Just a few months to oust the day job.  See – if you’d started already maybe you’d be a head of me, because I don’t work everyday consistently on the affiliate marketing.

People seem to think I’m talking out my a$$, but I’m not.  I love internet marketing and writing articles.  It’s something ANYONE can do.

But first, you have to decide to do it!

Since I signed on 6/21/09 with Wealthy Affiliate I’ve been able to make $653.72 online.  Now most people would think that this is nothing.  But it’s $653.72 more than I had before and only for a few extra hours per week!  The beauty of working with Article and Affiliate Marketing is that your Articles continue to make money long after you’ve created them.

I haven’t quit and I’m gaining momentum.  As you progress, you get better and better so your chances of earning larger sums of money just increase.  You learn the “tricks of the trade” so to speak and are more effective in your Article and Affiliate Marketing.

I know I am shameless with my plugs, but people, THIS STUFF WORKS!  It really does.  And I’ve added the Micro Niche Finder Tool to my bag of tools and tricks — it’s really great for removing a lot of dead time from your work.  Your research goes much more quickly with it.

So these are the programs I use and have:

1. One Week Marketing (Still excellent)
2. 4 Day Money Making Blueprint (there is some overlap, but still good)
3. Bum Marketing Method (free)
4. Micro Niche FinderTool
5. Wealthy Affiliate Membership (which is totally paid for now)

The commissions I’ve earned with Wealthy Affiliate now entirely pay for the monthly membership fee ($39.99) and this is still a great resource.  Any one of its many tools are well worth the monthly membership fee, but the other reason that I won’t give up this membership is the interaction.

There’s any number of great folks that are members that you can bounce your ideas with, learn from, and pick up on the latest trends. All-in-all, besides what you learn, it’s simply a great resource.

So I’m excited where I am headed (down the path to the removal of my day job) and I can’t wait to get there!

My monthly revenue is approaching $300 extra a month – and I haven’t actually “done” that much to make it go there.  I’m building websites and (and no, there is no additional cost for that) because my hosting service, HOSTGATOR is a one-time monthly flat fee of $14.95 per month for ALL my sites.  I have the business account that allows unlimited websites, etc.  It is well worth it’s weight in gold!

I also spend $19.95 a month on Aweber for a mailing service (but this and Hostgator) I’ve been using since I got online and my other sites cover their costs!

So if you were to break it down:  This is what I spend per month to make what I make:

• Aweber                          $19.95
• Hostgator                       $14.95
• Wealthy Affiliate             $39.99

• TOTAL COSTS:           $74.99

• TOTAL REVENUE:    $260.00

• NET PROFIT:             $185.01

• PROFIT MARGIN:       71%

You tell me where you can start a business online for a measly $29 (4 Day Money Making Blueprint) and within two months have a profit margin of 71%.

I’m no newbie to the internet, I’ve been online since 2007 and I started making money immediately.  I took out the Aweber and Hostgator Services back then.  In my first month I made $68.10 spending a total of $34.90 to do so.  That’s 50% profit right from the get.

Yes there are additional costs — those being domain names.  At GoDaddy, they range from .89 (for Dot.Info sites) to $10.87 for Dot.Com sites.  This is an ANNUAL fee, not a monthly one!

So, as a former offline advertising and marketing person (now an online internet advertising and marketing person) I can tell you that the internet is the place for the small fry guy to create a sustainable income on line.  It can be done.  Yes it takes time, but it is well worth it, especially as you watch it grow!

And bottom line, it’s pure and simple fun!  I don’t know anywhere else where you can have fun and get paid to do it.

This is one of the best for those of you who like to learn by “watching.”  David has put together multiple hours of videos that will walk you through how to do this for yourself online, using FREE resources.

To find out more about the 4-Day Money-Making Marketing BluePrint Videos visit David’s site.

