Newbie Help

Affiliate marketing is best for lots of people starting out because you can start right away with no product of your own.

If you've got lots of DVDs and other training meterials on Internet marketing then the best thing would be to pick the one that teaches what's best for you and to stay completely focused on that one until it starts working.

Don't try too many different things all at once, or give up on an approach if it doesn't work right away.

Hunty, the reason that most people say it is easy
to start with affiliate marketing is because it is the
cheapest way to start!

But, if you are serious then there are a few things to
consider...

1. Your Own Website
2. Autoresponder
3. Targeted Traffic
4. A Affiliate/Clickbank Product

Once you get it all set up just start driving targeted
traffic to your website!

There are many ways to drive targeted traffic to your
website...

- Article Marketing
- SEO
- Video Marketing
- PPC
- Contextual Advertising
- Viral Marketing (write an e-book)
- Banner Ads
- Ezine Ads

And many more...

- You need to find a market that interests you and
a market that has needs!

- Then get your own website.

- Get an autoresponder in fill it with follow-up letters
that promote your product or program.

- Then pick a marketing method within your budget
and start promoting your website.

Once you master one form of marketing add another
form or advertising and you'll start to build momentum!

I hope this helps!

Good luck,

Hey there Hunty,

hope your alrite. Now, without overloading you with information, remember that IM is always a learning curve, and you can never stop learning.

The Easiest method is to go into affiliate marketing. This is where you try to sell other peoples products and get paid money for it! its great because you don;t have to deal with your own customers or anything! you are responsible for driving the sales and that is all you do!

Now you need to pick a Marketing strategy that will allow you to get maximum exposure. You need to determine to yourself if you have money to invest, or, you want to make money and reinvest it to make more money!

the best way to get started is to join up to an affiliate network, which is the middleman between you and the person who made the product. Then you can work out different marketing techniques. There are so many, that naming them all would probably just confuse you!

If you need any help, then feel free to PM me.

Take Care,

J

Want to know the secret? Get started, now! You don't have time to absorb all the info... What has resonated with you? What 'guru' does a good job of explaining his business model to you? Follow that and stick to that model.

DO NOT CHANGE YOUR MIND IF IT DOESN'T WORK THE FIRST 2 WEEKS...

If it's a good niche, health, wealth, or relationships... 3 main niches that branch out to others, then you are in good standing and should be able to create a clear goal of what you want out of the business.

Get a website, get it set up right: leadcapture => salespage/affoffer => back-ends/memberships => More offers => seminars etc

That's the million dollars formula, and it works.

Then get your butt out there and start driving traffic until you turn blue 4-8 hours a day the first 60 days... just DO, smack the spaghetti on the wall at first, track what works and do that.

- Chris

Thanks everyone for your replies...i will take it all on board...i thinking of setting up a webpage and a blog to drive traffic to it..i will also check out an affilliate product to coincide with the pair and see how it goes.
need to get some posts going so i can pm people

While i am here...anyone know if Butterly Marketing 2 will help me? i had so many people mailing me asking me to order it through their sites and that i would be a fool to miss out, that i managed to reserve a copy(after mikes servers crashed) not Sure what its all about yet,But it seemed to be worth the Postage.

M4UNow
Thanks for that support, The people i have been Following are Andrew Reynolds..Frank Kern..Ed dale...Derek Gehle..Armand Morin..All of which are Experts in their fields...But saying that i am picking up lot of good tips from Warriors here as well.

Follow me! I've spent the last three years with affiliate marketing. I've invested (not wasted) lots of money and have finally arrived at what I fell is the brink of REAL success.

thanks ph1470
I would like to follow you,..or at least see how you have made affilliate Marketing work for you?
Have had a look at Clickbank and am getting my head around how they work, and what products seem to be pulling in sales.
Also looking at Amazon. But am gratefull for any advice.

Don't bother with amazon. They only pay between 4 and 8 percent...PEANUTS!! It's not worth your time and/or PPC money.

Clickbank is tough! You have literally thousands of affiliates pushin there products.

I am going to PM you a tip...really I am...and it WILL point you in the right direction.

AND IT IS FREE!!

O.K Thanks ph1470
Look forward to reading it.

