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Is it Possible to Make Money with Wealthy Affiliate? Yes!

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Is it Possible to Make Money with Wealthy Affiliate_ Yes!

If you have been thinking of joining Wealthy Affiliate or have recently joined and still wonder how is it possible to make money with Wealthy Affiliate?  I am here to help you answer those questions… the Main purpose of becoming a Wealthy Affiliate member is to make money and their training is top notch, but how exactly do you make money???

In this post I will share with you the ways you can earn money from following their training and from outside sources.  But also, how you can actually make money within their platform too. (Yes, you can make money within WA too!)

I have been a member since 2016 and know my way around the platform really well, and in total there are 8 different ways to make money with Wealthy Affiliate.

Like I said there are 2 main ways to earn money from Wealthy Affiliate, within the platform and from following their training. We will be focusing on the external sources of income first.

Ways to Earn Money from Wealthy Affiliate’s Training

Their training is perfect for people first stepping out of their comfort zone and looking to earn money online.  Wealthy Affiliate TrainingThe training focuses on building up an online business foundation, giving you all the tips and experience that Kyle and Carson (the owners) have built up over the years.

You will not meet a nicer couple of guys who really focus on paying-it-forward.  The training is upfront and takes you step-by-step through the process needed to make a business that is built for the long run.

Going through building a website, creating content, building up traffic and ultimately monetising that website.  You are truly in great hands with Wealthy Affiliate’s training.

Let’s get back to how you will make money from this training.

Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Marketing is the primary focus and the way many WA members are earning money from following the training.

Affiliate programs are set up by companies who pay people commissions for promoting their products and making sales.

Most retailers are utilising this method as it is a much cheaper way to promote then multi-million-dollar advertising campaigns.  Amazon, the world’s largest marketplace actually uses an affiliate program and is a common partner to many affiliate marketers across the world.

How it Works – you promote a product available on amazon via a blog, someone visits your blog and decides to buy that product, they get taken to amazon and buy the product.  You have just earned commission.

Example – You create a health and fitness blog, and join an affiliate program like Webvitamins and promote a number of their products.  You could always join Amazon too and promote relevant products on your blog.  Any time someone completes a purchase, that is how you will be making your money.

There are literally tons of affiliate programs out there in any niche, meaning you can choose any of your interests or hobbies to earn from affiliate marketing.

As a rule of thumb, it is best to diversify your earning potential.  Don’t just stick with promoting one product from one affiliate program.  You want to ensure that if one product does disappear, you will not be affected as you will just rely on the other products whilst constantly looking for new opportunities.

  • Awesome for Beginners – Affiliate Marketing is a great way to get started in the online world, it is the starting point for many online marketers who can the progress into other ways of marketing.  It is low cost and simple to implement (with the right training).
  • Low Cost – You do not need a lot of money to get started with affiliate marketing, you can even get started for free with Wealthy Affiliate. WA will provide you with a free website and some free training to get going. You will need to invest some money at some point, but that is only to realise the potential of affiliate marketing.  Affiliate programs are typically free to join too.
  • The Premise is Simple – There is a lot of time and hard work to affiliate marketing, but it is a really simple premise to get your head around.  Promote other people’s products and earn money from it.  You just need the right training to ensure it works out for you

Advertising (Google Ads, MediaVine, Monumetric, etc.)

Once you are starting to get traffic through, you can start to see your affiliate marketing campaigns starting to take off.  It also gives you another opportunity to earn money through having ads on your website.

The usual starting point is Google Ads, but when you reach a certain traffic point you can start using better higher-paying options like MediaVine and Monumetric.

But Google Ads is popular as you don’t particularly need a high level of traffic to add it to your website.

With Google Adsense, they ask you to insert a code into your website header and the ads will be displayed automatically.

The key to success with affiliate marketing and ads is to not saturate your website with ads, otherwise your affiliate campaigns might get lost in the mix.  But this doesn’t mean ads aren’t good for your website.

The fact is, not everyone will visit your website and click on your affiliate links.  They might be having second thoughts or are not ready to make a purchase yet.  You can still earn from ads being on your website.  But again, if your blog is written well and is engaging your audience, you shouldn’t have to worry about ads distracting from your affiliate promotions.

CPA Offers

Cost Per Action offers are also an opportunity to monetise your website.  Whilst they are not going to earn you a high amount, they can still be quite lucrative.  Small amounts can easily mount up and CPA offers are something that you should consider once you have traffic coming to your website built with WA.

CPA offers pay you when someone completes an action, not necessarily needing to buy something.  They just need to complete an action, such as:

  • Sign up for an email list
  • Register an account
  • Sign up for a free trial
  • Use a comparison site

They are normally easy to monetise, as they are normally free for the people to do.  But they do not pay as much as affiliate marketing opportunities typically do.

Ecommerce

There isn’t as much focus on ecommerce within WA, but you can still find member created training on ways to do it.  If you have your own product or want to consider drop shipping, the training and the tools they offer are still relevant for you.

We used a lot of the training to launch Gem’s wedding stationary business which uses a combination of our own products, affiliate marketing and drop shipping all in one.

The website you create on the WA platform is run by WordPress, so all you would need to do install a plugin like Woocommerce, which again is covered in the training available on WA to allow you to sell products directly and process the payments.

Whilst most who join WA do not have products to sell and are more interested in affiliate marketing, we still get asked questions about whether you can, and the answer is always Yes!

You can definitely make good money using ecommerce, but there are complications with it in a way that you wouldn’t find with affiliate marketing.

The main is you are dealing with the customers direct, so you need to be great at customer service for a start.  Affiliate Marketing, they deal with the seller and not you.

Ways to Earn Money Within Wealthy Affiliate itself!

There are also ways to earn money within Wealthy Affiliate, and we will share these options below.

WA Affiliate Program

WA has an awesome affiliate program, which many members like the look of if you want to promote Wealthy Affiliate itself.

Whilst it is available to members straightaway, it is honestly better to wait and promote it once you have already found some success within another niche, purely as it will help you have some proof it works before promoting it.

But having said, that it is one of the best paying affiliate programs out there and even free starter members can benefit from it.

Any member will earn a recurring payment for every new member they introduce that goes premium.  If they stay premium, you will earn money each month they stay a premium member.  There is also a recurring payment if they go annual too.

Wealthy Affiliate Referral ProgramEven free starter membership can benefit from referring new members, whilst the commission rates are lower many use it to pay for their premium membership.  They also run an incentive program for those that achieve 300 premium referrals in a calendar year.  They fly you out to Las Vegas to meet with Kyle, Carson and other Super Affiliates to learn how you can better scale your business.

Earning Cash Credits & Affiliate Credits

Inside WA there are two types of credit, you can earn.  These are called Cash Credits & Affiliate Credits.  These come from actions taken from members inside WA, once they are already members.

Wealthy Affiliate Credit System

These credits can be redeemed for real money deposited into a PayPal account, or can be used for the benefit of your website. For example, you can use these credits to request comments, buy domains, get feedback, etc.  A recent change has also meant you can use these credits to pay for your premium membership with Wealthy Affiliate.

These are not just a currency within WA, each credit is worth $0.50 and can be cashed out for real cash.

Earn from Writing Comments

One of the best features of the website tools that WA provide is the Site Comments platform.  If you are unsure of how important comments are on your website, let me tell you that they are so important to help build trust with the search engines and your audience.  But a new website doesn’t have comments, and readers can be a little unsure of a blog without any interaction.

The site comments platform allows you to use these credits you earn to get high-quality comments from Wealthy Affiliate members.  This is a great way of using your credits, but it also an opportunity to earn money from giving comments.

Wealthy Affiliate Site Comments Platform

A change last year made it that once you had given 50 comments within a 30-day period, you started earning cash credits.  You already earn credits for giving out comments, but this was another way of earning money within WA.

Earn from Creating Training

Member created training is something that is encouraged within WA, as there are all types of people with experience in different elements and sharing that experience with a well-written training is rewarded with cash credit.

The core training is built by Kyle (the co-owner of WA) and Jay does a live training video every week, but the majority of the other training has been created by members of WA.

If you are experience in social media marketing, or wordpress you can create a relevant training video that will benefit other members and earn these cash credits.

Wealthy Affiliate Training Platform

You can add video tutorials, written guides, etc. and depending on the interaction with your training will determine how many credits you can earn.

