How to use Squidoo to make money - Become an Affiliate Marketer with Squidoo - Make money at home

What do you want to sell? If you're just starting out, it's best sell stuff that you know about. Also, this home-based business thang is about doing what you want to do. If you think selling get rich quick schemes is soul-destroying and immoral, don't do it. If planning kid's birthday parties is more your thing, go for it!

Think about what you like and what you know. Is there a subject you can talk about for ages? Well, you're the expert. That's your niche. If you can be an authority on a subject, you will have a natural tone as you write about that subject, and you will earn your reader's respect and trust.

If you're stuck for ideas, there's lots of help out there. Some clever folk have even tracked down the niches that are most popular, that make the most money. Do some research, or learn from an expert.

Squidoo is an absolute godsend for those of us who know nothing about making websites. Squidoo is FREE and enables you to make as many websites as you want. (The folk at Squidoo call their websites 'lenses' - you're looking at one now.) And it's very easy to make a stylish looking page very quickly - so you can get on selling stuff fast.

The best bit about Squidoo lenses are the easy to use 'modules' that you use to help build your page. There are CafePress, Amazon and Ebay modules that are just sitting there waiting for you to come along and fill them with product - and earn commission.

So, what are you waiting for? Go on! Sign up to a FREE Squidoo account and get started on your first lens now. Make one, make a bunch. Play around and have fun.

Remember - you can use the selling modules Squidoo supplies, or you can insert your own product links from any affiliate network into your lens and make money that way too.

Affiliate marketing is all about selling other people's stuff and earning commission on the sale. There are a number of 'affiliate networks' that you can join for FREE. These give you access to millions of products you can then start to promote and sell.

Some of the biggest and most popular are:
Clickbank
PayDotCom,
Commission Junction,
LinkShare,
and
Shareasale.

Clickbank sells ebooks and ecourses - anything that can be delivered electronically. These kinds of products have the highest commission rates - often 50% and sometimes as high as 75%. This is probably the best place to start.

Commission Junction, Shareasale, and LinkShare sell real stuff - actual physical products - books, clothes, furniture, cars, you name it. Of course, it depends on the product, but commissions range from 8% to about 20%.

The system works like this:
You surf on over to clickbank and create a free account. Then you search the 'marketplace' for a product that suits your niche - lets say for example, cooking with chilli. You find an ebook called 600 Chilli Recipes for Chilli Lovers. Sounds like madness, but you then click on "create hoplink", you insert your clickbank nickname, and clickbank generates a link that you can insert in your webpage just as I did above.

Now, if anyone clicks on that link, and buys the product through that link, I get 70% commission on the sale. It doesn't get much easier than than.

The big tip is: DO IT AGAIN.

Now you have one lens, go and make another. And another. And another.

Many lensmasters will tell you they might make between $10 and $15 from a single lens in a month. Now, that's not going to make anybody rich. But that's just from one lens. Make 20 lenses and your monthly tally is looking healthier. Make 50 lenses and your little hobby is starting to look like something that could really change your lifestyle.

My advice: master affiliate marketing on squidoo first. There's many other ways to do this: google adwords is just one of a hundred other methods. But save yourself the anguish of all that research up front. Start promoting products through squidoo now, and as soon as that first cheque comes in, you'll be pumped to try something new.

Here is some more reading on how to make it big through Squidoo. These are two products I've personally bought and devoured, and I recommend them.

Squidoo Queen
Squidoo Queen V2.1 contains all the latest must have methods to produce money on complete auto-pilot.

By keeping things simple and taking things back to basics, I know that anyone can use this system to start making money within a few days!




Social Networking on Squidoo
This is the number one ebook on Squidoo. The Squidoo Queen is great and I love her attitude, but Social Marketing on Squidoo is absolutely tops. If you're going to spend your pennies, this is the book to get. I can't recommend it much more highly than that.