OOPS! I just finished saying I wouldn’t paste another screenshot until I was at my next goal - I CAN’T BELIEVE THE DAY I JUST HAD! While I’m use to seeing nice numbers this is my personal best to date achievement for one day as a publisher or an affiliate.
What The Hell??!?!?!?!!?? HOW/WHERE/WHO/LET ME IN!!
Ok ok - so here is the scoop. Publishers rarely do this (post account earnings) - While I had to mask out some numbers you can see that today (yesterday now - I’m such a night owl!) has an ENORMOUS bar next to it! While the last few days were somewhat plateaud at high 3 figures per day. So what happened? Where did all this come from? Well quite a few things happened in a lucrative sequence… .. here is the scoop.
When you launch a product, you simply cannot predict what will happen sometimes, who you will meet, how you will be found, where your competitors truly make their money, which superaffiliates to try to recruit, what other pros are doing, what lists your promo ends up on - blah blah blah… As your site grows, you start to acquire a ton of customer inquiries, feedback, affiliate support scenarios, JV and list scouting etc.
While our program is doing wonderful and everyone is happy, we wanted to take it to the next level and after being live for a month had plenty of new resources to add to our sites. Thus we both revamped our already profitable site (i know, don’t touch what’s not broken, and we took a risk, boy oh boy am I glad we did!), scouted for a few new JV’s, and set today as another promo/mini relaunch day for many new partners to blitz together…
So having said that - The combination of revamping, constant tweaking, recruiting, and continuously conversion mastering the whole operation - today equated to an unbelievably profitable day! Even most of our affiliates got a boost in sales from both those getting blitz material and researching before buying, and from their existing campaigns now pointing at an even sharper page. It’s amazing what small yet important little changes can do to a site. If you’re a publisher and or you work with an AM for your program - stay close to them, learn what you can from them - and make sure they know what they are talking about not just recruiting you to garbage programs!!
When you’re an affiliate within a new niche and profitable campaign, you always keep your ear to the streets - you seek out hot new products, and though some don’t like jumping onto a hot bandwagon, let this be a testament to ‘there is no such thing as a saturated market if you know how to market’.
And yet again, I’m being brave and bold today - It’s Monday - Who says you can’t start the week off on the right foot?!! Proud moment for me as a ClickBanker. My days of reading horribly made and transcripted tutorials, fluffy ebooks/videos, and thousands of posts on various forums have brought me the first real bit of food that is worth tooting my horn over (also because the next check is almost accounted for and it should be bigger this period - however I will try not to post anymore screen shots until I have a 20-25K pay period…
This is from both being a publisher and affiliate - and is one of many accounts however this is one of the strongest. This year has had a few rollercoasters and some defeat analysis was indeed endured, but looking at this milestone for me it was and is all worth it.
Don’t hate on it either - it’s real - it’s possible - and anyone with a good analytical mindset or will to succeed can achieve this. Might not be the best time to mention this but I’ve only been at ClickBank since last Sept. (10mnths), however I’ve been marketing for 12 years so this isn’t exactly a newbies success, rather a refined old schooler bringing his slate up to todays times and successful business models. Let the phrase ’starving artist’ be eliminated from my vocab - at least for now while I enjoy this moment
You’d think that I would opt to get a wire transfer right? Nahhh, I don’t mind the bit of a wait to get CHECKS, they mean more to me, like it’s IN my hands, it’s less virtual, i can take a pic for inspiration, I can cash it and make the bankers themselves a lil’ jealous… whatever - I like ma’checks!!
As insane as I look in that photo - I’m giggling behind it and looking forward to the reset button to now achieve both consistency and growth at this level on multiple accounts - wish me luck until I post the next one!
Cheers family - NicheChoppers is doing big tingz - good time to get on board if you’re looking to earn from your talent/time/passion for success.
Hey family, I know that many of you are going to look at this post and wonder why the heck I would up my earnings so boldly or proudly… . .. See in our world (affiliate marketing) - it is very important to both document your successes and prove to the world that making a living online is MORE than possible, to further motivate yourself, and reset your goals for the next level of success… .. …
I’m proud to say that we launched a program 2 weeks ago with NO adspend, just time, talent, and people (and people skills!).
