Ok I Think I Have A Plan

I have been wondering lately how to move forward in affiliate marketing, how to have affiliate marketing success.  If i had to start over today here are the steps I'd take.

1. Join Wealth Affiliates
2. Spend a month reading everything on that sight.
3. Select a product with around a gravity around 30 that had a good pitch page.
4. Then write, write , write.

As I made some money I would progress to the only other really honest teaching site that I have found Shoemoney which is a place where you are given specific step by step video lessons on how Internet marketing works by Jeremy Shoemaker.

Wealthy Affiliates is a community of internet marketers and its value lies in networking and the tools available on the site.  Shoemoney's value is in the step by step instructions you receive.  Usually one video lesson every 3 days.  It cost about $200 a month, but you actually do get what you pay for.

These are the actual programs that I am using to try and become an affiliate marketer.  The men that run these sites are some of the best affiliate marketers on the web so I figure If they can't teach me, no one can.  I'll keep you posted on how it is going.

CW

Seeking New Streams

A lot of people think that affiliate marketing is dieing but I beg to differ.  It is changing and getting more competitive.  Right now it is like a gold rush, but as with all gold rushes they eventually slow down.  That is comming.  A lot of folks were thrown into a tizzy about the new FTC rules, but if you are an honest person you have nothing much to worry about there.

Right now is the time to join Wealthy Affiliates or Shoemoney and LEARN!

Don't Offer Too Much

Well the lesson I learned today was, do not offer too much on your web page. I have been lamenting the fact that I get a lot of hits, but very little sales. Kyle, one of the founders of Wealthy Affiliates, reviewed my web page and told me that I was offering to many options on my web page which only made potential customers go back to research mode. Hmmm? It makes sense. I am cruising to buy a new gigmobile and when I get to the page I find that there are three models of gigmobiles and they are offered by several different companies. Instead of buying my gigmobile I will scratch my head and go back to researching.

Until Next Time,
CW

Writing For Money: The Funnel

When you set out to do affiliate marketing by writing articles you are really trying to earn money through a chain of events or as some put it, you are creating a money funnel. If you make a website and do a great job of it, what are you going to do next? You can put all of the best advertising on it that you want, but who will see it. It is like getting a great deal on a store front except the store is on Unknown Street in Deserted Town USA.

You have to drive traffic to your website or else all the rest is a waste of time. So the wide mouth of the funnel is your articles which lead people down the cone of the funnel to your website with all of your affiliate advertising, landing pages, and squeeze pages. Once you have delivered the potential buyer to the affiliate pitch page the rest is up to them. Creating articles that presell rather than articles that are sales pitches is the key to sucessful article marketing. That and quantity of course. So get out your pencil and paper and start writing.

Work, work, work

Don't be fooled, this Internet marketing is either going to require an investment in time or money or both.  You will have to work smart and hard to succeed.  Getting the rudimentary principals down is relatively easy, but applying them is the heard part.  If you are going my rout, primarily article marketing, you have to write, write, write!  Even then you can never tell exactly how an article is going to perform. And then there is the funnel.  If you don't have all of the parts to your money funnel working correctly it will clog and you will get nothing out of your hard work.

In my next post I'll go over the money funnel,

CW

Wow, It Worked!

I got $125 in commissions today as promised.  I have been looking over the opportunities that I have signed up for.  In principal they are all sound opportunities.  I just need to figure out how to take this http://www.holmes-people-search.ws/ to the next level--that's code for getting it to make more money for me.

In all of what I am doing here, I truly want to provide a service and that is finding really good opportunities for money making and in the process make some money myself.  What I do not want is to make money with false promises, or scams.  The thing with http://www.holmes-people-search.ws/ is that you need to know about affiliate marketing or else you'll sign up but not know where to start.

You really should sign up with Wealthy Affiliates and People Search to get the most from this.  Then you should expect start slowly as you learn, but if you don't give up you will be successful.