Best Buy UK, a leading consumer electronics retailer, has agreed an exclusive contract with Affiliate Window, the UK’s largest performance marketing network .
Best Buy UK’s affiliate marketing campaign – due to launch in the Autumn – will be an integral component to the success of their new transactional website which launches simultaneously. The site will include innovative elements such as ‘My Best Buy’, the company’s customer retention and rewards programme and a consumer forum, as well as comprehensive advice for those seeking knowledge and inspiration.
Partnering with Affiliate Window will provide Best Buy UK with a diverse range of website publishers committed to driving their online business forward. The extensive membership reach of cashback and loyalty portals and the vast array of content affiliate sites, combined with Best Buy’s extensive range of promotional tools, such as comprehensive product feeds, will further establish the company’s differentiating credentials in the UK consumer electronics market.
Following on from the successful opening of Best Buy stores around the UK in Thurrock (Essex), Hedge End (Southampton) and Merry Hill (West Midlands) earlier this year, the popularity of Best Buy’s website at www.bestbuy.co.uk and the reach of the Affiliate Window network will combine to establish the Best Buy site as the designated destination for consumers wishing to take advantage of the very latest and greatest technology, services and content as well as inspiration and impartial advice – and competitive value.
deVere Forster, MD Online for Best Buy UK added: “Today’s announcement marks the beginning of the next stage in the development of Best Buy UK online. We’ll be working closely with Affiliate Window and the broader publisher community to ensure that the launch of our transactional website in the Autumn builds on our already established and ground-breaking presence online, and provides our customers with another way to shop with us.”
Mark Walters, Managing Director for Affiliate Window said: “Adding Best Buy UK to our growing portfolio of blue chip clients further signifies the value that our affiliate partners can deliver. Best Buy UK has a progressive outlook towards affiliates and I’m confident we will see the company using relationships and tools in equal measure to maximise opportunities for all parties.”
Affiliate Window is an award-winning network with a proven track record in the retail sector, and robust tracking capabilities including a full analytics package.
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For media enquiries, please contact: Lisa Chaikin
PR Manager, Affiliate Window
e: lisa.chaikin@affiliatewindow.com
t: 020 7553 0333
Best Buy Press Office:
t: 0203 003 6634
e: mediaenquiries@bestbuy.co.uk
About Best Buy and The Carphone Warehouse
In 2006 Best Buy established a partnership with the Carphone Warehouse to bring its business model and mobile phone expertise to the US market under the banner ‘Best Buy Mobile’. Two years later, Best Buy acquired 50% of the Carphone Warehouse’s European and US retail interests for £1.1billion, creating Best Buy Europe. The new venture is designed to accelerate the development of Carphone Warehouse’s retail proposition and to introduce Best Buy stores across Europe, beginning in the UK in spring 2010.
For more information go to www.bestbuy.co.uk.
About Best Buy Co., Inc.
With operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Mexico and Turkey, Best Buy is a multinational retailer of technology and entertainment products and services with a commitment to growth and innovation. The Best Buy family of brands and partnerships collectively generates more than $49 billion in annual revenue and includes brands such as Best Buy; Best Buy Mobile; Audiovisions; The Carphone Warehouse; Future Shop; Geek Squad, Five Star; Magnolia Audio Video; Napster; Pacific Sales; The Phone House; and Speakeasy. Approximately 180,000 employees apply their talents to help bring the benefits of these brands to life for customers through retail locations, multiple call centers and Web sites, in-home solutions, product delivery and activities in our communities. Community partnership is central to the way we do business at Best Buy. In fiscal 2010, we donated $25.2 million to improve the vitality of the communities where our employees and customers live and work. For more information about Best Buy, visit www.bby.com.
About My Best Buy
My Best Buy gives customers personalised perks and privileges including exclusive access to gigs and shows, offers and recommendations based on their interests as well an area online called ‘My Kit’, where customers will find their receipts, warranties and purchase history in one place.
Developing and running a successful blog business can be a monumental challenge. It’s hard work, just like anything else, and you’ll likely stumble your way through more than a few mistakes along the way. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had something to guide your way?
Well, you do. Collis Ta’eed is the guy behind Envato and he’s sharing everything you need to know in his new book, How to Build a Successful Blog Business. Available now through Rockable Press, this 330-page book serves as the subject of today’s review.
