, and she’s got a guest post on our blog today, called:
5 Key Insights to Guarantee Business Success with any Niche, Brand or Product.”

I read the article and really enjoyed it … I hope you will too.

Steve Scott Site

I want to share a great post on Steve’s site, a life-changing post for him:

The Most Important Post You Will EVER Read
by STEVE SCOTT

The email message I got from Steve said:
The title says it all!
Today’s post will be the most important thing I’ve ever written on this blog.
So do me a favor…
…Spend five minutes to read the entire thing.
It will change the way you look at blogging and how to run an Internet business.
The people who truly *get* this will be one step closer to their dreams of online success.
To paraphrase a famous movie quote:
This blog post is kind of a big deal.

Below the post, there’s an invitation to sign up for my exclusive newsletter and get a FREE COPY of my eBook, 111 Affiliate Marketing Strategies for a Six-Figure Income

I have downloaded it, read it and also the comments from readers on Steve’s blog who are subscribed to the newsletter as I am … it is a blog changing experience for me and could be a business changing experience for anyone wanting to make money with affiliate marketing.
Check it out.

Tiffany Dow Announces Part 2 of the Internet Marketing Course she is writing.

This gem is 40 pages of information that introduces the newbie to the career possibilities in Internet Marketing. It’s an overview of services, info product creation, affiliate marketing, membership sites, website flipping, ad revenue, and bringing offline clients into the online world.

And because she wants as many people as possible to get educated, she has put a $5 pricetag on it.

She also tells you how to get Part 1 for the same price in this Warrior Forum Post

Your comments are appreciated!

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Writing and Work at Home Resources for Apprentice Marketers

Fran Civile — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:10:50 +0000

Wannabe work at home apprentice marketers can pick and choose from the information available at these interesting sites I visited this past week!

Matt’sMarketingBlog run by Matt Carter

Matt is a successful Australian blogger with valuable affiliate marketing experience who generously makes the following offer on his site:

FREE 12 Part Video Course
If you haven’t already, then I encourage you to grab my free 12 part internet marketing video course from the side menu, and also my
Premium WordPress Affiliate theme, as these two free products
are a fantastic start to making money as an affiliate.

If your dream is to make a full time living online, then you’re in
the right place because I’m here to help you reach that goal.

I spent some time reading his blog and I can testify that he knows what he’s talking about and gets comments from appreciative readers! He also seems to be successfully publishing YouTube videos and shares that information freely.
If you are interested you probably will discover a lot more.

Copyblogger published this Post:15 Grammar Goofs That Make You Look Silly.

Very useful for those of us who sometimes wonder about “their or there” or other mysteries of english grammar!

If you want to embed this infographic on your own site copy and paste this code into your blog post or web page:

Like this infographic? Get more copywriting tips from Copyblogger.

While on the subject of proper english spelling and grammar I thought about sharing the link to Grammar & Composition Guide that I subscribe to. Richard Nordquist has a weekly full page of all kinds of information, more than I could ever hope to learn … you could take a look!

March 1 2012 Finance.yahoo.com/news published 10 Great Work at Home Jobs by Caitlin Dewey of Kiplinger.

Caitlin says after a couple of paragraphs:

To assemble our list of top work-at-home jobs, we combed Bureau of Labor Statistics data for occupations with good hourly wages and promising growth prospects. We then identified actual companies that hire home-based workers in these fields, and scrutinized their benefits and schedules.

To weed out scammers, we checked out companies with the Better Business Bureau. Every work-at-home company we mention has an A or A+ rating from the BBB (or, if it’s not in the BBB’s database, it has been vetted by industry groups). While we can’t guarantee that you’ll get hired for one of these work-at-home jobs, at least you can have confidence that none of these employment opportunities is too good to be true.

Each listed job is followed by:
Pay Range:
Minimum Education:
Essential Skill:

and the lowest pay range shown is $9 to $14, with the highest going to Virtual Assistants, Medical Transcriptionists and Tech Support Agents.

That’s it for today, I plan to do something like this each week because there is so much information to share on the internet!

I would appreciate your comment!

Fran

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How Easy Article Starters and PLR Help When Short on Time or Inspiration

Fran Civile — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:33:19 +0000

Affiliate Marketers have long depended on ‘PLR’ content and now ‘Easy Article Starters‘ is a welcome addition to help them whenever they’re short on time or inspiration, because affiliate marketing demands a constant flow of information.

As a work at home marketer I have often experienced these long periods of staring into space trying to come up with a fresh idea that will get me going: there’s no one around to make a suggestion and I better not wander off to check email or Twitter! EAS has been a great help for me!

When I asked Peggy Baron if her ‘Private Label Rights’ business was losing some appeal because of this great new product she recently developed, she explained to me why that was not the case:

Having Private Label Rights and Easy Article Starters in your writer’s arsenal gives you options, you are not limited to your inspiration only!

If you want to add a bunch of content to a niche site, you can choose to outsource or you can grab some of the PLR articles you bought for that purpose, use them as inspiration to rewrite in your own words and voila, you’re done in record time.

