Make Affiliate Money

I mentioned in my recent list of 2010 Affiliate Marketing Goals that I wanted to develop a list of potential customers to market new products to.  For some time I have been reading how “The Money is in the List” and yet I have been focusing on building websites to promote products.  Some of these sites have had over 10,000 visitors in the last year and I haven’t gathered any details.  Doh!

I recently had a wake up call and was reminded of the benefit of having an email list when a fellow Nichechopper showed us his Clickbank stats following a recent product launch, he made over $1700 in a matter of hours!

Everytime a new product is launched properly on Clickbank the Publisher provides emails and prelaunch materials to send out to your list.  I always kick myself because I don’t have a list.

So now I am taking action and setting up a list.  Stage 1, creating a free product to encourage people to opt in, is underway.  I am writing a guide which will be in the form of a pdf ebook which can be downloaded, I may try breaking it down into a 5 part email course as an autoresponder.  (This may work better for retaining people on the list and making them comfortable about my emails hitting their inbox)

Stage 2 will be to set up an email capture form on my niche sites and Stage 3 will be to set up a squeeze landing page specifically set up to gather email addresses.

I have tried free autoresponders before, but I think it is now time I spent some money and went for aweber, or one of their cheaper white label versions such as http://clients.xmailpro.com/pricing.htm  $19.95 for 10,000 subsccribers.  This is not a recommendation as I have not tried it yet.  Will let you know how I get on.

Off to finish the guide now.

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This blog can be very focused on Clickbank products and this is my personal preference when making money even with Clickbank’s known problems.  However, some of my sites from my early days on the internet continue to bring in a few dollars from Google Adsense clicks.

Google Adsense Adverts are everywhere, some of the biggest and most well known sites make the majority of their income from Adsense (and I mean Millions of $$$), these sites work on huge volumes of visitors and the % of those clicking on their ads.  Plentyoffish.com the free dating site made something like $300K/month back in 2006! 

Anyway, back to the point of this post, the choice between Clickbank and Adsense…

I look at it like this:

A Clickbank sale of $80 will take 80-100 hops to make giving an EPC of about $1

An Adsense click in the same niche may earn about $1

The benefit of Adsense is that you don’t have to make an allowance for refunds, the problem is you cannot encourage people to click on the adverts like you might with a Clickbank hoplink.

So, if you find a good high paying niche consider Adsense as an alternative to Clickbank.  It doesn’t harm to diversify your income streams to allow for changes!

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Anyone promoting ebooks or other clickbank products will know that Christmas is traditionally a bad time for sales, it doesn’t take a genius to work out why, but I was just checking Clickbank Analytics and this graph speaks a thousand words!

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I have mentioned Nichechoppers before and I really can’t stress how important this community has been to my success, on average $1000/month over the past year from scratch.  But don’t just take it from me take a look at some of the recent posts from Newbies who just cannot believe how much the Nichechopper Community has to offer:

I came accross this site
and thought that it might be interisting to give it a
try.

Hopefully I woud learn something new to give me
some success at marketing since what I am doing right
now is not working very well.

After reading a little of the content however, I was totally
shocked at how much awesome information is here.

I know I need a lot of work at marketing and now I know
I can get it here. I am from Yonkers NY, US.

and

I just recently joined Niche Choppers like you. One thing we have in common is that we are both amazed at the valuable content here. Take it slow, read the stickies, ask the questions (really, these guys, including me, want to help you), and become successful. Welcome to the best place on the web to learn about internet marketing. Let’s take the path through Niche Choppers and achieve our goals.

and

I just joined the forum, and I literally can’t believe the valuable information that’s here. I just recently began internet marketing in May 2009, and as you may have guessed, I didn’t have any results in the beginning. Ever since mid-June 2009, I’ve decided to become a “student of the game”, and I have learned plenty since then. However, although I learned some great concepts and techniques of marketing as well found some great resources for education and tools, I still felt incomplete. I felt like I was chasing, chasing, and chasing. After running so much, I saw I needed something like a “primary home” to be able to learn and network instead of running around this internet all the time. I would like to thank Norb for giving me the chance to join a very rare opportunity, and I would like to thank all the members for accepting me. I will ask my questions, contribute great content to the forum as I come across it, and help others the best way I can in the future. Lastly, I love the “small community structure” of niche choppers. I compare it to a small college vs. a big college. At a small college, you get great one-on-one support opposed to being treated like a number at a large one. I think niche choppers is that small college, and it’s a privilege to be here.

and

I just changed my mood to truly amazed. There is so much no bull info on this site that it will take me a long while to get thru it. I am just getting started making money on the web and the real problem is not getting overwelmed with the mass of information. I have learned that one of the most important thing to do is pick wisely who you listen to and learn from. Thanks for all the info and guidence I see here.

We now have live seminars on specific topics such as CPA Marketing and PPC etc to give real time advice and support, even the experienced marketeers gain a lot from these.

