Did You Ever Get Burned Out? Then Read My Story

Have you ever been burned out? These misfortunes actually struck me a few years ago. I was up to my neck in this awful job, that I strongly disliked. And then I got fired from that job. The reason was I was burned out and my boss no longer liked me. Really, it was a blessing in disguise. That awful job was making me ill anyway - good to get out of it.

Now the question was what I was supposed to do for a living. Since I had already spent years of my life getting educated, I really didn’t want to go back to school. And since I was broke, I needed money fast.

OK, I had a computer and an Internet connection. Plus I had some idea of how to make web pages. Now, searching online for some business opportunities, I realized there were several ways to make money online. I could even get started without having a product of my own to sell.

At first, I made some money by running AdSense ads on some of my web sites. It didn’t take me long to understand I could do better by promoting stuff as affiliate. This means you get paid commissions by promoting products for someone else.

One example is Clickbank. Thousands of people who sell products online use Clickbank as their payment processor. And you can very easily sign up to be an affiliate for any of these products. Then you collect good commission money when people buy stuff using your affiliate links.

You can count on a commission of 50% or better as a thank-you for securing a sale. There could for example be some ebook which tells you all about making money online. Maybe it sells for 47 dollars. Then you may get about $25, or more, for each sale referred by you. I have heard that many affiliates make boatloads of cash promoting Clickbank products.

Personally, my greatest cash cow has been web hosting plans. It was easy to put up a little web site with my own web hosting reviews, and collect commissions as people signed up for web hosting using my links. It’s great - except for all those competitors. Unfortunately, there are those who use this strategy without really knowing what they’re doing; their lack of knowledge is evident. This makes would-be customers suspicious. Personally, I make sure to do my research on every web host I consider promoting and only recommend the good ones.