With this program, the initial cost is $29.99.  That’s it!  You can actually start your own marketing endeavors:

• Without A Web Site!
• No Computer Programming or Knowledge Required
• Learn How to Make Long Term Sustainable Income!
• Start part-time, work at your own pace – you SET THE HOURS

With this e-book you also receive a whole host of videos:

Video 1:  How to Use This Course (5:20 min)
Video 2   Introduction to Bum Marketing (15:00 min)
Video 3:  Introduction to Finding a Profitable Niche (11:18)
Video 4:  Finding a Profitable Niche, Part 1 (28:00 min)
Video 5:  Finding a Profitable Niche, Part 2 (46:53 min)
Video 6:  Finding a Profitable Niche, Part 3 (28:03 min)
Video 7:  Finding a profitable Niche, Part 4 (17:24 min)
Video 8:  Keyword Research Part 1 (17:22 min)  Part 2 (14:50 min)
Video 9:  Introduction to Article Marketing (26:22 min)
Video 10:  Introduction to EzineArticles.com (24:39 min)
Video 11:  List of Top Article Directories (16:53 min)
Video 12:  Article Marketing: Writing Effective Articles (22:27 min)
Video 13:  Article Marketing: Article Body (22:43 min)
Video 14:  Article Marketing: Resources Box (15:00 min)
Video 15:  Article Formatting (10:37 min)
Video 16:  How to Write and Submit an Effective Article (21:35min)
Video 17:  Article Marketing Bonus Coverage (5:20min)
Video 18:  Article Marketing FAQ (37:10 min)
Video 19:  Introduction to Squidoo, Part One (31:14)
Video 20:  Introduction to Squidoo, Part Two (20:02)
Video 21:  Squidoo  Review (18:00)
Video 22:  Link Love Strategies for Your Articles and Lenses (8:20 min)
Video 23:  USFreeAds (8:02 min)
Video 24: Into to Clickbank  (21:12 min)
Video 25: The 4 – Day Money Making Blueprint  (still evolving currently at 18:00)

How can you go wrong?  It’s all here using free websites to get you going.  This is all you need to get going.  This is a great course for those looking to be paid cash for online internet and affiliate marketing.

To find out more about the 4-Day Money-Making Marketing BluePrint Videos visit David’s site.

I use Article Marketing (duh!  What’s A Writah to do!), which basically just costs me the time to do it.  I love writing and I write on products I am familiar with or know quite a bit about.

Basically an affiliate marketer is someone who provides the reader, the customer with a link to the product they are looking for.  There are no shennigans about it, there is money to be made by recommending or referring people to what they are looking for, and oftentimes more inexpensively then if they buy it in a stick or brick built building.  Companies who learn to sell on the internet are realizing a greater profit margin, all you’re dealing with is shipping cost (and sometimes inventory), so they can offer the product at a much lower price than if you go into a physical store to build it.

As an affiliate marketer, you’re helping people find what they need.  And there’s a whole lot of stuff people are looking for.

If you want to try your hand on Affilite Marketing, pick up Pot Pie Girl’s, [Jennifer Ledbetter] One Week Marketing and Travis Sago’s  FREE www.bummarketingmethod.com.  Jennifer’s One Week Marketing is a must, because it details the EXACT steps you need to do.  If you’ve got one – two hours per day you can spend being FOCUSED and doing this, within a year, you too can CRUSH THE CUBICLE!

That’s my goal!

(P.S. – You can read the google ads and click on them, but unless you want to pay beau coup bucks for some of these other marketing programs, I’d get One Week Marketing instead.  The reason being is that NO ONE PERSON can tell you exactly what will work for you.  Jennifer has a tried, true, and proven system, and she’s making upwards of well, I don’t know.  In her guide book from her program she shows the averages from Clickbank  which are basically $2000 plus a day!  Those numbers are from 2008!   But not everyone will get that, and some won’t get it at all.  Why?  Because there is WORK INVOLVED!  Me, I don’t consider it work, I consider it play, but what a way to play!)

You can HUNT all you want on the Internet, but there is NO MAGIC PILL that will allow you to make money overnight.   If you’re looking for the lottery to solve your problems, I can guarantee that winning the LOTTERY won’t solve your problems.

The only person who can do ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR LIFE is YOU.  Yes, I am law of attraction teacher and student, but sitting on your A$$ will get your no-where.  If you are a self-motivated go getter, YOU CAN DO THIS!

If you’re not a go getter, then go somewhere else.  What you’re looking for, you won’t find here.

Happy Trails!

