How to Start Affiliate Marketing For Newbies

Have you ever asked yourself this question. How can I make money while I sleep? I used to ask myself this question all the time, as I was tired of making money for my boss while he was sleeping!

To cut a long story short, I’d like you to imagine this. Waking up in the morning to see several commissions waiting for you. This is the joy of affiliate marketing, and I experience this everyday.

You may be in the same situation as I once was, contemplating what it would be like to work online, for myself. The idea of not having deadlines or having to commute to work everyday without fail, really appealed to me. Which is why I took the plunge into affiliate marketing.

I’m going to explain several questions you may have in the article, which may prompt you into the same action I took. Whether you do or you don’t take up an affiliate marketing venture makes no difference to me, but it could make a huge difference in your life.

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The Affiliate Marketing Process Explained
Why Would You Become An Affiliate Marketer
How Much Does Affiliate Marketing Cost To Begin
How Much Money Can You Make With Affiliate Marketing
What Do I Need to Start an Affiliate Marketing Blog
The Affiliate Marketing Setup Process in 8 Steps
Choosing a Topic to Blog About
Physical Products, Digital Products or Informational Services
Make Sure There’s an Affiliate Program
Beginning Your Affiliate Marketing Journey
Creating a Blog
Your First Affiliate Marketplace – Amazon
Understanding SEO
Writing Product Reviews
Comparison Sites
Informing Your Audience
Signing Up To Affiliate Networks
Direct Affiliate Programs
Promotion Through Social Media
Watching Your SEO Rank Rise
Including An Autoresponder
Sales and Specific Dates
How Do You Get Paid From Affiliate Marketing
Managing Your Day to Day
Affiliate Marketing Can Take Time
Now Get Your Affiliate Blog Started

The Affiliate Marketing Process Explained

I suppose the best place to start is by clarifying the process of how affiliate marketing works. I’m shortly going to give you a step by step procedure, but in essence you’re playing the middleman in the transaction of a sale.

In doing so, you’ll be earning a commission from the company you’ve helped gain a new sale. Simple right!

I’ve been asked in the past, is affiliate marketing a pyramid scheme? The answer to this question is no, not at all. There is a big distinction between affiliate marketing and pyramid schemes.

Firstly, pyramid schemes are illegal because they encompass recruiting people into a circle of money, with no actual products changing hands. Affiliate marketing on the other hand is a very legitimate activity of promoting other people’s products. This in turn earns you an income.

So, by enticing people to make a purchase via your own online asset such as a website, everyone is a happy camper. Your website visitor is pleased with their purchase, the merchant company you’re partnering with has made a sale, and having made a commission yourself, the full transaction is complete.

So, apart from making commissions, what other benefits are there to affiliate marketing.

Why Would You Become An Affiliate Marketer

To be honest, the real question should be, why wouldn’t you! Admittedly, affiliate marketing is not for everyone. If you’re the type of person looking to make a quick buck online, then I’d advise against this type of venture.

Affiliate marketing is a long term journey, and once you’ve done the initial hard work to begin, there are wonderful benefits that await.

Employment Freedom

Because of the nature of online selling, you’re basically becoming a person of the laptop lifestyle. Sure, you can still work from the comfort of your home study, but I like to head off to a coffee shop with my laptop.

In fact, as my wife works in the big smoke, you’ll often find me waiting for her in an alfresco bar along the river, pint of beer in hand. There’s nothing more enjoyable than watching city workers go about their business, while I have the freedom to either write another blog, or pack up and watch the world go by.

Great Commissions

I’m able to do this because the returns that affiliate marketing can give me, can be quite generous. Not as high as the profits you can make setting up your own dropshipping store, but still good nonetheless.

Commission rates can vary a lot, so it pays to check what is available to you. Some high ticket products or services will usually only offer a smallish percentage, but because of the product cost, the commissions can be quite large.

This may be something you want to keep in mind when deciding on a niche topic to start your affiliate marketing business around. Some affiliate programs can offer commissions as high as 50%-60%, which is just a tremendous rate.

Affordable Setup

Another great aspect of the affiliate marketing route, is the initial cost to begin this journey. Unlike setting up a physical store which could well run into the tens of thousands, affiliate marketing may cost you a few hundred dollars per year to run.

