Why Not Spend an Hour Making a Quick Buck?
How many of you have ventured into the world of affiliate marketing? Its really pretty easy, and if you play your cards right you might even make some money. I am a perfect example, yesterday I decided to setup a quick affiliate site and see what it could do.
I already have the server space and I also had some quickie templates stored on my computer, so I figured what have I got to lose. I spent maybe an hour configuring and setting everything up, hit eBay and spent around five dollars buying 150,000 site visitors and that was, in short, pretty much it. So how much did it make? According to my affiliate account this morning the grand total right now is $69. Not bad for a $5 investment, and an hour of my time.
So what’s the trick? Finding an affiliate product people are actually interested in, if you are looking for a quick return, I would suggest something low-cost or free, as you will find getting people to sign-up is a lot easier. Many people go straight for selling ebooks and other information products, but it is usually a little harder to persuade someone to part with thirty of forty dollars, go figure. Thats not to say that you can’t make money selling these type’s of products, but they do tend to require a little more long-term goals, to achieve a profit.
Below are some places to get you started with affiliate products:
These are obviously only a few of your choices, but this should get you going for now. A quick search of Google will reveal more.
As for the websites if you are unsure how to create one, or just don’t want to, I recently wrote an article on my blog that has some website templates and ebooks available for free download. They are ready made templates, so just load them onto your server and away you go.
I would love to hear your quick profit stories in the comments below, if you have any. Its always nice to learn from others who have experienced it.
Chris Vincent | November 4th, 2007 at 4:43 pm #
I’ve found that with these types of things people are still sceptical, they ponder about these sorts of things, find good information, find bad information and then decide to trust the bad information…
It’s a pity really
Marko Novak | November 4th, 2007 at 4:45 pm #
Looks like a good investment.
Bobby Rio | November 4th, 2007 at 5:32 pm #
I earn a nice supplemental income off of soley promoting affiliate programs on my blog.
I sell a good amount of ebooks.. all of which pay $25-$95 an order. I don’t have as much luck with commission junction but I also don’t push them as much- as the payouts are a lot less.
What did you mean when you said you bought 150,000 visits from ebay for $5???
Bobby Rio | November 4th, 2007 at 5:35 pm #
Also,
I think this is lots of money to be made off of Amazon… it took me a little while to figure out how to promote it, but over the last couple months i’m earning about $400 a month just off Amazon…. The great thing about amazon is they sell EVERYTHING… you’re bound to find somehting your readers are interested in.
Patric Herber (Post Author) | November 4th, 2007 at 5:48 pm #
Thanks for the comments everyone!
Chris - Unfortunately the web is full of bad or misleading information. And it is a shame that an honest person has to suffer through the trials and tribulations, but if everyone wants it bad enough they will find it.
Bobby - If you go to eBay and type in “website traffic” you can usually find some good deals on large numbers. Now keep in mind that most of this traffic tends to come from paid to click sites and the like, but it is a cheap way market a product. I shop there often for my niche affiliate sites, and tend to get a very good deal. I have picked up pr6 links for 99 cents, 1 million visitors for 10 bucks etc. Considering how much an Adwords campaign would cost you for this kind of traffic it can be a very good deal, if you have the right product.
Best Wishes,
Patric
Stealth Employed | November 4th, 2007 at 6:47 pm #
I am signed up for about half of those networks listed. In fact, I recently found some success with a product on Azoogle. Its a free signup and you $1.85 commission for each lead. That is just the problem though. You get really low commissions when you try to sell really cheap or free products and services.
Patric Herber (Post Author) | November 4th, 2007 at 6:59 pm #
Stealth Employed,
I think you are just looking in the wrong places/niches. For instance ringtones, with rocket profits and primary ads above, a simple cell phone/pin submit gets you $10 - $16 each, thats good money. There are also some programs that pay $3 for a zip code submit. One of them has a blogging toolkit program that pays a $21 commission, the product is free all the customer has to do is pay $1.97 for S/H, thats easy to get people to sign-up if you market it well.
There are plenty of options out there, just have to find the good ones.
Travis | November 4th, 2007 at 10:57 pm #
Can you go into more detail on how to set up something like this and run it?
ecoshopper | November 5th, 2007 at 5:29 pm #
You can do this only with affiliate products as you say. If you have google adsense, google would see the huge spike in traffic and possibly ban you from google adsense since its against the rules to buy traffic.
The idea you have is great though…Domain names are cheap…
Tiffany Dunks | November 21st, 2007 at 8:52 pm #
adsense still rules