Have you heard of Bum Marketing as a way to make money online? Basically bum marketing is a form of article marketing that allows you to make money with contextual ads like adsense, affiliate product commissions, or sales of your own product. The reason it’s called bum marketing is because “any bum can do it”.
Bum marketing basically involves writing keyword optimized articles that target specific markets. You submit them to high powered web 2.0 properties and get those properties ranking well in the search engines. You don’t need web hosting or your own site, so the only cost to bum marketing is your time. If you are willing to put in the work at it, you can definitely make money online using this method.
Here’s the basic bum marketing process.
- Find an untapped niche. Use sites like Amazon.com, EBay pulse, Google Trends to see what’s hot.
- Find a product in this niche that you can sell. Look at places like Clickbank, Shareasale, Amazon and Offervault to find affiliate products or offers you can sell in this market.
- Do some keyword research and write some quality articles that target these keyword you’ve found. In your article, promote the product you’ve chosen. Market Samurai is the best keyword research tool to use.
- Submit your article to popular Web 2.0 properties or Article directories. Ezinearticles and Hubpages are two good ones.
- Write several more keyword targeted articles and build backlinks to your previous article.
- As your article ranks higher in the search engine, you should see more traffic and hopefully sales of the product you are promoting.
- Rinse and repeat
The key here is to write high quality articles. Use a good headline to attract readers and have a good call to action at the end to get visitors to click through and visit your product page. When incorporating keywords into you article, make sure not to spam your keyword all the place. Just use your main keyword in the title of your article, as well as the first and last paragraphs. Then you can sprinkle your keyword a couple of times throughout the rest of your article. Don’t be afraid of using related keywords as well. For related keyword suggestions, use the Google autocomplete feature or the Google keyword tool.
If you are diligent and can write high quality articles, you can start making money online with this bum marketing method quite easily. It takes a couple of weeks to start seeing results, but if you continually work at it, you will start generating an auto-pilot income in a month or so.
Once you’ve got this process down pat, and are making some money with it, don’t be afraid to outsource your content writing as well. Invest your earnings to hire a good writer, and soon you will be making money with no effort on your part whatsoever. That’s the power of bum marketing.