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I was approached by friend who had the masterplan to do “affiliate marketing for passive income”.
Her idea was to hijack Internet Marketing launches with tasty bonuses, here’s my take on that plan, and a (IMO;-) better alternative:
either press that cute lil’ play button, or download the audio below it…
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(right click here to download this mp3 file)
whadd’ya think?
Veit
So when I get started with ‘online marketing’ in 2007, my very first attempt is at affiliate marketing.
I pick a great product (Paul Lemberg’s Formula 5), put together some hubpages, and start doing some SEO to them.
And boom, my first sale as an online marketer.
$660 in commission.
Wow, I’ve got it made, this affiliate marketing thing is EASY!
Well, somehow I wish I could travel back in time and tell my younger self:
DON’T!
Do NOT go down the rabbit hole of ‘cheap and free’ traffic (read: search engine optimization).
I spent YEARS chasing that stupid dream of ‘free traffic flowing non-stop sending me affiliate commissions’.
Yes, it did work.
But: because of the tactics used, (aka: grey-hat at best, but hey, that’s what was being taught back then) there was a constant danger that Google would slap my sites.
And slap they did.
And rightly so!
grey-hat at most;-)
And in a way I’m glad they did.
It ‘forced’ me to look at paid traffic.
Took some learning, obviously.
But paid of handsomely. Over and over again.
with paid traffic, I have full control.
with paid traffic, I have access to volume that’s just not possible with SEO.
With paid traffic, I’ve become a better marketer!
I can’t afford to be lazy …. instead of focus on developing money-making, profitable funnels.
And as a result, I have deep insights into WHY and HOW certain markets work.
which gives me a HUGE advantage over lazy SEO-marketers who hope that some of the SEO traffic will stick.
SEO is lovely, and yes, I still look at current SEO courses…
…. and quickly see that most still use tactics that are at most grey-hat.
and that reminds me that in most cases the money in SEO is in making courses about SEO, not actually DOING SEO.
Focus on being a better marketer, focus on creating profitable sales-funnels, and you can afford paid traffic.
And go to the next level, and then the next faster than any SEOer out there!
over’n out
Veit
OH, you’ll LOVE this one!
One of the best interviews I’ve ever done! With none other than the lovely Lynn Terry of ClickNewz.com fame.
“I’ve worked, and it wasn’t fun”
pretty much sums it up! So, what if you want to enjoy what you’re doing? (and make good money in the process?) Well, it’s all here in this interview: Here’s what we covered:
metric you need to track on your site … and it’s NOT click-through rate (insight: less traffic is more!)
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(or right click here to download the mp3) Want some step-by-step instructions on how to do this in practice?
Notice that the title of Lynn’s course is “Niche Success Blueprint”, not “Affiliate Success Blueprint”. Here’s a quote from the very first module of NSB:
Niche Marketing Defined I’m well known as a successful Affiliate Marketer, and for teaching Affiliate Marketing. That said, starting a niche business online is not limited to affiliate marketing. In fact, I have been branching out a lot in my own niches with a variety of income sources. Niche Marketing basically means that you choose a defined niche, and build a solid business around that topic. Each niche has a specific market and each market has specific needs. Your objective will be to serve that market and meet their needs.
and of course when you listen to the interview, you’ll have a pretty good idea how to pick a profitable niche in the first place! Also, note the sentence
Each niche has a specific market and each market has specific needs
in the second paragraph above? Well, that’s exactly why so many other courses fail: they show you how their method works in the … well, whatever … “growing giant tomatoes” niche works, and then you try it in your niche, and er, …. Not so with Lynn’s Niche Success Blueprint! This is specifically about finding out the needs of each market and how to serve them best. So, if you’re unsure about what niche to go into and how to serve it, create massive goodwill and get paid handsomely in return, click here to check out niche success blueprint with the exclusive bonuses Cheers Veit PS: let me know what you think of the interview! Leave a comment below! PPS: here’s another quote from Niche Success Blueprint (Module 1):
Consider this your free ticket out of “niche misery”. 🙂 Jump ship, sell your site on Flippa.com, and start working on something you look forward to every day!
Amen to that! [enhancednotice id=”3″]