Making money online is about finding hungry buyers and convincing them that your product will make their life better, easier, more productive, happier and more profitable if they owned what it is you’re selling.

It’s really not that hard to do yet 95% of all websites online struggle to make any amount of real money.

I am going to cut through the BS and show you step by step how to make money with any product online. However, you will have to do your part, nothing comes without effort and in the online world it takes lots and lots of work. Yes, I said work, this isn’t one of those you don’t have to do anything and you’ll make millions websites.

I use the methods I am about to teach to make everyday online with a number of different websites in different niches.

The idea is to learn several different methods and then use them all together when launching your own site. As with anything, the key is to take action.

I am going to focus on affiliate sales but the methods will work with anything. Affiliates allow us to focus on marketing and not to have to worry with having our own

• Products
• Custom Support
• Merchant Accounts
• Accepting Payments
• Shopping Carts
• Email Systems

We will focus on marketing, design and SEO, as well as WordPress and other issues.

This system is amazingly simple yet incredibly powerful.

Our Goal – To Convert As Many Visitors into Buyers as Possible

We will do this by focusing on a small percent of Google searches that take place each and every day in massive quantities.

Understanding Google
Approximately 350,000,000 people search the web daily.

About 60% of those use Google for a total of 210,000,000 individuals;

30% use Yahoo for a total of 105,000,000,

9% use MSN (now Called Bing) for a total of 31,500,000 and the remaining 1% use other, smaller and less known search engines.

At this time Google is the largest and most powerful search engine to-date and sets the tone for online search with more than 210 million daily searches taking place.

It’s important to understand how people are using Google as well as what type of searches are being done. This will allow us to target the most lucrative daily searches.

A) Most people are searching for information and have no intention of making a purchase online. I’d guess the numbers around about 70% are these types of people.

B) The second largest group we’ll put at 30% and these are people that will most likely purchase in the future but are not looking to purchase anything at the moment.

C) The smallest group which is around about 2% is people that understand what they are looking for and are ready to make a purchase. Their searches will be more perfect and will contain model numbers, company names and search terms like free shipping.

Everyday millions and millions of transactions take place online and our goal is to get between the buyer and the merchant.

Making Money Online

I’ve got a friend of mine wanting to make some money online. He’s no different than the millions of others wanting to do the same thing. He’ll be heading this way in about two hours and I’m sitting here thinking about what I’m going to tell him.

There are basically four ways to make money online.

1. Selling your own product
2. Affiliate Marketing
3. Blog flipping
4. Google AdSense

Google AdSense

The people who have been successful with this are few and far between, with the average person making a couple bucks a month at best. Most people never see a dime from their efforts.

I’m one of the ones that have been lucky enough to turn $10,000.00 plus a month using a combination of several different ad programs and building thousands of junk sites. Building, monitoring, ranking and all the other wonderful things that seem to go hand in hand with any website became more than I was willing to do and I got out of the business.

It’s not a good business model however you might be able to make a couple extra bucks per month with it. I believe Google pays out after the first 45 days and you have to make at least $100.00 to get paid.

Blog Flipping

I’ve not tried this yet but hope to get the time to start messing with it this coming month. The cash is a lot faster, you can get the money the same week you sale your blog. You basically build and set up a blog, write some articles and stick on it, as well as point some links at it.

Then sell it for as much as you can. You can use sites like eBay as well as several SEO forums to sell the site. Fast easy money, it all sounds good but like I said, I’ve not tried it yet.

Affiliate Marketing

This is where the big boys play. You’ll notice that most SEO experts want touch this area with a ten foot pole. And most people talking about it aren’t making the first Penney with it. This is where you get paid for the paying customers you can send someone.

We averaged about $5,000.00 per month last year in this area and I hope to get into it a lot more this year. I’d say less than 3% of the people that mess with it are able to make a living with it. It’s for the serious marketers and isn’t for the faint of heart.

Selling Your Own Products

If you’ve got a product or service to sell then this is by far the best option. We’ve made our living online for the last 7 years selling website designs. There are times I want to scream but I’d guess it’s that way with any real business.

You’ve just got to keep your head in the game and keeping moving forward.