Learn How to Earn Money on the Internet as an Affiliate Marketer

Want to learn how to earn money on the internet as an affiliate marketer and where (in my eyes) you can find the best online training available today?

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of ways to earn money on the internet and Affiliate Marketing is just one of them.

A few years ago when I was between jobs I found myself with far too much spare time on my hands and decided to see if it was possible to replace my then-current salary.

If you are here reading this post then I’m sure like me that you thought that making a living online would be easy, especially as everybody you talk to or the videos you watch are of people always declaring that they have mastered whatever they are doing to make this online journey a success?

Surely not everybody could be making a living from the Internet, could they?

Well no, not if you look at the reported statistics which indicates that around 4% of all online marketers are actually making a living on the Internet.

{That is some figure. Out of every 1000 online marketers, only 40 are actually making a living!}

Those statistics alone are enough to frighten you back into a full-time job.

Anyway, I found that my chosen career as a freelance software developer was in decline with contracts no longer in abundance as they once were.

I won’t bore you with reasons for this, but needless to say, I found myself in a dilemma, and that I had to either struggle with finding the odd contract here and there or find an alternative career path.

I decided there and then that I wanted to learn what Affiliate Marketing was all about and whether I could succeed in this competitive industry or not?

The “not” didn’t even enter into the equation!

This was going to work, and all I had to do was work it all out.

Easier said than done!

I researched this subject endlessly and listened to anyone who had something positive to say, and resonated with some and found some great advice, but as you’ll probably know if Affiliate Marketing is your desire it isn’t easy.

Who is telling you the right story?

I tried a number of routes and products and had some successes and lost some money, but it just didn’t seem that I was going to be making a living the way I was doing it.

Something just wasn’t right, until I found a training platform that I could “trust” and with all the help you would ever need to make this “New Career” a SUCCESS!

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How to earn money on the Internet: Learn the 3 Simple Steps to Building an Online Business

To know just how this all works, all you have to do is break it all down into three simple steps.

Master these 3 steps and you are on your way towards taking back what rightfully belongs to you, and that is your Freedom!

Choose an Interest

Before you start an online business the very first thing you need to do is decide upon an interest, like a hobby and hopefully something you can be passionate about. Although passion isn’t a prerequisite. 

This is what we might call a niche or sub-niche.

I just want to throw you some interesting facts before we carry on!

Google alone takes around 75% of the search engine market, so that’s where most people go, right?

Every single second at last count there were 80,000+ keyword searches entered into the “Google Search Engine Bar” by people like you and me, looking for all sorts of information and certainly advice.

Over a full year  that’s 2.522 trillion “keyword searches”

That’s an enormous figure and every one of those “keyword searches” as the potential to become a NICHE.

See just how enormous the potential is, right?

Having a passion certainly helps when building your website, but this can come at a later date, especially when you start to see a return on your investment.

If you are unsure or would like some clarification on what a niche is, then check out an article I wrote that describes just what a Niche is and how to find one.

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Build a Website

Once you have found your Niche, then it’s down to building your website.

Don’t worry this is much easier than you may think.

Nowadays building a website is pretty straightforward and before you say “I don’t have a clue”. Take it from me you don’t require any technical skills. Maybe a few years ago but not now.

Check out this video and see for yourself, just how easy it is to create a website within 30 seconds.

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Get Rankings and Visitors

Visitors are people searching on the Internet and looking for pretty much anything. Remember the 2.522 TRILLION I mentioned earlier?

Without visitors to your website, you can’t make any money.

What you have to do is research the keywords that people are using to search for things in Google, Bing, and Yahoo that relate to YOUR chosen NICHE, and use those keywords as part of your articles or posts which you will publish on your website(s).

ALL that data is GOOGLE is available to us so that we can analyse and find the right keywords to use. We use a GREAT KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOL like Jaaxy that you can read about here.

Remember we are writing great content (and take it from me I hadn’t a clue at first) and using “KEYWORDS” that people are keying into GOOGLE (or any search engine for that matter).

Remember we are not trying to hard sell to people because this WILL not WORK. We are creating content to help people who are searching in Google etc.

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You need visitors to your website and there are 2 options.

• There is paid traffic

This is the quick way to finding visitors for your website, let somebody else do it for you. Whereas this can be very effective, but you need to know what you are doing because you can lose a ton of money.

• Free organic traffic or SEO 

This is where it gets interesting because this is 100% free, but it takes time and at the same time it will save you a ton of money.

This route is called SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Once you have this sussed your website will become a passive money-making machine that will generate you an income 24/7/365

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Earn Revenue

We as affiliate marketers earn by way of commissions on the sale of products.

Those products can come from anywhere, Amazon, eBay, ClickBank, Walmart, Target, AliExpress and many many more.

In order to become eligible for commissions paid out on the sale of a product, we have to join what is called an Affiliate Program.

These are usually FREE to join and only take a few minutes.

In fact, I have never come across an affiliate program that you have pay to join. At the end of the day you are getting people to purchase other companies products, so a win-win situation.

Whatever your niche happens to be, just type this into Google. Let’s say your website was about drones. A very popular pastime.

Drone affiliate programs – and you will be inundated with drone affiliate programs.

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How to earn money on the Internet as an Affiliate Marketer: Verdict!

These are the 3 steps required to learn and when you break it down like this should be a piece of cake, right?

I’m not going to sit here and tell you that this can be done overnight because it can’t, but with the right mindset and determination to succeed then there is no reason why anybody cannot do this.

Self-belief is a key and finding the right mentor and training platform is key to building a successful online business.

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I needed to learn how to start my own online business

I had to find a Mentor and possibly a training platform, but who do you turn to because there are so many?