This is quite incredible, because it’s quite conceivable that you could end up earning thousands of dollars per month, all on the back of a couple hundred bucks outlay.

In fact I can’t think of another business opportunity that can offer such an affordable opportunity. I’ll touch on the costs soon to give you a better idea of what you will be up for in dollar terms.

Scalable To Your Liking

Depending on your motivation and ambitions, you could take this online affiliate marketing business a very long way. Once you’ve mastered the cheapest website traffic models being SEO and social media posting, you could venture down the paid advertising route.

Some people do this before they are making a profit, and that’s fine. But if you’re just starting out with not much money, this is something you could do down the track. I’ve heard of people spending tens of thousands of dollars per day on paid advertising. They’d only be doing this if they were getting a good return, so just think about the profits they’re making.

There’s a good chance you may have heard about PPC marketing, CPC marketing or any of the other forms of paid advertising such as solo ads. These are all the options available to you as you progress further into your enterprise. Then again, you don’t even need to learn this. Getting your articles ranked in the search engines could make you enough money to make a full time living.

To be honest, I don’t like calling this an online business because it makes people think they need to have studied business management to succeed. This is totally not the case, which is why you may just prefer to call it your blog. You’ll still make money regardless, and you only need Google spreadsheets to keep your account management under control.

How Much Does Affiliate Marketing Cost To Begin

To get started in affiliate marketing, there’s only a few basic requirements that you will need. Here’s a list of the basics:

• Website Hosting
• Domain Name

Yep, that’s about all you need to get a website up and running. Obviously there are some optional extras that you’ll no doubt add as you get further into this journey, but as a basic blog, this is it.

So what do these things cost? I’ll start with a domain name, which will generally cost between $8-$15 per year. That’s not really going to break the bank is it. Tip: I suggest getting Whois domain privacy which will keep your domain registry details private.

Now you need a hosting company to store all your website data. This is known as a hosting provider. When it comes to website hosting, you can get the cheapest for approximately $7-$8 per month. This is adequate to begin, but you may want to get this upgraded when you start to get more website traffic. Bluehost can get you setup on one of their shared hosting plans rather cheaply.

The only problem with shared hosting is that your website will be sharing resources with hundreds or even thousands of other websites. This can slow down the loading of your site, which can become frustrating for your audience. This is why a better plan would be a better option down the track.

Joining up to affiliate networks doesn’t cost anything, so you can sign up and begin adding affiliate links to your website as soon as you’re up and running. I’ll touch on affiliate networks and affiliate links soon, as you may have no idea what it is I’m talking about if you’re new to all this.

How Much Money Can You Make With Affiliate Marketing

Well, this all depends on how far you’re willing to take your affiliate marketing blog. You may elect to keep this small enterprise as a hobby, just earning spare change to spend on the weekend.

Then again, you have the option to build this up through your hard work, with the potential to earn thousands of dollars per month. Of course, this all depends on the amount of effort you’re willing to invest.

One of the questions often asked is, can you get rich from affiliate marketing? While I’m loath to suggest this can’t happen, it’s more unlikely than likely. That doesn’t mean you cannot earn a great living out of affiliate marketing, it just means the chances of living in a palace from affiliate marketing is slim.

I would like to point out that no online activity will get you rich within a few months, unless you buy a lottery ticket online. However, those that have been affiliate marketing for years could well be earning much more than those in a traditional job.

What Do I Need to Start an Affiliate Marketing Blog

I’ve touched on the basics you’ll need to get started in affiliate marketing, but there will be other items that will help your progress. Such things can include an autoresponder for building an email list, and then sending out emails to this list.

I use several tools to help with my affiliate marketing, which you can check out by visiting my ‘Top Affiliate Marketing Tools’ page. This will show you that I spend under $3 per day to run my online ‘business’. Not bad hey.

The Affiliate Marketing Setup Process in 8 Steps

Okay, so as a newbie, you’re interested in understanding the steps required to become an affiliate marketer. Here’s a brief outline of how the process works.

1. Create a blog/website
2. Choose a niche topic about what you’d like to inform people about on your blog.
3. Write informative content for your audience
4. Sign up to affiliate programs
5. Get links from affiliate programs, and add them to promotions within your articles.
6. When a visitor reads your article and clicks on your affiliate link, they will be taken to the online store to purchase the product you promoted.
7. If that same visitor makes a purchase, you are recognized as the person who initiated the sale via the unique code in your affiliate link.
8. You will earn a commission after the visitor makes a purchase.

