So many people today are frustrated with finances and with good reason.

I don’t know about the rest of the world but here in North America we are feeling the pinch. I talk to people right here in New Brunswick Canada and it’s all the same.

No pay increases, even though the cost of living is constantly on the rise. Just look at our gas and oil prices, they seem to go up every week.

What are we to do? Well I started my first work from home job as a computer instructor, even before the Internet was available to us. So you don’t need the Internet at all to make money, just something people want.

Now I’d like to add that with a computer and the Internet you can make that extra money which would make life just a little less stressful.

To key to being able to work from home successfully is to learn how to be successful first and by successful I mean learning how to make money online from home, online or not.

Work From Home Computer Instructor

Like I just said my first work from home business was as a computer instructor back in 1987. We didn’t have the Internet here in Moncton until the 90s.

I was fortunate to work where I had access to computers giving me the opportunity to learn more about them before most people were able to afford them locally.

Once computers became affordable to the average person I had already learned enough about them to change my career to computer instructor. What a change in my life. Sure glad I learned about computer hardware and software, not just gaming.

A few years later the Internet was at our door which lead me to add Internet training and then.

Work From Home Website Designer

My web design business started by helping friends and family build websites. Then I had computer students signing up for my Internet and web design courses. Some thought it was beyond them and hired me to build their business websites and my new work from home web design business was going.

Today I build few web sites for others as my focus has changed from computer training and web design to Internet marketing and make money online ideas.

What Do You Know I Need to Know?

That’s the trick when it comes to working from your home making money online or off-line. That’s knowing something enough others want to know that you can make money with it.

I have a friend who’s daughter and her best friend started a work from home dog bakery to make doggie treats.

Then there’s Ron who ties artificial flies for fly fishers like myself who can get a bit too busy to tie my own fishing flies. You can find him at the Moncton Market most Saturdays.

Another old friend, we’ve known each other now for at least 30 years. He has a little dog. Looks like a toy dog with very short legs. Well he didn’t like to see his poor friend freezing outside in the winter so he potty trained his dog to use a litter box.

A short report teaching how to litter box train your puppy and a membership with Clickbank and he was making money selling his little ebook.

Don’t let yourself think you have nothing to offer. Carry a note pad and pen with your everywhere. Write down things that come to mind, no matter how wacky they may seem and then check them out to see the demand online.

Think about fishers, those who love fishing, like me. Do you think fanatics like myself would be interested in a technique you might know of for catching smallmouth bass that won’t bite or a bait that works when nothing else does?

You can be you’d have my attention and my hand would be on my credit card just waiting to find out where to buy that lure of your ebook.

Where Do You Look For Things You Want?

Individuals today, from all walks of life are turning to the Web more and more when they are seeking just about anything. It’s so convenient and right from your home.

I like buying locally and do for most things but there are lots of things, especially hobby related I can’t find here so I find them and buy them online.

Work From Home A Few Hours A Week

Even working from home just a few hours a week, of focused work and you can started an extra stream of income. The key is to learn how to make money from home first and is a very worthwhile investment of your time.

Don’t do anything but learning and research at the beginning. Once you have the big picture you can take the next step which will put you a head of most newbie marketers who tend to jump in blind which almost always ends in failure.

Learn How To Make Money Online! – Check it out.

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Do you look through Clickbank products trying to find profitable products to promote? Do you also find that you are getting very frustrated with the process and know it should be easier?

If that’s you we have something in common. I work at home and used to get so stressed trying to figure out the Gravity or Popularity and sales potential.

I think a lot of people just guess when it comes to finding profitable products on Clickbank. I’ve done this myself, more than once. Even when I did find a profitable product I was left frustrated by the entire process.

Then a month ago I heard about CB Surge, the Firefox Add-on.

CB Surge A Firefox Add-on

I have to say I’m totally impressed with Brad Callen. I can’t get my brain around a lot of the things that make money online but products Brad comes up with have helped me make money without always understanding what I’m doing.

Brad was just a young buck when he started coming up with these awesome tools and one of the first products I purchased from Brad was Keyword Elite to help find the keywords that are making me money today.with my online marketing. I don’t seem to have the brain that comes up with those ideas but I am sure glad they are created for people like me to use.

Keyword Elite by Brad Callen is one that comes to mind any time I hear his name as it was the first of his products I purchased and it changed my life. I went from hours of keyword research each day down to just a few hours a week.

