Using A Blog As Your Affiliate Marketing Web Site

©2010 Doug Champigny, http://captain-affiliate.com. All Rights Reserved.

One of the most powerful tools for affiliate promotion is your affiliate marketing web site, and with today’s online technology a blog is usually your easiest and best choice.

Self-hosted WordPress blogs are easy to set up, easily updated and can be indexed in many directories beyond the traditional search engines automatically. This makes doing SEO for your affiliate marketing web site much easier and lets you focus that much more of your time on other affiliate promotion strategies.

Building a money-making blog using affiliate marketing involves everything from the ads in your sidebar to the topics you write about. By keeping all your posts targeted to the particular audience you’re targeting you can build a following and start to warm them up regarding the products and services you’ll be offering them in your affiliate promotion.

Further, you can use ads and posts to drive targeted traffic to your squeeze pages and opt-in forms, thus building your affiliate marketing list at the same time. This dual purpose – building your list and demonstrating your expertise within your target niche, will constitute the bulk of your affiliate marketing work online, and can go a long way towards making affiliate marketing pay for you.

Your affiliate blogging also gives you a home base online, a great place to drive targeted prospects to from your article marketing, podcasting and affiliate marketing video efforts. While your site is designed to be a traffic magnet on it’s own, sending additional web site traffic to it using these techniques and the various Web 2.0 sites that allow business networking will help a lot for making money affiliate marketing.

Using affiliate marketing to make money online, especially with your own affiliate marketing web site, is one of the most common ways to start a home business – and setting your site up right, hooking it into the various Web 2.0 sites and using strategies like Twitter affiliate marketing to drive targeted prospects to your web site should make your affiliate marketing pay that much sooner.

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Affiliate marketing has always been the easiest way to get started making money online, but it’s getting even simpler to start your own affiliate marketing business online…

Now don’t misunderstand – it still takes time, effort and money to get going, but at least the current trend is evolving toward ‘push-button simple’ resources that could really ramp up your affiliate commissions while shortening the learning curve dramatically. When I first started online full-time over a dozen years ago, you had to learn it all – and all on your own. No experts existed yet, and we ‘online affiliate pioneers’ had to pretty much make it up as we went along.

And while there are obvious advantages to being a ’senior statesman’ in affiliate marketing, the fact remains I REALLY wish that today’s tools had been around back then, that someone else had blazed the trails and already created these powerful resources so I could have just focused on making money online!

So what would I have done so differently? First, I wouldn’t have built over 150 websites – in fact I probably wouldn’t have built ANY static sites. I’d have focused instead on driving traffic to squeeze pages, both to build my lists and to build my affiliate commissions.

Now we know the best way is to offer a free report to attract targeted visitors who opt-in to our lists to download the free report. That gives you the virtual real estate on the confirmation page and download page to pitch your affiliate links, plus puts the targeted prospects into your pre-written e-course designed to sell them into that and other products, all on auto-pilot. You have to get the traffic to that squeeze page – the rest runs automatically.

But writing that report, setting up that squeeze page system and then writing the followup e-course still sounds like a lot of work, doesn’t it? And dealing with the autoresponders, squeeze page hosting, etc, just adds to it, right? Well Cindy Battye and Soren Jordansen thought so too, so last year they came out with ClickBank Pirate, a service that looks after all of that for you, leaving you free to just focus on driving the quality traffic to the video squeeze pages they set up for you. A MAJOR step forward towards making affiliate marketing push-button simple!

A huge leap, especially for those just starting an affiliate business – no need to learn HTML, PHP, FTP or any other refugees from their alphabet soup – they could simply sign up, get their links and go to town with it – and many new and experienced affiliate marketers have done just that and done very well by it – myself included!

But for experienced marketers who aren’t lazy (we’re a small but important group ), it wasn’t yet perfect… You see, while Soren & Cindy do a GREAT job at the automated followup – and the Captain doffs his cap to them for it – the fact remains the list is on THEIR server, under THEIR control. Yes, they keep putting new offers out to the people, ALWAYS using YOUR affiliate link, but then it’s not you who decides which offers to promote, and you have no way to promote your own products to that list. Hmmm…

So this year they developed an additional resource, much like ClickBank Pirate, that both goes great as an additional resource to CBP and addresses that issue too. Affiliate Silver Bullet gives you that many more squeeze pages to send people to, but also gives you the choice of having them host & run it all or downloading the components and running it on your own webspace, building your own list through your own autoresponders. And with services like Hosting4Marketers offering both hosting & autoresponders for just $20 a month, it’s really no big leap to choose that option once you have a bit of experience – experience easily gained pushing the ClickBank Pirate and Affiliate Silver Bullet pages they’re already hosting for you!

