Making Money On The Web with Affilate Marketing, another update and motivator

I vowed to not let a month slip by without making a post about something. But, it's been almost two months now so this hopefully we be short and possibly useful to someone on the world wide web. You see, it's all about caring for each other. Too often we get wrapped up in ourselves, hardly thinking of others. You can work so hard for yourself and get a lot of frustration but then if you stop just for a moment and do something for someone else, you get instant gratification. This might sound sucky to you and you may not even be interested in what I'm saying at this point in your life or day. That's okay because one day you will have these same thoughts and you might remember that you read about on a blog somewhere. My latest thoughts for myself are to begin creating a new web site to sell products. I have talked about affiliate marketing in prior posts. I have this web site design in mind, now I just need to get moving on the first step, creating that first home page. I already have the domain name and it's been sitting there doing nothing. I've signed up with companies year after year of which products I have liked. Now I can't even remember all of them. I know I have a file folder somewhere on this computer that may have all the emails with the acceptance of my applications to be an affiliate. I just have to hunt them down one by one. Each will be set up on their own page as a sub page behind the main home page. From the home page there will be a list of categories of products or just an A to Z list to click on. I'm not sure how it will go yet. Okay, I've given away my secret to success but I am hoping that it might benefit you to get going too on making money on the web. I'd like to see others doing this along with myself. Who knows what may come of all of this. I envision myself sipping a cool drink on a resort island with fellow affiliate marketers one day in the future. We each get up and speak about our successes and our business trials and tribulations. My end goal is to set up a trust to manage all the extra income I could never spend and help the poor. A bold and ambitious goal you might say. But, it's done all the time so why not we too. Like I said, giving is instant gratification. Helping each other is another one of those great little and important things in life. So, what are you waiting for, get going already.

What is an affiliate and how do I make money online?

What you say? An affiliate is you being a part of a company. A lot of companies on the web now are wanting you as an affiliate to help them get more business. It is a simple method of business and would work for you if you put some time into it. My goal is to create a web page with multiple pages where most anyone like myself can go to, to be able to find cool links to sites that have what I am looking for most. I will have categories of stuff that when you click on one it will take you to that page with links and text with reviews. It will give you some of my personal experience that I write about as time goes on. One would hope to gain followers that would use your site to click from and shop from. Your text links and banner ads would take users to company web pages where people would shop and you get a referral bonus if they buy something. Amazon starts out at a four percent commission. Now that I am thinking about this I want to have a page that will show each of the companies that I come across that have affiliate opportunities and their starting commission or bonus level. It will take me a while to do. So, why go through all the trouble? Because you and I sit and think and we think, and we think day after day, week after week and year after year on how to make money, right? You and I have not come up with any late breaking invention or idea yet that will get us rich and fast have we? Of course now. I have always read where the turtle may be slow but he is sure to get there in the end. I have adopted that principle since I was taught that when I was a little kid by my mother. I have always been a slow learner and I have accepted that. I do know that I can learn anything though if I put my mind to it and take the time too. So, I have been studying this affiliate marketing thing for a while now. I have set up an Amazon Astore and have gotten a few sales but that is it. I learned to go and read the discussion forum at Amazon Associates Central. There you will glean the experience of old hands who will sometimes give you information on just what you need to do to be successful like a few of them are. Some of them are making in the thousands a month. I would be happy to be making in the hundreds right now. So, if you have followed me this far, stay tuned as I will be writing more on this. If you have taken the next step in getting yourself a hosting account and a domain name set up with a web page, then, you are ahead of me and that is my next step. I use GoDaddy for my domain stuff but there are others out there too. I like GoDaddy as their support answers the phone promptly and the techs know their stuff and can usually have you off and running within five minutes on any problem. More later....