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Online Business Experience

Posted by Nancy on May 9th, 2012

This is an article that I wrote 10 years ago at the start of my online business experience. If you are considering working online and are unsure of your abilities, then I suggest you read my experience as a “newbie”. Maybe it will help!

Advertising: The Ultimate Headache

I am not an Internet guru. I am a retired homemaker who has a lot of time on her hands. I do take my business seriously. I feel as if I am on a new learning curve, and everything is coming at me at one time. Learning about SEO for my website? Is it search engine friendly? How are the search engines reading my site? Is anyone going to click on my site, and are they going to find it user friendly? Are they going to buy anything? I am so overwhelmed! Do you feel the same?

I have checked and double-checked my keywords; my ad placements; making sure my keywords in my ads match to the keywords on my site. I truly understand HTML; I still don’t understand SEO. I’m not sure anyone on the Internet truly does understand it. From what I have read, everyone has a different opinion on the right way to “optimize”.

I looked up the word “optimize” in the dictionary; hoping against hope that I would have a better understanding if I was clear on the meaning of the word. It’s a logical step for anyone who wants to learn and understand. Here is the definition: Optimize:  Read more... (924 words, estimated 3:42 mins reading time)

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Working Online

Posted by Nancy on February 28th, 2012

Anyone wanting to work at home needs to know that it takes commitment, hard work, and patience to be successful.

I have been working online for 10 years as an affiliate marketer.  Do I make a lot of money while my business runs itself?  Absolutely not!  I still work 6-8 hours a day.  I am fortunate in having that luxury as my husband and I are retired and have time, but I know others are not so lucky.

However, I am still not rich by any means.  I bring in $500+ a month in extra income using mostly free advertising.  Would I like to make more, sure…but then I have the added problem of perhaps losing some of my Social Security income, so I am careful how much I actually earn online.  At my age I don’t feel comfortable enough to give up a $20,000 income in the hopes that I can make more online.  It is too unpredictable.

If I were to start over working online I would not only be an affiliate marketer (there is good money there) but also work several of the programs that I offer.  I do an occasional survey and do get paid from there but other than that I try the programs for the 30-60 day period and then usually ask for a refund.  Read more... (493 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)

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Affiliate Links

Posted by Nancy on January 23rd, 2012

Many of the ads you see on this site are affiliate links.  I wanted to post this warning, and it is going to go to all my sites.  If you should click on one of my links and it doesn’t go to the program that it should but to another program then be sure and research that program thoroughly.

I have no control of redirected affiliate links.  That is done through the marketing companies I work with.  Should the program I am sponsoring fill up then the link will automatically redirect to another program the company is sponsoring.

Why am I telling you this?  Simple, not all the programs that you will get redirected to are legitimate and it has nothing to do with me as an affiliate marketer.  This is just one of the downsides of the business.  I try my hardest to only promote products I am comfortable with and that will not cost my customers an arm and a leg, because let’s face it in these hard economic times arms and legs are hard to come by.

Also recently on one of my other sites my link was being redirected to a product that I myself got burned on and so naturally I do not want to promote it.  Yes, I can get burned.  I forgot my cardinal rule when I applied for the product…research.  I didn’t do enough and I got burned.

So I took my link down on a very good legitimate offer so that others would not get scammed.  Read more... (286 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

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Affiliate Marketing-My Thoughts

Posted by Nancy on January 15th, 2012

I talk a lot on this blog about affiliate marketing and how it works.  For the last 10 years this is what I have done, affiliate marketing.  I have never promised anyone they would get rich over night, because quite frankly that is not going to happen.

Affiliate marketing takes time, perseverance and quite truthfully trial and error.  I will be the first to admit some of the programs that I have offered turned out to be troubling to say the least.  But I am proud to say this is not the norm.

Finding  legitimate work at home offers is not hard, finding ones that will be in business 5-6 years from now is the hard part.  There are no guarantees when it comes to work at home businesses.  You could sign up for one company on Monday, get the “hang” of the business by Friday, start making money the following week, and then the bottom drops out from under you.

This is the nature of both affiliate marketing and the programs we sell.  During the last 10 years I like to think I have built relationships and knowledge about the people behind the programs I offer.  Not saying there won’t be a few “duds” in the mix, I am not infallible.

My parents used to say there are no guarantees in life, just try as hard as you can, be yourself, and keep on moving forward.  This advice I have followed.  Read more... (382 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

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How Affiliate Programs Work For You

Posted by Nancy on January 8th, 2012

Signing up for an affiliate marketing program is the best way to enable others to do your marketing for you. You could make as much as $200 an hour and work just a few hours each day by becoming a member of or developing your very own affiliate marketing program.  Several affiliate marketing programs can get you on  the correct path to a lasting cash flow by way of a small or a work from home business.

So, just what are affiliate marketing programs? An affiliate program is sharing income among you and also a business that provides goods and services. This business pays you for sending buyers to their website. Now that you’ve learned what an affiliate marketing program is, how does it work?

First, you add hyperlinks on your own web site to a certain businesses internet site. Whenever a website visitor clicks on that hyperlink and buys a service or product from that business, you’ve made a referral payment. Some affiliate marketing programs will only pay you if the customer purchases right then while others will keep track of the person for you in case they visit the site at a later date not from your link and then purchase. The typical referral payment comes from a fraction of the total bought. Some businesses will pay a pre-determined fee, or pay if customer clicks through, or any other steps begun through your website. That percent may vary from one company to another. More traffic = the greater the product sales = income in your wallet.  Read more... (755 words, estimated 3:01 mins reading time)

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