The owner of Nichechoppers has just leaked another launch about to happen and announced a new Forex Robot to be launched on 8th September, jump on board now and enjoy the rush of these launches.

There are more and more Publishers joining now as there is a specific section of the site to provide specific support to affiliates including free copies and trial copies of new Clickbank products.

CLICK HERE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CURRENT SPECIAL OFFER PRICE >>>>>

See you in the Forum, contact me when you get there JIMZ is my site name.

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The Forex Ivybot Robot was released on 28th July 2009 and I thought that it was going to be “just another Forex Robot” sticking at around 50 Gravity on Clickbank.

I was wrong, it is already at 412 and overtaken FAP Turbo in less than a week!!!

I decided to give it a try and added a single drop in advert and a static ad on one of my forex review sites and it made a sale in just 6 hops! Bingo, $90 commission too!

Then I took a shot at Adwords with a landing page, I bought www.ivybotoffer.info for $0.70 and quickly put together a simple landing page based on the design of the ivybot page with a few tweaks.

I spent $25 on adwords and made another sale! $25=$90 – I like that Math! I did have quite a poor conversion rate on the landing page, so I am modifying the ad slightly.

I am now going to add the Ivybot onto my review sites to try and get some more organic traffic.

Lets hope the refunds are low and the publisher doesn’t pull the product and just grab emails, like the Forex Grail product (that I got pulled from the CB Marketplace!)

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This is what we are all working for, so a bit of inspiration folks. On the same day I got these two puppies from two different accounts, over $1000 to bank. And today got another two totalling over $400.

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I have seen a number of people asking “what is Clickbank?”, “how do I make money with Clickbank?”, “what are the best products to promote?” and so on.

Whilst most affiliate marketers know the basics, I thought I would create a Clickbank Guide for Newbies on this blog to help everyone.

If anyone reads the Guide and feels that I have got something wrong, missed out something critical or you simply have a question please post as a comment on the Clickbank Guide Page.

Over and Out.

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I often see this question raised by newbies on a number of forums so I thought I would carry out a quick review of my stats and revenue from my portfolio of about 50 websites.  The findings were more dramatic than I thought.

Since January 2009 (when I properly started to use TIDs to track where sales came from) my sales have come from:

Review Sites with a number of products on offer:  81%

Product Name Review Landing Pages (i.e. forexboomerangreview.com) : 4%

Blog Review of a product: 2%

PPC Campaign either direct to Sales Page or via lander: 13%

The truth of it is, that of the 50+ sites I own, the majority of sales come from about 5 review sites, ranging from forex robots, paid surveys, wow leveling guides.

I hope this gives some insight into what works for me.

JZ

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Unfortunately my latest account which i have had for about six weeks, since 27th March, has run dry.

Same consistent number of targetted hops, like clockwork, but sales dried up and many of the people on DigitalPoint and Nichechoppers have also been hit this week.  Check out the stats for the last three periods.

12th May to 17th May

433 hops, 1 sale = $82

6th May to 11th May

488 hops, 7 sales = $383

30th April to 5th May

484 hops, 6 sales = $368

Overall stats for the last 6 weeks are:

Sales: 45

Refund %: 17.78%

Net Income: $2057.46

Anyway, time to change all the hops again as I believe this account has been blackballed by Clickbank due to the refunds, like previous accounts.  Onwards and upwards hopefully.

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There once was a time when you had to pay for the site which would create Adsense looking text adverts displaying Clickbank products, now Clickbank offer this for FREE.  They call it Clickbank HopAd Builder.

If you are a Clickbank affiliate you will probably seen this advert for the HopAd Builder on the right of the account page.  Note the new colour scheme (nasty red and yellow) that Clickbank introduced today.

There are two options, create text adverts (look like Adsense) or create tabbed Adbox with options for different keywords.  I am not keen on this idea as it is asking too much of the visitor to select which adverts they want to see.  I am therefore going to focus on the text ads.

Unlike Adsense which automatically searches the site content and displays adverts relating to the keywords found in the content, the CB HopAd Builder relies on you inserting a keyword.  You add the keyword, your CB ID, an optional Tracking Code (TID) as shown below, note that it shows you example ads on the right hand side, make sure you refresh to check the right sort of ads for your keyword are showing, you might want to try a few options because “ppc” might not be the best keyword, “adwords” might be better.

Like Adsense set up, the next options relate to the size of the adbox, the text size and color scheme, the one difference is the option to set “target” which means you won’t lose the visitor to the new site, your site/blog will remain open.  As before, the size and style of the box is a bit of trial and error, don’t worry if you don’t get it right as everything is editable html later on.

The next step allows you to copy and paste the html code for inserting into your website or blog.  The HTML can be edited, Clickbank has a complete guide for that here -  https://www.clickbank.com/hopfeed_guide_popup.html

Below is an example of the text HopAd Builder box with adverts relating to the keyword “ppc”

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