Here, I will give a review on Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate which I have bought recently.

Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate e-book is written by Chris Rempel. In his book, Chris gives a very good overview on affiliate marketing and teaches his readers how to build their affiliate marketing businesses with set-and-forget traffic generation methods.

I think that Confessions is very well written as it does not beat around the bushes. Chris gives all that you need to know to get started… and earn your full time affiliate marketing income from the Internet.

However, Confessions is not a book for beginners… it is more suited for intermediate internet marketers. I have purchased this book recently and it really gives me a lot of new insights and a more systematic way to approach affiliate marketing.

What’s Good:

This best thing I like about this book is that it offers a no bull-shit systematic and step-by-step way to build your affiliate marketing business. Chris’s main strategy is to focus on building mini-sites, with pages of content about your target niche. This is to allow your mini-site to rank well organically on Google and other search engines for long-tailed keywords.  SEO or search engine optimization is one of the best ways to drive consistent traffic to a website.

He also like to build free software that can be viral easily on the Internet. Through the softwares that he builds, he will promote a specific affiliate product in it… In confessions, he gives readers a step-by-step guide on how to use software to effectively market your affiliate product.

What’s Not:

This book is more suited for intermdiate internet marketer. Although he lists out a step-by-step guide to achieve affiliate marketing success, you still need a certain level of knowledge in SEO, affiliate marketing, back-linking, building websites to kick-start everything… If not, a beginner will really feel overwhelmed and unable to take any action.

Overall:

Overall, it is a good buy for me as it gives me an affiliate marketing blueprint to work on. Highly recommended and well-worth the read!

Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate is available at US $29.95 and it is a PDF file which can be downloaded instantly to your computer after payment.

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You can make money online by promoting other people products and earn a commission for every sale resulted from your marketing effort. This is known as Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate marketing is a very huge and competitive industry, and good affiliate marketers can earn a full-time income at home by promoting other people products.

Amazon.com can be considered the pioneer in implementing affiliate programs for people to join. People join Amazon’s affiliate program to promote their books… earning commissions from every sale resulted from their marketing effort. Personally, I don’t think that Amazon’s affiliate program is the best program for us affiliate marketers… simply because they pay peanuts to their affiliates.

I think one of the reasons the commission percentage that Amazon gives to its affiliates is so low because they are selling physical products. Merchants who are selling low-sale-ticket physical products have cost to cover. That is why it is very difficult for them to give affiliates a nice commission. However, they don’t understand that full-time affiliates love high commission and it is the main source of motivation for them to promote the product…

The time and effort spent on promoting an Amazon product is quite similar when compared to promoting digital products (such as e-book/software). But the commission of promoting a digital product is way much higher than an Amazon product… so it really doesn’t make sense for me not to favor digital products. =)

Usually, merchants who sell softwares and e-books tend to give very high commission (I am looking for at least 60% commission for each sale) to their affiliates. This is because, their product cost is very, very low. So if you really want to earn a full-time income from affiliate marketing, go to Clickbank.com and look for digital products to promote now.

To make money in affiliate marketing, you need to treat it like a real business. If you treat it as a part-time hobby, you will make part-time affiliate income. This is because other competitive affiliate marketers are working their ass out everyday to make more affiliate money online… If you are not focused on it, it is natural for you to lose some of your affiliate profits to them.

Before you start promoting an affiliate product, you need to do your own research. Research is the key to affiliate marketing success. There is a saying that one should promote a product that he or she has interest in. I think this is the MOST MISLEADING information! Why? Because promoting a product that you are interested in does not mean that your target consumers will love it. You need to look for hungry market full of buyers… not a market that is your hobby. Yes, you can make a few sales here and there by promoting your hobby product (let us take it that this hobby product is not in a hungry market), but it will be very hard for you to make a full time affiliate income with this.

You need to find a market with people who are so willing to take out their credit cards to buy from you because they WANT TO SOLVE THEIR IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS… This is why you need to do your research and find the right niche to enter.

After you have chosen a niche/market to enter, it is now time to test it out. To make sure that the niche that you are entering can convert, the only way to know is to test the market. Power up your Words processor and do some article marketing. When you are writing your articles, make sure that you apply BUM Marketing technique to it.  If you can get a few sales with bum marketing effort, you can go on to create a mini-site or squeeze page to actively market the product.

To do well in affiliate marketing, you need to be different. There are so many other affiliate marketers around, therefore you really need to differentiate yourself from them.  Once you have found a profitable niche, start building your own assets. Some examples of assets in affiliate marketing are lists, mini-sites, squeeze pages, free report to give away, or even your own competing products.

Do not just depend on article marketing, bum marketing or Squidoo to make affiliate sales. This is because the level of entry for these methods are way too low… ANYONE can easily enter and become your competitor. You need to build your own assets, websites, brands… and lastly your own product… in order to totally become an authority figure in the niche that you are in. This way, you will raise the level of entry and your competitors will not be able to so easily challenge you in the niche.

There are many things to learn in affiliate marketing and I believe I will always be a student in the art of affiliate marketing. Hope that this post can bring you some insights about affiliate marketing.

P.S: Last but not least, here is a resource that i strongly recommend anyone who wish to succeed in affiliate marketing to purchase. Yes, it is a selling product, not a free book. I purchased it last month and it really open up a lot of insights and ideas for me in affiliate marketing. Check it out yourself.

Click here –> Confession of a Super Lazy Affiliate… 

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This is more like an announcement (or help) post…

I have just completed a very short report on Article Marketing. In this report, I touch on how you can make use of both Squidoo and EzineArticles.com to drive enormous traffic to your website… This will prove helpful no matter whether you are a product owner or an active affiliate.

I have put up this report for people to review and hope to gather some feedbacks. I will appreciate all kinds of feedback because I will need them to add more content to it. Basically this report is targeting at newbies to internet marketing, and I hope it can help.

You can download the report from the link below:

Link –> http://www.singaporeaffiliatemarketing.com/Review/review.html

Please leave any feedback by posting a comment in this post.

Many thanks in advance.

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