wow, so should we look forward to a starcraft 2 guide by T Dub next month? You are right but as web18 said, its a good time to release the game. The guide can even sell during the beta, but it depends upon how many players are actually playing the beta version. Star2Pro, you may have a winner if the game manages to get popular after release.
I'm not ready I'm still saving up for the game lol I want this the first day it comes out so I can use the Galaxy Edit, I was obsessed with the WC3 World Edit can't wait.
For articles you can try one of the popular sites such as elance, or on digital point as well. You should be able to find a good writer that is able to write 25 articles for $50 or something like that. Once you find someone give him your guide and he will write the articles from the guide itself. This does the trick on most niches, but game guides dont know if this aproach would work as good. It depends a lot on what type of articles you need, if you want articles like ezinearticles.com style, you should be fine.
It looks like there's already a youtube strategy video for starcraft2 beta giving you guys a run for your money... LOL - just kidding, but I do think your site would benefit from having those videos on your sales page to be actual watchable snippets, instead of just screen shots.
I'm promoting this on youtube and other places using the beta key lure . If I do make a sale it will be my 1st sale from clickbank. Using a video/buying media wuldnt hurt either.
Hey guys, thanks for the ideas they are really helpful. We do have tons of videos from our own games and from the recent tournament winners in the members section but I need to get a few promo videos on the sale page too. Thanks web_18 for the info on getting articles
ha ha. no, too busy working on a new launch, dont have the time for this. but good luck with this anyway star2pros. your site looks fantastic actually, congratulations.
Thanks Tony that means a lot coming from you! By the way might I ask what new launch you are doing, unless you don't want to tell everyone yet?
well, its not going to be in the gaming niche but i believe its going to be huge (at least i hope it will be!) with the help of a lot of the affiliates here of course. and its a secret for now, don't want to raise any alarms yet but the launch probably will be in the next month or so. meanwhile, Ill be sure to keep an eye out to see how fast star2pros rockets up clickbank!
Just wanted to let everyone know that I added some more affiliate tools and I will be working on it the rest of the week
If any of you are interested in promoting our site, now is the time to jump in. The Starcraft 2 beta is going down for a few weeks on monday so there will be 100,000 Starcraft 2 players with nothing to do but buy strategy guides for the next couple of weeks.
Definitely agree with getting a promo video up there - showing shots of people dominating in the game, with massive amounts of cash in the bank, or whatever the starcraft equivilent is and highlighting some of the guides and just with a voice over talking about everything they receive. I think this crowd will definitly go for that and will really help to make sales with some urgency / excitement. Looks really good mate, I think this could go really far!! Dan
Unlike WoW, the goal in Starcraft is to become better and I think these guides will sell very well. I know, Starcraft 2 very well and I might try promoting your product. I was wondering do you know much about your competitors and how their product is different from yours?
i think there will be more affiliates if you increase your commission to 75%. Many affiliates will not promote products that only pay them 50% unless that 50% commission is pretty high like $50+ per sale? Hope to see more affiliate tools asap such as detailed product review
I just finished redoing the site design so some feedback from you guys would be very welcome. Yes the commission is at 50% however that will come out to about $100 profit for the affiliate per sale so it would definitely fall under the category of a high paying commission product. My mission this next week is to finish up the affiliate tools page As far as my competitors go I pretty much only have one at this point and I'm not to worried about him because of a few major differences. First, his guide is a downloadable pdf file my site has a member's section that we are changing and updating pretty much daily. Second, which is most important to affiliates is that he pays out a flat $12 per sale to affiliates and my site will pay out around $100 per sale. It should be a no-brainer for affiliates who want to make some cash. Starcraft 2 is being sold for $59.95 and will be released on July 27th Thanks for the feedback guys it has been very helpful
Even if starcraft II was a shitty game, the sheer hype behind the release of it for so many years will drive many ppl to buy it lol. And I have the beta, it's not bad, different than SC1, but not bad, definitely. Imo, the only bad aspects is how many of the 'little' things from SC1 that made a person pro were taken out, like sending miners seperately at the beginning. And how micro isn't as big now but hard counters, I heard, are the main winners of the game. Anyway, I will definitely be promoting this as well.
I know it sucks when you learn to split like a pro and now they auto split. You can still do a good split with them in sc2. Micro is still a big part of SC2, it's just that because the game is so new top players are still focusing on macro, strategies and tactics. If you watch the day9 daily watch Mardow vs Socke Game 1. The zealot micro took out so many zerglings, it was awesome. As the game starts to get older we'll see some amazing stuff. Remember the first SC when we just learnt how to stack mutas xD
Hey guys just giving an update. I finished up the affiliate page and I have added 40 articles that have given pretty me good results that can be rewritten and used again. I also added some PPC ads and keywords. We are about 5 weeks from the game's release so things are really starting to pick up with all the affiliates.