The question today is if teachers can make extra money online with affiliates. Can teachers earn extra pay selling things? I think they can. Think about it. If you are a teacher, you are an amazing sales person. You are selling education to kids. The best teachers are the best sales people. They can sell ideas to students in amazing ways.
Teachers Sell Ideas Everyday
One of my favorite teachers was a man who looked like Albert Einstein. He was my high school Chemistry teacher. With his kindness and patience, he sold Chemistry to me. I bought it: hook, line and sinker. I clearly remember a joke a DimethylpropeopleEther. I have no idea how to explain the joke, but I remember it made me laugh for the entire day.
Teacher Can't Sell Meaningless Things
Here is the problem for me as a teacher. I can't sell something unless it is meaningful. I can't sell a car, but I can sell some great mental math tricks I have for students. I can sell the Revolutionary War to students. I can sell creative writing to students. I have even learned how to sell coordinating conjunctions to students--its one of the students favorite lessons each year. I get kids to love coordinating conjunctions! If I can do that, there must be something that can sell to people online that will help them add to their lives.
What is an Affiliate Ad?
It is really pretty simple. Companies want to advertise their products and make sales. If you sign up for an affiliate program, you get a commission each time someone goes through your site to buy a product. I'm not sure if it is only if they buy a product that you get a commission or if it is through clicks too. I plan on investigating more.
If you listen to some of the popular podcasts on itunes, you'll hear them pushing affiliate ads. Amazon has a big program that I am looking into. I hope to provide teachers who are interested in making more pay with more information about this soon.
Below I am going to put a link to an affiliate advertisement. These are simple ads I picked out. I love kayaks. My dream is to get a Hobie Kayak. They have these special fins you can move with your feet. The design is based on penguin flippers. Hobie kayaks also have attachments for sailing. I can't afford a Hobie kayak. I'm a teacher just like you. I need to increase my pay a lot by making money online if I will ever get that kayak. Here are some kayaks I was comparing to the Hobie kayak. It is my guess that there is no way anyone reading this right now will buy one of these kayaks, but if they did, I am very curious to know if I would make any money?
You can't see it, but when I picked these images out it gave me the price of the kayaks. These are big tickets items, so I am guessing that play into how much pay a teacher can get from posting pictures online. These are from all different retailers. The green one looks hideous. I wouldn't buy any of these because I love fishing. I need to have my hands free to cast.
I love the look of that one computer. I have a Dell that works well for me. My wife has Apple products she loves them, I eat apples. My favorite apple is a Honey Crisp. Interesting side note: they were developed in 1983, as I understand it. Crazy? A new apple in 1983? What's more impressive the new Apple iPhone or coming up with an actual apple? If you get a Honey Crisp apple, you get 16GB of yumminess.
I still have not made one single dollar. I know that might seem crazy with the amazing sales chops in this post.
Buy a kayak! I need to make a dollar, so I can let other teachers know it is possible to earn extra pay online.
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