How to make money on the internet.
1. you need a product.
A physical product or a digital product. Either your product that you've created or had created like an ebook or tutorial course, audio file or video... or someone else's product that you sell for a percentage of the selling price. (an affiliate or commission based program.)
Digital downloadable products can be found at www.clickbank.com. Physical products at Commission Junction (www.cj.com)
2. You need a sales page.
If it's your own product you can create this yourself or have a professional copywriter produce it. If you're doing it yourself you need to research your competitor's sales pages and see how they stress the benefits and features of the product using emotional triggers.
You can 'swipe' pages that impress you by clicking on 'page' in your browser toolbar and saving the page to your hard-drive. You can't copy someone's sales page but you can study it to learn their sales techniques.
3. You need to drive visitors to your sales page.
If you have a reasonable budget then PPC (pay per click) acvertising can be very effective... if it's done correctly! Start small and try everything before you commit large sums of money. The fastest way to LOSE money on the internet is to run an unsuccessful PPC campaign!
You can leave comments on relevant forums. You can start a blog or social networking page. Start an RSS newsfeed providing content for other websites or you can write articles and submit them to article directories. The important thing is to get your name and message, with a click-through link to your sales page in front of your target audience... potential customers interested in the subject area of your product.
4. You need ot Start a Subscriber List
Get an autoresponder to collect your visitor's details. Just name and email. The two best known autoresponders are GetResponse and Aweber. Both provide the facility to create a 'pop-up box' that pops up and hovers over you sales page and requests your visitor's details. You will need to give your visitors a reason to give you their details... a free report or mini ebook or a periodic e-course delivered by autoresponder.
5. You need a payment processor.
How will you take your customer's money? If you're a Clickbank affiliate the payment processing is taken care of for you. Clickbank take the money and send you your commissions via regular cheque or direct bank deposit. Otherwise Paypal is the most popular and trusted standalone payment processor. Easy to set up and well respected for it's secure payment processing.You can easily create a payment button to place on your website... your customer clicks and is taken to the Paypal site to pay.
6. You actually have to DO this!
Take action! And keep taking action until you succeed! |
