This blog isn’t even 100% finished yet re structure and links etc., and I’m already considering closing it up. Why? Well, at the end of the day, this industry is known for both showing your status and spot, as well as documenting your success. More importantly for me though, this business is about automation. My version of status and spot, is to get the fcuk off these computers in the near future. Ever hear a guru try to teach you that? Yep, I said it, my goal and aim, is to go from where I am now into epic levels through quality partners and a big enough greased wheel to allow me to free myself from gazing into a screen(s) all day.

This blog doesn’t make any direct money, it has a couple referral links here and there, and perhaps also helps recruit into my affiliate programs, however the novelty is wearing off and frankly - updating this thing is fun at most, daunting at least. I’m even starting to chuckle to myself that I named and branded this with so much bling and wow factor.. . …

Perhaps I thought “Ok, it’s been 12 years, start a blog already, tell some stories, educate a few people, have some fun, and yes you’ll need it to recruit and get noticed in this industry”. Realistically, this blog hasn’t really done jack shyte for me other than remind me that I ‘gotta do a blog post’ every other day/week. The value of these things can be high, however the overall experience for a publisher to try to keep a blog, and get personal on it as well as mix in some business, has become a bunch of BS.

Having said that, I have no idea where this blog will go from here, you might just see the domain forwarded somewhere else shortly, or I might overhaul it again and stop the bling/money approach - I’m starting to enjoy my free time, and maximizing it for personal or more business reasons - documenting my success shall happen in other ways for me I think.

True automation is quite difficult in any form of business. The only real robots are the machines that enable factories to speedline their products. Every single publisher/merchant/affiliate I know still has a lot of day to day tasks no matter how much you automate your systems. Customer support, retention strategies, competitive intel, new campaigns, skimmers/fraud/refund enthusiasts, technical glitches/hacks, copyright infringement, the list goes on. These short lived spurts of income can become distant if you stop the chase, and I’m finally realizing that focusing on a set of valuable programs with one to one customer support is the true way to success. Not blogs, not recruiting in mass, launching more ebooks, but focusing on developing a relationship with nothing but quality people AND customers.

I will always be available through the Niche Choppers forum, and this domain may in fact get forwarded there in the near. This all stems from a huge launch for a new product/service happening tomorrow. Blogging is not something I really want to do anymore simple as that. It’s been ‘fun’, it’s been crappy at times when getting tons of bots posting bullshit comments/links, it’s been a bitch to try to finish, and it’s been fun keeping in touch with some of you guys through here.

Thank you,
N.

This post comes shortly after my 1000th post at an affiliate marketing forum (<<You should read it - I gave away tons of free profitable campaigns) or webmaster forum… I signed up to DOZENS years and years ago, and went through signing up to about 20 (or perhaps ‘resigning up’ would be more accurate) about a year or so ago…

It can be a rather… intimate experience, one part of you is just trying to fit in with this group, another part of you is absorbing and filtering the bullshit, another part of you wants to network, and yes for many these plague infested fcuking forums are also filled with spammers, wankers, scammers, wannabees, and HILARIOUSLY fubar signature links with all of them chasing the same nickel… Now don’t get me wrong, forum marketing is HUGE, and I love it myself, and use signature links too however what I find fascinating are the kids that blatantly put “Make 7K your first 3 weeks online” - yet proceed to ask the stupidest and most basic questions totally diluting his own credit and being a broken inglush hypocrite … . .. Grrrr.. . …

So - in light of this new little milestone and being loyal to xx forums, and constantly refining my journey through them all, I’m going to try to offer a non-biased straight up look at the truth about each forum below. Please feel free to drop your opinions or agree/disagree with me - I AM going to offer a few of my ‘opinions’ here as well.

1. NicheChoppers Marketing and webmaster forums
100% Free, No paid sections yet, Na ads! must sign up to view most goods:
Visit: http://forums.nichechoppers.com

^^ I’m obviously going to have to spam my own first - it’s newer than most, is JUST starting to get busy, and I’M GLAD I waited a year of being loyal to others before really shaping and recruiting into mine - in short: No hassle bung free environment, moderated well, rather aggressive yet loose approach, tying my family in a little tighter with each day. Closed loop family with success stories, tons of step by steps, growing daily.

