Uncommon Early 20s Man

Everyone does. Even the super affiliates started with probably a few hundred bucks if not they took it off their credit card and went in debt. So what is a good solution? There are many ways to make money.

1) Get a Job - Since making money online is more tweaked for younger generation who grew up playing SNES or atari everyone is probably under 30. Probably has no degree and trying to get one in college so they can buy that fancy whip they want sitting on the dealership floor. I know I’m one of them. I’m turning 21, I don’t work as of right now (except for ppc) and I’m trying to finish college. GET A JOB DAMNIT. If you have one and you are still broke, save money and stop spending on g/f, car, computer, clothing, drinks, etc. Save up $500 and that should last you a LONGGG way. I normally suggest $200 but $500 might get you up there faster. Work an extra day at your POS job. Your manager might even be happy you are working extra. Or get another job..seriously. Saving $50 off a paycheck will not kill you unless you are spending waayy too much.

2) Sell on ebay/ craiglist. I personally have done this. It beats working retail. I bought a product in bulk that I knew would sell on craiglist. So I went out and sold and made $100 easy. But be very careful. I sold nintendo wiis on ebay and made $1,000 in the month of December 2007. EASY!

GOOD TIP FOR CRAIGLIST

Look at cellphones or any electronic product that people post. If there is about 2-3 posting then it probably sells. Buy off the person and bargain and lower it for $10 off hes selling for. Chances depending on what it is, he will sell it. Lets take a laptop example. Sony Laptop $300 OBO. Email they guy asking for $290 RIGHT NOW AND I WILL PICK IT UP. Hes probably going to say “fine”. Now you bought a sony laptop for $290. Resell on craglist for $320. BOOM. Profit @ $30. Does it work? YES IT DOES 100% unless its something that people wouldn’t buy. Don’t do ipods and popular phones because everyone will have the same price.

3) Sell Aluminum Cans- Here is a story that actually happened. I had a friend working at those recycling center. He said he saw this nice BENZ pull up with a bunch of cans and his buddy had a truck full of cans. My friend smiled and asked the man, “nice car, i want one of those”. The man looked at him and gave him a smile and said “well..saving money is one thing and these cans I have paid for it”. I don’t know if the man was lying but moral of the story is no matter how small it sells it makes a living.

4) Collect any money - I know this sounds really stupid but look around your room and look for coins. Another true story believe it or not I really don’t care. Back in HS (3years ago) I collected quarters. Put it in a piggy bank and save. College came and I cashed it in. $1,000+. If you have a quarter, bid on a keyword and if it converts you make double if not 5x.

5) FREE YAHOO , MSN, ADWORDS coupons. There is a ton online. I used $200 on yahoo. Hey..it was free!. That is enough to start you off.

I have been teaching a lot of people and they just can’t get the concept down. I made a post about this a while back but its hard to explain.I’m going to explain it as simple as possible. Mind you, this is what I am doing and everyone knows there are different aspects to learn.

First of all there is YOU. Someone who is living their life pay check to pay check, earning 50k a year, working retail, has kids, college student, nurse, fireman, police, high school drop out. WHATVER!

Now there is the advertisement company. They are the ones where you make your money. Basically they want to promote their product. Sell Ringtones, Rent DVDs, credit debit, dating, housing, freebies, WHATVER!

Now there is the affiliate program. They gather the advertisements for you to promote. Again I still don’t know 100% how this works but just stick with it. They put all the advertisement company’s into one place so its easy for you instead of signing up to 100s of offers.

Now there is the Internet. You will use a Paid Search or SEOing. Paid search is when you pay for bids of keywords to make you money. No keywords NO MONEY. SEOing is being #1 where your offers are and you don’t pay a penny and you are at 100% profit. SEOing is good but not as easy as adding keywords.

Finally there is the consumer. Their job is to sign up for your offer and give you money. Done? Alright here is an easy illustration.

So a few of my buddies went out to eat. We decided to go out for pizza and maybe grab a few beers. The first thing I noticed was when the cashier was giving me a pizza box. It had a blockbuster ad. At first I was just thinking that maybe blockbuster wanted to advertise. Then I look closer and see this.

I suddenly realized that it was an affiliate link. I went to the link and it was just a sign up. Of course I didn’t sign up because I can make myself money instead. According to blockbuster

“Earn a $33 commission for every valid subscription”

Not bad right? Just put it in every pizza box and someone will sign up and you earn $33 bucks. Very smart idea..very smart indeed

As an affiliate marketer you need to learn this skill. There is no way you can go far without learning how to make a landing page. Sure people can buy landing pages and premade web sites. A nice way to cheat your way up to professional web design but after a while you start to get problems along the way. Maybe something happened and an image won’t load. Maybe the whole .index won’t load at all. Or maybe you want a new color or theme. You can either buy a landing page for another $20-$100. (jeez..) Seriously people do pay that much for a landing page and I wouldn’t be surprised if someone paid for $150+ for one. Show me the page you want and I can make it without breaking a sweat. I’m still noob at web design but I can probably get the same conversion rate with a $50+ landing page

So if you are not lazy unlike thousands of people out there, I can teach you a thing or two on how to create one.

