I must have mentioned before that I use the Adwords Keyword Tool when working out what domains to buy and what keywords to focus my sites on.  This video shows that once you pick a long tail keyword and then search in Google the number of competing sites might be inaccurate.  Watch this video for a much better explanation and demonstration.

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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.

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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.

Last week there was one of Nichechoppers legendary Product Launches, it was actually very low key and leaked early to members of the VIP program.

Within 48 hours of the launch nichechoppers creator, Norb Czufis, produced a video giving a blow by blow account of how this launch made over $25,000 for the publishers.  The video can be seen here.

Now you may be thinking, yeah great so the Publisher made a ton of money, what has that got to do with me.  Well, think about it.  That $25K represents less than 30% of the sale price, which means us affiliates made roughly $50K in commission from this launch!

This is my account from last week.  As well as demonstrating what our share of the pie is, this screenshot also demonstrates something I mentioned earlier about changing accounts.

Obviously there is no proof that I would not have made these sales through my previous clickbank account, but surely it cannot be a coincidence that my fortunes changed almost overnight and I am now back on track to make a 4 figure monthly income from Clickbank again.

I really have Nichechoppers to thank for 90% of my success, not just this week, but for the last 12 months.

Why not find out for yourself what Nichechoppers has to offer you by Clicking Here >>

DP forums are full of newbies from far flung places asking stupid questions like “How can I make a million dollars in 1 week?” “How much money are you making?” “I haven’t made any money from Clickbank, I have done nothing and it’s been a week now, what am I doing wrong?” – OK so I am paraphrasing!

The other thing DP is full of scammers, whether it be people using “modified” clickbank screenshots, “gurus” taking hundreds if not thousands of dollars from unsuspecting “newbies” desperate to make money online or new Clickbank Publishers blatently copying other successful Publishers products entirely including the sales page!

Almost exactly a year ago I joined Nichechoppers after reading some very useful and helpful threads on DP written by Nichechoppers creator and Clickbank Publisher Extrordinare Norb Czufis.  His amazing graphics, brilliant products and willingness to support his affiliates rather than exploit them.  He was offering 75% commission on all his products as he fully understands the fact that an affiliate sale is one that he would not have made without them.

When I joined the Nichechoppers Family it was basically just a forum where affiliates could contact Norb and discuss the different products and marketing methods.  It has grown incredibly to an amazing affiliate marketing resource with 1400 members and almost 12000 posts!  It’s bootcamp for the new guy, it’s deregulated tactics for the intermediate guy and networking heaven for the seasoned publisher and marketer.

Affiliates can :

• Fast-Track your learning curve by 1000%!
• Get in on big pre-launch campaigns early
• Make your first sales within days
• Get personal training and step by steps
• Promote OTO’s, Recurs or BIG items
• Mingle & network with big earners
• Learn how to go from affiliate to publisher
• Learn marketing from audio, video, to great reads
• Once a Niche Chopper, always a Niche Chopper

These are some of Norb’s Clickbank Accounts, he creates a new one for each product and his own affiliate marketing accounts:

Publishers will be able to:

• Get your knowledge base PAR for product dev.
• Access to recruit from our top affiliate bases
• Mingle with other publishers and grow faster
• Resources, top designers, writers, visionaries…
• Learn what affiliates need – & deliver overnight
• Review case studies of 6 figure programs
• See how to create and launch your first success
• Watch others achieve success & inspire you
• Stop chasing your tail – we’ve done that for you!

What has Nichechoppers done for me?

I have Nichechoppers to thank for 90% of the success I have had with Clickbank sales, over the last 8 months I have banked over $8000, over $1000 a month during very difficult economic times and with competitive niches like Forex, Weightloss and Home Energy (all of which are Nichechoppers products).

I really think Nichechoppers has something for everyone, whether you are a complete Newbie, a seasoned Affiliate or a Publisher.

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I was skipping through the thousands of articles and came across a whole file dedicated to email marketing containing 190 PLR articles. I then used my tried and tested URL search using a combination of Adwords Keyword Tool and the godaddy bulk domain tool to quickly find a popular three word domain name with little competition. 3000 searches a month on Google and 800k results. I also know it is something that I can promote CB products with and get good CPC from Adsense.

I purchased the .info name after finding out that the .com and most of the other TLDs are up for sale. This cost me $0.99 for a year! So far my investment is $4.99.

The next step was getting hold of a wordpress based article directory theme for free. Luckily someone at nichechoppers had just posted about one which they were using and it looked pretty cool, if a little limited graphics wise. http://articlesss.com/article-directory-wordpress-theme/

Download the theme and the essential plugins, throw it up on your site and you have an instant article directory that anyone can submit articles to. IT is very easy to configure to exactly how you want it with basic wordpress knowledge.

