bum marketing is oversimplified article marketing. Instead of using articles to boost SEO, you use articles to boost Affiliate sales. I've created my own twist in bum marketing so it can create an automated sales machine. most people can't do bum marketing simply because they don't have the patience and determination. If you have that it should be no problem. Bum marketing literally has unlimited potential just like any type of internet marketing, and it works fast too.
It seems to work pretty well, just takes a lot of time and dedication. Can do it pretty cheaply though!
I am new to all this as well, when you say writing "articles" --- is that necessarily implying blogging and linking to affiliate links in your blog entries is BUM marketing?
BUM marketing in easy terms is writing an article with positive comments on somebody else's product and in the meanwhile selling it as an affiliate. So for example you could write a review on a product, and in your review you could put your affiliate link to the product's website. If a buyer buys through your link, you will get a share of the product's cost. That a basic explanation of what BUM marketing is. Supreme.
So making a basic blog and then add the affiliate item at the end of the entry claiming its a "Recommended Source" is not BUM Marketing... right?
That can be considered a type of BUM Marketing, but by and large Bum marketing will involve article writing or Classified ads advertising in USAFreeAds to grab traffic from the article depositories and USAFreeAds classifieds and send them to your affiliate product. The advantages is that it is almost free ( in terms of money ) but it takes time to get sufficient traffic. Also your product selection must be good and your article writing requires some skill. Newer variants of Bum Marketing now talk about dominating certain big article sites such as ezinearticles.com, and how to be a fast article writer to churn out hordes of articles to dominate certain markets.
gum marketing is great. it works fast and keeps you doing the parts of internet marketing that actually make money (writing articles, submitting, etc.) what i do is write some articles and put them on ezine articles and then link within the article to one of my websites deep links. Then, there is another article on the blog. this helps with inbound links to your blog (hence PR and SEO) and then your blog will start getting its own hits. this site: http://www.uglytheme.com/ is all about making conversions once the prospect hits your blog