If you’re asking yourself how to make money in online marketing, you’ve come to the right place.
When talking about online marketing, what we are really talking about is internet marketing or essentially how to make money online.
There’s many ways to do this, some good, some disastrous. Today we’ll cut through the chase and give you the most efficient methods to build a consistent, steady stream of online income into your bank account.
Let’s break it down.
How to Make Money in Online Marketing?
The first thing to understand is that you have to sell a product or service in order to make money online.
It’s that simple. You also need to realize that anyone can get started in online marketing. All it takes is a…
- Product or Service to sell online.
- Website or Online Platform to market the product or service.
- Internet Traffic.
So what’s the best way to get started?
In my humble opinion, the 2 best internet marketing methods to make consistent cash online and to build a stable long term online business are…
- eCommerce by selling on Amazon.
- Or Affiliate Marketing by building or buying a Niche Website.
Which Method to Choose: Money & Risk
Before you make a decision, you should know that eCommerce (by selling on Amazon) costs much more money to get started. There’s more risk involved but much more profit potential. And you can see faster financial results in general compared to affiliate marketing.
But you’ll need to be OK risking $10,000 to $15,000 to invest in eCommerce goods, education, shipments, etc..
Whereas, when you build a niche website based on affiliate marketing, it costs very little to get started.
You could spend less than $50/month to get a niche site up and running. You can also buy niche websites and hire the work out and have someone build the affiliate site for you (discussed below).
Also, over time, niche websites can become massively profitable. You see, once you’ve built a stable form of organic traffic that’s coming to the site daily, you can monetize the site not only from affiliate marketing, but by selling eCommerce goods, advertising, digital products or even creating a paid membership site.
All from one little niche website.
For those that have $10,000 – $15,000 and want to build an Amazon based business, check out my review of Amazing Selling Machine.
They truly have an amazing program that offers all the training, support and coaching you need to find success selling on Amazon.
The also have a Buy-Back policy where they’ll buy your Amazon store and inventory if you don’t like the business and want to back out. You have to meet program requirements, but it’s a way for you to get started selling on Amazon with less risk.
For those of us that are on a more limited budget, the focus is on building an internet marketing business through niche websites.
Time Considerations:
First things first, if you want to know how to make money in online marketing, you need to know it’s going to take some initial time to develop.
Not the most popular thing to hear, but I want to set you straight from the start. You’re probably expecting me to tell you how you can earn millions in a few days.
But the truth is:
It takes time to start an online marketing business. Just like any business, offline or online – It takes time to learn and grow your business.
How much time does it take? Well, I wrote this post How Long does it Take to Make Money Online to give people a better understanding of the time constraints involved. This is specifically for the model of affiliate marketing with a niche website.
Hope it helps 😉
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Next, you need to understand the different styles of online marketing strategies.
What is Online Marketing – A Confusing Term
The term online marketing is synonymous with internet marketing and it’s a broad subject.
And internet marketing is a combination of marketing strategies, i.e. ..
- Affiliate Marketing
- Network Marketing
- Email Marketing
- Social Media Marketing
- Pay Per Click Marketing
- Etc.
Two common strategies of Internet marketing are Network Marketing and Affiliate Marketing.
Network Marketing is your MLM’s (multilevel marketing) and your Pyramid Schemes.
Generally, network marketing is frowned upon. Both of these styles of marketing are considered, by most people in the world, scams or over-hyped money making schemes.
And both (MLM’s and Pyramid Systems) usually equate to not making much money at all. The average MLM’er makes less than $500 dollars/year. Only the top sales people in MLM’s (like the owners of the system) make money, while the majority (97%) of the people lose money or fail to break even.
That being said, if you have an MLM you love and believe their products are helpful to people, you can still use the same internet marketing strategies we use with eCommerce and Affiliate Marketing (Keep Reading…).
So what is online marketing?
Think of online marketing in the terms of affiliate marketing for now.
Affiliate Marketing: It’s like Getting Paid for a Referral
As mentioned above, affiliate marketing is one of the best ways for anybody to get into making money online.
Why?
For one, it costs next to nothing to start.
There’s not a lot of overhead expenses.
And with a solid education, a little hard work, and some time, you can easily build a profitable online marketing business.
One of the most under-appreciated facts about affiliate marketing is that anyone can do it, it’s an even playing field for everyone – so to speak.
