Review: Jonathan Volk’s Free Affiliate Marketing Guide
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Jonathan Volk is a good friend of mine, he got me started in to affiliate marketing, helped me learn the ropes and got me in to a few networks I otherwise wouldn’t have. He’s been a great help throughout my online marketing experience.
Jonathan has released a free online series (like an eBook you don’t have to download) appropriately entitled “Free Affiliate Marketing Guide“. It was released yesterday and I’ve read the entire thing, it makes for really easy reading and definitely stands out from the get rich eBooks I’ve read a ton of.
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Yup, it works.
So after just over a week, I’ve earned $100 from a spend of $55, an ROI of nearly 100%. So how did I turn $55 into $100 with literally half an hours work a week. Schimples.
First I headed to ClickBank and looked for a niche I knew something about (there’s plenty of niches on CB; dating, gaming, DIY projects etc), it’s pretty easy to find something that remotely interests you. I won’t tell you what I chose as the site is still bringing in numbers and slowly growing, plus you won’t learn anything that way.
Next after picking my niche, I looked for the top 3 performing products in that category. Using Google’s external keyword tool, I got a big list of related keywords and search queries and decided on a domain name that would do well in the SERP’s.
Next I setup a WordPress blog on the domain with a slightly customised skin and decided what posts to write – this is an important part of the site. It’s important to remember that the customer has a problem, and you’re trying to sell him or her a solution. For this reason I find it’s often best to make the post title questions the customer is likely to ask; “What’s the best way to lose weight?” or “How can I get more miles per gallon”.
Posts written, I setup a small campaign in Yahoo Search Marketing using keywords I’d been researching before to get post titles. That’s it.
I left the site running and checked it once a day for sales. Using ClickBank analytics I could see that 2 of my 3 products had a conversion rate of around about 5 %- 7%, but one had only 1.2%. I axed this offer from the site and promoted the other two even more, this made my overall sales increase.
So there you have it, about an hours work in total, half an hour a week of checking on the performance and I doubled my money. You can too. Less reading more work. GO!