As an example, let’s say I wanted to promote a password protection app which can store people passwords securely via encryption. It just so happens that I do promote this product, it’s called Keeper, and you can see it in my sidebar down the right hand side of this page.

I have an affiliate link connected to this image, so if somebody clicks on it, they’ll be taken to the Keeper Security website. If this person decides to buy Keeper for themselves, I will earn a commission.

Affiliate marketing is a simple process, and something that anyone can easily learn.

Choosing a Topic to Blog About

For some, choosing a niche is an enjoyable task because they know exactly what they want to write about. Many people have an interest they know a lot about, and therefore have just been waiting for that perfect platform to jump on to.

Unfortunately for many others, finding that ideal niche to blog about can be tough. Although you have interests, you may not know enough to write about on a consistent basis. This can be overcome though, by learning more about your interest or passion

There are some very popular niche topics, which you can read about here. You don’t want your niche to be too broad because the competition becomes much tougher to compete against.

In my opinion, you want a niche that interests you, is targeted towards a large enough demographic to make enough sales, yet not too broad.

This could be a hobby, general interest or even just something you’d like to learn more about. It’s possible to learn as your going along, which is sort of how I started this site back in 2018.

Also, make sure you’ll enjoy what you’re writing about. And have fun.

Physical Products, Digital Products or Informational Services

When most people think about affiliate marketing, they assume the selling of physical products is what takes place. And you’d be right is thinking this, but there’s also alternatives.

Services are another thing that you can promote. There’s all types of services you can sell, like just about any service that would be in the old yellow pages. For instance, you may have a gardening website, which provides you with the opportunity to promote local lawn mowing services.

Maybe you have good knowledge of heating and cooling systems, and you can promote air conditioning services. The list of services is almost unlimited, and these types of service companies will really appreciate your partnership.

On top of these, are digital products. Many course creators upload their courses to the web in digital format. They are aggressively promoting their courses, but can always do with the help of affiliates.

I do a lot of product reviews that culminate in the promotion of these types of courses, which net me a good commission. The commission rates for these courses are generally much better than physical products, usually in the vicinity of 40%-50%.

So have a good think about the subject of your website before you begin setting up. Although, you can always start a second website if you get the first one wrong.

Make Sure There’s an Affiliate Program

A large consideration when choosing a niche, is you must have the opportunity to earn money. This means that there should be enough affiliate marketing programs, to promote enough products or services. Without this, you may be stuck promoting the same old products, that maybe don’t sell that well.

It’s simple to find out if a company has an affiliate program. Most websites have a ‘search’ facility, which allows you to search for their affiliate program. The majority of companies that do have an affiliate program will have a link to it in the footer of their website.

While just about any niche will have affiliate programs associated to it, don’t just assume. You don’t want to get 2 months into a new website, only to find that you are limited by monetizing opportunities.

Beginning Your Affiliate Marketing Journey

You’re about to embark on a special journey that could allow you to become independently financial. This is an exciting time. In fact as I sit here and write this article, I’m watching the world go by with a bottle of Stone & Wood golden ale. Here’s proof! You too can reach this point as an affiliate marketer.

I want to make you aware that no affiliate marketing journey is easy. Like most things in life, you’ll have ups and downs. But the main reason people don’t succeed is because they expect results too early. If results were going to be that easy, every man, woman and dog would be successful at this.

The journey you’re about to undertake is unique, and only those with consistency and perseverance will survive. Trust me, I failed over 10 times before I realized the effort required to succeed. That doesn’t mean it’s difficult, it just means most don’t last the distance, and give up through lack of motivation. The concept is easy, but there’s an element of longevity to be successful.

So, strap yourself in for a journey that will give you that life you desire. Work hard in the initial 12 months, and the results will come. You’re building a long term sustainable future here. You may have a long time until retirement, or just know there’s more to life than sitting in a work cubicle for years to come. This doesn’t have to be your future life, but only YOU can change this.

Grab the bull by the horns, and make that change you’ve been longing for.

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Creating a Blog

It all starts with creating your first website. You may have already done this and been unsuccessful, if so I’d urge you not to give up so easily. As I just explained, it took me well over 10 websites to become a success.