In other words, if you’re willing to learn and put in the effort, you can make yourself a profitable online business without spending a lot of money.
How much money does it cost to start out?
Less than $50/month.
How much money can you make?
Limitless really…
Or I should say – limited by your imagination.
Most online marketers I know make anywhere from a couple thousand to 50 thousand dollars + per month.
Not too shabby.
This can’t be said of most businesses where it usually takes a good deal of capital to..
- Buy products
- Advertise
- Rent office space
- Register Your Business
- Market
- Etc.
There are a couple of different strategies within affiliate marketing, let’s review them in a little more detail.
Affiliate marketing is where you promote a product, brand, or service online.
You do this using an affiliate link on your website, social sites, emails, wherever online. Whenever someone clicks that link, goes to the product website and buys something, you earn a commission for the sale.
Pretty Simple!
Affiliate marketing is one of the most utilized avenues to earn income from a website. You can create an entire online businesses with this marketing model.
Many websites you use on a daily basis already incorporate affiliate marketing in their business model.
Affiliate marketing can also be where you create a digital product (such as an educational course) or a physical product and then sell that product through affiliate marketers.
You are either the affiliate marketer or the affiliate product creator.
So what type of affiliate marketing is right for you?
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Producing Affiliate Products Vs. Selling Affiliate Products
1.) Producing Your Own Affiliate Products
If you have an idea for an educational course or a product that is beneficial to someone, then producing that product and selling it through affiliate networks would be the path for you.
The cons for this style of online marketing is that you will have a good deal of start up costs and potential overhead costs with marketing a physical product.
If you are making a digital product, the overhead cost can be cut down, but you still would have a good amount of expenses in your..
- Education
- Video Production
- Outsourcing of Technical Aspects (graphics, infomercials, copyright, etc)
- Paid Traffic
If this is what you are looking to do, you can start the educational process with one of the largest affiliate network’s that has a good training program called ClickBank University.
Now if you want to create your own physical product and sell on Amazon, then you should read about Amazing Selling Machine.
This is a bit more risk, but easily one of the most lucrative (and fastest) ways to make money online.
Selling Affiliate Marketing Products
If you don’t want to risk much money, traditional affiliate marketing is by far the better way to go.
The best way to start an internet marketing business is to create a website, get a solid education in internet marketing, and begin earning income off of selling other company’s products.
I’m talking any brand name good you can think of:
- Popular video games
- Cameras, tv’s, shoes
- Clothing, computers, jewelry
- Furniture, apple products, etc
Practically every mainstream company has an affiliate program (Amazon has one!) that you can join if your niche fits with that product (and you have a website!).
The initial start up costs include..
- Buying a domain name, which costs about $15/year.
- Website hosting, costs around $5/month.
- Affiliate marketing course, $50/month.
If this is more your style, then I highly recommend the training program from Wealthy Affiliate.
They offer great support, step by step guidance, and 1,000’s of hours of training’s to help your build your online business. Plus they provide free website hosting, so you can cut that expense out.
You can read all about Wealthy Affiliate to see all they provide internet entrepreneurs looking to get started in online marketing.
Where to Start: Think of a Niche…
The first aspect to deal with is to know your niche. What’s a niche you may be asking yourself.
A niche can be a passion, a special skill set, knowledge base, a talent, or even a hobby.
The key is to not pick too large (or too competitive) of a niche and to pick a niche where you can help people.
Examples of Niche Ideas are numerous, but here are a couple of ideas:
- Infant Nutrition, Neck Pain, Crafts, Wood Working
- Fishing, Cheer Leading, Health Recipes, Swimming
- Tennis, Headphones, Insomnia, Paleo Diet, Mediterranean Diet
- Sun Glasses, How to loose weight fast, Yoga, Hypertension
- Hunting, Camping, Kite Surfing, Adventure Vacations
– Just to name a few 🙂
The Key To Online Success..
Help people. That’s it. Your website needs to have a purpose.
If you can help people within a particular niche, then you can make money online – plain and simple.
The key is to have a service or special knowledge that people are looking for.
If you’re not an expert at something – don’t worry – you can develop your skills as your explore your chosen niche.
Even if you have a particular interest in something that you want to learn more about, you can turn that into a great income producing online business.
The internet is your friend. You can learn all sorts of skills online.
