January hit a high of $340, February back down to $200 plus, and now, this month, March, I’m back up to $300 a month average.  I still haven’t kicked the article marketing into high gear, as I’ve been adding websites and optimizing them for traffic, which is generating a few more sales each month.

For the month of April, I have a goal to submit at least 10-20 articles a week!  Since I developed a little system that allows me to create 5 articles in 30 minutes, that shouldn’t be too hard!

My goal is to average $200 per day working online from home.  The other day I read something by Bryan Kumar, a renowned internet marketer who has been online making money since 2002.   He says the reason most people don’t push to make money is that they are not hungry enough.   Until you are actually FORCED into a scenario where you may lose your home or some other such dilemma, he said the average human won’t press themselves to learn.  He said making money online is relatively easy, but pushing yourself through your mental blocks can be the biggest challenge!

Here are the programs I use to help me in my affiliate marketing endeavors:

Monthly Membership Wealthy Affiliate – sign up and email me once you get in!

Products I have purchased and continually use:

• 4 Day Money Making Blueprint – Excellent Buy at $29.95 – This program has more than 15 ours of video and added content. It teaches you Article Marketing and you don’t need a website to start!
• One Week Marketing - Teaches you to use a weekly plan and Squidoo to make money online. This one costs a bit more, but it works!
• MicroNicheFinderTool – This is one of my favorite software programs.  All updates are free and it has proven it’s worth time and time again.
• Ultimate PLR - Designed by the same guy that created MicroNiche Finder Tool, James Jones, this little gem has more than 25,000 PLR articles for use on your website or for rewriting and using anywhere!

There’s nothing that says you have to buy these products to become successful, but frankly, they have helped me to cut down the learning curve as well as provide me with tools for automation.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions, at all — please use the contact form.

So the good news is that Affiliate Marketing works, me primarily using the Article Marketing model.  Meaning I write, write, write.

I’ve currently got about 150 articles out on Ezine Articles, but alas, not all of them used the method I learned from David Bocock in the 4 Day  Money Making Blueprint.  He provides key information on how to format your articles, and how to get the most out of your article marketing, thus increasing your click throughs.

However, I do believe I have some motivation and have geared back up.  We’ll be cranking out more and more articles and developing niche websites to provide people with the hook-ups to the solutions for their pains and problems.

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!

Sure you can get a membership to any number of affiliate membership sites online, so why would you want to choose Wealthy Affiliate?  Because, my friend, NO ONE offers what Wealthy Affiliate does.  There is just no comparison.  Especially not the price.

No affiliate membership site on the web can touch Wealthy Affiliate in what it offers.  Besides teaching you how to become an affiliate marketer, you get access to a diversity of tools that are would cost upwards of several thousand dollars combined if you had to purchase them separately.

Click Here To Check It Out

And tomorrow, you can logon at 9/15/09 12:00 noon and just pay a buck for a complete seven day access pass.  No questions asked.  If you don’t decided to stay, no further charges will be accorded your card AS LONG as you cancel before the end of 7 days, otherwise you will be charged the monthly fee of $39.99 (and let me tell you, two affiliate referrals will pay that fee every month).

I love Wealthy Affiliate.  Come on over and join me – and when you get there, look me up in the forum – user name Wildwinde, say hello – let me know you’re there for the trial and I’ll send you a link for a very special bonus.

Good luck.  See you on the inside.

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Be sure to drop me a line when you get inside, I’ll give you a special bonus called How To Attract Love.  Contact me in the forum: Wildwinde

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.

Right now, it is the time of the writer, the author. Discover how you CAN very easily GET PAID TO WRITE ARTICLES!

This isn’t about creating a free-lance business where you write for other folks.  This is about creating your own business writing for yourself where you pick and choose the topics to write upon.  I found this awesome course that TEACHES you all the mechanics of how to:

1. Pick topics and products that people want to know more about.
2. How to find and pick the keywords that will generate free traffic.
3. How to optimize your writing for the greatest effects.
4. Ste-by-step instructions of submitting your articles.
5. How to use free websites to get your business going.
6. How to create back-links to your free web-pages to increase traffic.
7. How to become a successful online internet business owner.
8. How to do this without spending any more money than the cost of this program.

If you’ve ever wanted to work for yourself and you love writing, this is the course for you.  Heck, even if you don’t know a thing about how to put together an article, this program will teach you the exact steps you need to take to free yourself from working for others.

This program is better than anything on the internet today. It’s better than programs costing three times as much.  I know, because I’ve BOUGHT THOSE OTHER PROGRAMS!  I bet you’re wondering how can a $29 program be better than a $97 program?

Because IT SHOWS YOU EVERYTHING that you need to do to get your online business going using article marketing.  It shows you how to SUCCEED.  And David is invested in seeing you succeed.

He could easily charge more than $1000 for this product, because if you USE THE INFORMATION that he is providing and FOLLOW THE CLEARLY LAID OUT STEPS, within a year you could be working for yourself making upwards of $90,000 a year. (That is, if you use the program and apply it).

This isn’t some fly-by-night, I can make a million bucks overnight full of sh#t program, this is the REAL DEAL.  BUT, this program isn’t for people who think that all they have to do is BUY THE PROGRAM and then they will start making money online.  That is hogwash.  You will have to take action. Massive action.

