Although there is some debate within the internet marketing community on whether or not you need a website and/or list, there are those on both sides who are making a lot of money.

Whether you build a website or a list depends on certain factors. Although these are effective ways to build your business and can allow you to recycle your traffic, there is also a certain amount of maintenance involved in using these two techniques to build your business.

For those who are looking to make a full time income without a lot of hassle, it’s easily possible to do it without a website or a list. You also don’t need a product. In fact, these techniques work just as well with affiliate programs.

Here are five easy ways to make money online without a website or list:

1. Bum Marketing

This is a term coined by internet marketer Travis Sago. What you do is choose topics you are interested in and have a market, find products on the topic and then write as many articles as possible to promote those products.

2. Video Marketing

Videos are very popular, and once you learn how to create them, it’s actually easier to create videos than write articles. You may create video tutorials and walk throughs of the products you are marketing.

3. Classified Ads

Craig’s List is one of the top 50 websites on the internet. It’s a very popular website and gets billions of page views every month. This is only one example.

There are tons of free and low cost classified ad sites where you may post your ads and advertise your products or services.

4. Forum Marketing

Forum marketing is one of the fastest ways to make money online provided you have some specialized knowledge of the topics you are promoting. In fact, internet marketer Alok Jain used this technique to earn around $350 a day.

If you are looking for the fastest way to get started without spending money, this is the way.

5. Pay Per Click

This is by far the most lucrative way to make money without a website or a list. It’s also the only technique that requires you spend money.

There are those online who make over one million dollars a year doing using pay per click with affiliate programs. If you have the spare cash, and you aren’t interested in creating your products, this is the best way to get started.

Regardless of how you decide you want to make money online, remember that the most lucrative way to do it is to find techniques that work. Then, take action on those techniques. Ultimately, the key to making money online is to take action.

        

Blogging used to be a platform for you to talk about any topic and share your opinion about what you think. Today, blogging has become more common as a tool for you to make a living with. You can run your affiliate marketing business with your blog and if you are not interested in marketing, you can still make money with blog by advertising on your blog.

So, read on for more tips to profit with your blog and to make extra cash for your pocket.

1. Be visible

Whether you are running an affiliate marketing business or advertisement campaign, it is crucial that your readers can see your link easily. This is the same reason why merchants are displaying their product at your eye level in the supermarket.

However, this doesn’t mean that you need to stuff your blog with affiliate links or advertisements; you are going to annoy your readers and force them to go away. What you can do is to anchor your keywords or simply display your affiliate link under your signature.

2. Building a base

Successful bloggers understand the power of returning readers. They are like your repeat customers whom you can sell over and over again to. Imagine you are running an advertisement campaign. You can’t expect your readers to respond to your campaign the first time they see it. You need to warm them up and get them to see your point only then they will respond to you.

And since most blogging platform nowadays come with the RSS feed feature, it will be good that you can activate it for your
blog. Although it might take you sometime to get it done, but it is well worth the trouble when you see money coming to your blog.

3. Marketing

Just like any successful business, you need to market your blog so that you can make money with it. And to some of you,
marketing might feel like asking a donkey to go against its way.

Actually, it doesn’t need to be that difficult. What you can do is to start commenting, sincerely, on other blogger’s blog and leave your blog address below your signature. Bloggers are interested to know how they can improve their blog and when you help them on that, they are willing to link to your blog when you ask them to.

4. Tracking

Some of you might think that tracking is a waste of time and as long as you have quality post, you will make money with blog. Unfortunately, money never comes so easily.

Let me ask you this, do you know how many clicks you have for your affiliate links? Then, do you know how many visits you have when you publish a new post? If you don’t have the answer to those questions, how do you know which past of your blog is helping you to make most money?

By the way, tracking codes nowadays are easy to use and you can even make them invisible if you want. And when you have the figure from tracking, you will know where to focus your energy so that you can get the best return.