Monetize your Website
There comes a time in every webmasters life when they ask themselves the question, “how am I ever going to make money with this website?” There are a number of ways to make money using your website:
Set up a store:
You can use a free ecommerce solution such as oscommerce, magento, zencart, opencart or you can setup a paid cart system like shopsite. There are also a number of plugin type carts that handle the entire process for you from cart system to the actual dropshipping of products such as doba.com.
Become an affiliate:
Affiliate marketing is easily a multi-billion dollar industry right now. There are hundreds of great “deal” sites out there like slickdeals.net and fatwallet.com. These sites take affiliate marketing to the extreme. The way to get started with affiliate marketing is to have information about specific products and services and then link to those sites and be paid a referral fee back for your efforts when someone makes a purchase. You can sign up for individual affiliate programs at a companies website. However to streamline the process and make your job easier, you can also sign up at as an affiliate publisher at major affiliate networks such as:
http://affiliate-program.amazon.com
There are a number of resources out there for new affiliate marketers. There are groups on all the major networks such as linkedin, facebook, abestweb and more. Do a little searching and you can find a ton of free information on how to get started in the affiliate world.
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