Which form of IM pays the best/quickest? Looking to supplement my Adsense w/ something else...

I have been in the business of selling domains and flipping site. I moved further to creating ebooks and printed books on how to guides on this niches...

I went further to establish a Printing and publishing company that I use in publishing my books offline and selling them during my trainings and seminars...

I know that many, many people always complain about clickbank...but once you got your campaigns going and things work out, clickbank becomes very reliable and their paychecks/bank transfers are always on time.

But its really not about CPA, clickbank, plimus, XYZ <--- its about the PRODUCT. You discover a good niche and you see a matching product in CP, CPA, revenuewire, plimus....then chose the program which has the particular quality product.

As for adwords/article marketing. Personally my focus is article marketing and i like it better than adwords, especially clickbank and adwords can prove very difficult.

There are a few factors WHY....the first is average conversion rate (which can be WAY higher for good articles as compared to PPC traffic)...then cost per click....and payouts. (99% of CB products actually pay below $30, and 99% of keywords for those clickbank products are just too expensive)

This is a simple "math" which you can apply...if you see that PPC conversion for clickbank via adwords can VERY OFTEN be in the ranges 1:80 - 1:90...then you will quickly see it HARDLY will work <-- (despite what vendors claim!) Exceptions are the rule tho.

I find the doing PPC campaigns is the quickest way to make money online. It's not the cheapest way, but doing PPC and using a good optimization tracking program you can relatively quickly make it practically risk-free and a reliable stable income (if you focus on more long term niches/offers instead of maybe CPA offers).

Have to agree with the PPC traffic as being the fastest way to get up and running.

As an affiliate, you could just start to test the market and split test 3-4 products at a time...traffic is quick so in 1 week you could already see if the market is worth it or not.

Then you can simply create a better product or with a different angle and use it as a self liquidating offer, with a proper sales process to make money even if you LOOSE money on the front end.

Also PPC can be one of the fastest ways to build a list in a certain market.

I suppose article marketing would be the way to go, if you're just starting out and not too familiar with the other methods.

PPC sounds interesting. I know nothing about it, but I knew nothing about Adsense some time back too. Can anyone introduce the basics? How would I get started?

I guess you can check out googles training center or one of those books from the "dummies" series...Adwords for Dummies...I think these would be a good way to learn the basics of it.

Tho be careful, you can loose LOADS of money EXTREMELY fast if your not careful.

So Marian, would you recommend that I get into standard CB promotion or writing & promoting my own ebooks first? In order to have a successful CB product, do I simply need to put it up on CB, or will I have to try and get lots of super-affiliates to help promote it too (cuz that sounds like a long-winded headache, tracking down and convincing each one)? I've never launched an ebook before and don't know the process.

Article marketing is the most unique and most effective way to do marketing. It is kind of narrow marketing like marketing only a selected product or a specific one. Another good way to do marketing is to use the social networks.

As a personal opinion I would say that you test the market as an affiliate first, if you have success start building your own product but make it better/different then the one you were promoting as an affiliate.

And to have a successful product on CB you do need to get alot of affiliates to promote it.

There would be too much to say here when it comes to starting out, it depends on LOADS of factors and one method might be good for most people but not for you.

So I recommend reading this forum some more, create a plan of action and follow it

Loy are you in IM full time or do you have a regular job too?

Best way to find a product to promote is to decide the market that you want to go in, and then split-test 3 or more products...after a few hundread visitors you simply select the best one.

That is if you can bring enough traffic fast enough.

Another method is to simply go with the products that other affiliates are having success with and promote it using your own angle.

Ex: If the product is about traffic generation for example, you could write articles for "The nr.1 key to succeding in IM is..."

Ofc, this is just an example of the top of my head but you get the point.

Also you can try and market it laterally...you might get lower conversions but if the competition is too high the regular way...