Affiliate and article marketing works like crazy for me and I am going to show you exactly what I am doing to earn money with this. It doesn't require a lot of money to start and you can do this on a shoestring. Travis Sago has a system called bum marketing and it's similar to what I am doing except that I take this to a higher level.

The bum marketing method is an article marketing system to promote your affiliate programs via submission sites and classifieds ads websites like usfreeads.com.

All you need to do is to pick up an affiliate programs, research your keywords and write a 300 words keyword rich article with your affiliate link in the bio box.

It works very well, but it's a short term business model. In fact, Travis himself says that this is only the beginning of the whole story. The problem is that you are not building a valuable asset.

What's an asset?

An asset is something you created, It can be an ebook, a website a cd, a dvd set... anything. Every wealthy people on this planet owns one or several assets and if you are not building yours right from the start, you are planning to fail even if you are making an immediate profit. It won't last long.

I developed my own system through trial and errors, and I found it to be very effective in the long run.

It is similar to the bum marketing method, but your use leverage. Your own assets plus other people's asset. This double or triple your article writing efforts and will make you more money in the long run.

Let's see a concrete example of the powerful of this model.

You submit hundreds articles to directories and in the meantime, you build your own website and also feed it with articles.

Plus the articles you are promoting link to this very same site. You are gaining a lot of inbounds links.

Later on, you will be able to make a several figure income in one month. Just imagine that you built several sites and managed to get top rankings? Just head over sitepoint.com and sell them.

If your site earns $1000 a month, you can instantly sell it for $10000 or more. This is only one way to earn money with this system.

You are also building a list that will make you a lot of money if you know the basic of relationship list building.