Can You Make Money On­line By Start­ing With No Money

From Willie Craw­ford.

„It takes money to make money!”

This is a fa­vorite quote tossed around by most peo­ple when some­one starts talk­ing about start­ing or grow­ing a busi­ness. And while this is def­i­nitely true for of­fline brick and mor­tar busi­nesses, it’s not al­ways the case when you start a home-based busi­ness online.

It’s im­por­tant to un­der­stand some­thing though. While you can start mak­ing money on­line with­out spend­ing any money, suc­cess will come to you much more quickly if you DO spend a bit of money from the start. Oth­er­wise, growth will be painfully slow!

Mak­ing money on­line with­out spend­ing any money is quite pos­si­ble to do. In fact, hun­dreds of new peo­ple start do­ing so each and every day. When you start an in­ter­net busi­ness from home with ab­solutely no money to in­vest how­ever, you usu­ally have to make up for the money short­age by in­vest­ing a lot of time and ef­fort. Whether you in­vest money, or time and „el­bow grease,” you do have to in­vest something.

The three pri­mary ways of mak­ing money on­line with no money are all sim­i­lar tech­niques and they of­ten over­lap in sev­eral ways.

1. Af­fil­i­ate Mar­ket­ing. As an af­fil­i­ate mar­keter you can sim­ply pro­mote some­one else’s prod­uct and each time a sale is made through your pro­mo­tional ef­forts, you earn money in the form of a sales commission.

Mak­ing money as an af­fil­i­ate is an ex­cel­lent way to get started with­out hav­ing to in­vest your own money, be­cause you can do very sim­ply pro­mo­tional ef­forts such as plac­ing ad­ver­tise­ments at free on­line clas­si­fied sites, on­line fo­rums, and so­cial net­work­ing sites. At some of these sites, these ads can’t be bla­tant though.

You can also set up free web­sites, blog, Squidoo lens, Face­Book Pro­file, My­Space Pro­file, etc. and cre­ate con­tent which is de­signed to at­tract the search en­gines, and in-turn, at­tract peo­ple’s in­ter­est in the prod­uct you’re promoting.

If you have a knack for writ­ing you can also cre­ate ar­ti­cles or press re­leases about the prod­uct or re­lated to the prod­uct, and dis­trib­ute those to var­i­ous ar­ti­cle and press re­lease sites around the web.

When writ­ing ar­ti­cles, I use the prob­lem, ag­i­tate, so­lu­tion for­mula. Peo­ple come on­line search­ing for so­lu­tions to their prob­lems. If you write ar­ti­cles dis­cussing those prob­lems, and then point­ing out suit­able so­lu­tions (your af­fil­i­ate prod­ucts) the search en­gines will help peo­ple find your ar­ti­cles. If your ar­ti­cles ex­plain ad­e­quately why your af­fil­i­ate prod­uct is the ideal so­lu­tion, they will buy them.

There is no cost for dis­trib­ut­ing the ar­ti­cles so as long as you fol­low the site’s rules about what’s al­lowed to be posted, you could start gen­er­at­ing traf­fic and sales to the af­fil­i­ate prod­uct, thus earn­ing a per­cent­age of each sale in commissions.

Some prod­ucts even pay 100% com­mis­sion. An ex­am­ple is the cus­­tomer-only af­fil­i­ate pro­gram for the ebook at: https://20Ways.org Those who get a copy of that ebook are in­vited to reg­is­ter as an af­fil­i­ate on the down­load page. When you make a sale for that ebook us­ing your af­fil­i­ate link, the pay­ment is made di­rectly to your Pay­pal ac­count, and the cus­tomer is redi­rected to a down­load page on the af­fil­i­ate pro­gram’s site. You do need a Pay­pal ac­count to join that par­tic­u­lar af­fil­i­ate program.

There are thou­sands of sites that you can post your ar­ti­cles to. How­ever, only a few dozen get any sub­stan­tial traf­fic, so you want to fo­cus your at­ten­tion on those. As you start gen­er­at­ing rev­enue, you want to in­vest in au­to­mated sub­mis­sion tools, such as the all-in-one ar­ti­cle, video, pod­cast and press re­lease ser­vice at https://ibmm.com/epbt

Vis­it­ing and man­u­ally sub­mit­ting your con­tent to each site can get very te­dious, and the au­to­mated sub­mis­sion ser­vice al­lows you to lever­age your ef­forts and grow your busi­ness much faster.

