AffiliReview – Make Money Online Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is one of the quickest, easiest ways to get
started making money online. You can find companies who have already done all
the hard work (designing pages, building offers, testing sales
copy, building products)… for you.

All you do is send visitors to those pages and you’ll make money.

Over the next several days I am going to show you the basics of
Affiliate Marketing.

So let’s get right to it!

Affiliate Marketing is basically finding and promoting existing
products and services through a unique website link (your affiliate
link) in exchange for a commission.

You can promote anything from physical products (electronic
equipment, car parts, etc. etc.) to digital products (E-Books) or
even memberships from large companies like BlockBuster.

It’s free to signup… and you can earn commissions from all of
them!

There are three basic steps to becoming a successful Affiliate
Marketer:

1. Find great stuff to promote.
2. Set up the technical stuff.
3. Drive traffic to your affiliate links.

This is the basic outline of affiliate marketing that you need to follow to be successful.

For a more indepth training guide, subscribe to my weekly AffiliReview Newsletter.

If you have questions about this or any other blog post, please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments section of that post.

Until next time, this is Casey Peacock of the AffiliReview Blog.

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Are you building your online business bit by bit day by day or are you constantly looking for  that million dollar idea, find one, get all excited and start implementing this latest and newest “great idea” only to end up not getting the results that you wanted and expected? Then give up on that idea and move on to the next latest and greatest idea, get all excited,  implement it and then again not get the results that you wanted and expected. So, what do you do? You find another fabulous opportunity, get all excited, implement it and then you guessed it, fail to produce the results you wanted and expected. Be honest with yourself… is this the circle you currently find yourself in?

Believe me, I’ve been there and know exactly how this feels. You buy this fantastic program that makes total sense and get all excited because you just know it will work once implemented and then you’ll finally make some money. So you spend many hours and a lot of money putting the plan into action and end up getting nothing! Sound familiar? If so, maybe you better ask yourself what is going wrong? Why aren’t these plans successful?

It could be that you aren’t taking a business like approach to your systems. What I mean by that is you may not be giving your business a chance to succeed before giving up on it and moving on to the next venture. Oh, I can understand why this happens. When you discover a new system or idea that looks fantastic, you get that exciting feeling from knowing that this may be the big one. The one idea that will put you over the top and explode your business. I believe that this excitement is actually coming from the newness of your latest revelation. After all you’re learning something new and that in and of itself tends to cause an excitement!

The solution may be quite simple. It may be that each of your business plans that you’ve invested in are indeed valid. Only instead of slowly and methodically plodding away at some of the more boring and often times tedious functions that any one of these plans require, you get distracted and end up letting it go thinking it won’t work based on the lack of positive results so far. So you move on to the next plan and start all over again putting something together from scratch and again you may skip over the more mundane tasks that the latest venture requires to be successful because those things are boring or technically challenging, and then somewhere in the process, something else that’s new and exciting catches your eye.

Maybe what’s going on here is you’re just aren’t giving anything a chance to succeed. It’s probably because what you are doing is constantly starting over with new plans. Every time you start over, that endeavor takes your time and money as well as the previous venture that you didn’t stick with long enough to get it going.

If this is you, my suggestion would be to reevaluate one business plan and stick to it. Build on it a little bit every day. Figure out why it isn’t working and make improvements on it over time. Get one plan going by sheer determination and I believe you’ll finally see a transformation. Making money online requires a certain dogged perseverance in order to succeed. If you are willing to make that sacrifice and go through the mundane tasks that probably don’t interest you very much, then you will succeed.

If you’ve been following this blog at all then you know that I’m determined to get one of my Clickbank affiliate sites producing revenue for me. That is why you haven’t seen my move on to other subjects and other methods of making money even though I know there are numerous, and I have an abundance of ideas to talk about. I’m sticking to my effort to make http://www-burn-the-fat.com successful because if I can use the methods talked about in this blog (and also my free newsletter that expand on the method even more), then I can repeat the process over and over in any niche and build a rock solid business over time.

The bottom line… break out of that vicious circle of buying the next golden goose that comes along and move forward on a plan. Any plan. Just move on it and stick to it. Build on it and you will succeed!

If you have questions about this or any other blog post, please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments section of that post.

Until next time, this is Casey Peacock of the AffiliReview Blog.

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In my last post I was talking about a method for getting traffic to my affiliate marketing squeeze page http://www-burn-the-fat.com, and put together a little power point presentation. Then I uploaded it to a YouTube account that I created and began using it to make video comments to other videos in my niche as an effort to pick up traffic (check it out here: LoseFatPermanently). I admit the quality is bad, but I just wanted to go through the process of getting something up there.

After slapping it up on a bunch of other videos’ comments section, I began to notice a few drawbacks to this particular strategy. First off, most of the videos that I submitted to have their comments set up so that they have to get approved before they are posted; which means I’m wasting a lot of time posting to videos that, as a competitor, I know won’t post my comment.  Second, the video posts that do get accepted, sometimes don’t last long, as the video owner that I’m posting to can simply delete my comment.