2. Digital Point review - Visit: http://forums.digitalpoint.com
Usually where most people start at, it’s HUGE and full of…. crap:however is also the forum I myself had to filter and waste time at for over 1000 posts (1001 at this time) before handing in my diet card and bowing out… I’ll be back, however probably just to laugh at the de ja vu of stupidity and horrible moderation. If it’s one thing DP has, it is shear SIZE and the fact that it is always BUSY - however at the same time is FULL of just… everything bad with this industry, like everything…

I personally must have helped get 20-30 idiots banned from there… FACK makes me angry thinking about that place!! If you’re a TOTAL n00b, enjoy the rare little golden nugget you can find in there, and don’t buy ebooks or click on signature links unless you view it from a marketing point of view not a consumer… (Hi guys, miss me yet?). If DP let ME run the boat for a few days, I’d a) kick a lot of people off b) get BETTER MODS c) Monetize it better d) Change the colors

3. WarriorForum review - Visit: http://warriorforum.com/forum/
Well, definitely a step up from DP!! WF is known to have a TON of the bigger ebook and digital products/services players all hawking their newest WSO (Warrior Special Offer) to each other and there is a LOT of padding, and patting! Hey I myself have sold a few things in their WSO section, and their JV section is actually pretty good if you’re scouting for new offers, launching, or looking to partner up with someone on a project…

I thought about dropping some names here but I’m not that kind with my link juice yet… and this blog seems to do great with ranking - so perhaps I’ll give some props to at least one person I can say a LOT about in there so far - and that is Nicholas from MasteredManuscripts << Great writer.

4. ClickBankSuccess review - Visit: http://clickbanksuccessforum.com/forum/
Once I joined CB - I wanted to start scouting for AFF’s and for pubs alike, thus joining CB’s appointed forum… I liked it a lot more at first than I do today - Main reason is it might as well be a ’support’ forum as their rules and door are quite tight re what you can/can’t talk about… If you so much as question whether or not CB is down/acting up/failing, the post gets removed and you may get banned… I can see why they do it and I would hate that on my forum too, so perhaps a stupid example but overall - THEY’RE TIGHT!

The good part is you’ll find a LOT of both CB n00bs and pro’s asking/answering GOOD and relevant CB questions. Though even with their own appointed forum - DP’s CB section alone easily compares to the activity and n00bness factor in each… (GUYS - A FEW FCUKING STICKIES!! THAT’S ALL IT TAKES TO STOP DUMB QUESTIONS AND FAST-TRACK PEOPLE - oh wait, you WANT dumb questions, versioned intel, make them ask… more threads and posts right??).. meh, sorry they’re all like that to a point not just this one. So yes, stickies and loosen the tie a little please.

5. ABW - AbestWeb review - Visit: http://www.abestweb.com
Perhaps the ONLY forum I’ve ever been banned from and kicked off of… wankers! I made a HUGE blog and formal complaint about it a while back but decided to remove it due to their response/reaction… more wankers! Also very busy, MANY top level brands and bullshit commission structures on things like carpets/rugs/tangibles/etc… Lot’s of pro’s and I heard the owner can be a nice guy, but the short lived days I had there proved him and his crew otherwise…

In short: I launched a Recruitment and affiliate spy software (TFRP), and paid to put up a advertorial/recruitment post… The first response was a hidden insult at my whole program FROM A FCUKING MOD - Referencing another new member and getting the whole crew to come to my paid thread, and rip me plus my program to pieces… Ok cool, I got to show some colors too, and have a good look around at all their sigs, their thread style, their learning curve/operation etc… and can only say that the elitists there do a good job of making n00bs stay n00bs, and detouring any chance of real earnings with mouthy personal bullshit back and forth, ‘at least put some humor into it you WF wannabees’. Anyway so within a day, I got thousands of views, some PR, some negative buzz, a lot of affiliates, and a pissed off group of elitists for not ‘freaking out’ like I’m sure they hoped…

Finally posted my final ‘fcuk you and have a nice day, I’m out’ but in a very gentle way, and my post got removed, then my whole paid thread got removed… then got a refund and a ban and kick in the ass out the door for standing up for myself, because I was vexed that a MOD would make an idiot out of a sponsor/paying member publically (hi Trust - hope all is well in ‘fun’ mod land)- wankers! Before all this drama - I was STARTING to like SOME of the banter and the members and offers/pubs…, however will still say that most are stuck on selling rugs and see 3-12% commission on $59 offers as ‘amazing’ programs, SAS seems to have them by the balls along with a few other networks, and the digital arena products/services is just ’stench’ to them…. On the flip side - THEY BANK (just needs some clean up with operations/day to day bullshit they allow). **Oh and too much advertising imo too (I know they’re for profit, but c’mon - easy on the offers man - way to make me feel UNcommunity - what is this church? You’re waiving a money basket at me when I just got here??).