Clickbank is another place I have trouble figuring out. When I’m in the Clickbank Marketplace I enter a keyword phrase I’m interested in and then get back results that really tell me nothing until I start looking at the stats for gravity and sales percentages.

When I’m done looking at the results I’m not much further ahead than when I started but I am certainly more frustrated. Then Brad sends me an email about CB Surge and he changes my online life once more. Thanks Brad.

The only reason I never gave up on Clickbank is because every one in a while I would find a product that I was able to make money with so I kept going back even though it was frustrating.

This is putting it pretty simply but now when I go into the Clickbank Marketplace and type in a phrase it’s as simple as looking for the products highlighted in green. Red means it’s not the best choice and green means go.

Can’t get much simpler than that, can it?

The CB Surge Firefox add-on makes it easy for me to see the best choices immediately and saves me time I can spend promoting the right products.

Affiliate marketers new and old now have a system to help us make better choices for Clickbank products as all the product data and stats are available at a click of your mouse.

What I can do now, with the help of CB Surge, only takes me a few minutes compared to the hours of frustration I would go through previously. Can you tell I’m completely sold on CB Surge? This is why I speak so highly of Brad Callen, he’s made my marketing life so much easier and smoother to run.

I started with the free version of CB Surge but soon move to the paid version and now I see more and make choices even quicker so I can get back to promoting and making money.

I use article marketing to make money online. It’s great, I work from home writing about things I know about, mostly about my hobbies and interests.

Within each article is a link to an affiliate page or a landing page that pre-sells my readers. It’s actually how I’ve been making my living for the past decade.

Once the article is spell checked and proof read I publish them in a variety of places such as article directories.

Know your stuff and write compelling content and you can make your content king. Then the sky really is the limit.

Article Marketing First Steps

Your first step towards your financial success is knowing the keywords and phrase people are using when they look for something they wish to purchase. This takes time with keyword research.

I used Google’s Free Keyword Tool for years. Today I use Keyword Elite for all my keyword research as it’s so much faster than the free tools I used to use.

Step two is about writing articles that are helpful and informative. If you don’t write for your reader you may just have them leaving your article before reaching your affiliate link.

I write a lot of articles but I publish a lot more than I actually write because I use The Best Spinner to spin my articles into multiple unique articles. What a huge time saver TBS has been for me.

It’s important to keep your reader all the way to the click or you may lose them for ever. Remain focused on your content making it compelling and drawing them right to the click so you stand to make money. After all that’s the goal right?

Publish Articles To Top Article Directories & Networks

It’s not a requirement to have your own personal websites. Even though I have a number of websites I don’t always publish articles to my own sites as part of my article marketing strategy.

There are plenty of article directories and networks available to publish your articles to.

The key to article marketing  success when focusing on article directories and networks is to find those that will still accept articles with affiliate links in them.

It’s also wise to pay attention to the page rank of the sites you publish to. Those sites with higher PR usually means Google considers them an authority site.

Become A Guest Blogger

Search Google or your favourite search engine to find blogger looking for guest bloggers. Be sure to include your keyword phrase as part of your search so that you find results that are in your niche.

Publishing On The Free Traffic System

I publish articles, well article spin code, to The Free Traffic System because there bloggers can get a spun copy of my articles to publish on their blog. I get much more positive attention from search engines when the content I publish is unique.

To make my spin code work well and give the best unique content I can I use The Best Spinner to create my spin code.

Note: I prefer to choose the synonyms for my articles manually so I know that my articles will read like a human wrote them. It makes a huge difference to my bottom-line.

At FTS your article will be published across about 30 blogs based on the categories you select while publishing. Now you have a possible 30 links pointing back to your landing page to help increase your pagerank.

A few other article networks you can write for are:

Article Marketing Automation – My Article Network – SEO Link Vine

Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest as well as most lucrative techniques for make great money online. Why is affiliate marketing such a great way to make money online? Well for starters you don’t need special skills or experience.

You don’t even really need a website, although I personally prefer having websites to pre-sell my visitors and turn them into buyers quicker.

If you happen to be a newbie to affiliate marketing don’t get stress as there are plenty of affiliate programs available where you can get good training and plans to follow.