A Landing page is basically the same set up on how you would show people what you are offering. For this post I won’t go over what the contents are but I will go over in detail how to at least set one up. There are so many ways and this is the way I have mastered.

Things You Need

1) Adobe Photoshop w/ image ready

2) Dreamweaver (doesn’t matter which version)

3) Ftp (I recommend Fireftp for ease of use)

4) Domain / Host

5) Your Brain

First of all you need a domain and a host. I can hook you up with a good deal. I’m suppose to make around $100 with every referal but since I help everyone a lot I’m going to use up the $100 on your guys. (Free domains + disk space with package). Domain is the name of your web site. So my domain name is obviously “entripunow.com”. Domains are important because if you are selling laptops you would NOT want “potato.com”. Maybe depending on your niche you can use “laptopsonline.com”. I just threw those examples so don’t worry about clicking or checking. Domains are cheap but make sure you don’t get all those extras. Unless you are running some major web site with tons of traffic, you don’t need most of the extras. So don’t spent more than $8 for a domain. Hosting is next. This is where the domain is going to be hosted. This is basically where all your files will be located. This will normally take a day or two for everything to be approved / hosted.

Next is the page itself. You can use adobe photoshop to make a page. Select the size you want. I normally use 800 x 600 as a landing page. Make your design and have your banners , header..etc. etc. Make CLICKABLE BUTTONS which is where people will click and see your offer page. Something like “click here” wouldn’t be a good idea. . We will take ringtones. Select Carrier : att , verizon. Make a button for att and verizon and people will click it since that is what they will be looking for.

Following me so far? Now flatten image (don’t really have to) and move to image ready on photoshop. I wish I had the time to post pics but I’m short right now. Get your Slice Tool. Slice the area where people will be clicking. So slice around the att , verizon buttons you just made. Good ? Now “save optimized as..” html / images.

Good job you made it this far. Open up dreamweaver and open the saved file. It should be a .html file. In dreamweaver you can edit your web site title under the codes. I should go in deep details with this but you will end up getting bored and click the “x” on your browser. Dreamweaver is where you can add all the codes you want and text. All set? Now save in dreamweaver. Make sure the web page is index.html. When you do this, it will tell the browser to open up that file and load everything. There has been so many times where people don’t do it and get an error. Everything is up but the browser will search the directory and we like.. uh-oh no index.html and will error.

Open up firefox and go to fireftp. This is where logins sucks. You will get many values and you will be like WTF is ftp. Well for ftp just use ftp.yourwebsite.com. Username and password is the username you given access to the web site. This step is hard for most people but you just have to go back and remember what the ftp access account you set up was. Now you should had been able to connect. Under the web site folder which is “yourwebsite.com” open it. Now drag your index.html and images in that folder. Open another window or tab in firefox and see if your web site loads. It should had loaded if not there is like 100s of things to check but usually its not a problem. As long as its index.html.

WHEW..that was a tough one. I’m going to proofread this later on because I’m so tired.

HAHA! What happened? Yea I know I havn’t Blogged in a while. I have been working hard. I been making some income. Not much but I finally figured out how all this stuff works so nowadays i have some leads. So far its been good. I had my good and bad days..Like I keep telling people, this is not exactly a get rich now!. Its possible to earn $100+ off a new niche when you wake up tomorrow. Not always but can happen. Uhh..my credit card has been like tired from all the charges. I just paid it off and I had to dip in my savings because i get paid NET15 for now. So far life is good and you just have to keep working. Hard work pays off in this industry. Let me tell you a funny dream i had.

I guess all this marketing has been in my head and I even dreamed about it. I was actually with my girlfriend in my dream and I was in line buying something. There was a customer in my dream who kept mugging me and saying how slow I was when I was paying the cashier. I didn’t care but I think the cashier did. He called up the owner, I guess hoping I would get kicked out of the store for being so slow in paying. So I told the man “O man…its a thos old white men in business suits to the rescue” Then he was like “what do you know about us?, I do the same thing you do, I’m always stuck in traffic trying to ge to work , we are the same

So I told him “No sir. we are not the same. I own an ONLINE BUSINESS.” He looked at me astonished and I walked away.  Weird dream isn’t it? It seriously happened. I guess this whole making money online thing has gotten to my head. But yeah guys I’m still here making money. If you guys need help just post me a comment. I don’t believe i left an email so this is the easiest way to give me a holla! lol