Blog6 - Wealthy Affiliates

In my 4th blog, I mentioned that I had signed up with the Wealthy Affiliate program. This is a progress note and more...

Wealthy Affiliates starts you off on a 8-week training program that has 50 outcomes of knowledge that you are expected to have learned by the end of the program. These cover every aspect of internet sales from setting up websites, marketing your products, getting paid for clicks on your website, communication, setting up business campaigns, etc. By the end-of-week1 you should know the following:

What is Internet marketing and how does Wealthy Affiliate fit into the mix?
How WA can help
How to earn money with the WA Affiliate Program – Refer a friend only
Using your time wisely, understanding why WE (Kyle & Carson) create resources
Benefits of WA Spaces, Jobs, and taking full advantage of the Forum
How to get help (using help, site map, and contacting us…rules)

They really push communication and in the 1st week, you supposed to sign up for their forum and make at least 3 posts, one being an introduction of yourself. The rest of the week you are expected get your personal information entered and become familiar with their website and how to use it. I have most of my assignments done for week 1. Setups are done and I have made 2 posts and plan a 3rd one today. I have already discovered that as a newby, you aren't really sure of what you should post about so my first two posts were about myself. I expect today I will post about how I got to Wealthy Affiliates.

My initial impressions with the Wealthy Affiliates is positive especially the price. I am in group of 4 who started off using another organization, Thrive Learning, and we signed up for $4000. After our introductory sessions, etc., they wanted $10,000 to teach us everything that I see Wealthy Affiliates teaches. Do not get me wrong about Thrive Learning. I learned a lot from them in a very short and wouldn't be were I am today if it was not for them. One of the big things was how to buy and sell on eBay. Prior to Thrive Learning, I did not know how to buy or sell on eBay and how PayPal worked etc. I now have my own websites ainsworthetc.com and chuckytrader.com and an eBay account that uses PayPal for payments.

Blog5 - Electronics

This morning when I opened up my email, the 1st email was from Amazon.com about their latest hot electronics gadgets. That got me to thinking that www.chucktrader.com did not have electronics listed in it. So I set out to remedy that.

When working with Amazon.com and their affliliate stores you have to add product categories. What I didn't realize is, this is done when you adding a new category (duh) from a button on that screen. I spent probably an hour trying to find the "Add Products" from the main aStore screen. After sending email to Amazon asking for help I thought I would try one more time from scratch. Guess what, this time I found it right in front of my face (kinda embarrassing). So I quickly sent another email to Amazon telling them to forget my first email, but suggest that they put something on the main screen for new users.

Anyway www.chuckytrader.com now has an electronics store. Please be sure and check it out.

4th Blog - WealthyAffiliates

After I started reading the document "Build a Successful eBay Niche Stores" by Ivana Bosnjak a little closer, I discovered that I knew next to nothing about marketing and what to and how to sell on the internet. I was perusing her blogging website http://affiliate-niche-stores.com and found another article she had written called "Simple Affiliate Sale Guide" so asked for it. In one of her emails was a link to an article on how she got started. In a nutshell, she signed up with a company called "The Wealthy Affiliate University". I just signed up with them myself. Initially they appear to have a very good online training program that is reasonably priced. It is $39.95 monthly or $359.00 yearly. If you would like to check them out, here is a referral link.
http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/?a_aid=9RyyusSZ

The following link is to her document on how she got started.
http://www.my-linker.com/hop/LearnAffMarketing

If you decide to do anything like this, you will discover that you will make many mistakes in the learning process. That is ok, because it is those mistakes that you learn by. WealthyAffiliates starts off with a 8-week educational program so I will probably slow down on my web development until I have a better understanding on how it all works. Anyway, more on this later.

3rd Blog

One of the biggest problems that you run into when you have made the decision to create web sites for income is what to sell or how to use the web site to create money. I have decided to have multiple websites. My previous blog mentions two that I have already set up. I have in my long plans, a plan to create an eBay store and at least one other web site, which at this time the content is unknown. The goal is to create multiple streams of income. At this time I am mainly concentrating on the content for http://chuckytrader.com.

I have decided that http://chuckytrader.com will become a collection of stores. This will be accomplished through setting up affiliates. There is a very good article on the internet on how to do this by Ivana Bosnajak "Build a Successful eBay Niche Stores!" that takes you through the steps. I started reading this document and took a break to followup on some of her suggestions. In thumbing through I have noticed many good nuggets of information.

At this time http://chuckytrader.com has stores for books, teachers and students for grades K-12. I am just now working on adding eBay affiliates to this site.

Just a word on affiliates. In order to sell through affiliates you must first sign up with the organization and then sign up for their affiliate or association plan. There are agreements and guidelines that you must adhere to or they may dis-associate you. This does take some time to get up and running but the setup costs are negligible. For the how to, see Ivana's document.