Over the past few weeks, I have been talking about the best affiliate program/affiliate product and a lot of people have commented about how difficult choosing a product is. As AllyW said, “In my opinion, Finding a Niche, Finding a Product to Sell, and Driving Traffic are the number 1, 2 and 3 biggest problems for all new marketers.”
It’s always hard to work out a starting point when you begin a new affiliate marketing project because there seem to be so many options available to you. Sometimes I wish we could tell people that we have found a guaranteed to work every time way but that’s never going to happen because everybody is different and we all approach marketing differently. Even so, every now and then a product comes along that provides a clear formula that works.
I’ve found something that makes sense and is easy to follow – even for absolute beginners.
I’ve spent the past five days working through a series of videos which teach a very well structured approach to affiliate marketing using ClickBank. Rather than choosing a topic that you’re passionate about, building a site then choosing a product, this system approaches it from a purely business point of view.
It chooses the product first, based on there being a hungry target market, then develops the site using an easy to follow, step-by-step approach. Finally, you are shown how to build traffic in a repeatable sequence.
I’m not a huge fan of many courses, maybe it’s my teaching background, but this is the easiest to understand, well structured course on affiliate marketing with ClickBank that I have ever completed. And I have read quite a few over the past 10 years!
Let me introduce you to Alen Sultanic’s Commission Formula!
I’ve always found Clickbank confusing. I can’t explain why but it just seemed to be a difficult place for me to find anything. I wasn’t really sure what all numbers under the products meant, although I had some idea, but now I finally get it.
In Commission Formula, Alen Sultanic has put together an over the shoulder look at how he builds an affiliate site and you get to see every single step live in front of your eyes. One of the best things that Alen has done, is to break it up into a series of videos so you can go back and watch one part over and over until you understand. It also gives you the chance to copy exactly what he is doing while he is doing it. I’ve got to say that I enjoyed doing each step as he did it and listening to the commentary as I did.
In Phase 1 alone you get access to over 6 hours of video in 15 defined modules and he also includes a resources and tools list for each!
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Alen starts with an introduction to affiliate marketing for people who are new, and not so new, to this business. It’s not just a quick “hello”, but a 20 minute video which introduces you to a range of topics that you need to know about. He then moves into modules such as his “User intent conversion models” and “Geometric growth”. You may not know what they are now but you will understand how they fit into affiliate marketing after Alen explains them to you.
The Commission Formula starts out at ClickBank. You learn how to choose a product within any market and how to work out which products might convert into sales more easily. You get to go further into this as you’re taught how to do product and background research. You don’t only look into the product but you also learn how to look into the website and company behind the product.
It was amazing how much you could discover and what you could interpret from the information you found. While I had been using some of the tools Alen talks about and demonstrates, I had not been using them in quite the way he does. How he looks at the data makes a big difference to your affiliate marketing income.
One of the videos that I found fascinating was his tactical approach to choosing the best product and market. He uses 2 steps to do this: first is the 3 site attack strategy followed by the 2+1 site redeployment method. When you understand what he’s doing here, you’ll realize how clever his tactics are. Alen teaches you how to test 3 markets and then dominate the best one before moving on and repeating the process.
The Commission Formula program is built around a flowchart which allows you to see how all of parts of the course fit together into a working website model.. It’s not the prettiest diagram, but as you watch the videos you’ll quickly see how all of the steps fit together into a solid income producing system.
If you need help, or you have no idea where to start with affiliate marketing and you’d like a system that is precise and easy to understand, then this is the system for you. I can honestly say that even if you have no experience, Alen will take you through every process including building your first website in a way that you will understand.
Once your website is live, the videos show you how to put a traffic building system in place that you can repeat over and over to continue to improve your search engine rankings as well as attracting visitors from other sources. Alen has a great 15 day traffic formula that you can easily follow via the videos.
One thing I was pleased to learn was some more skills that I can use for creating better Squidoo pages. I think that the difference between what most people suggest and what Alen teaches is that he goes just that one step further. For example, for every keyword that you’re targeting, he gets you to create an account for each one rather than one account with multiple pages.
And that’s only what you will learn in Phase 1!
After you complete the first 15 videos, if you have worked along , you will have your first affiliate marketing site up and live. It is then time to move on to Phase 1.5 – Full Force Automation. In this part of your education, you learn how to automate the processes you learned to do in the Phase 1. You will learn about outsourcing and how you can get someone else to continue what you have done to leverage your time and grow your system of income producing websites.
If you stop watching the course at this point, you will have learned a solid, reproducible affiliate marketing system that you can automate and leverage. I was pleasantly surprised that I felt so confident when I got to the end of Phase 1.5. I really felt that I knew what steps to take and what to do to start building profitable sites using Alen’s method. Anyway, if I get confused, I can always go back and watch the videos while I redo each step.
I could go on forever about what you will learn in Phase 2 & 3 but because your time is limited, here is a very quick overview:
Phase 2 is titled “Next level Affiliate Marketing”. In this phase, Alen leads you through CPA offers where you can get paid on a Cost Per Action model. I was amazed at some of the simple things he suggests that can mean loads more profit in your pockets. For example, did you know that you can ask an affiliate manager for a higher payout on the offers you are promoting? In one example, they increased the CPA to double what everyone else was getting just because he asked for it. That was worth an extra $15 per conversion. He also delves more into paid traffic and how you can set it up for much higher conversion rates.
In Phase 3, Alen goes into “Activating Advanced Traffic Systems” such as the Cost Per View (CPV) networks, Pay Per Click networks, AdBrite, Social Network Ads, AdSonar, Pulse 360 and Banner Ad networks. In some cases, these networks can supply you with traffic at less than 1c per view of your page or advertisement. These modules are specifically targeted to sending traffic to the CPA offers you learned about in Phase 2. That said, I think you could apply a range of them to your Phase 1 work as well.
So what’s my recommendation?
I don’t think you will find a more comprehensive, well explained course about how to find a ClickBank product, research it, test and market it then build leverage.
The videos are easy to watch and work along with (and I don’t like videos that much as I prefer audio) and you can go back and repeat them over and over. You can also download them so you can watch them locally if you want rather than streaming. If you don’t know where to start or you want a reliable method for using ClickBank for affiliate marketing then go to Commission Formula now and get started.
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