If you wanted to write an article for Ezine Articles, you would choose one of the suggestions in the Body of one of your ‘Easy Article Starters’ to develop into your very own article. Peggy goes on to point out:

With EAS suggestions you are using your own personal style and your inspiration to write your pillar article, your post or your report with the difference that you didn’t have to come with the idea!

"easy-article-starters" makes writing easy!

Peggy has a Mega-Pack for Affiliate Marketers on sale right now for $19.95. Take a look at all that’s included at:

http://easyarticlestarters.com/easaffiliatemarketers-sale.html

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“Easy Article Starters” Makes Writing for Affiliate Marketing Easy!

Fran Civile — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:01:00 +0000

"easy-article-starters" makes writing easy!

You keep on reading that affiliate marketing is an easy way to make money and when you start looking into promoting a particular product, you’re impressed with the large commissions that are being paid and you proceed to join that affiliate program with dollar signs in your eyes.

The reality of what it takes to promote this offer you’ve joined soon sets in with a four letter word … W O R K!

Yes, the job of an affiliate is to recommend, not to sell, the product – so you set up a website or blog with a suitable domain name – meaning a name that matches the product name – and write an article that includes a link designed to encourage your readers to visit the product sales page.

But you get very few clicks on the link and no follow-through! What’s the problem?

You’re told that the blog you set up to promote your product needs to be promoted in order to get visitors, but how? By writing some posts and re-writing some of those posts as articles you will submit to Article Directories and the resource box you add to each article will encourage readers to visit your blog.

You need to visit forums that allow you to add a signature to the helpful posts you’re writing to get involved with the members. You also need to approach some blogs about writing guest posts for them to boost traffic to your blog … My oh my, that is a lot of writing! a lot of work!

I will be sharing a very helpful report on the subject of promoting affiliate offers in the next couple of days (most affiliate marketers do promote more than one product!)

In the meantime I want to talk about Easy Article Starters!

Easy Article Starters is a product sold by prolific PLR writer Peggy Baron and I love use them! What is so great about these article starters is that you write your own articles!

The package you buy consists of three parts:
Here is an example provided by Peggy Baron:

Making Money With Your Writing Skills Online … Do a new title with your keywords

Intro: If you have the ability to write, there are quite a few different areas you could specialize in when you decide to offer your services online … Add your keywords to the intro. Add another sentence or two, or reword what’s there.

Body: (add details to each suggestion, such as what it is, where to learn it, what tools are needed to get started,etc.)
* ghostwriting
* technical writing
*copywriting
*PLR writing
*article, ebook, or report rewriting
*blogging for others
*article marketing for others
*InfoBarrel or the like
*ad copy writing
*speech or toast writer

The body is where you expand on the points. In this case you will want to give more info on each. Briefly explain what a ghostwritier does, how much they can earn, how they learn their craft and anything else you want to say.

Conclusion: Many online marketers are begging for those who can help them with the various writing aspects of their business. If you’re a good writer, then these opportunities are for you.

Take the conclusion and add to it to fit with what you just said in the body.

I have previously written about the advantages of using PLR (Private Label Rights) there’s no question that PLR articles are a big help especially since they can be bought at reasonable prices in so many different markets, but of course to get the maximum benefit you do need to rewrite the articles or spin them.

Your package of Easy Starters can be used again when you come up with different ideas for reusing the suggestions, and the articles you write are yours to submit anywhere!

You can learn much more about Peggy Baron Easy Starters by going to: http://easyarticlestarters.com/easaffiliatemarketers-sale.html

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Do You Have a Work at Home Skill That You Could Offer As a Service?

Fran Civile — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:20:27 +0000

One of the advantages of working at home, is the great sammiches you can make!

Offering a service to help transition into a work at home life could make it possible for you to start building a source of income. Let’s just take writing as an example; many internet marketers in all kinds of fields need to farm out lots of writing jobs because they don’t have the time to do it themselves or they don’t feel comfortable with the writing skills they have.

Writing articles for pay is still a way to exchange time for cash but at least you could start promoting yourself while you are still preparing to leave your full time job and spend a couple of hours working at home building your client base.

There are other ways to work at home and build passive income, meaning that you would not be just exchanging your time for pay, but create income that goes on bringing income to you such as affiliate marketing and I will write about that.

If you decide that you do want to start offering writing services you probably would want to use a blog to promote your services and you can set up a WordPress.org blog like the one you are reading here now rather easily and offer your writing services. If this is new to you it’s quite possible to find lots of free information on the web, but I will also be providing information on that subject.

However if you want to get started without too much delay and get plenty of help guiding you through every step not only of setting up your blog but also the best advice about offering writing services I’m happy to be able to recommend Ghostwritercash.com offered by Tiffany Dow and Craig DeSorcy. There is also a forum to discuss any problem you might run into with Tiffany or Craig and get into discussions with other Ghostwriters … that’s usually a good way to learn about what is successful!

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