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I first started my Internet business while working full-time for a large corporate company. The company I was working for was going through hard times, started to make people redundant and I wanted my own ’safty net’. That way, if i were to be made redundant, I had something to fall back on.

I was in a senior position in the company and I worked long hours. But that didn’t stop me putting in many hours each week to make my Internet business take off.

While I traveled to work, I would listen to or read about Internet marketing strategies.

I would work in the evenings.

I would work at weekends.

My wife gave me 100% support.

I started to look at Affiliate Marketing and blogging to make a blog income. Everyone was blogging!

Affiliate Marketing is where you don’t even have to have your own product. You make a percentage of the sale price by selling someone else’s product or service. The percentage ranges from 5% to 100%. However I recommend only going for products that give you over 50% comission.

You might be thinking that you have to sell a lot of other peoples products to make it worth your while. This might be true. It was for me. I was working hours and hours and making little income. In fact, if I were to add up the hours and divide them by the amount of earned commission I was making, it would have been less than $1 an hour.

Would you work for less than a $1 an hour?

I sometimes felt like giving up. It just wasn’t worth it. Then there were a few more redundancies at work. That made me more determined. It just had to work.

Remember I was only doing this part-time. It was a slow progress.

But, here I was earning Affiliate Marketing commissions (albeit quite small) and I still had the comfort and security of my main full-time role.

You could do exactly the same.

Just find a few hours each week and and get started. You could start earning a little extra while learning a new skill. It could be the start of your ‘get out of the 9-5′ plan.
And, think, no traveling. You can do this within the comfort of your own home.

I am not saying you will become rich. I am not saying it’s easy.

Unlike some of those ’scam’ adverts you see. (I’ve been sucked in by some of thoese before). I’ve wasted my money.

For example, “Follow my steps, earn $100k a month for 2 hours work a day all for just $97″.

If someone could guarantee and show me how to do that, I’ll gladly give them a $500k bonus. We all would wouldn’t we?

So as I say, you are not going to become rich, but you could earn a little extra to pay a bill or two.

So you could set yourself some goals.

Set up one website, one blog and market one affiliate product per month.

Add valid and interesting content to your blog, promote your blog, get your blog ranked well in the search engines and that one blog / product may make you affiliate marketing commissions that might just surprise you.

The next month start another Affiliate Marketing campaign.

Your can either add another similar affiliated product to your blog or start a totally new affiliate campaign in a different niche with a new blog and new product.

Just imagine, within six months, you could be promoting and selling 6 different products, on 6 different blogs and all providing you with a nice blog income.

Now, let me be honest and straight…your first or second product may not sell very well, but you have to keep on going.

Don’t be like many other individuals and give up.

But it’s not uncommon for hard working Affiliate Marketers to start out with one website and expand to several more quite quickly, with some people actually owning dozens of websites, each focused on a specific niche and type of products.

And, of course, the more you earn, the more you can invest back into growing your Affiliate Marketing commissions. That may generate more visitors to your sites, more commissions and it can becomes a nice extra income.

So where do you go to find products to promote and sell.

I started off at ClickBank.

You sign-up, you choose your product to promote, you add the link to your site. ClickBank does the rest. Two weeks later you get a check with your sales commissions. ClickBank do take a small commission but it’s worth it. Everything is automatic and completed for you.

Another great thing with ClickBank is that you can track statistics like how many people purchased, who has purchased and your commissions.

That way you can see if a product is selling or not. If not, simply move on and start a new campaign with a different product and blog.

You may not become rich via your new blog income but if you simply want a little extra cash each month, try working from home with Affiliate Marketing and blogging.

This is how I started my own Internet Marketing business on a part-time basis. Click these links to see how you can start Making Money On Internet and give yourself a blog income.

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