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.

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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.

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.

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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

This little affiliate marketing technique is great because you can get much more targeted relevant traffic, increase your chances for making a conversion, and build some trust. Also, it works well for either organic traffic or PPC campaigns.

But a skilled internet marketer can see right through these type of techniques. Every time I see this method being implemented, it still surprises me how many people actually fall for it and become loyal to the writer.

This is pretty much how it works….

Let’s say you find a good affiliate offer to promote and make some money from. The keywords for the affiliate offer are either to competitive or maybe it’s new, and doesn’t have enough searches for it’s brand name yet.

Now, do a quick keyword research using a search engine or your favorite keyword tool for relevant or similar products, if you didn’t already have one in mind. Write an article on this similar affiliate offer using keywords targeted for it, not the affiliate offer you’re actually trying to make a sale from. At the end of the article you just mention the affiliate offer you are really trying to promote and just let them know they may want to check it out.

Here’s one example of using this affiliate method:

I choose an affiliate product for SEO software and it’s name is called “xxxx SEO software” that I want to promote. But instead of writing about that product, I write an article and use targeted keywords for a different popular seo software called (zzzz seo tool). I do a review type of article on (zzzz seo tool). And at the end of the article I mention “xxxx SEO software” with a affiliate link to it and say this just came out, is cheaper, has more features and you may want to check it out.

That was just one example of how affiliates use this technique to indirectly sell another affiliate offer. In that example I just increased my chances of making a conversion because you use affiliate links for both offers, while I built a little loyalty and trust. How? When the visitor reads the review thinking it’s probably biased and I’m just going to try to push the popular product on them. Instead they get a curve ball thrown at them because at the end of the article, I let them know about a totally different, but similar product, which is cheaper and has more features. Most people will appreciate that I recommended a more valuable product.

Your chances are very high they will purchase the second offer, the original affiliate product you were trying to promote.

Be creative, think outside the box and you’ll be able to use this method in many different ways for just about any type of affiliate offer. It works for just about anything, websites, lp’s, blog posts and more.

Some people may think this method is a little shady. It can be, it’s all up to you on how you implement it and what you write. You could totally just compliment your articles by learning how and when to add other affiliate offers to them, just experiment.

This is a great way for anyone new to internet or affiliate marketing to make their first dollar. After a little experience, you could easily produce a few of these mini niche sites per day and make quite a bit of extra money at home!

I like using WordPress for mini niche blogs because it’s a simple, yet effective way to make quick landing pages that look professional and they rank well in the search engines. If you’re already using WP to blog then why not make some extra money by spending a little time every week creating a mini niche site. Unless you’re already a successful blogger, these mini niche sites will probably end up bringing you more money than you’re blog does, easily.

Let’s get started…….

I’m not going into details or anything like that, I’m going to quickly go over the basic procedures. If you need some extra help, or don’t fully understand everything I’m talking about, then checkout some of my “popular posts” on the sidebar to the right or leave a comment.

1. Find a good affiliate product or service that pays out pretty well. I’ve found that clickbank products do quite well, but actually just about any good affiliate offer can work well too.

2. Look for a good domain name that’s relevant to your affiliate offer you chose. Also, choose a name that will help it to rank well in the serp’s.

3. After your domain has properly propagated over, install WP onto it. Should be as easy as a few clicks through your control panel. Depends on which hosting you have.

4. It’s time to find and install a relevant WordPress theme. I have a ton of premium themes but I also use the FREE Wp themes as well. Just depends on the affiliate product I am creating a niche site for. You may want to checkout this affiliate theme, which allows you to quickly and easily create just about any niche site using WP.

5. There are many different formats that you can use to make your niche site. I prefer the review style because it’s quick, simple and converts quite easily. Now there are two different types of review styles that are best. The “single review style” where you do a review and only write about the affiliate product you chose. Show the value of the product and the benefits for purchasing the product or service. Actually owning or purchasing the service or product first will make your review more believable and convert better, but not absolutely necessary.

Then there’s the “multiple comparison review style”. This is where you would choose usually 3 affiliate products that are all similar. Let’s say you are using a health niche, choose 3 products that help people lose weight. You do a little review and show the value of all three usually in a ordered list from #1 being the best product and the product you actually want them to purchase. All the way down to the #3, last product. This style allows your visitors to compare similar products and gives you a higher chance of making a sale. Trust me, it works!

Other than writing compelling content that presells your affiliate offer, it helps to add any relevant visuals. Like videos, images, background theme, header image and even banners from your affiliate product.

Another thing many affiliates like to add is a “optin-form” (giving your visitors something FREE if they sign-up like any relevant ebook or report will increase sign-ups) this will allow you to stay in contact with them and hopefully make a purchase with you later on.

6. Now it’s time to get traffic to your WP niche site that you just created. Here’s a plus for this type of site, you can get organic traffic to it via the search engines, bookmarking on social media sites, blog commenting and articles. Also, these type of “mini niche sites” can do well for Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising for certain keywords. Google Adwords is my favorite ppc program.

TIPS – the more value and insight you provide, the better. Also, don’t make your niche site look like a sales pitch. The more natural (meaning not just trying to make a sale thru your affiliate link) it looks to the reader, the better it will convert.

If you’re a internet or affiliate marketer already, you probably made dozens of these niche sites using WordPress. But for the new bloggers who use WP already, but never made a mini niche site, should definitely give this a try and you should be able to make some extra money on the side. I’ve found creating and marketing these type of sites can help sharpen your internet marketing skills, which you can also implement on your blogs.