That makes that whole end of the biz push-button simple – but now what about the traffic-generation aspect – what’s new to help you build traffic, especially targeted traffic so vital to your affiliate marketing success?

First, you need a home base – your place on the web, your affiliate marketing base camp as it were. Once again, it’s become push-button simple to set up your own affiliate blog, thanks to the WordPress software and Alex Sysoef’s free secure blog installer – in fact, take the $17 upgrade there and installing blogs becomes a one-button simplicity – and that’s as push-button simple as you can get!

Turning that new blog into a powerful and profitable affiliate marketing blog IS NOT push-button simple, however – but don’t despair because at least it’s a lot easier than it was until recently. Mike Paetzold is an expert at all things WordPress and has been affiliate marketing for years now, and he’s recorded a 10-video set of step-by-step how-to videos on affiliate blogging called Profitable Blog Steps. While it doesn’t do the work for you, at least it shows you what to do, from researching your topic to picking your affiliate programs and CPA programs to creating your posts!

Even then, things like automating your sidebar advertising have become simple, using the new services like Jeff Dedrick’s Automated Traffic, which lets you choose various ads for affiliate products from ClickBank and then rotates them for you each time a new visitor hits your blog – sweet, eh?

Beyond that, article marketing, podcasting and video marketing all attract more traffic, more recognition and more signups, which is why we teach all 3 in the PowerStart Internet Marketing coaching program. And social media sites have become another major source of targeted traffic, and therefore affiliate commissions. Use guides like my Advanced Marketing on Twitter to learn the best and fastest ways to draw traffic from those sites. Use Squidoo, HubPages, and write Google knols – use my affiliate marketing knol and Internet marketing knol for examples.

So while affiliate marketing success as a whole isn’t push-button simple just yet, many parts of it now are and great guides exist for the remainder – check out the resources listed here and use them to help you build or start an online business of your own today!

About Captain Affiliate:
Captain Affiliate is the affiliate marketing alter-ego of world-famous Internet marketing mentor, coach and speaker Doug Champigny. Keep up online with Doug through his:
• Internet Marketing Blog;
• Internet Marketing Coaching Program;
• Affiliate Marketing Coaching Program;
• On Social Media Sites: Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, EzineArticles, LinkedIn, iTunes;
• Or catch Doug speaking at a Live Internet Marketing Event near you soon!

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Super-Affiliate Success Strategies is the name of the free affiliate marketing training webinar I’m hosting this Thursday night at 8pm EDT. You have to register for the free affiliate marketing training in advance, so hit the link and reserve your spot now!

You see, this webinar is going to be packed with great content, very valuable content for anyone from the complete affiliate marketing newbie to seasoned affiliates already making 4 or 5 figures a year online. In fact, there’s so many top super-affiliate strategies to cover that the replay and transcript of the webinar will only be available as a paid product – meaning being at the event on Thursday is the ONLY way to access this information for free!

Even better, unlike a teleseminar, a webinar lets you attend by phone OR online, so as long as you have your internet connection and are registered for the event, you don’t even need to dial in – just go to the link the system sends you once you register and attend the event online!

If you’re looking to make money online with your own affiliate marketing business, this webinar is a must-attend – and if you’re already affiliate marketing but not able to live on your affiliate marketing commissions, this event will open your eyes to the steps you’re missing. Take a look at the Super-Affiliate Success Strategies page to see everything I’ll be covering on the webinar…

If you’ve missed the event and are reading this later, you’ll still want to hit that page and get your copy of the recording – there hasn’t been another affiliate marketing training call like it, so you’ll want it both for your own education and for the master resell rights that purchasers get with the recording and transcript.

Either way, be sure to visit the site right now and get in on this powerful affiliate marketing training – I mean, you DO want to learn how to make more money online, right? And just when was the last time a recognized super-affiliate offered to show you strategies for free?

See you there!

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Have you taken your affiliate marketing out of the dark ages yet? You know, back in the day when successful affiliate marketing simply meant putting a banner ad on your site and sending out an e-mail? Wow, are those days long gone!

