The three main stages for earning an online income are:

1. Blogging is the best introduction to internet marketing.
2. Affiliate Marketing is the best introduction to making serious money.
3. Developing your own product is THE best entry to online riches

Last year my focus was blogging – this year it will be on affiliate marketing. Stage three will be another year.

Just as with blogging there are fundamentals that you need to understand and implement if you want to be successful in promoting your selected affiliate products. There are people making serious income from affiliate marketing and you can too.

Blogging gives you a strong foundation and a basic understanding of how the world of the internet works.  As a recap, in the year that this blog has been up we have covered how to

- pick a niche topic for your blog
- choose a domain name
- select a platform for your blog
- set up set up hosting
- start posting
- submit articles to article directories
- get affiliates for your niche market
- set goals
….. more.  Those are just the main items.

Affiliate Marketing is one of those “disciplines” that internet marketers choose to specialize in and can be integrated with your blog – in fact blogging is often used as a marketing tool for affiliate marketing. In my view it is the natural progression as the next step in your online marketing career.

For a quick review on affiliate marketing please reference these posts:

Pump Up Your Blog Income with Affiliate Marketing – 04/11/09

How to Find Affiliate Programs for Physical Products- 12/11/09

Residual Income – The Holy Grail of Affiliate Marketing 13/11/09


You will notice that on this blog I have several banner ads – except for ABCs of Blogging (which is my own ebook), all the others are affiliates. What that means is that if anyone visiting this blog clicks on one of those ads and buys the product I will be paid a commission and that might happen from time to time, but to really maximize the potential income that these products offer, I will need to do more than just have them on this site.  I will need to market them.

The above articles should give you a basic understanding of why affiliate marketing is an excellent source of income.   If you have not read them yet I encourage you to hop on over and read them now.

The next post will cover five critical steps to successful affiliate marketing.

To Your Awesome Blog Income Life!

Valentina

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