Making money online working from home attracts a countless number of people every year. Many people are highly successful with work-from-home ventures. The following are tips to help you make money online as they do:
Build Your List
One way to make money online is to build up a mailing list of individuals. These individuals need problems solved or needs met. You are the marketer who will be the solution to their problem. Your job is to get these individuals to join your mailing list. When they do, you can e-mail them on a regular basis with useful information and offers.
The key to gaining customers is regular communication with people on your mailing list. You have to build trust with others before they will purchase. Internet marketing is all about relationship building. Internet consumers typically buy after an average of seven communications or presentations. They normally do not buy upon first exposure to your products.
You do not force people to join your mailing list. Nor do you send e-mails to people you do not have permission to e-mail. You have to encourage people to request information on their own. What do you need so all of this happens and your list builds quickly? You need:
* A starving crowd: People who need a problem solved or a need met. They must also be willing to pay money to get the solution.
* A solution to give them: Whether through your own product, or an affiliate product, you must have a solution to give them.
* A website: This is where you will obtain those names and e-mail addresses. Your website will have a "list opt-in form" or "squeeze page" where people sign up.
* An auto-responder: This is marketing software. It does everything for you in terms of building and managing your mailing list. Making money from home is easier when you build a substantial list of prospects.
Auto-responders work behind the scenes. On your squeeze page, interested individuals sign up and give their name and e-mail address. They click Submit and their name goes into a database. You set up a group of messages to send to these people. You schedule in advance when and whom you want to send these messages to consistently.
You write the e-mails only one time. Those who opted-in to receive information from you will receive one e-mail one day and another e-mail another day. All of this depends on how you scheduled the e-mails to go out.
The auto-responder does it all. You do not have to be at your PC. The auto-responder will manage subscriptions, un-subscriptions and general broadcasts. With a general broadcast, you send a message to your entire list all at the same time. It's is different then the sequential mailing you schedule for certain days and times.
Use Ads, Sell Affiliate Products or Buy Resell Rights
Once you build a list and encourage people to visit your website, you have three options to make money. These are ads, affiliate products and resell rights. With ads, you place them on your website. When people click on those ads, you get commissions. To be successful in building revenue from ads, you need lots of traffic to your site.
With affiliate products, you sell other peoples products and make a commission. You send people from your website to a product owner's website. When they buy, you earn.
With resell rights, you sell ready-made products. Other people have created these products. You buy the rights to sell these products. Two examples of these products are e-books and software.
Social Marketing
Social marketing can help you make money online from your work-at-home venture. You can chat with others in a friendly atmosphere and include links back to your website. You do not want to post too many commercial messages on social marketing websites.
Social sites are free and a way to meet different people and network. You can point people in the direction of your website. There you can engage in the selling process. Actual social marketing sites are not places for hyped up sales talk.
Making money online from working at home is not rocket science. Find a hungry crowd that wants what you have to offer. Take time to build a relationship with them through regular e-mails. Offer extra value with your products, such as free reports, e-books or samples. The customer is first when it comes to making money online. Put them first, and watch your business grow.
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Test and Track Results
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Test and tweak Your advertising on your blog (for example - this post will show you how to run Split Testing).
The same principle is true for running affiliate campaigns on a number of levels.
1. Split Testing Banner ads
If you do run banner ads to promote your affiliate campaign (do remember yesterday I said that they don’t tend to work as well as in post promotions) you can run some split testing in a similar way to the one mentioned in the Split Testing article. Instead of showing two different versions of AdSense ads - just show two different types of banner ads that promote the product you’re promoting. You just need to make sure you have a method of tracking which banner ad is converting best (many affiliate programs will either give different tracking ids or will track different banners for you).
2. Track What Your Readers Respond to
Yesterday I mentioned that instead of just promoting an affiliate product once that it can be worth running a series of different types of posts to promote it over time. The beauty in doing this is that you begin to see what your readership responds to. You might find that few people sign up for a product when you first announce it but when you write a review that sales increase. Alternatively you might find that when you offer a bonus they sign up more or even that they respond to you doing an interview with the person behind the product. The key is to try different things but then to watch how they convert.
Testing the conversions on affiliate programs seems so basic - but it amazes me just how many bloggers I see using affiliate programs who just seem to slap up a quick post saying to ‘buy this product’ and don’t seem to get creative in trying new methods of promotion.
3. Test different programs and their conversions
In yesterdays post Omar asked for a list of best affiliate programs. It’s a common question but one that is really impossible to answer because there are literally thousands of options open to bloggers and different programs will convert differently for different blogs. As mentioned in yesterday’s post, this partly depends upon the relevancy of products to your content and audience - but it also depends upon other factors including the sales copy of the landing page that you send traffic to (some pages will appeal to some audiences more than others), the profile and brand of the site you send traffic to, the price of the product etc.
The key when you’re in the affiliate marketing game is to experiment with different affiliate programs and products within them. You might find that a program like Amazon’s Associates program fits best for your audience (despite it’s lower commission rates than some others) because your audience is familiar with it, or you might find a program like PepperJam (which has a lot of great affiliates in the one network) is better suited to you or you might even establish a relationship with a smaller company who has their own private affiliate program because their product just ‘fits’ with your audience.
The key is to look for relevant products that fit your audience’s needs and then to track the conversions.
One more thing about Choosing Affiliate Programs
There are some great comments in the previous post about choosing affiliate programs - particularly from Lex G and Linda. They both pick up that it’s not always the highest paying affiliate program that is best. While it’s great to find a high priced program that pays out a high percentage commission - you might find that the price is out of the reach of the type of audience that you have and that another program that pays less commission and that is lower priced could actually earn you more.
A lot of people write off programs like Amazon’s Associates program because of their lower commissions and price points on items like books - however I’ve found that Amazon can work very well for me (it remains in my top ways to make money blogging at #4 on the list. While I don’t see the spectacular sales that some other programs can earn - the hundreds of smaller sales that I can see on any given day can certainly add up.
How Much Traffic Do You Need?
Dainis asked in the comments of the previous post how much traffic would be needed before starting to promote affiliate programs.
This is another good (and common) question - and as with many aspects of making money from blogs it is a question that different people will answer differently.
My personal approach is to start promoting these types of programs early. I’ve written a long post on when to put advertising on a blog previously and much of what I say there is also relevant to affiliate programs but my main reasons for starting early are:
While you might not make much with just a little traffic you could make some.
Starting early gets your readers used to the idea that you make money from your blog. Adding it later could put some offside.
Learn how to monetize your blog before you have readers so you can make your mistakes in front of just a few rather than a lot of people
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