19-Year-Old College Student,
Earning Extra Income
By James Martell
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GotDot.com profiles Samantha Morris a 19 year old
business major at
the University of Victoria in Canada, who’s
earning extra income for
college saying goodbye to the starving student
days.
Going hungry as a student is practically
synonymous with the college
experience. Many students live in cramped quarters,
cutting mold off
cheese and eating it with day old bread the coffee
shop gave away,
feeling lucky at discovering an uneaten Snickers
Bar, calling it a
meal, which sure beats the packaged macaroni and
cheese, which has been
the only staple in the cabinet for months. It gets
so bad some
students sell their blood just to pay for classes
and books.
Samantha’s not starving. As fellow students like
to say, “She’s been
there, done that,” proving to be quite a role
model too. In the past
this gal worked part time jobs. The money barely
paid for books, let
alone the apartment, food and college tuition.
Like many college kids Samantha surfed the
Internet, instead of
finding the latest rock and roll song she
discovered a way to end her
starving college days for good. She found
affiliate marketing, earning
extra income from home, on her hours, around
school work, and an
active social life.
As Samantha says, “No more going hungry before
class, thanks to
affiliate marketing I have enough money for living
expenses and school
and I’m saying money too. Maybe I’ll study in
Europe. Anything is
possible now.”
Samantha mentions that most students aren’t
prepared for the future.
In the class room the learning is passive.
Samantha says, “With
affiliate marketing, its active learning and real
world experience.
And experience is everything.”
Samantha’s learning marketing, finance, design,
and the sweet joy of
financial independence at a young age. Sometimes
it’s the young ones
that show the way. Anyone can make a success with
affiliate marketing.
Listen to Samantha’s story and you’ll learn how.
What is affiliate marketing?
By now most people have heard all about the
success of Amazon.com. What they may not know is
that Amazon spawned an Internet industry in 1996,
by allowing independent website owners to earn
commissions by referring paying customers to them.
This is known as pay-for-performance-advertising
or affiliate programs.
With affiliate marketing it’s important to
remember, that there are
three primary roles consisting of the merchant,
the affiliate
(publisher) and the third party (Commission
Junction).
The merchants (advertisers) pay a commission on
sales generated by
customers, which the affiliate (publisher) sends
to their sites.
Commission Junction (third party) pays affiliates
on behalf of the
merchants and provides a tracking system. The
merchant handles all
order processing, shipping, and customer service.
Visit Commission Junction to see a partial listing
of their top-notch merchants offering affiliate
programs.
How Samantha got started in affiliate marketing
Samantha’s says with the enthusiasm and bubble of
youth, “It’s cause
of Jamie.” She’s referring to her mentor, James
Martell, an
entrepreneur, and successful affiliate marketer of
over 70 specialty
shopping sites and author of James Martell’s
Affiliate Marketers
Handbook.
Samantha says, “Jamie’s system is very straight
forward, it’s
inspiring, really gives you confidence, that you
can have financial
independence on your terms, not the bosses.”
Got Dot: How did you choose your market niche?
Samantha says, “Oh! That was easy. My friends love
decking out their
cars, I know the lingo and how fanatical it can
get. And it’s great, a
real money maker! Down the road I’d like to have a
fashion and
cosmetic site, that one will be more girly of
course.”
Each website Samantha builds follows the proven,
8-step system™
developed by James Martell for web site
construction. These principals
are incorporated into Samantha’s successful
specialty shopping sites
featuring: car & truck rims, decals & alarms,
tonneau covers and car stereos.
Keywords are the search engine building blocks.
Marketing on the Internet is all about placement
and being seen.
To be successful you need keywords that people use
for queries on the search engines.
That’s how your site will be found.
James provides a proven formula for choosing
keywords and producing keyword focused content.
Got-Dot: How did you discover that Ground Effects
are associated with
cars?
Samantha says, “That one surprised me. It didn’t
sound like a car
accessory word at all, but on key word tracking it
proved otherwise.
The buyers know it’s specifically about cars. Just,
goes to show you,
you should never assume you know a market really
well, before
researching the key words.”
Got Dot: Can you give another example how this
keyword driven content works?
Samantha says, “Type ’Honda body kits’ as a query
on a search engine.
What you’ll find is an article on my website with
the exact keyword
‘Honda body kits’. By following Jamie’s system you
get top positioning
on the search engines and the traffic to prove it!”
Got Dot: How do you measure the success of your
efforts?
You need traffic and conversion to make affiliate
marketing work and
to make money. With Commission Junction’s tracking
system you can check merchant activity, monitor
which site is getting sales, and
where the sales are coming from. Say for example,
if a keyword isn’t
driving the orders, you know where to tweak it, so
it can perform like
the high rollers.
Got Dot: How about the money?
Initially, Samantha set a goal of earning the
equivalent of her part
time job working at a grocery store. Now she’s
making enough money to pay for tuition, books, and
living expenses. And the University of
Victoria is not cheap! Her next major goal is
earning $10,000/month.
Got Dot: What’s your favorite part of the business?
Samantha likes writing the articles and the visual
aspect of building
a website, making sure the colors are
aesthetically pleasing. When
asked what else is there, she laughed and coyly
said, “Watching the
money roll in.”
Got Dot: What advice would you give another
student?
Read James Martell’s affiliate training manual
http://www.work-at-home-net-guides.com/af/?alejandro
and subscribe to his audio newsletter for
affiliate marketers;
http://www.work-at-home-net-guides.com/affbuzz/?alejandro
you’ll learn everything you need to know about
affiliate marketing.
Set goals. Even it’s a small one, like writing ten
pages a day. It
makes a huge difference having the goal and the
sense of
accomplishment that comes along with it.
Write articles that appeal to your audience.
Remember to make it
creative and interesting to read.
Validate the keywords. Have several sources that
show the keywords
for your market.
Say goodbye to procrastinating. Make the time.
Just do it. The
payoff’s worth it.
Samantha says, “Affiliate marketing is much better
than a part time
job. Working for someone else you get a flat pay
check. With affiliate
marketing there’s no salary boundary. Learn Jamie’s
system and
discover the sweet joy of earning extra income.”
Samantha followed a simple 8-step-system™ for
affiliate marketing
created by James Martell, entrepreneur, successful
affiliate marketer,
and developer of over 70 specialty shopping sites
covering a wide
range of topics including: duvet comforter sets,
mini blinds and even camping stoves; and is also
in the business of helping students to earn extra
income using affiliate programs and the Internet.
Got Dot offers professional copywriting services
to affiliate marketers.
Read James Martell’s affiliate training manual
http://www.work-at-home-net-guides.com/af/?alejandro
and subscribe to his audio newsletter for
affiliate marketers;
http://www.work-at-home-net-guides.com/affbuzz/?alejandro
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