Marketing Defined

How do I make “serious” Affiliate income without a Website? This is a common dilemma for new online entrepreneurs who are initially reluctant to commit to a paid web host.

With the myriad of choices in Web hosting services, such a dilemma is easy to relate to. I was forced to change web hosts at least 4 times [including local hosts in Australia], prior to settling on Thirdsphere, who to me is second to none in covering all bases required for the growing needs of the professional Online entrepreneur.

Update 2008: After my websites and Blogs grew.. I made the move to a Hostgator Reseller Package which at $25 monthly offers unlimited domains and a zillion gigs of bandwidth… the best value for all my domains.

But… I do make the important SEO choice to pay an extra $2 monthly each for a separate IP address for my main Domains.

Get your Web hosting service wrong, and from the very beginning your earnings are frustrated with the inevitable delays encountered with:

• unanswered customers support emails to “one man” smaller web hosts [Refer to the case of my new domain being offline, and the owner of the web hosting service apologizing he was just about to close down for 2 days as it was New Year’s Eve)
• insufficient technical expertise from the smaller web hosts, who will first need to email customer support themselves to answer your concerns - not encouraging!
• constant down time again from lack of a knowledgeable support team
• expensive upgrades each time you need to manually install a new script or add a new SQL database without the inclusion of the “Fantastico” control panel - an integral part of the better web hosting service, which allows automatic one-click installation of these essential extras

For the uninitiated; this is how the “cheaper” web hosts make their money.. they simply slug you an extra $10 - $30 each time you are forced to request a manual installation of these services. There really is no such thing as a “cheap” web host.

My personal recommendation is start with the very best you can afford in webhosting… and there is none better than Thirdsphere.

I am not going to list their services here but suggest you check them out at the above link prior to making a choice, but will reassure you that as you grow and require automatic installation of a myriad of scripts like Wordpress for your Blogs, and the numerous SQL databases required to run each separate script, along with a fully automated Affiliate system with the requisite Adtrackers and Autoresponders, a fully functional online Shopping Cart and associated Merchant Services… Thirdsphere includes all these services, along with far more, at no extra cost…. and much of it is a simple “one-click” instant installation.

And their Customer Support is exceptional, starting from Bonnie and Andrew to a host of others , right up to the owner Miguel Alvarez, who is himself a successful online entrepreneur.

And - as a Marketing Defined blog subscriber, you do get the all important first month totally free, which allows you to set up your first website or blog and actually start to earn an income, prior to paying for your second month of web hosting.

For those on a limited budget, a free web host is a viable alternative. However, it is crucial to ensure “bannerless” or “ad free” web hosting is offered, to aid in much needed credibility in the early stages of your online marketing career.

Doteasy.com webhosting does offer such a FREE or $0/zero dollar bannerless service… to aid in much needed credibility in the early stages of an online career.

Don’t sit back like I did for 4 years, waiting until you have enough technical expertise to start earning a lucrative online income. Start right now.

Join either the professional Hostgator or the free DotEasy webhosting service, and stay tuned for a post with the exact HTML and resources to “mask” your long, search engine “unfriendly” affiliate URLs.

As a small enticement, here are Affiliate programs out there which pay up to US$35 - $50 per lead for referrals to Home Loans for example! Yes! that is US$35 for each lead you send to a designated program… and your Leads do not even have to sign up immediately for you to qualify!!

There is a diversified and staggering amount of programs from which you can improve your Affiliate income, and throughout this Blog will expose some of the best income generators to you… the very same programs which earn Super Affiliates those staggering five figure incomes.