Affiliate marketing action plan ?

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are there any plans or business models out there for affiliate marketing that can help me keep my focus and accomplish what I need to accomplish.

I know what I need to be doing but I find it so hard to accomplish each task each day. I guess it cause I have been working for a long time and only seen minimal results.

So far from July to until now I have made a whopping 83.67 total in affiliate sales.

I know I need to be writing articles, building pages, and building backlinks but maybe if I had a plan of action to look at everyday It might help me out a bit more.

Here is one of my articles what do you guys think of it ?

How To Increase Your Vertical - Discover The Secrets For Adding Inches To Your Vertical

Do I give away too much info ?

is my resource box not good enough ?

is my lander junk ?

are my keywords garbage ?

Any advice is appreciated...... just looking for a little motivation thanks in advanced.

ps. if you think I should be writing articles for money instead of affiliate marketing let me know because I have been thinking the same thing.
#action #affiliate #marketing #plan
  • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
    Hi Friend

    sorry to hear you are struggling a bit, but I do think you are on the right path simply because you are taking action.

    Some Feedback
    I think you article is okay, a bit long and your call to action could be stronger. You have 19 views since publishing in Sept which is a bit low. You will need to have a ton of articles in place to get some decent traffic.

    I would not use a Blogspot if I was going to use a blog I would get a domain, some hosting and WordPress.

    Also include a link to the affiliate program in the fold, this is the area of the webpage you see when the page loads and without scrolling. Ideally you want to put an email capture form ... pick up an account at Aweber.

    In answer to your question about business models yes there are a few.

    You are creating landing pages to promote affiliate products ... get this right and you can make $100's of dollars a day.

    Keep visiting this forum you will learn a huge amount here.

    All the best

    John
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    • thanks for the reply

      Your signature seemed to catch my eye, It seems like something that I am very interested in right now.

      I guess thats just good marketing because I am a desperate buyer right now and thats all you need.

      For $5.00 I would not be losing much.

      After having checked out my article, do you think that your report would help me to boost clickthrough rate, views , etc ? You know overall take my articles to another level ?
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      • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
        Originally Posted by Chris "C.J" Robinson View Post

        thanks for the reply

        Your signature seemed to catch my eye, It seems like something that I am very interested in right now.

        I guess thats just good marketing because I am a desperate buyer right now and thats all you need.

        For $5.00 I would not be losing much.

        After having checked out my article, do you think that your report would help me to boost clickthrough rate, views , etc ? You know overall take my articles to another level ?
        I guess I am not really meant to try and promote my stuff here ... all I will say is that I am getting good feedback. $4.95 is the trail price the full price is $24.95 which is what you will be billed after the initial trial period

        John
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    • Profile picture of the author Crew Chief
      Originally Posted by Chris "C.J" Robinson View Post

      are there any plans or business models out there for affiliate marketing that can help me keep my focus and accomplish what I need to accomplish.

      I know what I need to be doing but I find it so hard to accomplish each task each day. I guess it cause I have been working for a long time and only seen minimal results.

      So far from July to until now I have made a whopping 83.67 total in affiliate sales.

      I know I need to be writing articles, building pages, and building backlinks but maybe if I had a plan of action to look at everyday It might help me out a bit more.

      Here is one of my articles what do you guys think of it ?

      How To Increase Your Vertical - Discover The Secrets For Adding Inches To Your Vertical

      Do I give away too much info ?

      is my resource box not good enough ?

      is my lander junk ?

      are my keywords garbage ?

      Any advice is appreciated...... just looking for a little motivation thanks in advanced.

      ps. if you think I should be writing articles for money instead of affiliate marketing let me know because I have been thinking the same thing.

      If it's Affiliate Marketing that you want to do, you need to read the bible on Affiliate Marketing and IMHO that is still: Rosalind Gardner's "Super Affiliate Handbook"

      Once you've got the basics down and a will to succeed, the sky is the limits for your Internet Marketing career!

