Wanna Make Real Money with Amazon Associates? – Read This!
The Amazon Associates Program (AAP) commission rates are one of the lowest in the industry and they only have 1 day cookie settings. But for some reason they are still the most popular and successful affiliate program on the web. So over a year ago, I started trying to make money with Amazon without having much success. I eventually gave up and thought they were a complete waste of my time.
Just recently, I was sharing my experience with Amazon to a fellow internet marketer and was told to checkout the niche profit course and at least read the free ebook. I think I stayed up at least half the night just absorbing as much information as I could and afterwards, I saw the Amazon affiliate program in a totally different light.
I want to share with you some of the things I learned from the “Niche Profit Course” that can instantly increase your Amazon income and a little about the creator himself.
Click Here to Watch Video – Over 1 Million in Amazon Sales!
If you want to have any type of success with the Amazon Associates Program, then you need to have a winning system you follow. Without knowing the right methods and techniques to use, you’ll just end up making a few sales every month and probably give up. That’s what I and so many others experience with the AAP. The best way to learn something is to be guided from someone who’s been in your shoes, but successfully put the pieces together. I don’t trust most of the experts online, so how do you find such a person?
The creator of the niche profit course is Chris Guthrie, just an average guy. Well, his fame is starting to rapidly rise ever since he became the go-to-guy for creating successful Amazon niche sites. Just a year or so ago, he went from jobless to ending the 2010 year making well over $150,000 online and sold one of his Amazon sites for over $100,000. He created that site just about a year before, so I’ll be honest, this guy inspired the heck out of me.
How I know Chris?
It’s kind of ironic, cause I actually consider Chris Guthrie to be one of my competitors, at least he use to be. But now he’s not even in my league, he’s so surpassed me. We both kind of got started internet marketing around the same time and were competing for the same keywords and niches. So I use to keep an eye on him, but lost touch cause he didn’t seem to be doing much for about a year. At least I didn’t think he was.
Then people start telling me to checkout his product the “niche profit course” and I read up on all this success he’s having with Amazon Associates. I honestly don’t really get jealous but I do have a competitive side. It’s what helps fuel my ambition and strive to achieve more. Here I thought I was doing alright for the year, I went full time online and made just enough money. But then I read up on Chris and he’s making 6 figures and making a killing with the Amazon Affiliate Program. Time to get my rear in gear.
Transparency is good for us!
If you want straightforward tips to making money with Amazon, then you’ll find that in the niche profit course. Chris really hides nothing. He is so transparent, honest and straight to the point and includes just about every detail. He doesn’t talk about how great he or his sites are. Chris is very down to earth and is just a regular guy who’s addicted to video games. He has just recently became pretty well known on the internet and is building quite a strong brand name. He would not jeopardize his reputation just by leading people astray just to make an extra buck.
Everything below is covered in the Niche Profit Course with Step by step video tutorials:
- complete start to finish guide
- how to find a good niche for Amazon products
- dominating your niche
- having the proper Amazon niche site setup – his $2000 custom Amazon WP theme is included
- writing content that converts
- how to maximize your income earning potential from your Amazon niche sites
- the best ways to promote Amazon products, widgets, banners, content links, etc..
- how to get unlimited FREE traffic to your sites
- how and why tracking everything is a must
- you will see real life examples of successful Amazon sites, very helpful
- plus bonuses and many secret tips
Watch the Niche Profit Course Video, to see more Amazon stats and everything else that is included.
Whether you believe me or not, it’s very realistic to make a very nice steady income just from the Amazon Associates Program. You just have to approach it a little differently than the other affiliate programs. Yeah the Amazon commission rate is only 4% – 8.50% for most their products and they only have 24 hour cookies, but they do have a really, really powerful and well known Brand name. Everyone shops at Amazon, they seem to sell everything, and they have the lowest prices on the net. They practically are the Wal-mart of the internet.
If you get targeted traffic to your Amazon niche sites, they will click the heck out of you’re links. One thing to remember, even though they click your Amazon link for let’s say a $10 book, they may purchase something else, and you’ll get credited for any other purchase too!