Please note – you need to have been a Premium Member for 3 months to be able to create training.

Domain Registrations

Wealthy Affiliate is also a domain registrar, much like GoDaddy is. This means that you can buy domains (websites) directly through WA. There are a lot of benefits to hosting a website on WA’s servers.  You are getting a premium hosting service included in your membership, which would normally cost about $250/month.

The cash credits come in useful as you can use these to buy your domains and renew your domains.

But you also earn whenever one of your referrals buys a domain.  You will earn 2 cash credits for this, valued at a $1.

There is not much you can do to earn this, but whenever your referrals do buy a domain, you will earn from this.  This way of earning goes along nicely with the WA Affiliate Program.

Account Setup Credits

Whenever you introduce a new member to WA, there is a step that makes sure they are a real person.  This is a stage where you add an image and create a description for your WA profile.

When they complete this step, you again earn 2 cash credits, valued at a $1.

This stage is all about making sure they are happy interacted with the platform and will definitely receive more support from us within WA.

Kyle & Carson are always looking at ways to improve the platform, and like the change with the Site Comments platform there may become other ways to earn money through WA in the future.

Making Money within the Platform vs Off the Platform

Let’s just clarify the ways you can earn from Wealthy Affiliate.

Here are the ways you can earn within WA:

  • WA Affiliate Program
  • Creating Training
  • Writing Comments
  • Domain Registration
  • Account Setup

Here are the ways you can earn from going through their training:

  • Other Affiliate Programs
  • Advertising (Google Ads, etc.)
  • CPA Offers
  • Ecommerce

What is the Best Way to Earn?

So, at this point you might be thinking which is the best way to earn online?  Which path should you be focusing on?  My advice would be to focus on Affiliate Marketing first.  Most affiliates, including us are earning most of our money from affiliate marketing.

Without traffic, you will not earn anything from ads or CPA offers.

Affiliate Marketing will help you gain the traffic to earn from these additional sources of income.

The main focus of the training at Wealthy Affiliate is on Affiliate Marketing and ads, so you are in a prime place to be able to earn well from these 2 sources in the future.

Another key point of affiliate marketing is the fact that this is an easier path to explore than other forms of marketing and are a really good source of income too.

Pro Tips to Earn with Wealthy Affiliate!

I also want to share with you 3 tips to ensure you do earn from Wealthy Affiliate:

No.1 – Avoid the Shiny Objects and Stick to the Training!  The training is set out in the perfect way to get you started on the right foot.  If you gloss over things or miss something out you will feel the pain from it.  It is so easy to try something that isn’t in the training because you think it will speed up the process, but it ends up being a waste of your time.

Follow the training to the letter!

No.2 – Choose a Niche You Actually Like: If you focus solely on earning money, you will normally find that it doesn’t end up working. Choosing a niche that you actually like will pay dividends in the long run.

If you go and choose a niche, solely because you think it is lucrative means you can end up being burned out and bored of the subject before you even make any money with it.

I have made this mistake and ran out of stuff to write about and wasn’t inclined to write anymore.  This meant I had to start again from scratch.

No.3 Patience is So Important! You have to be so patient for this to work.  Affiliate Marketing is an awesome way to earn money from something that you love, but it will not be a quick thing.

There is no other way around it, Wealthy Affiliates offers great training to achieve success with Affiliate Marketing, but do not expect it to pay back after a couple of weeks.

The concept of earning from an online business is different to a normal job.  In a normal job you complete an hour work and get paid for that hour’s work.  An entrepreneur will work for no return, but in the long run it will pay back 10x.  A single article could and does earn affiliate marketer’s money for years.  But it takes time to get to that stage.

If you would like to learn more about Wealthy Affiliate, you check out my full Wealthy Affiliate Review.

If you feel you are ready to join Wealthy Affiliate, create your free starter membership account here (no credit card required).

Free Starter Membership with Wealthy Affiliate

If you have any questions or comments, then please write them below and I will get back to you as soon as I can.  All the best, John

How to Deal with Empty Nest Syndrome -Tips to Get Out the Other End!

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How to Deal with Empty Nest Syndrome -Tips to Get Out the Other End!

For some, it is such an empty feeling when the children have flown the nest and you are not too sure what to do with yourself.  It is a perfectly natural feeling and is more widespread than you might realise and is commonly known as the empty nest syndrome.

If you feel like you are feeling overwhelmed and deeply saddened by your children moving out of home, and are experiencing empty nest syndrome there are ways to help overcome that feeling and get a purpose back for yourselves.

We want to help you get out the other side, but first let’s just tackle the typical symptoms of Empty Nest Syndrome.

What is the Empty Nest Syndrome?

Simply put, it is the feeling of emptiness when your children have flown the nest, where before your days were filled withWhat is the Empty Nest Syndrome activities, you find that you are not too sure what to do with yourselves.

I know that I felt a little like that when my son starting going to school.  Where before I would have a day with Will, I was now dropping him to school and had to find something else to do in that day and I felt like I was just waiting until it was time to pick him up from school.

It is a weird feeling.

Let’s explore the typical symptoms of Empty Nest Syndrome.

A Lack of Purpose

Your days were once filled with ferrying your kids around to school, college, football practice, birthday parties, etc. Now, you find that the hustle and bustle has gone, and you might not be too sure of what to do with yourself.

Despite having friends, family, work and other activities to keep yourself busy with, your days still feel empty.

Despite, this feeling being quite typical for parenst whose children have moved out, the things that defined you as a parent are no longer something to focus on.

There will be a time when you realise that you haven’t really lost your purpose, you just need to redefine what your purpose is.  There are a number of ways to do this, and we will get into that shortly.

Don’t feel like you cannot feel like this, but defining a new purpose will definitely help.

Frustration Over a Lack of Control

Some feel like they have lost a level of control.  For years you had the majority of control over the scheduling of your Frustration over a lack of controlchildren’s lives and this is not the case anymore.  Typically, you will not know what your children are up to now (although, remembering my time as a teenager, this can also happen when we live at home).

The lack of control over when your child is attending class, going to work, going out on a date or hanging out with friends can be frustrating.

You might also feel like you are left out, as you are not aware of what they are up to now.

The tip here is to not try and force yourself into their schedule, and don’t use the guilt trip route as this will push them further away. Instead focus on coping with some of our tips further down the post.

Emotional Distress

If you ever feeling like you are crying over nothing, don’t get freaked it.  Your life is extremely emotional right now, and whenever that is the case, it just means typically normal events become a big deal.

The Empty Nest Syndrome can stir up all kinds of emotions, and you can start reflecting on what you could have done differently.

Whatever you are feeling, this is perfectly ok.  Trying to deny it or surpress it will not make it go away.  In fact, allowing yourself to feel these emotions will definitely help.

Marital Stress

There are times when raising your children, you find that you have put your marriage or relationship on hold.  You also find that all of your schedules revolved around the kids.  If you find you have been neglecting your relationsip, you might find it needs some work now that the kids have gone.

You might also find that you haven’t been doing couples activities for a while, as all of your time was around ferrying the kids around their activities.

There can also be a little tension if one parent is fairing better with the empty nest, than the other.

Make it a goal to reacquaint with each other, get yourselves used to being a twosome again.

Still Having Anxiety About Your Children

Whether you child has gone off to college or university, or simply moved out – It is perfectly normal to feel worried about how they are getting on.

But what is not normal, is feeling constantly anxious about how they are getting on.

Checking on them multiple times a day or stalking their social media accounts will not help you in the slightest either.

Remember, this is the time where your children have the opportunity to spread their wings and start their adult life.

Try to balance your desire to check in with them.  Remember they will need a level of privacy, as do you.  Create a plan on how you will stay connected.  It is much easier nowadays with technology being like it is.  Arrange a weekly call, or use email.

But this is about you experiencing your time too.

Ways to Deal with Empty Nest Syndrome

There are a number of ways to deal with Empty Nest Syndrome, I want to also present you with an opportunity too…

Think about your Role in Life

What will your role be in your life without the children?  Will that be you pursuing your career or starting a new career.  The first stage is getting another purpose into your life again.  Whether you become a volunteer for a charity, or learn a new skill.  There are plenty of ways of finding new purpose.

