Getting serious about Affiliate Marketing - Newbie thought process

Your on the right track to getting where want start as you are with your list of goals and very so you will be making i believe 5 to 6 grand.

Magix3d,

That is a GREAT plan. Awesome job.

Step 3: You can use any of the great autoresponder services that are out there to do that portion for you. Some are free. They make it really easy to do and you don't have to re-create the functionality.

Here are a few potentials for you:

www.imnicamail.com
www.aweber.com
www.getresponse.com
www.mailchimp.com

Just read the Terms of Use for all of them before choosing one to ensure it fits your niche.

Di

P.S. You need to add Google Analytics onto your website to track where your visitors are coming from. It allows you to focus your targeting.

Interesting post, but the whole thing is not that easy though. There are more and more complicated steps to make $$$ a month. Like: setting a mindset, having a positive attitude and also the most important I think... setting up strong but achievable goals.

Sounds like a really good plan. The key to success is taking action.

For the Youtube videos you should give advice on every video about things such as various weight lifting techniques, diet, cardio, etc. I would add to the title of each video "video 1 of 2" At the end of the video have some call to action such as "if you want to check out video 2 be sure to click on the link to my site." (of course have video 2 of 2 on your website. You'll be amazed how well this works)

Looking forward to hearing your success stories with your website...

I know articles are talked about alot in here, and I use them.

But for me and othere big guru marketers I use, you income will explode when you learn how to use Payperclick properly.

The big names I know use PPC, and also leverage of other peoples big lists for very nice monthly incomes. That is where the big money is. You just have to learn how to work smarter....not harder.

I know you want to be an affiliate, but since you are a personal trainer. I suggest you only start with affiliate marketing, while you are creating a blog and your own product.

As for your plan, it sounds good. What will make you stand out from the crowd is that you are actually in the field for real, and you can build a following with your blog. Many affiliates can't do this since they don't really know about the niche.

Your plan is good. Learn one traffic gen after another.

In other words, you have an edge.

Franck

I also think you are on the right track.Just focus on what you're doing and dont give up until you get your desired success.

Try it and even if you fail, try again and some days you will be success. Good luck.

yes the steps are good, keep moving

Great steps. I would just change the order.

Put up a single squeeze page on yourdomain.com with an opt in box and offer the high value item for free there.

This way, you are getting the biggest bang for your efforts by building your business asset (your list) first.

That should take a few hours.

Then, add the blog with the valuable content to yourdomain.com/blogname

In the valuable blogs post, link your squeeze page in keywords inside the relevant words in the post.

Write articles and promote people to the squeeze page.

Then do all the rest.

A little tip here

Don't go all out and build a list by yourself

After you have a few subscribers (between 50 - 100) just go out and do AdSwaps

It is easier and more productive than to continually build a list all by yourself

Hi I agree with Jayson Masters about ad swaps it makes for a more diversified list.
Regards
vivi62

Good plan. Once you have your opt in page and pillar affiliate promotion posts done, every article you publish should promote your list or your pillar posts by linking to them.

This is what I do and it works for digital and physical product niche sites. I just keep adding keyworded posts and I link to my affiliate promo posts and/or opt in pages. I do this over and over and over. The goal is as much traffic to pillar posts and opt in pages. Sales and subscribes add up daily.

I'm trying to get my posting up 15 so that I can post a link lol. I really am committed, I will keep posting to this thread. Thanks again everybody for the motivation.

Good solid plan. I have one similiar in place. I am your age and devote myself to IM 100%. I hope to see small success in the future with my plan. keep it up.

These are definitly good steps to start.

I also just learned how to use the "thank button" .. thanks everybody

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

Sounds like a great plan.

Stick to it & you'll definitely see results.

Fantastic Stuff !!! Glad you decided to follow through and already taking action

The plan looks good . You are going to need some leverage . You are going to need alliances and lots of it . You are going to need others to do the work for you and if you want to get growing fast you are going to invest in creating products that would truly transform people lives and build your list

I have a question ... What is your target ? How much do you want to make e.g 1K / month, 10k /month , 100k/month e.t.c. How many products or membership do you need to sell before you hit your target


Who you know is more important than what you know (although it helps to bring create quality life -changing information to the table , you are going to have raving fans )

My suggestions:

1. Contact successful marketers in your niche and keep doing interviews with people who has already establish website .Ask for an interview until you get it.You are positioning your self as an expert

2.Outsource all the tasks that are time consuming or that you tend to procrastinate on

3. Leverage: 100 new people can be added your list within 4 days if you are willing to Invest in solo ads

Also contact successful marketers to do JV with them and ask to promote their products

4.Get a mentor to keep you accountable

5. Start creating your product right now (Use a mind map first and then start working on it at least one hour a day until it is done )

I like how you have a journal for what you are doing each day .It is kind of emotional and shows commitment

I like that .

