I've dabbled in some affiliate marketing over the past decade. It's worked, but the money's been chump change. If you can afford it, the high-ticket direct sales programs are the way to go to earning big money, quickly.
Brilliant post, I think you have inspired me to try affiliate marketing in my holidays! Thanks a lot mate.
======================== --ClickBank-- Today I started a campaing with Google Adwords to promote a clickbank product This is the product home page: http://www.forexenterprise.com/ A domain redirects to my clickbank affiliate URL (Adwords policty): www.moh97.com Ad text: Earn $1,000/Day PT/FT Start within 15 mins from now! Free Info! Positions are limited. www.moh97.com Ok can you please read this guys page and tell me honestly that you would buy his product ? Im sorry, first off I got a pop up when I first opened his page. Next I got a box opened up on me why I was checking out his page that would not close on the x button.. Now im a pissed off surfer. Im sorry I love shit like this and read them man I dont think that site has buy buy buy written all over it and can see that the ratios would suck. Let me ask you this ? You need to make money right ? Did you buy his product ? If no then why should others ? When I promote and or run a site I need to believe in it and spend be willing to spend my own personal cash on it. That way I can understand why people would buy something.. ======================== -- CJ -- Yesterday I bought a 5000-email address list for $10, emailed them all. Message subject: Your New Matches Message content: List of hot girls with "email me" button next to their pictures.. the "email me" link goes to an affiliate website (Date.ca) where supposedly I get $3.50 per registration. Spend $10, Made NOTHING Oh man 5000 emails ? were these emails from a dating company ? CC emails ? Hell if they are un targeted emails I would think you need to send tons of email to make one sale not 5,000. Were all the emails .ca ? You listed some hot girls ? Let me ask you this would you beleive that these hot girls are really your match ? Also are your marketing ads geo targeted so atleast they see local towns and cities in the add ? Also if you would not believe the girls in the photos would want you try girls that are more likely to want some one if you catch my drift. Dating to me is so freaking easy to make money with But most marketers over sell big time. Gotta run but will check back
There can be many reasons why you failed so far and no enough informations here to figure out what you did wrong. All I can do tell you right now is don't give up. I am pretty sure that you will make success when you least hope...
Affiliate marketing requires that you think out of the box. If you are just going to set up an adword campaign and target 50 keywords that have something to do with money on a forex offer, then well you will fail badly. If I were you, I would take that forex offer and go to the nearest store and buy a newspaper. I will check out if there were any drastic changes in the market over night, or some breaking news. If there are drastic changes/breaking news, then I would log on to my adwords account and target the title of the articles in the news paper. Example is like: xxxx gone up 10% overnight I would target that company (xxxx), and also the title and think of different combinations. Now what's going to be happening? 95% that you will not have any competitors for days to go, low bids, lots of searches, targeted searched.
Affiliate programme is pwerfull enough to earn money online .. Will get u know the different ways soon ...
You are using over updated web site .. and you are trying out with the same key words.. i dont think it would work .... try in a different way....
Everyone , even the gurus had their share of hard times also known as growing pains. The secrets is to learn from your mistakes and take things to the next level to work. Affiliate marketing does work if you use proper techniques!
based on the link in your sig, you are promoting the wrong stuff. Trying to sell money making products or forex stuff isn't gonna be your ticket to success.
Your adwords campaign is all wrong, you need to tweak it so that your keywords are in the title, the description and the url if possible. Then you need to have a landing page optimized for them keywords otherwise you will start to get bid prices that are ridiculously high and profit will become impossible. Plus your keywords arent focused onto what you are selling so even if you can afford the cost, the people who click are not likely to buy because "money online..." could mean anything from affiliate marketing to ebay trading. You would be much better of using something like: Easy forex profits Make money from forex, work from home.....bla bla Not exactly like that but you see you have to be specific otherwise you may as well be wiping your ass with your money. Instead of the redirect you have now I would create a landing page, you will be surprised how much of a difference it makes. Your click cost will be a quarter of what it is now and you can pre-sell your affiliate product to your potential customer, your profits will quadruple. Affiliate marketing isn't rocket science its just a lot of work. Try and get your links in as many places as you can. Research is the key here. If you can find a group of people who are looking for what you are supplying then you can try and let them know where to find you. Putting your link about in the right places is a great start.
You're doing some things wrong here: #1 Your keywords are not nearly targeted enough. You need keywords directly related to what you are selling, not just kind of related. #2 If your URL goes to your own landing page so that you "pre sell" the clickbank product you will do better than just going to the page directly. Having a presell page will also allow you to have a chance in the SEO game (although you'll have to do more than just make the page... it's a start) #3 $7 for how many clicks? 20? You can tell absolutely nothing from 20 clicks. You need hundreds of clicks to even start to get an idea of your conversion rate. I have had situations where i'll not make a sale for 500 clicks and then make 3 sales in the next 10. Your sample size is too small to draw any conclusions. #4 Your ad copy should be about Forex. Don't try to "trick" people into clicking onto your ads, I understand the temptation but that's a horrible move. It just costs you money for the clicks and you won't make any money from these people because they aren't interested in your product.
same here,thn87. im trying affiliate marketing for ages and i only got a medium $XX spending a high $XXX i think that i will give up of this,i have tried a lot of things and products but nothing works..
Stop wasting your time with stuff like this. I'm sure some people must make money with mass emailing (I like to call it spam myself) but... I know I get stupid emails like this all the time and I just delete them, actually if they make it past my spam filter I press the SPAM button myself. You'd probably have to mass email that sucker to about 10,000,000 people before you got one sale. Have you tried SEO for affiliate marketing yet? Creating sites with real content? I'd give that a go. That's, in my opinion, the long term road to success.
i have tried aff marketing too and it failed. my product was different but i think either there was not enough demand or people did not understand it
affiliate marketing is the worst thing ppl gets involve into web.. actually you are trying to sell what 100 000 other peoples are trying to sell.. going by this road you cannot survive.. the best thing to do is.. have your own program.. let others suck in their and figure out how to sell or promote it.. if say.. that u cannot make some program of your own.. you can always make sites for sale.. myspace resource site.. or a gaming site.. or a celebrity site.. get some traffic and get some google adsense income and sell it out fast.. get link exchanges and buy some links on http://www.etology.com http://Adengage.com http://adbrite.com or text link ads that way u have some cash to plan for the big or if thats also you are weak on then start a advertising business.. like adpaid.com sell advertising to ppls.. or myspace bulletin service to 50k ppls.. sell myspace accounts on ebay.. on dp if you cannot do that also? then provide service to ppls.. like social bookmark submission directory submission article submission and so on. hire 10 3rd world country ppl under u for this purpose.. they will do it quick sit back and earn forever income with other sufferer like u and some good ppls will come and order with you to make some affiliate income..