Internet Marketing Product Reviews
In my last article I wrote, “5 Easy Ways to Make Money Online”, I described my frustrations on my search in finding ways to make money doing surveys online. In this article, I want to give you a “tip of the trade” that I discovered.
We’ve had a busy month! For those of you wondering where we’ve been, well, we’ve been here. It’s just been “one of those months” for us. Busy at home with our son… Busy with life… Busy at work…
Do you find yourself wishing that you didn’t have to worry about your “day job” so that you could concentrate entirely on making some serious money online? We’re headed there, are you?
One thing that we’ve learned is that you need to be deliberate with your time. Let’s face it, time isn’t going to fall into your lap! If you’ve got kids, work, a spouse… a life… you’re not going to have much free time.
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Being deliberate with your time also means having a plan. If you’re like me, it’s easy to get sucked into spending a lot of time on really small details that have little payoff or you just don’t know exactly what you should be focusing on to get the most out of your time. This is when it’s important to learn from someone that you trust who’s been making money online for a while now — a true pro.
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Starting out on a quest to make some money on the internet can be stressful. What method should you use to make money? If you need a web site, how should it look? Who will create it? Most importantly, how do you get people to go to the web site?
Good SEO — Search Engine Optimization — is a must if you don’t have a lot of money to spend promoting your website. It allows your site to appear high up in the searches returned by the Google’s and Yahoo!’s of the world for specific keywords or phrases.
A cool web design will do you absolutely no good if no one finds it!
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When I decided to take leave from work to stay home with my son, I wanted to explore making money online at home. In doing some research, one avenue I found that I thought was interesting was survey taking. So, I searched on “paid surveys” and got back countless numbers of sites offering paid surveys online. I visited as many websites as I could. Some required fees to join and get a database of all surveys. I stayed away from any requiring fees, but started signing up for all the free survey sites I could find. After all, every site I read recommended signing up for as many sites as possible to increase your chance of making more money. Here are the things I discovered from this:
- Many of the survey sites required a lot of time to complete surveys with little payout or just an entry into a sweepstakes
- Many began sending me spam emails
- Many were simply just sites recommending other survey sites
It all became really confusing and started filling up my inbox. I found that I was spending time on emails and sites that led to little to nothing instead of focusing my time on the survey sites that I found most beneficial to me. I had to stop and take some time to really evaluate each survey site and determine which ones worked best for me. I wanted to help others avoid the same issues I had starting out, so I have decided to write a series of articles highlighting different sites that I have found to be a good return on investment of my time. In each article I will outline the main features of the survey site and provide recommendations on using the site based on my own experience.
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A few people have asked about the BANS software mentioned in our review of ebay’s affiliate program. If you don’t have the know-how — or the desire — to create your own niche web sites, this is the tool for you.
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The first affiliate program that we became part of was the eBay affiliate program. This program allows us to create a web site that features eBay auctions and receive anywhere from 50% on up to 75% commission on eBay revenue.
There are two ways that you can make money as an eBay affiliate:
- Get people to sign up for eBay. You get $25 for each person that joins eBay by clicking a link on your site and then goes on to buy an item or win an auction on eBay in the next 30 days.
- Get people to win eBay auction items from your site. You get up to 75% of what eBay makes on the auction. So, if your site is showing current listings for widgets and someone places a winning, $20 bid on a widget from your site, you would get anywhere from about $1.15 to $1.72 (50% - 75% of about $2.30). The percentage that you get depends on how much you have sold from your site. We’re still in the 50% range.
How Much Can You Make?
This doesn’t seem like much, but we’ve actually seen it add up to a couple hundred dollars since we launched our first site in January - Low Price Drums. Since then, we’ve also launched Morgan Dollars Online, Low Price Bass (bass as in guitars, not the fish) and Huskers-Gear.com. We’ve been fairly successful with the new sites as well.
Since I’m in IT, I was able to write the code necessary to get the auction information from eBay. If you’re into creating web sites and working with programming languages like PHP or Java, eBay has some very good examples that you can use to implement this into your site.
If you’re not into writing code or creating your own web sites, fear not! There are a couple of things that you can do to start out:
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Welcome to our blog! We are a real couple with real jobs — Ryan is in IT and Bri is staying at home to take care of our son for the time being. As with any single-income family, it can get a bit tight.
The Beginning
In November of 2007, we decided to look at alternative ways of making money — Internet Marketing/Affiliate Marketing/Making Money Online, whatever you want to call it. We have a friend — who we’ll reveal at a later time — who’s been incredibly successful at it. If it weren’t for him, we probably wouldn’t even be looking at this stuff as a viable way to make money.
We’re a bit cynical about a lot of the products that are out there. We don’t know what can get us on our way to making some serious money and what is just a waste of money… but we’re determined to find out.
So What is This Blog About?
Looking on the web, it seems like there are a lot of people making money online and everyone has a product — or five — that they will sell you. We don’t have any products to sell — we might later — but we don’t right now. Right now, we’re just checking some different things out. We’ve found some things that have already provided us with some extra income and we’ll tell you about those in later posts.
Our goal is to provide honest reviews about products that we find helpful. Unless we find an all-out scam, I don’t think we’ll provide any real negative reviews about a product, we’ll just keep it positive. In those reviews, you may see some links to go buy the product that appear to be affiliate links — links that provide us with a residual if you buy the product. We will do our best to let you know if we make money off of any product that we’re reviewing. We promise not to be biased in our reviews in order to make money.
If you’re just starting out in making money online and don’t know where to start, feel free to check us out. We can take this journey together.
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