Some of the most helpful things I picked up from the Niche Profit Course was how to create a profitable niche site that showcases your Amazon products correctly. Before I was going about it all wrong and was not displaying the Amazon products effectively and my content was not helping the cause. The niche, your site, content, traffic must be all right or you’re going to be wasting your time. Plain and simple.
I also learned a lot from Chris about selling your Amazon niche sites for a crap load of money in a short amount of time. I never really thought about it before until I read his article about how he sold one for over $100,000, pretty much within a year.
I hope you found some helpful tips and resources to help you make more money with the Amazon Associates program. I’ll be glad to show some stats and links to sites in the near future. But not until I dominate those niches a bit more and at a better place to be able to share that type of information.
Yahoo Web Hosting Contest for January, 2011 – Affiliates Earn $500 Bonus
So check it out. Yahoo is kick starting the new year, 2011 by having a Yahoo! Web Hosting Contest through their affiliate program. Any affiliate who reaches at least 10 Yahoo Web Hosting sales in the month of January will get a $500 bonus added to their affiliate commissions. Not bad, right? Lot better than the other contests where a thousand people are competing for 1 prize.
I joined the Yahoo affiliate program a while back through Commission Junction. So you can join through CJ or they might even have a in-house affiliate program too, dunno.
Yahoo is even offering a 35% discount off their hosting plans for 3 months. Which should help bring in even more sales.
Here’s the details below from the email I had received from them:
We have an entire month to get on the ball and make them 10 hosting sales through the Yahoo affiliate program. And it would be a great time to take advantage of their 35% discount, and start a website for your business through Yahoo.
How to become rich by making money from pay per lead affiliate programs
Nowadays pay per lead affiliate programs can be found all over the internet. It is just a partnership between a merchant company and other websites in order to increase the traffic to the merchant’s website. The owners of the websites are paid for the traffic and sales that are generated by the websites to the merchant company. But pay per lead affiliate programs are not just meant for big businesses. If you own a small business firm, you can also administer your own pay per lead affiliate program to boost your profits. Check out how you can become instantly rich by making use of such affiliate programs.
1. Look for programs that suit your website: In order to earn huge profits through pay per lead affiliate marketing, you need to get in touch with those programs that relate well to your website. There are many affiliate networks that offer pay per lead affiliate programs from various merchants. You need to search online to make the best choice that suits your needs.
2. Determine the types of links required: You just cannot start working with any kinds of links, which would be the biggest financial blunder. You need to decide on the type of links that will suit the needs of your website. The text links would be good if you want to incorporate the program into an article related website that has got information on various products. If you have sidebars and footers, you can try putting graphic ads to increase the visibility of your website.
3. Add your links: After you decide about what kind of links to be added, you have to add your affiliate links to some appropriate areas of your website. You can also try adding them in the ad section of your site so that your links are visible enough to the visitors of your website.
4. Promote your website: In order to earn money from pay per lead affiliate marketing, you are required promoting your website to the right extent. You could use money to advertise your website or use pay-per-click programs. Just make sure that you monitor your programs to ensure that you’re making profits out of your efforts.
If you’re looking for ways of making online money, sign up with a pay per lead affiliate program. Consider the points mentioned above so that your efforts of making money do not go in vain. If you can successfully create your business, you may bring home great profits.
(This is a guest post written by Sandy Thomson)
Premium Squeeze Page Templates | 9 Killer Bonuses | Discount!
Just the other day one of my pals, Welly Mulia, had sent me an email to checkout his Premium Squeeze Page Templates. I was quite impressed because it includes just about everything any internet marketer needs to capture leads and build a list for whatever market you are in. It doesn’t matter if you’re a seasoned pro or beginner, you’ll be able to create a professional looking squeeze page in about 2 minutes with this product.
If you purchase this package of 180 squeeze page templates now, you will also get 9 bonuses, and not just some (worthless free ebook) either. The bonuses include, templates, graphics and optins that will help you get even more signups.
Here’s one of the bonuses you will get below, sidebar optins.
What I like about the Premium Squeeze Page Templates is the variety of templates that is included, so you can create a highly converting squeeze page for any niche and offer. It includes the templates for text or video, graphics, optins, and a manual guide is included to help you setup your squeeze page. I really like the premium WP theme that is included which can be used for a regular blog or squeeze page.
