Affiliate Marketing is one of the biggest money making ventures on the Internet. Yeah, I know Google is worth about 10 billion dollars or so (maybe a little exaggeration), but how do you think Google makes all that dough? Yeah, you guessed it...advertising! And Yahoo? Right again...Advertising. ... http://www.squidoo.com/betterdaysarecoming Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:17:47 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:13:36 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/betterdaysarecoming Affiliate Marketing is one of the biggest money making ventures on the Internet. Yeah, I know Google is worth about 10 billion dollars or so (maybe a little exaggeration), but how do you think Google makes all that dough? Yeah, you guessed it...advertising! And Yahoo? Right again...Advertising. Of course, I know affiliate marketers do not account for all or maybe not even most of those two giants advertising revenue streams, but when you consider an industry that grosses over "8 billion" annually, you have to stop and say, "yeah, a good portion of that is going to Google and Yahoo." Whatever the actual truth of the whole dag-gumb thing, a good portion of the Affiliate Marketing/Google advertising revenue is recycling right here on the Internet, for the most part. In fact, when you think about it, the same holds true for just about all of the Internet Marketing world. All the biggest names in IM, have their Joint Ventures going on out there, and they pay the commissions as the bills come in, and the affiliates they pay in turn re-invest at least a portion of that money into advertising, with...you guessed it...Google, and the cycle starts all over again. I do not pretend to be Joe guru...when it comes to Internet marketing. My name IS Joe, but not the guru part. I am making my second go of this industry. I just finished up my 1st semester back at school after 25 years, and summer is here. Had to take a break from IM to focus the brain on my studies. After not being in school all those years it took a while to get back into the swing of things. Internet Marketing is a blast. It is a lot of fun, but it is also a lot of work. Do not let anyone tell you differently. Until you get a system down, or unless you have a lot of up front coin, you have to hustle your butt off to make in roads. All the advertising I did was free. I made a little money, but I admit I made a lot of rookie mistakes too. If you jump from program to program you "WILL" struggle, or should I say, you will fail! Pick one that works for YOU, and stick with it. If it works "FOR" you, then it is a success, no matter what the program is. Are you selling doilies for yard furniture and making money? Then it is a success. That is the bottom line. I think the NUMBER ONE thing you must do is find what works for you, and run with it. Something that is not so new any more, but is still huge in Internet Marketing are Blogs. There are almost countless blog sites out there for you to have a blog on. Of course the best way to have a blog is to host your own on your own web site with a blog on it, that way you can do it your way, make it as long as you want, write what ever you want, optimize it how ever you want (as long as you do it in a way that Google likes). The reason I say that about Google is because, when Google's spider's go crawling your site you want your keywords and tags to be done the correct way according to the most widely used search engine in the world. If you are real savvy and experienced in the IM world, you might want to consider writing articles and submitting them to the various E-zine sites that sprinkle the web also. If you are good at writing and know what you are talking about you might even make some coin at it. But beware, don't even think of trying to submit someone else's copyrighted material as your own. You will be found out. And when you are, woe be unto you, because the Internet Gestapo will be knocking on your proverbial door...I actually have no idea if this is true, but I do know the E-zine sites have software and other methods in place to track copyrighted material and IP addresses of where the submitted material is coming from, so do your self a favor, learn to write your own stuff, or stay away from submitting articles! Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:13:36 -0600