The Pressures of Affilate Email Marketing! Aargh!

Can’t remember where I read it or who wrote it…

“Scratch a perfectionist and you’ll find a procrastinator” - source unknown (if you know post a comment)

So when it comes to email your list, promoting your affiliate products and offering quality content it’s so easy to get bombarded with these kinda questions:

• How often should I email (daily, every two days, maybe even 2, 2, 3 day patterns)…?
• Should I go for 80% quality content and 20% sales or 50/50?
• Do I pre-sell or sell?
• etc
• etc
• etc

Before you know it the job that’s supposed to set the shakles free, dump a load of cash in your pocket and let you spend that extra time doing what you want — because stressful, the pressure mounts and you don’t know what to do.

Analysis paralysis – simply because you want to get it right, get it perfect and … end up getting nothing done!

So here’s something I’d happily proclaim to each and every one of my subscribers:

“Sometimes I’ll email you daily, sometimes you won’t here from me for a week.  Sometimes I’ll just give you content and somedays I’ll sell to you day in, day out.  And somedays I’ll get it right and somedays I’ll get it wrong – I dont care.  The reason is simple.  There is no right and wrong when it comes to affiliate email marketing. ”

“There are only good results and bad results”.

“It is all about the results and when I get results – then you, my loyal subscriber, will be the first one to know so that it can be copied, tested and hopefully repeated to line your pockets and build a long term online affiliate marketing business”.

End of procrastination  : )

See you shortly and tell me if you think this is a load of non-sense or you got a better idea for me.  Always keen to learn!

How to get Free Traffic Fast by Lance Tamashiro

Lance Tamashiro’s “Free Traffic Fast” is a wicked video (and MP3) shortcut for getting serious volumes of traffic free and er… fast.  In his own worlds “Nothing happens without traffic” it’s the lifeblood of any business beit online or in the real world.  We all need a new way to find new customers or subscribers and the freeer – the better.

As someone who cuts his credit cards up and tries to hide his wallet – I’m a little cautious when it comes to spending money on something new when there are stacks of things on my ‘to-do’ list so this one caught me on the hop.

For a meagre $7 which is cheap change, from someone like Lance Tamashiro who genuinely makes a stack of cash from affiliate marketing and when it’s co-authored by ………… another of my favourite affiliates then I’m afraid I’m in.

There are lots of free and fast traffic methods out there to generate free traffic to your blog or squeeze page (this is mine) from articles to forum marketing that most people know about.  “Free Traffic Fast” mentions forum marketing with some good advice, you won’t hear about articles but you will hear about several other totally free methods and how to put them together quickly and easily.  As the salespage says… “Shortcuts” because that’s what it’s all about.

As a fan of audio I’ve listened to this about 4 or 5 times and everytime I do, I hear something new, have another a-ha moment and start to plan my course of action.  With my wallet hidden this has become my traffic generation system for creating oodles of new subscribers for the foreseeable future before I start to leverage my list for bigger and better gains.

The free traffic methods are simple and they work fast and my first subscriber from the blog method mentioned here netted me a new subscriber in minutes.  That was a good feeling.

For small change $7 is  a fantastic investment, you’ll learn loads, can make 100% back on the closed door affiliate scheme and will be learning from someone who’s less of a guru and more of a do’er.

Be quick to check this out because the price is likely to rocket up to $47 – last time I bought a product from Lance it was for $47 and then went up to $197 so be very careful (and very quick).

Check out Lance Tamashiro’s Free Traffic Fast (and listen carefully).

Affiliate Tip: How to Find Unique & Profitable Niche Markets Quickly

Ok two slants to use this method to find profitable niche markets – the first can be used by most people to evaluate a hot niche.  The second is a cool way to find out more about your buyers, their needs and maybe their niches if you’re already selling something through PayPal.  This is a truely unique way to find total unique niche markets.

• Check out PayPal shops where there are lists of online shops that accept PayPal.  So what?  Well all the shops are listed by sales volume and next to the names is a number in brackets showing how many PayPal users have bought from them…. the higher the number, the hottet the niche.

• When someone buys something from you and the payment is through PayPal you obviously see have access to your online invoice/receipt that shows the name and email address of who bought from you.  Now say that your create (or sell affiliate) products and are paid through PayPal.  All of a sudden you can see if your customer has an online presence and if so… the exact niche which might be something you can go into or market more towards.

If you’re struggling wth finding a profitable niche then I highly recommend this amazing video and audio product that’s cheaper than a DVD from Blockbuster.  I bought it, loved it and listen to it all the time.