What’s Next? Education
The next step is to find the right educational program.
I need to stress the word right because there are a lot of training programs out there that simply don’t work.
Online business changes drastically with each year, and old strategies won’t work like they used to. So you need a training center that teaches accurate and updated information.
One that will teach you the in-depth knowledge you need to know.
Things like..
- Researching your niche.
- Building out your website.
- Ranking content in search engines like Google
- Monetize your website correctly to optimize sales conversions
There’s a lot of programs out there that charge $1,000’s of dollars to learn this.
You want to use a proven method from professionals that have been doing online business for years. I see a lot of beginner bloggers and online entrepreneurs who think they can do this on their own.
And believe me, you can do it on your own.
But I found most who take this approach fail.
Because doing it alone is much harder than following a set path.
It can be frustrating entering into a new field like internet marketing without any experience or guidance.
Most people end up wasting 1,000’s of hours writing content that never gets ranked, and never makes money. They usually give up due to a lack of success.
Don’t let that happen to you.
Don’t Have Time to Build a Niche Site – No Problem
If you still want to get involved with internet marketing and don’t have the time but you have the money, I’d encourage you to consider buying a ready made niche website.
There’s a handful of companies out there that provide such a service. The issue is making sure you get a site from a company that will optimize the site so that your site will appear to those looking for it it in search engines like Google.
So whatever platform you buy a niche site from, make sure they understand SEO.
In other words, how to build you site correctly and how to use keywords and create content that ranks. So for that, I’d encourage you to check out a company call Human Proof Designs.
They provide all the services you need to build a simple, yet effective, affiliate marketing website.
You can learn more about their services by reading our Human Proof Designs review.
The Last Piece of Advice:
Realize that like any other professional career, it takes time to develop. Don’t go into online marketing thinking that you’ll start banging out the big bucks right away.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, wants to work online and start making money right away.
That’s how most online scams prey on inexperienced online entrepreneurs.
It just doesn’t work like that.
How many of you out there went to college or to a technical school?
Did you go into the educational program thinking you were going to make money right away?
Probably not.
Most people don’t expect to make anything while in school, on the contrary, they expect to accumulate debt.
The difference with online marketing is you can start making money within the first couple of months while getting an education.
This is becoming the new norm these days…
…Learn While You Earn.. instead of accumulating debt.
If you realize this, you will have a lot less stress and anxiety with this type of business.
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If you have any questions on how to make money in online marketing, don’t hesitate to ask, I’m more than happy to help out. Just leave a comment below.
Thanks for taking the time to read this article.
I am into affiliate marketing. I have also heard that there are some products that can give me recurring affiliate commission on a monthly basis.
Absolutely Kegesa. You just need to promote an affiliate program that has a reoccurring service. Like dating sites. Every month the member pays (who you referred) you will get paid a recurring commission.
Need help with affiliate marketing? Here’s my top recommended resource.
Best,
Todd
Really nice post about online marketing. For anyone who didn’t read the entire post, you should. Highly recommended for new online marketers.
Thanks
Thanks for this guide on how make money online via internet marketing. It’s been a process to find my direction, but I’m going with your recommendation.
Thanks
You bet Alex, happy to help.
Hi there,
Really nice post on the process of making money online. It can be a complicated thing to many, so nice work.
I was wondering if you have any recommendations for creating landing pages. I’ve looked into a few but thought I’d get you take.
Thanks,
Atom
Hi Atom,
Update: Forget LeadPages or ClickFunnels, go with Thrive Architect. They are by far the superior product for less money.
We are currently using Lead Pages and I’ve been really happy with the service, landing page options and overall performance.
We also did a review on ClickFunnels and I think they are also a top notch system to check out.
Thanks for your feedback on the post.
Superb post. Many people try with Blogging but after time many leave because they don’t make money and that’s even after doing very hard job.
They must read this article so that they come to know Adsense ads are not the only way to earn via a blog, this is really superb info, I admire your work.
Thanks Zirish for your feedback on online marketing and blogging. I agree, too many people give up on their online goals because of unrealistic expectations.
You have to think of your niche and try to narrow down your focus to see faster results. And you need to get trained on how to do keyword research, SEO, and focus on the content and your niche audience.
If you need help with this, check out our Free Internet Marketing eCourse. We cover many of these topics and also include a free Traffic eBook to help bloggers and online content writers.
