Associate Programs Newsletter #225
Today's main article is about a super affiliate who has the freedom to pursue a lifestyle she could only dream of a few years ago.
She's written a book describing how she does it.
CONTENTS:
1. How super affiliate Rosalind made $436,797 last year
2. Lock in your low bids at FindWhat
3. Are you new to affiliate programs? Start here
4. Useful resource: GoogleGuy Says
5. Thought for today: Attention to detail
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1. How super affiliate Rosalind made $436,797 last year
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Paying attention to detail was vitally important in Rosalind Gardner's last job – she was an air traffic controller.
Getting the details right still rewards her well. As a super affiliate, she made $436,797 last year.
She explains how in her new ebook.
It's called “The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 Last Year Selling Other People's Stuff”.
You've probably read about Rosalind in Corey Rudl's private site, “Secrets to Their Success”.
If you haven't, you can get a free trial to the private site.
[UPDATE: This private site is no longer available. Here's another really good source of Internet success stories.]Corey's interview describes how Rosalind generates $30,000 to $50,000 a month in affiliate commissions.
Her new 267-page handbook goes into a whole lot more detail.
Chapters include:
Debunking the 6 Biggest Internet Marketing Myths
Profile of an Entrepreneur
Quiz: Are YOU an Entrepreneur?
Can You Handle the Lifestyle?
15 Reasons to Become an Affiliate Marketer
Market Research Tools
How to Choose Products and Programs
How to Choose a Domain Name
Plan Your Site
4 Site Building Options
How to Write Compelling Product Endorsements
28 Ways to Promote Your Affiliate Business
How to Get and Stay Organized
Evaluate Your Site's Performance
How to Prevent Commission Theft
25 Avoidable Mistakes
Rosalind's Directory of Goodies
My Favorite Affiliate Programs
Stats to Track and Numbers to Crunch
Site Structure – Mini or Content?
… and that's just a taste. There's a lot more.
Rosalind is extremely thorough in the way the runs her affiliate business and in the way she describes in detail what you need to do to get things right.
For example, she describes regular tasks you should be doing to keep your affiliate business on track. There are tasks to be performed daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly.
One thing you'll find fascinating is how different Rosalind's approach is from that of super affiliate James Martell – https://www.associateprograms.com/james .
James achieves his huge success by using clever techniques to attract masses of visitors from search engines, without paying for the traffic.
In total contrast, Rosalind pays for visitors to her sites. She now spends thousands of dollars a month in advertising.
However, she doesn't expect you to begin with that sort of expenditure.
In “The Super Affiliate Handbook” she describes how to start your affiliate business quickly, easily and inexpensively.
The aim is to spend big dollars on advertising only once you've proved that the techniques you're using are profitable.
“Pay-per-click advertising needs to TOP your list of marketing strategies,” she says.
“Your primary method of promotion will be through the pay-per-click search engines…”
She also believes in building content-rich sites, but unlike many content-rich sites, hers don't have many external links.
Try to keep all links on your site productive, she advises. “Any link that leaves your site should be a revenue-generating, affiliate link.”
For her, this method works beautifully.
She can pay for traffic because her visitor-to-sales ratio is much higher than the average affiliate's.
Rosalind says the average visitor-to-sales conversion rate for a good affiliate program is between 0.5% and 1%. In other words, only one in every 100 or 200 visitors you send to the merchant will buy.
That's dismal, she says.
“You CAN do much better than that. My conversion rates average between 2.5% and 6%, and many are much higher depending on the type of product sold.”
She reveals how she achieves these higher than average results.
Part of the answer is in choosing affiliate programs very carefully. She explains how she does that.
If you've been choosing the “wrong” programs, this one chapter could be worth thousands of dollars to you.
Another part of the answer is that Rosalind builds fairly simple but very professional looking sites that people trust. She discusses that, too.
She also writes compelling words.
There's more to it than that, of course.
What Rosalind seems to do is get EVERY little detail of her affiliate business right.
That's how she made more than $400,000 last year.
Rosalind says her Internet business has enabled her to quit her job as an air traffic controller and pursue a lifestyle she could only dream of a few years ago.
“The Super Affiliate Handbook” cover proclaims boldly, “I Do It And YOU Can Too!”
Well, can you?
That's a difficult question to answer.
With an affiliate business, it's fairly easy to make SOME money. If you want to make a very good living, and if you're going to pay for advertising, you must get a large number of details right.
So this book isn't for everyone.
Most people want quick answers and they're hoping for quick success.
If that's what they're looking for in this book, they won't find it.
What they will find is a detailed, 267-page description of how she has built a highly successful affiliate business.
It took me years to discover many of the techniques she spells out in her book. I wish it had been available when I started.
Like Rosalind, I love having an affiliate business.
I love being able to work the hours I choose and live where I like. I specially like the way commissions keep coming in even if I take the day off.
It's wonderful being able to make a good living promoting other people's products, and letting them have the hassle of creating the products.
If you want that too, this book is for you.
https://www.associateprograms.com/rosalind
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2. Lock in your low bids at FindWhat
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If you use FindWhat, now is the time to lock in some low bids, or open a new account.
The pay-per-click search engine will raise its minimum bid from 1 cent to 5 cents on September 1.
FindWhat says you may lock in and maintain 1 cent to 4 cents bids providing you do not change those bid amounts after September 1.
Out of more 519 pay-per-click search engines, FindWhat is in our top 10 at https://www.PayPerClickSearchEngines.com .
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3. Are you new to affiliate programs? Start here
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If you're new to affiliate programs, I strongly recommend you start with the “Affiliate Masters” course.
It's also a good refresher for affiliate veterans.
It's about 100 pages of excellent information, based on what successful affiliate marketers do.
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4. Useful resource: GoogleGuy Says
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An anonymous “GoogleGuy” helpfully responds to questions in the forums at WebmasterWorld.
According to forum owner Brett Tabke, GoogleGuy is a Google employee. Whoever he is, he's particularly well informed about what's happening at Google, even if he doesn't always tell us
everything we'd like to know.
Mark Carey's blog, GoogleGuy Says, gives a brief version of GoogleGuy's answers. Each entry includes a link to the actual
quote.
For example, IP-based penalties are rare.
“GG says there are many reasons that penalties based on banning IP addresses are not a good idea, and he hasn't seen one in a long time.”
You can use this site to do quick research on what Google really does.
https://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/
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5. Thought for today: Attention to detail
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“A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.” – John Foster Dulle.
All the best
Allan Gardyne
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