I had better get rid of this thread soon before warriors get fed up with it keep popping up.(sorry folks am new here )

There are no free lunchs. Internet marketing requires effort. If people tell you it's easy, that's because the actual tasks are not hard. It requires repetition and consistency. Most people give up because they don't get instant results. Even selling affiliate products is not instantaneous.

Find a market and stick too it

Get organized

Try not to get distracted

Chances are you won't see the forest for the trees

All of us get distracted (refocusing is the key to success)

Don't expect results immediately, anything worthwhile takes time

Be honest with yourself. Are you in this for the long haul or just to make quick money. Your approach will be different.

Stick too it and good luck.

Thanks for the advice Steve
Have always been interested in IM but have only decideded to do something about it these last 2 months...So much info, i starting to spend more time researching than actually doing.
Have now had that preverbial kick up the back side and am trying to get stuck in to the doing.
cannot thank the warriors enough for the help and advise given on this site.
Cheers guys and girls

Thanks Cren
Am on the Keyword research now, using google keyword tool.
Picking up a few ideas that i may be able to use.

BRETTBrtsk

HI BRETTbrstk
I got your pm,but at the moment i cannot reply as i do not have enough posts yet.
If you could pm that blog link i would like to have a look.
Thanks

Thanks everyone for your help,Its going to be a busy 6 months for me(this is the time i am off work due to a m/bike accident)
will keep u all informed on my journey.

What I have learn is that the main thing is pick one that you want to do and take ACTION. that is the way around IM. well, any niche actually..

Action is the magic words...

Hunty,

I just found a system that requires minimal cash (a website and hosting are the only requirements). Ryan Deiss has just posted several helpful videos for anyone willing to submit their email to his site. I know I've found them helpful. I hope one more IM guru doesn't overwhelm you.

You might wanna check it out when you get a chance... The Million Dollar Napkin - By Ryan Deiss

Thanks Cren
Am looking at it now

I am a straight shooter, so here's my take.

You are not focused. You seem to jump from one hot thing to the next. That is the problem...you do not give things a chance to work.

Personally, you should focus on one thing and do it to the best of your ability for 6-months to 1-year. If it doesn't work then you can consider moving on to something else.

Get focused. Get a plan. Take action. Revise your plan. Take more action.

It's really that simple once you know what people want to buy.

Or, you can keep reading and asking questions while time passes by. It's up to you!

I understand perfectly how overwhelming this business can be. You can see the potential... you believe that it IS possible to earn a good income online...

But then you sit down in front of your computer, on your own, and you just don't know where to actually START. You feel terrified at the thought of ALL you have to learn. But remember, you don't have to learn it all at once. Try to think of it more as a series of small skills that can be learnt one at a time.

First, decide on a niche you would be interested in & research it well to make sure theres a good market.

The next thing I did was learn to build my own website & this REALLY helped my confidence. I used a FREE book - it was so easy to understand and follow (just as well as I am definately not technically minded!).

Regards,

Elaine

All these ideas are great to pursue however, if you really want to lay a solid foundation, build your list first. You need subscribers to promote to and build relationship with.

I can recommend www.chrisfarrell-online.com as he has been the best I have found at teaching newcomers how to learn the basics needed and put all the proper pieces together to lay a good foundation to build on. Its a learning curve that every serious IMer must go through when starting out. Most of his stuff is free too. He has a new membership site out that is excellent as well and very affordable. Hope this helps.

Hey there,

I know the feeling...

Have been there before and it's sooooooo easy to get confused with all the different techniques and stuff...

If you are looking for some money as quickly as possible, I would do the following for a few weeks and concentrate just on it (I have done the same thing and it was the first thing that made me some checks...)

