Associate Programs Newsletter #365
Super affiliate Dan Ho is providing a new kind of affiliate training in which he does a whole lot of work for the affiliate.
This is a really special offer for readers of the Associate Programs Newsletter.
I can’t imagine another super affiliate being willing to go this far…
CONTENTS:
1. How Dan applies Zipf’s principle to affiliate training
2. Want to comment?
3. Thought for today: Small people
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1. How Dan applies Zipf’s principle to affiliate training
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If you already know affiliate marketing is a good idea, but you’re too busy and there seems to be too much to learn and do, then here’s a really good option to consider…
Super affiliate Dan Ho is launching new affiliate training in which he’ll make it as easy as possible for you.
Here’s what Dan will do…
* Pick an affiliate product for you to promote (a good one that produces residual income).
* Do the keyword research.
* Provide tips, suggestions and keyword research via his email newsletter.
* Provide training via weekly teleconferences. If you miss a call, that won’t matter because they’ll all be recorded, so you can easily catch up.
* Answer questions and help you on a private members’ forum – no extra charge.
* OPTIONAL EXTRA: Dan is even offering to build your website for you, if you want him to. That will include high quality artwork done by Dan’s partner, writing the presell content for the site, putting your unique affiliate links into your site, maintaining or upgrading links and content over time, and putting in the Google Adsense code if you go that route.
I don’t think anyone anywhere is offering to do so much for affiliates to make sure they succeed.
You can sign up here…
https://www.associateprograms.com/training
I first learned about Dan back in 2005, when Dan, Phil Wiley, and I were interviewed for a book (no longer on sale) about niche websites. In those days, Dan was already earning a five-figure monthly income as an affiliate, working about 20 hours a week.
He places a lot of emphasis on choosing a profitable niche and choosing the best keywords or keyterms in that niche.
Dan’s smart. Before he became an affiliate, he traded the markets full-time for several years. He also has a clear, easy to understand writing style, so he’s a good person to learn from.
He has plenty of solid experience, including four years as an SBI certified webmaster. (He also uses other web building tools.)
As well as Internet marketing, he’s been doing real estate investing with a friend, Adam, who’s the creator of a real estate course and speaks at clubs. That’s how Dan met his first students – and also how he learned some lessons the hard way.
“It seemed everywhere I went, when the people I spoke with learned about what I did for a living – even at real estate investment clubs – they were fascinated and intrigued by Internet marketing, working at home, and building a passive income,” Dan told me.
So he started training some of Adam’s students via a newsletter and weekly phone calls.
At first the training was fairly typical: “Here’s how I succeeded, these are the tools I use, go out and buy them, etc.,” Dan says.
However, at first, only ONE student had any real success.
“Around this time I was reading a real estate book by George Ross, Donald Trump’s attorney and advisor who appears in the show The Apprentice. George made a very interesting point that stuck with me. He called it Zipf’s principle, which simply states that the more work you do to make a deal come together, the more likely you will pull off the deal…”
George used this point to illustrate how Donald Trump completed many large deals because he volunteered to do the vast majority of the work for all parties involved, and since the parties wanted the deals completed with the least amount of effort on their part, it often worked.
“Now, taking this back to what I do. After I realized that people really weren’t succeeding even though I was giving them good advice, and telling them to buy this keyterm research tool, or this software (SBI or XSitePro), and so on and so forth, a lot of people are just not self-directed and were daunted by putting all the pieces of the puzzle together by themselves,” Dan says.
“So then I had an epiphany. I decided to incorporate Zipf’s principle. On one of the training calls, I candidly asked who would be interested in building a passive income from home if I did most of the work for you. For example, I did all the keyterm research for you; if I chose the affiliate programs we were to promote for you because I knew they are good and knew how to effectively promote them; that I told you exactly how to write articles (such as those submitted to EzineArticles.com); that I even built and hosted the minisite/presell site for you.
“I said, I would do it all for them such that the only effort they really had to expend was to actually CREATE the content or hire someone to create the content.
“Everybody got excited. At this point we had about 25 people on the weekly training calls and literally 20 of them signed up, just like that. So I felt like I had hit on something had people wanted – least amount of effort expended on their part, being truly held by the hand.”
Then the testing phase started. Dan was convinced he could get these students making money.
“I started off promoting a company called Aquasana, which sells water purification systems, and which is listed in your LifetimeCommissions.com site. I knew the company had great products and there was a passive element to the program as well.
“I had a discussion with the Vice President of the company that I was confident now that I could take COMPLETE newbies and actually have them making sales in short order because I was doing most of the work for them.
“He was skeptical, of course, but he wished me well. Well, it’s only been a couple of weeks and students are ALREADY making sales. These are people who knew nothing about Internet marketing and thought they would never make a sale online for anything.
“I then wrote the VP of Aquasana back and said, ‘Go check, this student of mine already made a sale.’ Needless to say he was pretty impressed…”
Dan says that what he’s offering is unique.
“This isn’t just some new membership forum. I am training these people on teleconference/telephone once a week. I think the results are a lot better because I’m interacting with the students intimately. They also get to hear the excitement from the other members who are also on the call each week and hear about the sales they are making.
“And, of course, I also train them partly in my newsletter (I send out the keyterms that I research for them and other tips and suggestions).
“The second part that makes this unique, of course, is that I am doing most of the work for them (at least the marketing part) and they literally just create the content under my directions.
“In short, there is nothing left to chance for the students: I do keyterms, create their sites if need be, pick the affiliate programs, tell them how to write the articles, or how to hire freelance writers … and all that’s left for them is the responsibility of the actual content or overseeing the freelance writer. I am even literally finding the freelance writers myself for some of the students.”
As Dan says, his training won’t appeal to experts and those already making good money online.
“But for all those people who aren’t at that level of success, and get glassy eyed at the thought of doing all the work themselves after reading an ebook, or even just a membership site, this, I firmly believe, will be exactly what they are looking for.”
Dan says one limitation with the program is that it’s probably going to interest only people who are in the US or Canada because the weekly calls are a US number. He doubts that people are going to want to dial overseas to be on it. (However, all calls will be recorded and made available to anyone who missed them.)
“Also, do keep in mind that we will be charging extra for students who want us to build the site for them. We will have to roll in domain registration and hosting fees into that cost, but we will keep it very reasonable.
“I am excited and convinced that this service is just the thing a lot of people are looking for … and that, more importantly, people who follow through on their part of it (content creation) will be very happy with their results over time,” Dan says.
At this stage, this offer is just for readers of the Associate Programs Newsletter. If enough of you join, Dan won’t offer this training anywhere else.
“In a real way, if it weren’t for you, Allan, I wouldn’t be where I am today,” Dan told me.
“I learned of SBI through your site many years ago and that was the pivotal moment that led up to everything I’ve accomplished in Internet marketing. I might have told you this years ago, but it bears repeating. I went on to personally train a close friend of mine who at the time was about to lose his job and now makes $300k at home per year, the vast majority from passive income affiliate programs. So, it’s funny how a little action some years back can lead to a snowball effect that changes other people’s lives in the way it has. And I hope this service I’m offering changes the lives of many more people to come.”
Numbers will be limited. As you can imagine, with this sort of intensive help, Dan has to put a limit on the number accepted.
Sign up for Dan’s affiliate training now…
https://www.associateprograms.com/training
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3. Thought for today: Small people
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain.
All the best
Allan Gardyne