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Affiliate products offer people the opportunity to make a commission by referring someone to buy a company’s product. This can be done online from the comfort of your own home.

Where to Find Affiliate Products

There are many affiliate programs on the Internet such as Click Bank and Amazon.com where people can find affiliate products to promote and make a commission. You can join either site for free to promote any of the products they have available.

Who Promotes Affiliate Products

Affiliate products can be promoted by people who enjoy blogging about a particular topic.

For example, someone who likes to blog about golf travel can find an e-book on how to improve your golf swing. People who golf are always looking for ways to improve their swing.

If they are on that site looking into golf travel and come across an e-book that could help them improve their golf swing, they can potentially buy the e-book and that affiliate makes a commission on the sale.

How Much do Affiliate Products Pay?

Commissions can be as low as 10% of the product price or as high as 75%. It all depends on how much the company wants to give back to their affiliates.

If you are looking to promote affiliate products to make a commission online, you’ll want to focus on the products that pay a higher commission especially if you want to do paid marketing.

Most companies out there allow people to become affiliates of their products for free. However, people are at a disadvantage when they don’t own the product. If they don’t own the product, they don’t know the benefits of that product. Not knowing about the product will make it difficult for them to sell it.

How to Promote and Make Money With Affiliate Products

The best way to promote affiliate products is to set up a blog. However, it will take you some time to set up a blog or you can pay someone to set it up for you. You will need a domain name, web hosting and security. You might even need to hire a graphic designer to make your blog look appealing.

To start getting traffic to your website, you will need to consistently blog on a daily basis and promote your blog posts through syndication. When making blog posts you will want to focus on particular subject and do keyword research to see what people are searching for so that your blog posts will show up on search engines.

It will take about 6 to 8 weeks before your blog posts are showing up on the search engines so don’t expect a lot of traffic right off the bat. Just understand that you need to keep blogging and eventually you’ll start getting traffic and having people buy the affiliate products that you promote.

How to Make Money Right Away With Affiliate Products

If you are looking to start making money right away, then you might want to do some paid advertising such as Google pay per click (PPC) or Facebook PPC. However you will want to learn how PPC works or else it will suck you dry.

Another thing that you can do if you don’t have money to promote your products is to submit your blog posts to several article directories such as EzineArticles or Go Articles and link it back to your blog.

There are many people who search article directories for what you have to write about. People will find your articles before they find your blog on the search engines.

Deeper Purposeful Questions

Why are you here on this earth?

What is your purpose, if you associate yourself with one?

Rest assured this is not an existentialist treatise but something simpler.

These types of questions are popular in every culture. The journey called life with its twists and turns is quite a trip. We trudge along through childhood to adulthood experiencing a various events while learning, growing, falling and getting up again.

In the West we live in a society that tries to mould us into conditioned men and women. Go with the crowd, listen to the media and governmental officials. Don’t buck the system because the system works.

Does it really?

At some point, everyone asks themselves deeper purposeful questions while searching for the truth. Many times painful circumstances compel us to stop and contemplate life.

I’m drawn to a passage by Dr. Alex Lickerman who writes in The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self: “Nietzsche once wrote that he who has a why to live can bear almost any how. According to Nichiren Buddhism, however, not every why is created equal. To build the strongest life force possible – one that can bear the weight of any how – Nichiren Buddhism argues we need a why to live that in some way involves contributing to the well-being of others.”

Foggy Mornings

I’m up in the mountains as I write this enjoying solitude and peace. This morning there’s a thick fog hovering over the home.

As I sit outside taking in the stunning morning, I realise many times become stuck in a spiritual fog. Our perspective is skewed and we can’t see beyond our current circumstances or ego.

The fog made it impossible to see the beautiful view this morning, so I closed my eyes and tried to imagine it. I know it’s there beyond the fog and I know it will be visible in a few hours when the fog lifts.

Likewise, when we experience darkness, we act less than graceful. We become frustrated, succumbing to negativity and cannot see beyond the fog. We believe the situation will continue forever and get mired in bad moods. We fail to realise that foggy mornings turn into gorgeous days.

Sit In The Fog

I sat in the fog this morning and enjoyed the stillness and majesty of nature. I watched clouds of fog inch towards me. I liken it to the stillness of mornings that flows through us.

I haven’t taken time to just sit still for weeks because of the busyness that overwhelmed me. Sometimes we need to ground ourselves in Mother Nature; to reconnect with our roots so to speak.

Time away is worthwhile, but what about everyday life?

