Make Money Online with Content
Where does the content that you write go? Many content articles that are written for clients are sent to article directories in order to drive traffic and increase search engine rankings. As a content writer, you may be wondering – should I offer this service?
It all depends on your willingness to learn a new skill, your rates and your clients. Submitting articles is something that can be a wonderful addition to your portfolio of services – or it can be a huge waste of time if you let it be.
The first time I offered article submission services, I greatly underestimated the time it would take me to submit all of the articles. I ended up resenting the project because it took forever and I could have been making tons more just writing content.
Before you offer article submission services, try submitting some articles yourself. You can do them by hand or making the process more simple by using an article submitter tool. Figure out how long it will take you to register for the article directories, format the article, add a bio box and keywords and submit it to the directory. Be sure you understand the process completely and learn the ins and outs of your submitter before you commit to doing an article submission project.
Use your article writing rate to calculate an hourly rate for your article submissions. Charge a flat rate for registering a new client for the article directories, and a flat rate per article, per directory. Search for online article submission services and see if your rates compare. Keep in mind that some clients would prefer the personal touch that you can offer and won’t mind paying a certain percentage over the standard rates.
Your clientele can also determine how successful you’ll be with article submissions. I’ve found that article submissions services are most valuable to busy gurus who don’t have time to mess with the details, or offline business people who are trying to get attention for their website. For example, real estate agents and medical offices who don’t have a lot of experience with online marketing really appreciate submission services.
Many people not in these categories either want to do submissions themselves or want to pay very little for submissions. Overall, except for a few offline clients, I’ve gotten the most value from my article submission tool by submitting articles for my own personal projects.
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Become a Content Creator
3 May2009
Sue at Six Figure Freelancing says that good writers should skip the writing jobs and become content creators. I have to say that I agree.
When you are a content creator, you’re able to use your writing skills to your advantage. In my opinion, being a content creator is a bit different than traditional freelancing for magazines and publications or working at a corporate office as a writer. A content creator is someone who creates content for the web. You can write for your own websites and earn money from affiliate programs or paid advertising. You can even create your own products and sell them.
There are so many ways to make money with writing online, it can truly make your head spin. With the web, you don’t have to go through publishers, editors and other red tape to get your content read. You can take your personal experience, your past research and your passions and turn it over time and time again in new ways.
Freelance job postings can only take you so far. If you’re a freelance web content writer or thinking about becoming one, you should develop a secondary plan for taking out the middle man and delivering content to your audience directly.
What are your plans for becoming a content creator?
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Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 5
27 Apr2009
NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favoriteinternet marketing mentors.
Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 5
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”
The word “overhead” is not a favorite among those who run businesses of any kind. Nobody likes the expenses of operating a business. And nobody really talks about them much when it comes to promoting all of the “money-making” products and services online.
But, don’t kid yourself, there’s a lot of overhead.
That brings me to the fifth reason why I love affiliate marketing…
** You don’t need a big budget to make it work **
Do you have any idea how much money is spent running an internet business? There are monthly fees for…
* Autoresponders
* Hosting
* Management
* Advertising
* Scripts
* Much more
There are regular fees for…
* Licensing
* Outsourcing
* Support
* Customer Service
* Maintenance
* Development
* Recruting
* Much more
It’s not uncommon to spend tens of thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of dollars in operational costs — which is fine if you’ve been in business a while and are making the bucks. However, if you’re a newcomer, it can be taxing on your budget!
SIDEBAR: I paid one girl over $30,000 last year
just to oversee one small part of my business.
No one talks much about it, but there ARE a lot
of expenses involved before you get to the
“bottom line” of profit.
BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need a big budget to make it work! You can simply use a variety of free and low-cost marketing methods to generate clicks to your affiliate link.
That’s why I love affiliate marketing.
You don’t need a big budget to make it work.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching
you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in
only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!
Visit http://tinyurl.com/cng4tv
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Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 4
25 Apr2009
NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.
Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 4
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”
I’m sure by now you are well aware that there are those who have reported HUGE amounts of money being made with their online businesses. What you may not be aware of is the amount of work involved in generating those “sales” (not always net profit, mind you … this isn’t “spendable” income in a lot of cases.)
That brings me to the fourth reason why I love affiliate marketing…
** You don’t need to manage an entire business **
While it can be quite lucrative, running an entire business with employees, inventory, partners, vendors, and other associates can be a time-sucking, frustrating ordeal.
Imagine…
* Processing refunds
* Putting out fires when partners SPAM
* Managing day-to-day operations
* Overseeing projects you’ve outsourced
* Recruting new affiliates
* Training everyone to help you
* Paying taxes
* Taking care of the paper trail
* Doing all of the “stuff” that business owners do.
Didn’t you want to start an internet business to make more time for important things in life?