Blogging for Profit
There is a distinct difference between hobby bloggers and those who want to develop their blogs into real businesses. This book is clearly targeted at the latter group.
It has already received considerably positive feedback from such big names in the industry as Yaro Starak and Darren Rowse. For example, Chris Garrett is saying that you “need to get this now” if you’re “serious about blogging as a real business.”
You also have to recognize that Collis Ta’eed comes from a place of significant authority. He has developed several blogs that not only generate considerable traffic, but impressive revenue too.
A Comprehensive Guide to Blogging Business
You may have already had the opportunity to read Make Money Online by me and John Chow, but that book focused mostly on how you would develop a blog where you are the main contributor.
With How to Build a Successful Blog Business, the material covers just about every aspect of running a blog as a business. This 330-page book includes sections on brand creation, staffing, business structure, content planning, monetization, and long term strategies.
Perhaps of even greater interest are the three case studies that close the book. In these chapters, Collis describes exactly how he built and developed FreelanceSwitch, Psdtuts+, and AppStorm.
Writing Style, Comprehension, and Accessibility
It’s going to take you some time to get through the over 300 pages of content, but the information is all presented in a clear, systematic, and easy-to-understand manner. Consider this snippet from the first chapter.
Opportunities in blogging also arise from the many niches and topics that are still wide open. If you walk into any bookstore and look through the myriad magazines that line the racks, you’ll find there are audiences interested in reading about everything from sewing to tattoos, boating to cooking, movies to shopping. Can you name the blog to read on tattoos? How about a great blog about boating? Think you can find one?
The style is not unlike the “blogging voice” that you find on many of Collin’s sites around the net. It’s casual, but informative. You will find, though, that many of the pages are very text-heavy.
As a freelance writer myself, I was particularly interested in the FreelanceSwitch case study. Most of it was text, but Collis did include several screenshots (e.g., Google Analytics) and charts (e.g., revenue over time) to help illustrate his points.
Blogging as a business can be daunting and intimidating for many, but How to Build a Successful Blog Business outlines everything you need to know in a way that is easy not only to digest, but also to implement in your own endeavors.
Buy the E-Book or the Paperback
Anyone who is seriously considering a career not “just” as a blogger, but as the owner and manager of a blog business should buy this book. You’ll learn about hiring freelancers, setting up your accounting, developing traffic, increasing your income and so much more.
If you want instant access to the material, you can buy the e-book version for $39. This comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. If you prefer the dead tree edition, the $47 paperback is printed and shipped through Lulu.com.
There’s no question that ClickBank vendors face increasing challenges these days, including:
Higher refund rates, even if your product is solid
More competition and “copy-cat” products
Higher traffic costs, as well as the risk of getting “Google slapped”
Super affiliates demanding higher commissions and bonuses
Smart ClickBank vendors are addressing these challenges by taking advantage of a relatively new, under-the-radar feature in ClickBank; the ability to offer their customers physical products such as DVDs, CDs, or printed books.
These “hard copy” versions can be offered as an upgrade, upsell, or even included free with every digital order.
Why Should ClickBank Vendors Offer Physical Products?
Many vendors think that physical products are too complicated to set up, are too expensive to produce & ship, and require too much administrative time.
The truth is that physical products can significantly improve an info-publishing business’ bottom line and is usually well worth the effort!
Based on our experience in developing and managing the physical products programs for top ClickBank vendors over the last 2 years, vendors offering physical products have increased net profits as much as 28%, cut refund rates to as low as 1.5%, and have increased customer satisfaction. These results have had a powerful impact on these vendors’ overall bottom line.
Here are the top 5 benefits we have seen with ClickBank vendors that have implemented physical products:
#1) Significantly lower refund rates
How many times have you had a customer refund because they were having trouble downloading your product? Or had a customer ask for a refund because they were confused because they saw a “virtual product shot” of a book or CD on your sales page and thought they were getting something physical, not a digital file? Offering a physical product component to your offer can eliminate both problems and will significantly reduce your refund rate.
#2) Higher perceived value among prospective customers
Your digital products might be state-of-the-art and contain great information, but for most of your customers there is significant perceived value to receiving something tangible in the mail that they can actually hold in their hands. This allows vendors to build the value and legitimacy of their products.
#3) Differentiation from the competition
By offering physical products, you offer greater value to your customers than your digital-only competitors. Discerning customers who are shopping and comparing offers will often decide to buy from you because you offer “more bang for the buck” than a competitor who only has a digital product.
