Years ago I learned about blogs and the potential for earning money. When I first started this blog I called it, "Beyond Just Over Broke" which was a play on an acronym of "Beyond JOB". In other words I was looking for a way to make a living beyond the regular JOB.
I wrote posts and worked on figuring out this thing called, "Affiliate Marketing". I worked on it pretty hard for about 6 months. I was probably on the verge of it starting to earn something and I just gave up.
I kept the blog around and every so often I would post something. Over time I realized that I really needed to change the name and narrow my market down. One day I'm looking at a blog called, "Work at Home Mommy" and I thought why not be a Work at Home Lifestyle?
My original idea of creating an income outside of the traditional JOB would still apply but now I was targeting it to the people that I feel need an alternative income desperately. Work at Home Lifestyle Network is my story of creating an income to maintain my lifestyle. This blog is for work at home people that are sharing ideas to build a life in the lifestyle they want. I don't have to be convinced that if I work hard I will be successful. I know that when I work hard I am successful.
These days I'm working hard at Work At Home Lifestyle and this time I am dedicating a year. If I find that after a year I am still making zero then I will re-examine my approach and try again. This is pretty much not an option. I have to make this work or I will be flipping hamburgers to survive.
My research thus far has led me to a group on Facebook named, "Blogging Like We Mean It". I have to say I love that group. They have been kind and helpful answering my questions no matter how silly or elementary.
So how do I plan on creating this additional income from a blog? Right now, my focus is on something called Affiliate Marketing. The definition of Affiliate Marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts. In other words, on my blog site you will see links to products or businesses. If you should click on a link and make a purchase I would earn a small percentage of income from that purchase at no additional cost to you. At the end of the day you are helping others to earn an income without added expense.
We are all consumers and even when going out to eat we add a tip for the waitress to make a few extra dollars but in the case of Affiliate Marketing if you are going to buy a widget what better way to buy it then to help someone make a little percentage of that purchase and you didn't even have to put out any extra like you would do when going out to dinner.
My goal is to share my journey of achieving a reasonable income through Affiliate Marketing, selling digital downloads, maybe selling crochet patterns, free giveaways and whatever else I come up with. Along the way I will be interviewing other work at home businesses. Today I am concentrating on Affiliate Marketing and in the future I'll share what other means I plan on using to bring in additional income.
To start out I have built this website and I have a few posts already written from when I started this blog. If you would like to know how to build a wordpress website I will be developing that in the future and you will find it under the giveaways. However, as of the writing of this post that giveaway is not yet ready.
The next step that I did to start earnings is I joined Share-A-Sale which is an Affiliate Network and I also am in Commission Junction.
I learn I will be posting so watch for new posts.