With the freedom of time generated by my work, I have been seeing a rise in the creativity department! I feel very blessed. This week has been an exciting change of pace in my world, here's why!
I mentioned in a prior post Excel is a Gold Mine about my success with with large pools of data and scripting. Scripting is a tool that any computer based business needs to have access to, whether home brewed or contracted! Scripting, Python scripting that is, has been slowly edging its way into my heart over the past few years. It is fantastic for beginners and seasoned veterans out there! This language is very natural to the English language and in my opinion very "close to thought". What I mean is that the logic you think can be expressed in nearly the same language on the screen. And on top of this, for the most part, it's fairly light weight on the system. Scripting isn't a perfect solution but it does give the average Joe Entrepreneur a edge in today's market game.
When speaking on the topic of Automation I want to stir in your mind "website backbone scripting". To my surprise, many Web Servers are running Apache, and use python scripts running many easy tasks on the server level. PHP is also worth mentioning here along with the database powerhouse MySQL are key components. With a vision for the power of data management and automation, there is a whole new world out there for the digital entrepreneur. "How?", you ask? I'm glad you did!
Imagine for a minute an invisible-behind-the-scenes, website system. That system takes words on a website, or search terms from a user, or content generated from news feeds and produces a 'content profile'. Imagine linking that content profile within the e-commerce world.... and.... you know where I'm going with this don't you? That's right, Affiliate programs!
Affiliate programs, Adsense (google), etc. have so much info available online, I couldn't do them justice on these few lines, besides you have knowledge on the subject anyway. I had read about these before and have had interest in them. That interest faded slowly away due to many online gurus' claims flooding my search screen with: "send one email and make 10k in 24 hours" and "earn $1000 a day" golden ticket messages. Needless to say my reality filter said "Too good to be true" and because of the overwhelming response from those gurus I moved elsewhere. How could so many gurus be out there with the same one tick pony make such a killing and such thin margins?
Want to know the secret I found? This won't be surprise for Internet Frontiersman--Bret Royster, in a world where in 2013 Amazon counted $67.86 billion in online sales, if you can position yourself in this wild west of the internet to assist in that system, you'll get paid! Now the level in which you assist the buyer/seller is really the trick that proverbial pony is acting out. Simple enough... Well my position about the gurus hasn't changed though; millions of folks online are claiming to make money automatically on the net, it's my belief that a small percentage are really making profits in the bank. So where is the breaking point, why all this hype?
As Bret will tell you in his conquest of profits on the web, it's about finding that niche, that way to funnel traffic, that way to carefully identify untapped folds in the fabric of the net. I'm preaching to the choir here so I will conclude with these remarks:
Find a pony and make some cashflow.
Easy right?
I stumbled upon a pony which happened to be a byproduct of an experiment I have been working on. I have shared this with several demographics and they laugh about how easy, fun, and magnetic this proposition really is... and you know what, I think I've found my pony. And I believe I will soon be making those dollars online easily.
I think I just said it's easy to make money online lol. I discovered my pony by accident and she is still an infant. Soon the trick will be perfected and we'll see if the crowd buys the ticket to watch! Hint: The trick is to put what people desire in-front of them in a extremely simple manner...
It's still early in the production, yet I wanted to share my excitement. With a little Scripting, Automation, and the huge invitation of the large online retailers to help them sell in exchange for revenue is very promising.
How about you? Have you found success with Affiliate marketing? Or would you say the market is too saturated?
Stay thoughtful! FFAP!
PS: It's time for another sharehold mastermind meeting!