Money is the focus for most when starting out, and it was for me too. But this shouldn’t be the case, especially not to start out with.
You do want to plan your online business with this in mind but this shouldn’t be the focus to begin with.
Thanks,
Todd
Awesome post and great tips on Online marketing…Thanks a lot 🙂
You bet, cheers!
Really helpful post, thanks.
This guide is so helpful and straightforward in showing how you can make money online.
A lot of people are struggling to find ways to make money when they have the potential to be making money online for themselves right at home!
Following this guide gives you opened eyes into the world of online marketing and anyone that reads it could probably begin as early as today!
You got it Garth, thanks for the feedback.
For me affiliate marketing is one of the better ways to make money online, without any investment. It can be a good ways to have an additional income.
Well stated Marian. There is a new course at my favorite training center on building smaller “product based” niche sites that you get started, ranked, and then let go. Just let them earn.
It may not be like building an authoritative niche based site, but I love the one I got, made $114 the other day off of some lift recliner chairs.
Pretty cool stuff. Here’s the course if you want to check it out. There on the 4th week tomorrow.
Best,
Todd
I think offering customers the opportunity to get special pricing such as wholesale pricing when they buy a certain quantity or meet a buying quota is a great way to make money marketing stuff online.
I know you’ve recommended Alibaba here on your site. But do you have a good guide to buy wholesale and sell on Amazon that’s not high priced?
Sure Time, just check out Power Seller Skip McGrath’s Amazon Seller Guide and you’ll find it a pretty easy process.
Thanks,
Todd
Todd can you please help me for the whole processes.
You bet David,
Just sign up to the Free Starter Membership at Wealthy Affiliate and you’ll get all the tools, recourse and step by step directions to make your online business ideas a reality.
Cheers,
Todd
Hey mate,
I’ve had an awful time getting this concept of online marketing down until I read this post.
Actually your site does a brillant job of explaining affiliate marketing, online sales, and I finally understand keyword research.
I’m gonna check out this Wealthy Affiliate.
Just wanted to say Cheers, Nick
Thanks for the feedback Nick. I know there’s a lot of confusion about making money with internet marketing and so forth.
I try to paint a clear picture, and if making a real online business with low risk is your thing, Wealthy Affiliate will do the trick.
Check out their Free Starter Membership. Get a look inside, take the classes and see if making money online is for you. It’s one of the better things I learned how to do in life, you can do it too.
Cheers,
Todd
Really awesome post on online marketing. I’ve been researching this topic for a while and I’m really leaning towards affiliate marketing.
In your opinion, how long does it take to be making money online with an affiliate site? And does this Wealthy Affiliate specialize in niche marketing/niche sites?
Thanks in advance,
Ariel
Awesome feedback Ariel, thanks. Wealthy Affiliate has series of webinars dedicated to niche websites.
One cool training you should check out is.. How to make a profitable niche website in 6 weeks.
But there are some serious in depth training’s that you won’t want to miss. Build your online business correctly right from the start.
You’ll be so glad you did.
Thanks
Todd
Great ideas you have. It is helpful to me as I newly launch my affiliate marketing website. Seems I can smell success. Thank you for sharing your insights. Hope to read more from you.
Awesome Garry,
You’ve made a great decision. I think it’s important to know what your getting into to see if learning how to make money in online marketing is right for you.
As a matter of fact, I’ve got another great post for you to grasp the big picture.
It’s called… How long does it take to make money online.
It discusses the process and rationale as to why affiliate marketing is the right place to start.
Thanks for your feedback,
Todd
Love this article. You made some great point and really motivated me. Thank you so much for sharing
You’re welcome Ellen, thanks for the feedback.
Useful ideas on how to make money online, this could help me on my online money making journey. Thanks for sharing buddy 🙂
You bet Thu, happy to help. My #1 Ranked Training Program Wealthy Affiliate has got all the tools and resources one need to get started in the online world.
Cheers,
Todd
Hello, I believe once you get into SEO you can never go back. Every one of us has kind of love hate relationship with search engine optimization. Making money online is definitely possible but does take some solid education and determination to make it a reality.
Hey Mike, thanks for your feedback on SEO and your experience with how to make money in online marketing. And absolutely, with a little bit of focus and training, you can understand the basics of SEO which will help acquire traffic to your site. And once you have the traffic, it’s just making sure you are converting well.