Get in Touch with Friends

This is an important one, when we have kids our lives revolve around them and we end up not meeting up with our friends as much.  Find some time to meet up and have a coffee, arrange for them to come round and have dinner.  You never know, if they have kids too they could totally relate with how you are feeling and the catch up with have benefits for you both.

Do not Isolate Yourself

Locking yourself away at home and not connecting with anyone is the easiest thing to do when you are feeling this way, but it is the worst thing you can do.  Get out and about, go for a walk or rekindle a passion you had.

Rekindle a Passion or Interest

When you really think about it, how much did you give up when the kids came first.  I love Will to pieces, but there areRekindle a Hobby things I have had to stop doing to make sure he gets the attention he needs.  So it might be time for you to get back into what you were interested in before.

It is a great way of keeping yourself busy, keeping yourself busy will mean you haven’t got time to focus on the empty nest syndrome.

It could be anything you had an interest in, go and get back into it.  Find local or online groups you can engage in and reacquaint yourself with your passion.  That leads me to an opportunity that might be something for you to engage in and stop feeling that empty nest syndrome.

Turn a Passion into an Online Business

If the kids have flown the nest and the thought of getting a job is giving you the same kind of feelings as the empty nest syndrome, there is a way where you could turn your passion or interest into an online business.

Trust me, if you do decide this is the way for you – you will not have time to worry about the empty nest syndrome.

Now the thought of an online business, might be putting you off at this stage and that is ok.  It is not for everyone.  But for those that want to learn new skills, engage with a community of like-minded people and earn money online it can be a great investment of your time and mean that you do not necessarily need to go and get another job and means that you still get time to meet up with friends, but more importantly means you are not isolating yourself as you will be part of a community that is awesome.  Think of these as ways to get out the other side of the empty nest syndrome.

Whatever your passion or interest, it can be turned into a way of earning money through a type of marketing called Affiliate Marketing.

Affiliate Marketing is the act of promoting products and services and earning a commission if someone goes and buys the item.  Hopefully, you will know Amazon and they are the ones that first used Affiliate Marketing when they first started out as an online book store before they became the giant they are now.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

They did not have a huge marketing budget when they first started and offered their users a deal.  If they introduced a new buyer to their service who bought a book, they would reward them with a percentage commission of the book price.

They still use the same model today.  If you are researching for a product to buy, go to someone’s blog and read a review and go and buy that product off of Amazon, they will have received a percentage as a commission.

How does that help you?  Any passion or interest can be turned into an affiliate marketing business.  Whatever you are interested in, you can start your own online business and start using affiliate marketing to earn money.

Now, it is not a quick road and will require time and effort to get it working right.  But it would also mean you haven’t got time to worry about the empty nest syndrome.

You will have plenty to learn, and plenty of work to do, but with the right help and support and a community behind you, you will feel totally support at every step of the way and feel like you have achieved a lot in such a small time.

If you want to learn more about how affiliate marketing works, please read my helpful guide here.

Thanks for reading this post, hopefully you have found it useful and now know what to look out for with regards the empty nest syndrome and how to tackle it?  If you have any questions or comments to add, please write them in the comments below.

All the best, John

How Can I Do Affiliate Marketing? With Help & Support!

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How Can I Do Affiliate Marketing_ With Help & Support!

A question that often comes up when people are first researching into starting affiliate marketing, is “How Can I Do Affiliate Marketing?” Many new affiliate marketers end up failing and it is down to a number of factors, including not getting the right training and support from the start.

Gem and I want to help you get started with affiliate marketing, help keep you motivated during the hard work needed to make it successful and ensure you get the best training that there is to become an authority on affiliate marketing.

Let us start by ensuring you understand what Affiliate Marketing is and how it works.  We will also share with you what to look out for to avoid scams out there that are disguised as affiliate marketing.

What is Affiliate Marketing? & How to Spot the Scams!

There are tons of programs out there that claim they are affiliate marketing, but really, they are MLM schemes designed to just keep getting you to spend more money so the owners are the ones that benefit.

Affiliate Marketing is a very simple premise – you create a blog on a chosen niche.  You sign up with an affiliate program such as Amazon and promote products in your given niche.  If someone follows your suggestion and follows your affiliate link to go to Amazon and makes a purchase, you have just earned a commission.

It doesn’t have to be any more complicated than that.  See the graphic below:

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

If you have been checking out any other programs stating that they are offering you a ‘Done for You’ way to succeed at Affiliate Marketing, it is typically a scam and will not benefit you.

Why I say that is down to them normally employing duplicate content – which will never work out for you.

Do your research and you will definitely only find genuine products out there.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

SO, we know that affiliate marketing works by promoting products that include your affiliate link and if someone buys it you earn a commission.  It sounds simple, but why do many affiliate marketers fail.

That is because of one thing – a Lack of Patience.

Whenever you search the internet for ways to make money online, you will always find people stating they earned thousands overnight or a system that will earn you money on autopilot.

So, it is natural to assume that you can earn money quickly.  But they are all lies!

I know, you might be thinking that is a strong statement John!

But it is true.  Affiliate Marketing is not a quick way of earning money online, you cannot just spend 20 minutes a day on it and hope for it to earn you money straightaway.

So to go back and answer the question “Can I Do Affiliate Marketing?”:

Yes, but you need to understand you will need to invest time and effort into this business model to make it work! You cannot play at this!

Yes, but you will not be earning money from it straightaway!

Yes, but you need to follow the right strategies!

You Need to Commit to Achieving this.

I didn’t earn anything from affiliate marketing for 6-months.  I could have walked away after 5 months and thought affiliate marketing doesn’t work.

That is why there are so many people who fail at Affiliate Marketing, because they walked away after 3 months.  They kept the employee mindset, that I have worked for an hour – I should get paid for an hour’s work.

It doesn’t work like this.  That post that I earned my first commission from was a post that was 5 months old.  It had crept up the google rankings and is a post that is still earning me commission now.  That is the true meaning of affiliate marketing being a passive income.

How to Become Successful at Affiliate Marketing!

There are two things that you need to get your head around to be successful with affiliate marketing, other than the few above.

The Entrepreneur Mindset

Affiliate Marketing is a business model, it isn’t like completing surveys online and earning a few quid.  You can earn some serious money with affiliate marketing if you do it right.

The first thing is becoming an entrepreneur.  Living and breathing your business until it starts earning you money, and then scaling it so it grows, and you can start hiring writers for your business.

Understanding that you will not earn an hourly rate from this business model but understanding that this is all about the long game.

When I first started, I had a full-time job and a family to consider too.  So, my spare time was limited.  I needed to be practical in my planning and ensuring that the hour I put away into my business I spent it well.  Whether that be learning a specific element, researching a product to review or writing an article.  I needed to be productive.

That is what I mean, those are all traits of a successful entrepreneur who becomes a successful affiliate marketer!

Learning the Right Way

Something I have noticed about successful affiliate marketers is that they are constantly keeping themselves up-to-date with their niche, affiliate marketing, etc.

They are constantly learning.  I myself, regularly check out webinars in Wealthy Affiliate to see if there is something I can learn and often I can.  There may be a small detail that could help rankings or help conversions that I hadn’t considered or tried.  You need to constantly learn.

If you are just starting out with Affiliate Marketing or are struggling to get it working for you, it might be because the training or advice you have been given was incorrect.

I would like to recommend you check out our recommended training platform for Affiliate Marketing, Wealthy Affiliate.  Their training is designed for anyone, of any skill level to build an affiliate marketing business.

You will benefit from the training into exploring the right niche for you, building your own website within the platform, getting it ranked within the search engines, building traffic and writing content that converts.

This the same platform that I have used for almost 3 years now, and I would not be where I am today, without their training and help and support that comes with it.

Kyle and Carson are the co-founders and owners of Wealthy Affiliate.  They have poured so much time and effort into making this the best platform it can be, they also offer their help and advice to new affiliate marketers to ensure they get started with a business that will mean, you can start saying “I Can Do Affiliate Marketing”

Let’s Get You Expert Help & Support

Another feature I love with Wealthy Affiliate, other than the training and the website tools is the community you become a part of.

Imagine being part of a community that is over 1 million users in size, where you gain access to chat with other affiliateCommunity of Like Minded Peoplemarketers who can help answer your questions at any time of the day.  You also get a personal coach, if you follow my invitation to Wealthy Affiliate that would be Me.  Anytime you feel like you need a motivation pep talk, the community and me will be there to help you.

