Before going straight into how it is possible to generate an income from the internet, I will start first with discussing 2 mechanisms that you need to have in place, before thinking of earning money from the internet.
1. You need to work hard and consistently towards having good content on your blog. This guarantees regular traffic to your blog, because your readers are curious what your next post is about - what they are going to learn from you.
2. Build an e-mail list. This is usually an 'opt-in' box, where your readers will fill in their name and e-mail address to give you permission to send them a regular newsletter, such as weekly, information about a product, on educational content, a tip for them, and so on.
These 2 tools will give you leverage - since now you have built traffic, attention and an audience to your website, it is time to convert that into money.
7 ways to earn money from the internet
1. Affiliate promotions. This is one of the ways that I personally like of earning money online. So to give you an example, let's say that there is a piece of software that I like and use for my business. I have personally bought it and use it regularly myself. I will write a review of it with links to the software's sales page, and when my readers will click on this link and buy the software I will earn a commission for promoting this product.
You can actually promote anything - a physical product such as a book, a downloadable e-book, a subscription service, a software, a system, and more. It is basically anything that offers an affiliate program. For my part, I prefer promoting stuff that I personally use, but you can also choose to subscribe to affiliate programs, without actually buying the product, and selling them through your blog.
The advantage of this is that there is no physical product to move, since your 'job' is to direct your traffic to the product's sales page, and the company will take care of the rest. You are given an affiliate ID which is unique to you, which will look something like this:?333695 - with the first part being the product's website and the second part being your affiliate ID, so you will earn a commission when people buy from your link.
Now if the product is a one time payment, you just get a commission once, but if the product is actually a subscription based service, then you are actually getting a commission every month. And each product will have a different percentage. However, all this adds up, especially if you have a successful blog.
Affiliate marketing uses the concept that word-of-mouth from the customer is the best advertising. So they actually reward you for promoting their product for them.
