When beginning to look for ways to work from home online, the task can be daunting. There are a variety of scams and untrue offers on the internet. A very simple way to begin making money on a part time basis is as an affiliate. An affiliate promotes products on a website and earns a commission from the sale of that product. The start-up costs are very low and in some cases you can become an affiliate with no out of pocket cost if you promote on free sites like your blog or your Facebook page.
There are a plethora of books and articles on affiliate marketing in addition to many informational websites and blogs. While it is commonly referred to as a way to work from home online, much of the work that goes into affiliate marketing takes place offline.
Article Writing
One of the biggest ways to promote your affiliate products is by driving traffic to your site through articles writing. This is done offline in a program such as Microsoft Word. The article should be 400 - 800 words long and contain information that is relevant to your site and or product. The site where you publish your article typically allows you to place your website address in the article and readers click on this link to visit your site.
Depending on the age of your site, you will want to write a number of articles each week and submit them to various article directories. The article submissions should be steady over a number of weeks and months until you have built up the stream of traffic you desire.
If you are in a competitive market, you will need to continue writing articles and getting them published on a steady basis so that your competitors do not take over. If however, you are in a small niche with relatively few competitors, there will come a time when your website ranks high enough that you can slow the article writing pace.
Organizational Tasks
When completing work from home online or offline, there are a number of organizational tasks that go along with it. When you are writing articles with the intent that they will drive traffic to your site you will need to keep good records. An organized marketer will keep a library of articles that they have written and track where their articles were approved and published online.