I assume that by now you have chosen for option 2, 3 or 4 out of my previous lesson. If you haven’t made a choice yet or just want to try out option 1 first be aware that with options 2 to 4 real money, to replace your current job or just as an extra income, can be made.
I can’t go into details for option 1 because I have insufficient experience in reading emails or taking surveys to teach here how to go about. I just have in depth experience, and I am still learning, in affiliate marketing and running your own sites.
I started out, after trying to do it all by myself, with an online FREE marketing team that taught me the basics of internet marketing. If you want to know about everything on marketing techniques than GRIN marketing team might be the place to go. Remember the information is FREE. Click here for GRIN marketing team.
Let’s continue with the topic of this lesson. When you start online with an online presence you need to think carefully what your site is all about. It can be a topic where you have a large experience in. It can be related to one of your hobbies or it can be that you don’t know anything to write about.
On my other blog, I have a daily top 10 of terms where people are looking for on search engines. You certainly can take a look there to find a topic you are able to write about. If you chose option 3 or 4 out of my previous lesson than it would be wise not to use a Niche on your website that is related to internet marketing. You better can write a website about dogs than how people need to learn how to earn money.
Competition is in a Niche area less than writing some website content for internet marketing issues. Yes you can go into detail about a certain subject of marketing techniques but still competition will be hard.
Another option is to get FREE information delivered in your mailbox from a recent launched service called Daily Niche Idea. These people even provide you with additional information and affiliate and earning potentials right in your mailbox. Click here for Daily Niche Idea.
By now you have chosen what kind of product you are going to use, so it will be time to choose how you want to have your online presence.
There are options:
1. Affiliate websites
Most of the affiliate websites are providing you with your own predefined webpage (sales letter, squeeze page, landing page or whatever they call them)
A predefined webpage can be used for linking to your affiliate program at your own website but mainly such a webpage is used to promote the affiliate program in traffic exchanges etc.
I’ll talk about traffic exchanges when we reach the lessons about traffic .
It is out of experience that you’ll use more than one affiliate program. It is also the best way forward since you create a multiple income stream and don’t rely on just one affiliate program to pay out.
2. Affiliate links
Affiliate links are mainly used in programs as Clickbank. Each digital product in Clickbank is associated with a so called hoplink. If you plan on promoting more than one piece of software, more than one ebook or other digital product, you need to have at least a webpage displaying all these links.
If we go further in my lessons it will become clear that displaying all of your links, at least when you try to sell products, isn’t the way forward.
With having only links, you are faced to have hosting and a domain. In my next lessons you’ll learn how to make use of that domain and hosting to provide an additional income stream. You’ll also be taught how to create a selling website.
3. Your own website
This option is the best according to me. You are always in control of the contents and design of your own website and you aren’t dependent on a website provided by your affiliate programs. You can incorporate multiple programs and have multiple income streams where as you have an affiliate website you are limited to use the predefined template each affiliate is given. Your own ideas aren’t incorporated and mostly affiliate websites are poorly designed (but great for having effect of selling).
As you see for option 2, 3 and in a lesser extend for option 1 you’ll need hosting and your own domain.
Hosting and domain
Before I recommend some hosting providers, please be aware that the domain you choose is reflecting the Niche or service you’ll provide. As you can see my domain is reflecting to my FREE lessons and therefore I chose this domain.
There are two hosting providers I recommend.
IXWeb hosting:
To me this provider is giving me excellent performance and great support. All queries are instantly or within a couple of hours resolved. Click here to get information on IXWeb hosting.
IPower: Also a good hosting provider and at this moment they run a temporary sale on their hosting. Click here to get information on IPower hosting.
Later in these lessons I teach you how to turn your hosting into income and profit.
In the next lessons I will teach you about different types of websites and what you should do in general in regards to content.
To Your Success,
Jan
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