I swear under any and every law made against forgery or misconception that this screen shot is real, not edited or touched in any way, and current…
To some of you - this is perhaps average, or not enough, or you’ve made a lot more in 15 days - however to most of you - this is absolutely luda right? If you’re not into online marketing or don’t have a clue what our world is all about - as you live your life and do the 9-5 thing, then you will look at the above in awe and always wonder a) Is it real? b) Is it possible? c) Can I do this?? - The answer is ‘yes’ to all three.
In my world - I am viewed as an important player for the monetization of a program to take effect and succeed. I am an artist, a producer, a marketer, a manager, a recruiter, a publisher, an affiliate gone wild, yet I…. am NO different than YOU.
This program above - has also paid out over 30K in affiliate commission - 30K in 15 days!! The best part of all this? I get emails and messages from people all over the world that I’ve never met - thanking me for helping them here or there to adjust their campaigns and now they earn enough to do this full time and not worry about money!! Sounds like every marketing pitch out there I know… but I’m smiling and shaking my head right now as I reflect on this past two weeks, and think about the next 2 months! Some of these guys have had 1K days, some guys that did email blasts made $3-4K in 24hrs… How many others will I help potentially stop having to work? How many units of our upcoming products are now going to sell faster? How big is my affiliate pool going to get if this program is soo hot?!!
There have been times where I found myself at a bank deposing over 20K checks for one huge contract that will take me x months to produce/finish/revise/maintain/update/etc. - However THIS is 100% automated revenue - 100% clean with no spend, and the only thing I found myself doing post launch, was helping new comers pop their clickbank cherry and sending them off into the wild jungle we call affiliate marketing. Now I don’t know about you - but I would rather help people make money all day, and grow in this game, and potentially make 100K in a few months in the process rather than do work for one client and be stuck to them forever…. So now - in time - a few affiliate managers will be put into place, paid well to do what we would internally do day to day, and fully automate this so we can focus on next moves.
It’s interesting, I’m reflecting now on the xx programs that I’ve launched to date - some of them were EXTREMELY timely buildouts, long R&D sessions, extensive asset/resources for aff’s, and months of preparation… However this one wasn’t one of those.. . … this one was rather quick and we didn’t have nearly the amount of time we’d like to have pre-launch, yet it’s one of the fastest growing to date. The growth has been natural too, not one huge spike, but everyday another 5-15 new affiliates convert, and everyday our strength in the markets penetrates deeper. So kudos in turn to all of you that have stuck around through the thick and thin with any of my programs, and thank you for your involvement.
If you’re reading this, and it inspired you. I’d like you to take a second and visit my homebase where all my products are lined up ready and waiting to be monetized by people working from home/computers - http://www.nichechoppers.com - It’s not all that hard, and if you’re new, I have guides and step by steps to get you going with no money or expense (perhaps just a domain name - $10)…
It’s not too often that you’ll see me do reviews on here - but when I do - you can be sure that a) Nobody paid me to write them a testimonial (errr review), I have no interest in filling anyones head with bulls***, and I do affiliate marketing for a part of my living so I will proudly use my aff link here - and ask that if you do end up grabbing your copy from my links, simply drop me a comment or get in touch, and I’ll throw you something from my goodie bag/vault for doing so as my thank you - there now we both win and you get more prime-rib (you know what i mean… . . ..).
So as any smart marketer - when you are given the chance to do some work and partner up with another industry veteran, you take it with a smile and run with it’! I’m not talking about Mark Warren or the Rich Jerk - I’m talking about current, up to date, ‘hot and always making money moves’ types of guys.. . … You’ve heard of PlayersWithMoney, Project BlackMask, and if the name Alex Goad doesn’t ring a bell just yet - well let me introduce you to the man himself: This is from a previous project that made a loooot of money, for a loooot of people.
So today - I’m on MSN with Alex and discover that he’s at it again - on the 10th of June, at 12EST - another banger is about to drop from his studio called the Four Tier Annihilation Method.
