I’ve been hearing a lot recently of internet marketing, adsense, affiliate programmes, clickbank etc.
Are any of these a good investment of time and effort regarding making a living wage?

Many thanks.

I’ve been an internet marketer for over 2 years and although I have found it to be profitable, I must honestly say that it is "NOT A GET RICH QUICK SCHEME". It has taken me over 3 years to get to $3000 a month in residual income and I still don’t know everything I need to know.

Just be aware that there is a lot to learn and you must work very hard to make your business a profitable one and you can’t give up – no matter what. The best way to make a "livable wage" is to learn about all the popular marketing methods and then specialize in one until you understand how it works and have perfected your technique. For instance, my specialty is article marketing and niche content creation. I make my money building niche sites and marketing products and services through article marketing. Although I dibble and dabble in CPA and other techniques, this is my bread and butter techniques.

Affiliate marketing—using one website to drive traffic to another—is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers. While search engines, e-mail, and website syndication capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Still, affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers’ marketing strategies.

The reason is, internet is everywhere and more than 80 percent of people use internet search engines and business search directories to find business needed.

For all business promotion, business listing and hard work are essential. You can use the apt agency to promote your business. http://www.directory.ac is a human-edited Business Directory and professional spam free published directory listing of information of many businesses.

Monitoring and evaluating the business is very essential. Some of the Marketing Agencies are entering and reviewing the progress.

What are the areas of internet marketing that give you the most stress?
seo?,
getting traffic?
starting up?
website?
time management?

I would say: Starting Up!

Everything else come later. If you are (or your product Or Service) introducing your market. You will never know how will it gain its success. You are still unaware about its potentiality. So, you have a long list of work to do homework for getting credibility in to that particular market.

Of course there are couple of effective ways to do that. But although, you have do testing and praise the market. Which is bit tedious process. You must have high patience to survive in this duration.

Keep Persistence if you have passion!

Ali
The better Business Idea Adviser

Can you actually make any money from it? Is the money that you pay for Wealthy Affiliate worth it? Are you an Affilate marketer, if so do you make any kind of decent income from it? If you have any experience please share… i don’t want anyone telling me WA is a scam, unless you joined it and know for sure, i am a new member and i don’t think it is a scam, i think you just need to invest alot of time and effort into it. What do you think?

I’m an affiliate marketer and I make about $100 per day, it is ok money. There are some guys out there that make $1000 per day from affiliate marketing. It just requires a lot of time and patience. What is hard is getting your website to that #1 spot on the Google search. But once you do, you hit the jackpot. Here are some examples of my websites that are just blogs.

http://zygor-guide.blogspot.com/

http://traffic–siphon.blogspot.com/

As you can see, you dont even need to pay for a real website, you can just use free websites such as Blogger to promote your product. There are a lot of free training videos out there on affiliate marketing, I would search for them frist before doing Wealthy Affiliate.

I want to quit my day job and focus in internet marketing someday but what is the beat there is to use.

It helped me a lot to be a self dependent man. Try it, its good.

We´re an Internet marketing agency offering Web design services, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Online Advertising through our Pay per Click management services.

http://www.ilikewebsites.com/

regards. @alma8215

Internet marketing using blogs and webpages or article marketing or a combination of all three

Hi, i’m looking for forums,websites or communities that can offer’s and specialises in online internet marketing/affiliate ventures and people that either offer mentoring services maybe established internet marketers or newbies people starting up who may need to joint venture with someone or a group to actually get started have a leg up so to speak and have more success ect?

site source 101 is a reputable site where you can meet internet marketing gurus and coaches.

joining social sites like facebook and myspace can allow you to get acquainted with people expert in internet marketing.

by joining internet marketing communities, you can get a mentor.

http://www.sitesource101.com

It must be free

Not tainted with adverts left right and centre

Smart design utilizing CSS, JS & HTML5 – (no flash)

It must allow the user to customize his or her settings / profile

It must have social bookmarking icons on relevant pages (blogs etc)

It must have an excellent high Page Rank – I don’t want to spend days trying to find it in google

You must guarantee at least a 98% uptime for your server – There is nothing worse then a crashing server

You must backup all of my settings and data – should you be hacked and my data lost i want it back

I have been marketing online for the past 9 years with great success. But I am looking into other people’s opinions what they think and have you made good income online! What is the best method you use etc?
Here’s my Internet Marketing Page: http://bit.ly/abqS7h

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