Tom answers:

The Warrior Forum is by far the best internet marketing forum:
http://www.warriorforum.com/index.php?referrerid=91536

Tom answers:

I am also a work at home mom, but I have to tell you that affiliate marketing is just not a job. A telemarketer is a job. Internet marketing is a business and you must work hard at your business to make it successful. A lot of people have the misconception that they can, through up a website, add some affiliate links to it and make some good income.

On the contrary, you have to work hard at promoting your site and getting traffic and sales. This is why it is called marketing. You have to market it and market it some more. I don’t want you to get the wrong idea about affiliate marketing and get discouraged after a month or two by not seeing any income come in (which will most likely happen).

When I first starting affiliate marketing from home 3 years ago, I was putting in about 9-10 hour days to get my sites started, do my research, and market my sites to death. I only started to see regular traffic and money come in after about 3-4 months and even then it was only a couple hundred dollars and I had about 5 sites up.

But, after about a year, I was making over $4500 a month and I was only working about 20 hours a week. In the beginning, you really have to work and then as you get your sites more established, you can set things to autopilot and work much less. Now I have 2 kids and make almost 6 figures a year and work about 20-25 hours a week when my kids are sleeping.

I have about 60 niche websites and I am in the process of making 5 more. The sites that are the oldest are the ones that make the most money, with a few exceptions. You will have sites that no matter what you do may just not see conversions or make you the money that you want no matter how much you put into them. On the other hand, you may have sites that do a lot better than you ever thought they would and you only put in a minimal amount of time on them.

For an Internet marketing newbie like yourself, I recommend that you check out www.mattbacak.com. Even though I have been doing this for 3 years I still subscribe to his Internet Marketing Dirt newsletter and learn new things from it. The Internet is always changing and you must adapt your strategies if you want to really succeed. I wish you all the luck with your endeavor and don’t give up!

Tom answers:

Http://forum.ABestWeb.com/

http://www.seochat.com/

http://www.WebMasterWorld.com/

http://www.sitepoint.com/

Tom answers:

The best way to promote your affiliate links is going to be by creating original content that people want to see and will share with others.

Good Luck!

Tom answers:

There are many but I’d suggest to stick with the finest internet marketing / webmaster forums which are:

WebMasterWorld Forums – http://www.webmasterworld.com/

DigitalPoint Forums – http://forums.digitalpoint.com/

SitePoint Forums – http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/

SeoChat Forums – http://forums.seochat.com/

Cre8asiteforums – http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/

Warrior Forums – http://www.warriorforum.com/

Hope this helps.

P.S: If you find the answer useful, please don’t forget to vote!

Best,
OMZen

Tom answers:

You need to offer the visitor something of value, like a free e-book, video or report in exchange for their opt-in subscription.

Many people have this free content on the next page after the visitor opt-in. However, people may give you fake info just to get the free content without subscribing with a real e-mail.

Awebber is an e-mail marketing system that allows you manage your opt-in subscribers, verify their e-mail address and automatically sends them your free e-book after they confirm.

Its the best way to stay on the up and up with e-mail marketing. All the pros use them!

Check it out here >>
http://bit.ly/exIqGB

Tom answers:

Well since you have your own band you can try this.
There is a site called IUMA. It is for unsigned bands and artists wishing to distribute their music freely with public, put your mp3 or video on there and maybe it can answer some of these questions for you.

Tom answers:

I tihnk marketing is least respected out of Finance and Economics.

I think accounting would be best cuz its in demand but I would say Finance then economics

Tom answers:

On the island, around the bend.

Try to find someone who travels or makes calls to china.

Tom answers:

There is a learning curve to Yahoo Search Marketing and Pay Per Click in general. Until you get answers, you may want to pause the campaign. This way you won’t accrue additional costs while figuring out where they are coming from. We specialize in PPC Campaign Management and would be glad to troubleshoot this for you. 215-966-1462 http://www.jmbinteractive.com/a-b-c-web-marketing.htm

Tom answers:

This kid is a total scam king, He charges about 4000 bucks to give you a web page and a few tips on how to make money online. Everything sounds so pretty an easy but its not. What you are basically selling are credit cards. You will get paid for approval according to them and not get cheated. He is like the middle man between the credit card companies and you. He tells you that the best way to advertise your webpage is google adwords which is totally false. He tells you that you will only have to pay about 5 to 25 cents per clic and that you will see crazy amounts of money coming withing the next few weeks. Totally false, google charges about $5.00+ per click or sometimes more if you want to be in the 1st page for this keyword and related keywords. There is also no way to see if you are making any sales right away because since they are the middle man they can intercept them and take weeks for them to post them in your account so forget about twitching your marketing campaigns if you see they are not working because you cant see anything . If you make money or not is not important to them because most people dont. As long as you sign the contract you are doomed. I remember the guy dave gilmore or whatever his name is: “Anthony made $100,000 by only spending $200 in advertising with Google”. Not true

Tom answers:

Here is a very basic plan to get started…

1. Pick a product. Choose a physical product from commission junction, clickbank, or an independent affiliate program from a directory like the one below.

2. Setup either a domain with the product name, or a free blog at wordpress.com or blogger.com to have something to link to. You can just buy a domain name with your own hosting and redirect to the affiliate product with your link. Write 1 ‘presell’ page that explains the benefits of the product with multiple buttons/links with your affiliate link to the product home page.

3. Write articles with your product keywords in the titles and also listed 3-5 times throughout each aritcle and point the links to your domain or blog. For a beginner article marketing works well. So write 3-5 articles about the product, an overview if your not familiar with the product in a review style format. Submit to the major article directories like ezinearticles, goarticles, articlesbase, squidoo, and hubpages and place links at the bottom of the article with a call to action to your domain or blog.

4. Signup at some social bookmarking sites and then social bookmark your articles AND your blog.

5. Repeat the above steps with another product

Do that on a consistent basis and you’ll be making money in no time. Good luck.

Tom answers:

Yes, some people do but only people who are willing to put a great deal of time into it and genuine effort. There are a lot of scams out there but there are also some legitimate ones. SFI is a very legit program and is even listed with the Better Business Bureau. However, with them, you only make residual income as an EA…For more info on them go to below website

Tom answers:

I’m an affiliate marketer and I make about $100 per day, it is ok money. There are some guys out there that make $1000 per day from affiliate marketing. It just requires a lot of time and patience. What is hard is getting your website to that #1 spot on the Google search. But once you do, you hit the jackpot. Here are some examples of my websites that are just blogs.

Http://zygor-guide.blogspot.com/

http://traffic–siphon.blogspot.com/

As you can see, you dont even need to pay for a real website, you can just use free websites such as Blogger to promote your product. There are a lot of free training videos out there on affiliate marketing, I would search for them frist before doing Wealthy Affiliate.

Tom answers:

Hey, I can feel your pain. 22 years old, full time student, have to do a lot of traveling. I have been researching the whole online job for years now. Learn from my experience Please!
I have been working with eBay and Amazon for years now but the economy is really hurting my business.
There are legit ways to make money online. It has taken me a lot of research to find this out. I have been doing the online ‘surveys’ for a couple years now. You just have to be organized and cancel something if its a trial.
Other than the surveys I have only found one opportunity that worked for me. I actually understand the whole process now of how to make money online. Please feel free to check out the links I will include. Good luck and always do your research!!
~jl