You can monetize your blog by selling products and services to your members.

Depending on your site, you may set up levels like Silver and Gold. You can sell memberships to those at normal prices at any time and just advertise those links in the member’s area and have a mini sales page for them.

You can easily create and sell courses like this one. This course took a day to create.

List Building

Your list allows you to have leverage. With a list, you can create a “campaign” or a sale and send it out to your members.

Of course, many things would determine your success. It could be your list size, the age and quality of the list. It could be your relationship with the members, the offer you are making to them, etc…

It is not the money you make with the affiliate programs that is important. It is the LIST that allowed you to leverage the affiliate program to make money.

Just as it is not the milk that allows the farmer to profit from its sales, it is the cow that allows him to make the milk every day. If he loses a batch of milk, all is fine. He can go back the next day and make more. But if he lost his one and only “cash cow”, then he would be in trouble.

If you have a list of 10,000 members, you can make thousands of dollars by sending out just one email.

The One Time Offer Phenomenon

The concept of an OTO goes like this. You join a site or a newsletter and you are made an offer that you will only see one time. It must be of great value in both products and price, based on normal true fair market value of the items.

They only have two options:

Buy now
Pass on the offer and pay more later on, or never have the chance to buy the offer at any price.

This can produce huge profits and most people will not even know how powerful it is.

The sales copy on this page is very important and should not be rushed.

The price can be $7, $19 or $29, or anything just as long as the offer, and value, can sell it.

I am not using the original OTO that is by the book. On that one the visitor only had one shot - if he closed the page, he would never see that special offer or discount again. Instead I am using a 24-hour timer. You will experience it very soon.

You need to know funnel marketing

That's the third way you make money.

Before reading this, did you know what an OTO was?

Do you know how it affects your sales?

Do you know how to build one?

Did you know that in order to be effective, your OTO needs to have a reason why? It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it is logical.

I can say that because you are new to my list, I am giving you a 50 percent discount.
I can say that I only have 100 spots available, because that's how many people I can handle when it comes to customer service on my product.

It doesn't matter what it is as long as it sounds real. The reason I give makes your decision logical. That's all there is to it.

This OTO thing is just ONE element of the funnel. There are another 25 or so.

If you don't know all of them, then may I point out to you that your chances to be successful equal the chance of you executing successful brain surgery with your current knowledge. You wouldn't try it, right?

Okay, so I am going to demonstrate to you the mechanics of scarcity and a One Time Offer.

You get an email a day after you registered with a link. Click on it and you will see what happens...

“If it is a free site… How do you make any money?”