The Ultimate Affiliate Marketing Resource
You know what my favorite way of making money online is?
Affiliate marketing.
I like affiliate marketing because it pays in significant chunks each time you make a sale, not in “per click” spare change like AdWords and similar advertising programs.
I like it because you don’t need hordes and hordes of traffic coming to your site, although it certainly helps, but affiliate marketing is certainly one of the best examples of quality over quantity. If you have the right audience, i.e. people who buy products you recommend and benefit from them, then you have a winning combination.
I like affiliate marketing because I can honestly appraise something before recommending it, where as a “paid for click” may lead to site I have never seen before.
I like affiliate marketing because you don’t have to do any support once the sale is made. You can set up a full ecommerce site that sells other people’s products and services, make great commissions – as high as 70% sometimes – and never ever deal with the customer again. You don’t deal with payment processing, or helpdesk queries or anything as an affiliate.
Probably my favorite thing about affiliate marketing is that you can set up residual and recurring sources of income. If you sell subscriptions as an affiliate you get paid for as long as the customer remains a paying member. Over time that can build up to some pretty huge recursive income that will continue to come in long after you stop promoting. Nice.
Are You Keen To Learn More?
To be honest I am not a master of affiliate marketing, but I am learning. There is one person in particular who I consider the master of affiliate marketing and once again I’m proud to say he is an Aussie, who in fact lives quite close to me down the coast here in Queensland Australia.
His name is Allan Gardyne. This is him here -
Allan has been in the affiliate marketing game for a long time and I suspect he has a fairly stable passive income as a result, which no doubt continues to build every day. I have to admit his business really inspires me and I think he makes a great testimonial for working persistently. He wouldn’t be where he is today without building things up over time.
Allan naturally has a website devoted to affiliate marketing and also manages one of the most well respected newsletters on the topic. I’ve been a subscriber for a few months now and I can honestly say it’s quality every issue. It’s so refreshing to get an email from an Internet marketer which actually has content in it. This is literally the only email newsletter I read from top to bottom each time it comes in.
AssociatePrograms.com Relaunched
Allan’s website is called AssociatePrograms.com and up until a few days ago was a bit of a monster to get around. It was clean and simple but packed with too much information and no really good way to navigate around it all.
Allan and his team have worked hard for over 6 months building a new site and just this week relaunched it. The new site is such a dramatic improvement over the previous design – it’s like poetry – I recommend taking a look just as an example of how to construct a massive content site for ease of use and navigation with some nice online marketing elements thrown in (the newsletter of course being the main focus).
You can sign up for Allan’s affiliate newsletter there, and as part of the relaunch Allan has also produced a new report titled – “77 Ways To Get Traffic nearly all FREE” – which is yet another brilliant resource full of stimulating ideas for website traffic generation that you get when you sign up to the newsletter.
I think you will enjoy this one folks.
Yaro
