One of the things about having a website that works is about creating an additional source of income. Since I started talking about making money with Google Adsense, I have seen many massage therapists with Adsense ads on their home page as well as many other pages. There are pros and cons of having these on your site. The ads actually take visitors (potential clients) away from your site to others sites and most like those who are your competition. The thing is that you won’t be a match for everyone and Ken Evoy of Site Build it! recommends that you use the ads to make money from every visitor. I put a few on my clinic site last year but they never really did anything. I also didn’t have much traffic (under 50 people a day) because I wasn’t promoting my massage practice. To make Google Adsense work for you, you will have to test various ad formats and placement of ads and also test what pages work the best. I do think that putting ads on pages that are just general articles about massage could be beneficial, but I also think that it will work best when you have a few hundred visitors a day.

The other way to make money with your website while you are busy doing massage is to sell products through an affiliate program. Affiliate programs are programs that you can promote for others and make money by promoting their products. I use Amazon.com to promote a few massage products that I have found to work well for myself and clients like Traumeel homeopathic gel for inflammation, the Theracane for home massage treatments and a few highly recommended books on health and health related topics.

To find other affiliate programs to participate in just do a search for ‘massage affiliate programs’.

The best product to promote are ones that you have used yourself. The best way to promote products is to write about how you use them and how they have helped you and/or your clients. I don’t promote things that I haven’t used or tried myself for the most part.

Some of my best affiliate programs are the Emotional Freedom Technique, The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well and a Vision Improvement program and Site Build it!  While I don’t make tons of money from one program, I do make a little with each program and added together it still isn’t tons but it helps keep me going.

To learn more about making money with affiliate programs you can read this Free Ebook- “Affiliate Masters Course” from Ken Evoy of Site Build it! and apply the principles to any website.

Popularity: 10% [?]