Make Money With Affiliate Programs

Yes, I have a confession to make… I’m very Lazy!

This is the problem when you don’t have a boss to tell ya what to do… Today, instead of telling you what I will do in 2008, let me tell you what I’ve done last year.

Year 2007 Affiliate Marketing Overview (In a nutshell)

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Since this is a long post and many of you maybe working surfing, I will add the main points here:

1. Came Back To Old & Proven Marketing Strategies
2. Got out of the information overload loop
3) Took massive action towards my goals
4. Got a new coach: Eben Pagan
5. Didn’t spam my subscribers with crap products
6. Helped struggling affiliate marketers
7. Understood marketing better
8. Tried to Over Deliver
9. Planned and mindmaping everything
10. Tracking And Testing
11. Outsourced what I can outsource

Now, you can continue…

1. Back To Old Marketing Strategies

Believe me or not, but even if the web marketing techniques seems to change at light speed, what was working years ago is still working today.

I am talking about real online marketing strategies, not spamming people.

The old stuff isn’t dead… And don’t believe anyone who try to sell you “…… is dead stuff”. Heck, he wants your money!

2. Getting out of the information overload loop

Believe me, even if you KNOW it, the Internet is a tough world. Too much info.. this one say do this, and two minutes after, you read a blog post that say: warning, don’t do this!?

Then you are paralyzed, and you think..think…think, without taking action.

What I found effective to get rid of the information overload syndrome is to admit the truth: “all the stuff that I receive: I already know most of it, so why should I read more?”

It’s crazy, but it works for me. Now, I delete almost every single email that hit my inboxes (AARGH, I have too many inboxes, big problem to solve)

This information loop is one of the biggest PROBLEMS that internet and affiliate marketers have. They already know what they have to do… but they want to know more, find the last affiliate secret…

You know, in everything bad, there’s something good: I read so many newsletters, sales letters and emails that I’m getting good at copywriting!

Ok, let’s go to…

3) I took massive action towards my goals

My first goal was to reach $300 per month (reached this before in 2006). In 2007, I set this goal to $1000 a month. I reached this as well. How much I earn now? I prefer to keep this for me. What I can say is that I didn’t reach the yearly 6 figures mark yet.

I could (with God’s help) if I started to use more paid advertising techniques. Read more to find out what will happen…

After all, this is not really important for YOU. What’s important for you is how much YOU are earning…

So what I did to reach my goal and go to the next level?

A. I created my very own products:

As an affiliate, you are already creating your own products. You create viral pdfs, application softwares and other stuff. YOU are a product creator as well, even if you don’t put a price on it!

Here are mine…

1) Seo Seduction Secrets
2) The Ultimate Niche Market Research Trick
3) Affiliate Profit Mentor (Brand new: Started in 2008)

B. I created a network of sites and products

I will create a mindmap of when I have time to do so…

4. Got a new coach: Eben Pagan

Eben Pagan is my new coach, we have weekly calls with him, and they are awesome.

All my business will be re-modeled towards what I learned in the Get Altitude Program.

Eben earns $20 Millions a year, and his teaching is pure gold. It’s definitively not for “Project Quick Cash” type affiliate marketer, but if you are serious about your Internet business, his teaching is for you.

Anyway, if you don’t have a coach, get one ASAP. I’m a martial artist, and I really know how to fight (I like that!), but I have may coaches. You always need to improve.

And your coach doesn’t need to know more than you in every aspect of your business! May be you need to learn about PPC and your coach is good at it. It’s not a problem if he doesn’t know article marketing.

He is an expert at PPC and it’s what you want.

5. Not spamming my subscribers with crappy offers

I love my subscribers, because once they opted-in, it was the sign that they wanted to trust me.

I don’t want to lose this trust at any price. This is better than all the money in the world. What is money? Nothing! Stones & piece of papers… When we die, we will not take the money with us. I guarantee this!

Instead of spamming my members (I don’t like to call them list), I try to help them, give them what they want.

Actually, now I will focus all my marketing towards helping others (I knew this, but Eben really take this to the next level).

And to serve my subscribers better (in all my niches), I will turn my sites and newsletter towards membership sites.

This is good for me and for my members because I give them more value, and instead of researching more subscribers and visitors, I work with my members and they reward me with money.

Money is only a mean of exchange. You need to change your mindset. Help people, and money will come naturally.

6. I helped struggling affiliate marketers

I help everywhere I can, on forums, my members, anyone who contact me… I just help (in all my niches)

7. Understand marketing better

I read a lot in 2007, and I understand marketing better, and you know what? To become really good at marketing, you need to understand PEOPLE.

Understand what they want, what they need, their fears, frustrations.

It’s not just about thinking how they can give you their hard earned money…

8. Over Delivering

I tried to overdeliver.

9. Get a plan and mindmaping

In every I do know, I have a plan. I mindmap (on paper, I’m not mister excel and definitively not mister software…) everything to have a clear picture of what I’m doing.

I have daily plans, monthly plan (no yearly plan yet…)

You really need to know what you are doing to enhance your biz.

10. Tracking And Testing

Wow, this is important. In 2007, I didn’t give enough importance to tracking and testing, but since 2 or 3 months, I test and track everything. It;s the only way to do marketing!

If you don’t track and test, you are not a marketer!

11. Outsourcing what I can outsource

Outsourcing rock! Believe me, not outsourcing is costing you a lot of money!

I outsourced:

a. Copywriting
b. Article distribution
c. Blogging (not in all my niches)
d. Graphics and ebooks cover creation

This post is getting long… Obviously, I forgot something, but it’s not a problem. I’ve said a lot in this post.

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I’d really like to hear your comments and see what you did in 2007 that added to your business.

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