15 Minutes A Day? Yeah, Right

You see ads all over the internet claiming that you can make hundreds of dollars a day while only spending 15 minutes of your time. Are they serious? There is only one profession I can think of that you can make that type of money that fast, and it sure isn’t affiliate marketing!

So what does it mean when you see “15 Minutes a Day” and “Start Earning 15 minutes From Now.”? What it means is simply this, with this type of affiliate marketing, you are advertising using pay per click marketing. While it is true that you simply type a few lines of information into an online form and you can start making money, there is also a great deal more to it then that. And yes, there are absolutely thousands of companies who are willing to pay you a commission as an affiliate. But in order to make your commission, a customer needs to make a purchase through your affiliate link. That sounds easy enough, but keep in mind that it generally takes about 75-100 clicks on your ad before you make a sale.

Pay per click advertising can be expensive. Especially for the new internet marketer who hasn’t learned a system yet. I highly recommend one of the affiliate marketing guides available on the internet if you are getting started in affiliate pay per click marketing. Learn from my mistake. I thought I could teach myself how to do it and ended up with a big adwords bill and only two sales. No profits. In the red. So I put my pay per click efforts on hold for a while. When I came back to it, I was smarter and invested in a guide and I have been in profit ever since. I am not making hundreds of dollars a day yet, but in time, I hope to get there.

The claim that you can start making money 15 minutes from now, while technically true, is way overstated. What hey mean is that your ads will start running, at least using Google Adwords, about 15 minutes after you finish setting up your campaigns. Although it is certainly possible for your ad to run, someone to click on it and purchase the product all in the first 15 minutes, it is not very likely. Most people need at least a couple of hours if not days before they start getting results with their pay per click campaigns.

15 minutes a day? Not likely. Affiliate marketing can be profitable though if you put in the time and effort necessary. Maybe someday, you can only spend 15 minutes a day checking your bank account balances, but when you are first starting out, it will take a great deal more effort.

Jennie Crawford is the stay at home mom of two small children. For more information, go to http://www.jenniecrawford.com/affiliatesecretformula or http://www.jenniecrawford.com/workingahome

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