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Why is working from home so difficult?

Asked by Yvonne Wilcox, in Affiliate Marketing
I am up at 5am and usually work online until 10pm. I work with a lot of different sites and have registered with several affiliate programs but still I can not seem to make over $200 a month. What am I missing? Is it networking? Is it investment dollars?
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Best Answer

Denise Washington Senior   Entrepreneur
It's all about traffic, getting people to your affiliate site, squeeze page or your own website. Then you must convert them to buyers. The so called gurus make it sound so easy, but it's not. They're making money because they created the product. They then get hundreds of affiliates to sell their product. When the market for that particular product has dried up, they come up with another one. And the system repeats itself.
Traffic+Conversions=Money.
Jul 6th 2012 09:44 

Answers

Ghazanfar S. Innovator  SEO / Designer / Web Development
You need Investment or read site information clearly.
Jul 6th 2012 07:45   
Luther Smith Senior  Leisto Industrial Co. Ltd
Ya it's very difficult to do with out investment and planing..........................
Jul 6th 2012 08:19   
Denise Washington Senior   Entrepreneur
It's all about traffic, getting people to your affiliate site, squeeze page or your own website. Then you must convert them to buyers. The so called gurus make it sound so easy, but it's not. They're making money because they created the product. They then get hundreds of affiliates to sell their product. When the market for that particular product has dried up, they come up with another one. And the system repeats itself.
Traffic+Conversions=Money.
Jul 6th 2012 09:44   
Steve M. Advanced   Traffic Specialist
Like Denise said its all about traffic and exposure to your profile.I am a a big user of traffic exchanges and I build downlines with in the exchanges.Social networking sites I get new connections then I invite them to my groups that your allowed to create.The groups should be about your business people that you invite from your connections are hot leads and if they join your group even hotter.I build my groups daily and Iam leading 3 referral competions as I write this.I use Facebook,Bizoppers,Linkedin,Adlandpro.Be consitant keep a desk diary for daily marketing. Safelists I also use big time check which list give results at Hitshoopla.
Jul 6th 2012 10:33   
Herman T. Junior  IT Engineer
Your gonna need skills and tools for your own website and advertising. And when i say tools... you need great tools! But still without experience, you can too do your marketing online with the help of some company. As for me i enrolled into STIFORP for the tools they provide at a very low monthly fee of $9.95. Find the web link in my profile to see what kind of tools STIFORP offers.
Jul 6th 2012 11:34   
Marlo Evangelista Professional   Online Marketer
Number one difficulty working at home are lack of sources, opportunity and need more investment. Need also skills and tools to have and start own business online at home.
Jul 6th 2012 12:34   
Brian Francis Professional   Visual Designer
There are a number of methods for making a living from home. Some very simple and some time consuming. However, at the end of the day, to generally succeed in a home business you need to provide value; something of real use to your audience. Then you will need time, unless you are fortunate or have the manpower and capital. Use your time to explore what works best for you to establish your online presence. There are many tools and methods to explore such as auto-responders (used for email marketing), curation software, web and sales page builders etc. One more thing; join the “right” company, when I say this I mean be careful not to fall into the trap of promoting useless, scammy programs. If you have a talent - sell it!
Jul 6th 2012 15:43   
Denise Washington Senior   Entrepreneur
You need your own list. To get your own list, you need a product, a squeeze page to capture leads (names & email addresses) and an autoresponder. To make a decent amount of money online, you'll need a fairly large list. Finding a good funnel system is the key.
Jul 6th 2012 15:44   
Peter Watson aka surgreen Professional Pro   Your SafeAdZone Representative
Hello Yvonne :) No clear and simple answers here. I will, however, mention the fact that the hype merchants online have created such wild expectations about the ease and, indeed, certainty of success that many people do not expect any effort.

Always tweak your campaigns or promotions and try to determine which are the most effective. Effective tracking of results can be both time consuming and problematic. I tend to focus on specific areas on a short term basis to at least 'get a feel' for the results.

Always remember, make friends and have fun :) Tell people online and offline, about your chosen business. Tell them why you are excited. Explain the potential gains and the fact that helping others to help others is the path to successful marketing.

My '2cents' worth :)
Jul 6th 2012 17:37   
Teo M. Professional   Small Business Consultant
Most affiliate sites pay very little money or nothing, so this is why you work do hard. After many years of research, waste of time and lose of money I have found few programs that are putting in my STP and Alertpay account few hundred dollars daily. The problem is that you must take the risk and put some money in front in order to make real money, otherwise so called online business is just a waste of time.
Jul 7th 2012 05:35   
Cyril M. Freshman  Independent Consultant
I believe that working from home is not that difficult; it all depends on the KIND of home business that you are doing. People are making real money from home, you just need a system that works and take advantage of it.
Jul 7th 2012 07:18   
Amit G. Freshman  home jobs pro
It is not difficult to earn couple 100s of dollars a month working from home. It depends upon the program you choose and the dedication towards the work. (self experience)
Jul 7th 2012 08:13   
JOSEPH C. Magnate I   Procurement Officer
Finding a legitimate affiliate program that will actually end up paying for internet works can be a nightmare. The amount of money you can make in affiliate business is staggering if you are a serious marketer.You can realistically earn good income just by marketing working programs. In my experience CLICKBANK is one of them. Here the advantages are .... free membership, you get paid every fortnight, commissions up to 75% per sale. Promote any product you like driving targeted traffic ... am sure you 'll succeed.
Jul 7th 2012 08:42   
SER Group Senior  SEO, Internet Marketing
You need SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Social Bookmarking, Classified Submissions & Article Marketing will do all of the work for you. I can work with you personally, but you have to be willing to follow instructions. And it's going to take a little time & a small investment because there's literally thousands of other affiliates doing the same thing you're doing. But again, I can coach you if you'd like me to!
Jul 7th 2012 09:28   
Rizka Muldi Sofyan Committed   Internet Marketer
many paths to the city of Rome, do not lose the spirit of reaching the moon
Jul 7th 2012 14:37   
Kovacs M. Advanced  : *** -
perhaps because they are not good at work, and if it is not good in many places
Jul 7th 2012 15:57   
Lino Curci Advanced  List Builder-Expert in web Traffic
Yor problem is Focus, Not have focus is the big Problem for Marketers. if your badget is $300 a mounth and you promote 10 programs your babget will be $30 for every program you promoting- but if all $300 will be for one program is different? read Article on this from Charle PAge Search charliepage dot com/affiliate-tips-part-2 ciao
Jul 8th 2012 00:15   
Kay Brasher Senior   Helping Others On the Road to Success
Working from home takes discipline. You should make yourself a schedule. Like I am going to read my emails and spend one hour on that. I am going to work on APSense for an hour. Take hour or two hour segments. Don't forget to leave time for yourself though. :)
Jul 8th 2012 03:12   
Eugenijus Z. Senior   Web marketer
Checks or it's not a scam
and if...
If your program is good - you have to talk about it, give examples.
Public Relations;)
advertising and only advertising.
Jul 8th 2012 04:05   
Soufien Soltani Advanced   Virtual Assistant & Market Research
The problem is how to focus on right job and right task, because wrong choice let you wast much time and time is money
Jul 8th 2012 04:56   
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