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If you walk into your local Borders or Barnes and Nobles bookstore, you will see shelves of books that promise to show you how to make millions by starting your own business. But it will be hard to find a book that offers the unlimited growth potential and low-cost startup equal to affiliate marketing. You can start affiliate marketing with the flexibility to match your current situation in life and proceed to your desired level of success on your own timeline.

The steps to success as an affiliate marketer are within the reach of anyone regardless of your prior experience. The steps you need to build your search marketing business are already online for you to take advantage of them. All you need is a computer connected online, time to learn and a little startup money to advertise. I will outline the 8 steps of the process to become successful in affiliate marketing.

Step 1. Believe to Succeed

To be successful, every endeavor must be based on your belief that you can succeed. It is common nature to be skeptical of new money making opportunities. Let’s be honest and admit that many business opportunities over promise with statements that stretch the truth. All I am asking is that you have a positive attitude that you can be successful and will give the necessary effort to make money in affiliate marketing.

Step 2. Learn About Affiliate Advertising

Affiliate advertising can best be understood as three basic components: affiliates, affiliate programs and affiliate networks. You will be the affiliate as you will advertise other people’s products and services for a commission. Affiliate programs are created by other businesses to recruit affiliates, like you, to sell their products and services. Finally, affiliate networks are third parties that facilitate the relationship between affiliate programs and affiliates.

Step 3. Learn How to Advertise Affiliate Products

The easiest way to drive traffic to affiliate programs that you promote is search marketing. You can use search marketing on sites such as Google, Yahoo and MSN to identify persons searching for products and services that you promote. To be successful, the affiliate marketer must have a strong knowledge of search marketing and how to generate leads for the products you promote.

Best way to learn affiliate marketing is - The Wealthy Affiliate University

Step 4. Join an Affiliate Marketing Network.

To evaluate what type of products you would like to promote, you should join an affiliate network. An affiliate network includes many different companies with affiliate programs that track the results of affiliates. These networks are a central location for affiliate programs so you can evaluate different programs as well as consolidate the commissions from selling several different products.

See my recommendation for best affiliate programs

Step 5. Evaluate and Join Affiliate Programs.

Once you have been accepted into an affiliate network, you will want to join affiliate programs. Some affiliates like to focus on a specific niche such as ebooks while others advertise for a broad base of programs. Here, you will want to experiment with various options to determine what works best for you. Evaluate each affiliate program: what results are expected and how they pay commission to affiliates.

Step 6. Create Search Marketing Campaigns to Promote Affiliate Products.

Once you have identified the affiliate programs you want to advertise, you will sign up at your preferred search network. Google Adwords is an excellent place to start creating advertising campaigns to promote your affiliate programs. You can start with a limited advertising budget to get your feet wet and build the dollar amount up as you sell more products.

A good recommended book on online advertising is “Beating Adwords“

Step 7. Learn How to be Successful with Search Marketing

You’ll need to track your sales result for each search marketing campaign. The more you learn about search marketing, you will be able to monitor and improve your search campaigns to maximize your affiliate commissions. Try to stay away from affiliate products that are too competitive so you will want to do your own search to determine how many marketers are already promoting a product.

Step 8. Invest and Grow your Ad Programs

You will want to manage the amount of money you make in commissions and determine how to invest that money to grow your business. The more money on hand, the more ads you can run to promote more products. The great thing about affiliate marketing is that you can start with a limit budget advertising one product and eventually grow your business to an unlimited size.

I would suggest that you manage affiliate marketing as a business. You’ll need to track your expenses and pay taxes on your commissions. As you grow your business, you will need to monitor your products, advertising and especially your cash flow. If you think like a business, you will develop the processes necessary to stay on top of your affiliate marketing business.

If you have the right attitude, a good work ethic and the time to learn, you can promote just about any affiliate program. If you start slowly and learn as much as possible, you will be successful. If you take the process step-by-step, you will not be overwhelmed by the vast amount of choices and you’ll stand a good chance of becoming an affiliate millionaire.

For more information about how to make money with affiliate marketing

see the “MakeTheBigMoney” great site.

Once in a while I find a great idea or a great product and always share such information with my readers.

CBClicks is one of these ideas!

This is a FREE tool designed for increasing the traffic to your ClickBank links, ClickBank links traffic is critical for sales.

Remember: The more exposure to links with your ClickBank ID inside - the more sales you will make.

This is the exact goal of this nice free tool called - CBClicks.

It is actually a text ad box, very similar to Google Adsense format but it includes ads for ClickBank products. 

see an example below.

So why is is free?, that’s another good idea, the text ad includes Clickbank IDs of several people based on a simple “pyramid” structure.

Once you have referred other marketers to this free program, your ID will appear in some of their ads boxes.

The more people you refer, the more links with your ID will be published.

In general a pyramid scheme is not something I recommend but this type of a pyramid in which there is no commitment whatsoever and is totally free…is a simple tool I truly recommend.

