Ok lets forget the fluff & introductions and get straight to it.
The fastest way to build an online business is to find a niche of hot buyers & promote other peoples products to them for high commissions!!
These are going to be the two most important things you will learn about:
List Building &
Affiliate Programs
List Building
When I say list building what I mean is the collecting of peoples name & email address who are interested in what you have to offer. So for example at my site www.UnorthodoxTraffic.com you can see how I collect the name & email address of people interested in driving traffic to their websites. (sidenote: you must comply with the can-spam act, you can read about it here)
When I say affiliate program I mean An arrangement in which a company pays you a percentage of the sale for every online customer they get though a link from your website to theirs. For example I pay my Unorthodox Traffic affiliates 75% of the commission when they make a sale of my Unorthodox Traffic product.
So lets get started you need to join an affiliate program & get an autoresponder so you can collect subscribers name & address’s.
Step 1: Join an affiliate program
There are literally thousands of affiliate programs you can join – here are some of the major affiliate providers.
Commission Junction
Linkshare
Clickbank (highly reccommended: I use them myself)
Why I like clickbank so much?
Clickbank is easy to use. I run my Unorthodox Traffic affiliate program using them. It’s free to join & if you create your own product you can sell it via clickbank for very little. I highly reccommend them.
Step 2: Get an autoresponder
There are a lot of autoresponders out there. Currently I am using arp3 on my own servers. This can be a bit expensive for people just starting out. If your budget is low then use aweber. They may be cheap but they are by far the best online autoresponder. Click here to check them out
Step 3: Get a webhost
There cheap, yet they have all the features you need & a great customer support team. There called Hostgator
Ok i’ll give you some time to get these steps done & on Wednesday we will look at building a page to collect email address & how to promote the affiliate program you joined.
By the way if you want to promote Unorthodox Traffic I will let you know all about the huge 75% commission and much more on Wednesday.
Till Then.
Mark
Please leave your questions & comments below. Just click on the comments link
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Mark,
I completely agree with the idea of generating income quickly with Affiliate programs. A lot of people start off with Adsense, but it can take soooo long to see any significant income. Getting $20 to $50 comissions ads up quicker than getting pennies from AdSense.
Can’t wait to see more from your blog. I’m sure their will be some gold for us in here.
Cheers!
Rusty
Thank you Mark, it is going to be good to have a chance to follow your thoughts on developing a business on the web. Keep up the good work. Mike
Can you recommend any tool for automatic posting to blogger blog.
I want to create 5 blogs per domain. this will be manual.
I wany tool to autopublish
Regards
Excellent advice. In my experience far too many people think they can earn easy money online without having any kind of system in place. Your advice shows them how to set up a practical and workable system which I know works well.
Hi Mark,
You know that although many Internet Marketers talk about targetting niches, they always concentrate on the Internet Marketing niche
Would be interesting to see if you would target and market other niches.
Ruth
Hey guys,
Thanks for all the posts so far. Looks like to blog is off to a great start!!
In reply to Arindam. I don’t know any auto post tool for blogger. I do know one for wordpress at:
http://markflavin.com/AutomatedBlog/index.html
Keep up the great posts guys.
And if you want to add and tips of your own please feel free to do so.
Regards,
Mark
THANKS. THERE IS SO LITTLE FOR A “NEWBIE”.PLEASE CARRY ON AND KEEP ADVICE BASIC AND SIMPLE.
CHEERS
GABY
He Mark,
Just a quick thing…A nice deal on the hostgator is if you signup and they ask for a coupon…put in “iceishot” it will give you a $9.94 discount the first month so you only pay $0.01 the first month
Hi Mark,
I give you high marks for setting up this blog! It really looks promising. There are so many tricks to learn when starting out marketing on the net.
Keep up the good work,
Mike
I am not all that keen on ClickBank. Too easy to leave out affiliate links, and thereby cheat us from getting our fair share for doing a real piece of work.
But thanks for the Blog. Good luck in 2007.
Hi Mark,
I also think your blog looks great. I’ve just set up my 1st Blog and I’m a complete newbie, so how do I go about linking my blog to yours?
Best Regards
Des
Edwin, thanks for the great money saver!!
Henrick, I understand where your coming from. Thats why it’s always a good idea to cloak your affiliate links.
Ruth, I spent two years learning online marketing & im also a student of computer science & economics so for me marketing online just fell right in my lap. But I do run some other smaller sites for different niches. Like:
http://easyroulettestrategy.com/ &
http://gabbanelli-accordion.com/
Hi Mark,
Just wanted to let you know I really enjoy reading your Blog. It is very informative. I have been hesitent to start a blog but since I read yours I am going to try it.
Thanks, for the wisdom you are sharing with us.
Love the information to help us keep on the right track with our Businesses.