Now - lucky me - I get to swap my uber new projects with associates as we launch our new projects to get some top level feedback and reviews.. . … and I’ll say that if there is another media publisher I can show great respect to off the bat - it’s Alex. Here’s why - You know how most marketers are making heavy claims and love to brag about the newest techniques while it’s just about the packaging and names that change most times…?, Well it’s to the point where any top level marketer can look at the industry and EASILY say ‘The Market Is Filled With CRAP!’ To be honest - I can’t agree more - and it’s been this way for quite some time!! It really makes any new to intermediate affiliate marketer stop and think “Who the HECK DO I TRUST?!” Everyone and their brother is a marketer or affiliate marketing wannabee nowadays, and taking the ’steps to success’ from the wrong people will have you chasing your tail while you spend time and money on - more - CRAP! So watch here as Alex takes a bite into the topic and breaks it down while introducing the 4tam - 4 tier annihilation method in video - in person - Watch The Four Tier Video By Alex Goad Here
After watching this video - I was like “Ok Alex - I like it - it speaks volume about the industry - so show me the goods, the pitch is priceless so far…“… . .. And in turn came this beautiful little link - which took me to the page where I could download four tier annihilation for free and carefully check out. .. … Oh boy - so this thing launches in a few days, and here I am looking at the core of the project brought to you by another six figure earner… . .. - 160 or so pages of .pdf prime rib - and a set of videos as Alex walks you through the 4 tiers himself.
Conclusion? Well - I’ve been here for almost 12 years now (living/working/earning/playing online on a daily), I’ve seen MANY publishers and affiliates come and go, I’ve seen TONS of products do pump and dumps, launch/sink, I’ve helped 600+ vendors now, and I can definitely offer a real core view of a products worth if I do say so myself (that’s a lot of ‘I’s’ - sorry). In short - after watching the videos and absorbing highlights in the book - I’m not even sure who to recommend this to.
4TAM covers just about anything a newbie is going to need for these marketing methods, and the more experienced folks are going to have a hayday with the simplicity of it all.. . … I have been asked to keep this very light as I review it, as to not even give a hint of ‘what/how/why/methods/tactics’ so I’m sorry if it’s a bit unfair however I cannot disclose any actual tiers or methods used, let’s just say that if you ‘take the steps’ which are conveniently outlined for you in video AND literary format, and put in your dues - YOU will undoubtedly see results and MONEY start to FINALLY show face in your accounts.. … .!!
Alex - should you read this (I know you will :P), thank you kindly for the opportunity to review your newest crushing methods, not only will I support this and refer other marketers to do the same, but I encourage you to never stop unleashing these top quality products - there aren’t many like us - the affiliates respond well for a reason - it’s all about quality/packaging/real intel by real successful people, but most importantly it’s all about people skills, only then do you really know how to communicate - thus enable an amazing approach to ‘marketing’ at any level - so keep truckin’ Mr. Goad!!!
Again: Here is the link to get in on this - and if you end up grabbing a copy through my referral links, please drop me a comment or email me, i’ll throw in a lil’ something to make your learning experience with Alex even more valuable than it already is… . .. Four Tier Annihilation Method
Reflecting on the many ventures i’ve been getting involved in over recent years, I recall sitting on a plane going to Vancouver with my associate Vadim beside me, and we were talking about how we live online. . … At first it was a good little chuckle but then we broke it down and I found myself quite taken back actually. It’s true - for the past 11 or so years, i’ve pretty much both made my living, and literally ‘lived’ online - for up to 70+ hrs STRAIGHT sometimes I might add! As the conversation continued we talked about the perks and consequences of our field, our goals, and looked through about 3-5 business magazines during that flight - critiquing and analyzing success stories
We were comparing our ventures, and those of conglomerate media companies or bluechips but obviously on a much smaller level. Questions started coming to mind about ‘how ”much” is enough - to consider yourself successful and walk away with your prize?’ The conversation stemmed out to a few other seats - and some interesting responses arose- $10million, **$100K a year ***$400 a day - ****I would never sell… Made me really think about this for myself. I’ve done the six figure salaries - I’ve done the whopping 20K in weekend campaigns, I’ve also had horrible years where I lost money though…. While my answer is still undefined - I would think to have enough to literally do anything at any time with your time would be ‘enough’. So After 11 years of doing this ’stuff’ - I’ve actually somewhat ‘been there’ for quite a while! My views are skewed in most peoples eyes because I monetize my time in a very different way compared to most… .. hmm expand on that:
Think about your day job - think about a one month term - ask yourself these questions:
*How many hours in 4 weeks are spent driving to/from work?
*How much money is spend on gas?
*What about your lunches, foods, snacks, coffees, perks…
*How much time in your day do you actually do ‘hard work’ that is challenging and rewarding?
