Comments on: Timing Is Everything In Affiliate Marketing – Read This Now

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:23:36 +0000

I agree. Market saturation is a big problem. Saturation in combination with a bad economy has dried up sales completely for many niches.

I think jobs are a recession resistant niche so I’m trying to promote them on my sites.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:48:37 +0000

Perhaps there is a way for affiliate marketers to provide new stuff but not necessarily
new products.

Obviously, for various reasons, some people cannot create their own products. However, they can produce a blog with fresh free content. The free content would drive customers toward a proven winner (with or without an email list). It might be the same old thing but it always converts.

I don’t think that new things always produce a good response. People often like familiar things. For example, the Coca Cola company produced a new version of Coke in the 1980’s which didn’t do so well. Therefore, they started making “Classic Coke”. In my hometown, they overplay classic rock on the radio. However, people like it. I think it’s overplayed but it’s a proven winner.

Finally, I think that fresh free content which directs buyers toward a well known product can be just as good as a fresh new product (in many instances). Therefore, the buyers get something new but also get something with solid reputation.

By: DVDs

DVDs — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:24:24 +0000

Yes, timing’s important and you can get good results by looking ahead to what products will be released in a few months (or more) and getting started on pages promoting them early.

That way they can be ranking on the search engines for when the product is released. You couldn’t do that if you waited until just before the release date – it takes some time to get good rankings.

By: fortunecookieguy

fortunecookieguy — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:10:29 +0000

couldn’t agree more. timing is everything, as timing is everything in biz as well!

By: Internet Age

Internet Age — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:02:01 +0000

Am just starting to get my feet wet in the blogosphere, and affiliate marketing is going to come once my WordPress endeavours are sorted. Having people like you to guide me is definitely making the journey infinitely easier. Thanks Yaro!

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:25:11 +0000

Awww hope I am not too late. Your blog mastermind sells really well!

By: The Apprentice Trader

The Apprentice Trader — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:55:18 +0000

Yaro,
I just signed up with you, to promote the Blog Mastermind. After studying become a blogger, I wanted so much to promote the Mastermind as well as study it for my self. Now my wishes had been fulfilled.

By: James Schramko

James Schramko — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:40:51 +0000

I equate it to surfing.

Find a big wave and get on it early you can ride it longer.

There are still some hidden breaks that have very little competition and give a you a great ride as well – so keep an eye out for those as well!

By: Birte

Birte — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:20:44 +0000

Brilliant way of marketing your own new product, introducing it with the story of two marketing campaigns, one doing well, the other not so well.
At the same time you cover your back saying that there are other issues as well, but you don’t go into them.
With this I am not saying that your product is not good, I bet it is.
I also did not see a reply on why you are now affiliating via cb, instead of your till now usual source.
Some people will go with old and known products, others with the new products. Maybe those going for the new, have already tried the old, and for whatever reason, it did not work out for them. Whatever reasons – can be anything you want.

By: Dilip

Dilip — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:20:29 +0000

Good to see your affiliate program on Clickbank. Though I would want to agree with what you say, I still feel that there is some part of it where I would disagree. If a product is good and carries value, then you might see a slight dip in sale in the short term. But in the long term it will still give you the same result as any other product. If the products are evaluated for success after some time, the results should measure to be the same and there should not be considerable difference in the performance of the two products.