6. 5staraffiliateprograms.com review - Visit: http://www.5staraffiliateprograms.com/
One word - WOW - More on the corporate side of things, LARRY IS DA BOMB - and the main owner is actually really cool and involved with the op fairly intimately so the moderation is par… perhaps a tiny bit tight but for the programs and offers/clients/recruiters etc. that they attract, I think it’s best this way - To note the above - if ABW mods and members came to 5star, they’d get wake up call that’s for sure.

This place is like an affiliate and publisher wonderland full of anything and everything to do with our industry. News, gossip and funny banter is minimal - rather expect a mix of dry humor with witty banter and low tolerance to crapola. Also home to many networks sponsor threads and good recruiters/programs for all levels of experience. I said this once on there before - “Every Forum Needs A Larry” - And just might make him a t-shirt that says that oneday… Known not to sleep for 3 days because he actually PM’s just about everyone/anyone for any reason or just to help, or break their posting cherry, etc… (Wonder what he’s worth actually - most committed employee I’ve ever seen)… Kudos to you guys, sorry I’m not there as much, get an easier to remember domain and I’ll stop wasting time trying to get there and giving up .. . .. Jokes.

6. WickedFire GAY MARKETING FORUM review - Visit: http://www.wickedfire.com/
Two words - HOLY SHIT - “They can actually get away with this stuff?!?!” is probably the first thing you’ll think before visiting less than 4 threads. Perhaps the most diehard and down to earth AM forum - DEFINITELY NOT A PLACE FOR N00BS!! Lucky my name is Norb not noob - and although I PHAILED MISERABLY there on occasion - I’ll easily say that this is one of the best and upbeat places to mingle/stay active (just don’t transition from DP to there and you’ll be fine - maybe).

Amazing names and faces, top level industry veterans along with perhaps the most lethal dose of internweb humor you’ll ever experience… It’s like a Seinfeld episode and Kramer is 10x as fuct, mixed with many elements of ’survivor’ and a splash of ‘reality fcuk you’ daily n00by disaster pwnage…

All fun aside though - I’ve been there a little more often recently and after getting pwned myself, I’m making headway and gaining a few points with their elite .. . … i thinkz… See - if you haven’t been there you’ll think I’m an ass for calling it a gay marketing forum in the title lol, however once you get there and read some threads, you’ll see what I mean (no they are not actually gay - and no you should NEVER click on things - even when they look absolutely harmless… TRUST ME DON’T DO IT!!!) - it’s home to the most epic dickroll since the inception of the interweb, and you’ll be scarred for life!

Ok as you can see I’m really liking this one. However perhaps more than most others because it has a LOT of EDGE - kinda like me, though I’m quite tame in comparison - it’s amazing what they actually DO get away with - I won’t spoil it, and I won’t promise YOU will like it or fit in or get liked, but I will promise that it is packed with everything from black/blue/white/fcuking polkadot hat tactics, n00b guides, great threads, and an addictive humor base to boot.

6. WebmasterForums review - Visit: http://www.webmasterforums.com/
Kinda dry really, I think this was one of the ones I signed up to eonz ago and didn’t like it too much then either. It’s not that it’s bad - it’s just that I have to compare it with a LOT of other shtuff above - and that shtuff is just.. better.

Anyway - It’s got some great technoids that do seem to enjoy that side of the industry a lot more than actually making money (being a webmaster) - Not as busy as some of the others, not as intimate, and a lot of the threads are hard to decipher as it attracts a LOT of foreigners with horrible typing (god bless you all however you’re trying to break into the MARKETING spectrum in English speaking markets - you NEED to par up your writing/grammar before trying to be some expert/guru/makehmoniez ebook developer…)… Sorry but I’m giving this and DP the same playing field and user experience rating… At least this one laid out a little better and the pros/mods seems to care for the community a little more.

7. eWealth review - Visit: http://www.eWealth.com
I like it - Not as busy as many of the others, however home to many big names as well as great focused community involvement. Things to look for are the interviews with the pros, the announcements for programs/callouts to affs, and a well spread section for a few networks out there… Can’t really say too much more about it! 4.5 stars! (Good mods/good humor from senior members).

