Transform Your Hobbies Into Money

By Aaron Saki
Posted Friday, November 12, 2004

On Cyberspace

On Cyberspace (Internet), there is a method from which you can make thousands of dollars per month without needing to have your own product or service. This method is highly flexible, and can be used in different forms to produce income by different people with different knowledge and skills. But one definite use of this method can make money for almost any human who is willing to just do it. This specific style can be defined as:

Transform Your Hobbies or Passions into Income Generating Websites

How? Through Affiliate Programs – The Method for Anyone to Go Smiling All The Way to the Bank, or to Wait Laughing Every Month While Waiting Commission Checks To Come to Your Feet. Let’s talk about...

Affiliate Programs

In 1997, Amazon.com launched the pre-existing idea of affiliate programs. (Amazon.com practically sells anything, but primarily books, and sells online only).

Since books are all-inclusive on any subject of human activity, Amazon.com thought why not utilize all websites out there, who offer knowledge, in such a way that these websites will offer links from their sites to Amazon.com (thus boosting traffic levels and revenue for Amazon.com), and Amazon.com in return will pay commissions to the referrer (affiliate) for each product sold. That's how affiliate programs started and the idea circulated.

An affiliate program works, using Amazon as the example, as follows; the affiliate provides links from his site to certain books on the Amazon site, books that are related to the affiliate's site content. Amazon uses advanced software that tracks who sends each visitor. If and when the visitor buys, Amazon pays the affiliate a commission. Affiliate program is a service offered to people who want to make money.

Affiliate programs work for anyone, since there are thousands of merchant companies out there who offer affiliate programs on thousands of different products. Online Businesses that offer Affiliate Program are broad in scope; Computing & Internet, Fun & Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Home & Family, Marketing & Advertising, Money & Employment, Society & Culture, Sports & Recreation. There are, surely, offline businesses that offer partnership too, but this article is indifferent to Offline Business. At any rate, online business is immensurable easier then an offline business and success rate is higher, partly owing to the easiness of starting an online business, and also due to the fact that online business stands steadfast in front of a Global Massive Market, instead of a Local Market. Of course this may not always be true, but mostly. %50 of Americans are projected to be involved in home business by 2005, but the rest %50 will not involved in an offline business.

Let’s Get Back To Affiliate Programs:

All the book-keeping, order processing, shipping and handling is taken care by Merchant companies. Your only goal is to make people click on the link which will send them to the merchant company. And Its FREE Join affiliate programs.

Broad nature of affiliate programs makes it possible for anyone to leverage Internet, which brings us to the specific method I mentioned on the headline.

Transforming your hobbies into income generating websites

Let me tell you one thing before going further, To transmute hobbies into income is only one way to make money through affiliate programs. There are other ways, such as, if you have an established business, you can promote related affiliate products on your website as recommendations. If you are conducting an e-mail campaign then you can advertise affiliate products in your e-mail campaigns to your subscribers. The way I am talking about is largely desirable for beginners. Let’s go on…

People who have website

Take a look at any website that doesn't sell anything but has some content on a particular subject, and you will find an online business that will offer an affiliate program(s) for that subject. Thus, the owner of that website can make money. So if you own a website, consider searching for a related affiliate program(s).

If your website is about Movies, you can get affiliated with Amazon.com and get access to their movie database; you can advertise anyone of their Movies on your website and get commissions if any visitor from your website follows your advertisement and buys from Amazon.com. As I said earlier, companies identify which visitor came from which affiliate by the use of advanced software technology. Each Affiliate has a unique URL that points to the merchant company. When you get affiliated with any company you are told how exactly the tracking process is handled.

People who don't have website

If you don’t own a website, then here is what you can do if you are interested in affiliate business (the way I am about to present is only one way to do it, I just want to give you an idea, but remember, most companies will give you tips and tricks to jump-start once you get affiliated with them).

One way which works well for many people is to concentrate on a small niche. Choose a topic in which you are passionately interested, and create a web site around that theme. Then select associate programs which closely fit the theme of your site and blend them into the site, using text links. Here is a simple step-by-step illustration.

Write articles or find articles with reprint rights that match your passions. You can find articles with reprint rights at (http://www.articlebank.com).

Of course there are many other websites that offer free articles. To find them is easy. Just type "Free Articles With Reprint Rights" on Google search engine and and choose from the results.

Select affiliate programs that fit the theme of your articles. How? For example, if you decide to write about Movies, just type in "Movie affiliate Program" or "DVD affiliate program" in Google and pick out from the results.

Create an informative website containing these nice Articles. To create a quality website, I recommend you go to (http://www.geocities.com/sitebuildit2003). With this service you can create a website if you can stack blocks. And in fact, they are specially designed for affiliate use.

Once you have a website, carefully ingrain your affiliate links into your website, wherever you see fit.

Once your website is ready, promote it by submitting to search engines. I have provided for you a free software that will submit your website to search engines. Go to (http://www.make-money.ontheweb.com)

(Trial) Remember, Internet Marketing is very important. You have to efficiently market your website so that it can be seen as many people as possible, especially by the ones that are particularly interested in your subject line.

Supposing that people are now visiting your website, this is what might happen:

Interested People will come and read your articles; they will like your webpage (for whatever reason) and will perceive that you know what you are talking about and so check out your recommendations (your affiliate advertisements), and they might click and buy through them. Thus, you will make commissions. Of course, that’s only a possible outcome. Whatever I am saying in this article is not scientific or proven information. You might make money or not. But it largely depends on your website content, and your promotional techniques.

Affiliate Programs are very good way to make money, since you don’t need to own products.

There is one other advantage for signing up with affiliate programs, which is, you get extensive, tested and proven marketing materials, tips and tricks on how to improve your promotion and get more visitors to your website, hence bigger commissions. All this material is yours free if you sign up with their program. Why do they give so much away? Because your success is their success.

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Aaron Saki

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