There is no shortage of different opportunities in just about any niche you’re interested in. I like to work in niches I have hobbies in, it works for me, but the possibilities truly are unlimited.

I am a shy guy and don’t really care for face to face selling so for me affiliate marketing online is perfect, no door to door selling for me. I don’t even have to be a salesman, I just know my facts and share that with my readers.

Affiliate Marketing And The Right Audience

If you want to be successful with affiliate marketing you really need to spend some time learning how to get targeted traffic as they convert much easier and you make more money sooner. Just that simple really.

If you have your own products you can really accelerate you bottom-line by having others sell for you, like having your own affiliate network.

I don’t have my own products and can’t be bothered creating any as I do just fine promoting products and services that belong to other vendors.

The Clickbank Affiliate Program

I promote a lot of products and services using a variety of affiliate networks but by far I make most of my money through the Clickbank marketplace. So many people need to learn how to make money and what better place to go than Clickbank to find products they need.

Oh yeah, I also earn between 50 and 75 percent on each and every sale I make.

I started my work from home online business back in 2001 and started promoting Clickbank products right away. They are one of the biggest and oldest affiliate networks online today.

What’s cool about Clickbank is they sells only digital products so you have no need to stock inventory, so you really have no over-head and no waiting for delivery and that’s always a bonus.

Clickbank is an affiliate network in that it is a whole bunch of vendors and affiliates all working under the umbrella organization called Clickbank. Through Clickbank, products and services are bought and sold, accounting goes on within the network and commissions are calculated per product sold.

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As a work from home online marketer I tend to invest the majority of my time article marketing. However it’s not the first thing I do.

Before all else I invest the required time researching my best niche related keywords to focus on in my articles, something that used to take a lot longer than it does today.

Keyword Elite 2 is the tool I use to research and find the best keywords for each of my niches. Using Keyword Elite has cut my keyword research to a fraction of the time it used to take me, just a couple of years ago.

Once I have my best keywords I start writing articles that focus on those keywords. I will most often use one main keyword phrase per article and then maybe one or two secondary keywords.

Not knowing the best keywords for their niche articles and how to use most efficiently is the reason so many Article marketers make no money. So you can see that it’s really worth the time and effort finding the best keywords that are most likely going to be long tail keywords, which aren’t necessarily the top keywords.

So really the key to successful article marketing success is knowing what your best keywords are, not just the top keywords.

Write Articles For Local Interest & Traffic

It took me a while to learn that I can make a lot of money from locals just by adding my location somewhere in the articles I create.

Example: When I first started my home gardening tips blog my article marketing focus was on North America really and I was getting about 200 unique visitors a day. I was making a few sales but nothing to write home about.

However, as soon as I began using my location in my articles my traffic grew 600% in just two months and my income tripled.

So in just two short months my traffic had jumped from 200 to 1200 unique visitors every single day. My Canadian traffic skyrocketed along with my sales leading me to make those same changes in my article marketing to other niches.

How To Get The Word Out

Once you have all your ducks in a row and have started creating keyword focused articles that are localized if they need to be you need to start thinking about where to publish them.

My goal in article marketing is to get my articles indexed as quickly as possible so I can start getting target traffic and make money. So it’s important to get your articles published on sites that get indexed frequently.

Before Publishing Make Your Articles Unique

Don’t get in the habit of using duplicate content as Google and other search engines much prefer content that’s unique. But how can you know your content isn’t duplicated without going through each sentence and checking it in Google?

I use CopyScape.com to check my content before I publish it. CopyScape checks it for me and tells me exactly what phrases are out there exactly as I have them. It costs me about a nickel for each article I check, very affordable.

How do you make your articles unique without rewriting them a dozen times?

Well today I use The Best Spinner for my article marketing. Before TBS I used to spend days rewriting articles to make them unique before publishing them.

I have looked a few different article spinners and found The Best Spinner to be the one for me.

I use TBS to swap words with relevant synonyms but can easily make an article unreadable so in my opinion it’s best to pick and choose your synonyms manually.

BTW: The Best Spinner has a feature that allows you to use your CopyScape account to check for uniqueness, right in the software, so convenient and time saving.

Where To Publish Your Unique Articles

I find it’s best to publish articles where I can get backlinks to my pages, one way backlinks actually. I also look for sites that have a PageRank of at least 3 which tells me Google thinks they have more authority than those with lessor PageRank.

