There are hundreds of promotional sites offering all kinds of advice to affiliate marketers, most of them bragging about how much money you will make using their system for marketing. They do offer tons of great advice, but for the computer illiterate and the internet novice, they usually add confusion rather than helping. You need to be online to make any money.
The obvious problem is these advisors assume you already have websites, email, and blogs up and running. Without any knowledge of how a website is built or how the internet works, a true newbie is at a loss on where to begin. There are many scams out there with tempting offers of prebuilt websites, ad campaigns, and offers to optimize your prebuilt website for search engines and traffic. This can cost a would-be marketer thousands, while those doing the work hijack all the profits.
The first thing you need to know is that you don't have to start with a website. You can make money online by starting with a blog just like this one. It is free, does not require much knowledge on website building, and can be easily turned into a source of income. Blogging is also a great way to drive more traffic to your website once you get one up and running.
For the very computer illiterate, one tip to make even this blog service easier to learn, is to mouse over the icons to get information on what they do. Save your posts as drafts and experiment. You can always delete everything and start over. Another great time saving idea is to write your posts and save them in a text program first (Word, Works, etc.) so you can just copy and paste them back in should you need to delete something.
Get started online today. Customize your blog however you like,and create a post. Once you get started there are many resources online to give you even more great tips. One of my favorites is Affiliate Classroom
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