Luckily, although I knew nothing about making money online, I knew enough about the Internet to dig deeper than that. I started reading blogs, sifting out splogs of course, read a few forum discussions and basically got the feeling of this niche.

Like any of you probably did, I followed the gurus and opted-in to all kinds of mailing lists to receive free ebooks and how-to’s. I was swamped with information and the many money-making techniques. I was dreaming of multiple income streams and was ecstatic…

…during exactly one month.

After that moth, I started to suspect that with all those offers, methods, techniques, and way to make money online, it is probably a big bubble to get beginners to pay for info products.

Obviously enough, I ended up doing exactly nothing of what I’ve read as ways to make money online. I made a pledge not to buy another ebook ever again and, as a general rule, not to pay for anything again.

It’s human nature to choose the easiest path and stay in the comfort zone and, so I did. I was blogging and hoping to monetize the blog at some point. The “wonderful” and very promising ways to make money online I discovered in my initial research were long forgotten.

This is the point where most people would just forget about making money online and Internet Marketing altogether.

Make Money With Affiliate Programs: A Year Later

The comfort zone for me was not to spend too much money, and not to go where I was new. I had WordPress skills naturally I chose to go the blog way. A full year has past before I realized I needed to change my strategy, making minimal sales that wouldn’t even pay for my grocery bill. A full year!

Fortunately, I had the brains to realize that a huge change is needed, and enough persistence to make myself go into new online ventures.

I have chosen to pay for PPC coaching, and bought a really outstanding Internet Marketing ebook: One Week Marketing.

It’s been a few months since, and those two have provided me with the needed insights to dominate niches using both SEO and Pay Per Click, and for the first time in a long time I started to see sales coming in.

Summary and Insights

So what did I learn from all that?
Let me give the beginners a piece of advice:

1. Try to join a community of like minded people. That way you will have a way to easily find out what works and what doesn’t. What program is a scam and which is a true money maker. Find a paid forum or a paid coaching program, this automatically weeds out spammers and freeloaders.
2. Keep in mind that work is required to achieve results online. Nothing is easy, and your initial efforts will be tough.
3. If you feel that you “need” or “must” pay for another ebook or tool, refer to Advice No.1 above. Consult others. It is very probable that someone has already bought that and has a solid opinion, which is not biased like the opinions you’d find on a blog or a sales page.
4. This one could possibly be the best advice. Go at it.
   If you just read about a wonderful way to make money, and don’t give it a go, you might as well forget about Internet Marketing and watch Youtube videos all day. You can’t possibly expect to catch fish without throwing in the line, can you?

- Alex

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Make Money With Affiliate Programs – Why 90% Fail Miserably When Doing Affiliate Marketing?

Ok, so I’ve been checking the stats on one of my campaigns and one thing threw me off the chair… I wonder why I wasn’t noticing this before: I had 8 sales coming from SE traffic!!

And here is the insight: Don’t ditch SEO.

When I went to do PPC I said good riddance to SEO. No more wasting time on social bookmarking, backlinks, etc. to build your traffic, since with PPC I get as much traffic as I possibly need as long as I pay for it.

But after having seen these sales I’m going to SEO everything from now on. These were 100% net profit sales since I didn’t spend a cent to drive that traffic to those pages.

So to make this post useful to all of you, I want to mention that my friend Mark from MasonWorld.com is having a nice little pomo where he gives you 21 free one-way backlinks (do-follow), from different sources. (he has a way…)

In light of my insight I’m certainly giving this a go… And so should you.

Enjoy!

- Alex

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Quick Update: Just Had a PPC Insight

Passive income is the holy grail to me. This is the best type of income you can ever get. After making an initial effort, you rip the fruits during harvest, which is usually a pretty long period of time.

Passive income will arrive to your account while you sleep, eat, [...], do whatever you enjoy doing, in amounts based on how good a job you did setting everything up. It is The Dream.

I woke up today with dollar signs in my eyes

After recently discovering that free SEO book, you probably know from my last post, other than downloading it and reading it, I’ve become an active participant in its affiliate program.

I’ve placed the 125′er on the sidebar, featured the report in my header and written a post about it. Other than that I’ve invited people on different forums to go ahead and download this free ebook.

After doing all that I thought that was it for the next couple of weeks. But, hey.. It really took off. People are clicking, people are downloading – incredible.

Well, not as incredible when you think about it. It is, after all, free. It just took me by surprise.
Why shouldn’t anyone download it?

So, while the road toward true passive income is paved, as it always has been and I just wasn’t smart enough to take it previously, I still feel that I have lots to learn.

The Journey continues.

- Alex

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