5 Step Plan to Making Some Easy Affiliate Sales

1. Pick a HUNGRY market that is passionate and has a BURNING problem to solve. Competition is good. Just make sure you haven't picked "How to Tie a Tie" market, okay? No one is losing sleep over that problem... (Est. 1-2 hours)

2. Find the top sellers on ClickBank for that category and choose 3-4 products to promote that have healthy gravity and don't look like a scam (you don't want that refunds, right?). (Est. 30 mins)

3. Create a "ghetto" landing page/minisite and a website of just few pages using blogger.com or weebly.com (better to use your own domain, but if you want to test things... a blogger or weebly site will do. Squidoo is fine too, but has a bit too many distractions). (Est. 30 mins)

4. Write a short review about each product (200-300 words with some bullet points) and put it on a separate page on the ghetto website... BUT... make it factual and non-salesy! Just look at the website of the merchant and report on the product and what it is supposed to do. The more you try HARD to persuade people, the more they will resist. Just list some benefits, what it's supposed to do and if you find some real user comments, list them as well as testimonials. Put all reviews on separate page of your ghetto website and include your affiliate links, in the text and somewhere prominent, but no flashy buttons... just simple "under the radar". On the home page put some relevant text about the products and compare them side by side in order of preference and clearly mark the winner! (Est. 4 hours)

5. Write three articles on the related subject and post them on EzineArticles and point them in your signature to your "ghetto" home page with the products side by side. Write 3 articles a day before you do anything else for a bout a week. Write fast, non salesy, as if you are talking to a friend. (Est. 1.5 hours / day)

What now?

If the niche is hot and products good, you should see some sales within few days. Keep it consistent for a week and then make your judgements.

Bonus Tip #1: Look in your category on EzineArticles for the "Most Viewed" articles. Study the subject matter and also the headline style... you need to craft compelling headlines and you could usually get few hundred views in the first couple of days per article. See what topics get most views and write about those topic too...

Bonus Tip #2: If you see consistent sales, get a domain name immediately and put the stuff on YOUR own domain (re-write text). This will become your asset over time. Don't promote weebly's or blogger's business to excess. Promote your own.

Ooops... I think I got carried away a little...

Rich

Just want to say welcome to the forum. Ppl are "nicer" here than on some of the other forums.

i, too, am curious about this ghetto landing page? please share

I think you forgot to mention the name of the book. You can go to W3Schools Online Web Tutorials for free information on building websites. HOWEVER, WordPress is free and easy to install. I've used it to build almost all of my sites and I'm a former programmer !

This may work for you, but I disagree with building a list right away. I think by promoting CPA/CPL (cost per action/cost per lead) offers you can start to build your cash flow AND understand the emotional triggers which make ppl buy. If you just start building a list not knowing what you're doing you have a recipe for disaster. With cost per ? buyers you can see what's converting immediately, change it, and test out plan B. Or even better, split test plans A and B, pick a winning one, and split test that one with plan C, constantly trying to convert more ppl by beating your winning ad (or landing page or both).

All these replies are making me want to start a thread.

Let me put it straight to you...for me in 2000/2001 I took massive action in a specific market (dating related)....

You need TWO THINGS:

1) a great offer
2) TRAFFIC TRAFFIC TRAFFIC ( this is where the action and magic happens )

...learn how to pitch your product and customize your offering...after that buy traffic, make traffic, outsource traffic and TEST TEST TEST...

Whatever work is 'working' replicate the p1ss out of it.

HTH

-S

Do you have a site online yet? If not, start there - not a free blog, but a domain you own and can start building a business base that will last.

You can start w/just a simple html site but I'd recommend installing wordpress and learning how to make it do what you want.

Start writing - the skill of communicating your message in written form is key to a business on the internet.

Make your first dollar - pick a single product that you know or own. Find an affiliate for that product (amazon, ebay, etc), write a simple review on your site including your affiliate link 2 or 3 times throughout the article. Sign up for a popular forum where people hang out that would be interested in that product. Add a link to that particular PAGE (not just your domain) in your signature and start providing good answers to forum posts. Soon you'll have 20-50-100 posts, each of them with a link back to your review page and I can almost guarantee you'll have your first sale.

This can all be done on an hour or 2 each evening within a weeks time.

If affiliate marketing really fits on your skill so why don't you chose affiliate marketing. If it's not maybe you fit on outsourcing your skills to buyers. It is really nice trying both ways so that you can see it yourself what will really is for you.

Thanks everyone
I did'nt realise how much feedback I would get from this thread, even after a week.
What a brilliant Forum

I am also using blog flipping for income while I build my list and expand my long term business plan.

Thank you so for your encouragement!!! I will also do a bit more research regarding offline techniques.

There sure is some meaty stuff in this thread for newbies.
Here's my twopence worth - Decide on a plan and take action.