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Welcome Back!
How are you doing today? A big Happy Canada Day to our
fellow Canadians - Canada is 138 years young today...
(So glad to see there's still SOMETHING older than me...) ;)
This is potentially one of the most important posts I've made
for you, so please take the time to read through it all, ok?
Affiliate marketing is a big earner for Teri & I, as you know.
Why? *We're selective in what we promote - if it won't be of
benefit to you and our other readers, we pass on it.
*We use a variety of ways to push each one - blog, e-zine,
web sites, forums, etc.
*When new programs launch, we're often invited in from
the start, either by those identifying us as super-affiliates
or by our JV partners inviting us in.
*We look for opportunities for residual income - either
monthly renewals or a downline.
One of the biggest mistakes we see affiliates make is looking at the downline potential as a quick and easy way to make moneywith very little effort. Until you have a large following of active sub-affiliates, only 1 in 20 you refer will ever do anything with it. Another truism is that membership sites are the best to promote, if they pay residuals. Here, in order, are the affiliate programs we did best with in the first 6 months of this year (keep in mind that we are NOT full-time affiliate marketers - the bulk of our time is spent on our sites, ezines and blog, and the bulk of our online income is from selling e-books and software) : 4-digit income + in the 6 months: - PushButtonHealth - not only our top earner, but a great source of niche products to sell! - PlugInProfits - works well for us because it encompasses the affiliate plans for SFI, Empowerism, GetResponse, H4P etc. Since we make some from each each month, the total makes this our second-best, mostly thanks to H4P & GR. 3-digit income in the 6 months: - SureFireWealth - Love this one... Making good income from showing people a GREAT resource that can really help them in their efforts online. - InfoGoRound - No residuals from the affiliate program, but strong earnings from direct sales, and we built in our own residuals by using the content for our niche site at http://www.Teris-Health-Shop.com. Also gives us an outlet for info products from PBH above. Only a few months old or it would have been in the category above. - Jay Abraham - only 6 weeks old, but already in the triple-digit category...
There are others, but those are the ones most pertinent to you today. What lesson can you find in this info? Four important issues: 1) PBH, SFI, Empowerism, GR, H4P, SFW and IGR are all membership or hosting sites - where people pay monthly or annual fees. 2) Almost all require us to be paid members to access the affiliate program, so we're constantly re-investing in them yet there's no net cost since we make more from each than we pay to each. 3) There's an even split here between Internet Marketing and Niche Marketing programs - a healthy balance, but we expect the niche sites to take precendence as we increase our numberof niche sites online. 4) There is money to be made in affiliate marketing, so long as you stay with it and understand you have to invest both time and money to make it work for you. You can't sign up, do a single mailing and throw up a few banners - you have to work at it in a planned, ongoing manner, and understand that you won't likely make your money back 'til you've been persisting at it for a while. Naturally, nothing here is a guarantee that you'll make money from this - if you act like the average new affiliate you'll actually lose money. Not actively promoting or giving up too soon means you've lost the money for your memberships. The only guarantee is that you can't make money from affiliate programs if you're not in them! To help you out even more, here's the criteria we use when deciding whether to get involved in any given one: - Are the products/Is the membership/Are the services TRULY of benefit to our target audience? - Is the potential return high enough? We're going to invest a lot of time, effort and money, so 10% isn't going to cut it! - Can we cover our costs QUICKLY, so that it becomes a no-net-cost income stream ASAP? - Will we benefit from our own membership in the site, outside of the affiliate program? Sometimes this is as important to us as the affiliate program, as it was with PBH, IGR, SFW, H4P, and GR. - Is there an obvious way to build a site or write an e-book that will continue to promote the affiliate plan on a viral basis while we are working on other items? For example, AffiliateMarketingSpecialReport.com, Teris-Health-Shop.com and e-books like 30 Days to Success all push our affiliate links without regular demands on our time. Whew - that's a lot of info on affil marketing, isn't it? There's more solid info there than in most e-books you can buy on the subject, and you've seen all of it evolve in real time if you've been on our lists for 6 months or more... As you read back through it, you'll see that you can copy each of the steps through your own efforts - except one. Did you catch it as you read through this the first time? Here it is again: * When new programs launch, we're often invited in from the start, either by those identifying us as super-affiliates or by our JV partners inviting us in. Unfortunately, this takes time to achieve - a track record of successful affiliate sales, a list of a certain size, wide exposure online, instant name recognition within the community, a reputation for honest, valuable information, and enough joint ventures to have established a lot of contacts with the 'big dogs'. Usually, that is. Sometimes, just as in the offline world, it's who you know that gives you that first hand up or gets you past those sticking points. Riding on the coat-tails of already-successful people is not only ethical, it's almost a necessity at times. So, do you know any 'big dogs' that can help you out? Oh yes you do - isn't that why you're reading this? To get help in your online efforts from a couple who already have that status? Well, here's one more 'helping hand' from Teri & I, meant just for you and our other readers... You see, there's a new membership site launching - the pre-launch is on the 7th, but you have til the 14th to promote it before the owner starts his campaign. You actually have 2 weeks to start pushing this one before it officially gets going... Yes, the products will be helpful to you in your own biz. In fact, get in there and get the jump on the public even if you never intend to join the affiliate program. Is there a residual way to promote it? Yes - and we'll give you some ways to do that once you're in the affiliate program. Since it's a members-only affiliate plan, there won't be 10's of thousands of people competing with you - which is also important. Is the potential return high enough? YES! How's 70% of first tier and 10% of second? Now you see why this is a major new opportunity - your annual membership fee is more than covered by just referring 2 people - in fact, you'd alreadyhave a 40% profit by then, and have access to all that the site offers! Even if you've never promoted an affiliate program, can you find 2 people to join? If so, you'd already have your fee back and still have access for the rest of the year. But if you had 10 or 15 join, and even 2 or 3 of them pushed it too, you'd be on your way as an affiliate marketer! Right now, get into this one before it officially launches, and get in right under Teri & I so that we can take the time to help you with it: http://www.TeriChampigny.com/hbn.php Enjoy your day - if you've hit that link and signed up, you've just made it a great day for yourself!
All the best, Doug Champigny,Welland, ON, CanadaPS - Keep in mind that this site will let you download a ton of niche products with resell rights, plus Internet marketing resources for your own use, all for one annual payment. If you've been waiting for the right one, it's about to launch here: http://www.TeriChampigny.com/hbn.php PPS - Remember, this is a MAJOR opportunity - you could have the products online AND m.embers in your downline before the official launch even happens... http://www.TeriChampigny.com/hbn.php Enjoy! -DC -
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