      That said, in all honesty this business breaks down into two phases:

      Part 1 = Building Websites
      Part 2 = Marketing websites

      Once you learn how to build a website, which includes Niche Research, Keyword Research, On Page SEO and proper viewer aesthetics and navigation, you then move on to marketing websites. The second phase includes OFF Page SEO and could also include: PPC, PPV, Social Network marketing, etc.

      If you K.I.S.S., Keep it simple simple, you won't face information overload or suffer from the dreaded paralysis of analysis syndrome.

      In summation, first and foremost, get grounded!

      To be clear; you will go nowhere in IM until and unless you learn and master ON Page SEO and Off Page SEO. Meaning, once you learn how to GET website traffic, you will be unstoppable!

      Giles, the Crew Chief
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  • Profile picture of the author Big Al
    I know this sounds like crap advice ... but just keep going and incrementally improve.

    Drive traffic and improve your conversions.

    If you consistantly manage to bump the article click-thru rate, if you consistently manage to get more clicks on your links (get people onto your list, get your emails opened and sales from your messages) ...

    ... then just keep at it, improve every time - then that's pretty much it in a nutshell.

    I've just started trying something different and right now ... my new system is up and complete (ie. the structure) but I know it's rubbish which doesn't really bother me because that's part of the learning curve - its the experience you get from doing that serial product purchasers never get and you can't pay for.

    Anyway ... back to driving traffic, improving conversions and writing email follow-ups : )
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    Hi Chris,

    You might find this article series on my blog useful - Affiliate Marketing Insights*|*Turn To Andy

    It's still a great business model so don't give up.

    Regards,

    Andy
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  • Profile picture of the author Barry Unruh
    Originally Posted by Chris "C.J" Robinson View Post

    Here is one of my articles what do you guys think of it ?

    Do I give away too much info ?

    is my resource box not good enough ?

    is my lander junk ?

    are my keywords garbage ?
    I think your article has severe problems.

    You might be giving a bit more away than I would recommend, but not too bad.

    Is your lander junk, not exactly, but it fails a major test. I cannot see your offer without scrolling down. You are not giving me an instant method to get to the offer and buy. You are not closing the deal.

    YES, your keywords are JUNK. Here is why.."How to increase your vertical"...Vertical Jump, Vertical Market, Vertical Height, Vertical Lift, Vertical what?????

    There is no reason in the world I would click your headline because I have no idea what your article is about. That is a BIG, HUGE, GLARING problem. Do not take keyword research in any tool to be "accurate" of the phrase. Use your own common sense of what the phrase should say. You KNEW it needed to be "How to increase your vertical jump" but you chose to listen to your research and take it as truth.

    Affiliate marketing is all about traffic, and getting people into buying mode. Increase your traffic by getting content in a wide variety of places, driving it all towards your landing page, or even better a squeeze page to be able to market to them for years with an email list.

    Rosalind's guide is very good. I would also recommend you hunt down Lynn Terry online. She has a blog called ClickNewz and is in my opinion one of the Queens of Affiliate Marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author TristanH
    I'd personally never buy anything from a Blogspot bog that I just found through Google. Seems too sketchy. Get your own domain. Here are some available ones that might apply to your niche:

    howtojumphigherquickly.com
    jumphigherheadquarters.com
    learntojumphigherfast.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Margo Tuul
    Feedback...

    Your article is bit too long, you are also giving out too much information. If you explain a lot, then why should they click? Keep them interested and give out few valuable points. And at the end of article, start pointing out, that under my link there...is more valuable information.


    You can also go as a sales page style. Lets say you promote product A. Then you write about what this product A can do. Help you lose weight, get fit. Benefits, benefits, benefits. People only care about benefits. What they can get. Then just point out, that full overview you get there. Go already and check it out!.
    This method works very well for me. But don't sell in your article.
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