When 99% of Online Marketers are selling other people’s products, and 95% of them are only earning peanuts, it is very apparent that Affiliate Marketing is not as easy as it seems.

Affiliate Marketing IS a VERY lucrative business, but if you do not do it right, What can you possibly expect? Now, not doing it right and not knowing HOW to do it are two completely different things. Some affiliates prefer the lazy route, and that most likely will entail a long and stressful, (most likely) unprofitable career.

Allow me (if you will) to share with you a few things that makes affiliates unsuccessful marketing other people’s products. I am not going to go into blackhat techniques here, I am going to speak solely on sound and fundamental things you need to do to avoid an unsuccessful affiliate marketing venue.

 Do Not Recommend Bad Products

The very first thing to do starting out the gates is picking the right product. I know, easier said than done right? It is very easy to find out what is selling. Go into your networks and look at at what has been selling. If your unsure, then get with your affiliate manager. They are there to help you succeed, so you should be taking advantage of that. Picking a quality product is of the most important things you need to do. If you recommend crap, then your buyers are going to remember that for a very long time. Do not get desperate, and tell yourself “I will promote this, just one time”. All it takes to lose your buyers is one bad recommendation.

I have gone and written a Free Report Download On How To Make Money With Yahoo Answers. In the report I covered some of the basic methods that I have already blogged about before.

You will also find a few bonus tactics in it as well. You will also find a method I use to get my Questions on Yahoo Answers indexed within 2 days. Some of the tactics may feel a little extreme to some. While I do not condone spamming or being lazy on Yahoo Answers, I have made it very imperative in the report, that if you do not use the techniques outlined in the report as I use them, I cannot guarantee anything. These are personal tactics I use and have had success with.

I failed to put two tactics in there for a reason. I am currently testing two methods out currently that I am unable to report positive results with. I just started using these yesterday, and if they turn out as planned, I will release an updated version (free) as well. For now, you can head over here and download it. There is no optin or any hassles. I do not believe in that crap, at least not with my own reports.

Enjoy,

In my search for Contextual Advertising on my niche sites, I came across one thing over the last 2 years. I really dislike Google Adsense, I dislike it so much that I did not even give it a link, nope, not even an affiliate link. I could never really understand why someone would send their traffic away for pennies on the click.

 I have done the whole Arbitrage thing and I actually have had some clicks in the $$ range, but seriously, I could not stand it, and even more so today. They have rules that change faster than I can get my underwear off at night, and I just cannot take it anymore. Some webmasters love it, and that is great, but it is not for me. I would rather get a subscriber, a sale or let my visitors leave on a good note. That is how I feel about anyway.

I have tried other contextual advertising on my sites, (clicksor and Adbrite) and they were worse than Adsense. I recently just went thru a 36 website (that is exact) contextual advertsing overhaul. I was able to come across a neat little tool awhile back, and just saw it sitting on my desktop a few weeks ago.

Now I do not know if you have tried Clickbank Ad Box Professional yet, but it is turning out to be on of the cheapest yet BEST investments I have made online. I really do not know how this went so unnoticed. As of right now I am in the process of updating a total of 36 sites with it. I have given up on Adsense. I actually had my head up right when I built these sites (thank god) as I do extensive product research before I even start building a site.

I got a lot of questions and feedback from my previous post on Make Money With Yahoo Answers. One of the most frequently asked questions (though it was not asked during the Q and A session) was how people who could not outsource handle this? If you cannot outsource, I see a considerable amount of time being spent over there. Although, it is well worth it. Building traffic, capturing subscribers and affiliate marketing (not to mention lead generation for other networks) are the easiest ways to monetize Yahoo Answers.

