span bells, books and candles
class="cap">“ Networ o Locate affiliate for the
k marketing” used to be a “romance” of the website. Perhaps
irty word. It used to mean MLM. flowers or chocolates or
Period. Not so any more. “Network diamonds.
marketing” is a whole new game. o Sell the books themselves!
Simply put, it is a dynamic way
Now, instead of just one
of building an internet business possible income stream, there are
with multiple streams of income. ten! Now THIS is a real
For example, let’s take a basic business.
online store. Perhaps a book
In building your Network
store specializing in romance Marketing business, there are two
novels. Doesn’t sound too things you need to keep in mind,
profitable, does it. Let’s see no matter what your product area:
what this store can do:
find the right niche, and
o AdSense diversify your streams of income.
o Charge for editing books, If you can accomplish those two
perhaps even for reviewing them things, you can have a successful
and featuring them on the site online business.
o Put Amazon ads on site
Here’s a quick summary of some
o eBay ads for all things bookish of the income streams that you
o Write your own ebook on how to might consider for your
get published and sell it website:
o Affiliate with a company that
EBOOKS. Write your own, or see
will print hard copies of the what others have written. “Jiffy
books books” do pretty well. These are
o Feature art pertaining to your short, 10-20 page ebooks, that
books or the writers sell for under $5. Also check
o Find other affiliates that have ClickBank. ClickBank authors tend
bookish things, perhaps even to be pretty generous with
commissions, so if there is a free. Linkshare is another big
good ebook there, promote it. You company. Also check out Affiliate
can also do both: write your own Programs and the Direct Selling
AND feature ebooks that others Association.
have written.
CREATE A MEMBERSHIP SITE. Do
PUT ADS ON YOUR SITE. AdSense you have special knowledge in a
is the biggest company doing unique field? Let members pay to
this, but there are others. You join and offer them premium
place blocks of ads on your site. knowledge, products and
They are easy to set up. All you networking.
do is decide how you want the ads
BRING EBAY INTO YOUR WEBSITE.
to look, and place the code in You can set up your own eBay
the right spot. Easy peasy. store, featuring the types of
Whenever anyone clicks on these, products that your visitors would
you get paid. The rate of pay is like. A cake decorating site
determined by your topic, and the could sell molds for devils on
page the ad is on.
the page about devils food cakes!
AFFILIATE MARKETING. Another eBay has so much to offer that
company has a product you like. they sky is the limit.
You see they have an affiliate
CREATE AND SELL YOUR OWN
program. That means that you can TRAINING PROGRAM DVDs. Sometimes
show it and sell it on your site. visual works better than written
Every time you make a sale, you material. If that is the case for
get a commission. The money you, create your own training
transaction is handled by the program. You can sell them as a
merchant, so you don't need a download, or in hard case DVD, or
shopping cart. Check out both.
Commission Junction for a slew of
CREATE YOUR OWN SHOPPING MALL.
affiliate based products. You Thousands of different kinds of
will need to sign up, but it is products lurk in different
shopping malls, from teddy bears else can you reach such a wide
to samurai swords. Track down audience, at such a low price.
your vendors and create your own And it's not just for "creative"
very unique shopping. Once you folks. One of the most successful
start looking, you will be amazed webmasters I know sells kits for
at the variety of product you can people to set up their own
offer. concrete driveway contractor
JOIN A TRAVEL COMPANY. For all business. Honest.
travel sites and geographically
GENERATE FINDERS FEES. Real
oriented sites, this is a must. estate finders fees may or may
And it's a nice source of income. not be an option in your area.
A travel site is a natural for But if you bring an artist a new
network marketing, and would client, that should certainly
include many of the other streams generate a finder's fee. Look for
of income that we note here as companies in the same general
well.
area of interest as your website
PROMOTE YOUR SERVICE BUSINESS and cut your own deal.
ONLINE OR SELL YOUR OWN PRODUCT
ACT AS AN AGENT FOR OTHERS. A
ONLINE. From massage parlors (the very successful lady books rooms
legit kind) to dentists to in local inns in a remote island,
attorneys, there just isn't a and earns very nice commissions
corner of the business world that doing it. Her site attracts the
couldn't benefit from a good guests, and she forwards the
website. Have online coupons for requests for rooms to her
your customers, both from your clients. Another webmaster books
business and from affiliated trips to Australia. He doesn't
businesses. Or do you create actually do the booking himself;
jewelry? Write children's books? he just forward the request to
Design stained glass doors? The other agents, and collects his
internet is made for you. Nowhere commission. Both are great
network marketing options. Everything I mentioned above has
SELL ADVERTISING ON YOUR SITE. at least a dozen variations on
Unlike a newspaper, you've got it. And there are dozens and
all the space you want. So sell dozens more ways to make
some of it.
money.
CREATE YOUR OWN AUCTION. When
Remember, too, that none of
you've got a specialized product, these will do you any good at all
let others bid on it. Setting up without traffic to your site.
a whole auction site like eBay is First build your traffic. Then
very expensive, but you can do you can sell. Statistically, only
"blind bidding", i.e., let people about 2% to 5% of visitors will
submit bids without knowing what buy anything. So, based on your
others are bidding. Results can product mix, figure out how much
be quite nice with this traffic you need to generate to
approach.
be successful.
You want one more way to make
Build your monetization
money with your Network Marketing slowly. And don’t be afraid to
online business? Okay ...
fire companies that don’t work
MLM. Multi level marketing is out. There are lots and lots of
not always the best option. But choices. Find your best
once you find a good company to matches.
work with, it cannot be
duplicated anywhere.
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MaryAnn Shank, webmaster of Your Network Marketing Coach and Business Plan Master, has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs develop internet businesses. Her extensive background and generosity of spirit are evident in the wide ranging information she provides on her websites.
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