Let’s jump to the bleeding edge of today’s affiliate marketing – are you using VIDEO yet? Every super-affiliate is – but are you? Video is the most powerful tool in your marketing mix right now, so you’d better be…

Unless, of course, you’re willing to settle for scraps over and over again…

Now if you’ve been a long-time fan you know the Captain is a firm believer in online video – from the videos tools package I launched in 2006 to the present, video has been a part of both my Internet marketing and affiliate marketing mix.

Sure, everyone’s pushing video at you lately – but how many are walking the walk? Talk’s cheap online… So let’s start by establishing my street cred in video.
We’ll ignore my making TV commercials when Teri & I owned our ad agency because there’s no online samples, and we’ll leave out my glamour videography because it’s not pertinent to affiliate marketing – even if it IS pretty… LOL

So let’s see…

I already mentioned the Internet Audio Video Pro bundle – but it’s worth checking out if you want to see video of me when I still had short ‘corporate’ hair.

Then there’s my book on podcasting and video blogging – It’s You, Live! Oh yes, and the one called Creating Your Own Videos – pretty obvious what that one’s about…

And not to leave my PLR following out, there’s Converting PLR Videos – a video training series ABOUT editing PLR videos…

OK – so far, that’s all about TEACHING video marketing – but what about USING videos myself?

Well, products like that PLR videos course, my PLR Tutorial videos and the training in my PowerStart Marketing Coaching Program are all video I created, engineered and produced myself…

I know, I know – that’s teaching others how to make and edit videos, and using video for product creation – but you want to talk affiliate marketing, right?

First, think back – I used videos on my blogs to promote ClickBank Pirate here, here, here and here.

Next, look over in the sidebar to the right of this post – see the 5 videos in the Viddler widget? All videos I used to promote the Affiliate Jump launch.

Oh yeah – and I’m not above using other people’ videos in my affiliate marketing strategy either – like the one from Super-Affiliate Rosalind Gardner or the one from iFlash Video that I posted to my Internet marketing blog today…

You get the point, right? Yes, I’m a video expert, and yes, I walk the walk every day – using video to create products, to create training resources, to brand myself world-wide and to stay a super-affiliate no matter what the competition is up to. I can count on one hand the marketers who’ve done more with video than I have, out of the hundreds suddenly extolling it’s values.

Next week I’ll be teaching my PowerStart Marketing students how to create and use videos in their online marketing – the same classes you could be taking in March. Or, you could rush over and get on the pre-launch list for the new iFlash Videos deal – next week they’re going to open their site for JUST FOUR DAYS to let some smart marketers get a custom-made video commercial every month for $50 – and YOU get to tell THEM what the commercial is for!

Why just $50 I don’t know – I wouldn’t create videos for others for $500. Why should I when they make me more than that in affiliate commissions? But I do know Jason Anderson, and I can vouch for his abilities with video – they already make similar videos for ad agencies for a lot more money.

Be smart – book your custom videos each month as soon as the site opens by getting onto the advanced notice list now…

And start using videos in your affiliate marketing mix while it can still help you get to the top – instead of later when you need it to keep from being crushed!

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How To Create A Sustainable Work-At-Home Affiliate Marketing Business Through Recurring Commissions!

©2010 Doug Champigny, http://captain-affiliate.com. All Rights Reserved.

When first starting out in affiliate marketing online, most new marketers make the same mistakes – they throw up a few banners and expect to earn great income, they tweet about a new e-book that’s just come out, they post in forums with that affiliate link in their signature and hope for the best.

While each of those and similar methods may or may not create sales and result in some commissions coming in, none of them are leading toward a sustainable online business model. In order to build a strong, well-oiled affiliate marketing endeavor, it’s necessary to focus on residual income, not simple one-off sales promoted once or twice.

Most successful individuals in the field look for services to promote, services with on-going billing that then pay recurring commissions. Some of the most common of these include web hosting, membership sites, services like autoresponders, etc. These are opportunities that tend to be used by the widest section of your target market, and as such have the highest potential income for you.

It’s simple to see the power of this – if you promote an e-book and it sells, you make your set rate – say 50%. But if you’d sold a site hosting package to someone and they kept their site there for two years, you might have made that same commission 24 times! Retention rates vary by the type of site, with hosting and autoresponders usually keeping their clients longer than the average paid membership site does.

If you promote a site with a retention of 1+ years, for example, and can generate an average of 5 sales per month, you’re being paid for 5 sales the first month, 10 sales the second, 15 sales the third, etc. – you’re still just selling 5 sales per month, but the renewals keep building if the people stay with the service. Likewise, if you stop promoting that service today, you’ll receive a declining amount from your renewals each month, but could potentially go on to receive income from it for a year after you moved on to other projects.