Below is a short list of place I like to publish my articles to, starting with…

1. EzineArticles.com is my first choice when publishing articles because they are the strictest when it comes to accepting articles as well as the number one article directory. I get a lot more traffic from EzineArticles.com than any of the other article directories I use.

If you are publishing less than unique content it’s even more important to publish to EzineArticles.com first. They are the pickiest when it comes to unique content.

Once your article has been accepted you can start publishing elsewhere.

2. The Free Traffic System is next on my list. I use The Best Spinner to create unique articles and use the spin code to publish on the Free Traffic System where each article will be published to about 30 other blogs in the category you specify.

3. Guest Blogging is a truly awesome way to get traffic you may not be able to get any other way.

With guest blogging, assuming you’ve written compelling or instructional content, you can expect to get visitors through your one way link which can convert to money in your pocket.

Article Size In Article Marketing

I used to write articles of about 300 words in length. I aimed for approximately 3-7 percent keyword density and made my articles no less than 30% unique and that worked fine for a few years. Not so much any more.

Today I write articles that run about 500 words and no less than 60% unique to achieve the same results. I still aim for somewhere around 5% keyword density. Most of my articles are 100% unique based on the results I get from CopyScape.

I started my first work from home online business mid 2001 as a web designer and watched my income soar to new heights.

It was so cool to work from home and make better money than I was at my day job as a computer instructor.

Back then web design really was a quick way to make lots of money, if you had a bit of HTML know-how, which I did.

Web design started our great but after 3 years I had taken on way too many clients and found I no longer had any time for family and friends. Then in February 2004, Friday 13th actually, I had my first heart attack, mostly stress related.

Something had to change if I was going to survive this one.

Well a week in hospital lying flat on my back, hooked up to monitors with wires stuck all over my body, gave me lots of time to think about my future, if I even had one.

Before I went back home I made the decision to give up most of my web design clients and start looking for another way to make money online. A way that I could spend less time working with less stress as well.

I had already heard about the Clickbank Marketplace but was too busy to bother with it. Not now though so I took at look at it and quickly saw that it was a definite opportunity. I could even make commissions of 50 to 75 percent.

Promoting Clickbank products looked like something I would be able to handle in my current state of health so I started the process which began with getting a new domain to promote and sell ebooks from.

Step 1. Purchased A Keyword Rich Domain

So my first step was to purchase a new domain, one that was keyword focused for SEO purposes. I thought something like ebooks with resell rights would be great so I checked out GoDaddy.com to see if my desired keyword phrase was available as a DOTCOM domain.

It wasn’t but I was determined. I had heard about using hyphens in domains so I tried putting a hyphen between each word. It was available so I purchased it and moved on to the next step which was web hosting.

Step 2. Get HostGator’s Affordable Hosting

I’m not sure what the hosting company was called but I soon discovered it sucked and today I use HostGator.com to host the majority of my domains.

With HostGator I can host multiple domains on one account for one low monthly fee and my remaining web design clients actually pay for my hosting.

Step 3. Promote Ebooks With Resell Rights

Once I had my domain and it was setup on my hosting account I started focusing on Clickbank products to promote from my new site.

If you’re not a Clickbank member you don’t know what you’re missing out on so get over there and Register For Free at Clickbank.

Clickbank Profits In Your Spare Time

When promoting ebooks with resell rights you can do a couple of things.

1. You could purchase each product you are interested in promoting. It’s my preferred method because I get a much better understanding of the product, however…
2. If purchasing products aren’t in your budget yet then you could use search engines to find existing reviews, read each and every one of them to gain an understanding of the product and then write your own review based on the others with actually using their words.

The fact is when you purchase a product from the Clickbank Marketplace you have a guaranteed refund if you need it. I believe it’s 60 days now and this is great.

Why is it so great to be able to get a refund? Well you can purchase the product and learn all about it so that you have first hand info about the product, right? But what attracts me to Clickbank is the fact I can get my money back if I find the product sucks.

The fact I can get a refund means I don’t waste my money. If the product sucks or just doesn’t meet my expectations I can request and get a refund, within the given time of course.

I can then spend that money again on a different product, until I find the product that fits me.

So I suggest you give the Clickbank Marketplace a visit. Sign up if you’re not already a member, it’s free, and start making money with product reviews.