My Online Business Journey

Why Should You Learn Affiliate Marketing Online

Many people are making a living from affiliate marketing. I am one of them. 70% of my current income comes from affiliate marketing and I’m always working to increase that percentage. If you want to make money from home, learn affiliate marketing online. With a little bit of hard work upfront you can have a nice stream of passive income.

Want to start right away? Try the Affiliate Marketing Masterclass!

As with any method of making money online, there are cons and pros. In my opinion the pros outweigh the cons in affiliate marketing. Here are some pros as to why you should be including affiliate marketing in your online business.

Why Should You Learn Affiliate Marketing Online

Low or no start up costs. All you really need to begin affiliate marketing is a website. You don’t necessarily have to set up a new website. You can use relevant affiliate programs to optimize your income from websites you already have. Affiliate marketing is easy to incorporate in an existing website or blog.

No need to become an expert copywriter. Many of the tools you need will be provided for you. Most affiliate programs provide you with tools to promote their products with, such as banner ads, text ads, emails promos, articles, sales copy, and blog posts.

Low overhead. By promoting someone else’s product, rather than creating your own, you have no inventory to look after, no orders to process and no customer service to provide.

Passive income. This is my favorite part. This means you stop trading hours for dollars. You can review a product once, place the review on your website and that review can potentially make you money over and over again. This is passive income and affiliate marketing is one of the best businesses to get into for anyone who likes the idea of passive income.

Affiliate Marketing Benefits

Affiliate marketing offers many benefits and one of the best parts is that you can fit it into just about any niche. If your passion is country music for example, you can create an affiliate website about country singers in the Grand Ole Opry. You can then earn money promoting products from those country singers. There’s something very appealing about making money doing something you’re passionate about.

Do you want to start making money with affiliate marketing? Check out this blogging and affiliate marketing course for beginners. where you’ll learn how you can start making money online by promoting other people’s products.

Courtney Chowning is a Christian entrepreneur, business coach, and webs designer who loves helping people make money online.

10/16/2016 by Adriana | 1 Comment

Affiliate Marketing

Amazon Discount Finder Will Increase Your Amazon Commissions

I LOVE adding Amazon links to my sites. They sell just about everything under the sun, and Amazon knows how to convert! If you monetize your website with Amazon affiliate links, this Amazon discount finder will increase your conversions.

Everyone loves a discount! And everyone loves Amazon. How do you add your links to Amazon? I use a few methods, and I’m happy to add this one.

How to add Amazon affiliate links

1. The easiest way to add amazon affiliate links is to use the SiteStripe at the top of amazon. You look up your product, choose the ID for your specific site, and you get the link: quick and easy.

How to easily add Amaozn tect links to your website

2. You can also create image links by choosing image instead of text. And you can also choose a combination of text and image for your affiliate links.

3. My favorite way to add Amazon affiliate links to my posts is using a little program called Easy Product Displays. This program is responsible for most of my Amazon sales. Take a look here to see how it more than doubled my Amazon sales

4. This plugin can be installed and customized in just a few minutes to offer your site visitors a deal of up to 90% off.

Now, you might thing that selling discounted product won’t make you any money, but let me show you how it will benefit you.

First of all, even if some of your visitors only purchase the discounted products they find with this plugin, your “sold” number will go up, and it will bring up your commission percentage.

Also, as you know, Amazon is great at up-selling, so once a visitor searches for something with your little weapon, they are “cookied” to you by Amazon. And whatever thy buy, even if their initial time was at a discount, the rest probably won’t!

For a short time, you get the developer license at the regular price. This WILL change very soon, so don’t procrastinate!

Get your own copy of Zon Discount Finder before the price goes up.

10/11/2016 by Adriana | Comments Off

Affiliate Marketing

How To Make Money With Amazon Affiliate Links

There is a lot of talk about making money with the Amazon affiliate program: some people (like Robin and Leslie, who make money with Amazon affiliate links) love working with Amazon and promoting physical products, while others complain that because the cookie is so short, there is no way to make good money.

Which camp are you in? Have your efforts failed to produce the income you wanted? Or are you successful in your efforts to make money with amazon?

Can You Make Money With Amazon Affiliate Links?

I’ve been promoting physical products from Amazon.com for a few years , and never made a lot of money, but recently, after I found Pajama Affiliates and started following their methods, this past month I made a few hundreds from a blog that’s only about 6 months old. I know it’s not a lot, but I literally just started to follow their methods at the end of August, after concentrating on getting ad income (which didn’t work so well).

This year I expect to have a very good fourth quarter.

Mistakes to avoid while making money with Amazon

I’ve made some mistakes along the way, and I’ll list them here, so you can avoid them:

went after niches that were way too tight, so traffic was not enough to make a huge difference
promoted items that were too expensive (while you want to promote items over $100, going for luxury watches, for example, you won’t see too much activity).
got into too many micro-niches, spreading myself too thin. It’s a lot easier to promote one or two niches, as opposed or 10 or 15.