Now don’t pass up on hot opportunities that spring up along the way, but be sure to focus most of your efforts on recurring income possibilities to try and bullet-proof your online business… It’s the best way to make sure your time, money and efforts invested are best reflected in your affiliate marketing success!

About The Author…

Doug Champigny, a.k.a. Captain Affiliate, is a world-famous Internet marketing coach, mentor & speaker and the creator of the PowerStart Marketing 4-week Internet Marketing Crash Course. To learn more about Doug or to book him to speak at your next event, contact him through his blog at http://DougChampigny.com.

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Affiliate marketing is just starting to come into it’s own as a true, professional industry but back in the early days of the web it was different story – hundreds or thousands of affiliates were groping around looking to find what would work – and one of the true victors that emerged from that fray was Rosalind Gardner. Her Super Affiliate Handbook is probably still the best-selling guide to affiliate marketing on the market, and Ros continues to offer help and advice to all affiliates as her own business grows.

In fact, Rosalind Gardner’s Net Profits Today blog is SO helpful that it made my list of Top 20 Internet Marketing Blogs to Follow in 2010! And just today Rosalind posted her Affiliate Marketing Predictions for 2010 – here’s the video:

Be sure you watch the video right through – it runs about 7 minutes. It’s easy to see not only her enthusiasm for the industry, but that Rosalind Gardner is one lady who truly cares about her readers and video audience and is all too happy to pass along the helpful information she’s learned in her years as the Super-Affiliate Queen. And some of the facts she shares here from Forrester Research are astounding – astoundingly great for affiliate marketers, that is!

Do yourself a favor to help your affiliate marketing business grow in 2010 – follow these simple steps right now:

1. Watch the Rosalind Gardner video above;
2. Follow Rosalind Gardner on Twitter;
3. Bookmark the Net Profits Today Blog; and
4. Subscribe to Ros’ e-zine to get regular helpful affiliate marketing tips!

Disclaimer: Sorry, but there are NO affiliate links or sales links in this post. I haven’t lost my edge, so don’t worry – I’m just that big a fan of Ros’ and think her information can really be helpful to EVERYONE that’s in any way involved in affiliate marketing. I PROMISE I’ll have my usual glut of money-making affiliate and sales links in future posts, so don’t abandon the ol’ Captain now, ok?

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I ran a series on The Power Of Free In Affiliate Marketing here on the blog back in September – if you read it, you’ll remember I said the game had changed suddenly, and that Free was going to be the new buzzword for successful affiliate marketing. And boy, has it ever!

Take, for instance, UK marketing golden boy Lee McIntyre – the teacher who retired young and built an online business into the 6-figures a MONTH range. He’s currently letting his VIP affiliates give away the videos of his ‘Inside Out / Upside Down’ Internet marketing training bootcamp just to make more people aware of his various coaching programs and products.

Now this may not seem like a big deal, til you realize the marketing bootcamp was just held in August, so the info is extremely current – and that those attending live paid $997 a seat to hear this same training! Just pay for the DVD to be shipped to you and you get the full bootcamp on video, without flying to the UK, paying for the hotel & meals or paying the $997 to get in! Think I’m kidding? Get your marketing bootcamp DVD right now from Lee and see for yourself!

Or take another example – Mark Hendricks’ Internet Super Stars Conference being held in Orlando Florida in January 2010. This is one powerhouse event – so much so that even your ol’ Captain hisself is going to be speaking on Power Start 2010, then running a hands-on workshop to get Internet marketers and affiliate marketers up to speed FAST in January. (Hope I’ll get to meet you there and help YOU more directly!)

Anyway, as part of the lead-up to the event, Mark is holding a series of webinars with the speakers to show how much value there is to the event and demonstrate that each is a true expert in our respective fields. Each of these webinars could be a standalone $97 product, yet Mark has created a Free Membership level and is allowing full access to the recordings plus live access to the remaining webinars as they happen. And there’s absolutely no obligation to attend the event – the free members get access to these pre-event recordings whether they’re attending the event or not.

Naturally I hope you’ll come to the event and meet me, tell me about your online activities to date and let me offer you some free advice on how to quickly kick it up a notch – but even if you can’t make the event, at least get the free recordings to listen to!

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There are a number of ways to make money with affiliate marketing. Some use articles, some do videos or podcasts, blogs are always a great idea, and your opt-in mailing list should always be your biggest source of affiliate marketing commissions.

