I've just been approved from CJ.
At the moment I'm not sure to have one product per website or run a review site promoting similar products.
What has worked for you guys?
You sound eager to earn online, but unless your site gets high readership (say, thousands of readers everyday), you may not make any kind of sale, much less a living.
The thing is, you need to know how to market online to have any kind of success.
I am not sure how much you know about marketing online. You can sell online, but how much you make depends on how well you can market.
If your knowledge is limited, you'd better equip yourself with it first. Learn how to market online first. Here are some tips for you:
1) Blogging
Create a blog that targeted to your niche with certain contents from time to time, build up your reader and start to write review with regards to the product that you going to promote. At the end of the article, put down your CJ affiliate link or banner to attract your visitor to click and buy from you, that's where you get your commission.
2) Writing Review about the product
Create an article and promoting your opinion with regards to the product that you want to promote with your affiliate link and post it to different articles site. As the same time, please convert it to MP3 format and post it to prod-casting site to increase your conversion rate. Usually, this is very useful for Web 2.0 technology.
3) PPC (Pay Per Click)
Fast but not easy way to pull traffic to get your sale done. This can be done by sign up to Adwords and get yourself rolling. Remember to have certain level of understanding what is PPC before your decide to go for this route. If you not done properly, then you will lost a lot of money with getting any sales.
4) Email Marketing
The most common way to promote your business using getresponse and aweber. This model is only applicable to those who has a number of subscriber that subscribe your email address and your are required to promote the product using email. Inside the email somewhere, remember to list down your affiliate link to your reader. Usually, the email contents can be your feeling about the product, simple report or simple tutorials on this products.
5) Websites
This is something that similar to blogging, write a good landing page and promote the page via forum and PPC to get the traffic to your website. Once you seen the traffic, then you can expected to have some sales from your website too.
Thanks,
Umee