I’ve eliminated ALL of the above for many years of my life (well - still gotta eat!!) - I’ve preserved my income well and most importantly, I am IN CHARGE of my time. Even if I didn’t make a dime more than I did today ever again - It’s actually more than enough! Having said that - I’m at a point in my career where a LOT of my ventures are about to overlap into a big funnel for plenty of automated revenue streams. When this happens, and if done correctly - it should equate to a self replicating or duplicating blueprint to ‘more than enough’ money to go around.. .. ….
A recent program I launched has made 2 people TODAY ALONE - over $1000 each. Do you have ANY idea how good it feels for me to be able to say that? Though I did not do it alone and have a partner, who I’m SURE feels the same way - The fact that someone takes what my studio creates - and markets the product juuuuust right - to enable double digit sales with their first campaign on day three of our launch, is just a heartfelt truth about this industry sometimes. The funny thing is - I have NO IDEA who they are! See - at networks like ClickBank - you cannot contact your affiliates through their system. So over the years I’ve been using my own methods to recruit, train and keep in touch with my big earners - but even then - when you have 10 or so program with clickbank - you literally have 1000’s of affiliates to watch, and you see who the stronger ones are right away… . .. So having said that - I don’t know about 90% of my affiliates - wow as I think about that - THAT is leverage! Do I want to know them? SURE! Would I take a day to meet with them someday - OF COURSE! In fact - I would love to (and just might) throw a HUGE shindig and seminar for FREE for all my people someday… yeh.
Anyway, so these guys are on their way to potentially making over 1K a day now - for who knows how long - but it could be forever! Even if it’s only for a year - $365,000 is a LOT OF MONEY! Give me 4 years and I’m out.. . … So as my affiliate pool gets bigger, and as this new product takes off with a bang - I’m going to come back to this post in ONE YEAR and let you guys know how much my top earners have made over the year. In turn - I will also disclose how much the campaign has brought the internal team as well - if we can get 1000 people making 1K a day - oh boy!!
Feel free to drop a comment with how much YOU feel is ‘enough’ to do what you want day to day. Is 1K a day enough? $200? $50? $4,000???
You’ve seen them, you’ve been ‘wowed’ by their power and by the amazing CMS (Content Management Systems) capabilities, and now you’re wondering “Do these guys really make any money with this stuff? It’s just some opinions and some text and some graphics/banners/aff link…?”.
Truthfully? You can make millions from these blogs - especially once you make your first one and prove that you can profit from it. Do I make millions with this one? Nope, not yet anyway - my blog has been up for a few months, during that time, one month it was down due to a server switch and careful customization/setup, and even now as I write, the blog itself is still NOT complete… However, having said that - blogs can be made into a wonderful income generator if they are setup properly…
1. If you are promoting someone elses product as an affiliate, it is relatively easy to get yourself a blog or wordpress theme, and buy a relative domain name to forward it to. The more SEO you throw at it, or the more plugins you get to help, the better! IF you are making it product centric, you can easily convert clicks and not deviate from your goal to monetize the offer you are pushing.
2. This is what I see most- and I KNOW it does not yield optimum results. If you set up a ‘make money online’ free blog with no customization or flare, just another plain blog, and throw tons of products on it, say by making it a review site - your efforts will be short lived imo. I think the biggest mistake I’m seeing is when people make blogs with 10 or so products, and promote 2-3 of those products in articles, youtube etc. just to get clicks to the blog first. Once at that blog, the person is distracted and tempted with 10 other products that you have endorsed… Chances are you just lost them before they even got to your site. If you heavily endorse a product, create your blog around THAT product and only THAT product, do not let the reader be distracted by any other offers or exits, leave them with as little room as possible for ‘decision making’.
3. LEARN SEO - Even if that means spending two-three weeks in advance of creating your blog - you MUST understand SEO so you can target keywords in various ways throughout your posts to attract your targeted visitors. If you do not know SEO - you might be setting yourself up for failure before you even start.
4. Do NOT create 10 blogs and interlink them - at least not yet. Your first task is to understand how they work, what the possibilities and restrictions are, and to MASTER your first blog so you can create others with just as much density and SEO. Otherwise you’ll have many ‘mediocre’ blogs and no matter how many you make it won’t make a difference for backlinks and quicker raises in your results.
5. Nowadays there are auto content generators, auto commenting in do follow blogs, auto searches and keyword stuffs… so many little tricks and fake generators that you can probably notice the difference right away as any reader would. This is not ideal - Your blog should be filled with useful, original and great content that YOU yourself have written or acquired - do NOT steal or imitate others ideas and posts, simply BE ORIGINAL and google/other SE’s will love it.
