I have been very very quiet on here lately haven’t I. I know i keep promising i wont be so i am sorry!

Well i have finally launched a product on ClickBank! Hoorah!! It took me 18 months to get off my ass and do it and now it’s done i have several more in production! Hopefully they will all turn out to be good ones.

I won’t reveal the domain here as i do not want it to get crawled. It is a health related ebook. Affiliate recruiting has begun and they (about 40 so far) are starting to send a good amount of hops, but the traffic seems pretty useless so far. India is right up there with the top source of traffic.

It launched on the 6th of October, here are some stats:

Today i received a note from my hosting guys saying that my account is using too many resources so all my sites are running like crap! good timing! Note the large drop off in hops today. Gah! I canned a ton of CRON jobs to get back under the limit, things have started to run better now.

It is hard work trying to get affiliates to pick this up. I guess they look at the gravity for an indication of how it is going. I might need to fudge the stats a tad to get a few more on board.

So i started a review blog a while back. In the last 30 days it has made $444.52 USD. This, at the time of writing, equates to $618.25 AUD. This is totally profit as i do not pay for any traffic to the blog. It almost pays my rent!

Oh look at that, as i was writing i just made another sale for $16.56. For a product ive never made a sale in too wtf. rad.

Anyway, it took a little bit of time and a i went thru a bit of drama with one particular post, but now i am reaping the rewards.

Review blogs are EASY.

You might be thinking that i just write up any old crap about a product and post it, well you’re wrong. I think the secret to a good review blog is to have plenty of negative reviews too. So _buy_ the product or even ask for a review copy so you can _actually review_ the thing.  If someone visits your site and checks out a few reviews and they are all beamingly positive 5 star reviews then i dunno about you, but i would probably think its all a load of crap.

I will continue to write up reviews for things and keep building the site up. Hopefully within a few months it can actually totally cover my rent and then some! What do you think might happen if i have a couple of these running? Hmmm.

Good.

Quite a few of you out there (myself included) might be having a hard time building up a list. I used to buy traffic and drive them through to a squeeze page to get leads but this turns out to be a) rather expensive and b) pretty useless as most of that PPC traffic is not very responsive once they are on your list. I found this technique that helps you build a list and at the same time make quite a bit of money with affiliate sales. I want to share this with you because anyone can do it and it is really not a lot of work.

Well when i say not a lot of work i mean not a lot in comparison to most other marketing methods. You still have to do some work of course!

What i am talking about is borrowing someone else’s list to sell a product, so you and whoever’s list you are borrowing can both profit and build your lists.

How do you do it?

First off, let me give you an overview of what needs to be done to accomplish this.

Go and search the ClickBank marketplace for suitable products. There are 3 criteria that these products have to meet to be eligable.

1. Of course they need to be in your niche.
2. High affiliate payout (minimum 50% but go for 75% or anything above $50)
3. Has to include a back end recurring payment (membership sites etc)

Now if you have a list of your own, even if it is very small like 50 or so, do a test campaign of just 3 emails to that list and see if it converts. If you get any response at all from a list that size then you’re in business. I ran a test email campaign for a product that paid $75 plus more on some back end up sells to a related list of 70 and it converted at almost 10%. Bingo.

Now go and find someone in your niche with a list of 2500 leads at least and build up a relationship with them. This part i will leave up to you as we are all different and what works for me might not work for you. This might also take quite a while as not everyone will be willing to play ball. But here are some tips to make this easier and more attractive for them.

• Offer to write the emails for the campaign, show them the emails and let them have some input etc.
• Offer to answer any support queries so they are not bothered at all.
• Agree to split the profits (50/50 plus 100% recurring or whatever).

This is all about building relationships and getting the list that everyone wants: one that BUYS.

Building YOUR list.

If you use ClickBank, when you make a sale you will know you get the buyers email address. So send a thank you email for the purchase and offer something for free (in exchange for opt in) that compliments the product they have just bought. Then you start to build a list of your own, leveraged from your promotion partner’s list! Genius! Why didn’t i think of this before?

Dealing with support queries also helps you to build a rapport with buyer and potential buyers. After all, if you help someone they are going to remember your name – right?

Instead of just offering an email address for support, you could (if you can be bothered, but it is a good idea so do it) set up a website that has a list of FAQs on that particular product. Put that url on the email campaign instead of the email addy. Make sure you either buy the product or ask for a review copy (most publishers are more than happy to give you a review copy). You can’t give support without some knowledge.

You can also put an opt-in on the support page giving away the freebie that you will offer in the thank you email. The more chances to capture their emails via opt-in the better.

Results

Now this is what can happen:

• My tiny list of 70 converted at 10%
• The email campaign to the larger list (2500) converted at 5%
• It grossed $9836 of which I get 50%
• I also get recurring monthly of $770 for next 11 months

So a list of 70 has leveraged an income of over $14,000 in the next year.

