lol Yeah, I'm just lil miss popularity over here. Maybe I should start a fan club. Don't worry though ablaye... I'll be sure to form a local branch so you can join too neighbor. j/k Jenn
you can also look at sites like http://successful-home-businesses.us they have quite a few programs on their that can get you earning cash faster from home.
I would say take your skills and create a respectable business profile. I started out just writing, then I studied SEO and now I offer optimization and SEO copywriting. Then I got into building websites...then we added my husbands graphic design...and lately I have started buying domains and selling them. I worked like a dog for the first few months. I contacted every web design company in a 50 mile radius and offered my writing skills. That alone brings in a 3rd of my monthly income. Then I worked for a national reputation. Write now I work for 8 web design companies doing everything from writing to editing to optimization. I think a good website should be your #1 priority.
Not entirely true. About two years ago I built an affiliate site solely around a single merchant and their products. Because the site was new then, most of the pages weren’t indexed by the search engines so it didn’t pull in a great deal of orders for the merchant, in fact I think I drove just one sale their way in four months. They weren’t impressed with my efforts, so they terminated my affiliation due to poor performance. I felt sick and disillusioned having spent a good couple of months putting together what I thought was a great site, my first ever, and building inbound links, for them to just pull the plug on me in an instant. Anyway, when that happened I thought I would sign up for adsense and try and at least earn back my domain registration, hosting fees and hopefully a couple of hundred of dollars on top for my trouble. Thank heavens I did because that one site has now earned me over $17,000 in the last eighteen months just from clicks! The great thing is that it has pretty much all been on autopilot. I haven’t added a single page to the site in all that time and only work a few hours each month on building more links. I now eagerly spend my time building more similar sites. I think that most of the pro affiliate marketers would never be foolish enough to depend on just one market or merchant anyway. They instead have their fingers in many pies in order to spread the risk. If one merchant takes a dive it can probably be compared to a freelancer losing one of their many clients. The difference is that the affiliate marketer has other opportunities to monetize their site without much additional effort, whereas the freelancer may have to go on the hunt for new clients and then constantly service those new clients in order to maintain their income at the same level. What’s more, if the freelancer decides to take a few days off, it’s a dead cert that he/she ain’t gonna earn anything unless they too have another side of their business that earns on autopilot. Don’t get me wrong; I am extremely grateful that freelancers do exist, because through using their services I have been able to speed up the process of building new sites. Perhaps my recommendation to the original poster would be to initially consider a combination of both freelance work and affiliate marketing, that way some fast money could be earned from freelancing while you are waiting for income from your affiliate sites to kick in (be it from merchant commissions, adsense clicks or whatever). You can then decide for yourself what direction you want to concentrate your efforts on. Just my 2 cents.