One of the biggest problems affiliate marketers face is picking the right products to promote on affiliate networks such as Clickbank.

Getting this wrong could lead to a lot of money wasted on PPC, and certainly a lot of time wasted on writing articles and building websites to promote that dud Clickbank product.

The thing is, most marketers will blindly follow the #1 product’s and soon get a shock when these products don’t convert at the “industry standard” of 1%.

Heck, I’ve picked top Clickbank products that convert at 0.70% over the period of a month before, so I feel the pain on that one.

It’s impossible to predict exact figures when promoting affiliate products, but if you follow these simple steps, you’ll get a better idea of how to spot a winner from a wimp in places like Clickbank.

1. Best selling doesn’t mean best converting

Don’t always be drawn to the number one product on Clickbank, it doesn’t mean you’ll be successful if you simply drop in and start promoting it. It’s more to do with how you presell your visitors and the keyword you target to reach them.

Remember, if you’re not able to set up a good presell page or system to promote affiliate products, you might not see very good conversions at all. So don’t be fooled into thinking that just because lots of people are making sales with a product means that you will automatically do the same.

For example, diet pills sell in their millions both offline via mail order and online via websites. However, that doesn’t mean you could just buy a truckload of the things and start making a killing selling in your local town and via your one page website does it?

The point is, be prepared to presell or it will be a tough sell, no matter how popular the product is.

2. Desperate markets have deeper pockets

The more hungry a person is for a solution to their problems, or a fix for their desires, the more money they spend and the less convincing they will need to do so. The types of products that meet the desperate markets criteria should all cater to instant fixes.

Things like PC repair, a quick guide to fix something or find something out, a tool that performs a laborious task quickly etc…

3. How long been on the market? The longer the better.

The longer the product has been around and has been consistently advertised/sold, the better. If you try to promote a new product, you’re going to be riding either side of the wave until you either crash or rise to the top. With proven, long standing products there is far less risk as the product is clearly fulfilling a need in the market and is not about to be easily buried.

4. Long running PPC ads exist?

The final way to establish if a product is actually worth promoting (and if it is actually making money) is to look at the affiliates of that product. The easiest place to find these affiliates is of course in the PPC listings.

Pick out some keywords that are related to the product/market and see who is advertising the same product that you have in mind. Watch them for a few weeks and see if they stick around. If they do, then clearly they are making money promoting the same affiliate product that you have in mind.

These three steps can set you apart from your fierce online competition and you should always deploy them in every PPC campaign you set up.

Read our unbiased view of the top rated affiliate marketing product online

Google Nemesis Review

There is a brand new affiliate marketing system being released tomorrow and after initial misgivings about the claims I have to say this looks like a winner. I got my hands on the majority of the course today so while I can’t do a full review just yet I thought I’d bring this to you and use the lazy approach and use videos created by the owner which show you proof.

If you want to see the 3 free videos you can see them at

http://www.playerswithmoney.com

Before you settle in to watch the video here are a few observations by both myself and the author. First in case you have never heard of the creator here is a screenshot of his clickbank earnings for just one of his products from last year

As you can see he knows what he is talking about! Here is an opening comment about his new system

“Here we go: unless you completely and entirely suck at following a couple of simple, step by step instructions, this very system will bring you mind-blowing levels of success and profit.”

theres more

http://www.playerswithmoney.com

“”8 Step by Step Blueprints
Guaranteed to Change Your Life”

Listen, this was going to be a thousand dollar, “Big Box on your doorstep” kind of package. And there is a LOT of stuff inside.

In fact, I have never packed so much money making power into one place. It’s just oozing with potential, waiting for you spark the fire.

There are 8 blueprints. Each one starts where the previous left off. There are no accidents here. Each of those 8 blueprints (totalling nearly 300 pages of killer content) is designed specifically to transform you into a money magnet.”
Here are the titles of the 8 blueprints

Module 1: Ultimate Niche Money Magnets
Module 2: Change the Game (and double your profits overnight)
Module 3: Words That Sell
Module 4: The Sales Funnel
Module #5: Massive Traffic Blueprint My favorite, maybe i won’t have to buy Traffic Secrets 2 after all!
Module 6: Buzz Marketing (a Staggering Viral Explosion)
Module 7: Joint Ventures that Make You Rich
Module 8: How to Outsource Everything Except Sleep Definitely an excellent approach to outsourcing!

