Affiliate marketing is not a subject that I’ve addressed on this blog before now – so perhaps this post is overdue. When addressing any new topic, there’s a temptation to start with a beginner’s guide but today I want to help you learn via a case study.
So, by way of a very quick introduction, let’s just quickly remind ourselves why affiliate marketing is commonly accepted as the easiest way to starting making money from the internet:
you don’t need your own product
you don’t need to design a salesletter
you don’t need your own payment processor
you don’t deliver the product yourself
you don’t have to give any customer support
The best product producers also provide their affiliates with their own (ie affiliate) promotional materials, so all you have to do is to bring the product to the attention of a reader.
Okay, that’s enough by way of introduction. Now let’s get on with the case study.
Those of you who are already subscribers will have recently received from me a link to the “Supertip” e-book containing some very original ideas about making money from the internet. To get the most out of this article, you’ll need a copy of that e-book. If you haven’t already got one, you can get your copy by
Now the content of the e-book itself is excellent; but if you also want to make money from it directly (100% commissions!), the author does provide his own additional promotional material just for affiliates. This includes the “Guru Guide” showing the exact methods that some others have used to promote the e-book.
Now if you are on the lists of a few other internet marketers, you may sometimes receive the same identical e-mail from more than one of them promoting the same product. This is where the marketers are using the product provider’s own promotional material, without even taking the time to put their own slant on it. You even see some of the so-called “big names” doing this. If I receive any of these identical e-mails, I just ignore them in the knowledge that the marketer is “product pushing”, as they obviously have no real interest in the product because they haven’t taken the time to look at it personally.
So one of the keys to making a success out of affiliate marketing is to personalise your approach to the product being recommended and by applying your own original thinking. The case study I have for you is covered in detail in a free report. It shows how one man applied his own original thinking to promoting a product. Again, and I stress this, to get the best results don’t make your own promotions identical, but use the report as a catalyst to stimulate your own creative thought.
You can use the principles and apply them to any product, but the report is actually based round promoting the “Supertip” e-book, so you will find it especially helpful, if you are intending to promote that product yourself.
Pick up your free report of the case study by clicking here.
Before I wrote this article, I had just finished reading the report again. As a result, I have decided to use one of the ideas I’ve picked up from the report. I can honestly say that I have not used this idea myself before. The idea is to use a bonus of my own to promote someone else’s product.
So this is what I am going to do for anyone buying into the Supertip product, through me, before Saturday, 14 March:
I shall give you my own special bonus of “The Affiliate Marketing Success Road Map”. This is a 41 page guide to affiliate marketing and normally sells for $37.95; but as I’ve just got the rights to it, and not yet started promoting it, I’ve decided to give it to you as a thank you bonus. You will, of course, get this bonus on top of the $511 bonuses already given within the Supertip product itself.
I’ll be sending my special bonus out in just one mailing on Saturday 14 March, to everyone who has invested in the Supertip product (including those who have already bought into it prior to this article).
The clock is running: just 5 days left to qualify!
