MAKE Money with AdWords

So you might be thinking, wait a second, isn't AdWords something you use to SPEND money on and it drives traffic to your site? Isn't that counter productive? No, Here's why.

Clickbank, Commission Junction, or Affiliate Scout, it's really that simple.

WARNING: This is the biggest gamble of any ideas listed on 03cents so far. You can make a whole boatload of money, or you can lose money, make sure you really want to do this before jumping in. Luckily for the weary, AdWords allows you to place a maximum so that way, you don't break the bank trying to get this to work. Odds are, you might lose money the first few months, but after testing, this can be HUGE.

Step 1: Register for as many affiliate accounts as you can track. I like commission junction simply because your are "selling" hard products, Clickbank is nice due to their payouts, but you are selling E books most of the time, so it gets kind of hard.

Step 2: Sign up with AdWords (See link on right), it will ask you to register if you have not before, sign up with the name of your link, and then describe it. Please, please, PLEASE, read your agreement with both the company AND AdWords, do not assume when registering with another company their rules are the same, some companies will not allow you to use their name in your add, or other things of the sort.

Step 3: Profit, This is very straightforward, and to think, there are e books out there that will want to charge you for this information...

Tips and Tricks

1.Direct your ads, there is a lot of competition with affiliate links and AdWords, make yourself stand out, think outside the box. Sure everyone thinks of Credit Agencies or Credit Monitoring for Experian, but try registering ID Theft, or something a little more directed.

2. Make sure to set your limits, sure, that link may payout $100 if someone signs up for the service, but how many people will click your link and sign up. Don't bankrupt yourself doing this

3. Moderation and perseverance, one month you might break the bank with sales, other months you may get nothing. Do not get overboard if you're having a good month, sure if you are trending up with sales, you may want to increase the amount of ads you have, or pay more to increase exposure, just be careful.

4. Study Trends, got an account with 1800flowers? you might want to push this ad more around holidays, but watch out, other people will as well. So think outside the box, did you know ID theft is higher around the holidays? People have more on their plates and don't worry about certain things, so when they come around to it around February, have your ads ready, push credit monitoring services when other people are pushing flowers.

5. Know your potential customers, sure, your market is all of Google, but think of what people are searching for. What are people going to call it? Sure, a bunch of ads might be available for someone looking for MicroSD Memory Card, but what about the guy sitting as his computer looking for Cell Phone Memory Stick and he can't seem to find it.

6. Try Yahoo! Search Market as well, all the focus is on Google, experiment, see how it works out. Also, American Express offers a 5% discount on all Yahoo! Search Market purchases, so you might want to look into that in order to save some $.

Do you guys have any other ideas? Drop me a line, the comment box is always open.

Making money with Commission Junction.

This post is a playoff of my original Ebay + Craigslist Post. Instead of using Ebay, your CJ login will link to other companies. Here's how it works:

For new users, start with Step 1, for existing CJ members, skip to step 3:

Step 1: Visit www.cj.com, follow the promts in creating an account.

Step 2: Make sure to find out where your PID is located, see corresponding image:

Step 3: You will want to find a company that sells a product you know about, in my case, I work for a large credit card company, so if I wanted to pitch say, a credit monitoring service, it would be easy for me. You can find the companies that CJ works with under the "Get Links" tab on top.

Step 4: By clicking on the company name on the get links icon, you will see their payout structure, find one that suits you and click the apply for program link.

FYI: Depending on the company, you may get approved immediately, or reviewed.

Step 5: This step is optional: Register a domain name for your affiliate link(s). Which would you rather click www.monitoryourcredit.com or http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2737229-10432997? My point exactly.

Step 6: Now what you can do, take this new link to somewhere like yahoo! answers, or really any Q and A forums and answer questions about your topic.

Q: Hey, I just went to apply for a car loan and I was told I have an account with xyz credit company. I'm afraid I might be a victim of ID Theft, what should I do?
A: Hi, Soandso, What you should do, contact the company the card was opened with and tell them you didn't apply for that card, follow their requests, they may need a police report or something, and then you might want to check out www.monitoryourcredit.com and check out the offer from Equifax so you can make sure you're on top of your credit report.