I will get back to you with a more in depth look but as it is launching tomorrow i thought i better get this out to you fast as digging between the lines i think there is a chnce he will remove this after a certain number of sales.

So go have a look for yourself, there are 3 excellent videos and if you sign up for the newsletter you get a free blueprint emailed to you.

http://www.playerswithmoney.com

Storestacker Review

Click HERE to visit storestacker

Every now and again along comes an affiliate marketing product which truly revolutionizes the way you do business. Not very often but it happens. The latest evidence of this is a product called StoreStacker. Now you may not have heard much about it but that is probably because the people behind it do not use ‘mass control’ style launches and up until the release of store stacker were very much focused on the blogging niche, particularly auto blogging.

So what is storestacker. Basically it is a piece of clever software which creates a storefront for you stocked with products from affiliate programs, at the moment there are 3, amazon, eBay and for the first 500 customers Clickbank. The real beauty of this software is that it a real breeze to install and you can potentially have 1000′s of products online in minutes. You can see an example site at http://www.qibs.com/ or my test set up at http://www.golfguidedirect.com/Store/ which took me a whole hour from start to finish. There are a ton of enhancements, like templates etc I can add but wanted to get it out there fast so you could see it.

If i went through everything I like about this software it would potentially take me hours so I’ll try and summarize as best i can.

Good Stuff:

1. Easy to set up
2. Imports products from Amazon, eBay and Clickbank automatically, no uploading one product at a time.
3. StoreStacker can be used to add products to an existing site or as a standalone site builder
4. Being able to build a store in a folder on an existing site is huge for me. I have over 200 sites and because storestacker pulls the products from different sources I am virtually guaranteed to be able to build a site for any topic/website
5. StoreStacker can add thousands of pages of content to a site in mins if you want, and tons of long tail, product-based keywords. Added to sites that already have solid in-links, this can translate to a nice bump in search engine traffic. A new site created with the system has a big advantage over any ‘regular’ website.
6. You can optimize all the pages on your site by editing 3 files, similar to the way permalinks works in WordPress you can have the page listed as category/productname.html or anything you want, this is truly awesome and beats any ecommerce system I’ve seen.
7. You can ADD YOUR OWN PRODUCTS too. Fill up the categories with affilaite ptoducts from eBay etc then add your own products or plr products.
8. When you add your own products you can actually get the site to make sure your products are always displayed first, EXTRA profit!
9. If you really want to go overboard you could actually build your own store that is bigger than amazon, at least in terms of products because you could add everything from Amazon, then add eBay and CB and voila. Not sure I recommend this but I might give it a shot when I’m bored!
10. Product support from a great company! Once the intitial launch is out of the way, they plan to only release 1000 copies, they are closing the sales and going to work on adding more affiliate programs. This is not an idle promise, they have done this before with other products and never failed yet to improve upon a product. Expect to see Paydotcom, Linkshare, Shareasale and other similar sites.
11. Last but definitely not least is that each category in your store comes with its own rss feed, the promotional possibilities are endless!

Click HERE to visit storestacker

Not so good stuff

1. At the moment CB products do not have an image added automatically but they are fixing this and you can edit any product yourself and add images, change description if you really want
2. adding 1000 pages instantly to a site all at once can raise a red flag but there is nothing to stop you ding it gradually.
3. The templates are not great but they are promising to release more and they are all editable anyway if you have some basic html knowledge.

Thats it. I can honestly say this is the best thing I have seen in ages, I can’t wait to see the profits rolling in from my 200 new stores!

It is being released Tuesday, April 1st, 12:01 AM PST and no it is not an April Fool, but you will be if you do not check it out!

Click HERE to visit storestacker

Unless you have been living under a rock or have been in a coma for the last 6 months you know that videos have become the holy grail of internet marketing and hence affiliate marketing. Just take a look at Youtube, metacafe, livevideo and other video sharing sites, the list is endless. There are hundreds of them online and they are attracting millions of customers like flies around………. well ok maybe papparazzi around Britney is a better analogy!

