How To Make Your First $300 Online

Today I would like to share a really neat technique that will help anyone who takes action to make their first $300 online. You're the one who'll determine how long this process will take, it can take a week or month but it shouldn't take more than 30 days for you to reach $300.

The technique is really simple, this is simply based on CPA marketing but with a twist obviously. I'll show you how to use blog posts with facebook Ads to promote your CPA offers and build a long term business.

The great thing about CPA marketing is that you can start with a low budget, you don't need your own product and the best part is that you don't have to sell anything all you do is give away free stuff and make money.

It's not as easy as it sounds though, there's some hard work involved but once you have everything up and running things become a lot easier. Your system will also run on autopilot, giving you more time to focus on other stuff.

But before you start building anything you'll need to choose a really good niche. To make things easy for you I'll give you a list of niches that work well with CPA marketing. No need to worry about competition when using my technique, the more competition you have the better.

Good Niches for CPA

You can do a whole lot more research online especially on how to find CPA networks and tips for getting approved. I won't talk about choosing a CPA network, getting approved and niche selection because I just want to share the strategy so you'll have to do some research about that on your own.

The Funnel

Once you've chosen a niche, joined a CPA network and approved, you're going to need 3 things to build your funnel. You'll need a blog, an autoresponder and a facebook fan page (you'll find out why below).

You'll be using your blog mainly to build trust then send your visitors to a CPA offer that you're promoting. Make sure that your blog post is closely related to the offer you're promoting.

The blog post could be anything that is informative, entertaining, political, contreversial or even news but make sure that it's something that's worth sharing. Share things that tend to go viral, it could be a video, infographic or plain text, whatever that you think will work well to promote your offer.

For instance, if you were to promote the free $100 Uber Voucher a great story to share would be about An Uber driver in Southern California who was pulled over last night and blew three times the legal limit. This story is going viral.

Then at the end of the post promote the free voucher.

You can promote your offer in the middle and end of the blog post, also have some banners of your offer within the blog but make sure you don't clutter your blog with too many banners. In-context banner Ads always work well but don't go over-board, have 1 or 2 on each post.

Create a professional looking blog with a few more posts that are related to your niche & offers. Add social sharing buttons on your blog as well to make it easy for visitors to share your content online.

Finally, make sure you have an optin form with a freebie (related to your CPA offer) below each blog post and the sidebar as well to capture emails. You can use the email list to promote more CPA offers but mix your promotion emails with some valuable content, don't just spam people with offer after offer they'll unsubscribe.

Also monetize your "Thank You" page and autoresponder welcome message to maximize revenue.

Facebook Ads Strategy

All you need to reach your first $300 is facebook Ads then you can try other traffic sources and expand later once you know that you have a working system. Using FB Ads is the simplest way to get your content to go viral and have your system running on autopilot.

Try 2 types of promotions, the first one will be a post with a short description and a URL. Use an eye-catching thumbnail, title and description for your URL post to grab attention.

The 2nd post will be a viral image, preferably a meme that is related to your offer then add a short description and a link to your blog post. Use memes that have few words or else it won't get approved on facebook. Funny short videos work as well and video Ad campaigns are dead cheap on facebook.

Promote the different campaigns (URL post, image and maybe video) then choose the one that brings a good return on investment. To build more Rep/Authority simply create a $10 post engagement campaign. With 10 bucks you should be able to get a minimum of 200 post likes, a couple of shares and some comments.

That should make it easy for people to trust and click your link, then you can spend the rest of your budget on a website click campaign promoting your blog post.

There's a lot of places online where you can find more info about targeting, minimizing your cost and other FB Ads tips so I won't cover that on this article.

Basically you run a facebook Ad campaign so that you can attract organic traffic and shares to get your post to go viral then let your funnel bring in the profits. Make sure you use Facebook Pixel on your site so that you can do some retargeting to minimize Ad cost.

Conclusion

Don't give up if you don't get it right the first time, try a different offer or go into a different niche. Remember, we learn from our mistakes or other people's mistakes, failure is the best teacher so don't give up.

The reason I say don't give up is because I know most people won't get this right the first time they try it, unless you have some onine marketing experience. Also make sure that you don't spend time thinking about it just take action.

Fix things along the way don't try to get it perfect from the start. This is a big mistake newbies make, they want to get things perfect first. Let me tell you a secret, there's no perfect system. That is why even big companies such as Microsoft release a BETA version of windows first then release the final product after fixing the major bugs.

So just get started and fix things as you grow. Hope you found this post valuable and it inspires you to take action.

That's it folks, it's that simple, not easy but simple

Interesting strategy and I'd think doable for most every one. Thanks for sharing.