Step 6: You may not need to register a domain if the forum you are posting at has HTML options, many times you can simply just replace the link with words with the code: < href =" link "> Name< /a >. By doing this, you can save yourself some cash and simply say "Visit Equifax and see what they have to offer."

Another FYI, make sure you know the rules and regulations for your company, the last thing you want to do is find a marketing idea only to learn its against the Terms of Use. Many companies will not allow you to register adwords with the companies name or something of the like.

Again, this is hardly the only use for Commission Junction nor are they the only affiliate marketing company available, my frequent viewers may just like it because you can try multiple ideas with one company.

Become an Ebay seller without owning anything.

This one here has likely one of the highest returns for any of the methods I have posted about before, but also with that comes a little bit more risk, but not too much if you use it wisely. In this article, I will show you how to sell items on Ebay without having to keep an inventory of items.

Step 1: Register an account with Bravisa, this company acts as a warehouse for you. It will cost you nothing to register and they will host your "store" for you.

Step 2: Follow these instructions from their tutorial page:


1) Visit your bStore. You can do this by clicking on the "Visit my bStore" button in your bStore admin page.

2) In your bStore, locate the product you want to sell on eBay. You can search for it or browse by category or brand.

3) Since eBay requires a 7 day shipping window, look at the lead time for the product in your bStore before listing it on eBay. Some products offered on Bravisa have lead time longer than 7 days.

4) Click on the thumbnail to view the product details. You can copy and paste product information from here into eBay's description box. You might want to add some HTML formatting on the eBay side.

5) From the product details page, save the images you want to upload to eBay to your computer by right clicking on the image and doing "Save As". Some products have multiple images from the manufacturer and you can get each by clicking on the row of thumbnails next to the main product image.

6) You can use a larger version of the image by clicking on the image to zoom, and downloading the zoomed image.

7) For uploading the images to eBay you have either "Basic" or "Self-hosted" option. Upload the images you downloaded from your bStore using the "Basic" option for eBay listing pictures (the self-hosted option won’t work.)

8) Shipping costs: For products that have a flat shipping fee, you can get an accurate idea of the shipping cost by visiting the product details page. For products that do not have a flat shipping fee, you can get an estimate of shipping costs by visiting your external bStore, adding the products to the shopping cart and going through the checkout process with your customer’s zip code. You need not purchase the product to get the shipping cost estimate.

9) Once you sell your product on eBay, you can place an order in your bStore and enter your customer's shipping address.

10) Note that you are not shipping out the product yourself.

11) Bravisa will ensure that the product is shipped within the stated lead-time.


Step 3: Profit

Tips and Tricks:
1) To Minimize potential loss, post items when Ebay advertises "Post x items free this weekend." Make sure to sign up with Ebay so you make sure you receive these emails.

2) Don't list the entire store unless you want to sign up as an Ebay store($15.95/mo) as some items are just cheap knockoffs that no one would buy.

3) Browse your options well, there are some pretty nice gadgets available to you, like this Digital Picture Frame that fits on a keyring. By knowing what's available, it allows you to adapt to the market depending on the time of year.

4) Link to your store from the Ebay listing, in many cases the store will have other colors/models that someone might want.

5) If you become serious about it, you might want to look into getting some kind of credit card so you can manage the flow of money in and out of the store. Since you don't have the customers billing info, you will need to front the money and get it returned to you from Paypal. This also allows you to sell higher ticket items.

6) Sign up with Commission Junction, use the Ebay + Craigslist method to post to yourself. This will allow you to make some of the money back from the listing fees as well as make a nice lead bonus if they are a new Ebay user. (This is not against the affiliate Terms of Use, as Ebay recommends it here.

7) Read their tutorials, there is a chance to make money without posting on Ebay simply by promoting. They have great reads on posting to Google Base and other search engines.