You will have to do something to make money online: write.

The great thing about this program is that it clearly defines the EXACT action steps you have to take, ALL OF THEM.  This program starts from the premise that you don’t know anything about internet or article marketing and it doesn’t leave anything out.  IT’S ALL HERE.

You tell me where you can buy a program for $29 and within a year begin making upwards of $90,000? That’s more than A 3000% return on your investment.  Let’s do the math again, I spend $29 ONCE and can make upwards of $90,000 just by doing exactly what the program says?   YOU CAN even MAKE MORE IF YOU APPLY YOURSELF.

All you need to do is a take a few extra hours a week and commit to this program using the clearly laid out steps in this and you can change your life for the better.

Quite frankly, David has a big heart, but I don’t know how long he will keep the price at $29.

You get more than 15 hours of video instruction and an e-book…what are you waiting for?

Imagine your new life in a year

No more alarm clocks, you wake up when you want to wake up.  You brew some coffee, eat a little breakfast, do whatever you want.  (Maybe even less time, if you put more time into your new business some people have quit their day jobs in three months).

If you’re a morning person, maybe you like to get busy first thing in the morning on your business.  By early afternoon you are done.  So what next?  Shopping, the movies, maybe it’s time for that art class you’ve always promised yourself.

Imagine how different your life could be if you didn’t have to work for anyone else and you set your own hours.

The internet is the place to be and good writers are needed more than ever.  Writers that can write simple, effective articles that get the point across  efficiently and quickly.

People don’t “read” articles they “scan” them.

So write with that in mind and in no-time, you’ll be quitting your day job!

To find out how you can easily do this yourself for less than it costs to fill your gas-tank, find out more here…

Special Offer: If you sign up for this program using my affiliate link, forward me your email receipt and after I verify its authenticity and the purchase, I will send you the e-book version of my paperback book, The Little Book of Becoming-The Primer to Living Inside Out for free.  That’s a $12.95 value without any cost to you.  Contact me through the contact page of this website.  Other bonuses included total value of package $112.95 – not including David’s program.

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!

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The best tool on the internet for affiliate marketers.  I discovered it through Wealthy Affiliate:

Micro Niche Finder Screenshot

In The Words of Micro Niche Founder, James Jones

“The key to making money on the internet is a two step process I call Divert and Convert. Every profit seeking website on the internet uses this process (whether they realize it or not).

* Step 1: Divert Traffic from point A to another point B.
* Step 2: Convert the diverted traffic from Step 1 into Profit.

“There are many different ways to divert traffic including:

* Pay Per Click
* Article Marketing
* Press Releases
* Links from Other Websites
* Affiliate Promotions
* Email Lists

Just to name a few.

To find out more about the Micro Niche Finder Tool visit the website.

“Likewise, there are many ways to convert this diverted traffic into profit including:

* Promoting Affiliate Products
* Hosting Content Network Ads (like Adsense)
* Building an Email List (which you can then use to promote products)
* Selling Your Own Product
* Pay Per Action
* Pay Per Lead
* etc., etc.

“There are almost an unlimited number of combinations of ‘divert and convert’ techniques that you can use to make a profit. All you have to do is figure out a winning combination and you will make money — guaranteed.

“This may sound a bit simplistic but “Divert and Convert” really is all you need to know to make money on the internet. Everything else is just window dressing.

“Sure, it’s nice to have — and be able to use — Audio and Video and Autoresponders and Tracking Software and all the other wiz-bang gadgets and gizmos.  And to be sure, most of these things will help you make more money IF you already have a winning Divert and Convert process in place. BUT if you ain’t got the Divert and Convert process working you’re not going to make any money.

“Period. Game over.

To find out more about the Micro Niche Finder Tool visit the website.

“Listen, I have made thousands of dollars from one simple email review of a product that had a link to an order form at the end.  No audio. No video.  No sales letter. Heck, I didn’t even have a website. I simply linked directly to the order form for the product. And made thousands.

“Last year I made $3,489.07 from a silly little one page website that had an article and some Yahoo Publisher Ads.

“Another one in a different niche made $527.52.

“My friend made $750.00 a month from a domain name that simply redirected to an affiliate product. All his traffic came from type in traffic. (He later sold the domain name for $25,000.00.)

“Divert and Convert, baby. Get that right and the rest is cake.”

James Jones

To find out more about the Micro Niche Finder Tool visit the website.

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….

Company: Wealthy Affiliate
Website: www.WealthyAffiliate.com
Cost: $29.99 / month
Guarantee: Not Available
Description: Wealthy Affiliate is the most highly recommended and popular Internet Marketing community online – Bar None – It is listed as the Number One Internet Marketing Membership Site. Everything on the site, the guides, tutorials, tools and other resources will literally walk you through the steps of getting started with Internet Marketing. Wealthy Affiliate also offers something that NO other program offers - Personal support and coaching. Once you are a member, you can work along side Kyle & Carson, the founders of Wealthy Affiliate.

“Don’t Just Wish.. Become a Wealthy Affiliate Today!”

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Cost: $67.00
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