Check out the Niche Invasion System

Back to Front Marketing… Writing your Sales Copy first

Hand on my heart… I make most of my online income through affilate marketing and that’s what this blog and list is all about.  It’s the perfect way to inject a bit more enthusiasm and document my journey, my thoughts and share them with other marketers.  Anyway… wrong tangent – bad habbit.

When I created my first product in a proper, random niche I know tons about – I created the product first (seemed logical) before moving onto the sales copy.   Whilst I’d done my research, knew the hotish topics I needed to cover in the ebook – the sales copy was a bit tough.

My biggest concern was that I’d big up my book so much that the product would never deliver (even at a meagre $17) and I’d have a ton of complaints, refunds and customer support to deal with.   So after writing the sales copy – I had to go back an amend my ebook to make sure the two were pretty consistent and I wasn’t misleading anybody.  More work when it was hard enough just getting started!

The perfect solution – do the sale copy first.

It sounds a bit back to front, a bit wrong — until you think about it for a moment.

Writing your sales copy forces you ask the right questions about what your visitors want.  What benefits do they need to see and experience to buy your product?  What objections do you need to overcome in your sales copy to make this a success.  When you construct a sales page.  When your write sales copy you focus your writing on the solutions that will trigger your readers hot buttons and get them to whip out their wallet in an instant.

Essentially – the sales copy outlines the perfect product for your customers (and not some information you rambled on about for 30 pages and thought might be useful).

Write the sales page first and when you create your product – you have an agenda all outlined for you.  The problem you wish to solve has been clearly laid out and the expectations your product has to meet are plain for you to see.   Your ebook has a clear path, the writer a clear goal and the end result — meets expectations, does exactly what the sales page says and customer support is minimal (apart from the glowing testimonials of course).

Another good reason to do the sales copy first – it’s often the bit that everyone else procrastinates over – get it done and you’re half way there.

Good luck writing that sales copy… for squeeze pages, for products, for anyone who hires you.

Kris Maineri’ Super Traffic Method… (a free traffic method)

Is it me or are the internet’s brightest sparks getting younger and younger?  George Brown, David Wikinson and Kris Maineri, creator of Super Traffic Method.

Here’s a kid (sorry Kris) who’s mature beyond his years and already made his first $100K online – not bad for someone who’s too young to get a credit card – to young to quit school – and too young to be considered an adult.  That’s pretty impressive.

He’s bright spark and part of his (and the success of his peers) has to be the fact that they knuckle down, dont worry about what they don’t know, tend to lack a little bit of fear (some call it naivity) and just do stuff…  Now Kris calls himself a nerd – he doesn’t look the stereotype – that said… his sales system is pretty s**t hot – maybe even nerd like : )

With a squeeze page to capture emails, then the sales page and an exit splash  – here’s a fellow doing all the right things.  He’s even contributed to private sections of the Warrior Forum with freebies exclusive to War Room members.

He can only have been 16 at the time, building a repuation, a list, learning lots and giving away more.  The perfect start to a successful online career.

Now here’s Kris’s formula – dont blink, you might miss it…

1. Creating products.
2. Getting a ton of free traffic to it.
3. Plus he definately works hard on the back end – very important and easily missed.

That’s it.

In his Super Traffic Method, he focuses on methods to get you a ton of free traffic to your website and sales page, how to create massive rabid, raving fans using free viral methods and how to create volumes of followers with Twitter.  And of course how to monetize those fans and followers for a six figure pay check.

A well packaged product,  the Super Traffic Method is made up of 3 videos that jump straight in and teach what you need to know quickly.  No messing about with some lame pre-amble.   You also get a condensed reference report you can quickly open for the quickest, free traffic methods that bagged this young pup his first $100K.

I’m still jealous ‘cos I was working Maccy D’s at his age : )

When you get to the sales page try to close the window.  He’s got a cheeky pop-up asking you if you really want to close the window.  Do what he wants you to do, stay on the page and you’ll get a short video of this 17 year old nerd offering you 4 extra bonus products if you buy the Super Traffic Method today.

Well worth the extra hassle and the whole package makes this low priced product a no brainer.  Whether you’ve got a ton of traffic or a trickle – there’s something for everyone here and a sweet 30 day money back guarantee.

You can check the free traffic methods from Kris Maineir’s “Super Traffic Method” right HERE

P.S.  If nothing else just be curious and take note of this well put together sales funnel – it’s very well done.