Affiliate marketing is a method of generating income by placing ads in your blogs, newsletters, and other marketing material for products and services. Advertisers pay you based on customer sales, leads or clicks.

AFFILIATE COMPANIES LIST

You register to be an affiliate either with an individual company or an affiliate site. Then you put banners, widgets, text links and other product information on your website, blog, newsletter etc. There are a number of different compensation structures. Payouts will differ according to the advertiser and the type of affiliate program you are workng with. Below are some typical methods of compensation.

Pay Per Click (PPC) – You are paid based on the number of clicks that result from your ad placement.

Pay Per Sale (PPC) - You are paid based on the number of sales that result from your ad placement.

Pay Per Lead (PPL) – You are paid based on the number of leads that result from your ad placement.

There are many affiliate sites. After you have completed an application, you will have to be approved. Some sites approve automatically. Others will look at your website and make a decision. Once you have been approved you may find that the affiliate site carries hundreds of products and you may have to submit an individual application to carry certain product lines.

Koala Clip Art

Every day thousands of people use free clip art from the internet. You can make money with a free clip art website. You build the site (see my section on Build a Website). You make money with a free clip art website by adding Google adsense, afiliate links and/or paid advertisments to the site.

Begin by deciding on your market. You can build a general free clip art website and have a huge variety of images or you can focus on a small niche market. For example, you could target teens and make money with a free clip art website with images related to school, work, play etc. Or you could tarket businesses and have business related clip art images.

You can find free clip art images on the web (just don’t take them from other clip art sites). Or you can draw clip art yourself. You may want to hire an artist and share in the profits. To start a free clip art website you will want to have several hundred images.

Add your clip art images to the website you built and monetize it with adsense, links and advertisers. If your free clip art site is in a certain niche, contact advertisers who may be interested in reaching your target market. For example, if you are targeting college kids, you could contact a college text book reseller and see if they want to exchange links or advertise on your site. Offer them free clip art to use on their site if they credit your site.

Attract visitors to your site by posting on forums, blogs and at other sites. Encourage them to bookmark your site. Keep adding to your images so you build a great variety of free clip art. This will attract more visitors, which will increase the money you make with your free clip art website.

The truth is, there is a lot more involved in Mystery Shopping than a simple…mmmhmmm it was good or yes the store was clean.  Yes there are free meals, clothes and other goodies for Mystery Shoppers but it involves  paying close attention and reporting objectively on alot of nitty, gritty details.  If you complete  a Mystery Shop meal at a fast food restaurant you may be asked to;  time your server, report on the temperature of the food, the speed at which you got your check and the cleanliness of the establishment among other things.

There are a wide variety of mystery shopping companies and they specialize in different types of shops from restaurants to retail stores. Although there are some very upscale shops available, they are few and far between and involve tremendous work. A typical  Mystery shop would involve buying and returning something from a retail store and noting  store and transaction details.  Another typical Mystery shop might  involve evaluating a fast food chain. Was your food hot? How long did it take for service?  What was your servers name? Did the server ask you if you wanted the super size?  Were the floors clean? etc.

Pay for Mystery Shopping varies. Though some companies do pay a fee to the shopper. Others consider the food you ate or merchandise you received your payment. Keep in mind if you go over budget you are responsible for the difference in price. And if you dine out, or purchase something you usually have to pay up front and submit receipts to be reimbursed.

If you have a great attention to detail, good memory and enjoy trying products and services then you may want to give Mystery Shopping  a shot. One site to try Mysteryshop.org.

Want to get started Mystery shopping fast? Plug your name and zip into Jobslinger.com to look for local Mystery shopping jobs.

There are many ways to make money with affiliate marketing and there are many different affiliate companies. Because this is such a great way to make part or full time income, My Lil Gold Dress has a special section devoted to affiliate marketing.

Click here to go to the main page on Affiliate Marketing.

Be sure to check out my review of the $10K a month Amazon earners ebook. They teach you step by step how to make money on Amazon. Click here to read my review of the Amazonian Profit Plan.

~ MyLilGoldDress.com

The following are resources (audio, ebooks etc.) that are OUTSTANDING!
Please note they do have a charge but in many cases you will make back your money quickly and save yourself hours of time.

Please click on the topics you are interested in, to learn more about the detailed guides.

Virtual Assistant Starter Guide

Transcription Starter Kit

Ghostwriting Starter Kit

Start a Review Blog for Fun and Profit

Start a Craft Blog for Fun and Profit

Start a Recipe Blog for Fun and Profit

Purse Party Profits

Santa Letter Business Kit

Full Time WAHM (Work at Home Mom)

The Super Affiliate Handbook

If you are interested in blogging and earning income like I do,  I highly recommend the Keyword Academy. It is FREE  to join for the first full month. Use my link and let me know you did. I will be happy to share tips and look at your blogs.  Click here to join the Keyword Academy

If you are new to affiliate marketing and interested in selling hot health and beauty items, MoreNiche is excellent. They offer a lot of support, banners, and other marketing tools. Great payouts on quality products.

Click here to sign up; MoreNiche

ShareASale ~ carries a wide range of advertisers, close to 3,000, and a wide range of products. This is a great company to use for product sales.

LinkShare ~ LinkShare carries a wide range of advertisers and products and specializes in lead generation and product sales.

Amazon ~ Amazon carries a huge range of products. Though the payout is low because Amazon is so well known and trusted it is an excellent company to work with.

Clickbank ~ Clickbank offers digital products and is a very popular company to work with.

Recently my daughter was telling me of a bakery near her that sold only cupcakes. She said the line was out the door and around the corner of people waiting to get theirs!  Of course you know I am always thinking of different ways for work at home money so I had to wonder, was there such a thing as cupcake profits?  I mean was there really a way of turning cupcakes into cash?

The thought of turning cupcakes into cash, took me back to high school where I was president of the drama club and in charge of fund raising. We decided to have a bake sale after school a few times a week. Well one day almost everyone forgot to bake. There was just a dozen or so cupcakes and a few tiny brownies. So I got this idea to just charge a lot for the cupcakes. I am embarrassed to tell you what we charged ( it was for a good cause). but every cupcake sold and for mega bucks.

So those cupcake profits came to mind when my daughter was talking about the big line snaking around the cupcake bakery. And I started investigating.  Let me ask you. How many searches do you think the word “cupcakes” gets every day? Well you may be stunned by the answer (see answer at bottom of post).   I was stunned.  And so that is how I realized how much people are into cupcakes! Cupcakes are the new wedding cake. They are perfect for children’s parties, holidays, reunions, deserts. There are lots of times to enjoy cupcakes.

To give you some idea of how much people love cupcakes, one company turned it into a mega business; the BIG TOP CUPCAKE. They sell kits to make HUGE cupcakes.

So how do you make big bucks selling cupcakes? Well aside from my bake sale table at school, I do not have hands on experience selling cupcakes but Lorraine Middleton does and she turned it into a book that includes everything you need to know for cupcake profits.

You can get a copy of Lorraine’s ebook here….Turning Cupcakes Into Cash

I do know that if I was doing it, I would make enormous cupcakes like the ones in the video. I think this would be an awesome way to have fun with the kids and make cupcake profits!

If you are interested in making huge cupcakes, click here to get the BIG TOP CUPCAKE kit.

How many searches for cupcakes daily – 1,500,000