Hello all, I'm all but done with Internet Marketing now. My physical business has picked up and I have just completed selling my final site on flippa. After being in IM for about fifteen years now, I have picked up a few secrets about marketing here and there. I've been with ClickBank from their first day and have marketed exclusively through them since their launch. This forum and warrior's had helped me quite a bit in my initial days (I had a different ID here - since I lost the email address and password, I created this one five years back mainly to outsource small work). Anyway, long story short, I have decided to give away one or two of my best converting products to this forum as a thank you gesture. Products that have very high conversion but with hardly anyone promoting them are gold. For a few of these I had been an only affiliate for years! Low competition keywords, and excellent conversions made these dream products for me, and made me a fortune with little work and investment. However, I'm not going to give it away publicly, or to just about anyone. Doing so would immediately stop take away the USP and value from these products, thanks to the sudden competition that would arise because of that. So, I'm going to choose twelve deserving marketers from here and give it away only to them. So, how would I determine you are a deserving marketer? You post here, in this thread, a marketing tip that you had realized on your own; a tip no one else, anywhere on the internet, had shared before. This not only shows your mettle as a capable internet marketer, but also shows your willingness to share the knowledge to your fellow marketers. Once you have done that, send me a PM with a screenshot of your latest earnings at any affiliate site to confirm you are indeed a pro marketer. If you are qualified enough, I will PM you back my best converting product. These have net me over $3000 a month with little work - the conversion rates were that phenomenal (of course when promoted to the right audience). I believe it could be because of the wide appeal of the products and clever copywriting, but whatever it is, it is pure gold. G'day. Richard.
Marketing does not have a million tips. The tips are pretty much limited, atleast the main ones Is that your criteria of finding a pro marketer? I know quite a lot of people who market in their own style (not using click bank), and earns several thousand dollars each month.
traxport121: My apologies. I didn't mean to write ClickBank specifically. Of course, any sort of earning proof (as a marketer, of course) would be satisfactory - although I have experience using only ClickBank and all my online success is due to that one site. Anyway, I realize it might seem naive to ask for a earning proof but I've seen far too many marketers come and go with little success. It is always a sour grapes story - only those who devote their time into studying the art of marketing have been successful. I cannot think of a more objective way of gauging one's skill in IM other than monthly earnings. And about your quip about marketing, that's where you might be wrong! The best approach to marketing is creativity. Rich Jerk wouldn't have been born if Kelly Felix just decided to stick to other people's methods and did not try to innovate. Most serious marketers do exactly that. Create their own methods. One doesn't have to share entire methods - just some simple tips that he might have stumbled upon while trying to edge out a competitor. MTbiker: Could you please elaborate? I don't understand what you are trying to imply. Again, to reiterate, I wish this thread would become a mini-treasure of solid, novel marketing tips. And, after I'm long gone from here, I hope the thread might continue. Well, it just might, you never know! Richard.
Anyone can post on a public forum claiming to be successful and willing to give away advice in exchange for some earnings screenshots. How does anyone here know that you aren't just a beginner (albeit a sly, crafty one) trying to steal other webmasters' lucrative niches? It doesn't matter to me what you do, but I'd urge anyone to be skeptical of sending out any earnings screenshots that could be tied to a particular product or niche. (I don't want to elaborate too much or the forum will be filled with scammers doing exactly this method!)
MTbiker: I'm afraid I still do not understand. At ClickBank, the earnings do not show which products one is promoting. Do other affiliate sites (which I'm evidently not familiar with) not have an option of having screenshots of earnings without giving away the products they are promoting? Richard. P.S.: While we are on the topic, do you have suggestions for a better way to objectively gauge a marketer's skill?
It depends on the type of report. From what I remember, Clickbank's earning reports display the vendor name, but their paycheck reports don't. Affiliates could also photoshop out those details. But they can also forge the entire screenshot, proving nothing to you except for their graphic design skill
Yes, paycheck reports are exactly what I meant. The earning reports is not reflective of their long-term success. I doubt anyone would go to the extent of photoshopping their screenshots for this. Anyway, whoever wishes to take me up on this can do so. I just wish this thread would become a haven of new tips in the process. Good luck. Richard.