#4) More money per visitor
Physical products work great as an upsell or post-sale purchase! Conversion rates can be as high as 30% and top vendors who push a significant volume can add many thousands of dollars in incremental income with their physical products. Increasing your profit per visitor enables you to afford higher bids for traffic and test “slap-free” traffic sources.
Here’s a tip that can jump-start the sales of your new physical product: offer your new physical version to prior customers who bought the digital version with a discounted price for a limited time. A couple emails is all it takes to get a nice surge of sales and we’ve seen these promos convert as high as 40%.
#5) Easier to attract super affiliates to promote your offer
Adding more money to your bottom line through physical products means you can offer higher commissions to your affiliates and offer bigger bonuses to attract super affiliates. Also, your lower refund rate will attract the smart affiliates who recognize the huge impact of refunds rates on affiliate ROI, especially for those affiliates who drive paid traffic.
How Do You Get Started Offering Physical Products?
OK, hopefully you are starting to see the benefits, and now you want to learn more about how to actually implement it.
The truth is that adding physical products to your digital info-publishing business does require set-up work plus ongoing maintenance. Creating, producing and shipping a tangible product can be a very different experience from the all-digital world most ClickBank vendors are used to operating in.
Here are the 3 steps to get started offering physical products:
Step 1: First you’ll need to create your physical product, such as artwork and files for CDs, DVDs, layout for a printed book, etc. It doesn’t hurt to spend a little extra time and money making sure everything is polished and professional, for example by designing a nice cover or including an informative insert. Remember, this product represents you and your business! Use the highest resolution artwork and video/audio files as possible since production specs for physical printing and viewing videos on TV need much higher resolution than for the web.
Step 2: Next you’ll need to produce your physical products. You can do it yourself which is a good option when starting out, or there are companies out there that can produce CDs, DVDs, and printed books at relatively low cost. Start with small initial production quantity so you avoid inventory risk and cash flow problems of investing in a lot of product upfront. You will also need to decide how you are going to package and ship your physical products to your customers. Again, you can do this yourself or there are companies that can handle this for you.
Step 3: Finally, you will need to set up your customer service process to incorporate the physical product aspect of your business. You will need to be able to communicate with your customers about their shipments, send them tracking information as well as set up a process for handling product returns and refunds.
The good news is that ClickBank has been making the process easier for vendors by recently adding tools and features to support “shippable media” products. This makes a lot of sense as ClickBank benefits directly from lower refunds, more successful vendors and happier consumers.
Here’s The Bottom Line…
Top ClickBank vendors have proven that offering physical products yields a significant boost to their business by increasing profits as much as 28% and cutting refunds as low as 1.5%.
No, it’s not a magic pill. Yes, it does take some extra work.
But the results can be well worth it.
So if you own a digital product and want to add incremental sales and cut your refund rate, consider developing physical versions of your products now!
About the Author
Allen Baler is the owner of Reboot Fulfillment, a company that since 2008 has designed, sold & shipped over 200,000 physical product shipments as the strategic partner of top ClickBank vendors. To learn more, watch the video presentation on how to increase profits with physical products.
Yes, the rumors were true. I have moved away from West Vancouver and relocated to our friendly neighbor to the south. Many will question why I would leave the number 4 city in the world for the number 4 city in the USA. I might get into that in a future post but for now, it’s enough to say that I can live the Dot Com Lifestyle anywhere in the world.
I haven’t settled into the new place yet. There’s still a lot to do and stuff to move before I can hold the Dot Com house warming party. For now, I’ll give you a few teaser pics of my new waterfront crib.
BTW – I’ll be back in Vancouver this weekend so it looks like last week’s Dot Com Pho won’t my be last after all. I hope to see you at Happy Pho this Saturday!
Sally is liking her new tree house but she’s scare to climb up the ladder.
Jonathan Volk wrote a guest blog post on this blog call You’re Missing Out – Email RSS Subscriptions. In it, he explained why you’re missing out if you don’t offer the RSS to Email option found in Feedburner. Most bloggers just turn on the RSS option and don’t do anything with the Email. I happen to be one of those bloggers who leave the Feedburner Email option off and I can tell you that I am not missing out on anything. In fact, I would say you’re missing out by using it and not the solution I use.
