What are you - an affiliate or a publisher? Or both? :)

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Hi Warriors!

I'm just curious - how many of you guys are affiliates and how many have a product of their own they are selling. Selling PLR stuff also counts as being a publisher.

And of course, how many of you are both.

And please post what's your favorite business model. Is it promoting CB products through PPC, is it through blogs? You sell mostly info products or you're selling software, etc?

I'm a fan of affiliate of CB products and PPC model. But I'm also creating my own software products.

Take care,

Davor.
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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    Davor, your poll is confusing.

    Affiliates are considered as publishers, except thouse who use PPC directly to the merchant's site exclusively. Those with products are generally considered as merchants even if they are downloadable info or software.

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    • Profile picture of the author DavorDebrecin
      @derek: I was using the terminology CB uses. They call their merchants - publishers. But yes, merchants sell products, affiliates promote. That's probably the best terminology.

      @Captkirk: Great! I hope it's going great for you. And thanks, I'm really passionate about what I create. I'd be thrilled to have you on board. I'll let you know when my next software is done. Since I'm conversion fanatic, you can guess what my software is about - software that increase conversion.

      @Matt: I'm not sure what you meant. Did you mean when you find a product that sells you try to create a similar product or a product that would be like an additional product to the first one? My opinion is when you find a product that sells, you keep promoting it, you just scale your campaign. Try to find out every single ounce of targeted traffic you can. Especially if the product is giving you a high commission.

      Take care guys, I wish you all the luck with your projects - just remember try to get your conversions higher and higher, because that's the best competitive advantage you can have online.

      Davor
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  • Profile picture of the author captkirk
    Originally Posted by DavorDebrecin View Post

    Hi Warriors!

    I'm just curious - how many of you guys are affiliates and how many have a product of their own they are selling. Selling PLR stuff also counts as being a publisher.

    And of course, how many of you are both.
    Hi Davor,

    I'm an affiliate but, I do promote some programs that pays me 100% per sale as an affiliate.

    Originally Posted by DavorDebrecin View Post

    And please post what's your favorite business model. Is it promoting CB products through PPC, is it through blogs? You sell mostly info products or you're selling software, etc?
    I promote affiliate program using Classifieds, Free Advertising Forums, Traffic Exchanges, Safelist and etc...

    Originally Posted by DavorDebrecin View Post

    I'm a fan of affiliate of CB products and PPC model. But I'm also creating my own software products.
    Congrats on creating your own software products. Maybe, I will be one of your affiliate in the future.

    BTW, I prefer to be an affiliate of products.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lavinco
    Sell my own.
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  • Profile picture of the author freudianslip27
    I do a bit of everything, though it is exciting to try out new niches from time to time, and for that I am an affiliate.

    Of course once you find something that sells, the best thing to do is create your own product around it

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  • Profile picture of the author JayXtreme
    I'm 97% affiliate.. 3% publisher

    The majority of my income is from the sale of other people's products.. but there are one or four markets that we happened to put something out.. mostly offline marketing for those though.

    Peace

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  • Profile picture of the author Franck Silvestre
    Selling your own products is one of the best way to become a Super Affiliate.

    In fact, it's ONE of many steps. It's not about do this or do that. Do both!

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    • Profile picture of the author DavorDebrecin
      Originally Posted by aboutalhah View Post

      Selling your own products is one of the best way to become a Super Affiliate.
      Yes, I agree.

      Create your product, sell it, build relationship with your customer list, promote other related products to your list, create another product, etc.

      That's probably the most effective and the best way to have a long term online business.

      But it's also not the easiest one, especially if you are targeting very competitive markets.

      Two most important thing here is to create a unique and quality product that fills a current unsatisfied need or desire in your market, become a brand name and being able to work with your list to build relationship with them so you become a source for information for them.

      Take care warriors,

      Davor.
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  • Profile picture of the author lkpub
    Both... working hard at it too...
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