Not sure of what niche to choose, ask me.

Not sure how you could improve your website, ask me.

That is the help and support you get within Wealthy Affiliate, and I would not have been able to say Affiliate Marketing worked with it.

Kyle and Carson are very keen that anyone who checks them out can do it without any pressure, and it is a great mentality to have.  So, here you will find a link to my Wealthy Affiliate review, so you can check out more detail.  But if you want to check them out yourselves, here is a link to get you started with a free starter membership (no credit card required). Explore the platform and see what you think.

Final Conclusion

The main reason why people fail at affiliate marketing is purely down to a lack of patience or following the wrong training.  They give up too soon, or they are not entirely sure how to get started and that is why we fully endorse Wealthy Affiliate if you are looking for a training platform that has everything you need, including expert help and support, for getting started with affiliate marketing.

Then you will be able to say, “I Can Do Affiliate Marketing!”.

Thanks for reading our post, if you have any questions or comments to add please put them below.  We will come back to you as soon as we can.  Thanks John & Gem

Digital Experts Academy Review – Is Digital Experts Academy a Scam?

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Welcome to our Digital Experts Academy Review!

Is Digital Experts Academy a Scam?  Is it full of training material and will make you an instant success?  We will be answering all of your questions within this Digital Experts Academy review.

Is it really worth the high price tag, or are there better alternatives out there…?

First off, I must congratulate you on doing your research, as that is the best way of avoiding scams and finding genuine ways to make money online.  I am not affiliated with Digital Experts Academy in any way, I just want to help people with my review.

Let’s crack on with the review so you can learn more about the Digital Experts Academy.

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What is Affiliate Marketing for Dummies? Road to Passive Income

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What is Affiliate Marketing for Dummies_

If you are looking for a guide that will explain affiliate marketing for dummies, you have come to the right place.  We try our best to keep things simple and ensure you go away fully understanding a subject and also go aware with a clear path on how you can get started, if you so wish.

Affiliate Marketing is an awesome way of earning money online.  But I often find that people try to overcomplicate the process and that is when we start to feel lost, when really it is really quite a simple premise.  Let’s make sure you fully understand how Affiliate Marketing works?

How Does Affiliate Marketing Really Work?

There are 3 parties that are involved in affiliate marketing.  The first party is you as an affiliate marketer.  The second party is the seller of the product or service.  The third party is the buyer of that product.

Let us use an example to break this down.  Let’s say an affiliate marketer has a blog that is focused on a niche which is in the realms of fitness, let’s say losing belly fat.  We will get into the need for a niche later.

So, this affiliate marketer has a blog that focuses on helping people lose belly fat.  They have a ton of hints and tips, they also promote products or services that are relevant to that niche.  It might be a kitchen gadget that makes preparing a particular recipe easier. That is where the affiliate bit comes in.  The affiliate marketer links their blog post about that gadget to a marketplace such as Amazon through an affiliate link.

The readers of that blog read that particular blog post and decide they want that gadget as it makes preparing that particular (health shake) recipe easier to do and so they follow that link to Amazon and buy the product.

The blog owner has just earned a commission through affiliate marketing.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

That is the simple premise behind affiliate marketing.  You promote products and services and receive a reward or commission for introducing a buyer.

It is a method that benefits both the buyer and the seller as it reduces the costs of marketing which can be an expensive business and Amazon actually launched in this way.  When Amazon first launched it was a small online book store and rather than spending money on advertising, they reached out to their buyers to promote their books to others with the reward of a percentage of the sale price.

Now Amazon is the biggest marketplace in the world and still follow that same model but cover a whole lot more than just books.

Related Post: How to Make Money with the Amazon Associates Program

How Do They Track Your Sales?

This is the point where people can overcomplicate affiliate marketing.  You see it involves tracking cookies and if you do not know what a cookie is, this is where it can seem like it is an alien language.

Let’s describe how a cookie works, and then we can explain how they track your sales.

A computer cookie is a small file sent from a web page to your computer to be stored in your web browser. The main purpose of this file is to help the web page keep track of your visits and activity.  That doesn’t always mean a bad thing.  Think about if you do your online shopping online, a cookie will help keep track of the items in your shopping basket.  Without cookies, this couldn’t happen.

If you stay logged on your social media, cookies also help keep you logged in.

So, how does that work with affiliate marketing.  Well, when you sign up with an affiliate network or Amazon, you are given a special link that you use when you are promoting these products and services.

When that reader read that article and decided to buy that kitchen gadget we were discussing earlier.  The blog post would have had a link that went straight to the sales page on Amazon.  That link would have had a signature in it that identified that it was you who introduced this buyer to Amazon.

You might be asking how cookies came into this.  That buyer might not buy that product you recommended but explored Amazon a bit and bought a similar one.  The cookies would have meant you still get the commission for the sale.  Amazon offers 90-day links, so if they go through your link.  Have a look at the product and decide they will look later, as long as they do actually buy it you can get the sale.

Let’s Explain A Niche

So, affiliate marketing works by you introducing someone to a product or service and receiving a commission for doing so, Choosing a Niche - Affiliate Marketingbut you will notice earlier I mentioned that you would need a niche.

Whilst the premise of Affiliate Marketing is really that simple, it isn’t enough to just sign up with Amazon and creating a blog website and promoting a load of products…

If you start too broad, you will find it much harder to get started and find any success.  You need to target a specific niche, that is very focused and will give you the better edge to get started with Affiliate Marketing.

What Is a Niche?

A niche is a narrow segment of the market with which to target.  What the hell does that actually mean??

The best way to pick a niche and actually understand what a niche market is by going onto Amazon.  Picking a category and then see what the sub-categories were and click on one, then keeping doing that until you cannot go any further.  That is how narrow you need to go to start a niche.

If I picked Men’s Grooming, there are six sub-categories:

  • Shaving
  • Skin Care
  • Body Care
  • Hair Care
  • Dental Care
  • Kits & Gift Sets

But those are still too broad for a niche.  Let’s pick Shaving and then this brings to the following sub-categories:

  • o Manual Shavers
  • o Electric Shavers
  • o Groomers & Trimmers
  • o Pre-Treatments
  • o Aftershaves
  • o Accessories

In that category, those would be my starting points.  But honestly, we could go narrow if we wanted to and you could target disposable shavers for example.

When thinking about your niche, you want to target something you already have an interest in and then target as narrow a niche as you can.  You will expand later on into the broader market, but the first stage of your business will be getting your name out there.  That is why we need to target a niche.

Always start with a tiny segment of the market to improve your chances of getting it working right and then you can start getting broader as you have built up your authority.

Become an Authority in Your Niche

Become an Authority or Expert

This is an important one to making Affiliate Marketing work for you.  Think about it, would you buy something if you didn’t trust the seller, the promoter, the marketplace??

The first stages of an affiliate marketing business are showcasing yourself as an authority or expert in your chosen Niche.

Why am I going to trust you and follow your suggestions… that is because you are trustworthy and know your stuff.

That is the place you want to get yourself to after choosing your Niche.

That is also why we suggest you pick a niche that you actually know a lot about or are willing to learn a lot about and it is much easier if you like the niche too.

Imagine if I started a blog on women’s fashion… Yeah, I struggle with men’s fashion let alone making people believe I know anything about women’s fashion.

Let’s Confirm your Understanding

You start off by selecting a niche, a tiny segment of the market.  It is based on an interest or passion you already have with that topic and can show some knowledge about it to others.  You are willing to learn more about that topic and will start on your journey to becoming an authority (expert) in that niche to help people who want to understand that niche too.

You don’t need to be an expert writer, as the art of affiliate marketing through a blog is that it is a conversational type article.  If you can explain it to one of your friends, then you can definitely succeed within affiliate marketing.

What Next…?

People get put off the idea of affiliate marketing when they learn they need to learn how to create a website or startyour Next Step towards an affiliate marketing business blogging or anything technical as they are not that great on the laptop or computer.  This is where I can come in and help.

Before I started my first blog, I didn’t have a clue on how to do anything like create a website.  I didn’t even know what Affiliate Marketing was.  But I was looking for a way to earn money from home.

I stumbled onto the topic of Affiliate Marketing and had a number of the worries that you may be thinking right now…

But I found something that made it simple and easy to understand, I could learn everything I needed.