8. BlackHatWorld review - Visit: http://www.blackhatworld.com
Retarted amounts of info and ‘tools’ are available on this forum. If you’ve ever wanted to venture over to the wrong side of the digital legal tracks and see how to monetize them… this is the place to learn. It’s kinda funny actually - as my loyalty grew to this one slowly, I noticed that it’s actually filled with 80% n00bs too, most have no clue how or what all this BH stuff is, but want to eagerly learn/explore, and thus these n00bs probably (imo) evolve into amazing whitehat/greyhat marketers very quickly. I like hanging out in there sometimes because they don’t sugar coat shit, they don’t tollerate dumbasses, they explore and document sooo many tactics that you’ve probably never thought to do (and will probably be too chicken shit to try).

Once you get your initiation out of the way it’s smooth sailing… Not nearly as ‘bad’ as you’d think re the people or the vibe. Cheers to the admins/mods there they’ve been great to me (had a bunch of my shit shared there, and they actually have a blacklist for people like me to add their progs to make sure members don’t share them or they get banned - woot! And of course - I had to learn the hard way - everyones initiation is different)…

Damn I gotta run, was hoping to do at least 10 - perhaps I’ll do volume 2 later though I probably won’t… So in closing - yes I’ll probably still poke my head into all xx forums, no I probably won’t be signing up to anymore, HELL NO will I NEVER be paying for them like many dumbasses do, and HELL NO I don’t think I’ll be making my 2000th post at DP anytime soon…

I tried to raw - sorry if any of you owners read this and don’t like it - perhaps my own forum will now be under scrutiny but that’s fine mine is still a baby and has no $ agenda other than to honestly make my team money - because they sell my products they also make me money - so it’s in my best interest to make sure my forum, my family and my crew earn well, learn well and grow fast… /shameless plug.

<forumdiet> bigtime </forumdiet>

Norb.

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’.

Cheers family,
NC.

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*This is the most lucrative and high paying post on DP - I pwomise - YOU WILL get paid - I will fly to see you personally, and hand you over a suitcase full of money EVERY time you do NOTHING at least ONCE a day!

*I even have 16 testimonials from happy NOTHING doers who are living life like they always imagined - DOING NOTHING! You can read them once you are in my inner circle, I’ll even jump on the phone with you to reassure you that NOTHING is great and an easy thing monetize!! It’s all about NOTHING!

*My top affiliate earned $16,389,188.00 on his THIRD DAY! I have proof! He’s that guy that everyone knows, you know, John…! He’s so filthy rich now that he NEVER even goes outside, he’s just lazy and sleeps in PILES of CASH all day - he smokes though - but that’s ok because he ACTUALLY SMOKES $100 BILLS!! Imagine being THAT rich!! Doing NOTHING?!

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NC. This is a tribute to ALL marketing forums out there who have members that love to creatively and non-intrusively create padded threads, ‘pm me for more info’, second tier referrals, link bait, backlink jackarses, fake screenshot or earnings posters, PM spammers, leachers, trolls, and the 1000 other things you get called for trying to monetize a community you are trying to become one with. In honor of the few golden nuggets among these forums, please do the following:

**Anytime you see a link/pm bait thread - feel free to copy and paste this whole  message above CO/NCMEDIA into their spammy thread, elite members and n00b’s will get the picture…

Feel free to add your silly addition in a comment below, i’d love to hear the cracks and smacks you guys have seen on the forums… Cheers, Norb.

Landing pages and Mini Sites.

Landing pages are basically quick presell pages that vendors offer their affiliates, they serve
many purposes and most times a landing page is going to convert for you much better than
straight aff linking from ads to the main site. These pages are usually designed with SEO in
mind, HOWEVER: We STRONGLY recommend you change the title, some meta tags, and some
text on the page, I’ll explain why shortly.

This product has various landing pages for you to use and customize. If you still don’t get it: We
do our best to attract affiliates to help us sell Project Wealthy, and we need to offer them all types
of marketing material to get them selling with minimal effort. In addition to the main site, we make
great little one page sites that affiliates point their traffic and ad campaigns to, that landing page
has their affiliate link and ID attached to the links so when they click fom the landing page to the
main site, we know exactly which affiliate sent the traffic.