Some have suggested that outsourcing was not an option. While this has no effect on me, I am always in the mood to do my best and find solutions to these types of problems. I was able to come across a pretty nifty script that will make your life a lot easier. Matter of fact, I have it installed already and have begun to use it myself. My next step is to turn it over to my staff member and get them rocking and rolling. Here are just a few things this script does:

• Automatically finds OPEN Questions for you to Answer
• Automatically finds the questions based on the keywords you input
• Makes for the least amount of time spent as possible
• Allows you to answer all the Open Questions for your keywords

Pretty darn nifty if you ask me. There is no more sorting or spending valuable time searching thru tons of questions that have already been resolved. You can get the script here. Included with the script is a PDF on how to use Answers effectively, a video about Yahoo Answers, The Yahoo Answers Search Software, and a detailed video showing you how to install and easily edit the script. It took me about 30 minutes to read the guide, watch the two videos and successfully have the software up and running. Give it a go, sure going to save a lot of time.

In today’s post I want to talk about a few things that can better prepare you on how to sell information products. With the ever changing evolution that surrounds Affiliate Marketing, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the best way to go would be to create your own information products. I say “increasingly apparent”, but I do not mean that “it is a requirement”. I was and still am a successful affiliate marketer. When I started creating my own products though, I saw a whole new venue of earning online open up for me.

I believe that one of the key steps of developing your own product is to actually write about it before it even exists. Sound crazy? Well maybe just a little, but hear me out ok? When you start writing your own product, it should be essential to either A. Have a website or B. Have a blog. Social interaction can lead to great things, and in the case of product creation, your going to find out how to identify EXACT problems and what people NEED as far as a solution goes. If you have a topic but do not know the “ins and outs” of the niche and/or problem associating with it, then it only makes sense to get started talking what you DO know and ARE familiar with. As readers start to interact, your going to find out that all the marketing insight your going to need is coming at from all directions. Let the people explain their specific instances and your going to be armed with a very valuable arsenal to attack the problems associated in the niche.

In my post the other day Make Money With Yahoo Answers, I had stated that I would be open for a Q & A session. I have received all the questions and will answer them now based on my experiences and speculations I have.

Question 1. When answering your questions do you send them to the
CPAs direct link? Or are you making a landing page
with the link on it?

Looks like a strategy based question from someone who looks serious on implementing with Answers :). Based on my own experience I have not used landing pages. In the beginning, I was sending traffic to my own sites with a my domains. Since using this with lead generation networks, all I really do is use a generic domain and make a sub-domain on it. I then setup redirection for the subdomain via CPanel. This is the fastest way for me to handle it, and the staff member who I have working there just has a set of links to the various offers, making their job easier to answer questions.

Question 2.  Are you seeing what other people are asking and then
ask the same type of questions?

In a way yes and in a way no. I am a really quick learner, but I have also been in the industry a bit now and I feel I have a pretty good understanding on what will work and what will not, before I even try it. If your going to go that route, you could probably phrase your questions a bit differently, and still achieve a popular amount of answers, granted that the question you had just researched was a popular one.

Question 3. When answering other people questions are you sending
them with an affiliate link?

On my super quest for knowledge and tactics I am constantly finding some really cool ways to make money online. I would not consider this tactic as a business building venture, but I do consider it an easy cash  method. I have been telling people in the forums that I was going to bring a lot of cool things their way this year. I have had a super year so far. Things have happened that I never really thought was possible, so giving back like this is the least I can do.

Here are the 2 videos. In the first video I will explain the tactic to you face to face. In the second video I will present you how to find the programs to promote. I am just getting rolling with this, so your getting it free and at the start of this tactic. Hope you enjoy and look forward to your feedback :). Sorry about the damn train at the end, I tried to hurry.

Alright now that you know what your dealing with, here is a short Camtasia on how the Clixgalore Interface works. It was a little confusing at first, so I have saved you the trouble of looking around. Here you can just watch me point and show you how to find these programs to use. I apologize now for the quality, as Youtube converts horribly as we all know. But you can still see it and will know exactly what to do once you get in there.

Like I said, this tactic is in its infancy as I am just now rolling with it. It is by no means a business, it probably could be, but I leave it up to you as to what you want to do with. I gave alot of options, so there’s no reason to spend time thinking about what your going to do. Enjoy!

I am taking a Q & A session from now until tomorrow night. If you want to ask any questions hit me up at the email in the video. I will answer everyone to the best of my experience and knowledge.