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19-Year-Old College Student, Earning Extra Income from Home
GotDot.com
profiles Samantha Morris a 19 year old business major at the University of
Victoria in Canada, who's earning extra income for college saying goodbye to
the starving student days.
Going hungry
as a student is practically synonymous with the college experience. Many
students live in cramped quarters, cutting mold off cheese and eating it
with day old bread the coffee shop gave away, feeling lucky at discovering
an uneaten Snickers Bar, calling it a meal, which sure beats the packaged
macaroni and cheese, which has been the only staple in the cabinet for
months. It gets so bad some students sell their blood just to pay for
classes and books.
Samantha's not
starving. As fellow students like to say, She's been there, done that,
proving to be quite a role model too. In the past this gal worked part time
jobs. The money barely paid for books, let alone the apartment, food and
college tuition.
Like many
college kids Samantha surfed the Internet, instead of finding the latest
rock and roll song she discovered a way to end her starving college days for
good. She found affiliate marketing, earning extra income from home, on her
hours, around school work, and an active social life.
As Samantha
says, No more going hungry before class, thanks to affiliate marketing I
have enough money for living expenses and school and I'm saying money too.
Maybe Ill study in Europe. Anything is possible now.
Samantha
mentions that most students aren't prepared for the future. In the class room
the learning is passive. Samantha says, With affiliate marketing, its active
learning and real world experience. And experience is everything.
Samantha's
learning marketing, finance, design, and the sweet joy of financial
independence at a young age. Sometimes its the young ones that show the way.
Anyone can make a success with affiliate marketing. Listen to Samantha's
story and you'll learn how.
What is
affiliate marketing?
By now most
people have heard all about the success of Amazon.com. What they may not
know is that Amazon spawned an Internet industry in 1996, by allowing
independent website owners to earn commissions by referring paying customers
to them. This is known as pay-for-performance-advertising or affiliate
programs.
With
affiliate marketing its important to remember, that there are three primary
roles consisting of the merchant, the affiliate (publisher) and the third
party (Commission Junction). The merchants (advertisers) pay a commission on
sales generated by customers, which the affiliate (publisher) sends to their
sites. Commission Junction (third party) pays affiliates on behalf of the
merchants and provides a tracking system. The merchant handles all order
processing, shipping, and customer service.
Visit
Commission Junction,
to see a partial listing of their top-notch merchants offering affiliate
programs.
How Samantha
got started in affiliate marketing
Samantha's
says with the enthusiasm and bubble of youth, Its cause of Jamie. She's
referring to her mentor, James Martell, an entrepreneur, and successful
affiliate marketer of over 70 specialty shopping sites and author of James
Mar tells Affiliate Marketers Handbook.
Samantha
says, James system is very straight forward, its inspiring, really gives
you confidence, that you can have financial independence on your terms, not
the bosses.
Got Dot: How
did you choose your market niche?
Samantha
says, Oh! That was easy. My friends love decking out their cars, I know the
lingo and how fanatical it can get. And its great, a real money maker! Down
the road Id like to have a fashion and cosmetic site, that one will be more
girly of course.
Each website
Samantha builds follows the proven, 8-step system developed by James Martell
for web site construction. These principals are incorporated into Samantha's
successful specialty shopping sites.
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