I’ve been thinking a lot recently about basic affiliate marketing techniques for the novice affiliate marketer. I think sometimes people start learning an affiliate marketing system but get overwhelmed by too much information.
And then they give up.
So I spent about a week going through literally hundreds of affiliate marketing and online business courses that I own to find one that met the following criteria:
- The system would not require a website. For some people this is a huge stumbling block, so I searched for basic affiliate marketing strategies that do not require a website – (note this one sometimes requires a VERY BASIC free website/blog with a domain, which is covered in the product – please check Michael Brown’s comments in the comments section below if this concerns you).
- Ideally the beginners affiliate marketing system would focus on only one or two affiliate marketing techniques that were repeatable and effective in driving sales and leads.
- It had to be fairly easy, but still effective. I mean there are plenty of easy affiliate marketing techniques that don’t work. Obviously, you don’t want THOSE. LOL.
- I wanted to find a basic affiliate marketing system for you that only requires one or two hours a week. Certainly after seeing results, you might put more time into it. But it’s been my experience that people are relunctant to really work at a system until they are seeing some real results.
- The system had to be designed for a novice affiliate marketing person. In other words, it had to be right for someone who knows nothing about marketing online.
- The system had to cover affiliate marketing techniques that experienced online marketers use. Too many affiliate marketing systems aimed at newbies cover techniques that professional affiliate marketers really don’t use. In other words, I want you to master something that you can use for the long-term in your business.
- The system had to be designed in such a way to allow you to generate ongoing profits from work you do once.
- The affiliate marketing system had to be such that you could use it to promote just about any type of product or service.
Important update (I’ve pulled these comments from Michael Brown – the creator of this product from the comments section):
“You do not need a website… period.
But, some of the places require that you have a domain. A very easy workaround for this is to just buy a domain for $10 a YEAR. If you’re unsure what a domain is it’s simply a URL like http://www.workathometruth.com
OR… Simply go to http://www.blogger.com and make a free blogger account and make a domain from there both which are explained in Mega Classified Millions and on the training area of Mega Classified Millions that features 4 videos to help get your campaigns kick started.”
After scouring my hard drive and going around my office looking at tons of huge business courses I paid some serious cash for (don’t worry this course literally costs just about 265 times LESS than the price of the most expensive training I’ve bought to date – training that cost me $7,970.00 if you care to know)…and AFTER applying the above criteria to all the possible choices, click here to see the surprising simple beginners affiliate marketing system I found for you.
Nothing down here but us wordpress tags. 
Wow Paul you’re all over the place!! Assiciate programs is what I am looking at right now, lots of great products to promote
I never done PPC but I am reading up on that right now as well.
Funny you mention Dan Thiese’s free e-book, I was reading on that as well and it is a GREAT e-book, for the value… FREE ROFL 100 pages is rather long tho but has a wealth of information.
Here is the website I am refering to from Tim B- http://www.webtrafficgenius.com/traffic.html
I also picked up yet another free e-book from Joel Comm called AdSence Secrets 4. I ended up loosing the URL and can’t remember how I got it, but my bets is you have heard of it. That book is rather long but well worth the read.
Yes, I multitask a lot. If I read to much I tend to start going off track and not paying attention so I jump from one thing to another. I can remember it all, for me it just breaks the monotiny and keeps me interested.
Here’s another scam I been read into last night. Pay-Per-Play. Ever heard of it? It’s where you get a code to put onyour website, on whatever pages you like and it plays a 5 second ad. You get paid between 1 to 3 cents for every visitor your website gets considering they stay for more than 3 seconds. Sounds amazing right? Revolution of internet marketing right? WRONG.
I again lost the link for the forum I was reading. EVERYONE who attended the website thought it was a horrible idea and a great way to lose paying customers. ALL who commented said if they hear something, especially and ad on a website, they IMMEDIATELY leave and never go back. So the chance of getting people to stay more than 3 seconds is relatively small.
The forum started by posting a letter he got from a fellow named Charles Hiflin, who claims to have been contracted by one of those companies to market the product. The guy who posted, had sent a letter and the letter he got back was actually VERY VERY rude. Charles had claimed that they were offering a $10 CPM ($0.01 per impression) then later came to the forum and said it was much more like $3.50 CPM.