How to make money with Amazon’s affiliate program

Now, here are some of the things that will help you succeed in promoting physical products from Amazon.com:

choose products with varied prices: low priced items are impulse buys and those increase your monthly affiliate percentage, while the higher priced items will give you a higher per product commission.
make sure the products you want to promote have at least 10-15 good reviews: social proof will help you sell more
write a detailed review, rather than copying the short description from the product page. Add lots of pictures you take (if possible), and talk about your experience with the product you’re reviewing. Tell stories, and transport the reader to an imaginary world where they have to have your product
sprinkle some customer reviews in your review (just pick a sentence, not the whole review, since that is against the rules, and give the proper attribution with a link to the rest of the review)
use Easy Product Displays to create your Amazon displays. I’ll share a display below, so you can see how it looks. This made a HUGE difference in my Amazon sales!

Adult Coloring Book: Magic Christmas : for Relaxation Meditation Blessing Christmas Decorations Happy Santa Toilet Seat Cover and Rug Set Christmas-opoly – the perfect game for Christmas gatherings!

There is a lot more detail that you can put into promoting with the Amazon affiliate program. My best recommendation is to get Robin and Leslie’s Affiliate Marketing for Amazon Masterclass! You’ll love it and your income will increase. They also have a Facebook group where they give daily encouragement and feedback.

10/06/2016 by Adriana | 4 Comments

Website Traffic

Growing Blog Traffic Challenge

It’s been a while since I updated this blog, but I recently got inspired to come back to sharing my online journey. Since I haven’t been blogging, my traffic for this blog has dwindled down to almost nothing (see a snapshot of my traffic of the last 30 days below). So today I’m going to start a 90 days growing blog traffic challenge.

Looking at my posts from the past, I see I haven’t done a very good job at optimizing my posts for traffic. I just started using the Yoast plugin and will be updating my posts with the right information. I’m also going to create Pinterest images to each post.

I recently discovered the power of Pinterest, and have had amazing success in one of my niche sites. I started this site on April 18, 2016, and it already has great traffic (see below: a far cry from this blog!).

What I will do to get more blog traffic?

I don’t want to commit to do too much and burn out. I’m going to take things slow and strategically work on things that I think will have the biggest impact. Here’s my plan:

Revisit top 10 most visited posts of every month: update the content, meta description, check on keywords, update images, etc.
As I revisit these oils posts, take time to interlink posts on my site. I did a bit of interlinking before, but not enough. This time I will be intentional about it.
Create pinnable images for every post I review. I need to come up with a branded look for my images: pick a couple fonts and colors to represent my blog.
Turn my personal Pinterest account into a business account. My main reason is analytics and rich pins. My Pinterest account has 123 followers at the moment: my goal is 1000 followers by year end.
Interact with other bloggers: this doesn’t come easy to me, but I’ve been making an effort and the relationships I’ve made have helped me learn and grow.
Start to build a list. I will start from scratch, so we’ll see how that goes. This is another one of my weaknesses, but I know it’s important.

That’s about all for now. I’ll check back in here in a couple weeks probably.

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I just looked up my most visited post this month: it’s a short review for a soap written a couple years ago. The specific soap isn’t even available anymore, so I need to be creative with the update of that post. Off to see what I can do.

09/14/2016 by Adriana | Comments Off

Website Traffic

How To Increase Web Traffic To Your Site

Who wants a website without traffic? Let’s face it: you need traffic to your site or there is no reason to having it.

But how do you get traffic to your site? Do you know how to increase web traffic to your site? We all know about content, but are there other ways to increase traffic?

How to get more website traffic for free

1. Answer questions – if you see the same question asked over and over again, write an answer to it, and then direct those who asked it to your post. This way, not only do you have new content on your site, but now you have someone happy to find an answer to their question. They’ll promote your post, letting others know about the answer to their problem.You can find all types of questions on Twitter, FaceBook, in forums, etc.

2. Write a Glossary for Your Niche – there is always a term someone doesn’t know: why not write a list of terms specific to your niche and define those terms. This information will be a magnet for links, and it’s not hard to do.

3. Invite Guest Bloggers – there is a lot of buzz about guest blogging these days, so why not ask people you admire and follow to guest post at your blog? It’s not hard, and the worst that can happen is that they’ll say no. But if they say yes, you’ll have a nice traffic boost when their post goes up, since most people would let their followers know about the guest post.

4. Use Tags for Your Posts – I am not sure how many take advantage of the tags on their blogs, but I get a lot of visitors that come through tags I created for my posts. And if I see enough visitors come through a specific tag, I create a blog post for that specific term. Give people what they want!

There you have it: all of the above methods are easy to implement. What methods do you use to increase your traffic?

09/14/2016 by Adriana | 2 Comments

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