Now if you go with a larger list owner, you have room to negotiate, so long as there is a recurring element to the product. You could give 100% commission to the list owner and you keep the recurring income for example. Just work out something that you are both happy with. You can do this over and over again if you want to. Going by my numbers, if I do this again another 5 times I will get nearly $100,000 purely from that first time on a borrowed list. And now because i am building a list of my own, there is the prospect of even more being squeezed out of it. You can see how this is a very good idea if you are just starting out.

Off you go!

If you have the Digg toolbar installed you will probably be getting the little pop ups of newly made popular stories in the bottom right of firefox.

To make some good use of that here is what you can do.

Just now a story popped up about ’8 tips to make your home green’. If you are involved with ClickBank at all then you will know of a product called Earth4Energy which has been smashing the sales in the home made energy/renewable energy niche.

In order for a story to pop up down there i believe it needs to have had quite a few diggs in a very short time. So this means that not only it will be seen by anyone with these alerts enabled but also listed quite highly on the digg pages. So many more people who are browsing Digg will see it.

All you need to do now is jump on it with an affiliate link in the comments with a tinyurl or an actual domain (make it look less spammy) and make a comment with the link in it! If the story really takes off and your comment is up the top of the list (and doesnt get buried) then you will get bucket loads of free fairly targeted traffic to your hoplink!

EASY!

Just make sure you dont do this like mad and actually have some decent content in your comment and you will be fine.

Over the last couple of weeks i have been split testing 2 landing pages. Long time i know but i kinda forgot about it haha. Anyway, this is the result.

As you can see one of them outdoes the other by almost 2x. I think its obvious what i’ll be doing now! Just goes to show the importance of split testing your landing pages. You could be throwing quite a bit of money down the drain.

Over the last several weeks you may have noticed that the US economy is a little pear shaped. The media is hyping this up to be the beginning of the worst recession since the 1930′s. This is bad news for affilates as when the media is scaring people like this they tend to hold onto their wallets and stop the spending.

All this talk of a recession of course has coincided with quite a significant drop is sales. After reading countless threads on Digital Point about how people usually convert at 1:75 but now they haven’t converted in over 500 hops indicates that there is indeed something amiss somewhere. But where?

Not everyone is being hit by this latest buyer scarcity however, some are reporting record sales during this time. My stats have been far too erratic lately to even begin to understand what may be happening. If you check the CB Index as provided by the ever so handy cb-analytics site it does indicate that lately there has been quite a significant drop in sales across the board.

So, what is the problem? Clickbank stated themselves in their system log that they were having processing issues at the exact time that the sales started to drop.

2008-09-10

On 2008-09-10 from 1:46 a.m. PST to 7:14 a.m. PST our credit card processor experienced intermittent outages, resulting in the inability to consistently process credit card orders. Other payment types worked during this time. The system status page was updated to reflect the issue. We have been assured from our credit card processor that the problem is now resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience this interruption may have caused.

This has been backed up by numerous publishers stating they had received many emails from prospective clients saying how they would very much like to purchase their wares however this is proving difficult due to payment processing errors. Emails I might add, that are continuing to this very day.

So it seems obvious to me that people are still wanting to spend their money, they are trying to spend their money, but ClickBank or something is holding them back.

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I saw this post on Digital Point a while back and i thought it was some great info so i post it here for you all.

One of the hardest (and most important) parts of affiliate marketing for me is actually finding a niche market to target in the first place. Some people are just naturally good at thinking of wacky and creative markets to target, while others – like me – find it very difficult to come up with an idea for a niche that is not already overcrowded. I have been in the affiliate game for just over a year now, and in that time I have found these five things to help dramatically when trying to spark ideas for a new niche market to target.

Think about not just your own interests, but the interests of people you know. What are your friends and family interested in? Could there be a market for their interests? For example, maybe you have a friend who loves collecting video game related action figures. That is a potential niche market!

Watch television and read magazines or the newspaper – I have had lots of ideas come to me from seeing a product on a TV show or reading about it in a magazine. Look out for things that might not be so obvious at first on TV; for example, you could be watching an episode of Family Guy and see a waffle maker in the background – there’s another potential niche market!

eBay & eBay Pulse

Browse eBay! Take a look through specific categories like ‘odd stuff’ or look at the sub categories within the major categories. For example, midi instruments are a sub category of instruments – that is yet another potential niche market to look in to! Another invaluable tool is eBay pulse, which shows the hottest searches on eBay for the day.

Froogle & Google Trends

Google! Google is yet another invaluable tool for helping with niche ideas. First of all, there is Froogle which shows recent searches at the bottom of the page. As I write this post, one of those searches is “camping lantern” – there is yet another potential niche! Another Google service which is great for finding niche markets is Google Trends, which shows the days hottest searches on Google.com or Google.co.uk (depending on which version you go to). As I write this, one of those searches is “chambers bay golf course”. See, another idea! Golf accessories!

Amazon and other big shopping sites. Amazon is particularly useful due to the ‘sort by bestselling’ option they provide. Pick a category, and then click the “top sellers” option under the header. For the consumer electronics category, Sat Nav. Systems are currently the best selling items – yet another idea!
Do you have any tips for sparking ideas for new niche markets to target? Share them with us below!

I hope this will be useful to people looking to get started in Affiliate Marketing!