Yes, you are correct. In fact I never go into a niche until I see other people being successful. I have no desire to be the first into the market and no desire to be unique. We follow business and marketing trends then go into a market and dominate that market. We learn from other people's successes. I do this both as a publisher and an affiliate. Sorry if you have a problem with that, i just think that makes more business sense and the results speak for themselves. Where did you get the refund rate from? CBengine? Not sure how they get those numbers, but its wrong.
This looks like your first foray into affiliate programs so the results are yet to say anything. Your gravity is still low and all you have is a sales page you copied straight out of a sales page writing ebook that split testing tells you converts better. So Swerd creates a new version of E4E for the gullible affiliates you manage to convince, based on your sales page, and you're nowhere again. In the long run, innovation is key. Metooers and their affiliates ends up playing catchup all their lives. Its kind of like what happened to all those no-money-down guys in the real estate market who got seriously burnt in this financial crisis and had to totally re-invent themselves as business people, or face the fact that they don't really have a clue about business like they thought they did. Ya know? Really? Ok so tell us what is the correct rate?
You do know that E4E was not the first product in this niche, right? If a me-tooer if someone who runs further with someone else's idea, then, I hate to break it to you, but Swerd is THE me-tooer. Swerd is the man ... but he didn't create the niche ... he just brought it to the masses.
Might surprise some people that some of us actually do their homework before investing in a niche. Swerd took a poorly converting, low gravity, poorly presented program and turned it into a hot niche. DIY solar has been around forever and the first guy didn't invent DIY solar panels. The innovation is in the marketing and the creation of value for thousands of affiliates. Energy is not the last invention out there that already exists waiting to be tapped for value by an innovative marketer.
cooberpedy.. thanks.. I think Nah, nothing wrong with what walker did, plenty of others jumped on it. Its just a part of life and to be fair I had a crack at the "water car" market. Anyway, back on topic. 100%, YAY! PS. for anybody on the affiliatmaterial.com list look out for my next email. I have a cool new tool coming! Im workiing on it now, ohh I wish I was better at PHP