Commission Blueprint
The Biggest Tip In Affiliate Marketing

You want to be a super-affiliate hauling in truckloads of cash every month. Join the club! But is there a secret? I mean, is there one over-riding principle that all of the super affiliates follow?

The answer is a definite probably. What I'd like to do is to give you two things to think about; each of these can make a big difference in how you market products as affiliates on-line.

First, (and Steven Clayton and Tim Godfrey discuss this in Commission Blueprint) you need to get past the "making money on-line" niche. I know, if you look at the big products on Clickbank, it is true that a lot of the products with a gravity of over 200 are in the Marketing & Ads category. But that doesn't mean that these products are the best ones for you to promote-at least starting out as an affiliate.

For one thing, the competition is fierce for these type of Clickbank products. And the gravity scores are a bit skewed. If you were able to see exactly which affiliates are selling the most units of a product like Commission Blueprint the results might surprise you. If you think that the sales are coming from thousands of affiliates selling 1-2 copies a week, you would be wrong. True, there are a lot of affiliates out there running AdWords campaigns to promote this product, but the majority of these affiliates are selling very few products.

Remember, the biggest super affiliates are the guys with the 100,000+ lists. These super-affiliates mail to their lists several times a week. When a product like Commission Blueprint launches, many dozens of these big guys are mailing out several emails to their subscriber lists to promote such product. This is where the big sales come from initially.

So my first point in that--yes, a lot of copies of this product are being sold, but many of these are coming from the big JV partners doing mailings to promote it.

So, if you want to slug it out in the AdWords arena with big guys who have years of experience in affiliate marketing and AdWords--go for it. But they will bury you and you can spend a fortune testing your ads and keywords hoping for a miracle while the experts rake in the profits.

The second thing I want to point out is that the easiest way for most beginning affiliates to make money is not by promoting the big Marketing & Ads products on Clickbank. There is tons of competition there and the cost of the best keywords is very expensive.

The authors of Commission Blueprint point this out and I concur: The best chance of success for the newbie is in smaller niche markets. Don't' look to make a killing on one of the big products. One can make a very good affiliate income by promoting one or two dozen niche products in smaller markets that are easier to dominate. It is entirely possible to make 30-50 dollars a week on each of a dozen niche products. This is much easier to do than to make 500-1,000 dollars a week selling one of the major products in a highly competitive markets.

Let the big boys slug it out for the big Clickbank products. Fly under their radar. Raid the smaller niches for say 50 bucks a week per product. The keywords will cost you much less on AdWords and you can do a lot of testing there for a hundred bucks a week.

What you want to do is to build a base of dozens of smaller niche products for which you can develop successful AdWords campaigns. For 5-10 dollars you can run a good test on AdWords for products like these. If they don't pan out, you haven't lost the farm--go on and test another.

Mike McMillan, All Rights Reserved