How to Make Extra Money Online – From the Comfort of Your Own Home

Many people are interested in learning how to make extra money from home. This can be a great way to pay a few extra bills, a neat hobby that pays out a bit of extra cash or for the dedicated and hardworking even a lucrative full-time job. While there are a variety of ways to make extra money online, the best way that I know off is through Affiliate Marketing.

Affiliate Marketing – The Basics

In the most basic terms, Affiliate marketing is the practice of selling the product of another person or company, who you do not directly work for, and then receiving a commission on the sale; generally a percentage of the purchase price. This is almost always done through the usage of what is know as an Affiliate Link, which is just a normal URL that has a bit of extra information on the end to show the targeted company who they should credit the referral to.
The classic example is the Amazon Affiliate program. I’m sure you have heard of the online shipping giant Amazon, what you likely don’t know, however, is that many people earn money from them without ever having to have their own product to sell. How? Well through Affiliate Marketing. Each member of the program has the ability to generate an affiliate link to any product on Amazon. Each time someone follows said link, either from your website, mailing list or some other method, they are tagged as being referred by you for the next 24 hours. Then, during those 24 hours you will gain a percentage of the price of any items they buy; generally between 8 to 15%.
I’m sure you can see how lucrative this can be; they don’t even have to buy the item you linked them to but could buy anything at all on Amazon. This is particularly good since Amazon spends a large sum of money ensuring that their website is as attractive to buyers as possible, often you just need to get people there and they will do the rest.
So how much could you earn? Well consider that you are promoting a TV worth, say $400. For each person who you convince to buy said TV you will get around 8% or $32 plus a percentage of anything else, they buy during the aforementioned 24 hour period. So get 100 people to buy it and you then have $3200. Now consider just how many different items there are on Amazon, hell consider even just how many different kinds of TVs there are. What if you promote 10 items? or 100 items? When you really get started with affiliate marketing you can start to rake in more then enough money for a comfortable full-time income, or you can if you know how to do so at least.

What Kinds of Affiliate Programs are There?

The Anser? Just about everything. There is an affiliate program for just about any item you can think of, in almost every area of interest. The truly massive selection means that you will never go long without a program that suits you, and you also get massive amounts of choice to ensure you get the best deal possible. The particularly nice thing about the huge variety available is that it means you can match your own interests to what you are promoting. Imagine that, you can make money just talking about whatever interests you the most.
Like sports? Well, there are hundreds of affiliate programs out there. Cooking? Yep loads of programs for that too. Fashion? You bet ya there is a ton of those. And there is a program out there for just about any other interest as well, you just need to know where to look. So where is that? Well, we will discuss the best place to find out about these programs at the end of the article. For now, we will talk about how you actually promote these products.

How to Promote Products

So at this point, you’re probably wondering whether this whole thing is for you, after all, promoting products sounds like hard work right? Well in that I’m glad to say you would be wrong, promoting things is easy. Have you ever typed in ‘Product X Reviews’? Or what about ‘Best X’? I bet you have, it might have been something like ‘Best Blender’ or ‘iPhone 7 reviews’ or maybe ‘Best home sound system 2018’ or just about any other query where you are looking for information on what a good product is.
Now when you did so you would have come to a website providing a review of product X (Something like ‘iPhone 7 review – Is it worth it?”) or a product comparison (such as ‘Top 10 home sound systems of 2018’) this article probably then provided some information and opinions on the product(s) and then a like on where to buy it or them. Odds are that that website was an affiliate marketing website and the owner was getting a commission on purchase made from the links on that article.
And its a simple as that. Surely you can write a few reviews about products or services your interested in right? If you love cooking, for example, you probably already have a set of cookbooks, cooking appliances and other bits and pieces you love, the same for anything else you might be interested in. It’s not hard to turn this into a few reviews, some informational articles to help people cook better, some recipes for your site and so on. When looking at it like this it becomes simple to get a fully fleshed out website together, built around whatever you love. It’s almost as easy as talking about it with your friends, you just have to write that information down and get it published on your website.

How to get Your Website

The only real hurdle you have to cross is to actually get a website up and running, which for many people is a daunting prospect. It always saddens me to think just how many would be bloggers and affiliate marketers get put off by this seemingly large obstacle; when it’s really one of the easiest parts of the whole process. How? Well, the key is to get your website hosted by A company that provides software to build the website for you. There are many companies that do so, however, just about all of them either charge you a considerable amount of money to do so or have clunky software that makes it quite different.
Luckily there is one place that not only has excellent software that can build your website in less than 5 minutes at the click of a button, they will also host you a site for free to get you started. Yep, you heard me right they will host you a website for free so you can try all this out at now cost. The company that does so is called Wealthy Affiliate and its where I’m hosting the website you are reading this article on.

Wealthy Affiliate – Hosting and Affiliate Training Combined Into One

Wealthy Affiliate is an amazing site that is a combination of Affiliate Marketing Training, Website Hosting and an active and vibrant community of Affiliate Marketers. They provide both free training and hosting, as well as more advanced premium training. Their free training will walk you through the basics of getting your free website up and running, on their excellent site hosting software SiteRubix. Along with getting you started on the basics of Affiliate marketing and teaching you how to find the best Affiliate Programs around.
Your website will be hosted there free of cost for as long as you desire, even if you never sign up for their premium service. Its the best way I know of it get started without having to invest any money into hosting or training.
Speaking of their premium setup, however, I think it’s worth mentioning that it’s really amazing. You get a massive amount of training, weekly live training sessions and their website are boosted to allow to you host up to a huge 50 websites. Still, as good as it is you can happily keep your free affiliate marketing website running there as long as you want. My suggestion? Get started with the free stuff and when you have made enough money to pay for their premium level then invest it towards making the leap to the next level – a full-time income with affiliate marketing. Or if you’re just interested in doing it as a hobby or a bit of extra cash then pocket the money and enjoy spending what you have made from talking about whatever your passion is.
So what are you waiting for, head on over to WealthyAffiliate.com and sign up for your free account? I’ll be there to greet you (my profile over there is Valthonis) and I or any of the thousands of other active users are always happy to answer any questions you have.

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