Sep

How to Make Money Without Spending Money

I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “it takes money to make money”. But what if you don’t have any money to start your internet marketing career? Well, luckily there are several ways to make money on the internet without spending any money. The easiest would be affiliate marketing advertised on free traffic services. Especially if you target the average free traffic user. I hate to say it, but you can make a lot of money selling people products that promise to get them more traffic. However, you need to do several things to make it work.

Research, research, research the products you want to sell. Find good Click Bank products that are doing really well and have a low refund rate. A good indicator of a high refund rate is a product where the average $earned is lower than the $commission paid. CBEngine is great for finding solid products.
Make a unique landing/splash page. This should either be a short testimonial/review/comparison and an affiliate link, or a short testimonial/review/comparison and an opt-in form.
Target your market, because they won’t target you. Figure out what problems they have, and tell them how this product will solve those problems. As a good example, this website targets free traffic users, see our signup splashpage that specifically targets this demographic by clicking here (Opens in a new window).

You have to be unique to stand out, that’s why the landing page is an absolute must. There are a wealth of free hosts out there, not all of them require that you have ads on your pages either.
If you choose the opt-in feature, then you have the opportunity to continue to email them products that you suggest will “solve their problem”. If you have a blog, I suggest you use the GWA Autoresponder. Not only is it free, but it’s also very powerful.

Now, there is an honest and a slightly dishonest way to choose a product. Keep in mind that we’re not spending any money, so we can’t actually purchase a product to review it. Here you’ve got two options:

You can choose to review a free product, which has a One Time Offer (which you can earn from). The great thing about this is that you only have to review the free offer, the One Time Offer sells itself, a portion of the people who you refer to the free offer should buy.
The second (and a little bit dishonest) option is that you can choose a paid product, but not buy it, and fake a review based off of their testimonials. I suggest you go with the first simply to maintain your reputation. However, if you choose to go with this option, I suggest you think of yourself as a paid endorser and a salesperson. Not every salesperson or paid celebrity has actually used the products they endorse, they sell things because they’re paid to, that’s it.

It really is possible to earn income online without spending any money. However, you should expect to spend quite a bit of time. Nothing is free, ever. There is always a cost to everything that we receive. If you’re going to use free traffic services, then I suggest you work smart, not hard. The fact that you’re here on Free Traffic Works already suggests you’re interested in working smart.

If you enjoyed this post, have something to add, and especially if you have other methods of earning for free, then by all means, bombard the comment box below.

This post was inspired by a question on IMAnswers.com, this post is a modified version of the response I gave.