Bruce's Golden Goose Marketing Online

A lot of affiliates immediately feel drawn to the “make money online” niche, or they like to go after the big offers on CPA networks.  The whole time, though, there are thousands of affiliates quietly making money on physical products with a lot less competition and a lot less volatility.

Physical products can definitely make for an easier time as an affiliate, but there it’s just like every other kind of affiliate marketing in that it comes with its own set of rules and quirks.  Before you get started with marketing physical products, consider these tips:

• You need to be very specific. If you’re promoting grills, you can’t just bid on the keyword “grill” and except big things to happen.  Even “Weber grills” is probably not specific enough.  You want people who are very close to knowing exactly what they want, as they are the most likely ones to convert to sales.
• Modifiers can mean big money.  Often, merchants advertise their goods with brand names and colors and model numbers.  A lot of them, however, forget that consumers also search things like “cute recycling bins” or “stylish blue flats”.  These less common modifiers can be easier to rank for and much more profitable for the average affiliate.
• Not all products work for paid advertising. If you’re promoting a $5 product with a 10% commission, your take on each sale is going to be $.50.  If you’re paying .25 cents/click, that’s not a margin you can support for long.  It’s better to focus on products with a minimum of $10/sale for the average transaction.
• SEO is your friend. When margins are tight on PPC, you can dramatically improve your overall profits with the SEO traffic that continues to come even after campaigns have failed through paid traffic methods.  With a properly optimized site, no paid traffic test is ever completely wasted.
• Finding ways to keep your visitors can be the difference between a super affiliate and a struggling affiliate. You put a lot of time into getting people to your sites, so it makes sense that you should also spend time building a newsletter or otherwise bringing your traffic back again and again.  It’s not about single commissions anymore.

One of the best resources on learning to market physical products is Rosalind Gardner’s Affiliate Marketing Handbook.  Check it out and see what you’re missing.

Despite many industries laying off thousands of workers or even outright shutting their doors in today’s tough economic climate, there is one industry that is thriving and helping thousands of regular people make money. Some hard workers are even replacing the income they earned at their regular jobs, allowing them to walk away from the 9-5 work day for good and work from home on a full-time basis.

What is this industry? Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing programs are simple by nature: They work by rewarding
marketers for promoting products online. The affiliates are then compensated on a commission basis. Basically, affiliates get paid each time they refer new customers to the website of the company they are promoting.

Becoming an affiliate is one of the most lucrative online money-making opportunities out there, and the breadth of products that can be promoted as an affiliate is staggering. Affiliate marketing creates a cost-effective option for big and small companies alike to reach out and expose their products to a much larger audience of potential buyers. Instead of being limited to just one large website companies of any size can now offer an affiliate program and have their products promoted on hundreds or even thousands of individual sites, at no upfront cost to them. (more…)

Everyday I see more and more affiliates making the same
mistakes.  The worst part is that they're just doing what
they're taught by the so-called"experts."

It's no shock to me that 95% of affiliates aren't make any money.
The problem isn't that some people are just "better" than Others.
The problem is just the way that the 95% are running
their business. This is why I'm going to diagnose the 6 most
common mistakes AffiliateClassroom.com sees affiliates
make every day.

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Hi to all you marketing newbies Bruce here, this is my first step into the world of affiliate Internet marketing and WOW am I excited to get started at finding some of those GOLDEN EGGS on the Internet! The first place I am going to start is with a good traning and coaching program . I have been referred to the training program by Shawn Casey the author of Mining Gold on the Internet one of the best selling Internet marketing books ever it has sold hundreds of thousands of copies! I have purchased many of Shawn’s products and I belong to his 10,000 a month profit strategies club which teaches a tremendous of wealth building information each month! I want to thank him for referring me to my new training program. IVY CAPITAL out of Las Vegas,TRIAD MEDIA and VIANETTE  WEBZONE  TRAINING the companies have great reputation on the Internet for their programs .I have only been in training for about 1 month and WOW have I learned quite a bit on how to get started. I will be signing up with my personal coach on Monday I am looking forward to it. If you are new and you want to get started right and avoid all the frustration that comes with Internet marketing I suggest you START HERE.   LATER,Bruce

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