Affiliate marketing - my second check
Filed under: Affiliate marketing by Sasha on April 28, 2008
Today I have received my second affiliate commission in the amount of 256.50$. It is not much but it makes a man (me) very happy. Since I have started this blog it was losing a little bit every month by covering my hosting bills. My hosting provider is pretty good and I was paying only 5$ per month for my reseller package. Great customer support by the way. The rate and the package increased to 7$ per month which is still good. So overall I have spent $165.75 on hosting bills and roughly 10$ for a domain name.
So 175.75$ spent and 133.5+256.5$ which leads to 214.25$ of profit. Nice isn’t it? At least I get to write my blog and not worrying about will I be able to pay my hosting bills.
Please don’t ask me which affiliate program did I use, you can find it yourself 
This blog also made a couple of bucks with Google Adsense close to 50$. I’m pretty sure that my earnings will grow in the next few months so keep your eyes open and subscribe to my RSS feed to get information as fast as possible.
Affiliate marketing is fun
Filed under: Affiliate marketing by Sasha on March 9, 2008
Guess what happened to me today? I got at work, fired up my laptop and started my usual procedure which consists of checking email and private messages on forums, read through my favorite blogs and checking who is online. When I opened my personal email and this same domain I saw three affiliate notifications. Wow. Three sales in one day. Well, two were yesterday and one today but i saw them all today.
I must this made my day in way I never expected. Now I’m on adrenalin rush and writing this post in one window and other article in another window. I feel so good I can’t even explain it. Seems like it is possible to make money as an affiliate. Well, I knew it was possible but I was always to lazy to work properly online.
Yesterday I wrote 5 articles for one of my new affiliate offers that I’m promoting and I just know that I’m going to make a lot of money with this offer. It is a well know product and it should sell through my offer as good as other people sell it.
Great day isn’t it?
UPDATE: another sale, this must be my day 
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Affiliate marketing – Creating affiliate website
Filed under: Affiliate marketing by Sasha on March 3, 2008
D day came sooner than I expected. I have decided to build a website which will earn me a good passive income. Doing a little calculations while waiting in line at bank I have figured that I need to make 2,000$ passive income in order to live really well. Since many affiliate marketers earn a lot more from their websites I figure I can do it too. Before you start, I know that it is a lot harder than it sounds but I really believe in this.
So the project started two days ago. So far I have done the following:
1.3. registered domain, ste up wordpress, uploaded theme, one article written
2.3. added category removal plugin, seo plugin, added to digg
3.3. added to google webmaster tools, added sitemap plugin, registered on related affiliate network, another article written.
Because I’m new in this niche I don’t know what to expect from my visitors but my plan is to have the first sale in this month. I would really need to have a poor converions rate in order to fail my goal. To make my first sale a realistic goal I have decided to plan my website marketing strategy in advance.
Here is the plan for this month:
- Write 30 articles for my website
- Write 30 articles for article directories
- Submit articles to social sites
- Write 50 forum posts per day
So far I have written 2 articles for the website itself and I have submitted one of them to digg.com which lead to a one day indexing procces. I know, I’m already late with my project but the day is not over yet so I guess I could catch my timeframe by the end of the day.
One problem that pop-ed up is the right forum to post. I still haven’t found one. Well, one more thing to do today I guess.
I believe that this proccess will lead to my first sale during this month, if it does then I’ll do even more work, if it doesn’t same thing, more work until I get my first sale.
Wish me good luck…
p.s. yes I know I need images in posts
Pay per lead affiliate marketing – my way
Filed under: Affiliate marketing by Sasha on August 19, 2007
Hello my dear readers. First of all I would like to apologies for not writing anything in the last few days. I don’t really have a good excuse; I was just too lazy to write… at least at this blog… I don’t know why this happens, just a nature of mine I guess.
I’ve started to do affiliate marketing with one of the most famous online dating affiliate programs. I’m not going to tell you which one it is, you can find a lot of these affiliate marketing programs if you want. The affiliate program that use is pay per lead which means you get some money for every visitors that signs up with them. Pretty cool isn’t it? Well, being lazy I just got a couple of bucks in my account but I got one of the best affiliates that I could find.
The great affiliate is a friend of mine and being good means that I get 10% of his earnings. When I realized that I could be making money by doing nothing but finding people who want to earn money I’ve dropped any affiliate work and started finding affiliates.
Today I have 5 affiliates but only one of them works, I mean really works. Others just signed up and they don’t do anything. I guess I need to motivate them somehow…
My conclusion about affiliate marketing programs is that if you are lazy like me be smart to find a multi tier affiliate marketing program with good commissions and invest a couple of days to find good affiliates that will earn you money. Affiliate marketing programs are a great way of making money and you should definitely try one of them just to see how they work for you.
Pay per lead affiliate marketing programs
Filed under: Affiliate marketing by Sasha on July 26, 2007
In my last post I’ve said that my favorite affiliate marketing programs are those which pay per lead. Today I want to explain what it means.
Pay per lead affiliate marketing programs are the best way to start doing affiliate marketing since they pay you for leading future customers. With pay per lead programs you don’t sell any product, not at first sight anyway. The one thing that makes pay per lead affiliate programs stand out is the 99% of them offer something free. It could be a free domain name, free services, free advice, free eBooks etc.
To be successful with pay per lead affiliate programs you need to drive a lot of highly targeted traffic as with any other form of online business but you also need to do something that will drive action, something that will make your visitor click on that affiliate link of yours. The word “free” makes everyone curious but as internet grows people are getting more and more scammed so they don’t trust the word free anymore.
If you want to be good at affiliate marketing you need to attract visitors with something new, something bizarre, and something that they will want to click. The best way to find something like that is to experiment a lot until you find the best click through rate.
Remember, to be good you need to experiment.
