Would earning One Thousand dollars a month, 100% online... change your life? For many people reading this, it would be nice and a plus, but you are probably thinking it's certainly NOT going to make you rich.
And yet... the vast majority of people will NEVER make $1000 a month, simply because they are too busy trying to make $10,000.00 or some other inflated figure that the "Guru's' have convinced you is the real goal. And while I agree that adding ZEROS is the key to building a powerful, profitable and enduring business model that you CAN in make you financially free, learning to set up the system, the structure and the sequence to make that happen ALWAYS starts small.
I'm going to tell you EXACTLY what I did to earn my first $1000 in a month years ago. It's going to be SHORT, sweet, simple and straight to the point. (Because underneath it all... that's the way we all want our information, anyway.
1 - Pick a PRODUCT. (not a niche) Find a popular product that you use in your own house, or that you see on TV, or read about in ads and offers in your local newspaper or magazines of choice. The real key to selling affiliate products is to PICK products that people already want to buy, and all you have to do is build the bridge between your readers, and the vendor.
A good hint? Look for offers that have EPC metrics of $100 or more, which means that the average affiliate, or marketer earns One Hundred dollars for every 100 visitors they send.
2 - Create Your Landing Page. (thin is IN and be willing to BRIBE and always ask for a name)
In other words, create a very "skinny" page that gives your readers 2 options: Leave or JOIN your community. (your mailing list) Offer a bribe, or an inducement that is hyper specific to how to use the product or service you selected in step 1. In other words, if you are promoting a popular DVD rental service, you may offer a 5 page PDF on how to save money on the club, get a 30 day free trial, or how to get an extra movie per month.
3 - Use articles, much like this one, to BUILD your list, and create your community. Send your readers right to the landing page above, from the articles and if you create the right inducement, about 30% of your traffic will sign up, starting on day 1.
4 - Create a simple Q and A style blog that is HYPER specific to 3- 5 high paying products.
Basically, ask and answer every question you can come up with that's hyper relevant to those products. Use the product names in your post titles... and simply use a keyword tool, OR just free associate questions you think you'd want to know before subscribing to the service, or buying the products you are promoting.
5 - Recycle your traffic from your LIST to the blog. How? By constantly asking and offering new answers to key questions each week. You "announce" the questions to your list, and drive them back to the blog to read answers offered by other readers, or encourage them to offer their own.
I call this system the "Content Community Continuum", and this is just a fraction of it's power... and in this case, just for promoting offers that aren't your own. (although it can be used to sell your own stuff as well)
If you pick the right products, and use the simple steps above, you WILL be able to make $1000 in just 30 days. Try to find payouts that are HIGH. Why? Because it's much easier to sell 10 products that pay you $100, than it is to sell 100 that pay you 10!
(and this is a lesson it took ME, and most other people FAR too long to learn!)
