This is the fourth in a series of articles I want to share with you about my experiences in making money on the web with Internet Marketing. For the other articles, see:
My online internet marketing experiences Part 1
My online internet marketing experiences Part 2
My online internet marketing experiences Part 3

In the third part I told you about my experiences with Project Quick Cash and phpBay Pro. In this part I will tell you about my experiences with TrafficSwarm.

My experiences with TrafficSwarm
TrafficSwarm promises live, targeted traffic. Basically this is how it works: You make an advertisement that is shown a specified number of times to other members of TrafficSwarm. The number of times it is shown depends on how much credits you put into it, and how many people you have in your downline. If you become a pro member, you get a certain number of credits per month included in the membership. You can buy credits for money. You, can also stay a free member, in which case your advertisements are shown less.

At first I tried to make an advertisement for Project Quick Cash. But it was refused, because the website of Project Quick Cash uses 1 popup…  Major setback… I was not aware of this when I started, so I found out the hard way.

Anyway, I decided to persist. I ran a few other ads for a couple of affiliate programs, but removed them later.

At 30-03-2009 I bought 5000 credits for $75, and because I became a pro member ($30 / month), I got 5000 free. I set up 9 advertisements, all for Wealthy Affiliate. Results so far?
 

 
Pretty depressing, right? I still can’t figure out why the sales are 0. Maybe the traffic isn’t "targeted" enough? Maybe people see that they’re sent by an affiliate link, and delete the id part of the url? I don’t know.

This is the third in a series of articles I want to share with you about my experiences in making money on the web with Internet Marketing. For the other articles, see:
My online internet marketing experiences Part 1
My online internet marketing experiences Part 2
My online internet marketing experiences Part 4

In the second part I told you about my decision to become an affiliate marketer. In this part I will tell you more about my life as an internet marketer / affiliate marketer so far.

My experiences with Project Quick Cash
A couple of months ago I bought this product. It was not expensive at the time ($27), right now it’s sells for $77.. So that was an important reason to buy at the time. Another reason was that it was from a famous internet marketer (Alok Jain), and the idea "Quick Cash" sounded good.. I set up the website http://hotnewsaroundtheworld.com/ , in which I planned to incorporate news-items that are searched for using Google. I did a couple of newsitems, and I even got some traffic and comments. So the idea of Project Quick Cash basically worked. I know I can make this work, but at the moment I’m not working actively on this. Then I tried to automate the process of looking at Google Hot Trends, but didn’t succeed, it was too hard even for a programmer like me.

My experiences with phpBay Pro
I bought the product phpBay Pro because I wanted to make niche sites (product specific websites) to offer products that people are interested in. After I bought phpBay Pro, I wanted to register with the Ebay affiliate network. So I tried, but boy, boy was that hard. My application for becoming an eBay affiliate was refused. They didn’t give me a reason. After searching the internet to find out what I had to do, I found out many more people had this problem, it was very hard to get accepted. Basically what I found out was that eBay was written off by lots of people as an easy entry into affiliate marketing.

If you want to read more, look at this link: http://www.affiliateconfession.com/2009/01/27/cant-get-into-the-ebay-affiliate-program-try-this/

So I got a little discouraged, and my phpBay product is now gathering dust on my computer… Maybe I will wipe the dust off of it soon, and choose another affiliate network instead of eBay.

This is the second in a series of articles I want to share with you about my experiences in making money on the web. For the other articles, see:
My online internet marketing experiences Part 1
My online internet marketing experiences Part 3
My online internet marketing experiences Part 4

In the first part I told you about my first time experiences in the internet marketing world. In this part I will tell you more about my experiences. There were so many methods of making money, I had to choose one. So that’s what I did.

I decided I want to be an affiliate marketer. I bought the following product: Project Quick Cash. It is a great product of famous internet marketer Alok Jain, that tells you how to offer products or content based on what is popular at the moment for people searching with Google.

Just like the method said, I set up a new website: http://hotnewsaroundtheworld.com/ , in which I plan to incorporate news-items that are searched for using Google.

Further, I bought the product phpBay Pro, because I want to make niche sites (product specific websites) to offer products that people are interested in. Right now, I’m in the process of registering with an affiliate network, so I can get started…

If you’re here, that’s exactly what you want. Some quick methods of making money on the internet.

Here we go.

#1) an article that is about using Clickbank for the product to promote, Squidoo for a free webpage/article, a free keyword tool, submitting the article to article sites, and bookmarking your article with social bookmarking services to draw traffic.

Quote: "A very common request from people who want to make money online with internet marketing is: How can I start wit as quickly as possible? Here are two wonderful informative blog posts that tell you exactly that:"
Read More: Quick Affiliate Marketing Tips That Wont Cost You A Penny

#2)  An article using AdWords for cheap with vouchers, keyword research, a product to promote, getting traffic.

Quote: "So word has it that I haven’t made many good posts lately that help people make cash. Well, I agree, so here’s how you can make some bank quickly and easily without breaking the bank too."
Read More: Enough Bullshitting… Let’s Make Money In 24hrs Or Less!!!

#3) An article about writing articles for money, buying adwords vouchers for cheap, signing up for an affiliate program, doing some keyword research and getting traffic.

