Associate Programs Newsletter #340

It's often hard to know who to trust in affiliate marketing.
      
Today's newsletter will help you decide whether to trust the million-dollar affiliate.

CONTENTS:

1. Should you trust the million-dollar affiliate?
2. A no-hype guy
3. Thought for today: If you only do...

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1. Should you trust the million-dollar affiliate?
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A new affiliate training course is just about to be launched, at noon Eastern time.

It's unlike anything else you've seen.

Anik Singal, a successful affiliate and creator of Affiliate Classroom, and million-dollar affiliate Jeremy Palmer have combined forces to create a training course that shows you how Jeremy grossed $1.4 million in affiliate commissions last year, almost solely from pay-per-click marketing.

Jeremy did it without creating large websites, and without using email lists. (He does have an email list, but he hardly ever promotes anything to it. That's not his specialty.)

What he does do is create remarkably simple landing pages that convert well.

He shows you how in the brand new PPC Classroom.

This isn't just an ebook. It's a whole training course.

You get...

  * A large Workbook delivered to your home. Modules include An Introduction to PPC Marketing, Finding Your Niche In Pay Per Click, Finding the Right Merchant Partners, Different Affiliate Pay Per Click Business Models, Finding Profitable Keywords, Landing Pages - Convert Clicks Into Commissions, Ad Copy and Bidding, and Advanced Tips and Techniques.
 
  * Included in the Workbook are more than 30 screenshots of successful landing pages. I was surprised to see just how much Jeremy is giving away here. He not only shows you screenshots and describes why the landing pages he builds work best, he also provides you URLs so you can go online and study the actual websites for yourself. You'll see how very simple landing pages can be incredibly powerful.

  * 6-week live webinar coaching, so you can watch over Jeremy's shoulder while he finds niches and builds successful PPC campaigns. These webinars will be recorded so you can download and study them.
 
  * A membership area where you can ask questions, watch video updates, etc.

  * Audio interviews with PPC super stars such as Vinny Lingham, who runs a PPC marketing company that has 50 employees, Amit Mehta, who said at a conference recently that he was spending an incredible $10,000 a DAY on PPC marketing, Greg Cesar, who has innovative approaches to keyword research, and Rosalind Gardner, whose approach to PPC marketing is quite different from Jeremy's.
 
  * Jeremy's own PPC Automation Tool. This is the tool which Jeremy has been using to run his PPC marketing business for the last two years, on Google, MSN and Yahoo. All you need is a web host to upload it to, so you can use it whether you have a Mac or a PC. You get full tutorial videos and support. It helps you create tracking URLs. You can upload data from, for example, AdWords, tweak it, and then export it back out. You can upload your affiliate commission details right into the tool. You'll learn which keywords and which search engines are profitable, so you can concentrate on them. There's nothing else like this available anywhere.
 
  * You get to see 135 affiliate programs - every major affiliate program inside Commission Junction, LinkShare and DirectLeads that helped Jeremy gross $1.4 million last year. This will help you understand the sort of niches and merchants Jeremy chooses and help you pick winners. (This bonus is available only for 7 days.)
 
  * A 2-day live event in Las Vegas, just on PPC marketing, with lots of expert speakers, for everyone who joins in the first 24 hours.
 
  * Plus some other very important bonuses.
 

Whew! That's definitely a LOT more than just an ebook.

I've been given preview access and have been studying this PPC training for a couple of days. I can say without hesitation that it's far superior to anything else I've seen. (I don't have access to the PPC Automation Tool yet but I've seen just about everything else.)

The course is structured in such a way that it will benefit beginners and very experienced PPC marketers. Jeremy takes you through the whole process, not only showing you what he does, but also explaining his thinking, and explaining why the strategies he uses work so well. He writes in a simple, easy to understand style.

What you won't find in the course is training in basic HTML or creating graphics.

The course is written with affiliate marketers in mind, but nearly everything in the course would also be useful for anyone selling their own product via PPC marketing.

You can learn more about the PPC training here...

[UPDATE: PPC Classroom is closed to new students. Here's another very good PPC education option, which is free and is REAL education, not junk. It's by a trusted name in the industry, Perry Marshall, who's THE expert on AdWords. 5 Days to Success With Google AdWords is a 5-day free email course. Perry tells you things like how to consistently pay less for Google traffic, how to make money with affiliate programs, and he shares a strategy that reduces your risk while increasing your profit. Make sure you download his Google AdWords Cheat Sheet. Highly recommended.]

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2. A no-hype guy
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In affiliate marketing, one of the biggest challenges we face is knowing who to trust, who to believe. To help you decide, here's some quick background info on Jeremy Palmer. I've known him and had business dealings with him for a few years. He's a no-hype guy. I've learned to trust him.

I've had less contact with Anik, but I know he's created a highly respected affiliate training website, Affiliate Classroom. So they make a good team.

After experimenting with various ventures online, Jeremy discovered affiliate programs in 2003 while working for a small financial services company. He noticed that some of the company's affiliates were earning thousands of dollars in commissions.

So he added some affiliate links to a website he owned. He says the commissions he generated encouraged him to build more affiliate sites in other industries.

He was a quick learner.

"Within two months I was making more money from my affiliate websites than I was at my day job," he says. "Within six months I was making twice as much, so I decided to quit my day job and focus exclusively on my affiliate business."

In his first year as an affiliate, he generated $100,000 from his websites. "During my second year as an affiliate I made over $1 million."

Late in 2005, he won Commission Junction's Horizon Award for Innovation.

"...Jeremy has become one of the most productive, compliant, and responsive publishers in the Commission Junction network..." CJ said.

In April 2006, Jeremy published an ebook, High Performance Affiliate Marketing, in which he provided links to a couple of his websites and described how he generates his revenue.

However, what Anik and Jeremy reveal in this new PPC training course, PPC Classroom, is leaps and bounds ahead of that ebook. This new course takes PPC training to a whole new level.

He's not scared of competition. In 2005, he grossed $1.1 million. After he wrote his ebook, he faced a lot of new competitors, but his revenue from PPC marketing rose to $1.4 million in 2006.

Have a look at Jeremy's stats for 2006:

Revenue: Slightly over $1.4 million
PPC Spend: Slightly over $560,000
Gross Profit: $837,465

Not bad for someone who discovered affiliate marketing only in 2003.

It's also not bad for a "one-man band", as Jeremy calls his business.

He would be the first to tell you that he's worked hard to achieve his level of success. This new coaching isn't a push-button, get rich product. It's a training course, a bit like a college education and workplace experience all rolled into one.

The level of detail revealed in this course is truly remarkable. Anik and Jeremy are working extremely hard to help you succeed.

Watch the video and learn more about it here...

[UPDATE: PPC Classroom is closed to new students. Here's another very good PPC education option, which is free and is REAL education, not junk. It's by a trusted name in the industry, Perry Marshall, who's THE expert on AdWords. 5 Days to Success With Google AdWords is a 5-day free email course. Perry tells you things like how to consistently pay less for Google traffic, how to make money with affiliate programs, and he shares a strategy that reduces your risk while increasing your profit. Make sure you download his Google AdWords Cheat Sheet. Highly recommended.]

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3. Thought for today: If you only do...
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"If you only do what you know you can do - you never do very much." - Tom Krause, motivational speaker and coach.

All the best

Allan Gardyne