6. Don’t forget, google, msn, yahoo search engine bots are like a 6 year old, they do not like to be confused, yet they get confused easily so your objective is not to trick them knowingly, but to rather give them exactly what they want - feed them in a way that will not confuse them or put them in a loop.
7. Branding - I can talk about this one forever so I will make it brief. Notice how my blog is quite original and you will not find one like it elsewhere (unless people start copying it). The better job you can do with your branding, the more readership you will attract, and the more respect/authority you will portray. Nobody likes looking at stale or standard templates no matter how good your content is, make sure your blog is at least well put together and well thought out visually. Logo, colors, typography sets, graphics, taglines, white space, etc.
8. Sometimes I feel that those who have absolutely NO intention of monetizing their blogs get the most attention. Why? Because their objective is pure - they give google and others real content to index that is clearly not an ‘ad’ or meant to monetize… Google might be like a 6 year old, however you must think - how many webmasters try to take advantage of it everyday with potent SEO tricks? Their algorithm changes a lot and though it acts like a 6 year old, it’s filter to crap is that of a world leading veteran… So - content is king after all - make sure your content is GREAT and you will succeed. Take time with your writing, take time with your formatting, take time with thinking about what to write. Get a lil’ personal, that works well for me. Write to your readers on a one to one, tell them a story, bring them into your world a little deeper than others, and YOU - will have them hooked and subscribing to your feed in no time.
9. I’m sorry that this post does not have a clear step by step of how to make money with your blog - so in closing, there are countless ways to monetize it including:
*Get a clickbank or paydotcom or CJ or linkshare or shareasale or other network account (free).
*Pick a sector of business or life in general that you love, and start acquiring the top 3 products in that sector. You will soon be promoting these products and affiliate links from your ‘one to one’ blog.
*Get adsense - this is only going to make you pennies per click however if your blog goes HUGE - it can be a good little stream of income.
*Advertise for people - allow a banner spot or 2 or 10 with pricing for each.
*Offer reviews of products for a fee - your client will have a professional review, backlinks to their site and most people will read it before buying as they research what they are about to purchase…
*Sell your own ebook/digital product and get a paypal account, you can create PayPal buttons right in your posts and collect directly from your blog.
*If your blog is for a good non-profit cause, put a ‘donation’ button/box in all your posts or on your interface somewhere.
A good scenario: You get a blog, about life - it costs you $10 - lets say you get www.allaboutlife.com <<I’m sure that’s not available but good example. Now you can write all about life and endorse anything and everything.
Now you get an account somewhere like clickbank, pick a product YOU LOVE << get a domain name for it. Now promote that domain in your blog Here is a video to better explain this:
I must finish as it’s long weekend here in Toronto and I can here the firecrackers starting to go off so I’m gone to the beach to watch the show! Enjoy and I hope this teaches you enough that you get inspired to go to blogger or wordpress and start on one tonight!!
I’ve been noticing that my blog does an absolutely amazing job with indexing me quick and high for whatever keywords I target. So today, just as a test for google and other search engines, I’m going to keyword stuff this post and see how high I can climb on random “make money online” variations and potency…
Why not - I know this may work against me and I might get penalized however I’m not too worried as this blog isn’t meant to be monetized ‘that’ way anyway…
I will update this post once in a while with my findings. So far - the elements are:
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*Bolding *Strikethroughs *Italics
*Header1-2-4 and 4 tags
*S p a c i n g
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I'm giving this test a good kick of karma. You all know about PW - and if you don't - it's one of my courses that teaches you marketing on the top level and costs $250 - however: For you today (shhh) $35 << I can’t believe I’m doing that! **If you’re in FireFox and don’t see the ‘buynow’ button, you are free to email me mentioning this post and I’ll honor your discount CodeWord for you Today is: Karma << Yes, I will ask.
It’s a full blown course with 13 ebooks, videos, audio guides and PLR/MRR content
I’ll even throw in free smile and geeky joke in my email
You’re robbing me blind while this deal is on - but I’m good with that - all about karma
You’re robbing yourself blind if you pass this up!
