Affiliate Marketing has been called the world's best part-time job.
By whom, you ask? Well me, for one.
In addition to me, many other people have found affiliate marketing to be the best way to make extra money online.
It's actually one of the coolest and most clean and easy ways to make money, because it requires very little actual work.
The most effective way to make extra money online with affiliate marketing is to know the market you are selling to, and make sure you target specifically to them.
The only real way to target a specific audience is to know that audience.
Doing market research can help with this.
Knowing specific details about what your audience expects and wants from you and from the products you refer is a very important part of learning to how to make extra money online.
It's astounding actually, when you look at the numbers.
First of all, of how many people are really making it as an affiliate, compared with how many people try and fail.
If you look at it one way, it can be discouraging.
On the other hand, it can be extremely encouraging for those of us who know the secret to success.
And just what is the secret to success? Why persistence and consistence, of course.
If you target specific affiliate niche markets, there is money to be made, no matter how many people tell you there isn't.
No matter how many people try to discourage you, and tell you it's impossible, it is very possible.
The only way to know that it's actually possible, for an individual, is to see results.
You don't have to be particularly good at anything to make extra money online...
you just need to have a certain kind of drive and persistence.
You have to never give up! If you give up, or you only go part of the way, you are screwed, that's it.
The only way to really do it is to go all the way.
And never quit.
Working every day, several hours a day is what is required.
To be honest, there is a certain amount of trust involved.
It's silly, in fact, but most people who succeed online rummaged through dozens and dozens of affiliate "training" products looking for something that would "really work.
" The problem is, very rarely do people actually follow through with what the product tells them! They frequently go only half way, if that.
Very rarely do people follow to a "t" everything they are told.
Why is this? It's hard.
It's very, very hard.
It's not actually hard to make money online.
It's hard to believe you can make money online.
Kinda crazy isn't it? The way it worked for me was, I spent lots of time just dabbling.
I did a little of this, and a little of that, just to sort of test the waters and see what works.
For me, this lead to sales...
eventually.
Meanwhile, lots of time and money were spent.
However, doing things this way eventually led to a great deal of success.
Working on something for a long time eventually leads to progress.
You may not be a born pianist, but if you like to play, and you work at it, you will get better.
That's just how it works.
The only way you could not get better is if you psych yourself out to the point where you can't even continue and so of course you can't get better.
Where does the real money come from? The combination of experience and time; the actualization of techniques that are sometimes years in the making.