So, to create your first blog, you will require a domain name and hosting. Buying a domain will be the first point of call, but make sure you know your niche first. Once a niche is settled on, you can think about what you’re calling your domain name.

Find a domain registrar and purchase the domain. Popular domain service providers include GoDaddy, Namecheap or BuyDomains.

Before I go too far, and you head off and buy your domain at one of these registrars, I’d like to alert you to a platform that I use. It’s called Wealthy Affiliate and encompasses a lot of what I’m suggesting you need here.

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If you’re after an all in one solution that is also extremely well priced, check out Wealthy Affiliate for FREE for a week. I’m an active member there, so I can help you with anything, should you get stuck.

Okay, so you’ve decided on a domain name, now you need website hosting. Most domain registrars nowadays will also offer hosting. Well known hosting services include Bluehost, SiteGround or Hostgator.

If you purchase both a domain and hosting from the same provider, you’ll have an easier time setting your website up. If not, you’ll need to point your domain to the hosting provider by entering in DNS names.

Hosting providers do make the setup process simple enough, but using the website builder at Wealthy Affiliate is an even simpler option.

Your First Affiliate Marketplace – Amazon

This doesn’t have to be your first affiliate marketing program, it’s just the most common and widely known. So I figured I’d touch on it.

Can you really make money as an Amazon affiliate? The amount of times this question gets asked on Google is astounding. The answer of course is yes, but the commission rates are not the greatest.

At roughly 7%, Amazon does not have the best commission incentive, especially as many of their products are low to mid range prices. Although different parts of the Amazon Associates program do pay differently. Some will offer more that 7%, but more likely slightly less.

Amazon Associates is where you can sign up to the Amazon affiliate program. Amazon is the largest online retailer worldwide, and pays out billions in commissions each year. Signing up is easy enough, although you’ll need to receive an automated phone call to progress.

Once signed up, you’ll have a large selection of promotional options within the Amazon affiliate program site.

One thing to be aware of is that you will need to make 3 qualified sales within your first 6 months to be accepted to participate further in their program. If you don’t get these 3 sales, your account will be closed. However, you can simply reapply immediately after account closure.

The only pain in the arse part about this, is changing all your affiliate links to your new links.

(As an update, Amazon have recently reduced their commission rates dramatically. I’m now of the opinion that other stores like Etsy would be a better option).

Understanding SEO

You don’t know what SEO is? Well, as an affiliate marketer, you’re going to have to learn. SEO stands for search engine optimization, and is basically how search engines determine where articles are ranked. You want to know this because it’s your FREE source of website traffic.

Much of this depends on Keywords. A keyword is the search term that is entered into a search engine such as Google. A keyword is not necessarily a single work, it’s usually multiple words, but is still known as ‘a keyword’.

Google’s algorithms pick up the SEO factors that you’ve used in an article to rank. For instance, let’s say you want to rank for the keyword ‘skateboard replacement board’. You’ll want to place this full keyword in several sections of your article, along with variations of this keyword. You’ll also place it in your URL and tag your images with this keyword also. This all helps to a better ranking in the search engines.

Wealthy Affiliate will teach you all about this in their training.

Writing Product Reviews

A big part of any affiliate marketing campaign should include writing product reviews. The reason for this is because when people read product reviews, it’s the most likely time they will make a purchase.

There’s such a thing called a customer purchase life-cycle, which culminates in the last stage where potential customers go searching for product reviews just before they’re about to buy.

This is where you as an affiliate marketer should be taking advantage.

Writing product reviews are not particularly difficult, but you do need to research the product beforehand so you can advise your readers with correct information. If you just make up a load of crap to sell a product, you are doing your audience a disservice.

You can read more about writing product reviews here, and get a handle on why these are your best chance to get those elusive sales commissions.

Comparison Sites

Another good method of gaining product sales is to compare various products against each other. This is a form of product review because you’re pointing out the pros and cons of each product, so your readers can easily assess if this is the exact product they’re after.

Comparison sites like this can be easier for many people to digest, rather than reading large slabs of actual content. Most people are visual by nature, so displaying information in bullet point format can be easier to consume.

