Advice on Making Money

This is a great video on how to overcome the fear of taking the plunge to learn how to make money online as an affiliate marketer. If multimillionaire Ephren Taylor can start his own business at 12 years old, what’s stopping you?

Thirty Day Challenge – What Every Affiliate Newbie Needs

If you want to learn affiliate marketing or any kind of Internet marketing for that matter, there’s an amazing resource out there for you right now! It’s veteran Internet marketer Ed Dales’s little darling – the Thirty Day Challenge. It’s a comprehensive 30 day video training program on the basics of marketing on the web.

Offered only once a year, this great program (we’re taking it) started on August 1st. Now you may be thinking that you’re too late to join in. Not. You can pick up where the program is now and play catch-up as you go along to the end of the month. Or start watching the “30DC” videos on YouTube and go along at your pace.

Whatever you do, jump on this opportunity. Ed and team have done a phenomenal job assembling lessons, tools, resources and even motivational tips that every newbie affiliate marketer can benefit from.  Oh – and I forgot to mention that you can subscribe to the videos and transcripts on iTunes. For you iPhone lovers like me – 30DC is available for you phone too!

Wordpress for Affiliate Marketing Newbies

I’ve been blogging for a few years now and have grown to love Wordpress blogs. It’s what my sis and I have chosen to use for our affiliate websites. If the first thought that comes to you is “what’s Wordpress” or “what’s a blog” – then this video is just what you need to come up to speed. It’s about 50 minutes long so put your feet up and listen up.

Hosting For Your Affiliate Website

If you’re getting into affiliate marketing, you’ll end up with a website at some point and want to find a home for it. That’s what “hosting” is in the online world – that place called a server where your website lives. There are a number of website hosting companies with even more features and benefits. How do you select one?

Well here’s a review site to visit, one of many that give you the skinny on hosting sites.  Remember any review site is bound to be someone else’s affiliate site – just so you know. But that’s OK, it’s where you get to see one of the more popular kinds of affiliate websites, something you can have after you pick a niche.

Just a few things you might want to look for:

1. Does the hosting company have a cpanel? That’s what you need for Wordpress which is the platform we are using for our affiliate websites. Look for our post on Wordpress here on Extreme Newbies.
2. What’s the monthly fee – and do you get a break if you pay annually?
3. Something new – is the hosting company eco-friendly? If this is important to you (and shouldn’t it be for all of us), look for green hosting. It’s out there.
4. Do they have 24/7 easily-accessible support? There’s nothing worse than having a problem at 1am and no one’s home at your hosting company.

Affiliate Marketing Newbies – First Month Lessons

We’re at our first month anniversary as newbie affiliate marketers and whew – lots of lessons learned! Here’s a few:

• Pick a niche – something you’re interested in, something lots of other people are interested in and something where there are products to sell. Examples of some of the ones these newbies picked are weight loss, weight training, credit repair and a new favorite life topic – going green.
• Do a keyword search before you do buy a domain or do anything else. Check out the Google Keyword Tool – easy to use and free. Or try out our favorite keyword tool, Market Samurai that has lots of other features to help in any kind of Internet marketing.
• Focus, focus, focus. Create a roadmap for your affiliate marketing journey. This is not a business that you want to meander along in and miss the opportunity to make the mean green.
• Ignore “bright, shiny objects”. As you get involved in affiliate marketing, you will see wonderful things on the learning curve, things I call – bright, shiny objects, the “accessories” of the trade – courses, programs, tools, resources and my favorite – ready-made affiliate websites. Unless you have a trust fund, you can’t get them all so this is where having a business plan comes in real handy to keep you focused.
• Pass on most of the freebies you run into on the Internet – teleseminars, webinars, ebook, special reports. They are there to get you to buy a paid product. Freebies usually tell you the “what” on a topic but never the “how”. And they can really be a time suck. If something really speaks to you though, follow your intuition, go for it and sign up.
• Ask questions – there are any dumb ones or I would have asked all of them already! One thing I’ve found is that experienced affiliate marketers are always ready to share some advice with a newbie.
• Take your mistakes – like the ones I’ve made this month – as absolutely necessary affiliate marketing lessons learned.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you somebody who has never achieved much. ~ Joan Collins

What The Heck Is Affiliate Marketing Anyway?

Affiliate marketing is all about getting paid while you sit at the kitchen table wearing flip flops and a comfy robe or hang out in some fun place with umbrella drinks. Affiliate marketing is passive income. Affiliate marketing is getting paid when your website visitors follow a link or banner ad to buy someone else’s product or service. Sound interesting? Yeah – that’s what we thought too.

So here’s the skinny:  You set up a website or blog with information about and a link to someone else’s product or service.  In a variety of ways that we “extreme newbies” are learning, you market your site to attract customers. If you doing things right – after learning the ropes – visitors will click on your links and buy what’s being sold.  Then the commission, which can be as high as 75% gets deposited to your account through an affiliate arrangement.  links to purchase, you get paid a commission.

The world of affiliate marketing is filled with hopeful entrepreneurs – like us – waiting for the really big bucks to start rolling in. So how do you get started if this way of making money online intrigues you? Well, frankly, that’s what we’re figuring out. And as we looked around for information and training we found that many, not all but many of the people having success as affiliate marketers around the world are 20-30 somethings. People who grew up with technology and pick up Internet marketing skills with ease. Well that’s just not us.

As extreme newbies, we want some great training and, yes confess – some “hand-holding” as we learn:

• What sites will pay you to market their product?
• Which sites pay the highest commissions?
• Which topics are of the most interest to online consumers?
• Which products are the most popular?
• How to pick a niche or a micro-niche?
• What keywords to us (or yes you could just ask “what’s a keyword” and we won’t laugh)?
• How do you get sales copy?
• How do you get traffic to your site?
• How do you build a site?
• How do you know what to do first to get started?
• How do you stay on track?
• And lot’s more.

So on our journey, we’re looking for the most user-friendly training and the best tools to help us and other extreme newbies get started in affiliate marketing. This website contains our discoveries, our lessons, our ups and downs as we screech around what seems, at least at this point to be a pretty steep learning curve.

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