How to make money doing what you want to do

Posted by | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Content Writing, Entrepreneurship | Posted on 09-07-2007

Answer this question yourself honestly. Do you need to work because you need to work? or because you want to work? The majority of the people would say that they work because they have to work. 

To make money online you need to have a passion about what you want to do in your life. There are several ways to make money online but doing what you love could bring in success to your online business. This online world is a market place where money goes around.  

If you are planning to start a online business you need to do a research about your skill and knowledge. If you passion sports where you can write tons and tons of content related to at particular sport niche you an be successful 

Making money online just does not stop by selling products, you can sell information products like eBook, write blogs about the niche you like and also can offer services related to that niche. If you really good and love what your love to do you can come with ideas and will have more knowledge about that particular subject. People would think you as an expert in that field and you business can grow really big. You expertise in your niche can be a great asset to your business. 

Here are some ideas where you can earn money with what you love to do 

Sell products. If you passion is painting you can sell you creative art products through a website sell your painting through a auction site or create your own website and market it using SEO and pay per click kind of program to get traffic to your site. If you create a good website and is presented and marketed correctly you can earn money with passion you love. 

Sell Services – Suppose your passion is writing start a website and sell your writing skills through freelance writing, story writing and article writing for magazines, newspapers and books. Also you can start your own proofreading services if you are good in that field.  

Coaching Services – If you have a certain passion like sports teaching that skill to others can earn you money. Teaching other how to do what you know is a good way to earn money. If you are an expert in certain field you can conduct seminars and workshop on those subjects and earn money. 

Create products – Creating products like DVD, CD and EBooks which can be sold easily if you are an expert in certain field. For example if you are a fitness expert you can create DVD related to fitness which can be sold via websites and stores. 

The bottom-line is there is several ways to profit from something that you love to do. Use the above tips and ideas to road to success with what you love to do.

Pay per Lead Affiliate Program a unique way to generate revenue

Posted by | Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Pay Per Lead | Posted on 08-07-2007

Pay per lead program is one of the favorite money makers for online marketers and webmaster alike. The reason why there is huge demand for these kinds of programs is because there is no need of sale.Usually Pay per lead programs are designed to promote free services or products, it is popular with newsletter subscriptions or free download kind of programs which allows the sellers to capture certain information of the visitors.Generally these programs are paid low like $.50 to $5.00 but the conversation for this kind of program is high.

Since no purchase is done by the website visitors, the conversion rate is high. So who ever is referring this lead will earn revenue. Some of the best pay per lead affiliate programs is real estate and mortgage which can generate high pay per lead rates.

Pay per lead programs are not easy money making kind of programs, if not done correctly you might loose a lot of money.Here are some of the strategies you need to use for a successful pay per lead campaign. 

1)     Send traffic to pay per lead affiliate programs landing directly. Buy Sending traffic directly to your merchants pay per lead page your conversation rate will increase, and the chances of loosing your customers will be less. Most programs will allow this to do that.2)     Use pay per click to generate traffic to your pay per lead affiliate programs. Since most of these affiliate programs doesn’t need to buy anything, but just provide your information to receive those free stuffs. So usually the bid rates for these pay per lead program will be less. Create keyword phrase which is cost less while bidding for PPC.

3)     Create different websites for different categories, so that you can get targeted quality traffic to you site and then capture their information though opt-in lists. Use this list to shoot email with links to these programs. Since person in these lists has already shown interest in these kinds of products or services they can be targeted customers. When ever you come across a pay per lead program related to that theme you can sent email to this list and the conversation would be high since they are already interest in this kind of products or services. 

Avoid the following mistakes while using pay per lead programs

1)     Avoid programs which will install Adware and Spyware on visitor’s computers. This can have a real bad effect on your pay per lead program. Visitors doesn’t like to install these kind of software installed on their computer.

2)     Don’t sell visitors information for money to others. Have a private police and terms and condition page on your website which will tell clearly about the policy and terms about using your visitor’s information. Most of the visitors usually read these private policy and terms and condition before submitting their information.

Leading pay per lead affiliate program websites where you can find some interesting pay per lead affiliate program for your website. 1) www.ShareAsale.com
2) www.cj.com
3) www.neverblueads.com
4) www.directleads.com
5) www.callwave.com
6) www.linkshare.com
Here is a study I did a while ago, I used a pay per lead program which involves downloading free software after the visitors submitting their information and I would get $1.25 per conversation and another pay per sale program where I would get $3.50 for each sale by sending referral to the merchants site. I tested the program for few months and here is the result of the test.

Month Pay Per Lead Conversation Pay Per Lead Income Pay Per

Sale
Conversation
Pay Per

Sale Income
Jan 07 76 $95.00 12 $46.00
Feb 07 95 $118.75 10 $35.00
Mar 07 85 $106.25 13 $45.50
April 07 101 $126.25 12 $46.00
May 07 79 $98.75 14 $49.00
June 07 150 $187.50 12 $46.00


In the month of June I started using email marketing and increased my PPC spending as well. I didn’t use much pay per click program on the pay per sale for that month.

My spending on the Google Adwords was just $30 a month. And I used one of the NeverblueAds program for testing. Pay per lead programs can be more lucrative than any other affiliate program on the web.

Back to Blogging

Posted by | Posted in General | Posted on 08-07-2007

Sorry guys, due to some unavoidable circumstance I could not blog for a while. You can see interesting blog posts again from me here on How to make money online, Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine optimization and Google Adsense. Thanks for visiting and writing comments on my posts as well.


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