But just WHAT you’re promoting makes a big difference too – for example, a one-off sale is usually much easier to make than selling someone into a membership, while a membership sale can mean good repeat (residual) commissions. In most cases the higher the price tag the higher the commission payable, but most affiliates find the difficulty goes up in proportion to the item’s price.

Once in a long while though, a different type of affiliate offer surfaces, as evidenced by Russell Brunson’s 12 Month Internet Millionaire 2.0 This is one you want to jump on right now, because the opportunity only lasts ONE WEEK.

From now until November 11, 2009, Russell is sharing his seminar from StomperNet that details how he went from 6-figures a year to 8 figures a year – heady stuff, and definitely a great watch for every Internet and affiliate marketer! And he’s letting you watch the video for free!

More importantly to affiliates, though, is the affiliate offer that goes with it. As soon as you sign up to watch the video you’ll be given an affiliate link of your own, and Russell is paying out $1.00 for each person you refer that watches the free video.

Did you catch that?

The $1 per person is paid to you for those you refer to the free video – not for anyone buying anything! So you’re making money without any sales taking place! Why would he do something like this – pay YOU for sending viewers who may not buy anything?

Next Wednesday, Nov 11th, Russell is launching version 2.0 of Russell Brunson’s 12 Month Internet Millionaire, and he’s counting on converting enough of the free leads to make back his money – and pay our commissions on those sales as well!

So not only do you make money if they eventually buy, but you’re ALSO making money online just by sending people to that free video – a free video that will teach viewers a LOT about how to structure their business to make a lot more money over the next year or two.

And that, fellow affiliates, is the easiest way to make money as an affiliate – by sending people to a free resource that will truly help them. And in this case it’s even easier, since you’re making money just for them watching the video – whether they buy later or not!

But again, this whole Pre-Launch only lasts 7 days, so get your affiliate link NOW and get it out there today! No matter how easy a promotion might be, you’ll never make any money online if you don’t take action! After all, my affiliate link to this promo is throughout this blog post, so I’m just suggesting you do as I do if you want to make more as an affiliate marketer!

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Jeff Dedrick’s Send Button Profits launches today, and this launch really shows off The POWER OF FREE in a launch – in fact, Send Button Profits takes The POWER OF FREE to a whole new level!

In yesterday’s post, I documented all the Free Pre-Launch Gifts Jeff Dedrick was giving out as part of this launch – training videos, an e-book, video squeeze pages, etc – just to announce his upcoming site and to get people onto his advance notification opt-in list…

OK – so that much isn’t all that new, it’s been that way on the big launches all summer – Resell Rights Fortunes, Affiliate Jump, ClickBank Pirate, etc. And each of those launches has been successful in spite of the recession, in large part thanks to The POWER OF FREE in their pre-launch affiliate promotions. So what makes Jeff Dedrick’s Send Button Profits so different?

AT SEND BUTTON PROFITS, THE PRODUCT IS FREE TOO!

That’s right – the site is launching with the main offer being about $5,000 worth of products, training and services for free – buyers just pay the shipping charges of $10 or $15 to have it shipped to them!
Of course, there are upgraded levels you can order, from monthly memberships all the way up to coaching with Jeff Dedrick & Liz Tomey, plus incredible OTOs for 100 or 200 e-books, but the greatest value to most Internet marketers is the information in the package they get free – including 9 webinars that pack one heck of a lot of information you can put to use right now!

There really isn’t anything more to say, other than affiliates will also love the brandable e-books, pre-written ClickBank product e-mails and opt-in pages there – but you’ll have to explore the various options and services yourself to see what, if anything, you want to order other than the free bundle – THAT’S a must-have for Internet marketers & affiliate marketers alike!

Captain Affiliate (left) with Jeff Dedrick of Send Button Profits

And in case you’re wondering, I’m not just hyping this based on what I’ve been told… Since Jeff & I are friends and The Captain’s a well-known super-affiliate, I’ve had free access to the site for the last couple of weeks to poke around inside and check everything out. Jeff figured if I saw what’s in there and what it can do, watched the videos you’re getting and played with the software you’ll have access to, I’d be excited enough to promote his launch heavily – and he was right!

Go ahead, right now, and order your free package – there’s only 3,000 in the first production run, and almost 20,000 on the announce list, so those who hesitate will have to wait til more are printed. You already know the advantages to being in their first, so secure your free copy right now!

But here’s the real power of this – get in right away, grab your affiliate link and get it out to your own opt-in list, blog about it, tweet it and start making money from the site right now – do it right and you just may cover your costs to take the full OTO, the monthly membership, etc.