Below, is an example of just one of the squeeze page templates that is included.
The Price is only $47, which is very fair for everything you are getting. The templates, wp theme and bonuses are all high quality, which you could easily pay this amount for just one professional squeeze page or wp theme. This total package includes 180 squeeze page templates, premium wordpress theme and 9 bonuses.
The Premium Squeeze page templates package includes:
Whether you are new to creating your own squeeze page or an experienced internet marketer who needs multiple squeeze page templates for different niches and offers, then you should definitely consider the Premium Squeeze Page Templates package. Look around for yourself, but I’ve never seen a collection like this at such a low price.
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I Started Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising with NO Money
When I first started Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising a couple years ago, I began with the 3 most popular PPC programs, Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and Microsoft Adcenter. I spent NO Money at all to start all 3 programs because I used Vouchers or FREE Credits. Many people don’t know that if you’re opening an account for the first time with many of the pay per click programs you can usually find some sort of voucher or given FREE credits to try it out.
I learned the basics of pay per click advertising, then I continued learning as much as I could about PPC while experimenting for FREE.
I’ve noticed PPC vouchers or promo codes aren’t as easy to come by anymore, but you can still find them. Just do a search for them in the search engines, look for them in the internet marketing forums and many of the PPC training programs will have some type of FREE credits for you too.
Don’t be scared to use PPC as a new means of marketing. I’ve always come ahead from any PPC campaign I launched, including when I first started. I always went by this rule of thumb, never let your costs go above the actual amount you would make from the sale. That way, I know right away if a add, keywords or affiliate offer isn’t working, and I can change something up.
I started with direct linking to affiliate offers and creating mini sites or landing pages for the same offers.
I’m not saying pay per click (PPC) is for everyone or that you’re easily going to make a profit. But if you want unlimited instant targeted traffic and a chance to increase your income by tenfold, then you may want to give pay per click marketing a shot.
Legal Resources for Internet Marketers (Video + Downloads)
If you’re an internet marketer or online business owner, then you need to know how to protect your sites, copyrighted content, brand, and how to defend yourself. Shoemoney, one of the top internet marketers just released a vast amount of legal resources that includes video and downloadable example policies.
If you want to get legal advice for the online world, learn how to protect your online business and get insight from someone who’s dealt with more legal issues than just about anyone else online, then grab his FREE Legal Resources.
He’ll walk you through policies and things you should have on your site that you probably didn’t even know about.
Learn how to persue someone who steals your stuff, what kind of emails to send, costs and other legal actions to take if they don’t respond.
Shoemoney and his company has spent enough money to buy a small island just dealing with online legal issues. He goes into detail about his experiences, what he and his company went through and how he fought back to protect and defend his business.
Click here, signup and you’ll also have access to 3 other kick ass videos for FREE:
- Weapons of Marketing – every marketer needs to see this, really entertaining and goes into how Big Brands and Famous Celebrities market their brands and much more
- Adversity is Opportunity – Pretty much talks about how he, Shoemoney, has faced so much adversity to get to where’s he’s at today online.
- MyAds Mini Mastery – not available yet but soon will be. Just signup and you’ll get notified.
I’ll be honest, I don’t come across to many things online that are FREE that I actually download or signup for since it’s usually a waste of my time. These vids and downloads were very informational and high quality. Yeah, he’s pushing his Shoemoney system with all of these freebies so take advantage and grab them while you can.
I heard the FREE videos will only be available for a very short amount of time!
Are You Choosing the Right Keywords (Buying Words)
One of the most important things you need to do before creating a money page or site for short term traffic is finding the right keywords (buying words) as I like to call them. These are keywords that bring in traffic to your money sites/pages and make a conversion within a short amount of time. Whether the traffic is from PPC or organic, doesn’t really matter. If you find the right keywords to use, you’ll always get a high conversion ratio if your sales pitch is decent.
Are you choosing the right keywords?
