Heres a little gem that has been working for me

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Hello warriors,

I have been working online for a while now and make a pretty decent income online. In fact I am travelling the world on the money I make from my ventures. I can only thank the warrior forum for this as pretty much everything I have learnt has been through this forum.

Here is something I have been doing for a while normally when I cant get Wifi on my laptop but have access to another computer.

I have been an ebay affiliate for a long time and ebay is great way of making money.

On my own forums which are car related I put a link to an ebay listing which would be of interest to the readers this link has the ebay aff code in it.

Now if its a busy forum a lot of people will click on the link and well the ebay motors is a great market because boys love their toys I make a nice extra commission.

Its not something I do all the time because I dont spam forum ect and I do have a big obsession with cars so this is what helps me bring in extra money.

But this is also just a simple marketing technique that I use on ebay and forums there is no reason why it wont work for other affiliate programs and products. forum marketing is brilliant

Hope this has helped someone

Danny
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisnkay
    This really sounds like a nifty idea! I think I might give it a try sometime!

    Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Easy Cash
    This is great advice !

    Thanks for the detailed advice. If there are any newbies out there looking for something to start on - this is a great way to start!
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  • Profile picture of the author Roy Carter
    Traveling the world ey Danny? Nice one!

    What you are pointing out here is a method of finding out where a hungry crowd is hanging out and placing yourself in front of them. Whenever you can do that (and you should), it becomes way easier to sell and build yor own list.

    Good advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Yup travelling round the world!! I am currently in Picton New Zealand in a pretty cool youth hostel tapping away while every one else is drinking ha ha.

    Also quite funny people are working doing rubbish jobs like fish markets ect ect earning little money and I get out of bed at 10 or 11 sit on my lappy ...lol I try not to tell too many people what I do but my girlfriend often gloats....lol

    Anyway... is a brilliant method I enjoy using it I also use it on my own forums not too often again but often enough to make the shillings. Getting greedy normally screws things up

    All the best

    Danny
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  • Profile picture of the author 123rlp
    How often do they take the car bate just wondering.That a clever way to make a couple of bucks I might give it a shot some day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Ha Ha, the forum is not on ebay itself you need to surf around....lol

    Also the car bait is just one way there are loads of other ways to do it just try not to be too obvious.

    On one of my own forums I often surf round to find Buggies for sale and put them up which gets a lot of interest

    Danny
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    • Profile picture of the author blackjack
      Danny

      Excellent post. What script are you using for your eBay sites? and where did you get your headers from?

      You can use site placement with Google on forums rather than posting in forums.

      BTW it is raining in Milton Keynes today.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Hello

    Glad its raining!! are you from MK?

    well with this method you dont even need a website... just use the EPN (ebay partner network) tools to generate a link.

    The sites in my sig some are drupal using PHPBay and others are BANS sites

    BANS are good but google doesnt really like them much I have tweeked mine a fair bit and do a lot of other stuff to get them ranked... however yahoo seems to love BANS sites.

    My drupal sites are really good and google likes Drupal a lot however PHPBay is a pain and takes a bit of fiddling to get right.

    The headers now some are designed by warriors others are designed by me...lol

    I hope that answered your questions

    Danny
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    • Profile picture of the author Book38
      Danny,

      Can I ask what you use to do your product research prior to posting on the forum? I have used forum marketing as a way to get traffic, but it never occurred to me that you could sell a bit with a post or two.

      Thanks for your info!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Flyingpig7
    Great idea, Danny,
    BlackJack can you expand on that,
    What do you mean site placement, Google adwords to put an ad on forums?
    It would certainly be less time consuming than spending time putting comments on forums.

    Thanks for the great information Danny.
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    • Profile picture of the author blackjack
      Originally Posted by Flyingpig7 View Post

      Great idea, Danny,
      BlackJack can you expand on that,
      What do you mean site placement, Google adwords to put an ad on forums?
      It would certainly be less time consuming than spending time putting comments on forums.

      Thanks for the great information Danny.
      Keren

      Keren

      It is Google Adwords but on sites you choose rather than search. Check Plaster Forum from Danny's sig and there are Google Adwords. Sp rather than posting anything on forum, you create a adword and choose the forum as site placement in adword settings.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Well the research is obvious if there is a dedicated forum to that subject to me that symbols a hungry market.

    I think if you start putting ads on forums they just wont get clicked but questions ect willl because people generally like to help others... well thats what I think any how.

    You see if you find a niche your interested in (in my case cars) then it doesnt seem like work.

    Danny
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    • Profile picture of the author blackjack
      Originally Posted by Danny Cutts View Post

      Well the research is obvious if there is a dedicated forum to that subject to me that symbols a hungry market.

      I think if you start putting ads on forums they just wont get clicked but questions ect willl because people generally like to help others... well thats what I think any how.

      You see if you find a niche your interested in (in my case cars) then it doesnt seem like work.

      Danny
      Danny

      I do agree with you. If you know about the niche and are regular poster on the forum then you can post questions with links otherwise it is spam. Hence I tend to use Google Adword method.
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  • Profile picture of the author ken_p
    i am so envious, travelling the world with online money. that is my goal! to find a system, that doesnt need to be updated/i need to be online, everyday, and would still generate some income, enough to travel. i might give this a go...
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  • Profile picture of the author CBSnooper
    I'm the tech admin on a very busy classic car forum. The ebay banner at the bottom has an affiliate link in. It earns more than enough to pay for the dedicated server hosting. A lot of people post up links to ebay auctions. I've been meaning to put a bit of code in to convert the links to affiliate links to see how much it improves by!
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    • Profile picture of the author Cali16
      Danny, thank you for the great tip! Definitely not something I would have ever thought of myself. It sounds like their are a ton of different things besides cars for which this would work really well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    oh yes!! my primary business online is forums and well it makes a good little something to say the least.

    I would like to find a script that automatically changes ebay links into affiliate links hmmmm

    Danny

    My moderators have no idea what sort of money I make...lol
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    But on forums people just dont click on adwords anymore!! well on the forums I own my adsense income is not worth even checking anymore.

    Forum marketing is spamming but with a bit of etiquet wouldn't you say!

    Also by putting adsense on you get paid a few cents a click but with EPN if someone buys a motorhome for £300k you are gonna make a few quid thats a sure fact.

    All the best

    Danny
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  • Profile picture of the author radio
    This is against the ePN Terms of Service I believe unless you happen to own the forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    Ah crap

    and I quote

    Unacceptable Placements.

    1. You will not place Links or Promotional Content in third-party newsgroups, message boards, blogs, comments, link farms, forums, classified ad services, counters, chatrooms or guestbooks unless it is allowed by their terms and conditions.

    Doh!!! Luckily for me I own most of the forums that I have done this!

    So unless you own the forum dont do it!!

    Sorry everybody!!

    Danny
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