Making money online might be difficult for newbies. First, you need to get prospective buyers visit your website. You have just few seconds to impress the person and sell your service, ebook or whatever product you are selling. If you can merge online methods with offline methods of making money, you can make money fast. If you are yet to generate a steady income online, here are two tricks that will help you make money fast using offline methods.
1. Make money offline promoting web hosting
Every blogger and website owner is promoting webhosting products, but how many of them take the trouble of talking to people in person? In every country and city, you can find individuals and businesses who need websites. Some business owners might be looking for the right opportunity or service provider to take the plunge.Identify businesses which can make use of websites. You can check out local business directories to find your prospective clients. You can also walk around in your locality to find potential clients.
Once you have a list of such businesses, go and talk to the owners. Offer them a basic website for free. Tell them that you will create a website (HTML or WordPress-based) for their shop/restaurant/business without any charges.If you can carry a laptop, show them sample websites and its advantages. Tell them how it can be used to get new orders, how they can avoid the trouble of sending samples or catalogs to individual buyers using a website. Show them the benefits.
Why are you offering it for free? Tell them that your “free website” offer is for a “limited period” because you want to build a large portfolio of websites for landing bigger jobs. You can think of something more creative and convincing justification for your “free offer”.
How do you make money? The web designing service is free, but your clients still need to buy domain name and web hosting space. We will make use of affiliate marketing to make money. Join affiliate programmes of good web hosting companies and domain registrars.
Ask your clients to use your affiliate link to register domain names. Ask them to sign up with a good web hosting provider using your affiliate link. If possible, help them buy the web hosting by guiding them through the process. Some people get intimidated with hosting purchase form. Your client will feel more comfortable and safe signing up when you personally help them do it. Do not pay for the purchases through your credit card or PayPal or bank account. Ask the client to use his/her credit card to ensure that the transaction is seen as a new buyer, and not by an existing client (that’s you).
Make sure to give your buyers/clients a discount coupon code. It will make them happy. You can easily make $100/day if you can sell your free website to one person daily. You can also help your friends and family create their websites. You will have to spend not more than 30 minutes installing WordPress and adding a suitable free theme. Also, create a simple header for the website.
Once you have a client, you can also sell him other products/services such as SEO.
2. Make money promoting CPA offers offline
Cost Per Action (CPA) offers are used by several Internet marketers to make good money. Seasoned Internet marketers are really successful at promoting CPA offers and make loads of money. If you are struggling to make money through CPA offers, why not promote them beyond the online world.
Pick some good CPA offers that pay good money, say, $5-50 per sign up. Only promote those offers where the target customer is not scared away by asking him to buy or pay for something. Free offers will convert better. Get flyers/pamphlets promoting your offer and distribute it at places where your target audience can be found. If your CPA offer is for young college students, leave your flyers outside a college.
Handing flyers will have a limited conversion rate. If you put up a big poster about your offer and place your flyers/pamphlets in a manner that an interested person can pick one for later reference, you will have better conversion rate.
These are just two ways to make money by promoting online offers in the offline world. With a bit of creativity, you can find many more ways of making money promoting online products to local businesses and individuals in your neighbourhood and your city.