| This statement seems like its opposite to how | | | | traffic to drive thousands of paying customers to |
| everyone else in the world would feel. I mean who | | | | your site. So some of the less producing articles are |
| doesn't want to retire? Well I don't want to work | | | | not going to be a problem as long as you have the |
| for someone else the rest of my life either. This | | | | stellar ones. |
| too seems to be a contradiction, doesn't it? But | | | | There are all types of businesses that can and are |
| what I really am getting at is that I'd like to have the | | | | started on the internet these days. One of the |
| means to generate income anytime I want. And | | | | easiest is using the affiliate marketing model. If you |
| there lies the difference. You see, if I can find | | | | are not familiar with this, you essentially sign up with |
| ways to generate income via the internet then I | | | | affiliate companies (these are companies whose sole |
| don't need to hang onto my nine-to-five drudge job. | | | | purpose is to bring merchants and publishers together |
| But now you can see why I don't want to retire. I | | | | so that publishers can sell for the merchants). An |
| just want to shift my focus from drudge to | | | | example of an affiliate company is <a |
| automated, fun money making. | | | | rel="nofollow" |
| There are definately proven methods that can help | | | | onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(' |
| you to do just want I am talking about. I am | | | | outgoing/article_exit_link');" href=" Junction.< |
| almost at a point where I can drop the day job and | | | | a>. The merchant pays Commission Junction a |
| focus more of my attention on generating cash flow | | | | fee to be listed on its site. The merchant will |
| from my internet businesses. The great thing about | | | | approve publishers (that's you) and then when |
| an internet business like the one I describe below is | | | | approved, you get a code from Commission Junction |
| that you can do it anywhere and when you start | | | | for that merchant and you strategically place the |
| making some good money, you can get other people | | | | code on some or many of your web pages. If |
| to do some of the more mundane tasks like writing | | | | someone comes to your site and purchases the |
| articles or posting to blogs, or creating web sites. | | | | merchant's product via your site, you get a |
| Now don't get me wrong. You may enjoy doing | | | | commission. |
| those things. But imagine if you outsourced some or | | | | Notice here that this model allows you to sell without |
| all of those efforts. You could get more done in | | | | actually carrying any inventory. That means there is |
| less time. Instead of writing one article an hour you | | | | no overhead involved (other than the time it takes |
| can have ten people writing one or two articles for | | | | to set up your sites and perhaps some advertising to |
| that same hour and you've increased your | | | | get traffic to your site). But compared with a brick |
| productivity ten times. | | | | and mortar business, having no inventory will save |
| You have to weigh how much it is going to cost to | | | | you a ton of money. This is why affiliate marketing |
| have others do your work with what is produced | | | | is so popular. But doesn't that mean it is |
| and its income generating ability. In other words, if | | | | oversaturated? The answer is yes and no. |
| you spend ten dollars for an article and that article | | | | Many people do attempt affiliate marketing but only |
| only produces two dollars worth of income in its | | | | few actually succeed. So the drop out rate is |
| lifetime, this is not a healthy way to conduct | | | | huge. Which essentially means that there is less |
| business. But you also have to realize that some | | | | competition than most people think. The ones that |
| articles that are produced are going to produce much | | | | stick it out are the ones that take up the slack for |
| more than what you pay for them to have | | | | those that drop out. |
| created. One article can actually produce enough | | | | |