And if you’re driving laser targeted traffic to your site, it’s not hard to convert sales.
Thanks,
Todd
Hey! I truly enjoyed your post on how to make money online, very informative and useful.
I want to become a full time online marketer and travel the world for a living while working from my laptop. Do you think this is possible?
How can i go on about telling my family members and such about my plans? How can I be taken more seriously when I tell people my future plans?
Thanks in advance,
Jose
Jose, thanks for your feedback and your questions.
For your parents, ask them if they’ve ever Googled a product to review for purchase. Then ask them if they ever purchased a product online.
Maybe they haven’t. I’m from the USA, and there was skepticism about buying products online back in the 1990’s. 20+ years later, people buy products online every second of every hour.
Then explain to them that you are learning how to rank content naturally through providing insightful content based on your niche or will pay for the top spot in search results (Pay Per Click Adverting) BASED ON WHAT PEOPLE ARE ALREADY SEARCHING FOR ONLINE EVERY SINGLE DAY.
That’s it. It’s a new form of learning and earning. Tell them that today, students that are entrepreneurs don’t need to go to expensive colleges anymore. They can get all the training and tools for less than $1 dollar a day. If they’re still laughing, then they don’t understand.
My parents didn’t either. It was only after I achieved top rankings, traffic, and commissions that they realized the powers that I gained by going to an online program like Wealthy Affiliate.
Now they see how the income continues to roll in passively. Now I’m applying these same skills to a real estate based website that has the potential to earn me 20 – 40 thousand dollars per month.
In my first round of PPC advertising to my real estate based website cost me one week to build out the content to the site and $1,200 dollars in PPC adverting. The return was $11,236 dollars in referral commissions. Not a bad trade off. Maybe your parents would like to learn how to do the same thing.
I learned it by getting a sound education first.
Your goal of making money and traveling is a reality. Owning two guest homes and doing this myself, I can tell you there are 1,000’s of people out there doing this.
My first encounter with making money in online marketing was with this Canadian that came to my guest home in Colombia back in 2011. He was netting $1,000 dollars per day with his affiliate based niche website.
The things that your folks need to understand is that online businesses are like going to college. You need to take the initial time to develop your skills. And really, you’re always improving your online skills at writing, marketing, website stuff, etc. But you can start to make some income as you’re building your online business.
If you can take the time to learn and build, you can succeed online. If not, you’ll never make a dime online.
Hope this helps,
Todd
If you want to start making money online but you do not know how, this is really a great post to understand the beginning of creating a long term successful online business by learning to rank content based on what your niche is searching for online.
Niche websites that create valuable content that’s ranked in Google converts extremely well.
You can later include landing pages, using an auto responder/email marketing. I too have used Wealthy Affiliate to learn how to create my own online business and I recommend them as well. They really are the greatest source out there for people to learn how to make money online.
Hi Mark, thanks for your feedback and input on how to make money in internet marketing as well as the services provided by Wealthy Affiliate.
They are truly a great company that continues to improve upon themselves all the time.
Thanks,
Todd
I really like the way you explained the difference of Network Marketing and Affiliate Marketing. You also have a lot of useful information on your page that helps the reader become educated about creating their own web site to make money from. I learned a lot. If you want to know how to make money in online marketing, you’ve done an excellent job laying down the foundation for how you can achieve this. Thanks
You bet, I’m hear to help the people who want to seriously create an online business that’s helpful and honest. That’s all you have to do, help people do, get, or learn something.
That and learning how to get your content in front of your niche audience is what you need to create an online income source.
I highly recommend anyone to do it. It’s the most optimal way for someone who wants to make money purely off of their brain. Create helpful content, add some photos, base your content off of keyword research for what people are already typing into Google on a daily basis.
Makes sense? I did to me and it works like a charm. Everyday, you’ve got commissions is what I see in my emails when I wake up. You can do it to, just work at it with a positive energy and good intention.
Having Wealthy Affiliate on your side is a huge benefit for those who want the fast track to long term success.
Thanks,
Todd
Hi there,
I couldn’t agree more. Learning how to make money with affiliate marketing is great in that you donot have to have your own product but if you do great. You make money by referring other people’s product. More so, you donot need to rent any space for your business because it is online. So you can take your online office with you any where you go.