I have learnt something from you . Keep the journal going .

Much Love,

Femi Lawani

You have a great plan. Now, it depends on how you manage to do all of that. Hope to hear from your success stories someday.

Great job! You're on the right track and you have a very good plan!

I can see that you're going to be a huge success already once you start putting this into action, and that leads in to my only advice that I have for you...

Make sure that you associate time goals for each of these projects. So for building a website, when do you expect to complete that, how about the articles?

Then you want to make sure you have a daily list of goals, or to-do's for each day. Post 10 forum comments, blog comments, etc., write 1 article, etc., etc.

Great job!

Hi it sounds like a great plan my only advice is to keep focused and not let other things take your time and money.
Regards
vivi62

It looks like you have a solid strategy.Now go and do it.Come back and share your results.

it's great strategy.. i will try it boss.. thank you..

unique, there is no word backlinks there ( even though almost everyone say that backlinks are important ), but all the way it does is producing a good backlink..

Some suggestions to a really good start:

1. Privatize your videos and require membership to view them. Outsource everything else or you won't have time for anything else.
2. Constantly tell your offline visitors what you've added to your website so they'll be motivated to repeatedly visit your site (better get some biz cards!).
3. Look up PURLS and use them to get even more offline customers onto your site.
4. Do you train people on a regular schedule? Get a calendar on site and announce your events. Personalize it so that logged in customers see their personal schedule only.
5. Set up a forum so that people can share their experiences (ie. their moans and groans). Moderate it to keep people in positive spirits.

Oh, and sell a fitness mobile app while you're at it. People love that stuff. In fact, if you stay focused on your stuff, you won't have to sell other people's stuff and you can appropriately drop it from your plans.

Those are just a few more bumps along a successful road you may already be on. I strongly suggest that you merge your offline and online activities since the bulk of your strategies are online only.

Good luck!

Today is a family day so there's not much time to work on much today, but lots of time to think as we commute for my wife's birthday dinner for the evening.

Time Flux : origins of war
On kickstarter.com our $5,000 of funding ends. We are barely over the 50% mark.

In about 10 days we've been able to grow our interest list for the free downloadable cyborg deck to 125. We have 36 pledges. We need to figure out how to convert more of these 125 people in to pledges. We are sending out an email on Tuesday to get referrals and offer a new downloadable deck.

We also have a email being sent to the store owners where Thomas did demos at. A special offer to them is to double product.

Thinking about my video for personal training
I bought a web cam today. Here is my first post with it.

Goals for tomorrow:

-Find a resource for providing restricted video content for online video training
-Rehearse and record 2 video sessions for my video info product lead generator online personal training



View my first video post at http://www.ptservicepro.com/CommitedAffiliateMarketer/2011/11/27/day-16/

There's a really great wordpress plugin for email opt ins that works like a lightbox called popup domination or something like that. Some sort of CB product, not too expensive. I'm not trying to plug this product, I'm just throwing it out there.

This is a solid plan you've got overall, but just be sure not to make your plan TOO in depth. When you're worrying about multiple things you can get carried away and not actually do the simple stuff that makes you the money.

One thing I'd suggest is to rinse and repeat this process using different types of monetization methods:

1) Use information based websites with high quality content and monetize with high cost per click Adsense keywords.
2) Get into a network like share a sale or commission junction that sells physical products. OR just plane old amazon. Then build a site that has a more robust ecommerce feel to it and use a lot of images to attract some image search
3) Then get into CPA offers using search traffic, and media buys.

There's so many options out there and potential for scaling. Just find a simple process that works for each type and go with it.

One of the greatest internet marketers that I know once gave me good advice:

He said that if making money with adsense, cpa offers, and affiliate sites is great, and a lot of people do it for a full time income. But if you really want to bring your income to the next level and distinguish yourself, you really need to build a list and create your own product launch.

Once you find success in simple methods, don't be scared to really utilize your knowledge to create your own products and bring it to the next level.

