If you are interested in learning how to open an online business for free, that is what this article will show you. But first, do you already have a particular business in mind? In other words, do you know what goods or services you want to promote online? Or have you not yet decided that? No problem. Either way, we can work with you.
In fact, choosing the direction for your online business is your first step. And we strongly recommend you consider affiliate marketing.
Why affiliate marketing?
Because it is the very best way to make money online!
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is the online promotion of goods and services. When the customer buys that good or service through your online promotion, the seller pays you a commission. And that commission can be anywhere from 1% to 75%.
There are over 4 billion people with internet access across the globe. These people are often searching for information online about goods and services they are interested in buying. Your mission will be to provide that information to them and link them to the seller. When they buy that good or service through your link from the seller, the seller pays you a commission.
4-Step Process…
Building your online business is a 4 step process.
- Choose an interest. It can be something you are knowledgable about, or something you would like to become knowledgable about.
- Build a website. This will be your online storefront, the foundation of your business. Here at Wealthy Affiliate your website will be rich with features and sophistication. And the process to build it will be simple and fast.
- Get traffic. Wealthy Affiliate will teach you how to get free traffic to your website.
- Make money. Now that you have traffic, you can make money with your website, and there are many ways to do it.
Choosing an interest
With over 4 billion buyers worldwide and over 500 million products, the marketplace is way too vast for you to promote all products to all buyers. To be effective, you need to choose a niche, basically a segment of the overall marketplace.
A niche is a group of people who have a common interest, a common need, a common want. Parents of babies need baby supplies. Golfers need golf clubs. Runners need running shoes. We all need cellphones.
One buyer obviously belongs to many niches. However, in affiliate marketing we don’t start with a buyer and then try to provide all the goods and services he or she needs and wants. We select the goods and services, the products that solve the buyers’ needs and wants, and they lead us to the buyers.
If you already have a niche or direction for your free online business, that is fine. If you don’t, we will show you how to find many niches. And from these many niches, we recommend you select one that interests you, one that you like, one that you enjoy working with.
But don’t be overly concerned with your niche selection. It will be your first niche, but probably not your last. Over time you will probably open many online businesses, each with its own niche.
Building a website
What use to be a very difficult and time-consuming project is now very easy and quick for you to do with us at Wealthy Affiliate.
- How easy? It is only a 4 step process.
- How quick? For some people it takes less than 1 minute.
Here are those 4 steps in building your website at Wealthy Affiliate.
- Choose the kind of website, either a FREE website or your OWN domain. If you want your online business to be totally free, you will need to choose a free website. If you want your own domain, that will cost you about $15 per year.
- Choose a domain name. This is your URL. Example, my URL is deliberateaffiliate.
- Choose a website name. Your website name should be your URL, except it is grammatically correct, with the first letter of each word capitaized, and with proper spacing. Example, my website name is Deliberate Affiliate.
- Choose a theme (a look or a design) for your website. If you earlier chose a free website, your theme has already been chosen for you for overall theme design, for security, for speed, for quality. I realize you may be wondering that since you chose a free website, are you being given a lesser theme? That is not the case. This theme, GeneratePress, that is given to free members (also known as Starter members, $0 per month) is also highly recommended to paying members (Premium members, $49 per month) and (Premium Plus members, $99 per month).
Getting traffic
In affiliate marketing, you get traffic by creating content that contains information your target audience is looking for. You may be wondering how do you find out what information people in your chosen niche are looking for? You find that out through keyword research.
A keyword is a word or words a person types into a search engine when looking for information. For example, if I type “bicycle” into Google, Google will give me 10 options to choose from. The first option is simply “bicycle”. The other 9 options are expansions of my keyword. These expanded keywords are listed in the order of their popularity. Google can basically guide you to the most popular keywords related to your niche.
However, as helpful as Google can be in keyword research, it doesn’t compare to Wealthty Affiliate’s keyword research platform, Jaaxy. Where as Google can point you to the most popular keywords, it doesn’t tell you how much traffic that keyword gets. And, more importantly, it doesn’t tell you how much competition you will have using that keyword. Jaaxy does both, and more. We feel it is the most advanced keyword research platform in the world. And as a Starter member ($0 per month) at Wealthy Affiliate, you will have 30 free keyword searches on Jaaxy, more than enough for you to decide do you see the value in Jaaxy or not.
Making money
And now, you are ready to make money. You have chosen an interest. You have built a website. You have created useful, relevant content for your target audience. And as people in your target audience read your articles and click on your affiliate link to buy from the seller the product you are promoting, you are earning commissions. You are making money!
How much money?
Basically, in affiliate marketing there is no realistic ceiling on how much you can make. You can make as little as you are willing to accept, or as much as you are determined to achieve. No one makes a billion. But there are those who do make a million, and many more who make over $100,000. Or, if you will be happy with much less income, you will be able to gauge your efforts accordingly.
Recommendation
Whether you want to become an affiliate marketer, or you want to breed and sell golden retrievers puppies, or you want to draw new customers to your hair salon, you need a website. Without a website, your business is in the previous century. Without a website, you are decades behind your competitors. Without a website, many of your potential customers will never find you.
Wealthy Affiliate’s Starter Membership has that website for you, and it is free. There is no cost. There is no expiration date. It is yours to use however it benefits you in whatever business you decide to use it. If that is affiliate marketing, we will love working with you. If it is a different business, we will celebrate your success. To learn more, click the link below. And thank you for spending some time with us.
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