Where is the money? If companies like Coca-Cola and Taco Bell are paying this company but yet I’ve not seen anyone who has made more than a dollar and this program has been out for over a year.
Personally, if I had a great customer relationship, I would not want to blast their ears with garbage ads.
I appologize Paul, if I seem to be “hi-jacking” your blog :p
It’s not my intention, I find you have a really great website, very inspiring
@Charlie: No problem, Charlie about the “hijacking”. LOL.
I’ll write more about other things you mentioned, but I also found the entire concept of “pay per play” totally bizarre – at least for a site that is trying to build a relationship and trust with it’s visitor/customer base. I could see it being fine for more of an entertainment-oriented site, maybe.
Hey Paul!
Well, I’m glad you didn’t take my comments as “pirating”. I play an online game where “thread hijacking” is rather common practice.
Those who said they wanted to get audio ads said it was propably because thay had asked for it, IE: YouTube.
On the other hand I like your idea of an “entertainment” oriented website, great way to make it not as “obvious”. If I landed on a website oriented on hockey sticks and I end up getting an audio ad on women’s clothing, I’d be upset and would find that “x” really fast.
However, if you run a “media” based website, it might be an idea to add one of those ads on wach page, as customers will likely expect it, yet again, some people have their speakers full blast listening to music and if a really sketchy “Pizza Place” would be rather off topic and cut click through and might result in bad reviews or reduced traffic.
Paul, this is the forum I refered to when I was speaking about Charles Heflin (NOT to be mistaken with me, I’m the GOOD Charles) LOL
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/25/pay-per-play-media-i-was-wrong/
I come to this page first, always. Please, if you post any information, link me up, I’d be extatic to read on it
@Charlie: Wow, I thought Charles Heflin was smarter than that. $10 CPM doesn’t even mean anything as it doesn’t take into account the specific marketplace – i.e. in certain competitive industries the CPM will be higher and in other industries the CPM will be lower. “Industry standard” is a nice buzzword, but it doesn’t mean anything from a practical standpoint.
Mr. Work At Home, I’ve been following Mr. Brown’s free AMR downloads.
There is a niche that I’m interested in, except that the product is not
your conventional take-it-off-the-shelf-and-purchase-it item. Having
checked some suppliers, I did find some that indicated how many dealers they had. My question is that if a firm has dealers, is it very likely that a website(blogsite) I build with focus on their type of product will have any potential for earnings? I’m not able to reach the
AMR forum until I have upgraded, or I wouldn’t take up your space like this. Just didn’t want to set up a site that has no potential, even though I should do it just for the experience. Your advice will be wel-comed. Thanks in advance, Jon.
@Jon B: Hi, Jon. If it has dealers that’s definitely ONE good indicator. I would also suggest doing searches for the product on Google and see if you see “sponsored ads” on the right which would mean people are spending money to promote the product.
That would be another good indicator.
Hi, Paul. I’ve had lots of difficulty getting answers to questions that people ‘in the know’ probably have. WordPress doesn’t seem to be able to point me in the right direction. Problem: my WP posts show up on my homepage. I keep putting them in the trash because even though I followed Michael Brown’s procedure, they keep winding up on the homepage. Any advice to avoid this? Please help if you can. Thanks, Jon B.
@Jon B.: Jon, there are a few ways to do this, although the one I would recommend following is by using “static pages” as explained at WordPress here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
“I would start at the section that starts with the paragraph:
Creating a virtual static front page does not require editing or coding of files or templates. Using the default configuration for a “static front page” in WordPress does not remove the sidebar or change the look of the entire site, just the content area. ”
I do notice that they mention sometimes there will be issues with certain themes. If you let me know your theme i’ll install it on one of my blogs to make sure it works.
Jon,
It took me a second to figure out why you didn’t post this in our forum but then I realized you mentioned in the previous post that you’re just part of the free section.
In any event to answer your question. You need to set you homepage to be a static page by doing the following.
Go to “Reading”
Select the Static button.
Select “front page” and turn the dialer to the name of your home page.
Click “Save”.
Then your home page will be a static page and people will not see posts on your home page.
If you need really in depth detail on anything else I really suggest checking out Paul’s review on Niche Blitzkrieg… we have a great community that can help you.