So don’t hesitate, and if ClickBank income is important to you -Join here

I have recently launched a new money making website -

 MakeTheBigMoney.com

I want to explain how I did it in few simple steps

1. Website template is based on one of the free website templates provided by the Wealthy Affiliate University program.
    If you are not a member of the Wealthy Affiliate program (what are you waiting for???)
    you can use any template of a nice website you have found, just keep copyrights rules.
2. Since the Wealthy Affiliate website templates are hosted on their servers as part of the service,
    you should copy them and host them on your server in order to make changes, modifications and add-ons.
     I have used a great freeware called - Httrack. Copy the website to your computer.
3. Make changes and modifications (especially, customizes the key words)
     And upload it to your server  I host all my websites on GoDaddy,
     it’s a very good site, great management interface and above all a great human call center.
4. Ah, and most important, I have found the great domain makethebigmoney.com on GoDaddy’s
    expired domains service called “Domain Name After Market” - here you can find very attractive
    domain names that have expired.I paid 20$ for this domain, including a 12 months registration fee.
   Makethebingmoney.comis worth around 200 $ even without a websiteSo, if you are looking for great domain bargains go to the “Domain Name After Market”

Well, that’s about it, few simple steps for your own niche money making website.

Make money blog | make money online book | Wealthy Affiliate review | Wealthy Affiliate scam?

By Andrew Fox specially for IdoMoneyOnline.

ClickBank is the Internet’s largest digital marketplace, where thousands of the
web’s most popular products are sold every day.

What what people don’t realize is how easy it is to get started with Clickbank
and how you can start generating sales even if you have your own
product.

There are a few ways to do this.

1) Acquire Resale Rights to a product you don’t own, create an page for
affiliates and supply them tools to promote and feed of their efforts.

2) Promote products as an affiliate using Pay per Click Search Engines

So which method is best?

I’ve successfully tried both methods, both with good results.

For the beginner I recommend promoting products as an affiliate
to get used to how the system works and to help sharpen your pay per
click search engine advertising skills.

Acquiring Resale Rights to a hot selling product can be lucrative venture when set up correctly.

In fact I managed to generate over $25,764 in sales for a resale license I paid $197 for without spending
a penny on advertising.

I was able to do this by leveraging Clickbank’s instant affiliate force
which I teach in great depth in my new course Dominating CB.

Once you have built a successful customer and lead list there
are also several ways you can leverage this into even greater
profits.

Clickbank is such an attractive proposition for affiliates to use.
They know they are going to get paid weekly (!) and on
clockwork every time.

Sometimes product owners complain that the fees are higher
than the average merchant account but the ability to leverage
it’s massive network of affiliate can results in mega profits when
done correctly.

Warm Regards,
Andrew Fox

and a word from Ido…
I have purchased the Video guide for Clickbank profits, I like it and will report the results soon

Have a look at DominatingCB2 - Here

In my book, I recommend both programs. Why?
Simply because both of them are a very good value for money, I am a proud member of both programs and I am very satisfied.

Many of my readers having a hard time deciding which program to choose,
My personal recommendation is - buy them both if you can.
If you are serious about making money online and can spear a budget of around 700$ for a yearly membership, than, do not hesitate.
Well many of us, especially beginners with lower budget cannot afford both programs at once and I keep getting questions such as this one:

“Ido read your book and I understand you highly recommend Wealthy Affiliate and Site Build it, which one to choose?”

Actually, I have a very simple answer to this question:

Site Build it is a great tool for anyone wants to build, run and earn money from a website, a site that is built around a specific subject - your hobby, your business, your expertise or your passion.

Site Build it will lead you step-by-step, hand-in-hand towards this goal,
It provides members with all the necessary tools - powerful research tools, domain registration (one domain), site templates and graphics and dozens of add-ons. The program also takes care of search engine registration and pings.

(see a full demo of Site Build It)

Wealthy Affiliate (officially called - “Wealthy Affiliate University”) is a program that provides all the tools for anyone wishes to make money online with affiliate marketing. All the tools, regardless of a subject or a niche.

The program exposes, tutors, and leads the way towards what they call a “super affiliate” - a marketer making more than 5000 Dollars a months.

The WA University begins with the famous “8 weeks to success” online course and continues with providing all the tools mentioned in that course.
What about a website? Well yes, the program provides ready made sites to promote it as an affiliate (basically, once you have referred two members the program is practically free), website templates to host are also available plus a space to host your sites and domains (up to five domains) - all included in the monthly fee.

(see my Wealthy Affiliate review)

Bottom line: Join both of them…
Can’t do? That’s OK

If you have a specific subject you want to run a website on - Join Site Build It

If you want to earn money with affiliate marketing in general - Join Wealthy Affiliate

In any case, being as professional as they are, both programs are offering a money back guarantee!

As for today 1021 people have downloaded my Practical Internet Money Guide, free ebook.
Many of my readers are asking me
“OK, Ido, read you book, what’s next? how do I actually start?”

