First allow me to say…

Thank you everyone for your feedback on the new change!

Either way I was going to do it, even if I lost part of my audience (which I know I did from a few emails) but overall it’s much, much more what I want to do, and it looks like most of you are in agreement with what I said in the last post.

But anyway, here is some info you NEED TO UNDERSTAND if you want to really make money. (Keep in mind, as everything else on this blog, this is my opinion. If you don’t agree, back up your claims with evidence and it will be a great discussion. This is also how I see it as related to being an affiliate marketer, not necessarily having your own products.)

What You Must Understand to Really Start Making Money:

1) You are no longer just some person trying to make money online. You are not in this for just some quick money or even just for yourself. You are now a company (even if you’re just one person in your basement) whose goal is to bring targeted leads to other companies asking for your help. You get paid by these companies for your expertise and for your help.

2) You have to spend money. Yes, I know to some of you this is scary, but you must do it. When I seriously started doing this I spent about $1,000 before I started making consistent profit on a campaign. Some of you might reach it sooner, others later. But do not worry, you WILL reach it. There is just too much money to be made to not have a share… but you must know that you will probably lose money… and that is OKAY! It’s all part of the process.

3) This one goes along with the last one, but it is how you should think about spending your money, especially in the beginning… IT IS YOUR EDUCATION. How much have you spent on books? Courses? How much have you made from buying those? Well, actually going out there and risking your money will teach you a HELL of a lot more than a course. Or how about this one… how much did you pay for College? Yeah, well this can make you a ton more money than your College degree, and I’m sure you will pay a lot, lot less than you paid for College until you start making money.

4) BUY TRAFFIC! Don’t worry about SEO or stuff like that. If you really want to, be my guest, but in my opinion it is a lot more annoying and takes a lot longer to work. Now having a high ranking site in the SERPS can make you TONS of cash, but it’s just too much for me to think about. I’d rather throw money at an offer, see if it converts right away. If it does… awesome! If it doesn’t… move on. I’d rather now wait weeks or months working on a website to get ranked to see if it will work.

5) Demographics are the most important part of the marketing process. If you don’t know the demographic, you can’t market to them. Quantcast is your best friend.

*6) This one isn’t really something you must understand, but more of a tip that I thought I’d throw in. DO NOT START WITH PPC! At least in my experience… I STILL am trying to figure out PPC. I have not had a single good, profitable PPC campaign. If you CAN get it… that’s awesome. I know I will eventually, but until then, I’m still having trouble with it. I use banner advertising and contextual mostly. Oh yeah… AND DON’T USE ADWORDS! Adwords is the hardest PPC to get down. If you want to do PPC, use MSN.

I think that’s all for now.

I’ll update shortly with more info on CPA and which are my favorite networks and how to get in and stuff like that.

Let me know what you want to know about.

-Avery