All I needed to put in was TIME & EFFORT.

It doesn’t matter what your skill level is with a computer or that you are not that great at writing or social media.  Because I got expert help and support from day one.

If you are willing to put in the time and effort, like I did and spend time learning and following the steps that are involved, you will shortly have the following:

Your Own Affiliate Marketing Website

What I am offering is a training platform that can help anyone of any skill level create their own affiliate marketing business that will earn them money online.  You will gain access to a community of like-minded entrepreneurs that will be on hand to help you at any step to ensure you understand what to do and how to do it.  You will also gain access to my help and support at any time.

The only thing that will stop you succeeding at Affiliate Marketing is you telling yourself you cannot do it.

I know plenty of affiliate marketers who are earning full-time wages from their businesses and some of them didn’t know how to go on Facebook before they started.

What Am I Offering?

I am offering you access to a training platform that has transformed the lives of thousands of wannabe Affiliate Marketers.  It offers World Class Training, Access to Websites & Expert Help and Support and what is more you get to join for FREE.

A Starter Membership is absolutely free, with no catch.  It allows you to fully explore the platform and start your affiliate marketing business.

Think about it, by the end of lesson 4 you could have your own affiliate marketing website in your chosen niche.  It will be fully optimised to be found by the search engines and all you would need to add from that point is content.

Everything involved with an Affiliate Marketing business can be taught and learned and Wealthy Affiliate will be there to help you at every step of the way.

3 years ago, I didn’t even know what Affiliate Marketing was and now I am sharing my knowledge to help others find genuine opportunities within Affiliate Marketing.

If you want to start your own affiliate marketing business with expert help and support, then I highly recommend you sign up for free below.  Just click on the banner below and start your own affiliate marketing business for free.

If you still have any questions or want to learn a little more before committing anything, I totally understand.  But I ask that rather than worrying about it ask me any questions in the comments below and I will definitely respond to you with an answer.

Good Luck with Your Journey within Affiliate Marketing, whichever direction you decide to go.

How to Create Your Own Blog Website – Step by Step

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How to Create Your Own Blog Website – Step by Step

If you have been looking for how to create your own blog website, then let me assure you that by the end of this post you will fully understand the benefits of having your own blog website, how to get your own free blog website up and running in minutes and learn some of the benefits from the platform we recommend for that blog website.  Plus, some features that will help you achieve the goals you have set out with your new blog website.

Let’s start by clarifying what exactly a blog is?

What is a Blog?

Wikipedia states that a blog is an informal or conversational type of website that shares information in a more casual way.What is a Blog - How to Create Your Own Blog Website

But when you start exploring the opportunities that lie with a blog website, it can be so much more.  The main aim with a blog should be to help others.  Whether that is sharing your experiences in a topic, helping people with how to guides or helping people with buying decisions and that is typically why most people explore the blogging route as they can start to earn money online with their blog through Affiliate Marketing or CPA Marketing.

Most websites that you land on with a search will be a blog, this website is a blog website helping people online.  But the key to your own blog is a that it can be in any subject and be something that you want to write about.

But some argue you do not need your own website to have a blog? I think that having a blog without a website is so limiting, so let’s explore why you need a website for your blog.

Why Does Your Blog Need a Website?

Like I said, some will state that you don’t need a website to blog or make money, I’ll just use social media or write articles and submit them via a blog website.

But the problem is, you start limiting your reach by doing this and then there is the risk that the website that you were using to submit your articles closes down or dramatically loses their audience.  You have just lost your audience and any money-making opportunities.

Design a Website - How to Create Your Own Blog Website

I have also found that social media is quite unreliable when it comes to whether people will click on your links or not.  I am not saying that social media is bad, it is a good way of getting your blog out there but there are examples where it can be really hard if you use it as your only avenue.

But if I give you the example of Instagram.  Due to their focus on paid ads, you will struggle to get your posts out to the type of audience that you were able to in the past.

Your Own Blog Website becomes a foundation to your business.  It also becomes your brand.

That brand is what you can sell on all the social media channels, link back to when submitting articles to other blogs, etc.  It also means you have full control over your blog business.

That is why you need your own website, getting a great brand name and creating awesome content will bring people to your blog.  To achieve anything with your blog, you need traffic coming to it.  Then they can engage with your content, and maybe follow some of your recommendations to earn money from those links.

Your own blog website starts with the right Content Management System, we highly recommend WordPress.

WordPress + SiteRubix = Awesome Blog Website

I have used a few content management systems in the past, and some you need a degree in computer coding to be able toWordPress website - How to Create Your Own Blog Website achieve anything, others like Joomla are not simple to use either.  Then I started using WordPress and I found it is so easy to use that it means you can focus on more important stuff, like creating content and getting it found by the search engines.

Another factor to consider is the web hosting that comes with your chosen CMS.  There are some free providers out there, but the more traffic you get you then start having to pay higher levels to keep using their hosting.

I also think WordPress is preferable to sites like Wix, as again the more traffic you receive will start to mean you have to start paying.

Our Preferred WordPress web hosting is SiteRubix.  It is the web hosting behind Wealthy Affiliate, and with a free starter account you gain access to 2 free websites using WordPress on their hosting.  It also comes with some great training, to help you get started on the right path, gain traffic and customise your blog website.  Learn more in my Wealthy Affiliate Review.  Between Site Rubix & Wealthy Affiliate you will have an awesome start to your own blog website.

How to Create Your Own Blog Website for Free

If you want to get started with creating your own blog website for free based on the subject or niche that you want to blog about, follow the steps below.

Step One – Choose a Relevant Website Name (URL).  You can use the tool below to check whether your preferred URL is available.

Step Two – Complete Your Free Account Setup.  Create your free account to continue onto the website builder. (You are minutes away from your own blog website)

How to Create Your Own Blog Website

Step Three – Choose a Title for Your Website. This will be displayed on the header of your blog website.

How to Create Your Own Website - Website Title

Step Four – Choose Your Theme. Choose from the available themes to get the look you want for your website.

Step Five – Click Build Your Site. Within seconds you will have your own blog website.

That is it, you now have your very own blog website.  From then on, you can start creating content, and start working on achieve your goals that you had set out.

But at this point, having a blog website is not the end of the stages you need to progress through to reach those goals.

That is where the partnership between Wealthy Affiliate & SiteRubix come into play.

You need to learn how to grow your blog website…

How to Grow Your Blog Website

From experience, I know some will think that having a website is all they need to start making money.  But in reality, having a website without some key elements means that no one could find your blog website.  If no one can find your blog website, it would be like talking to the wall.

If you have completed the steps above, you will have gained access to the training available on Wealthy Affiliate that explores the key steps you need to take in the early stages of your blog website.  It will teach you how to achieve the follow things that are so important, that if we do not do them, there is no point starting a blog website.

Creating Content on your website starts with effective keyword research, if you are not entirely sure what I mean by keyword research, I have written this guide to help you out.

The training included within Wealthy Affiliate, will cover keyword research and these other important factors:

  • Search Engine Optimisation – If the search engines cannot find your blog website, you will not have any traffic to engage with.
  • Content Creation – Writing natural conversational articles becomes easier the more you write, but there are some key tips in the training to make this easier for you.
  • Getting the Most out of WordPress – Training on all the features of WordPress.
  • Getting Traffic – How to promote your website to gain traffic
  • Using Social Media Effectively – Use social media the right way will also help you gain traffic.

One of the other key factors in Wealthy Affiliate’s training and tools is the art of monetising your blog website.

How to Monetise Your Blog Website

Let’s be honest, the majority of people looking for how to create your own blog website for free will be looking to make money from their blog.

There are a number of ways to monetising your blog.  Affiliate Marketing, CPA Marketing, PPC Marketing, and Wealthy Affiliate has training that helps you understand and fully utilise those methods to earning money from your blog.

If you have not heard of any of these methods, I have included guides in the links above to each of those methods to help you understand.  But most associate bloggers with Affiliate Marketing, so I will go through this premise below.

Affiliate Marketing is a great way of earning money online, especially if you do not have any of your own products or services to sell.  You can use this model to promote other people’s products or services and earn a commission from the sale.  It can be described as a passive income route, as you could have written a review on a product that makes you money for years to come.