A Better Solution – Aweber Blog Broadcast
The main problem with the Feedburner RSS to Email option is that it only sends RSS updates to your subscribers. It cannot send them anything else. The entire point of getting a reader’s email is so you can send him/her whatever you want. Fortunately, Aweber offers a much better solution than Feedburner.
By using the Aweber Blog Broadcast feature (one of the many features Aweber offers), you can offer the same service as Feedburner’s RSS to Email and be able to send subscribers additional content that is outside of your blog posts. Aweber Blog Broadcast takes the contents of your RSS feed and turns it into a ready to send newsletter. You can set when the broadcast goes out – by certain days of the week or by number of posts.
Instead of offering your readers the option to subscribe to your blog via RSS or Feedburner RSS to Email, you replace the Feedbruner RSS to Email with Aweber Blog Broadcast. The net effect will still be the same. A reader subbing to email by Feedburner or Aweber will both get RSS updates from your blog. The big difference is Aweber is a complete email marketing solution allowing you to email additional contents/offers to your subscribers.
When readers subscribe to Feedburner RSS to Email, they get added to the Feedburner counter. When readers sign up to Aweber Blog Broadcast, they get added to the Feedburner counter as well, so you don’t have to worry about not having all your subscribers counted. If social proof is important to you, this is a great feature.
Here is a screen cast on how to set up an Aweber Blog Broadcast.
The only downside to the Aweber solution is it cost money while Feedburner is free. However, given all the advantages Aweber offers over the Feedburner solution, it’s money well spent. Aweber offers a $1 trial. Try Aweber for the first month for only $1. The trial account is the same as a normal account. You can set up unlimited list and unlimited auto responders. If after a month, you find that the solution is not for you, send Aweber an email and they won’t charge next month. They’ll even give you your $1 back! It’s 100% risk free and one of the reasons I recommend them so much.
With the Blog Broadcast feature of Aweber, you can offer your readers the option of subscribing to your RSS by Email and you’ll also be building your mailing list. And we all know, the money is in the list!
Is it to make money, to get an audience, to share your thoughts, etc? Interesting enough, nearly all of those goals center around 1 key factor. Visitors.
One of the main ways that people get visitors and keep them coming back is through use of an RSS feed. All major blogging platforms have an RSS feed – and many use a service such as feedburner.com to even further enhance that feed.
When people are subscribed to your RSS feed, you instantly can deliver your content to them and they’ll most likely come back to your website over and over. So no matter what your goal, RSS subscribers is one of the ways to get that goal.
I have been blogging for 3.5 years now and there is one REALLY simple thing that people don’t do that makes them miss out on a bunch of RSS subscriptions.
In fact, 75% of the time, I go to a new blog that has great posts… I go to subscribe to their RSS and I end up not subscribing because… they don’t have email subscriptions enabled.
Email subscriptions is a REALLY simple and commonly used feature in feedburner that is not enabled by default.
The thing to remember is that quite a few people still do not have an RSS reader… but [nearly] everyone has email.
Check out the small difference that having the email subscription enabled does.
By enabling subscriptions via email, you open yourself up to a whole new group of “non-techy” people.
To Enable RSS Via Email:
Enabling RSS via email is really simple. First you have to set yourself up with a feedburner (now owned by Google) account. Once you have that setup, click the publicize link, and then click on the email subscription link. Then click enable.
Doing so will now enable your readers to subscribe to your posts by having them delivered to their email.
Part of getting exposure comes down to making every option available for your visitors to become RSS subscribers and repeat visitors. This is a very commonly overlooked option that has resulted in a nice increase in subscribers for my blog about making money online.
This is a guest post written by Jonathan Volk. Jonathan blogs about how to make money online and has a free affiliate marketing guide where he shows you the techniques he has used to generate over $5,000,000 in affiliate commissions! He also has a great Facebook Ads Guide that I reviewed.
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE:MAR), the global operator and franchisor of an extensive portfolio of hotels, resorts and related accommodation facilities, has appointed Affiliate Window to further expand their UK affiliate channel. The Marriott family of brands has 60 hotels throughout Great Britain, with lodging properties in 68 other countries and territories.
Lena Huang, Sr. eCommerce Manager of Marriott International commented: “Affiliate marketing is an important channel for us and we are further expanding our efforts internationally. We decided to partner with Affiliate Window to access new affiliates and maximize sales in the UK and Ireland. It is paramount for us to have strong, pro-active partners on the network side that support our strategies in the local market.”