You’ve got it down Denise, working from anywhere has huge benefits. You can travel, explore the world, not pay so much in gas or time on the road. But the best benefit of learning how to make money in online marketing is that you create a business that generates residual income for the work you did one time.
This is not a trade off of time and money, it’s creating a business that works time and time again for you.
Thanks,
Todd
Hey Todd!
Really love this site. Your posts have so much helpful and informative information about making money online. I’m new to the online marketing business but I really enjoy creating websites, as it has been a passion of mine for a while.
I bookmarked your site, I will definitely be back to learn more on how to be successful and getting more traffic. Again great site and thanks for all your help!
Steve
Hi Steve,
Thanks for your kind feedback and I’m glad you’ve found my posts helpful. Everything I’ve learned about how to make money in online marketing, getting natural traffic, creating a site that’s clean looking and easy to read I learned at the Wealthy Affiliate Training Center.
If you haven’t checked them out, I’d highly encourage you to do so. They give you the fast track to success to build an online business that makes great money. You have to put in the work and imagination, but Wealthy Affiliate gives you all the tools for success.
Click this link to get direct access to Wealth Affiliates training program.
Thanks,
Todd
Learning how to make make money in online marketing takes a reasonable time span, you need an exclusive access to a huge amount of people benefiting from a high traffic website or a mailing list with thousands of leads. Otherwise, marketing spending.
But I do like the idea of building natural traffic to bring in Google searchers for free. Do you have any information on this subject.
Hi Priya,
Thanks for your feedback on our make money in online marketing post. Just trying to help out those that want to make money online.
You might have missed my link, so I’ll give it again. But I wrote a post on how to get organic traffic and it’s very detailed. I even talk about keyword placement.
Here’s the post right here for you to check out. HOW TO GET TRAFFIC FOR YOUR WEBSITE – PIECE A CAKE
Let me know if you have any other questions,
Todd
Take a chance and invest in yourself if you really want to learn how to make money in online marketing. I would also recommend finding a solid program, like the one recommended in this post, to help you accomplish this.
I can tell you first hand that having the right education that makes you perform daily actions as well as having good community and program support were the keys to my online success.
Great post and I wish all those online entrepreneurs success, it’s a great time to create an online business.
Nancy
Thanks Nancy for your feedback on how to make money in online marketing, it can be a great experience with the right training program.
As any of my readers know, I support only top training programs that offer real value for your time, money, and effort. Out of all the programs I have reviewed, I recommend the Wealthy Affiliate Training Program to get started, it’s heads above the rest.
Thanks,
Todd
Hi Todd,
Recently I got interested in online marketing. I sign up for work home and payed almost $100 for a package they recommend. Where they teach you how to make money online by sharing a link.
Then I’ve got another called NewBeginningedu.com, who said they are mentors who teach people like me how to make more money on a one on one basis.
But they said the tuition fees are $2300 but they said you have to only pay 300 and 2000 will be payed by their company so I can later pay them back when I started making money online. So question is do you think it is scam
Hi John,
Thanks for your message.
As for your first work home program, most people fail at making any real money dropping links. It just comes off as spam to people and the conversion rates are very low with link dropping.
As for NewBeginningedu, I have a few point where I’d be leery about working with them.
#1. The whole payment arrangement seems bogus. You pay $300 dollars and they spot you 2K. What educational system works that way. Every real educational program I have entered has you pay tuition or a monthly fee that is laid out to the purchaser before you buy into their educational program.
I think the personal 1-1 help seems like the icing on the cake. If their really going to charge 1-1 help, this course would be around this price of $2,300 dollars, but upfront without the discount.
#2. I went to their site and the concept their selling is what works. And that is to find a niche, build a website where you can sell your drop ship products/affiliate products from your website. But they recommend a Drag and Drop website builder, which is never good for SEO, not like WordPress is, take a look at my Wix Website builder review to understand this concept better..
This concerns me because the main way you are going to get a niche audience to buy products from you is if you provide them quality content that is based on helping that niche. So I didn’t see anything about this topic (Content Marketing).
I can’t say for sure if they’re a scam or not, but those two things would make me want to learn more before I paid any money to them.
On this site, I recommend a few different programs and I know their honest and help people create online businesses. You have to bring a niche idea or passion along with a good work ethic to the table, but using these programs, you can make your online money making dreams a reality.
