I get that comment all the time from those that don’t get it.

You can make money online, working part-time, from your home (or wherever you choose with a computer and an Internet connection), and it can be a lot or money or just a small amount to help with the monthly bills.

But first, I want to tell you a little about myself. I am a retired broadcast executive. I spent many years on-air and behind a desk. I have created winning radio formats, sold, bought and run radio stations and large broadcast companies. So I am not easily won over (cynical of business opportunities).

Back in early 2004, upon retirement from the fun but grind of corporate broadcast life, I decided to use some of my new-found time to explore the Internet. I wasn’t new on the Net at that time. I got my first domain and put up my first website in 1994, ten years earlier. So I had and have some background on the Net.

Other than eBay selling, which I continue to do today, there were not many opportunities to make money online because to sell something you need product, warehousing and shipping. Other than the odd eBay sale, I have no desire to go into the retail business, just using the net as a marketing medium.

However, in 2003 Google began to offer website publishers money for showing their ads. Ads that their advertisers were beginning to pay a lot of money for. This was, and is, called AdSense, arguably the catalyst that drove the Internet Marketing phenomenon.

I dove in with all ten fingers. I bought, I uploaded, I joined and I bought some more. I did this for a couple of years spending way too much, but I chalked it up to the cost of going to school. Then a couple of important things happened, and everything changed including a very positive online income.

What changed? Affiliate marketing and Wordpress. These two things have allowed me to create a great online income, and not spend any more time than I feel like spending on a weekly basis. Let me explain.

First, affiliate marketing.

For the web publisher (me), affiliate marketing means a system of advertising in which site A (me) agrees to feature links, buttons or reviews (etc) from or about site B (the company). Site A (me) gets a percentage of sales generated on site B (the company) if the purchaser comes from my site, newsletter, blog (etc).

Companies are not just looking for affiliates to help sell things. Sometimes they will pay you just to look. This is the power behind Google’s AdSense affiliate program. In fact there are hundreds of ways to generate an affiliate payment. Once I recognized the possibilities, I started building websites like mad. I determined that it was like direct mail. The more mailboxes I got my pitch into, the more sales I would generate.

If you want to see one of the sites that I created using html and a lot of time, take a look here. Looking at this Caribbean Vacation site you will find two important things. Articles and AdSense. Articles draw the attention of the search engines, so people go to the site, and if any of those visitors click on one of the AdSense links, I get paid. Articles attract visitors, AdSense is the affiliate that pays me for clicks.

They don’t have to buy, just look. This site is nearly 3 years old and continues to generate income without any additional work on my part.

Now to be perfectly honest, after a while I realized that writing code was a big waste of my time. I should be spending my time writing articles for all kinds of niches. I should also be looking for articles that I can use instead of writing everything myself.

So I bought ready made templates and tons of articles and I created even more sites.

Then the second ingredient jumped off the monitor. Wordpress!

I decided that I needed a content management system. Websites that could be easily updated, changed and enhanced from my desktop or from my laptop anywhere in the world that I found myself. But I needed a professional looking site and I needed to be able to add all kinds of important marketing ingredients. Like a newsletter (so I needed a mailing list), the ability to sell - or tell people about - other stuff. Stuff like what you find at Amazon, at eBay and a bunch of other online sites.

In fact, if I could do it for online sites, why not offline stores and services. Maybe even get a commission from Wal-Mart.

Enter Wordpress. Almost no code writing, easily add scripts by simply inserting a plugin and professional? Man there are literally thousands of themes or templates to use and you can alter them to your own liking. Best of all, they are free. Sure you can buy some, but for what I needed, free was perfect.

After a learning curve of about a month (I really get into it), I could create a new income producing website in a few hours. That includes niche research, article writing, special graphics, affiliate research, uploading, creating the site (yes it’s a blog site, but don’t think of it as a journal), and inserting the links that will make me money.

Now I can, and do, put up 10 to 20 in a day. Hundreds of sites, even thousands.

Think about it. 1,000 sites, each making just 50 cents a day. But …. over a year that’s $182,500 gross. Remove my hard costs such as web hosting and domain name purchases, Internet connection (my cable connection) and misc costs, I am left with $170,000+. Even at a lousy quarter a day of income per site, I am still left with $78,750 a year. OK, ok, let’s say each site only makes 5 cents a day. Five lousy cents equals $18,250!

Would you turn down $18,250?

This is for part-time work and no mailing, shipping, product storage or anything else that one associates with doing business. And it is a legitimate, needed and useful business!

If you are wondering where Google gets the millions of dollars it pays out to website publishers every month, just do a search on anything using Google. When you see the results of your search you will see a bunch of search results on the right side of your screen. Usually with a light blue background. Those are paid advertiser results. The ones on the left are the organic (free) or non-paid advertiser results.

Every time someone clicks on one of those advertiser links, Google gets paid. Now look at almost any website and you will see Google ads. When someone (other than the owner of the site) clicks on one of those links, Google sends a piece of the advertising income it receives to the website owner. Google hands of millions upon millions of dollars every month to website publishers. And that’s just Google.

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