]]> http://mywealthyaffiliatejourney.com/6-week-check-in-wealthy-affiliate/feed/ 1 http://mywealthyaffiliatejourney.com/keyword-relevancy/ http://mywealthyaffiliatejourney.com/keyword-relevancy/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:50:05 +0000 Laurie http://mywealthyaffiliatejourney.com/?p=18 In article marketing and in any other kind of internet marketing, there is this thing called Keyword Relevancy and how well you understand it will determine how well your marketing campaigns are put together and how well your efforts do overall.

For me, everything in IM boils down to these two words: keyword relevancy.  And until I signed on at Wealthy Affiliate, I could not have told you what heck keyword relevancy meant.

And I’m still learning.

A lot of people think that marketing online is foolishness, that all the good niches are taken.

This couldn’t be further from the truth.  There is just so much available out there it’s unbelievable.  It’s all a numbers game.  In order to make roughly $75,000 a year online, all you need do is refer 8 people at $25.00 per commission to a product that THEY ARE ALREADY HUNTING FOR.

Internet marketing isn’t about selling – it’s about connecting.  Connecting people with what they are looking for.  It’s that simple.

I’m in the business of making connections.

And so far through 6/28/09 I have made $124.41 using this new system.  So far that’s $17.71 per day that I didn’t have before!  WOOHOO!  I love internet marketing.

To find out how you can become a Wealthy Affiliate follow this link….

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To find out all about keyword relevancy and to start making money online right now with your Google Adwords campaign check this program out:

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Discover How To “Own” Google Adwords

This site has it all.  I’m really excited to be here, I am so grateful to have found it.  I’ve been online two years trying to figure out the way to make a living.  I’ve purchased all kinds of guru’s products, and though I know they are good, they have been way beyond me.  It’s like they start somewhere in the middle.

Not so at the Wealthy Affiliate University.  Even though I am not a newbie, there are many things I haven’t learned.  HOW to do keyword research is one of them.  While using the Google keyword tool is great, there’s more to it than just finding a bunch of words people search on.  It’s about finding quality keywords that people search on that no one else is using.

In comparison, there’s money to be made from being an affiliate marketer.  It’s about integrity and providing the best resources to those folks who are looking for them.

Here’s how an internet marketing career stacks up against other professions:

While it may seem simple at first, I think it takes another deeper look.  The most important part about keyword research, I am learning, is your own brain.

Oh, and after applying some of these techniques to my articles, within 4 days I’d made an affiliate sale.  I think that’s worth talking about!

To find out how to do article marketing for yourself, hop on over to One Week Marketing.com. And then sign up for your Wealthy Affiliate membership. It’s the best

I started making affiliate commissions almost immediately, but I didn’t really understand or know what I was doing.  In total over the past two years I’ve made about $2000 online.  Which is nothing to write home about, but it’s nothing to sneeze at either.  Since I haven’t really understood what I’ve been doing, I started looking around for a system.

Like every other internet marketer, I’ve purchased system after system, ebook after ebook and haven’t found anything that worked for me.  That was, until I met the PotPieGirl, Jennifer Rind.

Her program, One Week Marketing, is hands down, the easiest internet marketing program to learn and implement, without any other cost except the cost of her program, which at $47 is a steal!  Not only does she provide the guide, she provides an action plan, a action map and a copy of the dialogue between her and a student whom she taught to use her method, step-by-step, blow-by-blow.  Within the first week of his work, he made 3 sales from Clickbank products.

The reason I picked up her product is because AFTER one year (2008)  of implementing her system, she was making $150K per year, she’s close to doubling that now!  As an accountant, I did the math, hmmm $1000 or $150,000?  Not a hard answer, so I purchased her system and I AM SO EXCITED I JUST CAN’T HIDE IT!

To find out more about OneWeekMarketing.com, hop on over via this link.

Second to that she recommended getting a monthy membership with Wealthy Affiliate.  Since I am convinced she KNOWS what she is talking about, I did that too!  That doubled my excitement.  I know now that I am on the path that leads me to CRUSHING the cubicle and FIRING the boss!  Journey with me as I share my tales here on www.MyWealthy AffiliateJourney.com

To find out more about the monthly membership program, Wealthy Affiliate visit here.