Affiliate Marketing 101.  

Don’t you wish there really was an introductory course to Affiliate Marketing. 

There sure are a lot of folks out there with the “Secret” to Affiliate Marketing.  I just love that sales method, how could something be a “Secret” if it’s put out there on the internet where there are literally “millions” of viewers.  Of course if was put on my blog, it will probably remain a secret for a long time, ha ha.

Once you start looking at the Affiliate Marketing plans, however, you discover they are all about the same.  Find a good Clickbank product, generate a good sales page, use PPC or SEO to get traffic to your sales/landing page.  Cloak your hop link so people won’t know your are an affiliate marketer. 

Apparently you will get a negative response if your potential customer finds out you are just marketing someone elses product.  Hmmmmm, I wonder why that would be?   If someone is intereted in a product, why would they care whether you are the author/developer or just a distributer?

Most products in the world are actually sold by distributers as opposed to the actual manufacturers of the product.  It is actually an efficient way for the manufacturers to market their products.

A network of distributers can cover a much larger customer base than what a manufacturer can afford to reach.

Of course if you are the customer I suppose there is the belief you can purchase the product directly from the manufacturer for less than what a distributer will charge.  Seems logical doesn’t it?   Truth be told a good deal of the time the manufacturer’s price will be equal to or higher than the distributer’s price.  Economy of scale, I believe this is called.

The manufacturer’s direct sales volume is lower than his wholesale volume and hence he feels he must charge a higher price to compensate for the lower volume or it isn’t worth even offering direct sales.

Well I have gotten off my original Affiliate Marketing subject.  Sometimes I do that just to excersize my brain a little.

Anyway I ran across an Affiliate Marketing method that I think has potential.  Not that it is different in regards to the basics.  Find a product, develop a sales page, get traffic to the page, make sales etc.

The difference is the method for developing a sales page and then getting traffic to that page.  It’s called Automated Traffic Hubs and it a product of a fella named Bill McRea and is called Marketing On The Fringe.

The basics of this idea is to, of course, find a good clickbank or commission junction product.  Then build a wordpress blog and use the affiliate product’s sales page as the home page of your blog.

Of course you need to check out the sales pages of the affiliate products to find ones that look good, that makes a good sales pitch for the product, has good graphics or videos etc etc.

Next thing is to find an automated article writing source and give them the concept of your product and they will write articles with related content and post them on your blog.

There are some other tags, backlinks and pings things to do but all that is fairly easily accomplished.

Once you have the blog live on line it will automatically build a series of content articles that will produce the backlinks, pings and all that other stuff  necessary to get you ranked on google.  Hopefully with good page rank and a good product you will get the traffic required to make sales.

There is a bunch of other social media stuff that Marketing On The Fringe offers but I will talk about that in a later post, this one is getting a little long.

Till tomorrow or after.

Norm