If you want to work from home and make good money online, I’m going to tell you how you can do this for next to nothing in start up costs. That's sound spretty good, yeah? There are actually many, many ways to make money online. Some make online pocket money, such as doing online surveys, while some ecommerce stores can rake in millions in turnover and profit.
What I’m about to chat about is something that falls somewhere in between, an online business that can be as small or as large as you choose to make it. If you just want some part-time income on the side to supplement your day job, or hope to make it a fulltime gig and quit your day job, then this business can do either. The choice is yours.
This Business Can Do It All!
What business is that?
Affiliate marketing.
The beauty of being an affiliate marketer is the extremely low running costs. You see, you are not stocking and selling your own products. You don’t have to take orders, do any invoicing or ship anything out. You are simply promoting the products of another company or business and earning commissions when sales are made through your promotions and referrals. Essentially you are paid for your promotional efforts when there is a result.
It really is a no brainer business model, and so easy to do that just about anybody can do it. You don’t need to be a tech genius, a marketing guru or a gifted writer. People of all ages and from a diverse range of backgrounds have been very successful at affiliate marketing. In fact, some of the worst writers I've seen actually do quite well if their audience trusts them. It helps if you can write decently, but it's not a prerequisite by any means.
Let’s briefly look at some advantages:
- Costs practically nothing to start
- Costs very little to operate
- You can work from home
- You can work from anywhere in the world, even as a tourist
- You are your own boss
- You can make this business as small or as large as you like
- Anyone can do it
- Spend more time doing the things you want to do
- Set your own hours and have a flexible work schedule
- Work naked if you want (if you have that fetish)
- Set up residual and passive income streams
How is all that sounding so far? Pretty good?
Of course it is. It's all good.
The above list is just a small sample of the advantages and benefits of this type of online business. There are really many more, and you will discover that once you get started. An online business like internet marketing can lead to lifestyle freedom; a life where you have money coming in regularly from a number of sources and actually having some free time to enjoy life and the money you have.
I mean, that’s what life is all about, isn’t it? Enjoying ourselves. I don’t think any of us were put on this earth just to slave away day after day, stuck in a grind just to try and get by, barely covering expenses from one week to the next. Life is all about thriving and enjoying the ride. I’ve been stuck in that day to day life sucking grind before, and I’ll never go there again if I can help it. To me it’s torture and not the way life is meant to be lived.
Live The Dream
Never allow yourself to settle for mediocrity or anything less than what you desire or deserve. Sometimes it just takes a little nudge to get outside your comfort zone, and then the doors of opportunity and a whole new world opens up to you. You can't expect to make a difefrent life for yourself by doing what you've always done. You ahve to try something different and new.
Life is all about going after your dreams and making them a reality. For many, myself included, this entails the freedom of being able to work for ourselves, setting our own hours and having the potential to make more and more money the harder we work. This is something that is sadly lacking in most jobs. You can work really hard but never see any real reward for it. While some companies promote staff to higher positions with pay rises attached, many other businesses either don’t reward people for their efforts, or simply aren’t in a position to. With some jobs there just is nowhere else to go, no higher post to be promoted to. Or, if you're really good at performing a certain task, the boss wants to keep you doing that same task forever. No reward for your efforts there, other than keeping your soul-destroying job.
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Hi Darren,
Within the past half-dozen years or so as the Internet has continued to expand for a fact the opportunity that you presented in your article, running a business from home as an affiliate marketer has made many people wealthy.
As you pointed out the advantages of pursuing this opportunity is based on many factors- the person not having to actually create/design/invent the product. Instead just promote this product at a website. The costs to both start up the business and run it continuously would be very low. You don’t have to worry about shipping products or dealing with unsatisfactory customers – both would be issues that the vendor would have to address him/herself.
What would be important is writing relevant content that best helps/advises/guides the reader who is looking for that product to improve his/her life – without coming across as some shady used car salesman.
Yes, but only with a lot of effort and dedication could an enterprising individual eventually create financial success for him/herself as an affiliate marketer.
As you also suggested the opportunity available at Wealthy Affiliate is without question the best training/learning and community involved program online which would allow that person to achieve success with an online business.
Jeff
Thanks for sharing your thoughts here Jeff. Everything you say is spot on. It sounds like you’ve been involved in affiliate marketing for some time now.