“The RoseBouquet”

When I first started building websites back in 1999, I learned about the possibility of making money by adding banners and links for affiliate programs and products. The basic premise is that you sign up to be an affiliate for these various companies, and place their ads on your site. If someone who visits your site decides to click on the ad and goes to buy something there, you will get a commission. Well, I was rather naive at that time, and though I caught on quickly enough to the basic principle of this kind of income generation, I didn’t understand enough to make it pay for me. I rarely made any real money.

But now, in the last two years, since I’ve started working with SiteBuildIt! (SBI) I’m getting a much better handle on how to go about it so that it really pays off. Anyone who invests the time to build a solid information site on a particular niche topic, wait until you have at least 30 web pages of content that is shown to be in demand, and then carefully add the ad links for appropriate affiliate products, you can truly make a good income.

(Sigh) yes, I’m slow, because instead of working on just one site at a time, I’m spreading myself very thin, and giving large blocks of time to missions and small ministries, but little by little, I’m creeping at least three sites forward to this point. So in the last week or so I’ve been searching for just the right affiliate programs to sign up with. I’ve found a number of flower companies, and also some gift and hobby sources, and am getting a little excited as I can see where this is going. Still, I want to move carefully so that I do this right, and will really see streams of income from each of these sources.

For the aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com site I’m picking things like Puritans Pride and Yulia Berry’s e-book, Aloe, Your Miracle Doctor, and other natural health remedies books.

For the BouquetofEnterprises.biz site, I’m switching over to things more in line with computers and business needs. like ExcelToner for instance.

For the Ruthes-SecretRoses.com site I’m having fun exploring things like flowers, gifts, writers’ resources, and of course Christian Books.

This stage is going to take me a while, but I hope that it will start paying off next year.

Meantime, I was happy to hear from my friend and subscriber, Barbara in Arkansas, USA. She offered another gift-making idea. I’ve done it before myself, but decided to quickly whip up a small batch of these last night, and take a few photos as I went along. So this time you get some clear how-to pictures with the idea.