I was going to say through online surveys but it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to make $1,000 per month just filling up surveys on panels like iPanel, Toluna, Swagbucks or Opinion Outpost.
Even if you sit in front of your computer 24/7 making a few bucks from the small tasks from the survey panels, you will not be able to consider it as a sustainable income. That means, you will not be generating income when you stop working.
If you are asking how to make a sustainable income of more than $1,000 per month online, I would say affiliate marketing.
You might have heard or received a lot answers like this but it really works.
Affiliate marketing is my favorite way to make money online. Affiliate programs repeatedly top income reports for high-earning bloggers.
If you are not sure what is affiliate marketing, have a look at the info-graphic below.
In exchange for your promotion of a third-party product, you will receive a percentage of sales every time a customer makes a purchase through your link.
Let me try to put it in another way - when you refer a person to a site, you may get a commission if they purchase something or perform an action, like click on a link or sign up for a service.
Why everyone is talking about affiliate marketing?
There are 100,000's of affiliate programs that you can join, choose products, promote them, then get a cut of every sale.
Other than that, there are more than three billion internet users in the world and the number is still growing.
Affiliate Marketing is Growing at the Fastest Pace ever. It is estimated that the affiliate marketing industry is going to be worth $5.97 billion by 2019.
It is growing at an incredible pace and when I look back to when I started out in affiliate marketing a few years back.
All Major Online Brands Are Built on Affiliate Marketing. Amazon, Apple, HP, Best Buy, Etsy… you name it.
Let’s talk about big brands such as Amazon. Instead of spending BILLIONS on marketing their products/services, they leverage millions of affiliate marketers through their affiliate program, Amazon Associates.
Another reason is people are moving their spending online at a faster pace than ever. I personally spend most of my money online now, shifting away from offline business.
I know it is bad not to support local, but I personally would rather support online (being an Internet entrepreneur) in particular when the prices are better. This trend is ONLY going to continue.
Now you know the reason why affiliate marketing is a real deal. Let’s talk about HOW.
How do I make $1000 per month online?
Task #1: Understand the Make Money Process
As I mentioned above, there are more than three billion internet users (the audience) and these people are looking (searching) for things all the time.
They are looking for information and to buy products. That is where you are going to come in with your website and help these "audiences" by offering them information about what they are looking.
You will be helping these people and earning revenue in the process.
Task #2: Finding Your Niche
Your online business should not feel like a day job. Earning money online should be fun, and it is fun.
This all starts with choosing a niche that you are interested in and will enjoy working with.
The more you enjoy doing something the less it feels like a job and the more productive you are going to be.
Your niche could be anything, but at the core of your niche selection it should be something that you "like".
Something you enjoy. Something you can talk about. Something you want to learn about.
In the simplest form, a niche is really a group of people looking for stuff. When you select your niche, you want to avoid being too broad with your niche selection.
What people fail to understand is the fact that there are millions of people looking for stuff online within what seems to be the smallest of niches, but they really are not.
A few things that you should understand about niches are:
- You are going to be writing content within your niche.
- You are going to be communicating within your niche.
- You are going to be choosing products to promote within your niche.
- You need to enjoy helping people within you niche.
- Your first niche PROBABLY won't be your last (so don't worry about it being perfect).
Any niche can become a "full time" successful business
Task #3: Build Your Website
Having your own domain name is ideal and gives you a huge competitive advantage when it comes to succeeding online.
For example, if you owned your own domain it would look something like this...
yourwebsite (dot) com
For example, if your niche was "Macbook Air Cases", your domain name would be:
macbookaircases (dot) com
And your website name would be:
Macbook Air Cases
You can use WordPress blog and host it on Bluehost.
Task #4: Finding Ideas from Keywords
You have likely heard the term "keyword research". This is the act of finding keyword phrases that are relevant to your niche and deciding whether or not it is appropriate to build content around that particular keyword.
This is going to be the “root” of all your search engine optimization success, so we are going to be tackling keywords here before we get into creating content.
A keyword is simply a word or phrase that people search for in the search engines.
Every time you do a google search you are entering a "keyword" into the search box.
Ultimately, the goal of your keyword research is to find keywords that you can get rankings in Google, Yahoo, and Bing with, all while attracting a relevant audience.
You will be using the keywords that you find in this lesson to build content around.
This will lead you to search engine rankings and traffic to your website!
Each page you create will be targeting a keyword...
100 pages targeted 100 keywords = 100 potential Google rankings.
This can and will lead to mass amounts of traffic and those that follow along with this training are going to see their traffic continue to go up with every "keyword targeted" page or post that they create on their website.
Remember, Google and other search engines are around because of CONTENT and if you can deliver quality content (that targets low competition keywords), you will be able to get great rankings!
