5 Android Apps for Internet Marketers

Making money online nowadays is easier than ever before. Of course, the whole Internet marketing industry is only about a decade and a half old, but at the speed the Web moves and evolves, every week is like a year in the offline world. So, you could say that about 50 years have passed on the Internet

Today, advertisers have a lot of options when it comes to methods of creating an income stream on the Web, and everyone, from complete newbies to advanced marketers can start making money or scale an existing operation pretty easily.

While it is possible to make money without one, a blog is a very desirable thing to have online. It is like having an office or a house in the real world, a presence that establishes you as a citizen of the Web, which can be used to market anything you want and deliver information, making you an expert on any niche you want. Of course, you need to take care of it and always post fresh and quality content, otherwise all your efforts are for nothing, but if you do that, you’re off to a great start in your quest to make money online.

Here are just a few of the best ways to make money, directly or indirectly, with a blog on the Web:

1. Place affiliate links everywhere. Affiliate links are the bread and butter of today’s marketers. You can find an advertiser for almost any niche, and get a commission for every lead or sale you referred. So, if you’re going to recommend a service or product and place a link to their site anyway, why not make a profit while you’re at it with an affiliate link?

2. Build an email list. “The money is in the list”, says everyone, and they’re right! Having an email list of people who are interested in what you have to say and trusted you enough to give their email address (which is a pretty personal thing) away means that you’ll get  a much better conversion rate for every link you insert. Needless to say, you shouldn’t abuse this privilege, or you’ll be despised or even hated by the readers and they’ll unsubscribe faster than you can blink. A good way to get subscribers on a blog is to give away a free ebook, e-course or provide great information in your newsletters, in exchange for the users’ email addresses.

3. Sell your own product. A blog is also a great way to sell your own product. If you have an ebook or paper book or design great T-Shirts, cups, albums or other things, you can easily sell them on your site. Sites like Cafepress and Zazzle make it very easy to do that, as they handle all the shipping, storage and payment issues, leaving you to focus on the marketing part.

4. Sell other people’s products/services. If you don’t have your own products and don’t want to bother with their creation (which can be pretty difficult or even impossible, depending on the niche), you can easily sell other people’s products for a commission. This is pretty similar to inserting affiliate links, only instead of them, you create a dedicated landing/presell page for the product/service you want and insert links and banners in other parts of your site in order to draw the users attention.
Use it to find new contacts and opportunities. A blog is the perfect tool to increase your reputation, find new contacts and people to partner with and create more opportunities for both work and your personal life. If you have a blog that is well known and you always post great content that is useful for its readers, you can be sure that other people in the industry will notice it and you will start being considered an expert in your niche. This of course, will bring about a lot of great opportunities that you would’ve otherwise never had.

If you implement the above advice into your business and use your blog to its maximum potential, you can make enough money online to never have to get a “real job” (I’m quoting it because you’ll still have to work a lot, but the potential gains and freedom are much bigger) again, so start doing it now, before it’s too late.

There are a lot of methods to make money online nowadays, especially with the advent of social media, social networks, mobile ads and apps, and other “new age” stuff, but there are a couple of ways to make money online that have survived thorough the last decade and are still going strong.

Affiliate links is one such method. Affiliate links are practically the bread and butter of today’s marketers, and it’s always the links that bring in the money and the stats. That simply ought to be so, seeing as the whole Internet is built on links and sites linking to each other.

So, if you’re an Internet Marketer and are just starting out online or want to expand your ways of making money, affiliate links are one of the best ways to go. When you place an affiliate link on a site, you basically place a unique tracking code, and when someone clicks it and buys a product or registers on the end site, you receive a commission. You get the money, the advertiser gets a user, the affiliate network gets a cut of the profit – everyone’s happy.

The main problem of ever affiliate marketer out there is finding new places to use their affiliate links. The more links you have on popular places, the more clicks and conversions you will get – it’s that simple. With that in mind, here are 5 great places where you can use your affiliate links to maximize your profits.
On your blog. This is the simplest and by far the most popular way to start making money with affiliate links. You should always start by creating a good blog and posting quality content on a regular basis, then inserting affiliate links and banners once it starts getting traffic. A blog is the primary source of income for many people, and you should definitely at least try to create and monetize one.

In your newsletters. An email list is a very desirable thing to have on your blog, and if you created one and started getting subscribers, you should definitely monetize it using affiliate links. However, it might be best not to insert the links themselves there, but create a special landing page on your site where people will go when clicking the link inside the email, and insert the affiliate links themselves on that page. The reason is that many email services will mark emails with specific links inside as spam.

In your ebook. This one’s a bit unique: not many people who write and sell an ebook dare to also insert affiliate links in them. But I think there is no shame in that, as long as your recommendations are motivated by the fact that the services and products are really good, not that they pay you the most commissions. If you’re just giving away a report in exchange for sign ups, well then you simply ought to insert affiliate links in it – it will definitely maximize your income, and not hurt subscriptions and conversions.
In Twitter tweets. If you’re using Twitter and have at least a few thousand followers (there are a lot of easy ways to get 10,000 and more followers, search for them online), you should definitely send out a few tweets with affiliate links in them (shortened by Bit.ly or another similar service). It’s like sending out emails, only even more people see them if you get retweets. You should do it before Twitter forbids it!

In your forum posts and signatures. Forum posts and signatures have always been a good place to insert affiliate links, and they’re still an excellent way to make money. You should take advantage of this and insert affiliate links to useful services on all your forum accounts. If direct affiliate links are forbidden, then simply go with the landing page method explained above.
If you combine the above methods, you can easily increase your potential profits by a lot, and you should definitely look for other ways to do it. In the ever changing online world, you should never stop experimenting, so go and start working right away!

After a few years of doing other things I am tryng to get back in the saddle again. Circumstances have forced me to go to get back into internet marketing to try to create another income stream for my family. This time things will be different. I have better tools at my disposal and a much better understanding of how things work.

I will attempt to rank several websites higher towards the coveted Page 1 on Google. All of the sites I am pushing are potential revenue sites. I will share these at a later time once I figure out if they are a failed or successful attempt. I will share a list of tools I am currently using and how I am using them in relation to the sites I am trying to pump. Stay tuned..