How the Internet Can
Make You a Millionaire
Whilst You Sleep
By David Anderson
www.davidandersononline.com
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Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011 David Anderson
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The Easy Way to Make Money on the Internet
People still think that all they need to do to makes wads of cash on the internet is come up with a good domain name and sit back and wait for the punters to beat a path to their door.
I was lucky - I got in at the start and made a killer from my own websites and niche markets.
But internet marketing has changed over the last few years; the same tricks that worked three years ago are now outdated. I saw this coming and had the good sense to follow my instincts and do something completely different. My risk paid off – I’m now a million pounds better off. My new venture was selling without a proper website.
In case you think that was a mistype I will repeat: I made a million pounds selling without a proper site.
If that sounds crazy to you it’s because you’ve been brainwashed into thinking that the only way to make money on the internet is by having a flashy website – that is what the internet is comprised of after all; websites and billions of them. Billions being the key word – if you have a website that means you have to compete with billions of others.
I’m going to tell you how to make a killing from not having a website, not shelling out hard cash for registration and hosting fees for a website, and not to mention spending hours of your precious time constantly updating it with fresh content.
Selling Without a Site
This question is now probably bouncing around your brain: “How do I sell without a site?” You’re reading the right course; I’m going to tell you and it’s easy. Google and the other search engines do all the work for you – the money trickles through from them. This way means far less work for you. No having to get your head round SEO tricks and coming up with new and more complex ways of getting and keeping your site in the top ten.
I know this sounds crazy. It’s like hearing the exact opposite of what you’re used to, but my bank account is testament to its success.
You may now be asking yourself another question: “If this is so good, why haven’t I heard about it before?” Because this rather splendid way of making money has only been shared with a select few, like yourself, rather than being bandied round all the sites.
So, the millions of internet marketing hopefuls are going to assume that what everybody else is doing is the way to make money; come up with a product, buy a domain and get cheap hosting.
However, the road to riches is down the one less travelled. You are going to trail blaze past the competition without them even noticing – you’ll be privy to a fantastic method for making money that few others know of.
No spending hours desperately trying every trick in the old book to secure your domain in the top ten on Google; within 5 minutes you’ll get position one or two.
What do you fancy doing with those hours you’ve already saved? I say there are far more pleasurable ways to spend my days than staring at computer screen trying to figure out why my hit counter is still at zero when I’ve been up and running for 3 weeks… why Google still thinks my site doesn’t exist…
So, here’s how you retire early without having a proper site (you’ll need a landing page, more of that later). The two basic elements that will bring in the riches are Affiliates and AdWords.
Probably the only knowledge you have of affiliates is from hearing about the importance of having affiliates for website owners; that the only way to shift stock is to get other sites to sell for you, i.e. through affiliates. This ain’t the case. Using affiliates in this way can haemorrhage money. Some affiliate sites demand 85% of your purchase price – so if you’re selling an e-book for £19.95 – you’re going to get a miserly £3. (I don’t know about you, but I can’t get excited about that.) Her affiliates meanwhile are making £16.95.
You might still make money using affiliates, but you’ll be putting in the hours whilst your affiliates are raking in the money. No long holidays and whiling away the hours in leisure, you won’t have time. All your spare hours will be spent in up-keep.
I can’t think of anything worse than slaving for money. I usually work for an hour a day tops. I think I’ve had one bad week where I spent 20 hours in the office – that was about two years ago now and is but a distant memory.
Affiliates – what they are and how you can get them to work for you
You’re going to use affiliates in a different way. Remember I talked about the e-book seller whose affiliates are making £16.95 whilst he or she is only making £3? Bear in mind that the affiliates have done nothing to source the product. Who would you rather be the website owner, or… the affiliate? Hmm, I’ll leave you to ponder that tough question whilst I continue to talk about this rather splendid money pump.
As an affiliate you’re a sort of sales-person, you sell someone else’s product for them and take a nice slice of the purchase price for doing so. The best thing about being an internet sales-person is that it doesn’t involve you leaving your armchair. No cold-calling or door-to-door sales for us, thank you.
Here’s what you do:
1. Sign up as an affiliate and get your unique link.
2. Find other people’s products.
3. Market them.
4. Take your slice of the pie – that’s commission in sales-speak.
5. Roll around in your stashes of cash.
6. Spend it on whatever takes your fancy.
I did say this was an (almost) site-free money-making machine, so there’s no point in wasting your time and money trying to set up an affiliate website, because with that comes all the hassles associated with having a website in the first place. Sure, if you want to use AdWords or similar as part of your marketing, you’ll need to set up a landing site (which is a web page). However, you don’t have to worry about getting a fantastic domain name, or trying to get Google to notice you, and then notice you more than the billions of other sites vying for attention. Oh no, you’re going to become an affiliate without a proper site. Which leads us neatly on to Google AdWords.
What are Google AdWords and AdSense?
AdSense is where you can put other people’s adverts on your site – you make money when visitors click on the ads. The big clue as to why I don’t recommend using AdSense is the word ‘site’ in the previous sentence. That’s right in order to profit from this little venture you’ll need a website. Not for us, thank you.
So we’re interested in Google AdWords. You’ve probably seen AdWords. When you type in your query and click search, the AdWords come up on the left hand side under sponsored links. AdSense is on the right hand side, which we’re going to ignore.
AdWords operate on a cost-per-click basis, meaning Google will charge you for every person who clicks on your ad.
The reason why you can’t be completely site-free is because Google insist that your AdWord link goes through to a landing page, this is a single web page which must contain text related to your AdWord (more of this later).
A lot of the products being promoted through AdWords are done through affiliates. Meaning somebody other than the product sponsor is promoting it. The affiliate makes a commission whenever a sale is made through their link.
If this is all new to you, don’t worry, you don’t need prior experience to make a success of this. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to get started on your path to financial freedom and make money work for you, instead of the other way round!
Finding an Affiliate That Will Make You Money Rather Than Drain You of Money
Big money from affiliate programs comes with choosing the best. You’re not going to retire on the money you’ll make from promoting any old program.
Later I tell you some of the best affiliate programs to sign up with.
There’s no point promoting stuff that’s only going to bring in fiddling small change. You want to be getting your hands on the kinds of programs that will make you smile every time you look at ClickBank.
The information I’m telling you here can work for you. I know because it has worked for me. It’s a winning formula. All you have to do is follow it. Part of success comes with knowing what to look for. New opportunities are born every day and I would hate for you to lose out, because you weren’t sure whether to go for it or not.
How to Choose a Great Affiliate Program