Son’t wait til the site’s been running for 6 months or a year – get in now and get the word out so you can benefit from it directly as well!

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See The POWER OF FREE In A Live Pre-Launch Right Now!

©2009 Doug Champigny – All Rights Reserved.

Earlier Posts In This Series:
- The POWER OF FREE In Affiliate Marketing – Part One
- The POWER OF FREE In Affiliate Marketing – Part Two
- The POWER OF FREE In Affiliate Marketing – Part Three

The timing on this one couldn’t be better – a mega-launch by Jeff Dedrick, one of the best-known Internet marketing superstars, that uses The POWER OF FREE heavily for his pre-launch promotion!

Tuesday was the start of the 1-week pre-launch, and by Thursday over 7,000 people had opted in already – and that should at least double by the time of launch this coming Tuesday! Take a look at Jeff Dedrick’s Send Button Profits pre-launch page, then continue on here…

It started on Tuesday with a free Internet marketing report and a dozen free video squeeze pages. Not content to let it rest at that, on Thursday Jeff changed the free offer to the current video which shows 9 Ways To Make Money while Building Your List. Powerful info indeed, and available for free when you opt in to the site.

He didn’t get rid of the free report & squeeze pages though – after the video viewers are invited to download them directly from Jeff Blog, so they get the video and the other two gifts – talk about overdelivering value and paying it forward with Free resources!

And even then, while the pre-launch is just one week long, Jeff still isn’t finished with The POWER OF FREE – he changed it up with YET ANOTHER FREE GIFT Today (Sunday)! The new announcement in this video is so powerful and amazing you should watch the video right now!

So Jeff has truly hammered The POWER OF FREE with this pre-launch, tying it in with over-delivering every step of the way. First he offered the report but gave both it and the squeeze pages; next he’s currently offering the free video training but also giving the first three gifts, and again there’s still another surprise coming…

He’s firmly entrenched in people’s minds that he over-delivers, and has given them value worth hundreds or more for free. And as each new gift is added he invites those who’ve already signed up to come get the new gift too, getting marketers into the habit of returning to the site every few days. And in return he’ll have built a new list of over 20,000 action-taking marketers in one week – how many marketers can lay claim to that?

But to truly maximize the benefits from The Power Of Free, Jeff recruited a number of the biggest names in Internet marketing to help him promote the pre-launch and the launch itself. How did he get us to send him all these leads? By offering up well over $10,000 worth of prizes for sending specific numbers of opt-ins during the pre-launch period.

And THAT’s another important power-tip: Notice that Jeff’s JV bonuses aren’t a contest, and they are for opt-ins. The former is important because your partners are just trying to reach their own goals, not competing against others – which means even newer marketers have a shot at winning prizes. Too often they’d look at a contest and think ‘I’ll never beat those big guys to be in the top 5′ and you lose the potential traffic from that partner.

The latter is important too – by rewarding them for opt-ins you’re being fair – if it’s based on the number of buyers then your own conversion rate plays too big a factor in whether people get to their desired prize level or not. If a big dog sends you 3,000 leads but you only convert 10 people, you’ll leave a bad taste in your partner’s mouths… They won’t be happy with just 10 sales anyway, but a $500 or $1,000 gift for getting you those 3,000 opt-ins sure helps to ease their pain…

Now chances are you can’t afford to put up $20,000 or $30,000 worth of prizes like Jeff did, but you can still find prizes more suitable to your current level. Think in terms of the same ratio Jeff is using – $20-30k to get a list of 20,000 – that’s $1.00 to $1.50 per subscriber. Assuming in the launch itself he’ll make say 50¢ per subscriber, that means he only needs to make 50¢ to $1.00 per subscriber to make his investment back – which can easily be done in 2-4 months. Then he’s still got the bulk of the list and everything from there on is profit!

And one final tip for you before I close this post off – think like the big dogs in everything you do! If Jeff just considered what he’d make during this launch, he wouldn’t have had as big-ticket prizes, wouldn’t have had as many partners, and wouldn’t have gotten as many subscribers or sales. Instead he looked at the lifetime value of each subscriber and upped the ante while still making sure he’d profit from all this as time goes on. Don’t ask yourself ‘Will this make me some money today?’ – ask instead ‘Will this make me a LOT of money over time?’

Head over now and get into Jeff’s stream and watch the rest of the launch – you’ll love what this site has to offer you, too!

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