Dallas Work at Home Moms

Many people are searching these days to learn how to start making money online. With so many “work from home” and “online income” scams out there not many people know where or even how to achieve their online entrepreneurship goals. I found myself in this position many years ago. Star struck at the idea of earning money online I signed up for several sites that claim you can make money from home, but in the end found myself disappointed and ultimately losing money on the deal.

Nearly ready to give up I was explaining my frustrations to my internet marketing friend who introduced the idea that I could become involved in Affiliate Marketing. Not knowing what affiliate marketing was or even how it worked I began to listen with great intent. It sounded so amazing.

In a nutshell he explained that in affiliate marketing I simply needed to create a website that began to produce some traffic. Once I’ve established some traffic I could begin recommending certain products to my viewers and begin getting commissions when they sell. I asked him how I could inventory and ship the products in my teeny house. He laughed and gave me a reassuring smile. He continued to explain that Online Retailers simply give you a link to help recommend the product and they give you a commission if someone uses that link to purchase a product. Affiliate Marketing is simply the idea of recommending a product and getting a commission when someone buys from the retailer, who handles all of the inventory, shipping, and returns.

Feeling like I just hit the lottery I began learning how to become and affiliate marketer. The first thing I needed was a website. I learned there are several routes you can take when making the decision of how to set up a website. I’m not a programmer or even a designer. I barely knew basic HTML. I actually realized I knew very little about the Internet and how it worked.

So I studied about how to build websites and this is what I found:

• You need a place to store your content.
• Just like making a brick and mortar business you need to rent a space where you can store your content. This is known as your host. The host is an online computer that holds all of your articles, pictures and website goodies where it can be accessed 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
• Then like a brick and mortar business I needed a name to put on the store. This is known as your domain name. When you type in Google.com the word Google is transformed into a language/numeric address where when traveling on the web can reach it’s desired destination. The computer wouldn’t know where to send a request for Google and we, as humans can’t always remember 000.121.23.1. So when you buy your name you buy the ability for people to remember who you are.
• Once you have a host and a Domain Name, you need something to organize that into something that you can understand and modify for your needs. I prefer to use Content Management Systems. A CMS allows you to write your content and present it in a way that doesn’t require a degree in web development. I use WordPress and load that directly into my host.
• Once I had my basic website set up and organized I was ready to begin creating content and advertise my content. I didn’t fill it will a lot of Affiliate Links in the beginning, simply because I was told by my friend to not place a billboard on a rural street. I needed traffic. Once I had traffic then it was time to start making links.

It was so simple to do that I was able to build 30-40 websites a month without much effort. The more time went on the better I got at Affiliate Marketing. Soon I was making hundreds of dollars a month. I became such an advocate of Affiliate Marketing that I started school to learn more about it with Full Sail University. If you’ve been considering ways to earning an income online and don’t want to worry about the hassle of inventory of product, returns, and customer complaints I would definitely recommend learning more about how to become and Affiliate Marketer.