Many times newbies will write in forums about they are getting xxxx amount of targeted traffic to their sites or lp’s and NO conversions. A lot of times they think it’s their content or layout, but usually they are targeting the wrong keywords. They maybe getting targeted relevant traffic to their site, but not for (buying words) or targeted keywords where the visitor will make a purchase the same day or shortly after. With the right (buying words) your visitors are ready to make a purchase now!
You could possess the skills to pre-sell anything to anyone and have the best copy writing skills, but if you aren’t getting traffic that is ready to make a purchase right now, then you won’t be seeing any sales. You don’t want window shoppers either because chances are they will click on someone else’s affiliate link before they make a final purchase and you won’t get credit for the sale.
The amount of traffic sometimes doesn’t matter…
This is another thing I hear all the time. I have a website and it gets 1000′s of unique visitors a day and I only make a couple sales a day from it. Where one of my money sites may get only 100 UV’s a day and I’ll get 10 sales or better from that little amount of traffic. For my money sites, I concentrate more on the conversion ratio for the keywords rather than the amount of traffic. I definitely do the same for my PPC campaigns. That’s how you’ll spend less and make more. The better you laser target your keywords into (buying words) the more profit and sales you will make.
How to find (buying words)?
How do you actually find these keywords that brings in money traffic to your sites? A lot of it is common sense. I like to think of keywords I would type in if I were to buy something, maybe I’ll even ask a family member or friend what keywords they would use. That can give you some ideas. Also, obviously you can use a keyword tool. My two favorites would be Google keyword tool and wordtracker.
Okay, now you are getting a list of relevant targeted keywords for your site so how do you know if they are buying words? One good way is to see how many sponsored ads appear for each individual keyword. If I see a lot of competition for a specific keyword, then that let’s me know they are making conversions. Then again, some keywords are more aimed for internet marketing newbies who think it’s a “money word” when it’s not. With a little experience and common sense you’ll be able to tell if the ads you see are from seasoned pro’s or newbies in the ppc game.
That’s pretty much it, then the rest is up to your sales copy, experimenting and testing.
Offer Incentives to Promote Clickbank Products?
If you’ve been internet marketing for a little while now, I’m sure you’ve sold a Clickbank product every now and then so you’ve probably gone through this before. Right when you settle on a Clickbank product and get motivated to start promoting it. You start checking out the competition and keywords that would be best for conversions. And then you see the BIG PPC add or rarely you’ll see them organically in the serp’s, someone promoting the same CB offer, but offering an enticing incentive. Which pretty much kills any chances for you to make any conversions for those keywords. Then the question pops into your mind…….
Should I offer incentives to promote clickbank products?
Here’s the 2 main types-
The old cash-back incentive:
Purchase this thru my link and I’ll send you X amount of dollars back. You’ll get it in your paypal after I’ve confirmed the sale. First off, this is against Clickbank terms and policies. Go read it under letter E under the Clickbank terms. If you get ratted out or get caught, you could get your CB account banned or worse. What are these geniuses thinking anyways?
If you didn’t have a conscience and was a little crafty, all you gotta do is say thanks buddy, and purchase the CB product thru their link, confirm it and get your money. Then go back and refund the clickbank offer, and you just made yourself X amount of dollars. :)
The extra bonus incentive:
Now this one, I believe is totally fine and allowed. They even allow this for most of the strictest affiliate networks. The person purchases thru your link, they confirm it and then get some kind of bonus. Usually the bonus is some worthless plr package they probably purchased for a few dollars, but obviously the buyer doesn’t know this. Because they pitch the bonus so well.
Once in a blue moon, someone will actually offer a decent bonus. But then again how many people are going to purchase thru their link, get bonus and refund? With the 60 day money back guarantee, kind of makes it hard to use incentives for CB products.
However, many of these marketers also are building a list by making the consumer signup before they receive their FREE bonus, which isn’t a bad idea.
A good bonus on CB offers maybe successful if you’re demographics isn’t anything relevant to internet marketers. Unless maybe you’re totally targeting complete newbies.
In conclusion, you probably won’t see that big of a difference in PROFIT offering incentives with a CB purchase. Unless you know what you’re doing, but then again, if you had mad internet marketing skills, you probably wouldn’t be spending to much time slinging clickbank products, unless you’re creating your own to throw into their market.
