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How Many Eggs are in Your Work at Home Egg Basket?

Getting to work from home can be great. One of the things many people do is find more than one source of income, to protect their lifestyle. By having several sources of income, or income eggs in your basket, you protect your ability to earn, should something go awry.

Some, who are telecommuters, don’t worry as much because their job is considered as safe as any other full-time job but if you are a freelancer or have your own business, this isn’t always the case because you’re regularly searching for ways to earn. Several sources of income could mean safety and it could also mean that you’re making decent money.
Tips for Having Multiple Income Eggs

Find some quick paying go-to options. That way, if you’re in a pinch, you can get grocery money fast or money to take care of an unforeseen expense quickly. Wherever possible online entrepreneurs should have a few make money fast options.
Network. Talk to other entrepreneurs and freelancers. That way you can share leads and potentially share overflow work.
Work on developing some passive income streams. If you build websites with affiliate marketing, network marketing, or contextual advertising, for instance, the initial work could be time consuming but those sites could become passive for you, creating income that generates itself and presents you with monthly payments. Learn more about affiliate marketing and passive online income opportunities.

Strive for a delicate balance when adding income eggs. Too many could feel overwhelming and result in lack of balance but some regular ones, some passive income-building options, and some strategic fast-earners could be the ticket to reaching your financial and career goals.

How to Choose Which Clickbank Products to Promote

Clickbank presents a great opportunity to work at home. In building your own online business, you won’t have to rely on someone else and your income can be limitless. Having several streams of income works well and after a bit of effort, they’ll be passive income sources that won’t require much (if any) action on your part. Affiliate marketing is something that I do, in addition to other ways I make money online.

How does Clickbank work?

It’s quite simple, really. You can make money online by directing people to Clickbank landing pages. When the Clickbank info product (usually downloadable, or, a membership) is sold, the person whose link was clicked to make that sale gets the commission. You use a hoplink that identifies you and triggers payment into your account.

The great thing about affiliate sales is that you’re not spending money to buy and resell items and you don’t have to touch the sale. You simply facilitate the sale of information products and get paid for driving traffic that converts.

If you sign up for a Clickbank affiliate account, you can browse the market place to see what products are out there. You can also see what the commission rates are, check out the landing pages, create your hoplinks, and sometimes there are pages set up for affiliates that have creatives such as logos, banners, and private label rights articles for you to use.

Hint: When you choose a product that offers support to affiliates, you can often be more successful at selling that product.

Browsing the Clickbank Marketplace

When looking at the marketplace, you can search for a particular subject, search by category, search by popularity, etc.

The Pitch Page

It’s really important to read the pitch page of a product you’re planning to promote. Does it appeal to you? Would you buy it?

Reviewing Products

It’s not a bad idea to buy the product you’re planning on selling. In fact, the affiliates who do that are going to have a greater chance of success.

By knowing what you’re selling you can have a greater chance of selling than the vast majority of people who are out there blindly promoting affiliate links for products when all they’ve done is read the pitch page.

It’s highly competitive and there are hundreds of products to choose from in the Clickbank market place.

Here are some tips for choosing products:

Look for products that are popular but not too popular. Clickbank gravity can be a difficult number to understand. The more popular, the more competition for them. You want to find a good mix of popularity and ability to compete. Though, if you’re a subject matter expert (or willing to become one) on a really popular product, you have a good chance of selling it.
Again, read the pitch page. If you’re not dazzled by it, others probably won’t be.
Look for a product that supports customers. If there’s no support, there may be a high chance of refund request, which will impact your bottom line profits.
If possible, look at subscription-based products. These offer recurring income.
Choose a product you’re interested in. That’ll make it easy to write articles and regularly promote that product
Look at trends. Google Trends is a great tool for helping you figure out what products are likely to sell.
Learn about Clickbank gravity. My friend Matt Bredel explains this well in his Tru Guru membership program.

Before you get started on your affiliate marketing journey, do some research about effective ways to promote your affiliate link. You’ll find a lot of resources out there that can help you learn how to maximize your potential through things such as: article marketing, pay per click, organic SEO, social marketing, and more. There are some resources on Clickbank itself, too. And the great thing about that is that there are 60 day money back guarantees if you choose to buy into a program that teaches you how to make more money on Clickbank.

Helpful Clickbank Resources:

Maverick Money Makers – Coaching Club for making money online.