Finding the right mentor wasn’t easy after listening to many so-called gurus, and I found that many of these training platforms were pure “BS”.

Their marketing strategies whilst effective “to some” put me straight off and I nearly came to a decision to call it a day.

If you look hard enough you will find some genuine online training and that’s exactly what I did.

It took a while with research but eventually, I found a training platform I can trust 100% and I only have great things to say about. Wealthy Affiliate is the training and you can check out a review that I wrote about them here.

Let me know what you think?

You can do your research which is what I did, thoroughly, and you will find it extremely difficult to find any negative feedback, and the negative feedback you do find will be someone trying to slate it just to get you into their thing.

What attracted me to Wealthy Affiliate was the no “BS” approach, with only 2 membership options to take into consideration and no card details asked for.

Seriously the offer of free membership with NO CARD DETAILS asked for had me a little suspicious at first because seldom do you come across such an offer. 

What sealed the deal for me was the fact that the co-owners Kyle and Carson are extremely active in the community and are there every step of the way to help and if you want clarification on anything, just private message them.

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Training, Networking, and the Community

Training

The training is exceptional and covers every aspect of affiliate marketing through text as well as video. These courses were developed by the co-owners with the newbie in mind.

There are 2 training courses

Getting started here certification – There are 5 levels.

1. Getting started – 27 lessons
2. Building your own traffic producing website – 35 lessons
3. Making money – 28 lessons
4. Mastering social engagement – 34 lessons
5. Achieving maximum success through content creation – 36 lessons

This course is designed for the newbie and very easy to follow.

If you can follow instructions then you can do this.

Affiliate Bootcamp – There are 7 levels

1. Getting your business rolling – 30 lessons
2. Content, keywords, and conversions – 30 lessons
3. Giving your site social value – 29 lessons
4. Get visual, get aesthetic, get a brand through media – 26 lessons
5. Knowing your audiences and catapulting your referrals – 49 lessons
6. Bing, Yahoo and the power of PPC – 32 lessons
7. How to scale successful PPC campaigns – 30 lessons

This course is more suited to affiliate marketers with a little more experience but don’t let that hold you back.

The same applies to this course in the design and extremely easy to follow.

It just expects you to have a certain level of knowledge.

Those 2 courses alone could cost well into the thousands, no kidding here.

Live video training on a weekly basis

Join Jay one of the successful entrepreneurs in one of his weekly teaching classes.

These webcam weekly training classes are invaluable.

Don’t want to participate because of the time of day, then wait for the training to be uploaded to the training platform.

You can go through the entire catalogue of videos in the archive area.

Additional training

Enter your search criteria into the search box and find all training relating to what members have gone out of their way to create.

Live Chat

In a rush and want your answer now!

Just enter your question into a live chat and you will get a reply back almost instantly.

Classrooms

Just pop into any class to find out answers to your questions and take part in the discussions. These are invaluable!

1. Getting Started
2. Wealthy Affiliate Program
3. Keyword, Niche and Market Research
4. Everything WordPress
5. Authoring and Writing Content
6. Search Engine Optimization
7. Social Engagement and Marketing
8. Website Development and Programming
9. Local Marketing
10. Video Marketing
11. Email Marketing
12. The Wealthy Affiliate Platform
13. Pay Per Click Marketing

Networking and the Community

We all use social media, right?

Within the training platform at Wealthy Affiliate,

you have the ability to link up with other members. A way of following their journey and successes. Get involved with questions and be part of the discussions.

The community is there to help you on your journey and goes beyond anything I have come across regarding networking and passing on valuable resources.

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Want to know more?

Keyword Tools

Keyword tools are extremely important when doing your research and finding just what people are searching for on Google.

There are many keyword tools out there, some good and some bad.

At Wealthy Affiliate, the free keyword tool has now been replaced with Jaaxy, which has now been integrated into the training platform.

The difference is that you no longer get a stripped-down version of Jaaxy which the free keyword tool was.

You now get 4 membership options

1. Jaaxy Starter – restricted for Free Members
2. Jaaxy Lite – NOW COMES AS PART OF THE PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP
3. Jaaxy Pro
4. Jaaxy Enterprise

If you would like to know more about what Jaaxy has to offer. Check out my thorough review of Jaaxy which goes into everything.

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Learn how to earn money on the Internet: Final Analysis

There is far too much information to put into a series of posts and therefore why not take it for a spin. You have nothing to lose but so much to gain.

You should have more than enough information regarding what I believe to be the best training platform available on the Internet today.

I can see myself being a member for many years to come and if you are serious about learning how to build an online business you won’t find a better training platform out there.

If you have reached this far then I can assume that you found this article of interest, and if you hadn’t heard of Wealthy Affiliate before then you certainly have now.

I hope I have at least helped in your research in a way to learn how to make money online and that I have given you some ideas.

Why not take it for a trial run, become part of a fantastic community and see for your self just what is on offer.

Start as a Free member as I did and research the training platform once you are in.

If you like what you see then upgrade to premium and take advantage of everything on offer, and remember if you do this within 7 days of joining then you get the first month for $19.

That gives you a full 5 weeks to check out the training platform and if you don’t like what you see then call it a day and all you will have lost is the $19.

Seriously where are you going to get training like this on the Internet at this price?

You simply aren’t, check it out for yourself- I would like to create a Free Wealthy Affiliate membership.

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Feedback

If you found this article of interest please feel free to add comments below and I will get back to you at my earliest convenience.

Any questions or ideas leave in the comments as I would love to hear them.

I would like to thank you for taking the time out to read this article and hopefully, you found it helpful in your research, but any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. I will be more than happy to help.

I’d also like to wish you success in your research and who knows maybe I’ll see you on the inside.

Mick