Well, my very simple answer for this question is START!
yep, simply - Start.
I know cause I have been there - first you read a book, or an article that raises your interest in the subject of making money online, than you search the web and read two more books, you look for blogs on the subject (like this one)Now you are really into it, so you go and buy the first promise you find for 29$ or so…. Got the idea? Well, investigating and learning are important, and are even a must but…
They don’t make money online (well, not for you that’s for sure).

So what to do? - START!

Don’t hesitate and don’t wait - start small, launch a simple email campaign with affiliate links inside - Than improve. Build a free website (see below) with your affiliate links, publish it on the web,
register it in few major search engines - Than and only than, improve.

One great program, that allows you to setup a website in two minutes and than find the time to study and improve is the Wealthy Affiliate University
See program number 3 in my book, I simply love this “members only” website
and I keep recommending it to anyone wishes to make money online.

I hope I gave you a small push to get you started,
Good luck and fun online,

Here is the press release I have published today regarding my making money online free ebook

FREE e book shows how to earn steady online income
Author shares real-life Internet marketing lessons – not get-rich schemes

 A totally FREE guide to earning steady online income, aptly called Internet Money Practical Guide, was launched recently. The ebook can be downloaded at www.practicalinternetmoney.com.  

The 41-page ebook is based on the real-life experiences of Ido Jansen, an Internet marketer who has given up a comfortable 15-year career in sales and marketing after realizing that he wouldn’t be able to achieve his dreams if he stayed as a salaried employee. Jansen has dabbled in other money-making endeavors but none, he said, has grabbed him like Internet marketing did.  After only a year as a full-time Internet Marketer, Jansen said that he is already earning a respectable online income that is steadily increasing almost everyday.   Internet Money Practical Guide is Jansen’s effort to explain “the brass tacks of Internet commerce,” in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. Aware of the fact that thousands of e books on making money online exist, Jansen is quick to point out that his book does not make any false promises. In fact, it does not make any promise at all. “This is a no-nonsense book, no false (or any) promises,” Jansen stresses. “It provides a gateway to the world of Internet money that is professional and legitimate.”  

According to Jansen, the guide is ideal for both newbie Internet marketers and seasoned online business owners. The ebook’s centerpieces are the 6 step-by-step easy-to-follow marketing plans, sorted by required budget and purpose, that readers can implement right away. The guide also highlights methods and products that the author has used and tested himself.  A tips and tools section at the end of the ebook will come in handy for readers who are really serious at becoming successful Internet marketers.  Internet Money Practical Guide is available for FREE at www.practicalinternetmoney.com

Travel season arrives and I have decided to share with you 3 products that will help you save money on your next flight, hotel booking and car rental.

First product is a free search engine specializes in finding cheap deals of flights and hotels.
I have used it several times on my business trips and have managed to find good rates, sometimes better rates than my travel agent found (especially for cheap yet good hotels)

The name of this search engine is KAYAK - give it a try, it’s free!

Next two products are not free (not expensive either) but can save hundreds of dollars on a single trip.

Exposing the airlines fare secrets - a complete guide written by an ex-employee of an airline company who got fired and wrote this guide as a “revenge” (I like it already, don’t you?).
He also includes guides for cheap hotel reservations and upgrades, car rental secrets, best cruises offers and my favorite - a guide to good airplane seats.

Product is for immediate download - here

Save money on your Disney World Vacation - One of my true favorites is a book written by a former Disney employee on how to save a chunk of money on a family visit to Disney World.
So if you plan on going to this great amusement park or know someone that does - tell him about it, I guess he will thank you a lot.

This product is also for immediate download - here

Well, It’s the holidays session again, I love this time of the year, especially because it is the best period for Internet marketing – online sales are increasing dramatically. 

So, I surfed around the net to find a nice present to myself (Internet entrepreneur,  remember?) and I found a very effective package including a fully designed, ready made clickbank store.

And it costs… ONLY 16 $ !!!!

The best part is that you receive master reseller rights to this great package so you can sell it as is again and again.

This would definitely make the best holidays gift for an entrepreneur like me.

Find the complete package and more details here 

As you know, I am really into Internet marketing and have spent hours of reading and hundreds of dollars buying various subject related products. many of these products are scam or using less harsh words “misleading information” programs but some of them are real value for money - the one valuable products I wish to recommend is “Ewen Chia’s Auto Pilot Profit” product.

According to the “about me” section of his book, Ewen Chia has been marketing successfully on the Internet since
1997 and is one of the biggest Internet marketing gurus online who actually ”walks the talk” .

Ewen is the owner of Autopilot Internet Income Pte Ltd, an offline/online company focused on helping individuals and small business owners start profitable Internet businesses quickly and easily.

 He teaches his own proprietary step-by-step system to clients to help them achieve rapid success on the Internet.

I have purchased his ebook and video tutorials (costs only 27$)
and I am impressed about the simplicity of his methods and the clear way
he explains basic Internet marketing facts and tips, especially the coverage of the affiliate marketing and Clickbank subjects

This is certainly a good value products for anyone wishes to start his online business or even for people with some online experience that wish to enhance their knowledge

More details about ewan chia’s affiliate clickbank ebook and other products by Ewen Chia -

 can be found here