Fwd: Day 5 Blogging Course: My tips for passive income from blogging

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From: Michelle Schroeder-Gardner <michelle@makingsenseofcents.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:16 AM
Subject: Day 5 Blogging Course: My tips for passive income from blogging
To: Joao <joaoa.desilva2018@gmail.com>

Hi,

Welcome to Day 5!

Affiliate income is my most favorite way of earning a living online. And, yes, there are affiliate links within this email.

Just over five years ago, I was barely earning anything from affiliate income, but now I'm earning around $50,000 give or take, a month from it!

Affiliate income is when you place an affiliate link in a blog post and try to earn money from people buying the product through your link, a drop shipping operation essentially. It's all about promotion.

This can be a good way to make money because if there is a product out there that you love, all you have to do is review the product and hopefully others will be interested in buying it as well. And together you build a community.

Affiliate income is great because you can create a post, review, etc., and that post may earn you money or residual income years down the line with minimal work needed to maintain the article. It can be somewhat passive, but SMART passive income which is what I love about it.

Yes, this means that you may be able to earn money while you are sleeping, on vacation, out dancing with friends, and more etc.

What could be better than that?

If you are interested in starting a blog of your own, I created a tutorial that will help you start a blog of your own for cheap, starting at only $2.75 per month (this low price is only through my link) for blog hosting. In addition to the low pricing, you will receive a free website domain (a $15 value) through my Bluehost link if you purchase, at least, 12 months of blog hosting. FYI, if you are asking yourself "can you make money blogging?" – my top tip is to be self-hosted. This is essential if you want to monetize your blog as you will appear more professional and this will help you monetize your blog tremendously. My blogging income did not take off until after I switched to self-hosted WordPress.

Here are some of my tips for increasing your affiliate income:

• Use the Pretty Link plugin. I use this for all of my affiliate links. It makes them look cleaner when it looks like "makingsenseofcents.com/bluehost" instead of the long links that affiliate programs usually provide.
• Provide real reviews. You should always be honest with your reviews. If there is something you don't like about a product either don't review the product at all or mention the negatives in your review.
• Ask for raises. If you are doing well with a particular affiliate program, ask for a raise or get them to scrub the account and see if you can get additional monies not accounted for. The worst thing that can happen is that your affiliate manager says, no. The best is that they say, yes!
• Form a good relationship with your affiliate manager. Your affiliate manager can supply your readers with valuable coupons, affiliate raises, and more etc.
• Publish tutorials. Readers want to know how they can use a product. Showing them how to use it and how it can benefit them can be very helpful.
• Have a recommendations page. I always like checking out recommendation pages on blogs. It can be a great way to list valuable products and services that readers may need or want. Here's mine as an example. They're also called resource pages.
• Join affiliate programs. There are many different affiliate programs to check out. These include, Worldprofits.Biz,  Max Bounty, Avant Link, Shareasale, Flex Offers, Commission Junction, Amazon's Affiliate Program,  and so on. Worldprofit.com, for example has been in business for 24 years and have a Sr Mentor Monitor network you can talk to 24/7 and that'll close your sales for you WorldsLongestRunningWebcast.com/. If you enjoy a product, there is probably some sort of affiliate out there for it. 
• Don't go overboard. There is no need to include an affiliate link 1,000 times in a blog post. Include them at the beginning, middle, and the end, and readers will notice it.
  

I recommend checking out my online course for bloggers, Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing. I earn over $50,000 a month through affiliate marketing and I share my exact strategy and tips in this very informative online course. If you're a blogger, then you NEED this course.

Well, that's it for today. Tomorrow you will receive the next lesson that will teach you how to build your traffic and attract readers. Stay tuned!

My thanks in advance for your time, attention and consideration.

Cheers,

Jon

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