Clickbank Code – The blueprint to Clickbank sales from a successful affiliate marketer

Secret Affiliate Weapon 2.0 – Passive Income Secrets

Work at Home Typing Job Info

If you’re interested in finding a work at home job doing typing or data entry, you’ll see a lot of advertisements for this.

Here at the work at home blog, we aim to provide helpful info. We display potential money making opportunities as well but believe people need to be aware of exactly what they’re getting into before they buy into a program to help them work from their home.

Be very careful about many of the typing jobs listed as a real work at home opportunity. Many of them are in fact opportunities but can be a bit misleading as they are not what they seem. This doesn’t mean that they’re not legitimate work at home opportunities but in order to decide if they’re worth pursuing you should learn more about what they entail.

What you ‘think’ a work at home typing job may be:

You might expect a company to be willing to pay you to do typing for them. Data entry jobs and other work at home admin jobs are out there. What you might notice in the ads is that some of these advertisements say that you can make a small fortune typing short ads. What this is, is called pay-per-click advertising.

Sure, you type ads but generally, no one is paying you to do it. In fact, you’re paying to post those ads. This type of job is a commission based affiliate marketing job that requires you to pay for sponsored Google advertisements advertising a product or service. If people click the ad and buy something, you make a commission. Sounds pretty good, right? Well it definitely can be and there are a lot of people making a great income at this but there’s a definite risk here. You’re going to have to pay for the advertisements and there is no guarantee of income because you only make money if people buy from you. Pay-per-click advertising is competitive and expensive.

Are there real typing jobs?

Of course there are companies looking for virtual assistants and administrative help. More companies than ever are utilising remote workforces. Some call center jobs and data entry jobs do pay an hourly wage for people to work from home doing mostly typing but you have to be very careful to read the fine print and know precisely what you are signing up for.

Affiliate marketing definitely offers a great opportunity to make money online and develop passive income streams but it is something that is pure commission-based instead of being salary- based and by doing it, you’re working for yourself instead of working for a company.

Sure, there are books and programs you can buy that can teach you how to turn typing ads into a potential income but for those looking for data entry jobs from home, they need to realise that affiliate marketing and pay per click advertising is not the same thing as a typical online data entry job.

If you’re interested in learning more about work at home job opportunities such as data entry and call center jobs, dig through our archives as we list many real wah leads. If you’re interested in your own home- based business through something like affiliate marketing, my friend Matt Bredel has recently launched his new Tru-Guru program which is a money-back guarantee membership-based program that can teach you everything you want to know about earning money at home with your computer step by step through video tutorials, cheat sheets, and more so that you can become a true guru at making money on the net.

Whether you want to work for someone else or work for yourself, the work at home lifestyle definitely has some perks!

Internet Marketing Without Money

The book No Money Marketing was written by me and Matthew Bredel. If you’d like to read it, you can get a free copy (value $97) through joining Tru-Guru, Matt’s subscription-based program that teaches people to become true online marketing gurus. (He’s offering a special now for $4.95 for a 30 day membership)
Those who buy a membership to Tru-Guru get several free bonuses and one of them is this book that’s filled with ideas of how to make money on the internet without an initial investment. Of course you’ll have paid the small subscription fee to get the free book but I do assure you, there are a lot of great ideas in there and the Tru-Guru subscription can be cancelled at any time (plus offers a money back guarantee).

Learning to make money online

Some people look for work at home jobs to make extra money. But many of them soon realize that there is a huge potential for a home-based business that you’re the boss of instead. Instead of working for someone else, you could start several different types of online businesses such as: affiliate marketing biz, creating an online dropshipping store, to create and market your own products, and more.

The most important aspect of searching for income opportunities on the web is research and Matthew Bredel has bundled several years of trial, error, research, and great results into his informative products.

Check out his free SEO Exciter Series to get a free sampling of his helpful teaching style when he shows you more than the basics of how he uses organic search engine optimization techniques to dominate the search engines in his niche (bringing him traffic and profit!).

I’d love your feedback on what you think of the book and the Tru-Guru program.

Cheers to your online success!

Dana

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

A lot of people, including sahms are looking to make money online in their spare time (as if they have any!)so look to affiliate marketing as an option. Affiliate marketing, also known as internet marketing is increasingly popular as a way to make money online.