If a sale is made, both the affiliate and the product owner will know where and how the traffic got
there. Some landing pages are amazing and others will just not convert. We recommend using
landing pages that are attractive, short, sweet, and have amazing calls to action to click through
to the main site.

How to use them: The best thing to do is to download all the landing pages a vendor offers,
optimize them all with your own affiliate links and seo tricks, and upload them to your
servers/hosting space. Now submit those pages to as many SE’s, directories etc. as possible.
Though it’s not mandetory it will obviously make most sense to grab a domain name
(godaddy.com $2.99) that is relevant to the product, and forward your domain name to your main
landing page.

If the product your are promoting does not have a landing page, you will have to create your own.
Take some of the graphics and text/colors/fonts/etc. from the vendor page and utilize them into
your own powerful one page call to action. Make sure there is a continuity in design, and do not
try to sell them anything yet, do not show price points, simply get them OFF the page quickly
and onto the merchants sales page.
Monetizing Intermissions
Looking after my own products and promoting others: I can confidently say this.
1. If you find a profitable system with adwords via direct linking, you will soon get bumped (i hate
that!). Superaffiliates can smell a successful campaign a mile away.
2. Landing pages have MANY pros and few cons, for the products I run, my best affiliates
convert with the landing pages that i premade, which they changed re text/meta/seo, and some
now place higher than the main site for certain keyphrases organically.

If done correctly your landing page should:
a) Get you long term results if you take the time to change up the meta/seo and submit those
pages to se’s. There is a whole chapter on SEO etc. if you haven’t read it yet you’ll love it.
b) Utilize a social bookmarking tool on your landing pages, it may go viral without you knowing
or having to do anything.
c) Allow you to get a domain name and forward it for your own sub-branding, and not competing
with the main .com in sponsored listings.
d) Well made langing pages are not meant to keep the customer on them, they are meant to
quickly get visitors onto the merchant site. Look for landers that are not long pitches but quick
effective intermission pages.
e) More control over the content, keys, presentation, tricks etc.
f) Allow you to throw in your aweber (explained in the ‘email marketing’ chapter) or other forms
for follow up/list collection.
g) Easier tracking/analytic abilities if you make multiple landers w/their own sets of ads.
h) If a product offers more than one landing page in their affiliate section, I recommend grabbing
them all, changing them all to your own keys and submitting them all to se’s, why do one if you
can double/triple test your campaign.

Monetizing Intermissions cont’d
I have actually made over 90% of my sales with the use of effective LP’s on both my own
campaigns promoting cb products, as well as watching how my affiliates work on my products.
The ones that succeed are the ones that indeed utilize both, however the ones that stick around
are usually the ones that use landers (because they see more sales).

Some believe that landing pages get penalized by google and you get a low quality score on
your ads because it is only a single page without much content. The best workaround is to make
a 3 step pre-sell - so on landing page 1 you intro the product with a call to action link that goes
to page 2, here you tell them a bit more about the info, perhaps a video/audio/flash demo, and
have another call to action and link to page 3, here you tell them how much this product is going
to help, what advantages there are and your most important call to action link will now point them
to the merchant site. IF the free info and step by step you’re giving them is put together well, you
can literally presell the customer so well that they won’t even read the entire vendor site and just
scroll to the ‘buy now’ button to order.

You will notice that most ClickBank products pretty much follow the same formula, most are very
long sales pitches that follow a sequence of important information, testimonials, offers, bonus
material and powerful close. These pages are usually designed and written by professional and
expensive copywriters. Why? Because often the sales letter will be more powerful than the
product itself, so vendors realize that getting into the minds and emotions of their customers is
important.

There is a science to it, psychology and reaction play a big roll, and this money pulling, reaching
for your wallet influence is very important for the customer to absorb. SO, in my opinion it is still
better to get your traffic and customers OFF your landing page quickly with a great call to action
to the merchant site, chances are you will not be as good at the whole sales pitch as the vendor
and their team.

Take action
Even if you do not have hosting or have not picked a product yet, please complete this action to
understand how to maximize your landing pages.