If you do grab a copy simply email me to get your download (Though I might beat you to it and email you faster)
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It’s funny nowadays that so many pirates have polluted forums, infested networks, taken control of the industry and consider themselves ‘the elite’ if there is such a thing… Some of these people are simply what I like to call ‘Virtual land owners’ - Their real estate online is ‘hot’ - they monetize by simply ‘being there’ with a great .com and a big head start in the industry… Lucky them huh? They get free user generated content, discussions, rantings, bashings, advice, chatting, creating pages and pages of backlinks and keyword stuffing << I just did it actually, just by trying to describe this process, go look up ‘generous marketing’ - .5million + results and I’m on page one within 2 hours (at time of this posting I’m at #3 - this lil’ blog of mine has some ‘juice’! **EDIT: now on page 2 ((the following day)) - however google sometimes reindexes or crawls and updates if you add/change pages, so generous marketing keyword << goes there, let’s see if re-adding the phrase “generous-marketing” a few times and changing my headline makes a difference and bumps me up again, I will update this part tomorrow or the next day) ((EDIT #2 - Following day - Now I’m on Page 1 - result #2!! this is for both google.ca and .com - it….worked;)) … Anyway so you think that if you could just get a site that gives you free content auto-generated and indexed quick, you can just throw some adsense in there - or some affiliate programs - or both (not recommended), that you can cash in the online cow and auto-pilot your revenue right?
Let’s take a different approach on things for a second though. Let’s talk about just good old marketing. When you get exposed to enough of it or have to look after many of your own clients, you see that sometimes the most bizarre techniques can actually get you the biggest results. Let’s look at internet marketing for a second, and the various ways we ‘do things’ in our day to day. We pick products to endorse, we buy ads everywhere, we get domains and set up tiny urls, we get opt-ins and autoresponders, we do upsells and retention campaigns, we re-cycle lists to keep trying to monetize them, we partner with others to do all of the above on a bigger scale… all in the hope of getting sales, affiliates, and at the end of the day consider yourself a good marketer paying his/her way through life with an internet connection…handsomely, hopefully!
Ok so ‘that other thought’ - everyone likes ‘free’ right? And everyone likes ‘money’ right? When you launch a campaign based around generous marketing or as I like to call ‘karma’ marketing - you have no idea what kind of buzz you can generate! Car manufacturers give cars away at promos or car lots all the time as prizes , in a branding effort, or a community effort, balloons are given away to kids at carnivals for the same - the feeling - the thought - it’s memorable and you’ll come back next time with a smile…. Marketers do it ‘every day’ and they do it in many different ways… but - there IS usually a catch, there IS usually someone, somewhere - that will want to monetize you or put other offers in front of you, I am no different! However this can also be done in a transparent way and under a good light…
Imagine if… you could offer someone some solid - genuine advice today. No really - some information that they perhaps were ‘craving’ for and having a really hard time finding… You might think of consulting or lawyering or a specialist you might hire or have hired. Now if YOU were the person that had the knowledge and information, how valuable would it be to you if you gave it away to your peers for free? How much ‘detail’ would you share? How much do you think you would be appreciated for offering someone that information - that could in fact make a big difference in their pockets and earnings? Sounds fishy right? of course, we’re all use to it - however when you have something people want, and you do a contest or a giveaway that is money related, you’re going to see that the response is huge and you will make an impression…
Here are two examples of such experiences, this goes to further shed light on a mass scale of all of the above.
Next time you’re thinking of a hot promo - allocate a part of your efforts to a giveaway. Bonuses seem to run a large portion of the daily sales for many people - adding bonuses to your offers along with free knowledge, well - now we’re ‘talking’….
Due to the recent boom with the digital product market - I am noticing more and more people in this game switch their day to day affiliate ventures to a more complex and potentially rewarding game - becoming a vendor.
“I GOT IT!! I’ve been doing ok as an affiliate, I think it’s time to start my own product and affiliate program…”
There are thousands of people that launch products everyday hoping and praying that the offer will convert well, and attract a huge crew of affiliates in order to maximize their time and leverage their ‘offer’. In fact - almost every single day when I login to the various marketing forums to see ‘what’s up’, I notice is yet another newbie vendor pushing a sales letter generated page and their new ‘product’. I would confidently say that 90% of them enter the market prematurely and get very few if ANY conversions - and so they now realize that affiliate marketing is sometimes better from the affiliate point of view - and they fail miserably at being a vendor.
