Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Affiliate Marketing
I now have eight affiliates under me with SFI. None of them are confirmed yet, though. But still, It's not bad considering I've only used free marketing!
Scams Everywhere!
Like millions of people all over the United States, I have been job hunting for the last three months. It’s really depressing, all these jobs that I am more than capable of doing, but I’m not being hired.
The job market has changed incredibly since the last time I was job hunting, 21 years ago. Nobody wants to see my face anymore. “Please apply at our website.” “Send your resume to this email address.” Even the large companies don’t want to see the applicant. Usually the email address is an anonymous email address, so it’s very difficult to follow up with the company. More often than not, the company doesn’t even supply their name or address in the job posting.
If I were doing the hiring, I think I would want a look at the person. Does the applicant look professional? Does the applicant fit the job description? The company will never know that I look professional and take pride to work in a professional manner.
The most difficult jobs to apply for aren’t really jobs at all, but simply affiliate marketing companies looking for affiliates. I think 75% of the administrative assistant jobs I have applied for turn out to be ads for companies wanting new affiliates.
Now, I don’t have a problem with companies trying to recruit new affiliates. I want to recruit new affiliates. But I’m tired of words being minced. If the company wants to recruit new affiliates, post it as a recruiting position. Don’t post it as an administrative position answering emails. I had quite a debate with one such affiliate, who posted it as free to join. It was free for seven days. Then it was explained to me that it was an investment. Investment and “free to join” are two very different things.
Doing surveys in your spare time won’t earn $1000’s per month. Enough said on that one. Why do these companies post in the want ads?
Just be careful of all the scams posted online. Always take a good look at the company if it’s posted in the listing. I check the Yellow Pages to see if there’s actually a listing for the company. Also, check the email address. Sometimes it’s not anonymous, sometimes the name of the company is posted, and then you have a human contact.
Good luck with the job hunt! I know I need it!
The job market has changed incredibly since the last time I was job hunting, 21 years ago. Nobody wants to see my face anymore. “Please apply at our website.” “Send your resume to this email address.” Even the large companies don’t want to see the applicant. Usually the email address is an anonymous email address, so it’s very difficult to follow up with the company. More often than not, the company doesn’t even supply their name or address in the job posting.
If I were doing the hiring, I think I would want a look at the person. Does the applicant look professional? Does the applicant fit the job description? The company will never know that I look professional and take pride to work in a professional manner.
The most difficult jobs to apply for aren’t really jobs at all, but simply affiliate marketing companies looking for affiliates. I think 75% of the administrative assistant jobs I have applied for turn out to be ads for companies wanting new affiliates.
Now, I don’t have a problem with companies trying to recruit new affiliates. I want to recruit new affiliates. But I’m tired of words being minced. If the company wants to recruit new affiliates, post it as a recruiting position. Don’t post it as an administrative position answering emails. I had quite a debate with one such affiliate, who posted it as free to join. It was free for seven days. Then it was explained to me that it was an investment. Investment and “free to join” are two very different things.
Doing surveys in your spare time won’t earn $1000’s per month. Enough said on that one. Why do these companies post in the want ads?
Just be careful of all the scams posted online. Always take a good look at the company if it’s posted in the listing. I check the Yellow Pages to see if there’s actually a listing for the company. Also, check the email address. Sometimes it’s not anonymous, sometimes the name of the company is posted, and then you have a human contact.
Good luck with the job hunt! I know I need it!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Affiliate Marketing
So... someone signed up from my website for SFI! They haven't confirmed yet, but its a start! I sent the person an email, so I'll contact someone at SFI if they don't sign up tomorrow. So at least something good has happened. And I also figured out how to add a signature to my email, finally. Maybe someone I know will feel sorry for me and buy something!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
New Product To Sell
So I’ve finished the website. While I wait to see if I get any results from it, I’m going to keep working in other directions. There’s lots of companies out there that have products they want sold. The problem is they want money to join their programs, if I had money I probably wouldn’t be trying to do this.
I came across a company called. SFI. I get paid a commission for selling their products. They don’t charge a fee to join as an affiliate! That’s a big bonus, I really don’t have any money for start-up costs. There’s a variety of products to sell. They provide training and have ideas for advertising. So, I’m going to see if I can make this work!
I came across a company called. SFI. I get paid a commission for selling their products. They don’t charge a fee to join as an affiliate! That’s a big bonus, I really don’t have any money for start-up costs. There’s a variety of products to sell. They provide training and have ideas for advertising. So, I’m going to see if I can make this work!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The new site is up
Well, after about 5 days of work and stress, the second website is online. There were a lot of problems publishing it. I’m not excited about this one. Last time I was proud of the accomplishment. This time I’m just relieved that it’s up and running. I really need to do some editing to the other site, but I’m worried about the publishing end, so I’m going to put it off till tomorrow. Enough stress for one day. But it’s up and running. Now it needs to make me some money.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Not A Dime
So, I haven’t spent any money trying to make some money, but I haven’t made a dime either. I have tried everything I can think of. I built a site based on making money online. Something is wrong with it and it’s still not online. I ran with PTC ads, but it hasn’t come up with anything. I’ve seen some interesting programs, but they all need some sort of fee for start up costs, which I don’t have.
One that was interesting was a photographers program. For a $50 start up fee, you get connected with companies that will buy your photographs. I have boxes and boxes of discs, which have about 10 years of pictures on them. Maybe I’ll be able to try it after I make some money.
In the meantime, I’ve applies for jobs that haven’t called me back, which can make me feel even better!
One that was interesting was a photographers program. For a $50 start up fee, you get connected with companies that will buy your photographs. I have boxes and boxes of discs, which have about 10 years of pictures on them. Maybe I’ll be able to try it after I make some money.
In the meantime, I’ve applies for jobs that haven’t called me back, which can make me feel even better!
Monday, September 29, 2008
PTC-PTR-PTP
I’ve been doing the PTC sites. You sign up for free, then you click on sites and visit them for 10-30 seconds, then you get credit for viewing the sites. It seems silly at first, you get $0.0001 per view, or something crazy, like that. After a few days of doing it, I discovered the bonus; I can cash in my points/ earnings to have my site viewed!
I almost used my main site, but I realized all the sites I was viewing had to do with making money online in some way.
So… I used an affiliate link I got with Profit Lance to cash in some of the points I had accumulated to run an ad on one of the sites. Hopefully I can get some traffic this way. It’s a lot cheaper than Adwords!
I almost used my main site, but I realized all the sites I was viewing had to do with making money online in some way.
So… I used an affiliate link I got with Profit Lance to cash in some of the points I had accumulated to run an ad on one of the sites. Hopefully I can get some traffic this way. It’s a lot cheaper than Adwords!
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