Maybe it's the caffeine, but I had a sort of "ah-ha" moment. I overheard a discussion at work about having a job that doesn't pay well or have a job you love and get paid less. "Paid well" was depicted as 75k per year. It made me think for a moment about what I've got going on in my life and made realize a few things about why I don't really want to get promoted. High paying jobs require a lot of time commitment. A commitment of time that would prevent me to work on this internet affiliate marketing venture and The Time flux card game I'm developing with friends. The idea of having a high paying job sounds great right now because we are struggling to make ends meet, however we've always barely made it. Meaning, when we make more money we spend more money and we get caught up in the same predicament. In my current situation I'm a low level employee who is paid based on production. I have the flexibility to work as much or as little as I want but still make a decent enough income to make ends meet. Luckily I have access to a computer that allows me to work on my internet marketing.


If I were to take a job or promotion that paid more it would just get be caught up in the rat race that Rich Dad talks about. I keep saying I will take a promotion if it is offered, but I keep telling my wife I don't really want to take it. It'd difficult when you have a 4 year old child and a baby on the way. My wife is hoping it is a girl.


Today I posted a picture on my start page (and my WF thread) of something I need and really want. I want a bigger home. My current living situation makes it so my son can't have have his own room. Having a packed master bedroom isn't an ideal idea for any young couple. I listened to a podcast about a week ago of the Affiliate Buzz with James Martel. He refreshed my memory of the power of writing down goals. You increase your probability of accomplishing your goal by 1000% if you write them down. This is something I've gotten away from. Also, the idea of a start page where you see your goal everyday. A fancy car, cool gadget or coveted toy. At my age these things no longer interest me as much. Having a bigger home for my family to live is now a priority. It is my next dream. My next focus. My goal is to be able to afford a home pictured above so my family can live and grow comfortably in.


I don't think I've felt like this for a while. Where I felt serious or this committed to something outside of my profession. Anything less than success is not an option. I must succeed or I will continue to run in the wheel of the rat race. I don't want to do that anymore.


No matter how much you love your job our time is finite. There is only so much time in a day to do anything. Instead of earning an hourly wage, I'm committing to building something great. Building something awesome that will reap the financial benefits that allows to me to accomplish this first goal buying a bigger home. And I will do it with internet marketing.


The huge gigantic elephant that is internet affiliate marketing is a big thing to consume and learn what is necessary to know. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

This idea has been done thousands of times. Something needs to be added... to make it fresh and new. You very nicely laid it out and it seems good on paper... but something needs to set you (or your website/blog or whatever) apart from the thousands of others trying to do the same thing as you, similar to you. I hope this makes sense.

Nice tips, I think you have covered most of the basics to get regular traffic and hence potential income

Back to the list building question I agree with the Ad Swap. Once you hit the 100+ benchmark, do adswap. You can build your list quicker!

Then find someone within your niche to create joint venture partnership, think of something like, "I help you, you help me"...

I have a quick question what is a good emailing system that is free for newbies like me? If I want to get into email marketing?

All of this is great information! I'm so glad I found this. It looks so simple and easy to follow. I'm going to put this plan to action

I'll sell you the site in my sig if you want. Its new but PR1. You can have all the content.

Some of this procedures are in my list. But I always follow mine and do some out of it.

I can't believe you went through all that trouble just to give us baby steps on how to start IM, that was really nice of you

Actually it IS that easy. You just need to do it 10Ã-- more then your competition.

Good luck

Tough nieche you've picked yourself.
But one with plenty of cash sloshing around.

Sounds like you're on the right track.
One thing I'd say is plough as much cash as you can back into buying products and services that are well reviewed here on the Forum.

But be careful. Check out reviews and always buy from the WSO section if you can.

Last point. There's plenty of free info and gifts ans so on available in your nieches, so take advantage of all the info and offers you can take for nothing

I bought a program I heard about on Today on affiliate marketing by Russ Ruffino. It was the exact type of program I was looking for. I'm very cheap, especially since I haven't generated any money yet. This was the perfect program for me.



How to generate traffic cheaply and effectively was a strategy I was looking for. The short amount of research I've been doing on free traffic has got me running in loops. It's become more time consuming (which I don't have a lot of).
He offers a 60-day money back guarantee and I can already tell I’m probably not going to ask for a refund. He’s put a lot of work into this thing. The first video I watched was 37 minutes and there are dozens more. The name of his info product is Endless Traffic Tap.


Ugly ads that either standout or blend in is the most valuable thing I’ve learned so far. That will help with Time Flux : Origins of War (startup card game) that I’m doing the internet marketing for.

you are running on the right path...this is the exact path to success...initially it will take some time but results will be positive...well...best of luck....