Now - having said all that - what DOES one need to do in order to have a successful launch? to attract both super affiliates and customers by the dozen the moment it launches? How do you get affiliates if you have low stats or no stats? How do you get super affiliates to switch and properly recruit them to your programs? It’s a battle zone and shark pool if you ask me!
So - being here for a while myself now, and having gone through dozens of launches over the years for products, services, events, people, websites, tv shows and so on - I actually found the process to come somewhat natural to me. Some people are just born to be better vendors and business owners than others. Today is your lucky day because I’m going to expose many of my tactics to you so that perhaps YOU can give some REALLY good thought to your next launch, or your first one!
Step 1. “The idea” - You did it! You found a few niche markets, you mined them, you figured out a GREAT new product or service idea that would fit well in the marketplace… GREAT! You need to a)Make the product (e-book/video guide/audio guide/membership/etc-digital). b)Buy the product - if you don’t understand this - it’s called PLR (Private Label Rights) or MRR (Master Resale Rights) or white label rebranding etc. There is actually quite a few people out there that run PLR/MRR sites for software, e-books, reports etc. and it may not be hard to ‘find’ a cool product to monetize. So day one is complete, let’s say you chose a cooking recipe site with ebooks and audio guides for this example.
Step 2. “Recruitment” - Because your focus will not be customer based (yet), your focus will be affiliate recruitment - YOU NEED TO START NOW! You need to get your .com and put up an opt-in form right away, with your program description underneath it - i.e. “New recipe offer - Affiliates keep 75% - launching xx - come on board early and…”.
Step 3. “Your Brand” - Here is where most people go wrong. YOU MUST understand the importance of branding yourself well. YOU MUST! I can (and will) fill up 20 posts with branding alone - to be short and sweet though, make sure you have a great logo, style guide, color theme, font theme, stock photo theme, product/boxes/books/graphic theme, and importantly - GREAT navigation with your interface. This will take you a long time even if you outsource it however it will be worth it.
Step 4. “Your Site” - Today you will finalize your site: You made sure that - You designed it well. You either hired a copywriter or are a great writer yourself, you have an amazing greased slide read that is broken up well with graphics, bullets, and proper formatting. You have testimonials, proof of end results, great calls to action and your ‘order now’ area/links are very well thought out. Piece of cake right?
Step 5. “Your marketing” - Here is your affiliate recruitment page - this is a page that is filled with marketing material that you and your affiliates will use to go to market with. This is VERY important, the more assets you have to play with, the bigger your outreach and the stronger your penetration into the markets. For a good example of one of these pages visit: http://www.nichechoppers.com/niche-product-thefatrichpig.html
Step 6. Ok - Now you have enough done that you can or should have started to approach others who can act as helpers in your blitz campaign. Hopefully your front page is recruiting well, and you are keeping in touch with people that opted in once in a while to give them updates. Here you must announce your actual launch date, and make sure that you and your team all launch together to really ‘hit’ the markets. You show your team the marketing material and tell them to get ready to promote.
Step 7. You’re 2 weeks away - switch your front page to a HOT ‘coming soon - here is why YOU need this’ page. This page now has an opt-in for customers to fill out so you can notify them when you are ready to fulfill orders. Make an ‘affiliates’ button on the bottom of the page. Point it to your marketing material page.
Step 8. Setup a test campaign with google/yahoo/msn on your own to test the conversions of your sales page - YOU WILL need to tweak it, and will want to maximize it BEFORE your affiliates get their hands on it because if it does not convert for YOU - it won’t convert for them AND they will probably leave you shortly after their first test campaigns.
Step 9. You’re a few days away from your launch, you setup a back door for your affiliates to start to get some pre-sales and testing/warming up to their campaigns. You’ll probably have a lot of last minute adjustments that will need to be made. LISTEN to your affiliates and team - they are the ones that will automate your revenue streams- LISTEN to them.
Step 10. Launch Day - You give the green light to your affiliates, partners, list owners etc. that they can promote - right after you switch your index page (home page) to your official final draft of your sales letter. Once you do this it’s a rollercoaster from here - OR - it dies quickly and everyone leaves because the offer is defective and not converting. << It happens - and I myself cannot say that ‘every’ single launch I’ve had has been huge - but I CAN say that with each launch, things get better and seem even more natural, so if your first product is a bust - don’t sweat it, consider it a practice run.
