What I am about to share with you has made millions of dollars for the average person and it can work for you too. This is a condensed formula with limited references but is enough to inspire further investigation on your part.
So how do I start a no investment work from home business anyway? The following will be enough to get you started.
First you need a business model that is free to join. The most popular of these is affiliate programs. They cost nothing to join and the affiliate owner shares a generous commission with the affiliates. ClickBank is one of the most reliable and used affiliate networks on the net and is a good place to start.
ClickBank will send you a check every two weeks for the sales you generate through their system. Some products pay a whopping 75% commission! Get a free account with them.
After you have gotten your account with ClickBank browse the Marketplace for products that you might be passionate about. You need to pick a product that you can write about in a general way. When you decide on a product create your hoplink to your affiliate sales page.
Next you will need to create a free blog through Blogger or WordPress to use as a presale site and link to your affiliate sales page. All traffic will be sent here first. The general rule of thumb is never send traffic straight to the affiliate sales page. You need to brand yourself on the blog and pre-sell the affiliate product.
Blog at least once a day on a general topic that is relevant to your chosen affiliate product. Don’t blog junk. Try to use original content that will answer questions, solve problems or how to steps relating to the affiliate product of choice. Make sure you link to your sales page in each blog you post and also create a visible link on the side bar of your blog for people to click through to your affiliate sales page.
Next you will need to drive free traffic to your blog. You can do this using article marketing and news releases. If you generate 2 clicks a day to your blog per article you need to write until you have at least 200 - 300 active articles before you get significant traffic. Those that have 1,000 active articles generally get great traffic.
What do you write about? Your theme must carry through with the idea of your affiliate sales page. Your second source of article ideas will come from your key words.
Choosing keywords is the most important part of this process. If you pick good keywords you can explode your traffic. You need to pick high demand low results keywords. By low search results I mean that there are under 5,000 listed results for your keyword used with quotes. You have a good chance of ranking higher in the search engines that way.
Use your keyword in the article title, in the first paragraph and make it a link in the last paragraph. This is basic SEO that will help you rank well so people can find you and you can get that free traffic to your blog.
If you do a fair job at writing your articles people will click through to your blog. Many of those will click your affiliate link if you make it visible and tempting on the side bar of your blog. Then the sales page will do it’s job and get you sales.
Now this is all free marketing that will get you sales. It is important however that you reinvest your initial checks into your business so you can secure and speed it up. The missing pieces are a good capture presale page, an auto responder and paid advertising. They are not extremely expensive but are a necessary next step.
This brief plan can get you up and running and earning checks in no time. There are other paths to the same end that you can take, I mention these because it is what I used with success. So you really can start a no investment work from home business and build it into an empire.
