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

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

Sales pick up!

Interestingly enough, it is PPC marketing that has begun to show promise. If you have been following this thread—who knows if I am just publishing this into a virtual black hole—you know I blew some money on PPC marketing. Well, when Wealthy Affiliates decided to offer a $1 trial membership, I remembered how I had agonized whether to join or not when I first heard of them. I was very leery of all of the "Get Rich Quick Schemes" on the Internet. And even though WA didn't use that claim It was associated with Internet Marketing and thus suspect. I would have loved to have a $1 trial to check out Wealthy Affiliate University.

So I thought why not promote WA's $1 trial directly to those who are in the position I was in? In other words, market to people who had already done the research and wanted to try WA, but were afraid of being ripped off. When I picked the keywords that were very specific to those people the clicks I was getting almost stopped. They went from the maximum number of clicks to 2 to 3 per day, but out of those I begin to get a sale about every 4 clicks whereas before I'd had 70 + clicks with no sales. So I will stick with this for the time being.

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.

Could This Be A Mistake.

I signed up for an affiliate program promoting people search engines.  I did it because it provides multiple income streams, but I am beginning to think I may have made a mistake, because I am still new at this and I can't imagine how I am going to article market this.  I think a pay per click approach would work better, but I have promised myself not to do that until this article thing starts making money.  By the way I have made $165.37 in profits so far.

Anyway, I now have a people search engine site and a promise that I will make $125 in commissions in two days, we'll see.  After I signed up I was given this website http://www.holmes-people-search.ws/.  I had to pay for hosting.  I'll let you know if I get $125 in two days or more.  I don't know exactly what the .ws is, but I do know that these domains are much cheaper than .com ones.

Make Your First Commission of $125 With In Two Days Guaranteed!

Where To Start

Today I am going to submit my first articles.  I am not sure I have the keyword ideas down yet, but I learn best by doing. So here goes.  From my research I have found that EzineArticles.com and Goarticles.com are the place to start.  We'll see.

One thing I have found is that when you start to research affiliate marketing everyone and I mean everyone seems to want to sell you something.  So if you join Wealthy Affiliates are some other legit marketing school, beware.  Even in these places greenhorns will be hit up for every imaginable marketing scheme by other members of that site.

Some offers are good, but you need to be the judge of what works for you and what doesn't.

Until Next Time,

CW

Niche Marketing.

Today I learned about niche marketing. In essence you find a niche that relatively no one has filled and you pitch your product to that niche. I have chosen dieting since I have some expert knowledge of that area. Now to find a niche, I am supposed to use a keyword search and find a keyword that has a fairly high search rate on google. Next I check to see how many people out there are using that key word in their articles. If the ratio is a relatively high search rate to a low use rate then I am to write an article around that keyword. This is suppose to boost my article near the top of the search page for anyone using it to search the Internet. So far it all makes since to me on paper. But will it work when I try it?

One thing good that has come out of this is the discovery of great new diets to try. I can go through the offerings and weed out the bad and ugly ones and promote only the good ones. Strip That Fat is a great one. I am trying this one right away and if it is as good as it sounds then I will market it. I chose this one because it lets you create the diet out of foods you already like to eat. How cool is that?

Next time I'll let you know how article writing is going.
CW

Links:
Wealthy Affiliate University
Strip That Fat

Well, I have spent two days now studying at Wealthy Affiliates University and I have figured out that affiliate marketing in a nutshell is driving people to Internet businesses for a commission and that there are basically three ways.

1. Buy advertising.
2. Write informational articles and submit them to article web sites.
3. Search engine optimization—that is making a website and getting search engines to list it near the top.

I can't afford buying anything right now so I am going to opt for number 2
—no this is not an attempt at bathroom humor. I like writing so I figure I will go for this option and start writing.

Until next time, CW



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