3 Easy Ways to Make Money on Craigslist

• Author: Lilah
• Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Making Money Online, Marketing & Advertising, Product Promotion, Work at Home
• Date: Dec 29,2007

Craigslist is an one of the hottest online communities on the net. Craigslist enables its users to buy or sell items, look for jobs, or even to exchange information.

Currently, Craigslist averages around 4 billion page views a month, which makes Craigslist a perfect advertising medium.

Here are some ways you can make money through using Craigslist.

Promote Your Products

If you own a home business, you can easily promote your products with Craigslist. You can either offer your products through a special offer or a sale.

Promote Your Online Auctions

There are two ways of making money with Craigslist and online auctions.

First, If you are running an eBay auction, advertising your auction on Craigslist can be a great way to get clicks and bids.

Second, if you go to the “for sale” and then “free” section in various categories, you will be amazed at just what people are giving away. You can then get these goods for yourself and start selling them on eBay.

Selling Affiliate Products

It is against Craigslist TOS to place affiliate links in your advertisements. However, you can create a landing page that promotes your affiliate program and promote your landing page.

There are many people that use Craigslist to find products and services. You shouldn’t overlook this marketing opportunity. Remember that all Craigslist traffic is highly targeted, so the sooner you get your Craigslist campaign under way, then the sooner you can start watching your profits climb.

Making Money with Your Articles

• Author: Eric G.
• Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing, Niche Websites
• Date: Dec 3,2007

So you’ve heard that there is a lot of money to be made by writing articles. Sounds like a great idea, after all, writing articles isn’t rocket science. But how can you profit from your words?

Easy, simply use your articles to promote affiliate products.

To make money with articles that you place on websites, you will need a variety of good, solid, and well paying affiliate programs that will help to generate revenue.

When you pick an affiliate program, think about your niche subject. What company best complements your subject. If you’re writing about real estate, it wouldn’t make sense to promote lipstick would it?

Also, The most important thing to keep in mind when picking affiliates to promote is to keep your niche audience in mind. Otherwise you will be promoting a product to a group of people who do not even want nor need it. If your niche site targets parents of young children, then promote baby products. If you niche site targets gardeners, then promote gardening products.

Now, I know your probably thinking that the best way to your pot of gold is by promoting the highest paying affiliate program, right? A program that pays over $100 dollars might sound appealing, but how well does that product or service convert? In other words how well does it sell?

Before you get hazy-eyed by big dollar signs, remember that some products are bound to sell more than others. If you sell on product four times a year from a little known company that gives you $100 per sale or sell a well known product 3 times a week at the rate of $10 per sale, then you will make much more money with the $10 per sale product.

Lastly, there are two main ways to find an affiliate company for your niche website. You can sign up with a company that manages the accounts of hundreds of companies, big and small, and apply for the products within these accounts or you can do a web search for companies that would match well with your niche, visit their websites, and see if they advertise an affiliate program. Three of the most popular affiliate companies include Clickbank , Commission Junction , and Linkshare .

Clickbank deals primarily with info products and info services. Most commission rates per sale runs between 10% to 75%.

Commission Junction Having an affiliate account with Commission Junction, also known as CJ, will allow you to sell mostly physical products, with exception to Web hosting and Domain companies.

LinkShare – Similar to CJ, most of Linkshare’s businesses deal with actual physical goods which have to be shipped to the buyer.

3 Affiliate Programs that Pay Off

• Author: Toni
• Filed under: Affiliate Marketing
• Date: Oct 21,2007

If you want to make money with your websites, you will also need a variety of good affiliate programs that can help you generate revenue. Here are 3 top notch affiliate programs choose from to promote on your niche site.

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