Long winded sales letters, reviews, promotions are fast becoming a thing of the past, videos are the new medium for promoting anything and affiliate marketing is no different. The problem not everyone can sit down and create a decent quality video let alone one that delivers a sales pitch that is convincing enough to get your customer to click on that all important link.

In steps the immortal Dr Mike. No he is nothing like Dr Phil except I guess he solves problems, internet marketing problems! His latest release is Affiliate Sales Videos and to coin a popular UK ad phrase, it does exactly what is says on the tin! Forget having to struggle with learning how to make you own sales converting videos Dr mike does it all for you in his Affiliate Sales Videos membership.

http://affiliatesalesvideos.com

Every month, you get affiliate sales videos promoting various high traffic affiliate programs on clickbank and CJ.com and Linkshare. These videos are expertly produced and scripted and all you need to do is download the video to your site with YOUR affiliate link embedded in it. I have already started to see fantastic results and bear in mind I have been making money with affiliate marketing for 2 years now so am by no means a beginner.

The videos are not all you get there is also training from Dr Mike and believe me when it comes to affiliate marketing when Dr Mike speaks you better listen! Well only if you want to make money that is! So what exactly comes with Affiliate Sales Videos?

10 Killer Videos Per Month
10 New Affiliate Programs to Promote Per Month
Custom Built Affiliate Linking Script
Private Blog & Membership
Limited Number Of Members
Awesome Bonuses

Whether you are a beginner intermediary or even an expert affilaite marketer these videos are an awesome weapon to add to your affiliate arsenal, in fact dump everything else you won’t need it! Check out the affiliate sales videos home page below

http://affiliatesalesvideos.com

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Update:

Dr mike has just added some extra bonuses for a limited time, I’d already signed up before he annonced this so I twisted his arm into giving them to me too, LOL!

Exclusive Affiliate Training, strategically designed to help YOU become a money producing Super Affiliate!
Getting Started With A Bang Using Affiliate Videos!
Discover ClickBank Essentials!
Achieve Massive Success With Commission Junction!
Domain Name Strategies Most Have Zero Clue About!
Awesome Formulas & Blueprints for CPA/Lead Offers
Explosive Affiliate Methods and Tactics

And well if that isn’t enough you also get access to his AffiliateSalesLetters.com which is closed to new members and has been for the last 10 months.

Need I say more, dont take mt word for it check it out for yourself

http://affiliatesalesvideos.com

Affiliate marketing is when you sign up to promote other people’s products (or services) for a share of the sale in the form of commissions. As an affiliate marketer, you usually don’t need any special training or start-up funding. Your tasks as an affiliate marketer will be to drum up traffic to the product owner’s pitch page, allowing them to convert the prospect into a buyer. The more targeted you are with your traffic promotions, the higher your conversion rate will be.

There are many things you can promote as an affiliate. On Amazon, for instance, you can promote anything tangible (and a few digital download to boot). If you want to be in the paintball niche, you can include links using your Amazon associate (affiliate) ID to sell specific paintball guns, paintballs, and attire. You can go to sites like ClickBank or PayDotCom and get a unique affiliate ID to promote an endless supply of information products. They house everything from acne to organic gardening.

You can even become an affiliate promoting actions. There are many Internet marketers who focus their business on getting a steady stream of traffic to take an action, such as filling out a survey online. With affiliate marketing, you don’t have to worry about developing ideas and creating products. You don’t have to deal with customer service follow-ups or continually process more products for the marketplace.

Your job is often made easier by product owners who care so much about their own success, that they provide a toolbox to help you with yours! The toolbox usually includes readymade emails, web reviews, and banner ads you can use with your own link embedded in them for instant plug-n-play success. Most Internet marketers will eventually blur the lines of product owner and affiliate marketer. Product owners continually use their list of buyers to promote affiliate items, and affiliates often build such a good reputation in a niche that they’re urged to come out with a product of their own.

