3 Easy Ways to Make Money With Your Website:
Internet Marketing, Email Marketing, Affiliate Programs
By Ruth Kuttler, the "Web PuzzleMaster"

I’m about to share with you just a few unique ideas that can produce hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for you over the next year, make people remember your name and make you their #1 choice.

All of these strategies are things you are capable of doing – either by yourself or with the assistance of a company that can put it together for you. Sound good so far? The one thing I ask you is that you have an open mind and that you are willing to consider doing some things that are a bit unusual – things that your competition will consider unconventional and probably will not do. That’s what makes this so great for you. Whatever selling strategy you choose, making money online only works when you drive large numbers of potential customers to your website. If you're not marketing, you might as well throw in the towel. That is a subject for another e-zine issue.

Let’s look at the following 3 ways you can use your website to generate substantial sales: sell your eBook, promote your business through teleclasses and make money through affiliate programs.

1. Sell your eBook and make $100,000 or more every year!

You might be wondering what an eBook is and why you want to offer one for sale on your website. An eBook can be any type of information that is valued by your target market. An eBook gives you instant credibility and brands you as an expert. Most eBooks sell for around $50. If you sold 2,500 eBooks a year, that would put an extra $125,000 in your pocket. And once you know how to get people to buy it, you will be so excited you will hardly be able to sleep! Once your eBook is put together and your system is set up, you continue to make money for almost no added expense. People buy your eBook online, pay with a credit card, get approved, receive an automatic thank you and a link to download your book. You also capture their email information for promoting more of your products and services (back end sales).

Would you invest a few thousand dollars one time to make $100,000 and more every year? Your eBook might be resource information, questions and answers, common mistakes and myths or collections of stories or articles. Much of this information is something that you already have – all you need to do is to get it together, give it a title, table of contents, format it with headlines and sub headlines and add a few pictures. You want the cover to be really compelling and look just like a book. For just a few dollars you can get a custom book cover designed that will explode your sales.
Don’t worry about it if you are not a writer. You can get someone like me to help you put together an eBook that will sell like hot cakes.

2. Become an Expert by Offering Teleclasses

Think about how effective you are when you are talking with your clients – it is your warmth, helpfulness, knowledge and interest in helping them that makes them sing your praises and keep coming back for your products and services. Now multiply that response by 100 people or more on a call.

More and more people are opting to get information through a telephone call where they can hear your live presentation and ask their questions. The call allows for a group to access your class via a bridge line.

You can make money by charging a fee for your teleclass or offer it for free. An introductory free teleclass goes a long way to building a trusting relationship with your target market – people who know you, like you and trust you will almost always choose you in business. You can also charge a fee for seminars that you offer via this conference call.

Your call can be recorded and sold as an additional source of revenue for you. Your recorded call can be transcribed and made into articles or a free report that you give away when people subscribe to your e-zine (online newsletter). Find transcribing services at www.theAdminSource.com

Free and low cost bridge lines are available at www.FreeConference.com (up to 100 calls is free) and www.blackandwhitecom.com.

3. Become an Affiliate for Products you Endorse and Get Compensated.

What if I were to tell you that you can make an enormous amount of money passively just by recommending products on the web that are produced by others? This is called an affiliate program. If you are a website owner, you can become an affiliate for one or more products, earning up to 50 per cent of the purchase price just by including their ad on your website or e-zine. You're given a special link that contains your affiliate ID and tracks that sale to you. Every time someone clicks on a link or banner posted by you and goes to that website and buys, you earn money. Many well known and reliable companies sell their products and services through affiliates - companies like Amazon for instance.

Join affiliate programs that are relevant to your target market and do not compete with you. Choose something that will add value to your customers. Use the product yourself before you recommend it. The fastest way to lose credibility with your customers is to recommend a product or service that is not reliable or useful. Since I provide marketing and web development services to businesses, my affiliate programs are related to products and services that are business related.

Some website owners make thousands of dollars every month from their affiliate programs. There are websites whose only purpose is to make money through affiliate programs. I am not a believer in that. But at the same time, if you can make some residual income through these methods and add value by endorsing reputable products and services, why not do that? The more you promote affiliate products and services, the more money you make.

The most exciting thing of all about affiliate programs is that you can make a boatload of money with your own affiliate program! Through your affiliate program, you are leveraging your sales by getting many others to sell for you.

Let’s say you had 100 affiliates and each one sold on average, 10 of your products every month. That is 1,000 total sales per month by your affiliates. If your product retails for $50 and you paid the affiliate half, you are still making $25,000 a month! Now that wouldn't’t happen immediately but it is reasonable to expect those kinds of results and better with your own affiliate program. And unlike expensive advertising that sometimes doesn't’t produce a single sale, you only pay your affiliates when an actual sale is made. What would you pay to have a system like this in place that would generate a minimum of $25,000 a month?

The best types of products for affiliate programs are information products like eBooks, CD sets with workbooks that offer training on a particular topic and seminars that are often packaged with books, tapes and/or CDs. The great news is that even if you do not have such a product yet, that is an easy fix. You know something that relates to what you do and that makes you an expert. People will pay dearly for your expertise. All you need is to get some help figuring out how to package it and sell it through your own affiliate program. I’m talking about doing something that will create a stream of income for you whether or not you’re physically working. Having your own affiliate program allows you to make money when you’re sleeping, taking a tour of the world, golfing, fishing, enjoying your family and anything else you would rather be doing. Whatever that is, it truly means freedom to be happy and live the life you really want.

Once you have your own affiliate program, it will work automatically like a machine that cranks out more and more money for you. After it is set up, it will take an ongoing commitment from you to market it so that it will grow into a highly profitable venture.

Use these 3 powerful strategies - eBooks, teleclasses and affiliate programs - to make your website into the powerful tool it can be. When used in combination, these 3 techniques will allow you to create an automated Internet marketing system that fills your bank account, even when your sleeping or away on vacation. Your success is all about the marketing.

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