Do you let the hustle and bustle of everyday living overpower you?

Do you need to be busy all the time?

Even if you are busy with things that matter, do you compromise time for meditation and sitting quietly to reconnect with yourself?

We need to make time to sit in the fog and find our bearings. But many of us are caught up with agendas and to do lists, we forget to come home to ourselves until it’s too late. And by then it can be too late.

“It isn’t life’s “content” that determines its value. It’s the awareness you bring to it, moment to moment. It’s attention itself. Presence is its same self regardless of the particulars of the moment,” affirms author Jan Frazier in The Freedom of Being: At Ease with What Is.

Do You Want Answers?

If you want answers to your life’s purpose or your next step, make time for you. Time to sit and be still. Time to walk in nature and reconnect with yourself. Time to contemplate, breathe and relax. Quiet your mind.

If you want answers, make it a priority to retreat into silence.

Switch the mobile device on silent for a moment. I promise you, nothing will change. Facebook will still be there and so too will your Instagram followers.

Life’s journey is simple and believe it or not, you are in control more than you think. If things are not the way you like them to be, make changes. I give you permission to change your circumstances.

Get up earlier, stay up later. Go away for a few days. Go for a walk. Turn the TV and computer off. Leave your cell phone at home or turn it off. We are addicted to technology so much so that our attention span has burnt out.

A reader recently wrote a comment on an article I wrote that highlights this point of view. She said: “Teaching people to observe their surroundings and thoughts, in a way that creates being in the present moment, is a difficult process for many to grasp. When I take clients outside to observe nature, they often are confused about why the present moment is important. The constant stimulation of our brains by electronics changes our neural pathways. We have lost our connection to the earth and the positive effect it has when we are still and take notice.”

I was a little saddened that people are confused why the present moment is important. Because that is ALL you have! There is no tomorrow or past, but many people process them in the present moment while “it” (present moment) slips through their fingers.

Something must give if you want a better life. You can’t keep doing the same things while expecting conditions to improve. The fog represents the fog of separation and the illusion that blinds you from the truth.

Your truth differs from my truth, yet they are the one true constant in our lives. They are our compass and if we lose our bearings what assurances are there we will find our way back again?

It’s what author Donald Altman means when he says in Clearing Emotional Clutter: “If you tell yourself something long enough, you might end up believing it, even if it has no basis in truth.”

Rediscover what is important to you and pursue it passionately. The fog will eventually lift and reveal another day, yet your time is limited and you don’t want to keep dragging your heels hoping for a better life.

It is here and NOW, when you set the intention to live intentionally. Only then will you experience life cascading through you in its infinite glory.

Quick! What was the best thing that happened to you yesterday? What made that day worthwhile?

Uh…

If you’re like me (and probably most people) you might have trouble coming up with anything off the top of your head. That’s because, unless you’re already leading a rare and extraordinary life, one day tends to run into the other. Your days then turn into weeks turn into months into years until you find yourself saying, “Is it December already? Can you believe Y2K was nearly six years ago??”

So how do we slow this whole time thing down and live each day to the fullest? One popular method is to “be here now.” Savor the moment, be conscious, that sort of thing.

Personally, I find it hard to remain present just for the sake of it. It takes discipline and, like all things requiring discipline, has the potential to become yet another source of anxiety.

Instead, why not make it fun?

Try this: when you wake up in the morning (or the night before if you’re a planner) create a “theme” for the day. Look for opportunities throughout the day to manifest that theme. It becomes both a game and a source of inspiration as you begin to realize that you are creating your own daily experience, without changing anything about your environment or activities. What changes is how you observe and influence your actions and responses.

A daily theme should be something that is enjoyable yet personally meaningful. Here are some examples:

• Today is about… humor. I will deliberately look for things I see/hear/read throughout the day that make me smile or laugh.
• Today is about…patience. I will experiment with responding rationally to irrational requests by my supervisor or spouse, or find interesting things to look at or think about while waiting in line.
• Today is about…connecting. I will give 100 percent of my attention and energy to each encounter – with clients, co-workers, family, friends, strangers – and notice how they respond.

The trick is to make this fun. Consider it a treasure hunt. Now that you’re looking for them, opportunities to find or create elements in your theme will show up again and again. You’ll get hooked and want to look for more.

Then before you go to sleep, think back over the day. It will be a lot easier to catalog what happened, what you did, how you felt. You’ll find that you’ve lived a much slower, richer day, just by framing how to think and act within it.

What is tomorrow’s theme going to be?