There are 3 parties involved in Affiliate Marketing – You (the blog owner), the owner of the product/service and the Buyer (visitor to your blog).  You write a review that promotes a product/service and the buyer decides to buy it based on your review.  They follow your affiliate link to the product sale page and buy it.  The owner of the product or service rewards you for the sale by giving you a percentage of the sale price as a commission.

How Affiliate Marketing Works

You will all of heard of Amazon, and they offer an affiliate program.  So many bloggers promote products available on Amazon and receive a commission for every sale they introduce.

Companies offer this as it is a much cheaper way of promoting themselves than multi-million-dollar advertising campaigns.

Wealthy Affiliate offers training, help and advice towards being accepted by these affiliate programs and writing articles and reviews that correctly promote products and services so you can earn commissions.

If you want to fully explore the benefits, help and tools available with a Wealthy Affiliate membership, I highly recommend you read my review.  If you would like to get started with your blog website then you can get started with a free Starter Membership with Wealthy Affiliate.

If you have any questions or would like to add your experience with blogging, then please add them to the comments below and I definitely respond as soon as I can.

If you would like more information about any of the topics below, you can always drop me an email to john@bestaffiliatemarketingtools.org. Thanks

How to Build an Affiliate Marketing Website using WordPress

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How to Build an Affiliate Marketing Website using WordPress

If you are looking for how to build an affiliate marketing website using WordPress, then you have definitely found the right guide to help.  Affiliate Marketing is a great way of earning money from an online business and WordPress is by far the easiest content management system to use.

When starting out there is plenty to learn, but you don’t want to have to learn how to use a complicated CMS too.  In this guide, we will be covering what exactly is affiliate marketing, how WordPress can help you keep it simple, how you can actually have your own affiliate marketing WordPress website up and running in a few minutes.  I will also share with you some advice around getting a great start to your affiliate marketing business with some expert help and support at hand for you to get the best start you can think of.

Let’s start by clarifying your understanding of what exactly is Affiliate Marketing…

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is a great way for businesses to promote their products or services without having to invest in a huge marketing budget.  You as an affiliate promote their products and services via your blog/website and receive a commission if one of your readers goes and buys that product or service.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Really Work?

Many affiliate marketers earn a full-time wage from this online business model and there is still a huge opportunity out there for people wanting to get started.

Whilst it is a simple premise, there is a little more to it than most people expect when they first get started, but I will delve into those a little later.

Related Post: How to Make Money Online with Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Let’s get into why WordPress is a great choice to get started with.

WordPress Helps Keep it Simple…

I like WordPress a lot, the main reason is it was so simple to learn how to work with and with a huge plugin library available to customise your website it really is the best content management system you could choose.  Before these types of CMS, you had to learn coding and spend weeks or months building a website.  Now you could get your very own WordPress website within minutes.

With over 50% of the websites out there choosing to run via WordPress, the numbers show how popular it is and that reason is the ease of use.

As a blogger, the more time spent on creating content will lead to future success, if you are having to learn how to code a website then you are losing out on that time and this might mean you do not succeed.

WordPress has some great theme designs giving your website the look you are after.  With some great plugins you can also ensure you get exactly what you want from your website with ease.

Related Post: How to Become an Affiliate Marketer

WordPress.com Vs WordPress.org

One thing I will point out at this point is, you do not want to go with a free WordPress.com website.  The main reason is,WordPress Website you will not have overall control of the website, you will not be able to utilise any plugins and you will not have your own domain.

You want to make sure you get a WordPress.org website.  This way you can have your own domain, this will be the foundation of your business.

Let’s show you how you can get your own website up and running in minutes.

Build Your Own Affiliate Marketing WordPress Website Within Minutes…

WordPress operates a one-button install and means that other than thinking about your domain name, you can have your website up and running in minutes.

Follow these steps below to get started.

Step 1 – Choose a Domain Name.  The box below will let you know if it is available.

Step Two – Complete your free sign up with Site Rubix.

SiteRubix Website Sign Up

Step Three – Name your Website and Choose a Theme.

Complete your website design

Step Four – Click Here to Build This Site!

Build Your Affiliate Marketing WordPress website

That’s it, you will have your very own website up and running within seconds.  But the awesome bonuses you receive from a SiteRubix account do not just stop there…  but before we describe that, what else will it take you to become successful.

What Else Do You Need to Succeed?

Get Help to SucceedHaving your own website does not mean that you will automatically become successful… It is sometimes hard to hear but most affiliate marketers fail, and it is down to a simple thing… Unrealistic goals and timescales.

We are all in this to make money, that isn’t being unrealistic – but expecting it to happen overnight or after just a few weeks is where most fail.

Think about where you are at the moment.  Are you looking to get out of your day job? Are you struggling with debt? Would you like some extra money to pay for holidays?

Whatever the reason you are exploring ways to earn money online, we have all been somewhere where we could do with the money now…

So, when we have put a lot of work into a website for a couple of weeks, we expect it to start paying out.  It doesn’t work out like that.

Don’t get me wrong you are more than capable of achieving the success you want but expecting it to pay straightaway is where it goes wrong.

But think about the potential – You could be sitting there in a couple of year’s time earning a 6-figure salary from affiliate marketing.  So, all the time you invest in the early stages you will get paid for, just not when you expect it to.

Related Post: 5 Qualities for Success with Affiliate Marketing

Back to what you need to succeed:

Constant Quality Content

If you can provide high-quality content, you will find it easier to succeed.  Google is constantly looking for high-quality content to give to its users.  You provide that content and you will be a step closer to page one rankings.  Page one is where you want to be, otherwise your chances of getting any traffic is reduced dramatically.

Remember to Help, Not Sell

One of the things that affiliate marketers get wrong is just selling a product to people.  But a page that is too ‘salesy’ without answering the specific question that the person was after will just turn them off.

Every time someone hits your website you should be answering the questions they asked.  Not everyone is in a ‘buying’ mood, they might be just researching a topic, might be wary after finding a post that did not help them at all.

One of the key things I have learned is helping people will earn you more than selling to people.  But it is a common mistake affiliate marketer make.

Keep Going…Even When it Feels Tough

One of the hardest things to do is to create content, without it getting you any results in the initial stages.  Writing article after article without any traffic can be quite down heartening.  Without engagement on your site it feels like nobody is listening to your voice or opinions.  It is like having a conversation just with yourself, it can get hard to keep it going.

But you have to push through this stage to realise your potential.  Once you start getting real traffic and engagement you will be kept really busy and will require a lot of time to manage your business – but as you are hopefully earning money at this point it becomes easier.

You have to keep going, push through… But one thing I want to offer to you is my help and support during those initial stages.

If you followed the steps above and created your very own affiliate marketing website using WordPress, you do not only gain a free website… but you also gain access to me as your personal guide and some expert help and support via Wealthy Affiliate!

Get Expert Help & Support Every Step of the Way!

I would not have been able to keep going if I had not received the same help and support, I am offering to you.  A free Help & Support - Wealthy Affiliate AccountStarter Membership with Wealthy Affiliate offers you 2 free websites, training on how to get your affiliate marketing website up to a great running start but you also gain access to a community of like-minded affiliate marketers all working on their own affiliate marketing business.  You also gain access to 2 industry experts in the owners of Wealthy Affiliate.  Kyle & Carson are the owners and are fully engaged with helping anyone willing to put the time and effort into getting their affiliate marketing business up and running and seeing it turn into a profitable online business.

That help is available to you.  I will also always be there to give you a helping hand if you ever get stuck, or you can ask the ever-growing community where an answer to your question can be answered within minutes.

Don’t feel like you are alone in those initial stages, feel like you are working alongside people and a community who cares and will provide some vital support until you reach those traffic levels.

I always think that you should be fully informed to be able to make a decision, so here is a link to my full Wealthy Affiliate review.  That way you can fully understand what is on offer with a Wealthy Affiliate account.

Hopefully now you know how to build an affiliate marketing website using WordPress, but I also hope to think that you may actually know a little more about how to make that affiliate marketing website successful.

If you have any questions or want to share any experiences that are relevant, please write them in the comments below and I will definitely respond to you as soon as I can.

How Can I Earn Extra Money in the UK?

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How Can I Earn Extra Money in the UK_

There are a number of different options out there to earn extra money online, but what I don’t want to do is give you the usual answers that you already expect and, quite frankly don’t want to hear.  There are obviously the options of a part-time retail job or even completing surveys, but these do not really earn you a lot of money or even fit in with your current job and family life. What I have come up with is a couple of options where you can work from home or your laptop on and earn money and possibly lead to some decent earning potential for you too.