Finally I have uploaded 40 articles at the time of this post, OK it is PLR but it already has a few hits and with more and more content (I hope to get to about 150) it should rank for quite a few keywords.
I have just put Adsense up for the minute as I am looking to diversify my earnings, it will also help if I decide to move the site on in the future, lots more people use Adsense than CB.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year Holiday. I have been off work for a total of 11 days, have travelled over 1000 miles in total, visited so many friends and family members and even had a minor car crash in between!

I had intended to dedicate a couple of days to developing my new membership site which will be my first venture into the Publisher world, but on the way back from my local Mall, some idiot rear-ended me. It took almost a full day to sort out a hire car, insurance and garage etc and in the end I didn’t get anything done.

In the run up to Christmas I had made some good consistent sales with Clickbank which was great, but from Boxing Day to 2nd January I had no sales, everyone was partying or on vacation, certainly not buying electronic products online!

So onto my goals for 2009.

1) Consistency from Clickbank Sales – at least $1500/month after refunds

2) Complete and launch new Membership Site on Clickbank

3) Revive my Everloss and Efficient Planet campaigns

4) Continue to diversify with CB products I promote to avoid fluctuations

5) Sell off some of my sites that I do not have time or passion for

6) Try to make a regular additional income flipping sites building on success in 2008

7) More regular posting on this blog with more tips and tricks

Build a number of subscriber lists to promote future products to

9) Continue to be an active member of Nichechoppers Forum

10) Do all of this while keeping my well paid day job and hopefully getting a promotion!

Anyone else set some Affiliate Marketing Goals for 2009? Post them in the comments.

James

Forex Detector released from the Nichechopper Stable

FAP Turbo release by Marcus Leary (currently No1 on Clickbank and climbing – could top 1000 gravity!)

Forex Boomerang is another one from Norb at Nichechoppers

Pipzu is from DP and Nichechoppers regular “Kinitex”

And it doesn’t stop there, Norb has another big launch planned for next March, not sure why the wait, but what I do know is that with every new Forex product he launches he has learnt from the previous one and the marketing is refined to improve sales.

I have taken a different approach to marketing these new products as one of my main review sites has unfortunately been “sandboxed” by Google, even though it is a PR3 and was No1 for the main keywords it is now in the depths, not to be seen for a few months, I suspect this is due to a high number of links being added over a short period of time, this needs to be the subject of another post so I will leave it there.

With PipZu I have just registered a few review type free blogs, completely BUM style.  FAPTurbo I have bought a nice domain which is being used as a lander, I have been driving traffic here as well as some direct with a hoplink from Adwords, I have made two sales so far from about $20 investment so profit is about $100.  The problem is that Google has done it’s usual adjustments and now clicks on Page 1 cost too much for me.  Still gettting some traffic though so will keep that ticking over.  With Forex Detector I have again bought a good domain as a lander and directing articles there, my ezine article is currently No1 on Google for the name.  One sale this week which was a massive $92 commission.  Let’s hope it sticks and doesn’t get refunded.  Forex Boomerang is the same as Detector, but no sales yet.

The main difference is the way FAPTurbo has blown up at over 700 gravity on CB, this means there is an incredible buzz around and the name is well known, this results in more searches for the name and then clicks via Adwords.  I haven’t tried PPC on the others as there are hardly any searches, I would rather make sales organically from these as it is easier to get on Page 1 with them without paying for it.

I am just wondering if the market is saturated now and the consumers are so confused about all of the outrageous claims of incredible profits and the different price tags etc.  If I was going to buy one of these EAs I really would struggle to know which one to go for.  FAPTurbo could hit 1000 gravity on CB, I wonder if any product has got that high before.  It just shows you how quickly the likes of Commission Blueprint fades from the top spot after all the big email campaigns have stopped!

I also have another confession to make. I once bought the Rich Jerk!

To be fair, it was about 2 years ago, I needed a 5th sale and also a VISA sale to release my first CB cheque and it was only $9.95. I also got 75% back in commission!

I did actually read the ebook to find out if he was for real or just a hyped up load of junk. The reality was most of what the ebook has to offer is very much the basics of affiliate marketing, website development and SEO. There are no secrets, in fact most of what is in the book is available on the internet at digital point or nichechoppers, you just have to go and find it.

I am not sure whether anyone is actually promoting this now, but he was trying to sell the website/company at one point last year, according to Shoemoney the “empire” was up at $8m to avoid bankruptcy, but I don’t know if he actually sold up.

I love this site which is a parody of the RichJerk, http://www.youreapoorloser.com. This has been done by someone with a great head on them, apparently it is getting 10K hits a day, I wonder how many sales?

Any more confessions folks? Post them as a comment I would love to hear them.

