When I started to write this report I started to think about when I was first getting started in the Internet Marketing field. I was young and didn't know what I was doing. Trying to chase the newest big thing that was going to come along and make me rich.

Well that didn't happen, but I was determined to stick with it. I found out that I had to put in some hard work and stick with it, until I started making money. Well I started to make some decent money and I thought I was on top of the world. The problem is that I was leaving so much money on the table.I was just scratching the surface and wasn't making enough to consider it a full-time salary. It wasn't that I wasn't working hard or that I wasn't creating great products, it's just that I could be doing so much more with what I've created. I was missing out on a lot of different streams of income. They could all be coming from what I have, but I'm not utilizing them. It isn't even that much more work to implement. I wish I could go back in time and slap some sense into myself.

Web Site

There are so many people that aren't utilizing their web site properly. Actually, most people are getting the most out of their web site, not by a long shot.

I think that the reason for this is, is either because they don't know how to use a variety of strategies or that they get too focused on one. They learn one strategy and just use that. Well that's good that they focus on something and stick with it, but you can focus on more than one thing at a time. To me, one of the big keys to making money online is to make it from a lot of different areas. That way you don't put all of your eggs in one basket. If you do that and something happens to that one stream, you are in real trouble. People will build this web site and put Adsense on it and just try and get traffic to it. They get some decent traffic to it and focus on making the site bigger, with more content. That's good, if you keep improving your traffic and improving the size of your site.

The problem is that you could be getting so much more out of this site. Before, you work on getting traffic to your site and adding more content, you need to take some important steps.Start adding some affiliate links, to supplement your adsense links. That is a very simple step, but far too many people don't take the time to do it or simply don't even think about it. They think that the adsense ads will be good enough. You will test this, I will take about that later. There are other ways that you can affiliate products. You can have reviews of different products in your niche. Try out some of the best products that you can find in your niche and rate them and put affiliate links to the products, after the review.Another thing that you can do is create your own products to sell on your web site. This way you get to keep all of the profits. Creating your own products, is not that hard, if you can create a web site and fill it with content, you can create your own products.

The next thing that you want to do, is to give your visitor's a chance to sign up to your mailing list. Having your own mailing list is gold.There are many different ways that you can do this. You can start a free newsletter and send it out to your list once a month. You can give them a free report or e-book. You can give them any number of free items, in order to, get them to sign up for your mailing list.All you have to do is put up a box and say that you have this great free product for them. All they have to do is give you their name and e-mail address. In my opinion, the best two autoresponders to use are:

http://www.aweber.com/

http://www.getresponse.com/

Let's review your web site and make sure that we have maxed out it's capabilities. We have either adsense or affiliate products on our web site or both. We have our own products to sell on our web site. We also have places where we can build our mailing list. Once all of those things are in place then there are just a few more things that you need to do. Get as much traffic as possible by adding more content, writing articles, SEO etc.The next thing that you should do is test, test and test. You need to see what works best, in order to, maximize your web sites potential and profits.

What is it you're going to test? Well there are a lot of things that you can test. If you have both adsense and affiliate products, you can test what makes more money. If you find that you make the most money by having both, then have both of them.If you make more money with just adsense than you do with both, then get rid of your affiliate products. If you make more with affiliate products than you do with both, get rid of the adsense. It's a bottom line business. You need to test the placement of your adsense or affiliate ads. This is very important and will help you decide not only what works best, but what works the best and decide what to keep and what to get rid of.You are also going to test the placement of your opt-in forms. You should also experiment with what you offer. Some people want to sign up for a free newsletter and some people want a free product.

Selling a Product

When you sell a product, you should never just sell the product and call it good. Selling a product is just the start. You have to keep in mind what you want to get out selling your product. I always want to maximize what I get out of my product.I see people giving away their products and they put affiliate links through out the product. They think that by giving it away that more people will read the product and they will get more affiliate sales. They may be right about one thing, more people may read their product. That is certainly no guarantee. There are plenty of products that cost money that are seen by way more people than free products. A problem that these people have is that there are a lot of freebie seekers out there. They probably wouldn't of been willing to pay for the product, so would they be willing to pay for the products that you're affiliating?

If you sell your product to people. You know that they are willing to spend money. What you do is sprinkle in your affiliate links. Put them in relevant areas that you think would be places to have your links.Some people have a problem with having affiliate links in their products. They don't think it's very ethical. Well, if you are affiliating good products, then I don't see a problem. You may be really helping your readers. If you want to make some big money online, you will build a big responsive mailing list. It's a great way to make money online and all of the top guru's have them.I talked about building a list with a web site earlier. You can also build one with your products. In my opinion, this is the best way to build your list.

There is a constant debate going on. It is about whether you should build your list by offering products for free or charging for them. Well, the best answer that I can give, is what do want your list to be comprised of? Some people are just looking for numbers. They want to build their list to be the biggest as possible, in the quickest amount of time. Numbers are good, but I value the quality of my list more than most people. I would rather have a list of 1,000 people that are really eager and willing to buy from me. They trust me and are hungry for more, from me. As opposed to, this big huge list of 10,000 people who don't want to spend any money.That is where selling your own product comes into play. I love building lists, by selling a product. It's so easy to do and doesn't really require much work.

After people make a purchase, give them a chance to sign up for your mailing list before they download your product. Always give them the option to get your product, without joining your list. It's really not that ethical to make them sign up, before they can get your product, plus they might already be signed up for your list.There are a number of reasons why this is a very good idea to do. One is that it's so easy to do, it doesn't require much work. Another reason why it's a great idea to do, is that the quality of your list will be at the very highest. The people who have bought your product before will probably buy from you again.They have already proven that they will buy from you and put their faith in you. Repeat buyers are very important to people that want to make a long-term business work. The buyer has already broken down the biggest psychological barrier. Once that's down, it's 10 times easier to sell to them. Just always be sure to provide good quality products and offer a money back guarantee.

Most people that make money online have a web site or web sites. Go ahead and put links to your site or sites in your product. It's just another way to get traffic and it's quick and easy and costs you nothing.Let's go over one more strategy that you can use to maximize your income. This strategy is called having a back-end product. You've all probably heard of having a back-end product, but there are so many different possibilities, that people don't take advantage of. You can have a product that deals with one strategy for solving a problem. You sell this product for a cheap amount and then you have a back-end product that has all of the different strategies. You sell this product at a much higher price. You give someone a good taste in the first product and leave them wanting more. That is where your back-end product comes in to place. At the end of your first product you make your offer. Another way to use the back-end strategy, also involves having a cheap product. The back-end product is a different type of product. You could offer an audio package as a back-end product, you could offer a coaching program, you could offer a membership to a web site etc. Let's look at how we maximized our profits with our products. We are obviously making money by simply selling the product, then we get income from the affiliate links in the products, then we get our list built by offering them a chance to join our mailing list after they buy the product, then we have a back-end product or service to sell.