The Journey Continues

We have established that for you to make money on the Internet you have to sell something.  There are so many different things that you can sell it would take a book to talk about all of them.

On the Internet you are going to a sell a product that you can hold in your hand  or you’re going to sell a electronic product. For instance a book from a bookstore is something that you hold and an e-book is an electronic product.

I have sold items that you can hold before and still do.  It is a very good stream of income to go along with the others you might have.   Many of the people selling tangible products (products you can hold) sell them on their websites or on sites like eBay and they are quietly making a very good income.

You can sell products that you make, products that you buy wholesale and store somewhere or products that someone drop ships for you.  Drop shipping is where you do not buy the product.  When something is sold you pay wholesale plus shipping for the item and the person you are buying it from ships it from their warehouse to the customer.

If you have a good source of supply from a drop shipper you set up your website with the items you are selling and go to work driving traffic to the site.  No inventory to stock you just work at getting customers.

Drop shipping is a workable business model as long you have someone reliable on the other end that will ship the product quickly.  Amazon is a good example of a drop shipper through there affiliate program.

There is a ton of drop shippers out there that are reliable and there is money quietly being made by people all over the Internet using drop shippers.

Now why did I mention drop shipping when we are mostly talking about information marketing in this blog?  I mentioned it because that is what affiliate marketing is.

Affiliate marketing is nothing but a drop shipping arrangement.  In most cases the drop shipper will even collect the money and send your part to you.  It does not matter if it is a tangible product that you can hold in your hand or intangible like an e-book that you can’t it still works.

Someone else does the work to create the product, makes sure there is a way to collect from customers and delivers the product to them. In many cases they even furnish you with a website to sell the product from.  Then they pay you from the sale.

For someone new to the Internet there is not a better way to get started then selling using a good affiliate program.

If an affiliate program is so good which one do you start with?

In the next post we will talk about what to look for in an affiliate program.

Pick the right one and marketing on the Internet can not only make you money but be fun.  Pick the wrong one and you will be scratching your head wondering why it did not work for you.

Action Step: Make a list of all the affiliate programs you have already joined.  Go back and check your bookmarks and your password saver if you use one to make sure you did not forget any.

Action Step: If you have not read it yet get your copy of the e-book Pizza Plan by Clicking Here. This is a very good book for anyone who is struggling to build a business on the Internet to read.

There is no one time offers, forms to fill out or email list to join just the download for the book.  Click Here.

Word of caution if you are not going to read any e-books I offer don’t download it.  No points given to the person with the most unread e-books on their hard drive.

To Be Continued.

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This is a common question that I hear, “What should I do to finally start making money on the Internet?”

Here are several things that you should understand. A business on the Internet is still a business. It is no different then the corner market. You have to have something to sell and you have to have people come into the store to buy something.

Your product on the Internet unlike in the corner market can be tangible (something you can hold) or intangible (information). Unlike the corner market on the Internet you have a whole different set of tools to work with.

Even though you have these wonderful tools on the Internet you still have to sell something and have people come in the store. (Traffic to your website)

Without something to sell and traffic no matter what you do you are dead in the water and you are going to wander around spending money trying to figure out why you are not making money.

Have you ever joined a program that talked about how the heavy hitter Guru that you are joining under would put a ton of people into your downline and all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the benefit?

Oh! That sounds so good and you join but when you get into the website you find out to benefit you have to signup 2, 3, or some other number of personal referrals yourself before you can collect anything. Back to traffic and a product.

No matter what you do. Even if you are only an affiliate for other programs and do not have a website or if you do have your own website you are still going to have to generate traffic.

You are going to have to get people to come into your store even if it only has one product in it and not just drive by outside and look at the sign.

I have read and bought many of the programs on the Internet and every one of them to work is based on having traffic.

That leads to a ton of questions such as:

What product is a good one?

How do I get traffic to my site?

What am I doing wrong and a ton of other ones?

That brings up too many questions to cover in this one post. We will cover most of them over the next couple of weeks so stayed tuned.

Here is a great $5.00 book that helps you understand why you are not making money on the Internet.

Stop Being A Victim http://www.trker.com/go/39137

and for the same five bucks gives you a product to sell.

You can have the best affiliate site or website on the internet and if no one visits it you will not make money. If you have a terrible affiliate site or website and get enough traffic then you will eventually make a sale.

100% of the time when people ask, “What should I do to finally start making money on the Internet?” I find out the reason they are not making money is because of the product or the amount of traffic they are getting to their site.

Now before you start leaving comments about how it is much more complicated then that yes there is a whole lot more to marketing on the Internet but if you do not have a good product and traffic the two basics you are not making anything.

To Be Continued

Bo Tipton

The Ornery Marketer