An Affiliate Marketer from the Ground Up

I was just thinking about the single 'best' way to make money on the Internet. I guess I've come to my conclusions from a combination of reading the blogs of the big name guys, but also because I'm really

starting to see how things work a little more.

If you read some of my other post, you know that my PPC ventures haven't went as great as I had hoped they would. However, and this is a big HOWEVER...I did make a little progress. I was moving in the right direction. I spent less money, and had a better conversion rate. I still wasn't making what I wanted though, so I wasn't exactly impressed, at first. Now I see it's not just a 'stick this site up and get rich', or 'run this campaign real quickly and make $2,856,275.00'. Sure, you've seen the guys with their checks from Google and the networks with an unbelievable figure on them, I have too. You know what though, those guys started someplace too, at the beginning like the rest of us. So I've found a new enthusiasm when I was not quite pleased with the way things were going. I've got several sites in the works (even though you should probably concentrate on one starting out(I believe)), and I am learning. As long as I have my mind set to succeed, I will, and you will too. It's like anything else in life, you have to want it badly enough to figure out how to get it.

Anyway, back to the topic of this post. I guess it was a little (lot) misleading. There is an absolute 'best way' to make money online though, and here it is. Try everything, I mean everything that you can possibly think of, as long as it's legal of course. Also, I personally don't even like anything that is deceiving or might leave someone at the other end, you know, the end that supplies the money that we'll be putting into our bank accounts, feeling pissed. I just got a phishing email last night from a PayPal imposter, and it looked good, very good. I just can't help thinking what could have happened if I had clicked the link and gave up my personal information. Being an honest person, as I'm sure most of you are, I can't, even remotely conceive how someone could do that to another person and actually feel good about it. I have no doubt if they got rich, totally off of those methods, that they would feel completely satisfied and would never look back on it in a negative light.

So, just do what I'm doing, try anything and (almost) everything, and don't give up, no matter what. I've read tons of blogs related to affiliate marketing at this point, and although there's different personal stories and styles of writing, many of the specific messages remain the same.

There's many people out there making a ton of money from many different methods, and I'll continue trying everything I can, keeping what works and throwing out the rest. I do know however, if you find yourself a niche, something you really know and love hopefully, and follow the basic guidelines of building it, you will make money. I have no doubt about that. If you've got that niche and you build a site that contains quality content, and you can start generating a respectable amount of traffic to it, there's no way that you CAN'T make money. Unless of course, you just don't have any offers or ads there. If you can just get it going and have all the necessary components in place, it will work, and it will keep working better. That's assuming of course, you don't just leave it sitting after you start making some money. Once it starts rolling, just keep giving it the necessary push to keep it going. It might just turn out to be 'The Absolute Best Thing To Do To Make Money Online'.

P. S. If you didn't read my post about SiteSell, please read it. I believe that to be the single best thing anyone can do to get started successfully on their quest to making money on the Internet. It's EVERYTHING you need except the work. It also touches on BANS, and it's a very good system in it's own right, just a different approach.

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