2. Ad­ver­tis­ing Rev­enue. An­other ex­cel­lent and easy way to start mak­ing money on­line with­out spend­ing any is by gen­er­at­ing ad­ver­tis­ing rev­enue. The eas­i­est to start with is the Google Ad­Sense pro­gram, but there are hun­dreds of other web­sites which will pay you to place ad­ver­tis­ing on your web­site. And some­times you can even find com­pa­nies who are will­ing to pay you for ad­ver­tis­ing space di­rectly, but usu­ally you have to have a pop­u­lar web­site with a lot of vis­i­tors com­ing to it each day be­fore this can happen.

Us­ing ready made ad­ver­tis­ing sys­tems such as the Google Ad­Sense pro­gram al­lows you to start mak­ing money even when your web­site is still small, and your traf­fic lev­els are low. You can start com­pletely free by us­ing a site such as Blog­ger or Squidoo, and cre­at­ing con­tent around a spe­cific topic.

Mak­ing money from ad­ver­tise­ments is not usu­ally a quick way to start mak­ing lots of money on­line. Be­cause the amount of money you earn de­pends on how much traf­fic you can gen­er­ate to a given web­site, this type of on­line money mak­ing gen­er­ally starts slow and builds up over time with a lot of ef­fort. You can make money the first day of get­ting started, but it’s of­ten just a few pen­nies at best. Putting the time and ef­fort into this in­ter­net busi­ness model can reap great re­wards how­ever, and even­tu­ally you may find your­self earn­ing $50, $100, or even $200 and more every day.

3. Giv­ing Things Away. This method of mak­ing money on­line is quite pop­u­lar, be­cause you don’t have to con­vince peo­ple to spend money in or­der to make money your­self. In­stead, you of­fer peo­ple a free sam­ple prod­uct, coupons, or even in­for­ma­tion such as car in­sur­ance quotes. Each time some­one takes ad­van­tage of what you’re of­fer­ing, you’ll earn a spe­cific amount of money. There are com­pany that pay you for get­ting peo­ple to re­quest an in­sur­ance quote or fill out a form in­di­cat­ing that they plan on buy­ing a car or home soon.

You can also give away free reports/ebooks/software in free list-build­ing give­aways. When peo­ple come to your site, you re­quire them to join your mail­ing list in or­der to get the free gift. Then, you pe­ri­od­i­cally send these peo­ple your newslet­ter con­tain­ing your prod­uct of­fers as well as use­ful information.

You’ll find lots of free give­aways listed at: https://FireSaleLegend.com/blog/

If you cre­ate your own ebooks or re­ports to give away in these give­aways, you can in­clude re­views of rec­om­mended prod­ucts (with your af­fil­i­ate links) right in the ebooks. 

Us­ing this tech­nique is as easy and free as the pre­vi­ous ones men­tioned. You can place ad­ver­tise­ments at free clas­si­fied sites, cre­ate free web­sites, write ar­ti­cles, and men­tion your free gifts at so­cial net­work­ing sites to help get the word out about the item you’re giv­ing away.

You can get started in an in­ter­net busi­ness 100% free, but you will want to rein­vest some of your earn­ing to ac­cel­er­ate growth.

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Willie Craw­ford has been teach­ing peo­ple to build a le­git­i­mate in­ter­net busi­ness since 1996. He is one of the world’s lead­ing web­site traf­fic gen­er­a­tion ex­perts. His fa­vorite tool is an au­to­mated ar­ti­cle, video, pod­cast and press re­lease sub­mis­sion ser­vice at https://ibmm.com/epbt Visit them now.

To help you suc­ceed Willie has cre­ated The In­ter­net Mar­ket­ing In­ner Cir­cle, a mem­ber­ship site where he fre­quently brain­storms so­lu­tions to prob­lems such as those dis­cussed in this ar­ti­cle. Join that dis­cus­sion for your suc­cess at TheIn­ter­net­Mar­ketingIn­ner­cir­cle.