Why not make a lot of money WITHOUT making a lot of extra work for yourself?!
It can be a lot of extra work and stress. BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need to manage an entire business! You are simply responsible for promoting your affiliate link… someone else handles all the rest.
That’s why I love affiliate marketing.
You don’t need to manage an entire business.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching
you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in
only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!
Visit http://tinyurl.com/cng4tv
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Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 3
25 Apr2009
NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.
Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 3
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”
Some people have the ability to persuade others and talk them into just about anything. Especially when it comes to influencing their buying decisions. They know how to push the right hot buttons, say things the right way and generally get consumers into an emotional frenzy to the point they are ready to click an order button.
There are two key words in that paragraph that really need to stand out in your mind: “some people”.
Not everyone has this ability. In fact, only a few do.
That brings me to the third reason why I love affiliate marketing…
** You don’t need to write a world class salesletter**
Have you ever tried to write a salesletter? There’s a reason why professional copywriters charge up to $10,000 (and sometimes even more) for a SINGLE salesletter. It takes a lot of experience and skill to write a top-gun salesletter, which is why most people have a hard time convincing people to buy if they do create their own products and website.
They simply don’t have the right salesletter in place to make it all work. Without good copy, it really doesn’t matter how spectacular the offer is, you’re simply not going to get many sales.
SIDEBAR: The average conversion rate of site visitors
who become buyers is reportedly less than 2%. That
means 98 out of every 100 do NOT buy. That’s why
sales are so incredibly bad for a poor site … you
*might* get 2 sales out of every 300-400 visitors.
BUT, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need to write a salesletter! You simply direct people to someone else’s high-octane salesletter for THEM to convert your leads into commissionable sales.
That’s why I love affiliate marketing.
You don’t need to write a world class salesletter.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching
you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in
only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!
Visit http://tinyurl.com/cng4tv
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Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 2
24 Apr2009
NOTE: The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.
Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 2
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”
Pop quiz time. What does “HTML” stand for? Don’t know that one? How about this – what does “FTP” stand for? OK,
one more chance. Do you know how to work with either?
That brings me to the second reason why I love affiliate
marketing…
** You don’t need to build a website **
What scares people more than creating a product is building a website!
* What in the world is HTML? Or FTP?
* How much does the software cost? And hosting?
* How do I upload files?
* Why isn’t it formatted correctly?
* Why don’t my graphics look like the ones the pros have?
If you are a complete beginner, it can be very difficult (even using templates) to get an attractive website in place.
And hiring a professional to do it fo ryou is out of the budget for most people.
But, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need to build a website. You simply send visitors to someone else’s professionally designed site through your affiliate link.
SIDEBAR: Just in case you’re interested, HTML stands
for “hypertext markup language” and is the coding
used to build webpages. FTP stands for “file transfer
protocol” and is the process used for moving files
from your computer to a website, or vice versa.
Really, in a manner of looking at it, you get to take advantage of the time and money invested by someone else to develop the site. Think about it: when you promote an affiliate link, it reflects firstly upon YOU. You are the one who is advertising the link, recommending the product, sending people who have interacted with YOU to the website.
The professional site of someone else really represents you as the promoter, in the eye of those who have clicked
through your link.
You get the benefits without the bother!
That’s why I love affiliate marketing.
You don’t need to build a website.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching
you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in
only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!
Visit http://tinyurl.com/cng4tv
…………………….
Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 1
23 Apr2009
NOTE: On this blog and in my products, I try to cover all of the different aspects of making money with content. One of the best business models is affiliate marketing. The following is a guest post from one of my favorite internet marketing mentors.
Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 1
By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”
Do you find yourself “starting” to create your own product to sell online, but never “finishing” it?
One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is –
** You don’t need to create your own products **
Many people find the idea of creating their own products to be an overwhelming and even paralyzing task.
* I don’t have any good ideas!
* I’m not a writer!
* There’s too much competition!
* I don’t know how to set everything up!
* I can’t figure out where to start!
* It’s too hard!
These are just a few of the valid reasons many people give when it comes to not creating their own products to sell.
I’m sure with a few minutes of brainstorming, we could come up with a list of many more.
With affiliate marketing, you don’t need your own products. You simply promote someone else’s already proven successful
offer for a commission.
And, truth be told, even if you ARE a writer and you DO have lots of ideas and you CAN figure it all out…
** Nobody wants to create new products all the time **
As good as you may be, you don’t know everything! Why try to create a product on every topic imaginable in your
market when you can earn just as much money by simply promoting someone else’s really good offer as one of your
profit streams?
That’s why I love affiliate marketing.
You don’t need to create your own products.
…………………….
Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching
you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in
only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!
Visit http://tinyurl.com/cng4tv
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