Forex is the first niche that I started to promote which I would potentially buy in. I have bought a few Make Money Online products, but with Forex Robots and Systems I could see a wide appeal, not only to seasoned traders, but people who are looking to make an easy second income.

I had never heard of Forex until July 2008 when I heard that Norb at Nichechoppers was publishing Forex Robot software, Forex Tracer and Forex Funnel. I read the sales pages and got review copies of them to check they were legit. Norb was more than happy to let me have a review copy. This kind of commitment to supporting Affiliates is what sets him apart from pretty much all other publishers, another key element of Norbs sales pages to date that I like is no opt-in lists, drop in etc and no “please don’t leave, we are desperate to sell you something, you can talk to a real live person” BS that you see on most CB sales pages.

Anyway, these review copies have been key to my success as I have been able to give legitimate reviews of products which I have first hand experience of, I have also done lots of research into the forex market, keeping up to date with trends etc. If you can write as though you are an authority on a subject your conversion rates will improve greatly.

I have 5 Forex related hosted site, but started with just one review site. I managed to get hold of an expired domain with great keywords. I used a format that I have employed in other niches, where I gathered reviews and testimonials from others and displayed them on my site, I also invited others to submit reviews. Millions of people trust review sites such as ciao.com etc and this was the feel I was aiming for.

Whilst I have made significant sales from this site, I have also used direct PPC and also PPC directed to landing pages that I created on Synthasite.com, here you can very easily create free sites. Link to synthasite on side bar. —->

I created articles on ezinearticles.com, hubpages, knol etc and then bookmarked everything with digg.com and propeller.com.

Since mid July 2008 I have taken $4604 in commission from Forex products! Some 16% of that has since been refunded, but for me the effort has been worth the return primarily due to the high commission rates.

An example of one of my sites is www.automatedforex.co.uk which is based on a template I got from another member at nichechoppers. It really was very easy to set up and add my clickbank ID. It is almost plug and play.

So in my opinion, Forex is not too saturated to get stuck in and make great money, the products are in demand and are easy to promote especially if you have tried them out and whilst the refund rate is higher than I would like, the returns to date have definitely been worth it. The future also seems to be bright as the uncertainty of Stocks continues, investors are seeking alternative vehicles.

I hope this gives a bit of inspiration to those who are not sure about either starting with forex or if your are struggling to make it work. Good luck.

James

This may sound silly, but I was genuinely chuffed to be asked. Norb has been intrumental in me making a success of Affiliate Marketing and the majority of the money I have made this year has been from promoting his products. For him to feel that I am doing a good job means a lot to me, don’t forget he can see how many hops I send and how well I convert, he knows if I am doing well or not in relation to others.

Norb sent me a list of questions, including my Top 5 NOTs for Newbies and my Top 5 things for Newbies to follow. The full interview is here but I thought the Top 5s would be useful to quote here.

Q: If you could give newbies five tips on what NOT to do – what would they be?

1) Do NOT start with PPC until you make some organic sales, you need to know that the products will convert before throwing money away.

2) Do NOT expect an easy ride to riches, whatever the Gurus say, making consistent money online takes a lot of time and effort.

3) Do NOT spend too much time reading and not actually taking action. There is a fine line between research and procrastination.

4) Do NOT worry if ezinearticles reject one of your articles and then you don’t get Platinum Status!

5) Do NOT buy domains when you are drunk, you will convince yourself it is great and then in the cold light of day when you check out the competition or the keyword searches it might not so good! My best one has to be when I bought accomod8.com about 10 years ago (thought it was great then realised I was missing a “m”, doh!)

Q: And now the five most important parts of your ‘make money’ ventures that newbies should follow.

1) Pick a high paying niche to start with like Forex, the time, effort and PPC costs will be more worth it than busting a gut for $10-$20 commission.

2) Buy your own domains and hosting, more flexibility, more credibility and more control than free sites. I also use squidoo, blogger, wordpress, synthasite as they rank well in Google results. I find it a good combination.

3) Pre-sell, I don’t think I have ever made a sale by direct linking to a product page, that is not to say that the sales pages are no good, but if you can give an independant view on something and explain benefits I have found it helps.

4) Focus, this is still something I am struggling with, especially with Norb releasing so many good products at the moment. Try and focus on one campaign or product at a time, even if it is for a day or a week. I find myself all over the place and have to reign myself in.

5) Choose products from Publishers who help you (like Norb) and I mean by providing great quality graphics, landing pages, email campaigns, videos. These help soo much with the pre-sell. I cannot believe how bad some publishers are at assisting their affiliates, especially as most give you less % per sale than Norb. They don’t seem to get it, an affiliate sale is one that they probably wouldn’t have had otherwise, so give us a better share and more assistance.