Monday, June 9, 2008

Starting an Online Business without Any Money

There are many steps to take when starting an online affiliate marketing business. Several involve no money. These include setting up a free blog (like this one), writing and submitting articles to link back to your blog or affiliate landing page, and commenting in blogs and forums. To be quite honest with you, I am getting tired of commenting on blogs and I hate forums. But, this is one of the best ways to get links back to your site. In addition, you get to converse with some pretty neat people.

What if you are like I was an don't have hours to spend building links everyday? Either you spend some of your hard earned money from your regular job to use pay per click ads, build a nice website with an autoresponder, or you eventually give up. I've quit this venture several times. I always find a way to motivate myself and get back to work online.

One way that I've found to make money consistently every month to "pay my way" in affiliate marketing is to use a website called eHow. When I first stumbled upon eHow this year, I was impressed with their concept:

  • Write how-to articles in the required format.
  • Submit the articles for immediate publication.
  • Receive income from the ads displayed on the page showing your article.

With some of the failures I've had in the past, I was skeptical of the amount I might earn.

Currently, I have close to 50 articles live on the site. Some are duds in terms of making any revenue while some are great earners. My daily average is $2.60. Not great but not bad either. The best part is the income is residual. Once an article is published, you're done. There's nothing more to do. In fact, I think I only wrote one or two articles during the month of May and still earned $81!

eHow pays you during the first half of the month for the amount you earned the previous month. The minimum payout is $10.

You can check out my profile and articles at: http://www.ehow.com/members/tomsmith2e.html.

There is no affiliate program associated with eHow. I simply want to share an easy way to earn money with you.

Thomas Smith has spent several years studying affiliate marketing. You can read his reviews of online programs at Making-An-Income-Online.com.

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