Gavin Wilson, Head of Commercial for the UK’s leading network added: “Both Marriott and Affiliate Window are leaders in their field and hence this long term partnership is one we have very high expectations for. The synergy between both businesses is widely apparent and with the Marriott brands strong and defined heritage, we are extremely pleased to be working with them.”
As a veteran to the affiliate channel with nearly 10 years experience, Prezzybox has consistently been commended for their innovative approach, earning five A4U Awards over the past three years, in addition to being voted the IMRG Retail Website of the year in 2009.
The quirky gift and gadget retailer has always been an advocate of producing co-branded landing pages for their affiliate partners. A co-branded landing page is a specific page that visitors reach which features the logo and additional details of the affiliate website they have been referred from; this helps to reassure the customer that a relationship is in place between the two sites and that the link was in no way malicious. The creation of these pages for top loyalty sites has proven to increase conversion rates, providing a mutually beneficial relationship for both the retailer and affiliate partner.
Strategy & Execution:
Historically Prezzybox had, upon request, provided every affiliate with a bespoke co-branded landing page featuring stretch and save voucher codes. Although this approach worked well for them in the past, with the growing prominence of voucher code sites, combined with the initiative of other merchants and their voucher code strategies, Prezzybox felt that vouchers had not only lost their impact but no longer provided anything positive to the affiliate partners who were actively promoting them.
With Hitwise reports continuing to demonstrate a consumer demand for online discount codes, the decision was made not to remove this popular promotional tool, but instead revise it. To reflect this, company founder Zak Edwards introduced a new and improved voucher code scheme, offering a variety of codes, including percentage off vouchers and higher value stretch and save discounts. Coupled with a higher level of monitoring and the ability to control related commissions, voucher codes now serve their purpose by proving to be an effective and valuable asset to the Prezzybox programme.
Results:
In the current economic climate marketers continue to focus on ROI. 2009 was Prezzybox’s most successful year in affiliate marketing to date; they recorded a 42% year-on-year increase in affiliate transactions and an astonishing 62.5% growth in affiliate generated revenue. Their innovative method of cleverly combining bespoke landing pages and voucher codes has been credited as the key factor behind this significant uplift.
Using a standard landing page, TopCashBack had an average conversion of 8.56% across a 6 month period. Following the introduction of a co-branded landing page and bespoke code, the conversion rate increased to a staggering 23.21% in just one month. This increase did not even reflect the Christmas season as the figures listed were generated in ‘off peak’ months.
Continuing this trend, from April – July 2009 MyVoucherCodes reported a 2.5% conversion on the Prezzybox programme without the use of a landing page. For the exact same period in 2010, the conversion jumped to 10.9% through the implementation of a bespoke landing page.
Finally, Nectar achieved a 4.8% conversion between March – June 2009 with an older version of a co-branded landing page, however following revisions the conversion increased to 5.2% for the same timeframe in 2010.
These figures prove the value that a bespoke strategy for loyalty, reward and cashback publishers can have and the positive impact strategically issued voucher codes can have.
Zak Edwards, Managing Director of Prezzybox said; “It’s great to see our co-branded landing pages combined with voucher offers working so well for us and our affiliate partners. Recently we’ve spent a lot of time and resource analyzing the impact of voucher codes in relation to ABV and general ROI, and going forward hope to operate smarter and more dynamically with our Voucher Code offerings to the benefit of our affiliates and ourselves.”
For more information please contact: Lisa Chaikin
PR Manager, Affiliate Window
e: lisa.chaikin@affiliatewindow.com
t: 020 7553 0333
The internet has created lots of opportunities for people ever since its inception, one of these great opportunities is the ability to make money online at the comfort of one’s home. Have you ever thought of a world where all you need to do is sleep and play and still be making money? That is what the internet brought about (I no longer see browsing the internet and creating income streams as work, I see it as play).
Even though there are several ways you can make money online you should not fail to realize that there are still some scams online. This post will be talking about 12 legitimate ways to make money online.
1. Blogging
Nowadays, almost everybody is a blogger because they have discovered the true potential behind it. Blogging is one of the best ways to make money online because it can also lead to many other streams of income, for example, you can use blogging to influence your product creation, you can use blogging to get freelancing opportunities, you can use blogging to gain more affiliate sales and many other things like that.
There are several ways to make money online from blogging but one of the best ways is to focus on building a community first which you can later monetize.
