So Many Ways to Make Money Online

There are so many ways to make money online.  No wonder the newbie internet marketer often just gives up, it's mind blowing.  I know I myself got so overwhelmed when I began about 3 years ago.  I fell for many many make money at home programs that just weren't really making me any money.  What I am talking about is the standard hyped up programs that promise you riches almost over night.  I didn't succeed with these programs though because I think I just didn't feel passionate about them.  I lost a lot of money.

I do affiliate marketing, but my eyes lately are being opened to many new ways to make money online.  Just a few weeks ago, I needed some fast cash that I could get my hands on pretty quick and didn't want to wait on my payouts on clickbank.  On a whim, I posted a beta testing opportunity to teach others how to do what I do and work from home in your pajamas if you wish.  Wow!  I charged $97 bucks per person and sent out a lesson a day via email.  I had 6 new students within 24 hours.  That's almost $600, not bad.

This is now turning into another stream of income.  I will run one more beta testing and put it all together in pdf or video format and market it.  I will also make it available for affiliates once I tweak it out.  If you are a newbie and would like to be my guinea pig for $97.00 great.  You can send me a message.

The ways to make money online are unlimited.  I know some who make money with Amazon alone.  I know another that writes these short ebooks and published them on Amazon.  I too have a few books on Amazon.  My good friend has a book that he sells there for 99 cents a pop, yet makes about 3000 per month on this one little book.

I have another virtual friend who just writes articles and uses a spinner and submitter software.  He does this for others and charges for the service.  He has more than made up for the cost he spent on this software over and over again.

My next venture is something I found out about today.  It's flipping websites.  Very similiar to flipping houses, but so much easier.   This is something you can do to earn good money in a little as 24 hours.  I trust this as it is endorsed by Jenifer, the pot pie girl.  You can check it out here.  

Speaking of Pot Pie Girl, she is the one that got me into all of this.  I bought her product after many failed attempts at making money.  I implemented it and yes, I did begin to make money via Squidoo.  Squidoo is still my favorite marketing platform, it is so easy.  I did not get rich overnight and I am still not rich yet, but yes I am finally living comfortably.

Below is my recent earnings from Just One of my 27 squidoo lens.  You can learn how to use Squidoo to make money here, but warning, it's addicting!

Weekly Sales Snapshot

Week Ending Gross Sales 2012-03-21 (current week) $780.88 2012-03-14 $1,078.14 2012-03-07 $895.17 2012-02-29 $1,372.48 2012-02-22 $932.51 Daily Sales Snapshot Mon Mar 19 $31.86 Sun Mar 18 $214.13 Sat Mar 17 $91.43 Fri Mar 16 $90.95 Thu Mar 15 $95.24 Wed Mar 14 $257.27 Tue Mar 13 $227.91 Mon Mar 12 $113.29 Sun Mar 11 $39.00 Sat Mar 10 $95.36 Fri Mar 09 $95.20 Thu Mar 08 $359.70 Wed Mar 07 $147.68 Tue Mar 06 $0.00 Mon Mar 05 $158.51

Current ClickBank time: 12:13:15 Current ClickBank date: 2012-03-19 Date account opened: 2009-03-09 Start of this pay period: 2012-03-14 Start of next pay period: 2012-03-28

Yes it took me 3 years, but I am a huge procrastinator.  With commitment and effort, I imagine you will get there much faster

My Little Squidoo Empire

started here. The rest is history. I am an affiliate marketer and this is where I got my big break, at Squidoo creating lens. My little Empire is little. It is not my sole source of income, but it pays all of my bills. I started with Pot Pie Girls plan, One Week Marketing. The idea is to create one lens per week for a year. That's 52 lens up and running on auto-pilot. Not bad. This is how you make money on Squidoo.

My little Empire though is only 26 lens. Most of them on relationships. The only thing I have done different than Pot Pie Girl really is I didn't just release my lens and let them be. I baby them. I watch them. I check their stats. I look for ways to improve them. My results are not bad, not bad at all. I have 4 of my lens connected to one clickbank account. The results for the last few weeks are below. Pot pie girl says you can make money on squidoo, I believe her now.

Week Ending Gross Sales
2012-01-25 (current week) $825.46
2012-01-18 $734.50
2012-01-11 $508.31
2012-01-04 $643.36
2011-12-28 $412.05

As you can see in 4 weeks they doubled. That is another blog post but it happened because of a coaching course I invested in here.

The fact of the matter is if you tweak your lens a few times a month and ping them, they will rise in the search engines. Check your stats and see what terms are being used to find your lens in the search engine. Incorporate these terms into your text module titles and content and reping. This doesn't take long at all, a few minutes which translates to dollars.

Below is a shot of my dashboard this morning of my top 4 lens which rank for #3, #4. #8 and #13 in relationships.

[Featured! Click for more info.] 4,971 week
236 today $2.44 01/10/2012

[Featured! Click for more info.] 9,991 week
414 today $2.82 12/28/2011

[Featured! Click for more info.] 2,235 week
88 today $0.00 01/13/2012

[Featured! Click for more info.] 1,026 week
46 today $0.00

That's a total of 18,223 visits for the week. Not bad. All of my lens have a rss feed from my blogs in them which also translates to about 7000 visits to my blogs also.

Lens and blogs all have affiliate links in them. The money Squidoo pays I donate to charity. Another important factor that you can play around is the products that you are promoting. All sales pages do not convert at the same rate. I added a high converting product to one lens and my income doubled that week.

Also my lens have attracted the attention of other marketers. I have been paid up to $150 bucks to create a lens for others. Another source of income.

I wanted to post this as some simply tell me that using Squidoo is not wise. Some have told me you can't make money with squidoo. While I do agree putting all your eggs in one basket isn't wise, it sure doesn't hurt me to have a few in Squidoo. The great thing about it is it is so easy to use. Even for the technically challenges if you just follow the step by step guide here.

You have your product,now what?

Now you have to have a site of some sort and drive traffic to it. I will discuss the traffic generating later. You can build a site many ways and it does not cost a dime. You can start a blog, build a squidoo lens (highly the easiest and my favorite) Lets say you have a broad topic like pet care. You can break down your pet care into, healthy pet foods, grooming your cat, bathing your farrot etc.... and create a lens on each niche. There is also hub pages. Put your affiliate link on all of these and link them together.

Now you have your site, with your affiliate link, you are ready to go on line and advertise adn start making money with affiliate marketing.