 What Is Affiliate Marketing  How To Get Started  Signing Up With Affiliate Networks  Affiliate Commission Types  Locating Hot Products and Markets  Keyword Research

 What Is Affiliate Marketing  How To Get Started  Creating A Google Adwords Account  Signing Up With Affiliate Networks  Affiliate Commission Types  Locating Hot Products and Markets  Keyword Research

 Partnership between MERCHANT and YOU (as an affiliate) Find other peoples’ products you want to promote  Perform market research and keyword research  Use Google Adwords to drive traffic to your own site or merchant site  Get paid when a visitor you refer makes a purchase or fills out a form or performs an action

Strengths  Low Cost Setup and No Production Costs  No Fees or Licenses  Sell Almost Anything  No Experience Required  No Employees  No Merchant Accounts  Able to sell more related products to your customers e.g. parrot training ebook then parrot cages, parrot toys, parrot clothing

Weaknesses  Probably the quickest way to lose a lot of money  Need to understand online buying behavior and your customers  Need to be able to write effective AdWords ads  Need to outsmart and outmaneuver the ‘competition’  Not your own product – but you get started!

 Online since 1996!  Always interested in online marketing - sat on the fence as had a comfortable job  Played around with creating ebooks – just for fun  2005 – found out we having our first child – got really serious about working from home  Started spending $100 on advertising and lost money 

 Found other successful marketers and started analyzing their success and applying strategies to my business  Next month (month 2)spend $100 and make $150  Month 3 spend $150 to make $250

 Earnings while away with family  Check stats every few days

 What Is Affiliate Marketing  How To Get Started  Creating A Google Adwords Account  Signing Up With Affiliate Networks  Affiliate Commission Types  Locating Hot Products and Markets  Keyword Research

 Basic Requirements ◦ Create A Google AdWords Account ◦ Sign Up For Affiliate Networks  E.g. Clickbank.com

 What Is Affiliate Marketing  How To Get Started  Creating A Google Adwords Account  Signing Up With Affiliate Networks  Affiliate Commission Types  Locating Hot Products and Markets  Keyword Research

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 Quantcast.com  SoYouWanna.com  Ehow.com

 KeyCompete.com  SpyFu.com

 What Is Affiliate Marketing  How To Get Started  Creating A Google Adwords Account  Signing Up With Affiliate Networks  Affiliate Commission Types  Locating Hot Products and Markets  Keyword Research

 Recommended Affiliate Networks ◦ ClickBank.com ◦ Amazon.com ◦ CJ.com ◦ Azoogle.com ◦ AffiliateFuel.com

 What Is Affiliate Marketing  How To Get Started  Creating A Google Adwords Account  Signing Up With Affiliate Networks  Affiliate Commission Types  Locating Hot Products and Markets  Keyword Research

 Pay Per Sale ◦ Most common form of commission ◦ Typical affiliate commissions range from 20% to 75% per sale ◦ Some merchant pay affiliates based on flat fee Pay Per Lead/Action ◦ Get paid when a visitor carries out an action e.g. filling up an online form

 Cheap clicks – are they worth it?  How to spend $1-$2 a click and still make money

 Wordtracker.com (free trial)  KeywordDiscovery.com  Google Keyword Tool (free)

 What Is Affiliate Marketing  How To Get Started  Creating A Google Adwords Account  Signing Up With Affiliate Networks  Affiliate Commission Types  Locating Hot Products and Markets  Keyword Research

 July 2005 Started with $100 and lost money  August 2005 tried again and made a little money  September 2005 spent $100 and made about $150  October 2005 spent $150 and made $250 and kept going……..

 Reinvest profits to allow increased advertising spend e.g. Month 1 - $100, Month 2 - $150, Month 3 - $250, Month 4 - $400 etc  Use credit cards wisely – pay off credit card in full before due date

 Result – Spent $1200 and generated sales of $20,000+  No List!!!!

 14 sales at $1500 with very small list

 Ended up doing 14 sales individually  Teamed up with another Internet Marketer – split commissions – made another 42 sales!

 One of the smartest internet marketers I have had the pleasure of working with... We ended up doing over $63,000 in sales overnight having spent about 15 minutes brainstorming….. Thanks Nikhil, Anik Singal CEO Affiliate Classroom, Inc.

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 Team grew from 1 to 14 from 2005 to now

 Questions???? 

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