Make Money Online Without Investment Mini Course Lesson #1
(If you missed the introduction to the mini course, you can read it here. The link will open in a new window so you don’t lose your place on this page.)
How Do People Really Make an Income Online?
It’s called Internet Marketing. Internet Marketing is just what it sounds like – it’s marketing on the internet.
One way to do this is:
- Build a website
- Monetize it (affiliate products and Adsense are big ones)
- Send traffic to your website
- Make money
An even more specific way people make money online is by AFFILIATE marketing. This is marketing someone else’s product, and making a commission for every sale you make. The basic steps to this are as follows:
- Find a product you want to promote (there are so many options it’s ridiculous. We’ll cover that more in detail.)
- Build a website or page around the product you’ve chosen.
- Send traffic to your website.
- Make sales.
There are so many products you can choose to promote. Clickbank is one of the biggest marketplaces you can go to to find products to promote. Just go to Clickbank.com, and you can browse all the products they have, you can see how much you’ll make per sale, how popular the product is, etc. There are many other affiliate programs you can join, but for beginners, Clickbank is probably the best one to start with. Once you sign up with Clickbank, you’ll be able to get your affiliate links from any product you want. (Your affiliate link is what tracks your sales – it’s how Clickbank knows what affiliate gets the sales.)
Once you’ve chosen a product you want to promote, the next step is to build a website around this product. An example of this would be: You choose a product about how to lose to weight (there are plenty of them). Your website might include a review of the product, some articles about how to lose weight, different ideas on how to keep the weight off… You want your website to be relative to the product you’re promoting. Make sure you put your affiliate link in various places throughout your website. If someone buys the product through your link, you make money.
There are so many different ways to get traffic to your website. We’ll cover that in another lesson.
For now, think about everything we’ve covered today.
Visit Clickbank, browse their products, and the website. Familiarize yourself with it. Also, I suggest Googling different ideas and look at the first 5 websites in the search results. Get ideas on how you want your website to look, feel like, or portray. Also, think about ideas you want to write about. That will help you when looking for a product to promote. Only promote products with topics that you feel you can write about. Otherwise, it won’t be worth your time. 
In the next lesson, we’ll cover How to Start a Website, more details on picking a product to promote, and keyword research. Ready for the next lesson? —–> Lesson 2
