Hello everyone. I've been into internet marketing for over 2 years now and i didn't make a SINGLE CENT online. I have bought the first 4 pages from clickbank on E-business and E-marketing and NOTHING worked. Mostly rewritten and old/outdated information that i have already learned. I have tried buying domains , do some SEO, write articles, use facebook( fan pages, buy ads ) use Adwords, Adsense tried free traffic , paid traffic CPA and many more. I have spent over 1000$ on training and software with the hope that one day i could make some money online but it didn't happen. I live in a country where the average income per month is 250$ and i always wished to buy those things that i couldn't afford. On my journey i learned (above intermediate) Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Design/Web Design, Web Language( CSS HTML PHP ) , i am an expert with Photoshop and i can make good looking websites fairly easy. I just want to be an affiliate marketer and i never did 1 single sale. I tried guitar niche, make money niche and fitness niche. Getting on first page on Google is way to hard and time consuming as well as creating my own product. After more than 2 long years, I feel that i should quit..How you guys started? How did you make your first sale as an affiliate? How did you build your list? Anything that could help me it would be great. Thank you very much.
Maybe affiliate marketing is not for you. There are other ways to earn money online. You mentioned you are good in making websites, why not try freelancing by providing web designing services? Anyway, isn't it ironic? You're telling us about how you weren't successful with IM yet you're trying to sell something you claim you can't do -- making money online. Just saying
You can try use Google AdSense or you can promote your site on other sites/forums. Also do backlinks.
You can become a publisher for our private CPA network. You can apply in my signature, the baffle one. I'm sure you will see a greater income
Affiliate marketing is tough - there are far too many big boys dominating the field to go in and do something yourself. Really find something that's not being done, and that may take a while, so by no means feel obliged to something simply for the sake of doing it, as you'll end up engaging in projects that are a waste of time.
You are expert in Web designing not in marketing. So, why you are wresting your valuable time doing so? You can make $xxxx per month as a freelance web developer. I think this will be good for you.
Your mistake is to try many things at once, just try ONE thing and if it works for you, just continue doing it not sticking to other 'maybe will work' money making methods
I think you should just pick one thing and stick with it and try it consistently for a good amount of time.
Everyone knows that there is a lot of money to be made in afffilaite marketing ... as long as you know what your doing! one suggestion would be to put more time into promoting your site. If this is the field you want to be in then never give up!