Post Launch. You might think that as a vendor you have it made - things are easy - everyone is working for you - you just collect fat pay checks. Well ok some of that IS indeed true. However here is a part of being a vendor one often overlooks and then finds it tedious to have to render:
*Customer support - IF YOUR PRODUCT goes HUGE - YOU will have a LOT of customer support to deal with. That’s a ‘good’ thing though. I would rather deal with small little problems all day due to payments and order instead of chasing them to begin with - If I can make a million by dealing with peoples download problems or other delivery problems - my only answer is “pass me the phone I’ll start right now”.
*Affiliate recruitment - You’re always going to be recruiting into your army - ALWAYS - you’re like a gang leader, and must preach to your crew that they need to recruit too - however they will refuse because they want a small team - not a saturated one. You will always be recruiting don’t forget that.
*Affiliate support - Often uderestimated. Affiliates have their own set of needs, and you must tend to them. You must help them shape their campaigns, offer them advice, give them what they need in order to make YOU money.
*Maintenance/updates - You will need to make new creatives once in a while, new articles, new videos, new ’stuff’ in order to keep you and your affiliates campaigns fresh.
*Competitive Intel - You will need to watch those close to your circle, and see if they are doing anything sparatic that can potentially harm your positioning. Always know what your competitors are doing.
*Management - Day to day you will have various little things you’ll need to do. You’ll notice a few of your affiliates might be bad apples, you’ll notice your site slow down or error or get hacked, you’ll notice you’re NOT converting NOR is anyone for a while, you’ll have to keep your ship running smoothly and with a smile yet firm and confident nature. Don’t forget - you are the owner of a big operation now - and you have a huge sales team to look after - a huge monetization closed loop that you must keep squeeky clean in order for it all to equate to that elusive first thought and end goal - MONEY. If you do all of this, and you succeed - what do you do? Launch another product, and another - soon you will have an array of revenue streams, some will outdo others, some will fail miserably, overall though - THAT is leverage.
Before you come to market, do some great research on both your idea and what’s already out there. chances are whatever you are thinking of launching - has already been done over and over - however don’t let that stop you, just DO IT BETTER and you WILL succeed!
It’ Down Right Dirty ! However, conveniently legal too (unless you’re on the receiving end of getting hi-jacked). It’s been a popular tactic lately in the affiliate world - to spy, learn from and outdo your competitors be they affiliates or vendors. To snoop and copy their profitable PPC or BUM marketing campaigns and steal your revenue streams by shaping competing campaigns, outbidding you, outwriting you, recruiting more than you, and ultimately making MUCH more money than you! If you don’t fight back you might as well kiss your campaigning good-bye along with your conversions and profits.
To stay competitive in the affiliate marketing world - especially digitial product markets like clickbank or paydotcom etc., you MUST be able to outperform your fellow affiliate or vendor. You must be able to know exactly when they are making moves and how they are marketing. You must be able to reach lucrative super affiliates faster and recruit more like them in as little time as possible. Some people have huge affiliate lists, huge campaigns penetrating the markets and huge competitive intel they’ve already gathered - which has taken years and many product launches to build - only to have any beginner swoop in and sweep his/her data from under their nose all with a legal and automated way.
It’s not NEW at all actually! Competitive intelligence and analytics is a HUGE part of any business and objective. Anyone that checks their web stats, PPC campaigns, blogs, articles etc. can all attest to data mining being lucrative… Affiliate Marketing Tools Like TheFatRichPig’s Affiliate Crusher are said to be the new era of spy vs. spy money makers. These recruitment automation and competition destroying advantages are… well… ANY marketers dream come true really. These tools are not really blackhat, they simply fast-track data mining and do research for you within a click or two that would usually take you months!
i think i speak on behalf of any affiliate marketer when I say ‘fluctuation SUCKS!’ I’ve stopped wondering about fluctuation and sudden drops in sales or why my affiliates all left… in fact i’ve done rather well since using these spy tools and kind of wish I had them since day one - It’s like hands on learn while you do/earn college that trains you to be a marketing sniper the moment you get your hands on it. I’ve learned a lof about my campaigning mistakes, why others are profiting so much, and how these big launches bring in fortunes with tons of affiliates on board from day one. There’s a whole lot to be said about competitive intelligence after all! >> http://www.thefatrichpig.com
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“I GOT IT!! I’ve been doing ok as an affiliate, I think it’s time to start my own product and affiliate program…”