Watch Outs When Searching Online

Before I get into these suggestions, I want to call out something that you will always find when you start looking for ways toAvoiding Affiliate Marketing Scams earn money online.  The sheer number of scams out there.  They promise that you will earn thousands overnight, without having to put in any work – you just need to hand over some credit card details.

Think about it, you are looking for ways to earn extra money because of your financial situation.  These fake programs are promoting on the sole premise that you need more money, and their program will (not) give you that.  Be very mindful making decisions when you have a need for something.  It can often lead to us making poor decisions.

I made such a decision a few years ago and got hooked by a program stating that I could be a binary options millionaire with this program working on auto-pilot.  Needless to say, I am still waiting…

The reasons I say this is, you will be hoping to find a way of earning extra money online which doesn’t require much time and effort – but these products that promise quick earnings are not real.  The only way you can earn money online is with some time and effort.  But the advantages are you can do that work and effort from anywhere.  I started putting aside an hour each evening after my son had gone to bed, Then I tried to incorporate more time as I got more accomplished at it.  The more I spent, the easier it was to a point where I was earning money online without having to get a part-time job or complete surveys where you didn’t really earn much from.

Related Post: How to Avoid Affiliate Marketing Scams

Back on point, I have 2 options that would earn you money online and either option is good depending on it being right for you.

Freelancing – Using Your Skills for Generating Money

There are websites out there, such as Fiverr where you can offer your services and earn money from those services.  You might think at this point, you have nothing to offer.  But in my opinion, that isn’t the case.  Website owners are constantly looking at ways of outsourcing work.  You could be great at graphic design, or simply like writing and can writing effective copy.  You might be quite happy, taking on the role of social media manager for their business.  If you are any good at accounting, this is another way of earning money online.

There are a multitude of opportunities out there for you to explore and quite frankly, earn money from.

It is also a quicker route to earning money online, as you can sign up with a site like Fiverr today and start offering your services and getting hired.  To fully see the opportunities, I recommend you read my Fiverr Review.  You will get a full insight into the benefits, but also the concerns with taking the freelancing route.

Freelancing gives you the freedom to work as and when you need, it also means you are not tied down to any one business.  But that can also be a drawback, as it is not always regular work.

But I know of many freelancers who are earning decent money from it.  It works for them, and those that do not want to venture down my other suggestion.

Build Your Own Online Business with Affiliate Marketing

I live in the UK, and around 3 years ago, I didn’t even have a clue of what Affiliate Marketing was and how I could earn money from home with it.  After looking back, I wish I could have started with it sooner.  This may not sound like everyone’s cup of tea… and it isn’t.  But for the right type of person, this can actually be more than just some extra money on the side – but could lead to a very lucrative business model that means it is your only income.

Let’s start with explaining what Affiliate Marketing is…

What Exactly is Affiliate Marketing?

To show you how genuine this business model is, let’s start with a brand you would know that has used Affiliate Marketing since its inception.  Amazon.  Many of us use Amazon, but when they first started out, they were just selling books.

They didn’t have a large marketing campaign budget, so they gave a reward to someone if they introduced a buyer to a book.  A percentage of the sale went to whomever referred them.  That is basically how affiliate marketing started and how it still works today. But now Amazon has a huge marketplace to utilise that same model they started with.

Let’s use an example.  An Affiliate Marketer has a blog on Coffee.  A lot of people are constantly looking for the best coffee machines, how to use these machines and want help with the best coffee beans around.  They build a website that shows them as an authority in coffee.  They also include reviews on these coffee machines, and accessories, beans etc.

Coffee Machines Example - Affiliate Marketing

We land on that website looking for the best coffee machine to use at home, I like the look of his review and decide to click on his link to the marketplace (in this example, Amazon). I know and trust amazon and decide to buy that coffee machine for £100.  That website owner has just earned 4% commission on that sale.  four quid.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Really Work?

Might not sound like much, but if that website gets thousands of visitors a day to their website and 100 people decide to buy that same coffee machine, like I did.  Then that becomes £400. a thousand buyers and that is £4,000.

That is how simple the premise of Affiliate Marketing is.  Any niche, anything that you have an interest in can become a lucrative affiliate marketing business model.

How Affiliate Marketing Can Earn You Extra Money

The reason I say it can earn you extra money is down to the timescales it has to become a full-time income.  It requires a lot of time and effort to build an online business that can fully support a family without a normal job.  Some niches are more competitive, and it can take longer, and there is also a lot to learn.

But for the right people, it can be the start of something absolutely awesome.  Many new affiliate marketers actually utilise the freelancing option whilst building up their business to the point where they are earning enough to give up the day job and be able to spend more time on their online business.  Scaling it to the point where it can truly be something great.

The Advantages of Starting an Affiliate Marketing Business

There are a number of benefits to starting this type of business, the main one being you can do it from anywhere (as long as you have Wifi).

But what you also soon realise is that you can choose a niche where you have an interest in it.  There is no point chasing a subject, just because it looks profitable as you have to invest a lot of time into that niche and if you know nothing about it or don’t really like it – it will tell in both your content and the fact you will find it hard to stay motivated working on it.

Gem, my wife is really crafty and has launched her own wedding stationary business.  But by utilising affiliate marketing and drop shipping into our business model, we have made a business that is sustainable and earns a decent profit margin each year and because she loves it, we will continue to grow it past year one.

We love helping other people, so we launched this website to help others find their own financial freedom.

There is a common theme when it comes to successful affiliate marketers – they want to help people, rather than sell to people.

Choosing a Niche that you love or have a passion around makes this a business you want to work on.  If you create an article that starts converting well, that article could remain profitable for years to come.  Affiliate Marketing is considered a passive income stream, you need to do all the hard work at the beginning, but when it starts turning a profit it can carry on for years to come.

What Do I Need to Know Before I Consider Affiliate Marketing?

There are obviously things you need to consider before getting started.  Affiliate Marketing has helped many people leave their day job behind and some are earning a lot of money from it.  But then there are others that walk away saying it doesn’t work.  Why?

Well, the main reason is they had unrealistic expectations.  These scammy products lead us to a false belief that we can earn money overnight using the internet.  To an extent you can.

If you complete a survey on Swagbucks or Prolific Surveys, after a couple of surveys you will have earned £5.

But they promise you thousands of pounds with little effort…

When I first started affiliate marketing, I had a full-time job with a six-year-old vying for my attention too. So, finding time to put effort into my online business was hard.  I was trying to learn everything I needed to learn and put it into practice.

But I kept in mind, that I was building this business to spend more time with my family, but I was realistic that this would not happen even within a couple of weeks.

I see many get started and work hard for a few weeks, then wonder why it isn’t working.  Well, let’s think about a normal business.  They would not expect to earn a profit in their first year and have a lot of costs that an online business would not need to deal with.

A brand-new online business needs to build trust with any reader coming to that site and build trust with the search engines so that your website appears high enough in the rankings to be found by someone.

That point is typically in the third month. Yet, people are giving up after a month.  I saw my first sale after six months.  Before that you need support to keep motivated and I found the best support to get, which I will share with you in a moment.  It is hard to know if it is working until you achieve your first sale.

There is a definite mindset you need to achieve success online with affiliate marketing and if you have it, you can earn a lot more money than any other source of income you can find.  I had considered getting a part-time job or even binary option trading.  But when I factor in the time needed and the skill required – Affiliate Marketing works best for me.  If you want to earn money online without taking risks this could be a good choice.

How Do I Get Started with Affiliate Marketing?

Like I said, Affiliate Marketing is not for everyone.  It takes a lot of time and effort and I mean a lot.  There is also factors that you need to learn like:

  • Website Development
  • Search Engine Optimisation
  • Content Creation
  • Online Marketing
  • Social Media Marketing

To just name a few.  When I first came across the idea of Affiliate Marketing, it sounded like a great idea.  But I didn’t have a clue about any of that.  But I found a great training platform that offered the kind of support I had never seen before in my research.

That platform is called Wealthy Affiliate.  Offering training for any skill level, it can help the right person start an affiliate marketing business, learn the skills required to get it ranked well in Google and once it has started earning you money – scale it to the point where you can leave the day job behind.