Not only can this be good for your audience, but you may find it’s easier for you as an affiliate marketer. Not everyone enjoys writing lots of content, but I’d still suggest you have a written spiel about each product.

Informing Your Audience

It’s important to make sure your number one priority is to inform your audience. This is how you build trust, and a good reputation as an authority figure. It’s also how you’re going to get repeat customers. 

If you bought something online as a result of a product review by somebody else, and everything they suggested was accurate, you’d use their opinion again. So this is exactly what you should be doing, informing your potential customers with precise and accurate information. At least as much accurate information as you can get.

As I briefly touched on earlier, if you don’t provide relevant and correct information, there’s not much chance of that person returning to you for advice.

So, provide good value, informative content, correct guides or tutorials, or other accurate info, and you’ll please your audience.

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Signing Up To Affiliate Networks

You’ve heard me mention about affiliate programs, but what about affiliate networks. These are entities in their own right that look after multiple affiliate programs for various companies.

So instead of going directly to a company that you want to partner with, these affiliate networks may be hosting their affiliate program for them. The use of a facility like this can lessen the burden on a company’s resources.

There’s many well known affiliate networks that you can join, with each encompassing loads of affiliate programs. Here’s a list of just some:

• AWIN
• FlexOffers
• Clickbank
• ShareaSale
• CJ Affiliates
• Linkshare
• eBay Partner Network
• JVZoo

There’s many other affiliate networks, with some specialising in specific niches. For instance, MoreNiche targets health, beauty and fitness niches.

Most affiliate networks will accept multiple niches, and you can then search affiliate programs by category. You’ll usually find filters to find the exact type of affiliate program suitable for what you are offering.

The great thing about affiliate networks like these, are that you can promote several affiliate programs via the one network, and manage all your income via one platform. This is the big advantage affiliate networks have over individual affiliate programs.

Direct Affiliate Programs

The alternative to using affiliate networks is to go directly to the merchant company to see if they have an affiliate program. In fact a great way to find affiliate programs for a specific product via Google, is to search for this:

affiliate program+product

For instance, let’s say I had an electronics website and wanted to search for affiliate programs that sell digital radios. I could enter into Google this search term: ‘affiliate program+digital radios’. This would be the search results:

As you can see above, a selection of affiliate programs will appear in the search results. One of these affiliate programs is via an affiliate network (FlexOffers), the others are affiliate programs that are run directly via the company website.

Working directly with the company via their affiliate program may be a better option for those with a more local targeted audience.

Promotion Through Social Media

So as you’re probably aware by now, you’re going to need website traffic to make any sales commissions. So how do you get this website traffic? As I’ve partially explained, SEO is a big part of this, and offers you free traffic.

Another form of free website visitors is via social media. You’ll have loads of platforms where you can achieve this, with Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest being the major players.

Even if you’re not a big Facebook user (because Facebook is for old folk like myself!), it’s still worth setting up a Facebook Fanpage to align your website with. Once you’re deeper into your affiliate site, you may find this is the ideal platform to promote the type of products you’re attempting to get sales for.

Instagram and Pinterest are also great for promoting, although not all social platforms allow affiliate links. Instagram is one platform that does not accept affiliate links, but you can add a website link to your bio (profile page).

Facebook does allow affiliate links, and Pinterest has changed their rules in regards to this several times I understand, so by the time you read this, you may need to check before trying it out.

We all know social media is a big part of any business these days, so do not neglect this form of free promotion.

Watching Your SEO Rank Rise

Once you’ve been at this a little while, you’ll start to get some real joy when you see your articles ranking in the search engines. This is a buzz when it first happens, even though you may not be getting much website traffic.

Over time, you’ll get more and more articles published, with many of them working their way to page one for the keyword you’re trying to rank for. This is all down to learning the SEO techniques that places such as Wealthy Affiliate teach.

As you can probably guess, the more articles you have ranking in high positions in the search results, the more website visitors you’re going to receive. And this is what affiliate marketing is all about, getting more eyeballs checking out your offers.

So, watching your website rankings rise is going to happen if you do this correctly. Google doesn’t discriminate, and everyone is on an even footing. Those that have been doing this a long time however will have more GA (Google Authority), and therefore have earned the right to higher rankings.

You’ll be in this position too, once you’ve worked hard enough. All these competitors out there started at the same place you are, at the beginning of the journey. It’s those that DON’T GIVE UP that will be the victors.

