Formula For Making Money Online

Having the right knowledge is the key to building a successful money making online business or online marketing campaign.

To begin with, you will need to know how to create some kind of online presence or identity. To do so, you can easily build a Landing Page or a Website with today’s user friendly technology all from the comforts of your home using your computer and Internet connection.

A Landing Page is just a one-page website layout where prospects come to first (or “land” on) when clicking on your web address link (uniform resource locator “URL”). For example, a URL for a landing page (or a website) would be: https://www.example.com.

For our intentions, a landing page will be designed to serve two purposes for making money online:

The First Purpose is to collect other people’s email addresses by using an opt-in form embedded right on your landing page using an autoresponder. This will allow you to start building your email list (customer base) right away which is vital to building a successful and sustaining online business or marketing campaign.

The Second Purpose is to achieve some kind of objective or goal, or to promote a product or service. For example, if you are promoting an affiliate offer, a prospect could first submit their email address on your landing page (“opt-in”) and then be redirected to the sales page of your affiliate offer where a sale could take place with you earning a great commission!

A Website is essentially just a collection of published webpages or blog posts that can range from being a small website (niche) to being a large one (authority). A smaller website, for instance, may only have 5 to 20 webpages or blog posts whereas a larger website may have 100’s or even 1000s of webpages or blog posts. Although there are different types of websites that can be built, our focus will be on the following ones that are very popular for building online businesses where you can easily monetize them to be able to make money online:

A Standard Website is where the webpages generally remain in a permanent location usually either on your website’s navigation menu bar or in a widget. The content on the webpages remain unchanged unless you make changes to it. This type of website normally does not allow for any kind of interaction between you and your visitors for them to post comments or ask questions whereas a blogging website is naturally designed to do so.

A Blogging Website is where your visitors have the opportunity to interact with your published blog posts where they are able to leave comments at the bottom of such posts. You can then reply back to their comments thus creating an online dialogue. This will allow you to start building a valuable and trusted relationship with your visitors. You can grow your blogging website into an authority site with 100’s or even 1000’s of blog posts where they can be archived and categorized… just like a library does with books being shelved on different aisles classified by subject matter for visitors to keep coming back to your site.

An eCommerce Website is used for selling products and services online whether they are your own or that of a third-party. You can display products or promote services and accept customer’s sales orders and process payments online. This can be done by using an online payment processor with embedding a shopping cart right on your eCommerce website.

(to learn more about landing pages and different types of websites, click on Types of Websites You Can Create)

Again, having an opt-in form on your landing page or website to collect other people’s email addresses will allow you to start building your own email list. This will let you to keep your subscribers informed about your line of business (creating value & trusting relationships) as well as being able to promote to them over and over again with relevant products or services. Your email list will become one of your greatest assets for your online business or marketing campaign… as they say, “the money is in the list.”

Creating opt-in forms and engaging in email marketing can easily be done with a do-it-yourself professional grade autoresponder.

(to learn more, click on Using an Autoresponder)

To monetize your site (landing page or website) you will need to have something to sell or promote online to start making money with your online business or marketing campaign.

No Shortage Here!… there are many things that you can sell or promote online including (but not limited to):

• Selling Your Own Products and Services

Got a great product or service? Then sell it over the Internet using your website. You can even have a product developed for you to do just that. Just embed a shopping cart on your website to process sales orders and accept payments and you now have an online business running itself 24/7 on the Internet!

• Affiliate Marketing

You do the promoting of an affiliate offer (third-party products and services) where you can earn a great commission for making the referral sale. Some “Super-Affiliates” make well into the six-figures income per year online doing just that… some even make way more than that!

• Third-Party Advertisements

Get paid to place third-party advertisements on your website. You can do this by placing their Banners and Links directly on your website and get paid for doing it.

• Drop Shipping

You take customer’s sales orders right on your website and send them to the drop shipper (wholesaler). The drop shipper then ships the products directly to your customer’s with your business label on the shipping package. You carry no inventory, it’s all stored by the drop shipper.

(to learn more about how you can monetize your online business or marketing campaign, click on What to Sell Online to Make Money)

Getting targeted traffic to your online business or marketing campaign is the oxygen that it needs to fuel your profit making machine. The magic of getting targeted traffic is to match the interests of a targeted group to relevant products or services that they would highly be interested in. This will help you to get higher sales conversions and make bigger profits!

Again, No Shortage Here!… There are many ways of getting targeted traffic to your online business or marketing campaigns to help you fuel your own thriving money making machine.

For example, you can get targeted traffic using any of the following popular ways:

• Free Traffic

You can get free targeted traffic (organic search traffic) by having valuable and original content ranked high in the search engines (like Google) that is written around targeted keywords that searchers are using in their search query. You can also use backlinking by leaving your URL on other relevant and high ranking forums, blogs and “answer & question” sites.

• Paid Traffic

You can also get targeted traffic by paying for it. Paid traffic can include any number of online methods like Pay-Per-Click (PPC), Pay-Per-View (PPV), Ad Networks, Banner Advertising, and Solo Ads. It can also include off-line methods such as Newspapers and Magazines. Paid traffic can get targeted traffic to your online business or marketing campaigns really fast.

• Email Marketing

This can be another great way to get targeted traffic to your online business or marketing campaigns by using your own targeted customer base built right from your own email list.

(to learn more about getting targeted traffic to your online business or marketing campaigns, click on Traffic Sources)

The last step for making money online with your online business or marketing campaign is to track your financial results and return on investment (ROI) along with tracking other vital marketing statistics for what you are selling or promoting. This will give you a clearer picture of your “bottom-line” as to whether or not you are making a profit, incurring a loss, or just breaking even.

To track your financial results and ROI, you can use anything from an Excel spreadsheet to specialized tracking software. As your online business and marketing campaigns begin to grow, you will need to track all of your monetized activities such as monetized links and monetized traffic sources with specialized tracking and reporting software. The more you have going on with respect to your monetized activities, the more critical it becomes in having specialized tracking software to determine your financial results and ROI as well as keeping a close eye on other vital marketing statistics.

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Using specialized tracking software can provide you with useful tools and provide you with meaningful and important information such as:

• Link Tracking & Analysis
• Track Sales & Leads
• Cloak Affiliate Links
• Paid Ad Tracking
• Pay Per Click Tracking
• Affiliate SubID Tracking
• A/B Split Testing
• URL/Link Rotator
• Redirect Based On Geo, Click Limits & Expiration Dates
• And Much More!

In addition, using specialized tracking software will help you to monitor, compare, analyze and optimize all of your monetized activities all-in-one-place.

Summary – Formula For Making Money Online

Follow our 4 step formula for making money online and you could soon be on your way to making really BIG money online with your own online business or marketing campaigns!