How much can an affiliate marketer earn? There are no limits. You can market multiple niches and work as much or as little as you want to generate targeted traffic through your links. Super affiliates earn six figures or more, but even a beginner affiliate can earn enough to pay the bills each month – with some change to spare!

Rich Henderson

RSS feeds provide headlines and summaries of information in a concise and standardized way. RSS technology is a simple but powerful technology that helps users to get information from the internet more easily
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (although versions before RSS 2.0 have been known by other names). RSS feeds are written in a computer language called XML, a special mark up language much like HTML This means that they have mechanisms included that identify structures in a document. The structures define the content and how that content will be displayed within that document. RSS is what makes big news websites possible: RSS files are used to create a data feed which will deliver headlines, links or virtually any other piece of information to a channel viewer application, commonly called a news reader
In simple terms, an RSS feed is a system that allows web content to be put into a standard format for viewing through an RSS feed reader. RSS technology or news feeds are growing quickly and have become a major part of the Internet but many users don’t understand what they are.
Using syndicating content is a great way to keep up to date with the latest posts from your favourite blogs and websites.
Many people set up RSS technology to update in their My Yahoo, or Google page. For example, Google Groups is a free online community and discussion group service. Google Groups can be monitored using RSS technology. Add the new URL to a newsgroup reader and receive updates each time a new post is added to the newsgroup
RSS Feeds can be used for online marketing very effectively.
In terms of promoting your website, RSS can get your URL listed with all search engines fast and easy. No more waiting weeks for your URL to get listed with search engines, RSS marketing allows this to happen almost immediately. This is certainly a good choice for new web pages that are looking to increase web traffic. Another awesome aspect of RSS marketing is that it can get your web page returned as the number one result for your web pages’ most popular keywords.

Internet marketers are using the technology of RSS technology for contacting their mailing list with a brand new look and feel. Perhaps it is time to rethink the traditional email newsletter RSS Feeds can be used creatively to maintain a relationship with your subscribers.
RSS Feeds are an easy solution to the problem of creating new content for webmasters. RSS Feeds create an ever changing source of content syndication and need very little maintenance once set up. There are several advantages to using RSS technology as a source of fresh content to your site. Fresh content keeps your site visitors coming back and continually adds value to your website. RSS Feeds greatly aids your site in obtaining higher ranking in the search engines.
Webmasters can use RSS to place different types of content on their site. Valuable content can be in the form of articles, stories, press releases, announcements, updated info, company details, products and marketing.
How about using RSS technology for advertising?
W. Atlee Burpee Co. (the garden seed people) saw their RSS strategy help them increase November sales by four times from just one trial feed featuring a ’seed of the day’.
USAToday.com reports that their RSS traffic is ‘rising month after month by orders of magnitude’, even though they are barely promoting their RSS feeds.

How to Become A Clickbank Super Affiliate

Making money through affiliate marketing is one of the most rewarding careers one could ever have. What’s good about this business is that anyone can join and make their way to success. Affiliate marketing has been known to be costefficient, assessable method of conveying longterm results. In fact, you can start even with a shoe string budget. And with affiliate marketing, you can have the benefit of working from home and enjoying the freedom and flexibility of working for yourself.

But there are also some people who failed in this kind of business. It could be because they lack knowledge and tactics. If you are a web site owner and you want to join in an affiliate marketing business, you should know where to get good affiliate programs.

Clickbank is an ideal place to start. Here, you can find one of the largest affiliate marketing programs in the industry. You just need to visit their site, http://www.clickbank.com and secure a clickbank ID. From the Clickbank’s home page, proceed to Earn Commissions and look for the products and services that perfectly fit you and your site. These products are typically ranked according to their popularity.

Clickbank is one of the affiliate networks that serve as a 3rd party between the web merchants and the associated affiliates. It is responsible in providing the technology to deliver the merchant’s offers and campaigns. The affiliate network also do the job of collecting commission fees from the merchant and giving it to the affiliates involved in the program.

Clickbank provides you a large and increasing network of publishers or affiliates to tap into. To be more specific, clickbank has more than 100,000 affiliates who are experts in finding potential customers for your affiliate program. The reason why more and more affiliates are joining Clickbank is obvious