Working from Home the Easy Way, 10 easy steps.
Many people love the idea of working from home; there are many benefits, but how to get started?
Advantages include you can work when it suits you, you don't need to spend hours in the car or on the train/bus commuting, sharing everyone's flu virus.
Self-employment is great - no interview to get through, no age discrimination, and no boss to grovel to.
Disadvantages include, you probably need a computer and Internet access, you need to generate income, and you may lack skills.
Here are 10 ways to get started the easy way.
1. Generating income. More and more people are learning to exploit the Internet to promote products through Internet marketing - this method of generating income is commonly referred to as affiliate marketing.
2. Skills Required. Affiliates do not sell products directly, so you do not need selling skills, or need to receive money on behalf of clients - most affiliate programs pay commission on sales made by you, and automate payment to you via form capture systems or cookies which identify you as the person responsible for promoting the product. You do need some skills, but these marketing skills can be found via the Internet - schools, colleges and universities do not offer these skills - affiliate marketing is fairly new.
3. Creating a website. Most people fail to get over this first hurdle, so some affiliate programs now provide free websites for their affiliates, or provide training to explain how to make really easy websites.
One such program is Slum Dog Affiliates - see http://www.slumdogaffiliates.com
Slum Dog Affiliates provide free websites to help you get started to generate income from day one, and then introduce you to the very useful Affiliate School which provides tools and links to help you quickly gain the skills you need to become proficient in affiliate marketing.
4. Getting started. The Affiliate School website introduces other affiliate programs you can join to promote niche products - a niche product is one that pays well, and has very little competition in the marketplace, so easier to promote.
5. Making a website. Affiliate School explains how to create simple free websites - easy to build, but at the same time easy to add sophisticated features such as slideshows, video clips etc.
6. Promoting your site. Many affiliates spend too much money on advertising, so the Affiliate School website highlights an affiliate program that provides marketing training. They explain the difference between scattergun marketing and snipergun marketing, and how by understanding different methods, you can make a big difference to how much income you generate.
7. Understanding niche marketing. Too many affiliates sell the stuff that everyone sells, so cost of advertising is high, and commissions are low, for example, ring tones and mobile phones. Niche products have few competitors, so commission is generally higher and the products are arguably easier to promote at lower cost.
8. Growing your business - Some affiliate programs allow you to attract sub affiliates. Provided that you like the affiliate programme and believe in the products, you can encourage other people to do the same as you do. Sub affiliates make commission; you make commission, so the more sub affiliates you attract, the more commission you make. This is not like multi-level marketing where people keep adding margin, so the last guy that sells the product ends up selling for a price that no one can afford to buy, the main difference is that affiliates do not buy or sell products, they get a fixed or diminishing discount, the retail price remains the same and controlled by the merchant running the affiliate program. Affiliate marketing works entirely differently to MLM.
9. Develop those skills. Affiliate School has links to some really clever and sophisticated measurement tools to help you spot trends - start as an affiliate and you can work at your own pace, with opportunities to develop your skills. Super Affiliates are often highly sought after, and work as consultants and SEO specialists. Provided the old brain-box works ok, age discrimination is never a problem, affiliates can be aged 10 or 90.
10. Promoting websites and reducing advertising costs. Affiliate School provides tools to maximize the number of people visiting your website at low cost. Many affiliates spend far too much on advertising, and Google are happy to oblige through PPC programs. Learn how to advertise for free, to keep operating costs to zero, and optimize revenue to make the working from home dream, a reality.
By Mike Glanville
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