I’m going to make a confession - HATE affiliate marketing.
Why?
Because it’s a lot more work then the “gurus” would lead you to believe. Sure, once you make a sale you don’t have to deal with product delivery & customers support, but making the sale isn’t as easy as they make it seem.
First, the biggest mistake people make is just sending people though their affiliate link to the sales page for the product they are promoting.
Why is that a HUGE mistake?
Because you’re losing all your potential customers!
If someone is interested in, for example, learning how to use Adsense for income, you might send them through your affiliate link for a product that will teach them how to do that.
But that SAME person is probably also interested in learning how to drive traffic to their sites, right?
And since you’re sent them through your affiliate link to someone else’s product, you can’t tell them about the traffic generating product anymore. They’re gone, lost.
So one of the most important thing you can to do as an affiliate marketer, that will CAPTURE those leads, is drive them to a squeeze page so you get their name and email address and can follow up with them about other products and services they might be interested in.
Once you’ve got their info, you send them through to the sales page of the affiliate product.
And, to tell the truth, creating GOOD squeeze pages, with video and neat graphics and all that can be a pain in the butt.
Plus, to make the search engines happy, you’ve got to provide content (articles, etc.). So that means taking the time to write them, or hiring someone else to do it.
Really, it’s often too much work for me to bother with.
When I head all the buzz about a *new* affiliate system that solved all these problems, I didn’t believe it. I’ve seen stuff like that before that’s supposed to be “push button” easy, and it never was. It always required hours of changing links up, editing formatting, editing autoresponder sequences with your info, and was just as much work as creating the whole system from scratch.
Anyway, after a couple of guys I respect said this was the real deal, I checked this new affiliate-system-in-a-box out.
And I really, really am surprised to see how seamlessly it works.
You actually don’t have to *do* anything to make the system yours.
Everything is encoded with your affiliate links - no swapping them out. A video squeeze page is built in. A complete mini-site (with Adsense) is built in. Autoresponder sequences are built in and you don’t need an autoresponder account if you don’t have one!
You don’t even have to upload the files to your own hosting if you don’t want to - they’ll host it for you!
I’ve revived a previously dead Clickbank account from like 1 $30 sale/month to about $300 in sales - in 3 days - without mailing my list, without promoting or linking to it on my blog or anything else that taps into my already existing customer base.
Anyone can do this because it’s exceptionally simple - this is the “Easy Button” for affiliate marketing.
And I’ve changed my tune - I *do* like affiliate marketing again. 
Hit the Easy Button, make $300 in 3 days? I’ll hit that Easy Button a few more times.
Get your own affiliate “Easy Button” here - I do highly recommend this product as a quick way to add additional income streams with minimal work.
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Looked at the affiliate system you recommend. What about duplicate content? If they are providing the same thing to everyone wont that incur Googles wrath.
That the product you are promoting right? Affiliate Silver Bullet.
I’ll give it a try today.
Duplicate content is something I worried about when I first hear about the system too. I’ve done searches on the article they provide, and most are not in Google’s index. I was able to find 1 that had 3 instances showing up, that was the most. It seems to be a case of people buying, but then not doing anything with it. (Which is sooooo typical in this business, and a shame too). It’s pretty easy to beat out 3 other people, LOL, so it’s not something I’m worried about.
Oh yes. That’s my other concern. What if I publish my article everywhere at the same time, I mean same hour for example. If google say my stuff is ‘this is duplicated content’ Do you think that might happen?
Duplicate content isn’t as big a deal as some people make it seem.
As long as you publish the article, it’s out there, getting your traffic and links and bringing you leads and sales, and that’s what matter,s right?
It doesn’t matter if the article is in Article Directory 1 ok and in Article Directory 2 and called “Duplicate Content” in Google.
Now, if you really want to make an article do more work for you, you may want to re-write it so each of the top 5 article directories get a unique version.
But it takes a lot of time to do that, I never bother.
The only other thing that can happen is if you publish the article to article directories before you publish it to your own site, Google will often list the article directories higher in the SE’s then your own site. That bothers some people. If you want to avoid that, publish it to your own site first, build a few links and make sure it’s indexed, then add it to the directories. Google *should* see it was on your site first and give you “credit” for it.
But, your site will probably not rank as high as an article directory…. So you may actually want the article directory to get the “credit” as it could dive more traffic to the article.
@Kelvin - I really like your design work!
Oh wow..What a swift reply. Thanks Michelle. I agree. Get sales & profit is more important than anything else.
I hope one day I can get lots of traffic like your site.
Like my website. Only got about 20 visitors per day. and 0-3 quotes request per week. How poor is that.
Hi Michelle,
Just one question about this system. First of all I bought this system yesturday and was surprised as to how easy it was to set up…talk about automation. But for me there seems to be one problem. The salesletter said that we will receive 25 articles per bullet pet month to promote are landing pages. Well I can’t find any anywhere in the members area..are there any?
They’re in the “Articles” folder within the actual Bullet your downloaded!
So I just wanted to say, I finished your blueprint and 3 videos. They’re all packed with great info. A ton of work going into the blueprint info, especially with all those links. Share this with your husband, concerned about lost revenue. One of today’s big multi-million dollar gurus says (paraphrased), “put your best work together, then give it away. The results will be amazing.” From my point of view, if we’re passionate about what we do, the money will come. That’s true whether you’re working online or off. Anyway, I’m anxious to put some of your great ideas to work. Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm and expertise.
Shelley