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How To Make Money Online With Affiliate Marketing

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Are you a blogger looking to make some extra cash? Who doesn’t like passive income? There are hundreds of thousands of bloggers across the country who could be making money with affiliate marketing but aren’t. Reports are constantly coming out showing the financial benefits of affiliate marketing. If you want to make money online with affiliate marketing, you need to follow in the footsteps of the pros. So what are you waiting for? Keep reading for a few tips every professional marketer is using to take advantage of affiliate marketing online. Choose Your Products Wisely If you’re going to market or promote a product or service, you need to have faith in it. Affiliate marketers need to know and care deeply about each one so they can offer sincere insight to buyers. Promoting everything that crosses your path makes you look more like a salesperson and less like someone sincerely invested in a product. Choose just a few unique products that you can get behind and that you

I Decided To Organize My Money Using Marie Kondo's Decluttering Strategy, And Ended Up Paying Off $10,000 Of Debt

For most of my life, I've been what I like to call functionally messy. The Sisyphean task of organizing everything just so I can then use and disorganize it all, followed by an endless cycle of reorganizing and disorganizing until the day I die, defied all logic in my mind. Growing up, my dad was pretty strict about keeping the house clean, but I tried every trick in the book to get out of having to actually clean my room. Hiding stuff under my bed, stuffing my dresser drawers full of unfolded clothing until they wouldn't close, and shoving everything in my closet and closing the door were my favorite tactics. In adulthood, this "out of sight, out of mind" technique carried over into my finances. To give you an idea of how financially unbothered I was in my early 20s: I was lucky enough to get a job out of college that offered 401(k) matching, but opening a plan required me to physically print, sign, and fax a form to HR. The signed form sat on my desk for tw

Double-Digit Growth Forecasted For Digital Wallet & Mobile Money Transfers

 Customer uses Apple Pay system with Apple Watch to pay in a shop. (Source: Shutterstock) Analytical services firm Juniper Research said in a new report that it expected consumer spending via digital wallets to rise by a whopping 40% this year, largely driven by in-store payments. The firm said it expected consumers in Europe and North America to make nearly $790 billion in payments via digital wallets in 2019 and that mobile contactless payments for in-store transactions would more than double. “The report highlighted the importance of digital wallet providers establishing partnerships with leading banks to maximize reach amongst consumers,” the company reported. “Juniper Research’s analysis found that Apple far outstripped its rivals, achieving the largest addressable share of banking consumers in seven of the 10 national markets assessed. In the online space, the study found that wallets, including Apple Pay, Amazon Pay and Visa Checkout, had also significantly expanded their