When trying to make money blogging, traffic is money because it is traffic that will lead to ad clicks, affiliate sales, and many other online money making opportunities.
2. Advertisement
This is another great way for you to make money online. There are various types of advertisement and you don’t need a website to make money from all of them. There are several types of advertisements, some of which are:
Contextual Advertisement: This type of advertisement is the one that is tailored towards a specific type of visitor. There are several methods used to display these types of ads and one major factor used is the most common keywords on the page. A great example of a contextual advertisement system is Google Adsense.
In-Text Ads: This is another type of ad that you can use to monetize your blog. It works best if you are not focusing on building a strong community and you hope to get most of your traffic from search engines. A great example is Kontera Ads.
Banner Ads: This is another great type of ad used on most blogs (including on this blog). The amount you will make strongly depends on your traffic and your niche. There are several ways to get advertisers for your site if you rely on this method of advertising and one great way is to make use of third-party advertisers like Buysellads.com.
You will notice I said you don’t have to have a website to make money from advertisements, yes! I didn’t swallow my words. One great way to make money online from advertisements without having a website is by writing for revenue sharing sites like shoutmeloud.com. You will be able to fill in your Adsense details and anytime your ads get clicked you will notice increased earnings in your Adsense account.
3. Freelancing
Freelancing is one of the best and most effective ways to make money online. We all have one skill or the other and these skills of ours can be further used to help us add money to our pockets while working at the comfort of our home.
There are several ways to make money online from freelancing, you can decide to look out for companies looking for people to help them do some jobs or make use of third party sites like eLance.com.
If you would love to freelance and you don’t think you have any skills that is needed you can work on developing some skills, it can be learning HTML or any coding language, and it can be learning how to write articles in various niches. There are several sites you can make use of when trying to get freelancing opportunities and some of the most popular ones are Elance.com and ODesk.com
4. Affiliate Marketing
Another great way to make money online is by making use of affiliate marketing. I recently wrote a guest post here outlining some steps to affiliate marketing success and I will be summarizing my points below:
Choose a profitable niche
Find a primary keyword – there will be several profitable keywords but find a primary keyword that relates to the major objective of your affiliate site, this keyword will be used to register your domain name.
Find a product to promote – you can visit clickbank (the largest affiliate network) to find a product to promote.
Register a keyword-rich domain name – this will make it easier for you to rank for your primary keyword.
Write a killer product review – the review should be useful but shouldn’t give too much detail to the extent of making your visitor feel that there is no more need to buy your affiliate product.
Build backlinks – this is where the traffic comes; building backlinks is the secret to ranking in the search engines.
Rinse and repeat – you can then repeat the above steps to make more money from affiliate marketing.
You don’t necessarily need to practice unethical marketing to make money online from affiliate marketing and the above are steps you can follow.
5. Consulting Services
Another great way to make money online is by offering consulting services online. You surely went to school or are an expert at something and you can leverage this skill of yours to make money online.
If you are a doctor then you can create a website that will be focusing on helping people live a healthy live, on this website you can be laying emphasis on your consulting service and you will be able to get more response and make more money online.
When trying to get more consulting gigs it is very important to build your online profile and credibility because the more trusted and respected you are the easier it is for you to get more customers.
6. Product Creation
Another great way to make money online is by creating products to sell online. If you are a banker, you can create an eBook that gives more information on how to be a successful banker or how to overcome some of the major problems bankers face.
If you are a software developer you can also take a look at the community around you and see what major problem people face the most, try to create a product to help them solve this major problem.
There are several steps to take before creating a product and I will be listing the three most important steps below:
Market Research – Try to research effectively before creating your product, don’t just create a product because you think it will be good but research effectively and make sure there is a true need for your product.
Payment Options – Try to research how you will get paid for your product, creating a quality product is not enough, you should also make sure you wouldn’t have any problems getting paid or delivering products. Some payment providers might not deliver a product to buyers until they know if the transaction is genuine, this type of check might lead to more problems on the side of your customers if they don’t get what they paid for immediately so you might as well research effectively before using a payment solution. It is also very important to make sure you have several payment options because this will also increase the number of sales you will make.
Promotion – It does not end in you researching and having a good payment provider, one of the most important steps you must take is to make sure you have a good promotion campaign because it is people who will buy your product.
7. Creating a Book and selling it Online
One great and underutilized way to make more money online is by creating a book (in hardcover) and then selling it online.
Depending on your area of expertise you can create a hardcover book and then sell it using websites like Amazon and Ebay.
