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This is a very easy technique for making money. It involves EPN (Ebay Partner Network) and phpBay. If you aren’t familiar with what EPN is – in a nut shell – you put eBay listings on a website of yours. When someone clicks on one of your eBay listings it redirects the person to ebay and gives their browser a cookie. The cookie is active for 7 days, if someone purchases something from eBay at that time or within that time while they have the cookie you get a portion of eBay’s commission for the sale. If someone is a new user of eBay and they sign up through your link – you get a “signing bonus”, this is called an ACRU.

Here is an example site for Wrist Watches.

Here are the simple steps below:

1. Sign up for an EPN Account.
2. Purchase a copy of phpBay.
3. Sign up for web hosting and a domain name.
4. Read this tutorial of how to install and use phpBay.
5. Either use PPC to advertise your phpBay website, or optimize it for SEO and be patient.
6. Profit.

If you’re using PPC to promote your phpBay site you should start seeing income from it almost immediately, however note that it can take a few days for your earnings show up in your reports.

If you’re using SEO for your phpBay and no paid advertising, it will take a while to start seeing results, but it will be much cheaper. By the 3rd or 4th month you should start seeing a steady amount of traffic and sales.

People say time and time again that affiliate marketing is not for everyone, and it really is true. Below are some of the many reasons why people fail at affiliate marketing.

1. Bad Budgeting – Some affiliate marketing can be done on a small budget, some can’t. Don’t expect to advertise with PPC and spend $20 and make a good profit. If you are on a small budget make sure the project(s) you start will compliment your small budget.
2. ROI expectations – We’ve all seen it time and time again, someone starts out expecting to spend $100 and make $2000 with it. It just doesn’t happen that way, or at least it doesn’t often happen that way. 50% ROI and up is decent (spend $100, earn $150, profit of $50). 100% and up is really good, anything higher is amazing!
3. Lack of knowledge or bad advice. Not all advice is good advice. Sometimes people will say something to mislead others or put them on the wrong track, and sometimes people just talk when they don’t know what they are talking about. Also just because something works for someone doesn’t mean it will work for you and vice versa.
4. Lack of persistence. In this business – you succeed through failure. You need to try, try and try again to find a winner. Most people will get fed up and give up after a few failures. Learn from your mistakes, make every campaign you setup a learning experience.
5. Laziness or Lack of Hard Work – Let’s face it, most people are out to earn a quick easy buck. Affiliate Marketing is not the place for this. To be successful it takes lots of hard work and persistence. It’s like any other job – you need to do work to get results. As time goes by you may find ways to automate processes or you may find shortcuts. To start, just put in the work – that’s the best way to succeed.

I’m sure most people in their time online have either read this, heard this or even said it themself. Until recently all someone could do is read forums, blogs and hope to make contacts to learn from. Since this is a business and money is being made, not many people are willing to open up and share their knowledge and secrets.

Finally there is a place where you can learn how to make money online!

PPC-Coach opened just over a year ago. Since they opened they have helped hundreds of new comers make money online. Upon joining PPC-Coach you get access to videos, tools and most importantly – the forums.

The Videos show you step by step how to use some of their tools as well as navigate around affiliate network websites as well as how to use Google Adwords and the Google Adwords Editor.

Several tools are provided by the PPC-Coach program. They range from Landing Pages, Campaign Generators and the most recent addition – a tracking program which helps record and decipher data to help you determine if campaigns are winners or losers. It is also beneficial to optimize your campaigns.

The most important part of PPC-Coach is the forums. There are several sections in the forums, a section is dedicated to success stories where you can read about people’s first days with profit, first $10 day, first $100 day, etc. Some of the success stories are massive – such as $11,000 a month, $2000 a day and the biggest I have personally seen is $30,000 a month. You can tell that people really draw off this success, once they see other people can do it and that these methods work it helps them focus more.

Now comes the most important part of the forum – Each month you are with PPC-Coach you will be exposed to a new method. The month 1 method is a lower cost method and is very easy to learn, which is why it is used for month 1. It gives people a better understanding of how to use tools online to advertise and make money. As each month goes by a new section of the forum will open up and you can try new methods to make money.

For a modest fee of $50 a month – PPC-Coach will show you step by step how to make money and will walk you through every step of the way. It is a great program for someone to start making money online. If you follow the instructions they give you will have no problem making the $50 back and more.