My Big Bum Marketing Challenge

I am going to start off today by giving myself a new challenge. Bum Marketing.

If I could explain bum marketing in one paragraph I would say that it is marketing or promoting someone else's products, and getting paid a commission if you make any sales. So if you like you are kind of an online sales person.

Now the word "bum"plays a big part in this, because like "bums" I will be doing this with no money. Of course if this experiment proves to be successful I may invest some money, but only if I make that money first.

The first thing I will be doing today is picking three niches. The reason I am going to pick three niches is because I want to test different niches, but if you are doing the same as me you could just start with one.

When I have picked my niches I am going to go to clickbank and commission junction and pick one product to promote for each niche.

Then I am going to build one squidoo lens for each niche, and one blogger blog for each niche. Both squidoo and blogger are free to use so I won't be spending any money there. So basically I will have six kind of mini websites that are not costing me a penny.

The reason I am making two sites for each niche is because again I want to track and test which one either blogger or squidoo will become more profitable.

I will be integrating my affiliate links into my blogs and lens.

Anyway I think that is enough to get me started for one day. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Introductions

Hiya my name is Clare Hayes and I am a stay at home mum of two young children. I have been trying to make money online for about the last year. I have learnt so much in the last year ( in the beginning I didn't even know what a blog was) and I know I have so much more to learn.

As of right now I have £8.72 in my paypal account. I know your probably wondering that's not a lot of money for a years worth of work. So why haven't I earned more? In fact I have earned slightly more than that but most of it has gone on ebooks and three domain names I have purchased.

The reason why I haven't earned an awful lot is because I am a massive procasinator. I start projects and don't finish them. I get distracted by msn, facebook, online poker, and forums. Maybe I've been scared of failure, but now I realise if I never stick to anything and put my all into it I will always fail.

Now it's time to change, to really make a go of making money from the comfort of my own home, because if I don't stop reading and learning and don't start taking action I never will.

So I hope you will stick around and find out whether I really can succeed. I will be sharing with all the information I already know and what I learn along the way.