How to Make It Work

Summary of Affiliate Marketing Business, Posted on 9/18/2009:
Here are the steps:
1.  Choose a niche that has affiliate potential (lots of ways to monetize, lots of available affiliate programs).
insurance, finance, health, relationships, electronics, services
Get ideas by browsing the CPAs– Commission Junction, Hydra, AzoogleAds; and ClickBank
Also Google “[niche] affiliate programs”
You can also browse Amazon, eBay categories; bookstore/magazine [...]

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This is an interesting market research technique, credited to the Wealthy Affiliate crew, that I saved in my Journal.  Basically, you use an online thesaurus to find variations of a keyphrase; for example, if your root keyword is “make money” enter “money” into the thesaurus and use the results to generate more possibilities (make cash, [...]

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This note was made on June 2, 2008, from an Eben Pagan webinar on how to identify a good niche to market to, and what to consider when choosing or creating your niche product:
People with deep subject matter expertise invariably do not know how to market their expertise.  The more knowledgable they are, the less [...]

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Here’s another post from my internet marketing journal, dated 5/8/2009.  These notes were taken from a StomperNet webinar:——————————————
1.  Start with what’s hot.  Find affiliate program that matches the subject, then market.  Technorati.com/tag — tags popular for the day.  See what people are tagging; mention on your blog/site.
delicious/tag/(topic)  — related tags.
2.  Interest vs. pursuit:  type [...]

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Internet marketing changes like the wind.  You can let the wind blow you around in all kinds of directions, like a fallen leaf during Autumn, or, you can harness the wind to take you in one direction, like an experienced kite boarder (cool analogy, huh?).
If you’ve been engaging in IM over the years, you are [...]

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Pay per view, or Cost Per View (CPV) is an alternative paid traffic technique than its cousin Pay Per Click (PPC).    You basically sign up with a CPV agency online as an advertiser (note:  when you drive traffic as an affiliate marketer in any capacity other than CPV, you are known as a Publisher; the [...]

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I’m a firm believer that the most difficult thing about internet marketing is not the technical stuff like website creation, or the tedious stuff like article writing.  The single thing that trips up most aspiring internet marketing entrepreneurs and causes them to throw in the towel is the inability to focus on one thing at a [...]

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Ever watch a Discovery Channel show on marine life, where a school of thousands of fish swimming tightly together are somehow able to turn in the same direction in the blink of an eye?  Try getting a bunch of humans to do that.   Well, I’ll take that back….
The internet marketing community is very similar to a huge school [...]

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Ok people, here’s a rundown of the Commission Blueprint 2.0 (CB) technique of affiliate marketing. 
Commission Blueprint is an affiliate marketing course comprised of video lessons, pdf files, and website templates.  It also includes the use of various keyword research tools.  At $497 it isn’t cheap, but at least it’s not one of those recurring monthly [...]

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After months of reading and studying affiliate marketing, I’ve had enough for the moment.  This stuff is like trying to take a sip from a fire hose.  At some point, you have to put it down and get to work.
I canceled my Affiliate Classroom 2.0 membership because I felt that I already knew most of [...]

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