If you want to learn more about everything that Wealthy Affiliate has to offer, I highly suggest you read my full Wealthy Affiliate Review.

I will always recommend to anyone they do their research, before signing up with anyone.  I have checked out a number of free training courses for affiliate marketing and even other platforms that are out there.

But you can tell the difference straightaway – most of the free ones have out of date information.  The others promise a free trial, but you have to enter your credit card details.

A free starter membership with Wealthy Affiliate is free, with no catch.  With access to 2 classrooms and 2 free websites.  You can get started with affiliate marketing in a stress-free environment.  There is no cost to that starter membership, and you can remain a free member for as long as you like.

Free Starter Membership - Wealthy Affiliate

But the most important factor of Wealthy Affiliate, aside from awesome training is the fact that you get access to affiliate marketing experts.  Anytime you get stuck or need help, you just reach out to either me or the community to get help.

Conclusion

When you first started your search, you were probably looking for a normal way of earning extra money and these options will never go away.  A part time retail job, distributing parcels for amazon, telemarketing, completing surveys.  They all have the same premise, some of them you can do from home.  But if I am honest, they all require a lot of your time for not a great return.

Freelancing, Affiliate Marketing or utilising both does give you a kind of freedom.  But it also gives you an awesome route to making them your only source of income.  It will require a lot of work in the beginning.  But as your business starts to grow and you start turning a healthy profit, you can start to use other freelancers to do some of the work in your business and that gives you back all the time you invested in the first place.  That can be time to enjoy your hobbies, interests.  Take time with the family.  Work from anywhere with no boss to answer to.

That was my first goal with my online business.  We are well into our plan with Gem’s wedding stationary business, affiliate marketing playing its part well there, and that is why I wanted to launch this.  Share what I had learned with others to help those who want to also share the same goals.

One of the points I covered earlier was the fact that not many people in the UK, have actually heard of affiliate marketing.  I know I certainly hadn’t.  But when you have immersed yourself for a couple of years in it, it shows what a simple premise it is.  But that it still requires the same mindset as building a career.  Start out small and work your way up.  I know we all have financial goals with anything we do but keeping the non-financial goals in mind have a bigger stance on whether you are going to make this work.

If you feel like these options are not for you, then I wish you luck in whichever direction you choose.  But if you feel like you have what it takes to make this work, then I will actually help you whenever you need help to achieve your goals.  If you want to explore Freelancing, then I suggest you read this awesome guide.  If you want to get started with your very own affiliate marketing business, I recommend a free starter membership with Wealthy Affiliate.

Thanks for checking out my guide, if you have any questions or want to know a little more please write them in the comments below and I will get back to your as soon as I can.

Learn Affiliate Marketing and Start Earning Online

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Learn Affiliate Marketing and Start Earning Online

Are you looking for a great training platform that you can learn affiliate marketing?  There are plenty of them available.  But do they all offer the support you need when you are first starting out…?  That is often the key reason why people end up not succeeding at Affiliate Marketing.

The help and support you get from any platform you choose to sign up with will sometimes be the key to you sticking to your business and see it through to the point where you are earning money.

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A Work from Home Business Opportunity – With Support

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A Work from Home Business Opportunity - With Support

Have you been looking for a way of earning money with a home business?  Working from home has multiple benefits and we would all like to give up the day job and build our own business.

It is surprising how many people are actually looking for this kind of opportunity.  But most people fail…?  Know why? They didn’t know where to start, how to start.  They didn’t know what was possible and they didn’t get help and support.  I want to offer my help to anyone interested in follow my work from home business opportunity.

What if I could tell you a way you could start your own home business, from something that you love and get all the help and support you need to make it successful, including personal help from me.

If you are truly looking for a work from home business opportunity, you have come to the right place.

How a Passion Becomes a Business Opportunity

Passion led us here - How a passion becomes an online business

Why would a business opportunity start from a passion or hobby?  Let me ask you, if you and I would start having a chat about something you are passionate about… how much would you be able to offer into the subject. I bet you would have a lot to offer, a lot of knowledge and you would also be able to carry on research that subject and not getting bored.

That is why the business opportunity I am offering comes from a Passion.  Think about that hobby or passion you are into.  How many other people are researching, talking and buying products related to that passion?

I’ll give you an example, and this will give you the scope of the opportunity.

I would consider myself a big fan of sci-fi, particularly Star Trek.  I know, some of you will be thinking “oh dear”.  But bear with me.  I could stand and chat with other Star Trek fans all day long.  I recently went to a convention and saw the scale of people also interested in it too.

Now what if I started an online business focusing on Star Trek. What if I had the help and support to ensure that this business targeted Star Trek fans to gain traction.

What if people started visiting my online business and finding loads of interesting facts on it.  Then they also notice products on the website too, that they could purchase. (The merchandise is endless within that niche).

Now at that point, we have the premise of a great business model.  A website that focuses on giving Star Trek fans what they want.  Lots of useful information, details of upcoming conventions.  News from the latest series, etc. Details on the stars.

It is a great start, but I did mention products and I haven’t got any products… So, does that mean I cannot start an online business???

Nope, it just means that I need a different way of earning money from those products.

Build an Online Business with Affiliate Marketing

Just because I haven’t got any products or services in that given niche, doesn’t mean I cannot offer them.  But I would do it with a model called Affiliate Marketing.  It doesn’t have to be on Star Trek, obviously.  But think about what you are really interested in.  Even if you wouldn’t really call it a passion.  You will find that any interest can be turned into an affiliate marketing opportunity.

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Ok, lets explain what Affiliate Marketing is.

Affiliate Marketing is where you earn commissions, when someone you introduce to a product or services buys it.  It is more widespread, than you might think.  Amazon is the biggest marketplace in the world and they utilise Affiliate Marketing.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

It saves them a fortune on marketing campaigns, as all they do is pay out a percentage to the promoter on a successful sale.

What is the Opportunity from Affiliate Marketing?

Seriously, if someone takes Affiliate Marketing down the right road it can lead to a full-time income or even stretch to the point where you are earning a lot more than your day job would ever do.

Let’s use another example.  Let’s say you decide that gaming laptops is something you want to explore with Affiliate Marketing.

Gaming laptops is a fast-growing market and offers a great opportunity for an affiliate marketer.  The average price of a gaming laptop on Amazon is about $1,000.  You build a blog all around helping people with gaming laptops and you also promote some gaming laptops in the way of reviews and someone follows your affiliate link to the Amazon sales page and buys that gaming laptop (thanks to you). You have just earned $60 from that sale.  That might not sound like much.  But the art of affiliate marketing is to grow your business to the point where your traffic is hitting high levels.  So, all of a sudden, you might have sold 10 laptops – $600.  100 laptops – $6,000.

That is the opportunity that lies in Affiliate Marketing.  Whatever your passion or interests you can turn it into an online business – With the Right Help and Support.

Where Do I Get Help & Support?

There are a number of reasons why affiliate marketers fail, and the number one reason is they are not getting the right help and support. But there is also a couple of factors you need to also consider with it too.

This is not a get-rich-quick scheme.  There is no magic button online that will lead to instant earnings.  This is a business model based on hard work and dedication.

I would not be where I was today without the help and support, and the training that is on offer from the guys at Wealthy Affiliate.

Affiliate Marketing Training, Websites & Expert Help

If you truly want an online business that allows you to work from home, then I can highly recommend Affiliate Marketing.  It allows you to work from anywhere with an internet connection.  But the beauty of affiliate marketing is that it is a passive income source.  You do not need to be there to process the transaction, just enjoy the commissions.

Whether you are great with a computer or not, you will find that the training is the best you will find and gives a great step-by-step guide to launching an online business, a website and scaling it to a full-time income.

If you would like to learn more, I highly recommend you read my Wealthy Affiliate review.  They offer so much to someone who is looking for a work from home business opportunity and their success stories speak for themselves.  But the best thing about your platform is the help and support on offer from the owners, the community and me.

Build an Online Business

If you do decide to give Wealthy Affiliate a try, you will get instant access to me for any help and support you require.  Wealthy Affiliate offer a free starter membership, which gives you a great insight into the platform and what is on offer.

If you have any questions about the business opportunity or affiliate marketing, then please get in touch via the comments below.  I would to be able to help you with your pursuit of a work from home business opportunity.

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