Help Wanted Ad for Affiliate Website Builders
One of my sons, Ryan, is a student at WCU. If you have even been to a small college town in Anywhere USA, you know that jobs for students are filled very quickly! I have had him writing articles for me for some time now, but since I am reducing my inventory of sites, I thought it would be better to see if he just wants to take over a couple sites of his own, for a majority of the revenue!
Being the anal retentive person I am, I wanted to write a semi-detailed job description for him, so he knows what to expect from the mission, should he decide to take it! :-) Without further ado…
Job Description for Affiliate Website Builders
Are you a College Student with free time, that wants the chance to earn cash from your dormroom or apartment, while learning new skills at the same time!? If you think the position below sounds like your type of thing, let’s do this!
Your primary job will be writing short, targeted, unique and entertaining essays, and posting them on partial ownership niche content websites! Based on the primary visitors you hope to attract on your new or established website, you will learn to do some basic research and feed them the content they may expect to read on your site.
Desired Skills
- High Speed Internet Connection. (Not required, but suggested)
You will be working online, and doing so on a dialup connection, while not impossible, may hinder your progress and make easy tasks take much longer. - Strong Self Management Skills.
After a 7 day training period, you will be working on your own! Support is only a phone call, email or text message away if needed. - Ability to Work in a Web Browser (In the cloud)
95-100 Percent of your workday will be within a web browser, I recommend FireFox. - Willingness to Learn
Even though your essay topics will remain somewhat focused, it’s likely you will have to learn more about them.
Typical Duties
A Typical day or night on your new job will require that you spend 1-2 hours of your free time (can be anytime each day), focused on the following:
- (50%) Use free tools to research the right targeted words for your article.
- (25%) Putting your daily topic into your own words, you will craft a 200-500 word article and post it on the website from within a point and click administration interface. Within your content, you are highly encouraged to link back to previous related articles you have written.
- (-5%) Write a 5-10 word interesting and relevant title, that will encourage viewers to read it.
- (-1%) Choose a target product or service directly related to your page content.
- (-20%) Find at least one blog discussion about your new post and join in! If you notice others in the same discussion talking about similar topics on their own websites, join those as well.
The overall amount of time it will take you to complete your daily tasks will vary, but in general, should not take longer than 2 hours per day while you are learning, and much less as you hone your skills.
Compensation, er Pay
Pay is 100% commission based, and you will receive 50% of the overall site earnings, paid monthly! There is a small selection of very relevant ads on each page of the website you write. If your content drives the right kind of traffic, the ads should deliver commission based sales. There is however no guarantee and you should assume you get paid nothing!
As you learn more and hone your skills, you will have the first opportunity to take on new website projects that pay 75% commission!
Example of How You get Paid
Lets say you write a well researched and informative article about Hibatchi Brand Grills. While reading your article, a visitor clicked on a bargain he saw for a $200 grill and bought it! The website now earns a variable commission because it helped them sell a product! Typical commission on a $200 item is roughly $12-15. The website earns a total of 50% of that from the partner vendor, in this case eBay, or $6-$7.50.
On an established website, you would earn 50%, or approximately $3 – $4, every time a sale occurs as a result of your article, as long as it exists on the internet! In addition to the sales commission, if the buyer was a new visitor to eBay, the site may earn a bonus ranging from $1 – $40. You will be paid 50% of that as well! (reported monthly)
Typical monthly earnings will vary depending on the popularity and demand for your topics, but as the website continually earns authority in the online world, it will continue to build a solid form of passive income for years to come!
If you write 20 articles every month that each result in just one sale every month from that date forward, the earnings can compound very quickly, earning you hundreds or even thousands of dollars every month! The more you write > the more you participate in discussions > the more you earn!
If the day ever comes that someone wants to buy the website, you have a say-so in the sale and you earn 50% of that transaction also!
Guarantee of Income
None!
Available Niche Topics
While every effort will be made to match your interests with your website topic, this is not guaranteed and you may need to work on a project you know nothing about in the beginning. If you have a specific topic you would like to write about, please request it now.
What do you say Ryan? Still Interested?
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I have been doing my part to "Build the Internet" since 1994, when I built my first website! Since then, I have built hundreds of niche websites for myself and many others, focused on design, applications, ecommerce, search optimization and internet marketing.
I like the way you think… This is something that I have been toying and experimenting with. I may borrow this proposal for a site of mine as well.. I Have someone who writes for me and posts on another blog with me paying per the amount of articles or blog posts that he writes.. He is getting quite good. I have not got into link building with him but that will be soon…Thanks for the post…go Ryan.. easy money in the long run….
Nicely put!
I wonder if I could persuade my wife to do this? ;)
Great idea. This would be perfect for my workout site that involves building a downline.
You really sold him on that job , did he take it.
@ Tao –
My wife actually stumbled onto a niche she loves and started a site 3 weeks ago… I am now helping her with a new theme and some backend stuff. Its actually the first time we have worked so closely on one project… and I think the difference was that she found something she was passionate about.
The site went from zero traffic to more than 1000 daily uniques in less than 2 weeks, and shows no sign of slowing!! I plan a post about it this week once we get the new theme in place and everything transitioned over.
@ Doug – He DID… and 2 more of the children saw the post and asked if they could take over a few sites also!! They are taking sites I was getting ready to dump off, so its a win-win situation!!
I wrote a long detailed email to them on how they would be working, and plan on posting it here tomorrow.
I took several days out of town again from Thursday through Monday, so its a catch-up game first! :-)
Mark
Yup! I’ll have to be doing something similar when Veronica is ready to take the leap and come work at home with me full time! This is actually a nice general layout for hiring “virtual” help as well…
I like this!
My daughter is a wonderful writer and I have been thinking about paying her per post to write for some of my blogs. Your offer here, though, is very motivating to the potential writer, while at the same time, it offers compensation only for REAL increase in earnings on the website. Great system.
Yep that’s just how I started out, a Uni student wanting to earn a bit more cash to pay for my train ticket and the nights out and i’m still stuck doing it 4 years later :) But I love it.
I would like to try this as well. I enjoy the theme tweaking and setup stuff. But I absolutely detest the content writing and other stuff.
Are there enough people who are basically willing to “take your word” when you tell them they can have X% of ad revenue for their content?
I almost want to set it up like a blog network to try and increase the credibility of the venture. So basically my ad would say I am looking for authors, pitch me your niche, I’ll secure the domain and templates and you will get a portion of the profits. Seems like a good deal for someone who wants to try this but doesn’t have the money to get a domain and hosting.
Any thoughts on that?
Chuck
@ Chuck –
The workers I am using are my children, so the trust factor does not come into play. I do however have a few sites I have JV’d with other readers on and use a revenue sharing plugin for phpbay that lets you do a simple revenue share among many ePN accounts.
The hard part is getting an ePN account right now, so we are using the honor system until they get their own accounts.
Hmm…this is interesting. My daughter is fourteen and very bright and finding it hard to get work. This might solve a lot of problems…
good idea mark, I would like to try this also on a site. I wonder though, if you were to have like 5 writers working on a site how do you track what page a sale originated from so you credit the correct person.
@ Michael –
Depending on the monetization model.. there are actually plugins that will either split impressions based on CampID (eBay) as well as impressions splitting for adsense.
I will dig through my stuff and see what the are named again… or you can scroll up to Bens comment and click over to his site, he has them listed on his site.
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