Never did any Facebook ads, so I did not know about engagement campaign. Good deal for $10.

One thing, don't mean to be negative, but won't it be difficult for most people to get a positive ROI with facebook ads? Just curious.

I can imagine that some of the niches you mentioned work really well for something like Facebook. I'm in one of those in particular but can't bring myself to spend money on ads. I'm just too cheap. I'm not just that way with IM. I'm that way with like everything. I really need to get over that. A number of marketers I know really like using FB ads, though (the gambling sort).

Joey

Ron Killian said:

I've avoided FB ads and pretty much all PPC only, because it can be so risky. But you have to take risks some times to get ahead or find success, right?

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I don't really think this is risky, unless you choose to promote something that doesn't have a viral effect (something that is not worth sharing). And I don't see how spending $50 is a risk, I really don't see any risk here.

Anyway, I did mention that you can use free traffic so there's no risk here bro, it's all in your mind. This is why at the end of the article I talked a bit about mindset, don't spend time thinking about it just act or simply don't do it at all.

My point is that, all the risk is taken out of the equation here, you're just creating the risk in your mind. You're not selling anything here, you're giving away free stuff. I mean, who doesn't like free stuff?

Ron Killian said:

You will probably know, but wouldn't even buying more engagement possibly create more organic traffic?

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It might, it might not. Buying more engagement is just for building the Rep/Authority as well as trust. But the shares will definitely bring you some organic traffic, it's just not guaranteed because it depends on who's sharing the content.

For instance, if your content gets shared by popular people it will go viral pretty easy.

Ron Killian said:

Just wonder if it can also be a long term strategy as well. Just an idea.

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I did mention in the article that this is a long term business. You'll also be building an email list, remember? This should also eliminate the risk you're thinking about. You can even promote other affiliate products to your email list to maximize profits.

There are thousands of CPA offers online, businesses will always want to advertise their products so they'll always look for publishers. I don't understand why or how you see this as a short term strategy, this is a type of business you just keep scaling up till Jesus comes back.

Ron Killian said:

As for getting lower clicks, that is kind of part of what I was saying, not only getting a positive POI, but also getting to the point of cheaper clicks. Obviously, that would be something that I am sure I am not the only one that would be VERY interested in knowing more.

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Easy stuff, just go to Youtube and search "$0.01 clicks on facebook", "getting cheap clicks on facebook" or anything along those lines and you'll find many webinars where people reveal their secrets. Another thing is that you also have to be hands-on, no thinking about it.

Ron Killian said:

And what about buying likes in this case?

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No I don't buy fan page likes, this is waste of your precious money because you'll still need to pay to reach those fans (actually it's stupid hehe D. The fan page likes will come organic from both the post engagement campaign and clicks campaign.

Ron Killian said:

Too many questions

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To me it just seems like you're scared of the most important thing in life and especially in business, "Failure". Without mistakes or failure there's no learning. That is why there's a saying that say: you learn from your mistakes or other people's mistakes. But I don't blame you, this was engraved in us from school, when you fail you don't go to the next grade. In school when you fail you're considered a clown, so taking risks becomes a problem for us.

You just have to reprogram yourself and realize that even crossing the road is a risk but you just got used to taking the risk that you end up not realizing that it's a risk.

Hope that answers all your questions bro, but feel free to shoot more.

Thanks for the reply. Think you have me a little wrong. Iv'e been online since 1998, took many risks over the years. Big risk at the time I started. The mindset it there. Most times, we all have those days.

I totally agree that $50 is not a big risk, not at all. I was was referring more to the fact that some keywords can get expensive and i can be easy to rack up a bill if one is not careful. Plus if if your not getting the clicks cheap enough. Well, there are budgets for that as well, so I probably am thinking wrong. And sure can get in my own mind some times.

And I do see it as a long term, was just thinking long term as far as just organic traffic. Though obviously buying likes is not a good idea.

Defiantly not afraid of failure, would have quit a long time ago if that was the case, just don't like losing too much money But ya gotta pay to play, right?

Another thought, once you find a winning campaign, you could roll it out to other PPC sources.

One other question, what do you use to track everything? There are so many scripts and services out there.

haha I feel you. Yeah, I agree, I have got you a little wrong there bro

I don't do much tracking in this case, all I have is a facebook pixel (tracks clicks and conversions for my email list not the CPA offers), I also have Pretty Links(wordpress plugin) to track FB Ads clicks and clicks for the CPA offers I'm promoting. To see how many leads I got for the CPA offer I'm promoting I use the CPA Network's dashboard.

The facebook pixel is another secret ingredient that helps me get cheaper clicks when I do retargeting, do some research about it, it's a great strategy. My getresponse account is also connected to my google analytics account as well.

That's pretty much it.