All of theses methods are free and will not require you to spend a single dime! Enjoy.
1. Post youtube videos with link to affiliate product in the description box. After you have made a bit of cash – go to videos that have a huge amount of viewers but don’t have a link in their description box and post a message to the owner of the video and ask to rent his description box for $10 a month (whatever amount you think is best). Put your affiliate link in the description box.
2. Write a keyword rich article with affiliate link in the resource box and submit to article directories.
3. Write a keyword rich product review on Squidoo/blogger with links to affiliate product.
4. Create a fanpage on facebook. Upload product banner with links to affiliate product/CPA on side wall using static iframe. Create discussion. Go to related fan pages and post something interesting on their wall – you will get likes and this will create a viral effect.
5. Find a forum for your niche. Make friends, add value. Make at least 50 posts before recommending products.
6. Go to www.Manybooks.net. Get a free domain name book and upload it to Click2Sell as a merchant. Give a healthy commission to affiliates. Get the puchase link html and go to the niche forum. Post the link in the ads section. Post the link in forum signatures as well.
[If your take this path then it would be worth your while to put in a bit of effort by adding pictures/modifying it a bit so it’s a bit more original or you can just be on the safe side and create your own ebook. Think about what you could talk about till the cows come home and that should give you a good idea of where to begin.]
7. Go onto Ebay – promote a product with a long shipping time. Make sure reserve is more then enough to cover costs associated with the product and some profit. Collect money of winning bidder and go and buy the product cheaper elsewhere. Contact losing bidders and offer them a deal.
8. Go to google maps in your local area. Look at businesses that have not secured their google places. Ring them up and charge them $300-$500 to secure it for them and whatever you think for ongoing maintenance. It’s just filling in their business details etc. Go here to get started : http://www.google.com/places/
9. Go to related forums and give away a free ebook/article with links to affiliate products that would help them save time/money/effort.
10. Go to www.Manybooks.net or create your own story. Create PDF out of it and upload it to kindle. Charge $1 for it.
[If you go down this path then you may want to put in a bit of effort to modify the Ebook so that it minimizes the duplicate penalty – add pictures etc… Or you can be on the safe side and just write your own Ebook – don’t think too hard about it. Just share what you are passionate about.]
Extra Ways:
11. Sign up with www.fiverr.com and get $5 for every service/product you offer.
12. Hire yourself out as a freelancer on sites like: www.odesk.com, www.agentanything.com, www.microworkers.com, www.mturk.com and www.domywork.net
13. Start a blog with blogger on your favourite topic and post frequently to it everyday. Add adsense and links to affiliate products like Amazon store.
14. Go to Skreened.com, design a shirt. When someone orders, Skreened makes the shirt, ships it and pays you your part!
i need more information on this idea of starting online business. how do i kick start it ?
Hello,
What kind of online business you need info more? Blogging, Email marketing, e-commerce etc
Dear SEO Guru, thanks for your helpful post. Pls I need your support, start-up guidance and advice on how to start online business like e-mail marketing, blogging, e-commerce, eBook, podcast.etc.
Thanks.
Gabriel
Hello Gab,
Tell me exactly what you need to do? For blogging, you can just register a domain name on Godaddy, sign up with a hosting company and make your url/site live. Then, you start writing by following the SEO rules so that people can find your content online. About SEO, you can make use of Google keyword planner – the best out there. I would say that you need to learn your SEO first before you start writing your articles – very important. Ebook – you need to have audiences before writing an ebook – in other words you need to rank for a particular keyword for your topic so that people can find your ebook. (There are many things involved in online business) and that’s not all i will talk about in this comment. Thank you
Dear SEO Guru, Thanks very much your creative work. I enjoyed reading your helpful articles, they are educative and motivating. I need your help on how to start up online business. Please my mentor put me through. I need extra income to help myself and family. I am facing financial difficulties now and need to break away from poverty but I don’t know to go about it. Please help me. Send me every information needed for the online business, marketing, etc bit by bit for me to read and understand.
May God bless you abundantly for bringing out your time to help people like to us become somebody in life.
Hello,
There is a lot about online business, and it depends on what you want to do or know how to do it. I don’t know if you know anything about blogging and the overall SEO? Educating you about online business is a lot. You need to choose what you want to do and let me know if could be any help, definitely i will do it. Thanks
Really insightful, but making money from Nigeria is not easy! Great one!
Hello,
It is easy, provided you know what to do. I started this website from my room and now it brings roughly about 670k a month for me. You can make it happen too:)