Money Mondays: My Second Round of Internet Dollars

When the whole banner ad thing tanked, before the popularity of text ads evolved, I really started to miss my extra income. At the time, $300 extra dollars a month was like getting an extra check. I hadn’t gotten a good high tech job yet, and at the time I was working a temp position at a place where I never dreamed I’d be hired permanently and getting a salary that made an extra $300 a month look like chump change in less than a year.

So I started looking around online for a way to make extra money. I’d ben a part of Allen Says Warror site since 1998, probably – there’s an ebook with a testimonial from me. I was going by my full name, Atinuke Abayomi-Paul, before I figured out that no one on earth can say my name properly.

I lost my membership info to that site no less than five times in the space of a year and a half, and each time, Allen patiently re-sent my information. (Now he has an automated system – I had to re-create my reseller information again a few minutes ago.) The last time he sent it out to me, he was particularly nice to me, which inspired me to choose his products to resell.

I’ll never forget the feeling of my first online sale, it’s that same feeling you get the first time you make money that’s all profit….. It was easier than I ever expected – all I did was advertise the link in every free way I knew how. Took about two weeks of consistently promoting the links, but I did it.

The experience led me to start doing research on what I could make money from – and it was simple to learn how to do it from watching what Allen did. In addition to applying his system, I had to buy a product, try it out for myself, and if I liked it, then I could suggest it to other people.

One key thing I noticed that the pages that sold the product I chose did, was that it didn’t try to sell on the first try. It captured the person’s information, then gave them a sampling of great information as follow-up.

One day they either dropped out or realized the value. it was really that simple – after a certain point, it was a numbers game. For each product, a certain number of people would like what was being offered. Then you just had to figure out how to either get the offer in front of enough people, or find products the pepple you already had targeted would enjoy.

So how can you profit from affiliate sales? I find the easiest way these days is to join Clickbank and find products to try and then promote, that are aligned with your site’s content, the promote them to your list with honest testimonials every now and again.

The only problem is, it’s hard to search Clickbank’s site. They make it into a directory style, so you have to go through page by page. An affiliate portal I belong to created a searchable download of all the products in Clickbanks’s database, which should help in finding something to promote.

Happy Hunting. I’ll be back with my last tip about how I make money now.