Including An Autoresponder

You won’t have to do this when you first begin your affiliate site, but as you start to gain more visitors, it’s a good idea to build an email list. You may have heard about marketers doing this, and wondered what they mean.

There’s a saying that goes ‘the money is in the list’. Basically, the more emails you can capture from people visiting your website, the more you can promote offers to them in the future.

To do this, you use an autoresponder service. Simply link your website to this service and they will store your emails lists. Then create emails via this autoresponder service, to send out to your new list subscribers.

You can see in my sidebar on the right hand side, a signup box where you can grab my ‘The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Making Money Online’. This is linked to my autoresponder service called Aweber.

I wouldn’t sign up to an autoresponder service until you’re getting enough website traffic to utilise it.

Sales and Specific Dates

Specific times of year are going to give you much joy from bringing in loads of sales. Xmas, Black Friday, Boxing Day, these are all ideal opportunities to promote what you’re offering on your website.

There’s sales nearly every month of the year these days, and when done right, you can promote to various demographics at the correct time of year. People are always on the lookout for sales and many just don’t know how to resist a bargain.

This is your opportunity to take advantage of those with money to spare. If they are going to spend money on these sales anyway, you may as well be the one to help them make a decision, and earn commissions for your efforts.

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How Do You Get Paid From Affiliate Marketing

So when payments come through to affiliate networks, they’ll hold your money until payment day, which will be on a specific day each month. Your total from all affiliate programs will be paid at this time.

Payment type basically depends on the affiliate program you’ve signed up to. The majority of affiliate programs and networks will offer PayPal and/or bank transfer, some offer alternative payment methods.

Amazon currently has 3 payment methods which are different. Bank transfer, cheque or Amazon gift card. Note that Amazon will send their cheques in US dollars to many affiliates around the world, so you should check that your bank will accept this.

I found a good way to work around the Amazon payment method for those with international accounts, it to set up a Payoneer account. Payoneer works well with international payments and you can use this bank account as your primary Amazon payment method.

Managing Your Day to Day

Will you have to worry about managing your day to day tasks as an affiliate marketer? Yes, how else will you keep organised. How else will you remember what you’ve written about and what product reviews you’ve already done.

Once you’re starting to get sales and conversions, you’ll have accounting to keep abreast of. You’ll have affiliate links that you may use on multiple article, so keeping these at hand is valuable.

There are many ways you can do this, but I find that using Google Sheets is good enough for this purpose. I use a Google spreadsheet with multiple tabs. This helps with my post scheduling, accounting, Affiliate links and even future blogging ideas.

Of course you could transfer your accounts to an accounting program down the track, but it’s not really that necessary if you can set a spreadsheet up correctly.

Affiliate Marketing Can Take Time

Now for some honest truth. Becoming an affiliate marketer can take some time. It takes time to learn, time to build a foundation and time for search engines to rank your articles. But…the time is going to go anyway!

What else are you going to be doing. Looking for another get rich quick opportunity that will scam you out of your hard earned money. I’ll just repeat the comment I made. THE TIME IS GOING TO GO ANYWAY.

So, make use of this time, and imagine where you’ll be this time next year. Work hard in the initial stages of your online venture, and the results will come down the track.

Is affiliate marketing easy? This is a two part question as far as I’m concerned. Learning how affiliate marketing works is fairly easy. Being patient and not earning money while waiting for your online business to take off is hard.

If you are determined to make this online career for yourself, you’ll keep plugging away until that amazing moment comes. And all the work you’ve done will certainly be worthwhile.

Now Get Your Affiliate Blog Started

Well, I hope you get something out of this affiliate marketing guide.The main things you should take away is that anyone can do this, but it does take effort and time to succeed.

There’s a good chance you have time on your side anyway, and you don’t want to get 2 years down the track and wonder what would have happened had you taken the plunge.You could have 10 years until retirement. I’d rather work hard after work hours for 12 months and enjoy the laptop lifestyle for the remaining 9 years.

As I’ve stated within this article, the best place to get started is by signing up with Wealthy Affiliate. All the training, resources, tools and support will be available at your fingertips. You’ll be able to use their website builder to have your website up and running within 1 minute.

I appreciate you taking the time to browse this article.