1. Please pick a CB product that offers a landing page now, download and open it.
2. Inspect the page, look at all the SEO and meta-tags, re-arrange them with your own tricks and
target new/better keywords, try to outdo the vendor with their SEO.
3. Add some customization to it, if you have Aweber, put a form on the page. Make sure the
lander has a social bookmarking tool, if it does not - install one.
4. Now that you have one page mastered, make a backup copy. Now starting again, create your
first two or three-step call to action. Make two-three pages, and get creative with how you’re
going to entice your visitor to click through them and onto the merchant site.
5. Review, refine, double check links, seo, etc. Once all is complete, if you have a hosting plan
upload the pages to your server and check everything again in a live online environment.
6. If you’ve done everything correctly, point your .com or dns to this page, and proceed to submit
the pages/domains to as many SE’s as possible.

The sooner you start to build landers, the more experience you will have and the better your
knowledge base will be for future products. To truly maximize landing pages it does not take
much effort, and most of the work is usally already done for you.
Thank you for reading this chapter and if you are ready to proceed please open the next eBook.

To your success!!
Norb Czufis
NC Media
Project Wealthy

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!

Yours In Success,
Norb.

Today is……… “‘Show A Newbie Love’ Day” I wish I had something like this when I first started, would have saved my time and money, and I would have been here or farther - faster.

YOU: This is the first time you’ve heard of ClickBank, you know people are making money, you’re tempted… - You “Go Get Your CB Account” BUT WAIT! Don’t sign up yet - read: When you sign up, it doesn’t matter which you choose - affiliate/publisher - both enable both and are one in the same when you sign up.

**Your NickName: THIS IS UBER IMPORTANT! Even though you might be tempted - DO NOT use a nickname like “SuperAff101″ or “MoneyMan” or “Johnnny”… In Fact: Think about this for a second, when someone clicks on your link, unless you cookie stuff them (don’t worry about that for now), they will come to a page like http://www.yourvendorssite.com/index…op=SuperAff101 < You want that code at the end to look natural. You don’t want people looking in the address bar and thinking it might be some reseller network. Many think that “If it’s not in the IM niche, they don’t care” - This is TRUE! however it still doesn’t make any sense to use a name like that - you cut off a lot of the markets. **Use nicknames that look like they belong in the code like ’securepage’ or ‘product1′ or ‘2n8fk29fsol’ < then it looks like the site generated the code. So - go - pick a great nickname now> ClickBank.

You now have an account “YAY”. So you can now go pick out of 1000’s of products that have all kinds of creative offers and commission/bonus structures - this is the hard part. If you’re brand spanking new to all this - My advice would be to click ‘marketplace’ and do a few searches for things YOU love about life - you’ll find tons of stuff to promote. Sort your searches by two important factors - 1. Payout Amount * Most search for % and think that the 75% products are the only ones they should pick - on the contrary - pick anything that makes you $20 or more - aim for $30-$50. When you search for products you’ll get stats under each product - inspect the ones that stand out. Gravity= the amount of affiliates that converted at least once in the last 6 weeks. So if you see a gravity of i.e. 20.32 - This means that at least 21 (round up) affiliates have converted at least once within today to 6 weeks ago. If all affiliates make 10 sales each or 100 sales each - that 20.32 would remain the same. So think of it not as sales - but as conversions. Sometimes low gravity is GREAT, sometimes the top gravity is also great, though harder to convert.

Only choose products that have amazing branding: Meaning the page ‘looks’ great first. You’ll notice that 90% of them are…. scammy/spammy looking - don’t worry about those ones, just look for great presentation first. Now READ IT! You found a good one, good commission, it’s converting, you like the actual product - READ THE PAGE! So - You are reading about something you actually enjoy in life or a problem you have had or have now, that you want to fix. Is the text convincing? Would you buy it? If you say yes - you have a winner. These are the most important elements - and good publishers spend good money or have years and years of experience in this sector, so: They hire the BEST designers, BEST writers, BEST developers, and conversion master every pixel/piece of text/code/sales pitch/call to action etc. so that it’s easy (or easier) for you to convert… .. That other 90% - those crappy products - they are newbie vendors, they need to go through this cycle but most never make it out alive after their first 1-2 products, stay away from those.

Ok you found your product(s), you are happy about them, and are ready to promote. **IMPORTANT - Consider yourself a ‘franchise’ not just some nicknamed affiliate - you now ‘endorse’ this product and publisher! You stand behind them, you promote and sell for them, they need you-you need them, give eachother the respect of giving it your 100% and nothing less. If you just throw some articles and PPC around here and there from product to product, you’re going to fade fast, or never convert once and give up. If you can, contact the vendor - ask for a review copy or just some reassurance on the phone that this is legit, if the vendor is in their right state of mind - they will be happy to hear from you! Don’t forget you are selling for them, why wouldn’t they take time to speak with their salespeople?! I do.

