Question by manoftrust72: I don’t know how to write a blog or create one for affiliate marketing. Is college recommended?
I’m thinking about going to college to learn affiliate marketing. I’m very new to it. I have bought the making money at home program and about Clickbank and how to make money. I saw the training video and read books, but still didn’t help me. I don’t have good reading comprehension to know how to do it.

Do you recommends that I goto college or a university to get help?

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I’ve lost money on many scams trying to locate a legitimate home-based work opportunity, no pyramids, affiliates, clickbank, residuals or MLMs, but real work, and no up-front money to buy useless lists of so-called companies, then take the money and give nothing in return. No schemes or scams promising earnings of thousands of dollars a day or week for 5 hours of work,then delivering nothing. I want to work and be paid, not to pay and never work because of the dishonesty of people preying on others, pretending to be, or have access to, legitimate business opportunities.
I received some good replies, but wanted to apologize for the wording of my question. I thought I’d added the following, that I’m interested in working from home answering calls for companies but was definitely not interested in sales or telemarketing. I did have that information added somewhere in my question but I have no idea what happened to it.

http://www.workathomeagent.com/ is a web address left by one person and it seems to be legitimate, and is from a company seeking people to work from home for businesses, answering questions, in a customer service setting, using the Internet and a PC. This is exactly what I had in mind so I will look into that company, but in the meantime if anyone else has any other links to companies such as this, please leave the information here. A great big thanks to all who’ve taken their precious time and have already left answers. You’re wonderful!

Many associate marketers are happy if they can earn at least five hundreds dollars a month from their promotional efforts. Others are determined to make a full time living from affiliate programs and learn every they can to maximize their chances of success.

Affiliate marketing is quickly becoming one of the most popular form of business on the Internet because people realize that they can earn money from their hobbies and passions.

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I want to start a website or blog for free so that I first learn. How do I do that? I would not mind a voice conversation. We may talk over skype, jay.mwangi

A new global fund that invests in the world’s top clean-energy companies is to be launched in Canada today by Criterion Investments Ltd., which sees huge opportunity in efforts to “de-carbonize” the environment.
Ian McPherson, president of Criterion, an affiliate of VenGrowth Asset Management Inc. of Toronto, said clean energy has matured beyond being a niche sector that until recently could only be tapped by seeking out and placing bets on individual companies.
“The sector has matured; it’s no longer nascent,” said McPherson. “You have very strong capital flows and now there’s some investment management talent in the area, whereas historically there’s been a real shortage.”
The timing is right to launch a managed fund, he said. “It’s on people’s radar screens. Clean energy has more mainstream acceptance.”
The company is billing the RRSP-eligible Criterion Global Clean Energy Fund as the first Canadian fund of its kind focused on the clean-energy theme. Geneva-based Pictet Asset Management SA is investment adviser for the “high-risk” fund, which the Swiss company launched in May and is currently available throughout Europe and parts of Asia.
Phillipe de Weck, senior fund manager from Pictet, said in a phone interview from Geneva that concern over climate change and a worldwide drive to reduce greenhouse gases, backed by ambitious government targets and incentives, has primed the sector for long-term growth.
“We believe it will outperform the economy as a whole,” he said, pointing out that the fund has jumped 7 per cent in its first four months compared to a drop of 2 per cent on the MSCI World Index, which measures the performance of market indices in 23 developed countries.
“We’re at the phase where policymakers have set targets, and now they have to move to the next stage where regulations are needed to move to those targets,” he added. “We want to take advantage of that, and we think it’s a long-term trend. The transition to clean energy is a trend that will last our lifetime.”
The fund was most recently invested in 59 companies, about 40 per cent located in the United States. Top 10 holdings included wind giants Gamesa and Vestas, and solar suppliers Suntech Power and Q-Cells.
Three Canadian companies are currently in the fund: hydropower developer Plutonic Power of Vancouver; wind and hydro developer Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. of Calgary; and Westport Innovations Inc., a developer of natural gas and hydrogen combustion engines in Vancouver.
De Weck said natural gas fits within the theme because it’s an important “transition fuel” to clean energy, though the fund doesn’t invest in nuclear power technologies or providers.
“The safety and waste issues are still unresolved,” he said. “Yes, there are plans for more nuclear, but let’s be realistic. We’ve been in a nuclear winter in terms of skills and expertise. We haven’t had that brain influx in the field and we simply don’t have the experience.”
Nicholas Parker, co-founder and chairman of the Cleantech Group, a provider of research and investor services targeted at the clean technology sector, predicted the Criterion fund would be received well in Canada.
“Canadian retail and institutional investors have been underserved in this space relative to their European and American counterparts, so I think this is going to meet demand,” he said.
Parker’s group launched a Cleantech Index in partnership with the American Stock Exchange last year that tracks more than 70 publicly traded U.S. companies in the sector. He said his main concern is that the Criterion fund is focused on clean energy and excludes technologies aimed at cleaning up water and soil, reducing waste and creating “green” materials.
Limiting the fund to just energy makes it more volatile, he argued. “Which is why we’re advocating the broader cleantech space.”
Last October, PowerShares Capital Management LLC launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on the Cleantech Index.
Like most ETFs, the fees are more affordable than managed funds – for example, 0.7 per cent for the PowerShares fund compared to between 2.65 per cent and 2.75 per cent for the Criterion fund, which is near average for the mutual fund industry.
McPherson said the Criterion fund adds value by being actively managed. “Our portfolio manager will be trading to take a view on valuation, whereas those ETFs are a static portfolio for certain periods of time and don’t take into account if something is undervalued or overvalued as an index.”
So far, however, the passively managed PowerShares fund, while traded in U.S. dollars and vulnerable to foreign exchange exposure, is performing well – it’s up more than 20 per cent since its launch 11 months ago.
Since mid-May, when the Pictet fund was launched in Europe, the PowerShares fund has increased nearly 9 per cent.

I’m new to this internet marketing thingy, and would like to make some money and fast!

With all the gurus out there, it’s confusing. I DO have an idea for a product.

I wouldn’t mind doing some affiliating, but who do you trust? I saw a guy name Ewen Chia, and he said he has a free website builder and that it’s worth $197. BUT, guess what? I found out that it’s a freeware program and he just added buttons inside of it that sell his products. So he lied, so I’m not going to trust him.

Then, there’s this guy…I don’t know who he is…but I don’t want to waste any money. He seems genuine, BUT like I said…I have very little money & don’t want to waste it.

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I’m 29 and i feel like i dont know who i am as far as work goes. I work at a publishing company, been there 4 years. We’re affiliated with a well known university. we publish products for MBA programs and training products for corporations. I was in customer service 2 yrs, got promoted, then i took a new position in the higer ed sales dept because there’s only so many places to go in cust serv. NOw i’ve been in higer ed for 2 years. I’m the sales coordinator and sometimes it feels like no gives a crap about me. The people i work with all have regions that they sell to, i basically support them with what they need and do some inside sales, but i dont get commission. Recently some new things were added to my job description, i’ll have more things that i ‘own’ rather than mainly catering to everyone else. I do basically what no one else wants to do, including event planning. I’m in school for my masters. I work with marketing also, what else could i do with this experience? Thoughts?

i want to earn money by PAY PER CLICK programmed site. in which there is a very good cost of 1 click approx $1 or above and without investing anything. can u plz just tell me such sites.

plz do not mantion scam sites here. i m expectin some good and reliable sites from your side. plz suggest me the write one????

i have tried many sites but they all are scams. For eg:- bidvertiser, Affiliate Junktion etc.

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