The result to this part of my strategy has been admittedly pretty dismal so far with only 15 video views at this point. However, it’s only been a couple days since starting my video comment strategy and I do believe I need to give it a chance. So I’m planning on creating more video’s in the near future, only this time I’m thinking about possibly customizing my comments to the videos that I’m posting to… although that might be too time consuming to be worth the effort… and they could still end up being deleted. Anyway, I’ll have to think about it some more before I decide exactly what kind of video to make next.

After reviewing the affiliate section of the product that I’m promotiong, I noticed that there is an emphasis on article marketing. This too will present quite a few challenges as many article directories don’t allow articles with affiliate links. But there are places to submit them that do get good results. One area of interest to me is in other peoples ezines or newsletters within my niche. From reading what other marketers have said on this subject, this can be an effective way of getting your message out and people clicking on your link.  So I think my next big effort of  getting my site in front of the right crowd will be article marketing.

If you have questions about this or any other blog post, please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments section of that post.

Until next time, this is Casey Peacock of the AffiliReview Blog.

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What… who doesn’t! Well I’ve been working on a few things. If you saw my last post I went through some concepts about getting a Clickbank promotion going. I’ve got my squeeze* page up http://www-burn-the-fat.com and now I need traffic.

Well I’ve got two strategies I’m going to be focused on. This post is about the first. I’ve decided I’m going to use YouTube by putting up a video about getting in shape. Then I’m going to make a PowerPoint presentation about an article that I found in the affiliate resource section of the product that I’m promoting.

So I purchased a refurbished flip video camera on Amazon for about a hundred bucks and I’m going to meet a friend of mine a our local gym tomorrow and take video of him doing his workout routine (I hope he makes the appointment). Then I’ll have some related content and open up a channel on YouTube. I’ll also finish my PowerPoint presentation and upload it as well. At this point I’ll be ready to use these two videos as comments to other peoples videos in my niche. I’m going to seek out the ones with the heaviest volume of views and post my videos in their comment sections. So how do I get the traffic? Because there is a place beside the video area on YouTube to place a link. That’s what I’ll direct people to do for more information on the subject.

A fabulous tool that I’ve discovered to make video screen shots to use in conjunction with my PowerPoint slide show is called JingProject.com. You’ll have to get the pro version. It’s only about 15 bucks a year and well worth the investment.

I’ll soon make a future post with links to my handy work outlined here.

If you have questions about this or any other blog post, please please please ask in the comments section of that post. I really want comments to my blog!

Until next time, this is Casey Peacock of the AffiliReview Blog.

*See my last post titled “Affiliate Marketing Dirt Simple”

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I know… it’s been a couple weeks since my last post and that’s total bunk on my part, but I have been busy implementing some concepts I’ve been thinking about and outlining for some time now. As most of you are already promoting affililiate products in some fashion or another, I’ve really boiled it down to some really basic steps that cut out all the unneccessary crap that can bog down even the most focused and determined marketer.

What I did was first log in to my Clickbank account and pick out what I thought would be a winning offer (if you don’t have a clickbank account I suggest you get one). You can do this (pick a winning offer) in a variety of ways, but what I did was pick a category, in my example “Health and Fitness”, and then where it says “Sort by:” I chose “High Gravity”. All that means is that these offers have the most action among the affiliates marketing their products.

Then I spent some time browsing through the offers and picked out one that had clean graphics and formatting, offers to solve someones’ particular problem, has a compelling headline, offers real value and comes from a credible source, that is it isn’t just some generic entity with stock photos, but rather a real person(s).

Now that I settled on the offer, I went ahead and generated my Clickbank affiliate link and got down to business. After seeing and analyzing many offers over the past year or so I figured the best approach would be to keep things as dirt simple as possible. My overall format would be to create an email opt-in page (also referred to as a “squeeze” page) where my prospect will have two options… opt-in to get to the other side or leave the page. For those that opt-in they are immediately directed to my affiliated sales page. To accomplish this I simply turned off the “Confirm Opt-In” message generator in my autoresponder account (if you don’t manually turn it off you have to create a message for the person opting in to check their email). Well I wanted to bypass this step to keep the prospect focused. I’m collecting the emails for future marketing purposes in this niche, but I’m not going to really hound these people like so many other obnoxious marketers do. I’m going to treat my list with kid gloves. That’s a subject for a future post.

So I’ve got my Clickbank affiliate link in hand and now I’ve got to create the squeeze page.  I simply found another that I had tucked away in my Favorites and copied the overall formatting. Then I went to GoDaddy and purchased my domain name and pointed the name servers to my hosting account. From there I was able to upload the index page as well as my privacy policy and terms of use pages to my server. The content of the squeeze page was taken from the sales page (with the permission of the site owner) that I direct the prospect to. If you do this I recommend that you too get permission to use their content.

But before uploading the site, I had to insert the email form I generated from my AWEBER autoresponder. To direct the prospect directly to the sales page, I entered my affiliate link where it says “Thank-You Page” and “Already Subscribed Page” when I created my new autoresponder email list. Then I got the HTML and plugged it into the right spot within the index landing page.

To see the end result of my work take a look at http://www-burn-the-fat.com

My focus now is to drive targeted traffic to my little website so that I can earn those ever so valuable affiliate commissions. I’ve got some ideas on how to do this and that will be the focus of my next post.

Untill then, this is Casey Peacock of the AffiliReview Blog.

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