When trying to create products like this it is very important for you to spend enough time researching the search trend for your product, try to make sure your product has a name that is regularly searched in Google, Amazon ranks easily in Google so if you research effectively you won’t having problems selling your product because your product page on Amazon will dominate the first page on Google with little efforts from you.
8. Online Auction
You can also make money online by listing products on auction sites. If you have some products you no longer use you can make money from disposing those products. Some of these products might be old books, computers, mobile phones, and many other items. All you need to do is list them on auction websites like Amazon or Ebay.
9. Website Flipping
Website flipping is a really great way you can make money online, if you are very knowledgeable about the subject of your choice and you have good knowledge of SEO then you can develop a website in less than a year and sell it for tens of thousands of dollars. There are a lot of factors that comes in place when trying to sell your websites for profit, but if you want to know more about the subject you can read this comprehensive guide on website flipping by Glen Allsopp from Viperchill.
There are several factors that comes in place when trying to sell websites for profit, one of the most important factors to consider is how you will be monetizing and promoting the site because when you want to sell a website you will be paid based on how much you earn from the website monthly.
There are many places to sell your website but one major place to use is Flippa, this site is the leading website flipping site and is trusted by lots of people worldwide.
It is very important to install a solid stats tracking tool (preferably Google Analytics) on your website from day one because this can also impact the amount you will be paid for your website as most buyers take look at your website stats before buying.
10. Content Sites
Another way to make money online is by writing for content sites like Associated Content and Infobarrel, you will be paid according to the views your article gets.
Many of these sites are trusted by the search engines and it is very easy for them to rank for keywords. When trying to write for content sharing sites, the first and most important step you should take is to look for low competition and high traffic keywords, once you get these keywords you can begin to write articles about them and then work on building backlinks to your articles. With time, your articles will begin to rank more in the search engines and it will lead to more earnings for you.
Many revenue sharing websites will pay you $1 for 1000 views on your articles but you might want to check to see if this is the case with them before getting started with them.
11. Online Surveys
Another great way to make money online is by participating in online surveys. There are many companies spending millions of dollars employing various people to test and give their opinions on their products, these companies now discovered that a cheaper and better alternative will be to make use of the internet and allow various people from the world to give their opinion.
When trying to make money online using paid surveys, it is very important to give your genuine opinion only because this will also help these companies.
There are a lot of scam companies in the online survey business so it is very important to research effectively before joining an online survey site.
12. Membership Sites and Paid Forums
Making use of membership sites and paid forums is another great way to make money online. One great advantage of this type of income opportunity is that the income you will make will be recurring thereby making it easier and worthwhile for you. There are several factors to consider when trying making money online from membership sites and paid forums and some of them will be listed below:
Is the income justifiable? – You wouldn’t want to charge $100 monthly for a site without updating it regularly.
How often will it be upgraded – this is another great factor to consider when trying to get the best from your membership site. Your customers want continued value and they see no reason in paying when the site is not upgraded.
Security – You should also make sure you test your site for security issues so that others won’t go and access your product for free.
If you could take the right steps, membership sites and paid forums are one of the best ways to make money online because they bring about recurring income, so you don’t need to keep launching and promoting to sustain your income.
Conclusion
There are several ways to make money online and the above are 12 powerful and genuine ways to make money online, most of these methods don’t need you to spend anything to make money online.
Which is your favorite method to make money online from the above? Which other methods do you want to add to the list? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section!
My good friend Ian Fernando (you can see him and I launching rockets at Shoemoney here) has opened the virtual doors to his new Infinite FB online course. The course focuses on Facebook Ads and how you can become a strong marketer by simply advertising your business or affiliate offers on Facebook.
Ian has been making money with Facebook Ads since it open, and along with Volk, Shoe and DK, the person I turn to when I need help with any Facebook stuff.
The past couple days Ian has been giving great strategies on Facebook advertising. Today, he has a simple video talking about the main benefits of Facebook and what you will receive within Infinite FB and what to expect. The best part is he gives you a quick sneak peak at the backend of Infinite FB. Almost like a tease, but it does look sexy.
Facebook advertising is gaining in popularity and after watching Ian’s video series, you can tell he knows what he is talking about. Enjoy!
Best Buy UK, a leading consumer electronics retailer, has agreed an exclusive contract with Affiliate Window, the UK’s largest performance marketing network .