Stay at home parents, work at home entrepreneurs, and people looking to up their income are looking at monetizing their computers with affiliate marketing. It can be done in your spare time and you can even fire your boss and do it full time if you are really good at it.

How does affiliate marketing work?

Companies pay people sales commission for facilitating a sale for them. That means that you don’t have to physically sell the product but you do have to get people to buy a product through your link. Companies that have affiliate programs will set up a system that allows you to use a specific link to get people to buy from you or there are other ways to capture data about the sale as well. You can work through affiliate programs for individual companies and through affiliate networks.

How do you get affiliate sales?

There are a multitude of options for getting people to buy through your link. You can simply capture the attention of people who are looking for something specific and get them to buy through you and you can also pre-sell someone on that something specific so you create sales for yourself. This can be done any number of ways such as:

pay per click advertising
writing product reviews
niche blogging
article marketing
e-mail marketing
and more

What sorts of products can be sold through affiliate programs?

You name it and you can probably be an affiliate for it. It’s a win-win for the company selling it because they capture more sales and only pay you if there’s an actual sale. You can sell physical retail products and you can sell dowloadable products, and you can sell services such as consulting, memberships, and more. Affiliate marketing opens many doors of possibility once you learn a bit about target audiences, keyword targeting, search engine optimization, social media, and other aspects of online marketing.

How do you get paid?

Affiliate programs work in different ways. Some programs pay you instantly per sale via PayPal. Some programs send you checks when you reach specified payment thresholds. You’ll want to read all the fine print in any program you consider joining and look at what others say about the profitability of that program. Results will vary but looking into the potential of various programs is smart before investing time and / or money in them.

How can you learn to be a successful internet marketer?

You can find many online sources of free entrepreneur information and you can take some shortcuts and get earning sooner if you buy information products that are guaranteed to teach you. (For example, a friend and mentor, Matthew Bredel recently launched a learning program called Tru-Guru that teaches you how to start your own online business and if you join you get a free copy of the book “No Money Marketing” that I co-wrote) There’s a lot to learn but this can be a huge potential opportunity for you to supplement your income, replace your income, or get debt free and save for something awesome.

Passive Income: The Key To The Perfect WAH Life

Working it home can sometimes be a job that requires double shifts. When you’re working for yourself, though, you’re typically not anxious to clock out for the day because you often LOVE what you do and find it exciting. The key to a great work at home life is balance between work time and personal time and a great way to have more time without sacrificing earnings is passive income.

Passive income means that you don’t have to work for every penny you get. You can set up a work at home business that makes you money while you sleep. That may sound like a sales pitch but it’s a reality for many smart business people. A bit of work is done now but instead of just being paid once, you get residuals. Here are some examples of online passive income opportunities:

Affiliate Marketing

Help other people sell products and they’ll pay you a commission. You don’t have to handle products or money, you just direct people to a place where the product owner does the selling. Here’s an example of a program that can teach you how to do affiliate marketing.

Write Articles for Revenue Sharing

A lot of big sites make money from advertising and they are hungry for fresh content so will share the revenue they earn with people that write those articles. Sites like eHow and Bukisa pay you and sites like Bukisa pay you when you sign other people up by sharing revenue from that writer with you as well.

Online Stores

When you set up an online store, you can do it so that you never have to handle a product. This is called drop shipping and there are dozens and dozens of wholesalers that will supply customers with products and pay you a commission because your ‘online store’ generated the sale. There are easy templates available to help you build a store and a professional looking one at that without you ever having to worry about lack of technical skills. You can set up an eBay store or a store on your own website easily.

Forex

The foreign exchange market now offers a lot of software programs that can run on autopilot for you so that you can make money on the exchange of foreign currency despite knowledge or services of a broker. Because currency fluctuations happen so regularly, there’s a great opportunity for people who know when to buy and when to sell. The dividends can really add up. It takes a lot of know-how to know just when to do that though so this hasn’t traditionally been a passive type of income program. But today, there are Forex robots available that run and manage your account for you so that you don’t have to set up brokers and pay brokerage fees. The software does all the trading and earns you money. There’s a lot of money to be made here but it requires an initial investment for the software and your trading account opening balance. Learn more about FAP robots here or watch the FAP video on the WAH Blog about page.

As you can see, there are a lot of ways to make income at home without sacrificing every waking moment. Only you can decide which opportunity is right for you but the most successful work at home professionals tend to have multiple streams of passive income.

