I am trying my hand at the affiliate marketing money making craze. It seems that there are plenty of people who are making decent money and of course there are a select few that are making a killing!!
What I hate most about Internet marketing is the coloured, bolded, and/or highlighted texts that are splashed all over these pages and the too-good-to-be-true customer testimonials. So, then, What's a girl to do??
I am trying to think outside the box and look at alternative methods of earning income and came across a few success stories in a book that DH and I are reading...see the side bar on the left....and am using amazon (obviously) a little bit, but have had no luck with that.
Anyway, in the book a woman in B.C. made over 400K in one year using a bunch of different affiliate programs on her websites. I was intrigued and looked for her. I found her book in our public library, many sites where her videos on learning about affiliate marketing were shown, and her personal/business blog that seems to be marketing even then.
And I wonder Can I do this? Where can I do this? This kind of deep Internet marketing work had always intimidated me. A few years ago I ran a home business as a consultant with a very popular, reputable and all-round exceptional company and I still managed to fail in the marketing department.
Yes, I do know that it was entirely my fault, but I have no idea how to fix that! I mean, here is an example...I decided that I wanted people in my region to find me instead of the competition so I signed up for GoogleAdwords. Great! I was getting top search line and the side bar ads from the search pages. I had many click throughs and thought I had figured it all out!! Look out 'cause here I come!!
Well, that didn't happen. I didn't get one party booking, online order or even an email or phone call asking about joining the business. What I did get was a number of obscene phone calls (you know the kind -the heavy breathing, the -what i wanna to do you- calls, and hotel services requests), and a whopping 600$ bill over three months!
Online marketing gone terribly wrong!!
So armed with the above book and Timothy Ferriss' 4-Hour Work Week DH and I are racking our brains thinking up something and coming up with almost nothing...... How do you make money with something if you can't think of what something is supposed to be?!!!?!?!?!?
Uhhh, We have been reading Tim's book over and over for the past 6 weeks, and can even bring ourselves to tears wanting this soooo badly, but having no idea what in the hell to do, or how to go about doing it the right way!!
We'll just have to keep you up to date and maybe we'll have something figured out.
All I know is that DH's daytime job's boss is going to Italy tomorrow, and his nighttime boss will be heading off to Lebanon soon......and somehow we can't go away for a weekend.
Something amiss??? HELL YES!!!