Ok so you found a product - for this example we’ll use the fat rich pig -
You signed up with a nickname of ’securepage’ for example. you found a product with the vendor id being ‘richpig’, so your link for this product would be : http://securepage.richpig.hop.clickbank.net << In that exact order, it is important to have your ID first, publisher second, .hop.clickbank.net << .net NOT .com. you’ll notice that you end up on page with a URL of http://www.thefatrichpig.com/index.html?hop=securepage << there you are So now if someone buys this product - you get the commission set out in their clickbank marketplace listings.

Sounds easy right? Not yet - So now you have a good nickname, you chose a good product, you figured out how to create your hoplinks and how they work… .. Wait - so…. .. how and what do you do with that link? This is the fun part:

** Most places on the web do not allow you to post affiliate links, so if you thought you could just go start spamming and fluffing the net with your links, you’re wrong… well… no you’re not - you’re absolutely right! BUT - you will need to do just ONE little thing - GET A DOMAIN - godaddy.com - you can buy a .info for $2.99 - BUT being the smart marketer you are - get a .com - it just looks better, feels better, and has more value when aged. When you buy a domain name - YES you should buy a domain (or 2-3-5) for EACH product you promote - remember you are endorsing it not jumping from product to product. So for the link above ‘the fat rich pig’ you would want to buy a domain that a) sounds similar b) has important key words in it c) creative and catchy. So rich-pig.com or affiliatespysoftware.com or the-fat-rich-pig-software.com etc. * Go get one!

You now have your domain name, and you can now fluff the web with your domain instead of your aff links (that was easy eh? almost wrong…!) In godaddy you have two options with the domain name.

a) Login in to godaddy - click domains - click your domain - click ‘forwarding’. Now forward your domain to your hoplink from above. - Masking - YES so now you still see YOUR domain when on the vendors site. Add your meta/keywords and Voila!

b) You can get hosting and get landing pages from merchants if they provide them. Most smart merchants that expect sales from their affiliates will have a page made with downloadable and or copy/paste promotional stuff for you to go promote with - so an example to the above - you would download and host your own landing page from a page like this http://www.nichechoppers.com/niche-p…atrichpig.html

Again - if you’re brand new, you’re probably better off with option a). However if you end up promoting the pig product, I will offer to host your landing page for you - just tell me which one you want to use and I will install your CBID into it and host it - and just tell you which URL to point your domain name to and mask.

Now: You have a nickname, a product, a domain, and either a landing page or straight linking.

From here on out you literally have thousands of ways to promote, the ones that work for me with live examples of real money that I’ve made:

Article marketing: http://www.ezinearticles.com < MAKE AN ACCOUNT - DON’T BE LAZY! Remember - you chose to endorse this, you need to get the fundamentals out of the way and at least TRY these methods, then focus on your own or the ones you like best (the ones that pay/convert).

When you write an article about your product, you will have your domain name on the bottom of the page either IN the actual artice or in your resource box, back to that in a minute…. .. YOUR TITLE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF EZINE! If you’re promoting the pig product - it should relate to popular keywords of that product - some examples of great headers with keys would be:
* Easily Spy On ClickBank or PayDotCom Affiliates And Vendors, oh & Recruit Them Too!
* How Do I Get Affiliates To My ClickBank Or PayDotCom Product? Is There Software For Recruitment?
* The Truth About The Fat Rich Pig Will Shock You… .. The Scam Of Scams!
* Marketing Morals? Funnels2Wealth and Affiliate Crusher Are Getting Geared Up To Spy & Cheat The Gurus…

Your First Paragraph - Again examining the keywords, focus on 3-5 or 8 max in your your WHOLE article, so only put 2-3 in your first paragraph. DO NOT SELL THE PRODUCT! No BUY HERE CHEAPY CHEAPY crap - people on ezine are not ready to buy - they are (90%) researching the product - this is your opportunity to convince them to check your views and build up anticipation towards the end to want to know more…(click).

Main Body - Here is where you can go all out and use many variations of your keywords, cluster them together, throw “quotes” around popular worded lines (i.e. From the author “This is the best spy tool for clickbank we have ever developed…”). Remember you are not selling - you are reviewing, you are telling them your experience with the product, you are elaborating on the product, perhaps the morals of it, perhaps the price, the competitors comparisons - but NEVER sell it (chances are it will get rejected anyway if you ’sell’).