MLM Programs Online – Are They Worthwhile?

MLM programs are multi level marketing programs. If you’re at all familiar with Amway, this is a common example. In a MLM program, you pay to get into a program and the person on the ladder above you receives a commission based on everything you do. For everything you sell, you get a commission and the person above you in the ladder does as well.

There are many MLM companies that want to sign up telecommuters who want an online income. Very often they want you to sell products from your home. There are many affiliate marketing and multi level marketing programs out there that you can work at. This market can be difficult to break into and you can find yourself fighting to make money with MLM. If you’re interested in online marketing, there are a lot of resources to help you.\

Internet marketing is a booming industry where you sell products online instead of the traditional multilevel marketing from home.

To learn to break into this area, you can find:

free reports
ebooks for sale
free membership sites
premium membership sites
mentoring programs
product review sites
online marketing forums

Look before you leap! Read testimonials and look for reviews from multiple sources, if possible. Look for a money back guarantee and if buying through a program with PayPal or ClickBank you can have a bit more comfort knowing your purchase is protected.

Internet Marketing Jobs: WAH And Be Your Own Boss

Considering a job in internet marketing? When looking at work at home jobs, you might choose to be an entrepreneur instead of work for someone else. How can you become a successful internet marketer? The secret is to learn as much as you can.

Affiliate marketing involves selling existing products online for a commission. This works really well for many people because they don’t have to inventory anything and you don’t have to do hard selling. With affiliate marketing, the seller sells the product for you; you just have to get interested buyers to their sales landing page and let them close the deal.

There is a plethora of products avialble this way and you can sell them any number of ways through ClickBank, through an affiliate network or as a direct affiliate. Even better, you can often make money on people who sign up under you as a superaffiliate selling to your downline.

There is a plethora of resources and online product reviews designed to help you find your way as well as free e-courses as well.

Here’s a list of a few available programs:

Commission BluePrint: Learn about making money from ClickBank selling ebooks.

Affiliate PayLoad: Learn some affiliate marketing secrets.

Get Google Ads Free: Maximize your money making opportunities with Google

When looking at investing in affiliate marketing it’s very wise to choose a program with a money back guarantee. Programs sold through companies like ClickBank protect buyers with guarantees and will claw back your money if you’re not completely satisfied.

Work at home success happens with determination and a desire to learn. Take advantage of every available opportunity and you could earn a full time income at home working for yourself.

Sell Water Hybrid Kits Online

One of the latest money making opportunities I’ve found is the car hybrid kits you can purchase online. Because the kit is not copyrighted you can buy the kit and make money from this yourself. Not only can you save money on gas but you can sell the kit to others, earning a decent work at home income. How it works:

Learn About Running Your Car On Water

The run your car on water kit is available from many sources and you can purchase it and save money by using a mason jar of water in a special kit in your own car that allows you to cut your gas consumption by about 40%. Then, because you now have the information on how to do this, you can use it to do several things:

Put together hybrid car kits and sell them
Sell the information in your own e-book
Install the kits

You can capitalize on this locally and online. Either be an affiliate for the existing water 4 gas program or make your own program and sell it on the internet.

This work at home option offers extensive options for making money online. Again, you can save money on gas when you buy the information and build it yourself, you can sell this information in an affiliate program and you can even sell the kits or perform the hybrid conversion.

Several programs are available including:

gas for free

and

water 4 gas

Who Is The Rich Jerk and Why Is He So Jerky?

The Rich Jerk is an affiliate marketer who is selling his secrets for dirt cheap. His gimmick is that he’s now wealthy enough to be able to be ultra cocky. His program is cheap and compared to many other programs very worthwhile. For less than $10, people can learn to create their own online business and at the moment he’s even doing websites and support for that price. It’s a price that’s hard to beat considering many programs out there cost $99 to buy into and don’t include the bonus extras or the one on one support the Rich guy provides. He even takes PayPal so pretty much anyone can buy into this program that is guaranteed for 60 days or your money back!

The man behind the program was a child actor and he’s now a self made man with scads of residual income coming in from his internet marketing efforts. Not only does he claim that for $9.95 you can change your life but his bonuses are pretty convincing! You get a fully functional website that is worth a few hundred dollars to have built by a pro.

Does He Need To Act Like Such An A-Hole?

Check out The Rich Jerk’s pitch page. Talk about cocky! Sure sounds like he’s made money though…