Now Working!

I have started my work on doing Affiliate Marketing. What I finally figured out is that the use of Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is one alternative for generating traffic (Duh!?!). However, it was a fairly significant epiphany that allowed me to focus on a method that I could understand and for which I see potential. The other paths (articles, blogs, SEO, etc) are not ones that I felt comfortable with. All of that said, I am started running a couple of campaigns.

One of the things that I needed to do was to decide where I was going to focus (also know as market niche). Its important to do this, especially when getting started, to allow you to have a little better chance of making things work.

So, my first campaign is underway. I am using Google Adwords and have built my own landing pages. I am working through ClickBank (www.ClickBank.com) and am focusing on a single product (DIYPowerSystems). I am going to let that run for a few days and see what happens. I have another campaign ready to go in the Jobs for Artists as well that I am then going to turn on after that to see if that one works any differently.

One of the things that drove me down this road is that it is a completely different type of work than what I have been doing previously and I do believe that it has the opportunity to make money (the question being how much is possible).  At the same time, it can truly be done from anywhere.  This is something that I have done in the past with software development but there is always the question of how you find and work with your customers.  In the affiliate marketing world, it truly allows all portions of the transaction to be done online.  The other aspect of this was that I had a vision about where I might be headed.  I had an interview at a company downtown.  The parking in that area is not very good and very expensive.  As I was driving down there, I saw myself riding the bus to work and using a netbook to do my affiliate marketing work in the morning and evening ride.  I am also going to be interviewing at DIA which would be the same thing but longer.  Who knows, that might be my future.  We’ll see.