Regardless of your online marketing level, you need to accept that you will have to be willing to learn new information and then take action on that info.
For beginners to advanced, my #1 Recommendation is Wealthy Affiliate, you would eventually need to utilize the keyword research tool called Jaaxy. Wealthy Affiliate (WA) is my #1 recommendation because WA teaches affiliate marketing using content marketing (writing content or using videos like YouTube), which is the cheapest way to learn how to make money in online marketing. So not only does it cost less than $50/mo., you’re getting an incredible education, lot’s of personal help and private help from the owners, Kyle and Carson.
Plus the income potential is huge in affiliate marketing with the right training.
Another decent program that teaches this concept as well is Bring The Fresh, but they don’t quite meet the standards of WA.
If you’re into selling/drop shipping on Amazon/eBay, I recommend Skip McGrath’s program.
And if you want to build your on digital products, I recommend Clickbank University.
Hope that helps and let us know what you end up doing if you care to be so kind.
Thanks,
Todd
Hi there Todd,
In case you didn’t know, I actually came from networking marketing before I started my online business. The reason I was in it in the first place was because of an invitation from a friend. Lots of motivational speeches, plenty of promotional talk and opening up the mind to achieve financial freedom.
Probably the only thing that hit me hard was the last one because every single bit of money talk made me realized my lack in financial independence. I could only absorb so much inspiration and promotion at a time so I left ‘the network’. Plus, it’s really stressful to be in a huge crowd of wannabes when you have something else in mind.
When I discovered affiliate marketing by chance, I knew it was the thing that I am looking for all this while. Creativity, flexibility and integrating web technology – that’s my idea of building a sustainable business moving forward.
It brings your business to a global audience and expose you to so many online marketing techniques. Fortunately for me, I get to learn from the experts at Wealthy Affiliate – no hype, no up-sells and no gimmicks.
My only complaint is that I don’t get enough time in a day to do the things that I want to do online!
Hi Cathy,
Learn how to make money in online marketing can be a tricky thing with so many gurus out there and various programs. Wealthy Affiliate sure does make it easy to enter and gain a good understanding of what affiliate marketing is.
Network marketing has many flaws that I see. You have to focus on building your down-line and you never have any control over what your down-line will end up producing. And if you have a network program that doesn’t have good products or it’s system fails, you have to start all over at building your down-line.
With affiliate marketing, you can change and choose new products all the time. So as long as you develop your niche or your authority in that niche, you’ll always have new products that you can introduce to your email list or website audience.
Thanks for sharing your experience in online marketing and I’m glad you’ve seen the light of affiliate marketing an are doing well.
Todd
Another great article Todd
As you know I am regular follower of your blog, and this really is solid information, and anyone looking to learn how to make money in online marketing should follow your advice.
When I started out, I was tempted by the Network Marketing offers, as it seems to be a quick and easy way to make money online.
However the truth is, that it is really difficult, as much of what you do is out of your control.
The only way you can make ‘good’ money is by having a large down line, and to do that you are relying on people that you recruit. to recruit others, and so on.
You have very little control over this, and if these recruits do nothing, then you earn nothing – and you have very little control over this.
Whereas if you have your own website, and promote affiliate products that you use and believe in, you are in TOTAL control.
As your website followers grows, your traffic, and followers will also grow, which will result in more sales.
If you find a product that is no longer working too well for you, or gets outdated, you find another to promote.
With MLM if a product performs poorly, to start again, you would need to start a new downline, and start the hard work all over again.
Affiliate marketing, is the very best way to make money online, and as almost all companies, programs and products have an affiliate program, so you will never be short of something to write about and promote.
Hi Paul,
It’s always great to hear from you and I appreciate you following my posts. More importantly, I appreciate your take as an experienced internet marketer on network marketing and affiliate marketing.
I tried network marketing years ago and for all my efforts, I found the same problem. My team below me just didn’t have the same drive to make it work and you’re right, it’s completely out of your control.
Affiliate marketing works on your time and you control how much you want to make from your online business. I too, only promote products I know and believe in and this makes a great difference in how well your site is trusted and that ultimately effects your sales numbers.
I see a lot of affiliate marketers that recommend every product that comes along just to try to make a commission. I’d rather have an honest site that I trust than a site that gets one sale from me and then offers nothing of value.
Good to hear from you Paul and have a great week.
Todd