My Bid to Be the Next Affiliate Marketer

By Penny Long

About 2 weeks ago, I decided that I needed to try something different and new. I just lost my job, and needed something else to take its place. I began looking for something that would make me enough money so that I could take care of some things. I did not look to strike it rich. I wanted something more, something that would last. I wanted something that would expand as I grew, and more importantly grow when I wanted it to grow.

So I went on a journey through all the search engines, looking for something I could do at home. After all I was at home with a computer, surely there is something out there that I could do. Right?

Good gosh yes!!

There was so much out there that I was totally overwhelmed. There was way to much for me to comprehend in a couple of hours, so I just took my time.

It took me 2 days to sort through it all and even then there still was more to see. I narrowed my search by really looking at what I expected a business to be, what could I do as a business, and why I wanted a business. My answers would have to be based in reality. I would not find a business that I could accomplish by lying to myself.

I finally decided on two online home businesses that I thought I could do and well. I bought both and then set myself down to the real task. I decided that I would work these business plans, and not let them work me! I would give it all that I had to make a real start into my new career. First, I must read and reread all that was given to me, until I really started to understand the concept. And then, I had to give myself a chance. I knew that this was going to be something completely foreign to me. In all my adult years, I had never worked from home. I would be relying on what I would learn to make money and that was a bit frightening.

I rolled up my sleeves and went to work. I joined the two main accounting websites and then registered my own website. That was very satisfying. Before that day, I only surfed the web. Now I was one of those being surfed!

I loved it!!

Then I realized that I needed to get people to view my website. So I read and read about traffic, what it was, how to generate it, and how to make it last. I am still new to this but it started to make sense. I began to understand that being an affiliate is being that person that brings traffic to the product. My job is to get the buyer to the sellers products. In reality I would be the advertisement company without the commercials. My ads and articles would be the commercials to get people demanding to see the products. I would be paid not for the campaign, but for the actual sell. I finally understood what the business was and how it worked.

That was another eureka moment!!!

I was thrilled!!

I finally began to make some headway to working the program!

Have I made any money?

A small amount but the great thing is that I have not lost much either. So far, my costs have been limited to just what the business plans cost and the cost of the domain.

Am I glad that I invested in this type of program??

Most definitely!

I am on the road to self employment, and on the road to my freedom to do with my time as I see fit.

Do I believe that this is the way to easy money?

No, but then I do not believe in easy money. I know that nothing is ever easy. The ease at making money is all in what you are willingly to do to to make it easy. I believe that through desire and determination one can find or make easy money.

I have more to read and more to learn. I will continue to work the business plans, until I am an affiliate marketer.

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