Quote: "I found a great post on Warrior Forum by hemanmaximus that will motivate you and give you some money making ideas for all of you with low or no budget. He proves that anyone can make money on the net if you think out of the box."
Read More: making $100 A Day Without Spending a Single Penny

Most people who start with internet marketing have the tendency to buy all kinds of products and spend a lot of  money. Some even max out their creditcard while searching for the "silver bullet". This is not necessary.

In this post I will give you 7 whitehat tips to find good marketing information on the internet for free.

Tip 1: The Free Giveaway

Search with Google using the following query:
Free Giveaway Rights filetype:pdf

This will give you ebooks that contain paragraphs like:

Congratulations – You Get FREE Giveaway Rights To This Entire Ebook
You have full giveaway rights to this ebook.
You may give away or include this as a bonus in any product and membership site.

Of course, these ebooks are not the top notch products of the market, but they do contain valuable information.

Here’s a little secret: The owner of the website uses these ebooks to build trust with their visitors, so they will stay on the website and buy products.

Tip 2: Subscribe yourself to ViralUrl.com

This way you get 10 (no more than that) new emails everyday with all kinds of offers, free pdfs, product offers, etc.
You can subscribe yourself here. You can easily unsubscribe from getting these emails again.

Tip 3: Sign up with SureFireWealth.com

You’ll get 298 free ebooks to download, just for signing up! And many of them even have resell rights! Sign up here.

Tip 4: Sign up with websites that have a free membership

This will give you tons of information; free tools, free ebooks, interesting articles, etc. etc.

Tip 5: Sign up with websites that give you free ebooks

Search with Google using the following query:
free report here receive signup

Some of the links will be from websites that give you a free ebook if you sign up. If you do, better use a new, separate email address, because you will be given lots of offers. This can fill up your mailbox too much.
Also, if you have signed up with ViralUrl.com, you will receive a lot of emails. If you click the links in the emails, sign up with the websites they lead you to, you will mostly get a free product, just for signing up. The down part is that you will get more emails. Although you can always unsubscribe, so you’ll stop receiving them.

Tip 6: Join affiliate programs

After you’ve joined a website for free, join the affiliate program. Often you will get an extra free product or a membership to another website that normally costs tens to hundreds of dollars. On some sites it’s possible to join the affiliate program without becoming a member.

Tip 7: Read the internet marketing forums

These are forums about making money on the internet in various ways.
Some of the forums have members that are successful internet marketers / enterpreneurs themselves.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com
http://www.warriorforum.com
http://www.talkgold.com/forum/index.php
http://www.scam.com
http://www.scamfraudalert.com
http://www.wickedfire.com
http://forum.abestweb.com
http://netmarketingforum.com/forum
http://www.rolclub.com
http://www.dreamteammoney.com
http://www.im4newbies.com/forum
http://www.moneymakergroup.com
http://www.ewealth.com
http://www.netbusinesstalk.com

This is the first in a series of articles I want to share with you about my experiences in making money on the web. For the other articles, see:
My online internet marketing experiences Part 2
My online internet marketing experiences Part 3
My online internet marketing experiences Part 4

At august 9, 2008 I set my first steps in the internet marketing world. A friend of mine tipped me about MLM. I was interested. I started reading and reading and reading.

I bought my first product a month later;

- Adsense Secrets 4: "What Google Never Told You About Making Money With AdSense", 4th edition for $9.95.
Right now, it’s for free… I bought this product because the number of pages of the book was quite large (234).

I used TiddlyWiki to keep all the information I found. (See my previous post about TiddlyWiki: Keep track of information with TiddlyWiki). I tagged the information, organised it, reorganised it. I kept all the links to the websites I found, and for every site I wrote a little description so that I would know what it was about later.

From the beginning, I was very careful about starting something that wasn’t going to live up to its promise. I quickly found out that the internet was full of sites that promise you lots and lots of money in a short time.

I read about all kinds of ways to make money:

• Affiliate marketing (sell products for others)
• Article Marketing (write articles to sell products)
• GPT (Get Paid To = review products, fill in surveys, watch advertisements while surfing)
• Forum Marketing
• MLM (Multi Level Marketing or Network Marketing is a business-distribution model that allows a parent company to market its products directly to consumers by means of relationship referrals and direct selling.)
• PPC (Pay Per Click = If someone visits an advertisement on your site, you get paid)
• AdSense (Advertisements from google, if someone clicks on them, you get paid)
• AdWords (The advertisements of the advertisers from Google)
• Auction Stuff on eBay
• Blog for $$$ (put advertisements on your blog that people click on, or sell products, so you receive money)
• Stock market
• Troubleshoot PCs online
• Ponzi schemes (make money because people who join after you pay you)

I also read a lot of stories from people that were disillusioned in some way. People that spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars to find the latest and best way to become rich.

I further found out that a lot of products that are sold on one site for dollars, on the next site are being offered for free.

I quickly got tired with the screaming marketing sites, using all kinds of different font sizes, pictures of dollar bills, expensive cars, happy looking people, pictures of their profits. I didn’t know whether I could trust any site.

Right now, I’m setting up my website. I bought this domain at bluehost.com, installed Wordpress, added some plugins. I also want to make my website enjoyable, and offer good quality stuff, free or not.

A few plans that I have with this website:

• Offer products, free and paid
• Offering product reviews
• Offering MLM site reviews
• Joining a good MLM company that has a good mentoring program
• Make money as an affiliate