Go over your article at least once. Make sure you break it up well - look at this post you’re reading - it’s LONG but if you’ve read this far - chances are I GOT YOU HOOKED on reading further - and if it was all in one huge paragraph you would have clicked away by now. Spacing, bolding, bullets, format it! make it what we like to call - a greased slide read - it’s so slippery and good that your instincts cannot help but to keep reading based on the way it is written AND how it is presented.

Near the end of your article, in a non intrusive way - link a few words to your domain name or type the domain name. Usually you leave the domain name for the resource box - the last bit of body could be like: I personally thought the kit was pretty good! The funnels2wealth ((hehe, did you just try to click?)) transcript taught me a lot! but the Affiliate Crusher… oh boy, I CAN’T even tell you too much about it here… it’s just THAT sneaky!…. the underlines would link to your domain. Your resource box is a way to promote yourself “John Smith is an internet enthusiast who spends his time passionately reviewing all of today’s newest gadgets and software. “There is a good video walkthrough of how this works in real time at: “Your-domain”. Just remember who told you about it first! **Always build anticipation, anxiety, fear, desire, focus on emotions not ‘buy now’ - if you can phsychologically convince your reader - YOU’RE ONTO SOMETHING!

Don’t write TONS of articles - ONLY write grandslam articles OR for every 5 articles you do - 3-4 MUST be prime - you may fail initially however when you have 100 articles in a few months from now - TRUST ME YOU WILL GET MORE TRAFFIC AND BETTER READ THROUGHS FROM ARTICLE TO ARTICLE. Please PM me if you follow my steps and you end up converting a product due to this - that is all I ask! Here is an article that points to a landing page that has made me more money than what most people make with 50 articles: Example article

Another popular way to get targeted traffic is YouTube. Don’t be afraid of it! Use it the same way as articles but use video - there are tools to help you get youtube vids, compile them/remix them/build your Hot Videos - Use keywords in the title (same importance as ezine) - use your keys in your description when possible - MAKE LINKS BESIDE YOUR VIDEOS WITH GOOD WHITE SPACE - LIKE THIS: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OXVyXGCAyNs or http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZsamSEiwkm0 (NOTICE SPACING) **These videos don’t get that many views but I can’t show/share ALL my stuff so these principles apply to ‘hot’ videos, getting videos ‘hot’ is not that hard - in fact… shhhh… you can …. hire people… to do the videos/submissions/remix them for you - right here on this board!.

Once you do a few of these articles, videos, and start to understand the other components from these CB threads - you’ll learn that ClickBank - Is nothing more than another network that has its doors open to offers and to affiliates. There are many of them. You’ll learn that it’s not some secret that some ClickBank geeks hold to themselves, IT’S MARKETING! It’s creative manipulation of the internet, of messaging, of monetizing these said offers. ONCE YOU convert a few times, you’ll understand that you can sign up to many networks, you can convert on tangible goods, you can convert on the phone for huge upsells - it will eventually spiral for you if you do not give up. It will eventually open your eyes and make you realize that you - my friend - are a business guru! not just a clickbank affiliate - You will sooner than later figure out that ‘Hey this stuff is great, I have sold xx already! Now, wait a minute - what if I did my OWN product! what if I did many of my OWN products! YA!) and you’ll probably fail at 8-9 attempts before you get one that wins - so stick be understanding the industry for a while if you’re new, stick to ‘converting’ your chosen ‘endorsed’ product and do not deviate from your commitment to them - if you choose a product like fatloss or waterforgas, expect to fail at first - don’t do PPC until you read about it here for at least 2 weeks, really understand it.

If you were to ask me which ebook to buy - i wouldn’t know where to begin - I can recommend a dozen - it doesn’t matter - read everything EXCEPT that 90% of the scammy pages I first chatted about - those are usually created with ’sales letter automaters’ and dreams - and poor copy/design, BUT it might tempt you to buy because of pictures of cars/houses/boats/treasure chests/etc. Look at those from a marketers point of view ALWAYS not a consumers - Only buy the products that look pro.

Thank you all, back to my pigpen….
Norb. **PS - No proof reading on this one - straight raw - also posted at DP forums to show some newbie love.

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