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online business  A blog (a
truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website
published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal
diary-style text entries (posts). Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain
or add content to a blog. Follow these 6 steps to learn how to create your own blog: ·
Pick a blog name. ·
Choose your blog template. ·
Start writing posts. ·
Connect your domain. ·
Publish posts and go live. ·
Share your posts. Related site to start blogging: ·
WordPress ·
Gator
by HostGator ·
Blogger ·
Tumblr ·
Medium 2. Get Started with Affiliate
Marketing  Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based
marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor
or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts. Affiliate marketing is an online sales tactic that
lets a product owner increase sale by allowing others targeting the same
audience— “affiliates”—to earn a commission by recommending the product to
others. At the same time, it makes it possible for affiliates to earn money
on product sales without creating products of their own. Simply put, affiliate marketing involves referring
a product or service by sharing it on a blog, social media platforms, or
website. The affiliate earns a commission each time someone makes a purchase
through the unique link associated with their recommendation. Done well, this
performance-based opportunity can become an important part of your business
by netting you a healthy income.  There
are two main ways most people do affiliate marketing: ·
Information products: You
promote products like eBooks, membership sites, video series, etc. This type
of affiliate marketing can earn you up to 50% or more in commission, has
relatively low barriers to entry, and it’s easy to find products to promote. ·
Amazon partners: Many affiliate
marketers have success with Amazon. There are literally millions of products
to choose from, and it can be quite profitable. For more information, you can
check out the Amazon Associates Program. Related
site to start Affiliate Marketing: ·
1.ShareASale Affiliates ·
2. Solvid Affiliate ·
3. Amazon Associates ·
4. eBay Partners ·
5. Shopify Affiliate Program Quick
side note: Before you start affiliate marketing, it helps to have at
least a basic knowledge of SEO and copywriting (more on each of these later). That
being said, you can read a few copywriting books and look through the
beginner’s guide to SEO from SEO Moz to help you get started. 3. Set Up an E-Commerce Site  An e-commerce
website, by definition, is a website that allows you to buy and sell tangible
goods, digital products or services online. Trade, be it barter exchange or
buying and selling of goods and services has been prevalent for centuries. No
one can be self-sufficient. E-Commerce,
also known as e-Business, or electronic business, is simply the sale and
purchase of services and goods over an electronic medium, like the Internet.
It also involves electronically transferring data and funds between two or
more parties. Simply put, it is online shopping as we commonly know it. It’s still
not easy by any means. It requires hard work, and you need to stand out
amongst the hundreds of thousands of e-commerce websites and online stores.
But by filling a unique niche and executing the right
marketing techniques, you can make your e-commerce store a profitable success.  Here
are some tips to help you get started with your e-commerce store:
4. Self-Publish a Book on Amazon  Have you ever thought of writing a book, but didn’t
know where to get started? All the publishing nonsense, editing, and
formatting, marketing, etc.? With Amazon, you can self-publish a book fairly
easily, and really make money from it. There are some simple and
inexpensive guides to help you write your book AND have it generated
consistent income. Here’s the secret sauce: If you can launch
your book and get a few hundred sales in the first week, Amazon will take
over and start promoting it for you. This way you can make some real money
from it. It’s actually easier than it sounds, but we’ll get to that in a
minute.  Here
are a few tips for writing a book:
Once the book is written and formatted, you can
head over to KDP.amazon.com. Log in with your Amazon account, then under
“Create a New Title”, select “Kindle eBook.” Here’s
a good strategy for your book’s launch week (to get 100+ sales): 1.
Set the
price at 99 cents for the first week. 2.
Run a 99-cent
promotion with sites like Buck Books and Robin Reads. 3.
Post a
book excerpt on a relevant subreddit and link it to your book page at the
end. 4.
Post
1-2 guest posts during the launch week that link back to your book page. 5.
Blast
your email list multiple times. 6.
By the
end of the week, hopefully, your book has eclipsed the top 5,000 or 10,000
overall paid ranking. From there, raise the price to $2.99, and continue
raising the price $1 at a time every few days until it stops selling (then,
lower it back by a dollar). This will tell you the optimal price for your book. 5. Create a Digital Product or
Course  Creating a digital product or course is similar to
writing an eBook. You’re monetizing your expertise by teaching it to the
others. That being said, you don’t have the benefit of
Amazon promoting your course. You have to do the promoting yourself through
your own website, your email lists, and possibly through affiliate
partnerships. You also need to create a compelling sales page that will
convince visitors to buy from you. If you don’t already have an audience, it might be
better to self-publish on Amazon first. That way, you can validate your
course idea, grow your email list (just make sure to have an email
opt-in at the front and back of the book), and more or less create a rough
draft of the course (since it will probably be similar to the book).  Here are some additional resources to help you with
an online course creation:
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