Wishing you the best for 2007,
Rosalyn
I’m on your emailing list. Everyone talks about how great blogs are as a tool and I’ve seen many great looking blogs and I like the set-up of your blog. So I hope sometime in the future you can give newbies a step by step easy to understand course on how to properly set-up a blog.
Hi Mark
Blog looks good, I’m newbie, and as yet to earn any money. Hope your blog can help me change that.
Good luck
Phil
Great Blog!! I agree that it would be great to offer some “NEWBIE” instruction on Word Press Blogs if someone chooses not to use the already formatted Blogger.com or others. Your Unorthodox Traffic offers some new little tips for newbies and Veterans alike. Thanks for your efforts!
Nice blog that provides great informations, thank you Mark.
Hi Mark, thanks for the email and the Blog looks great.
I noticed a few of your subscribers are looking for help
with setting up a BLOG. We have some FREE Video Tutorials
on offer here…
http://www.SHPromotions.co.uk/video-tutorial.htm
Scroll to the bottom and you should find a link to the
Videos that may help.
Many thanks
Anthony Hamerton
SH Promotions
Hi,
Thank you for the info , its what everyone needs and to the point.
Amira
I enjoyed you blog and have been building my way to doing affiliate marketing. I will look at your programs.
thanks,
gary
An opt-in form might help with growing your list
)
Would like to join when you set one up.
I found an Easy Social BookMarking Tool for you to use. When you use this Free service in your Website or Blog, visitors will be able to bookmark it in 50 Popular Bookmarking Services. This will make it easy for you and your visitors to spread the word about your new blog.
To Your Success,
Damon
Hi, Mark
thanks for the email..great advice to start a blog and it looks great! man, you’re a breath of fresh air, keep up the fantastic work.
Sean
Thanks for your email letting me know about your blog. I’ll be a regular reader. I like the, “Let’s get right to the point” approach.
Much sucess.
http://www.hfebooks.com/
thanks
bye
http://www.sumitkar.org
Hello Mark,
Thank you for asking me to read and post a comment on your Blog. Good Luck, and congrats.
Warmly, with HUGS,
Melody
Hi mark thanks for the heads up on your blog looks great so far i am a semi-newbie altho i bin doing this for about 2.5yrs now i still have lots to learn i left my blog site on here cuse i have some good ideas on it to for anyone who wants to check it out your more then welcome these ideas have helped me in the past i will be adding more as time passes there s some free gifts on there aswell really good site for getting free ebooks with resell rights also I have a solution for hendrick or anyone else who needs a free link cloaker go to: http://www.hotshorturl.com/
Hi again mark here s my blog site your more then welcome to link to me if you wish http://wantsomegreen.blogspot.com/
Mark,
Very nice blog and I’m sure a lot of people including myself will benefit from it this year. Your way is exactly the way I have built my business. I have started to create my own products though but most revenue still comes from affiliate sales. Good luck in 2007!
Stuart Stirling
http://www.webtrafficoverdrive.com
http://www.affiliatemoneysecret.com
Great start, Mark, no BS is correct. Looking forward to your next installment. Hope you archive the articles.
Hi, Mark.
I have joined Affiliate Program.
I just want to learn how start a blog,
and drive traffic to it.
How do I get started?
Thank u.
MPaul
http://www.nichesutra.com/index.html
Hi, Mark
Thank you for asking me to read your blog.
I’m looking forward to seeing how this site can help me.
many thanks
Wayne
Hi Mark,
I’m another newbie. I started my blog at the beginning of this year as I have decided that 007 is going to be my success year. I will be posting my successes and failures and ripoffs on my blog. A sort of “trials and tribulations of a newbie”. Obviously I will be doing this all on as limitted budget as possible. This is why I was trying to buy your Unorthodox Traffic product from Clickbank but it did not like my credit card..
So far you blog is looking good and very helpfull.
Rgds
Bruce
http://cantheinternetsetmefree.blogspot.com .
Hi Mark,
Like what you have done so far .. straight to the point.
Another great host (I use it myself) is http://www.eukhost.com
They have a hosting package which works out at about £22 per year (Approx $44.50 US) very reasonable price, and their customer service is good too. (No, I don’t have anything to do with the company except use their service!)
Hi Again Mark, Its nice to see all the comments that have being left by others, I’m sure us Newbies will learn a thing or two!
Des
http://www.millionaireofamonth.com/blog
Dear Freinds,
Does anybody have somthing for the newbies and a person without any bucks and a website.? I would love to learn from you guys about affiliate marketing,etc.
Keep up the good work.
Have a Happy New Year.
Harjit.
Everyone talks about what to do when someone goes to your website. You offer them a news letter or something free. That’s great. I want to know how to get them to go to your website in the first place. Thank you for your help. Keep up the good work.
Jack Hadley
Mark,
Please refer question 2 on article marketing.
What should I do when I want to submit the same articles on my website to the directories?Do I understand that the author cannot use his articles on HIS website because they have been submitted to the directories?