Everything I have learned has come from two well respected people in the Internet Marketing game. The first one I discovered is Grizz, who runs a few different blogs based on the subject of earning money online, the most active one is How To Make Money Online For Beginners. Don’t be put off by his resemblance to a Grizzly Bear, he doesn’t bite, and is in fact one of the most friendly and helpful people in the business. He has a following of thousands, and every post he creates on his blog creates a huge amount of discussion. A word of warning though, to get the most out of Grizz’s site, you are going to have to be a fan of reading, Grizz is not shy when it comes to using his keyboard, even though he’d be much happier with a golf club in his hand. That website alone will give you enough information to keep you occupied for many months to come, and is also a great place for networking. We’ll talk about the importance of networking in future posts, but suffice it to say that making money from home can be a lonely business, and it’s important for you to have friends in the game, not only for your own sanity, but for the good of your business as well.

As good as the information on Grizz’s site is, it is easy to spend too much time reading, and not enough time acting. If you want a more focussed approach, then one of Grizz’s close friends is a guy by the name of Courtney Tuttle. If you do a search for “Internet Marketing” in Google, Court’s Internet Marketing School will be one of the first entries on the first page of the results. This is a super competitive keyword, and his position in Google is testament to his skills as an Internet Marketer. Once again, that website is jam packed with information, all of which agrees with the info on Grizz’s site. Recently, however, Court has branched out. He is now offering up a place where he teaches literally thousands of students all of his secrets in an easy to follow, step by step approach. This site is called The Keyword Academy and it is here that I have learned everything that I know. The Keyword Academy is more than just a course, however. Once you join, you will not only have access to all the core videos that will provide you with the information you need to start, you will also be able to ask questions in the forums and interact with the rest of the community. Everyone there is super helpful and friendly, and more new people are arriving every day. The Academy is based on the subscription model. You will be asked to pay $1 for the first month, which will give you access to everything on the site. If you decide to stay after that month (and trust me, you will), the payments are $33 per month after that, but you can easily quit at any time. If you want to be successful and earning money from your own home, then this is the one thing that you cannot afford to miss. I will be covering a lot of what is taught there, but no simple website will ever match the support that is given at the Academy, and they are building on it every day.

So, that’s a bit of background on where I have received my information. I have been interested in Internet Marketing for a few years now, but only started seriously working at it 5 months ago, and I am starting to see results that prove to me that this can really be done, and it is possible to be making money from home and never have to worry about having a day job ever again. During the course of writing this blog, I will keep you updated on my successes, and I hope that sometime soon I will be able to announce the termination of my day job. I hope that you will follow me on my journey, and learn some things along the way. I need to make one more thing clear before I begin sharing what I have learned; this is not a get rich quick scheme. Don’t expect to be able to walk into your boss’s office tomorrow and tell him where he can shove his job. With hard work and persistence, you will indeed get to that stage, but it’s not going to happen overnight. I know that there are a lot of websites out there that will promise you overnight success, but every one of them is a liar. If it were that easy, then everyone would be doing it, and that’s just not the case.

In my next post, I am going to be breaking down this whole business in the simplest terms possible. There is too much techno talk and mumbo jumbo on the Internet already, and I hope that this site will allow even the least techno minded person to understand how Internet Marketing works, and how you can be successful at it. It really isn’t all that difficult, if I can succeed at it, then so can you. Talk to you again soon.

Clickbank is a website that offers both vendors a chance to list their products online. These products can range from computing sporting goods, from ebooks to ringtones. The reason the vendors list their products on this site is so that other people can sell them. You may ask “Well, why would I want to put time and effort into selling someone elses product?”. The answer is simple – commission. Most vendors that list their products on Clickbank offer around a 50% commission on items sold, and some offer up to 75%. That means you are earning more off the sale than the actual vendor is, which is a very sweet deal.

Now the question is, how are you going to make money from home selling these products. Clickbank actually makes this process simple and painless. Basically, you sign up to their website as an affiliate, which gives you access to all the products vendors have listed on their site. You do a search for the type of product you would like to promote, and then Clickbank gives you a link that is unique to your account. You can then promote this link wherever you want. Here are a few ideas…

• Log into your Twitter account and write a brief message about the product you are promoting, including your affiliate link.
• Send an email off to people in your contact list that you think may be interested in this product (be careful doing this, you do not want to come across as a spammer)
• Log into facebook and let a few people know about the product by writing on their walls.
• If you have a blog, write a post about the product. It can be in the form of a review. People love to read reviews and get feedback on a product before they buy.

There are many more ways you can promote these products, the only limitation is your imagination. You could even stick a few business cards up on your local noticeboard with the link printed on them. The beauty of this is that you do not have to come up with a product, design it, test it and hope that it will sell. All the hard has already been done for you. All you have to do is promote it, and you can instantly be making money from home.