However, I would like you to be aware that owning your own website has its own set of costs and responsibilities.

Here’s a list of just some of the stuff you have to think about as a website owner:

1. hosting
2. graphics
3. advertising
4. paying commissions
5. customer support
6. programming
7. and plenty more

And after all of that, you might not even be making a profit! If you pay attention, you may notice that for every site with thousands or tens of thousands of members, you will find hundreds of sites with little to no members – and I’d guess most are operating at a loss.

And it is for these reasons, that I am a big big fan of affiliate marketing.

The affiliate commissions I earn each year are actually very competitive with the amount of money I earn at some of my websites!

So while having your own website may seem prestigious and definitely a cool experience, if your main concern is making an income and some healthy profits, there is absolutely nothing wrong or disadvantageous about promoting other peoples’ products as an affiliate.

In fact, it can be just as profitable (if not more), than owning your own website.

I promised that if I had enough comments/tweets in my last blog post, I would willing to share THIS post with you! There’s also a tweet out there, but for whatever reason Tweetme is not counting it. :p

I do need to mention that although I say 3-10 sales per month, it’s actually much higher when you factor in some other things… which I will address in just a moment.

I have to warn you that this is so simple, you may almost not believe it. But this is really all it takes to get your business started online and start making sales.

So here it is, step by step:

• I use the pre-built squeeze pages and autoresponder series given away for free at List Recon
• I advertise regularly at all of my favorite traffic exchanges, safelists, and viral list builders (or as much as possible) and of course track my results
• I’m upgraded at many of the best converting programs. If you can’t afford to upgrade yet, you’ll want to be more active.
• Watch as my subscriber list grows, people join List Recon under my referral link, and upgrade
• Repeat

And that process alone scores me about 3-10 sales each month.

HOWEVER…

That is actually just the sales I’m counting immediately.

As a Free member, your List Recon affiliate link is inside of the free report you give away.

But as an upgraded member of List Recon, you can rebrand ALL of the affilate links inside of the ebook and inside the members area! That equals dozens more opportunities to make even more sales at various quality programs. In many cases these are also residual income sales, which means you could be earning monthly commissions too.

PLUS you are building your subscriber list. That means you can also have an instant audience whenever something exciting comes out that you think can help others.

So now you’re making Front-End Sales, Back-End Sales, Residual Sales, AND planting the seeds for Future Sales!

In reality, 3-10 sales is quite an understatement.

There are a couple of important considerations. First, as I mentioned earlier, I am upgraded at many sites. So if you can’t afford upgrades, you’ll need to be more active. If you can’t be more active, the results may come at a slower pace. That’s ok! Just be willing to put in the work and get as many sales as possible.

Second, I use my own website List Recon as an example, but you can certainly use any proven lead generator and sales system that can deliver results for you. I just like List Recon because it’s my own site and I know for a fact it works. I use the EXACT same content from List Recon that I give away to my members. If you have something that works, definitely stick with it. Just make sure that you have a system that can get all the income potential like what I presented to you above. If you don’t have something like yet, then I suggest using List Recon.

… aaand so that is my big secret! The big secret is that there really is no secret. You just have to go out there and DO IT!

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• Thanks for the recent comments and tweets. Remember that if you don’t have anything to add with a comment, sending out a tweet is appreciated just as much

• So I finally fixed that optin box at the top right of my blog. Only took me a few months to get around to it!

• A lot of aweber emails have been hitting the spam box in gmail lately, hopefully this pattern doesn’t continue, because historically they’ve been an excellent autoresponder.

• Apparently you can customize the look of your blog at the warrior forum too! Didn’t know that!

• I created a fan page on facebook. I haven’t actually done anything with it yet or added anyone, but eventually I’ll get to it. Feel free to become a fan while you’re reading this.

• So I happened to establish contact with a well known Internet Marketer named Rhys Davies. He pulled in $148,000 online last year … in actual profit! He did it with just a simple, 3 step system and I got an insider look at it! I think it’s definitely worth checking out, and he’s giving away one of his secrets right now for free. Click here to see it!

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Main Article – Making Cash And Promoting Your Business With Your Blog

So one of your fellow readers wanted to know how to promote a business with your blog.

Now there are SO many ways to do this depending on your niche and the type of business you have. So rather than write some massive 50,000 word article, I’ll give you a nice little list of stuff that you can pick and choose from.

• Find the keywords in your niche likes and focus on posting content in those areas.

• Make your posts that also apply to things about your business, so you can provide useful content and drop friendly reminders about your business. For example, one thing I talk about is getting traffic to your websites. Why not talk about my own websites EliteSafelist and FastActionAds since it helps get website traffic?

• Like to promote affiliate programs? Make sure to smoothly link to some of your affiliate links in your blog posts.

• Update your readers about the latest news going on with your business! For example, I think one or two blog posts ago, I mentioned that EliteSafelist hit 5,000 members.

• For affiliate marketers, of course it makes a lot of sense to devote posts about a new program. You can give an honest review and/or talk about your ongoing experiences with it!

• Remember that those rss feeds and blog networks can be spreading the stuff posted on your blog all over the internet! That means tons of links going back to your website or affiliate links! Your new blog posts can automatically be sent to places like twitter, facebook, and more!

• Have an optin form so you can keep people up to date about your blog (and your business) through email.

• Get your blog active, and it will show new readers that the content you are writing about is interesting to other people. This makes people more inclined to read your blog so they can see what other people have to say. That also means even more exposure for you.

• Remember that sometimes a blog will look a lot friendlier than some salespage where you’re trying to sell someone something. A blog gives you another outlet and way to connect with potential customers.

• Give your readers step by step instructions on how to do stuff, and of course include some action having to do with your business. People love lists!

I’m sure there’s more but I can’t think of them at the moment. If you look around, I’m sure you’ll notice that I apply many of these techniques myself, and it brings me additional, long term business.

What do you think of this list? Are you applying any of these methods to your blogs? Let us know!

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Here is a list of some excellent affiliate programs and products that you can promote:

• Click Bank
• Commission Junction
• PayDotCom
• Affiliate Cash Secrets
• Autopilot Profits
• The Second Tier

What programs do you like to promote? Share it with us!